because sometimes the tree of liberty must be watered by the blood of deltas
― goole, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
rip, j bateman
― reggie (qualmsley), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't know where to put this so i'm putting it here
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8772014
Is homophobia associated with homosexual arousal?Adams HE, Wright LW Jr, Lohr BA.Source
Department of Psychology, University of Georgia, Athens 30602-3013, USA.Abstract
The authors investigated the role of homosexual arousal in exclusively heterosexual men who admitted negative affect toward homosexual individuals. Participants consisted of a group of homophobic men (n = 35) and a group of nonhomophobic men (n = 29); they were assigned to groups on the basis of their scores on the Index of Homophobia (W. W. Hudson & W. A. Ricketts, 1980). The men were exposed to sexually explicit erotic stimuli consisting of heterosexual, male homosexual, and lesbian videotapes, and changes in penile circumference were monitored. They also completed an Aggression Questionnaire (A. H. Buss & M. Perry, 1992). Both groups exhibited increases in penile circumference to the heterosexual and female homosexual videos. Only the homophobic men showed an increase in penile erection to male homosexual stimuli. The groups did not differ in aggression. Homophobia is apparently associated with homosexual arousal that the homophobic individual is either unaware of or denies.
science!
― goole, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean, i could dig up a bunch of the really gross anti-vaughan walker stuff that's out there, but that's good enough probably.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
haaaaaaaaaaaaa
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
I want to see the Index of Homophobia
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also, some guys were really interested in getting their penile circumference measured. We're not saying, we're just saying.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
rescued from the jaws of anarcho-misogyny:
http://www.youtube.com/v/EZ3B8WvVjL4&fs=1&hl=en
from the guy who brought you:
http://www.youtube.com/v/s-IwcTjAI4w&fs=1&hl=en
and
http://www.youtube.com/v/jU7fhIO7DG0&fs=1&hl=en
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:51 AM (46 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
and then this
http://www.tampabay.com/news/education/k12/tea-party-group-offers-summer-camp/1175119
"We want to impart to our children what our nation is about, and what they may or may not be told," Lukens said. He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness. We are a faithful people, and when you talk about natural law, you have to talk about God. When you take that out of the discussion, you miss the whole thing." Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages. One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value. "Some of the kids will fall for it," Lukens said. "Others kids will wise up." Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World). Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility. Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles. "What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom," Lukens said. While the Liberty school is the first of its kind in the Tampa Bay area, Lukens said a group in Kentucky ran a similar school, and he learned from their ideas. There is room for 40 students in the Tampa school and as of Monday, eight had signed up. The fee is $15.
He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness. We are a faithful people, and when you talk about natural law, you have to talk about God. When you take that out of the discussion, you miss the whole thing."
Tampa Liberty is modeled after vacation Bible schools, which use fun, hands-on activities to deliver Christian messages.
One example at Liberty: Children will win hard, wrapped candies to use as currency for a store, symbolizing the gold standard. On the second day, the "banker" will issue paper money instead. Over time, students will realize their paper money buys less and less, while the candies retain their value.
"Some of the kids will fall for it," Lukens said. "Others kids will wise up."
Another example: Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe, the children will pass through an obstacle course to arrive at a brightly decorated party room (the New World).
Red-white-and-blue confetti will be thrown. But afterward the kids will have to clean up the confetti, learning that with freedom comes responsibility.
Still another example: Children will blow bubbles from a single container of soapy solution, and then pop each other's bubbles with squirt guns in an arrangement that mimics socialism. They are to count how many bubbles they pop. Then they will work with individual bottles of solution and pop their own bubbles.
"What they will find out is that you can do a lot more with individual freedom," Lukens said.
While the Liberty school is the first of its kind in the Tampa Bay area, Lukens said a group in Kentucky ran a similar school, and he learned from their ideas.
There is room for 40 students in the Tampa school and as of Monday, eight had signed up. The fee is $15.
pareene zing:
The children will be rewarded for disobeying rules, because camp counselors have no authority under the 10th Amendment.
http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/06/14/tea_party_summer_camp
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 9:52 AM (45 minutes ago) Bookmark
― goole, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wtf???
― The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
heh, i couldnt figure that one out at all either
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
that is the perfect harmless encapsulation of "didn't really think that analogy through"
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
like, it would make more sense if they first dumped all of the solution into a large bucket and made kids line up for it, but you know they are just going to be passing around one small bottle of bubbles
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
socialism seems more like a competitive market
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
so, instead of relying on the fed to pop bubbles, we have to pop... our own bubbles? and that's what the bubbles represent. bubbles.
― goole, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
He said he was not familiar with public school curriculum, but, "I do know they have a lot of political correctness."
I am pretty sure that some people listen to stuff like this and nod fiercely, but I'm just sitting here marveling at the holes in logic you could drive a bus through.
― mh, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't wait for us to go whole hog and disband our awful collectivist institutions like the fire dept and the military.
― The blue and the dim and the dark cloths of (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
Starting in an austere room where they are made to sit quietly, symbolizing Europe...
Question, how does one begin to symbolize Europe? I suppose sitting quietly is a start...
― i can't, i won't (Ned Trifle II), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm not sure what this "circumference mesauring device" was but there's a good chance that it
― frogbs, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:46 (1 year ago) Permalink
how are they going to fill a week, is my other question
everything they've listed so far could be knocked out in an afternoon
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
It takes a while to explain how Thomas Jefferson was a devout Xtian, iIrc.
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
most summer camps have a lot of filler time tbh
― iatee, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I suppose sitting quietly is a start...
As opposed to our great American tradition of sitting noisily
none of the kids will pay attention to that lecture because they will be too busy eating their money
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
LOL, a bunch of sugar-rushed kids running around yelling, "Snocialism is evil! USA! USA! USA!"
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
which kid is going to be the one to figure out that they can suck on the candy, rewrap it, and trade it in for new candy
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Next head of the RNC
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
god it's like those summer library programs where kids participate in fun storytime activities but instead of pretending to be pirates or knights or princesses or hardy boys they get to pretend to be miniature versions of their embittered parents
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
srsly, they have their entire adulthood for that
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's interesting how much this mindset doesn't like learning but loves teaching, usually the simplest, most rote bs possible.
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm tired of people promoting US political viewpoints by projecting them on the founding fathers. It's 2011, those guys lived before 1800, shit changes. We've got a shitload of laws, amendments, and judicial judgments since then and we have a pretty stable landscape, so stop acting like your great idea is "more faithful to the original intentions" or some other bullshit.
It's like they're afraid to recognize that we've had decent ideas and they keep having to dig up Thomas Jefferson to put words in his mouth.
― mh, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
"Can one generation bind another, and all others, in succession forever? I think not. The Creator has made the earth for the living, not the dead. Rights and powers can only belong to persons, not to things, not to mere matter endowed with will..." - TJ, 1824
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh snap
― Mr. Patrick Batman (WmC), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm still trying to figure out the bubble popping -- maybe i guess the bubble solution stands for "capital" and popping bubbles stands for, idk, "profit"? so it's supposed to teach them how many more bubbles they can pop / profit they can earn when they all have their own bubble solution / capital? no fucking clue. jesus.
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
― goole, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:18 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
<3 u sir
― BIG STEVEN TYLER aka the monarcho-egalitarian (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
the bubble popping = fun
basically, they are trying to say socialism is bad because it makes you ration your fun, but they are doing so in a spectacularly stupid manner
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
can't believe jay batman returned and i was asleep ;_;
― markers, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
wait, he got sb'd? ;_; rip lolz
― markers, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
mod banned iirc
― burberry kush (elmo argonaut), Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
ah, thx -- goodnight sweet knight
― markers, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
wanted to respond to this from the now locked og batman thread:
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, June 13, 2011 6:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink(Markers you magnificent bastard <3 If ever a gif was appropriate it's this one, made before this Batmeltdown on here)― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, June 13, 2011 6:49 PM
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, June 13, 2011 6:48 PM (2 days ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
(Markers you magnificent bastard <3 If ever a gif was appropriate it's this one, made before this Batmeltdown on here)
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Monday, June 13, 2011 6:49 PM
lmao <3 awesome move & full cred 2 u now and forever for bringing that image into a jb context
― markers, Wednesday, 15 June 2011 20:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thin-skinned WND douchebag to sue Esquire, doesn't understand parody/satire law is fairly settled.
― Shart Shaped Box (Phil D.), Friday, 17 June 2011 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's not the founding fathers these dudes love, it's the romantic idea of the founding fathers, which absolves them of responsibility for the present. What did the founding fathers think about the income tax, health care, abortion, oil, war in the middle east, etc? Pretty much nothing.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 17 June 2011 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
well hasn't that always been the thing with these dorks? strict constitutionalists that also like to bloviate about what the founders would have thought about modern developments. it's like one or the other, guys
― all the pretty HOOSes (gbx), Friday, 17 June 2011 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
hitchens evisceration of mamets book is pretty good but even funnier than hitch's review are the actual quotes from the book, such as
"The BP gulf oil leak . . . was bad. The leak of thousands of classified military documents by Julian Assange on WikiLeaks was good. Why?"
― ☂ (max), Saturday, 18 June 2011 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
shockingly, wingnutdaily "op-ed" begins: "I know this sounds crazy."
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=312393
Yet, all it would take is for one state to recognize that – real or fraudulent – the document he released affirms he does not meet the requirements of a "natural born citizen." In fact, he is a walking, talking, breathing example of what a "natural born citizen" is not – complete with the dual loyalties the founders feared.
June 18, 2011
― reggie (qualmsley), Saturday, 18 June 2011 19:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
how are they going to fill a week, is my other questioneverything they've listed so far could be knocked out in an afternoon― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:47 PM (3 days ago)
― anarcho-misogynist puppies (DJP), Wednesday, June 15, 2011 3:47 PM (3 days ago)
lets be fair given the parenting that leads to sending your kids to something like this odds are the kids will be a little slow
― lemon kerrang! (jjjusten), Saturday, 18 June 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
If I were as prone to sloganizing as Mamet, I’d keep clear of bumper-sticker comparisons altogether.
I wonder what a smart but mislead writer like Mamet thinks about being taken down by an equally smart writer who a) can't be easily dismissed as an idiot and b) can't be dismissed a mere ideological analog? I bet a Mamet response would be predictably bellicose, but surely he'd recognize, at least privately, that he just got his ass kicked in public.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 18 June 2011 20:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
otm and the moment I finished the Hitchens review I googled around to see if Mamet had responded. Hitchens was the perfect person to get to review that book.
― Mordy, Saturday, 18 June 2011 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mamet is crazy and will continue to be crazy.
― little mushroom person (abanana), Saturday, 18 June 2011 22:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/167205-obama-addresses-gop-leadership-conference-
― goole, Saturday, 18 June 2011 22:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
i know we have a lawless warmonger in office and all but that shit is hilarious
― markers, Wednesday, June 15, 2011 10:23 PM (4 days ago) Bookmark
<3 <3 <3
― ...wow! (Le Bateau Ivre), Saturday, 18 June 2011 23:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
complete with the dual loyalties the founders feared
Know what else the founders feared? Getting sick and going to the doctor and HAVING LEECHES SUCK OUT THEIR BLOOD. Also smallpox, scurvy, and baths.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 18 June 2011 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Get a life, lib dopes. There's nothing wrong with laughing at some well-written n|i|gger jokes.Semper Fi!BY PROUD CONSERVATIVE on 06/18/2011 at 17:56
Semper Fi!BY PROUD CONSERVATIVE on 06/18/2011 at 17:56
ffs
― chupacabra - a delicious burrito (DJP), Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm more offended by the idea that the jokes were well-written
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 June 2011 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
need to work on the drawn out end credits
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 23 June 2011 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
not interesting in and of itself, but evidence that the PUA-dudebro and basic 'conservative' webworlds are well connected
http://pajamasmedia.com/instapundit/122966/
― ~edgy~ (goole), Friday, 24 June 2011 21:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Why the hell would you link to that from a political blog and reference PUA unless you have some weird thing about women?
― mh, Friday, 24 June 2011 22:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
The right has some weird thing about women.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 24 June 2011 23:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
FYI
What the hell?? John McCain blames the illegals for the wildfires in AZ...
― Jesse, Saturday, 25 June 2011 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/sovereign_citizen_thrown_out_of_pizza_chain_bankru.php
The case centers around Giordano's owner John Apostolou, who was forced to give up his control of the pizza chain, which he's owned since 1988, after his businesses fell into $45.5 million worth of debt. The chain has been under bankruptcy protection since February, but Apostolou only lost control after he submitted some court filings in the style of the sovereign citizen movement. One filing declared that Apostolous and his wife are "American Freemen, free inhabitants of the Illinois state, and we find it impossible to obtain State declared Legal Tender at Law." They also said they don't believe in U.S. currency or the legal system, typical beliefs of sovereign citizens, who generally consider almost all branches of the U.S. government to be illegitimate.
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 30 June 2011 01:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I LOVE THESE GUYS
when can we a pynchon book about these effing wackos
I knew their pizza was wrong somehow!
― mh, Thursday, 30 June 2011 05:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
What did people pay for their pizza with? Was it some kind of barter system?
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 30 June 2011 06:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg Girodano's!
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 30 June 2011 11:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
so, reading into this a little, the pizza man, in dire straits, did some up some 'halp with taxes' searches on the internet, and ran into the sovereign dudes, and then hired one?
― ~edgy~ (goole), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, seems like it
― ☂ (max), Thursday, 30 June 2011 13:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
iirc something similar happened to wesley snipes, though i dont think it was specifically a sovcit type
You don't need to google the truth.
― textbook blows on the head (dowd), Thursday, 30 June 2011 16:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
LOL:
The rules set up by Mall of America officials for Sarah and Bristol Palin's book signing yesterday seemed to have been written in anticipation of an army of fans."'Camping out' is not allowed," the rules read. "Beginning at 5 a.m., guests will be allowed to line up."But there was no teeming crowd of rabid Palinites at 5 a.m. And less than a half hour into the appearance of Bristol, Sarah, and Todd Palin, the crowd had dwindled to a trickle of latecomers.
"'Camping out' is not allowed," the rules read. "Beginning at 5 a.m., guests will be allowed to line up."
But there was no teeming crowd of rabid Palinites at 5 a.m. And less than a half hour into the appearance of Bristol, Sarah, and Todd Palin, the crowd had dwindled to a trickle of latecomers.
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
did some up some 'halp with taxes' searches on the internet, and ran into the sovereign dudes, and then hired one
what did he pay with? a hog? goods and services?
― j., Thursday, 30 June 2011 18:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pizza.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
does he trade pizzas to his customers?
― j., Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
sign me up for this pizza based economic model
― brownie, Thursday, 30 June 2011 19:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
That will be a 50-pizza registration fee, please.
― you're in the club and the light hits your ass like pow (Laurel), Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
do you take calzones
― brownie, Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
What are you, some kind of foreigner?
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 30 June 2011 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
speaking of batshit summer camps:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2011/06/29/137478762/the-tuesday-podcast-libertarian-summer-camp
― gr8080+ (gr8080), Friday, 1 July 2011 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
From one of the first comments:
I've considered myself a Libertarian for many years, but have to say that I found their views a bit extreme. I didn't know that there were some branches of Libertarianism that were against government regulating food or medicine safety.
iow, I've been calling myself a libertarian because it sounds nice, but I have never taken the slightest effort to discover what "libertarian" might mean.
― Aimless, Friday, 1 July 2011 18:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
when I was in high school, there was maybe a 15-minute window where I thought the concept of libertarianism was worth investigating; those 15 minutes ended when I realized the person I was discussing this with was a disenfranchised just-slightly-short-of-being-racist douche who considered the Civil Rights Act to be an overreach of government
― DJP, Friday, 1 July 2011 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think that anyone who is an actual Libertarian has to think that! The rest are just enthralled with the romanticism of some ideas, imo
― mh, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
whenever i take that "political compass" test (something i've been doing for what seems like decades now), i wind up deep in left/libertarian territory, between the little "dalai lama" and "nelson mandela" dots.
Economic Left/Right: -4.88Social Libertarian/Authoritarian: -5.69
this inclined me, once upon a time, to think that i might actually be a libertarian. at least until i found out what actual, real-world "libertarians" were all about. now i have no home. :(
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Friday, 1 July 2011 19:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
come on yall, there is such a thing as left libertarianism
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
these dudes are doing pretty good work on the subject
http://bleedingheartlibertarians.com/
I prefer to call that anarcho-communism, myself.
xposts, maybe
― emil.y, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also, anyone who like Nozick is not left-wing.
― emil.y, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
*likes
notice, if you actually read the thing, that the guy isn't uncritically embracing nozick
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
I was an honest to god registered libertarian in 1992 because my roommate told me that libertarians were pro-marijuana legalization and I was too high to look into it any further. I was with my other roommate when he registered to vote as a member of the "People's Pot Party." We were awesome.
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, 1 July 2011 19:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
and i've played the atomic microscope hairsplitting game for years, i'm not interested in whether its mutualism or anarcho-communism or left libertarianism or whatever: if it gets people working together to build a free society you can call it starbucksism for all i care. xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
― phantoms from a world gone by speak again the immortal tale: (Jenny), Friday, July 1, 2011 3:17 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink
<3
― horseshoe, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just like the sound of anarcho-communism
― g++ (gbx), Friday, 1 July 2011 19:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
like communism but WAY MORE ANARCHY
― j., Friday, 1 July 2011 19:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
like communism, but way more spiders
― jackie tretorn (elmo argonaut), Friday, 1 July 2011 19:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh wait
xp Except the people now calling themselves anarchists are some pretty huge douchebags, tbh.
― Aimless, Friday, 1 July 2011 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually that sounds even better.
― j., Friday, 1 July 2011 19:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
OTM, and so are most of the people calling themselves "communists," which makes it real damn hard to do what a HOOS is talking abt, working together to build a free society.
main problem, tbph, is that i don't really believe in "free society." it sounds like an oxymoron to me. we sacrifice some of the freedom we might have as individuals whenever we enter social space (i.e. the presence of other human beings). and that's cool, that loss of freedom is, or at least can be, a good thing. it allows us to coexist. furthermore, to exist in social relations is to exist in a social matrix or organization, and as conflicts arise within social organizations, an implied state emerges. power exists in any social relation, and power simply will have its way. the recognition and formalization of existing power relations = the state. again, this is inevitable and should be seen as neither a good nor a bad thing.
moreover, i believe in inequity. not saying that i believe it exists (it does, of course), but that i believe in it, deeply. i take inequality to be the fundamental condition of all life. i do not oppose it or wish i could wish it away, i simply want to manage it in pursuit of what i see as the best possible outcomes.
in short, i see the essential qualities of human social organization not as extensions of philosophies, paradigms we might alter simply by changing our points of view, but as inescapable reflections of the fact that we are living organisms. the most basic truths are these: that power exist, that power will have its way, and that power is inherently inequitable. i do not oppose any of this. all sane and sensible political philosophy must accept these principles without objection and work out from there.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Friday, 1 July 2011 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
apologies if this has been posted:http://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/2011/06/america-right-huckabee-libertarian-evangelical-cruise/
lots o wtf in this, but the fact that this dipshit can manage to do this in the same interview is... something
“Back at a Republican primary debate in 2007, the candidates were asked to discuss the economy. They each praised 30 months of uninterrupted growth under George W Bush. Then came Huckabee’s turn. “I had the audacity to say that if you’re sitting in the director’s office, I guess the economy is doing swimmingly well. But if you go out there and talk to the people who drive cabs, and lift luggage, and haul these big heavy trays to the banquet halls where the nice people come and dine, they’re going to tell you the economy’s not doing real well for them. To this day I’m looked at as the guy who misspoke on the economy.”…
“I’d repeal the 16th Amendment,” Huckabee tells me. That’s the one that created the income tax in 1913. Originally imposed only on wealthy citizens, it was the cornerstone of the effort to ensure that the US didn’t develop a European-style hereditary aristocracy. It’s a classic progressive tax: the more you earn, the more you pay. Huckabee would also eliminate the estate, gift, and capital gains tax; privatise Medicare through a voucher system.
― je suis marxiste - tendence Groucho (will), Friday, 1 July 2011 20:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
i've never thought of Huck as particularly stupid, but i really don't know what else can you make of it
― je suis marxiste - tendence Groucho (will), Friday, 1 July 2011 20:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
you can make of it
when I was in high school, there was maybe a 15-minute window where I thought the concept of libertarianism was worth investigating
haha, yes
for me it was when I was driving a delivery van and since I had no hope of ever receiving a decent raise (I think I made a dollar more an hour after four years) I figured the libertarians would abolish taxes and I could afford to buy a Gibson SG.
― brownie, Friday, 1 July 2011 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
long story short my entire house is now built entirely out of Gibosn SG's
― brownie, Friday, 1 July 2011 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
man, some of the writing on that "bleeding heart libertarians" blog is bugging the hell out of me:
So why might libertarians, and bleeding heart ones at that, argue that markets should be free of government regulations?The short answer, which I will assert here and defend below, is that whatever the intent behind government regulation of markets, it almost always ends up working in the interest of the rich and powerful and does little to protect the interest of those with modest means and little access to power. If a commitment to social justice demands that we care first and foremost about the least well off among us, supporting government regulation may well violate that commitment.
The short answer, which I will assert here and defend below, is that whatever the intent behind government regulation of markets, it almost always ends up working in the interest of the rich and powerful and does little to protect the interest of those with modest means and little access to power. If a commitment to social justice demands that we care first and foremost about the least well off among us, supporting government regulation may well violate that commitment.
this is unsupported, unsupportable bullshit. government regulation of markets, enterprise and trade has proved itself hugely beneficial to the poor and powerless over and over again. we can thank the action of governments for child labor laws; for the (perhaps grudging) recognition and support of labor & trade unions; for consumer & worker protection laws of various sorts; for the regulation of banks, brokerages and investment firms; for minimum wages, weekends and limited workweeks; etc.
all of these constitute "regulation" or limitation of the freedom of entities in the marketplace, and they're all good things, to the extent that they're designed well and applied thoughtfully.
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Friday, 1 July 2011 20:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
it almost always ends up working in the interest of the rich and powerful and does little to protect the interest of those with modest means and little access to power
A free and unrestrained market would never do this though...
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 July 2011 22:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I can't answer that one for him, and I definitely won't pretend I've read, agree with, or am prepared to defend every contradictory word these dozen people have written, but these aren't are a bunch of hacks--they're intelligent guys trying to start a conversation that goes further than "you're a heartless moneybag hoarder" met with "you're a communist that wants to take my Bible." I do think it's interesting that in the long conversation sparked by the post you quoted, no one raised that particular point--they were mostly arguing from more arcane positions--but now that you've raised the point its absence does seem conspicuous. I'll raise it myself and keep track of the responses.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 1 July 2011 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp That seems to be central idiocy in the Libertarian talking points i have heard, like: oh well, Government agencies have been corrupted and bribed by big monied interests and are ineffective at protecting the rights of individuals, Might as well do away with the EPA then! rather then trying to you know fix it.
― dsb, Friday, 1 July 2011 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
libertarians are generally good on social issues (tho many of them aren't -- viz a viz ron paul and wanting to repeal birthright citizenship, the civil rights act, etc.), which i think is usually what gets ppl into it in the first place. it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you. but believing the hardcore libertarian line on economic stuff involves buying into so many convoluted justifications for abolishing lots of things that seem self-evidently good (like giving the government the right to regulate food and medicine) that i think a lot of ppl just ignore it and stick to complaining about the government stealing their money.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Friday, 1 July 2011 23:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
― g++ (gbx), Friday, 1 July 2011 23:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
i was trying to explain libertarianism to my buddy today and i wish i'd had that at my disposal
― g++ (gbx), Friday, 1 July 2011 23:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's like being a liberal without having to give a shit about the fact that there are people poorer than you.
oh, it's kind of like what the Obama administration has become!
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Saturday, 2 July 2011 01:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
― KARLOR CAN FUCK ANYTHING! AND HE WILL AND HAS!!! (Eisbaer), Saturday, July 2, 2011 1:17 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark
without the liberal part...
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 2 July 2011 02:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
would yall fucking stop
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Saturday, 2 July 2011 05:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
love a HOOS, but i love a gubbamint too
― And the piano, it sounds like a carnivore (contenderizer), Saturday, 2 July 2011 06:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
non-sequitor in the context of whatever discussion's going down in this thread right now (i'm not following along), but important in the context of the bigger picture of ilx right wing threads in 2011
― ⓢⓤⓟⓘⓕⓨⓞⓤ©ⓐⓝⓡⓔⓐⓓⓣⓗⓘⓢ (markers), Monday, 4 July 2011 04:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
. . .
― ⓢⓤⓟⓘⓕⓨⓞⓤ©ⓐⓝⓡⓔⓐⓓⓣⓗⓘⓢ (markers), Monday, 4 July 2011 04:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
all those moments will be lost in time
― mookieproof, Monday, 4 July 2011 04:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
like bamans in the rain
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 4 July 2011 05:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 16:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
does that guy's shirt say "yup. i'm a racist" ?
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
yup
― g++ (gbx), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
The other one says "Everything I need to know about Islam I learned on 9/11."
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
I like the guy wearing a fubu shirt in the backgroundsingin393 12 hours ago
― gr8080+ (gr8080), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 17:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
had that same thought
― the day the world turned dayo, u kno u kno (goole), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 17:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
they think they're so clever...
u crazy for this one marshall home:
Fringe activist Marshall Home, who has filed a series of court documents to try to take over the bankruptcy case of Chicago pizza chain Giordano’s, was put behind bars on Friday.Home was arrested in Tucson, Ariz., in connection with court papers he filed to try to force the United States into bankruptcy—a separate case that Home used as part of a fraudulent scam to help struggling homeowners keep their properties, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. That bankruptcy case, which was thrown out of court on May 18, led authorities to charge Home with two felony counts of filing false claims in bankruptcy court.
Home was arrested in Tucson, Ariz., in connection with court papers he filed to try to force the United States into bankruptcy—a separate case that Home used as part of a fraudulent scam to help struggling homeowners keep their properties, according to the U.S. attorney’s office. That bankruptcy case, which was thrown out of court on May 18, led authorities to charge Home with two felony counts of filing false claims in bankruptcy court.
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Before the case was dismissed, Home falsely stated that he had financial claims worth more than $3 billion against the U.S., according to the criminal complaint.
keep on keepin on, marsh
― ☂ (max), Tuesday, 5 July 2011 23:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
this guy is a straussian, haha remember them
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/03/books/review/book-review-aristotles-nicomachean-ethics.html
a little difft from the shit we chew over itt but, like, every sentence is rong
― the day the world turned dayo, u kno u kno (goole), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 00:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
is that what strauss taught? just make a bunch of unsupported and unsupportable statements?
