not having to go back to the country he claims is better than ours in every way

Must be that socialized healthcare…

DOG DAMN IT CERB, I was planning on sleeping tonight. That photoshop was JUST NOT FAIR!!!

Also, Sully was on Colbert, and while I concede that someone shouldn’t be fired for their private political lives, DOG DAMMIT COLBERT, is it too much to ask that you just recognize that Asshole Eich RESIGNED!??!?!?

He’s still an unrepentant slug who seeks any means of avoiding blaming modern conservatism for the bigotry he occasionally faces as a rich white gay conservative. And he’s still the go-to guy to whine about any means of queer activists to actually do anything that doesn’t affect him personally.

You talk so pretty.

Sully has already blown this ‘shoop up to life size and OH HOLY FUCK I STILL HAVE TO HAVE BREAKFAST!!!!

Sully follows the financial breeze. If condemning Eich would make him a dime, he’d be calling for the stake and lighting the torch.

In Pennis’ world, if you talk about the bigotry of a Southern Baptist, it’s because you think all Southerners are bigots.

As for who did more, Cerb or Sullivan: In the first case, you can’t do less than Sullivan’s nothing, and in the other two, it’s hard to do more than Sullivan without getting into transfinite numbers.

Tell me, Pennis: have you ever tried understanding things before you react to them?

Oh, and DA: Pennis will never hate you the way you hate him, so please stop rattling your bucket under his window.

Clarification: Southern Baptist is a specific religious denomination; I’m not even sure all its members are in the South, but I know that not all Southerners are Southern Baptists.

Reply to the comment that justified the clarification: …will have to wait until Pennis is actually saying something, as opposed to just farting through his mouth, because he can’t believe that the words he’s (mis)using actually mean something to liberals. Don’t both sides reduce politics to Worship Words to be spewed on a weaponized basis without regard to any actual relevance?

Cerb, stop being lazy and make some alterations to that photo of Andrew Sullivan.

Poor Sullivan, forced to defend the wealthy and powerful, just like his hero George Orwell.

Your concern has been duly noted, Concern Troll.

Now fuck off, eat shit and die.

Why do you ask? Because it looks like you?

If labor organizations ever regain a fraction of the power they had before 1982, Sully will spend the rest of his life hiding in a cave waiting for the Scarlet Pimp(ernel) to save him.

Artist’s Statement: The determination of the conditions of stasis (and metaphorical appearrance) [sic] of a (partial) set of a succession of phenomenon [sic] in accordance with the duration of eccentricities authorized by and determined by these possibilities.

And: “I am unencumbered by intelligence in that area.”

This guy’s good. *Golf clap*

I posit that one can learn more by Googling than by concern trolling.

CRA, that would be true, if one was interested in learning.

histrogeek skrev:

If labor organizations ever regain a fraction of the power they had before 1982, Sully will spend the rest of his life hiding in a cave waiting for the Scarlet Pimp(ernel) to save him.

And this is why S,N! nees a Like button.

Then, while completely naked, Pennis spouted the following:

Step off the liberal plantation, and stereotyped mockery is fair game.

I haven’t seen a clue-meter flatline that hard since the Dilbert strip wherein the Pointy-Haired Boss announced mandatory drug testing and a Dignity Initiative literally back-to-back.

DA, meanwhile, continues the caliginous flattery:

Let’s have a golf clap for that nanosecond of self-awareness.

The reason it didn’t last any longer is because that would require Pennis to have a self, rather than just being a tape-recorder dutifully playing back what’s been vomited into him by Fox News, the Republican Party, and all the other wholly-owned and -operated subsidiaries of the Noise Machine.

And this:

Snorghagen said,

November 7, 2010 at 15:11

Traditions are strange here.

The ancient Ceremony of the Sadlys was performed in a fog-shrouded clearing deep in the death-swamp, as had been the custom since the dawn of time. Firelight reflected off of sweaty faces as the tribal members rhythmically grunted and belched, swaying in time to the primitive jungle beat of Creed. The hideous spectacle grew ever more frenzied as the crude music built toward a crescendo, until the dancers gave a final ear-splitting shout, turned, and leapt as one into the shit-moat, vanishing from view.

…and then, while I’m busy mocking DA for wasting his hate on an unworthy kismesis, he digs through the archives and knocks Pennis’ slowball out of not only the park, but Major League Baseball itself. Not that this will stop Pennis from having vowel movements in public, any more than the letters Joel Stein must get, pointing out repeatedly that he literally has less than nothing to say, stop him from saying it in the pages of Time or any other media outlet that will overpay him to speak his “mind”. (Here’s a hint: if Joel Stein isn’t paying you to publish his narcissistic drivel? You’re definitely overpaying him.)

I’ve learned that you’re a coward who is afraid to clarify his posts,

[citation desperately needed]

a liar who makes up fictitious titles for positions he doesn’t have,

If you take seriously DA’s claim to be The Dark God of Time, I’m pretty sure you’re the only one.

and a person who makes commitments that he has no ability to keep.

Now that one I’ll actually give you, Pennis. He just doesn’t seem to know how to quit you. That’s how you know it’s true hate. And if you’re going to hate him back, you need to be fair about it.

while I’m busy mocking DA for wasting his hate

Hate and love are nearly indistinguishable….

hold up a tic…i thought eich donated ‘only’ $1k to prop 8? then why does sully write:

but those never came with a specific response from Eich about his thousands of dollars of donations in support of Proposition 8,

jesus…grow the fuck up, both of you!

If Smut Clyde is reading, I would like to request a list of Janus node names. It’s been a while, and they make more sense than our trolls.

And on the thread these words appear:
“My name is Ozymandennis, troll of trolls:
Look on my words, ye Mighty, and despair!”
Nothing beside remains. Round the decay
Of that colossal wank, boundless and bare
The lone and level comments stretch far away.

I believe you mean Substance McGravitas, Helmut.

I believe you mean Substance McGravitas, Helmut.

You are correct, apologies all round.

I’m quite happy to give the GOP credit where credit is due…

December 2, 1970 was the last time a Republican created something that benefits the greater good of society. Seriously, it’s been over forty years since any Republican has successfully enacted legislation that is based on scientific data, also known as reality. Richard M. Nixon created the EPA in 1970 which marks the last time the party behaved responsibly by utilizing data from climate scientists and attempting to clean up our environment.

http://crooksandliars.com/2014/04/not-one-law-republicans-passed-has-helped

Fuck Sully with a rusty 14″ ion powered ice auger.

No wait, as a self proclaimed power bottom, DON’T – he’d probably break it.

How utterly adorable! RedState has made itself inaccessible via Firefox. That’ll show em.

I don’t think Nixon was responsible for the EPA, he took the NEPA law from Congress and brought its bureaucracy under the executive branch umbrella, I would presume so that it could be controlled and politicized. At best I’m sure Nixon thought the EPA was political eyewash.

The twisted sonuvabitch was incapable of doing anything good.

14? ion powered ice auger

Long or wide?

Long or wide?

can’t it be both?

Andrew Sullivan’s raison d’etre is to push “both sides do it” narratives. At the two minute mark in this video, Glenn Beck’s sidekick yaps that Sullivan is no conservative, which is utter bullshit. Sully speaks, and then the even more troglodytic righties say, “Even liberal Andrew Sullivan…”

And what’s up with Beck having a sidekick? He’s basically doing a “wacky morning zoo with Cleon Skousen” routine.

It is in the nature of an auger to be long-n-pointy.

I’m gonna interpret this as an opportunity to relink Kyle Fitzer’s cramming op-ed.

How utterly adorable! RedState has made itself inaccessible via Firefox. That’ll show em.

“This was a triumph, I’m making a note here: HUGE SUCCESS“

LOL–Wall Street Journal headline:

Prosector to Oscar Pistorius: ‘You’re Version’s a Lie’

Shorter Earache son of Earache: “I’ll hold my breath until I turn blue!”

LOL worthy indeed. But not as worthy as Vancouvertucky casting grammatical errors in stone.

Orwell Wept … over all the right-wing fuck-knuckles who approvingly quote him (usually out of context &, as here, hilariously inappropriately) today, but who in the 1930s would’ve been cheering on Franco’s boys trying their best to kill him.

Heh, Krauthammer stops fucking chicken.

Also Sprach Zarathustra Pupienus.

If Smut ClydeSubstance McGravitas is reading, I would like to request a list of Janus node names. It’s been a while, and they make more sense than our trolls.

I am no Substance, but how about some JanusNode-generated insults to throw at trolls (some of these are scarily accurate):

Being mean to others is all you can hope for, you half-faced boob!
Someone who does not like you is more than you deserve, you yeasty freak!
You bootless kook-goof, I hope that your snotty-nosed child will call down the wrath of the Gods upon its values!
May your deity make you drip pain, you blabbering dweeb!
May a measle’s mammet make you ooze oppossum’s stink, you malodorous bastard!
Your hidden hatred is the best you can hope for, you disease-carrying disease-carrier!
May your desire render insane your value system, you wart-necked sack of havoc’s chastity!
May an artistic approach make your eye spew cockroach’s pus, you psychotic bastard bore!
May a well-dressed rocket engineer make your skin spew biased urine, you pigeon-liver’d goatish Neanderthal!
May a clack-dish’s desire hurt you, you temporarily vulgar cow-nose!
May a miscreant’s canker-blossom damn your few friends, you horrifically beef-witted weedy rifle-lover!
You deadly motley-minded disease-carrier-zipperhead, go tattoo absurdities onto your self?!
You whoreson hoser-scoundrel, why don’t you go plague your hip?!
May a devil-monk rip up you, you fen-sucked batty spider-face!
May a measle’s harpy make your excretion spew hell-hated vital fluids, you goatish pribbling cancer!
Mis-interpreting what others mean is all you can hope for, you currish cancer!
You guts-griping horrid toe nail-tumour, I hope that your understanding will cut off your few friends!
You unnatural drip-insect, I hope that your flirt-gill will destroy its hair!
Failing to think for yourself is the best you can hope for, you useless devil!
May a dream’s horn-beast make you drip fresh blood, you dishonest zero!
You psychotic alien-demon, go tattoo absurdities onto your liver?
May your maggot-pie make your descendants spew excretions, you sodden stinky sack of neuroses!
May a lewdster’s vassal make your best bits spew poetic dirt, you fool-born deviant!
You are the ultimate example of a self-pitying buzzard’s trout, you sheep’s sheep!
You earth-vexing ill-begotten Neanderthal-dittohead, why don’t you go tear apart your own motivation?!

Fanfare for an uncommon man.

All the reasoning for why we can’t have safety nets that would keep those of us on the fringe alive. 

‘Cept it’s not just the fringe, anymore, thanks to the steady work that’s been done to weaken or completely obliterate all the laws put into place to protect the not-rich, the not-white, the not-male, the not-straight, etc. since the last Gilded Age. Thanks to Fox and the corporate-owned news media (Fox is pure propaganda, not news), most of the rest of us don’t realize just how vulnerable we are.

And perhaps, a few more demonstrations like this will cut through the bullshit and make these rich fucks think twice about toying with the rest of us as if we were chess pieces in their little games with other rich people.

Normally, I’m one of those people looking on the positive side, even if prefaced with “I hope,” because, no shit, if you act like you expect the best from people, that’s generally what you get (often enough to make it worthwhile). But. I’m pretty sure all the rich fucks will do inresponse is to get their bought-and-paid-for judges (up to SCOTUS) and Members of Congress to close off any moves the rest of us make.

Letterman will be replaced by Stephen Colbert.

May your maggot-pie make your descendants spew excretions, you sodden stinky sack of neuroses!

