Volume 3 of Bob Schneider’s King Kong Suite has just been released, and here’s the first official video from it, with a song about money and the lies that grease the wheels.
Directed by Bob Schneider
John Ginty - Keyboards
Billy Harvey - Guitar & backing vocals
Dave Monsey - Bass
Another freedom lover exercising his 2nd Amendment right?
SUSPECT WOUNDED IN SHOOTOUT WITH POLICE AT SHOPPING CENTER
A gunman who was randomly firing a semi-automatic rifle in the parking lot of a northeastern Pennsylvania shopping center in the middle of the day Saturday provoked a shootout with police that left him with two bullet wounds, but did not harm anyone else, state police said.
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Doctor Who starts in 2 hours. But I have a question this time.
FYI there’s a yuuuuuge Gator game starting right now. Beat LSU!
Typhoon Koppu strengthened significantly over night and is now a major event in the Philippines: Image: wp2415.gif
I’m sitting out on the patio enjoying this gorgeous evening with a glass of wine awaiting my dinner guests. House is clean, food is cooked and ready for final prep. I fixed Caesar salad, Chicken Mozzerella Pasta with sun-dried tomatoes, and Parmesan garlic bread. Blackberry sundaes for dessert. Keeping it simple. :)
You don’t say….
Cruz Says Trump Campaign `Immensely Beneficial’ to His Run
Donald Trump’s run for the White House has been “immensely beneficial for our campaign,” by clarifying the type of candidate primary voters want, Texas Senator Ted Cruz, another Republican presidential hopeful, said in an interview taped for NBC News’ “Meet the Press.”
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So I may have just splurged on a new toy for my birthday. I bought myself an entry-level quadcopter from Amazon. I’m not sure yet if I’m going to get addicted to it or if it’s going to sit in a closet gathering dust, especially with the winter months coming. Although flying outside on a cold, calm winter day could be a spectacular experience.
re: #9 thedopefishlives
Speaking of “toys” my weather station is almost finished its learning mode and it seems to be on track as to the weather.
re: #10 PhillyPretzel
Speaking of “toys” my weather station is almost finished its learning mode and it seems to be on track as to the weather.
I’ve always been fascinated with flight and flying. I want to eventually get my pilot’s license. I’ve also had an interest in R/C flying machines, and a simple cheap quadcopter with onboard video seemed like a great place to start. As long as it delivers on its advertised reliability and simplicity, I’m sure I’ll be happy.
My new electronic “toy” arrived today.
A blood pressure monitor.
The cats are not amused, they expected a robot mouse.
re: #14 Charles Johnson
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Jupiter looks delicious. http://t.co/AfGa1uJkba @NASA_Hubble pic.twitter.com/05TnBjTdZS
— Chris Hadfield (@Cmdr_Hadfield) October 17, 2015
re: #14 Charles Johnson
The Solar System is such a beautiful place. It’d be incredible to get to explore some of these places in even greater detail.
re: #15 Great White Snark
Anyone? What is that guitar? Such a smooth understated kind of sound. Or is that all about set up?
That’s a Fender Jaguar.
Gonna stink up my house with my roasted Brussels sprouts
I’m singing that to a tune.
A few days ago the Washington Post published a sickening hagiography of David Daleiden.
Meet the millennial who infiltrated the guarded world of abortion providers http://t.co/VsPgKVWRQi
— Sandhya Somashekhar (@sandhyawp) October 14, 2015
Daleiden often says he likes the abortion providers he met. He calls Deborah Nucatola, the Planned Parenthood medical director whose casual comments about abortion procedures were his first big get, a “friend.” (It is unlikely she feels any reciprocal warmth, considering that the National Abortion Federation says she has been the subject of online death threats. Nucatola declined to comment through a Planned Parenthood spokeswoman.)
At other times, Daleiden’s disdain for his targets is palpable. Asked by conservative talk-show host Glenn Beck whether he had ever encountered “evil,” Daleiden described a discussion with one of the few doctors in the United States who perform abortions in the third trimester.
“She wasn’t suspicious of my character. Everything was going well,” he told Beck. “We were talking and kind of joking, laughing about something. And all of a sudden she looked straight in my eyes, and I saw almost a flash of light go from one eye to the other . . . and all of a sudden her eyes looked hard and mean and aggressive, and for the first time in this entire project, I felt actually afraid.”
“On some level,” he continued, “we feel like that was the predator look or predator instinct that you see in someone who is accustomed to killing people.”
Your liberal media at work, folks.
Whee! Got the notice from Amazon that my guitar has shipped. Should be here by 8:00 PM Monday. I’ll probably be up late Monday night :D
re: #21 teleskiguy
A phrase from the grandmother’s era: “[insert person] makes my ass tired.”
I get that feeling often these days with what’s left of the old establishments that once did journalism. Frankly, a lot of writers for the Post make my ass tired.
re: #22 William Lewis
What flavor guitar did you get?
re: #21 teleskiguy
A few days ago the Washington Post published a sickening hagiography of David Daleiden.
I saw this when it came out - just absolutely gross. It disgusted me so much I had to go look up what Sandhya Somashekhar had written previously, and she specializes in these glossy puff pieces about religious right conservatives.
I’m appalled that she could write this awful piece about David Daleiden and not even mention once that Planned Parenthood has been found innocent of any wrongdoing in at least seven state investigations.
This one was really bad.
One person who has made my ass tired for a long time is Ruben Navarrette, of the The Washington Post Writers Group. Here he is again, using lots of words that have no real there there:
re: #26 Charles Johnson
I saw this when it came out - just absolutely gross. It disgusted me so much I had to go look up what Sandhya Somashekhar had written previously, and she specializes in these glossy puff pieces about religious right conservatives.
I’m appalled that she could write this awful piece about David Daleiden and not even mention once that Planned Parenthood has been found innocent of any wrongdoing in at least seven state investigations.
This one was really bad.
Of course, you know that was done intentionally, right? Conveniently leaving out important information is the basis of biased journalism. It’s how the religious right enforces their info-bubble without technically opening themselves up to accusations of dishonesty; they never lie, per se, they only don’t tell the whole truth.
re: #27 freetoken
One person who has made my ass tired for a long time is Ruben Navarrette, of the The Washington Post Writers Group. Here he is again, using lots of words that have no real there there:
For a few minutes he was cool about immigration. Maybe 4 years ago. I haven’t read him since.
re: #28 thedopefishlives
Of course, you know that was done intentionally, right? Conveniently leaving out important information is the basis of biased journalism. It’s how the religious right enforces their info-bubble without technically opening themselves up to accusations of dishonesty; they never lie, per se, they only don’t tell the whole truth.
Doubt those folks read WaPo. But yeah, get your point.
re: #31 Charles Johnson
Check out Greg Kurstin’s awesome collection of vintage synthesizers in this great video.
OK: serious question: what the H is up with what appears to be ski gear that the Mets and Cubs are wearing in the NLCS? I know it’s a bit on the cool side out, but I’ve never seen MLB players bundled up in balaclavas like a Winter Olympics slalom crew. What will they wear if it’s chilly in Chicago? Parkas?
PS: Let’s Go Mets!!!!
re: #21 teleskiguy
Aw, but he’s such a CUTE religious extremist!
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re: #30 Stanley Sea Toujours
Doubt those folks read WaPo. But yeah, get your point.
You’re probably right, but it illustrates the technique.
re: #30 Stanley Sea Toujours
Doubt those folks read WaPo. But yeah, get your point.
If they do, it’s only in bits that they can quote, preceded by ‘Even the Liberal Washington Post says…”
re: #27 freetoken
Yeah. He’ll bitch that Obama never admits when he’s wrong, right up until he does, then he’ll attack Obama for being weak and apologetic.
Ron Dermer: Adelson is the Montefiore and Rothchild of our generation
— Nathan Guttman (@nathanguttman) October 18, 2015
Uh huh.
(BTW: Rod Dermer is Israel’s ambassador to the US. He has a long record of deep involvement in GOP politics, going back to working alongside Frank Luntz in support of Newt Gingrich during the 90s. He is, of course, a friend of Sheldon Adelson. )
re: #39 bratwurst
He sounds like he would really get along with Bibi. /half
re: #9 thedopefishlives
So I may have just splurged on a new toy for my birthday. I bought myself an entry-level quadcopter from Amazon. I’m not sure yet if I’m going to get addicted to it or if it’s going to sit in a closet gathering dust, especially with the winter months coming. Although flying outside on a cold, calm winter day could be a spectacular experience.
Which one did you get?
I’ve been window shopping to get one for MrBWS for Xmas or his birthday.
re: #40 PhillyPretzel
He sounds like he would really get along with Bibi. /half
And you just KNOW it would be totally ok if the US sent an ambassador to Israeli who had a significant history of working with Labor politicians there.
re: #41 Backwoods_Sleuth
Which one did you get?
I’ve been window shopping to get one for MrBWS for Xmas or his birthday.
It’s a UDI U818A. I got one of the more advanced models that has an automatic return-to-home function; I have no idea if that will actually be useful or not. The reviews almost universally said that the U818A series are durable and easy to fly for first-timers. As long as you’re not expecting a flying GoPro camera out of it, they’re good performers for the price, albeit a bit short on flight time.
Former mistress of GOPer David Vitter claims he got her pregnant and asked her to abort
Family values on display.
re: #39 bratwurst
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(BTW: Rod Dermer is Israel’s ambassador to the US. He has a long record of deep involvement in GOP politics, going back to working alongside Frank Luntz in support of Newt Gingrich during the 90s. He is, of course, a friend of Sheldon Adelson. )
Two hugely mistaken theses being advanced by Amb. Dermer here, I think:
1. That anyone reading this is going to assume that Sheldon Adelson is anything but a BIG Republican sugar-daddy, and that encomiums like this are anything but a lame suckup.
2. That anyone is going to even know who he’s referring to with “Montefiore” and “Rothchild”(sic). Or how pathetic comparing Adelson to those dudes really is.
Who is the REAL progressive in the presidential race, via @ClickHole pic.twitter.com/PhcWfBQdi2
— Byron Tau (@ByronTau) October 17, 2015
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We don’t need a special occasion to wear masks and disrupt the system. pic.twitter.com/X0Z7VQ7EVo
— Emergency Raccoon (@anarcharaccoon) October 16, 2015
Greetings from the central Texas countryside, where obsessed rifleman next door has finally packed it in after six hours of target practice. Now it’s coyote time.
re: #43 thedopefishlives
It’s a UDI U818A. I got one of the more advanced models that has an automatic return-to-home function; I have no idea if that will actually be useful or not. The reviews almost universally said that the U818A series are durable and easy to fly for first-timers. As long as you’re not expecting a flying GoPro camera out of it, they’re good performers for the price, albeit a bit short on flight time.
