1 | FemNaziBitch Tue, May 21, 2013 1:42:00pm |
If they were “potty” trained, it wouldn’t be too bad.
How’d you like to come home to find Baboon stuff on your carpet?
2 | Sol Berdinowitz Tue, May 21, 2013 1:44:41pm |
it is not the poo that would disturb me as much as those nasty fangs in their snouts…
3 | Political Atheist Tue, May 21, 2013 1:45:45pm |
Redefining wild neighborhood, that’s for sure.
4 | Charles Johnson Tue, May 21, 2013 1:46:21pm |
These are very dangerous animals - those guys were pretty bold (read: stupid) to get in a small room with one holding only a broom.
Made for some great video, though.
5 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 1:46:23pm |
Those two on the kitchen counter - that’d be my male Greyhound, if he could figure out how to do it.
9 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 1:49:58pm |
Lesson: Keep your babroom handy.
Oh, wait. It’s ‘close the windows’.
10 | Charles Johnson Tue, May 21, 2013 1:51:30pm |
re: #8 dragonath
This is the first entry tagged: Baboons
I know, I could hardly believe it. “Marauding Primates,” too. I have to start putting those tags to work.
11 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Tue, May 21, 2013 1:52:42pm |
A Primate’s Memoir is an awesome book about baboon and also humans because let’s face it, we’re not that different.
12 | Decatur Deb Tue, May 21, 2013 1:53:46pm |
re: #8 dragonath
This is the first entry tagged: Baboons
Shows how restrained our political comments have been.
13 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 1:54:23pm |
re: #12 Decatur Deb
Shows how restrained our political comments have been.
Too much respect for actual baboons.
14 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, May 21, 2013 1:59:33pm |
re: #12 Decatur Deb
Shows how restrained our political comments have been.
I was thinking the same. The thread title sounds like a Freep comment about the current occupants of the White House.
15 | Sol Berdinowitz Tue, May 21, 2013 2:01:03pm |
None of these baboons were seen flinging any poo, which kind of puts a lid on any comparisons to politicians.
16 | NJDhockeyfan Tue, May 21, 2013 2:03:24pm |
Heck of a set of teeth.
17 | erik_t Tue, May 21, 2013 2:04:04pm |
When guns are babooned, only baboons will have guns.
THANKS, OBAMA
18 | FemNaziBitch Tue, May 21, 2013 2:05:49pm |
Still, I think baboons in the house are better than raccoons.
Either would be an improvement on politicians.
19 | Stoatly Tue, May 21, 2013 2:05:58pm |
re: #4 Charles Johnson
These are very dangerous animals - those guys were pretty bold (read: stupid) to get in a small room with one holding only a broom.
Made for some great video, though.
I came came face-to-face with a troop of them when visiting the ruins of Great Zimbabwe some years ago - man, they like showing you just how big their teeth are!
21 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, May 21, 2013 2:06:23pm |
Back in the very early 1970s, I had a very large apartment right next to the University of Cincinnati campus when I was a student (I was a geology major back then klys!). Rent was very cheap…$60/month and the first two months free.
Reason?
Previous tenant had many, MANY exotic pets, including a python that had gotten loose and was happily living on mice and rats in the walls.
Oh…and there was monkey shit on the floors, walls and ceilings…
22 | Ian G. Tue, May 21, 2013 2:08:49pm |
Hoo boy, tornado spotted on the NY-MA border:
What’s crazy is that Copake and Great Barrington were struck by a powerful tornado (F-4) in 1995. I mean, Moore, OK, you can kind of understand being hit repeatedly by tornadoes. It’s Oklahoma. You don’t expect the same towns in New York and Massachusetts to be hit repeatedly.
23 | dragonath Tue, May 21, 2013 2:09:27pm |
re: #10 Charles Johnson
I know, I could hardly believe it. “Marauding Primates,” too. I have to start putting those tags to work.
I suggest you can start here:
Protesters Chant ‘Stop the IRS’ in Cincinnati
“It’s going to be up to the grass-roots movement to do something,” said Paul Wheeler, dressed in Colonial-era attire with tri-cornered hat and holding a sign saying: “Internal ‘Revenge’ Service Stop.” He said he came from Indianapolis, some 100 miles way, because Cincinnati is “the epicenter of some of the complaints.”
24 | erik_t Tue, May 21, 2013 2:10:19pm |
re: #23 dragonath
I suggest you can start here:
The chant is “no taxation without representation”, not “no taxation”.
Dipshit.
26 | Stanghazi Tue, May 21, 2013 2:14:57pm |
At least they have a beautiful view.
Foolish not to lock the hell up of your house though.
27 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 2:15:48pm |
Speaking of baboons, Ted Cruz just said, “Reserving the right to object” and got shouted down “There’s nothing to object to!”
28 | jaunte Tue, May 21, 2013 2:15:51pm |
re: #23 dragonath
“…A Chicago rally of some 100 people was led by former U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a suburban Chicago Republican who lost his seat in 2012 after being among tea party candidates who won office in 2010. He decried “crimes committed against Americans” and said the IRS targeting should spark renewed interest in the tea party movement.”
It’s just not a baboon thread until Joe Walsh shows up.
29 | Joanne Tue, May 21, 2013 2:16:06pm |
re: #22 Ian G.
Hoo boy, tornado spotted on the NY-MA border:
What’s crazy is that Copake and Great Barrington were struck by a powerful tornado (F-4) in 1995. I mean, Moore, OK, you can kind of understand being hit repeatedly by tornadoes. It’s Oklahoma. You don’t expect the same towns in New York and Massachusetts to be hit repeatedly.
Is that the one that “walked” on the water? I don’t recall where that was but I think it was in that area. I had never seen a tornado cross water like that before.
30 | NJDhockeyfan Tue, May 21, 2013 2:16:09pm |
re: #22 Ian G.
Hoo boy, tornado spotted on the NY-MA border:
What’s crazy is that Copake and Great Barrington were struck by a powerful tornado (F-4) in 1995. I mean, Moore, OK, you can kind of understand being hit repeatedly by tornadoes. It’s Oklahoma. You don’t expect the same towns in New York and Massachusetts to be hit repeatedly.
Now one in Ct.
Tornado reported heading for Canaan, Connecticut! This looks like it could be a large tornado! Take shelter west of Canaan! #tornado— Georgia Storm Chaser (@StormCoker) May 21, 2013
31 | Political Atheist Tue, May 21, 2013 2:17:30pm |
Too bad KidA is not in. According to Marissa Mayer who just bought photo centric Tumbler on behalf of Yahoo for a billion dollars-Professional photographers don’t really exist anymore.
33 | dragonath Tue, May 21, 2013 2:18:39pm |
re: #31 Political Atheist
And to think that was what I wanted to do after high school. Well. At least I still have my enlarger.
34 | Ian G. Tue, May 21, 2013 2:18:52pm |
re: #30 NJDhockeyfan
It’s the same storm. It’s basically crossing the NY-CT-MA triple point. Either way, though, the thing has a nice hook echo and strong rotation on radar:
That’s a serious storm. People need to take shelter.
35 | FemNaziBitch Tue, May 21, 2013 2:19:38pm |
Ok, well, I have to get ready for class.
Have a good evening all!
36 | Political Atheist Tue, May 21, 2013 2:20:01pm |
re: #33 dragonath
And to think that was what I wanted to do after high school. Well. At least I still have my enlarger.
And there are no longer any professional writers either given all those cheap pencils lying about.
37 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, May 21, 2013 2:22:16pm |
38 | efuseakay Tue, May 21, 2013 2:22:24pm |
Disappointed. I thought this was about Congress.
39 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 2:27:16pm |
Pretty day in Half Moon Bay…wish I wasn’t at work.
40 | AlexRogan Tue, May 21, 2013 2:29:28pm |
re: #23 dragonath
I suggest you can start here:
Yeah, we apparently have some TPers down at our federal courthouse here in Nashville protesting today, just the same week that my mom got called up for jury duty (and me and my brothers get to drop her off and pick her up, since she doesn’t drive).
Fabulous…
41 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 2:30:07pm |
If you want to watch pure, unadulturated crazy in real time, check out C-SPAN2 right now. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are going Galt and even John McCain is calling for reasonable behavior on their part.
42 | Decatur Deb Tue, May 21, 2013 2:30:24pm |
re: #33 dragonath
And to think that was what I wanted to do after high school. Well. At least I still have my enlarger.
Nikkor tanks make good cocktail shakers.
43 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, May 21, 2013 2:30:33pm |
Kitteh update…
Three of the five orphan kittehs went to Rainbow Bridge this past week.
The remaining two (Piglet & Growler) are now three weeks old and feisty wee beasties:
44 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 2:31:01pm |
Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.