Oderus Urungus?!?

I like “bootless kook-goof,” and maybe “lewdster’s vassal.”

Oderus Urungus?!?

To my knowledge, he is still dead.

Also, Colbert in for Letterman. I like it.

Letterman will be replaced by Stephen Colbert.

NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!

i can’t click the tpm linky because for no odd reason tpm borks my computer…i will only accept colbert for letterman if the colbert report remains…then i will change my response to:

YEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSSS!!!

Lefties are gonna be sorry when they stay up for the Tonight Show and realize that Colbert hasn’t been pretending to be conservative.

One point about Eich: He’s not a standard exec; he was a developer first and foremost. Which means his golden parachute and tone deafness is more on the nerdy side, not the heartless exec side. It also probably explains his inability to use marketing speak to apologize – but it does not excuse it. CEO is a political position and either way, everyone should know how to apologize.

Just, saying woe is him being millionaire exec – he’s a millionaire because the companies he worked for sold large and valuable components of the internet on his sweat. If there’s anyone who deserves to be a millionaire, it’s developers like him.

On the other hand, $1000 isn’t inconsiderable. I hate how they’re downplaying what would be 2% of the media worker’s annual wage, or nearly 100% of a tech worker’s starting biweekly pay check.

I think on the 1st I’ll tell my landlord that $1,250 isn’t alot of money, so why does it matter if I give it or not?

On the other hand, $1000 isn’t inconsiderable.

don’t i know it…i’m still wondering why sullivan referred to the ‘many thousands’ that eich gave…

Orwell Wept

Indeed he did, because the whole idea of 1984 was promote the idea of an underclass with no rights whatsoever. That’s why 1984 had such a happy ending.

Andrew Sullivan’s raison d’etre is to push “both sides do it” narratives

As it is with any intellectually inept or flat out lazy Libertarian gasbag. Both sides are terrible, so we’ll be economic conservatives, social liberals (expect in the cases where it requires us to actually make good on our promises of promoting equality for people we don’t like very much).

Heh, Krauthammer stops fucking chicken.

Ha! K.

I think it’s more like took his pee-pee out of the chicken and is hiding it behind his back, with intention of resuming fucktivities the minute people forget that the whole BENGHAZI SHEEPLES thing is not the scandal they wish they had.

i’m still wondering why sullivan referred to the ‘many thousands’ that eich gave…

You may have seen that I am not exactly pro-Eich, definitely not looking to excuse him in any way, but…

It is also possible that Sullivan is an idiot.

As it is with any intellectually inept or flat out lazy Libertarian gasbag.

Sully being the latter–I think he’s actually capable of better than this, but wants to keep his intellectually inept audience.

bbkf: I share your concerns. If Colbert maintains his faux identity with over-the-top uber-USA set design and full-on snark graphics … well, okay, maybe. I’ve got reservations. I like Stewart well enough … but I love the harder, sharper edge of Colbert (*). On positive side, he can reach a wider audience.

I hope the NBC broadcasts will be available on the computer; I don’t have a television and rely on Comedy Central’s next-day computer presentation.

(*) I have a tee-shirt and hat that will confirm I trundled down from Baltimore to DC for the 2010 Keep Fear Alive rally in DC. (I forget what Stewart called his part of the rally. It was some sorta milquetoasted ‘reason or rationality or sanity’ deelie-bob….)

Andrew Sullivan’s raison d’etre is to push “both sides do it” narratives throw a never ending series of hissy fits masked as intellectualism.

Fiqsted.

not the scandal they wish they had
{{{whoooosh}}} These are not the scandals you are looking for.

I think it’s more like took his pee-pee out of the chicken and is hiding it behind his back
Boy, lucky he had that staple remover with him.

Boy, lucky he had that staple remover with him.

BLOODY CHICKEN FUCKRIOT

Fenwick, you know what to do.

I read that CBS said that the “Colbert” character will be retired… Maybe he’ll do something with the late night format that hasn’t been done. It needs a freshening — otherwise, meh.

I read that CBS said that the “Colbert” character will be retired

NOOO! the colbert report is genius…and unless they follow the daily show with @midnight, i am going to have a giant sadz…

The selection of Mr. Colbert will very likely push several rows of dominoes into action in late night. Comedy Central will need a host for its 11:30 show. Chris Hardwick, who is hosting a new late night show on the channel, “At Midnight,” will surely be among those mentioned as a possibility to move up a half-hour.

i could possibly accept this…colbert will be awesome on late night…but we all know how i. hate. change.

Boy, lucky he had that staple remover with him.

Oh yeah, well why do you sniff each one? Because sometimes that crazy bastard throws in an asshole

As it is with any intellectually inept or flat out lazy Libertarian gasbag. Both sides are terrible, so we’ll be economic conservatives, social liberals (expect in the cases where it requires us to actually make good on our promises of promoting equality for people we don’t like very much).

Yeah there are plenty of libertarians who are terrified of government power, government over-reach and government oppression, but are utterly blind to(or are totally in favor of) the the power, over-reach and oppression of unregulated capitalism. (Radley Balko, I’m looking at you) In their hatred of “authoritarianism” and reflexive disdain for the social contract, they reveal themselves to be enemies of modern civilization in its entirety. Without the threat of force that they hate so much, there would be no national parks, interstate highway or Hoover Dam. Everything west of the Colorado river and south of the Sacramento river would be uninhabited and uninhabitable (kind of a mixed blessing there). Without the income tax they resent so much, Germany would control all of northern Europe, and Japan would control most of Asia, and Jews would still be fundraising to establish a homeland in Palestine, because the UK would have been in no position to hand it over after losing WWI, heck, without US participation in WWI, the Ottoman empire might not have fallen, and there might have been an honest to god caliphate for the neocons to hate. National governments are here to stay, and they will not shirk from violence to stay on top. Given that situation, you’d think they’d pick a team and start playing to win, but they sit on the sidelines complaining to everyone who will listen about how rigged the game is.

but they sit on the sidelines complaining to everyone who will listen about how rigged the game is.

They sure do. To shorten what you said and put it through my filter, they want life to be like it was out West before the law showed up and put a stop to the gunfights, constant bank robberies, livestock and land thefts, etc. This area was a perfect example of what Social Darwinism promotes. Without an equalizing force of government and law enforcement, you end up with the strong (or better armed) victimizing the weak because they can.

Oh yeah–and the complaints about the game being rigged–I think it’s hilarious that every one of them says that like he was the one who discovered that the system is set up to favor the landed gentry.

you’d think they’d pick a team and start playing to win
in conjunction w/ tsam’s quote re: econ conservatives, social libs (when convenient):

They’ve picked a team – Pubs at best, neo-cons at worst. They won’t let even their most favored liberal (let’s face it, libertine – really the only socially liberal position they consistently take is that grass should be legal and sex should be required, and no, the wimmenz don’t actually get a say in aforesaid intercourse) stands interfere with making money.
After all, if necessary, money enables them to bypass little things like laws, goddammit!

Some are genuinely anti-war, but pro-defense contractor. Some are anti-Keynesian economics – in the form of, why attempt to jump-start an economy, just blow some brown country off the map, ???, profit!!!

Some are anti-organized religion, and Objectivism is not a religion and shut up. Some are anti-authority until they is authority.

Basically, they are a bunch of maggot-fellating greedheads who could give a damn if the world burns as long as their garden hose works. Frauds, hypocrites – there is not enough KY in the world to enable Sully to remove his ego from his own ass. They’d bath in fetus stew as long as it was free and extended their own lives 15/64th of a second, but a woman’s right to choose? Just a damn minute now, I didn’t sign off on this – it it my kid and are you going to sue for support?

The most self-consciousness any of these needle-dicked bugfuckers has ever been was changing their name/affiliation to ‘Libertarian’ because they recognized that for some, unknown reason, the name ‘Republican’ no longer carries the same cachet it once did.

I actually pray (unlikely to be answered, my particular god is a touch esoteric – think Crom with a kickin’ sound system) that there is a hell for assholes, and Satin, with his many-headed gyroscopic 8 tooth-per-inch 8000 rev-per-minute dildo mangler, welcomes them with a laurel, and hardy handshake, followed by a long session of intestine weaving.

Fuck you, Andy.

you end up with the strong (or better armed) victimizing the weak because they can.

feature, not bug…

maggot-fellating greedheads

not a good botb candidate…

Fuck you, Andy.

this on the other hand would be acceptable…

Basically, they are a bunch of maggot-fellating greedheads who could give a damn if the world burns as long as their garden hose works.

i find broke-ass libertarians to be the most amusing…they’re all for private enterprise and capitalism…without realizing that without the government providing say, a system of roads, they would be paying the richest person in the county a fuckton of money each time they wanted to drive on the road that aforementioned richie mcricherson owns…and operates for profit…

and operates for profit…

MURKA!!! YEAH!!! MAJESTIC EAGLE! STUFF! CONSTILATION OF INDEPENDENTS!!!

i find broke-ass libertarians to be the most amusing…they’re all for private enterprise and capitalism…without realizing that without the government providing say, a system of roads, they would be paying the richest person in the county a fuckton of money each time they wanted to drive on the road that aforementioned richie mcricherson owns…and operates for profit…

Libertarianism is fantasy capitalism for failed capitalists. Real capitalists love Big Government because it means big no-bid contracts can be had for the price of a congresscreep. They only rail against big government when they aren’t in control. Meanwhile, the loser libertarian buys fake gold from hucksters who are happy to take his “fiat currency” off his hands and bitches about regulation because he doesn’t want to be fettered when he makes it big someday.

Just a damn minute now, I didn’t sign off on this – it it my kid and are you going to sue for support?

That’s probably the core of it–situational, selfish ethics/politics.

Rand Paul and his “civil rights are great, but businesses have the right to discriminate!”. He wouldn’t be saying that if it were his dumb ass that got routinely discriminated against–even attacked for attempting to sit at a fucking lunch counter.

the loser libertarian buys fake gold from hucksters who are happy to take his “fiat currency” off his hands and bitches about regulation because he doesn’t want to be fettered when he makes it big someday.

Speaking of which, I have this great product I’d like to show you. Do you have a minute? You seem like a man with discriminating tastes….

The gold thing is fucking hilarious. You don’t have to a doctor of economics to understand that any currency, gold, paper, rocks or scissors, all have value based on FAITH that it will be worth goods and services.

If the apocalypse shuts down society, that gold will be nothing but a worthless yellow rock.

Speaking of which, I have this great product I’d like to show you. Do you have a minute? You seem like a man with discriminating tastes….

Is it the One Weird Trick that They don’t want me to know?

Where to begin on this Eich thing?

CEO is not a normal job, as conservatives love to remind us. The CEO is the public face, the highest level of internal authority, the guiding force of a corporation. That you have different standards for what is and is not acceptable in this role of ultimate corporate authority – not merely reasonable, but recommended.

And this notion that it is unfair that he lost the job due to his support of Prop Hate? As if. Despite Eich’s very public fall, it is still infinitely easier for a homophobic bigot to get the keys to the corner office than for someone married to a person with the same genitals.

This fucking bullshit “the real victims are the homophobes” is over-the-fucking-top terrible. Seriously, the people Eich was trying to persecute only wish they were discriminated against at such a level that they had to resign as CEO. Fuck.

And then there’s the ALWAYS PROJECTION First Amendment bullshit. Because 1st Amendment means that Eich is allowed to actively campaign to deny other people basic human rights, but no one is allowed to criticize him for it. Because Lie-berals are against Free Speech by voicing their opinions on the public actions of others. Fucking ridiculous.

