1 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:04:16pm |
Congressional GOP, you can win your weight in Red Snapper or you can have whats in the Box!
2 | b_sharp Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:06:27pm |
re: #1 Kragar
Congressional GOP, you can win your weight in Red Snapper or you can have whats in the Box!
Points for the UHF ref.
3 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:07:55pm |
4 | Kilroy01 Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:08:02pm |
I’d prefer them getting to drink from the fire hose.
6 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:09:28pm |
re: #4 Kilroy01
I’d prefer them getting to drink from the fire hose.
Ted Cruz could never find a marble in the oatmeal.
7 | Charles Johnson Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:09:39pm |
Do not attempt to resist. RT @BabyAnimaI: Kittens in a box. pic.twitter.com/kEJMfHi4ZH— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 4, 2013
8 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:10:58pm |
re: #7 Charles Johnson
Ah! The key to melting the GOP’s hearts is sending them boxes of kittens and having all the Whos in Whoville start singing pleasant songs.
10 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:12:29pm |
11 | Kilroy01 Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:13:28pm |
Don Pardo to the GOP
You lost. And let me tell you what you didn’t win: a twenty volume set of the Encyclopedia International, a case of Turtle Wax, and a year’s supply of Rice-A-Roni, the San Francisco Treat. But that’s not all. You also made yourself look like a jerk in front of millions of people. You brought shame and disgrace to your family name for generations to come. You don’t get to come back tomorrow. You don’t even get a lousy copy of our home game. You’re a complete loser!
12 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:18:13pm |
The GOP just wants to go back to the Good Old Days…
13 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:19:21pm |
re: #10 Kragar
Best I can do, sorry
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Trinidad Silva playing Raul. I remember him as a pretty memorable character in “Hill Street Blues” as a gang leader who later became a lawyer.
14 | Ming Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:20:00pm |
re: #12 Kragar
The GOP just wants to go back to the Good Old Days…
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… before the tide turned in 1863, in Gettysburg.
15 | Rev_Arthur_Belling Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:23:24pm |
re: #14 Ming
… before the tide turned in
18631439, inGettysburgMainz.
with the invention of the printing press.
16 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:23:52pm |
Man this sums up the GOP so well right now
17 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:25:18pm |
re: #14 Ming
… before the tide turned in 1863, in Gettysburg.
Tide turned before that. Probably about 1856 when it was becoming clear that the Republicans were going to continue making inroads and gain ground as the Democrats continued to split on regional issues (e.g. slavery).
1861-1865 was simply the tantrum from a political power group refusing to consider losing ground gracefully.
18 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:25:46pm |
re: #7 Charles Johnson
Some republicans can resist even this.
E.g., NYC GOP candidate Joe Lhota, who is not into shutting down part of the NYC subway system because of some kittens.
19 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:26:15pm |
re: #17 Feline Fearless Leader
Tide turned before that. Probably about 1856 when it was becoming clear that the Republicans were going to continue making inroads and gain ground as the Democrats continued to split on regional issues (e.g. slavery).
1861-1865 was simply the tantrum from a political power group refusing to consider losing ground gracefully.
Makes me wonder what the next “temper tantrum” is going to look like.
20 | GeneJockey Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:26:19pm |
re: #14 Ming
… before the tide turned in 1863, in Gettysburg.
Yep. Although, of course, the Golden Age the Right imagines never really existed. They can’t really place a date on the America they imagine they’re losing, though many of them say the 1950s - except that was a time when taxes on wealth were darn near confiscatory, when labor was so strong that strikes were a frequent occurrence, and people generally sympathized with the strikers.
Still, it was a great time to be a white christian male, before Those People started raising a ruckus, and women started asking to be more than just wives and secretaries.
21 | Charles Johnson Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:28:33pm |
Reine, Lofoten, Norway #EarthPics pic.twitter.com/WSA54g8iNN— Google Earth Pics (@GoogleEarthPics) October 4, 2013
22 | Zamb Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:30:42pm |
re: #20 GeneJockey
Exactly they all think the past was some perfect time where nothing bad happened because they always adhered to some unknown sacred principals. Some friend of mine posted some B.S about Andrew Jackson being the best president ever because he was the only President to ever pay off the debt. Never mind the whole genocide thing, apparently taking out a loan is the greatest sin a man can commit.
23 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:33:21pm |
Cute.
24 | Vicious Babushka Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:33:49pm |
“Senior White House Official: we are winning…”
Wingnuts, led by Stockman, going batshit over this WSJ story, which is completely bogus.