Tornado truthers? Seriously now? maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2013/05/…— Maddow Blog (@MaddowBlog) May 21, 2013
According to Jones, we need to know whether locals saw helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things.”
45 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, May 21, 2013 2:32:31pm |
re: #44 darthstar
Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.
gee, and the thumpers always say it’s because of teh gayz…
they really need to make up their minds about this stuff.
46 | Sol Berdinowitz Tue, May 21, 2013 2:34:04pm |
re: #41 darthstar
If you want to watch pure, unadulturated crazy in real time, check out C-SPAN2 right now. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul are going Galt and even John McCain is calling for reasonable behavior on their part.
McCain left the Tea Party window open, and now the baboons are taking over…
47 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 2:34:52pm |
re: #44 darthstar
Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.
According to Jones, we need to know whether locals saw helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things.”
Oh, FFS.
48 | AlexRogan Tue, May 21, 2013 2:35:28pm |
49 | Decatur Deb Tue, May 21, 2013 2:36:47pm |
re: #48 AlexRogan
It’s IRS auditors all the way down!!!!11ty
/
CINCINNATI IS THE EPICENTER
Damn. Read that as ‘Cincinnati is the sphincter”. Still very tired from hospital watch.
50 | erik_t Tue, May 21, 2013 2:37:12pm |
re: #49 Decatur Deb
Damn. Read that as ‘Cincinnati is the sphincter”. Still very tired from hospital watch.
That would explain Skyline Chili.
51 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 2:37:17pm |
re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth
gee, and the thumpers always say it’s because of teh gayz…
they really need to make up their minds about this stuff.
The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.
52 | jamesfirecat Tue, May 21, 2013 2:38:22pm |
re: #51 GeneJockey
The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.
Some people manage to believe at least half a dozen impossible things before breakfast.
53 | Decatur Deb Tue, May 21, 2013 2:38:35pm |
re: #51 GeneJockey
The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.
Black helicopters with gay pilots.
54 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 2:39:27pm |
55 | Decatur Deb Tue, May 21, 2013 2:39:37pm |
re: #52 jamesfirecat
Some people manage to believe at least half a dozen impossible things before breakfast.
Ah. A Liddel humour.
56 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 2:40:41pm |
57 | jamesfirecat Tue, May 21, 2013 2:45:39pm |
58 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, May 21, 2013 2:46:25pm |
59 | First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Tue, May 21, 2013 2:46:50pm |
re: #51 GeneJockey
The wonderful thing about being a Wingnut is the ability to simultaneously believe two mutually exclusive conspiracy theories.
But see, when you’re as AWAKE as Alex Jones is you understand that all conspiracies are just tentacles of The Big Conspiracy that’s so secret and big and evil that the people who run the smaller conspiracies don’t even know about it.
No word on why the conspirators who can control ‘weaponized weather’ can’t manage to arrange for the guy who keeps discovering all their plots to have a little “accident” (wink wink, nudge nudge), though.
60 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 2:50:44pm |
re: #57 jamesfirecat
Looking at Twitter Trends right now, I think Beiber’s followers are a cult.
61 | jaunte Tue, May 21, 2013 2:51:11pm |
re: #44 darthstar
On the May 21 edition of The Alex Jones Show, a caller asked Jones whether he was planning to cover how government technology may be behind a recent spate of sinkholes. After laying out how insurance companies use weather modification to avoid having to pay ski resorts for lack of snow, Jones said that “of course there’s weather weapon stuff going on — we had floods in Texas like 15 years ago, killed 30-something people in one night. Turned out it was the Air Force.”
FEMA chem-trailers.
62 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 2:52:07pm |
re: #49 Decatur Deb
CINCINNATI IS THE EPICENTER
Damn. Read that as ‘Cincinnati is the sphincter”. Still very tired from hospital watch.
DAMN YOU AUTOCORRECT!
63 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 2:52:48pm |
these people are just insane: Oklahoma Tornado Proven False Flag Conspiracy ow.ly/lgic8 #uniteblue #latcot #tcot #p2— Edward Branley (@YatPundit) May 21, 2013
64 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 2:53:33pm |
LOL EPIC
! Wolf Blitzer to tornado survivor: “You gotta thank The Lord right?” Response: “Actually I’m an atheist.” Awkward.— Ashley Huston (@ashleyshuston) May 21, 2013
65 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 2:54:37pm |
re: #64 Vicious Babushka
That’s my kinda tornado survivor! ‘No Atheists in foxholes’, my ass!
66 | jaunte Tue, May 21, 2013 2:54:40pm |
re: #63 Vicious Babushka
6. One of my friends heard a self-proclaimed zionist talking to a shapeshifting white guy. They said that all the earthquake in oklohoma lately are a result of massive underground contruction. they were talking about how the Jewish race wishes to expand rapidly and that they are building massive Jewish settlements and Palestinian slave labor camps under Oklohoma…the reason… supposedly ak-la ham aer, which sound like oklohoma, means “Jews are the best, screw the rest” in hebrew. beforeitsnews.com
And these people are out driving around.
67 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 2:55:57pm |
re: #66 jaunte
6. One of my friends heard a self-proclaimed zionist talking to a shapeshifting white guy. They said that all the earthquake in oklohoma lately are a result of massive underground contruction. they were talking about how the Jewish race wishes to expand rapidly and that they are building massive Jewish settlements and Palestinian slave labor camps under Oklohoma…the reason… supposedly ak-la ham aer, which sound like oklohoma, means “Jews are the best, screw the rest” in hebrew.
That’s gotta be parody.
68 | erik_t Tue, May 21, 2013 2:56:26pm |
re: #64 Vicious Babushka
LOL EPIC
LOL. Fuck you, Wolf, and fuck your scum-sucking shambling corpse of a network, moving from wound to wound and monetizing the festering.
69 | jaunte Tue, May 21, 2013 2:56:55pm |
I wonder how many shape-shifters are in Glenn Beck’s convoy.
71 | blueraven Tue, May 21, 2013 2:59:41pm |
72 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 3:00:32pm |
re: #66 jaunte
And these people are out driving around.
Geez. Let me guess - the tornado was the result of turning on the ventilator fans for the underground New Israel, with adjacent New Palestine? BTW, I wonder how stupid they think The Jooz are, to recreate the whole occupation/Intifada thing underneath Oklahoma?
Are they sure it’s not because the Injuns are the Lost Tribe of Israel?
“He spoke Hebrew at him for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES, and he PRETENDED not to understand!”
73 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 3:01:05pm |
Tornado watches in CT and atheists in OK? What the hell is going on?!— Hunter (@HunterDK) May 21, 2013
74 | HoosierHoops Tue, May 21, 2013 3:01:25pm |
Update from Oklahoma.. It missed us and came down in Moore, The next town over.
The guy in the cube next to me lost everything when his subdivision was leveled.. We were worried about him when he texted this morning that He and his wife and 3 children had left and drove North past OKC. He is returning today to nothing..Nothing at all. Everybody in the office will make sure they can buy clothes.
A girl in our office was beside herself this morning.. Her friend was the lady and child that were killed in the cold storage room of the 7-11. She had to go home cause she couldn’t stop crying this morning.
There is great pain here today. I went and gave blood. I feel helpless for those living in such hurt and pain and don’t know what to do.
75 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 3:01:54pm |
76 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 3:02:52pm |
77 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 3:02:53pm |
re: #72 GeneJockey
Geez. Let me guess - the tornado was the result of turning on the ventilator fans for the underground New Israel, with adjacent New Palestine? BTW, I wonder how stupid they think The Jooz are, to recreate the whole occupation/Intifada thing underneath Oklahoma?
Are they sure it’s not because the Injuns are the Lost Tribe of Israel?
“He spoke Hebrew at him for FIVE WHOLE MINUTES, and he PRETENDED not to understand!”
That’s because the Native Americans speak Yiddish, not Hebrew.
79 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 3:04:14pm |
Here’s the video…fucking hilarious - she says, “And I don’t blame anybody for thanking the lord”…
80 | allegro Tue, May 21, 2013 3:04:19pm |
81 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 3:05:27pm |
re: #74 HoosierHoops
Update from Oklahoma.. It missed us and came down in Moore, The next town over.
The guy in the cube next to me lost everything when his subdivision was leveled.. We were worried about him when he texted this morning that He and his wife and 3 children had left and drove North past OKC. He is returning today to nothing..Nothing at all. Everybody in the office will make sure they can buy clothes.
A girl in our office was beside herself this morning.. Her friend was the lady and child that were killed in the cold storage room of the 7-11. She had to go home cause she couldn’t stop crying this morning.
There is great pain here today. I went and gave blood. I feel helpless for those living in such hurt and pain and don’t know what to do.