And then there’s the context. It’s fucking Mozilla. Open Web idealists. Eich’s views on Teh Gheys is fundamentally incompatible with the job of CEO of fucking Mozilla. Even Eich knew that – why else do two weeks of media tour while never stating your actual position on SSM, just trying to assure everyone that it won’t affect Mozilla practices around inclusiveness. He actually told employees that they may find it hard to believe, but he wasn’t going to let their inclusiveness programs backslide. Seriously, one of his first enterprise-wide messages was “I know you have reason not to trust me, but I promise not to kick you in the balls. Now assume the position.” That was supposed to be their leader. zomg.

All of that, and much moar, reasons to turf his ass. Reasons why Eich defenders are ignorant or mendacious jerkwads – at best. But here’s the biggest thing. Let’s just put everything aside and take this stupid fucking garbage whine seriously – Eich was shitcanned for supporting Prop Hate (even though he fucking resigned and wasn’t fired). So fucking what?

That’s right, I said it. Homophobic bigotry is not a socially acceptable characteristic anymoar. That is a fucking good thing. Period. Fuck you if you think otherwise.

But but but Blacky Hussain was anti-SSM! Indeed, and at one point so was the majority of Americans, but those days are gone. Obama’s view on SSM, just like the views of the people he serves as First Citizen of, have evolved. Eich is unrepentant. At one point, miscegenation was a hanging crime, but fuck you if you think anyone raving about the purity of bloodlines “deserves” a position of any responsibility.

Is it the One Weird Trick that They don’t want me to know?

Oh yeah! Cops hate this silly little trick.

My response to Sully is this: If you can’t stomach a heavy handed response to people who actively discriminate against a group of people who aren’t hurting anybody, then take your ball and go fucking home. Count you out? K. Bye. If you think that a heavy handed response to heavy handed discrimination is unwarranted, then you aren’t in the fight. That’s like watching hockey and concern trolling all the hard checks and fighting. It’s part of the game. If you can’t handle it, you’re watching the wrong game.

i find broke-ass libertarians to be the most amusing…they’re all for private enterprise and capitalism…without realizing that without the government providing say, a system of roads, they would be paying the richest person in the county a fuckton of money each time they wanted to drive on the road that aforementioned richie mcricherson owns…and operates for profit…

They wouldn’t even have a car. Without government regulated markets, every step of the supply chain would have to perform 100% inspection of received raw materials, because otherwise, iron mines and coal mines would mix in crushed gravel in the shipments to smelters and foundries to pad their invoice, smelters and foundries would mix in whatever is cheap and cast engine blocks out of cast iron so full of carbon that it’s as brittle as glass, machine shops would have accuracies of +/- “eh, good enough”.
Government regulations, contracts and strict liability mean we can build an industrialized world. Without that, any group of 10 huts lucky enough to have a blacksmith and a forge becomes the definition of first world high tech living.

NOOO! the colbert report is genius…

Was. It was. It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. Time to retire that schtick.

How many of you pump gas and are relieved to see that the local weights and measures bureau came out to make sure a gallon is actually a gallon? I know I am.

Was. It was. It’s getting a bit long in the tooth. Time to retire that schtick.

oh poo on you! i. hate. change!

How many of you pump gas and are relieved to see that the local weights and measures bureau came out to make sure a gallon is actually a gallon? I know I am.

oh, c’mon! business owners wouldn’t cheat their customers! because jesus or something…

Or litre for all you super polite Canuckistanis.

… understand that any currency, gold, paper, rocks or scissors, all have value …

I’ll give you two scissors for that pair of pants.

oh, c’mon! business owners wouldn’t cheat their customers! because jesus or something…

Jesus viciously defended the moneychangers at the temple and their right to cheat people. Right?

I’ll give you two scissors for that pair of pants.

Just keep those scissors away from my rocks, k?

Tsam how can I screw you out of your pants if you’re too busy worrying about your balls to be confused by ambiguous language?

I’ve got a meeting now, which lasts until after beer thirty, dammit.

Tsam how can I screw you out of your pants if you’re too busy worrying about your balls to be confused by ambiguous language?

oooooohhhhhhhh I get it now. Me scared of scissors because I DON’T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT, OK? You don’t have to offer me anything to take off my pants!

For many years the Florida commissioner of weights and measures that certified gas pumps was named Charles Bronson. Definitely reassuring.

I’ll give you whatever you want to take off my actually my phraseology is likely to end up in loud conversations so I’ll just let it die here…

All this fuss about Sullivan, you’d think there was something surprising and newsworthy when he spouts stupid & dishonest arguments to promote the authoritarian cause.

Hey, they’ve narrowed down the search area for the 300 ft plane to a little under 150,000 square miles. W00t!

gold, paper, rocks or scissors
That is a boring game. Gold always wins.

Breaking, CNN. One of our plane models has disappeared.

Nope, sorry, Wolf had it in his Fisher-Price Airport.

http://howdovaccinescauseautism.com

This site explains this in terms that can be understood by the laity.

Nope, sorry, Wolf had it in his Fisher-Price Airport.

HAHA! Wolf–such a trickster!

tsam-

Very, very well played, ya bastard. Damn…

Jenny McCarthy uses polite language. I unfriend you.

I used to think she was hot until she turned out to be batshit fucking crazy

To be clear, I don’t think scissors or pants would make good currency, and you should be very careful when bartering such things as well.

Imagine the disputes that would arise if we referred to one banknote as a “pair of dollars.”

To be clear, I don’t think scissors or pants would make good currency, and you should be very careful when bartering such things as well.

OTOH, you would still have cold hard cash and folding money.

“How much for the primerib?”
“One pair of bootcut.”
“Here’s two cordoroys.”
“And your change, one ankle warmer and a nut cup.”

Breaking, CNN. One of our plane models has disappeared.

Bye-bye, cable, bye-bye
Shallow cov’rage, channel-surf tide
And I can trace our history down one generation to the hacks who run the media machine.

In defense of Libertarians (wow, never expected to say that), they recognize the need to enforce some standards. They aren’t zero government anarchists, but rather folks who want government doing only the absolutely essential things.

OTOH, this list always starts with protecting property rights and enforcing contracts. The reason why Libertarians are seen as selfish dickwads is because they view the highest good provided by government as “keeping other people’s hands offa mag shit” – which would include preventing fraud (perpetrated on them).

Yes, they totally ignore the fact that markets most reward those best capable of gaming them. And that worshipping “contracts” as some holy thing is going to lead to a lotta lawyers. Powerful lawyers who know that protecting their gravy train involves complicating contracts enough to prevent normal people from getting by without constant legal advice. Imagine, how much simpler and less bureaucratic a world governed exclusively by billions of individually negotiated bilateral agreements (the only things worthy of coercive government enforcement) would be!

But that they are also naive and/or ignorant crapweasels with no understanding of human nature – well you would be too if you were as selfish as them.

In defense of Libertarians, they suck because they are terrible human beings.

Ah yes, contracts. I have entered into many a contract, but I’ve never had a hand in drafting one. Funny how that works. Freedom, baby!

“How much for the primerib?”

How many ribs is that, here? Is the meat included? Goodness, I’m happy to ask these questions, and ones like them, everywhere I go — not that it does me much good …

But don’t mind my jabberin’, here’s your scissors, all four of them.

Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro says Colbert’s act is “vile political blackface”

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/10/right_wing_pundit_ben_shapiro_says_colberts_act_is_vile_political_blackface/

Right-wing pundit Ben Shapiro says Colbert’s act is “vile political blackface”

Of course he does. I encourage him to try and make fun of his political opponents in the same manner. It’s not like personalities on the left are somehow immune to ridicule. Or is he just sad that in order to mock the people he really hates, that he’d have to wear actual blackface, and that might give the game away?

Yes, because saying and doing the things conservatives do is so hateful in and of itself.

Oh lord, Greg Gutfeld must be in town hawking his book. The big book tour bus just went past. And me without any eggs.

Obamacare kills jobs.

I was pretty harsh on Obamacare as it was being debated and I still think that it does not do enough. But I guess I was too ignorant of how truly awful the situation was for you folks south of the border. Early news is that Obamacare is genuinely making a substantial difference to millions and millions of people. Might not be the rainbow sparkleponies I’ve been holding out for, but it’s a genuine win.

http://www.mediaite.com/online/this-weather-forecast-mocking-british-politician-for-saying-gay-marriage-causes-flooding-is-perfect/

You know what was awful? That time Stephen Colbert made fun of dead American allies.

To be clear, I don’t think scissors or pants would make good currency, and you should be very careful when bartering such things as well.

oh, i don’t know…i have a pair of black velvet jeans that are highly coveted by some…

You know what was awful? That time Stephen Colbert made fun of dead American allies.

My god, that Red Eye clip was incredibly stupid, odious, and unfunny. I stopped watching after Gutfeld and his panel — the prospect of watching Canadians’ reactions was too depressing.

The good news, I suppose, is that the American right must be on life support. Gutfeld has a show, and sells a few books, ergo the talent barrel is well and truly scraped. They’ve got their Kochs and Adelsons ready to throw hundreds of millions of dollars at a viable presidential candidate, for ex., and look at the field … The whole team sucks. Its strength is in its grifters.

(I got alot more rant in me this morning, but I’ll show restraint.)

“Almost every comedy show or satire show I see uses the same talking points against George W. Bush and Dick Cheney,” Surnow told Variety in November.

Yeah, well, that’s only because the characters of “Village Idiot” and “Five-deferment Warrior” are pretty hard to beat…

Add that inevitable sketch of somebody getting shot in the face and you’ve got comedy gold!

look at the field … The whole team sucks. Its strength is in its grifters.

It was grifters who built this country, Ms. Smarty Pants, and don’t you ever forget it!

I’m a man, baby.

It was grifters who built this country, Ms. Smarty Pants, and don’t you ever forget it!

Well, grifters and slave labor anyway. And butchers, they did a lot of work too.

Copy pasta done right: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/04/09/ha-joon-chang-economics_n_5120030.html?utm_hp_ref=world

Ha-Joon Chang: First of all, you said Europe has a fundamental problem regarding its ability to encourage entrepreneurship and innovation. I think you need to be careful in jumping to that conclusion. Europe does not have the kind of revolutionary high tech firms you see in Silicon Valley. But in modern economies, innovation doesn’t just happen in those frontier areas. In terms of “incremental innovations,” Europe is equal to or even better than the U.S. It is difficult to measure how innovative a country is, but many European countries like Sweden and Finland spend far great proportion of GDP on research and development than the United States. There are a lot of areas where Europeans lead in technologies.

Secondly, American entrepreneurship and innovation has been hugely backed by state intervention. At the height of the Cold War the American government used to finance at least half or sometimes even two-thirds of R&D when European governments typically provided 30~40 percent of R&D. The frontier industries of the United States were actually created by the state. It didn’t come from this individualistic entrepreneurial culture that people think the US is uniquely endowed with.

“The frontier industries of the United States were actually created by the state. It didn’t come from this individualistic entrepreneurial culture that people think the U.S. is uniquely endowed with.”

Think about the list of areas in which the U.S. has technological leadership. Almost all of them were financed at least in the beginning (and a lot of them in the mature stage) by the U.S. government. Basically, the Pentagon financed the development of the computer in the early days, and the Internet also came out of a Pentagon research project.

The semiconductor — the foundation of the information economy — was initially developed with by the funding of the U.S. Navy. The U.S. aircraft industry would not have become what it is today had the U.S. Air Force not massively subsidized it indirectly by paying huge prices for its military aircraft, the profit of which was channelled into developing civilian aircraft. Despite what the pharmaceutical lobby might say, 30 percent of pharmaceutical research in the United States is provided by the federal government. The list is quite impressive.

