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2 | darthstar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:12:12pm |
Christie’s fucked.
#Bridgegate and Ft. Lee is nothing but a scratch. #Hoboken is a gaping chest wound for Christie's future.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 21, 2014
3 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:14:14pm |
4 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:15:17pm |
5 | Political Atheist Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:16:12pm |
Waaah! Want 4k monitor!
More seriously it looks great.
6 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:17:50pm |
re: #4 Gus
Company Behind Hoboken Project Has Long Trail Of Jersey Campaign Cash
Rockefeller Group became a focus of attention Saturday when Hoboken Mayor Dawn Zimmer alleged that Christie aides had threatened to withhold hurricane relief money unless she approved a development project that involves the company. Rockefeller owns the land where the project was to be built and was also represented by a law firm founded by a close Christie ally.
In an email to TPM Monday, Dwayne Doherty, a spokesman for Rockefeller Group, said the company allows its employees to make “personal donations.”
“The Rockefeller Group has a long-standing company policy that prohibits political contributions on behalf of the company. Employees may make political contributions personally,” Doherty wrote.
But even though Doherty initially said Rockefeller Group does not make campaign contributions as a company, campaign finance records show the company has been making political donations for more than two decades. From 1989 until 2011, records show Rockefeller Group has made 21 campaign contributions in New Jersey totaling $77,500.
7 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:18:20pm |
re: #6 Kragar
Company Behind Hoboken Project Has Long Trail Of Jersey Campaign Cash
Thanks. I heard. Saw it about 100 times already today.
8 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:19:30pm |
I don't see how Erick Erickson and Rush Limbaugh teaching Wendy Davis how to be a single mother could possibly backfire.— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 21, 2014
9 | darthstar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:22:20pm |
10 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:24:17pm |
re: #9 darthstar
Wendy Davis.
Yeah. I seem to remember everyone ignoring Barbara Buono until the last week before the election.
11 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:37:43pm |
So you think Vlad Putin is the hottest manly man alive @FreeRepublicUSA #UniteBlue #lnyhbt #tcot #teaparty #p2 pic.twitter.com/EgPL9xwm76— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 21, 2014
12 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:41:35pm |
14 | darthstar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:43:02pm |
re: #10 Gus
Yeah. I seem to remember everyone ignoring Barbara Buono until the last week before the election.
Look at the bright side. If Buono had won, her inauguration would be tomorrow and all these scandals would be her fault.
16 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:48:43pm |
Looks like someone's a sore loser http://t.co/rfg98ZNI0Z pic.twitter.com/pY7SNfVYQA— Mashable (@mashable) January 20, 2014
17 | Single-handed sailor Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:49:21pm |
I love caving. I remember one particularly tough horizontal tube crawl. It was probably 50 meters long and about 200cm wide and 150 cm tall. If you weighed more than about 100 kilos you would likely be stuck. Crawling consisted of one arm out in front, the other was down at your hip, pulling with the lead hand and pushing with the trailing hand and toe tips. At the half way point there was a rock dipping down from the ceiling, requiring some back and hip arching to get past. At the far end was a small triangular room at about a 60 degree tilt, with just enough room for 3 of us to stand in. Good times!
18 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:50:50pm |
re: #17 Single-handed sailor
I get claustrophobia just from reading that paragraph.
19 | Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:51:15pm |
re: #17 Single-handed sailor
I love caving. I remember one particularly tough horizontal tube crawl. It was probably 50 meters long and about 200cm wide and 150 cm tall. If you weighed more than about 100 kilos you would likely be stuck. Crawling consisted of one arm out in front, the other was down at your hip, pulling with the lead hand and pushing with the trailing hand and toe tips. At the half way point there was a rock dipping down from the ceiling, requiring some back and hip arching to get past. At the far end was a small triangular room at about a 60 degree tilt, with just enough room for 3 of us to stand in. Good times!
I never suffered from claustrophobia until just this minute.
(ETA: feh)
20 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:52:32pm |
I do like caves, but I get bad feelings about getting stuck head down in an oubliette.
21 | Single-handed sailor Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:52:55pm |
re: #19 Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi
I never suffered from claustrophobia until just this minute.
Yeah, that was about the closest I’ve been to claustrophobia. If I had been the first person to explore it I think I’d have lost it.
22 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:53:41pm |
re: #18 jaunte
@71LesPaul @jaunte Remember when Rick Perry's smaller, less intrusive govt led to mandatory sonograms for women seeking abortions?— Eric Christian Smith (@ericphototx) January 21, 2014
23 | Single-handed sailor Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:57:40pm |
This little tube goes down to a room big enough for a dozen of people sitting with hunched backs. It’s just over a meter long into the roof of the room. They call it “The Womb”
25 | calochortus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:58:32pm |
re: #23 Single-handed sailor
Thanks, but I have no need to revisit the birth process…
26 | makeitstop Mon, Jan 20, 2014 6:59:13pm |
27 | blueraven Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:00:33pm |
28 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:01:00pm |
I don't think you exist.— God (@TheTweetOfGod) January 21, 2014
29 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:01:21pm |
30 | Stanley Sea Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:02:26pm |
31 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:04:13pm |
And in Florida…
Florida House candidate Joshua Black calls for hanging of President Obama
“I’m past impeachment,” Joshua Black wrote on Twitter. “It’s time to arrest and hang him high.”
“He should be executed for treason,” Black said. “I think the appropriate punishment is death. They killed Benedict Arnold. (Obama) shouldn’t be allowed to kill Americans without a trial.”
The political newcomer said he doesn’t fear U.S. Secret Service agents showing up on his doorstep. Many voters might agree with his position, he said, adding: “I guess they’re going to call me a racist now.”
32 | calochortus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:07:05pm |
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
Because impeachment and conviction aren’t important when you’re talking about treason? Oh. Sorry. The actual offense is Presidentin’ while Black. Never mind.
34 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:07:49pm |
If fleece is outlawed, only outlaws will have fleece @myownpetard— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 21, 2014
35 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:08:31pm |
@Kragar_LGF @myownpetard If the teachers have fleece, the students will be much safer.— Eric Christian Smith (@ericphototx) January 21, 2014
36 | makeitstop Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:08:42pm |
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
And in Florida…
Florida House candidate Joshua Black calls for hanging of President Obama
“Many voters might agree with his position, he said, adding: “I guess they’re going to call me a racist now.”
I’d rather they just call you ‘the defendant,’ asshole.
37 | RealityBasedSteve Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:09:33pm |
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
And in Florida…
The political newcomer said he doesn’t fear U.S. Secret Service agents showing up on his doorstep. Many voters might agree with his position, he said, adding: “I guess they’re going to call me a racist now.”
Florida House candidate Joshua Black calls for hanging of President Obama
No, and he doesn’t have to FEAR Secret Service showing up because in this country we don’t “disappear” people for speaking out, even if they are total buttwads. We do make sure that any potential threat is investigated and acted upon according to law.
Of course, if he does get a visit from the Secret Service, that is going to be just more red meat for his supporters, with cries of “Violation of his Rights” and “Dictatorial President”.
RBS
38 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:12:15pm |
@brithume Did Roger Ailes hack your account?— Eric Christian Smith (@ericphototx) January 21, 2014
39 | Single-handed sailor Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:14:49pm |
40 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:15:22pm |
FreeRepublicUSA’s man crush on Putie is creeping me out. A lot.
41 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:18:01pm |
re: #38 Kid A
“…as Peyton explains in the excerpt, he has intentionally chosen to speak more by his actions than by his words.”
Maybe that will catch on. ////
42 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:18:52pm |
44 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:20:02pm |
Prediction for #Sochi opening ceremony: Bare-chested Putin riding a Siberian tiger, leading a leather & zipper-mask clad Snowden on a leash.
— Gray Hoodie (@grayhoodie) January 21, 2014
45 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:20:11pm |
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
And in Florida…
Florida House candidate Joshua Black calls for hanging of President Obama
Actually, Benedict Arnold ended up with a British commission, moved to England and started a business there before dying of dropsy in 1801
46 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:20:57pm |
Um, actually he made it worse. A whole lot worse.
RT @gopthinking pic.twitter.com/xhuXAoh44R #maddow #uppers #inners #nerdland #p2 #Uniteblue #tcot #lnyhbt @cnn @cspan— #7089 (@JohnFict) January 21, 2014
47 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:23:26pm |
re: #45 Kragar
Actually, Benedict Arnold ended up with a British commission, moved to England and started a business there before dying of dropsy in 1801
Nobody is implying that Mr. Black has any real grasp of American history…
48 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:24:02pm |
re: #46 Pie-onist Overlord
I guess they forgot about that whole selling arms to Iran thing.
49 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:24:11pm |
Here is something for FreeRepublicUSA to think about all night long:
Vlad Putin doing Teh Ghey Sexytimes with Zombie Ronald Reagan.
Twerk it!
50 | Pie-onist Overlord Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:25:44pm |
HURR HURR!!11!!!!
Just remember that #MLK and nearly all blacks were #GOP until Johnson bought their votes with welfare money. #tcot #p2 #ocra #uniteblue— Paul Revere (@PaulReverePress) January 20, 2014
51 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:26:46pm |
re: #48 jaunte
I guess they forgot about that whole selling arms to Iran thing.
And the Contras. And cutting and running from Lebanon. And Reagan’s support for Pinochet. And…
52 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:27:37pm |
Yes. He baked them a cake and sold them missiles. @tedcruz
— Blue DuPage (@BlueDuPage) January 21, 2014
53 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:30:30pm |
A 5 megabyte IBM harddisk is loaded into an airplane. It weighed over a 1000kg! 1956 pic.twitter.com/5pqnaCDBUn— Classic Pics (@ClassicPixs) January 21, 2014
54 | blueraven Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:30:59pm |
re: #38 Kid A
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Who objects to Peyton Manning being a Christian?
Why do some people think liberals hate Christians? I certainty don’t. Most of my family members are Christians.
55 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:31:20pm |
heh….
Sarah Palin, Obama is not playing the race card. He's playing the President card, and you're not.
— Amanda Grumet (@outofpajamamama) January 21, 2014
56 | RealityBasedSteve Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:31:23pm |
re: #51 Kragar
And the Contras. And cutting and running from Lebanon. And Reagan’s support for Pinochet. And…
The last time I got banned at FR it was for suggesting that Pinochet wasn’t a great individual. Little did I know that he was a Jeti knight protecting the world against ravenous zombie commie ninjas.
Yea, if a couple of years ago you would have said that the freepers were going to have serious man-crushes on an ex-KGB Russian strongman you would have been laughed out of town.
RBS
57 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:31:47pm |
re: #51 Kragar
And the Contras. And cutting and running from Lebanon. And Reagan’s support for Pinochet. And…
And legalizing abortion as governor of California. And that he was the leader of a union. And…
58 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:33:47pm |
The #gop has literally become the “Was it over when the Germans bombed Pearl Harbor?” party #tcot #UniteBlue— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 21, 2014
59 | RealityBasedSteve Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:34:17pm |
re: #57 Kid A
And legalizing abortion as governor of California. And that he was the leader of a union. And…
And that whole amnesty for illegal immigrants, and oh yea, he was divorced too, so there goes the sanctity of marriage. I guess he was just a RINO.
RBS
60 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:34:57pm |
62 | makeitstop Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:36:42pm |
re: #57 Kid A
And legalizing abortion as governor of California. And that he was the leader of a union. And…
Gun control!
63 | RealityBasedSteve Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:36:45pm |
64 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:38:08pm |
@Kragar_LGF It's like “Dumb and Dumber” but worse. Much, much worse.— Eric Christian Smith (@ericphototx) January 21, 2014
65 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:38:15pm |
re: #60 Backwoods_Sleuth
Toga! Toga! Toga!
I refuse to sit here and listen to you bad mouth the United States of America!
66 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:39:47pm |
http://t.co/0UZ09xGSib @ericphototx— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 21, 2014
67 | Bridgeghazi: Never Forget!!11!!!!11 Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:40:24pm |
Hi everyone, happy MLK Day!
Apparently on my Facebook feed, they are talking about Duck Dynasty again because apparently, Daddy Duck isn’t actually a homophobe. That’s the new reasoning now. So I followed some of their links:
nunya > CriticalThinker
• 25 days ago
−⚑
The guy from the duck show is not a homophobe, Do you even know what a homophobe is? A homophobe is afraid of homosexuals. The duck dude was just saying what he belives in, that homosexuality is a sin. He didn’t say that he’s terrified of homosexuals. Get it together…Think B4 you speak. Get a clue
gEt A cLuE!!!11111!!!!!!
68 | calochortus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:42:54pm |
re: #57 Kid A
And legalizing abortion as governor of California. And that he was the leader of a union. And…
And instituting withholding of taxes in CA.
69 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:43:30pm |
This guy needs 10,000 followers.
@Morning_Joe I'm still waiting for the report on the 241 marines killed in Beirut under Ronald Reagan's watch in 1983.— John Kelley Veteran (@majorian459) January 16, 2014
70 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:44:36pm |
@majorian459 @Morning_Joe there was a report conducted. Reagan had Marines posted guarding security guard without ammo. #benghazi— FoxNewsFan (@FoxNewsFan) January 21, 2014
71 | Single-handed sailor Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:47:01pm |
72 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:47:54pm |
@FoxNewsFan @majorian459 @Morning_Joe If Obama was a white man, Benghazi would've been chalked up as a security mistake two days later.— Eric Christian Smith (@ericphototx) January 21, 2014
74 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:52:23pm |
“I wonder who paid for Greg Abbott’s education, or if his political ambitions affected his family life?” said no one ever.
burntorangereport.com
75 | calochortus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:52:29pm |
re: #73 Gus
He’s pretty much all they’ve got. All the living possibilities have feet of clay.
76 | Ed E. Lishus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:53:56pm |
re: #73 Gus
If I were a Gooper, looking at the field of ‘16 candidates they’re fronting, I’d be living in the past, too.
77 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:54:33pm |
Make that 1,000,000 followers. I freaking love this guy.
@SenRandPaul You would have been great in1860 in alliance with Robert Barnwell Rhett from SC. when big govt. A. Lincoln won the Presidency— John Kelley Veteran (@majorian459) December 18, 2013
78 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:55:30pm |
re: #75 calochortus
They have Reagan, and….
#Benghazi lies http://t.co/4dw0xIl0VA The President knew, and Hillary knew.
— Reince Priebus (@Reince) January 20, 2014
79 | calochortus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 7:58:55pm |
re: #78 jaunte
So you’re saying they have Reagan and…nothing?
80 | makeitstop Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:06:52pm |
re: #78 jaunte
They have Reagan, and….
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Wow. Bottom of barrel, scraped.
Nice work, there, Rinse. You’re making Michael Steele look like a friggin’ genius.
82 | RealityBasedSteve Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:10:00pm |
re: #79 calochortus
So you’re saying they have Reagan and…nothing?
Well, Palin is the political and spiritual descendant of Reagan.
Be afraid… Be very afraid.
RBS
83 | ObserverArt Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:10:07pm |
Well surprise, surprise…walk back time.
“I apologize for attacking an individual and taking the attention away from the fantastic game by my teammates … That was not my intent,” Sherman said Monday in a text message to ESPN’s Ed Werder.
Sherman also addressed his postgame comments in an interview Monday with ESPN Radio on the “SVP and Russillo” show.
“Obviously I could have worded things better and could obviously have had a better reaction and done things differently,” he said during the interview. “But it is what it is now, and people’s reactions are what they are.”
It all seems so…well, like a cliche script. I wish someone could actually surprise us these days. It’s a public relations entertainment industry.
84 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:12:03pm |
re: #82 RealityBasedSteve
Well, Palin is the political and spiritual descendant of Reagan.
Be afraid… Be very afraid.RBS
85 | makeitstop Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:13:42pm |
A goddamned Benghazi petition on the official GOP web site.
Isn’t that pretty much an admission that they’re the party of Bad Craziness?
86 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:13:53pm |
re: #84 Gus
And now some of the people who were (still are?) big Palin fans are all over Wendy Davis for “embellishing” her life story.
87 | Belafon Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:14:54pm |
re: #83 ObserverArt
I’m so glad that the biggest thing we have to worry about is how offended a white female report was at the words from a hyped up black football player.
89 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:17:35pm |
re: #85 makeitstop
A goddamned Benghazi petition on the official GOP web site.
Isn’t that pretty much an admission that they’re the party of Bad Craziness?
This is collectible grade weirdness:
“Sign The Petition If You Knew All Along”
90 | blueraven Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:17:48pm |
re: #83 ObserverArt
Well surprise, surprise…walk back time.
It all seems so…well, like a cliche script. I wish someone could actually surprise us these days. It’s a public relations entertainment industry.
That was actually his second apology. I guess we need blood.
91 | RealityBasedSteve Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:19:45pm |
92 | jaunte Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:22:48pm |
Dewhurst: Texas teachers paid ‘very fair salary’
“…Texas’ average teacher pay was about $47,300 in 2009-10 dollars — lower than the national average of nearly $55,000, and less than what 32 other states pay educators.”
………..“…Dewhurst is also by far the wealthiest candidate in the race, but spending $25 million of his personal [fortune] in 2012 still wasn’t enough to defeat Ted Cruz for a U.S. Senate seat.”
$25 million is about $7,500 for every public school teacher in Texas.
93 | aagcobb Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:25:23pm |
re: #31 Backwoods_Sleuth
And in Florida…
Florida House candidate Joshua Black calls for hanging of President Obama
Now why on earth would anyone call him racist just because he wants to lynch the black president?////
94 | wheat-dogghazi Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:30:13pm |
re: #91 RealityBasedSteve
well, I’m outta here… for your dining and dancing pleasure, your guide to interpreting scientific reports on the internet.
RBS
All have wide applicability in the social sciences, as well as the physical sciences.
96 | gwangung Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:46:11pm |
re: #87 Belafon
I’m so glad that the biggest thing we have to worry about is how offended
a white female reportuptight fanswaswere at the words from a hyped up black football player.
Given that Erin Andrews said, basically, she knew she struck a gold mine, I think that’s more accurate.
We ridicule the bland, preprogrammed sound bites coming from athletes, but when we get something that’s actually authentic, we recoil from it.
I think that says something more about us than it does about Richard Sherman.