{{{Hoops}}}
83 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 3:06:20pm |
re: #74 HoosierHoops
Glad you’re safe. Disasters are fucked up. Period.
84 | Decatur Deb Tue, May 21, 2013 3:07:38pm |
re: #77 Vicious Babushka
That’s because the Native Americans speak Yiddish, not Hebrew.
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There is an old show business story that the ‘Indian’ extras in a lot of old B-reel westerns worked-in Yiddish when they had to ad-lib tribal murmers.
85 | A Mom Anon Tue, May 21, 2013 3:09:41pm |
re: #74 HoosierHoops
So glad you and Winston are safe!! But sad at the loss of,well everything.
Many hugs to you and yours Hoops.
86 | Stanghazi Tue, May 21, 2013 3:11:19pm |
re: #74 HoosierHoops
Update from Oklahoma.. It missed us and came down in Moore, The next town over.
The guy in the cube next to me lost everything when his subdivision was leveled.. We were worried about him when he texted this morning that He and his wife and 3 children had left and drove North past OKC. He is returning today to nothing..Nothing at all. Everybody in the office will make sure they can buy clothes.
A girl in our office was beside herself this morning.. Her friend was the lady and child that were killed in the cold storage room of the 7-11. She had to go home cause she couldn’t stop crying this morning.
There is great pain here today. I went and gave blood. I feel helpless for those living in such hurt and pain and don’t know what to do.
Thanks for checking in. We were concerned.
Sorry about your peeps.
87 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Tue, May 21, 2013 3:17:40pm |
re: #74 HoosierHoops
Oh man, I thought you were back in Napa for some reason. Glad you’re alright. I’m sure there’ll be volunteer efforts you can pitch in to.
88 | bratwurst Tue, May 21, 2013 3:18:17pm |
re: #60 ProTARDISLiberal
Looking at Twitter Trends right now, I think Beiber’s followers are a cult.
Bieber’s followers are open minded and easy going compared to Glenn Greenwald’s fans online. I am not exaggerating…just try to point out Glenn regularly engages in hyperbole and dueling with straw men and see what happens.
89 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 3:33:42pm |
re: #88 bratwurst
If they make Beiber’s fans look tolerant, that is disturbing.
90 | Walking Spanish Down the Hall Tue, May 21, 2013 3:37:10pm |
re: #88 bratwurst
Bieber’s followers are open minded and easy going compared to Glenn Greenwald’s fans online. I am not exaggerating…just try to point out Glenn regularly engages in hyperbole and dueling with straw men and see what happens.
I have to ask - why does Bieber have any fans?
91 | Charles Johnson Tue, May 21, 2013 3:37:20pm |
@green_footballs There’s no truth in his words-only fraudulent envirocultist zealotry. You’re as contemptible as he if you believe it. #tcot— Joe Lex (@Slider6294) May 21, 2013
Prog wingnuts LOVE Agenda 21 They KNOW global warming is true & we are destroying planet because —- ALIENS TOLD THEM SO! @green_footballs— THE REAL TEAPARTY(TM) (@NHTeaParties) May 21, 2013
92 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 3:38:55pm |
re: #90 Walking Spanish Down the Hall
Good damn question. Something scientists working with sounds and teenagers will have to study and discover.
/half
93 | Stanghazi Tue, May 21, 2013 3:39:27pm |
Lol about gop freaking out about apple & taxes after ge & romney
94 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 3:43:28pm |
re: #88 bratwurst
Bieber’s followers are open minded and easy going compared to Glenn Greenwald’s fans online. I am not exaggerating…just try to point out Glenn regularly engages in hyperbole and dueling with straw men and see what happens.
Some practical joker dropped hints on Bieber fansites that if they could win concert tickets and albums if they Tweeted to the hashtag #TGDN, for “Talented, Gorgeous, Divine? Naturally!”
Hilarity ensued.
95 | A Mom Anon Tue, May 21, 2013 3:44:48pm |
re: #91 Charles Johnson
Every day these people make the case for mental health parity in our healthcare system. I’m not even close to joking. This level of hate,denial and zealotry is not normal.
96 | Walking Spanish Down the Hall Tue, May 21, 2013 3:45:02pm |
If no taxes means more jobs why are there still unemployed? (Hey, if creationists can do it..)
97 | lawhawk Tue, May 21, 2013 3:45:08pm |
re: #91 Charles Johnson
That’s got spoilers all the way down written all over it (now if I could remember 1- how to do spoilers; and 2 - recall whether they can be nested, which I doubt).
98 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 3:45:11pm |
These people just suck.
A real man vs a real bitch. @barackobama@dkeithloyd56 #rednationrising #tcot #tgdn #lnyhbt twitter.com/AaronProSol/st…— #RedNationRising (@AaronProSol) May 18, 2013
99 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 3:46:10pm |
re: #94 Vicious Babushka
I want to meet the fellow who did this. I want to shake his hand.
100 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 3:48:36pm |
re: #99 ProTARDISLiberal
I want to meet the fellow who did this. I want to shake his hand.
It was EPIC. Beliebers kept saying “Why are all these crazy old gun nuts posting to our Talented Gorgeous Divine Naturally hashtag?”
101 | lawhawk Tue, May 21, 2013 3:48:38pm |
re: #61 jaunte
Yeah, but the real conspiracy is that those are all smokescreens for the real “natural disaster” weapons - Grazer 1. And plane crashes? Grazer 1 causes earthquakes in the sky. Proof? Flight 587 - FAA says that it was wake turbulence caused by being too close to plane ahead and pilot overcorrection, but truth is that we shook the thing apart, because we could. ////////////////////////////////TY
102 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 3:50:49pm |
103 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 3:51:28pm |
re: #102 ProTARDISLiberal
Nope. Not able too.
104 | AntonSirius Tue, May 21, 2013 3:53:39pm |
re: #67 Vicious Babushka
That’s gotta be parody.
No, this was parody, in 1988, courtesy the Dead Milkmen. A quarter century later it’s somebody’s gospel truth:
You know what Stuart? I like you. You’re not like the other people here in the trailer park. Oh no, don’t get me wrong, they’re fine people, good Americans. But they’re content to sit back, maybe watch a little Mork and Mindy on channel 57. Maybe kick back a cool Coors 16-ouncer. They’re good fine people, Stuart. But they don’t know what the queers are doing to the soil.
You know that Johnny Wurster kid - the kid who delivers papers in the
neighborhood? He’s a fine kid. Some of the neighbors say he smokes crack, but I don’t believe it. Anyway, for his 10th birthday, all he wanted was a burrow owl, just like his old man. “Dad, get me a burrow owl. I’ll never ask for anything else as long as I live”. So the guy breaks down and buys him a burrow owl. Anyway at 10:30 the other night I go out into my yard and there’s the Wurster kid looking up in the tree. I said, “What are you looking for?” He said, “I’m looking for my burrow owl.” I say, “Jumping Jesus on a pogo stick! Everybody knows that a burrow owl lives in a hole in the ground! Why the hell do you think they call it a burrow owl, anyway?” Now Stuart, do you think a kid like that is gonna know what the queers are doing to the soil?
I first became aware of this about 10 years ago, the summer my oldest boy Bill Jr. died. You know that carnival that comes to town every year?
Well that year it came with a ride called the Mixer. The man said “Keep your head and arms inside the Mixer at all times.” But Bill Jr., he was a daredevil, just like his old man! He was leaning out saying, “Hey everybody! Look at me, look at me!” POW! He was decapitated! They found his head over by the snow cone concession. A few days after that, I open up the mail and there’s a pamphlet in there, from Pueblo, Colorado. And it’s addressed to Bill Jr. And it’s entitled, “Do you know what the queers are doing to our soil?”
Now Stuart, if you look at the soil around any large U.S. city with a big
underground homosexual population - Des Moines, Iowa, perfect example.
Look at the soil around Des Moines, Stuart. You can’t build on it, you can’t grow anything in it. The government says it’s due to poor farming. But I know what’s really going on, Stuart. I know it’s the queers. They’re in it with the aliens. They’re building landing strips for gay Martians. I swear to God.
You know what Stuart, I like you. You’re not like the other people, here in the trailer park.
105 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 3:55:22pm |
re: #104 AntonSirius
Internal working draft of the GOP platform, 2016?
106 | lawhawk Tue, May 21, 2013 3:57:42pm |
re: #102 ProTARDISLiberal
That’s what I thought.
And I’m glad that you’ve come around on Clara. But the way that story line goes, Clara has been his companion all along - stepping in to save the Doctor every time he needed assistance.
And I’m totally loving all the Harry Potter crossovers into the Whoverse. After all, the Emperor in the last episode (Warwick Davis), played Griphook and one of the Professors at Hogwarts, and John Hurt was Olivander.