The American-Italian economist, Mariana Mazzucato at the University of Sussex once wrote an article showing how every important piece of technology in an iPhone was initially funded by the U.S federal government. We can’t say the U.S. is ahead in the frontier technology sector as a result of private sector entrepreneurship. It’s not. It’s a partnership between individual entrepreneurs and the US federal government. You can even say that American entrepreneurs can take such risk in those frontier areas, exactly because they have a huge safety net in the form of U.S. federal funding for research and development.

oops – I got the sidebar excerpt as well. Sorry.

I saw these comments over at CPP’s place, in response to his post about Sibelius’ resignation:

Pat Healy
NYT Headline, January 21, 2017: Obama Steps Down After Vietnam, Watergate, Teapot Dome, 9/11.

Robert Black
Don’t forget Benghazi.

For the love of dammit, I am completely smackgobbed. I mean, what is it about consent that these rejects from a sewage treatment plant fail to understand?!? Besides more or less the whole fucking concept and possibly spelling?!?!

I saw these comments over at CPP’s place, in response to his post about Sibelius’ resignation:

well, thank you for leading me over there…i get sucked in every. time…but it’s always worth it…

From paleo’s link:

explained in an interview with the Boston Globe in 1989 that he wouldn’t make exceptions for abortions, even in the case of rape and incest, stating: “What if incest is voluntary? Sometimes it is.”

In response to questions about his comment that SCOTUS Justice Kennedy could be one of them gheys,

Defending his comment, he recently said, “Clearly, some of the people who are making these decisions must be rationalizing their own bad behavior.”

Which makes me wonder about his “incest is voluntary” remark.

The end of the article:

Marshall, who has held office for 23 years, is not popular among his fellow Republican legislators, because of his hard-line stands and controversial statements, and has been shuffled off to committee assignments despite his seniority.

He does not attend party caucus meetings.

Despite that, Marshall has a strong following among hard-core social conservatives giving him a shot at being the Republican nominee for the seat that the retiring Wolf has held for seventeen terms.

From paleo’s link:

how did you do that? i can’t (damn my technoineptitude!)

please grab the part about his linking abortions and developmentally disabled…

Given that he is competing in an arena where compromise is dismissed as weakness, and where only the most radical voices are rewarded, is it really so surprising that these mouthbreathers continue to stake out increasingly extreme positions on abortion? Soon some anti abortion, quiverfull, racist hatemonger will proclaim that menstruation itself is a sin, because women are supposed to be pregnant all the time.

For the love of dammit, I am completely smackgobbed.

i are also…i hope this fucker crashes and burns so totally and completely that he will never be given even the teensiest bit of consideration for public office ever again…

bbkf: There was so much FAIL in that I was kinda overwhelmed.

In 2010, Marshall called for an end to state funding for Planned Parenthood, and suggested that women who have abortions are more likely to face “vengeance” from “nature” in the form of children being born with developmental disabilities.

“The number of children who are born subsequent to a first abortion who have handicaps has increased dramatically. Why? Because when you abort the firstborn of any, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children,” Marshall said.

Faced with criticism over those remarks, Marshall partially walked back the statement.

“No one who knows me or my record would imagine that I believe or intended to communicate such an offensive notion,” he explained afterward. “I have devoted a generation of work to defending disabled and unwanted children and have always maintained that they are special blessings to their parents.”

Cruel, lying psycho. His “correction” didn’t correct shit – that that business of one abortion affecting future pregnancies has always been a flat-out lie.

“I have devoted a generation of work to defending disabled and unwanted children and have always maintained that they are special blessings to their parents.”

how does that saying go? oh, that’s right…fuck the fucking fucker…i find his ‘correction’ even MORE offensive than his original hideously inaccurate and offensive statement…

oh, i forgot: fuck him..

…i hope this fucker crashes and burns so totally and completely that he will never be given even the teensiest bit of consideration for public office ever again…

Did you miss the part where he’s been in office for 23 years? The anti-women voters, and the ones who just vote for an incumbent have a lot to answer for. Unfortunately, like Ryan’s budget “losing” time after time, but our budget is now smaller that his first proposed budget, these guys keep making headway.

Cruel, lying psycho. His “correction” didn’t correct shit – that that business of one abortion affecting future pregnancies has always been a flat-out lie.

not to mention a giant stab to the heart of the mothers of dd kids that may or may not have had an abortion previously…he has no fucking clue the guilt most parents of dd kids carry as it is…i don’t think i can say ‘fuck’ enough in his direction…

also, thank you for posting that part 🙂

Did you miss the part where he’s been in office for 23 years?

i did forget that in my blinding murderous rage…and yeah, how the fuck?! 23 goddamn years?!

I haven’t suggested it, because they are so not the same thing, but I’m beginning to think the automatic reaction to “you can’t spend my money on repugnant things like abortion/contraception/sex ed” should be “OK, if you insist, but that comes with an automatic ‘we don’t pay for boner pills’ rider.”

So to speak.

I haven’t suggested it, because they are so not the same thing, but I’m beginning to think the automatic reaction to “you can’t spend my money on repugnant things like abortion/contraception/sex ed” should be “OK, if you insist, but that comes with an automatic ‘we don’t pay for boner pills’ rider.”

oh, i agree on that one…also, too you said ‘boner pills rider’…

Haha–boner rider.

I find nuclear weapons immoral and disgusting, and I’m pretty sure Jesus wouldn’t have liked them very much. But my tax dollars still fund an arsenal of them far in excess of what is needed to obliterate all life on Earth except for boy bands, cockroaches and that Ryan Seacrest dude.

“What if incest is voluntary? Sometimes it is.”

Not that he would know anything about that. Also, it is central to his point, see?

suggested that women who have abortions are more likely to face “vengeance” from “nature”

Is this the same nature in which some species a new alpha male kills the offspring of the old alpha? Or in which the young are a favorite food source of many critters? I think it’s more likely “nature” doesn’t give a “shit.”

I think I dropped an “in.”

also, thank you for posting that part 🙂

Yeah. RawStory, in addition to having that annoying “you must look at this story in teeny tiny bits,” apparently has some sort of “thou shalt not select text” going (at least, I, on my tablet, couldn’t on my first few tries – not definitive). Fortunately, I’d downloaded it from paleo’s link, and the html file reader my tablet provides lets me look without all the foofraw (technical term, you know). So I can read the article easily, and I can select and copy. Win! RawStory’s one of those sites I don’t like to go to because they so consistently have so much intrusive programming on their pages it’s often not worth it for me.

I find nuclear weapons immoral and disgusting,

I keep pointing out to my Members of Congress that, as a Quaker, I have moral and religious objections to war and killing, and the 40% or so of my taxes that go toward paying for it (understand, I feel we should be following through on our promises and obligations to the humans, which means paying for the health, education, etc. of vets) trumps the far-too-small portion if my taxes that go toward women’s health, including abortion. No discernable effect, so far.

RawStory’s one of those sites I don’t like to go to because they so consistently have so much intrusive programming on their pages it’s often not worth it for me.

Yeah, there’s some good stuff there sometimes though.

The AdBlock plugin is an absolute must. If you want to give sites ad revenue, you can selectively disable it. Also, I disable the flash plugin but leave it installed — in Chrome it’ll let you choose to enable individual plugins only when you want, so if there’s a flash item I really want to see, I can use it. That’s happening less and less now — Youtube doesn’t need it anymore, most importantly.

Doing both of those really cuts down the most intrusive and annoying shit — if I try to use a computer with a vanilla browser installation it’s downright painful.

Is this the same nature in which some species a new alpha male kills the offspring of the old alpha? Or in which the young are a favorite food source of many critters? I think it’s more likely “nature” doesn’t give a “shit.”

indeed…nature is a bitch…

if I try to use a computer with a vanilla browser installation it’s downright painful.

oh i envy you smart peoples your computer lingo…

“No one who knows me or my record would imagine that I believe or intended to communicate such an offensive notion”

Don’t use my words against me! This guy is like Newt Gingrich junior.

oh i envy you smart peoples your computer lingo…

For Chrome:

1, go to “Preferences”
B, click “Extensions”
III, at the bottom, click “Get More Extensions”
4th, search for AdBlock and install it.
…
Profit!

Safari is similar — but extensions are under the “Safari” menu, under “Safari Extensions…” AdBlock is the first one under “Popular”

It’s also available for Firefox (extensions can be found under the “Tools” menu in “Add-ons”) and for Android (the Android install is weird/hard/less useful). Not sure about the iPrecious.

When you abort the firstborn, nature takes its vengeance on the subsequent children, who are, um, special blessings to their parents.

Don’t use my words against me!

It wasn’t intended to be a factual statement! Fuck–are all you women PMSing or some shit?

Be advised that if you install ad blocking software that you will miss the opportunity to learn a weird trick that will keep your boner strong. Just saying.

If Bill O’Reilly thought the Vietnam War was SO great….

http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2014/04/colbert-makes-mockery-oreillys

…how come he never signed up to go over there and fight?

Bill was born in 1949, according to Wikipedia, which would have made him just the right age to go over there in the late sixties/ early seventies.

What’s up with that, anyway, Bill?

What’s up with that, anyway, Bill?

Typical chickenhawk. Our government is loaded with them–including the preznit.

“No one who knows me or my record would imagine that I believe or intended to communicate such an offensive notion,”

I just hang a twenty-five pound kettlebell on it for an hour or two.

Don’t use my words against me!

this is the same reason they don’t *get* colbert…lol…

http://crooksandliars.com/cltv/2014/04/colbert-makes-mockery-oreillys

i just watched this bit this morning…papa bear is too precious by half…

I keep hearing about some weird trick that will keep, ummm, my friend’s boner strong.

unfortunate first name of the day:

manette

I generally detest web ads, but I have to admit, recent trends are intriguing … Seems like the hip thing is pictures that are confusing. “Eat This Thing and Never Diet Again,” the thing being unfamiliar, it’s not even clear whether it’s a plant or an animal.

That’s a good one, bbkf. In related news, there are about three men in the U.S. named “Flavius Cucu.”

“Eat This Thing and Never Diet Again,” the thing being unfamiliar, it’s not even clear whether it’s a plant or an animal.

eck…i hate the slimy looking ones…ugh…i would never ever ever click on those ads just based on that image…perhaps it turns into a giant full size image and then you’re just too grossed out to eat ever again…

What’s all this about a weird trick to make John Boehner strong?

The only way Boehner’s getting strong is if we feed him to a gorilla, and I don’t think that’s in the spirit of the question.

What’s all this about a weird trick to make John Boehner strong?

Whatever it is, the gubmit doesn’t want you to know about it.

Whatever it is, the gubmit doesn’t want you to know about it.

neither does your doctor…or the insurance companies…

If your Boehner lasts more than four terms, seek help.

Don’t forget the “moms” who are at the forefront of all this innovation. Turning the tables on pointy-headed types with their weird tricks.

If your Boehner lasts more than four terms, seek help you’re boned.

[/Bender]

Some scholar was on NPR a few weeks back, talking about the Nigerian email scam(s). He or she made the point that the crudity of the scams serves a purpose — it weeds out people who are hard to con. So it goes with ads in general. Con artists do not want to waste time on people who might get wise before paying up. I’m tempted to say that the government should pay a few people to string con artists along. Make their lives more tedious and uncertain.

Don’t forget the “moms” who are at the forefront of all this innovation. Turning the tables on pointy-headed types with their weird tricks.