97 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:50:26pm |
#RacistAssholeOfTheYear Ted Nugent, who just can't stop saying racist shit http://t.co/yX6iUajw2s pic.twitter.com/wVwG6mSKQy— Some Asshole (@assholeofday) January 21, 2014
98 | Kid A Mon, Jan 20, 2014 8:56:41pm |
@greekkid31 Do you remember the outrage at the 13 #Benghazi s under Bush? Neither do I. Manufactured Scandal. pic.twitter.com/w19j2e4kx5— AKM Mitchell (@AKMMitchell) January 21, 2014
99 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:08:15pm |
GOP strategist can’t admit even one white person is racist toward Obama | The Raw Story http://t.co/jIjRNSCEXk— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 21, 2014
100 | Backwoods_Sleuth Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:11:32pm |
Off to sleep….
— Animal Planet (@MeetAnimals) January 21, 2014
101 | darthstar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:12:41pm |
Okay, fuck it. If we’re going to do the whole “Super Bowl” weed game, let’s do it right…here they come.
103 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 9:28:00pm |
Except the coverup only exists in your addlepated mind @greekkid31— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 21, 2014
108 | Single-handed sailor Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:11:57pm |
109 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:13:40pm |
re: #108 Single-handed sailor
Is it just me or did they totally miss where Guantanamo Bay is located?
Kind of a big giant arrow north of Cuba.
110 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:14:08pm |
re: #108 Single-handed sailor
Is it just me or did they totally miss where Guantanamo Bay is located?
Oh. Yeah. That one’s a big giant circle in western Cuba. Yep.
111 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:18:59pm |
Now add ICBMs, SLCMs, SLBMs, and intel satellites…
Black sites. Black budgets. SIGINT. NSA, FBI…
112 | Gus Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:20:01pm |
Then add local LE, federal LE agencies, and National Guard units.
115 | Lidane Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:29:50pm |
re: #85 makeitstop
A goddamned Benghazi petition on the official GOP web site.
Isn’t that pretty much an admission that they’re the party of Bad Craziness?
There’s also this:
We need to win the House & Senate for #FullRepeal of #ObamaCare. http://t.co/8VqXPflNL1— Reince Priebus (@Reince) January 19, 2014
Wheee!
116 | Lidane Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:30:54pm |
re: #92 jaunte
David Dewhusrt’s political savvy is why Ted Cruz is now a Senator.
Let that sink in a while.
118 | Kragar Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:39:46pm |
“No stand down”, GOP voted not to increase State Dept security budget, CIA didn't tell military about annex, etc, etc @greekkid31— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 21, 2014
119 | The War TARDIS Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:51:10pm |
It appears there is an actual, factual problem in the US Muslim Community. An odd one.
120 | Lidane Mon, Jan 20, 2014 10:56:47pm |
“@guydesanct: @ActuallyNPH I thought you should see this. pic.twitter.com/KaG33ttOZs” Best. Milk. Ever.— Neil Patrick Harris (@ActuallyNPH) January 21, 2014
121 | The War TARDIS Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:07:38pm |
re: #119 The War TARDIS
WIth yet another friend looking to get married, this is quickly fraying my nerves.
I got advice from one person trying to match-make in Pakistan, another saying only look in the US, a former military officer telling me to look in Morocco, and a one person saying that she didn’t know of people in OKC would be looking for someone like me to marry.
Combine that with Autism, being a convert, whose big dream in life is having a family, and you have someone who will get stressed out every dang time someone in their social circle gets engaged or married.
I do my best to run away from this issue, but it always comes back. Roughly once every 2-3 weeks.
122 | Lidane Mon, Jan 20, 2014 11:47:55pm |
So I finally got to watch the first episode of Series 3 for Sherlock. No spoilers, but part of the plot involves references to Guy Fawkes Night and the original Gunpowder Plot.
Cue the internet retards babbling about “OMG! Sherlock pulled ideas from V For Vendetta! How cool!”
Is it really that hard to do a Google search or read Wikipedia? WTF. Guy Fawkes wasn’t just some random guy that Alan Moore made up FFS. Morons.
123 | The War TARDIS Tue, Jan 21, 2014 12:04:36am |
re: #122 Lidane
I think Doctor Who has somewhere too.
But, then again, Doctor Who has referenced everything. Including Sherlock.
125 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 1:52:39am |
re: #54 blueraven
Who objects to Peyton Manning being a Christian?
Why do some people think liberals hate Christians? I certainty don’t. Most of my family members are Christians.
If we don’t allow Christianity to be the official default state religion of the USA, we hate both Jesus and the Founding Fathers.
126 | wheat-dogghazi Tue, Jan 21, 2014 1:56:26am |
re: #125 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
If we don’t allow [their version of] Christianity to be the official default state religion of the USA, we hate both Jesus and the Founding Fathers.
Added for accuracy.
127 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 2:02:44am |
re: #126 wheat-dogghazi
If we don’t allow their narrow-minded, fundamentalist, misogynist, patriarchal, agenda-driven, selectively interpreted version of Christianity to be the official default state religion of the USA, we hate both Jesus and the Founding Fathers.
Enhanced for further accuracy.
129 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 3:55:11am |
re: #121 The War TARDIS
Instead of looking for someone to marry and have a family with, perhaps you should look for someone to go out with, have dinner, a movie, go to a museum
Every single one of my friends, (and now, at our ages, our children) dated many people before they found “the” one, and even then, when they started dating that one, they didn’t KNOW it was going to be “the” one. That developed over time
130 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:07:23am |
Same story here, I had all but given up on dating. Then I met a fiddle player, we played music for half a year and started leaning into each other, but I did not take it too seriously because she is a lot younger than II am (35 vs 54), always busy and travelling, and had a boyfriend who was about to move in with her.
Then one night it clicked and went BANG and the boyfriend was gone by the next week. Been together ever since.
131 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:17:53am |
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
Zaccly
Wifey and I started out casual daters. 3 years before “the M word” (how she would reference to it) even came up in convo. Another 18 months before we were engaged, and yet 16 before we walked down the aisle
132 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:28:07am |
re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
OH ,, and unlike The WAR Tardis, ,, wifey and I weren’t exactly ‘kids” when we met ( her 28, me 30) and 5+ years older when we married and ANOTHER 4 before our son was born!
133 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:34:41am |
re: #129 sattv4u2
Instead of looking for someone to marry and have a family with, perhaps you should look for someone to go out with, have dinner, a movie, go to a museum
Every single one of my friends, (and now, at our ages, our children) dated many people before they found “the” one, and even then, when they started dating that one, they didn’t KNOW it was going to be “the” one. That developed over time
My youngest daughter thought she was going to be the single “career gal.” She had (still has) a nice job. She decided to treat herself to a vacation in the UK, because she could afford it and she was single. She loved it so much that six months later she decided to treat herself to ANOTHER vacation in the UK. Everybody was all like “Um Becky did you meet somebody over there?”
Because in my culture everybody is a matchmaker all the time.
Yeah she did meet somebody over there. He’s over here now, they’ve been married for 2 years and have a baby girl. :)
134 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:39:29am |
First Derp O’The Day: WHY WE SHOULD WORSHIP THE 0.01%
#UniteBlue #LibCrib #p2 #tcot #tlot #ocra pic.twitter.com/aNfvSEls75— John Galt (@JohnGaltTweets) January 21, 2014
135 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:44:11am |
re: #134 Pie-onist Overlord
First Derp O’The Day: WHY WE SHOULD WORSHIP THE 0.01%
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Hey Galt, folks like you were arguing that the Romanovs and the aristocracy were not wrong for plundering all of Russia’s wealth and keeping it to themselves. You know where those folks ended up? Against the wall when the revolution came.
136 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:46:05am |
re: #135 Targetpractice
Hey Galt, folks like you were arguing that the Romanovs and the aristocracy were not wrong for plundering all of Russia’s wealth and keeping it to themselves. You know where those folks ended up? Against the wall when the revolution came.
Galt is assuming that those 85 got all their riches BECAUSE THEY ARE TEH MAKERS & PRODUCERS & THEY EARNED IT ALL BY THEMSELVES instead of you know, inheriting it, or doing the hedge fund thing which creates no jobs, or by creating a bunch of slave jrrbs in China and Bangladesh to sell to minimum wage workers in the U.S.
137 | wheat-dogghazi Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:47:00am |
re: #121 The War TARDIS
My advice is to relax, but to be aware of possibilities. I don’t know how much you get out and about. Besides activities in your religious community, do you belong to any clubs or such? Take any classes?
I met my ex when we were both attending the same Quaker meeting. She apparently had her eyes set on me long before I was aware of it, because I was juggling two girlfriends at the time. (Oh, those were the days!)
My daughter met her future husband at a college party. They met via their roommates, who were not even trying to set them up. They were attending different colleges and definitely would have never met, had it not been for one roommate asking the other up for the weekend. My daughter tagged along, and met the love of her life. They got married last April.
One of my Chinese students met her future husband, a Canadian, by chance while they were both visiting a nearby tourist spot. He needed some translation help. and her English is really good. Two years later, they got married. She was 23 and he was 39. Now they live in Ontario and just had a baby boy on Dec. 31.
138 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:50:46am |
re: #136 Pie-onist Overlord
Galt is assuming that those 85 got all their riches BECAUSE THEY ARE TEH MAKERS & PRODUCERS & THEY EARNED IT ALL BY THEMSELVES instead of you know, inheriting it, or doing the hedge fund thing which creates no jobs, or by creating a bunch of slave jrrbs in China and Bangladesh to sell to minimum wage workers in the U.S.
Or have all their wealth in stocks, allowing them to increase their wealth knowing that if they ever take any of it out of the market, it will be taxed out of a fraction of what the guy working on the assembly line will be taxed at.
139 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 4:55:05am |
HURR HURRR!!!! IF WE LOWER TEH MINIMUM WAGE TO NOTHING & ABOLISH TEH CHILD LABOR LAWS THEIR WILL BE A WHOLE BUNCH OF MOAR JRRBS!!!!1!!!!
NORMAL PERSON: Yeah but those will be shit jrrbs.
HURR HURR!!!!! JRRBS IS JRRBS!!!!! WHY SHOULD A YOUNG TEENAGER WITH NO SKILLS GET PAID???? WHEN THEY LEARN SUM SKILLS THEN THEY CAN MAKE MOAR MONEYS1!!!111!!!
NORMAL PERSON: How long should they have to work for little or nothing before they learn skills?
HURR HURR!!!111!! 8 OR 10 YEARS!!!! BY THEN THEY WILL BE FIRED AND MANAGEMENT HIRE MOAR YOUNG TEENS WITH NO SKILLZ!!!!11!
NORMAL PERSON: So then the by-now 20somethings who worked for little or no pay can get good jobs with their skills, right?
HURR HURR!!!!111 WHO WANTZ TO HIRE SUM LUZER WHO FLIPPED BURGERS & STOCKED WALMART SHELVES FOR 10 YEARS THAT ANY UNSKILLED YOUNG TEENAGER CAN DO!!!!!11!!!
140 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:00:17am |
'Merica! 2 Proud Gun Nuts Second-Amendment Each Other To Death In Road Rage Incident. #UniteBlue #gunsense #Freedom http://t.co/trts51y0I2— KHARY PENEBAKER (@kharyp) January 21, 2014
141 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:02:02am |
Hell, even to the Galts, not all rich people are equal. James Sinegal is a very wealthy guy because of Costco, but the Galts sneer at him because he puts workers ahead of stockholders and realizes that a happy workforce is more important than a bigger compensation package.
But they love the Waltons who find ways to pay their workers as little as possible, make their working lives miserable, and establish various “charities” that in reality allow them to claim tax credits for charitable donations while the money ends up going back in their coffers.
142 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:03:28am |
One of the reasons Romney lost was because it was clear that for all his wealth, he was no job creator, he was a money maker and a job offshorer.
Not because we want to expropriate their wealth, we just want to see a system in place that allows everyone to benefit from it, not just the upper 85 families.
144 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:06:47am |
re: #142 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
One of the reasons Romney lost was because it was clear that for all his wealth, he was no job creator, he was a money maker and a job offshorer.
Not because we want to expropriate their wealth, we just want to see a system in place that allows everyone to benefit from it, not just the upper 85 families.
Speaking for myself, I would think that conservatives would want to live by their creed that you get paid for what you produce, which means if you make all your wealth through stock speculation and downsizing, then you should not be surprised that you’re taxed more than the guy who puts in 40+ hours of manual labor a week.
145 | A Mom Anon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:08:12am |
re: #121 The War TARDIS
That pressure you feel is self imposed. You’re so worried about a woman meeting all your very specific criteria that you’re eliminating a huge portion of the female population. Asperger’s can have that effect but you can counter that if you’re aware of it. Instead of looking at the religious and family/marriage aspects of this, why not just look at the PERSON, let the religion/family thing be secondary. If your faith is that important to you, the right woman for you will honor that, Muslim or not. You know, there are a lot of couples who have different faiths and go on to have happy, healthy families and marriages. Look at the woman first and then figure out the commonalities. That means a time investment in people, being patient to some degree and willing to explore some new things, even if they may be somewhat out of your comfort zone. And trust an old lady who used to date a lot before she settled down: Women can sense your anxiousness about all these things and it sends out a terrible vibe and can scare people away. Focus less on potential wife right this minute to “Who is she? What does she like to do for fun? Does she like her job? Favorite author? Movie?” Start there, just there, the small mundane details of life we all experience. If there’s more there it will start to grow past that and then you can determine how much more time to invest.
You are you. Honor that, but also try to figure out how sometimes you get in your own way. We all do that sometimes, but autism can sometimes bring it out to an unhealthy degree. One of the people I love the most in this world is an Aspie, he’s going through a similar thing right now. Relax a little, maybe yoga would help (I mean that, it can be useful), you cannot plan a relationship down to the last detail and control all circumstances.
Morning everyone!!! LOL.
146 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:12:28am |
BRYAN IT MEANS STOP ALL CANADIAN IMMIGRATION IMMEDIATELY1!!!!11
“Justin Bieber - Treasure Trove of Drugs In Mansion During Raid” Pot a gateway drug after all? http://t.co/noULqmo9m8— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) January 21, 2014
147 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:13:39am |
HURR HURR
#UniteBlue #libcrib #p2 #tcot #tlot #ocra pic.twitter.com/JnPhLGBle1— John Galt (@JohnGaltTweets) January 21, 2014
148 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:15:43am |
re: #147 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR
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What’s the point of buying bakeries if there’s nobody to buy bread? Who are they producing all those loaves of bread for? The rich certainly aren’t eating enough at a time to make up for the poor who aren’t.
149 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:16:56am |
re: #148 Targetpractice
What’s the point of buying bakeries if there’s nobody to buy bread? Who are they producing all those loaves of bread for? The rich certainly aren’t eating enough at a time to make up for the poor who aren’t.
THEY ARE BUYING ALL TEH BAKERIES SO THAT THEY CAN MAKE SURE NOBODY WILL BE BAKING TEH GHEY WEDDING CAKES!!!!!1!!!
150 | wheat-dogghazi Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:16:58am |
re: #146 Pie-onist Overlord
Newspapers are now reporting law enforcement officer found no drugs at Chez Beiber. Bryan will ignore facts, as usual.
151 | A Mom Anon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:17:35am |
I have been remodeling my dining room mostly by myself for two weeks, what did I miss? Actually, I’ve peeked in and updinged a few comments, but I’ve been up to my eyeballs in the real world and haven’t had a free morning til now. Good Morning Lizards! How is everyone? Not sure about my presence here, I’m thinking of doing a big once over refresh on the house so we can maybe put it on the market next year around this time, while I look for a job too. Financial troubles loom in my world right now.
Also too, has anyone noticed that part of Morning Joe is a repeat of earlier segments? Or am I hallucinating? Joe’s hair looks idiotic too, what is he doing there?
152 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:22:46am |
re: #151 A Mom Anon
Joe’s hair looks idiotic too, what is he doing there?
Not sure, don’t watch
but i’ll bet dollars to donuts the ‘hair” is a suggestion of some consultant to boost ratings
153 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:31:48am |
How”s this for a business proposition? The whole world should loan the 85 families all the money you have so they can buy up everything else we own.
Then we can all work for them for minimum wage.
154 | A Mom Anon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:31:56am |
re: #152 sattv4u2
It’s funky looking, almost Beiberish. ((((shudder))).
155 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:34:09am |
156 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:36:06am |
re: #153 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
How”s this for a business proposition? The whole world should loan the 85 families all the money you have so they can buy up everything else we own.
Then we can all work for them for
minimum wage.WHATEVER THEY CARE TO PAY, THEY ARE TEH JRRB CREEYATERZ!!!1
157 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:37:44am |
Here’s a question for the Galts: Where are the wealthy buying all those new bakeries? Answer: In China, or India, or Russia, or any of a number of other nations where the population isn’t lugging around debt in the form of medical bills, credit card debt, or mortgage payments for houses whose value still hasn’t recovered years later. Why expand here in the States when the average household is living paycheck to paycheck?
158 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:41:21am |
re: #156 Pie-onist Overlord
I forgot to mention that they get to set the minimum wage.
159 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:44:06am |
HURR HURR!!!!!
Liberals need 2 learn real history, not some fantasy history from the Daily KOS! #p2 #tcot #Uniteblue @TheDemocrats pic.twitter.com/dDVBd2b0Wm— Ronnie (@gopthinking) January 21, 2014
.@gopthinking @TheDemocrats @AdamSchaefer218 #MLK always voted Democratic. #RWNJ's need 2 learn history. #UniteBlue http://t.co/MZ7sc0rKEC— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 21, 2014
160 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:48:57am |
#MLK, The Civil Rights Act, and the #GOP “Southern Strategy” http://t.co/E8W5ZDwANX #UniteBlue #lnyhbt #tcot #tgdn #LibCrib #p2— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 21, 2014
161 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:50:52am |
re: #159 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR!!!!!
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The GOP up through the 60s was seen as the “progressive” party, the party that prided itself on pushing civil rights and workers rights.
Today, no Republican declares himself a “progressive” without immediately drawing the ire of his entire party down on his head.
162 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:54:22am |
This brouhaha over Wendy Davis by the Rs has me really, really pissed off.
I have a similar story to Wendy’s, although I wasn’t able to achieve as much. Two babies by the time I was 19, and the marriage was over before the second one was born, but the final CA decree wasn’t done until I was 21. No trailer, but some sketchy places. No bitter second husband, either, who I believe is driving this narrative about Wendy. Still, I really do think Wendy Davis understands the problems of all women in being independent, whether single or married, mothers or not.