I’m looking at that one and the Syma offerings.
Please share a review with me when you get a chance.
re: #48 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m looking at that one and the Syma offerings.
Please share a review with me when you get a chance.
It’ll be in next week. I will be sure to fly it and post a review (plus any good footage I might capture).
re: #46 Jenner7
Republican Lite? Has your friend SEEN the Republicans? Their’s a broad, empty space between Hillary and even the most sane of the Republican pack! Sometimes my brother gets like that, and all I can do is roll my eyes and remind him that if people hadn’t wasted their votes on Ralph Nader, we probably wouldn’t have invaded Iraq.
Joe Biden Courts Firefighters Union With 2016 Decision Expected
Vice President Joe Biden has the “very likely” support of the nation’s largest union of firefighters should he decide to enter the 2016 presidential race, a top union official tells ABC News.
Biden placed a personal call to Harold Schaitberger, president of the International Association of Firefighters, early Friday morning to discuss his potential candidacy and a strategy to win, Schaitberger said.
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I thought Joe was intimidated by the performance of Hillary and Bernie?
re: #25 Scott Candage
What flavor guitar did you get?
Epiphone Casino Coupe - Es339 sized fully hollow body electric.
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re: #47 jaunte
Quick
Call the cops! There is a bandit at the pumpkin!!
I’ve been working for months on a detective novel about the murder of an obese chef and all I’ve come up with so far is that the butter did it.
re: #59 De Kolta Chair
I’ve been working for months on a detective novel about the murder of an obese chef and all I’ve come up with so far is that the butter did it.
*WHACK!*
re: #51 freetoken
The IAFF endorsed Chris Dodd in the 2008 Democratic primary, so it has a rather odd way of assessing political viability.
Seriously, this is the last gasp of the Draft Biden movement, especially since their Super PAC blew its third quarter FEC filing deadline. I hope they fail, but the misogyny on parade against Hillary just might be enough to let it succeed in dragging an emotionally compromised man into a kamikaze run.
Chuck C. Johnson lashes out. Notice that he obviously has a Twitter account. pic.twitter.com/yRYEfaF73z
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2015
re: #45 Jay C
2. That anyone is going to even know who he’s referring to with “Montefiore” and “Rothchild”(sic). Or how pathetic comparing Adelson to those dudes really is.
Anti-semites probably know who they are, and feel that Dermer confirmed their conspiracy theories with that statement. The Rothschilds are a mainstay of anti-Semitic cranks.
(Not that the opinions of anti-Semitic cranks matter.)
re: #57 Charles Johnson
Henry Mancini would be proud.
re: #63 Charles Johnson
Which I am sure Twitter would be very, very interested to discover. I wonder if that’s “I am not Chuck Johnson” account we discussed a few days ago? The one you said you believed was run by weev? Is there any chance Chuck could’ve been splitting time with weev on that account?
it would be a very american thing if what finally turned the tide against carry laws was dog deaths http://t.co/SIBKAoke0I
— major tom (@cd_hooks) October 18, 2015
Just finished the “Lawsplainer” article…. This may be the quote of the year… If you find yourself testifying under oath about not having defecated on a floor — publicly or privately — something has gone terribly wrong in your life.
Walking away shaking my head and chuckling.
RBS
re: #69 Reality Based Steve
Just finished the “Lawsplainer” article…. This may be the quote of the year… If you find yourself testifying under oath about not having defecated on a floor — publicly or privately — something has gone terribly wrong in your life.
Walking away shaking my head and chuckling.
RBS
That was my favorite quote, too. I mentioned that upstairs. Absolutely had me dying laughing.
#3 on my bucket list: convince Vanessa Redgrave to star in a detective series.
By the way, on the Lawsplainer article - I didn’t know that our favorite punching bag had contemplated running for Congress. Nevertheless, I was amused by the author’s footnote on this topic:
Pretty sure the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives has… rules.
Comedy gold.
What kind of kills me about Chuck is how he’s immune to learning from his mistakes. He got suspended from Twitter three times for doxing and was allowed back on promises that he wouldn’t do it again before they made the ban permanent. He blew through so many well placed connections, Dershowitz, Brietbart, internships at the WSJ, the Daily Caller gig. Any person with an ounce of self control could have turned that into a permanent ticket on the wingnut welfare gravy train. But behind the scenes he kept pushing shit too far, alienating his erstwhile allies just enough that they could no longer work with him.
Throughout this process he steadily and progressively self radicalized, to the point where the only person who agreed to go into business with him was the birther Joel S. Gilbert, who bought GotNews and gave it to Chuck on the condition that Chuck would promote Gilbert’s insane books and theories. Gilbert was initially listed as the official contact for GotNews and as the corporation’s registered agent in the California Secretary of State database.
So here he is now, alienated and isolated from basically everyone except the absolute worst of the openly racist, alt-right chan trolls like Andrew Auernheimer, who in reality are only using Chuck ironically as a kind of perverse mascot for their brand of shitlord anti-politics. How can a person not learn from that. How does one keep doubling down, suing Gawker, and threatening to sue everyone else while exhibiting absolutely zero capacity for introspection?
If you’re suing somebody and you have to deny you’ve had sex with a sheep, you’ve already lost http://t.co/BUsuz24Rc3
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2015
re: #66 thedopefishlives
Which I am sure Twitter would be very, very interested to discover. I wonder if that’s “I am not Chuck Johnson” account we discussed a few days ago? The one you said you believed was run by weev? Is there any chance Chuck could’ve been splitting time with weev on that account?
It’s a widely shared account. By it’s very nature it’s designed to give cover to Chuck and provide his voice if not him personally with a kind of deniable access to twitter. Twitter should have shut it down days ago.
The only useful thing about it I’ve found is using it’s followers as a block list while it’s still up. Every day I go in and add the new ones.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
So here he is now, alienated and isolated from basically everyone except the absolute worst of the openly racist, alt-right chan trolls like Andrew Auernheimer, who in reality are only using Chuck ironically as a kind of perverse mascot for their brand of shitlord anti-politics. How can a person not learn from that. How does one keep doubling down, suing Gawker, and threatening to sue everyone else while exhibiting absolutely zero capacity for introspection?
One word: sociopathy.
re: #77 goddamnedfrank
The only useful thing about it I’ve found is using it’s followers as a block list while it’s still up. Every day I go in and add the new ones.
It’s basically like a honeytrap for idiots. Bloody brilliant.
Sooner or later, Chuck won’t be able to help himself and start tweeting again.
re: #80 Eclectic Cyborg
Sooner or later, Chuck won’t be able to help himself and start tweeting again.
He has absolutely no self-control whatsoever. That boy just can’t help himself. He’ll be back, he’ll get banned again, and that’ll just set up another epic whinefest as he drinks himself into a stupor for a couple of days.
I also go in every day or two and block anybody who has Tweeted out one of those reinstate me pleas from his website. Anybody who thinks that asshole should be let back can’t possibly post anything interesting I need to see.
I just painted our kitchen…black.
Baby Seal Black, to be precise…and it looks pretty damn good.
re: #84 darthstar
That looks very attractive. Well done.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
The thing about Chuck’s allegedly high IQ - someone with a high IQ would learn from their mistakes and do something different next time. Hell, someone with average intelligence would do that.
Of course, you know what they say about someone who does the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
re: #84 darthstar
I just painted our kitchen…black.
Baby Seal Black, to be precise…and it looks pretty damn good.
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IMO, given the lighting and the other colors it works very well.
re: #86 KingKenrod
The thing about Chuck’s allegedly high IQ - someone with a high IQ would learn from their mistakes and do something different next time. Hell, someone with average intelligence would do that.
Of course, you know what they say about someone who does the same thing over and over expecting a different result.
Such a person may be called ‘insane’.
re: #86 KingKenrod
I guess Chuck is just full of shit. (Insert floor joke here)
re: #85 thedopefishlives
That looks very attractive. Well done.
My wife’s idea…she’s so fucking happy I’m really glad I went along with her. I did pick the shade of black (based solely on its name). One more coat tomorrow when I have more energy and can pay attention to the edging. Kitchens are a bitch to paint because there’s so much shit on the counters and window sills…food, spices, utensils, gift cards, photos, bulbs of garlic, recipe boxes…the list goes on…
Prominent Republicans are condemning GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump for suggesting that former President George W. Bush is partly to blame for the 9/11 terrorist attacks that happened during his administration.
bwahaha fools dont you know that feeding the trump only makes him stronger???
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
Weirdly, I don’t think Chuck is actually stands out from his peers in the “learn nothing” standard deviation: he’s 1 sigma past the Breitbart crew. All of them have in common a vanity that renders the usual contrast of idealism vs cynicism meaningless: admitting ignorance is never part of the program. What make him stand out is that he’s really fucking bad at the skills that keep successful wingnuts buoyed. He has no charisma, is bad at bluffing and misdirection, and doesn’t know how to hide a lie among truths.
The joke is that his incompetence comes across as a kind of honest zeal amongst absolute shit-munchers like the white supremacists.
re: #87 Dark_Falcon
IMO, given the lighting and the other colors it works very well.
Did I ask for your fucking opinion? Thank you, yes…it does work well…despite my reservations. (first question is obviously snark…I love you, you know…but not in teh ghey way…that would freak you the fuck out…me too, quite honestly…but I digress.)
re: #89 Scott Candage
I guess Chuck is just full of shit. (Insert floor joke here)
Floor-shitting sheep fuckers unite!
re: #2 The War TARDIS
Doctor Who starts in 2 hours. But I have a question this time.
He did buy Donna a winning lottery ticket for her wedding, so he’s not above using his foreknowledge to benefit others.
Still need to replace that faucet. My wife found one she likes online - not cheap, of course - and I’ll probably order it in the next day or two.
re: #75 goddamnedfrank
Honestly, it reminds me of my old boss’s decline and fall. He spent years doing stellar work, first as a post-doc, then as a Scientist, Senior Scientist, Staff Scientist, and VP of R&D. His zenith was the work he did founding his own company. He built up a big network of scientists, business types, investors, etc. for whom he had done great things and made shit tons of money.
In a single year, he alienated everyone who ever knew or respected him. He thought he’d outgrown them, that they’d only been holding him back all these years. He’d give lip service to heeding their advice, then did the opposite. He wasted his time on quixotic projects and refused to be answerable to anyone as to the goals or how he expected to reach them. He overtly used people, burning up any good kharma he’d ever built up. He lied, he manipulated, he pushed ethical boundaries. He burned up millions he’d accumulated in the stock of various companies, and ended up with his house in Hillsborough foreclosed, his second wife left him, and his first wife got a restraining order to keep him away from his kids.