25 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:34:39pm |
re: #22 Zamb
Exactly they all think the past was some perfect time where nothing bad happened because they always adhered to some unknown sacred principals. Some friend of mine posted some B.S about Andrew Jackson being the best president ever because he was the only President to ever pay off the debt. Never mind the whole genocide thing, apparently taking out a loan is the greatest sin a man can commit.
Only if the president is a Democrat. The man who said “deficits don’t matter” was a Republican, after all. Consistent with the orgy of budget busting under the W Bush administration.
26 | GeneJockey Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:34:54pm |
re: #22 Zamb
Exactly they all think the past was some perfect time where nothing bad happened because they always adhered to some unknown sacred principals. Some friend of mine posted some B.S about Andrew Jackson being the best president ever because he was the only President to ever pay off the debt. Never mind the whole genocide thing, apparently taking out a loan is the greatest sin a man can commit.
As I think about it, their Golden Age is all concocted from historical revisionism. They want it to be the 1950s, but ignore that the very reason the 1950s were so good to so many was precisely because we put in place all kinds of regulations on banking and business, and encouraged labor organization, and established the Safety Net. They do a mashup of the 1920s and the 1950s, where regulation was the 1920’s Laissez Faire, but instead of resulting in the Great Depression, it triggers the growth of the Middle Class, and the rise of a much more affluent society.
27 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:39:24pm |
Whoa, flashbacks kicking in…
28 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:39:29pm |
re: #26 GeneJockey
As I think about it, their Golden Age is all concocted from historical revisionism. They want it to be the 1950s, but ignore that the very reason the 1950s were so good to so many was precisely because we put in place all kinds of regulations on banking and business, and encouraged labor organization, and established the Safety Net. They do a mashup of the 1920s and the 1950s, where regulation was the 1920’s Laissez Faire, but instead of resulting in the Great Depression, it triggers the growth of the Middle Class, and the rise of a much more affluent society.
While apparently ignoring a few other things:
1. Beginning of Russia vs US showdown where you do get to wonder in every international crisis whether things might go south and lots of nukes will start being tossed.
2. Part of US economic supremacy was that pretty much all the other industrial countries had gotten pulverized in WW2 by genuine destruction and massive war debt. So we had a lack of competition and also ready markets for goods to help them rebuild.
29 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:39:46pm |
re: #19 Dr Lizardo
Makes me wonder what the next “temper tantrum” is going to look like.
We will find out, sooner rather than later.
30 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:40:25pm |
re: #29 EPR-radar
We will find out, sooner rather than later.
“We never got to cast our votes in the Electoral College!”
31 | CuriousLurker Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:40:39pm |
OT - A good article on the “techno-Libertarian” mindset:
A Silk Road to total freedom?
Or to total thuggery? The dark side of Internet culture’s obsession with anonymity.In 2010, Ross Ulbricht, a ferociously bright young man working at the edge of material science at Penn State, walked away from his budding research career for what he felt was a nobler application of his energies: a quest for utopia.
On his LinkedIn page, he explained that in the five or so years since he’d earned a bachelors degree in physics from the University of Texas at Dallas “my goal during this period… was simply to expand the frontier of human knowledge.” He now had grander plans:
Now, my goals have shifted. I want to use economic theory as a means to abolish the use of coercion and agression (sic) amongst mankind. Just as slavery has been abolished most everywhere, I believe violence, coercion and all forms of force by one person over another can come to an end. The most widespread and systemic use of force is amongst institutions and governments, so this is my current point of effort. The best way to change a government is to change the minds of the governed, however. To that end, I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force.
That passage would be familiar to anyone who’s ever participated in the online forums where the Internet’s seemingly endless supply of techno-libertarians roam free. A young, technically-competent young man with a hard science or engineering background, issuing his digital Randian yawp: “I’m going Galt, and I’m going to reshape the world!” […]
Heh, the term “Randian yawp” is a keeper.
32 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:40:56pm |
re: #26 GeneJockey
As I think about it, their Golden Age is all concocted from historical revisionism. They want it to be the 1950s, but ignore that the very reason the 1950s were so good to so many was precisely because we put in place all kinds of regulations on banking and business, and encouraged labor organization, and established the Safety Net. They do a mashup of the 1920s and the 1950s, where regulation was the 1920’s Laissez Faire, but instead of resulting in the Great Depression, it triggers the growth of the Middle Class, and the rise of a much more affluent society.
The 1950s were also good for America because let’s face it, we really didn’t have any global economic competition.
Vast swaths of Europe were in ruins; Germany’s industrial capacity was pretty much bombed into oblivion, as was Japan’s. The British Empire, on which “the sun never sets” was bankrupt and exhausted. The Soviet Union, while an empire and an ideological competitor, was not a serious economic threat at that time. China was just coming off a disastrous civil war that saw the victory of Mao Zedong.