Davis’s own mother and father were divorced, and her mother struggled to support the 4 kids. Ironically, it’s reported that Davis’s father, a restaurant owner, introduced her to the 13 yrs older Jeffrey Davis. It would be interesting if Jeffrey Davis had the documents to back up what is being said about his ex-wife and if he approves of this character assassination attempt. I also think it’s pretty hypocritical and misogynistic to bring up this old history when we have male politicians who not only don’t pay child support but glory in it (Joe Walsh), and who get caught with drugs or prostitutes and stay in business, like Trey Radel and David Vitter.
I’m wondering if we’re going to hear something from her daughters, adults now, as well. Surely they must be proud of their mother, if that well hasn’t been poisoned.
I don’t think Wendy Davis has done anything in reporting her past that many politicians haven’t done. Everyone wants to appear at their best, but I don’t think she lied about her past circumstances, perhaps embellished the facts a bit, and so what?
163 | A Mom Anon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:55:40am |
Well, I am off. No dog walk, no peace in my house ever. And then it’s more painting. With a little luck the furniture can be moved back into place today. BBL.
164 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:57:50am |
LOLWUT
@viciousbabushka @TheDemocrats @AdamSchaefer218 LOL! Yes, he couldn't have been being nice to someone he knew was Democrat, & claiming he 2?— Ronnie (@gopthinking) January 21, 2014
165 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 5:59:55am |
re: #164 Pie-onist Overlord
LOLWUT
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That’s the best they can do, speculating that he lied about voting Republican because a friend said he votes Democrat?
166 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:01:09am |
WTFITS
@viciousbabushka @AdamSchaefer218 Back then, most black folk GOP. Funny how Klan died down, after blacks started voting 4 Democrats. #Smile— Ronnie (@gopthinking) January 21, 2014
167 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:01:46am |
168 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:09:21am |
Whoa, Philly.
Up to 16 inches of snow forecast for the Philadelphia area, local forecasters say - @NBCPhiladelphia
Federal offices in DC are closed today because of the weather.
169 | Eventual Carrion Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:11:58am |
re: #150 wheat-dogghazi
Newspapers are now reporting law enforcement officer found no drugs at Chez Beiber. Bryan will ignore facts, as usual.
Or that there was never a large scale, peer reviewed examination that said that weed was a “gateway drug”. On the other hand there have been a few that show alcohol to be.
The report sponsored by the government (in the 40’s or 50’s sometime, and another in 1999) to bolster their want to make/keep weed illegal showed that the drug was not a “gateway drug” as they wanted it to. So they ignored it and went ahead and said it was anyway. But cigs are ok and global warming is a hoax.
170 | Dr Lizardo Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:12:00am |
re: #168 Justanotherhuman
Whoa, Philly.
Up to 16 inches of snow forecast for the Philadelphia area, local forecasters say - @NBCPhiladelphia
Federal offices in DC are closed today because of the weather.
That’s a lot of snow.
171 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:12:11am |
re: #168 Justanotherhuman
Whoa, Philly.
Up to 16 inches of snow forecast for the Philadelphia area, local forecasters say - @NBCPhiladelphia
Federal offices in DC are closed today because of the weather.
Yeah, they may be including the Poconos as “part of Philly.” Trying to stoke a little Snowmegeddon ratings fear.
Off to prep the snow blower…
172 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:12:37am |
HURR HURR!!!11!!!!
@viciousbabushka @AdamSchaefer218 You a public school product or what?? You dont know history?— Ronnie (@gopthinking) January 21, 2014
@viciousbabushka No, pretty much anybody could _work_ in a bakery, but few could open one. Fewer yet would succeed at it.— John Galt (@JohnGaltTweets) January 21, 2014
173 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:13:09am |
re: #170 Dr Lizardo
That’s a lot of snow.
Accuweather is still saying 6 to 10 inches. We’ll probably get about 8-9.
174 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:13:57am |
re: #170 Dr Lizardo
That’s a lot of snow.
Nahh
back when I was a kid in new England,, 16 inches was a “dusting” and just meant school would start an hour late ,,,, because once we got there we shoveled the schoolyard!!
175 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:14:17am |
re: #173 Mattand
Accuweather is still saying 6 to 10 inches. We’ll probably get about 8-9.
It’s 4 degrees here, but at least there’s no snow forecast.
176 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:15:05am |
re: #134 Pie-onist Overlord
First Derp O’The Day: WHY WE SHOULD WORSHIP THE 0.01%
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I just do not get this form of reasoning. All it seems to be is the individual concocting some situation or occurrence based on their own or other biased thinking and then posting it as actual fact. A complete mind bending of bits and pieces of scenarios that is justified by fear and or hatred and is very real to them and their is no convincing them otherwise.
Is this some form of mental illness…like disassociation or detachment?
177 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:16:20am |
re: #175 Pie-onist Overlord
It’s 4 degrees here, but at least there’s no snow forecast.
You can have some of ours! I insist!
178 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:16:51am |
re: #175 Pie-onist Overlord
It’s 4 degrees here, but at least there’s no snow forecast.
Wasn’t Detroit supposed to get some?
179 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:17:29am |
180 | makeitstop Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:17:35am |
‘Morning, Lizards.
The ODS seems to be particularly thick today, especially on Facebook. What’s got the nutjobs so riled up?
Also, snow. How’s everybody doin’?
181 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:18:08am |
re: #172 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR!!!11!!!!
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Seriously, Mr. Galt subscribes to the belief that the rich are a people separate from the average man, that only they can be great and thus worthy of the wealth they hold? I’m not sure that Rand would approve of that belief.
182 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:18:19am |
re: #143 Pie-onist Overlord
Thomas Sowell is such a tool.
Well, I guess that is a word you could use to describe him. But I think there is a whole thesaurus made for a guy like him.
183 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:18:49am |
re: #180 makeitstop
‘Morning, Lizards.
The ODS seems to be particularly thick today, especially on Facebook. What’s got the nutjobs so riled up?
Also, snow. How’s everybody doin’?
MLK Day was probably the primary cause. A “hot spot” on the calendar for that sort of thing.
Per the snow thing - none expected here until the afternoon.
184 | Dr Lizardo Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:19:39am |
re: #181 Targetpractice
Seriously, Mr. Galt subscribes to the belief that the rich are a people separate from the average man, that only they can be great and thus worthy of the wealth they hold? I’m not sure that Rand would approve of that belief.
Jordan Belfort (The Wolf of Wall Street) would agree wholeheartedly.
185 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:20:39am |
re: #146 Pie-onist Overlord
BRYAN IT MEANS STOP ALL CANADIAN IMMIGRATION IMMEDIATELY1!!!!11
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Retroactively…so we can send Cruz and Father Cruz back.
186 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:21:33am |
re: #176 ObserverArt
Is this some form of mental illness…like disassociation or detachment?
I see this as a lack in basic education: not only in civics, economics, science and history, but in how to think logically and critically.
We are going to pay dearly for this some day, about as soon as we face our first real crisis in the form of a major man-made and/or natural catastrophe that shuts down the infrastructure over a broad area and compels the government to intervene or declare martial law.
187 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:26:58am |
I see that noted racist @todd_kincannon has expanded his portfolio. pic.twitter.com/TKh9uYz3ZF— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 21, 2014
188 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:27:46am |
re: #154 A Mom Anon
It’s funky looking, almost Beiberish. ((((shudder))).
I think Joke is one of those guys that are going to have a hard time aging and accepting it. He seems so college prep and jock-like and a lot of times those types suffer from permanent mid-life crisis. He’ll never grow up.
Another indicator…how many divorces has he been through now? And would it surprise anyone if he became involved with women who are younger as he grows older. It will be ugly.
I was always amazed at the show intro images. Is that a political show or a fashion entertainment lifestyle show? Lots of mixed messages going on there.
189 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:28:35am |
re: #183 Feline Fearless Leader
MLK Day was probably the primary cause. A “hot spot” on the calendar for that sort of thing.
Per the snow thing - none expected here until the afternoon.
One of the things that cracks me up about the MLK Day resentment is that it’s a freaking day off for many Americans, most of whom don’t get that much time off to begin with.
Yet they still bitch about it. They’re getting some time off, but since since MLK wasn’t a perfect human being who magically destroyed all racism ever, they fucking complain about it.
That Daily Kos editorial yesterday brought up a really good point. The author’s dad essentially said that MLK helped end the terror associated with Existing While Black in the South. That’s something I and most of my family and associates will never, ever have to face.
But apparently it’s more satisfying to complain that the only reason MLK got a holiday was because he’s black.
God, I hate people sometimes.
190 | Decatur Deb Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:29:09am |
re: #187 darthstar
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191 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:30:03am |
@ThePlumLineGS OMG. He directly disobeyed .@SarahPalinUSA. Does he not know who she is?— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 21, 2014
192 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:30:09am |
Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. It’s already snowing, and sticking, here in Lower Manhattan, and they’re predicting up to a foot here. The morning commute was pretty quiet, but the evening commute is going to suck.
Gov. Christie’s inauguration is today, and his team has cancelled the inaugural ball scheduled for tonight at Ellis Island due to the weather.
Christie cancels Ellis Island event | Politicker NJ http://t.co/skChb1fOtU— PolitickerNJ (@PolitickerNJ) January 21, 2014
Much of NJ is going to be hit hard by the snow (lower amounts N/W of NYC), so that’s probably a good thing.
I’m still in the air about the revelations by Hoboken mayor Dawn Zimmer and that there was a quid pro quo for storm relief aid flowing into Hoboken in exchange for getting a politically connected real estate development deal fast-tracked.
It’s something that sounds plausible considering what we’ve learned from the GWB mess, but I’d need to see more evidence that this quid pro quo actually occurred.
I’d say in Zimmer’s favor is the slow pace of recovery funds. A few GOP/conservative pundits were busy complaining over the weekend about how much money was supposed to flow into Hoboken, ignoring that it’s a major community, and part of a regional transit hub. Reducing flooding through the city is going to take significant funding, and the city had built a flood pumping system to handle rainfall events that used to flood the city. They’re going to need something significantly bigger to handle storm surges up the Hudson. It’s also going to take a rethinking about how development occurs along the rivers and coastlines.
We shouldn’t be making it easier to build just anything along the coasts. It has to be done with an eye towards elevation changes and rising waters due to climate change and coastal storms. It takes a reform of building codes, and buying up properties along the coast to build buffers.
None of this is cheap. But to do nothing is grossly irresponsible and will be even more costly.
193 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:30:34am |
re: #190 Decatur Deb
If there were no Todd Kincannon, the Democrats would have to invent him.
I think the kid exists entirely on twitter.
194 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:31:46am |
re: #191 darthstar
.@darthstar99 .@ThePlumLineGS .@SarahPalinUSA 1/2term governor of AK who plays with word salad and denigrates memory of MLK with every word?— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 21, 2014
195 | Political Atheist Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:32:03am |
re: #180 makeitstop
‘Morning, Lizards.
The ODS seems to be particularly thick today, especially on Facebook. What’s got the nutjobs so riled up?
Also, snow. How’s everybody doin’?
Feeling good out here in SoCal, hoping our friends bask east don’t get slammed. Ever see a movie on DVD or BluRay and really want to kick yourself for not seeing it in a theater? The Prestige. Wow. What a movie.
196 | Decatur Deb Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:32:13am |
re: #192 lawhawk
“Gov. Christie’s inauguration is today, and his team has cancelled the inaugural ball scheduled for tonight at Ellis Island due to the weather.”
His Guv’ness is busy routing snowplows away from Dem communities.
197 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:34:08am |
@viciousbabushka No, pretty much anybody could _work_ in a bakery, but few could open one. Fewer yet would succeed at it.— John Galt (@JohnGaltTweets) January 21, 2014
Well let’s explore that.
Rich Guy #1 buys up a chain of bakeries to add to his portfolio of stuff. He pays part-time workers minimum wage, They produce crap shit and his bakeries do not sell wedding cakes to Teh Ghey because HURR HURR RELIJUS FREEDUMB!!!!1!!
Normal Guy #2 opens an artisan bakery because he loves to bake. He hires full time workers and pays them a decent wage as they learn valuable artisanal baking skills. They bake for everyone and specialize in custom made wedding cakes.
Which business model is more likely to be successful?
I can’t explain this to “John Galt” because it’s more than 140 chars.
198 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:35:18am |
re: #192 lawhawk
What made me laugh were the people pushing the “$70 million went to individuals and businesses” meme, ignoring the fact that much of that was FEMA flood insurance that said citizens already paid premiums for.
If that’s the best Christie’s people have, there may be more to Mayor Zimmer’s complaint than they realize.
199 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:35:36am |
*HEADDESK*
@viciousbabushka @AdamSchaefer218 A letter to a supporter doesn't mean he did do that, especially if he knew they were strong Dem.— Ronnie (@gopthinking) January 21, 2014
200 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:37:07am |
re: #196 Decatur Deb
“Gov. Christie’s inauguration is today, and his team has cancelled the inaugural ball scheduled for tonight at Ellis Island due to the weather.”
His Guv’ness is busy routing snowplows away from Dem communities.
That’s OK. Cory Booker has already said he’s not attending the Christie inauguration. I doubt a lot of Dems will. : )
201 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:37:08am |
re: #196 Decatur Deb
“Gov. Christie’s inauguration is today, and his team has cancelled the inaugural ball scheduled for tonight at Ellis Island due to the weather.”
His Guv’ness is busy routing snowplows away from Dem communities.
To be honest, this whole mess makes me wonder if my town and county, which normally lean Democratic, have gotten “punished” by the good Governor’s people.
202 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:37:24am |
Museum Finds Recording Of 1962 Martin Luther King Jr. Speech : NPR http://t.co/Ql7tV1MLoC— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 21, 2014
203 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:38:04am |
I see many talking about the weather…just heard central Ohio is headed for -5° tonight with strong winds and a high tomorrow of 14° with continued strong winds. Currently we have about an inch or more snow from overnight but its hard to tell as it is all blowing sideways in the northeastern winds. In other words…it’s freaking cold!!!
This has been the coldest winter around here in a few years. Uggh. I’m ready to go out and find a damn groundhog and keep it out of the sun for years!!!
204 | Bulworth Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:38:59am |
re: #191 darthstar
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205 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:39:12am |
re: #192 lawhawk
Josh Marshall seems to think that Christie will try to come out of this by putting himself “above the fray” by going to ground for a week, then coming out with a huge “bust,” providing evidence of widespread “pay to play” in NJ politics and even in his own office.
206 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:40:19am |
re: #196 Decatur Deb
I know that’s a bit tongue in cheek, but I really doubt that. State-agency snowplows pretty much are operated by the Turnpike Authority - clearing the Turnpike and GSP. State DOT handles other state highways. County plows will clear county roads, and towns/cities will clear their roads. Port Authority clears the approaches and spans of the bridges/tunnels.
Where a problem could occur? When the snow amounts become too great for the plows to keep up, cars get abandoned, and/or response after the storm is slowed.
207 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:40:26am |
re: #189 Mattand
One of the things that cracks me up about the MLK Day resentment is that it’s a freaking day off for many Americans, most of whom don’t get that much time off to begin with.
Yet they still bitch about it. They’re getting some time off, but since since MLK wasn’t a perfect human being who magically destroyed all racism ever, they fucking complain about it.
That Daily Kos editorial yesterday brought up a really good point. The author’s dad essentially said that MLK helped end the terror associated with Existing While Black in the South. That’s something I and most of my family and associates will never, ever have to face.
But apparently it’s more satisfying to complain that the only reason MLK got a holiday was because he’s black.
God, I hate people sometimes.
This. And that diary (plus other comments here and at KOS over the last day or so) pointed out a lot of things. I grew up without a concept of white privilege, mainly because the neighborhood (up to age 9) and the village (age 9 through high school) was 90+% white. So I did not see any of this stuff in action since it simply wasn’t on display. (I did see some class war stuff, but not color war.)
Moved around then and started university. Pretty much instant diversity thing. Wide mix of nationalities and homes from within the US. Mainly Pennsylvanians, but still lots of people from NYC, Long Island, and a mix of inner city and rural backgrounds. Two years of dorm living was a good mixing pot experience - with both good and bad encounters. Felt like a fish out of water, but stuck to being myself and not trying to act or be something else, and that got me through. After that was living in a fraternity house, which essentially at that time was back to white-only for the most part, but not exclusively.
And, just in those four years, I saw a wide spectrum of behaviors in people being bigots, racists, or just general assholes. The last does not seem to discriminate by color, home city, or parental wealth.
208 | Bulworth Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:40:38am |
re: #197 Pie-onist Overlord
Workers are just cogs, plug them in, if they break, throw them out and get some more. /////
209 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:41:45am |
re: #46 Pie-onist Overlord
Um, actually he made it worse. A whole lot worse.
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210 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:41:47am |
I just can’t even.
HURR HURR AN ACTUAL LETTER FROM MLK DOESN’T PROVE ANYTHING!!!!! HE COULD HAVE LIED!!!!11!!!!
@viciousbabushka @AdamSchaefer218 Nor can you prove anything. #Spin— Ronnie (@gopthinking) January 21, 2014
211 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:42:15am |
re: #205 Targetpractice
That’s a possibility.
I would rather have seen him clear the Port Authority of its board, and dump Samson, who was named in the emails. That he’s still around (and he’s connected to the Zimmer accusations) suggests a conflict of interest (one of many in this mess).
Instead, he let Baroni and Wildstein resign/retire with their pensions intact. Only Kelly got fired.
That’s notable in its own right.
212 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:43:14am |
This Tweet is so full of FAIL
Obama's war on coal continues. http://t.co/3ln738eIps #Obama #WarOnCoal #p2 #UniteBlue #TeaParty pic.twitter.com/BukufmtGGl— Will Turner (@WTWV) January 21, 2014
213 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:45:11am |
re: #209 Dark_Falcon
No, he fixed the mess. When Reagan came into office, Communism was advancing and the US economy was in recession. When he left office, Communism was in retreat, the US economy was growing, and the US was in a much stronger position in the world than it had held in 1981.
The economy was growing for the same reason it went into recession when Bush Sr took office: defense spending was jacked through the fucking roof to buy all sorts of new military goodies, from a 600 ship fleet to B-1 and B-2 bombers and M1 tanks galore. Communism was in retreat because we caused them to implode through overspending.