He was convinced that he was right, that he was smarter than these people, that he’d show them all up in the end. He didn’t need anyone’s advice. That’s what reminds me of Chuckie - the supreme confidence that he’s right, that the rules don’t apply to him. He sued the company that he’d founded when they chucked him, and then was surprised when they countersued, and when they didn’t just settle. He ended up getting fired by his lawyer after most of a year of increasing acrimony when he refused to follow the lawyers advice.
His first wife told me he had Borderline Personality Disorder, which makes sense. So, Chuckie’s pathology is very familiar.
The wingnuts love these memes with bullshit numbers don’t they?
re: #84 darthstar
I just painted our kitchen…black.
Baby Seal Black, to be precise…and it looks pretty damn good.
That explains why I want to club it to death.
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re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
Reminds me of an ongoing tweet-twit who claims that the fair tax will save everyone money and that cutting federal spending 50% would cause a major expansion of revenues and business profits.
Reality is tough for these folks. The sequester harmed the economy, and that was a fraction of the cuts that a flat tax/50% revenue cut would have on the economy.
And it’s also instructive to watch them talk about cuts to the economy that seem to avoid cutting defense spending, like say the F-35 program that has produced a plane that can’t do the missions intended.
re: #98 Blind Frog Belly White
Shoribyo. It’s a Japanese word normally translated as ‘victory disease’ but whose literal translation best describes the kind of behavior pattern you describe: ‘Supreme Overconfidence’.
re: #99 Eclectic Cyborg
The number cited is equivalent to 6 Islamic terror attacks every day since 9/11.
I’ll add: Chuck Johnson is not a fucking anomaly, he’s just the one in the herd that limps.
There was no freak radiation accident. A unicorn did not appear after a rainstorm. Charles C Johnson’s various -isms and constant lying is a natural continuation of US right-wing politics. He’s what you get when children get raised on AM radio horseshit. He’s the generation that really believes the wild-ass shit the last generation’s cynic threw about to win elections. The offspring of Limbaugh and Karl Rove, with Breitbart as the midwife.
Also, water is wet.
re: #45 Jay C
Two hugely mistaken theses being advanced by Amb. Dermer here, I think:
1. That anyone reading this is going to assume that Sheldon Adelson is anything but a BIG Republican sugar-daddy, and that encomiums like this are anything but a lame suckup.
2. That anyone is going to even know who he’s referring to with “Montefiore” and “Rothchild”(sic). Or how pathetic comparing Adelson to those dudes really is.
Moses Montefiore was a 19th-century English Jew who was very supporting of the Jewish community in Palestine and built many housing projects and synagogues. He built the stone structure over Rachel’s Tomb (of course it is totally unrecognizable now with the fortifications that Israel had to install because of repeated terror attacks) and built the first Jewish housing project outside of the Old City walls.
re: #103 lawhawk
And it’s also instructive to watch them talk about cuts to the economy that seem to avoid cutting defense spending, like say the F-35 program that has produced a plane that can’t do the missions intended.
They loves them some military spending, even if they have no idea what all that money is actually doing. See: 600-ship Navy, the F-35, and the tanks that nobody wanted.
re: #103 lawhawk
The F-35 is a decent bit better than it is given credit for. And once its gets its full weapon suite (such as the AARGM anti-radiation missile (ARM)) its going to be very capable indeed.
With those it will be capable of foiling area-denial/anti-access SAM systems by being able to sneak into ARM range of a SAM site’s radar without said radar even knowing its there. Then it can lauch its AARGMs and the radar will be wreckage before any SAMs can possibly reach the F-35.
Speaking of the godforsaken POS F-35, better not need to eject from it. That’s more likely to be fatal than riding it in…
re: #108 The Ghost of a Flea
I’ll add: Chuck Johnson is not a fucking anomaly, he’s just the one in the herd that limps.
There was no freak radiation accident. A unicorn did not appear after a rainstorm. Charles C Johnson’s various -isms and constant lying is a natural continuation of US right-wing politics. He’s what you get when children get raised on AM radio horseshit. He’s the generation that really believes the wild-ass shit the last generation’s cynic threw about to win elections. The offspring of Limbaugh and Karl Rove, with Breitbart as the midwife.
Also, water is wet.
Exactly. Chuck is the idiot bastard son of right wing extremism, and the so-called mainstream GOP is still willing to use people like him as kamikaze pilots to destroy American progress, as long as they can maintain plausible deniability.
re: #110 thedopefishlives
They loves them some military spending, even if they have no idea what all that money is actually doing. See: 600-ship Navy, the F-35, and the tanks that nobody wanted.
They love military spending because so many of them are tied to it. I work at a defense contractor, is >80% Republican, and most of them have never worked a job outside the company, instead getting hired straight out of college. They wouldn’t know what to do if they had to write a resume, answer job interview questions, or deal with competition.
From Think Progress (h/t Balloon Juice):
Was George W. Bush President On 9/11? An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart
Was George W. Bush president on September 11, 2001? It’s time to settle this once and for all.
It’s true that, in the presidential election held on November 7, 2000, George W. Bush received fewer votes than Al Gore.
But according to the Associated Press, this is a photo of George W. Bush being sworn in as president on January 20, 2001.
re: #84 darthstar
I wanna see the sun
Blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted painted painted
Baby seal black
re: #119 whitebeach
I wanna see the sun
Blotted out from the sky
[300]Then we shall fight in the shade.[/300]
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A sex worker who claims she had a long-standing relationship with married, family values Republican senator and candidate for Louisiana governor David Vitter dropped a bombshell accusation one week before voters go to the polls.
Wendy Ellis claims she had an affair with Vitter, he impregnated her and then asked her to abort the baby. Ellis says she did not, instead putting the child up for legal adoption, according to WDSU.
Well I’m diving tomorrow, have freeze warnings for tonight. Going to be a brisk 40* or so when we start setting up at 9 AM, and a predicted high of about 60 come mid-afternoon. I know the students are going to be suffering a bit, wetsuits are COLD once you get out of the water. Water temp down to about 20 foot is 68*, then drops to 56* by 40 foot, and is 46* at 60 feet. We won’t have them going below the first thermocline except for a quick trip to an old 1940’s firetruck to sign a log we keep there.
Despite the cold, this is the perfect time to be diving the quarry. Visibility is 50-60 feet, opposed to the usual 20. I’m going to enjoy these.
We’ve told everybody to bring extra towels, warm clothes like a track suit they can slip into to help stay warm.
As for me, I’m taking advantage of the fact that I have a dry suit, and 200 and 400 gram thinsulate and fleece undergarments to go with it. I am going to be warm, dry and happy.
Funny thing, when I drove the Impala, I would fit all my gear into the trunk. Now that I have a mini-van, it all fits into the back area with the rear seat folded down. (Of course it’s better organized and a lot easier to pack / unpack. I wonder, if I get a semi-trailer, will the same gear expand to fit that?
re: #126 Reality Based Steve
Well I’m diving tomorrow, have freeze warnings for tonight. Going to be a brisk 40* or so when we start setting up at 9 AM, and a predicted high of about 60 come mid-afternoon. I know the students are going to be suffering a bit, wetsuits are COLD once you get out of the water. Water temp down to about 20 foot is 68*, then drops to 56* by 40 foot, and is 46* at 60 feet. We won’t have them going below the first thermocline except for a quick trip to an old 1940’s firetruck to sign a log we keep there.
Despite the cold, this is the perfect time to be diving the quarry. Visibility is 50-60 feet, opposed to the usual 20. I’m going to enjoy these.
We’ve told everybody to bring extra towels, warm clothes like a track suit they can slip into to help stay warm.
As for me, I’m taking advantage of the fact that I have a dry suit, and 200 and 400 gram thinsulate and fleece undergarments to go with it. I am going to be warm, dry and happy.
Funny thing, when I drove the Impala, I would fit all my gear into the trunk. Now that I have a mini-van, it all fits into the back area with the rear seat folded down. (Of course it’s better organized and a lot easier to pack / unpack. I wonder, if I get a semi-trailer, will the same gear expand to fit that?
Steve, do you have a Twitter account?
re: #126 Reality Based Steve
Well I’m diving tomorrow, have freeze warnings for tonight. Going to be a brisk 40* or so when we start setting up at 9 AM, and a predicted high of about 60 come mid-afternoon. I know the students are going to be suffering a bit, wetsuits are COLD once you get out of the water. Water temp down to about 20 foot is 68*, then drops to 56* by 40 foot, and is 46* at 60 feet. We won’t have them going below the first thermocline except for a quick trip to an old 1940’s firetruck to sign a log we keep there.
Despite the cold, this is the perfect time to be diving the quarry. Visibility is 50-60 feet, opposed to the usual 20. I’m going to enjoy these.
We’ve told everybody to bring extra towels, warm clothes like a track suit they can slip into to help stay warm.
As for me, I’m taking advantage of the fact that I have a dry suit, and 200 and 400 gram thinsulate and fleece undergarments to go with it. I am going to be warm, dry and happy.
Funny thing, when I drove the Impala, I would fit all my gear into the trunk. Now that I have a mini-van, it all fits into the back area with the rear seat folded down. (Of course it’s better organized and a lot easier to pack / unpack. I wonder, if I get a semi-trailer, will the same gear expand to fit that?
yes.
re: #127 b_sharp
Steve, do you have a Twitter account?
Nope. Have thought about it, but never got one.
RBS
re: #117 gocart mozart
I look pretty young but I’m just back dated.
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One of my favorite Who songs.
A dear friend of mine died yesterday in Tucson, Arizona. Aside from saying he was a true mensch, words fail me, so I’ll let this notice in the Tucson Weekly suffice (though he was and did so much, much more than they mention):
It is with heavy hearts that we say goodbye to an inspiration of the community, Albert M. Elias, who passed away this morning at the age of 86.
Albert is survived by his children: Assistant City Manager Albert Elias, Supervisor Richard Elias, and TUSD speech therapist Ana Elias Terry.
Albert M. Elias was a fourth-generation Tucson native, he was the owner of Old Pueblo Printers, a Tucson staple and strong union shop since 1966. Albert was involved in many community organizations as well as serving on the Tucson Community Center Commission, the Regional Transportation Authority, the Tucson-Pima Arts Council and the Downtown Tucson Partnership.
During his career, Albert supported labor leader Cesar Chavez of the United Farm Workers; while supporting the efforts of local Latino activists to get their fair share of federal funds to improve their homes and the neighborhoods of their people. Albert also supported a landmark lawsuit forcing [the Tucson Unified School District] to desegregate its schools.