The world has changed radically since the 1950s, and it seems that those who want to go back to the “good old days” simply don’t comprehend this.
33 | Charles Johnson Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:40:57pm |
pic.twitter.com/WqIDlrDktO— emilio porompompero (@PoromEmilio) October 4, 2013
34 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:42:25pm |
Hey all.
Regarding the previous thread.
When I was doing my Dodd-Frank research is was glaringly clear the Conservatives had no clue what was going on. The rest of the world is still “the enemy” to them.
35 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:42:34pm |
re: #29 EPR-radar
We will find out, sooner rather than later.
My hope is that they’ll become so utterly disillusioned with politics that they just say, “Screw it” and walk away.
My fear is that they may take up arms and attempt to launch an insurrection.
36 | FemNaziBitch Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:42:59pm |
37 | piratedan Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:48:29pm |
re: #35 Dr Lizardo
My hope is that they’ll become so utterly disillusioned with politics that they just say, “Screw it” and walk away.
My fear is that they may take up arms and attempt to launch an insurrection.
I have to admit to being puzzled by the paradox that is constantly presented by these guys in that we hate the government so much that we have to be in charge of it just to ensure that you folks that do want a representative government don’t have one.
Usually exhibiting that kind of behavior gets you asked to leave the party and take your ball and go home but we live in a world where the MSM mostly functions as a societal troll rather than as an information source.
38 | GeneJockey Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:50:24pm |
re: #28 Feline Fearless Leader
re: #32 Dr Lizardo
The ‘everyone else was beat to shit’ point has merit, but I’d respond by observing that our economy, with a few hiccups, continued to grow at a pretty good clip, but that since 1980, instead of the gains being shared among all levels of society as they were from 1946 till then, those gains have increasingly gone to an increasingly small percentage of society.
If we were still distributing income and wealth as we did in the postwar era, the folks who see their paychecks stagnating or declining would not have needed to borrow money to continue spending at the rate they did.
Right now, wages as a percentage of GDP are at an all time low, while profits as a percent of GDP are at an all time high. The money is still there, it’s just going to fewer and fewer people. The crazy thing is, that distribution of wealth and income is one of the key features of ‘The America I Grew Up In’ that wingnuts claim is being destroyed. And yet, they are the ones pushing it toward even less equitable distribution.
39 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:50:39pm |
re: #37 piratedan
I have to admit to being puzzled by the paradox that is constantly presented by these guys in that we hate the government so much that we have to be in charge of it just to ensure that you folks that do want a representative government don’t have one.
Usually exhibiting that kind of behavior gets you asked to leave the party and take your ball and go home but we live in a world where the MSM mostly functions as a societal troll rather than as an information source.
I think the resolution of this paradox is simple. They hate any government they do not completely control (i.e., present day government).
They would be delighted with a government they fully controlled (e.g., Republic of Gilead theocracy, which is probably the single most popular RW utopia).
40 | GeneJockey Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:52:00pm |
re: #39 EPR-radar
I think the resolution of this paradox is simple. They hate any government they do not completely control (i.e., present day government).
They would be delighted with a government they fully controlled (e.g., Republic of Gilead theocracy, which is probably the single most popular RW utopia).
DING DING DING!!! Winner, winner, chicken dinner.
41 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:54:22pm |
re: #38 GeneJockey
The ‘everyone else was beat to shit’ point has merit, but I’d respond by observing that our economy, with a few hiccups, continued to grow at a pretty good clip, but that since 1980, instead of the gains being shared among all levels of society as they were from 1946 till then, those gains have increasingly gone to an increasingly small percentage of society.
If we were still distributing income and wealth as we did in the postwar era, the folks who see their paychecks stagnating or declining would not have needed to borrow money to continue spending at the rate they did.
Right now, wages as a percentage of GDP are at an all time low, while profits as a percent of GDP are at an all time high. The money is still there, it’s just going to fewer and fewer people. The crazy thing is, that distribution of wealth and income is one of the key features of ‘The America I Grew Up In’ that wingnuts claim is being destroyed. And yet, they are the ones pushing it toward even less equitable distribution.
This x1000. The system is not working because the rulers at the top are going mad with greed. It isn’t enough that the CEO pay be 100x the median pay, now it has to be 300x etc.
My pet theory is that the fall of communism removed the last vestiges of restraint on the part of the ultra-wealthy (i.e., as long as we were in a cold war, some effort needed to be made to have favorable facts on the ground to use to argue against Soviet propaganda). Since then, the uber-rich have embarked on a “we won the cold war” looting spree.
42 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:54:29pm |
OT, but everyone, you gotta see this.