― the day the world turned dayo, u kno u kno (goole), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 00:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
also he manages to start this thing by not getting a joke
This one is almost unexcerptable: http://www.hoover.org/publications/defining-ideas/article/84536
A taste:
So that brings us back to corporate jets, which are modest affairs compared to Air Force One. The last thing we want to do is tax corporate executives and make them pay more for their business comfort. If the current tax accounting rules prevent a disguised transfer of income to these executives, they should be retained. If they are too lax, they should be fixed. The object of a good set of tax rules is to get an accurate measure of income, no matter what the state of the economy.The big mistake in this area, therefore, is to assume that further restrictions on corporate jets necessarily result in more revenue for scholarships or food programs, as the president has claimed. The calculations are parallel to those made for the president.Take a chief executive officer who earns ten times as much as the president does per hour. What is gained by stranding him in an airport, having him wait with countless other travelers—whose time is not worth one percent of his time—to catch a plane that might not get him to his final destination?
The big mistake in this area, therefore, is to assume that further restrictions on corporate jets necessarily result in more revenue for scholarships or food programs, as the president has claimed. The calculations are parallel to those made for the president.
Take a chief executive officer who earns ten times as much as the president does per hour. What is gained by stranding him in an airport, having him wait with countless other travelers—whose time is not worth one percent of his time—to catch a plane that might not get him to his final destination?
― Michael Bay, CEO of Transformers (Phil D.), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 00:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
The President of the United States is not a fucking corporate CEO, no matter how much people try to spin it that way.
― mh, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 00:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
wow that jaffa review is a total mess
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 00:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
"review"
Jeez. This prat presumes that unless corporate jets are subsidized, the CEO of Exxon or Disney will naturally be bumped out of his jet and into commercial air travel? If his time is that fraking valuable, he'll let the company pay the small amount of tax involved and save his super-expensive time. More silliness as the silly season approaches.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 00:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
im actually sort of mad about the aristotle thing. there is so much to be said about aristotle... and you guys hired someone who actually wanted to write about leo effing strauss??? [said to nytbr editors]
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 01:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know, right? Apparently these companies are going to go down the tubes if their air travel prices go up.
If his time is that valuable WHY DON'T THEY GET WITH THIS CENTURY AND TELECOMMUTE
― mh, Wednesday, 6 July 2011 01:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
f the current tax accounting rules prevent a disguised transfer of income to these executives, they should be retained. If they are too lax, they should be fixed.
you got it, dickhole!
xp yeah i'm really amazed that stuff like that [review] passes for... anything.
― the day the world turned dayo, u kno u kno (goole), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 01:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thomas Aquinas, writing in the 13th century, believed that in the “Ethics” Aristotle had said everything needful for happiness in this life. Thus Aquinas did not write his own book on ethics, but instead wrote a commentary on Aristotle. This tradition was extended by the greatest political philosopher of the 20th century, Leo Strauss, who wrote that all his work had no other purpose than to address “the crisis of the West.”But what is the West? And what is its crisis? According to Strauss (and many others), the West is the civilization constituted at its core by the coming together of classical philosophy and biblical revelation. The vitality of Western civilization results from the interplay of these alternative principles, though each contains within itself what claims to be exclusive and irrefutable authority. Symbolic of this authority are Athens and Jerusalem. In “The Second World War,” Churchill remarks that everything valuable in modern life and thought is an inheritance from these ancient cities. The debunking both of Socratic skepticism (“the unexamined life is not worth living”) and of biblical faith (“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”) has led to the crisis of the West, a chaos of moral relativism and philosophic nihilism in which every lifestyle, no matter how corrupt or degenerate, can be said to be as good as any other.In their brilliant and highly readable “Interpretive Essay” Bartlett and Collins suggest, without positively asserting, that Aristotle offers a solution to the problem, or crisis, of human well-being. But they seem to doubt whether it can meet the challenge of the God of Abraham. But these two principles are not adversarial in all respects. Indeed, much of Strauss’s work is a radical attack — made with the greatest intellectual competence — against the latter-day enemies of both the Bible and a Socratic Aristotle. Strauss maintained that Athens and Jerusalem, while disagreeing on the ultimate good, disagree very little, if at all, on what constitutes a morality both good in itself and the pathway to a higher good.
But what is the West? And what is its crisis? According to Strauss (and many others), the West is the civilization constituted at its core by the coming together of classical philosophy and biblical revelation. The vitality of Western civilization results from the interplay of these alternative principles, though each contains within itself what claims to be exclusive and irrefutable authority. Symbolic of this authority are Athens and Jerusalem. In “The Second World War,” Churchill remarks that everything valuable in modern life and thought is an inheritance from these ancient cities. The debunking both of Socratic skepticism (“the unexamined life is not worth living”) and of biblical faith (“Fear of the Lord is the beginning of wisdom”) has led to the crisis of the West, a chaos of moral relativism and philosophic nihilism in which every lifestyle, no matter how corrupt or degenerate, can be said to be as good as any other.
In their brilliant and highly readable “Interpretive Essay” Bartlett and Collins suggest, without positively asserting, that Aristotle offers a solution to the problem, or crisis, of human well-being. But they seem to doubt whether it can meet the challenge of the God of Abraham. But these two principles are not adversarial in all respects. Indeed, much of Strauss’s work is a radical attack — made with the greatest intellectual competence — against the latter-day enemies of both the Bible and a Socratic Aristotle. Strauss maintained that Athens and Jerusalem, while disagreeing on the ultimate good, disagree very little, if at all, on what constitutes a morality both good in itself and the pathway to a higher good.
WHAT ON EARTH DOES THIS HAVE TO DO WITH THE NICOMACHEAN ETHICS
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 01:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
the whole line of thinking is so cult-like, "we know what we're doing, shut the fuck up". none of what jaffa writes there can reduce to anything else.
― the day the world turned dayo, u kno u kno (goole), Wednesday, 6 July 2011 01:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
do goons know who this guy is? "the crack emcee"? he's a bay area guy i guess
anyway, he's some kind of tea partyish type dude now
http://www.themachoresponse.com/crackMC/wordpress/
― goole, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
both the Bible and a Socratic Aristotle
...a Socratic whosis? wtf is this supposed to mean; nothing denoted by Socratic overlaps with that which is denoted by Aristotelean. But it sounds "intelligent", if you like high-flown nonsense.
― Aimless, Thursday, 7 July 2011 19:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
is that crack mc who did the last track on consolidated's Play More Music LP? 0_0
― YOUTUBE ...the people over there tell the truth. (stevie), Saturday, 9 July 2011 10:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
― ☂ (max), Monday, 11 July 2011 23:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Reminds me of http://shakespeareassholes.wordpress.com/
― emil.y, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
I don't think that guy knows how circumcision works
― mh, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
gold mine
― you will know queer obama by his fruits (JoeStork), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
tempted to create a 'queer' username for satan (queer)
― mookieproof, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
― gr8080, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Everyday is a Whining Choad (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I feel so bad for that poor family that woke up on their camping trip without realizing some right wing nutjob had pasted over half their Winnebago with batshit buffoonery. Oh, well. They'll catch it at the next rest stop, for sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 00:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
There's an oddly misplaced "LOVE NOT HATE" in the middle of that guy's car. Maybe he just needs to proofread more thoroughly.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also i hope he does realize there are three 6's on his own license plate.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 12 July 2011 02:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
(Wh)oregon plates too
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 12 July 2011 13:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
so the vicious union thugs who assaulted kenneth gladney were acquitted of misdemeanor charges (some good nutty quotes here: http://stlactivisthub.blogspot.com/2011/07/reminder-of-how-tea-party-used-kenneth.html)
dana loesch, editor in chief of big journalism, p sure its a conspiracy:
http://bigjournalism.com/dloesch/2011/07/12/no-justice-gladney-attackers-found-not-guilty/#more-207672
comments on this are a trip
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
conservatives on some weird racial shit given that gladney is black and the seiu guys are white
breitbart thinks it was a hate crime
― ☂ (max), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
money wins cases, yo
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
I haven't seen dude's ER records, but I kind of doubt anyone not in the courtroom has, either. But judging from the verdict, the video, and the ridiculous commentary, I think I'm going to call this myth busted.
(soon to be on discovery channel)
― mh, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
What you MUST remember is that St. Louis is probably THE most pro-union city in the Midwest. There is actually a city ordinance there that you, as a householder, MUST hire a union plumber to fix a leaking faucet. You may NOT fix it yourself legally. Of course, that's ignored regularly, but the mere existence of that ordinance shows you what you're up against in St. Louie.
― Jesse, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
huh, here's a phrase i hadn't run into before:
http://www.google.com/search?q=%22Cold+Civil+War%22
― goole, Wednesday, 13 July 2011 22:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
I've been using that phrase since approximately Jan 20th, 2009.
― natalie imbroglio (suzy), Wednesday, 13 July 2011 22:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
C'mon, look at the election of 1800, this country has been constantly in a state of cold civil war with the exception of 1861-1865. It's called democratic politics.
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Thursday, 14 July 2011 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.alec.org
h/t pareene.
― goole, Thursday, 14 July 2011 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol my mom's old boss (who on occasion employed a teenage gr8080) is quoted in this article:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/columnists/ct-met-kass-0714-20110714,0,7101950.column
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
maybe the wrong thread but w/e
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
goole:
http://www.alecexposed.org/wiki/ALEC_Exposed
― in an arrangement that mimics idiocy (Michael White), Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty novel idea, i must admit
instead of running everything you want through the national legislature, just run the same awful shit through the 50 states at the same time! federalism!!
― goole, Thursday, 14 July 2011 20:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
“…I can’t help but be a little bit cynical here. Because we find out the president has a big birthday bash scheduled for August the 3rd, celebrities flying in from all over. And lo and behold, August 2nd is the deadline for getting something done so he can have this massive, the biggest fundraising dinner in history for a birthday celebration. […] Isn’t that amazing? The timing of this?”
http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal/2011_07/gohmert_heritage_foundation_sh030941.php
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 July 2011 19:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
That Obama-- trying to finish the debt deal just so he can have a big blowout back in Chicago...
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 July 2011 19:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
Always disappointed that the commentators have no idea how to match the tone at Pareene's current gig, as opposed to his last two. Say what you will about Gawker or Wonkette, at least their peanut galleries have something akin to self-awareness.
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Monday, 18 July 2011 19:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://thehill.com/homenews/house/172431-republicans-approve-cut-cap-and-balance?page=1#comments
Most of these comments...Wow
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 15:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
this started on the NRO thread, but the o.g. article is really something
http://blogs.forbes.com/richardminiter/2011/07/18/why-the-democratic-party-is-doomed/
The Democrats are a coalition, forged in the New Deal, of diverse interests that do not get along well. Imagine the deer-hunting union member sitting down with the vegetarian college professor and the lesbian lawyer and you will begin to see the trouble party leaders have holding the horde together.
― goole, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
Porn Industry. Usually overlooked by analysts, this lucrative industry is a small but important source of campaign cash for Democrats. But the Internet is gutting it. XXX theatres, a fixture of the 1970s are long gone, and the DVD side of the business is dying too. As a 2009 Conde Nast Portfolio magazine article shows, YouPorn.com and other porn sites now offer hours of video content online for free, squeezing Larry Flint’s Hustler, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy and their many print rivals. The underground cultural force of these publications is shrinking with their revenues. While porn is here to stay, the Internet has empowered anyone to put up a website and collect revenue from ads or pay-per-view — underpricing the Goliaths that write campaign checks. As for Democrats, organizing tens of thousands of small-business porn stars will prove a difficult and low-margin proposition.
― goole, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
richard miniter would *never* overlook the porn industry
― max, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Richard Miniter sure rubs people the wrong way...
Miniter was the editorial page editor and Vice President of Opinion at The Washington Times from March[11] until October 2009.[12] Miniter filed a complaint with the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission related to his position at the Times. According to the Washington Post,
The former editorial page editor of the Washington Times has filed a discrimination complaint against the paper, saying he was "coerced" into attending a Unification Church religious ceremony that culminated in a mass wedding conducted by the church's leader, the Rev. Sun Myung Moon.... [Miniter] said in an interview that he "was made to feel there was no choice" but to attend the ceremony if he wanted to keep his job, and that executives "gave me examples of people whose careers at the Times had grown after they converted" to the Unification Church.
In September 2010, the case of Miniter v. Moon et al. and the related EEOC complaint was settled. Miniter refused to disclose the terms, but said "I am very, very happy with the equitable and just result."[13]
― goole, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
In 2007 Miniter and five other conservative authors sued Regnery Press and its parent company Eagle Publishing, claiming that the publisher had sold their books at a steep discount to book club subsidiaries owned by the same parent company, thus depriving the authors of royalties. According to Miniter, "The difference between 10 cents and $4.25 is pretty large when you multiply it by 20,000 to 30,000 books.... It suddenly occurred to us that Regnery is making collectively jillions of dollars off of us and paying us a pittance."[29]
An attorney representing Eagle and Regnery countered that, "No publisher in America has a more acute marketing sense or successful track record at building promotional platforms for books than Regnery Publishing. These disgruntled authors object to marketing strategies used by all major book publishers that have proved successful time and again as witnessed by dozens of Regnery bestsellers."[29]
On January 30, 2008, a federal judge granted Eagle Publishing's motion to dismiss. The written opinion granting defendant's motion stated that plaintiffs could not join a necessary party, the Regnery subsidiary, because their contracts with Regnery contained mandatory arbitration provisions.[30][31] The authors have subsequently entered into arbitration with the company.[30][32]
― goole, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty tough being a third-stringer in that game huh
― goole, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
As I learnt consulting the 2009 Conde Nast Portfolio magazine article, referring only to that source to inform this article, YouPorn.com and other porn sites, just some other porn sites I guess, now offer hours of video content online for free, squeezing Larry Flint’s Hustler, Hugh Hefner’s Playboy and their many print rivals.
― Aa Bb Obscure Dull Blue (#000066) (schlump), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
that miniter article is the most bizarre combination of decades-old conventional wisdom + complete disconnect from reality
― max, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
On the flip side of that "democrats are too diverse" thing, I regularly like to imagine William F. Buckley Jr. interviewing Sarah Palin
― mh, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thing is, I'd be down for a free-market marching towards Capitalist utopia that Conservatives yearn for. But the term 'free market' is just a political tool and the biggest abusers of corporate power seem to not want to play by the same rules as the little guy.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
For example if corporations/the oligarchy didn't rely on subsidies and tax breaks and loopholes and other entitlements, I'd be 1000% more likely to believe their line about the little people not needing them either.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Free-market for the poor, socialism for the rich, sort of thing.
Corporations aren't individuals, they're hierarchies of individuals, with the ones at the bottom oftentimes being taken advantage of by those at the top. If tax breaks and incentives really worked, we'd see more sustainable, well-paying jobs at the lower levels and fewer billionaires. Since we're seeing people still underpaid and executives highly compensated, we're just subsidizing the upper echelon of wealthy people.
― mh, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
I have heard folks who majored in business (and dream of being "upper echelon") say those upper echelon people do specialized unique work that benefits the whole company and are deserving therefore of the larger income. I invariably ask why CEO salaries have only rocketed in the past few decades and I suggest that the company's profits and stock value do not suggest that the upper echelon are really deserving of that much more.
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 18:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
I agree that a good CEO is worth his weight in gold
I know that gold prices are going up
That still puts a 200 lb CEO at about $5 million a year
I'd be willing to say they could make double that and I still wouldn't complain!
― mh, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
what on earth does this have to do with the porn industry
― max, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 19:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's a degenerate business and obviously has deep ties to the democrats of course
― mh, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 20:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
We're concerned about the salaries in that industry and how their reduced levels do not reflect that of other industries, thereby limiting their financial influence for the Dems
― curmudgeon, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Still waiting for the PornAid concert...
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
"We Do the World"
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
"It's like they're afraid to recognize that we've had decent ideas and they keep having to dig up Thomas Jefferson to put words in his mouth."
If you read up on some of those crazy right wing Texas school book people are so batshit crazy they are trying to re-write history and take Thomas Jefferson out of it, as even Jefferson doesn't even fit their vision of America.
― earlnash, Wednesday, 20 July 2011 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
"The official story defies logic in the following sense as well," said talk show host Michael Savage, "if this lone right-winger hated Muslims, as the New York Times is reporting, then why did he slaughter his own people and not Muslims?"
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 23 July 2011 23:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
kinda seems early to disdainfully question the 'official' 'story'
― a website about Jewish rock stars (schlump), Saturday, 23 July 2011 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Michael Savage, expert on Norwegian culture and the mind of the lone terrorist
― mh, Sunday, 24 July 2011 01:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Michael Savage's new memoir, Savage, Michael
― a website about Jewish rock stars (schlump), Sunday, 24 July 2011 01:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
this video keeps getting flagged as "inappropriate" every time it gets upped:
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 05:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow. WOW. I've staunchly avoided right-wing analysis of what happened in Norway and the spin and talking points and manipulation of the facts there is STUNNING. Wow.
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 12:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
The right wing reaction is something along the lines of "This really is Islamofascist terrorism since the killer, though anti-Muslim, was obviously inspired by al-Queda, who, after all, invented the ideas of shooting people and setting off bombs."
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 26 July 2011 14:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, it's like "this is clearly a reaction to all the anti-Islamic fear we've been stoking and proves we were right to do so, um..."
― a million anons (onimo), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 14:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just the way in the first sentence the anchor vaguley acknowledges this wasn't Islamic terrorism but then goes on to talk about Islamic terrorism over video of Breivek's destruction is almost artful. (I'm sure this is old news to you veterans of right wing spin but like I said, I generally avoid it and now I'm all amazed.)
― ilx poster and keen dairy observer (Jenny), Tuesday, 26 July 2011 14:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
joe walsh is my new hero. love it when he's on tv all brazen about the debt
http://www.suntimes.com/6720892-417/tea-party-rep.-joe-walsh-sued-for-100000-in-child-support
Freshman U.S. Rep. Joe Walsh, a tax-bashing Tea Party champion who sharply lectures President Barack Obama and other Democrats on fiscal responsibility, owes more than $100,000 in child support to his ex-wife and three children, according to documents his ex-wife filed in their divorce case in December.
― reggie (qualmsley), Thursday, 28 July 2011 18:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Walsh closed by saying, “You need to be more objective, but I love it, Chris.”
man i miss being able to have cable news on all day
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Thursday, 28 July 2011 18:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/07/28/hardliners-in-debt-talks-have-debt-problems-of-their-own/?iref=storysearch
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 29 July 2011 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://thinkprogress.org/security/2011/08/01/284011/pam-geller-race-mixing-breivik-right/
Popular hate blogger Pam Geller has received scrutiny in recent days as the public became aware that the right-wing terrorist in Norway, Anders Behring Breivik, had praised her blog and thoroughly cited her writing in his political manifesto. After a number of blogs made the connection, as well as the New York Times, the Atlantic, and other major outlets, Geller became incensed and began lashing out at her critics.In a post defending herself yesterday, Geller — who has called Obama “President Jihad” and claimed that Arab language classes are a plot to subvert the United States — reached a new low. Geller justifies Breivik’s attack on the Norwegian Labour Party summer youth camp because she says the camp is part of an anti-Israel “indoctrination training center.” She says the victims would have grown up to become “future leaders of the party responsible for flooding Norway with Muslims who refuse to assimilate, who commit major violence against Norwegian natives including violent gang rapes, with impunity, and who live on the dole.”To get her point across, Geller posts a picture of the youth camp children Breivik targeted. The picture was taken on the Utøya island camp about 24 hours before Breivik killed over 30 children, so it is likely Geller is mocking many of the victims. Under the picture, Geller writes: “Note the faces which are more MIddle [sic] Eastern or mixed than pure Norwegian.” View a screen shot (click to enlarge) of Geller’s blog post below:Could Geller’s outburst of smears be a distraction against mounting evidence that she might have communicated with Breivik in the past? A post from Geller in 2007 reprints a reader-submitted letter in which an anonymous Norwegian complains of Muslim immigration and boasts that he is “stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment.” In the comment section, Geller claims that she provided anonymity to the reader to protect him from being prosecuted. Although Geller recently deleted the ammunition line from her post, a cached version is available. As Glenn Greenwald notes, “If this were an attack by a Muslim group, and a Muslim had something like this on his/her website, the FBI and multiple other groups would be swarming.”
Could Geller’s outburst of smears be a distraction against mounting evidence that she might have communicated with Breivik in the past? A post from Geller in 2007 reprints a reader-submitted letter in which an anonymous Norwegian complains of Muslim immigration and boasts that he is “stockpiling and caching weapons, ammunition and equipment.” In the comment section, Geller claims that she provided anonymity to the reader to protect him from being prosecuted. Although Geller recently deleted the ammunition line from her post, a cached version is available. As Glenn Greenwald notes, “If this were an attack by a Muslim group, and a Muslim had something like this on his/her website, the FBI and multiple other groups would be swarming.”
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
what a thoroughly vile person
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
If I heard today that she had been hit and killed by a bus, I'd think, "Boy, it sure is humid out today."
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 12:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
i just automatically assume that people like her had some huge trauma in their childhoods
― 40% chill and 100% negative (Tracer Hand), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 13:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Connasse!
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 14:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah single-mindedness that deep usually sends up all kinds of red flags for me xp
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's iiinteresting that all the scrutiny has made her edge ever closer to excusing if not endorsing breivik...
― goole, Tuesday, 2 August 2011 15:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
^^this!!!
― ( •ิ.•ั) (gr8080), Tuesday, 2 August 2011 18:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
t-bomb
― g++ (gbx), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Made that my gchat status at like 10am.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
but w/'you' instead of 'she'
― (oboe interlude) (schlump), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 09:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://news.yahoo.com/koch-brothers-group-games-wisconsin-recalls-wrong-election-144012214.html
These guys are such kochs
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
jesus
― Dark Noises from the Eurozone (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 16:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
impossible to read that title
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, it made me chuckle. It looks like aphasia.
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Wednesday, 3 August 2011 17:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
man it's always interesting when various strands of conservatism come together
http://jpfo.org/
ftr i don't think of ethnic pride stuff, nor gun ownership/enthusiasm, as necessarily bad or even "right wing" really.
― goole, Wednesday, 3 August 2011 18:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
new episode
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 4 August 2011 20:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Israeli culture is full of guns, though, no, goole?
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
hm i dunno what you mean by 'israeli culture'. the state is sure armed, but i have no idea what personal gun ownership is like in israel.
anway, like i said, that kind of organization is more interesting as a niche lifestyle service thing than for any point of view. though i gather the JFPO has accused the NRA of being sellouts for not advocating the outright shutdown of the BATFE...
― goole, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
xp guns are very visible in israel bc the military is very visible in israel. you will often see soldiers walking down ben yehudah street wearing guns.
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
I thought Israel was like Switzerland in terms of gun ownership/duty
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
NRA of being sellouts for not advocating the outright shutdown of the BATFE
LOL, I read that as BAFTA
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
pretty much everyone in israel is trained to shoot a gun bc mandatory military service. i don't think it's nearly as fetishized as it is in america tho. no "gun rights" movement.
― Mordy, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
(afaik on that last comment)
i'd imagine JPFO to be generally anti-BAFTA as well
― goole, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
thx, mordy, i knew in the abstract that the israeli people and military are more closely venn-diagrammed than ours, but the lived experience or legal stuff, not so much.
interestingly the JPFO website touts the history of "gun control" as having racist origins, which is true enough afaik -- anti-panther type stuff.
― goole, Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Horsefeathers, early gun control is as much about keeping the rabble from power as anything. It's class not race (at least in semi-homogenous countries where this stuff started).
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, isn't the preponderance of armories in American cities originally about stopping worker riots than anything else?
― Crazed Mister Handy (kingfish), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Deny access to military-grade weaponry, criminalize vagrancy, widen urban streets, etc...
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
No visible means of support
Disorderly conduct
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Thursday, 4 August 2011 21:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wouldn't sign loyalty oath
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 5 August 2011 18:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
have you guys been paying attention to the whole foods ramadan thing?
Here’s a tip, Whole Foods: there is NOTHING “cosmopolitan” about Islam. In fact, Islam is the antonym to cosmopolitan. Retro is in. Retro back to the year 622 and the values of savages will NEVER be in.Whole Foods . . . For the Organically Conscious Jihadist. Way more humane because, hey, “free range chickens” can run away from the IED. allahu natural fruitbar.
Whole Foods . . . For the Organically Conscious Jihadist. Way more humane because, hey, “free range chickens” can run away from the IED. allahu natural fruitbar.
http://www.debbieschlussel.com/40514/anti-israel-whole-foods-wishes-you-a-happy-ramadan/
― max, Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
has the probably unintended effect of making me think, huh, i thought whole foods were meant to be assholes
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Palestinian terrorism olive oil
extra 72 virgins olive oil
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Wednesday, 10 August 2011 23:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
Waiting to hear these people assert that the Kosher for Passover section at WholeFoods is part of a vast conspiracy.
― murdoch most foul (suzy), Thursday, 11 August 2011 00:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
i don't think there's any conspiracy but i will say that whole foods has noticeably far less kosher food than trader joes
― Mordy, Thursday, 11 August 2011 01:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, a brief jaunt around Debbie Schuessel's site reveals that she is retarded. I guess that's not a surprise, but it seemed to warrant mention.
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Thursday, 11 August 2011 01:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
― bruce actual springsteen (schlump), Wednesday, August 10, 2011 11:58 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
kudos
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Thursday, 11 August 2011 05:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://rommellaw.com/
wut
― goole, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 04:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
uh
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 05:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://rommellaw.com/pig.htm
― j., Tuesday, 16 August 2011 05:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
"For those of you that think YHVH was incorrect in His word, perhaps further review and analysis is warranted."
― publier les (suggest) bans de (Michael White), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 13:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
those "pig facts" always annoy me
Unlike other mammals, a pig does not sweat or perspire. Perspiration is a means by which toxins are removed from the body. Since a pig does not sweat, the toxins remain within its body and in the meat.
idk if some of these guys have heard but some of the other methods of removing toxins from the body are pissing and shitting. science has yet to identify a pig that can neither piss nor shit.
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Dave Zuul (Phil D.), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
more like science has yet to create a pig that doesn't piss or shit. that would be quite the solution to hog confinement runoff, right?