Albert always had been fighting battles against those who seek to use their financial influence to their own advantage - at the expense of ordinary working people.
The Democrats of Greater Tucson recently named their inaugural Albert M. Elias Democratic Business Leader award for his exemplary work and commitment to the community.
Rest in peace, Alberto, my friend
I can’t wait until the Miami Dolphins get to play their home games in their natural element. http://t.co/mVTokP8muv via @dailykos
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 18, 2015
re: #132 gocart mozart
I can hear Ken Russel saying “Dammit beans, I told you we need more beans!!”
re: #129 Reality Based Steve
Nope. Have thought about it, but never got one.
RBS
I thought not.
I have a friend who is getting into SCUBA diving but she’s only on Twitter.
If you decide to venture into the hellhole that is Twitter, let me know so I can introduce you two.
re: #84 darthstar
I just painted our kitchen…black.
Baby Seal Black, to be precise…and it looks pretty damn good.
You should add some tiny dots of almost-invisible red spatter.
re: #123 gocart mozart
I just heard the song “Circles” for the first time today. Can’t say it was one of Townshend’s better efforts. Kinda plodding.
re: #131 De Kolta Chair
Sorry to hear that. Condolences.
re: #136 jonhendry
You should add some tiny dots of almost-invisible red spatter.
Oh, I’ll make spaghetti sauce soon enough.
re: #138 Mattand
Sorry to hear that. Condolences.
His last words on his hospital bed to his son, and my best friend, Richard, were “You should go to work.” That was Albert in a nutshell, family and work.
re: #141 gocart mozart
I found this in the YouTube basement. The Rolling Stones on the Mike Douglas show (1964) jump to the 6:00 minute mark for the (awesome) interview.
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I don’t know who Mike Douglas’ music programmer was, but toots for them cuz they had some kick ass bands on that show.
re: #143 De Kolta Chair
Don’t be shocked, but the producer of the Mike Douglas show was Roger Ailes!
re: #145 De Kolta Chair
Here’s the full interview. Go to the 14.30 mark for the 2:00 minute Zappa animated video which you never see on network TV before or since.
One of the best versions I’ve ever heard. Nite all.
re: #147 nines09
One of the best versions I’ve ever heard. Nite all.
if there’s such a thing as an aural backrub, that is it.
re: #114 Charles Johnson
Exactly. Chuck is the idiot bastard son of right wing extremism, and the so-called mainstream GOP is still willing to use people like him as kamikaze pilots to destroy American progress, as long as they can maintain plausible deniability.
AND they figured out how to get an income stream from said extremism.
re: #124 whitebeach
We played up to it. Don’t get me started!!!!! OK, you did
This should have been a 15 yard penalty on LF https://t.co/DS9hXi934Y - You can’t throw a punch …just a stiff arm
— RTR! Cap (@capstonekid) October 18, 2015
Definitely enable sound
I now have some fleece and a drop spindle.
There are some Lizards here to blame.
If I make the yarn myself, then it can sit there and look pretty and be the final product, right? And hide all the yarn I’ve bought and done nothing with?
re: #141 gocart mozart
I loved this. It was like community television. Keith was still Keith Richard. Bill Wyman was clearly proud of his large penis, though Brian was the dick. Mick probably had his clothing perfect and then carefully pulled out one lapel to look punk and disheveled. But the real stars were the girls. You know they were the crazies in their school. It was one thing to love the Beatles, but the Stones?
re: #150 Stanley Sea Toujours
Dude grabs his face mask twice before getting righteously knocked out of the way.
Alligator tears always make the gumbo tastier.
re: #150 Stanley Sea Toujours
We played up to it. Don’t get me started!!!!! OK, you did
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Definitely enable sound
They need to make a new Heisman trophy, stat!
Twitter. I rest my case.
@FrankConniff Who do they suggest we blame, the kindergartners who were distracting him?
— Katie Malone (@malkat1987) October 17, 2015
re: #153 whitebeach
Dude grabs his face mask twice before getting righteously knocked out of the way.
Alligator tears always make the gumbo tastier.
Yeah yeah. Enjoy. We’ll see you in ATL
For a good laugh, this was taken a few days ago at Ben Gurion airport and has been making the rounds…
re: #151 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I now have some fleece and a drop spindle.
There are some Lizards here to blame.
If I make the yarn myself, then it can sit there and look pretty and be the final product, right? And hide all the yarn I’ve bought and done nothing with?
re: #158 Archangelus
For a good laugh, this was taken a few days ago at Ben Gurion airport and has been making the rounds…
When Jerusalem Syndrome goes terribly wrong.
Excuse me. The kitten color printer is running out of ink and toner. pic.twitter.com/gyOLQvPn9m
— Cliff Pickover (@pickover) October 18, 2015
Looks like Chuck Johnson’s been hitting the sauce tonight. pic.twitter.com/5r69da1smI
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 18, 2015
re: #162 Charles Johnson
He must know something about the Hulk Hogan case.
Also, in the category of “Moronic Item of the Month:”
Translation: “Dear blind people, please do not pay attention to the elevator announcements, the reported floors are incorrect. Thank you”…
re: #164 Archangelus
Also, in the category of “Moronic Item of the Month:”
Translation: “Dear blind people, do not pay attention to the elevator announcements, the reported floors are incorrect. Thank you”…
<insert facepalm here>
wha?
re: #164 Archangelus
Bet they didn’t see that coming.
Former mistress of GOPer David Vitter claims he got her pregnant and asked her to abort https://t.co/aQbEtyAegW
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) October 18, 2015
A sex worker who claims she had a long-standing relationship with married, family values Republican senator and candidate for Louisiana governor David Vitter dropped a bombshell accusation one week before voters go to the polls.
Wendy Ellis claims she had an affair with Vitter, he impregnated her and then asked her to abort the baby. Ellis says she did not, instead putting the child up for legal adoption, according to WDSU.
re: #167 Kragar
I swear to the old gods and the new, I flat out can’t stand so many of the “family values” and social conservative politicians. I just don’t have words to adequately express my level of distain
@SMShow Beware of trolls pretending to be Bernie supporters, their goal is to bash Hillary and divide progressives.
— really (@bczzzzz) October 17, 2015
Should Jonathan Richmond and the Modern Lovers’ song “Roadrunner” be the Massachusetts State Song?
Heck yes!
re: #162 Charles Johnson
Looks like Chuck Johnson’s been hitting the sauce tonight.
Must be a day ending in “day”.
For the musicians among us lizards..
Oh good grief…lol at Larry David playing Bernie Sanders on SNL….
re: #158 Archangelus
For a good laugh, this was taken a few days ago at Ben Gurion airport and has been making the rounds…
I’m too sexy for my hat…
I’m told by Democrat I trust that Biden “almost certain” to run, will announce this week in time to speak at the Iowa J-J dinner Sat night.
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) October 18, 2015
Cool. Now we know for sure Joe Biden isn’t running for president.
I use selfies to show that even a serious dude doesn’t always have to be serious. pic.twitter.com/UclZctESml
— Lee Weissman (@JihadiJew) October 18, 2015
re: #177 teleskiguy
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Cool. Now we know for sure Joe Biden isn’t running for president.
Somebody needs to remind Kristolmeth that Criswell is dead.
Ya’ll I think my twitter is hacked. Just saw this. What do I do?
@matinkey was this you? http://t.co/tgE48oSD46
— Michelle (@MichelleVista) October 18, 2015
I did NOT post this
re: #181 Stanley Sea Toujours
Try and change your password.
Stanley Sea, change your password on Twitter. You’ve been hacked.
re: #184 teleskiguy
Stanley Sea, change your password on Twitter. You’ve been hacked.
Done. There is really no way to see if all is cool.
Wow.
re: #187 Stanley Sea Toujours
Done. There is really no way to see if all is cool.
Wow.
Might be a PIA, but I’d go through and erase all those tweets too.
re: #188 teleskiguy
Might be a PIA, but I’d go through and erase all those tweets too.
Only one shows up. Deleted. I got DM’s that indicate more. No idea.
Gator Love is penalized?
How the fuck do I know that my twitter is normal?
re: #190 Stanley Sea Toujours
Only one shows up. Deleted. I got DM’s that indicate more. No idea.
Gator Love is penalized?
Yikes. It’s showin’ up as probably your whole follower list on my end. Your ‘Tweets w/ Replies’ just goes on and on.
Sorry! I had that happen to me once.
re: #191 Stanley Sea Toujours
How the fuck do I know that my twitter is normal?
I got to the end of your mentions, it started about 34 minutes ago. It’s hundreds of tweets!
re: #192 teleskiguy
Yikes. It’s showin’ up as probably your whole follower list on my end. Your ‘Tweets w/ Replies’ just goes on and on.
Sorry! I had that happen to me once.
What should I be doing? I have no idea what you are seeing.
Click the link in this comment - @MichelleVista - and scroll down. Tell me what you see.
re: #193 teleskiguy
I got to the end of your mentions, it started about 34 minutes ago. It’s hundreds of tweets!
Not worried, no sex I regret to admit.
re: #195 teleskiguy
Click the link in this comment - @MichelleVista - and scroll down. Tell me what you see.
The “was this you” is spam. There are my tweets in between.
Did I stop it by changing passwords?
re: #197 Stanley Sea Toujours
The “was this you” is spam. There are my tweets in between.
Did I stop it by changing passwords?
Changing passwords appears to have worked. The “was this you” shit is no more. Maybe tomorrow go through and erase the spam. Like I said earlier, it’s a PIA, but it cleans things up and people who got the spam won’t get in the future.
Fuck internet Spam! Spam™ food, however, not so bad!
re: #199 teleskiguy
Changing passwords appears to have worked. The “was this you” shit is no more. Maybe tomorrow go through and erase the spam. Like I said earlier, it’s a PIA, but it cleans things up and people who got the spam won’t get in the future.
Fuck internet Spam! SpamTM food, however, not so bad!
Ski! It was a tough night & I did well (Gator loss) but this kinda threw me off the chill I was so trying to maintain.
Such is life.
Tomorrow I am sleeping till 9. No matter what.
re: #189 teleskiguy
This is an absolutely quality 30 minute snippet of Umphrey’s McGee, by the way.
re: #201 teleskiguy
This is an absolutely quality 30 minute snippet of Umphrey’s McGee, by the way.
So that’s like a 1/4th of a song for them? < whistles innocently >
re: #203 William Lewis
So that’s like a 1/4th of a song for them? < whistles innocently >
Heh. More like a third of the second set.
:)
re: #199 teleskiguy
MichelleVista popped up in my TL, too. I found it under notifications, reported and blocked it.