Guillermo Del Toro’s opening for The Simpson’s Treehouse of Horror XXIV:
It’s epic.
43 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 3:57:09pm |
re: #38 GeneJockey
The ‘everyone else was beat to shit’ point has merit, but I’d respond by observing that our economy, with a few hiccups, continued to grow at a pretty good clip, but that since 1980, instead of the gains being shared among all levels of society as they were from 1946 till then, those gains have increasingly gone to an increasingly small percentage of society.
If we were still distributing income and wealth as we did in the postwar era, the folks who see their paychecks stagnating or declining would not have needed to borrow money to continue spending at the rate they did.
Right now, wages as a percentage of GDP are at an all time low, while profits as a percent of GDP are at an all time high. The money is still there, it’s just going to fewer and fewer people. The crazy thing is, that distribution of wealth and income is one of the key features of ‘The America I Grew Up In’ that wingnuts claim is being destroyed. And yet, they are the ones pushing it toward even less equitable distribution.
The breadth of their support does not match their ideology. That’s why the constant drum beat is rage, anger, hate, race war, foreign war, immigrants taking your job, etc. It has to run on emotion and mis-education since the by logic most of their supporters *will never get the benefits* of the espoused policies. Best they can hope for is some sort of mid-level lackey level. But the hidden hope is there to become one of the chosen wealthy, or at least you would still be above the peons.
It is largely the same social structure as the antebellum South. Wealthy oligarchy of power brokers and landowners at the top with a small middle class and then two groups of lower class that are kept aimed at each other as a distraction to the status they were kept in.
44 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:01:02pm |
re: #43 Feline Fearless Leader
Exactly. A political party for plutocracy in a democracy is inherently committed to dishonesty, since that is the only way to secure votes from people who will never benefit from its policies. In the US, the GOP has forged a coalition of cranks and the disaffected who will vote on emotion to line the pockets of the rich.
Having the party taken over by this GOP voter base, as seems to be happening, was never part of the plutocrat’s plan.
45 | piratedan Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:01:41pm |
re: #43 Feline Fearless Leader
we’re all just hired hands with no rights as far as they’re concerned, now excuse me, I must take little Pammy Sue to Cotillion……
46 | Varek Raith Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:02:01pm |
47 | The Ghost of a Flea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:02:03pm |
re: #31 CuriousLurker
OT - A good article on the “techno-Libertarian” mindset:
That passage would be familiar to anyone who’s ever participated in the online forums where the Internet’s seemingly endless supply of techno-libertarians roam free. A young, technically-competent young man with a hard science or engineering background, issuing his digital Randian yawp: “I’m going Galt, and I’m going to reshape the world!” […]
Heh, the term “Randian yawp” is a keeper.
Pretty much built into the ground level of libertarian schemes is that they know better. Idealism and cynicism aren’t opposites when you’re worldview amounts to lack of self-doubt. This is also why libertarianism cross-pollinates so readily with white supremacy and other bigotries. The basic anti-authoritarian impulse is so easily bent to conflate The Other and The Man.
The other farce of libertarianism is the idea that The State is somehow special institution as opposed to just another system of control. Therefore libertarians don’t stop to think too hard about how non-state institutions are just as fallible…and, indeed, any are more fallible, since they have less oversight and more reliance on affialition-bonds than structured principles.
48 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:02:12pm |
re: #44 EPR-radar
Exactly. A political party for plutocracy in a democracy is inherently committed to dishonesty, since that is the only way to secure votes from people who will never benefit from its policies. In the US, the GOP has forged a coalition of cranks and the disaffected who will vote on emotion to line the pockets of the rich.
Having the party taken over by this GOP voter base, as seems to be happening, was never part of the plutocrat’s plan.
And you know who else coming to power was never part of the plutocrat’s plan?
///
50 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:08:01pm |
Vote Democratic. We're not perfect-but they're NUTS!— Barney Frank (@BarneyFrank) October 4, 2013
51 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:08:34pm |
re: #48 Feline Fearless Leader
And you know who else coming to power was never part of the plutocrat’s plan?
///
There’s always been a debate as to whether Lenin was an actual German agent when they smuggled him back into Russia to stir things up. It’s no secret the Germans hoped that Lenin would destabilize Russia sufficiently enough to cause Russia to back out of WWI. Likewise, Lenin hoped to use the Germans to get him back to Russia, where he calculated that he could overthrow the provisional government and install his own.
In one of the unique cases of historical serendipity, both sides used the other to successfully achieve their aims. That doesn’t happen too often; more common is the case of “the best laid plans of mice and men.”
52 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:08:49pm |
re: #48 Feline Fearless Leader
And you know who else coming to power was never part of the plutocrat’s plan?