They’ve also had Dumbledore, Michael Gambon, (who played a Scrooge character in a Christmas episode).
107 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:09:03pm |
re: #106 lawhawk
She was undoing what the Great Intelligence was doing. That line about twisting the Doctor’s Timelines. I’m under the impression that basically splintered into a million pieces, and she used a nearby tool in each one to knock out the Great Intelligence, or in a few cases, intervened directly. Like with the TARDIS. In that case, she served as a matchmaker of sorts, being a reference for the TARDIS we know and love. The Doctor went into the other one, became attached to it and "voila."
Truthfully, I don’t mind this development. Remember, Rose became a human incarnation of the Time Vortex, and obliterated a huge number of Daleks. Clara essentially Bad-Wolfed. And River, which I feel better about now, has also met all the Doctors. Hell, some of the other canon stuff is even weirder.[/spoilers]
At some point now, I think there should be discussions between J.K. Rowling and the Doctor Who crew on her writing an episode or something.
108 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Tue, May 21, 2013 4:11:45pm |
re: #107 ProTARDISLiberal
Keep that complete goddamn hack away from Dr. Who, thanks.
109 | erik_t Tue, May 21, 2013 4:12:36pm |
re: #108 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts
Keep that complete goddamn hack away from Dr. Who, thanks.
Updung so hard I broke my kyboard.
110 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:12:55pm |
111 | LWNJ Tue, May 21, 2013 4:12:56pm |
re: #98 Vicious Babushka
These people just suck.
You know, if you check google images for “president, umbrella,” “reagan, umbrella” or “bush, umbrella,” images of someone military holding an umbrella over POTUS will be right up there. Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?
112 | A Mom Anon Tue, May 21, 2013 4:13:13pm |
Shit. Sheldon Whitehouse apologized because of the asshole uprising. I’m so sick of these freaking people ruining every damned thing they touch.
113 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:16:41pm |
re: #108 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts
Keep that complete goddamn hack away from Dr. Who, thanks.
Seriously? Maybe it’s because I started out watching Dr. Who back in the John Pertwee days, and to me Tom Baker is THE Doctor, but I have difficulty taking it as serious as it seems to take itself.
Then again, my signature on forums that allow signatures is from Pogo:
Don’t take life so serious, son. It ain’t no how permanent.
114 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:17:17pm |
re: #111 LWNJ
Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?
Till the President stops being black.
115 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Tue, May 21, 2013 4:17:27pm |
re: #113 GeneJockey
Oh, I don’t take it seriously at all. They have Christmas monsters and sentient plastic. That doesn’t mean it’s easy to write. It’s hard to be get the tone right.
116 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:18:23pm |
re: #113 GeneJockey
See, I have a differing interpretation on the show taking itself seriously. Namely, I don’t think it does. If it did, we wouldn’t have Strax.
117 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:20:03pm |
example of Strax:
[Strax, driving a coach, halts on an empty Yorkshire street]
Strax: Horse, you have failed in your mission! We are lost, with no sign of Sweetville! Do you have any final words before your summary execution?
[The horse grunts]
Strax: The usual story! [Strax aims a Sontaran gun at the horse] Fourth one this week, and I’m not even hungry!
Boy: Sweetville, sir?
Strax: [Lowers his weapon and turns to the boy nearby] Do you know it?
Boy: Turn around, when possible, then, at the end of the road, turn right.
Strax: What?
Boy: Bear left for a quarter of a mile, then you will have reached your destination.
[At Strax’s beckoning, the boy joins Strax at the driver’s seat]
Strax: Thank you. What is your name?
Boy: Thomas, sir. Thomas Thomas.
Strax: I think you will do well, Thomas Thomas.
118 | darthstar Tue, May 21, 2013 4:20:29pm |
Fun hashtag.
Powerful, captivating, and just a whole lot of fun to read. #TweetReviewsThatAreAlsoTheTweetsTheyReview— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) May 21, 2013
119 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:21:09pm |
re: #116 ProTARDISLiberal
See, I have a differing interpretation on the show taking itself seriously. Namely, I don’t think it does. If it did, we wouldn’t have Strax.
Dunno, man. Matt Smith’s Doctor gets awfully messianic at times. Then again, I missed about 5 Doctors - went right from Peter Davidson to Matt Smith.
120 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 4:22:13pm |
re: #113 GeneJockey
Seriously? Maybe it’s because I started out watching Dr. Who back in the John Pertwee days, and to me Tom Baker is THE Doctor, but I have difficulty taking it as serious as it seems to take itself.
Then again, my signature on forums that allow signatures is from Pogo: Don’t take life so serious, son. It ain’t no how permanent.
Pogo. Now there’s something to take seriously!
121 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Tue, May 21, 2013 4:22:32pm |
re: #119 GeneJockey
It swerves and curves all around the seriousness spectrum in an awesome way.
It’s too bad Ian M. Banks is dying for a lot of reasons, but one of them is I always wished he’d write some Who. He could do it.
122 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:23:24pm |
123 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:24:22pm |
I have to imagine though that the BBC got a lot of complaints from Glasgow over the weekend.
124 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:26:53pm |
re: #123 ProTARDISLiberal
HA! Watched that one. I wondered how my boss, who’s a Scot, would like it…
Probably love it. He got a charge out of me doing the Robin Williams riff on Golf with a fake Scots accent.
125 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:27:52pm |
re: #121 Bert’s House of Beef and Obdicuts
Did you know that Douglas Adams wrote a number of the Tom Baker episodes?
126 | Mike Lamb Tue, May 21, 2013 4:28:29pm |
re: #98 Vicious Babushka
I dunno…seems to me that one of the two has some real juice if he doesn’t even have to hold his own umbrella.
I would further add that I was unaware that holding or not holding one’s umbrella was the test of one’s manhood.
127 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:28:37pm |
re: #125 GeneJockey
And had it not been for the BBC strike during production, Shada might have occurred.
128 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:31:56pm |
re: #120 wrenchwench
Pogo. Now there’s something to take seriously!
When I was a kid, we had a couple Pogo books, but I mostly remember “G.O. Fizzikle Pogo”, and the in-jokes still live in the family. We’re likely to refer to butterflies as ‘Boosterflies’, like Miz Mam’selle Hepzibah, for example.
129 | Bubblehead II Tue, May 21, 2013 4:32:34pm |
Evening Lizards. This video. A representation of the Republican party as it is today.
Nothing more than a bunch of apes bent on taking what they can take before they are driven off.
Sad, but true. Ding me down for dehumanizing them, but they take what they want, when they want and screw the rest of us.
I for one am tired of it.
Edited 5/21/2013 !0:00 hrs
130 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 4:35:00pm |
Mwahahahha! I have Hijacked the Thread.
131 | Walking Spanish Down the Hall Tue, May 21, 2013 4:35:29pm |
132 | NJDhockeyfan Tue, May 21, 2013 4:36:14pm |
re: #64 Vicious Babushka
LOL EPIC
Lets go to the video tape!
@wolfblitzer Asks #Tornado Survivor if She Thanked the #Lord; Replies She’s an #atheist.youtu.be/6uBfc4DylEM— got2bkidding (@got2bkidding) May 21, 2013
133 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:38:41pm |
re: #122 ProTARDISLiberal
Strax
I remember when I first saw the Sontarans back in the day:
Sontaran: We are from the Sontaran Special Space Service.
Doctor: The SSSS? Don’t you think that’s carrying alliteration a bit too far?
134 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 4:39:02pm |
re: #128 GeneJockey
When I was a kid, we had a couple Pogo books, but I mostly remember “G.O. Fizzikle Pogo”, and the in-jokes still live in the family. We’re likely to refer to butterflies as ‘Boosterflies’, like Miz Mam’selle Hepzibah, for example.
One of my brothers made off with the books. I don’t know what happened to the vinyl. Maybe it’s still at Mom’s house.
135 | steve_davis Tue, May 21, 2013 4:42:44pm |
re: #4 Charles Johnson
These are very dangerous animals - those guys were pretty bold (read: stupid) to get in a small room with one holding only a broom.
Made for some great video, though.
Yeah, that was incredibly stupid. Baboons are meat eaters and they are fully capable of tearing someone’s face off if they get annoyed enough.
136 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 4:43:19pm |
re: #134 wrenchwench
One of my brothers made off with the books. I don’t know what happened to the vinyl. Maybe it’s still at Mom’s house.
I was unaware of the records, but then I grew up in a really small town.
Oh, and of course, we INVARIABLY sing ‘Deck Us All With Boston Charlie’ every Christmas.
137 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Tue, May 21, 2013 4:44:19pm |
re: #135 steve_davis
Yeah, that was incredibly stupid. Baboons are meat eaters and they are fully capable of tearing someone’s face off if they get annoyed enough.