Finally watched the new South Park. One of the best endings on a South Park cartoon ever.
re: #207 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
MichelleVista popped up in my TL, too. I found it under notifications, reported and blocked it.
@MichelleVista is our own Stanley Sea, I hope you didn’t block her! She got spammed good tonight. Passwords changed, all is good.
re: #209 teleskiguy
@MichelleVista is our own Stanley Sea, I hope you didn’t block her! She got spammed good tonight. Passwords changed, all is good.
Oh shit. Well, I’ll just re-add her.
Signed back in for this…
Sigh.
Black Trans Woman Fatally Shot In Head In Suspected Hate Crime
For the second time this month, a black transgender woman has been killed.
Authorities in Montgomery Village, Maryland, are investigating the killing of Zella Ziona as a hate crime, according to NBC Washington.
“We are not ruling out the possibility that this could be hate-based,” Montgomery County police spokesman Capt. Paul Starks told the station.
The 21-year-old victim was found in an alley Thursday night after being shot in the head. She was taken to the hospital, where she later died.
21
re: #212 teleskiguy
Jes’ read Book of the Cock and get it over with…///
So I decided to see what Georgie was up to.
If the ignorant baboon POS had a son..WHERE IS YOUR NATIONAL ADDRESS CALLING FOR OUTLAWING BOX CUTTERS? You’re filth pic.twitter.com/HU5Bpp6ZKj
— George M. Zimmerman (@TherealGeorgeZ) October 9, 2015
re: #219 Nyet
So I decided to see what Georgie was up to.
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Whatever George Zimmerman used to be, he’s a racist slimeball now.
re: #186 Stanley Sea Toujours
Fucking A. Hope I fixed it.
Sorry Y’all.
Before you freak out completely, it might not be you who was hacked.
If you’ve ever registered at a site to write a comment and registered with your Twitter (or Facebook) login, lots of times they tell you they will have the authority to post comments on your behalf.
These folks wanted the authority to update my profile. (Excuse me, are you f’in insane?) So it’s possible that YOU weren’t hacked, but someone else was.
Evangelical pastor calls out Sarah Palin’s horrifying embrace of ’Christian’ NRA gun culture — and it’s awesome http://t.co/EdlOJBlDTG
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) October 18, 2015
something for RBS:
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) October 18, 2015
something for VB:
🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/9N7HOkc3mv
— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) October 18, 2015
and it’s crunchy outside:
The deep freeze this AM has resulted in an end of the autumn frost/freeze program. Details: http://t.co/h5uYNqhErp. pic.twitter.com/FrTDfFbfAV
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) October 18, 2015
It rained in California.
Supposedly.
Barely a hint at some dizzle here.
re: #167 Kragar
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So sick of these family values hypocrites. I hope this destroys Vitter not just politically but with his family. The asshole’s made a career out of accusing gay people of being immoral and not having family values while having zippo himself.
re: #151 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Someone’s probably already beat me to it, but… You get a beautiful wooden yarn bowl from someone like, say, Jim Wright at Stonekettle Station. You spin a few balls in coordinating colors. You arrange the whole thing artistically on an appropriate surface in the living room. Voila, art! No further effort needed beyond the occasional dusting.
(says the person with forty years’ worth of unfinished craft projects around the house)
.@realDonaldTrump on the debt limit: “I want to be unpredictable, because, you know, we need unpredictability.” #FNS
— FoxNewsSunday (@FoxNewsSunday) October 18, 2015
re: #234 Lidane
Right, of course. The markets just LOVE unpredictability.
re: #237 Eclectic Cyborg
Right, of course. The markets just LOVE unpredictability.
Word for word what just came out of my mouth.
re: #234 Lidane
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What kind of f*cking moron would think that that guy would make a good president?
re: #239 b.d.
What kind of f*cking moron would think that that guy would make a good president?
The kind who thinks that no experience in government - at all - would make a fabulous leader of the free world.
re: #239 b.d.
What kind of f*cking moron would think that that guy would make a good president?
One that likes huuuuuuuuuuuuuuge stuff.
re: #240 WhatEVs
The kind who thinks that no experience in government - at all - would make a fabulous leader of the free world.
Yeah that’s considered a virtue to this idiots.
re: #232 HappyWarrior
So sick of these family values hypocrites. I hope this destroys Vitter not just politically but with his family. The asshole’s made a career out of accusing gay people of being immoral and not having family values while having zippo himself.
Frankly, I’m always skeptical of something coming out this close to an election. Especially with lupus (which this woman claims to be dying from) in the news currently because Selena Gomez has it. And the article has her as a “sex worker” but she “knows he was the father because she wasn’t sleeping with anyone else at the time.” And lastly this alleged relationship happened 15-20 years ago.
I’ll believe this one if its corroborated. Otherwise I think its BS.
No worries then. That never happens to a president and our enemies will all stick to the “RESPECT MY FEELS” rule. https://t.co/bEvhXeuqvv
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 18, 2015
Forget Biden, are we sure Romney ain’t getting in?
Jeb, why did your brother attack and destabalize the Middle East by attacking Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction? Bad info?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
Need moar popcorn.
Anybody here live on Connecticut? UpChuck has blogged that the email of the mayor of Bristol, CT, was in the Ashley Madison data breach. I wonder if anyone in CT pays attention to GotNewsDotCom.
Opus has quickly adapted to 2015:
— Bloom County 2015 (@bloomcounty) October 18, 2015
Thank you , Berkeley Breathed for bringing this bit of my childhood back. :)
Wife said when she took off this morning that there was a little snow at the bottom of the windshield. I just stepped out to have a smoke and there were flurries coming down. First snow of winter for us in NW PA on the OH border.
re: #243 Dark_Falcon
Frankly, I’m always skeptical of something coming out this close to an election. Especially with lupus (which this woman claims to be dying from) in the news currently because Selena Gomez has it. And the article has her as a “sex worker” but she “knows he was the father because she wasn’t sleeping with anyone else at the time.” And lastly this alleged relationship happened 15-20 years ago.
I’ll believe this one if its corroborated. Otherwise I think its BS.
That could well be but I imagine you were skeptical of the diaper story when it broke too. Either way, I am tired of people like Vitter and your party’s leadership trashing gay people that include my friends and family to get votes while living double lives themselves.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
Either way, I am tired of people like Vitter and your party’s leadership trashing gay people that include my friends and family to get votes while living double lives themselves.
Every time some jabbering imbecile starts flapping their lips about ” upholding family values” or “defending traditional families” I immediately tune out everything they’re saying and write them off as a hypocrite. That kind of rhetoric is a mask for some serious issues that they’re hiding.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
It has however been established that he has seen hookers in the past, and if you believe that shit just magically went *poof!* and he’s Mr. Sparkly Clean now, I have some lovely swampland with a bridge to sell you. I’m sure it was just the one sex worker…(rolls eyes so hard I now have a headache)…and this man returned to the Senate after that to applause don’t forget.
So yeah, whether this is true or not so much is kinda moot at this point. He’s still a lying sack of hypocrisy.
re: #250 Lidane
Every time someone jabbering imbecile starts flapping their lips about ” upholding family values” or “defending traditional families” I immediately tune out everything they’re saying and write them off as a hypocrite. That kind of rhetoric is a mask for some serious issues that they’re hiding.
That’s my thoughts exactly. A man or woman who is well adjusted and content with his or her own life doesn’t need to put down people. My parents have been married over 30 years yet they’re not threatened by gay couples enjoying the same rights they do. The hypocrites that run the GOP meanwhile…Seriously, it’s not a coindence that so many of these guys that make the biggest deal about family valeus end up being adulterers themselves or have tried to get abortions for mistresses.
re: #250 Lidane
Every time someone jabbering imbecile starts flapping their lips about ” upholding family values” or “defending traditional families” I immediately tune out everything they’re saying and write them off as a hypocrite. That kind of rhetoric is a mask for some serious issues that they’re hiding.
Proven over and over again.
re: #250 Lidane
I swear if I had money I’d do all kinds of private detective work on every one of these supposed “saints”. That and any group with the words, “family, liberty, freedom, values, America, or patriot” in their name. Double if their logo has eagles and flags and crosses and the like all over it.
re: #251 A Mom Anon
It has however been established that he has seen hookers in the past, and if you believe that shit just magically went *poof!* and he’s Mr. Sparkly Clean now, I have some lovely swampland with a bridge to sell you. I’m sure it was just the one sex worker…(rolls eyes so hard I now have a headache)…and this man returned to the Senate after that to applause don’t forget.
So yeah, whether this is true or not so much is kinda moot at this point. He’s still a lying sack of hypocrisy.
Right on. Really if the Republicans would honestly juts shut the fuck up about how they have superior moral values to us then it really wouldn’t annoy me but they have tehse stupid things like the VVS where by the way, the use of male prostitution in the DC area goes through the roof. Do what you want to do in your own time, just don’t be calling my family and friends the cause of moral decline and claim outrageous crap that God stopped blessing this country because they now can marry and adopt. No offense DF but if your party ever wants to get respected at all by my generation, you guys are going to have to stop engaging in the homophobic crap.
re: #239 b.d.
What kind of f*cking moron would think that that guy would make a good president?
The kind who thinks the government should be run like a business.
I think there was a line in WHarton’s The Age of Innocence about the hypocirites knowing the most about morality. Dunno, it’s been four years since I read the novel.
You want to talk about family values? How about making sure people don’t go without a meal. How about making sure everyone gets a good education? How about everyone is treated with compassion regardless of place or birth or how they entered this country or their religion. Those are real family values. Shitting on gay people, liberals, working women, and non-evangelical Christians aren’t family values. It’s hate.
I went to a family thing the other night and my nephew (Canadian) asked this:
If the Democrats were to put in a plant to do what Trump is doing…would it differ in any way at all?
An interesting question. I have been thinking about it - and still am. (I am not going all conspiracy theory here, it was an honest question by a smart young man.) I think Trump is Trump and doing Trumpy things (he has shown disregard for The Blacks in the past, has been pretty much a pig for as long as I have known about him) so I think this is Trump being Trump. Nothing more, nothing less. But it is still an interesting question.
If the dems were this smart (which they are not), what more or different could Trump do to further fuckup the GOP? What say you? Go!
Sorry guys, I’m rambling but I take the homophobic crap very personally and it’s something that the Republican party used and it’ is well documented to retain teh WH in 2004. I will never respect Bush nor Rove because of that. They knew how big homophobia exists in their party’s base and used opposition to SSM to get out the vote. It wasn’t illegal obviously but it showed me what kind of guys these are. And then I have people try to MBF by pointing out Cheney supported ssm before Obama did, yeah but what did Cheney do with his support? He stood silent (and Cheney never really stood silent on important matters to the Bush administration) on homophobia.
re: #258 HappyWarrior
You want to talk about family values? How about making sure people don’t go without a meal. How about making sure everyone gets a good education? How about everyone is treated with compassion regardless of place or birth or how they entered this country or their religion. Those are real family values. Shitting on gay people, liberals, working women, and non-evangelical Christians isn’t a family values. It’s hate.