214 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:45:49am |
re: #212 Pie-onist Overlord
This Tweet is so full of FAIL
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Hey Will Turner, go ahead and drink that tap water now…
215 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:46:23am |
re: #205 Targetpractice
Josh Marshall seems to think that Christie will try to come out of this by putting himself “above the fray” by going to ground for a week, then coming out with a huge “bust,” providing evidence of widespread “pay to play” in NJ politics and even in his own office.
That might work, if it hit the right Dems. And if the media doesn’t yawn “Business as usual.” To make it work, Christie would need allies in the press outside of Fox News (he can’t use the Wall Street Journal, since that paper led the charge on Bridgeghazi).
216 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:46:24am |
re: #208 Bulworth
Workers are just cogs, plug them in, if they break, throw them out and get some more. /////
And that is the aspect you cannot explain in 140 characters or in a bullet point/sound byte: The difference between labor as just another business expense like staples, toner or copier paper, and the concept of labor as a measure of human dignity.
The ability to not only live off one’s wage, but to better oneself and provide one’s family with the means to do so. Staples and toner do not care, and if they are dumped out on the street, it does not matter much to anyone.
But who gets stuck dealing with the social costs of people who are unable to find work or to live off the wage they earn?
217 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:47:17am |
re: #210 Pie-onist Overlord
I just can’t even.
HURR HURR AN ACTUAL LETTER FROM MLK DOESN’T PROVE ANYTHING!!!!! HE COULD HAVE LIED!!!!11!!!!@viciousbabushka @AdamSchaefer218 Nor can you prove anything. #Spin
Damn. Now that is exactly what I was trying to get at in my comment in number 176. The facts are out there, and they absolutely refuse to acknowledge them because it doesn’t fit what reality they want it to be.
And with that…my own reality…I got to get something going before I freeze in place. Later on!
218 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:47:32am |
And so it begins…
First flurries have materialized. Soon, armies of rabid snowmen will come to eat our children and cheat at Monopoly.
This freaking snow blower better start.
219 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:48:20am |
re: #213 Targetpractice
The economy was growing for the same reason it went into recession when Bush Sr took office: defense spending was jacked through the fucking roof to buy all sorts of new military goodies, from a 600 ship fleet to B-1 and B-2 bombers and M1 tanks galore. Communism was in retreat because we caused them to implode through overspending.
Victories are still victories, and Reagan’s build-up was important in ending the Soviet Union.
220 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:48:45am |
re: #213 Targetpractice
. Communism was in retreat because we caused them to implode through overspending.
Communism was starting to collapse on itself anyways, the money they eared from the 1973 oil crisis bought them another fifteen years, but when oil prices bottomed out during the Iraq-Iran war, they totally fell apart. The military spending simply made sure they had insufficient means to remedy it.
221 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:49:05am |
re: #192 lawhawk
I hear they had lots of tickets left anyway. Apparently a lot of people who normally shell out whatever cost is asked for these kinds of events are thinking it might be better to watch NCIS.
222 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:49:09am |
re: #208 Bulworth
Workers are just cogs, plug them in, if they break, throw them out and get some more. /////
John Galt probably thinks HURR HURR JUST REPLACE ALL TEH WORKERS WITH A GIANT BREAD MACHINE!!!11!!!!1!!!!
Except that the Giant Bread Machine and the Giant Cake Machine cost a bunch of money and if they break down or need maintenance you will have to hire someone who makes more than minimum wage to come over and fix them.
223 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:49:11am |
re: #218 Mattand
And so it begins…
First flurries have materialized. Soon, armies of rabid snowmen will come to eat our children and cheat at Monopoly.
This freaking snow blower better start.
Careful now, those snowmen have teeth…
225 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:50:09am |
re: #219 Dark_Falcon
Victories are still victories, and Reagan’s build-up was important in ending the Soviet Union.
It’s a “victory” in the sense that Capitalism won by virtue of being able to walk away from the crash that killed Communism. Hell, we’re still paying today for that “victory.”
226 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:50:10am |
228 | Dr Lizardo Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:53:40am |
re: #220 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
Communism was starting to collapse on itself anyways, the money they eared from the 1973 oil crisis bought them another fifteen years, but when oil prices bottomed out during the Iraq-Iran war, they totally fell apart. The military spending simply made sure they had insufficient means to remedy it.
The abandonment of the 1965 Kosygin Reforms played a big part in the USSR’s ultimate implosion. The Era of Stagnation under L. Brezhnev didn’t help matters much either.
229 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:54:12am |
re: #206 lawhawk
I know that’s a bit tongue in cheek, but I really doubt that. State-agency snowplows pretty much are operated by the Turnpike Authority - clearing the Turnpike and GSP. State DOT handles other state highways. County plows will clear county roads, and towns/cities will clear their roads. Port Authority clears the approaches and spans of the bridges/tunnels.
Where a problem could occur? When the snow amounts become too great for the plows to keep up, cars get abandoned, and/or response after the storm is slowed.
That’s one reason the large cities close stuff down in advance of major weather threats. Large traffic volumes through choke points. And once there is an accident, or worse, anything leading to abandoned cars then removal issues compound since the trucks and plow have issues getting around the newly placed obstacles.
230 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:55:05am |
No arrests, no trials. Just kill ‘em? This is the land Snowden loves?
#Russia says it killed 7 terrorists in Makhachkala, #Dagestan incl rebel group leader Makhmud Aliev & “black widow” Zaira Alieva.— Jill Dougherty (@cnnjill) January 21, 2014
231 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:55:52am |
HURR HURR!!!1!!
After @BuzzFeed's “killing Snowden” story, three unanswered questions: http://t.co/NErJI3nE4b— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 21, 2014
232 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:55:52am |
re: #228 Dr Lizardo
The abandonment of the 1965 Kosygin Reforms played a big part in the USSR’s ultimate implosion. The Era of Stagnation under L. Brezhnev didn’t help matters much either.
They spent the 70’s and 80’s selling raw materials (oil, minerals) off cheap to buy consumer goods that they could not produce. By the time they tried to turn things around under Gorbachev, the system was too sclerotic and entrenched to change from within.
233 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:55:53am |
re: #229 Feline Fearless Leader
So far, I haven’t seen state of emergencies issued for NYC/NJ/LI just yet. That could change as day goes on and the snow starts piling up. That would allow the DOTs to get ahead of the storm - or at least not fall so far behind that the roads become impassible.
234 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:56:12am |
#Ukraine gov’t using cellphone technology to track protesters in #Kiev clashes. 1/2 http://t.co/Uw0OZnTeTQ— Jim Roberts (@nycjim) January 21, 2014
235 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:56:16am |
re: #216 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
And that is the aspect you cannot explain in 140 characters or in a bullet point/sound byte: The difference between labor as just another business expense like staples, toner or copier paper, and the concept of labor as a measure of human dignity.
The ability to not only live off one’s wage, but to better oneself and provide one’s family with the means to do so. Staples and toner do not care, and if they are dumped out on the street, it does not matter much to anyone.
But who gets stuck dealing with the social costs of people who are unable to find work or to live off the wage they earn?
Well, at least please keep the toner out of the water supply.
:p
236 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:57:13am |
re: #230 Justanotherhuman
Due process? Right to jury trial? Just executing them on your own soil? But hey, the US might actually want to try Snowden for espionage and would treat him as a criminal instead of liberating hero.
The dudebros hypocrisy is showing.
237 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:57:32am |
re: #230 Justanotherhuman
No arrests, no trials. Just kill ‘em? This is the land Snowden loves?
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Until details of the “killing” comes out, I would hold off on judging the “No arrests, no trials. Just kill ‘em? “
Could have been a confrontation/ shootout a la the Boston Marathon bomber who was “killed” without an arrest/ trial
239 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:58:21am |
re: #230 Justanotherhuman
Russia doesn't bother with arrests or due process; kills terrorists on own soil; #Snowden couldn't be bothered for comment— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 21, 2014
240 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:59:02am |
re: #233 lawhawk
So far, I haven’t seen state of emergencies issued for NYC/NJ/LI just yet. That could change as day goes on and the snow starts piling up. That would allow the DOTs to get ahead of the storm - or at least not fall so far behind that the roads become impassible.
I know that a lot of schools went on 1/2 schedules by last night. And the flurries are starting here in Philly already.
241 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:59:15am |
re: #239 lawhawk
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They’ve probably already bought off Snowden with free passes to Sochi.
242 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:59:20am |
re: #237 sattv4u2
The Russians have a history of not bothering with due process and killing terrorists - with or without any kind of intent to arrest.
243 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:59:27am |
re: #159 Pie-onist Overlord
Liberals need 2 learn real history, not some fantasy history from the Daily KOS!
Man, talk about projection. Mythology has always been the ideologues replacement for history.
As my favourite writer puts it, “History is not about a limited dialectic, but an unlimited movement.”
Damn, but sometimes the wingnuts really pick my ass.
244 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:59:55am |
re: #242 lawhawk
The Russians have a history of not bothering with due process and killing terrorists - with or without any kind of intent to arrest.
How in any way does that negate what I posted?
245 | Dr Lizardo Tue, Jan 21, 2014 6:59:57am |
re: #232 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
They spent the 70’s and 80’s selling raw materials (oil, minerals) off cheap to buy consumer goods that they could not produce. By the time they tried to turn things around under Gorbachev, the system was too sclerotic and entrenched to change from within.
Yep. There’s a wide variety of reasons for the USSR’s ultimate collapse - it can’t be pinned down to one cause alone; many factors came into play. And certainly by the time Gorbachev introduced his perestroika program, it was already far too late. Those reforms, had they been done in the early to mid 1960s, might have yielded positive long-term results. But, that’s speculation - a “what if” of history.
246 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:02:52am |
Got a late New Year’s present. VP for our division (N.A./European operations) just sent an email announcing a 2.5% raise for salaried employees backdated to the 1st of the year.
Round for the house on me.
:)
247 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:03:24am |
Tracking NYC snow plow activity.
And the NWS is upping the total for Eastern LI and into New England - 12-20 inches.
248 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:03:35am |
re: #246 Feline Fearless Leader
Got a late New Year’s present. VP for our division (N.A./European operations) just sent an email announcing a 2.5% raise for salaried employees backdated to the 1st of the year.
Round for the house on me.
:)
Bloody Mary please ,,,, extra celery!! (healthy eating this week!!)
249 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:05:11am |
re: #231 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR!!!1!!
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250 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:06:41am |
re: #230 Justanotherhuman
No arrests, no trials. Just kill ‘em? This is the land Snowden loves?
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Radical Islamists such as that often cannot be taken prisoner, and if you get close enough to try they’ll often blow themselves up (and take you with them). A raid against 7 such people has to be expected to be a ‘kill-op’.
251 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:06:49am |
re: #247 lawhawk
Tracking NYC snow plow activity.
And the NWS is upping the total for Eastern LI and into New England - 12-20 inches.
Weather radar seems to showing it tracking from southwest to northeast as the mass of snowfall comes generally eastward.
Which looks like a track that will snow constantly and heavily on LI and New England.
253 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:08:26am |
re: #176 ObserverArt
I just do not get this form of reasoning. All it seems to be is the individual concocting some situation or occurrence based on their own or other biased thinking and then posting it as actual fact. A complete mind bending of bits and pieces of scenarios that is justified by fear and or hatred and is very real to them and their is no convincing them otherwise.
Is this some form of mental illness…like disassociation or detachment?
It’s a sign, in my opinion, of a severe inferiority complex. These people are unconsciously suffering from very weak egos, a sense of self. So, as Eric Fromme pointed out in Escape From Freedom, allowing themselves to be absorbed into something ‘greater’. They become, in their minds, part of the 1% with all its power.
So any criticism or difference of opinion must be attacked viciously because such things are an attack on their very identity. If the 1%, or what ever they’ve attached themselves to, falls they vanish since they have no identity of their own.
It’s another way the wingnuts resemble the Fascists and Marxists. It’s why I’ve often said The Borg are some people’s idea of Nirvana.
254 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:09:20am |
re: #185 ObserverArt
Retroactively…so we can send Cruz and Father Cruz back.
No! We don’t want ‘em! semi-//
255 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:09:31am |
re: #246 Feline Fearless Leader
Got a late New Year’s present. VP for our division (N.A./European operations) just sent an email announcing a 2.5% raise for salaried employees backdated to the 1st of the year.
Round for the house on me.
:)
Congratulations! Anything for the hourly wage slaves?
256 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:11:14am |
re: #255 Justanotherhuman
Congratulations! Anything for the hourly wage slaves?
Good question. The plants are unionized, so their wages would be per the contract. Not sure about the hourlies here at the HQ, and it’s sort of rude to ask. :-/
257 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:11:29am |
Pastor tells Fox News: Obama’s getting us ready to embrace the anti-Christ“My thesis is, people will have been conditioned long before the anti-Christ comes to accept governmental overreach, and that’s what you’re seeing with President Obama.”
[…]
“President Obama is without apology the most pro-abortion president in history, but what’s even worse, Bill, is we are being conditioned to accept that government has the right to persecute people of faith,”
rawstory.com
Remember, it’s the Left that is hostile to “Teh Christians”……
258 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:13:45am |
re: #250 Dark_Falcon
Radical Islamists such as that often cannot be taken prisoner, and if you get close enough to try they’ll often blow themselves up (and take you with them). A raid against 7 such people has to be expected to be a ‘kill-op’.
Oh please. So you’re apologizing for the Russians who simply attacked them with all their resources and force before they could blow themselves up, if that is what they actually intended to do?
They were still “suspects” not perpetrators at that stage.
259 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:13:56am |
260 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:14:48am |
re: #257 Dr. Matt
Remember, it’s the Left that is hostile to “Teh Christians”……
The last two paragraphs are interesting:
Despite his lengthy indictment, Jeffers pooh-poohed the notion that Obama could be the satanic figure predicted in scripture.
“I’m not saying President Obama is the anti-Christ — in fact, I’m sure he’s not — because the anti-Christ is going to have higher poll numbers, according to the Bible, at least in the beginning,” Jeffers said. “But I believe he is conditioning people to accept governmental overreach, which they will finally give into when this final dictator comes, whether that’s 10 years from now or 1,000 years from now.”
261 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:14:50am |
263 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:17:28am |
re: #258 Justanotherhuman
Oh please. So you’re apologizing for the Russians who simply attacked them with all their resources and force before they could blow themselves up, if that is what they actually intended to do?
They were still “suspects” not perpetrators at that stage.
And again, what of the Boston Marathon bomber!
We have NO idea yet the circumstances behind this ‘killing”
MAYBE the Russians just hunted them down and killed them
But by the same MAYBE, perhaps once approached these people resisted, started shooting (like Tamerlan Tsarnaev did in Boston) and were killed due to superior firepower
264 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:17:44am |
265 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:18:07am |
re: #259 darthstar
Time to go walk the dogs. Let me know if this cat moves.
Nice picture of a DEW site in operation.
;)
266 | sattv4u2 Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:18:32am |
And on that note, the belated long quiet drive home beckons!
267 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:19:30am |
re: #258 Justanotherhuman
Oh please. So you’re apologizing for the Russians who simply attacked them with all their resources and force before they could blow themselves up, if that is what they actually intended to do?
They were still “suspects” not perpetrators at that stage.
Not the case. The Russians know who the leaders of these groups are and such a leader became a perpetrator a long way back.
But moreover, yeah I’ll defend the Russians on this one because I don’t care what happens to Radical Islamists as long as they are neutralized.
268 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:19:40am |
re: #263 sattv4u2
And again, what of the Boston Marathon bomber!
We have NO idea yet the circumstances behind this ‘killing”
MAYBE the Russians just hunted them down and killed themBut by the same MAYBE, perhaps once approached these people resisted, started shooting (like Tamerlan Tsarnaev did in Boston) and were killed due to superior firepower
Big difference. We know what happened in Boston—there was continuous coverage. We’ll never know what happened in Dagestan.
269 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:21:24am |
re: #219 Dark_Falcon
Victories are still victories, and Reagan’s build-up was important in ending the Soviet Union.
Even before Reagan came to power I knew the Soviet Union was doomed.
Brezhnev got to be head of the Politburo with the backing of the armed forces. As a reward he started jacking up arms spending. By the time Reagan became President something like 30% of the Soviet GDP, which was rather smaller than the States, was going to manufacturing armaments.
This is unsustainable as armaments are, economically, the most extravagant of luxury goods. Politically they are very important but from an economic point of view they are a money pit.
So, I never worried about the Soviet Union.
The West did not win the Cold War. The Soviets lost.
270 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:22:35am |
Well, it looks like there will be bipartisanship in the NJ legislature, it’s just not the kind that will help Christie:
NJ Lawmakers To Launch Joint Senate, Assembly Committee To Investigate Christie Scandal
The New Jersey General Assembly and Senate plan on Monday morning to announce the creation of a special joint committee dedicated to investigating the scandal that has fallen on Gov. Chris Christie’s (R) administration, a source in the State House confirmed to TPM.
The establishment of the joint committee, which was first reported by NBC News’ Michael Isikoff, will be announced at a press conference scheduled for 10:30 a.m.
Last week, the Assembly and Senate established separate committees to investigate the closures, which caused days of gridlock in Fort Lee, N.J. Some Democrats have alleged the closures were ordered by allies of Christie as retaliation against a mayor who declined to endorse him.
271 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:23:45am |
re: #269 Romantic Heretic
Even before Reagan came to power I knew the Soviet Union was doomed.
Brezhnev got to be head of the Politburo with the backing of the armed forces. As a reward he started jacking up arms spending. By the time Reagan became President something like 30% of the Soviet GDP, which was rather smaller than the States, was going to manufacturing armaments.
This is unsustainable as armaments are, economically, the most extravagant of luxury goods. Politically they are very important but from an economic point of view they are a money pit.
So, I never worried about the Soviet Union.
The West did not win the Cold War. The Soviets lost.
Which is one reason why when you have them there comes a horrible temptation to use them since otherwise you’ve wasted the money. (Beyond the deterrence effect of course.) Not to mention the opportunity cost for what you could have spent that money on instead of military goods.
272 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:26:05am |
re: #269 Romantic Heretic
Even before Reagan came to power I knew the Soviet Union was doomed.
Brezhnev got to be head of the Politburo with the backing of the armed forces. As a reward he started jacking up arms spending. By the time Reagan became President something like 30% of the Soviet GDP, which was rather smaller than the States, was going to manufacturing armaments.