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
sweating isn't really a means to remove toxins
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
gbx, are you insulting my handsome homemade sauna room? I sit in it after subsisting on lemon water with honey and cayenne pepper for a few days. Let me tell you, everything coming out of you is toxic at that point.
― mh, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 14:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
no way, i totally wish i had a sauna instead of a stupid hot tub
dont get me wrong, stuff def comes out of you when yr sweating. that's just...not what's for.
― remembrance of schwings past (gbx), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Thing that make me IA: pseudo-science babbling about "toxins."
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh. Wrong thread.
I enjoyed this immensely
The reasoning of the Supreme Court in 1973 in Roe v Wade relied on the philosophy of the Greek Stoics as part of the basis of its decision.
The Stoics were followers of Zeus.That same god was called Jupiter/ Olympus by the pagan Romans.The Hebrews & Israelites of the Bible knew it as Baal.
Which raises an interesting question: did not the Supreme Court in its Roe v Wade ruling of January 22, 1973 surreptitiously install Baal-worship as the official religion of the United States, in violation of the "establishment clause" of the First Article of our Bill Of Rights?
It seems like it could be a genuine concern of his. Which is nice.
― weakness for Cinnabon; rampant heterosexuality (Je55e), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
How lolsy.
― it's not that print journalists don't have a sense of humour, it's just (Laurel), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Stoics were followers of Zeus Not particularly
The Hebrews & Israelites of the Bible knew it as Baal. What? Utter rubbish. Get one brain and one intellectual honesty.
By further extension of this kind of reasoning, giving the ruling in English, a language orginally developed to sing the praises of Woden, otherwise known as Satan, was the Court not trying to induce the unborn to listen to \m/etal?
― returning the native population to its violent 18th-century high (Michael White), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
LOOOOOOL
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
Which raises an interesting question
To which the answer is: No. And you are a total prat who couldn't reason his way out of a paper bag.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah the guy from atwater, mn with a website called the "erwin rommel school of law" doesn't have his shit together
― goole, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
"erwin rommel school of law"
To be fair, using the wisdom of this school in a court of law is very much like suicide.
― returning the native population to its violent 18th-century high (Michael White), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
loooool
― pathos of the unwarranted encore (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 15:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
more like erwin roffle
― max, Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wasthefuchs school of law.
― returning the native population to its violent 18th-century high (Michael White), Tuesday, 16 August 2011 16:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
confidential to edward III
spengler's moving up in the world!
http://pajamasmedia.com/spengler/
congratulations to roger simon and the rest of the crew on another inspired hire
― goole, Thursday, 18 August 2011 04:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
his final missive for asia times:
http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Global_Economy/MH16Dj01.html
don't blame big banks or those poor hedge funds, blame the stupid greedy american public for the recession
― goole, Thursday, 18 August 2011 04:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's Wüstenfuchs, BTW.
he's also par for the course as far as pro se "attorneys" go.
― Friedrich das Wunderhahn hat den traurigen Clownporn sehr gern (Eisbaer), Thursday, 18 August 2011 04:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
I know. I was just making a lame pun.
― Cuius regio, eius radicchio (Michael White), Thursday, 18 August 2011 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
The ANTAND THEGRASSHOPPER This one is a little different ...... Two Different VersionsTwo Different Morals
OLD VERSION:
The ant works hard in the withering heat all summer long, building his house and laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.Come winter, the ant is warm and well fed. The grasshopper has no food or shelter,so he dies out in the cold.
MORAL OF THE OLD STORY:
Be responsible for yourself!
MODERN VERSION:The ant works hard in the withering heat and the rain allsummer long, building his houseand laying up supplies for the winter.
The grasshopper thinks the ant is a fool and laughs and dances and plays the summer away.
Come winter, the shivering grasshopper calls a press conference and demands to know why the ant should be allowed to be warm and well fed while he is cold and starving.
CBS, NBC, PBS, CNN, and ABC show up to provide pictures of the shivering grasshopper next to a video of the ant in his comfortable home with a table filled with food.America is stunned by the sharp contrast.
How can this be, that in a country of such wealth, this poor grasshopper is allowed to suffer so?
Kermit the Frog appears on Oprahwith the grasshopper and everybody cries when they sing, 'It's Not Easy Being Green..'
ACORN stages a demonstration in front of the ant's house where the news stations film the group singing, We shall overcome.
Then Rev. Jeremiah Wright has the group kneel down to pray for thegrasshopper's sake.
President Obama condemns the ant and blames President Bush, President Reagan, ChristopherColumbus, and the Pope for the grasshopper's plight.
Nancy Pelosi & Harry Reid exclaim in an interview with Larry King that the ant hasgotten rich off the back of the grasshopper, and both call for an immediate tax hike on the ant to make him pay his fair share.
Finally, the EEOC drafts the Economic Equity & Anti-Grasshopper Actretroactive to the beginning of the summer.
The ant is fined for failing to hire a proportionate number of green bugs and, having nothingleft to pay his retroactive taxes, his home is confiscated by the Government Green Czar and given to the grasshopper.
The story ends as we see the grasshopper and his free-loading friends finishing up the last bits of the ant's food while the government house he is in, which, as you recall, just happens to be the ant's old house, crumbles around them because the grasshopper doesn't maintain it.
The ant has disappeared in the snow, never to be seen again.
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident, and the house, now abandoned, is taken over by a gang of spiders who terrorize and ramshackle, the once prosperous and peaceful, neighborhood.
The entire Nation collapses bringing the rest of the free world with it.
I've sent this to you because I believe that you are an ant!
You may wish to pass this on to other ants, but don't bothersending it on to any grasshopper's because they wouldn't understand it, anyway
― (gr8080), Friday, 19 August 2011 01:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
sent to me by my uncle, in a typeface that changed size and color frequently and with no apparent parttern
― (gr8080), Friday, 19 August 2011 01:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
prob the wrong thread but
i think that belongs in the "is america becoming a fascist state" thread
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Friday, 19 August 2011 01:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
but don't bothersending it on to any grasshopper's because they wouldn't understand it, anyway
proof lack of education causes racism
― mr peabody (moonship journey to baja), Friday, 19 August 2011 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
So awesome. Pretty close to a complete list of proper nouns designed to trigger a blood-pressure rise amongst the target audience.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 August 2011 03:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is Kermit a right wing boogyman now?
― President Keyes, Friday, 19 August 2011 15:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
I personally welcome our new arachnid overlords
― Cuius regio, eius radicchio (Michael White), Friday, 19 August 2011 15:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
The grasshopper is found dead in a drug related incident
― goole, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
Also Aesop and La Fontaine were Greek and French, respectively. Greece and France lol socialism!
― Cuius regio, eius radicchio (Michael White), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
He was probably all hopped up on grass, goole.
i thought it was a choker thing, idk
― goole, Friday, 19 August 2011 16:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
This was a nice read, sitting on the porch of my government-granted house. I think it used to be owned by a CEO. I don't really care about looking into it though, because I am busy playing and dancing all summer long.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Actually even going back to La Fontaine, the ant is a dick. "Eh bien! Dansez maintenant" is one of the coldest fcuk yous possible.
Also, I think this may be entomologically suspect and I'm pretty sure ants are pretty close to being formical-socialists.
― Cuius regio, eius radicchio (Michael White), Friday, 19 August 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol true
― (gr8080), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
actually aren't ants ruled by a queen?
btw i think Kermit is just a stand-in for "Hollywood Celebrities" as well as an excuse to work in the song "It Aint Easy Being Green"
Monarcho-formical socialism
― Cuius regio, eius radicchio (Michael White), Friday, 19 August 2011 17:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
the "queen" doesnt rule anything
― max, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
she just has babies
― max, Friday, 19 August 2011 17:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Bab-bees more like
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Friday, 19 August 2011 19:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ants inhabit 'world without sex'
― (gr8080), Friday, 19 August 2011 19:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
ants are amazing, there was a guy talking about them on npr the other week, apparently there are like four HUGE ant "families" in california/baja california, and you can pick up an ant from humboldt count and take it down to san diego and put it with some other ants and if its the same family the lil guy will just fall right in line and start doing her job
and if its a different family the ants will fucking murder her
― max, Friday, 19 August 2011 20:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
also they herd katydids. herd them!! if i had a choose a #1 species most likely to take over world and enslave humans it would be ants
― max, Friday, 19 August 2011 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
pictured: the world
― sweatpants life trajectory (schlump), Friday, 19 August 2011 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
I'm constatnly at war with ants in kitchen. The black ones like grease and the red ones dig the carbs. They should start reading the nutrition nazi thread, for their own good.
― brownie, Friday, 19 August 2011 21:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think it also has to do with hatred of funding for PBS trickling down to hatred of muppets and learning and children.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 20 August 2011 01:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
You mean INDOCTRINATION
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 20 August 2011 01:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Chair of the Sumter South Carolina Tea Party posted -- and then quickly pulled -- a post on her Facebook page earlier this month that joked about throwing the Obamas out of a helicopter.Shery Lanford Smith posted the the joke on her Facebook page on August 11th. The page is now private.In the joke, the Obamas are on a helicopter talking about how they could make people happy if they threw money out the window. The pilot says: "I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!" Smith added: "If you're one of 256 million, PASS IT ON."
Shery Lanford Smith posted the the joke on her Facebook page on August 11th. The page is now private.
In the joke, the Obamas are on a helicopter talking about how they could make people happy if they threw money out the window. The pilot says: "I could throw both of them out of the window and make 256 million people very happy!" Smith added: "If you're one of 256 million, PASS IT ON."
― Ad hom . . . in em's cock? (Phil D.), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
I wonder which polling firm came up with that 80% pro-assassination number.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
There are only 223,553,265 white people in America BTW.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
spoke with a customer last week: "my computer's not working, GUESS I'LL BLAME BARACK OBAMA, HAW HAW"
― elmo argonaut, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
my populace's not working, guess i'll blame barack obama
― (using no way as way) (schlump), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's like every day, this stuff!
Assemblyman Patrick Delany cited family reasons when he unexpectedly announced his resignation last month.But the real reason for Delany’s resignation came pouring out today, after the political website PolitickerNJ.com published a racially-charged e-mail that Delany’s wife, Jennifer, allegedly sent to state Senate candidate Carl Lewis in response to a mass e-mail from Lewis' campaign.“Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes ... It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics. Sure, knowing someone with fat purse strings is nice, but you have no knowledge,” the website quotes Jennifer Delany writing.In a statement issued shortly after the story appeared on the website, Delany, a Republican from Burlington County who resigned Aug. 12, acknowledged the e-mail’s authenticity and said it was the reason he resigned."I am deeply disappointed in my wife's decision to send that email to Mr. Lewis' campaign; it does not reflect my personal beliefs whatsoever,” he said. “In an attempt to repair the serious damage this has caused to our marriage, and to protect our kids from public humiliation, I decided to leave public life. On behalf of my family, we sincerely apologize to Mr. Lewis for any pain this caused him."
But the real reason for Delany’s resignation came pouring out today, after the political website PolitickerNJ.com published a racially-charged e-mail that Delany’s wife, Jennifer, allegedly sent to state Senate candidate Carl Lewis in response to a mass e-mail from Lewis' campaign.
“Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes ... It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics. Sure, knowing someone with fat purse strings is nice, but you have no knowledge,” the website quotes Jennifer Delany writing.
In a statement issued shortly after the story appeared on the website, Delany, a Republican from Burlington County who resigned Aug. 12, acknowledged the e-mail’s authenticity and said it was the reason he resigned.
"I am deeply disappointed in my wife's decision to send that email to Mr. Lewis' campaign; it does not reflect my personal beliefs whatsoever,” he said. “In an attempt to repair the serious damage this has caused to our marriage, and to protect our kids from public humiliation, I decided to leave public life. On behalf of my family, we sincerely apologize to Mr. Lewis for any pain this caused him."
― Ad hom . . . in em's cock? (Phil D.), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Imagine, not having to pay NJ state income taxes ... It must be nice. Imagine getting a court ruling overturned so your name could get put on the ballot. Imagine having dark skin and name recognition and the nerve to think that equalled (sic) knowing something about politics.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha
― (using no way as way) (schlump), Tuesday, 23 August 2011 15:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
guess that teabagger!
http://guessthatteapartier.com/
― reggie (qualmsley), Friday, 2 September 2011 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
election law professor gets into it with a WND "fraud" "expert"
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/registering_the_poor_to_vote_is_un-american.html
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=22531
http://electionlawblog.org/?p=22569
― goole, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.blogger.com/profile/06681040127002240202
any floridians know any juicy stories about these folx?
http://www.jamesmadison.org/
― goole, Tuesday, 6 September 2011 19:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
...hmm guess not
ok more shit that probably only i care about!
hyper neo-con blogger "courtney messerschmidt" aka "great satan's girlfriend" turns out to be... four people
http://greatsatansgirlfriend.blogspot.com/2011/09/dirty-little-secret.htmlhttp://www.lineofdeparture.com/2011/09/08/courtneygate/
― goole, Friday, 9 September 2011 19:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Neat bit:
http://www.truth-out.org/goodbye-all-reflections-gop-operative-who-left-cult/1314907779
...While Democrats temporized, or even dismissed the fears of the white working class as racist or nativist, Republicans went to work. To be sure, the business wing of the Republican Party consists of the most energetic outsourcers, wage cutters and hirers of sub-minimum wage immigrant labor to be found anywhere on the globe. But the faux-populist wing of the party, knowing the mental compartmentalization that occurs in most low-information voters, played on the fears of that same white working class to focus their anger on scapegoats that do no damage to corporations' bottom lines: instead of raising the minimum wage, let's build a wall on the Southern border (then hire a defense contractor to incompetently manage it). Instead of predatory bankers, it's evil Muslims. Or evil gays. Or evil abortionists.How do they manage to do this? Because Democrats ceded the field. Above all, they do not understand language. Their initiatives are posed in impenetrable policy-speak: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The what? - can anyone even remember it? No wonder the pejorative "Obamacare" won out. Contrast that with the Republicans' Patriot Act. You're a patriot, aren't you? Does anyone at the GED level have a clue what a Stimulus Bill is supposed to be? Why didn't the White House call it the Jobs Bill and keep pounding on that theme?...
How do they manage to do this? Because Democrats ceded the field. Above all, they do not understand language. Their initiatives are posed in impenetrable policy-speak: the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The what? - can anyone even remember it? No wonder the pejorative "Obamacare" won out. Contrast that with the Republicans' Patriot Act. You're a patriot, aren't you? Does anyone at the GED level have a clue what a Stimulus Bill is supposed to be? Why didn't the White House call it the Jobs Bill and keep pounding on that theme?...
― Blind Diode Jefferson (kingfish), Friday, 9 September 2011 19:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had really been hoping - the way that the campaign had been run with all the cool logos and posters and shit - that the obama administration would have brought on some top-notch propaganda people to make sure that his messages were buffed to a shine, tilted up about 45 degrees, and sort of bubbly. like, I really thought all that would carry through.
― kkvgz, Friday, 9 September 2011 20:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2011/09/pbs_alters_transcript_to_hide_obama_gaffe.html
drudge linked to this joker
― max, Saturday, 10 September 2011 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
in essence: pbs posts obamas remarks as they were provided by the press office, probably before the speech was given. obama goes off script, mistakenly refers to lincoln as "founder of the republican party." pbs doesnt bother correcting the remarks online, because honestly, who gives a shit? as it turns out, this guy gives a shit.
― max, Saturday, 10 September 2011 20:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
(though he accuses pbs of changing the transcript after the fact -_-)
― max, Saturday, 10 September 2011 20:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
anyone know who this anchor is?
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 06:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
nice "democracy," No-Guns!
― Battlestar Gracián (crüt), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 06:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
okay whaaaaat lady
― science you guys (Clay), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 06:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
guy's final implicitly qualified intonation of Riight- otm. ew.
― and my soul said you can't go there (schlump), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 07:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
The purvey of the media. Who let these people graduate high school?
― Octavia Butler's gonna be piiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiised (Laurel), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 13:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
This is why all the SS troops had guns, they were part of a democracy.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 14:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aaaaaahaha omg wait wow is that real? Seems Onion-level.
― Doctor Casino, Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Her awful smug tone and smirk when she says that make me feel violent.
― pullapartsquirrel (Jenny), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 15:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
she learned news anchor speak phonetically
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Wednesday, 14 September 2011 23:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 September 2011 01:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
I hope someone locks all his children in dark sheds
― iatee, Friday, 16 September 2011 01:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
The specific term "American exceptionalism" was first used in 1929 by Soviet leader Joseph Stalin
― mh, Friday, 16 September 2011 01:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
texans for a better america is like a poe's law stress test.
― science you guys (Clay), Friday, 16 September 2011 01:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol at "joined CBS" while there's 2 clips in a row with an ABC logo
― (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 01:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://espn.go.com/blog/afcwest/post?id=32263
dunno if this belongs here in any specific way but for those out of the know Tim Tebow is evangelical who has said very loudly that football is a way for him to spread God's word. He is also not an NFL-caliber quarterback. I like to imagine the people who would spend money on billboards demanding he play are the same people applauding death row statistics. It's a little tin-foil hatty of me but bear with.
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 16 September 2011 01:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
weren't they going to try him as a runningback/wildcat?
― (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
I had seen TE/FB but he protested saying something to the effect that, 'i have the best chance to save people as a QB in the NFL'
― Waxahachie Swap (Jimmy The Mod Awaits The Return Of His Beloved), Friday, 16 September 2011 02:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
fair point, if you think abt it
― (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 03:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
tebow the choir boy and orton the party animal would make a great sitcom
two athletes with two different lifestyles: they share a locker room, an apartment, and they're competing for the same job!!
― (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 03:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
gr80.... I think you're on to something here.
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 September 2011 06:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
tebow volunteered to host his bible study group... the same nite orton planned a kegger!!!
― (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 07:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol
― Without further ado, the runners-up is Prism Skylabs. (crüt), Friday, 16 September 2011 07:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://usbacklash.org/
this blog is unremarkable except as an example of something i see a lot... absurd number of tags!!! what is with the crazy amount of category tagging.
― goole, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
dozens of tags and no comments.... who pays these people?
― goole, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
POLULAR PAGESCasey Anthony Party PicturesDemocrat VideosPolitical CartoonsRacist Rep Sheila Jackson LeeThe REAL Democrat PartyUnited States ConstitutionUSBACKLASH RSS FeedWeinergate – Typical Democrat Deception
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 September 2011 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
right-wing lip readers convinced Michelle Obama denigrated the flag and firemen at 9/11 event
http://mediamatters.org/blog/201109140022
― curmudgeon, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
First Ms. Thang
― (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 20:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is just bizarre... that doesn't look like what she's saying AT ALL. like where the hell do they think she says "all?"
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 16 September 2011 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
all this for hydrangeas?
― anorange (abanana), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
she's actually saying "we should give them all HPV vaccinations"
― I saw Mike Love walk by a computer once (Shakey Mo Collier), Friday, 16 September 2011 21:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
hahaha
― (gr8080), Friday, 16 September 2011 22:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
breitbart raving about how "major-named people in the military" tell him that theyve "got his back"
― max, Sunday, 18 September 2011 13:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
i mean at this point the vague wish for a military coup is kinda standard among these guys, but it still shocks me how divorced from reality the guy is
― max, Sunday, 18 September 2011 13:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
the breitbart putsch
― mookieproof, Sunday, 18 September 2011 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
LOL hah wtf is he even talking about? He's going to shoot Janeane Garofalo? Threaten somebody's teenage kids?
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 18 September 2011 16:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
I must have forgotten about that part of the Constitution calling for military rule when people say things you disagree with. He also conveniently ignores anti-abortion protesters showing up at schools and homes as he complains about those mean unions allegedly protesting outside the homes of CEOs.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 19 September 2011 00:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
As a general rule, if someone talks about standing up for corporate CEO's, it's the equivalent of them telling me they hate the Ramones.
― Telephoneface (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 19 September 2011 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 19 September 2011 17:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
i have a friend who goes around Facebook arguing with Tea Partiers and calling himself "Bachmann DaClown", "Cantor DaClown", "Zombified Reagan", etc.
Right now I believe he is "Hellmaster Palin".
― "You're such a species-ist." (Drugs A. Money), Tuesday, 20 September 2011 17:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg HOOS
― look out honey, 'cause I'm using ayo technology (crüt), Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:01 (1 year ago) Permalink
sayin
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 21 September 2011 03:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― elmo argonaut, Thursday, 22 September 2011 18:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
Terrorists would be a lot easier to spot if they all wore duct tape over their mouths.
― President Keyes, Saturday, 24 September 2011 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/09/green_twilight.html
The goal is not to save resources or to conserve the environment. It is to restore human beings to a point where they are simply another part of the ecology. It will not be purely Neolithic -- however close they may be to Mother Gaia, greens have no desire to spend their nights in caves. Agriculture will be necessary to raise ethanol crops (not to mention arugula) for the green aristocracy. It will be a village culture, poor, primitive, and ignorant of anything other than the fact that humanity has sinned against Gaia and must make amends. Only the green elite will be allowed power, travel, and information.
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
i only know about this because a printout of it was lying around in the bathroom stall at work >:|
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
(not to mention arugula)
― max, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 20:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
had i not put a link to these guys yet?
http://www.thenationalpolicyinstitute.org/
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
i'm pretty sure this quote is on ilx somewhere. i had completely forgotten the holocaust museum shooting, good god
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31271698/ns/us_news-crime_and_courts/t/gunman-may-reflect-growing-racial-turmoil/
Louis R. Andrews, chairman of a white advocacy group called the National Policy Institute, said he does not support violence, but he expects to see increased racial animosity that will eventually manifest itself in more physical attacks.
"There's no such thing as post-racial," Andrews said, when asked about the claim that Obama's election moved American race relations to a different place. "There's conflict, conflict and continued conflict."
Andrews said he voted for Obama because "I want to see the Republican Party destroyed, so it can be reborn as a party representing the interests of white people, and not entrenched corporate elites."
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
― max, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Andrews said he voted for Obama because "I want to see the Republican Party destroyed
That's some kind of swell strategic voting there, fella.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
He just wants a national working man's party
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
no need babysitting the desires of racists, he wants a white person's party, like he said
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
never heard of this organization before
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pioneer_Fund
wowzer
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:37 (1 year ago) Permalink
Wow, Mad Men just took an unexpected turn
― What does one wear to a summery execution? Linen? (Michael White), Tuesday, 27 September 2011 21:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
Slashdot has an article about the Wall Street protesters. Typically, the comments have more than enough people knocking them (for having iphones, for not being organized around a leader, etc).
http://news.slashdot.org/story/11/09/27/1836203/Conflict-Between-Occupy-Wall-Street-Protestors-and-NYPD-Escalating?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Slashdot%2Fslashdot+%28Slashdot%29
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 00:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
need to have this on here -- an ilx politics classic
detective uncle shaved longcock
http://shavedlongcock.blogspot.com
― banana mogul (goole), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 03:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
sound advice
― ethanol crops (not to mention arugula) for the green aristocracy (crüt), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 03:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
man slashdot still exists? is it filled with libertarians
― iatee, Wednesday, 28 September 2011 03:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hah. Well, the articles posted seem to sometime lean that way but the balance in the comments is really pretty close. In fact the more political articles tend to draw plenty of conservative arguments. I think some of that has to do w posters wanting to seem smart, outsmarting their peers by taking the reactionary side.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 28 September 2011 03:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://twitter.com/#!/ChristineOD/status/119830522154328064
― dan m, Friday, 30 September 2011 20:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
witchy
― mookieproof, Friday, 30 September 2011 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
a spell, i presume
xp lol
― banana mogul (goole), Friday, 30 September 2011 20:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
no matter how deeply the forces of animalism and resentment can damage pluralism, free inquiry and common values, we will always have christine o'donnell to laugh at
― banana mogul (goole), Friday, 30 September 2011 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
twitter post is gone. what was it?
― anorange (abanana), Saturday, 1 October 2011 03:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
― dan m, Saturday, 1 October 2011 04:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.city-journal.org/2011/eon1004gs.html
Guy SormanGreek MythologyEuropean governments must learn to treat Greece like any other nation.4 October 2011
The modern Greek state is an invention of European powers. The effort began with the Romantics, when Chateaubriand, a great writer but also a wonderful fibber, and then Lord Byron, believed that they could retrieve the sources of Western civilization in Greece—a misunderstanding for which we’re continuing to pay the price. True, today’s Greeks live on the same land as Aristotle and Pericles; but otherwise no great continuation links Hellenic civilization with modern Greece.
what is with the 300 boner these guys have
― banana mogul (goole), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 22:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
they love fantasizing about being noble and heroic strongmen fighting off the brown hordes afaict
― thank you BIG HOOS, you brilliant god-man (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Tuesday, 4 October 2011 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
HEY MAX
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/article/Sovereign-Washington-group-draws-federal-2230474.php#photo-1689014
via tpm of course
― goole, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 15:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
lol joe already sent me that
― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
wd be really interested to compare the language in these bizarre legal filings to the asyntactical language of schizophrenics
― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
cf jared lee loughner
oh these guys :)
― goole, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
i want to send a bunch of clippings to thomas pynchon and make him write them into his next book
― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, her grammar is poor.
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
i see i have already said that on this thread
― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:18 (1 year ago) Permalink
re: pynchon, i mean
so wonderfully american!
― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
while we're here, what is the relationship between 'game' and facism? well...
http://heartiste.wordpress.com/2011/10/20/comment-of-the-week-the-natural-state-of-woman-is-submission/
― goole, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
holy shit
also lol at "facism" in this context
― he carried yellow flowers (DJP), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha i've just committed my favorite ever internet typo
― goole, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
"when her womb is exposed to the threat of beta sperm"
― max, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:22 (1 year ago) Permalink
Vive la différence, you tinkering, vivisecting, social engineers! You life’s losers, you resenters, you poisoners of the punch bowl! You philosophesses with weak-chinned daddies!
Come on, you resenters, you poisoners of the punch bowl and SHIIIIIIIIIIINE!
― Food! Trends! Men! Hate! (Phil D.), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 16:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
So, I'm a denatured woman now? When did they add the wood alcohol to me, and why wasn't I told about it?
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Tbf, one often doesn't remember when they add the alcohol to you, Christine.
― Muammar for the road (Michael White), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Michele Bachmann is the last (small) chance for a female American president.
― wrestlingisreal420 (crüt), Wednesday, 26 October 2011 18:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
Apparently even Haley Barbour can't get behind the Personhood Amendment.
― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 14:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
Eh most of that Heartiste link is pretty par for the course, dressed up men's rights BS but with fewer misspellings and more turn-of-the-last-century high-minded "adoration". Reminds me what that Atlantic article said about cultures with greater male populations than female: that the culture tends to revere women and women's roles, but men use their voting numbers to keep women home and uneducated. Yay!