///
Most of the plutocrats probably couldn’t care less about Obama’s race, although I sure there are individual plutocrats that are as racist as anyone.
Racists are an important part of the GOP coalition precisely because they have marginalized views (post civil rights era) and vote on emotion.
Had the civil rights battle gone the other way in the US, such that Jim Crow was the law nationwide, the GOP would most likely have made an effort to include civil rights activists in its coalition. These people would also be a marginalized group more likely to care about civil rights issues (even if it is just favorable noises from time to time) than economic issues.
53 | klys Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:13:52pm |
Man, I wish I could write all discussion of possible consequences of inaction on the debt limit and economic impact of the government shutdown off as partisan media fearmongering.
I will say it makes it a whole lot easier to contort the MBF, I guess.
54 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:22:00pm |
Pres Obama greets pedestrians along Penn Ave in DC today pic.twitter.com/nFOfwmN8Xx— petesouza (@petesouza) October 4, 2013
55 | Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:24:59pm |
re: #54 Stanley Sea
Again, note the crowd diversity as compared to GOP events.
56 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:25:49pm |
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
Again, note the crowd diversity as compared to GOP events.
Yep. Regular America.
57 | Kilroy01 Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:26:35pm |
re: #55 Eclectic Cyborg
Again, note the crowd diversity as compared to GOP events.
Ah… no white males there.. just like he likes it. Except for the crackers working for him..
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58 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:27:34pm |
More regular America
Pres Obama talks with a delivery man at Taylor Gourmet in Wash DC today pic.twitter.com/irnrpKgbxe— petesouza (@petesouza) October 4, 2013
60 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:30:29pm |
re: #59 Stanley Sea
There’s your white male!!
As a white male, I’d like to make it perfectly clear that the GOP borderline white nationalism does nothing for me. The sooner whites in america are only one ethnic group of many, rather than having a numerical majority, the better.
61 | Shvaughn Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:31:03pm |
re: #54 Stanley Sea
You can tell they can’t stand him, also, Obamacare is horribly unpopular (so much that the system overloaded on day one).
62 | kirkspencer Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:31:24pm |
re: #38 GeneJockey
The ‘everyone else was beat to shit’ point has merit, but I’d respond by observing that our economy, with a few hiccups, continued to grow at a pretty good clip, but that since 1980, instead of the gains being shared among all levels of society as they were from 1946 till then, those gains have increasingly gone to an increasingly small percentage of society.
If we were still distributing income and wealth as we did in the postwar era, the folks who see their paychecks stagnating or declining would not have needed to borrow money to continue spending at the rate they did.
Right now, wages as a percentage of GDP are at an all time low, while profits as a percent of GDP are at an all time high. The money is still there, it’s just going to fewer and fewer people. The crazy thing is, that distribution of wealth and income is one of the key features of ‘The America I Grew Up In’ that wingnuts claim is being destroyed. And yet, they are the ones pushing it toward even less equitable distribution.
Functionally it’s the merchant prince economic philosophy. sorry, that’s not even proper terminology, it’s just what I call it.
Capitalism - the stuff Ricardo and Smith and the rest broke loose - broke loose from the Merchant Princes. Prior to them the philosophy was that resources are finite. That the only way ‘you’ could be richer was for ‘me’ to be less rich. The whole theory of comparative advantage is not only counterintuitive to them but is anathema.
Nevermind the fact it works - that by sharing the wealth you both become even wealthier. It doesn’t make sense to them and so it’s ignored.
And so it’s the return of the wannabe merchant princes. The ones who believe, sincerely, that there is only so much wealth and the /only/ way for us to be wealthy is for them to not be wealthy - and they will not go there.
63 | Eclectic Cyborg Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:32:48pm |
64 | dog philosopher Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:32:57pm |
white male
it wasn’t so long ago that us “ethnics”, like italians, jews, eastern europeans, etc., weren’t quite sure just how “white” we were in american society
65 | piratedan Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:33:59pm |
re: #62 kirkspencer
it’s as if they have this sense that there’s only a finite amount of wealth to be had, more zero sum semantics from the IGMFY crowd
66 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:37:42pm |
re: #60 EPR-radar
As a white male, I’d like to make it perfectly clear that the GOP borderline white nationalism does nothing for me. The sooner whites in america are only one ethnic group of many, rather than having a numerical majority, the better.
Ditto.
67 | Targetpractice Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:38:46pm |
re: #60 EPR-radar
As a white male, I’d like to make it perfectly clear that the GOP borderline white nationalism does nothing for me. The sooner whites in america are only one ethnic group of many, rather than having a numerical majority, the better.
But what about the super-secret decoder rings they give us white guys?