138 | efuseakay Tue, May 21, 2013 4:46:32pm |
re: #111 LWNJ
You know, if you check google images for “president, umbrella,” “reagan, umbrella” or “bush, umbrella,” images of someone military holding an umbrella over POTUS will be right up there. Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?
139 | kirkspencer Tue, May 21, 2013 4:46:40pm |
re: #111 LWNJ
You know, if you check google images for “president, umbrella,” “reagan, umbrella” or “bush, umbrella,” images of someone military holding an umbrella over POTUS will be right up there. Where was the outrage? And how long are those RWNJs going to keep chewing on this one?
send them to this article. Includes pictures of Bush pere with soldier and marine holding his umbrella, and W’s soldier holding his umbrella.
Outrageous outrage that raises the question, again, “what’s different about these pictures?”
141 | lawhawk Tue, May 21, 2013 4:57:56pm |
Huge eruption of cheers in committee room as Senate Judiciary approves immigration bill in 13-5 vote. Story coming.— The Hill (@thehill) May 21, 2013
Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.
In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.
142 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Tue, May 21, 2013 4:58:16pm |
re: #140 lawhawk
He hosted Have I Got News For You and it’s brilliant but unfortunately BBC has done takedowns of a lot of HIGFNY and it’s gone from youtube.
If you can find it, it is brilliant.
143 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 4:59:19pm |
re: #141 lawhawk
Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.
In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.
If the muttering about the House bill is anything to go by, I’m getting the impression that the Tea Party intends to scuttle the whole thing there. Unless Boehner is willing to once again violate the “Hastert Rule.”
144 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 5:02:02pm |
GAH. When will they stop? When Hillary is elected?
#tgdn #teaparty Obama & the Lib-Hole stole the election thru Fraud & IRS Voter Suppression time for BHO to vacate the WH Romneysthe POTUS— Luke K-Ski (@harleycuda) May 22, 2013
145 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 5:03:36pm |
146 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 5:04:58pm |
re: #141 lawhawk
Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.
In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.
Some say the Epidemic of White House Scandals has helped immigration reform by diverting the attention of the wingnuts.
I say, whatever works.
But I still don’t have very high hopes for the result when the first part of the bill is about border security, a (nearly) completely unrelated issue.
147 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 5:06:11pm |
re: #146 wrenchwench
Some say the Epidemic of White House Scandals has helped immigration reform by diverting the attention of the wingnuts.
I say, whatever works.
But I still don’t have very high hopes for the result when the first part of the bill is about border security, a (nearly) completely unrelated issue.
The border security issue is supposedly being used as a means of “reassuring” the wingnuts. They have to know that the government is “serious” about stopping illegal immigration before they’ll even consider allowing immigrants already here to try for citizenship.
148 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 5:07:51pm |
re: #145 ProTARDISLiberal
Well, after all - it is a small country. They only have so many actors.
And after all, a ‘series’ there is like 6-10 episodes, not like the 26 you have to do for American TV. I imagine there’s lots of time in between jobs. you can supplement your ‘Masterpiece Theater’ income with a little Dr. Who or Harry Potter!
149 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 5:09:27pm |
re: #147 Targetpractice
The border security issue is supposedly being used as a means of “reassuring” the wingnuts. They have to know that the government is “serious” about stopping illegal immigration before they’ll even consider allowing immigrants already here to try for citizenship.
Almost everything that was recommended in the failed 2007 bill has been implemented as far as border security goes. For instance, the number of border patrol agents was doubled. So now they want to double them again. They’re already having friendly fire incidents, which can only get worse with twice the number of agents.
150 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 5:11:25pm |
re: #149 wrenchwench
Almost everything that was recommended in the failed 2007 bill has been implemented as far as border security goes. For instance, the number of border patrol agents was doubled. So now they want to double them again. They’re already having friendly fire incidents, which can only get worse with twice the number of agents.
THAT’S UNPOSSIBLE!!! EVERYONE KNOW NOBAMA LETS ALL THE ILLEGAL MESSICANS IN!!!
Seriously, they won’t believe it.
151 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 5:16:04pm |
re: #149 wrenchwench
Almost everything that was recommended in the failed 2007 bill has been implemented as far as border security goes. For instance, the number of border patrol agents was doubled. So now they want to double them again. They’re already having friendly fire incidents, which can only get worse with twice the number of agents.
What it comes down to is they refuse to accept the idea that undocumented immigrants can ever be citizens, so making virtually impossible requests (a “secure” border) is their way of ensuring that they have an excuse when the reform effort ultimately fails. “They’ll just flood across the border!” is their go-to argument.
152 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 5:16:30pm |
re: #148 GeneJockey
And you just stated the flaw Doctor Who had this season.
Many, if not most, of the episodes would have been better served being 2-parters.
153 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 5:17:09pm |
re: #141 lawhawk
Immigration Bill passed out of Senate Judiciary. Next step - full Senate, and the House version has yet to be approved by that Chamber, let alone reconciled with the Senate versions.
In other words, we’re a long way off from any kind of deal - and the usual suspects have plenty of opportunities to scuttle a deal here too.
It will be interesting to see what happens. In addition to the unhelpful chorus from wingnut howler monkeys, there are powerful interests in both parties that are happy with the presently broken state of affairs.
154 | lawhawk Tue, May 21, 2013 5:17:26pm |
re: #145 ProTARDISLiberal
Not missed, just didn’t get to him in the timeline yet. /
Speaking of crossovers between the Whoverse and Potterverse, we’ve got:
John Cleese (Nearly Headless Nick)
Zoe Wanamaker (Professor Hooch)
David Bradley (Filch)
Helen McCrory (Narcissa Malfoy)
155 | Bubblehead II Tue, May 21, 2013 5:18:15pm |
Night Lizards.
May your rock be warm.
Sleep well
156 | ProTARDISLiberal Tue, May 21, 2013 5:26:26pm |
157 | Charles Johnson Tue, May 21, 2013 5:26:46pm |
Arg. A couple of years ago I bought two HD enclosures with a Firewire 800 interface for external drives - a few months ago one of those enclosures had a power supply failure, and today the other one did too. The 1TB drive is just fine - I took it out of the enclosure and plugged it in a USB dock and it started right up.
Obviously a design flaw in these enclosures. Just ordered another from a different manufacturer: Macally Hi-Speed eSATA/FireWire/USB 2.0 Storage Enclosure for 3.5-Inch SATA Hard Disk. Hope this one lasts a little longer.
While I was at it, I also grabbed one of these: Toshiba 3.5-Inch 3TB 7200 RPM SATA3/SATA 6.0 GB/s 64MB. (Great price for a 3TB 7200rpm drive.)
158 | compound_Idaho Tue, May 21, 2013 5:27:08pm |
re: #155 Bubblehead II
I used to work with a fella from a part of Idaho you would be familiar with. When he was young, he would sleep with a rock from the fireplace to stay warm. I guess that was before the days of central heat/air.
159 | stabby Tue, May 21, 2013 5:27:11pm |
re: #98 Vicious Babushka
These people just suck.
You know, if you replaced TGDN with trolls from 4chan, you could tell the difference because the trolling kids would be funnier.
160 | NJDhockeyfan Tue, May 21, 2013 5:29:54pm |
#BREAKING: Tornado reported in Innisfil, Ontario. A barn and a train have been destroyed, still unconfirmed. #Onstorm— Viktor Elias (@Eliasviktor001) May 22, 2013
Ontario?
161 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 5:31:20pm |
162 | RealityBasedSteve Tue, May 21, 2013 5:31:44pm |
I, for one, will no longer complain about the occasional mouse that tries to take up residence under the sink anymore.
RBS
Honey, we got baboons, call the Orkin man!!!!!
163 | stabby Tue, May 21, 2013 5:32:47pm |
re: #44 darthstar
Yep…as if on cue, Alex Jones is blaming the tornado on Obama.
According to Jones, we need to know whether locals saw helicopters and small aircraft “in and around the clouds, spraying and doing things.”
Voice of the Republican party. When Rush is gone, Alex will be king.
Heh, there is no global warning, only black foreign fake presidents attacking America with their Muslamic Ray Guns.
164 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 5:35:55pm |
re: #151 Targetpractice
What it comes down to is they refuse to accept the idea that undocumented immigrants can ever be citizens, so making virtually impossible requests (a “secure” border) is their way of ensuring that they have an excuse when the reform effort ultimately fails. “They’ll just flood across the border!” is their go-to argument.
Exactly.
165 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 5:37:43pm |
Big disappointment number one:
Gays Won’t Be In Immigration Reform Bill
Sen. Lindsey Graham: “If you redefine marriage for immigration purposes [by the amendment], the bill would fall apart because the coalition would fall apart. It would be a bridge too far.” Devoted LGBT allies Sen. Chuck Schumer and Sen. Al Franken both reluctantly agreed that removing the amendment to include gay couples was better than sinking the entire bill.