But somehow when I got to "the vessels of our immortality" I felt really sickened, more than by the rest.
― WE DO NOT HAVE "SECRET" "MEETINGS." I DO NOT HAVE A SECOND (Laurel), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.cnn.com/2011/11/02/justice/georgia-militia-arrests/index.html?hpt=hp_t2
Ricin!
― rustic italian flatbread, Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:41 (1 year ago) Permalink
Huh...I wonder if I'm related to Samuel Crµmp.
― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Wednesday, 2 November 2011 18:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Friendswood Rep. Taylor apologizes for Jewish slurThe chairman of the House Republican Caucus casually used an ethnic slur earlier today while expressing frustration over the cumbersome payment process of wind insurance claims.“Your job is to pay claims. Don’t nitpick. Don’t try to Jew ‘em down. That’s probably a bad term,” Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood said.Several hours later, Taylor, who is running for the Texas Senate, released this statement:“At a legislative oversight committee hearing today, I inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive.“I corrected myself immediately when I realized what I had said.“I regret my poor choice of words and sincerely apologize for any harm they may have caused.”House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, the first Jewish speaker elected to lead the 150-member body, declined to comment about the slur, according to his spokeswoman, Tracy Young.Taylor, who owns an insurance agency, is co-chairman of the state’s Joint Legislative Committee on Wind Insurance.Moments before Taylor’s verbal lapse, Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman told the committee: “There’s a tremendous fear going to trial on these cases. That drives a lot of decisions that are being made.”Taylor said it shouldn’t be so complicated because it’s simply a matter of determining the cost of putting up a new roof or repairing a house.“We’re not calculating pain and suffering. How much does it cost to put that wall up? We need to get back to what does it cost to put the house back up, to put a new roof on?”He expressed “frustration” and wants a new TWIA.Immediately after conceding his use of “a bad term,” Taylor continued his thought: “If the claim is $12,000, pay the $12,000 and get on down the road.”TWIA officials told the committee that rates need to go up 22 percent for homeowners and 29 percent for business property to keep the state windstorm insurance financially sound.They also told lawmakers that TWIA has paid out 97 percent of the Hurricane Ike claims, which will end up costing about $2.3 billion.
The chairman of the House Republican Caucus casually used an ethnic slur earlier today while expressing frustration over the cumbersome payment process of wind insurance claims.
“Your job is to pay claims. Don’t nitpick. Don’t try to Jew ‘em down. That’s probably a bad term,” Rep. Larry Taylor, R-Friendswood said.
Several hours later, Taylor, who is running for the Texas Senate, released this statement:
“At a legislative oversight committee hearing today, I inadvertently used a phrase that many people find offensive.
“I corrected myself immediately when I realized what I had said.
“I regret my poor choice of words and sincerely apologize for any harm they may have caused.”
House Speaker Joe Straus, R-San Antonio, the first Jewish speaker elected to lead the 150-member body, declined to comment about the slur, according to his spokeswoman, Tracy Young.
Taylor, who owns an insurance agency, is co-chairman of the state’s Joint Legislative Committee on Wind Insurance.
Moments before Taylor’s verbal lapse, Insurance Commissioner Eleanor Kitzman told the committee: “There’s a tremendous fear going to trial on these cases. That drives a lot of decisions that are being made.”
Taylor said it shouldn’t be so complicated because it’s simply a matter of determining the cost of putting up a new roof or repairing a house.
“We’re not calculating pain and suffering. How much does it cost to put that wall up? We need to get back to what does it cost to put the house back up, to put a new roof on?”He expressed “frustration” and wants a new TWIA.
Immediately after conceding his use of “a bad term,” Taylor continued his thought: “If the claim is $12,000, pay the $12,000 and get on down the road.”
TWIA officials told the committee that rates need to go up 22 percent for homeowners and 29 percent for business property to keep the state windstorm insurance financially sound.
They also told lawmakers that TWIA has paid out 97 percent of the Hurricane Ike claims, which will end up costing about $2.3 billion.
unbelievable
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 4 November 2011 01:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah, that is.
oh wait, what thread is this?
― Mordy, Friday, 4 November 2011 01:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
very believable
― D. Boon Pickens (WmC), Friday, 4 November 2011 01:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
texas!
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 4 November 2011 15:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is an older bit from the beginning of last year, but I thought it fun. It's done by young rightwing schmuck Ben Shapiro, and is pretty much a list just plopped here in this thread for y'all to point and laugh at:
http://bighollywood.breitbart.com/bshapiro/2010/01/17/top-10-most-overrated-directors-of-all-time/
Top 10 Most Overrated Directors of All Timeby Ben Shapiro
Enjoy. Or not.
His top choice is...rather odd & unexpected, I must say.
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Sunday, 6 November 2011 23:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v33/n21/pankaj-mishra/watch-this-man
pankaj mishra (not familiar with him) reviews newest niall ferguson tome very badly, ferguson comments angrily.
― goole, Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
niall ferguson is such a cumstain
― max, Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
could poll that. agree with Lean. rest is some interesting trolling. (well especially top 5)
― Ludo, Thursday, 10 November 2011 20:32 (1 year ago) Permalink
pankaj mishra (not familiar with him) reviews newest niall ferguson tome very badly, ferguson comments angr
Why 'very badly'? What's wrong with the review?
― henri grenouille (Frogman Henry), Friday, 11 November 2011 00:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
"vary badly" as in "he panned it harshly", not as in "it's poorly written"
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Friday, 11 November 2011 00:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
also with "very" spelled correctly
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Friday, 11 November 2011 00:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's not fabulously written either.
― Mordy, Friday, 11 November 2011 00:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
yeah the review is a little axe-grindy even if i agree with its assessment of ferguson
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 11 November 2011 05:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Buried in a Grand Rapids Press story about Cornerstone Schools co-founder and Republican Senate candidate Clark Durant's Thursday meeting with a group of college students is a nugget about the nation's wealth gap. In the swing state of Michigan, hit hard by the country's economic woes, this quote is going to raise some eyebrows: In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should "go find a job." In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, "I think it should be wider."
In regards to the Occupy Wall Street movement, Durant said the protesters should "go find a job." In regards to the wealth gap the movement decries, Durant said, "I think it should be wider."
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Friday, 11 November 2011 20:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
Of course they think it should be wider, they want people to be desperate enough to be happy to be their maids and butlers. Just like in the 1890s. They just want good help!
― Bnad, Friday, 11 November 2011 21:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Looooool:
James O'Keefe has been lurking in journalism school hallways across the country in pursuit of his latest bombshell series "To Catch a Journalist." So far, he's blown the lid off the story that some college professors like Barack Obama and that sometimes journalists drink alcohol and use bad words. When O'Keefe attempted to confront Columbia University j-school's dean of students Sree Sreenivasan with these shocking revelations in a pantomime of Mike Wallace, Sreenivasan just laughed at the poor guy.The ostensible reason for O'Keefe's visit was to get Sreenivasan's response to O'Keefe having "caught" Columbia University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dale Maharidge using bad words in an email. (Those bad words? "Hey shitheads, Check out my comments about you: [Facebook link] Fuck you, man. Bring it on. Dale Maharidge.")Instead of a comment, O'Keefe got some sniggering questions, like, "Why didn't you dress like you were in some of your other videos?""So you stand behind profanity-laced emails?" O'Keefe asked, stupidly. When he left, according to Sreenivasan's Twitter feed, he ran into some trouble with the door. After he was done with me, I should have kept rolling, because they get to the exit and find they can't open it. He says, "Have they locked us in?" Turns out they were pulling the door instead of pushing it.
The ostensible reason for O'Keefe's visit was to get Sreenivasan's response to O'Keefe having "caught" Columbia University professor and Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter Dale Maharidge using bad words in an email. (Those bad words? "Hey shitheads, Check out my comments about you: [Facebook link] Fuck you, man. Bring it on. Dale Maharidge.")
Instead of a comment, O'Keefe got some sniggering questions, like, "Why didn't you dress like you were in some of your other videos?"
"So you stand behind profanity-laced emails?" O'Keefe asked, stupidly. When he left, according to Sreenivasan's Twitter feed, he ran into some trouble with the door.
After he was done with me, I should have kept rolling, because they get to the exit and find they can't open it. He says, "Have they locked us in?" Turns out they were pulling the door instead of pushing it.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:38 (1 year ago) Permalink
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Monday, 14 November 2011 16:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
o'keefe really strongly reminds me of dennis reynolds
― Mordy, Monday, 14 November 2011 18:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
james o'keefe is the most hilarious person
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Monday, 14 November 2011 18:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
he's such a geek, i had just assumed he was another breitbartian macho blowhard
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 November 2011 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
... did you not see the ACORN footage
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 21:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
no! lol
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Monday, 14 November 2011 23:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha okay
he was dressed like this in it:
― sex-poodle Al Gore (DJP), Monday, 14 November 2011 23:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
isn't that the blind kid who sings the national anthem before Eagles games?
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Monday, 14 November 2011 23:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Admins did ILX Haven (crüt), Monday, 14 November 2011 23:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/when-it-comes-to-e-mailed-political-rumors-conservatives-beat-liberals/2011/11/17/gIQAyycZWN_story_1.html
Snopes turned up 46 viral e-mails regarding Bush during his eight years in office. By contrast, in just four years as a candidate and as president, Obama has been the subject of 100 such chain e-mails. The difference is not just in number but in kind: Twenty of the 46 Bush e-mails checked by Snopes turned out to be true, and many of these flattered or praised him. Only 10 e-mails about Obama have been true, and almost every one of them has been negative.
Emery estimates that more than 80 percent of the political e-mails that he’s vetted over the past 10 years were written from a conservative or extremely conservative point of view. “The use of forwarded e-mail to spread [false information] around is overwhelmingly a right-wing phenomenon,” he said.
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) was a frequent target of chain e-mailers when she was speaker of the House, recalls Snopes founder David Mikkelson. But he can’t recall a single urban myth about her successor, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio). Even former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, who inspires apoplexy among liberals, hasn’t rated much on the e-mail circuit since her stint as Sen. John McCain’s running mate in 2008.
So are conservatives just more careless and irresponsible in their accusations, or more ruthless about spreading them, than liberals? Do conservative haters just like e-mail more than their liberal counterparts? Is this part of what liberals deride as the “right-wing noise machine”?
― curmudgeon, Friday, 18 November 2011 21:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
“The Internet is a megaphone that spreads conspiracies quickly before there’s anyone to correct the facts,” he says. “There’s no one between your crazy uncle and his address book.”
loooool i just sent that link to my crazy uncle and used that^ as the subject line
― ⚓ (gr8080), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
But he can’t recall a single urban myth about her successor, Rep. John Boehner (R-Ohio).
I heard Boehner once had to have his stomach pumped, and it was a gallon of semen that came out.
― sleep daphnia (dowd), Friday, 18 November 2011 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
we should start a "Sarah Palin inspires apoplexy among liberals" chain e-mail.
― crüt, Friday, 18 November 2011 22:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/crime_and_courts/police-man-ripped-up-walker-recall-petition-and-drove-off/article_d7244b3e-1168-11e1-81a9-001cc4c03286.html#ixzz1e5AeN5Wf
A man who stopped his pickup truck at a site where signatures were being collected Thursday for the recall of Gov. Scott Walker ripped up one of the petitions instead of signing it, Madison police said.The incident happened at about 10 a.m. in the 800 block of South Midvale Boulevard, said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.The signature gatherers were holding signs and having vehicles pull into a parking lane when a driver in a red pickup stopped. When given a petition to sign, he ripped it up and drove away, DeSpain said.The destroyed petition had three signatures on it, he said.Signature takers were able to get the license plate number, but police had not located the man as of Thursday afternoon, DeSpain said.Falsifying, defacing or destroying a recall petition is a felony punishable by up to three years and six months in prison and a $10,000 fine.
The incident happened at about 10 a.m. in the 800 block of South Midvale Boulevard, said police spokesman Joel DeSpain.
The signature gatherers were holding signs and having vehicles pull into a parking lane when a driver in a red pickup stopped. When given a petition to sign, he ripped it up and drove away, DeSpain said.
The destroyed petition had three signatures on it, he said.
Signature takers were able to get the license plate number, but police had not located the man as of Thursday afternoon, DeSpain said.
Falsifying, defacing or destroying a recall petition is a felony punishable by up to three years and six months in prison and a $10,000 fine.
― i couldn't adjust the food knobs (Phil D.), Saturday, 19 November 2011 01:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
hope this d00d goes to prison, yes
― Where Is Reason? (stevie), Saturday, 19 November 2011 11:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
No one goes to prison for that kinda stuff though.
― rustic italian flatbread, Saturday, 19 November 2011 11:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just getting arrested, booked and fingerprinted would be an unpleasant experience. Also, when a crime is elevated to a felony, it's for a reason. If the petitioners really publicize this, including the license plate number, the chances are damned good the police will have to pick him up.
― Aimless, Saturday, 19 November 2011 18:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
man that story would work better if it wasn't about something with THREE signitures on it. Shit I could get three signitures for a petition right now, and I'm in an empty house.
― Tokyo Sexwale (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 19 November 2011 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
and now i have the feeling i should have used an 'a' in that word instead of an 'i'.
― Tokyo Sexwale (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 19 November 2011 18:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
thanks to ann althouse, i have now been exposed to a truly novel conspiracy theory linking george lucas to obama.
in 2009 when one of the air force one planes was lying low near the statue of liberty (remember that?) they were accompanied by red tails fighter planes from the alabama air national guard.
lucas' girlfriend is a wall streeter type and knows some of obama's inner circle
so the air force one flyby was, after all, some kind of favor to george lucas for his movie, or because he gave money to obama, or just more pro-black propaganda for its own sake, or something
apparently the ur-text for this whole deal is this blog comment:
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2009/04/this-wouldnt-be-happening-if-hillary-were-in-charge.html?cid=6a00d83451b2aa69e201156f632d29970c#comment-6a00d83451b2aa69e201156f632d29970c
searching "red tails" and "air force one" brings up all kinds of shit, but fair warning a lot of is from some seriously ugly zones.
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
uh actually it's not even clear the accompanying plane was a "red tail," the whole thing is pure sketch
god what has my life become
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 19:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
great post.
― ⚓ (gr8080), Wednesday, 18 January 2012 22:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/national/2012/01/rand-paul-detained-tsa-nashville-airport/47721/
Always one to detest the TSA's intrusion on people's privacy, Sen. Rand Paul has been detained himself by officials with the agency at Nashville's airport this morning, according to Paul spokesperson Moira Bagley. As CNN and Politico report, Paul, ever the libertarian, refused to be patted down when asked by airport officials in Nashville. "Paul went through a scanner at the airport and set off an alarm, Bagley said. He wanted to go through the body scan again instead of getting a pat-down, but officers of the Transportation Security Administration refused," says CNN. This isn't the first time Paul's been irked by the TSA's pat-down procedures. The Daily Caller reported in June how Paul criticized TSA head John Pistole for the pat-down of a 6-year-old Kentucky girl, chosen at random per TSA policy. "It makes me think you’re clueless, if you think she’s going to attack our country and you’re not doing your research on the people who want to attack our country," he said in Congress at the time. So presumably, Paul believed he (white, male, U.S. senator) wasn't enough of a threat to be patted down either.
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Monday, 23 January 2012 16:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Good ol' Max:
http://gawker.com/5878427/rand-paul-is-so-full-of-shit-about-being-detained-by-the-tsa
...That sound you just heard was my eyes rolling so far back in my head that they fell out. We don't love the TSA security procedures, but if let's please not embarrass ourselves by pretending that Paul did something brave or noble here, or that the TSA reacted in an unexpected or particularly troubling way. Rand Paul wasn't "detained"; the TSA is not Agent Smith; you are not Neo; and if the worst way your civil rights have ever been violated is by having your body touched by a government employee while you wait to board a plane, you are pretty lucky.Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous about. This is the problem of a political movement about "freedom" peopled largely by white men with college degrees and above-average incomes: there's not a lot of freedom they don't already have, and not a lot of situations where their civil rights are being potentially trampled. The TSA is a wonderful thing for contemporary American libertarianism; it's one of not many places where a upper middle class Linux engineer can actually stand off against an invasive government...
Libertarians are a people constantly in search of issues to be self-righteous about. This is the problem of a political movement about "freedom" peopled largely by white men with college degrees and above-average incomes: there's not a lot of freedom they don't already have, and not a lot of situations where their civil rights are being potentially trampled. The TSA is a wonderful thing for contemporary American libertarianism; it's one of not many places where a upper middle class Linux engineer can actually stand off against an invasive government...
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Monday, 23 January 2012 19:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
haha OTM
― Bam! Orgasm explosion in your facehole. (DJP), Monday, 23 January 2012 19:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
now he's claiming the machines might be rigged
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 23 January 2012 20:03 (1 year ago) Permalink
or he really wants to investigate to see if it's possible that TSA agents can pull a funny one
"I think was mine probably random, I doubt I was picked on," he said. "But I would like to know: does the screener have the ability to push the button and randomly get someone to set off a screener?"
bonus accurate and then inaccurate use of "random", very 21st century
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 23 January 2012 20:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
youre kidding
― max, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
its kind of odd to me that there isnt a congressional exemption from tsa screenings
― max, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
tbf rand paul fits the demographic of domestic terrorist pretty well
― iatee, Monday, 23 January 2012 20:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
"But I would like to know: does the screener have the ability to push the button and randomly get someone to set off a screener?"
Definitely speculate to the press about a completely manufactured concern that no one has ever voiced, in order to deflect derisive laughter from/ validate your hysteria about being held equal with other people and subject to the same inconveniences as us norms.
― I have a paranoid daughter and a son who is addicted to internet (Laurel), Monday, 23 January 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Srsly I don't know how Rand got elected he has no charm or charisma and is kinda thick.
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Monday, 23 January 2012 20:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
Don't see why bitching about TSA is necessarily right-wingery.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 23 January 2012 20:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
Charles Murray endorses paternalism (lol no really) and... new urbanism?
The [solution] that I have in mind has to be defined in terms of individual American families acting in their own interests and the interests of their children. Doing that in Fishtown requires support from outside. There remains a core of civic virtue and involvement in working-class America that could make headway against its problems if the people who are trying to do the right things get the reinforcement they need—not in the form of government assistance, but in validation of the values and standards they continue to uphold. The best thing that the new upper class can do to provide that reinforcement is to drop its condescending "nonjudgmentalism." Married, educated people who work hard and conscientiously raise their kids shouldn't hesitate to voice their disapproval of those who defy these norms. When it comes to marriage and the work ethic, the new upper class must start preaching what it practices.
Changing life in the SuperZIPs [elite neighborhoods] requires that members of the new upper class rethink their priorities. Here are some propositions that might guide them: Life sequestered from anybody not like yourself tends to be self-limiting. Places to live in which the people around you have no problems that need cooperative solutions tend to be sterile. America outside the enclaves of the new upper class is still a wonderful place, filled with smart, interesting, entertaining people. If you're not part of that America, you've stripped yourself of much of what makes being American special.
am i nuts or is this a kind of "general petraeus" version of conservative culture war? the language feels very much like COIN, "the surge," etc
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 23 January 2012 20:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
link: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204301404577170733817181646.html?fb_ref=wsj_share_FB&fb_source=profile_multiline
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Monday, 23 January 2012 21:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
pro-choice rally punchline in max's piece is awesome. also quoted at length in the guardian.
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Monday, 23 January 2012 22:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
the new upper class must start preaching what it practices
iirc, divorce is just as prevelant among the upper class as anywhere else. And trial marriages or living together before marriage is practised pretty damn widely these days, too. As it was in most centuries you might care to name.
So, which "norms" is this jerk-off talking about anyway? Does he really think that no one is vocally disapproving spousal abuse, child neglect, or any other real problems of that nature? I hate this kind of hand-waving holier-than-thou crap. It is brainless.
― Aimless, Monday, 23 January 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
I think he's talking about the modern-day equivalent of holding temperance parades through slums.
― Christine Green Leafy Dragon Indigo, Monday, 23 January 2012 23:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Aaaaand a response to me posting that bit on FB, from the same chick who's replied to me laughing at Ron Paul before, poste here for your amusement:
Well, I for one am glad that he did what he did. More people should take "a stand"- however the "language" is interpreted. I for one am sick and tired of the government getting crazier and more invasive. Every time we give them an inch they take a mile. This isn't America anymore! The only solution is to get the government out of the airport security entirely and put it in the hands of private airlines. If you want the "pat down/sexual harassment/cancer radiation/takes 5 extra years to board the damn plane/can't even bring your bottle of effing Fiji water with you" airline then fly on that shitty one. The whiny, worried little babies will be "safe" there. If you're not spooked/BRAINWASHED by any of the BS rhetoric then fly the one that doesn't require such stupid measures. Then everyone gets what they want. Libertarianism isn't such an awful thing. It's about choices. Choices are what made America a great nation. People better WAKE UP because our country is turning to absolute shit!
...cancer radiation?
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 02:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Pretty sure they are doing their own medical safety testing on those machines.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 04:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Her grievances are plain enough, but the rest is just parroting empty slogans.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 04:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
According to e-mail exchanges between T.S.A. employee representatives and Department of Homeland Security officials, airport screeners in Boston and Atlanta were concerned about growing numbers of co-workers “falling victim to various forms of cancer,” which they suspected might be caused by radiation exposure from the machines. The e-mails and other documents were obtained by the privacy center under the Freedom of Information Act as part of its own lawsuit against use of the scanners.Ginger McCall, the center’s open government counsel, said the documents also showed that the T.S.A. had denied employees’ requests for dosimeters, safety devices that measure radiation exposure. “There is still a need for independent safety testing of these devices and for greater transparency on the part of T.S.A.,” she added.http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/airport-body-scanners-and-health/
Ginger McCall, the center’s open government counsel, said the documents also showed that the T.S.A. had denied employees’ requests for dosimeters, safety devices that measure radiation exposure. “There is still a need for independent safety testing of these devices and for greater transparency on the part of T.S.A.,” she added.
http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/12/airport-body-scanners-and-health/
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 04:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yeah, that's a dosage thing, like with cops getting nut cancer from radar guns. Walking thru a checkpoint won't damage really damage you, presumably, sitting next to it for 40 hours a week has a far better chance of it.
Then again, I don't really know what I'm talking about.
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
And there's a followup:
With the way the country is going down the toilet abortion is about last on the list of my concerns, Jeremy. The federal government now has the right to detain citizens without a trial and lock them in secret prisons. Every single day read about a new threat to my BASIC rights. WTF, do you really think I care about abortion? It's one of those issues no one will ever agree on. Some people feel it's an act of violence on another human being. Some people feel it's a freedom. The only fair thing to do here is make it a state's decision. Pretty much ALL decisions should be state's decisions: drugs, prostitution, murder, pornography, violence, seat belts- anything. The minute the big federal bureaucracy steps in everything just gets convoluted and 100x's more expensive. The only thing that the federal government should deal with is protecting our LIBERTY and the right for states to make their own decisions on hot topic x, y or z. This is the only way everyone will be happy. That way if you want abortion so bad you can be a Californian. If you don't, move to Texas- everyone wins. For me abortion is a "freedom" that I would never require (only in a case where I might die if I didn't have one and even then I would do everything I could to avoid it) because I take responsibility for my actions. Now, I would like the freedom to bring my goddamned FIJI water with me on the fucking airplane and not be felt up when I'm doing it!
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
She wants to be oppressed by her state government, bcz the feds make such a cock up of it? Except, imagine if every state had different airport security regulations. Total chaos.
― Aimless, Tuesday, 24 January 2012 05:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
The only thing that the federal government should deal with is protecting our LIBERTY and the right for states to make their own decisions on hot topic x, y or z
Like slavery. And sodomy. And interracial marriage. And so forth.
Federalism is dead, and good fucking riddance, I say.
― Famous porn scenes like "shake that bear" (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 14:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
Legalize it.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 24 January 2012 16:49 (1 year ago) Permalink
is there anywhere where we're just cyclically pasting & repasting parts of the guy's 'i may eat tacos' speech?
http://www.courant.com/community/east-haven/hc-east-haven-mayor-tacos-0125-20120124,0,5054089.story
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Wednesday, 25 January 2012 15:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Floating around on facebook now, and shared by people I know and me with equal parts irony & enthusiasm.
laudable goals listed as tho all are scaremongering
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, 26 January 2012 04:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Lol!!! Satanic cookie!
― Frobisher (Viceroy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 05:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://gawker.com/5879254/which-companies-are-using-aborted-human-fetuses-in-their-food
Last week, Oklahoma State Senator Ralph Shortey introduced a bill that would ban "the manufacture or sale of food or products which use aborted human fetuses." But which foods or products use aborted human fetuses? Let's investigate.
NPR speculates that Shortey's bill has to do with a recent boycott aimed at PepsiCo for working with a company called Senomyx that "has been accused of using proteins derived from human embryonic kidney cells in its research....
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:51 (1 year ago) Permalink
girl scouts sound AWESOME
― Aesop Rizzle (a hoy hoy), Thursday, 26 January 2012 06:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/thou-shalt-not-write-bad-things-about-obama_618603.html
Two Republican govs say Obama was mean to them in person (for things they wrote about him)
― curmudgeon, Thursday, 26 January 2012 14:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
If only he'd be so assertive with America's enemies. But then again, I suppose, an "enemy" is really in the eye of the beholder.
uuuuuuuuuggggggggghhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh
― quick brown fox triangle (schlump), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
yes, if there's one thing Obama has been super lax on, it's enemies of America
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
Number of Osama Bin Ladins killed by Republicans: 0Number of Osama Bin Ladins killed by Obama: 1
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
ha that makes it sound like Obama led the charge into the house
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
i want to make a bar graph of that superimposed over a photo of bin ladin and post it on fb
― Mordy, Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Yes, he's been too soft on himself for a start
― Charles Kennedy Jumped Up, He Called 'Oh No'. (Tom D.), Thursday, 26 January 2012 15:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
Girl scouts getting some money from me thanks to that graphic.