//
68 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:39:25pm |
re: #60 EPR-radar
As a white male, I’d like to make it perfectly clear that the GOP borderline white nationalism does nothing for me. The sooner whites in america are only one ethnic group of many, rather than having a numerical majority, the better.
I totally agree.
69 | wrenchwench Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:39:52pm |
re: #60 EPR-radar
As a white male, I’d like to make it perfectly clear that the GOP borderline white nationalism does nothing for me. The sooner whites in america are only one ethnic group of many, rather than having a numerical majority, the better.
Come to New Mexico! We got a head start.
70 | dog philosopher Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:40:43pm |
fun with polls
CBS News Poll. Oct. 1-2, 2013
“Does the 2010 health care law go too far in changing the U.S. health care system, not far enough, or is it about right?”
too far 43%
not far enough 20%
about right 31%
fish 6%
“Do you approve or disapprove of partially shutting down the government over differences about the 2010 health care law?”
approve 25%
disapprove 72%
halibut 3%
71 | erik_t Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:43:05pm |
re: #69 wrenchwench
Come to New Mexico! We got a head start.
Poor dopefish is going to be waiting until about the year 2300.
72 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:58:28pm |
Every neighbor I’ve run into today has been drunk.
73 | klys Fri, Oct 4, 2013 4:58:53pm |
re: #72 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut
The world is trying to tell you something?
74 | Decatur Deb Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:00:44pm |
re: #72 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut
Every neighbor I’ve run into today has been drunk.
Oktoberfest. They’re staggering across the park from Yorkville.
75 | Bubblehead II Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:05:04pm |
Evening Lizards. Any word on what caused this mornings outage?
76 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:06:13pm |
re: #74 Decatur Deb
Oktoberfest. They’re staggering across the park from Yorkville.
The Swiss airline hostess who lives below me (who has both the mental attitude and appearance of a Vienna resident from ‘46) couldn’t unlock her door. I had to help her. Mary, the awesome 85 year old Lowland Scottish woman who lives next door, I helped her carry her three bottles of gin up. The douchebag who lives above me who introduced himself as a stockbroker-slash-drugdealer tried to make a joke about being a doorman but just said “Doorman… doorman”.
Mary is awesome. When my wife broke her leg, Mary gave us these British nostalgia magazines. They’re outright just, “Here’s a biography of a swell captain from the RAF” and “The Vicar Who Raises Sheepdogs and Thatches His Own Church”. And lots of great pictures of old farm machinery, pubs that haven’t redecorated since the war, not even to take down the warnings about Yanks.
77 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:07:12pm |
Mile-wide tornado causing major damage across Moville, Iowa - @WCL_Shawn http://t.co/IfMFN6Sgii— Breaking News Storm (@breakingstorm) October 5, 2013
78 | wrenchwench Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:08:05pm |
re: #75 Bubblehead II
Evening Lizards. Any word on what caused this mornings outage?
Republicans.
Oh wait. I thought you said ‘outrage’.
80 | Decatur Deb Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:09:20pm |
re: #76 Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut
Only thatched-roofed pub in the US. Recently re-thatched, not by a vicar.
81 | freetoken Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:10:55pm |
82 | Bubblehead II Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:13:05pm |
re: #78 wrenchwench
Republicans.
Oh wait. I thought you said ‘outrage’.
That’s the standard conditions of Republicans these day.
Democrat: The Sun will rise in the East tomorrow.
Republican: OUTRAGE
83 | Decatur Deb Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:14:12pm |
re: #77 Stanley Sea
Mile-wide tornado causing major damage across Moville, Iowa
No Federal Emergency Fund Vote Unless you Kill Obamacare!!1!
84 | wrenchwench Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:14:59pm |
86 years ago today (1927) Gutzon Borglum began defacing the sacred BlackHills with Mt. Rushmore #ShrineOfHypocrisy pic.twitter.com/TGoaFuyJZF— lastrealindians.com (@lastrealindians) October 4, 2013
85 | wrenchwench Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:15:44pm |
This looks very bad.
#breaking SKY5 overhead as brush fire spreads to nearby homes in Oxnard. Firefighters battling Santa Ana Winds 40MPH pic.twitter.com/YXB2RIR673— Tara Wallis (@tarawallis) October 4, 2013
86 | freetoken Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:17:37pm |
re: #83 Decatur Deb
No Federal Emergency Fund Vote Unless you Kill Obamacare!!1!
I’ll note that part of Iowa is a political stronghold for Steve King and similar far right Republicans. It was where many Dutch calvinists settled, and today produces the likes of VanderPlaats.
88 | Decatur Deb Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:18:14pm |
89 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:19:30pm |
re: #85 wrenchwench
This looks very bad.