I really, really want to give you more updings for this.
re: #259 WhatEVs
I went to a family thing the other night and my nephew (Canadian) asked this:
If the Democrats were to put in a plant to do what Trump is doing…would it differ in any way at all?
An interesting question. I have been thinking about it - and still am. (I am not going all conspiracy theory here, it was an honest question by a smart young man.) I think Trump is Trump and doing Trumpy things (he has shown disregard for The Blacks in the past, has been pretty much a pig for as long as I have known about him) so I think this is Trump being Trump. Nothing more, nothing less. But it is still an interesting question.
If the dems were this smart (which they are not), what more or different could Trump do to further fuckup the GOP? What say you? Go!
I imagine a Dem plant would go after some Republican sacred cows. It has been very interesting to watch from the outside looking in. I just keep on wondering what Trump will do or say that will make him implode but I think he’s in it for the long haul.
re: #258 HappyWarrior
One of my favorite now retired radio talk show hosts (there aren’t many good left wing talk shows left except for Stephanie Miller and John Fugelsang) used to say “Love the Fetus, Hate the Child!” whenever they’d cut things that would help people pull up out of poverty or they’d make more cuts to education. They quite simply are like a demented high school clique, they like no one but those exactly like them. Period. They have no empathy or compassion outside that exclusive circle. Nothing is real unless it effects them directly.
re: #263 A Mom Anon
One of my favorite now retired radio talk show hosts (there aren’t many good left wing talk shows left except for Stephanie Miller and John Fugelsang) used to say “Love the Fetus, Hate the Child!” whenever they’d cut things that would help people pull up out of poverty or they’d make more cuts to education. They quite simply are like a demented high school clique, they like no one but those exactly like them. Period. They have no empathy or compassion outside that exclusive circle. Nothing is real unless it effects them directly.
Right, if they truly were pro-life, tehy wouldn’t support cuts to education or programs taht help people get out of poverty. I’m going ot single out DF’s governor here since DF likes using Rauner as an example of a “GOP moderate” in the age of Obama. This is what the guy did. It was autism awarenss week and the guy cut funding to autism research. and treatment.
I’m getting a bunch of gunfuckers in my timeline who think HURR HURR IF TEH JUICE HAD GUNZ THEY COULD OF WON TEH HOLOCAUST!!!!!!
Mute, block, mute, block, rinse, repeat.
re: #264 HappyWarrior
It’s like they do that shit on purpose, just to be extra damned mean. Here’s a quote from the wonderful Mr. Fugelsang, referring to Paul Ryan’s “new budget”:
Going after Medicaid payments and food stamp payments to fix a budget crisis is like invading Iraq after being attacked by 15 Saudis.
Those things they hate compose about 10-12 percent of the budget total. Cutting that won’t fix a blessed thing. It’s going to drive more people into homelessness and desperation, and the long term effects will be devastating.
re: #262 HappyWarrior
I imagine a Dem plant would go after some Republican sacred cows. It has been very interesting to watch from the outside looking in. I just keep on wondering what Trump will do or say that will make him implode but I think he’s in it for the long haul.
He has. He’s said that everyone deserves healthcare and that he supports SoSec and Medicare.
re: #266 A Mom Anon
It’s like they do that shit on purpose, just to be extra damned mean. Here’s a quote from the wonderful Mr. Fugelsang, referring to Paul Ryan’s “new budget”:
Going after Medicaid payments and food stamp payments to fix a budget crisis is like invading Iraq after being attacked by 15 Saudis.
Those things they hate compose about 10-12 percent of the budget total. Cutting that won’t fix a blessed thing. It’s going to drive more people into homelessness and desperation, and the long term effects will be devastating.
It’s like when they complain about foreign aid. It’s pointed out that foreign aid makes up a tiny percentage of the budget. Of course, the rank and file make it worse by believign that everyone but them is a moocher and only they got to where tehy did through hard work. Their liberal neighbors are just moochers and takers.
OK lizards, it’s our annual “play with fire day” here, AKA burning a ton of lawn debris. Time to drag out the hoses and the lawn chairs and tend a fire for awhile, BBL.
re: #267 WhatEVs
He has. He’s said that everyone deserves healthcare and that he supports SoSec and Medicare.
Oh true point.
re: #264 HappyWarrior
Right, if they truly were pro-life, they wouldn’t support cuts to education or programs that help people get out of poverty. I’m going to single out DF’s governor here since DF likes using Rauner as an example of a “GOP moderate” in the age of Obama. This is what the guy did. It was autism awareness week and the guy cut funding to autism research. and treatment.
You’d have rather he waited till the next week? The cuts had to be made, HW. Illinois doesn’t have the money to fund autism research and can only fund training and treatment at a “keep the lights on and some staff in the office” level.
Now I understand people will suffer because of this, but they will suffer because of bad decisions by Bruce Rauner’s predecessors. Chief among those bad decisions was to raise state pensions without budgeting the needed funding. Because of that failure, Illinois has massive liabilities and both tax increases and spending cuts are needed to close the gap (Rauner notably did not sign Grover Norquist’s pledge not to raise any taxes, as he knew not raising at least some taxes would be impossible).
Again, I know the spending cuts will cause real hardship, but for most of the cuts that cannot be allowed to cause them not to be enacted. The state constitution will not permit pension cuts, so spending must be cut in other places and this must be done without chasing businesses away.
I cleaned up your post as it had several spelling errors.
re: #271 Dark_Falcon
You’d have rather he waited till the next week? The cuts had to be made, HW. Illinois doesn’t have the money to fund autism research and can only fund training and treatment at a “keep the lights on and some staff in the office” level.
Now I understand people will suffer because of this, but they will suffer because of bad decisions by Bruce Rauner’s predecessors. Chief among those bad decisions was to raise state pensions without budgeting the needed funding. Because of that failure, Illinois has massive liabilities and both tax increases and spending cuts are needed to close the gap (Rauner notably did not sign Grover Norquist’s pledge not to raise any taxes, as he knew not raising at least some taxes would be impossible).
Again, I know the spending cuts will cause real hardship, but for most of the cuts that cannot be allowed to cause them not to be enacted. The state constitution will not permit pension cuts, so spending must be cut in other places and this must be done without chasing businesses away.
I cleaned up your post as it had several spelling errors.
You’re one of the biggest states in the union and you’re telling me that you don’t have enough for Autism research and treatment? Pardon me but horseshit. I’m sorry but horseshit. I’m lucky enough to be from a well to do family but a lot of other people on the spectrum aren’t that lucky. The cuts that he made could go to making their lives a little easier or you know for programs that help prepare for the jobs. As for the spelling errors, thank you for that, my computer’s been slowed down. You just dont’ get it though. This was an incredibly assholish thing to do and he’s someone you constantly tout as proof that the GOP isn’t so bad. I’ll give him credit for not signing the stupid pledges but this reeks as excuses. Granted I concede I don’t know your state’s situation as well as you do but I am tired of the less well off getting the brunt of it when cuts have to be made. Business can shove it frankly when ti comes to taxes. We’re already one of the least taxed western nations as is.
Here’s the big point though. In Republican politics, it’s better to be seen as someone who cuts funds to services that help people less well off than someone who raises taxes. That’s a fucked up party model. That’s also a party that knows it exists for only one group;s benefit and that’s the already well off.
“We don’t have enough money for that” but sure we’ll just ignore the military budget that is more than the top ten other nations combined. “You don’t throw money at a program” but they never met a defense spending hike they don’t like. “We’re the fiscally responsible party.” Yet Clinton and then Obama had to clean up the fiscal messes of his Republican predecessors who immediately become RINOs to the conservatives too chickenshit to admit that maybe their economic policies don’t have any grounding in actual reality for our country.
re: #249 HappyWarrior
Was the diaper story ever substantiated?
re: #275 Nyet
Was the diaper story ever substantiated?
Thought it was but if not my bad though his use of prostitutes is something he didn’t deny. Really, I don’t care what these guys do in their own time. I have my vices but the difference is unlike Vitter, I haven’t gone after people just trying to live their lives to get and maintain power.
LOL/ Was George W. Bush President On 9/11? An Investigation Into The Controversy Tearing The GOP Apart http://t.co/o6nPJqdf0E
— Lizz Winstead (@lizzwinstead) October 18, 2015
re: #272 HappyWarrior
Business can shove it frankly when it comes to taxes. We’re already one of the least taxed western nations as is.
The thing is that mayors and governors are not able to see it that way. They have competition with other states and cities that they have to keep ahead of if they want to keep jobs in their jurisdictions. If a state tries to tax its businesses too much then they will shift operations elsewhere. Ditto for a city. Bruce Rauner can’t say to the CEO of a major corp. that “You’ll pay those taxes and like it!” because the CEO will simply reply by moving his HQ and operations to Florida, or Wisconsin, or whoever will give her a better deal. As long as somewhere else is willing to accept less tax for that company’s business, governors must be mindful of competitive pressure.
Donald Trump: There’s a ‘good chance’ I would have stopped 9/11 since I’m tough on immigrants http://t.co/wlSD35fq7f pic.twitter.com/51QQ5ka0Ev
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 18, 2015
Looks like another self-inflicted wound from the GOP all because they demanded her email servers be made public…
Who would have guessed that the only real story to come out of Clinton’s emails would indict Bush & Blair? http://t.co/ZFX0sDTmE0
— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) October 18, 2015
re: #277 Nyet
TPM calls it an unsubstantiated rumor.
He’s still a horrible excuse for a human being. He’s a hypocritical asshole.
re: #281 HappyWarrior
Wasn’t Obama president during 9/11? //
Well, that was just last month, so yes!
re: #280 Dark_Falcon
The thing is that mayors and governors are not able to see it that way. They have competition with other states and cities that they have to keep ahead of if they want to keep jobs in their jurisdictions. If a state tries to tax its businesses too much then they will shift operations elsewhere. Ditto for a city. Bruce Rauner can’t say to the CEO of a major corp. that “You’ll pay those taxes and like it!” because the CEO will simply reply by moving his HQ and operations to Florida, or Wisconsin, or whoever will give her a better deal. As long as somewhere else is willing to accept less tax for that company’s business, governors must be mindful of competitive pressure.