166 | compound_Idaho Tue, May 21, 2013 5:38:37pm |
re: #163 stabby
I’ll would be willing to make a large wager that most republican voters do not know who Alex Jones is.
167 | Charles Johnson Tue, May 21, 2013 5:43:12pm |
re: #166 compound_Idaho
I’ll would be willing to make a large wager that most republican voters do not know who Alex Jones is.
Maybe not, but the conspiracy theories he peddles to the rubes often become mainstream right wing memes.
Drudge Report has been promoting him for years now, and that means huge traffic.
168 | stabby Tue, May 21, 2013 5:43:23pm |
re: #166 compound_Idaho
State Rep. Stella Tremblay (R-Auburn) posted on conservative talk show host Glenn Beck’s Facebook page Friday that the attack and the subsequent search for suspects was playing out how Beck had suggested. She said the bombings were a plot by the federal government, and included a link to a video from another conservative talk show host Alex Jones, in which Jones also claims the federal government planned the bombing. Tremblay’s message to Beck was posted Friday morning, before suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was arrested.
The right wing media’s promotion of a widely-debunked Alex Jones conspiracy theory about the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ammunition acquisitions prompted House Republicans to hold a hearing to investigate. The theory, which assigns some sinister motivation behind the recent ammo purchases, first gained traction on the websites of conspiracy theorist Alex Jones before finding its way to Fox News and Fox Business and finally to the halls of Congress.
On April 25, Republican Reps. Jim Jordan (OH) and Jason Chaffetz (UT) held a joint hearing “to examine the procurement of ammunition by the Department of Homeland Security and Social Security Administration Office of Inspector General.”
And another response to a Jones’ conspiracy theory:
Republicans want to limit the number of bullets federal agencies can purchase so American gun owners can buy more.
Oklahoma Sen. Jim Inhofe and Rep. Frank Lucas have introduced a bill that would prohibit every government agency — except the military — from buying more ammunition each month, than the monthly average it purchased from 2001 to 2009
169 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 5:44:05pm |
re: #165 wrenchwench
Big disappointment number one:
I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be made to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.
170 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 5:44:37pm |
re: #167 Charles Johnson
Maybe not, but the conspiracy theories he peddles to the rubes often become mainstream right wing memes.
Drudge Report has been promoting him for years now, and that means huge traffic.
One doesn’t have to know the name of a bullshit artist to be suckered by him.
171 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 5:46:15pm |
remarkable that immigration reform passes 1st major hurdle and it will be, what, 4th most discussed news tomorrow?— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) May 22, 2013
@chrislhayes yes. in private bills backers are quite grateful for IRS-scandal-leak-gate-azi— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) May 22, 2013
172 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 5:47:48pm |
re: #169 Targetpractice
I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be make to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.
I’d like to be wrong about this, but my assumption is that many awful compromises will be made, and then it will still not pass. I don’t see anything except ‘border security’ getting out of this GOP House.
173 | Single-handed sailor Tue, May 21, 2013 5:49:13pm |
re: #169 Targetpractice
I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be make to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.
Well, it’s 10 years for us legal immigrants.
174 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 5:49:47pm |
re: #172 EPR-radar
I’d like to be wrong about this, but my assumption is that many awful compromises will be made, and then it will still not pass. I don’t see anything except ‘border security’ getting out of this GOP House.
Agreed, it’s looking like ‘07 again, and it really shouldn’t considering all the talk the GOP leadership has made about the need to broaden their tent and to stop pissing off potential voters. The base doesn’t yet realize that a party of old white people in the current demographic environment is not long for this world.
175 | Charles Johnson Tue, May 21, 2013 5:49:56pm |
The Alex Jones conspiracy-mongering crowd is a very vocal part of today’s right wing base. Just take a quick look through FreeRepublic or Breitbart.com or Hot Air or just about any right wing site, and you’ll find a lot of commenters pushing this stuff.
176 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 5:50:38pm |
re: #169 Targetpractice
I’m left wondering how many deals with the devil are going to be made to get this bill passed. I’ve heard that the House GOP are dead set on making it virtually impossible for the road to citizenship to even begin, and the best estimate for how long under their proposal before the first immigrants can hope to be citizens? 15 years.
CNN is saying 13 years. Either way, it’s probably optimistic. And in the meantime, are the immigrants who embark on this road eligible for health care? Drivers’ licenses? College aid? Loans? If not, why wouldn’t they just skip the inquisition and stay undocumented? That’s what wingnuts want, so they won’t be able to vote, but they’ll lose the benefits of ‘bringing people in from the shadows’.
177 | GeneJockey Tue, May 21, 2013 5:54:00pm |
re: #175 Charles Johnson
Yeah, I’ve seen it happen. The fringe guys post something and it gradually becomes accepted.
178 | Charles Johnson Tue, May 21, 2013 5:54:37pm |
re: #176 wrenchwench
It’s pretty awful. 13 years isn’t a “path to citizenship,” it’s a big chunk of your life.
I guess this is what it looks like when the GOP “cooperates” with the Democrats. You get legislation that is simply crazy.
179 | Kid A Tue, May 21, 2013 5:55:53pm |
Derp update:
Some libs blaming global warming for Oklahoma tornado. In 1975, they blamed global cooling. stevengoddard.wordpress.com/2013/05/21/197…
— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) May 21, 2013
180 | HoosierHoops Tue, May 21, 2013 5:56:29pm |
FYI..Posting this from my new badass iMac.. :)
Took Winston on his walk tonight..Went by the kids area where all the parents take the kids to play..It’s a daily thing where the kiddies get to pet Winston and I talk to the neighbors..One thing struck me..
I was watching kids play with pure joy and fun..
One town to our North is suffering from destruction and loss of life..Really bad.
The children were playing as if there nothing has happened..
Let me explain what struck me..
We all have lost our innocence years ago..And no matter what any preacher tells you..You ain’t gett’n that shit back.. Once it’s gone. It’s gone
You know what isn’t gone? Watching the child be completely innocent. They know nothing else..We get to share that moment of being a child with them..Sharing their innocence for a minute in time..I think that was best part of raising kids.
I have to do something to help..They are turning away people to clean up..That’s Oklahoma for you..People rushing in to help..There is a frontier spirit of good people.
Pray for their pain in this hour..We need good positive thoughts going to Moore.
183 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 6:00:23pm |
re: #166 compound_Idaho
I’ll would be willing to make a large wager that most republican voters do not know who Alex Jones is.
WE TRUE MERICANS TOTALLY KNOW WHO ALEX JONES IS!!11 HE LOADED UP 2 18 WHEELERS AND A BUNCH OF SUVS WITH WATER AND DIAPERZ FOR TEH TORNADO AND FEMA STILL ISN’T THEIR!!11
184 | wrenchwench Tue, May 21, 2013 6:05:29pm |
185 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, May 21, 2013 6:12:39pm |
re: #144 Vicious Babushka
GAH. When will they stop? When Hillary is elected?
@ harley”cuda” … anyone using “cuda” in their name is a sarah palin fan club member.
186 | RealityBasedSteve Tue, May 21, 2013 6:13:23pm |
re: #175 Charles Johnson
The Alex Jones conspiracy-mongering crowd is a very vocal part of today’s right wing base. Just take a quick look through FreeRepublic or Breitbart.com or Hot Air or just about any right wing site, and you’ll find a lot of commenters pushing this stuff.
Actually I remember seeing something over on FreeRepublic that JimRob had banned any mention or links to Alex Jones on his site, and that anybody that did would be ‘zotted’. Don’t know what causes it, but you know you’re crazy when ever the freepers say “he’s a loon”.
RBS
Who doesn’t even try to create an account in FR any more, never lasts long enough to set up a good sting.
187 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 6:17:56pm |
Finally! Something important on Twitter!
An update on Justin Bieber’s abandoned monkey-son. jezebel.com/justin-biebers…— Lindy West (@thelindywest) May 22, 2013
188 | HoosierHoops Tue, May 21, 2013 6:17:59pm |
RE: The iMac..
I became a Mac guy Friday after work..It’s bad ass and I have enjoyed it and glad I bought it.. I’m still having issues learning it..It’s going to take some time for a Windows guy. Some stuff just pisses me off cause I just don’t get it.
I keep going Back to google to read more.. But really. The window control resizing/minimize/close is on the left side in Apple and the right side in Windows..I always go right!
It seems everything is opposite or something..:)
Over all.. I love my 24” wide screen iMac..Rating: A kick ass 5 stars.
189 | PhillyPretzel Tue, May 21, 2013 6:19:21pm |
re: #188 HoosierHoops
Hi Hoops. I hope everything is okay with you. Did you get any damage from the tornadoes? I am happy to hear you got a Mac. They are good computers.