Your ideas interest me. Do you have a newsletter to which I can subscribe?

AbBlock for iOS is available in several flavors at the iStore.

You psychotic alien-demon, go tattoo absurdities onto your liver?
May your maggot-pie make your descendants spew excretions, you sodden stinky sack of neuroses!

Your lichen-covered corpuscles are filthy to my fist!
Infection is your finest flower, mildewed in the mist!

In today’s Sunday school teacher child pornography news, http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20140411/A_NEWS/140419949

lichen-covered corpuscles

NOT a good BotB entry.

psychotic alien-demon

I could go with that one however.

psychotic alien-demon

I could go with that one however.

“Tattoo Absurdities” would be a good name, also, too.

i am still rating high for ‘fuck transfusion’…i think we all could use a good transfusion of fucks…i know i was running perilously low earlier today…

i will be leaving shortly for firemen’s bingo…i am hoping to win a ham or a turkey…it’s not a really good looking fire department and since i sleep with the hottest fireman already, i think a turkey or ham would do nicely…

BOOTLESS KOOK-GOOF

Levity has left me. How could the computer know I am a bootless kook-goof!? No number of calculations-per-second could afford a computer so deftly human a judgment … What computer talks like that, anyway? Is it a super-computer? No, they are the stuff of legend, and I am real, and truly skewered. Certainly not by a class of machines that can barely recognize voices and faces — a human baby can do better (but lacks the vocabulary to have formed this knowing taunt).

I am forced to conclude that somewhere a little man conspires against me. He’s inside the sort of ventilated case that housed outmoded desktop PCs, from which he has access to the internet and a modicum of computing power. Enough, in combination with his diabolical intelligence, to divine my true nature and strike. God, how I hate him. What a twisted freak! I mean c’mon. You can’t make this stuff up.

Well, my tiny nemesis, I may be a bootless kook-goof, but I am no coward. Do your worst before I find you and crush you.

Just buy some boots already. Sheesh.

I have boots. They’re painful to wear, having never been broken in. That’s not the crux of the matter.

lichen-covered corpuscles

NOT a good BotB entry.

Not even for a Residents cover band?

Kook-Goof, with boots.

i will be leaving shortly for firemen’s bingo

Not sure where you’d find enough firemen for bingo. There were 30,000 of them in Indianapolis this week for a convention.

Not sure where you’d find enough firemen for bingo.

Plus, when you put ’em in that tumbler, they just end up all dizzy.

Kook-Goof, with boots.

First line of substance: “Shrink, you discreditable blood-engorged dingus!” –Well, I’ve never said or even thought that.

On the basis of the first strip, he’s more “kook” than “goof,” and those boots are drawn wrappy, but maybe they’ll take on a bootier life as the strip goes on.

OK, that was both funny and illuminating – true to the spirit of A Modest Proposal, one might even say. Seb would approve.

Just buy some boots already. Sheesh.

It behooves you to buy boots, or perhaps vice versa.

it’s not a really good looking fire department and since i sleep with the hottest fireman already, i think a turkey or ham would do nicely…

Kinky!

But but but Blacky Hussain was anti-SSM!

I first read this as Surface-to-Surface Missile. Then I parsed it as Single-Sex Marriage. Old acronyms die hard.

AbBlock … is available in several flavors

I recommend the lasagna, mashed potatoes, and cherry ice cream! Since I’ve been using AbBlock, my abs have totally disappeared!

it’s not a really good looking fire department and since i sleep with the hottest fireman already, i think a turkey or ham would do nicely…

to cook and eat you big giant perv! also, too…i won a crappy t-shirt and a rain gauge…

I don’t need a goddamn gauge to tell me when it’s raining.

Do you need a weatherman to tell you which way the wind blows?

It wasn’t intended to be a factual statement! 

And what is with this kind of stuff, anyway? During discussions of the Ft Lee-GWB ratfucking, more than once some reporter-type person would remark that so-and-so had flat-out lied to some investigative body or other, but since they weren’t under oath, everything was hunky-dory. In my world, and at my pay grade, if you lie, and are found out, that’s it. You might lose your job (I’ve seen it happen), and it’s for sure other unpleasant things would happen. I guess it’s a variant of Trump’s “owe enough money and they have to let you keep playing” practice, but it’s just … weird.

to cook and eat you big giant perv!

Fortunately I am a small skinny perv so I am probably not included in Bbkf’s cookbook.

Howdy, folx!

How y’all been?
.

It wasn’t intended to be a factual statement!

In other words, “I was deliberately lying.”

But for the cons, deliberately lying for a good cause is fair ball… indeed, deliberate lying is mandatory in the worlds of religion, marketing, grifting, the military-industrial complex, the prison-industrial complex— basically the entire con ecosystem…

… you just can’t do it under oath.

So that’s when you “can’t recall”

Here is an example of how America once dealt with the likes of Bill Maher.

“Be it declared and enacted by the Lieutenant Governor, Council and Representatives, convened in General Assembly, and it is enacted by the Authority of the same, that if any person shall presume willfully to blaspheme the holy Name of God, Father, Son, or Holy Ghost; either by denying, cursing or reproaching the true God; his Creation or Government of the World: or by denying, cursing, or reproaching the holy Word of God… everyone so offending shall be punished by imprisonment, not exceeding six months, and until they find sureties for good behaviours; by sitting in pillory; by whipping; boaring thorow the tongue, with a red hot iron; or sitting upon the gallows with a rope about their neck; at the discretion of the court…” — Massachusetts General Laws.

Read more at http://barbwire.com/2014/03/28/bill-asphemy-%e2%80%a8does-maher-deserve-whipping-slandering-god/#fDCissGVlTuEUHtM.99

Apropos of nothing;
http://healthaffairs.org/blog/2014/03/03/how-many-nongroup-policies-were-canceled-estimates-from-december-2013/

Which raises a question: If it is acceptable to slander and profane the name of God then why not publicly vilify and slander President Barack Obama? I, for one, don’t believe in his presidency, like Maher doesn’t believe in God. And, I also think Obama is immoral, perhaps even a lunatic???

lol! i always love when a ‘serious’ writer uses the teenage girl ending to sentences…

But I gotta say, Maher’s comments are the most shocking and heinous public utterances of blasphemy on U.S. airwaves. And worse still, Christians — and especially Christian leaders — have said very little.

oh yes…much much more shocking than ‘god hates fags and soldiers’

Here is an example of how America once dealt with the likes of Bill Maher.

And this is different from Sharia exactly how?

That’s what they have in common with the Devil. He hates God too. He’s so blinded by this hatred he’s convinced himself — and a legion of other fools — that there is no God

The devil hates unicorns, too! And he’s so blinded by this hatred he’s convinced himself — and a legion of other fools — that there are no unicorns.

: If it is acceptable to slander and profane the name of God then why not publicly vilify and slander President Barack Obama?

I, for one, thank Jeebus every day that conservatives have not resorted to public vilification and slander…

And this is different from Sharia exactly how?

It demonstrates that the Prince of Peace, the King of Kings, must be taken seriously, unlike a certain blaspheming heretic from the 8th Century C.E.

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-8PjNMvtPsko/U0iLbO1bvLI/AAAAAAAAQds/cdPjkKDPaOs/s1600/kansas.JPG

To hate that which does not exist … truly, a fool’s errand

Howdy, folx!

How y’all been?

Heidi, JP! ‘Bout the same.

Settling in? It looks like (from your catblog) LE and M finding each other has been A Good Thing.

We urge the repeal of federal campaign finance laws, and the immediate abolition of the despotic Federal Election Commission.”

“We favor the abolition of Medicare and Medicaid programs.”

“We oppose any compulsory insurance or tax-supported plan to provide health services, including those which finance abortion services.”

“We also favor the deregulation of the medical insurance industry.”

“We favor the repeal of the fraudulent, virtually bankrupt, and increasingly oppressive Social Security system. Pending that repeal, participation in Social Security should be made voluntary.”

“We propose the abolition of the governmental Postal Service. The present system, in addition to being inefficient, encourages governmental surveillance of private correspondence. Pending abolition, we call for an end to the monopoly system and for allowing free competition in all aspects of postal service.”

“We oppose all personal and corporate income taxation, including capital gains taxes.”
“We support the eventual repeal of all taxation.”

“As an interim measure, all criminal and civil sanctions against tax evasion should be terminated immediately.”

“We support repeal of all law which impede the ability of any person to find employment, such as minimum wage laws.”

“We advocate the complete separation of education and State. Government schools lead to the indoctrination of children and interfere with the free choice of individuals. Government ownership, operation, regulation, and subsidy of schools and colleges should be ended.”

“We condemn compulsory education laws … and we call for the immediate repeal of such laws.”

“We support the repeal of all taxes on the income or property of private schools, whether profit or non-profit.”

“We support the abolition of the Environmental Protection Agency.”

“We support abolition of the Department of Energy.”

“We call for the dissolution of all government agencies concerned with transportation, including the Department of Transportation.”

“We demand the return of America’s railroad system to private ownership. We call for the privatization of the public roads and national highway system.”

“We specifically oppose laws requiring an individual to buy or use so-called “self-protection” equipment such as safety belts, air bags, or crash helmets.”

“We advocate the abolition of the Federal Aviation Administration.”

“We advocate the abolition of the Food and Drug Administration.”

“We support an end to all subsidies for child-bearing built into our present laws, including all welfare plans and the provision of tax-supported services for children.”

“We oppose all government welfare, relief projects, and ‘aid to the poor’ programs. All these government programs are privacy-invading, paternalistic, demeaning, and inefficient. The proper source of help for such persons is the voluntary efforts of private groups and individuals.”

“We call for the privatization of the inland waterways, and of the distribution system that brings water to industry, agriculture and households.”

“We call for the repeal of the Occupational Safety and Health Act.”

“We call for the abolition of the Consumer Product Safety Commission.”

“We support the repeal of all state usury laws.”

Send our wish list to all your Pox News-fans relatives.

Won’t they be surprised!

their so full of shit
Know what there doing

Their’s no they’re they’re.

Yeah there are plenty of libertarians who are terrified of government power, government over-reach and government oppression, but are utterly blind to(or are totally in favor of) the the power, over-reach and oppression of unregulated capitalism.

Usually the same people who have no problem with government power, government over-reach, and government oppression so long as they’re pointed at somebody else. Inner city dwellers suffering the effects of the war on drugs, left wing protesters getting maced, beaten and brutally broken up by police departments, women having their reproductive behavior regulated by force of law, foreign countries getting blitzkrieged and then left as they are with zero effort at reconstruction.

Libertarianism is fantasy capitalism for failed capitalists. Real capitalists love Big Government because it means big no-bid contracts can be had for the price of a congresscreep. They only rail against big government when they aren’t in control. Meanwhile, the loser libertarian buys fake gold from hucksters who are happy to take his “fiat currency” off his hands and bitches about regulation because he doesn’t want to be fettered when he makes it big someday.

Interestingly, I believe there was a fairly long time when “the party of big government” was the same as “the party of business” (Federalists, Whigs, Republicans – all supported by modern, capitalist business elites based in Northeastern cities, and opposed by more old-school elites like the plantation owners who preferred to keep the feds out of their affairs).

Then the Progressive and New Deal eras rolled around and popularized the revolutionary notion that “big government” could be a protector for the little people against the abuses of big business, rather than an agent of the bosses.

And about the same time the idea was introduced that “big government” was a Big Problem. Funny how that works.

Which raises a question: If it is acceptable to slander and profane the name of God then why not publicly vilify and slander President Barack Obama?