I get that, I really do but at the same time, it’s a symptom of the corporate greed that fucks over the average person so some corporate prick can have a little bit more. And I will never accept that he had to cut funds for autism services. You want to talk about businesses though? If he had kept those funds, maybe you train some capable people and they enter the job market. Tehre’s a lot of us on the spectrum who benefit from these programs but struggle without programs that help. I definitely benefited myself from a government program that helped me find work and learn work sills like interviewing, resume making, etc.
This is the kind of Stupids that keeps showing up in my mentions==>
@Nodisregard @13wam @viciousbabushka @cmadmax @Wash_Fire That fool forgot that it was civilians with guns that won our independence.
— John Swinford (@AG2Pearl) October 18, 2015
Well, this is getting interesting…
Jeb, why did your brother attack and destabalize the Middle East by attacking Iraq when there were no weapons of mass destruction? Bad info?
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
Ben Carson is on This Week showing the country what an utter moron he is.
re: #284 darthstar
Looks like another self-inflicted wound from the GOP all because they demanded her email servers be made public…
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I joked a year or so ago that Obama, Clinton, Kerry, etc. should seed their email servers with damning information about Republicans…because one thing Republicans can’t resist is looking for dirt and calling for all of the data on Democrats’ servers be made public…IMMEDIATELY! The Bush-Blair memo is a great example of ‘careful what you wish for’
re: #288 The Vicious Babushka
This of course assumes the magical foreknowledge on the part of most Jews (the coming murder) that they simply didn’t possess.
This is like the ultimate hindsight is 20/20.
re: #290 Kid A
Ben Carson is on This Week showing the country what an utter moron he is.
May be the biggest moron running for the GOP nomination though it’s close with him and Huckabee.
re: #289 CuriousLurker
Sometimes when scumbags fight, one or several of them will use truth as a weapon…
re: #292 Nyet
This of course assumes the magical foreknowledge on the part of most Jews (the coming murder) that they simply didn’t possess.
This is like the ultimate hindsight is 20/20-
Right, I mean the Jews of Europe had experienced antisemitism for generations. That wasn’t what made the Nazis unique nor was the violence even unique but what was unique was the system of mass murder. So much of this is hindsight bias knowing where exactly the Nazis invaded and what they did. The wingnuts like to cite the German Jews but the German Jews were a tiny percentage of those killed.
re: #286 darthstar
Well, that was just last month, so yes!
I’ve had insane family members send me e-mails with articles saying that Bill Clinton was still president when the 9/11 attacks occurred…
My bible beating aunt swore up and down that the above statement was true.
re: #294 Nyet
I wonder how all his RWNJ fans are going to react? I can’t imagine it’ll be in a positive way—waiting for them to start screeching “false flag!!”
re: #295 HappyWarrior
And German Jews had as little idea they would be murdered as the rest of them.
Sure, as the genocide spread, rumors started floating, but it was too little, too late.
The official story was deportation to labor camps in the East, and most believed it.
If we take the shooting deaths in 1941, the story is still the same. The Jews of Kiev were told they were going to be resettled. For two days long lines of Jews (around 34000 of them) stood on the streets with their things, moving slowly towards the death pits of Babiy Yar, realizing their fate only in the last minutes.
Of what use were the guns with such a devious scheme in place?
Trump is calling Mitt Romney a “dummy” and a “loser”
Does everyone remember @MittRomney and his famous remarks about “self-deportation” and “47%”. He was done. I don’t need his angry advice!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
.@MittRomney and his campaign manager should not be critical of candidates after they blew an election that should never have been lost!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
.@MittRomney can only speak negatively about my presidential chances because I have been openly hard on his terrible “choke” loss to Obama!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
re: #298 Nyet
And German Jews had as little idea they would be murdered as the rest of them.
Sure, as the genocide spread, rumors started floating, but it was too little, too late.
The official story was deportation to labor camps in the East, and most believed it.
If we take the shooting deaths in 1941, the story is still the same. The Jews of Kiev were told they were going to be resettled. For two days long lines of Jews (around 34000 of them) stood on the streets with their things, moving slowly towards the death pits of Babiy Yar, realizing their fate only in the last minutes.
Of what use were the guns with such a devious scheme in place?
Right. I said it the otehr day but I think this is something that has happened as fewer people with actual memories of the camps are with us. Someone 10 when the camps were liberated turns 80 this year. My generation will see the last of the camp survivors, guards, and liberators. pass away.
re: #296 Joe Bacon
I’ve had insane family members send me e-mails with articles saying that Bill Clinton was still president when the 9/11 attacks occurred…
My bible beating aunt swore up and down that the above statement was true.
Did she explain why the governor of Texas spoke to the nation after 9/11?
re: #299 The Vicious Babushka
That Trump person is showing his true colors as a bully.
re: #296 Joe Bacon
I’ve had insane family members send me e-mails with articles saying that Bill Clinton was still president when the 9/11 attacks occurred…
My bible beating aunt swore up and down that the above statement was true.
I guess we can blame Clinton for the first of the budget busting tax cuts in 2001 too?
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re: #302 PhillyPretzel
That Trump person is showing his true colors as a bully.
His true colors were visible long before he decided to run for office.
re: #304 Dark_Falcon
Yes. And that is one of the reasons why I despise that Trump person.
re: #302 PhillyPretzel
That Trump person is showing his true colors as a bully.
An elementary school playground bully at that. Hard to believe he’s a grown man.
What the rwnjs are saying is that Jews with guns would have had to give up their chance to live (in labor camps on the occupied Soviet territories) and die battling the Gestapo (etc.) for some higher ideal of freedom or something.
Because that would have been the choice as far as the Jews would have been concerned. A chance of survival after a “resettlement” v. certain death in a fight with the state apparatus. That there would have been no resettlement is not something they knew.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
and it’s crunchy outside:
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Morning Brrrrr. That map was spot-on. It was 28° at 7:30 AM. Too early today and in the season for that. So, I climbed back under the covers.
re: #304 Dark_Falcon
His true colors were visible long before he decided to run for office.
Apparently not to many on the right.
re: #307 Nyet
They seem to think everything is a Hollywood movie: Red Dawn/Wolverines!!
re: #309 CuriousLurker
Apparently not to many on the right.
I can’t speak for what they knew. I can only speak to what I knew, and I knew Trump was bully years before after reading about how he has used and has tried to use Eminent Domain.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #308 ObserverArt
And it is going to get “crunchy” in Philly too. weather.gov
And Bernie was just on This Week. He said Larry David should do his next rally, lol.
re: #280 Dark_Falcon
The thing is that mayors and governors are not able to see it that way. They have competition with other states and cities that they have to keep ahead of if they want to keep jobs in their jurisdictions. If a state tries to tax its businesses too much then they will shift operations elsewhere. Ditto for a city. Bruce Rauner can’t say to the CEO of a major corp. that “You’ll pay those taxes and like it!” because the CEO will simply reply by moving his HQ and operations to Florida, or Wisconsin, or whoever will give her a better deal. As long as somewhere else is willing to accept less tax for that company’s business, governors must be mindful of competitive pressure.
Not necessarily. I’ve been reading about the impending death of the CA economy because of Taxes! Regulation! Etc! for many, many years. And yet, we still have businesses employing people, housing prices are obscene (a problem in its own right, but it indicates there are a lot of people with good jobs able to buy these houses,) and there is a vibrant business economy.
Perfect? Of course not. Our public higher education system which built much of this is being priced out of reach of many families (a major mistake in my opinion) and there is a stark economic dichotomy between the “haves” and the “have nots.” But CA is still one of the most desirable places to live, in part because of what taxes and regulations provide, and if you want your business to attract the best people, you might well want to keep it here.
And yes, I know businesses leave for other states, just like some people do, but many people come here and start businesses so you need to count both inflow and outflow to achieve an accurate picture, unlike the monthly (more or less) posts about the terrible business climate in CA and the number of businesses relocating one sees on conservative sites.
“@AdamBlickstein:I never thought I’d say this but @realDonaldTrump sparking a critical conversation on reality that Bush didn’t keep US safe
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 18, 2015
Fuck Booby Jindal.
Jindal conflates Palestinians with terrorists, calls for them to be “destroyed” (via @BenjaminNorton) pic.twitter.com/cxQqnlOOBG
— Adam Johnson (@adamjohnsonNYC) October 18, 2015
Obsessed rifleman (who at sunset finally stopped shooting after 6 hours yesterday) has awakened and is now popping off shots two at a time every ten seconds.
A peaceful weekend in the country.
re: #317 darthstar
More compassionate conservatism.
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re: #319 jaunte
It sounds like this “person” never heard of a firing range.
re: #319 jaunte
Dumbass Mets fan with Johan Santana jersey finally stopped clapping after EVERY FUCKING PITCH at the boozer last night when the locals (me) complained.
This just in in case you were wondering: Bill Kristol is still wrong about everything.
re: #321 PhillyPretzel
Out here in the country, everyone owns their own firing range; I just wish he would shoot weekdays.
And six hours does seem a bit excessive. He must have spent a few hundred dollars in ammo yesterday.
re: #317 darthstar
Fuck Booby Jindal.
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So the Anchor Baby is calling for the Final Solution…
re: #291 darthstar
I joked a year or so ago that Obama, Clinton, Kerry, etc. should seed their email servers with damning information about Republicans…because one thing Republicans can’t resist is looking for dirt and calling for all of the data on Democrats’ servers be made public…IMMEDIATELY! The Bush-Blair memo is a great example of ‘careful what you wish for’
Damn. That email almost calls for a super-select, super-private congressional hearing. And the focus should be on Jeb? Bush. Why? Well, it is obvious he was close to President Bush and in recent statements has shown he is to have known much of what the President was thinking and planning. And of course we are going to need all of W. Bush’s emails, all of Dick Cheney’s and those of Secretary of State Colin Powell.
Wait, what? That info is not available, those emails are destroyed. Call the FBI!!! Bring in more investigators…there is an election going on and we have to get to the bottom of all this between now and next November.
(Would this be what the Democrats would do if they were the current Republicans?)
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re: #301 HappyWarrior
Did she explain why the governor of Texas spoke to the nation after 9/11?
Yes. She insists that Bush wasn’t elected until 2004 because her pastor says so. Seems that God delivered the nation from the horrors of gay marriage that Bill Clinton was forcing on innocent Christians!
I experienced the world class grifter that her Pastor was back in 1986. His sermon consisted on 60minutes of Republican Party talking points. Why, them tax cuts are biblical, don’t you know!
I walked out of that church and thanks to that pulpit pimp I have NEVER set foot in a church again and I never will go back. Sunday mornings, I’ll just sleep in my bed instead of wasting time in a pew sleeping through a bullshit sermon that glorifies Ayn Rand’s Prosperity Gospel!