This is unsustainable as armaments are, economically, the most extravagant of luxury goods. Politically they are very important but from an economic point of view they are a money pit.
So, I never worried about the Soviet Union.
The West did not win the Cold War. The Soviets lost.
There was also the money pit that was the Afghanistan War, something that we like to say we helped the Afghans win, but in reality had more to do with the Soviets just throwing in the towel.
274 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:26:37am |
275 | jaunte Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:27:29am |
re: #192 lawhawk
A few GOP/conservative pundits were busy complaining over the weekend about how much money was supposed to flow into Hoboken, ignoring that it’s a major community, and part of a regional transit hub.
Chuck Todd had Haley Barbour on this morning to discredit Zimmer, and he was pounding the point that she wanted “one third of the total recovery funds” repeatedly.
276 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:29:03am |
re: #275 jaunte
Chuck Todd had Haley Barbour on this morning to discredit Zimmer, and he was pounding the point that she wanted “one third of the total recovery funds” repeatedly.
One excuse I heard yesterday was “The money went to the people, not the government.” Which is why the mayor was saying just 1% of all money requested by the local government had been granted.
277 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:29:12am |
re: #272 Targetpractice
There was also the money pit that was the Afghanistan War, something that we like to say we helped the Afghans win, but in reality had more to do with the Soviets just throwing in the towel.
The Stingers did play an important role in getting the USSR to quit, since they reduced the effectiveness of Mi-24 gunships and made airmobile operations more dangerous.
278 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:29:33am |
re: #271 Feline Fearless Leader
Which is one reason why when you have them there comes a horrible temptation to use them since otherwise you’ve wasted the money. (Beyond the deterrence effect of course.) Not to mention the opportunity cost for what you could have spent that money on instead of military goods.
That’s true.
But remember, most of the Soviets at that time had been in The Great Patriotic War. The one where 20 million Soviet citizens died. Where pretty much everything from Berlin to Moscow was destroyed.
They knew the next war would be worse. So although all payed lip service to ‘expanding Communism’ and some believed it, they didn’t want to go through that again.
279 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:31:02am |
re: #269 Romantic Heretic
Even before Reagan came to power I knew the Soviet Union was doomed.
Brezhnev got to be head of the Politburo with the backing of the armed forces. As a reward he started jacking up arms spending. By the time Reagan became President something like 30% of the Soviet GDP, which was rather smaller than the States, was going to manufacturing armaments.
This is unsustainable as armaments are, economically, the most extravagant of luxury goods. Politically they are very important but from an economic point of view they are a money pit.
So, I never worried about the Soviet Union.
The West did not win the Cold War. The Soviets lost.
One thing I noticed when we had Soviet specialists over to our company (this was at the tail end, ca 1990) and we would show them the latest spectroscopy or analytical or whatever sort of device, and they would say something like “We saw one just like that, a prototype at a research laboratory in Minsk”, and I would explain that the model they saw was already in the third generation of serial production.
Their system lacked the means to get these brilliant ideas into production.
280 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:31:39am |
re: #275 jaunte
Chuck Todd had Haley Barbour on this morning to discredit Zimmer, and he was pounding the point that she wanted “one third of the total recovery funds” repeatedly.
Dafaq? Why is Haley Barbour of Mississippi even brought on to comment on the affairs in New Jersey?! Chuck Todd is such a fucking douchebag…..excuse my language.
281 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:31:39am |
re: #278 Romantic Heretic
That’s true.
But remember, most of the Soviets at that time had been in The Great Patriotic War. The one where 20 million Soviet citizens died. Where pretty much everything from Berlin to Moscow was destroyed.
They new the next war would be worse. So although all payed lip service to ‘expanding Communism’ and some believed it, they didn’t want to go through that again.
So their support for Communist insurgencies is Latin America was what, exactly? Because it sure as hell was a lot more than lip service.
282 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:32:06am |
re: #278 Romantic Heretic
That’s true.
But remember, most of the Soviets at that time had been in The Great Patriotic War. The one where 20 million Soviet citizens died. Where pretty much everything from Berlin to Moscow was destroyed.
They new the next war would be worse. So although all payed lip service to ‘expanding Communism’ and some believed it, they didn’t want to go through that again.
Which is one reason you spy. You want to know what the real attitude and views are behind the proud rhetoric. And the nagging worry that those in charge on the other side will eventually find themselves in a bind and decide that if they are going to go down they will burn the house (world) down with them.
283 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:32:50am |
He’s gotta be kidding.
Sen. David Vitter, R-La., will be a candidate in Louisiana’s 2015 governor’s race, he announces in email to supporters - @AP
Of course, it is Louisiana.
284 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:33:00am |
YOu also re: #281 Dark_Falcon
So their support for Communist insurgencies is Latin America was what, exactly? Because it sure as hell was a lot more than lip service.
You also wanna see your weapons systems tested under combat condition, and what better means than by a proxy war?
286 | jaunte Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:33:36am |
re: #280 Dr. Matt
Dafaq? Why is Haley Barbour of Mississippi even brought on to comment on the affairs in New Jersey?!
I would bet he was on assignment.
287 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:34:36am |
re: #280 Dr. Matt
Dafaq? Why is Haley Barbour of Mississippi even brought on to comment on the affairs in New Jersey?! Chuck Todd is such a fucking douchebag…..excuse my language.
Friends of Christie Movement.
288 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:35:27am |
re: #287 ObserverArt
Friends of Christie Movement.
But different than the Friends of Carlotta I assume?
;)
289 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:36:23am |
re: #287 ObserverArt
Friends of Christie Movement.
I imagine the Morning (Holy) Joe crew were in full defense mode this morning.
290 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:39:23am |
re: #275 jaunte
Chuck Todd had Haley Barbour on this morning to discredit Zimmer, and he was pounding the point that she wanted “one third of the total recovery funds” repeatedly.
Haley Barbour? The governor of Mississippi, whose ties/experience with Ashbritt led Gov. Christie to pick them in a no-bid to handle Sandy waste removal?
Well, at least Barbour is consistent in defending Christie.
But on the facts, he’s just wrong.
$70 million was set aside for storm projects. Just $342,000 was disbursed. The $70 million includes FEMA flood assistance and other direct assistance to businesses and individuals affected by Sandy (which is most everyone in Hoboken given the flooding to most of the city.
State officials arrive at the $70 million figure by lumping in more than $43 million in payouts Hoboken residents and business owners received from flood insurance policies administered by the Federal Emergency Management Agency. The state has no control over how that money is awarded.
The same goes for $6.13 million Hoboken residents received in “individual assistance” grants from the federal government and more than $8.5 million in loans the U.S. Small Business Administration approved for merchants and residents.
Zimmer’s number includes only funding given to the city of Hoboken from two pots of money the state has discretion over: the Hazard Mitigation Grant Program and the Community Development Block Grant Program.
Zimmer claims the state shortchanged her city on disaster aid because she didn’t push forward a redevelopment initiative known as the Rockefeller project, so named because of the company backing it. The mayor said Lt. Gov. Kim Guadagno personally warned her Sandy aid would be tied to the project’s outcome, a charge Guadagno called “not only false but illogical.”
Zimmer said she applied for $100 million in grants to help mitigate against future disasters but received only $142,000. Separately, through the block grant program, the city requested — and received — another $200,000 to plan for future storms.
Both figures are accurate. But that’s also apples-oranges comparison. Some projects do take time to let-out and get underway, and block grants were spread across the state, with some areas getting larger amounts, including Newark (the state’s largest city) but others getting $10,000. Hoboken got an amount less than what was requested, but it appears reasonable.
There’s no word here on how much Newark applied for (or Jersey City or Little Falls or Moonachie or any of the hardest hit Jersey Shore communities). No word on whether those requests were out of line with what Hoboken requested.
The request had to be balanced by statewide need.
291 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:39:25am |
re: #289 Dr. Matt
I imagine the Morning (Holy) Joe crew were in full defense mode this morning.
Though they’re planning on releasing mutant cheese mold on Hoboken if they do not get the full cooperation of the whole of the state.
292 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:43:25am |
293 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:43:43am |
294 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:48:23am |
Just one of the reasons I have no use for religion. And I’m an ex-Catholic.
Archdiocese releases documents detailing sexual abuse by priests
A woman I worked w/10 yrs ago here in NC had been abused in CT, where she was from, by the same priest who abused her brother; she was around 8, he was a little older. She received a settlement but I doubt it made up for any of the pain she suffered through her life or any of the decisions she had to make in her wrecked life. She didn’t talk about it very much, except broadly because she was still the victim of that priest.
295 | makeitstop Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:48:47am |
re: #263 sattv4u2
And again, what of the Boston Marathon bomber!
He had already killed people and taken hostile actions against law enforcement, on repeated occasions.
Not sticking up for anyone here, just pointing out a fundamental difference.
296 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:53:45am |
re: #291 Feline Fearless Leader
Though they’re planning on releasing mutant cheese mold on Hoboken if they do not get the full cooperation of the whole of the state.
No, no no. Mutant cheese mold is a weapon used by Scott Walker, not Chris Christie.
297 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:53:52am |
I see they have named this storm “Janus”.
RT @WxNick: Yellow/red highways clearly show where #Janus is messing up road travel: http://t.co/1Oiz7tQ45P pic.twitter.com/zJnOW2m5yS— TWC Breaking (@TWCBreaking) January 21, 2014
Nothing like a Roman god to mess up your day.
298 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:57:07am |
re: #297 Justanotherhuman
I see they have named this storm “Janus”.
Because it originated in Joplin, Missouri?
299 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:57:28am |
re: #297 Justanotherhuman
Not they. Just TWC. It’s a purely BS business decision.
I will go with Polar Vortex II, Revenge of the Arctic Airmass.
300 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:58:08am |
re: #299 lawhawk
Not they. Just TWC. It’s a purely BS business decision.
I will go with Polar Vortex II, Revenge of the Arctic Airmass.
Polar Vortex II, Arctic Bugaloo.
301 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:58:17am |
Poll: Two-thirds of Americans not satisfied with wealth distribution http://t.co/5N8bHGF7H0— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) January 21, 2014
302 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:58:45am |
re: #299 lawhawk
Not they. Just TWC. It’s a purely BS business decision.
I will go with Polar Vortex II, Revenge of the Arctic Airmass.
With its Chicago area companion, Lake Effect II, Electric Bugaloo.
303 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:59:32am |
GOP Florida House candidate on Obama: ‘It’s time to arrest and hang him high’ via RSJoshua Black, a candidate for Florida House District 68, said on Monday that the time had come to “hang” President Barack Obama.
“It’s time to arrest and hang him high,” he added.
Republican candidate for House District 67 Chris Latvala replied in shock. “You aren’t seriously calling for the killing of Obama are you?” he asked. “I know you are crazy but good heavens.U R an embarrassment.”
Flori-DUH continues to lead the nation in the crazy…..
P.S. He’s not White
304 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 7:59:48am |
305 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:02:48am |
re: #304 Targetpractice
What, no votes for “Snownado”?
Not in Manhattan. Well, maybe in 6” stilettos?
Snow in the city. #nyc #manhattan #snow pic.twitter.com/PfhhYmku2E— Sana (@SanaAndTheCity) January 21, 2014
306 | Ian G. Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:03:05am |
Morning Lizards. Snow falling heavily now. Wind chills will be as low as -10 tonight. I scanned the 10 day forecast at weather.com, and while no more heavy snow is on the horizon, temperatures above freezing aren’t either. If that holds, they’ll be ice skating on the lake at Prospect Park before long.
Also, I see I was beaten to the punch on mentioning to the raving moron from Florida who wants to execute the President that, uh, Benedict Arnold was never hanged.
307 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:03:22am |
309 | Ian G. Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:05:04am |
re: #297 Justanotherhuman
Wait, am I reading that right? No traffic in DC? They must have shut the entire city down because of the storm. DC has (IMHO) the worst traffic in the US east of LA and north of Atlanta. The Long Island Expressway has nothing on the perpetual parking lot that is the DC Beltway.
310 | Ian G. Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:05:54am |
re: #146 Pie-onist Overlord
No, not pot. Millions of dollars in the hands of a young douchebag. That’s the “gateway” to cocaine.
311 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:06:26am |
re: #309 Ian G.
Wait, am I reading that right? No traffic in DC? They must have shut the entire city down because of the storm. DC has (IMHO) the worst traffic in the US east of LA and north of Atlanta. The Long Island Expressway has nothing on the perpetual parking lot that is the DC Beltway.
Yeah. All Fed offices closed. Except for the SC. No WH tours, no nothing.
Rs will be complaining about Federal workers getting 2 day MLK holiday now. Just wait for it.
312 | Ryan King Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:06:36am |
re: #303 Dr. Matt
Flori-DUH continues to lead the nation in the crazy…..
P.S. He’s not White
Note douchewads calling out Gawker for race baiting, because the nutter GOP is black.
Get that: he can’t be racist because he’s black. But according to a small percentage of conservatives (94.398%), blacks are the real racists.
They’re all over the place.
313 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:08:23am |
re: #303 Dr. Matt
Flori-DUH continues to lead the nation in the crazy…..
P.S. He’s not White
That’s the nutty thing: Joshua Black is actually black, Chris Latvala is the sane Republican who tried to talk him down :
@ChrisLatvala I don't do drugs. Not intimidated by the secret service, or #criminalpoliticians like you.
— Joshua Black 2014 (@JoshuaBlack2014) January 20, 2014
314 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:09:38am |
They are already planning a sequel to “Sharknado”, including the Polar Vortex: “Grizzlard”
315 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:10:23am |
I have a LFG Pages question. Maybe the Lizards around at the moment can answer for me.
Can a side bar page be a total comedy send-up? I have a photoshop and a fun explanation written as scientific news that I would like to do. And my thinking is it would make a fun page and with the time involved I wouldn’t mind it sticking around and being available a bit more than a standard comment in a thread.
Thanks for any advice. Maybe I should wait and ask Charles, or email him or something. I do not want to be out of line or abuse his desires for pages being newsworthy and topical.
316 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:11:30am |
Apparently the only way a Black man can be accepted in the GOP is to be completely batshit crazy. For evidence I present: Allen West, Alan Keyes, and now Joshua Black.
317 | makeitstop Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:12:01am |
re: #280 Dr. Matt
Dafaq? Why is Haley Barbour of Mississippi even brought on to comment on the affairs in New Jersey?! Chuck Todd is such a fucking douchebag…..excuse my language.
Barbour is tied in to the story via the no-bid contracts a carting firm got to haul away Sandy debris - a carting firm that was among the clients of his lobbying firm.
I’m sure that was discussed in great detail.
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318 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:12:56am |
re: #315 ObserverArt
I have a LFG Pages question. Maybe the Lizards around at the moment can answer for me.
Can a side bar page be a total comedy send-up? I have a photoshop and a fun explanation written as scientific news that I would like to do. And my thinking is it would make a fun page and with the time involved I wouldn’t mind it sticking around and being available a bit more than a standard comment in a thread.
Thanks for any advice. Maybe I should wait and ask Charles, or email him or something. I do not want to be out of line or abuse his desires for pages being newsworthy and topical.
There is a “Humor” category, so go for it.
319 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:16:23am |
re: #303 Dr. Matt
He’s a certified street preacher, doncha know, who moved to FL and finally found some white people to con in the R party.
“I moved to Saint Petersburg back in 2007, in November, with ministry on my mind. I had been practicing street evangelism in Saint Louis, but always alone. So, finding a team here, I decided to go where I could grow. And grow I have. It hasn’t always been easy, and some of the difficulties were my own fault, but I have no regrets about moving to Florida and am very grateful for the friends that I have found here.
“My involvement in politics began in 2012, as I tried to influence the Republican presidential primary. I didn’t do much at first, not finding time, but I wanted to do more. After Florida’s primary, I got involved in the local Republican Executive Committee. There I met local candidates for elected office and decided to volunteer to help some of them. I learned a lot, even though the Republicans lost badly and seemed at a loss to explain why. I knew why.”
This guy knows where to get money and it’s not on the street.
Home schooled with a GPA of 3.9? But no college? And an admirer of Ben Carson and hater of Common Core.
This website is just too slick for a self-admitted “street preacher” to have devised. And it’s pretty devoid of specifics about Joshua Black himself. He came out of nowhere, it seems.
320 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:16:26am |
re: #318 Pie-onist Overlord
There is a “Humor” category, so go for it.
Thanks, I did not know there was a category. I need to do some reading regarding them. I’ve yet to create one.
321 | Ian G. Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:16:49am |
re: #316 Dr. Matt
Apparently the only way a Black man can be accepted in the GOP is to be completely batshit crazy. For evidence I present: Allen West, Alan Keyes, and now Joshua Black.
I noted that the other day. No more Colin Powell. No more JC Watts even. Just utterly unhinged lunatics. Add Herman Cain and EW Jackson to the list.
322 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:18:17am |
re: #321 Ian G.
I noted that the other day. No more Colin Powell. No more JC Watts even. Just utterly unhinged lunatics. Add Herman Cain and EW Jackson to the list.
And add Ben Carson as ‘Justanotherhuman’ noted above.
323 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:18:36am |
re: #319 Justanotherhuman
This website is just too slick for a self-admitted “street preacher” to have devised.
There are standard web templates that hosting services provide, the user just has to fill in the pages with stuff. No technical expertise required.
324 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:21:24am |
@viciousbabushka I think if one just opens two successful bakeries he puts himself into the top 1% Maybe you're confusing cause and effect?— John Galt (@JohnGaltTweets) January 21, 2014
I think “John Galt” has a limited understanding of math.
I know a family who owns two bakeries. They live in my neighborhood and probably make about as much money as I do. They are comfortable but hardly the 1%.
Also they work longer hours than I do and HARD MANUAL WORK. Get up at 3:00AM to prepare the day’s product.
325 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:24:38am |
re: #323 Pie-onist Overlord
There are standard web templates that hosting services provide, the user just has to fill in the pages with stuff. No technical expertise required.
I think he has plenty of help. And he’s fallen into the trap and their meme can be, “See, Black people want to hang Obama.”
He wouldn’t be the R’s first patsy, even if he is probably batshit crazy.
326 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:25:09am |
re: #210 Pie-onist Overlord
I just can’t even.
HURR HURR AN ACTUAL LETTER FROM MLK DOESN’T PROVE ANYTHING!!!!! HE COULD HAVE LIED!!!!11!!!![Embedded content]
Good Lord, he’s dumber than the real Ronnie. At least Raygun had Alzheimer’s to blame. What’s this maroon’s problem?