190 | Kragar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:20:47pm |
Rand Paul demands Congress ‘apologize’ to Apple for tax avoidance hearing
At a committee hearing on Tuesday, Paul was livid that Apple CEO Tim Cook was asked to testify.
“I’m offended by a $4 trillion government bullying, berating and badgering one America’s greatest success stories,” the Kentucky Republican told the committee. “Tell me what Apple has done that is illegal?”
Paul added that he was also “offended” that that the IRS would “bully” tea party groups.
191 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:21:31pm |
re: #178 Charles Johnson
It’s pretty awful. 13 years isn’t a “path to citizenship,” it’s a big chunk of your life.
I guess this is what it looks like when the GOP “cooperates” with the Democrats. You get legislation that is simply crazy.
I suspect what comes out of the House will basically be a Just Be Glad We Aren’t Going To Deport Your Ass bill.
192 | HoosierHoops Tue, May 21, 2013 6:23:21pm |
re: #189 PhillyPretzel
Hi Hoops. I hope everything is okay with you. Did you get any damage from the tornadoes?
Hi You! It missed us by a Whisker. Moore is the Next town to Norman.
I watched angry clouds go by on their way lay waste..
Thanks Philly..
193 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:25:25pm |
re: #190 Kragar
As usual, Rand Paul is full of it. Apple’s CEO getting to explain to Congress how Apple can legally pay no tax sounds like one of the most worthwhile Congressional hearings in quite some time.
Even though congressional hearings are usually circuses, some circuses are actually useful.
194 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 6:26:50pm |
re: #190 Kragar
Rand Paul demands Congress ‘apologize’ to Apple for tax avoidance hearing
Alright, here’s an apology: “Sorry your ass got caught trying to avoid paying taxes.”
195 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:27:47pm |
re: #191 moderatelyradicalliberal
I suspect what comes out of the House will basically be a Just Be Glad We Aren’t Going To Deport Your Ass bill.
If the House GOP follows the Hastert rule, even that would be too much to hope for.
IMO, the most important parts of the bill are employer sanctions, which don’t seem to be getting much attention. If the sanctions don’t have teeth, the problem will simply recur as employers go for the cheapest possible labor.
196 | Kragar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:31:31pm |
Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare
God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?
197 | efuseakay Tue, May 21, 2013 6:31:41pm |
re: #194 Targetpractice
Alright, here’s an apology: “Sorry your ass got caught trying to avoid paying taxes.”
The thing is, Apple isn’t breaking any laws. Why have they been singled out? Take that as you may. I’ll admit I am an APPL shareholder and receive a very healthy dividend check every quarter. But if they were found breaking laws, I’d definitely have something to say at the next shareholder’s meeting. You can count on that.
198 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 6:32:20pm |
re: #196 Kragar
Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare
God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?
Further cementing my belief that the “God” that the GOP prays to is a sadistic bastard who takes pleasure in the suffering of others.
199 | HoosierHoops Tue, May 21, 2013 6:33:48pm |
re: #193 EPR-radar
As usual, Rand Paul is full of it. Apple’s CEO getting to explain to Congress how Apple can legally pay no tax sounds like one of the most worthwhile Congressional hearings in quite some time.
Even though congressional hearings are usually circuses, some circuses are actually useful.
Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.
200 | PhillyPretzel Tue, May 21, 2013 6:34:23pm |
re: #188 HoosierHoops
As to the Apple; remember the Genius Bar and the telephone help. They can help you when you are stuck.
201 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 6:34:32pm |
re: #197 efuseakay
The thing is, Apple isn’t breaking any laws. Why have they been singled out? Take that as you may. I’ll admit I am an APPL shareholder and receive a very healthy dividend check every quarter. But if they were found breaking laws, I’d definitely have something to say at the next shareholder’s meeting. You can count on that.
Which was rather the point of the hearing, that we have a very dysfunctional tax system, where companies are incentivized to pass money between shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
202 | BongCrodny Tue, May 21, 2013 6:35:20pm |
re: #196 Kragar
Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare
God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?
Is that the same God that told Bachmann to run for President?
If so, I’m feeling a bit better about Obamacare’s long-term prospects.
203 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 6:35:28pm |
re: #199 HoosierHoops
Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.
Overseas money that returns to America=in the form of executive pay and shareholder dividends for the 1%?
204 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:35:31pm |
re: #197 efuseakay
The thing is, Apple isn’t breaking any laws. Why have they been singled out? Take that as you may. I’ll admit I am an APPL shareholder and receive a very healthy dividend check every quarter. But if they were found breaking laws, I’d definitely have something to say at the next shareholder’s meeting. You can count on that.
Somebody needs to be in the Congressional hot seat when questions about the broken US tax system start being asked. The wealthiest corporation on the face of the Earth seems like a reasonable guest to invite to the circus.
It remains to be seen if this is going to go anywhere, or if it is just a Kabuki exercise.
205 | Iwouldprefernotto Tue, May 21, 2013 6:36:04pm |
re: #196 Kragar
Bachmann: ‘God Is Going to Answer Our Prayers’ and Repeal Obamacare
God gets to vote in the Congress and the Senate and he is a Republican?
If Michelle Bachmann gets water dumped on her does she melt?
206 | engineer cat Tue, May 21, 2013 6:36:10pm |
re: #188 HoosierHoops
I’m still having issues learning it..
/ pedant on
is*sue
/ˈiSHo͞o/
Noun
An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.
you mean to say you’re still having -problems- learning it. the use of the word “issue” for “problem” is a rank euphemism promoted by fainthearted HR departments
pedant off /
207 | Kragar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:36:52pm |
re: #202 BongCrodny
Is that the same God that told Bachmann to run for President?
If so, I’m feeling a bit better about Obamacare’s long-term prospects.
So if God’s going to take care of it, does that mean Congress won’t need to have another vote about it?
208 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:37:20pm |
re: #202 BongCrodny
Is that the same God that told Bachmann to run for President?
If so, I’m feeling a bit better about Obamacare’s long-term prospects.
God did tell her to run for President. Only he was answering Barack Obama’s prayer to make his enemies ridiculous.
209 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 6:37:27pm |
re: #199 HoosierHoops
Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.
We had a “one-time only” tax holiday back in ‘04, under the promise that the money repatriated would go to creating jobs and building companies. It went to shareholders and investors instead.
You make it 10% and in a year’s time, there will be Republicans on Capital Hill arguing for 5%, with some asking aloud why we have a tax at all.
210 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:37:44pm |
re: #199 HoosierHoops
Here is my idea..You can’t penalize corporations and drive them off-shore..Let’s just tax any overseas money that returns to America at a very low rate..Say 10% or so.. Big Biz would be scrambling to pay the lowest rate in the economic Powerhouse America.
We could build trust over a period of time..And don’t forget 10% of something is better than nothing.
A sensible idea, provided that domestic earnings don’t magically become offshore earnings. As I recall, that tends to happen when there is an overseas earnings tax break.
211 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 6:38:04pm |
re: #205 Iwouldprefernotto
If Michelle Bachmann gets water dumped on her does she melt?
I’ve been told that she weighs the same as a duck.
212 | Kragar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:39:40pm |
E. W. Jackson: No Federal Role In Disaster Relief Because That Turns Government Into God
E. W. Jackson, the Republican candidate for lieutenant governor of Virginia, said he opposes emergency federal aid in the case of natural disasters during his unsuccessful bid for U.S. Senate last year.
In response to a question regarding the role of government “in helping folks following predictable natural disasters,” Jackson replied: “I don’t think that the federal government has much of a role at all constitutionally, at all.”
“I think as a constitutional matter the federal government doesn’t have a whole lot to do with that,” he continued, lamenting that “we’ve turned the federal government into a kind of God and you turn to the federal government for everything.”
“We don’t need the heavy hand of federal government stepping in every time something goes wrong,” Jackson said. “I don’t think there is any constitutional authority to do it.”
Taken to the logical conclusion of that chain of thought, no person should ever help anyone because you would be tampering in God’s plan for them.
213 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:40:07pm |
re: #205 Iwouldprefernotto
If Michelle Bachmann gets water dumped on her does she melt?
No, she multiplies.
214 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:40:19pm |
re: #206 engineer cat
/ pedant on
is*sue
/ˈiSHo͞o/
Noun
An important topic or problem for debate or discussion.you mean to say you’re still having -problems- learning it. the use of the word “issue” for “problem” is a rank euphemism promoted by fainthearted HR departments
pedant off /
On the other hand, the contemporary usage of issue as a synonym for ‘problem’ lends itself to wonderful expressions such as “he has more issues than the National Geographic”.