Is it possible to ban business taxes at the state level and instead only tax at the federal level, to be reapportioned based on some realistic metric?
re: #304 Dark_Falcon
His true colors were visible long before he decided to run for office.
And a whole hell of a lot of your favorite party is totally willing to go with the bullying. Why? Well, it is what they have done to the Obama administration since day one. Trump’s true colors just happen to blend in with all those Red Republican states. And they cannot change. This is the Republican party now Dark. You just need to face it.
re: #280 Dark_Falcon
The thing is that mayors and governors are not able to see it that way. They have competition with other states and cities that they have to keep ahead of if they want to keep jobs in their jurisdictions. If a state tries to tax its businesses too much then they will shift operations elsewhere. Ditto for a city. Bruce Rauner can’t say to the CEO of a major corp. that “You’ll pay those taxes and like it!” because the CEO will simply reply by moving his HQ and operations to Florida, or Wisconsin, or whoever will give her a better deal. As long as somewhere else is willing to accept less tax for that company’s business, governors must be mindful of competitive pressure.
Or maybe not. MN is picking up a lot of business that is fleeing WI. Especially in the health sciences.
Minnesota is America’s Top State for Business in 2015, reaching the pinnacle of success by way of a much different route than our eight previous winners.
Minnesota scores 1,584 out of a possible 2,500 points, ranking in the top half for all but two of our 10 categories of competitiveness. But what may be most instructive are the categories where Minnesota does not do well. Both involve cost. Indeed, the birthplace of Spam, Scotch Tape and the supercomputer marks a new first this year. Never since we began rating the states in 2007 has a high-tax, high-wage, union-friendly state made it to the top of our rankings. But Minnesota does so well in so many other areas—like education and quality of life—that its cost disadvantages fade away.
The notion that you have to starve education and social services to provide a healthy business climate is pure bullshit. It’s a formula for making your state a rotten place for 90% of it’s citizens to live.
Just watched the Billy Batts scene in Goodfellas. The part at Tommy’s mother’s (played by Martin Scorcese’s mother, Catherine Scorcese, by the way) house never disappoints.
So a state starves itself of revenue by handing out credits like candy to the business class of moochers? Then it grovels with hat in hand to the feds to bail them out?
re: #337 Amory Blaine
So a state starves itself of revenue by handing out credits like candy to the business class of moochers? Then it grovels with hat in hand to the feds to bail them out?
Yep.
Morning all, I guess I’m locked out of twitter or something after I was hacked. Trying to tweet to support & I get this
This request looks like it might be automated. To protect our users from spam and other malicious activity, we can’t complete this action right now. Please try again later.
Do I send them an email or something?
re: #339 Stanley Sea Toujours
An email detailing the circumstances (what happened, when and how you found out, etc.) would be my recommendation.
re: #339 Stanley Sea Toujours
“This request looks like it might be automated.”
An automated response accusing you of being an automated request.
That’s one for the passive aggressive customer “assistance” file.
Hardline teahadists throwing Jeb under the bus. Amusing. Very amusing:
@realDonaldTrump @AdamBlickstein @JebBush #dropoutjeb # #trump2016 #MakeAmericaGreatAgain pic.twitter.com/vJwcnkc0Vq
— Jim A (@weneedjobsnow) October 18, 2015
At a campaign appearance Wednesday, Jeb Bush struggled to remember a thing he said he’d never forget, only this time it had nothing to do with how his brother kept us safe from terrorism apart from the time he didn’t. No, this time it was the unforgettable loss of one of those space shuttles that we lost, that one time, even though it had been right there the night before. It was awful, and seared into his memory, kind of:
re: #340 Archangelus
An email detailing the circumstances (what happened, when and how you found out, etc.) would be my recommendation.
I went through their website support - they sent me a text message code to change my password.
Thanks!
re: #329 Doofus
Snow in Saratoga Springs New York
The one reason that I look forward to the first heavy frost of the autumn is that it kills off the ragweed and my autumn allergy issues start to clear up to a more tolerable level.
re: #344 Stanley Sea Toujours
I went through their website support - they sent me a text message code to change my password.
Thanks!
Yay! Hope it works.
re: #342 Dr. Matt
Pretty much one way to make sure you never ever get my vote and would be loudly publicly shamed if we met, is to exploit 9/11 for campaign/partisan interests. Deeply offensive to me.
Great White Snarkbite, CL set this up perfect.
Trump staring a nuclear intraparty war sure is fun to watch but I’m not so sure it is great for our country. It really is hard to believe that there is not ONE respected grown up voice in that party that anyone will listen to.
Imagine, for one second, if a democrat was saying these things about Bush and 9/11.
re: #349 b.d.
Trump staring a nuclear intraparty war sure is fun to watch but I’m not so sure it is great for our country. It really is hard to believe that there is not ONE respected grown up voice in that party that anyone will listen to.
Might be desirable sooner rather than later for the GOP to have the core meltdown they are going to need in order to return to being a sane alternative party offering policy options beyond “screw the 99%”.
re: #352 Feline Fearless Leader
Maybe when the half of the 99% realizes that they’re voting against themselves.
re: #353 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Maybe when the half of the 99% realizes that they’re voting against themselves.
The 1% are voting against themselves as well unless they are really in a position to be on top in a warlord/feudal society based on who has the biggest and best-trained army. Or they plan to die before things breakdown and don’t give a care about their descendants.
re: #353 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Maybe when the half of the 99% realizes that they’re voting against themselves.
They’re too scared of phantom enemies to realize that they are screwing themselves.
re: #351 Timothy Watson
What the frak? When did Wonkette change their design?
Quite a while ago. Their front page is a total mess.
(although LGF can be a mess too. I just spent three minutes trying to get back to this point after the site became unresponsive and then crashed and burned)
Don’t read the Freeper thread on Donald’s 9/11 comments unless you are needing a reason to grab the bourbon bottle this early.
re: #347 Great White Snark
Pretty much one way to make sure you never ever get my vote and would be loudly publicly shamed if we met, is to exploit 9/11 for campaign/partisan interests. Deeply offensive to me.
I guess Jeb! can forget your vote now:
.@JebBush is now fundraising off Trump’s tweet about 9/11. Subject line: “Help defend my brother” pic.twitter.com/pGusv2oiYR
— Sahil Kapur (@sahilkapur) October 18, 2015
Poor Jeb? probably wasn’t expecting this until after he had the nomination sewed up by December and his media friends would have his back.
Good handegg weather in Buffalo. It’s snow flurries there.
Cats are in the other room enjoying the effect of direct solar radiation on their fur. I’m scanning slides, eating pita chips with hummus, and reading a book with the game on in the background.
Was George W. Bush president on 9/11? An exhaustive investigation into the controversy tearing the GOP apart http://t.co/DpZEtOmERB
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) October 18, 2015
re: #319 jaunte
I’ve had this issue too. Til recently. Mom of the Gun Family recently posted a facebook pic of all their teen/young adults with various kinds of rifles (this is a family “compound” a whole bunch of houses belonging to the kids of one couple. Their kids went to school with my son). One of their kids was holding her rifle so it was pretty much pointed at her sister’s head. Her pregnant sister. The picture disappeared a couple days later and it’s been really quiet over there since. We shall see how long it lasts. I think someone gave this woman some serious shit over that photo, to which I say GOOD.
re: #358 bratwurst
By Harry Truman’s logic, the buck stops with the President. I wonder what Jeb? would say?
re: #358 bratwurst
I guess Jeb! can forget your vote now:
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I thought the standard conservative/Bircher conspiracy theory was that FDR let the Pearl Harbor attacks happen.
And, yes, Reagan should be blamed for sitting our Marines in an unprotected hotel in a warzone with no armed sentries to protect them.
re: #363 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
By Harry Truman’s logic, the buck stops with the President. I wonder what Jeb? would say?
Jeb! would be willing to blame Harry Truman for all sorts of things.
//
I saw this comment elsewhere:
Donald Trump attacking Jeb Bush about Iraq is like a tire fire accusing a paper mill of smelling bad
That sums up my feelings rather well.
re: #332 Amory Blaine
Is it possible to ban business taxes at the state level and instead only tax at the federal level, to be reapportioned based on some realistic metric?
Without a constitutional amendment, no.
re: #365 b.d.
The Russkies got the bomb on Harry’s watch.
heh;
Here’s a free one, @realDonaldTrump: Hey, @jebbush, your brother did a nice job of keeping Osama bin Laden safe.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 18, 2015
Speaking of the Devil. Today’s Doonesbury.
re: #368 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
The Russkies got the bomb on Harry’s watch.
WE SHOULD HAVE LISTENED TO MACARTHUR!
re: #363 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
By Harry Truman’s logic, the buck stops with the President. I wonder what Jeb? would say?
Ha. I see you too are using the question mark after Jeb, instead of the exclamation.
Cool. I don’t know if you picked up from me or not, I was trying to get it started…did this too a few days ago.
re: #358 bratwurst
I guess Jeb! can forget your vote now:
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The mistake Jeb!?; is making is that no one is saying “FDR kept us safe.” Truman never ran on “All except for Pearl Harbor, Frank did a pretty good job.”
Totally OT but here’s the poster for Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens.
re: #373 ObserverArt
It was about a millisecond after the Jeb! rollout. I sometimes try to find an excuse to put Jeb?’s name in a post just so I can do that.
re: #375 Dr Lizardo
Totally OT but here’s the poster for Star Wars Episode 7: The Force Awakens.
The bad guy is looking more and more like Darth Revan.
re: #375 Dr Lizardo
And here’s a link to the high-res version: Image: b5Tf96Y.jpg
re: #377 Timothy Watson
I presume you mean the guy in the Darth Vader suit? (I’ve only seen the very first Star Wars movie). He/she/it actually has a posture like “Cupcakes, anybody?”
re: #379 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I presume you mean the guy in the Darth Vader suit? (I’ve only seen the very first Star Wars movie). He/she/it actually has a posture like “Cupcakes, anybody?”
Darth Revan, a character in the Knights of the Old Republic videogame series and other Expanded Universe (EU) content.
starwars.wikia.com (Massive spoilers at the link)
re: #288 The Vicious Babushka
Out of nowhere after I replied to him:
@LonnieMask @Nodisregard @13wam @viciousbabushka @cmadmax @Wash_Fire And by the way…ALL LIVES MATTER! Now beat it.
— John Swinford (@AG2Pearl) October 18, 2015
re: #381 Belafon
Out of nowhere after I replied to him:
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I blocked that fucker, but not before posting this==>
The Gay Patriot who Helped Washington’s Army Win The Revolution #tcot #UniteBlue #LGBT http://t.co/TBJd5KmfXl pic.twitter.com/8gXXsmarp1
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 18, 2015
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