Has this… not been happening for the last five years? The half of the voting public that turns out at teabagger rallies with signs about Obama the socialist, Obama the lying Halfrican, Obama the witch doctor with a bone through his nose, will be crushed to see their efforts so unacknowledged.

And about the same time the idea was introduced that “big government” was a Big Problem. Funny how that works.

Pure coincidence, I’m sure.

I wish I could be so marginalized that Time magazine would publish my opinions.

interesting weekend…last night jeans and bingo…tonight i’m going to the big city for another hospital’s gala event…so it’s a formal and f-a-h-n-c-y peeps tonight…

Comedian makes dumb joke…

OMG! HUGE issue!

Billionaire activists’ hidden agenda to destroy middle class…

Yawn…

Makes you wonder who she’s really working for, doesn’t it?

Took a ground ball off a bad hop right under my stupid right eye this morning. Pity party for tsam….Go!

White neoliberal sticks up for white neoliberal. Who’da guessed that?

Nym-stealing troll pretends to be regular commenter sticking up for pseudo-radical drama queen whose BFF is Michelle Malkin. Who’da guessed that?

And if we must talk about that phony, I’ll just defer to Joslyn Stevens.

And if we must talk about that phony, I’ll just defer to Joslyn Stevens.

Maybe Comedy Central can replace the Colbert Report with “Suey Park After Dark”. Maybe she could bring Michelle Malkin on as her sidekick.

Perhaps Mad Dog Malkin and Ms. Park can address the problem of intra-Asian/Pacific Islander when they team up. Make haole the h-word.

Settling in? It looks like (from your catblog) LE and M finding each other has been A Good Thing.

My way of making a young teen girl happy, legally. 😆
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Fuck that shit. Give George Takei a show at 11:30. Now that would be awesome.

JP, LE has really taken a shine to his new human. They really look adorable together. How’s Curly adjusting? I love giant tabby cats- we used to have one which was damn near thirty pounds of cat.

Fuck that shit. Give George Takei a show at 11:30. Now that would be awesome.

Oh, myyyyyyyyy! That would be the best thing to happen to late-night TV in a good long time.

Not sure how close you are to Nashville JP but I’ll be there on Monday.

Major, I hung out with N__B, Mrs _B and, Mini_B on the job today. He says hello.

Not sure how close you are to Nashville JP but I’ll be there on Monday.

~30 miles SE of town, proper. Monday will be a big, shitty weather day, btw.
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JP, LE has really taken a shine to his new human. They really look adorable together. How’s Curly adjusting? I love giant tabby cats- we used to have one which was damn near thirty pounds of cat.

Curly’s still in his temporary holding home, alone. I’m stopping by 1-2 times a day (4 mi. from MY temporary holding home) to make sure he’s fed and skritched.

I think he will do better without L.E., honestly, now that I’ve seen both cats interacting with other cats and dogs,
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Hiya, Jeffraham. I’m glad that LE has a loving new home and new hooman to give him skritches and affection. I always rate for Curly, who is my favoritest long-distance-kitteh whom I’ve never actually met. He seems to have a placid, zen-like quality.

LOVING the kitties.

Hiya, Jeffraham. I’m glad that LE has a loving new home and new hooman to give him skritches and affection. I always rate for Curly, who is my favoritest long-distance-kitteh whom I’ve never actually met. He seems to have a placid, zen-like quality.

The Old Man will be 12 in June, so he has mellowed, considerably. He is the universe’s greatest kitteh. Fat tabbies rewl.

L.E. is now known as “Mr. Flowers,” if you can believe it. Meghan lost a good kitteh about 60 days ago (Baby Cat), and L.E. started out hiding for ten days straight after entering the Ivy household (unless I was the only person in the house). When he came out of hiding, he immediately chose Meghan as his liaison. They’ve been pretty inseparable, since.

As I work 2 miles from where he now lives and have liberal visitation rights, I am not at all sad.
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Took a ground ball off a bad hop right under my stupid right eye this morning

Sounds painful, and potentially colorful. Are you developing stories?

How old was Baby Cat when (s)he gave up the ghost? We lost one of our mousers last August at the age of fifteen. Our company website had an obituary for him.

How old was Baby Cat when (s)he gave up the ghost?

He was only four. He escaped mysteriously, and vanished. 🙁
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Monday will be a big, shitty weather day, btw.

Probably not a good day for scooters. Glad you and the cats are doing all right.

He was only four. He escaped mysteriously, and vanished. 🙁

Damn, cats do that sort of thing every once in a while.

Ok people, listen up.
When somebody whines about being struck by a ball, your response is “probably shouldn’t have been standing there”.
Do I have to do everything around here?

Curly/Jeffraham reunification day!
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When somebody whines about being struck by a ball, your response is “probably shouldn’t have been standing there”.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

If you can dodge a wrench, you can dodge a ball.

You can tune a piano but you can’t tune a fish.

Do I have to do everything around here?

Of course not. Here’s a Question Barrage: Baseball or softball? Because you said the injury was produced by a bad-hop grounder, I’m assuming you were playing infield defense. What position? Did you stay in the game? Was it a pick-up game or do you play in a league? Did the ball raise a bruise? How are you now, a day after the injury?

tsam: Also, it’s a Sunday afternoon, so howsabout you write up player profile on this tsam guy, as if you were a scout writing up a report on yourself. (thus, false modesty is not allowed).

What’s this guy’s skill set? What are his best tools? Good hitter? Good defender? Weakest part of his game? Prior experience playing ball? Typical positions? Left-hander? Right-hander? Switch hitter? Can he pitch?

(((Feel free to ignore the scouting report, if you like. I’m a baseball junkie. Never could play it well … but I love the game. Right now I’m following the Leafs Suck — Oreos game. After five, Jays lead 3-1.)))

The weed of time bears bitter derp:

“Do you have any evidence after a year of investigation that any official, higher up in the IRS, higher up in the Treasury Department or in the White House directed [former IRS official] Lois Lerner to do what she allegedly did?” Wallace asked the congressman during an interview on Fox News Sunday.

Boustany argued that the investigation had taken so long because Republicans had been “stonewalled” by President Barack Obama’s administration.

“Some of your colleagues say that your committee and the House Oversight Committee have blown this,” Wallace declared. “Because of the fact that you should have given Lois Lerner immunity. I mean, let’s face it, nobody really cares what Lois Lerner did.”

“Well, that is a debatable point, and it’s worthy of discussion,” Boustany replied, somewhat stunned. “But the fact is, we are still being obstructed by the IRS.”

“You’ve had a year, sir!” Wallace pressed. “You’ve had a year!”

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/13/fox-news-host-rips-gop-rep-youve-had-a-year-and-have-blown-the-irs-probe/

I’m a baseball junkie. Never could play it well … but I love the game.

I always played ball bettter while buzzed, which was a good thing, because we’d set a keg up on second base. I was just more confident, more relaxed, so I’d field better.

Have you been to any ‘topes games, Fenwick?

Not this year, not so far. Went to a UNM Lobos ball game last month.

tsam scouting report:
Softball: Coed, E league (to allow him to play with the woman he fucking loves more than life itself)

In this league, I hit about .800 (which is average for a male batter).
I play anywhere in the infield, usually pitcher. I play there because I want to be where the action is, instead of waiting for a ball to come near me every other inning.

The ball incident was when I was at shortstop, during practice. The fields aren’t ready for the season yet, and the city has dumped about 2 inches of loose sand on top of the dirt. Any footprint, ball divot, or whatever causes nasty hops, especially with speedy ground balls. This ball came straight at me–routine ground ball on about the 3rd bounce. The last bounce took a nasty hop and jumped over my glove and hit my cheek bone directly under my right eye. No biggie–I’ve been punched way harder than that, but this morning I have a nice black eye, extending from my brow to about halfway across the bottom of my eye along that boney socket. It aches, but I’ll live.

So finding nothing other than arbitrary enforcement of a rule that is about as clear as a puddle of poopy diarrhea water, against left and right wing groups is “blowing the investigation”.

Seems legit.

Also:

Bats: R
Throws: R
Defense: OK:
Baserunning: OK
Beer: Drinks

I don’t switch hit, because anything below AAA or MLB, switch hitting is nothing more than a silly gimmick. In slow pitch softball, R/L matchups mean exactly nothing.

Utility infielder; experience at all positions; has agility needed to play middle-infield and catcher. Also a right-handed pitcher, SP or RP versatility. Average skill set.

Intangibles: Great attitude; savvy about the game; on-field and bench leadership.

Nickname: Don’t know. If he doesn’t have one, he should invent one pronto.

Plays through injuries, too.

Back in the U.S.S.A: 5-minute video of Glennzilla accepting the Polk Award.

And, in a similar sort of vein, details are beginning to emerge about ‘Camp 7’ , a hitherto unknown secret compound inside the Guantanamo military base … which is a fairly sizable place, as viewers of A Few Good Men may remember. Reportedly 15 prisoners are held in Camp 7, including Khalid Sheik Mohammad.

BBBB: You stay so current on wildlife, that this item about fatal fungal disease in bats may be no news to you; it began in upstate NY.

I also like owls, btw. Among my favorite birds.

Maybe its the nocturnal hunter thing.

My work here is done.

Hack, gasp – you … you … monster!!

BBBB: You stay so current on wildlife, that this item about fatal fungal disease in bats may be no news to you; it began in upstate NY.

Yeah, the “white nose disease” made headlines here a few years back. I was upset because I really like bats (saw the first ones of the year tonight, flying by the light of a gorgeous near-full moon). If you work outside at night a lot like I do, you’d be an idiot not to love bats, because they eat such vast amounts of flying insects.

Poor bats. It’s right up there with the disease that’s decimating Tasmanian Devils, except there’s more bats, and they’re more important. Still, poor devils.

I discovered how nifty bats during a summer I spent in North Beach (a bit south of Annapolis) on the Chesapeake Bay working on the still-born espionage novel. I often stayed out at night to watch the large night herons feed along the pier. (They are so skittish, but eventually became used to me after several weeks.) Herons are my favorite ‘big’ bird.

The main street and road by the bay was lined with street lamps, and the bats came out for insects drawn to the lights. The lights also allowed me to see them fairly well.

Herons are skittish- there’s one on my primary jobsite that takes off whenever I get within fifty yards of it. Were the night herons black-crowned night herons?

The main street and road by the bay was lined with street lamps, and the bats came out for insects drawn to the lights. The lights also allowed me to see them fairly well.

I just love to watch their aerobatics.

I was upset because I really like bats

Seeing as how the linked article speaks to my neck o’ the woods, I have to ask.
How big a drop off have you noticed since it showed up?
We’ve had plummeting populations as it is, and now *this*?
Those li’l goomers are a hell of a lot more important than most realize.
Freakin’ Beech Bark Disease has been bad enough.

I am happy to report that one of the first thing I did was mount a bat house to my house. It does take some time for them to establish residency, though, and while i have seen several at the fall of night, I have not climbed the roof to confirm occupancy by inspecting for dookie.

mount a bat house to my house

Well it only seems proper that bats and zombies are co-located.

Also appreciative applause from Albuquerque. Yeah, that too, Mr. Zombie Person.

Those li’l goomers are a hell of a lot more important than most realize.
Freakin’ Beech Bark Disease has been bad enough.

Word.

Case: Are you in Wisconsin or Michigan? The article mentioned both.

one of the first thing I did was mount a bat house to my house

No squirrel accommodation? I am disappoint.

I’ll be repositioning my 1994 Buick “airport car” back to Memphis over the next two days. I hope to make Columbus to Nashville today.

With enough duct tape and bungee cords I think it’ll hold together.