― ENERGY FOOD (en i see kay), Thursday, 26 January 2012 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.theroot.com/buzz/republican-releases-slave-ship-ad
― dayo, Friday, 27 January 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
fgsdlkjfgsdjkdfajfklajdfk;ajfdjf;jfajdfa;fa;;;;;dfkjaljfdlakd
http://www.examiner.com/democrat-in-national/kansas-speaker-o-neal-asks-house-gop-to-pray-for-obama-s-death
― dayo, Sunday, 29 January 2012 13:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mark Oxner ad reminds me of the Subgenius MTV promo
― an a drive (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 00:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://exiledonline.com/more-great-moments-in-libertarian-history-ancient-sumerian-word-for-libertarian-was-deadbeat-freeloader/
libertarians go wild for sumerian phrase they think means 'liberty' (^^tattoo gallery inside!!)
it means "debt forgivness"
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:44 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh no way
hahahahahaha
― I spend a lot of time thinking about apricots (DJP), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 14:52 (1 year ago) Permalink
that's great
― iatee, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
Hahahah oh shit I first remember seeing that online like 10 years ago.
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
Jan Brewer continues to beg for revenue from staged angry photo-op:
http://m.wonkette.com/55631/show/e85fe5a839d83c5d0a6465b8fbc37c50&t=8067b5a5bbb04e67e3bf40cea5f6698d
Friends,
I need your help!
When I met President Obama this week, I really wasn’t pointing at him. I was telling him, “You have ONE more year!” The President needs to be reminded that he is the President of the FEDERAL REPUBLIC and not a KING lording over state governors.
While I wanted to talk to him about jobs, our economy and visiting our border, President Obama criticized my book, Scorpions for Breakfast, and then walked away from me.We deserve results over rhetoric, but this is a President who had the audacity to sue me and Arizona in my efforts to protect our country from illegal immigration!
― Put another Juggle in, in the Juggalodeon (kingfish), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 15:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mitt Romney will beat Barack Obama because a majority of the country already knows that the president is an epic failure at his job, and a thin-skinned, self-absorbed ideologue to boot.
All the noise about Romney's wealth and the nonsense about his "effective tax rate" won't make a lick of difference to a voter afraid of losing his or her job or fearing for their children's future.
All the left's harrumphing about Bain just isn't going matter to a country desperate for competence and character, discipline and the values of hard work, thrift and sacrifice.
Examiner Columnist Hugh Hewitt is a law professor at Chapman University Law School and a nationally syndicated radio talk show host who blogs daily at HughHewitt.com.
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2012/01/why-gop-primaries-didnt-matter-1952-1980-and-2012/2148226
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 17:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
not to be thread police but that is not especially wild/funny right-wingery and it's about normal electoral politics anyway
― Critique of Pure Moods (goole), Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
quick someone link to fr
― Mordy, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 18:47 (1 year ago) Permalink
I shoulda put it on the GOP primary thread. Sorry
― curmudgeon, Tuesday, 31 January 2012 20:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.infowars.com/cameron-fleeing-america-to-escape-collapse/
― buzza, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
The Bush family purchased 100,000 acres in Paraguay back in 2006.
― buzza, Friday, 3 February 2012 00:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
is this breitbart/derrick bell stuff too 'mainstream' for this thread
― max, Thursday, 8 March 2012 01:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
just to catch people up if theyre interested
- breitbart is bragging before he dies that he has a video that will bring down obama- today buzzfeed says theyve got the video breitbart was talking about: a boston public news broadcast about obama (as pres of harvard law review) coming out in support of (harvard law prof) derrick bell's push for the school to hire more women/minorities. was apparently a big deal at the time as obama was seen as moderate on campus.- breitbart outlets accuse buzzfeed of -- not even joking here this is a direct quote -- "selective editing"- breitbart.com publishes their video. it is... exactly the same as buzzfeeds. except lower quality.- PBS also publishes the video to show its not edited
selected reading in more or less reverse chronological order
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/03/07/buzzefeed-selectively-edits-obama-tapehttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Hollywood/2012/03/07/derrick-bell-obama-wright-farrakhan-hbo-blaxploitationhttp://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/03/07/Andrea%20Mitchell%20Runs%20Defense%20For%20Obama%20Derrick%20Bellhttp://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/government-elections-politics/the-story-behind-the-obama-law-school-speech-video/http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2012/03/07/Ben-Smith-Harvard-Obamahttp://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/meet-derrick-bellhttp://www.buzzfeed.com/andrewkaczynski/at-harvard-obama-dived-into-diversity-fight
― max, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's hard to imagine this can catch much fire in 2012. If the "Ayers connection" didn't convince you, why would Derrick Bell?
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:02 (1 year ago) Permalink
possibly the funniest thing about the whole kerfluffle is that PBS ran clips from the speech in 2008 as part of their election special. breitbart could have avoided this whole thing if only hed watched PBS!
― max, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:06 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's really underwhelming. breitbart was promoting this thing so hard, and it's like, this is his posthumous masterpiece and it's pretty lackluster
― Mordy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
r.i.p. big man
― ⚓ (gr8080), Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:17 (1 year ago) Permalink
breitbart and bell are both dead now
isn't that ~convenient~
― buzza, Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
saw the video on buzzfeed. so that's... it? i assume hannity's going to spend 89% of the segment talking up what a 'radical' bell was.
― it's smdh time in America (will), Thursday, 8 March 2012 02:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
BEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAVE! /beetbort
― u kin pon da per pet chuh wul mo shun (Hunt3r), Thursday, 8 March 2012 03:27 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh shit i cant believe obama was for a place hiring more non white men. shocked and outraged by this kenyan socialist witch doctor i am, what a terrorist.
― a hoy hoy, Thursday, 8 March 2012 10:11 (1 year ago) Permalink
Just checking, racialist = he talked about race and this word sounds like racist, y?
― Andrew Farrell, Thursday, 8 March 2012 13:31 (1 year ago) Permalink
Racialist began its life as a word that meant: someone who believed the conventionally-identified races, which at the time were mostly color-coded as yellow, black, brown, white, red, were inherently quite distinct from one another, and that one could isolate these qualities and be certain to find them in any "pure-blooded" individual of that race. From that unpromising beginning it was a baby step to the whole modern racist fiasco.
― Aimless, Thursday, 8 March 2012 20:14 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 24 March 2012 05:33 (1 year ago) Permalink
it was so nice to have the debt-paying generation arrive, i welcomed them
― ♆ (gr8080), Saturday, 24 March 2012 06:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Ooo! Why Abstinence works! They've finally cracked the code!
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Saturday, 24 March 2012 07:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
available online for free!
http://krtins.longboys.net/Winter-2011-TCT/index.html
― the acquisition and practice of music is unfavourable to the health of (abanana), Saturday, 24 March 2012 10:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
all its articles appear to be written by vice-presidents of think tanks and retired teachers, i predict it shall be a great success
― brokering (pimping) (stevie), Saturday, 24 March 2012 12:24 (1 year ago) Permalink
Making SenseRonald Regan, Our First Black President?by Michael ReaganThe Reagan Reportlength: 1091 words
^^ unless this is about how james k. polk was really part creole or something i really don't wanna know where this is going
― goole, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
oh ha shit my eye completely glossed over the presence of "Ronald Reagan" in that sentence
welp.
― goole, Saturday, 24 March 2012 16:16 (1 year ago) Permalink
Is that Alan Keyes that is Making the Sense in that article?
― WARS OF ARMAGEDDON (Karaoke Version) (Sparkle Motion), Saturday, 24 March 2012 18:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
omg they took the whole website down
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 28 March 2012 20:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
Index of /[ICO] Name Last modified Size Description[DIR] Winter-2011-TCT/ 27-Mar-2012 11:49 -[DIR] abstinence/ 27-Mar-2012 11:49 -[DIR] debt/ 27-Mar-2012 11:50 -[DIR] glee/ 27-Mar-2012 11:50 -Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS) Server at krtins.longboys.net Port 80
Awww, i wanted to see what was is /glee
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Thursday, 29 March 2012 06:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
in, rather
http://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/2012/03/the-terrible-no-good-very-bad-month-for-the-left.php
― curmudgeon, Friday, 30 March 2012 15:13 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man, that's just full-on bizarro land
― Spleen of Hearts (kingfish), Friday, 30 March 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
― ♆ (gr8080), Friday, 6 April 2012 18:55 (1 year ago) Permalink
― goole, Friday, 6 April 2012 19:12 (1 year ago) Permalink
Elizabeth Blackney @MediaLizzy CloseDear @BarackObama: call your predecessor, when oil spiked on his watch - he got prices at the pump back down to $1.67 before he left.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 21 April 2012 01:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 21 April 2012 03:59 (1 year ago) Permalink
TV Schedule
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 21 April 2012 04:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://creationwiki.org/Main_Page
― dayo, Monday, 23 April 2012 22:04 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.prlog.org/11845940-natural-history-museums-misled-school-children.pdf
― dayo, Monday, 23 April 2012 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
"The Smithsonian Museum, the Carnegie Museum and the American Museum of Natural History have withheld the most important modern bird and mammal fossils from their public dinosaur displays, and may have misled children by implying that dinosaur times were more strange and unusual than they really were."
"Dinosaur times."
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:20 (1 year ago) Permalink
In this week's Dinosaur Times, the big green one complains about life, and the littler one offers snark in return.
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Monday, 23 April 2012 22:53 (1 year ago) Permalink
Egypt is also called by the name Mistrayim which translates to Mizraim, or Ham’s son. Mizraim is the grandson of Noah from the Bible and is believed to be the founder of the land of Egypt. (Genesis 10:6,13 ) After living in Babel, Mizraim took his family to live in the land of Egypt. He brought with him his 8 children, 4 of which were girls and 4 of which were boys. By calculating the marriages of his children, and the amount of children an average couple would have during that time, it can be estimated that over the course of 30 years each couple would have around 8 children each. This approximation would lead to around 30,000 descendants of Mizraim over the course of 150 years which would be around the time the first pyramid was constructed.
lotsa bonin' on the nile
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 23 April 2012 23:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
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― Mordy, Monday, 23 April 2012 23:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
and then Mizraim surveyed the vast expanse and 69'd his wife until they both were about to explode, and then God commanded MIzraim to dangle her off of the cliff upside-down and bone her like that as well, and so he did.
Exodus 14:5-6
― Mad God 40/40 (Z S), Monday, 23 April 2012 23:30 (1 year ago) Permalink
Man that shit makes the Song of Solomon look like bad softcore.
― the Dandy Club (Abbbottt), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 04:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
Dinosaur Times' obits are pretty good reads, actually
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 13:58 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://prospect.org/article/mad-money
In January 2011, the advocacy group Utah Sound Money released a 30-second ad designed to stir up support for a new bill in the state legislature. “The almighty dollar’s not looking so almighty these days,” the announcer intones as storm clouds fill the screen. “The feds have us tap-dancing at the edge of financial ruin.” A small map of the U.S. totters along a rising red graph of debt. Suddenly, blue skies open as a giant gold coin floats down, using the Constitution as a parachute. “Restoring an inflation-proof, sound-money option offers a time-tested option,” the announcer concludes over the laughter of children at play. Viewers are then urged to support the Utah Sound Money Act.
Sponsored by Representative Brad Galvez, a Republican, the bill would make gold and silver coins from the U.S. Mint legal tender in the state. Although no businesses or individuals are compelled to use them, Galvez’s bill requires the state to accept the coins for tax payments or any government fees. Galvez says he was motivated by a fear that the nation’s mounting debt could lead to a loss of faith in the dollar, resulting in hyperinflation and possibly a currency collapse. He wanted to protect Utah, he says, from this calamity by creating an alternative to “fiat” currency, under which the dollar is backed by the “faith and credit” of the U.S.—not, as it once was, by gold reserves.
The Utah measure might sound like one of the many thousands of fringe bills that get filed in state legislatures and then are never heard of again—except occasionally as a punch line on late-night TV. But Galvez’s bill became law last year. Now he’s working on new proposals to make silver and gold easier to use. While Utah is the first state to pass such a law, others are trying. In the 2011–2012 legislative cycle, bills were introduced in 17 states to either recognize gold and silver coins or study the options for alternative currencies.
― j., Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Goldbuggery makes me want to go on a shooting spree.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
huh, for whatever reason I thought it was illegal to introduce other forms of currency
― I need new, hip khakis (DJP), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 14:25 (1 year ago) Permalink
"gold and silver coins from the U.S. Mint" <-- key phrase
― Aimless, Tuesday, 24 April 2012 16:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
It's so frustratingly unevolved
― L'ennui, cette maladie de tous les (Michael White), Tuesday, 24 April 2012 17:10 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://dontvoteobama.net/
Barack Obama - Either Doing His Best In One of The Most Difficult Times In American History, Or Hitler Barack Obama, the first black president, proved to millions this year that he is either trying his best to lead the nation during the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression, or he is the modern-day incarnation of Adolph Hitler pushing his Socialistic agenda. One of the two. In 2010, Barack Obama made a number of political compromises while still trying to pursue many of the reforms laid out during his 2008 campaign. Also, he was a totalitarian monster comparable to the perpetrator of one of the worst genocides in history. Barack is either a president who passed a comprehensive health care measure despite staunch opposition from powerful private interests, or a radical-Islamist sympathizer bent on systematically dismantling American democracy and eradicating all human liberty. (he successfully socialized healthcare against the will of the people) Barack either assisted all Americans by lowering taxes while failing to communicate that effectively, or he is pure evil destroying our government from the inside out with insurmountable debt.Barack Obama, IS TWO of the most important people of 2010: the one who was elected to be president of the United States and execute laws to the best of his ability, and the one who murders senior citizens (government healthcare) murders babies (abortion) and hates all white people (his own book). Only history will say which he is for sure.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:21 (1 year ago) Permalink
Haaa
― Choad of Choad Hall (kingfish), Wednesday, 25 April 2012 19:23 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/05/strange_anomalies_in_the_famous_situation_room_photo.html
― max, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 16:56 (1 year ago) Permalink
Compare the size of surrounding heads in the "Situation Room" photo to the size of Obama's head. Even if you use a perspective argument -- in which objects appear smaller at a greater distance -- then why are the faces behind Obama still larger? Marshall Webb's head is larger as well, and keep in mind that Marshall is sitting next to Obama (on the same plane).
Mara Zebest is a graphic artist and co-author for a number of Adobe product books, including the Inside Photoshop series, which typically exceeded 1,000 pages and has been published in at least ten different languages around the world. She is also tech editor for numerous books for both Adobe and Microsoft products and has worked closely with the Cold Case Posse (CCP) for the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office (MCSO) in providing evidence on Obama's forged birth certificate.
― goole, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:07 (1 year ago) Permalink
she can literally tell from some of the pixels
― goole, Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
She's Zebest
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:15 (1 year ago) Permalink
i think the real mystery here is why some old white men's craniums expand until death
― it's smdh time in America (will), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:19 (1 year ago) Permalink
my favorite is still the discovery of the layers in the long-form birth certificate image
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 17:26 (1 year ago) Permalink
Mara Zebest is a graphic artist and co-author for a number of Adobe product books, including the Inside Photoshop series, which typically exceeded 1,000 pages
because of course the amount of pages is what defines a book's value
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Wednesday, 9 May 2012 22:50 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.redstate.com/moe_lane/2012/05/10/barack-obamas-bullying-of-coretta-prayfcoretta/
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 16 May 2012 22:39 (1 year ago) Permalink
Oh, I’m sorry: was that unfair? Let me keep repeating this: the Left will not win a “Whose candidate is weirder?” contest.
so pathetic
― It was you. Miming to Tenacious D. (stevie), Wednesday, 16 May 2012 23:00 (1 year ago) Permalink
this is just sad. it's RS though, so give them their pills and change their diapers and look away
tbf I think the romney bullying story is noise
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:35 (1 year ago) Permalink
it's RS though, so give them their pills and change their diapers and look away
read this as rolling stone and it parsed just fine
― good men like my father, or president truman (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:36 (1 year ago) Permalink
the romney bullying story is noise and weirdly specious-seeming but lol good riddance i hope people continue to assassinate his character all over the place, plus it gave us the immortal line "he can't look like that!"
― good men like my father, or president truman (difficult listening hour), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:40 (1 year ago) Permalink
you can hear that poster flexing his arm, cracking his knuckles, and raising his eyebrow through that line
"We are not afraid to tell the world the truth about Cora."
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:43 (1 year ago) Permalink
You guys have to remember here that Moe Lane is mentally retarded.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Thursday, 17 May 2012 18:54 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/17/The-Vetting-Barack-Obama-Literary-Agent-1991-Born-in-Kenya-Raised-Indonesia-Hawaii
The errant Obama biography in the Acton & Dystel booklet does not contradict the authenticity of Obama's birth certificate. Moreover, several contemporaneous accounts of Obama’s background describe Obama as having been born in Hawaii.The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona.
The biography does, however, fit a pattern in which Obama--or the people representing and supporting him--manipulate his public persona.
― ♆ (gr8080), Thursday, 17 May 2012 21:29 (1 year ago) Permalink
I actively pray for birthers to do a Heaven's Gate scenario they annoy me so fuckin bad gaaah
― cosi fan whitford (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 17 May 2012 22:08 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Government/2012/05/18/did-elizabeth-warren-plagiarize-pow-wow-chow-recipes
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 19 May 2012 02:42 (1 year ago) Permalink
I bet The Onion were surprised they were in the will.
― He's sick of the Swiss. He don't like em. (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 21 May 2012 19:09 (1 year ago) Permalink
http://www.buzzfeed.com/mckaycoppins/in-conservative-media-a-race-war-rages
― max, Monday, 21 May 2012 19:57 (1 year ago) Permalink
this just in: racists hate being called racist
― I'M THAT POSTA, AAAAAAAAAH (DJP), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:28 (1 year ago) Permalink
ugh Ward Connerly. was so pissed when he got appointed to the UC Regents
― Roger Barfing (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 21 May 2012 20:34 (1 year ago) Permalink
well written summary!
― goole, Monday, 21 May 2012 20:48 (1 year ago) Permalink
"To the press, the only hate crimes are straight white men somehow committing acts of violence against people who are not straight white men."
It's the somehow that gets me.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 21 May 2012 21:45 (1 year ago) Permalink
"I think it's only recently that there have been outspoken voices, particularly on blogs, saying, 'Shut up Jesse Jackson, we're tired of you,'" she said.
Uhhhhhhhhhhhhh . . .
Dan Riehl, a conservative blogger who runs Riehl World View and contributes to Breitbart News, said that black-on-white violence isn't as predominant as other criminal-victim dynamics, but he still argued the news media have a special incentive to over-report stories of white criminals.
These people really do live in fucking fantasyland. You simply cannot have a conversation with people starting from premises as fundamentally mistaken as these are.
― i love the large auns pictures! (Phil D.), Monday, 21 May 2012 22:05 (1 year ago) Permalink
― j., Sunday, 27 May 2012 19:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
i have literally taken shits that were smarter than that woman. they were marginally less spiteful.
― Sisig Steve (stevie), Sunday, 27 May 2012 22:18 (11 months ago) Permalink
uh i don't even know what to link to, but there is some kind of bizarre legal blog war going on between a bunch of online liberals i've never heard of and conservatives. the key guy is "the speedway bomber" turned some kind of activist, Brett Kimberlin
http://www.ibtimes.com/articles/345561/20120525/brett-kimberlin-speedway-bomber-blogger-terrorist.htm
apparently it started with somebody faking a 911 call about a shooting and getting the SWAT team called to a conservative blogger's home
the whole thing is really fucked up.
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:07 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah michelle malkin and "twitchy" have been going on about this on twitter for the last week or so
calling a swat team on someone is obviously fucked up but patterico's hed was like "I Could Have Been Killed for Blogging" which is just
― max, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:11 (11 months ago) Permalink
yeah this is the victim of the attack (i think if you get the SWAT team involved it's not a "prank" anymore
http://patterico.com/
http://patterico.com/2012/05/25/convicted-bomber-brett-kimberlin-neal-rauhauser-ron-brynaert-and-their-campaign-of-political-terrorism/
what does it mean that i've never heard of any of these 'leftists' before? like not one time ever.
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:12 (11 months ago) Permalink
oh wait, that happened last year? then what's happening now? ok idg this at all
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
glenn beck seized on it for his radio show a couple weeks ago and malkin has been pushing it since then
― max, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
count on the corner! this is a summary of what just happened i take it
http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/301263/arrested-blogging-maryland-jonathan-h-adler
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
It's a bunch of loons in a trailer park scanning eachother's phone calls, poisoning eachother's dogs, and calling the police five times a day. Getting all Sam Spade on internet machines at the library to prove that the Masons are running the whole thing.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
well it's a little more serious than that, one guy was just thrown in jail for a night
― goole, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 15:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
It just keeps getting weirder.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/05/25/opening_act_blog_about_brett_kimberlin_day.html
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:02 (11 months ago) Permalink
managed to convince a technologically illiterate judge that this was incitement...
Huh? I would imagine that whatever technological form is used to publish an incitement, it is still recognizable as incitement because of what it says. Now, if the judge had been just plain illiterate, maybe it would have some bearing.
― Aimless, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
he doesn't even understand that it's okay to be a shithead on the internet!
― Mordy, Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
I'm trying to understand why crazy cousin larry went to jail, but right now I have only incoherant stories from crazy cousin larry’s family about how the government is conspiring with the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog. As far as I can figure, crazy cousin larry was arrested for minding his own business because the cops and the whole town are against crazy cousin larry's family for no other reason than that they are right with the lord. I'm not defending the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog. He's crazier than cousin larry! It looks like he's been harassing crazy cousin larry's family with frivolous lawsuits and calls to 911.
Larry's only been in jail for two days, so it's probably too soon to call it a sign of end days. I suspect it will be sorted out. I keep telling crazy cousin Larry's family to work with the authorities and to quit pamphleting the neighborhood and digging through the lowdown-sonofabitch-across-the-way-who-done-kilt-their-dog's garbage, but I just saw crazy cousin larry's ma on the roof with some binoculars and a police scanner.
― oh jeez. I can feel myself quicken. (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 30 May 2012 16:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
"the lowdown sonofabitch across the way who done kilt their dog" = guy who set off a bunch of bombs, one of which blew off someone's leg
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
Oh god, I remember this guy! He was a speaker at the 4th of July Smoke-out march in DC when I went back in like 95 or 96? My impression of him was that he was wackily psychotic and is one of the main reasons that I don't really go to political protests anymore, if I can avoid them. I had no idea about the bombings until now. That's super scary. I was like 16 years old, smoking pot, and sitting a few yards away from a convicted bomber. Fuck this guy.
― how's life, Thursday, 31 May 2012 12:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
my analogy still holds up. have you ever seen a horror movie?
― the conch is a well worn copy of the AD&D Fiends Folio (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:36 (11 months ago) Permalink
it's really weird how the response is "make this guy famous!" instead of "this guy is schizophrenic and needs help"
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 31 May 2012 19:57 (11 months ago) Permalink
the Brynaert email is really deranged too.
i gather kimberlin has claimed (in legal proceedings?) that he's not a 'public figure' and so talking about the speedway bombings should be off limits. so 'making him famous' is both trolly and, idk, not wrong either.
― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
i'm basically with the wingers on this one, kimberlin and these dudes seem like bonafide creeps, and if you've gotten to the point of messing around with lethal police powers for yuks you can go die afaic.
― goole, Thursday, 31 May 2012 20:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 1 June 2012 03:45 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 1 June 2012 03:59 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://i.imgur.com/g8HC3.png
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, May 31, 2012 11:45 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark
this guy looks like the one dude from the tyler perry movies
― fapper don (J0rdan S.), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:08 (11 months ago) Permalink
^ the most shameful washingtonian
― spextor vs bextor (contenderizer), Friday, 1 June 2012 05:14 (11 months ago) Permalink
Nothing says socialism like fabulously wealthy celebrities.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 1 June 2012 15:19 (11 months ago) Permalink
i love this world where just showing a picture of the President with his own AG is supposed to prove some dastardly point
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:42 (11 months ago) Permalink
We won The Cold War, so why are black people in power???????????
― that is a weird thing to bring up over lean cuisine (DJP), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:46 (11 months ago) Permalink
is that Terry Bradshaw, middle left?
― atlas arghed (brownie), Friday, 1 June 2012 16:50 (11 months ago) Permalink
corzine
― Hauntingly Unemployed American (President Keyes), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:32 (11 months ago) Permalink
Hugo Chavez and Obama! Standing next one another! OMG, end times are near!
― Aimless, Friday, 1 June 2012 17:34 (11 months ago) Permalink
Well known Marxist tax exile Bono.
― Brony! Broni! Broné! (Phil D.), Friday, 1 June 2012 17:35 (11 months ago) Permalink
This is not so far-fetched as it sounds. Using the State to force ppl not to discriminate and be as racist as they wanted to be was seen as a totalitarian commie move by a lot of Americans and Robeson et al, were often attracted to the Communist Party (and willing to apologize for some pretty indefensible shit) primarily because it was one of the most forthright anti-racist parties in the country.
All those 1989 proved-us-right fuckers NEVER acknowledge how wrong about race they were.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Friday, 1 June 2012 18:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
Who was it, either Chait or Pareene, mentioned that only the American Communist Party had a completely perfect record on 20th-C civil rights
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Saturday, 2 June 2012 01:06 (11 months ago) Permalink
Easier to do when you have no power whatsoever and no actual hope of getting any.
― Aimless, Saturday, 2 June 2012 02:13 (11 months ago) Permalink
True.
― Dreaming in Infrared (kingfish), Saturday, 2 June 2012 07:48 (11 months ago) Permalink
so what's up with this proliferation of weirdo conservative facebook pages? does Rove or Koch bros have some dopey kid on staff who just sets these up and posts links all day? judging by the "likes" they get they seem incredibly popular, and incredibly active (though it could certainly be more or less the same 2 million assholes subscribing to all of them). are there a bazillion no-name lefty/ Dem groups doing this, too?
http://www.facebook.com/ForAmericahttp://www.facebook.com/RightChangehttp://www.facebook.com/changewashingtonhttp://www.facebook.com/BeingAmericanByGOhttp://www.facebook.com/beingconservative
― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 8 June 2012 22:43 (11 months ago) Permalink
― buzza, Sunday, 17 June 2012 18:09 (11 months ago) Permalink
http://www.facebook.com/changewashington
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 17 June 2012 19:51 (11 months ago) Permalink
x-post so building hillbilly solar panels is now a right wing thing?
― President Keyes, Sunday, 17 June 2012 20:30 (11 months ago) Permalink
Obama Celebrates Anti-Police Riot Started at Mafia-Owned Bar for Transvestites… http://drudge.tw/Ly1jwH
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:52 (11 months ago) Permalink
Drudge hopes his readers are ignorant and/or incurious enough to take this at face value. On Friday, President Obama spoke at a reception marking LGBT pride month. The “anti-police riot” referenced by Drudge is, of course, Stonewall — one of the great, seminal moments in the modern gay rights movement.