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Santa Ana winds? Shit. That just their job a whole lot harder.
90 | Decatur Deb Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:20:04pm |
re: #86 freetoken
I’ll note that part of Iowa is a political stronghold for Steve King and similar far right Republicans. It was where many Dutch calvinists settled, and today produces the likes of VanderPlaats.
Still need their roofs replaced.
91 | wrenchwench Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:20:23pm |
92 | Kragar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:20:40pm |
Someone at the National Weather Service’s Alaska bureau has a message for those who have shut down the government: “PLEASE PAY US.”
As is evident from the image above — taken directly from the National Weather Service’s bulletin log — someone in the Anchorage office encoded the nightly weather forecast with their plea.
93 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:23:09pm |
94 | klys Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:25:57pm |
re: #87 freetoken
Radar images:
I wonder when the government is going to acknowledge the necessity of replacing and updating the Doppler radar units.
95 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:27:15pm |
re: #94 klys
I wonder when the government is going to acknowledge the necessity of replacing and updating the Doppler radar units.
SCIENCE IS OF THE DEVIL!1!!
96 | freetoken Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:32:52pm |
re: #94 klys
I wonder when the government is going to acknowledge the necessity of replacing and updating the Doppler radar units.
You mean those things run by NON-ESSENTIAL!! personnel?
97 | Targetpractice Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:33:40pm |
Say what you will about Ted Cruz, at least he’s honest about how Republicans seem to think leaving the ACA unmolested is a “demand” on the part of Democrats.
98 | Lidane Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:33:46pm |
Just filed discharge petition to force vote on clean CR to re-open govt. We #DemandaVote & if we collect 218 signatures, we'll get one.— Chris Van Hollen (@ChrisVanHollen) October 4, 2013
99 | Absalom, Absalom, Obdicut Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:36:01pm |
re: #98 Lidane
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Wow, if the Democrats actually pull that off, the GOP is really going to be fucked. They’ll have caused the problem, the Democrats will have solved it.
100 | prairiefire Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:36:09pm |
re: #94 klys
I wonder when the government is going to acknowledge the necessity of replacing and updating the Doppler radar units.
I love Doppler radar. Where’s my radar map, damn it!
101 | Targetpractice Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:36:15pm |
re: #98 Lidane
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No offense, Chris, but which Republicans you figure have the balls to be seen as rocking their party’s boat at this point? They’re more likely to sit back and see which fool will be the one to step forward first and draw the Tea Party’s ire.
102 | Justanotherhuman Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:40:50pm |
re: #101 Targetpractice
No offense, Chris, but which Republicans you figure have the balls to be seen as rocking their party’s boat at this point? They’re more likely to sit back and see which fool will be the one to step forward first and draw the Tea Party’s ire.
Oh come on! Don’t be so negative! Some of the Rs are really smarting from the facts here. First, just about everybody in the country hates them. Second, the only way to save their sorry-ass political career is to vote for a clean CR—so step forward, boys, it’s not just the fate of the country at stake, it’s your own stupid hide. If not, we’ll get along without you perfectly fine, better than ever.
103 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:43:02pm |
re: #101 Targetpractice
No offense, Chris, but which Republicans you figure have the balls to be seen as rocking their party’s boat at this point? They’re more likely to sit back and see which fool will be the one to step forward first and draw the Tea Party’s ire.
As I understand it, there have been several attempts by Democrats in the House to move forward, and none have attracted even a single (R) vote.
Until this changes, all House Republicans can rightly be regarded as being exactly as evil and fuckwitted as the dimmest tea bagger Representative.
104 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:45:00pm |
Hey WW - what is that Mexican meat that’s stacked on a spit and carved off?
105 | Targetpractice Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:45:13pm |
re: #103 EPR-radar
As I understand it, there have been several attempts by Democrats in the House to move forward, and none have attracted even a single (R) vote.
Until this changes, all House Republicans can rightly be regarded as being exactly as evil and fuckwitted as the dimmest tea bagger Representative.
I’m not sure I can say all are actually evil. They just cowardly fucks who are afraid to take action without the cover of Boehner. If he puts forward a “clean” CR, they’re more likely to vote for it because all the Tea Party ire will be on him for letting it reach the floor. With a discharge petition, any Republican who puts his name on the paper is going to get targeted by the TPers as “supporting Obamacare,” even if all they want is to end this standoff and the damage its doing to their party.
106 | Decatur Deb Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:46:00pm |
re: #104 Stanley Sea
Hey WW - what is that Mexican meat that’s stacked on a spit and carved off?
La schwarma.
108 | wrenchwench Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:46:28pm |
re: #104 Stanley Sea
Hey WW - what is that Mexican meat that’s stacked on a spit and carved off?