327 | Ian G. Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:25:49am |
re: #316 Dr. Matt
Apparently the only way a Black man can be accepted in the GOP is to be completely batshit crazy. For evidence I present: Allen West, Alan Keyes, and now Joshua Black.
I’ll also add that those black men who follow the GOP prescription of “pulling yourself up by the bootstraps” are dismissed as “thugs”. Jay-Z, millionaire entrepreneur from the projects of Brooklyn, should be exhibit A in the GOP success story book. Why isn’t he, unless the GOP is entirely defined by racial identity, and the only minorities allowed in are those who bow before the implied superiority of white rural Christian American culture.
328 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:26:36am |
re: #311 Justanotherhuman
Yeah. All Fed offices closed. Except for the SC. No WH tours, no nothing.
Rs will be complaining about Federal workers getting 2 day MLK holiday now. Just wait for it.
On a related note, this article features young Republicans learning the social skills and racial sensitivity they’re so famous for:
Fraternity Suspended After Throwing MLK Day Party with Watermelon Cups
329 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:26:39am |
re: #326 William Barnett-Lewis
Good Lord, he’s dumber than the real Ronnie. At least Raygun had Alzheimer’s to blame. What’s this maroon’s problem?
He’s just stupid. Also too, probably home schooled so he wouldn’t learn about Teh Evolutions & all that secular humanist satanic stuff.
330 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:28:37am |
The Home-screweled like ronnie also learn “Talking Points” in “How To Argue With A Libtard” in which the “Libtard” (moi) produces an actual document, just dismiss it by claiming, with no basis, that the subject “lied” as we have seen demonstrated here.
331 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:29:19am |
re: #324 Pie-onist Overlord
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I think “John Galt” has a limited understanding of math.I know a family who owns two bakeries. They live in my neighborhood and probably make about as much money as I do. They are comfortable but hardly the 1%.
Econ 101. What sane people take.
Ayn Rand 101. What fools take.
For, as we are well aware, “There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old’s life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged . One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.”
― John Rogers
332 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:31:34am |
Seen the FLOTUS dunk vid yet?
Now available in gif format!
333 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:33:08am |
re: #328 Mattand
On a related note, this article features young Republicans learning the social skills and racial sensitivity they’re so famous for:
Fraternity Suspended After Throwing MLK Day Party with Watermelon Cups
You see? Persecution of harmless fun just for the crime of PABOAOWW (Partying and being obnoxious and offensive while white)
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334 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:33:30am |
The Wendy Davis Derangement continues:
So the Wendy Davis line will be that her rival, the paraplegic, has lived a life of privilege and ease? http://t.co/usr6N2S1MC— jimgeraghty (@jimgeraghty) January 21, 2014
Her own daughter begged for her not to have custody. Now that's #WaronWomen http://t.co/HKBPKjspfu Wendy Davis #UniteBlue #p2— Melvin Udall (@Melvin_Udall_) January 21, 2014
Wendy Darling went to Neverland. Wendy Davis came from Fairy Tale Land.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 21, 2014
Hey @WendyDavisTexas, Buddy has a message for you. pic.twitter.com/eV1VIIuEGs— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 21, 2014
335 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:35:10am |
re: #334 Pie-onist Overlord
The Wendy Davis Derangement continues:
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This is just a warmup of what they have waiting for Elizabeth Warren if she should run in 2016
336 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:35:12am |
re: #334 Pie-onist Overlord
The Wendy Davis Derangement continues:
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She really has them terrified, doesn’t she?
337 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:36:55am |
re: #335 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
This is just a warmup of what they have waiting for Elizabeth Warren if she should run in 2016
Hillary will run in 2016. Elizabeth Warren will run in 2024.
338 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:37:44am |
re: #334 Pie-onist Overlord
The Wendy Davis Derangement continues:
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I’m convinced they are taking the nasty to 11 in hopes it will become too much for her and she’ll drop out.
339 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:37:54am |
re: #326 William Barnett-Lewis
Good Lord, he’s dumber than the real Ronnie. At least Raygun had Alzheimer’s to blame. What’s this maroon’s problem?
Reagan wouldn’t have been such a fool as to get down into the weeds where a letter could prove him wrong like that. But he had better speech writers and fact-checkers than your average wingnut.
340 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:41:20am |
The right’s fetish-like obsession with Ronnie Raygun hides the reality that today he would be primaried by a teabagger because he’s “big government RINO”.
341 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:43:07am |
re: #338 Eclectic Cyborg
I’m convinced they are taking the nasty to 11 in hopes it will become too much for her and she’ll drop out.
It’s more intended to weaken her early on. Greg Abbott’s primary opponents have immolated themselves on funeral pyres of Burning Stupid, so he is starting to turn his attention the likely general election opponent. And truth is, Davis has blurred some of the facts.
342 | Ian G. Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:43:45am |
re: #334 Pie-onist Overlord
The Wendy Davis Derangement continues:
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I take it as a good sign. They must think she has a shot at winning.
343 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:43:53am |
“The top 1 percent of American households had pretax income above $394,000 last year. The top 10 percent had income exceeding $114,000.”
344 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:44:10am |
Attacks on Wendy Davis' life story follow classic sexist archetype http://t.co/C0jah7nE0S— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) January 21, 2014
“She abandoned her children in order to pursue a career.” Because Jeff Davis took care of their daughters while Wendy went to law school, therefore flipping traditional gender roles in childcare, right-wing pundits are now calling her a bad mother who “apparently abandoned her children.”
My daughter put herself through Columbia, earned a Master’s degree in nursing and now has a practice in Flatbush. Her husband stays home and takes care of the kids. Does that make her a bad mother?
She really wanted to go to medical school but couldn’t afford it.
345 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:46:07am |
And if I may take a moment and air one of my major gripes with the U.S. political system:
I really don’t like the fact that there’s a major election every TWO years. It basically puts each and every politician in to full time campaigning mode leaving little time and focus left for actually governing.
In the Canadian system there is no such thing as midterms, just a full election every several years and, as far as I’m aware, that’s never been a huge problem for us.
Two years is not much time to get anything done politically. Think about it, a two term President winds up having to deal with FOUR different Senates and Houses which, while similar in many regards, will present distinct advantages and disadvantages to getting things done.
Not exactly a great model for political productivity IMO.
346 | jaunte Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:46:08am |
347 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:46:41am |
re: #340 Dr. Matt
The right’s fetish-like obsession with Ronnie Raygun hides the reality that today he would be primaried by a teabagger because he’s “big government RINO”.
Regan is simply a projection surface onto which the GOP displays its image of the ideal politician and statesman.
348 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:47:30am |
re: #347 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
Regan is simply a projection surface onto which the GOP displays its image of the ideal politician and statesman.
That….and his last name isn’t “Bush” or “Nixon”.
349 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:47:49am |
re: #345 Eclectic Cyborg
Germany is worse, there is no national system of elections, it is up to the individual states and regions, there is almost always an election going on somewhere at state or regional level.
350 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:48:47am |
Does it really matter though? Look at Pierre Omidyar. He’s well beyond the top-1 percent. Or George Soros. Or Bill Gates. Or ALEC member COMCAST which owns MSNBC. General Electric used to be part owner of MSNBC. EIEIO. It’s not all about money but it’s a great deal about money.
351 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:50:34am |
re: #350 Gus
Does it really matter though? Look at Pierre Omidyar. He’s well beyond the top-1 percent. Or George Soros. Or Bill Gates. Or ALEC member COMCAST which owns MSNBC. General Electric used to be part owner of MSNBC. EIEIO. It’s not all about money but it’s a great deal about money.
It’s not about money it’s about HAVING ALL TEH MONEYS.
352 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:50:36am |
re: #341 Dark_Falcon
It’s more intended to weaken her early on. Greg Abbott’s primary opponents have immolated themselves on funeral pyres of Burning Stupid, so he is starting to turn his attention the likely general election opponent. And truth is, Davis has blurred some of the facts.
Great story there Dark. Full of typical blurred facts by the writer to blur the Davis story.
All is fair heh? You sometimes put the Chicago in Chicago-style Politics.
/// for the second sentence.
353 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:51:34am |
Jeff Bezos now owns the Washington Post. AOL bought the Huffington Post.
354 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:51:58am |
355 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:52:36am |
You cant spell BENGHAZI without BLURRED FACTZ!!!
356 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:52:42am |
re: #344 Pie-onist Overlord
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My daughter put herself through Columbia, earned a Master’s degree in nursing and now has a practice in Flatbush. Her husband stays home and takes care of the kids. Does that make her a bad mother?
She really wanted to go to medical school but couldn’t afford it.
The anti-equal pay crowd bitch all the time that women shouldn’t be paid equal to men because they don’t work as hard or put in as many hours as a man does, but yet when women do put their careers first, they get criticized as “bad mothers” because they’re more focused on their career than being home all the time for their kids.
357 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:53:16am |
Comcast Corporation (MSNBC owner): Support for the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) http://t.co/RGUc7LaG7U— Gus (@Gus_802) January 21, 2014
358 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:53:58am |
re: #356 Targetpractice
My wife runs a daycare. She doesn’t earn more than I do, but she sure as hell works harder. I’ve had to fill in for her on certain days and there’s NO way I could handle that full time like she does. Bless her heart.
359 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:54:22am |
Ok…so, is MSNBC shifting to the right now?
361 | ericblair Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:55:23am |
re: #345 Eclectic Cyborg
Two years is not much time to get anything done politically. Think about it, a two term President winds up having to deal with FOUR different Senates and Houses which, while similar in many regards, will present distinct advantages and disadvantages to getting things done.
Not exactly a great model for political productivity IMO.
In a parliamentary system, you also don’t know when the election will be until it’s called, so there’s less possible lead time to stuff with campaigning.
362 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:55:48am |
re: #359 Eclectic Cyborg
Ok…so, is MSNBC shifting to the right now?
Depends. When Joe is on, yes. :D
363 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:55:51am |
re: #361 ericblair
In a parliamentary system, you also don’t know when the election will be until it’s called, so there’s less possible lead time to stuff with campaigning.
Another thing I like about it. :)
Also, at least in Canada, campaign time frames are shorter. I think by law the time between an election call and the actual vote can’t be more than about two months.
367 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:57:45am |
re: #365 Gus
Almost everyone in congress is in the 1 percent.
Which is NOT what the Founders intended.
A entire Congress of one percenters is certainly NOT “of the people”
368 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:58:24am |
re: #352 ObserverArt
Great story there Dark. Full of typical blurred facts by the writer to blur the Davis story.
All is fair heh? You sometimes put the Chicago in Chicago-style Politics.
/// for the second sentence.
Examples?
369 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:58:40am |
re: #367 Eclectic Cyborg
Which is NOT what the Founders intended.
A entire Congress of one percenters is certainly NOT “of the people”
That’s debatable. Some would say that was what they intended but I’m not that radical. :D Also, the Founders were 1 percenters.
370 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, Jan 21, 2014 8:58:44am |
First operational US nuclear-powered sub Nautilus (here NYC, 1956) was launched 60 years ago today: #NARA pic.twitter.com/nZfBUvL8fA
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) January 21, 2014
371 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:00:03am |
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
First operational US nuclear-powered sub Nautilus (here NYC, 1956) was launched 60 years ago today.
Cool, that was one of my first models as a kid, that and the USS Skipjack.
372 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:00:22am |
HURR HURR!!!!1!!!
Truly Needy? Yes. But I'm sick of PARASITES.— Free Republic (@FreeRepublicUSA) January 21, 2014
Every tax dollar 'stolen' from me is actually stolen from MY kids. I work to support MY children. #TCOT #teaparty #p2 #GOP #tlot #ccot #nra— Free Republic (@FreeRepublicUSA) January 21, 2014
373 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:00:42am |
re: #369 Gus
But their relative wealth was substantially less as compared to the one percenters of today.
374 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:01:28am |
re: #373 Eclectic Cyborg
But their relative wealth was substantially less as compared to the one percenters of today.
Oh, yes, no doubt.
375 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:03:56am |
I can’t believe I actually used to post at Free Republic. Haven’t been there in years, not even to hate-read the comments.
376 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:04:29am |
HURR HURR!!!1!!! DERP DERP
Will the Obama administration take action against NSA/Pentagon officials promoting idea of killing Edward Snowden? http://t.co/Tymk3Ha0K1— David Sirota (@davidsirota) January 21, 2014
377 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:04:49am |
re: #341 Dark_Falcon
It’s more intended to weaken her early on. Greg Abbott’s primary opponents have immolated themselves on funeral pyres of Burning Stupid, so he is starting to turn his attention the likely general election opponent. And truth is, Davis has blurred some of the facts.
Let’s see: fudged minor facts in her bio vs. thinking the state should stay the fuck out of deciding when women can get abortions.
Tough call, that one…
378 | Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:04:54am |
379 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:05:28am |
re: #375 Pie-onist Overlord
I can’t believe I actually used to post at Free Republic. Haven’t been there in years, not even to hate-read the comments.
Was that during your wingnut phase?
380 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:06:17am |
re: #364 Dr. Matt
The GIF is too big to upload, but this is f’ing awesome:
That’s awesome, but sadly it’ll just be more red meat for stupid, racist RWNJs.
381 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:06:26am |
So, is Sirota and GG really going to hinge the remainder of their “journalistic” careers on Snowden and the NSA? Sorta sad, yet amusing.
382 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:06:46am |
re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg
Was that during your wingnut phase?
Yeah, I thought Free Republic was always a “The only good liberal is a dead one” kind of place.
383 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:06:55am |
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
Got to see the Croaker and Nautilus in New London CT way back when. Toured the Croaker and saw the Nautilus at distance. Being on the Croaker (a WWII boat) was like being in a sardine can, maybe worse.
384 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:07:15am |
re: #379 Eclectic Cyborg
Was that during your wingnut phase?
Yeah, I used to be a wingnut. Then Obama got elected and the FReepers lost their shit and it was too much.
Then in 2010 I got a job because of Obama!
385 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:08:31am |
re: #381 Dr. Matt
So, is Sirota and GG really going to hinge the remainder of their “journalistic” careers on Snowden and the NSA? Sorta sad, yet amusing.
They’ll milk that cow until its dry and eventually move on to something else…eventually.
386 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:09:04am |
re: #372 Pie-onist Overlord
Every dollar wasted by teaching creationism in science classrooms is a dollar that is stolen from the education system.
387 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:09:09am |
re: #382 Mattand
Yeah, I thought Free Republic was always a “The only good liberal is a dead one” kind of place.
FR and LGF used to be much closer when I joined here in 2003. Then there came The Great Flounce of 2008 and I had to decide whether I wanted to stay here, or stay at FReep.
I made my decision and never looked back.
388 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:09:41am |
re: #377 Mattand
Let’s see: fudged minor facts in her bio vs. thinking the state should stay the fuck out of deciding when women can get abortions.
Tough call, that one…
Fudging dates by two years is legitimate fodder for a newspaper. When fudge facts in your bio, you’re asking for trouble.
389 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:09:52am |
re: #372 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR!!!!1!!!
Every tax dollar ‘stolen’ from me is actually stolen from MY kids. I work to support MY children.
And who educates your children, and works to help keep them safe and healthy?
390 | jaunte Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:10:02am |
re: #377 Mattand
Let’s see: fudged minor facts in her bio vs. thinking the state should stay the fuck out of deciding when women can get abortions.
Tough call, that one…
But she was not actually divorced when she was 19 but only separated, and didn’t live in a trailer for all that long…
391 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:10:35am |
re: #341 Dark_Falcon
It’s more intended to weaken her early on. Greg Abbott’s primary opponents have immolated themselves on funeral pyres of Burning Stupid, so he is starting to turn his attention the likely general election opponent. And truth is, Davis has blurred some of the facts.
Please proceed, wingnuts.
Seriously, Dark. There is nothing more sexist than attacking a woman based on divorce and custody. NOTHING.
392 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:10:44am |
re: #387 Pie-onist Overlord
FR and LGF used to be much closer when I joined here in 2003. Then there came The Great Flounce of 2008 and I had to decide whether I wanted to stay here, or stay at FReep.
I made my decision and never looked back.
The Great Flouncing happened in 2009.
393 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:11:31am |
re: #389 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light)
And who educates your children, and works to help keep them safe and healthy?
I am sure the FReeper home-schools his children, to keep them away from Teh Ebil Evolutions.
394 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:12:35am |
re: #388 Dark_Falcon
Fudging dates by two years is legitimate fodder for a newspaper. When fudge facts in your bio, you’re asking for trouble.
Proceed some more.
395 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:13:53am |
re: #388 Dark_Falcon
Fudging dates by two years is legitimate fodder for a newspaper. When fudge facts in your bio, you’re asking for trouble.
True. Given some of the asswipes Texas has elected governor recently, that’s the kind of bullshit a lot of voters will focus on.
396 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:14:21am |
re: #392 Dark_Falcon
The Great Flouncing happened in 2009.
It started after the election and became a swarm.
397 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:14:32am |
re: #392 Dark_Falcon
The Great Flouncing happened in 2009.
VB fudged a date in her bio. I can’t vote for her now.
398 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:15:01am |
399 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:15:46am |
400 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:15:52am |
re: #383 lawhawk
Got to see the Croaker and Nautilus in New London CT way back when. Toured the Croaker and saw the Nautilus at distance. Being on the Croaker (a WWII boat) was like being in a sardine can, maybe worse.
Here in Wisconsin we have the USS Cobia (ss-245) on display. It’s tight, true.
Then go down to Chicago and visit the U-505 a “big” type IXC boat and see what a sardine can really feels like. I can’t imagine how they did it…
401 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:16:30am |
Hmm. “White up” conditions here in Center City Philly right now. Apparent snow direction is up at a 45 degree angle due to wind direction and velocity. Building more than a few blocks away hard to see from up on high (about 30 stories up).
402 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:18:03am |
re: #400 William Barnett-Lewis
Here in Wisconsin we have the USS Cobia (ss-245) on display. It’s tight, true.
Then go down to Chicago and visit the U-505 a “big” type IXC boat and see what a sardine can really feels like. I can’t imagine how they did it…
Yep. The Gato and Balao class were roomy and comfortable compared to the German U-boats. And the latter didn’t have “luxuries” like A/C either and thus had massive humidity issues that the USN avoided to some degree.