Good luck, Major. You can fix just about anything with duct tape and drywall screws.

My former car had a little argument with a utility pole and wound up with the passenger side mirror dangling from an electrical cable, but two drywall screws later and she was good as new.

To my amazement, the car dealership didn’t even notice those two little black screws in the black plastic piece when they inspected it for the trade-in.

How did I miss this back in 2005?

GOP: ‘We were wrong’ to play racial politics

http://usatoday30.usatoday.com/news/washington/2005-07-14-GOP-racial-politics_x.them

Weird… For some reason that link doesn’t make it all the way to the article.

Oh, well, just google the title and it should work…

Another good article… the voodoo economics wonders promised ever since the Reagan-Thatcher era have mysteriously failed to appear over the past 30+ years… so WTF, why do policy makers continue to worship a failed god?

http://thebaffler.com/past/neoliberalism_the_revolution_in_reverse

I just want to say I hate the title of this post because it keeps putting that damn song in my head.

Nickname: Don’t know. If he doesn’t have one, he should invent one pronto.

In honor of my new, shiny black eye, I’m thinking “blackie”

shiner

Cyclops

Bats: S
Throws: R
Defense: OK:
Baserunning: OK
Beer: Drinks with the best of them also homebrews.

I normally bat R, but I will start batting practice swinging from the left side as I am not as comfortable from that side and it forces me to concentrate more. This has come in handy when I’ve had minor niggling injuries that bothered me when batting righty. I’ve been playing on the same men’s league team for 28 years now, we still have six of the original players. I also play co-ed. I’m getting older but I haven’t lost a step as I never had one in the first place. But nowadays I mostly catch or EH.
Nickname: Moondog

Made it to Louisville. Weather sucks but the Roadmaster is doing fine so far.

So, secession. Every time the Federal government does something that offends the sensibilities of some right wing reactionaries, they start talking about secession. The list of so called grievances is familiar to anyone who has ever read a tea party platform. Taxes too high? Secede. Abortion legal? Secede. Affordable care act, Benghazi, fast and furious, the BLM kerfluffle in Nevada with delinquent grazing fees? Secede.

Secession is a terrible idea, and people who advocate it are bad and should feel bad. The first reason why this is so, is the 650,000 to 750000 soldiers killed the last time it was tried. In case that number doesn’t resonate, from Wikipedia

“Historian John Huddleston estimates the death toll at ten percent of all Northern males 20–45 years old, and 30 percent of all Southern white males aged 18–40”

The US census of 1860 put the population of the US at around 31,500,000. The US population as of the 2010 census is 308,745,000. Let’s fudge the math and say there are ten times as many people in the US now as in 1860, so a similar fraction of of the population would be 6,500,000 to 7,500,000 today.

Except we all know that math is bullshit. Casualties for a modern civil war would in all probability be even higher than that. Because if states secede, it is virtually certain that some of the military would choose to secede with them. And it almost goes without saying, modern warfare is considerably deadlier now than it was in 1860. Famine would hit the US harder too, after all, the population of the US is urban now, and divorced from the raising of food. Even some farmers might go hungry without the diesel fuel fertilizer and pesticides that make modern agriculture possible.

So when someone raises secession as a solution to the real or imagined ills of society, remember what they are really saying is that they prefer to start a conflict that could kill at a minimum 7,500,000 Americans to getting along and finding a peaceful way to resolve our differences.

Cyclops

FTW

From now until I change my mind, tsam shall be known as Cyclops.

it is virtually certain that some of the military would choose to secede with them.

I don’t know about that. I’m guessing a few field grade officers (ones who are actually qualified tacticians) would go, as would individuals within certain ranks, but the prospect of no pay, shitty equipment, and certain death would likely turn most of them away.

In either case, nobody who isn’t a fucking moron wants secession. Manipulative fuckasses like Rick Perry throw it around to activate the crazy in their base. Secession isn’t going to happen unless a sizable block of states decide to do it, and there aren’t enough contiguous states with enough crazy bastards in them to make that happen.

Honestly, the secession talk on the street is only coming from the psycho gun nuts who dream of shooting people. They have no idea what the ramifications of separation would be.

EH.

What’s EH? Extra hitter?

Honestly, the secession talk on the street is only coming from the psycho gun nuts who dream of shooting people. They have no idea what the ramifications of separation would be.

Nor do they care.

It’s more than just the gun nuts, plenty of christian* anti abortion absolutists spout the same secession nonsense. As a little bit paranoid atheist, perhaps I am jumping at shadows. But then I look at people like General Boykin http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_G._Boykin and the Air Force Academy’s troubles with keeping church out of the classroom and I think that a certain level of paranoia is justified.

*mostly Evangelical but even one or two Roman Catholics have gone on record advocating secession

Adorable, huggable, KITTEHS!

Herons are skittish- there’s one on my primary jobsite that takes off whenever I get within fifty yards of it.

Every spring the herons residing on Ross Island cross the river and perch on the old pilings for a couple hours in the morning. The sherons stay in their nests. After a week or ten days the herons leave the pilings for the last time to engage in a lengthy and intricate mating dance with the sherons.Then they fuck.

the voodoo economics wonders promised ever since the Reagan-Thatcher era have mysteriously failed to appear over the past 30+ years… so WTF, why do policy makers continue to worship a failed god?

http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/12/05/things-that-never-happened-in-the-history-of-macroeconomics/

So why is his name invoked so much now? Because The Road to Serfdom struck a political chord with the American right, which adopted Hayek as a sort of mascot — and retroactively inflated his role as an economic thinker. Warsh is even crueler about this than I would have been; he compares Hayek (or rather the “Hayek” invented by his admirers) to Rosie Ruiz, who claimed to have won the marathon, but actually took the subway to the finish line.

What’s EH? Extra hitter?

That is correct. We play ten on the field but can bat up to twelve.

I read that as Extra Hitler.

There used to be a couple in my neighborhood who would feed a pair of great white herons hamburger every morning. If they were late with the burger the herons would walk into the garage and bang on the door with their beaks. Also, around here I’ve seen several great blue herons walk right up behind unsuspecting fishermen and raid their bait buckets.

I read that as Extra Hitler.

That’s why I listed my base running as good. It would have been excellent but the goose stepping slows me down.

Bats usually appear around sunset, year-round, in the cemetery here and in the countryside. Fortunately the fungal infection that has stricken other populations hasn’t gotten here yet, probably due to our Mediterranean climate here in central Cali.

I like my nachos with extra Hitler.

It would have been excellent but the goose stepping slows me down.

I’ll bet you have FABULOUS uniforms.

Imagine if the Nazis had anabolic steroids and chewing tobacco.

That’s right, go ahead and imagine it. Take your time.

Fascist baseball teams don’t so well because they’re not good at left turns. NASCAR too, also

Facist baseball teams are discriminatory.

Stop taunting him. Just stop.

Made it to Nashville. Stopping here for the night.

CUNT

Scientists reported today the first human recipients of laboratory-grown vaginal organs.

reminds me of the very first ‘lifetime’ movie tha i ever watched…some lady was in an accident or something and lost the outside of her vajayjay…they made her new lips from the lips on her face…i knew while i was watching the movie that i would become hooked on lifetime…

Made it to Nashville. Stopping here for the night.

good…now i can stop worrying…

good…now i can stop worrying…

The Roadmaster doesn’t look like much but I keep all the mechanical bits in top order.

After I saw how they drive in Memphis I decided I wanted the biggest car I could find. They are by far the worst drivers I have encountered and that includes Boston. Boston drivers are at least predictable.

After I saw how they drive in Memphis I decided I wanted the biggest car I could find. They are by far the worst drivers I have encountered

true. dat.

okay…so about 8 minutes ago, we had an intense downpour of frozen rain…i’ve seen rain coming down in sheets, but never frozen rain…now the sun is out…#weatherisweird

…aaaand now it’s snow flurries! yay spring!

sun flurries? wth?

reminds me of the very first ‘lifetime’ movie tha i ever watched…some lady was in an accident or something and lost the outside of her vajayjay…they made her new lips from the lips on her face…i knew while i was watching the movie that i would become hooked on lifetime…

I remember that movie, but I rmember the transplant being the other way ’round, with some family member being all grossed out that skin from … those lips was now on her face.

Why me? (1984).

those lips was now on her face.

that’s what i meant! we giggled over the kind of facial hair she’d get…it was pretty gross…but intriguing…

ha! here’s a comment from imdb:

This movie hasn’t been shown since its release. It should! It is a great story of courage, triumph, hope, friendship, tragedy and love. Lifetime should definitely add this to its list of must see movies! You can’t go wrong watching this story! Glynnis and Armand are great in this! I was very moved when it originally aired in the early 80’s. It made an impact on my life that I will never forget. I always wonder how the characters are doing now. This movie showed that the nurse triumphed over what life dealt her in the tragic accident. If you can find this movie on tape/CD please get it. I will be waiting for its re-airing! I hope someone that can make that happen reads this!

Case: Are you in Wisconsin or Michigan?
Upper Peninsula.

What are the odds that there is a relevant NSFW link combining airplanes and women’s crotches?

Oh, that’s right. One hundred percent!

Heh. Lewis Black: “Socialism is enforced Christianity.”

http://press.org/events/npc-luncheon-lewis-black-comedian

LB starts at about 5:00 minute mark

If she’s big enough to handle a 777 then there’s absolutely nothing I could do for that woman.

If she’s big enough to handle a 777 then there’s absolutely nothing I could do for that woman.

You’re a pilot. There are lots of things you could do for her.

You’re a pilot. There are lots of things you could do for her.

you could start with teaching her how to spell ‘planes’…

her mother must be sooooo proud…

I don’t know if you can see this at all, but if you can, I think you’ll like it…

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her mother must be sooooo proud…

Her mother probably took that picture.

Lab grown nostrils, vaginas working well

So why did the vaginas get all the emphasis, huh? Kids without nostrils learned a life lesson: nobody gives a shit.

There’s a picture of a lab-grown meat nose. Fucking disgusting. At least the stories that made it all about test tube vaginas didn’t have pictures. I don’t need ’em, thank you very much.

it is virtually certain that some of the military would choose to secede with them

Helmet: Not sure I agree with this supposition. Could you amplify? Or use some illustrative example scenario?

it is virtually certain that some of the military would choose to secede with them

They would quickly find out that the military costs money, which would require taxes.

They would quickly find out that the military costs money, which would require taxes.

They will also be shocked to learn that their Medicare is no longer paid for.

and that includes Boston.

Wow. They must be awful drivers indeed. I’ve never seen any (US) drivers worse than Boston’s drivers. When I was going to college in western Mass, I kept my Kansas plates and car insurance, because insurance premiums in Mass were outrageously high. I only drove in Boston twice. After the second time, I vowed Never Again.

Boston’s Public Works department made the most incompetant, unsafe, and egregious mistake I’ve ever seen: They had two successive under-construction MERGE arrows pointed in the wrong direction. That’s right: Go ahead, you trusting imbecile drivers, yeah, go ahead and merge into the concrete jersey barriers on the blind fly-over ramp. Still gives me the creeps.

(((I think the Big Dig was partially intended to alleviate the labrythine insanty in the vicinity of the flyover the knuckleheads had incorrectly marked. Even if the Dig alleviates the problems from an transportation design and engineering standpoint, I imagine that will not much affect the craziness of Boston drivers.))

Cyclops: Yeah, I can get behind yer new nickname on the field … and new nym in Sadlyville. Plus it sounds scariier when ‘Cyclops’ write something stabby. And when Cyclops mocks the flocks [BOtB] of oatmeal-brained sheep, it will carry a mythological cachet.

sun flurries? wth?