― curmudgeon, Monday, 18 June 2012 15:53 (11 months ago) Permalink
It is in no way surprising that a Daily Caller reporter would act like a tremendous, disrespectful asshole, as “act like an asshole” is essentially the Caller’s mission statement. Presidents shouldn’t be afforded god-like respect by the press or the citizenry, but “don’t interrupt people while they’re talking to angrily shout disagreeable things at them” is just sort of basic politeness, really. (Of course, in a movie written by a liberal screenwriter — *cough cough* Aaron Sorkin *cough cough* — Munro would be a hero. And in a movie written by a liberal screenwriter, he also wouldn’t be an obnoxious right-wing Irish-accented twit, and also his question would not be paradoxically nativist nonsense.)
http://www.salon.com/2012/06/15/angry_daily_caller_person_shouts_at_president/singleton/
― Fiendish Doctor Wu! (kingfish), Monday, 18 June 2012 17:17 (11 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 2 July 2012 22:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
thirsty for COCAINES
― Call Surgeon General C. Everett Koop. Poo-poo-pa-doop. (stevie), Tuesday, 3 July 2012 07:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
good overview of the whole kimberlin thing
http://www.salon.com/2012/07/10/brett_kimberlin_versus_right_wing_bloggers/
― max, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 13:50 (10 months ago) Permalink
I'm so glad Alex pores through that shit so I don't have to.
― Love Max Ophüls of us all (Michael White), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Maryland state attorney’s office declined to pursue it and sent him a hilarious letter:
The above-captioned matter is the third citizen complaint involving you and Mr. Kimberlin. At my direction, the State dropped the charges in the other two. Very respectfully, it is my belief that your dispute with Mr. Kimberlin cannot be resolved in the criminal justice system.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 14:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
is it just me or is this whole kimberlin story the most boring right-wingery in a long time?
― Mordy, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
ha the punchline on that post
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
Very respectfully, it is my belief that your dispute with Mr. Kimberlin cannot be resolved in the criminal justice system.
Take it to a comments thread you guys.
― President Keyes, Tuesday, 10 July 2012 15:40 (10 months ago) Permalink
i was down in IA with some family this weekend, read this in the DM Register and was like, o man TPM is going to be all over this:
lo and behold
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/07/republic-of-the-united-states-of-america-united-states-corporation-randi-johnson.php?ref=fpnewsfeed
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
there is no faster way to signal you are a horrible racist than to have issues with the 14th Amendment
maybe having "HI I AM A HORRIBLE RACIST" tattooed on your face, but it's a tossup
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
from the cedar rapids (in-district) paper
http://thegazette.com/2012/07/13/state-senate-candidate-drops-out-says-she-will-be-part-of-alternate-government-2/
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
"She met with other leaders in the Republic of the United States of America and was appointed senator by the group’s Iowa delegation, which includes four house members, treasurer, judge and governor.
The Iowa group’s speaker of the house, George “Rowdy” Templer, of Davenport, said the group believes citizens have been burdened by the cost of the current government. The Republic of the United States of America would abolish federal taxes and require citizens to approve all state and local taxes."
it had not occured to me how much this sovereign/militia stuff is pretty much LARP.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:16 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahaha this woman rules
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:18 (10 months ago) Permalink
It was then replaced in 1871 by the UNITED STATES CORPORATION. (de facto-without law). This Unlawful Corporate Democracy, established by the forty-first congress, has been acting as though it is the “official government” which clearly it is not! In point of fact, it is the reason why “We the People” Instead of Experiencing Freedom and Prosperity, suffer under the weight of Oppressive Statutes and an Out of Control, Monstrous National Debt which is Robbing Us and All Future Generations of Americans of Our Treasure and Our Legacy for which Our Founding Fathers’ so Valiantly Fought and Died.
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:19 (10 months ago) Permalink
So Many Capitalizations
it helps give you that 18th century vibe, v impt
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:20 (10 months ago) Permalink
so basically their entire policy platform can be boiled down to "They're After Me Lucky Charms!"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:21 (10 months ago) Permalink
in all my fruitless searches i've never come across 1871 or the 41st Congress being the big historical villain-moment. who knew!
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
wsos?
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
haha, i know, isn't it usually 1933??
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:24 (10 months ago) Permalink
Why is George Washington praying to Ghost Rider?
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
dozens of sovereign citizen/redemptionist movements arguing w/ each other over the exact moment they were enslaved by the gov't. they need ecumenical councils!!
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 19:25 (10 months ago) Permalink
or 1861
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:26 (10 months ago) Permalink
they need ecumenical councils!!
ha yes.
http://dev.republicoftheunitedstates.org/
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
i want to join this on facebook so badly, but then, not
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:33 (10 months ago) Permalink
The Diet of Iowa.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:39 (10 months ago) Permalink
diet of night crawlers amirite
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:41 (10 months ago) Permalink
L to R:
Senator Randi Shannon, George “Rowdy” Templer, mh
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 16 July 2012 19:58 (10 months ago) Permalink
This Corrupt System is just like an out of control freight train heading at full speed toward the river where the bridge has been washed out by a flood brought on by their own acts in violation of the Public Trust,and their Oaths to The Constitution of Iowa and The Republic of The United States of America.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
metaphor alert
http://dev.republicoftheunitedstates.org/what-is-the-republic/history/
attn max! capitalization is key!!
Sovereign – A real person. Sovereigns can own property while Citizens/Subjects cannot. According to the original Constitution, all government comes from the Sovereign Individual. Without the Sovereign Individual, there is no government.
U.S. Citizen/Subject – A corporate fictitious entity that merely represents the real person. It acts as a “strawman.” [To call oneself a “sovereign citizen” or “sovereign subject” is an oxymoron, since “sovereign” and “citizen/subject” are mutually exclusive of each other.] When asked if you are a “U.S. Citizen” on corporate legal documents, if you check “yes,” you agree to the terms of Corporate Law and unknowingly relinquish your sovereign status and transfer all of your rights to the UNITED STATES CORPORATION since you are now under contract.
Corporation – A non-human, fictitious entity. Corporate fictitious entities are denoted in all caps. This includes the names of Citizens/Subjects. Your fictitious “strawman” entity is addressed in all caps, i.e. JOHN SMITH, rather than John Smith.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
hahahahahahahahahahaha
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:07 (10 months ago) Permalink
oh right i totally forgot about their hilarious capitalization thing
these guys are the best!!! in another world they are arguing over the lengths and directions of the dashes in emily dickinson's poetry
these are the naval law guys, right?
― Mordy, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:08 (10 months ago) Permalink
lol that's a real thing isn't it. a guy i was in a class with in grad school went down that rabbit hole.
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
dont think theyre exactly the same dudes but i think theyre closely related
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:09 (10 months ago) Permalink
xps er the dickinson rabbit hole, not 'naval law', that is
i just love that these nuts are as in love with the text as english professors and talmudic scholars
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:10 (10 months ago) Permalink
more like annoying font layout bods tho
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:11 (10 months ago) Permalink
When asked if you are a “U.S. Citizen” on corporate legal documents, if you check “yes,” you agree to the terms of Corporate Law and unknowingly relinquish your sovereign status and transfer all of your rights to the UNITED STATES CORPORATION since you are now under contract.
imagine this being spoken aloud sternly by a man... in front of you at the DMV
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
this is basically a bunch of ppl going "JENNIFER GOVERNMENT IS REAL"
― PITILESS LIVE SHOW (DJP), Monday, 16 July 2012 20:14 (10 months ago) Permalink
its like a magic spell
― max, Monday, 16 July 2012 20:17 (10 months ago) Permalink
It makes me want to go to the DMV in Kansas or sthing except can you imagine the eyerolling from everyone in line behind that guy? Ho boy.
― how did I get here? why am I in the whiskey aisle? this is all so (Laurel), Monday, 16 July 2012 21:22 (10 months ago) Permalink
Correction: The original version of this article misstated Randi Shannon’s last name as “Johnson.” We regret the error.
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Monday, 16 July 2012 21:30 (10 months ago) Permalink
i want to know how george templer got his nickname
― mookieproof, Monday, 16 July 2012 21:38 (10 months ago) Permalink
Naval Law = mostly Freeman-on-the-land = the UK offshoot of the Sovereign Citizens Movement. It's not been as fatal, but it is still pretty fucked up - and frequently appeals to people who don't know enough to know better, and who get noddy civil cases turned into more serious time for contmept of court. A lot of the time they're aware that life has cheat codes, but they want to believe that it's not just, you know, money and class.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 16 July 2012 22:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
yeah i know, max has said this before, but like, how can you possibly believe that this rapacious octopus government cartel with immense resources, no limits, hatred of a free person, etc, is going to just back up off you cos you were like, "check the name, no caps, boom, i'm out."
― du. duplass. duplass mich. (goole), Monday, 16 July 2012 22:56 (10 months ago) Permalink
It is a sad fact that the majority of court cases invoking the 14th Amendment was for a while after it passed OVERWHELMINGLY invoked defense of corporations rather than newly freed slaves. I forgot the percentage but it was something like over 80%.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 18 July 2012 03:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
http://www.theamericanconservative.com/this-childs-view-of-single-motherhood/
damn dude
― goole, Wednesday, 18 July 2012 17:12 (10 months ago) Permalink
Did we ever talk about this guy's paintings?
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:53 (10 months ago) Permalink
there's a whole thread!
― goole, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 16:59 (10 months ago) Permalink
I couldn't find it by searching for the dude's name...
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:01 (10 months ago) Permalink
shit it was just up a day or two ago, i forget what it's called tho. something something .jpg
― goole, Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:02 (10 months ago) Permalink
Listening to this clown talk about his paintings is the worst.
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:05 (10 months ago) Permalink
cthulhuchrist.jpg?
xpost
― Porto for Pyros (The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 17:06 (10 months ago) Permalink
one_nation_under_God.jpg
― misty sensorium (Plasmon), Tuesday, 24 July 2012 22:28 (10 months ago) Permalink
ty
― goole, Wednesday, 25 July 2012 00:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Saturday, 28 July 2012 15:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
drunk
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:18 (9 months ago) Permalink
John Podhoretz @jpodhoretzHey, delightful jokes about that wacky North Korea, where millions starve!Expand Reply Retweet Favorite
otm
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 28 July 2012 16:58 (9 months ago) Permalink
idg how you'd immediately assume abide w/ me was for the munich olympics
― Yeah and I ~obstruction~ you/ya fucking blind cunt (pause) fucking k (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 28 July 2012 17:47 (9 months ago) Permalink
reflex anti-nhs sentiment just makes me sad
― , Blogger (schlump), Saturday, 28 July 2012 17:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
john is really a substandard iteration of norm
― Mordy, Saturday, 28 July 2012 22:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Tennessee doin big things
http://www.nashvillescene.com/pitw/archives/2012/08/01/tinfoil-hat-society-state-legislator-warns-of-obamas-fake-assassination-plot
― it's smdh time in America (will), Wednesday, 1 August 2012 20:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
saw this on the teevee
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 4 August 2012 20:13 (9 months ago) Permalink
Wasn't his thesis on how to kill senior citizens? I thought that was a matter of public record.
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 August 2012 20:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
(I think I may have served up a hanging curve there for anyone who wants to grab a bat.)
― clemenza, Saturday, 4 August 2012 20:51 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://freebeacon.com/stop-snitchin-start-donatin/
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 7 August 2012 22:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
bush-league weirdo from up here has gone viral
http://youtu.be/Bs7Y9iYf_uk
― goole, Wednesday, 8 August 2012 14:04 (9 months ago) Permalink
At an election night party for state Rep. Randy Vulakovich (R-Shaler), Allegheny County GOP chair and former county executive Jim Roddey fired up a couple hundred local Republicans by noting that Vulakovich had defeated his Democratic opponent by a nearly 50-point margin.Roddey then segued to a less positive note."There was a disappointment tonight. I was very embarrassed," Roddey told the crowd, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "I was in this parking lot and there was a man looking for a space to park, and I found a space for him. And I felt badly -- he looked like he was sort of in distress. And I said, 'Sir, here's a place.' And he said, 'That's a handicapped space.' I said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I saw that Obama sticker and I thought you were mentally retarded.'"Post-Gazette reporter Tim McNulty observed that the crowd "hollered and clapped" in response to the insensitive joke.
Roddey then segued to a less positive note.
"There was a disappointment tonight. I was very embarrassed," Roddey told the crowd, according to the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. "I was in this parking lot and there was a man looking for a space to park, and I found a space for him. And I felt badly -- he looked like he was sort of in distress. And I said, 'Sir, here's a place.' And he said, 'That's a handicapped space.' I said, 'Oh, I'm so sorry, I saw that Obama sticker and I thought you were mentally retarded.'"
Post-Gazette reporter Tim McNulty observed that the crowd "hollered and clapped" in response to the insensitive joke.
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 19:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
Gee, the Post-Gazette is the only local coverage online I've seen...
― rods & cones (doo dah), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 22:46 (9 months ago) Permalink
Can someone augment the thread title? Year-specific multi-year threads get under my skin fer some reason
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 8 August 2012 23:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
what kingfish wants, kingfish gets
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 9 August 2012 00:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
thankee kindly
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Thursday, 9 August 2012 00:55 (9 months ago) Permalink
A Fox News contributor on Thursday explained that people who support Christian restaurant chain Chick-fil-A were different from Occupy Wall Street protesters because liberals “maim and rape” each other.During a segment on Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked comedian Steven Crowder to compare Chick-fil-A customers to “violent confrontations at Occupy demonstrations.”“Conservatives and leftists protest in different ways,” Crowder explained. “Conservatives, when they want their voices to be heard, they decide to effect real political change by making their voices heard through voting with their dollars.”He continued: “Liberals decide to commit felonies and harass and assault and maim and rape their fellow occupiers in tents while tipping over police cars. So, there is a little bit of a contrast.”The comedian also had some advice for Chick-fil-A critics who disagree with the company funding organizations which work to oppose marriage equality and other LGBT rights.“You know what I would do if the owner of Pizza Hut started publicly burning Bibles?” Crowder asked. “I wouldn’t eat at Pizza Hut. … Because I’m not a Marxist idiot. I believe that people have the right to free speech.”
During a segment on Fox & Friends, co-host Brian Kilmeade asked comedian Steven Crowder to compare Chick-fil-A customers to “violent confrontations at Occupy demonstrations.”
“Conservatives and leftists protest in different ways,” Crowder explained. “Conservatives, when they want their voices to be heard, they decide to effect real political change by making their voices heard through voting with their dollars.”
He continued: “Liberals decide to commit felonies and harass and assault and maim and rape their fellow occupiers in tents while tipping over police cars. So, there is a little bit of a contrast.”
The comedian also had some advice for Chick-fil-A critics who disagree with the company funding organizations which work to oppose marriage equality and other LGBT rights.
“You know what I would do if the owner of Pizza Hut started publicly burning Bibles?” Crowder asked. “I wouldn’t eat at Pizza Hut. … Because I’m not a Marxist idiot. I believe that people have the right to free speech.”
― Marco YOLO (Phil D.), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
He's a funny guy, this comedian.
― if i had a goat's cheese tostada i might cream myself a little (stevie), Thursday, 9 August 2012 19:31 (9 months ago) Permalink
liberals drive like this
― Hungry4 8-8 (brownie), Thursday, 9 August 2012 21:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
Occupy just needs to start buying the right kind of stocks?
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 9 August 2012 23:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
how'd you like to see this coming at you
http://www.yaf.org/theconservativesmovie.html
― it's smdh time in America (will), Friday, 10 August 2012 21:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
"2016: obama's America" just opened up in a couple suburban theaters around here, a flick by that douche at Dinesh Dsouz
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Friday, 10 August 2012 21:49 (9 months ago) Permalink
From the director who brought you... Still Point in a Turning World: Ronald Reagan and His Ranch
― Clay, Friday, 10 August 2012 22:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
wow the trailers for that d'souza thing
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 10 August 2012 23:39 (9 months ago) Permalink
HOLY SHIT @ the black kids playing monopoly
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 10 August 2012 23:41 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yes thank God the founding fathers didn't have a dream for "the sins of colonialism be set right".
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Friday, 10 August 2012 23:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
Dinesh D'Souza braving the horrors of Kenyan trains to bring us the unvarnished truth
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 11 August 2012 00:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
when they're talking about the dream of the founding fathers to perfect liberty all the footage they show is of cars
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:07 (9 months ago) Permalink
gm or someone please adopt the slogan LIBERTY PERFECTED
― a hauntingly unemployed american (difficult listening hour), Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
I'd love to the Romney version of this movie with a bunch of polygamist compounds and kidnapped children
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 11 August 2012 01:50 (9 months ago) Permalink
this is playing out in a working/middle class white-flight suburb here on friday. curious how attendance will be
http://www.runawayslavemovie.com/
― it's smdh time in America (will), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 17:42 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh boy:
http://www.dove.org/reviewpopup.asp?Unique_ID=9379
Synopsis:Limited Theatrical Release - In RUNAWAY SLAVE, an intriguing new documentary that opens in theaters this summer, Rev. C.L. Bryant journeys across America to find answers. A one-time NAACP local chapter president, Rev. Bryant discovers that by buying into the entitlement mindset of "progressives," the black community has traded one form of tyranny for another. Using leading black conservatives as "conductors," Rev. Bryant believes it is time for a new Underground Railroad to help liberate all Americans from the Government plantation that has left the black community dealing with a new form of slavery: entitlements.
Dove Worldview:This is a riveting documentary which attempts to unite blacks to move forward in a focused political front, rather than being divided on perceived racism issues. Rev. C. L. Bryant pursues the idea that conservative Republicans did a lot for the advancement of African Americans in the past, more than Democrats would like to own up to. Republicans were responsible for slavery being ended, citizenship and justice, and the right to vote for blacks. The documentary begins with the 47th anniversary of Martin Luther King's great Civil Rights victory.
This fascinating documentary looks at the history of the Civil Rights movement and where America is at today in terms of the advancement of blacks in society. There seems to be two schools, those who believe blacks have come a long way and their skin color no longer prevents them from anything other races can enjoy, and those who believe it is still an issue in terms of poverty and social advancement.The documentary features various pastors and community leaders who comment on political platforms and the Tea Party. Pastor Bryant shares that he did not get to enjoy his ninth anniversary at a church he pastored because the leaders of the church did not care for what they perceived to be a liberal comment and he lost his job. The documentary features a wise observation that people must learn to forgive in order to move forward.This film features a piece of history as well as insight into where we may be headed in the future as a country. We recommend it for ages twelve plus. Watch this one soon. It just might motivate you to become more active in the causes you believe in. It's not often a documentary can do that.Content Description:Sex: It's stated that some rap songs promote promiscuity.Language: A man says he was called "ni*ger" as a boy; H-1; H (as a place)-1; Crap-1Violence: "Bloody Sunday" is referred to and historical footage features police officers with Billy Clubs, people fleeing and being carried off; fires and smoke; talk of Martin Luther King's assassination; a conservative black man says there was a time he would have led conservatives to the gallows; a comment about 1500 black babies being aborted every day.Drugs: It's stated some rap songs promote drug usage.Nudity: Some young men show boxers by wearing pants low in the back.Other: A man says he believes the Tea Party is racist; a comment from black man about the angry white people; a black man asks an angry black man what makes the angry whites worse than he is and he says, "They are the enemy".
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:22 (9 months ago) Permalink
Again, I wonder how much of rightwingers arguments are more about loudly reinforcing their own belief structure to members of their tribe and picking fights with out-groups rather than the other means of argument, that of trying to convince somebody.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:25 (9 months ago) Permalink
Wall St. & the defense industry: still happy on the plantation.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:27 (9 months ago) Permalink
Congrats to Pareene:
https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/235806450952323072
― pun lovin criminal (polyphonic), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:36 (9 months ago) Permalink
*applause*
― goole, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:37 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh that is DELICIOUS. That's almost as good as "appletini party boy."
― check the name, no caps, boom, i'm (Laurel), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:38 (9 months ago) Permalink
Oh man, another victory
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 18:48 (9 months ago) Permalink
dying
― Gurdas Mane (crüt), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 20:14 (9 months ago) Permalink
Alex Pareene @pareene.@realDonaldTrump my investigators in hawaii have shown me some pretty compelling evidence that u mad doggieCollapse Reply Retweet Favorite
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 15 August 2012 21:19 (9 months ago) Permalink
lmao what a peach
― blue öyster crüt (m bison), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 21:24 (9 months ago) Permalink
HA
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 22:01 (9 months ago) Permalink
Sam Nunberg@snunberg
@pareene you're a self describe 'cat lover.' Leave your parents' basement and get a life.12:01pm - 15 Aug 12
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 15 August 2012 23:23 (9 months ago) Permalink
Fox falsely links undocumented youth to 9/11 hijackers
(vis a vis people subject to the administration's "deferred action" on immigration applying for drivers licenses)
― Darren Robocopsky (Phil D.), Friday, 17 August 2012 22:52 (9 months ago) Permalink
The stuff in that content advisory!
Sex: It's stated that some rap songs promote promiscuity.
Language: A man says he was called "ni*ger" as a boy; H-1; H (as a place)-1; Crap-1
Drugs: It's stated some rap songs promote drug usage.
Nudity: Some young men show boxers by wearing pants low in the back.
― (*・_・)ノ⌒ ☆ (Je55e), Saturday, 18 August 2012 18:17 (9 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, so much of American conservatism are victims of modernity
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 18 August 2012 19:08 (9 months ago) Permalink
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/08/20/be-ashamed/
No doubt a few of them, given the religious significance, peed in the holy waters while swimming.
― goole, Monday, 20 August 2012 20:03 (9 months ago) Permalink
PEED
RNC Official: N.M. Governor 'Dishonored' Gen. Custer By Meeting With American Indians
this can't be real
― mookieproof, Saturday, 25 August 2012 04:17 (8 months ago) Permalink
yesterday at a gas station right off the Medgar Evers Memorial Interchange in Newton, Mississippi, a Son & Daughter of Confederate Veterans. you can't see it from this photo, but the bumper sticker reads: "Don't Re-Nig in 2012"
― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 15:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
^^ was deprived of attention as a child
― Aimless, Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:09 (8 months ago) Permalink
Those bumper stickers have popped up before on one of these threads, right? I remember encountering them online about a year ago.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Tuesday, 28 August 2012 16:14 (8 months ago) Permalink
http://onceuponatimeinthewest1.wordpress.com/
― Kickboyface, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 01:25 (8 months ago) Permalink
good stuff
― goole, Tuesday, 11 September 2012 01:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
in theaters!
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 16 September 2012 05:20 (8 months ago) Permalink
this is the first film to receive the "Chuck Norris seal of approval"
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 16 September 2012 05:29 (8 months ago) Permalink
wow.
― gesange der yuengling (crüt), Sunday, 16 September 2012 05:44 (8 months ago) Permalink
intersting that the trailer contains no evidence of how the mayor's freedom is in any way impaired
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Sunday, 16 September 2012 07:55 (8 months ago) Permalink
He's a guerrilla fighting to save Christmas, as it turns out. White motherfuckers.
― Three Word Username, Sunday, 16 September 2012 08:06 (8 months ago) Permalink
the war on christmas is right up there with the war on drugs and the war on terrorism in the bullshit trifecta, ay
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Sunday, 16 September 2012 08:10 (8 months ago) Permalink
Terrorism is unnecessarily specific, it's the war on terror you want, third door on the left.
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 16 September 2012 09:00 (8 months ago) Permalink
ach, of course!
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Sunday, 16 September 2012 09:35 (8 months ago) Permalink
wtf @ that N.M. thing
― we don't wanna miss a THING!!! (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 16 September 2012 10:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 22 September 2012 07:53 (8 months ago) Permalink
man how big a scumbag do you have to be to be down w/this shit
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=UMUlWbO1rhk
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:26 (8 months ago) Permalink
That woman looks nothing like Obamas mom, who would have been around 12 at the time of that photoshoot.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 22 September 2012 09:40 (8 months ago) Permalink
i know there have been nitwit contingents of the left in our not so distant past. but has there ever been such a seemingly large number of lefties so paranoid and so unmoored from reality? or this just a result of timing? i.e., a polarizing president & political climate in general coupled with the hyper-interconnectedness of the 00s? like, if the internet had been a thing in the 80s would it have been riddled with anti-Reagan fever swamps and so many people willing to buy into crazy?
― it's smdh time in America (will), Saturday, 22 September 2012 15:33 (8 months ago) Permalink
and of course i realize that Obama/ Reagan, 80s/2010s political climate isn't a perfect analogy but
― it's smdh time in America (will), Saturday, 22 September 2012 15:34 (8 months ago) Permalink
Read John Dean's _Conservatives Without Conscience_ for an explanation. Chris Mooney's _The Republican Brain_ helps too.
Or Dr Bob Altemeyer's _The Authoritarians_ which is free online and covers the same material.
Epistemic closure from folks far more interested in reinforcing and reaffirming tribal slogans, norms, and ideology than accuracy.
Left-leaning folks tend to be far, far more concerned with accuracy and will scold like-minded members publicly for it.
Conservatives(or the rightwing authoritarian followers that comprise the group) will never do that, and in fact will attack and eject members who try, which is how you get guys like David Frum.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:49 (8 months ago) Permalink
Also, there's a load of people who are basically victims of modernity, you could say, and are shitscared and angry about it.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:54 (8 months ago) Permalink
Far left authoritarianism could be found back in the day, but it usually had its roots in Stalinism and Stalinism is now a spent force, just as much as the divine right of kings.
― Aimless, Saturday, 22 September 2012 16:59 (8 months ago) Permalink
i know there have been nitwit contingents of the left in our not so distant past. but has there ever been such a seemingly large number of lefties so paranoid and so unmoored from reality?
The Lefties in the 30s who defended the Soviet Union against all evidence were as unhinged as any Michelle Bachmann, even if they went to better schools, wrote great novels, etc.
Casual lefty truthers show the same symptoms as casual righty birthers.
The entire New Left descended into paranoia in the early 70s, though not without good reason.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 22 September 2012 17:16 (8 months ago) Permalink
9/11 Truthers are much more diverse politically than Birthers
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 22 September 2012 21:52 (8 months ago) Permalink
btw I knew a lefty dude who was talking about truther shit literally 2 hours after the towers fell
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 22 September 2012 21:57 (8 months ago) Permalink
truther shit is like anti-vaxxer shit. you get a weird mix of people agin' it for various reasons, usually those that match up with their personal ideologies but that differ from each others
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:04 (8 months ago) Permalink
alex jones pretends to believe in both birther AND truther shit, so surely some of his listeners are coming along for the ride?