404 | Mattand Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:18:48am |
405 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:18:56am |
Does @SenRandPaul really think things through before he tweets? #TeaParty #TCOT #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/I9jaYNphiq— clydetheslyde (@clydetheslyde) January 21, 2014
406 | Wendell Zurkowitz (slave of the waffle light) Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:19:03am |
re: #399 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR!!!1!!!
Income is the product of valued productivity. Increase your productivity!
Income is the amount that a multi-billion-dollar, international company can negotiate with an individual with limited means and a family to support.
Who is gonna get the better end of those negotiations?
407 | First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:19:45am |
408 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:21:29am |
410 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:21:54am |
Good news for people who like to eat:
The war against butter is over. Butter won. http://t.co/ekzKqMOCOp @qz— foodnewsjournal (@foodnewsjournal) January 21, 2014
In the US, margarine consumption is at a 70 year low. Since 2000, sales are down by more than 30%.
411 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:26:37am |
re: #404 Mattand
I was looking at them for my iPhone. Anything specific?
A) Super slow.
B) Practically stops working after 10 AM. Every. Single. Day.
412 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:26:37am |
re: #341 Dark_Falcon
Dark, it doesn’t matter what was blurred and what wasn’t. The Texas GOP would be saying these things about Wendy Davis anyway, election year or not. She pissed them off with her filibuster. She’s going to be a target for the assholes no matter what.
413 | Stanley Sea Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:27:16am |
re: #410 wrenchwench
Good news for people who like to eat:
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Margarine is disgusting.
414 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:27:49am |
I haven’t updated The Vicious Babushka blog in like 4 weeks. I need to bake a new pie or something.
Oh I know.
I want to start a cookbook project converting recipes from my collection of antique cookbooks for modern kitchen equipment.
416 | Gus Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:28:19am |
Could be OK in New Jersey though. I am still in Cowtown, I mean Denver.
417 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:28:41am |
re: #413 Stanley Sea
Margarine is disgusting.
I use it for baking when I don’t want a cake, pie or bread to contain any dairy ingredients.
418 | The War TARDIS Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:29:29am |
re: #137 wheat-dogghazi
The problem is, I want to marry a another Muslim.
And my current work hours preclude any outside the work activity, not to mention that where I work, they change the bosses and schedules of everyone every 3 months.
Right now, leaning towards the option of my friend who wants to use a matchmaker in Pakistan to find someone. I haven’t known many female Muslim Converts, but my experiences back when I was a Christian in Colorado Springs with Christian Girls who converted from Mainstream Christianity to Born-Again Christianity was that they tended to by unsupportive of me to a massive degree, and so wrapped up in the intricacies of the little things that they tended to be the least fun people ever. As someone who notices patterns, that gives me pause before even thinking about Converts.
419 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:30:49am |
re: #388 Dark_Falcon
Fudging dates by two years is legitimate fodder for a newspaper. When fudge facts in your bio, you’re asking for trouble.
I seem to recall Mitt Romney fudging a fact or two. *cough* Bain Capital *cough*
420 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:31:17am |
re: #414 Pie-onist Overlord
I haven’t updated The Vicious Babushka blog in like 4 weeks. I need to bake a new pie or something.
Oh I know.
I want to start a cookbook project converting recipes from my collection of antique cookbooks for modern kitchen equipment.
Perhaps it’s time for a new edition of the LGF cookbook?
421 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:31:17am |
re: #418 The War TARDIS
The problem is, I want to marry a another Muslim.
And my current work hours preclude any outside the work activity, not to mention that where I work, they change the bosses and schedules of everyone every 3 months.
Right now, leaning towards the option of my friend who wants to use a matchmaker in Pakistan to find someone. I haven’t known many female Muslim Converts, but my experiences back when I was a Christian in Colorado Springs with Christian Girls who converted from Mainstream Christianity to Born-Again Christianity was that they tended to by unsupportive of me to a massive degree, and so wrapped up in the intricacies of the little things that they tended to be the least fun people ever. As someone who notices patterns, that gives me pause before even thinking about Converts.
Don’t you have matchmakers like Teh Juice?
422 | blueraven Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:31:39am |
re: #411 Gus
A) Super slow.
B) Practically stops working after 10 AM. Every. Single. Day.
That is when the stoners wake up and light up. Thick cloud of smoke blocks your signal!
///
423 | makeitstop Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:31:49am |
re: #418 The War TARDIS
The problem is, I want to marry a another Muslim.
And my current work hours preclude any outside the work activity, not to mention that where I work, they change the bosses and schedules of everyone every 3 months.
Right now, leaning towards the option of my friend who wants to use a matchmaker in Pakistan to find someone. I haven’t known many female Muslim Converts, but my experiences back when I was a Christian in Colorado Springs with Christian Girls who converted from Mainstream Christianity to Born-Again Christianity was that they tended to by unsupportive of me to a massive degree, and so wrapped up in the intricacies of the little things that they tended to be the least fun people ever. As someone who notices patterns, that gives me pause before even thinking about Converts.
Don’t rush! I didn’t meet my wife until I’d pretty much given up looking.
424 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:32:19am |
re: #413 Stanley Sea
Margarine is disgusting.
I was raised on margarine. When I have no choice, I’ll take it, but for spreading on rolls or baking, nothing beats real butter.
425 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:32:29am |
re: #411 Gus
A) Super slow.
B) Practically stops working after 10 AM. Every. Single. Day.
and
C) coverage is total crap. You can move five feet and lose any signal you may have had.
426 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:32:29am |
Ah yes, pointing out a court put Abortion Barbie under a restraining order is now sexist.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) January 21, 2014
427 | The War TARDIS Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:32:59am |
re: #421 Pie-onist Overlord
Not in the US.
We don’t even have a a mechanism to meet people in that regard in the US.
There’s a reason why the article I linked to before I went to bed described a Muslim Marriage Crisis.
428 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:33:21am |
re: #415 lawhawk
The USS Ling is berthed in Hackensack as a museum. Haven’t gone to visit, but I’ve passed by there regularly.
Interesting sidenote - the ling is a fish also known as the cobia.
Guess someone decided not a good idea to name the boat the USS Prodigal Son.
They started running low on fish names to use as the building program went on.
429 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:34:10am |
A French acquaintance said that in France, they put butter on cheese, as well as on everything else.
430 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:34:18am |
re: #414 Pie-onist Overlord
The Mrs had to scan some pictures for a friend’s scrapbook she’s putting together. That got me thinking about digitizing photos that are in albums but not online/digital. So, I finished going and digitizing my wedding photos off the proofs.
The newish printer/scanner seems to be up to the task. HP 8600 plus has a auto-document feeder that let me scan up to 50 at a clip. Still have to go back and do some minor cropping per photo, but it’s better than nothing at all. Scanned something like 400+ photos last night in just about 3 hours with a good part of the time taken by pulling photos out of albums and putting them back in. If I come across good ones, I might post.
I just digitized my Grand Canyon/Zion trip. Lots more to come. I had selectively scanned a few years back, but the quality is so much better now.
431 | ericblair Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:35:35am |
re: #417 Pie-onist Overlord
I use it for baking when I don’t want a cake, pie or bread to contain any dairy ingredients.
Yeah, I’ve had some pretty good marg at Kosher restaurants. It doesn’t have to suck.
432 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:35:59am |
re: #426 Pie-onist Overlord
Does he understand that calling her “abortion barbie” makes him look like a total douche? Is he trying to come up with an RW answer for “caribou barbie” or something?
433 | jaunte Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:36:09am |
re: #426 Pie-onist Overlord
Erickson’s really scraping the bottom.
RedState’s Erick Erickson Smears Wendy Davis with Bogus ‘Restraining Order’ Story
Tommy Christopher: “…even a newspaper airing the sexist grievances of an ex-spouse has standards, and would not make the sick suggestion that Wendy Davis was somehow unfit to be around her children based on a Temporary Restraining Order that’s actually an automatic feature of most divorces involving children.”
“In Texas, our Family Code provides standard language for restraining orders that can be requested and served on parties at the beginning of a divorce. To a layperson, the language may seem harsh and even accusatory. Parties who get served with a restraining order often read a lot of details into it and make a lot of assumptions. In the court system, however, little significance is attached to it.
A very common procedure is for a party to file for a divorce and request a temporary restraining order (TRO) and an order setting hearing. In some counties in Texas, there’s an automatic order that goes into effect immediately against both parties (it’s made “mutual”), to preserve the status quo. In Tarrant County, we don’t have that immediate “standing order”, but judges routinely grant TROs and then make them mutual at the first hearing date. In other words, the TRO is effective against the party who gets served with it, beginning with the time of service, and then the same language is normally applied against both parties when the judge starts making temporary orders.”
434 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:36:19am |
re: #429 wrenchwench
A French acquaintance said that in France, they put butter on cheese, as well as on everything else.
Suddenly I am craving croissants…
435 | The War TARDIS Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:37:24am |
The article I mentioned.
436 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:37:26am |
re: #415 lawhawk
The USS Ling is berthed in Hackensack as a museum. Haven’t gone to visit, but I’ve passed by there regularly.
Interesting sidenote - the ling is a fish also known as the cobia.
Guess someone decided not a good idea to name the boat the USS Prodigal Son.
And it’s quite a delicious fish! Best if smoked, FYI.
437 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:38:01am |
re: #426 Pie-onist Overlord
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The court was sexist then, so to use it against her now is still sexist, yes. He’s such a moron, but he knows his audience.
438 | GunstarGreen Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:38:25am |
re: #432 Eclectic Cyborg
Does he understand that calling her “abortion barbie” makes him look like a total douche? Is he trying to come up with an RW answer for “caribou barbie” or something?
That would be the general idea. Once you start labeling women you don’t agree with as “Barbie” to tack on a little extra dig, you make the parlance fair game.
Ex-half-governor Moosehead is deserving of a lot of scorn, but ‘Caribou Barbie’ is pushing it.
439 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:38:33am |
re: #417 Pie-onist Overlord
I use it for baking when I don’t want a cake, pie or bread to contain any dairy ingredients.
That reminds me, I was cooking something the other day and wondered if shortening was kosher or not. It certainly is helpful as an alternative to lard. Didn’t see an obvious mark on the Crisco can but that’ only one brand.
440 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:38:41am |
I have a cookbook from the 1800’s that in addition to food recipes, also includes recipes for making “home remedies” from medicinal ingredients that everybody would just happen to have around the house, like “opium” and “laudanum” and “cocaine.”
441 | ericblair Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:38:44am |
re: #436 Dr. Matt
And it’s quite a delicious fish! Best if smoked, FYI.
Be careful about asking other people to smoke your ling, cuz you might get slapped.
442 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:38:46am |
re: #434 Eclectic Cyborg
Suddenly I am craving croissants…
Which are things made out of butter for the purpose of putting more butter on.
443 | jaunte Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:39:05am |
This asshat needs a mirror RT @Todd__Kincannon: I don't think I've ever met anyone who was as much (cont) http://t.co/pmTSJMOs84
— Asshattery (@Asshattitude) January 21, 2014
444 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:39:44am |
re: #414 Pie-onist Overlord
I haven’t updated The Vicious Babushka blog in like 4 weeks. I need to bake a new pie or something.
Oh I know.
I want to start a cookbook project converting recipes from my collection of antique cookbooks for modern kitchen equipment.
You could put up a post talking about your planned project with a sample conversion. That would be a good place to start.
445 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:39:57am |
re: #442 wrenchwench
Which are things made out of butter for the purpose of putting more butter on.
EXACTLY! It’s perfection!
Seriously though, the perfect lunch for me is a hot, freshly made ham and cheese crossiant.
Yes, I know, I’m a simple man.
446 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:40:05am |
re: #423 makeitstop
Don’t rush! I didn’t meet my wife until I’d pretty much given up looking.
This! I was 30 before I met my wife - in a bar after midnight but hey, we just had our 18th anny on New Year’s Eve.
447 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:40:17am |
re: #439 William Barnett-Lewis
That reminds me, I was cooking something the other day and wondered if shortening was kosher or not. It certainly is helpful as an alternative to lard. Didn’t see an obvious mark on the Crisco can but that’ only one brand.
Crisco shortening is kosher, most store brands are too.
I only use the Crisco “baking bars” which I keep in the freezer.
448 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:41:30am |
re: #435 The War TARDIS
The article I mentioned.
Doesn’t sound so bad for your side.
At any Muslim marriage event, there are more females attendees than males. The ISNA marriage banquet sold out for the women’s section weeks in advance, while men strolled in at the last minute. Al Rahmah Marriage Bureau in Baltimore has two women for every man in its database. At a local marriage brunch, many of the women attending were born and raised in the US, educated and articulate, while most of the men were first generation immigrants, without large local networks.
Weddings are a great place to meet. Don’t dread the announcements when friends are getting married. Offer to help with the guest list. Or at least to review it for spelling errors or something.
449 | jaunte Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:42:05am |
Women Running for Governor: Three Things to Watch For in 2014 Races
To distract from what really matters — the policies, priorities, and platforms of each candidate — male opponents often strike early with attacks questioning a woman’s integrity. It’s a well-worn strategy.
We saw this happen in Senator Elizabeth Warren’s race against then-Senator Scott Brown in 2012, when he repeatedly questioned her integrity, and we’re already seeing it in State Senator Wendy Davis’s race against Attorney General Greg Abbott in Texas. Watch for more of this tactic in play as the races progress, particularly in man versus woman candidate races.
450 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:43:38am |
re: #446 William Barnett-Lewis
This! I was 30 before I met my wife - in a bar after midnight but hey, we just had our 18th anny on New Year’s Eve.
Thirded. Frustrated with relationships and dating in general, I’d blown off looking for women altogether and then about two months later, I met my wife in a place I wouldn’t really have expected to meet anyone.
Funny where life takes you.
451 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:43:51am |
re: #447 Pie-onist Overlord
Crisco shortening is kosher, most store brands are too.
I only use the Crisco “baking bars” which I keep in the freezer.
Thanks! That’s into to the “good to know just in case” file :)
452 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:44:09am |
And again.
BREAKING: Shooting at Purdue University. http://t.co/MhxUdnWKQf— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) January 21, 2014
453 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:45:46am |
re: #451 William Barnett-Lewis
Thanks! That’s into to the “good to know just in case” file :)
The Crisco shortening in huge tubs is disgusting, unless you make a lot of fried chicken.
454 | The War TARDIS Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:45:49am |
re: #448 wrenchwench
I’ve been invited to exactly one thus far.
Couldn’t go because I was in Colorado at the time, and my parents balked at the flight cost and the cost to get a suit. I was unemployed too then.
So, that is out of the question. And you would think it was easier, but nope. I’ve been told by others that I will have to “settle” for someone as a result of the combo of being Autistic and a Convert.
It’s easy if you are born into the community. Not so much if you converted into it.
455 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:46:44am |
456 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:48:16am |
re: #433 jaunte
Erickson’s really scraping the bottom.
RedState’s Erick Erickson Smears Wendy Davis with Bogus ‘Restraining Order’ Story
Tommy Christopher: “…even a newspaper airing the sexist grievances of an ex-spouse has standards, and would not make the sick suggestion that Wendy Davis was somehow unfit to be around her children based on a Temporary Restraining Order that’s actually >an automatic feature of most divorces involving children.”
I don’t agree with Christopher’s characterization of the Dallas Morning News piece, but he is right about why the newspaper didn’t mention any restraining orders: the kinds of orders mentioned are indeed routine in Texas and the one in Davis’ case was unremarkable.
There’s a case to be made about Wendy Davis fudging bio facts, but that case is already being taken far further than it should by a wingnut hatefest.
457 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:48:17am |
re: #452 lawhawk
And again.
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458 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:48:21am |
re: #449 jaunte
Women Running for Governor: Three Things to Watch For in 2014 Races
Yep. This is just an inevitable part of the misogyny playbook.
Right now the GOP candidates are busy tearing each other apart since they’re having a primary. They need a distraction for the rubes, so going after Wendy Davis it is.
459 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:48:38am |
460 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:49:17am |
re: #458 Lidane
Yep. This is just an inevitable part of the misogyny playbook.
Right now the GOP candidates are busy tearing each other apart since they’re having a primary. They need a distraction for the rubes, so going after Wendy Davis it is.
And the topic of all of it? Davis is a “bad mother” because she was furthering her education rather than staying home and in the kitchen.
461 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:50:01am |
462 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:51:50am |
re: #454 The War TARDIS
I’ve been invited to exactly one thus far.
Couldn’t go because I was in Colorado at the time, and my parents balked at the flight cost and the cost to get a suit. I was unemployed too then.
So, that is out of the question. And you would think it was easier, but nope. I’ve been told by others that I will have to “settle” for someone as a result of the combo of being Autistic and a Convert.
It’s easy if you are born into the community. Not so much if you converted into it.
It was out of the question in the past, not the future. Don’t listen to people who think you will have to ‘settle’. Just concentrate on being the best you that you can. Be extra nice to someone different every day, just to make it a habit. Someone will observe you being nice, and be impressed. Stand up straight. Smile more often.
OK, I’m pulling out the heavy artillery now. Read this. What you read in there only sounds cliche now because for 60 years, every motivational speaker and writer has been ripping him off.
463 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:53:21am |
re: #460 Targetpractice
And the topic of all of it? Davis is a “bad mother” because she was furthering her education rather than staying home and in the kitchen.
Davis furthered her education rather than stay home with the kids. Their father got custody in the divorce because he could offer a more stable home life since she was busy with school and getting herself established. She was fine with that and even willingly paid child support and kept to the terms of the custody arrangement. So naturally, that makes her a bad mother.
HOWEVER, if she’d just stayed a single mom and had never gone to college and never done anything except wait tables, she’d be a moocher leeching off the system that doesn’t understand the value of education and hard work.
The GOP, as usual, are completely fucked up when it comes to women.
464 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:53:36am |
re: #457 Targetpractice
It’s too early to talk guns re: Purdue, but I can talk about Virginia Tech all I want. /half
465 | Dr. Matt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:55:37am |
Breaking: Shooting at Purdue University….
Nevermind…..ya’ll beat me to it,….
466 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:56:05am |
re: #463 Lidane
Davis furthered her education rather than stay home with the kids. Their father got custody in the divorce because he could offer a more stable home life since she was busy with school and getting herself established. She was fine with that and even willingly paid child support and kept to the terms of the custody arrangement. So naturally, that makes her a bad mother.