215 | HoosierHoops Tue, May 21, 2013 6:41:19pm |
re: #203 Vicious Babushka
Overseas money that returns to America=in the form of executive pay and shareholder dividends for the 1%?
Hi You..
Once they return the money home and we get a slice of the pie..I could care less what they spend in on.. Upgrades..New construction, Golden parachutes.. Who cares? Hopefully they will spend it on what is best for their business and grow. A lot of companies are very responsible in vision and goals..
216 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:41:52pm |
re: #209 Targetpractice
We had a “one-time only” tax holiday back in ‘04, under the promise that the money repatriated would go to creating jobs and building companies. It went to shareholders and investors instead.
You make it 10% and in a year’s time, there will be Republicans on Capital Hill arguing for 5%, with some asking aloud why we have a tax at all.
Tax holidays for overseas corporate earnings fall into the ‘been there, done that, it sucked’ category.
217 | CarleeCork Tue, May 21, 2013 6:42:16pm |
218 | BongCrodny Tue, May 21, 2013 6:42:32pm |
re: #207 Kragar
So if God’s going to take care of it, does that mean Congress won’t need to have another vote about it?
Unfortunately, no.
There are 233 Republicans in the House of Representatives.
There have been 37 attempts to repeal Obamacare.
Assuming that God speaks to every Republican once, I figure we’ve got another 196 attempts.
219 | jaunte Tue, May 21, 2013 6:42:44pm |
re: #212 Kragar
In an interview with The Post the day after the convention, Cuccinelli indicated that he would not be answering for Jackson’s controversial beliefs.
“I am just not going to defend my running mates’ statements at every turn,” he said. “They’ve got to explain those themselves. Part of this process is just letting Virginia voters get comfortable with us, on an individual basis, personally.”washingtonpost.com
“In fact, I have no idea who he is!”
220 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 6:43:24pm |
re: #215 HoosierHoops
Hi You..
Once they return the money home and we get a slice of the pie..I could care less what they spend in on.. Upgrades..New construction, Golden parachutes.. Who cares? Hopefully they will spend it on what is best for their business and grow. A lot of companies are very responsible in vision and goals..
Please give some examples of where this has actually worked, instead of the money just going straight into the pockets of the 1%.
221 | efuseakay Tue, May 21, 2013 6:43:42pm |
re: #201 Targetpractice
Which was rather the point of the hearing, that we have a very dysfunctional tax system, where companies are incentivized to pass money between shell companies to avoid paying taxes.
Exactly, hence my “Take that as you may” comment. This won’t be enough to light a fire under anyone’s ass who is in a position to make real changes… Simply due to the high likelihood they too are tied to any of the other companies doing the same thing.
As EPR eluded to, I feel it’s just all for appearances.
222 | AlexRogan Tue, May 21, 2013 6:45:14pm |
223 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 6:46:34pm |
re: #221 efuseakay
Exactly, hence my “Take that as you may” comment. This won’t be enough to light a fire under anyone’s ass who is in a position to make real changes… Simply due to the high likelihood they too are tied to any of the other companies doing the same thing.
As EPR eluded to, I feel it’s just all for appearances.
A fair point. An honest assessment is that nobody on Capital Hill is in any real rush to do more than pass another patch on the system, one that the tax lawyers employed by companies like Apple will quickly find a way around.
224 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:47:51pm |
re: #222 AlexRogan
No, no, no.
If you feed her after midnight, then she multiplies; if that happens, you use the water to kill the spawn.
/
Nope I got it right. First Gizmo got wet and made a bunch of other Gizmos. Then they are fried chicken and turned into gremlins.
I’m sure because I just saw Gremlins this past Saturday. It’s still funny!
225 | EPR-radar Tue, May 21, 2013 6:48:18pm |
re: #221 efuseakay
Exactly, hence my “Take that as you may” comment. This won’t be enough to light a fire under anyone’s ass who is in a position to make real changes… Simply due to the high likelihood they too are tied to any of the other companies doing the same thing.
As EPR eluded to, I feel it’s just all for appearances.
It doesn’t help that a significant chunk of those who want to change the tax code want to break it further by implementing some version of the fair tax/flat tax.
The tax brackets that define a progressive tax system take 1 page of the tax code to set forth. All remaining countless pages of the tax code have to do with what is and is not taxable income.
So getting rid of the brackets benefits the wealthy and has zero impact on the complexity of the tax code.
226 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:49:07pm |
re: #219 jaunte
“In fact, I have no idea who he is!”
Seems to me like he has enough trouble explaining his own.
227 | Iwouldprefernotto Tue, May 21, 2013 6:51:13pm |
re: #213 moderatelyradicalliberal
No, she multiplies.
I wanted to make a joke about a re: #222 AlexRogan
No, no, no.
If you feed her after midnight, then she multiplies; if that happens, you use the water to kill the spawn.
/
I get it the topic is the worst baboon and the answer is Michelle Bachmann.
228 | HappyWarrior Tue, May 21, 2013 6:51:51pm |
re: #212 Kragar
E. W. Jackson: No Federal Role In Disaster Relief Because That Turns Government Into God
Taken to the logical conclusion of that chain of thought, no person should ever help anyone because you would be tampering in God’s plan for them.
Of course if he gets elected with his fellow kook, Cuccinneli and a hurricane inevitably hits us here in Virginia, he will be blasting Obama and the feds for not doing more. Seriously people like this scare the crap out of me and what’s more, I wouldn’t be shocked if him and Cuccinneli and the otehr kook running for AG actually won all three offices.
229 | HoosierHoops Tue, May 21, 2013 6:52:03pm |
re: #220 Vicious Babushka
Please give some examples of where this has actually worked, instead of the money just going straight into the pockets of the 1%.
Ok..To solve the issue of companies claiming domistic as an off-shore taxation I’d freeze the level of that to this years level. That baseline can never change.
Apple could have brought 67 BILLION dollars home at 10% tax rate.
To think that exec’s would pocket that yearly deduction is laughable on its face.
As they plan yearly for this transfer..Yes the big shots will get cool serious cash..
Maybe split up a Billion..That leaves 66 Billion to invest somewhere be it Corporate bonds, expansion or whatever..Let’s get that money back
230 | AlexRogan Tue, May 21, 2013 6:52:50pm |
re: #224 moderatelyradicalliberal
Nope I got it right. First Gizmo got wet and made a bunch of other Gizmos. Then they are fried chicken and turned into gremlins.
I’m sure because I just saw Gremlins this past Saturday. It’s still funny!
Eh, got my Gremlins rules all jacked up.
Don’t get Mogwais wet (because they’ll multiply), don’t feed them after midnight (because they’ll turn into Gremlins), and don’t expose them to bright light (because that kills them).
231 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:53:43pm |
232 | Targetpractice Tue, May 21, 2013 6:53:53pm |
re: #228 HappyWarrior
Of course if he gets elected with his fellow kook, Cuccinneli and a hurricane inevitably hits us here in Virginia, he will be blasting Obama and the feds for not doing more. Seriously people like this scare the crap out of me and what’s more, I wouldn’t be shocked if him and Cuccinneli and the otehr kook running for AG actually won all three offices.
If the GOP wins here in November, I’m getting the fuck out of the state. Perhaps take my chances up north, above the Mason-Dixon craziness.
233 | Vicious Babushka Tue, May 21, 2013 6:54:09pm |
re: #229 HoosierHoops
Ok..To solve the issue of companies claiming domistic as an off-shore taxation I’d freeze the level of that to this years level. That baseline can never change.
Apple could have brought 67 BILLION dollars home at 10% tax rate.
To think that exec’s would pocket that yearly deduction is laughable on its face.
As they plan yearly for this transfer..Yes the big shots will get cool serious cash..
Maybe split up a Billion..That leaves 66 Billion to invest somewhere be it Corporate bonds, expansion or whatever..Let’s get that money back
All I see is the 1% playing a shell game, no working people are ever going to enjoy a dime of that offshore money.
234 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:55:43pm |
re: #230 AlexRogan
Eh, got my Gremlins rules all jacked up.
Don’t get Mogwais wet (because they’ll multiply), don’t feed them after midnight (because they’ll turn into Gremlins), and don’t expose them to bright light (because that kills them).
Yes. “Bright light! Bright light!”
235 | moderatelyradicalliberal Tue, May 21, 2013 6:56:47pm |
re: #233 Vicious Babushka
All I see is the 1% playing a shell game, no working people are ever going to enjoy a dime of that offshore money.
Yeah, pretty much.
236 | Dark_Falcon Tue, May 21, 2013 7:11:51pm |
re: #28 jaunte
It’s just not a baboon thread until Joe Walsh shows up.
Stop insulting baboons in that fashion! Joe Walsh is not even baboon poo, which can at least be dried and burned for heating. Joe Walsh is toxic waste.