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:07 (8 months ago) Permalink
i think it's fair to place anti-vax shit as a phenomenon of the left, at least culturally.
― goole, Saturday, 22 September 2012 22:45 (8 months ago) Permalink
Of course, Trutherism infects a bunch of different political types.
This is why I specified "casual truthers" because I've met tons of lefties who say stuff like "Yeah, Bush probably let the Twin Towers go down so he could invade Iraq" which always feels to me like Holocaust denial.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 22 September 2012 23:36 (8 months ago) Permalink
Teeny mentioned encountering anti-vaxxer shit from both sides.
Remember, lefties don't tend to have an emotional involvement in the anti-HPV vax as they might others. Bachmann was the one repping that shit on a national stage
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Saturday, 22 September 2012 23:46 (8 months ago) Permalink
A blogger at Balloon Juice notices a bit in an Ezra Klein WaPo piece on calorie labeling at McDonald's that sums up modern Republicanism:
I did find one customer who had noticed the calorie labels: Dick Nigon of Sterling, Va. He and his wife, Lea, had stopped by McDonald’s after seeing an exhibit at the Renwick Gallery. Dick had ordered for the couple, noticed the calorie labels and liked them.“I like that you have the information before you order,” he told me, when I asked about the labels. “It’s better than some kind of government health mandate in Obamacare.”I told him that the calorie labels were, in fact, a government health mandate in Obamacare.“Well that changes things a bit,” he responded. “I thought this was more of a voluntary sort of thing. Now I’m not quite sure how I feel about it.”
“I like that you have the information before you order,” he told me, when I asked about the labels. “It’s better than some kind of government health mandate in Obamacare.”
I told him that the calorie labels were, in fact, a government health mandate in Obamacare.
“Well that changes things a bit,” he responded. “I thought this was more of a voluntary sort of thing. Now I’m not quite sure how I feel about it.”
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
― cake-like Lady Gaga (DJP), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 13:58 (7 months ago) Permalink
That Wonkbook post is by Sarah Kliff, not Klein. (There's a consistency in style among the five Wonkbook posters, achieved in the editing process maybe, that makes it one of my favorite daily checks. I usually read the posts then have to go back to see who wrote them.)
― The Jesus and Mary Lizard (WmC), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:05 (7 months ago) Permalink
at least culturally.
Really? It's crazy and paranoid but that surely exists on both sides of the American political spectrum.
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
There seems to be no difference between the parties on this issue, but I would have characterized it as more of a left-wing problem before. "What environmental harm are these big corporations wreaking inside of my child's body?" etc.
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2011/04/27/more-polling-data-on-the-politics-of-vaccine-resistance/
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, but it's related to the religious ppl who eschew modern medecine and who fear an overreaching govmt telling them what to put in their children's bodies.
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
Exactly, you have both the government and big business telling you what to do.
― how's life, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
Also, you can at least change some minds on one side the more science you bring to into it.
Holding an incorrect belief is one thing, but not being able to do error-correction quite another.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
^^agreed.
thanks for those suggestions, Kingfish. I've been meaning to delve into the Republican Brain for a while
― it's smdh time in America (will), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
the right wing anti-vac thing is about sluttiness
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:28 (7 months ago) Permalink
I think this is unfair. I know a fair amount of Republicans, selfish libertarian types who are not anti-science and if they're too sceptical about climate change, they're mostly not about medecine and pharmaceuticals. The 'modern medicine is insufficiently holistic, blah, blah, blah' types tend to otherwise be lefties, though.
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
It's not nec being anti-science; it's being against science when it starting running against your core beliefs or whatever is declared by the Authorities. Because, say, petroleum exploration and distillation processing are a Good Thing, so the science backing that up is accepted without question.
In other words, the Vatican had no problem with Galileo mucking about with optics until he pointed his scope at the Moon.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
But all people believe Weird Things for one reason or another. Our brains evolved from off-the-shelf parts, if you will. Conspiracy theory and superstition is natural; rational thought takes concerted effort and ain't.
The important thing is to be able to do mid-course corrections.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 14:54 (7 months ago) Permalink
Lest you sail off the edge of the world
― The windiest militant trash (Michael White), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
Right, or crash into the moon.
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 15:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
On a somewhat related note: http://www.desmogblog.com/are-conservatives-inherently-more-biased-liberals-scientific-debate-rages
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:12 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Jamie_ATP, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 16:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
youtube comment for Mick Jagger's "Let's Work" video
I want to send it to Ryan to add to his list and have him send it to Mitt. I put this tape in the other day while doing things and the lyrics came to life. I've heard the song a 1000 x and really heard the words after watching Ryan. It should be their theme song. If "O"hoMao used it, I'd hate it because he has no intention of any one working again and proves it with his failed policies. Roughly 24 million people out of work, almost 4 yrs as prez and he still blames Bush. "O" is a loser.
marto880 in reply to lakebay972 (Show the comment) 3 weeks ago
― stop swearing and start windmilling (Shakey Mo Collier), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
your right chuck do you want communist or freedom i'm voting for mittMrCarricrl 3 minutes ago
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 25 September 2012 21:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
"If "O"hoMao used it, I'd hate it "
I could read that all day long.
― a shark with a rippling six pack (Phil D.), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 22:26 (7 months ago) Permalink
Fun fact: comment was written while marto880 was AT WORK!
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 22:35 (7 months ago) Permalink
If "O"hoMao used it
sub-Morbsian at best
― Trad., Arrrgh (stevie), Tuesday, 25 September 2012 23:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2012/09/just-how-racist-obama-phone-video/57353/
― curmudgeon, Friday, 28 September 2012 19:17 (7 months ago) Permalink
oh cool
D’Souza argues that part of the reason Ann Dunham sent Obama to live with her parents in Hawaii was so she could pursue affairs with Indonesian men. “Ann’s sexual adventuring may seem a little surprising in view of the fact that she was a large woman who kept getting larger,” he writes. On the next page, he continues, “Learning about Ann’s sexual adventures in Indonesia, I realized how wrong I had been to consider Barack Obama Sr. the playboy … Ann … was the real playgirl, and despite all her reservations about power, she was using her American background and economic and social power to purchase the romantic attention of third-world men.”
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 28 September 2012 23:55 (7 months ago) Permalink
Dinesh D'Souza, former boyfriend of Ann Coulter. And Laura Ingraham.
― Clay, Friday, 28 September 2012 23:59 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yep, he's an idiot
― curmudgeon, Saturday, 29 September 2012 14:10 (7 months ago) Permalink
i didn't think the phrase 'argues that' could be demeaned any further, but there you go
― j., Saturday, 29 September 2012 14:27 (7 months ago) Permalink
the continuing semantic convergence of the words "argue" and "insinuate" is one of the great tragedies of our time
― Guayaquil (eephus!), Saturday, 29 September 2012 14:52 (7 months ago) Permalink
i always think i couldn't possibly hate dinesh d'souza anymore; he always proves me wrong. he's the worst ever.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 29 September 2012 16:56 (7 months ago) Permalink
wow wow what a pig D'Souza is ugh
― Inconceivable (to the entire world) (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:36 (7 months ago) Permalink
D'Souza now officially a parasite on the body of the crazy right.
― Aimless, Saturday, 29 September 2012 19:48 (7 months ago) Permalink
i meant "any more," btw, as in, any more than i already do. there will never be a time when i have stopped hating dinesh d'souza.
― horseshoe, Saturday, 29 September 2012 20:06 (7 months ago) Permalink
until they go after Obama's daughters, that is the worst thing I've ever read
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Saturday, 29 September 2012 21:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
When he says about her size I just want to hit him and keep hitting him as if he is personally responsible for every injustice in the world. What an execrable thing.
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Saturday, 29 September 2012 21:25 (7 months ago) Permalink
Meantime, stepping back into the realm of rhetoric, a post at Balloon Juice alerted me to this: a conversation between said poster and a visiting collague of his -- Ta-Nehisi Coates -- on the writing of "Fear of a Black President." Deeply inside baseball perhaps but it's a study of how one can write above all else:
http://www.niemanstoryboard.org/2012/09/28/notable-narrative-fear-of-a-black-president-by-ta-nehisi-coates/
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 29 September 2012 21:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
Publication Date: April 1, 2012
...Have you ever wondered what America might be like with the liberals firmly in control of the White House and once again both chambers of the national legislature? Caine's Pestilence, a novel of political commentary and intrigue, fictionally explores the possibilities...
When John Caine, an obscure midlevel banker from Detroit, accepts the opportunity of a lifetime to manage the backroom business functions of an important National Institutes of Health research lab in Bethesda, he believes his ship has finally come in. But his quirky penchant for illicit tinkering results in the creation and accidental release of a powerful new virus with effects no one could have imagined. Only he holds the answer to how it can be stopped, and he's not telling. Caine finds himself confronted with a desperate White House and an onslaught of rage from all quarters of the world's bureaucracies.
Fast paced, provocative, and offbeat, this cautionary story is thick with political satire and intrigue. It occurs in a world of government turned upside down, where Nancy Pelosi is president of a dysfunctional United States under her ultraliberal regime, while George Bush is a convicted felon and Rush Limbaugh a fugitive. Caine's Pestilence brings together present and former U.S. presidents, would-be assassins, two Supreme Court chief justices, familiar national media political commentators, and the infamous prison at Guantanamo Bay, all in a story readers will find engaging and controversial.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 30 September 2012 19:01 (7 months ago) Permalink
I was hesitant about this novel (a first novel with a anti Democratic message), but I thought what the hell. For 3 bucks I'll read it on my Kendall then maybe write a review about how bad it was. After reading the first chapter I was thinking what a wast of money this was, I'm glad that I continued reading.I found this book to be a interesting peak at what hard core right-wingers truly believe will happen with the Democrats in full control, Taro-card readings paid for by government as a medical expense, free pot and heroin provided by the government etc...This book is written in an interesting style John writing his memoir while siting in a cell next to Dubya in Guantanamo Bay. The basic point of the story is what would happen if you could magically eliminate prejudice and baseless hate (I don't think that they would turn Republicon as the book implies).Nancy Pelosi becomes President when a (Blackwater like) Company Assassinates Obama then frames Biden for it ( this is more likely to happen now that John Boehner is Speaker of the House).I would recommend this book if you want insight on how right wingers view Democrats.
― Listen to this, dad (President Keyes), Sunday, 30 September 2012 19:47 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:00 (7 months ago) Permalink
this is a great idea, can't backfire in any way
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
Yes what could possibly go wrong.
― purveyor of generations (in orbit), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
Uh
http://www.avclub.com/articles/glenn-beck-writes-very-glenn-beckian-letter-explai,86119/
Glenn Beck loves Muse, expresses that love in written form
― Fiendish Doctor Wu (kingfish), Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:34 (7 months ago) Permalink
Muse, the Spider-Man musical, the dude really acts as a lodestone for what to avoid.
― Ned Raggett, Wednesday, 3 October 2012 01:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/congressman-calls-evolution-lie-pit-hell#overlay-context=users/rjagodzinski
this guy is a physician
― la goonies (k3vin k.), Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:42 (7 months ago) Permalink
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/05/jon-hubbard-arkansas-slavery-book_n_1943661.html
― barthes simpson, Saturday, 6 October 2012 23:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
― max, Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:02 (7 months ago) Permalink
Posted as a comment to the Gawker piece I linked to on FB about Romney's health ins comments:
http://m.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10152153389050084&id=269123710083&set=a.10151865702380084.869853.269123710083&refid=7&m_sess=soyEXk11-xAEiHh60&_ft_=qid.5798143543151940401%3Amf_story_key.21392801120
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 11 October 2012 20:07 (7 months ago) Permalink
http://www.conservativenewsandviews.com/2012/10/15/accountability/executive/october-surprise-setup/
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 02:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
i think you kinda buried the goods there matt, this whole site is a treat
http://www.westernjournalism.com/october-surprise-gone-horribly-wrong/
― there is no dana, only (goole), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:29 (7 months ago) Permalink
"The fellow who wrote this take suggests that in Chicago it was well known that both Amb. Stevesn, his lover and Obama were flaming Queens, and in one take he even suggested that a dead Ambassador was a preferred outcome, he can talk-no more"
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 03:46 (7 months ago) Permalink
woah. reading the comments on that westernjournalism story is like peeking into a basement stuffed full of tinfoil-wearing racist nutjobs.
― His avid reading taught him things before he had not found (stevie), Tuesday, 16 October 2012 06:37 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:19 (7 months ago) Permalink
Bah
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:20 (7 months ago) Permalink
Third time?
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:21 (7 months ago) Permalink
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 09:22 (7 months ago) Permalink
Where's the Baal?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 16 October 2012 17:32 (7 months ago) Permalink
Couldn't happen to a finer bunch of assholes.
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 22:09 (7 months ago) Permalink
Least contrite disclosure of interest ever!
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 23 October 2012 22:51 (7 months ago) Permalink
Kathryn Jean Lopez @kathrynlopezi'm not sure chris christie gave president a campaign boost, i think the office of the presidency gave tri-state area a morale boost.
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 31 October 2012 21:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2012/11/what-if-the-gop-loses-atlas-shrugged-vs-the-fire-next-time/264556/
grim-future views re party rebuilding from fallows' republican correspondents, what up goole
― j., Monday, 5 November 2012 23:10 (6 months ago) Permalink
https://twitter.com/Clickman8
― Matt Armstrong, Tuesday, 6 November 2012 00:59 (6 months ago) Permalink
I'll post this here from the other thread. I saw this mag sitting in a bathroom stall at a customer site, and couldn't stop laughing at the "ALL IN" choice
This really matches to the Rich Perlstein Long Con Baffler piece
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 06:00 (6 months ago) Permalink
and the web version: http://www.nrapublications.org/index.php/13091/the-power-is-in-your-hands/
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 06:01 (6 months ago) Permalink
god that's ridiculous
― Chuck_Norris_on_the_topic_of_obesity (stevie), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 07:42 (6 months ago) Permalink
"We should have gone with "Let's Roll!"
― Binders Full of Mittens (President Keyes), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 10:28 (6 months ago) Permalink
GET A FIRM GRIP ON FREEDOM
― nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Wednesday, 14 November 2012 15:47 (6 months ago) Permalink
elsewhere on the same site
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 15 November 2012 02:19 (6 months ago) Permalink
From Perlstein's piece:
These are bedtime stories, meant for childlike minds. Or, more to the point, they are in the business of producing childlike minds. Conjuring up the most garishly insatiable monsters precisely in order to banish them from underneath the bed, they aim to put the target to sleep.Dishonesty is demanded by the alarmist fundraising appeal because the real world doesn’t work anything like this. The distance from observable reality is rhetorically required; indeed, that you haven’t quite seen anything resembling any of this in your everyday life is a kind of evidence all by itself. It just goes to show how diabolical the enemy has become. He is unseen; but the redeemer, the hero who tells you the tale, can see the innermost details of the most baleful conspiracies. Trust him. Send him your money. Surrender your will—and the monster shall be banished for good.
Dishonesty is demanded by the alarmist fundraising appeal because the real world doesn’t work anything like this. The distance from observable reality is rhetorically required; indeed, that you haven’t quite seen anything resembling any of this in your everyday life is a kind of evidence all by itself. It just goes to show how diabolical the enemy has become. He is unseen; but the redeemer, the hero who tells you the tale, can see the innermost details of the most baleful conspiracies. Trust him. Send him your money. Surrender your will—and the monster shall be banished for good.
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 15 November 2012 02:27 (6 months ago) Permalink
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― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Thursday, 15 November 2012 02:33 (6 months ago) Permalink
The Crusades WON?? Fuck me, I've been doing history all wrong.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Thursday, 15 November 2012 02:39 (6 months ago) Permalink
this is from 2010 but i feel like the commenters cheering on the firefighters in this story are emblematic of right wing american psychopathy:http://msnbc.newsvine.com/_news/2010/10/05/5232681-should-firefighters-have-put-out-the-blaze-at-gene-cranicks-home-even-though-he-hadnt-paid-the-fire-fee#comments
― Mordy, Thursday, 15 November 2012 23:54 (6 months ago) Permalink
That water boarding shirt could get them very, very sued. The American Red Cross comes down on that shit like a hammer.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Friday, 16 November 2012 01:49 (6 months ago) Permalink
Somebody should be a dear and notify them (the Red Cross) then...
― Frobisher the (Viceroy), Friday, 16 November 2012 02:14 (6 months ago) Permalink
FREEDOM IS A HAMMER
Janet Greene sings eloquently of the insidious communist threat (The Hunter And The Bear), Tony Dolan vigorously defends Senator Joseph McCarthy (Abolish, Abolish!) and Vera Vanderlaan reminds us that the price of freedom is preparedness and eternal vigilance (Freedom Is A Hammer).
― mookieproof, Saturday, 17 November 2012 03:31 (6 months ago) Permalink
And when they were singing these songs, no one gave a rat's ass.
― Aimless, Saturday, 17 November 2012 04:10 (6 months ago) Permalink
lol Rush is so dumb
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 17 November 2012 08:53 (6 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 01:16 (6 months ago) Permalink
won't someone please think of the adorable blonde, blue-eyed children?!
― Aimless, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 01:24 (6 months ago) Permalink
aw, it's such a good story the little blonde girl wants to hear it again
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 02:37 (6 months ago) Permalink
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/11/13/1161290/-Dean-Chambers-Has-Reneged
man, this guy
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 18:46 (6 months ago) Permalink
Your only recourse left is to the scream from the mountaintops to anyone that will listen, that "Dean Chambers reneged on a bet over the presidential race he lost the bet and won't pay." Good luck with that.
― goole, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 18:53 (6 months ago) Permalink
I would be surprised if Dean Chambers had $480
― iatee, Wednesday, 21 November 2012 18:55 (6 months ago) Permalink
Someone in comments said he was making big ad money off all the hits he was getting from deluded wingers. But who knows. He probably accidentally ate all his money.
― super perv powder (Phil D.), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 18:59 (6 months ago) Permalink
White Castle Stuffing ain't gunna pay for itself
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Wednesday, 21 November 2012 19:17 (6 months ago) Permalink
http://www.westernjournalism.com/barack-obamas-open-mockery-of-the-sign-of-the-cross/
great comments
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 25 November 2012 06:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
thank you for that
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Sunday, 25 November 2012 08:12 (5 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 25 November 2012 08:46 (5 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 25 November 2012 08:47 (5 months ago) Permalink
I don't know about now, but for the longest time, one could write to the Government Printing Office and get a listing of all the official booklets you could get for free, chocked full of such tidbits as how to brush your teeth or treat the common diseases of domesticated rabbits. Free stuff!!
― Aimless, Sunday, 25 November 2012 17:50 (5 months ago) Permalink
Being born the son of a millionaire does not count as free stuff.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Sunday, 25 November 2012 18:01 (5 months ago) Permalink
omg
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 26 November 2012 00:08 (5 months ago) Permalink
My mom called me up tonight and told me to come check these guys out. I said the exact same thing as you did right here. I said, "I can't believe these guys made rock relevant again; getting back on topics of politics, current events, media, etc. It just hasn't been relevant since about the 80s on." I think of music like Pink Floyd's The Wall, Springsteen's Born in the USA, or the Beatles' Revolution.
― too many encores (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 26 November 2012 00:20 (5 months ago) Permalink
Shocked that he didn't mention _Operation: Mindcrime_
― the max in the high castle (kingfish), Monday, 26 November 2012 00:34 (5 months ago) Permalink
i remember when my mom called me up to hip me to born in the usa
― absurdly pro-D (schlump), Monday, 26 November 2012 06:06 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://www.familysurvivalcourse.com/media/index.php
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 26 November 2012 21:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
man that just goes on
― nuts spats (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 26 November 2012 21:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
I've seen a couple other sites that use this technique, so it must work. The last one was a site about how Obama is going to serve 4+ terms because of the economic power of shale oil.
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:04 (5 months ago) Permalink
a mob of urban warfare gangsters, eh? thanks jason, richards. btw it's longer than 6 minutes. don't bother.
― abanana, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:05 (5 months ago) Permalink
"I wish you could go back to sleep and enjoy another episode of Family Guy"
man this guy's dreams are fucked up
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:13 (5 months ago) Permalink
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― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:16 (5 months ago) Permalink
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― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
Hello, Patriot.
― crüt, Monday, 26 November 2012 22:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
So apparently Bill O'Reilly's 2012 edition of the War On Christmas hinges on an assertion that Christianity is a philosophy, not a religion. Now that's some A+ sophistry.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:44 (5 months ago) Permalink
It's fun watching him make that argument, because he makes his i'm being clever face with the half smile and the raised eyebrows.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 30 November 2012 17:55 (5 months ago) Permalink
The War On Smugness.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:56 (5 months ago) Permalink
The War On Smugs.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 17:57 (5 months ago) Permalink
oh it's not a religion you say? cool. start paying taxes, assholes.
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Friday, 30 November 2012 18:51 (5 months ago) Permalink
He's philosophically opposed to taxes, I'm sure.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 30 November 2012 19:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
big fan of this site
http://www.westernjournalism.com/benghazi-bimbo-susan-rice-has-ties-to-iran/
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 30 November 2012 23:16 (5 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 1 December 2012 03:36 (5 months ago) Permalink
God, you could get thousands of words trying to suss out the tribal and psychological aspects of this vid, paranoia alone:
http://www.facebook.com/ConcernedPatriots/posts/271660522955279 Like Page Concerned Patriots (Free Video) 47 Year Old Patriot reveals "Weird" Trick To Slash Your Power Bill and Beat Obama's Electricity Monopoly for Good. Click Below to Watch http://nanacast.com/vp/105633/286571/15037/ Like · · Share · 7,4441,7981,016 · · Sponsored
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which takes you to
http://power4patriots.com/video/The video presentation on this page will show you some great tips on how to end your slavery to the electricity monopoly forever.This isn't a gimmick... this is real science that has been used by thousands of people all around the world.Watch the entire video because we cannot guarantee how long it will be online and the end will surprise you!
The video presentation on this page will show you some great tips on how to end your slavery to the electricity monopoly forever.This isn't a gimmick... this is real science that has been used by thousands of people all around the world.Watch the entire video because we cannot guarantee how long it will be online and the end will surprise you!
Have fun with the free markets and monopolies, guys! "Here is the big secret that President Obama and the Big Energy Monopolies have been trying to bury!"
"some call it a conspiracy and some call it a cover-up" and then plays a vid from the President talking about Cap & Trade.
remember, your life _must_ be worth something and far more exciting if you have secret knowledge that They don't want you to have. This guy has heard that even Google banned his vid!
Christ, the amount of cognitive knots and twists the guy needs to justify people doing DIY solar panels is amazing. Fuck the Planet, fuck sustainable resource management and consumption habits, if you buy these DVDs from him you will be sticking it to Obama and the Big Power Monopolies!
http://power4patriots.com/faq.php
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Sunday, 2 December 2012 21:19 (5 months ago) Permalink
and naturally, its a scam playing on Glenn Beck-type suckers and victims.
http://open4energy.com/forum/home-energy-saving-scams/power4patriots-scam-review
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Sunday, 2 December 2012 21:23 (5 months ago) Permalink
it's really fascinating to me that this is the new method for conning old Republicans. The videos all are so long and often there's no direct link to the store on the page-- you have to watch the whole fucking thing to see it! Either it's amateurish or there really is something alluring about the lack of information, as if you're making the customer feel like an investigator.
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 2 December 2012 22:21 (5 months ago) Permalink
scamming old people is a grand old tradition; noticing that they are all crazed in right wing ideology and fear and using that as part of the scam seems just a natural evolution of the times
― vote! (a hoy hoy), Monday, 3 December 2012 01:08 (5 months ago) Permalink
oh I know the tradition, these videos are just so strange to me. Often just simple black on white text with some weirdo rambling on and on about something he's going to tell you "in the next 6 minutes"
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 3 December 2012 01:15 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://youtu.be/SP9Cben3cuY
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 3 December 2012 21:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
unfortunately, dude is sober in his mom's basement so he has not stopped this crying
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 3 December 2012 21:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/12/the_psychopathology_of_the_liberal_mind.html
― Mordy, Monday, 10 December 2012 04:25 (5 months ago) Permalink
is that an american thinking on the masthead
― Bananaman Begins, Monday, 10 December 2012 10:12 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://www.amren.com/news/2012/12/sc-gop-official-tim-scott-is-demints-choice-for-replacement/
"American Renaissance" covers the possible naming of a black GOP-er, Tim Scott, to replace Jim DeMint. Chaos ensues in the comments. I don't even want to excerpt; you really have to read them all.
― Macro Polo (Phil D.), Monday, 10 December 2012 12:43 (5 months ago) Permalink
Haha "blocked due to racism and hate" from work.
― Andrew Farrell, Monday, 10 December 2012 12:52 (5 months ago) Permalink
Damn, those comments. "Bush was our first Mexican president."
― Deafening silence (DL), Monday, 10 December 2012 13:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
Greg Howard @GregWHowardObama is poorly coached in faked tears. Tears originate on the INSIDE corner of the eye, not the outside. #tcot #p2 #ocra #OpSLAMExpand Reply Retweet Favorite More
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 15 December 2012 02:35 (5 months ago) Permalink
Good catch, I'll definitely produce my fake tears the other way now.
― grossly incorrect register (in orbit), Saturday, 15 December 2012 02:45 (5 months ago) Permalink
#tcot #p2 #ocra #OpSLAM
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 December 2012 02:53 (5 months ago) Permalink
Ellen @ELF1955BINGO AGAIN!@GregWHoward: If Obama is looking down and his eyes are tearing, gravity would prevent tear from getting to the outside corner.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 15 December 2012 04:17 (5 months ago) Permalink
http://www.facebook.com/ConcernedPatriots
Half this dude's posts are trolling for suckers to fork over the dough
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Saturday, 15 December 2012 06:50 (5 months ago) Permalink
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 15 December 2012 06:56 (5 months ago) Permalink
ARGH.
― rihanna, will you ever win? (suzy), Saturday, 15 December 2012 07:00 (5 months ago) Permalink
Oh yeah Israel, they totally have their shit together.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 December 2012 07:10 (5 months ago) Permalink
secession, guys. its seriously the only way forward.
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Saturday, 15 December 2012 12:21 (5 months ago) Permalink
they have so many questions
― President Keyes, Saturday, 15 December 2012 14:37 (5 months ago) Permalink
tbf that second sign might deter a completely rational potential mass murderer of children.