HOWEVER, if she’d just stayed a single mom and had never gone to college and never done anything except wait tables, she’d be a moocher leeching off the system that doesn’t understand the value of education and hard work.
The GOP, as usual, are completely fucked up when it comes to women.
What they won’t say aloud is that she was wrong (in their minds) for seeking an education in the first place, that once kids are in the household, a woman is supposed to abandon all ideas of seeking out education or employment and devotes themselves entirely to those kids. That a “good mother” would have made the marriage work “for the children,” giving up foolish ideas of making something of herself.
467 | PhillyPretzel Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:57:05am |
From yahoo: news.yahoo.com
Purdue University Shooting
468 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 9:58:41am |
re: #466 Targetpractice
What they won’t say aloud is that she was wrong (in their minds) for seeking an education in the first place, that once kids are in the household, a woman is supposed to abandon all ideas of seeking out education or employment and devotes themselves entirely to those kids. That a “good mother” would have made the marriage work “for the children,” giving up foolish ideas of making something of herself.
Some of them will proceed that far, because they have no awareness of how they sound to women.
469 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:00:04am |
re: #466 Targetpractice
What they won’t say aloud is that she was wrong (in their minds) for seeking an education in the first place, that once kids are in the household, a woman is supposed to abandon all ideas of seeking out education or employment and devotes themselves entirely to those kids. That a “good mother” would have made the marriage work “for the children,” giving up foolish ideas of making something of herself.
Pretty much, yeah. That’s why I say they’re a fucked up party when it comes to women.
Just the fact that she went to college at all is a sticking point for many of them, especially since she didn’t even get that idea until after she was a mother. Heaven forbid a woman want an education to be able to better provide for herself and her kids. She should just stay home and pump out babies and let the big strong man take care of everything.
Of course, they’d also get pissed at her if something happened to that guy and she ended up poor and homeless and without any education or means to support her family. She couldn’t win no matter what.
470 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:01:34am |
re: #469 Lidane
Pretty much, yeah. That’s why I say they’re a fucked up party when it comes to women.
Just the fact that she went to college at all is a sticking point for many of them, especially since she didn’t even get that idea until after she was a mother. Heaven forbid a woman want an education to be able to better provide for herself and her kids. She should just stay home and pump out babies and let the big strong man take care of everything.
Of course, they’d also get pissed at her if something happened to that guy and she ended up poor and homeless and without any education or means to support her family. She couldn’t win no matter what.
You make that last paragraph sound like a liability in their approach.
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471 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:02:09am |
re: #466 Targetpractice
What they won’t say aloud is that she was wrong (in their minds) for seeking an education in the first place, that once kids are in the household, a woman is supposed to abandon all ideas of seeking out education or employment and devotes themselves entirely to those kids. That a “good mother” would have made the marriage work “for the children,” giving up foolish ideas of making something of herself.
That’s so wrong. I finished up my degree after I already had 6 kids. My daughter did the same thing, except that she got a Master’s degree.
472 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:02:48am |
re: #470 Feline Fearless Leader
You make that last paragraph sound like a liability in their approach.
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It sounds perfectly reasonable to real men. After all, they’re the only ones that matter.
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473 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:05:52am |
re: #472 Lidane
It sounds perfectly reasonable to real men. After all, they’re the only ones that matter.
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Horrible viewpoint for a society. Just waste half of your brainpower and creativity right out of the gate.
474 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:06:52am |
FReep is at it again. They keep spamming this shit all day long.
Which of these is the “Girly-man”? #TCOT #teaparty #p2 #GOP #tlot #ccot #nra #2A #ocra #lnyhbt pic.twitter.com/sAOnSEEj9L— Free Republic (@FreeRepublicUSA) January 21, 2014
So you think Vlad Putin is the hottest manly man alive @FreeRepublicUSA #UniteBlue #lnyhbt #tcot #teaparty #p2 pic.twitter.com/EgPL9xwm76— Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) January 21, 2014
475 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:07:02am |
re: #281 Dark_Falcon
So their support for Communist insurgencies is Latin America was what, exactly? Because it sure as hell was a lot more than lip service.
I suspect that had more to do with hoping America would get its prick caught in the wringer than any hope of ‘expanding Communism’. Also it’s good strategy to keep your opponent’s attention divided, as we did to them.
That sort of minor shit is hardly comparable to an attack through Fulda Gap.
476 | Single-handed sailor Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:08:00am |
re: #17 Single-handed sailor
Gah, when I went to bed last night I immediately realized I screwed up the dimensions of that tube I crawled though. It was 1.5 x 2 feet in diameter which is 46 x 61 CM, not 200 x 150 CM (because that would be pretty damn big and easy). I am so ashamed to have screwed up a simple conversion in my head. Dumb, dumb, dumb!
/simple maths is hard, dammit.
477 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:08:33am |
re: #473 Feline Fearless Leader
Horrible viewpoint for a society. Just waste half of your brainpower and creativity right out of the gate.
Social conservatism in a nutshell. Women don’t matter except as baby machines, and that’s only if they’re married and stay home and let The Man provide. Getting an education or a job or some way to support yourself independently is something only Teh Ebil Feminazis would encourage.
478 | erik_t Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:09:20am |
Of all the mystifying shit that has cropped up on the right wing, and a LOT of mystifying shit has cropped up on the right wing, NOTHING compares to the enthusiastic embrace of the fucking ex-KGB fucking President of fucking Russia.
It just blows my mind. I have to keep reminding myself it’s actually real, not some sort of crazed fever dream.
479 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:10:00am |
re: #474 Pie-onist Overlord
FReep is at it again. They keep spamming this shit all day long.
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Obama is the smart man because he wears a helmet. Concussions are not fun.
480 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:10:04am |
re: #475 Romantic Heretic
I suspect that had more to do with hoping America would get its prick caught in the wringer than any hope of ‘expanding Communism’. Also it’s good strategy to keep your opponent’s attention divided, as we did to them.
That sort of minor shit is hardly comparable to an attack through Fulda Gap.
The more time & money wasted on the Contras & Iranians, the less we can do in Europe. The Sandinistas weren’t perfect but they have a democratic legacy better than the Samosas left behind them.
481 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:10:57am |
re: #477 Lidane
Social conservatism in a nutshell. Women don’t matter except as baby machines, and that’s only if they’re married and stay home and let The Man provide. Getting an education or a job or some way to support yourself independently is something only Teh Ebil Feminazis would encourage.
Oh, some are okay with women in the workplace, but only in jobs where they don’t compete with men, don’t expect to get paid the same as men, and in general do not make men feel inadequate. Basically they look at Mad Men and think “That’s the way things should be!”
482 | Dr Lizardo Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:12:24am |
re: #478 erik_t
Of all the mystifying shit that has cropped up on the right wing, and a LOT of mystifying shit has cropped up on the right wing, NOTHING compares to the enthusiastic embrace of the fucking ex-KGB fucking President of fucking Russia.
It just blows my mind. I have to keep reminding myself it’s actually real, not some sort of crazed fever dream.
It’s the RWNJ’s love of an authoritarian leader - RWNJ’s yearn to be dominated - combined with a thinly-veiled homoeroticism (at least for the male contingent of the RWNJ’s) that goes back to my point about yearning to be dominated.
483 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:12:30am |
re: #474 Pie-onist Overlord
FReep is at it again. They keep spamming this shit all day long.
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Funny, the last guy in office also rode bikes while wearing helmets, but I can’t remember them looking at him and accusing him of being a girly-man.
484 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:12:57am |
re: #479 Dark_Falcon
Obama is the smart man because he wears a helmet. Concussions are not fun.
Also, when you ride a horse, the horse does the work. When you ride a bike, you’re hauling your own weight around under your own power.
485 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:14:32am |
re: #469 Lidane
Pretty much, yeah. That’s why I say they’re a fucked up party when it comes to women.
Just the fact that she went to college at all is a sticking point for many of them, especially since she didn’t even get that idea until after she was a mother. Heaven forbid a woman want an education to be able to better provide for herself and her kids. She should just stay home and pump out babies and let the big strong man take care of everything.
Of course, they’d also get pissed at her if something happened to that guy and she ended up poor and homeless and without any education or means to support her family. She couldn’t win no matter what.
Add in some more circular logic to the whole thing.
They call her abortion Barbie, they get on her for “abandoning” her kids, yet she didn’t get any abortions, had the kids and then did what she and her ex had to do to make a go of it. And again, they call her abortion Barbie because she is standing up for other women.
The circle, it just goes around and around.
486 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:14:59am |
re: #483 Targetpractice
Funny, the last guy in office also rode bikes while wearing helmets, but I can’t remember them looking at him and accusing him of being a girly-man.
RWNJs don’t talk about that guy. He wasn’t a real conservative. Putin is.
487 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:15:25am |
re: #480 William Barnett-Lewis
The more time & money wasted on the Contras & Iranians, the less we can do in Europe. The Sandinistas weren’t perfect but they have a democratic legacy better than the Samosas left behind them.
We did plenty enough in Nicaragua, and the Improved TOW missiles and M113 parts we sold Iran cost less than the Iraqi T-72s Iranian I-TOW-armed M113s destroyed. We came out money and resources ahead on that exchange.
Of course, as you’ve pointed out, we were helped by the T-72’s bad ammunition storage system as well as the weak armor of the T-72M. The latter prompted the Soviets to supply Iraq with the T-72M1, which had forward armor able to survive frontal hits by I-TOW. But by 1991, the US had moved on to TOW-2, against which the T-72M1’s armor came up short.
488 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:16:42am |
re: #486 Lidane
RWNJs don’t talk about that guy. He wasn’t a real conservative. Putin is.
Yep, it’s why they like to venerate Ronaldus Magnus, the movie star who rode horses in front of cameras, and not Ronald Reagan, the guy who raised taxes 11 times and grew the government to a size that would make a wingnut’s head explode.
489 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:17:56am |
re: #484 wrenchwench
Also, when you ride a horse, the horse does the work. When you ride a bike, you’re hauling your own weight around under your own power.
Either way, a helmet is a smart idea. Of course, said wingnuts would just love for Barack Obama to get a concussion so they could say it had “rendered him unfit to lead”.
490 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:18:15am |
Just what we need an OIL TRAIN CAR dangling over a river pic.twitter.com/fet5BYFiku #UniteBlue— NaphiSoc (@NaphiSoc) January 21, 2014
491 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:18:40am |
re: #487 Dark_Falcon
One of my grad school friends is from Nicaragua. She’s not exactly complimentary of all the “plenty enough” we did over there.
492 | Targetpractice Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:18:42am |
493 | Kragar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:18:51am |
494 | PhillyPretzel Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:19:43am |
re: #490 Pie-onist Overlord
And in Philly too no less. :(
495 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:20:10am |
re: #383 lawhawk
Got to see the Croaker and Nautilus in New London CT way back when. Toured the Croaker and saw the Nautilus at distance. Being on the Croaker (a WWII boat) was like being in a sardine can, maybe worse.
You should try the inside of a Type VII U-Boat.
496 | Kragar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:21:33am |
re: #495 Romantic Heretic
You should try the inside of a Type VII U-Boat.
My grand uncle was a submariner in the Pacific during WWII.
497 | blueraven Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:21:53am |
re: #479 Dark_Falcon
Obama is the smart man because he wears a helmet. Concussions are not fun.
Obama also has two daughters. Parents are role models. Who knew?
498 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:22:25am |
re: #495 Romantic Heretic
You should try the inside of a Type VII U-Boat.
Indeed. The Type IX was luxery liner compared to the Type VII. However, many German submariners actually preferred the Type VII due to its faster dive time. Fast diving was critical to escaping air attacks.
499 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:23:08am |
re: #489 Dark_Falcon
Either way, a helmet is a smart idea. Of course, said wingnuts would just love for Barack Obama to get a concussion so they could say it had “rendered him unfit to lead”.
Jeez Dark, they say he is unfit for office now, Where you been?
500 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:23:45am |
It will undoubtedly come as a shock to everyone to learn that @glennbeck is a monumental hypocrite: http://t.co/Y8p9cNErwK— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) January 21, 2014
501 | Kragar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:24:55am |
Michigan GOP Official: 'Herd All the Indians' to Detroit, Build a Fence and Throw in Corn http://t.co/4gvIbKSAPG— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 21, 2014
502 | William Barnett-Lewis Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:26:20am |
re: #495 Romantic Heretic
You should try the inside of a Type VII U-Boat.
I don’t think there are any Type VII’s for touring. The U-505 is a IXC and that’s bigger than the VII series, though drastically smaller than the US fleet boats.
503 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:27:08am |
re: #481 Targetpractice
Oh, some are okay with women in the workplace, but only in jobs where they don’t compete with men, don’t expect to get paid the same as men, and in general do not make men feel inadequate. Basically they look at Mad Men and think “That’s the way things should be!”
Those women are office decor that bring you coffee and are delighted to do your personal shopping/errands during lunch hour…
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504 | GunstarGreen Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:27:30am |
re: #474 Pie-onist Overlord
FReep is at it again. They keep spamming this shit all day long.
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See, it’s funny because in (American) biker communities, there are a lot of “big tough manly man” types that like to make fun of the riders that wear proper armor, while they go around wearing nothing but vests and jeans and a halfshell, if even that.
And they make fun right up until they’re sliding along the asphalt at 50+ MPH, and it goes from ‘manly’ to ‘excruciatingly painful’.
re: #464 lawhawk
It’s too early to talk guns re: Purdue, but I can talk about Virginia Tech all I want. /half
There’s really nothing to talk about RE: gunz at this point. Guns don’t cause violence, but they do make violence on a mass scale trivial to perpetrate. People do with that fact what they will.
505 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:28:39am |
Hannity threatens to leave New York over Cuomo's remarks on “extreme conservatives” http://t.co/XbKTMzYU6E— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) January 21, 2014
Beck threatening to renounce his American citizenship, Hannity threatening to leave New York… this is hilarious.
506 | Pie-onist Overlord Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:29:32am |
re: #505 Lidane
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Beck threatening to renounce his American citizenship, Hannity threatening to leave New York… this is hilarious.
Threat or promise?
507 | The Ghost of a Flea Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:29:33am |
re: #500 Lidane
Glenn Beck and his buddy Pastor Hagee.
Of “God sent Hitler to get the Jews back to Israel” and “If you don’t like ‘Christian’ primacy in the US, you should leave”
508 | GunstarGreen Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:30:02am |
re: #505 Lidane
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Beck threatening to renounce his American citizenship, Hannity threatening to leave New York… this is hilarious.
Still waiting on that “Dead or In Jail” guy.
Republicans have this curious habit of saying a lot of crap that they never actually do when push comes to shove.
509 | Kragar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:30:44am |
re: #505 Lidane
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Beck threatening to renounce his American citizenship, Hannity threatening to leave New York… this is hilarious.
Quomo should offer a police escort to Hannity so he can get out faster.
510 | Lidane Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:31:02am |
re: #506 Pie-onist Overlord
Threat or promise?
Just threats for now. None of them have the balls to actually follow through.
511 | Backwoods_Sleuth Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:31:29am |
arrrrrrrrggggggggg……
Kentucky Republican wants to redefine abortion as domestic violence | The Raw Story http://t.co/eQFpJQ3iwY WTFMoments #tcot
— Marcy McGowan (@marcylauren) January 21, 2014
512 | ObserverArt Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:31:44am |
re: #505 Lidane
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Beck threatening to renounce his American citizenship, Hannity threatening to leave New York… this is hilarious.
Do it…Do it…Do it!
513 | Dark_Falcon Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:32:01am |
re: #499 ObserverArt
Jeez Dark, they say he is unfit for office now, Where you been?
Of course they do, but they’d enjoy a new angle of attack as well as the chance to “use Obama’s attack on pro-football against him”.
514 | First As Tragedy, Then As Farce Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:32:16am |
re: #501 Kragar
You really have to hand it to these guys. They have made parody completely futile. They all sound like a cross between Eric Cartman and Grampa Simpson.
515 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:35:19am |
re: #510 Lidane
Just threats for now. None of them have the balls to actually follow through.
Limbaugh left New York.
516 | lawhawk Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:36:32am |
re: #505 Lidane
Wonkette has diagnosed the problem as butthurt.
Mind you, that if Hannity does leave, he’s going to probably sell his place at a considerable profit because the liberal bastion of NYC has real estate prices that are obscene and if you’ve bought property years back, you can make a very sizeable profit. Hannity should thank Cuomo for the opportunity to sell into a strong market.
That is, if he ever does actually move.
Hannity, like other bloviation experts, talk much, but act very little. He gets paid either way.
517 | Romantic Heretic Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:36:44am |
re: #467 PhillyPretzel
From yahoo: news.yahoo.com
Purdue University Shooting
Another human sacrifice for the religion known as America.
518 | Justanotherhuman Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:37:08am |
re: #505 Lidane
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Beck threatening to renounce his American citizenship, Hannity threatening to leave New York… this is hilarious.
Byyyeeee! Don’t let the door, etc.
520 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:39:11am |
re: #500 Lidane
Is it just me or is GB aging quickly?
521 | Feline Fearless Leader Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:39:23am |
re: #494 PhillyPretzel
And in Philly too no less. :(
I drove by that on I-76 yesterday. Two derailed cars right there on the bridge with a crane working on them. Would have loved to snap a picture, but traffic n’at were involved.
522 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:39:24am |
re: #519 Bear
Did he not also leave California?
Don’t know, wasn’t paying attention for most of his career. I wonder when he’ll feel he has to leave Florida? And then where will he go?
523 | Eclectic Cyborg Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:39:52am |
re: #511 Backwoods_Sleuth
Wow…Good luck with that, Kentucky.
524 | wrenchwench Tue, Jan 21, 2014 10:40:55am |
Got this on the next thread, but it belongs here.
Frank says:
The first hyphen in MAH-JUH-REEN could be used for erotic gratification by a very desparate stenographer. — Sydney australia, 1974, second night. on Mystery box III
525 | darthstar Tue, Jan 21, 2014 11:03:02am |
re: #490 Pie-onist Overlord
I don’t see anyone with a red cape flying in to pick that up. WTF?
526 | Decatur Deb Tue, Jan 21, 2014 11:04:47am |
re: #376 Pie-onist Overlord
HURR HURR!!!1!!! DERP DERP
Will the Obama administration take action against NSA/Pentagon officials promoting idea of killing Edward Snowden?
All servicemembers E5 and above named “Anonymous” have been placed on shit-burning detail.