Greek? Souvlaki?
109 | klys Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:46:32pm |
re: #104 Stanley Sea
Hey WW - what is that Mexican meat that’s stacked on a spit and carved off?
carne al pastor would be my guess.
110 | Stanley Sea Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:47:04pm |
111 | EPR-radar Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:47:27pm |
re: #105 Targetpractice
I’m not sure I can say all are actually evil. They just cowardly fucks who are afraid to take action without the cover of Boehner. If he puts forward a “clean” CR, they’re more likely to vote for it because all the Tea Party ire will be on him for letting it reach the floor. With a discharge petition, any Republican who puts his name on the paper is going to get targeted by the TPers as “supporting Obamacare,” even if all they want is to end this standoff and the damage its doing to their party.
My patience for GOP games is gone. If the so-called moderates of the GOP will continue to act like ‘good Germans’ in the face of tea bagger extremism, I will name their craven dereliction of duty as the evil it is.
112 | klys Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:49:07pm |
re: #110 Stanley Sea
Al pastor!!! Yes, gracias.
I knew what you meant, it was just a matter of remembering what the right term was.
Mmmm, that stuff was good. It was the pico de gallo that killed our trip (first international trip with the husband, we were reliant on my Spanish, and we both came down with salmonella).
114 | Amory Blaine Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:51:11pm |
What the hell is wrong with you people!?!?!! 3 articles and not one post of
BENGHAZZZZIIIIII!!!!!!
115 | Targetpractice Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:54:40pm |
re: #111 EPR-radar
My patience for GOP games is gone. If the so-called moderates of the GOP will continue to act like ‘good Germans’ in the face of tea bagger extremism, I will name their craven dereliction of duty as the evil it is.
“Good Republicans.” That sounds about as right as anything right now.
116 | Dr Lizardo Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:56:33pm |
re: #104 Stanley Sea
Hey WW - what is that Mexican meat that’s stacked on a spit and carved off?
El kebab.
Not be confused with Al Shabaab, a notorious terrorist group.
117 | Targetpractice Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:57:45pm |
re: #116 Dr Lizardo
El kebab.
Not be confused with Al Shabaab, a notorious terrorist group.
Or El Kabong, masked righter of wrongs.
//
119 | GOPHostage#25698724 Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:59:38pm |
120 | kirkspencer Fri, Oct 4, 2013 5:59:43pm |
re: #118 jaunte
El kabong was the horsemeat version.
with a side of dog a$$ burro. (edited because I just knew it was a chihuahua, and then i couldn’t pass up the pun.)
121 | GOPHostage#25698724 Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:00:59pm |
re: #120 kirkspencer
with a side of dog.
El Eww
with a side of dog a$$ burro. (edited because I just knew it was a chihuahua, and then i couldn’t pass up the pun.)
+1
122 | kirkspencer Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:01:41pm |
re: #121 Political Atheist
see edited correction
123 | dog philosopher Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:04:40pm |
re: #106 Decatur Deb
La schwarma.
“schwarmame
schwarmame mucho
como si puede esta nocha la ultima vez…”
124 | wrenchwench Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:06:05pm |
This really happened at home a few days ago, then it appears at the cheezburger site today.
125 | Romantic Heretic Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:08:42pm |
re: #31 CuriousLurker
To that end, I am creating an economic simulation to give people a first-hand experience of what it would be like to live in a world without the systemic use of force.
[Starts sharpening his blades and calling his homies in]
Can you say “Thug’s paradise?”
I knew you could.
127 | klys Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:13:24pm |
re: #124 wrenchwench
This really happened at home a few days ago, then it appears at the cheezburger site today.
I do this for spiders and silverfish.
128 | Romantic Heretic Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:17:58pm |
re: #101 Targetpractice
No offense, Chris, but which Republicans you figure have the balls to be seen as rocking their party’s boat at this point? They’re more likely to sit back and see which fool will be the one to step forward first and draw the Tea Party’s
irefire.
FTFY.
129 | prairiefire Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:21:00pm |
re: #127 klys
I do this for spiders and silverfish.
That’s crazy! What if the cat turns around and drops it on your head?
130 | klys Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:22:50pm |
re: #129 prairiefire
That’s crazy! What if the cat turns around and drops it on your head?
With that particular cat, it is never a problem.
She loves her extra protein.
131 | Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Oct 4, 2013 6:35:49pm |
re: #124 wrenchwench
This really happened at home a few days ago, then it appears at the cheezburger site today.
I’ve done that.
Also put a cat up into a drop ceiling once to chase a stray bird. That did not work out so well - though the cat was retrieved with no injuries a little later on. (No, I am not claiming to have created Ceiling Cat.)