― SHUT UP AND GET YOUR TURKEY SCIENCE BOOKS (Austerity Ponies), Saturday, 15 December 2012 16:18 (5 months ago) Permalink
does the right wing really want to arm teachers unions
― mookieproof, Saturday, 15 December 2012 16:46 (5 months ago) Permalink
Given that these school shootings often end in suicides, 'deadly force' doesn't seem like the best deterrent. These people must think they live in a videogame.
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Saturday, 15 December 2012 16:51 (5 months ago) Permalink
I don't really understand the logistics of arming teachers. For teachers that work with populations like elementary school students, emotionally disturbed/developmentally disabled students, etc. those guns need to be locked up so that the kids can't reach them. But if they're locked up, HOW ARE YOU SUPPOSED TO USE IT when you're the first classroom that a shooter barges in on?
― Theodora Celery, Saturday, 15 December 2012 23:22 (5 months ago) Permalink
"Tactical fantasy" is a new phrase I'm going to use
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Sunday, 16 December 2012 00:08 (5 months ago) Permalink
Mosque arsonist tells court 'I only know what I hear on Fox News'
― Gollum: "Hot, Ready and Smeagol!" (Phil D.), Friday, 21 December 2012 02:59 (5 months ago) Permalink
this update is a head-scratcher
http://www.barackofraudo.com/statement_12_14_2012.cfm
― Matt Armstrong, Sunday, 30 December 2012 09:18 (4 months ago) Permalink
today on a semi truck i saw "chronicles 7:14". i figured this meant it was an evangelical code-verse of some kind, and lo and behold it is:
http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=2+Chronicles+7%3A14&version=KJV
http://www.enjoythebible.org/studies/misuse1.html
This article touches upon the issue of the healing of our land that is often spoken about in the Kingdom Now teaching and Dominion Theology that is so popular today. The basic tenet of this teaching is that it is the church’s responsibility to bring in God’s kingdom on this earth. Israel failed to do that and the church is failing to do it now. Proponents of the doctrine contend that Christ is waiting for Christians to take control in the nations and lands where they are and to establish His kingdom on this earth. It is even sometimes stated that the return of Christ to the earth is directly tied to the church fulfilling its obligation to bring in the kingdom.
― goole, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:10 (4 months ago) Permalink
Spooky.
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:14 (4 months ago) Permalink
That's the bullshit Sarah Palin is into.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 17:30 (4 months ago) Permalink
Immanentizing the eschaton, eh?
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:41 (4 months ago) Permalink
Aren't we all?
― Aimless, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
I'm taking my damn(ed) sweet time
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:46 (4 months ago) Permalink
oh and keep an eye out for these shirts
http://www.streetbonersandtvcarnage.com/blog/happy-new-year-breitbart/
― goole, Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
why is MW summoning a shrill blogger?
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:54 (4 months ago) Permalink
congratulations, breitbart, this is your legacy
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 18:59 (4 months ago) Permalink
just glad these nitwits are sporting ts/getting tats/ otherwise marking themselves so i know who to avoid
― Still S.M.D.H. ft. (will), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
Why is Pinky in business with this asshole
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Tuesday, 8 January 2013 19:45 (4 months ago) Permalink
I had to euthanize my wife because of the increased costs of Obamacare. I own a business that would likely have seen a huge increase in insurance costs. These costs would have had to be passed on to the customer. What customer is going to pay 3 cents more for a product? Someone that values the health and well being of a fellow citizen? Yeah right. So I put my wife down. With the savings from that, I will likely be able to keep prices down. If not, I might sell my Porsche.
― Mordy, Wednesday, 9 January 2013 17:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
Maury Compson on Gawker comments is a treat
― I had such a fontasy (stevie), Thursday, 10 January 2013 08:16 (4 months ago) Permalink
Love the idea that a t-shirt that simply says "so?" can be considered a conversation starter. I should try my hand at this. Please send me a check for $25, and I will send you:
Makes you think.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:11 (4 months ago) Permalink
So?
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:20 (4 months ago) Permalink
'So what?!' So lets dance!
― "It's the Stay-Puft Marshmallow Drunk!" (kingfish), Thursday, 10 January 2013 14:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2013/01/project-s-h-a-m-e-the-recovered-history-of-charles-murray.html
― goole, Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
“It’s a trade-off: More brain or more penis. You can’t have everything,”
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
friend's parents stayed in the same Brooklyn B&B as Murray over Christmas. Looking forward to hearing about their conversations.
― REBEL YELL FOR HUGS (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 10 January 2013 18:59 (4 months ago) Permalink
@hughhewittTe'o: Anita Hill with shoulder pads
― mookieproof, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
anita hill didn't wear shoulder pads?
― Matt Armstrong, Wednesday, 16 January 2013 23:59 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.infowars.com/other-tyrants-who-have-used-children-as-props/
― Mordy, Thursday, 17 January 2013 01:41 (4 months ago) Permalink
omg, he has pictures to prove all these tyrants shamelessly stood in proximity to children!
― Aimless, Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:04 (4 months ago) Permalink
i just read an amy davidson piece about kids & about the girl grace who got mentioned at the signing thing, it was almost making me cry at the café, the direct link here is so intense & sobering
― kristof-profiting-from-a-childs-illiteracy.html (schlump), Thursday, 17 January 2013 02:17 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.infowars.com/other-tyrants-who-have-had-bowel-movements/
― for the relief of unbearable space hugs (Austerity Ponies), Thursday, 17 January 2013 14:02 (4 months ago) Permalink
Ahahahahahaahah!
http://www.redstate.com/2013/01/18/a-nostalgic-age/
IE, Erick Erickson advises the GOP to go locavore/Etsy.
NOT KIDDING.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 18 January 2013 17:43 (4 months ago) Permalink
crunchycon redux: makercon
― for the relief of unbearable space hugs (Austerity Ponies), Friday, 18 January 2013 18:05 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://co2insanity.com/2012/08/15/bill-gates-tries-to-come-up-with-a-royal-flush
check out these zingers!
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 21 January 2013 20:24 (4 months ago) Permalink
― Emperor Cos Dashit (Adam Bruneau), Monday, 21 January 2013 21:53 (4 months ago) Permalink
http://www.lessgovisthebestgov.com/MemorableQuotes.html
strongly recommend this
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 26 January 2013 04:33 (3 months ago) Permalink
“This isn’t a ‘Lame Duck Congress’. It’s more like a crazy duck on steroids!”– Scott Rohter, reflecting back on the last days of the 111th Congress.
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 26 January 2013 04:34 (3 months ago) Permalink
this scott rohter fellow is mad quotable
― mookieproof, Saturday, 26 January 2013 04:39 (3 months ago) Permalink
“It is the unfortunate truth that liberty is as much in danger from too much government, as it is from too little government! What is needed is the proper balance.” – Scott Rohter, inspired by a quote from James Madison
― Matt Armstrong, Saturday, 26 January 2013 04:43 (3 months ago) Permalink
Just saw a book on the shelf co-written by Dr James Dobson for which the plot is that lack of father presence in families has brought the world to the brink of destruction as "current social trends are writ large."
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:36 (3 months ago) Permalink
And you didn't buy it?
― the so-called socialista (dowd), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:38 (3 months ago) Permalink
I only narrowly avoided burning it in the office hallway.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 18:46 (3 months ago) Permalink
Yeah, the "Inspirational Reading" bookstands that show up in airport news agents are full of that kind of thing, along with various snake oil / new agey "biblical healing" tomes, going a long way to verifying Rick Perlstein's bit about modern conservatism being primarily focused on soaking their authoritarian followers for as much loot as possible
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 January 2013 19:14 (3 months ago) Permalink
http://www.mediaite.com/online/former-sc-gop-exec-director-fires-off-racially-charged-tweets-during-the-super-bowl/
Dickbag decides to start namechecking Trayvon Martin on twitter.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:27 (3 months ago) Permalink
the poors
― © all the feelings (Austerity Ponies), Monday, 4 February 2013 19:56 (3 months ago) Permalink
Fun with trump:
http://www.avclub.com/articles/donald-trump-suing-bill-maher-after-proving-hes-no,92051/
Donald Trump suing Bill Maher after proving he's not an orangutanby Sean O'Neal02.05.13+ ShareDisgusted that anyone would make a disingenuous offer to charity solely in order to draw attention to himself and his own petty, ego-driven vendettas, Donald Trump is suing Bill Maher for $5 million over a joke the Real Time host made on The Tonight Show, mocking Trump’s own recent offer to charity on the condition that President Obama show Donald Trump his college and passport records. Of course, in that case, Trump dutifully honored his agreement by not giving any money to any charity, after the President selfishly refused to meet the demands of self-aggrandizing businessmen with bafflingly easy access to TV cameras. As such, Trump expects Maher to comply in a similar fashion, given that the comedian challenged Trump to prove he’s not the “spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan,” and Trump complied by producing a birth certificate that lists his father as “Fred Trump” and not “An Orangutan.”Of course, while there’s no proof that this is Trump’s real birth certificate, and most of us are still holding out for the long-form, “Not A Half-Orangutan Baby” birth certificate that all government offices require, Trump argues that he’s already fulfilled his side of what he believes constitutes a verbal contract, even if some might argue Maher’s statement was just a joke and that Donald Trump is a humorless jackass. “I don't think he was joking. He said it with venom. That was venom. That wasn't a joke. In fact, he was nervous when he said it. It was a pathetic delivery,” Trump said in a phone call to Fox & Friends, where serious legal arguments are made.Anyway, while not even Trump is confident he’ll win his lawsuit, he says he was obligated—not just “to sue for charity,” which, unfortunately, can only get money whenever Donald Trump’s ego has been satiated. But also to prove, in a court that has nothing better to do, that Donald Trump is definitely not some senseless monkey man, driven by a laughably primitive urge to beat his chest and prove his alpha male status by repeatedly slinging his shit everywhere.
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Disgusted that anyone would make a disingenuous offer to charity solely in order to draw attention to himself and his own petty, ego-driven vendettas, Donald Trump is suing Bill Maher for $5 million over a joke the Real Time host made on The Tonight Show, mocking Trump’s own recent offer to charity on the condition that President Obama show Donald Trump his college and passport records. Of course, in that case, Trump dutifully honored his agreement by not giving any money to any charity, after the President selfishly refused to meet the demands of self-aggrandizing businessmen with bafflingly easy access to TV cameras. As such, Trump expects Maher to comply in a similar fashion, given that the comedian challenged Trump to prove he’s not the “spawn of his mother having sex with an orangutan,” and Trump complied by producing a birth certificate that lists his father as “Fred Trump” and not “An Orangutan.”
Of course, while there’s no proof that this is Trump’s real birth certificate, and most of us are still holding out for the long-form, “Not A Half-Orangutan Baby” birth certificate that all government offices require, Trump argues that he’s already fulfilled his side of what he believes constitutes a verbal contract, even if some might argue Maher’s statement was just a joke and that Donald Trump is a humorless jackass. “I don't think he was joking. He said it with venom. That was venom. That wasn't a joke. In fact, he was nervous when he said it. It was a pathetic delivery,” Trump said in a phone call to Fox & Friends, where serious legal arguments are made.Anyway, while not even Trump is confident he’ll win his lawsuit, he says he was obligated—not just “to sue for charity,” which, unfortunately, can only get money whenever Donald Trump’s ego has been satiated. But also to prove, in a court that has nothing better to do, that Donald Trump is definitely not some senseless monkey man, driven by a laughably primitive urge to beat his chest and prove his alpha male status by repeatedly slinging his shit everywhere.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 5 February 2013 18:46 (3 months ago) Permalink
would love to know who put this together
http://www.heyjackass.com/
― goole, Thursday, 14 February 2013 17:39 (3 months ago) Permalink
ha - they'd rather you didn't know
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:56 (3 months ago) Permalink
They have a manifesto, too!
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Thursday, 14 February 2013 18:59 (3 months ago) Permalink
Noted black leader Ted Nugent launches "Black Power" tour, to empower black people
by Sean O'NealIn recent years, the human bottle-opener flip-flop that is Ted Nugent has done his very best to foster pride in the black community by embodying all the most hateful qualities of the white community. But now he’s taking a far more actionable, totally marketable route to bringing black people together so they can listen to some Ted Nugent music and Ted Nugent's ideas and then feel better about themselves: He's launching a tour he’s dubbed “Ted Nugent Black Power 2013," because no one who works for him is allowed to disagree with Ted Nugent anymore, apparently.Typing in his regular column on World Net Daily, Nugent takes the opportunity afforded by Black History Month to “honor blacks” by talking about Ted Nugent, whose “gravity-defying career pivots on my intense adulation for my black musical heroes”—and thus gives him an equally intense personal dismay over how the Democratic Party, The New Deal, Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society experiment,” and especially Barack Obama are collectively the “engineer of the destruction of black America.” This, rather than helping to strengthen black America in the way that Ted Nugent does, whenever he plays the powerfully black music of Ted Nugent.“My fire-breathing musical career was literally launched by black musical thundergods such as Bo Diddly, Little Richard, James Brown, Wilson Picket, Sam & Dave, Albert King, BB King, Freddie King, the mighty Funk Brothers, and the epitome of Rock ‘n’ Roll Gods, the master, Chuck Berry,” Nugent says of the many black artists who literally launched the career of Ted Nugent, turning his every performance of “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” into a condensed Black History Month.“Say it loud: My music is black and I’m proud!” Nugent concludes, echoing the many other times Nugent has demonstrated that he truly understands black people, such as when suggested he’d assassinate President Obama, decried Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for “lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo,” wondered aloud whether the South should have won the Civil War, and called himself a “black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally” due to his very similar persecution by the media for being a wealthy rock star who says deliberately inflammatory things. Still, as “Ted Nugent Black Power 2013” will demonstrate, Ted Nugent definitely has some sympathetic understanding of black history, given that he’s been the embarrassing, minstrel-show version of white men for decades now.
In recent years, the human bottle-opener flip-flop that is Ted Nugent has done his very best to foster pride in the black community by embodying all the most hateful qualities of the white community. But now he’s taking a far more actionable, totally marketable route to bringing black people together so they can listen to some Ted Nugent music and Ted Nugent's ideas and then feel better about themselves: He's launching a tour he’s dubbed “Ted Nugent Black Power 2013," because no one who works for him is allowed to disagree with Ted Nugent anymore, apparently.Typing in his regular column on World Net Daily, Nugent takes the opportunity afforded by Black History Month to “honor blacks” by talking about Ted Nugent, whose “gravity-defying career pivots on my intense adulation for my black musical heroes”—and thus gives him an equally intense personal dismay over how the Democratic Party, The New Deal, Lyndon Johnson’s “Great Society experiment,” and especially Barack Obama are collectively the “engineer of the destruction of black America.” This, rather than helping to strengthen black America in the way that Ted Nugent does, whenever he plays the powerfully black music of Ted Nugent.“My fire-breathing musical career was literally launched by black musical thundergods such as Bo Diddly, Little Richard, James Brown, Wilson Picket, Sam & Dave, Albert King, BB King, Freddie King, the mighty Funk Brothers, and the epitome of Rock ‘n’ Roll Gods, the master, Chuck Berry,” Nugent says of the many black artists who literally launched the career of Ted Nugent, turning his every performance of “Wang Dang Sweet Poontang” into a condensed Black History Month.“Say it loud: My music is black and I’m proud!” Nugent concludes, echoing the many other times Nugent has demonstrated that he truly understands black people, such as when suggested he’d assassinate President Obama, decried Jesse Jackson and Al Sharpton for “lisping their ebonic mumbo-jumbo,” wondered aloud whether the South should have won the Civil War, and called himself a “black Jew at a Nazi-Klan rally” due to his very similar persecution by the media for being a wealthy rock star who says deliberately inflammatory things. Still, as “Ted Nugent Black Power 2013” will demonstrate, Ted Nugent definitely has some sympathetic understanding of black history, given that he’s been the embarrassing, minstrel-show version of white men for decades now.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:56 (3 months ago) Permalink
beat me to it.
― :C (crüt), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
kingfish, I mean. not Ted Nugent.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Friday, 22 February 2013 19:57 (3 months ago) Permalink
Showing results for bo diddleySearch instead for bo diddly
― goole, Friday, 22 February 2013 20:01 (3 months ago) Permalink
http://books.google.com/books?id=9w9wAgPDvQsC&pg=PA97&lpg=PA97#v=onepage&q&f=false
― :C (crüt), Friday, 22 February 2013 20:14 (3 months ago) Permalink
Ted Nugent: Making Hank Williams Jr. Look good for over two decades
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 22 February 2013 20:21 (3 months ago) Permalink
This is so great
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=u9_RcD6WMmM
― available for sporting events (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Monday, 25 February 2013 13:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
https://www.facebook.com/TruthSeeker2012
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:19 (2 months ago) Permalink
treasure trove
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 25 February 2013 20:39 (2 months ago) Permalink
<3 that WWE video
― :C (crüt), Monday, 25 February 2013 20:47 (2 months ago) Permalink
that wwe thing is so great
― balls, Monday, 25 February 2013 22:30 (2 months ago) Permalink
I like that in both real life and "in character" the fat guy does all the talking
― Donkamole Marvin (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 25 February 2013 22:31 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://theconservativetreehouse.com/2013/02/20/no-more-hesitation-homeland-security-and-police-dept-request-targets-for-shooting-practice-to-help-desensitize-law-enforcement-to-shooting-average-americans/
― ❏❐❑❒ (gr8080), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 03:56 (2 months ago) Permalink
Found his wiki. Zeb Colter up there is played by none other but legend Dutch Mantel, who helped book and wrestled in Puerto Rice for about 8-9 years until 2003 or so.
― The New Jack Mormons! (kingfish), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 07:23 (2 months ago) Permalink
The Iron Sheik is upset:
the @glennbeck you are dumbest motherf--ker in the world I wish I see you so i can beat the f--k out of you no good jabroni lowlife"
"the @glennbeck you deserve to be waist deep in dog s--t drink gasoline you insult my fans Im going to beat the f--k out of you dumb b---h"
"%10000 The @glennbeck have raisin b-lls and rice crispy d-ck"
"Eat dog s--t @glennbeck forever"
"The Court Mcgee impress me in the UFC but still the @glennbeck can go f--k his own rice crispy dick #TeamSheikie"
"who deserve to eat dog s--t more than the @glennbeck #RejectedOscars"
"Live and Let Die new name if the @glennbeck in it called Die Now You No Good Motherf--ker #teamsheikie"
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 10:17 (2 months ago) Permalink
“No More Hesitation” – Homeland Security and Police Dept. Request Targets For Shooting Practice To Help Desensitize Law Enforcement To Shooting <S>Average</S> White Americans…
― Andrew Farrell, Tuesday, 26 February 2013 10:58 (2 months ago) Permalink
Thanks to Ted Cruz, it's time for the always-popular, rolls-around-every-few-years Let's Rehabilitate Joe McCarthy Game!
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Tuesday, 26 February 2013 20:21 (2 months ago) Permalink
i <3 Dutch Mantell 4eva
― vote! (a hoy hoy), Saturday, 2 March 2013 07:36 (2 months ago) Permalink
"Sure, Joe McCarthy was a liar and a blowhard, but deep down he was just a big old lovable drunk."
-- Bob Marley
― Aimless, Saturday, 2 March 2013 18:40 (2 months ago) Permalink
http://thephoenix.com/Boston/news/152325-trials-of-nadia-naffe/#TOPCONTENT
long article on james o'keefe and the "barn rape"
Choice bit:
On March 21, Naffe was prohibited by a judge from sharing any of O’Keefe’s emails. Since he’d logged into his Gmail account on her cell phone, O’Keefe had sought and obtained an immediate temporary injunction against Naffe releasing anything in the emails — his application for the injunction had actually alleged that “the material is so provocative that it caused Andrew Breitbart to suffer a fatal heart attack.”
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Thursday, 7 March 2013 15:27 (2 months ago) Permalink
king of the libertarian royalists:
http://lewrockwell.com/hoppe/hoppe31.1.html
Democracy is only one possible variety of statehood. Would a different form of state be more acceptable to you?
Hoppe: In a monarchist state everyone knows who the ruler is and who the ruled are, and accordingly there is resistance against any attempt to increase state power. In a democratic state this distinction becomes blurred, and it becomes all the easier to expand state power.
― goole, Thursday, 21 March 2013 19:57 (2 months ago) Permalink
That is so ahistoric and assbackwards, it stuns. It's the POV of someone who only knows Whigs.
― Canaille help you (Michael White), Thursday, 21 March 2013 20:41 (2 months ago) Permalink
ben shapiro!
http://www.breitbart.com/Big-Journalism/2013/03/21/Report-Slate-blogger-buys-1M
― Matt Armstrong, Friday, 22 March 2013 16:06 (2 months ago) Permalink
In an interview with local radio station KRBD, Rep. Don Young (R-Alaska) recalled his father's ranch and the old fashioned way things were done on it. Fair enough, right? Well, yes. Aside from the racial slur Young used to describe workers on the ranch."My father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 or 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes," Young said in the interview. "You know, it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It's all done by machine."Young apologized later, blaming the usage on his upbringing. "I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in central California," Young said. "I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect."
"My father had a ranch. We used to hire 50 or 60 wetbacks to pick tomatoes," Young said in the interview. "You know, it takes two people to pick the same tomatoes now. It's all done by machine."
Young apologized later, blaming the usage on his upbringing. "I used a term that was commonly used during my days growing up on a farm in central California," Young said. "I know that this term is not used in the same way nowadays and I meant no disrespect."
No, Don, it's used in pretty much exactly the same way.
― ARE YOU HIRING A NANNY OR A SHAMAN (Phil D.), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
Young continued: "I'm sure their backs are really dry by now. Course back when I was a boy, the river was wetter in those days."
― 30 percent off all gold everything at Trinidad James Avery (m bison), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:31 (1 month ago) Permalink
Young: Bringing Wet Back
― gentle german fatherly voice (President Keyes), Friday, 29 March 2013 14:40 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://habitableworlds.wordpress.com/2013/04/21/visualizing-neoreaction/
― goole, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:55 (1 month ago) Permalink
whoa
― max, Monday, 22 April 2013 18:58 (1 month ago) Permalink
“the far right becomes a fandom of itself”
Ouro-bore-us.
― karl lagerlout (suzy), Monday, 22 April 2013 19:21 (1 month ago) Permalink
"judgy bitch"
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 April 2013 19:30 (1 month ago) Permalink
http://judgybitch.com/2013/04/17/a-bomb-goes-off-in-boston-and-shows-america-why-we-need-men/
― Matt Armstrong, Monday, 22 April 2013 20:23 (1 month ago) Permalink
ayiyi
it's interesting how the Feminine Reaction cohort is completely unrelated to all the others
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Monday, 22 April 2013 20:26 (1 month ago) Permalink
i'm seriously considering starting a reaction.txt twitter. i'm not even going to link to this or anything, just,
"If someone is an outlaw (no defense agency wants him as a client because of a history of causing trouble), you can just kill him. If someone is a bum, and you are not, you usually get away with mistreating him, but he cannot get away with mistreating you. This makes middle class guys automatically tougher, more badboy, more macho, than underclass boys. Girls then start having sex eugenically, instead of anti eugenically."
― goole, Friday, 26 April 2013 19:27 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
loooool looks like women don't like having any jobs, at all, in the world, except beauty technician and grocery store register clerk! Oh and sexy secretary. Oh jeez.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:31 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
I'm willing to acknowledge 'eugenics' retrospectively but who has a crystal ball with enough foresight to know what we need to adapt to in the future?
― He has a lot of baggage (handlers' perks) (Michael White), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:43 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
white male property owners, it turns out. happy to help!
― goole, Friday, 26 April 2013 19:43 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
I'm suspicious even of them, though.
― start having sex eugenically w/ (Michael White), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:50 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
I'm just going to put this post-it flag on the leap between middle-class boys turn into assholes who mistreat others, and girls automatically begin to sleep with them in droves...and inevitably have children from those brief unions? Actually that's two leaps. Good thing these "sexism: u are here" flags come in multi-packs.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:51 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Kinda feel that we should merege our dns
― start having sex eugenically w/ (Michael White), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:56 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
How about I just blame the patriarchy for your dn.
― lets just remember to blame the patriarchy for (in orbit), Friday, 26 April 2013 19:59 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
Works for me
― start having sex eugenically w/ (Michael White), Friday, 26 April 2013 20:06 (4 weeks ago) Permalink
can't stop won't stop
http://nydwracu.wordpress.com/2013/05/12/dubstep-and-neoreactionary-aesthetics/
― goole, Monday, 13 May 2013 02:09 (1 week ago) Permalink
Christ that blog is exhausting.
― beach situations (Austerity Ponies), Tuesday, 14 May 2013 14:28 (1 week ago) Permalink
http://www.examiner.com/article/analysis-irs-political-suppression-cost-romney-the-2012-election
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:40 (Yesterday) Permalink
In my final prediction of November 5 of last year, just one day before the election, I took into the account the best information on hand to project that Mitt Romney would win the election narrowly with 275 electoral votes and a slim majority of the popular vote.
― Doctor Casino, Thursday, 23 May 2013 03:47 (Yesterday) Permalink
and romney's camp actually believed that creep.
― oxygenating our wombspace (abanana), Thursday, 23 May 2013 07:00 (Yesterday) Permalink
this guy's argument makes no sense. if the Tea Party groups were campaigning for Romney, doesn't that mean they shouldn't have had tax exempt status...?
― four Marxes plus four Obamas plus four Bin Ladens (Shakey Mo Collier), Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:09 (Yesterday) Permalink
Yup. If harrasing the groups influenced the election, then harrasing the groups was the right thing to do...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 23 May 2013 17:25 (Yesterday) Permalink
not USA but still intersting
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2013/05/23/the-fascist-history-behind-dominique-venner-s-suicide-at-notre-dame.html
― goole, Thursday, 23 May 2013 18:28 (Yesterday) Permalink
Venner started several political groups based on European nationalism and rooted in the idea of ethnicity-based exceptionalism. His Europe-Action espoused a similar racialized ideology and united the remnants of the FEN, a white supremacist student group; the OAS; and handful unapologetic Nazi collaborators. These movements united a number of discordant strains—white supremacism, anti-communism, patriarchal morality, neo-pagan tribal religion—into a grand story about what must be done to save European culture from extermination.
getting better
http://www.examiner.com/article/what-did-nate-silver-know-and-when-did-he-know-it
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:05 (Yesterday) Permalink
you guys must be putting save-a-Bam Democrat shit in this thread by now, right?
― ballin' from Maine to Mexico (Dr Morbius), Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:06 (Yesterday) Permalink
no that's for the general politics thread
― Matt Armstrong, Thursday, 23 May 2013 19:11 (Yesterday) Permalink