So snow flurries with sun on them? Like sun showers in summer? I imagine it is pretty and sparkly. I’ve never seen such a thing. (Have seen a couple of snowstorms with great booming thunder and lightning.)

Like sun showers in summer?

yep…i’ve never seen it before…earlier this year we were in a blizzard warning and a tornado watch at the same time…it’s been a weird spring so far…i just hope summer lands on a saturday this year…

I’ve never seen any (US) drivers worse than Boston’s drivers

Boston drivers are aggressive to a fault but at least I know what they’re going to do.

Memphis drivers pull the most bizarre stunts seemingly at random. Half of them are going 90 and the other half are going 50.

I’ve seen every stupid maneuver up to and including someone coming at me opposite direction on an on-ramp (shudder).

I know I am a Badly, these days, seeing as how I have farm chores, crappy, spotty ‘tubes and Life In General happening, but… more cute cat & girl pixels.
.

a blizzard warning and a tornado watch at the same time…

I’ve heard of such combinations (never been in them). It’s easy enough to imagine though on the Northern Plains…with no topological windbreak against jetstreams bringing masses of Artic air sweeping down. The it colidest with a wetter, warmer air mass … and voila a violent weather front bearing bearing heavy snow accompanied by high winds; indeed, with such air turbulance that tornados might spawn.

(((That’s from my imagination only; I’m sure the Major–or other meteorologically-knowledgable Sadlies–can correct any errors.)))

it’s been a weird spring so far…

After an extremely strange winter, not just on the Northern Plains, but for much of the continent: the Plains … Great Lakes … Ohio Valley … Southern tier (e.g., AL, GA) … Mid-Atlantic (incl NY) … New England … North Pacific Coast … California [intense drought]

Climate Change, what is it?

just hope summer lands on a saturday this year…

Ha! I first heard that joke from a brother who went to Carleton

He met his wife there; they married at Carleton over the Xmas-NewYear holiday. Our family drove up from Lawrence. Southern Minn was locked in winter, but with well-plowed roads. A light snow began at twilight covering dirty, foot-printed snow, covering everything. Very lovely.

Thanks for the link, Pup. Lewis Black is in my personal pantheon of great social / political comedians.

My political views are aligned with his in many ways: I am also a Socialist. I, too, have scorn and contempt for the Republican and Democratic Parties. I have much of the same anger and rage in me … and against the prime targets of Lewis Black’s best over-the-top rants.

BBBB: Picking up on the heron question. No, I’m sure they were not ‘night-herons’, even though they fed at night.

They were very large birds, white or light gray. I don’t remember any crest. Patient and deadly waders; seldom struck without emerging with a fish. Slow and elegant fliers. I think the slow take-off and ascent contributes to their ‘skittishness’; it takes them a relatively long time to get aloft … so they must take-off earlier while the threat creature is still distant.
It took about three weeks before the birds became comfortable with me sitting still in “the usual place” and let me watch them. By the end of the summer, I had moved to a closer “usual place” with better lighting; and they–about 4 or 5–had become accustomed to my presence.

One night a bold bird stalked not ten feet from me. It eyed me carefully before and after its first strike, then concentrated on hunting for several minutes, with a only a prudent glance at me every now and again. The episode was one of the highlights of that summer on the Chesapeake.

I love the way herons fold their necks back in an S-shape (*) in flight, with the head positioned directly above the body That, and the slow sweep of their wings are absolutely majestic.

(*) A characteristic that differentiates herons from cranes: Herons fly with an S-shaped neck; cranes fly with the neck straight in front.

My work here is done.

Well, excerpt for alerting the night hawks–esp BBBB–that there will be a total eclipse of the moon tonight, with middle of totality at 3:46 AM Eastern, 12:46 Pacific. Think I’ll take a look on the balcony…..

I remember that movie, but I rmember the transplant being the other way ’round, with some family member being all grossed out that skin from … those lips was now on her face.

Makes kissing a whole lot more satisfying.

Well, excerpt for alerting the night hawks–esp BBBB–that there will be a total eclipse of the moon tonight, with middle of totality at 3:46 AM Eastern, 12:46 Pacific. Think I’ll take a look on the balcony…..

Got the alarm set for 2:57. We have our all-staff meeting tomorrow (my day off, natch) and I have to pick up a co-worker at the train station at 8:53AM. The meeting should only be four hours, but I imagine upper management will blow a lot of smoke. It’s cloudy, though- at this time, it’s feathery clouds, and the moon is visible. If visibility is nil, I’ll just roll over and go back to sleep.

When the astronomical terms ‘umbra’ and ‘penumbra’ are used, I have another association so strong it will never escape. ‘Umbra’ was the code-word for Top Secret Sigint intelligence; the code-word itself was classified. To even say it outside of a secure area was considered a security breach. So that word has a strange and powerful grip on me. My eyes still glitch on the word decades later.

(((The codewords ‘Umbra’ and ‘Spoke’ [Secret-level] were both revealed by Bamford in The Puzzle Palace.)))

Grrrr… It’s too overcast for moongazing now. Off to bed, alarm reset for 7am. Good gazing, Fenwick.

Grrrr… It’s too overcast for moongazing now. Off to bed, alarm reset for 7am. Good gazing, Fenwick.

Arrgh! Overcast here, too. And it’s at a reasonable hour, too – complete from 9:06-10:24. Maybe the clouds will clear up.

‘Umbra’ was the code-word for Top Secret Sigint intelligence; the code-word itself was classified.

I am still in the habit of saying TSC — the C short for “codeword” — rather than TSU

Smut: Yours is probably the better formulation. I was mainly trying to explain why my eyes glitch on the word … and to illustrate what a codeword is in the realm of classification.

BBBB & other night hawks: The moon wuz reel purdy in Albuquerque.

BBBB, VCarl, & diasppointed others. Not to worry: there will be another full lunar eclipse in 6 months … than another one on 15 April 2015.

I know I shouldn’t feed the troll, but do you even know how to work on a car Dennis?

Have you ever turned a wrench in your life?

Major, based on every post Pennis has ever shat out, I’m forced to conclude that he views reading for comprehension as a Communist plot.

5-Year-Old Accidentally Shoots 2 Children At S.C. Birthday Party

http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/accidental-shooting-5-year-old

We killed it on Saturday. In fact everyone killed it. One of the best shows in which I have been a participant. Pictures should be up on punkrocknight.com shortly, and as soon as I have access, videos will follow.

I was really looking forward to hooking up with one of my best friends, whom I have not seen in years, he calls round nine, connection is week….The next morning, I start looking into hospitals, police….Next thing I get an email. He got to his hotel, laid down for a 10 minute nap and woke at 3am. Phone was dead…

Hopefully a more entertaining breakdown will follow.

Bats: Right
Throws: Right
Arm: Weak
Running: I had wheels (once scored from first on a ball hit to third)

Fun thread to read guys!
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I am still in the habit of saying TSC — the C short for “codeword” — rather than TSU

I usually say TSOL, but I’m a man of a certain age.

I’d link, but I’m using my phone, hanging in a park, waiting on my friend’s train.

As an added bonus, I am watching a red-throated loon fishing- first one I’ve ever seen in this area. It must be mid-migration.

I bought a new car a little over a year ago.

It has now been hit and run three separate times.

Did Andrew Sullivan put an ad out for bug-chasers or am I thinking of some other horrible person?

I’ve never seen any (US) drivers worse than Boston’s drivers.

Many years ago, while visiting Boston, the hotel tv had a channel with tourist info. Among the historic and shopping information was a piece about how to drive in Boston. It started with a young lady in casual street attire donning driving gloves explaining how to deal with different situations you might encounter. After each explanation she would add, “my advice is to just close your eyes and go for it.” By the end of the segment she had not only put on her driving gloves, but was attired in a complete NASCAR style safety suit complete with helmet.

I usually say TSOL, but I’m a man of a certain age.

ME TOO

Grrrr… It’s too overcast for moongazing now. Off to bed, alarm reset for 7am. Good gazing, Fenwick.

hubbkf got some interesting pics of the blood moon last night…maeve had crawled up on the loveseat with me for a good snuggle and we fell asleep, so i missed it…

I usually say TSOL, but I’m a man of a certain age.

totall shit outta luck?

T.S.O.L. (True Sounds of Liberty) is a punk rock band formed in 1978 in Long Beach, California.[1] Although most commonly associated with hardcore punk, T.S.O.L.’s music varies on each release. They have also released music in the styles of deathrock, art punk, horror punk, and other varieties of punk music.

80s punk band. Not one of the better ones, but definitely an important one.

TSOL and The Vandals and DI were featured in a horrible movie called Suburbia, which was a sort of “required reading” type film for punkers in the 80s. I’m just going to pretend that any of this means more than jack fuckall

Yes I briefly dated a girl who insisted we watch Surburbia on her basement couch. Being more of a heavy metal guy I wasn’t very interested. There were other distractions as well, like thighs.

Yes I briefly dated a girl who insisted we watch Surburbia on her basement couch.

I think that’s where we all watched it! And yeah, no movie is watchable next to a pretty girl.

BBBB, VCarl, & diasppointed others. Not to worry: there will be another full lunar eclipse in 6 months …

I wound up being able to see it – some time around 10pm, I looked out and noticed the sky looked clear. There were still scudding clouds, but I was able to get an eyeful. Stuck around for the beginnings of the “reappearance.” Pretty cool, how very bright the normal moon was in contrast to the obscured bit.

And, yeah, if memory serves, October 7-8 for the next one.

hubbkf’s blood moon picture got posted on teh national weather service in aberdeen’s facebook page…how cool is that?!

hubbkf’s blood moon picture got posted on teh national weather service in aberdeen’s facebook page…how cool is that?!

Way cool.

hubbkf’s blood moon picture got posted on teh national weather service in aberdeen’s facebook page…how cool is that?!

Link? CAN I GET A FUCKING LINK????

Link? CAN I GET A FUCKING LINK????

Yeah. Give us link now.

Reading comprehension fail.

I received a call from some of the prayer breakfast organizers

JEEZ!!!

Failure Artist said,
April 14, 2014 at 15:25

I just want to say I hate the title of this post because it keeps putting that damn song in my head.

I heard that awful John Cougar Mellowclamp or whatever the fuck his name is song at the grocery store yesterday which I had, until then, mercifully forgotten all about. I was thinking of this one which is kind of fun.

That’s a fucking fantastic picture

Shared it on FB because holy shit.

I like that Mellencamp song.

My favorite True Sounds Of Libertarianism song is “Gummint Property Is Theft”. A real favorite of the Bundy gang too.

Cliven Bundy and Bundy Jr. sure do like them some word salad.

yeah, hubbkf is pretty much the shit, isn’t he? thanks for sharing wc!

Speaking of duct tape….

The 94 Buick Roadmaster
aka “The lead sled”
aka “Battlecar Galactica”
aka “Do you have to park that thing out front?”

made it to Memphis with no problems whatsoever.

It has now been hit and run three separate times.

This is why we can’t have nice things.

The 94 Buick Roadmaster
aka

The Bismarck!

The name Major Kong suits you, you even ride a big ol’ bomb.

Is it wrong to “like” your own picture?

Not when it looks like that!

Former car:

70/72 Nova
(70 Nova with a 72 nose clip, fenders and hood because my dad, a cop, bought the car from another cop whose daughter wrecked it like 4 times. After the first wreck, he pulled the 350 and put a 250 straight 6 in it–didn’t slow her down a bit)

aka: Smoke Shop
aka: Heavy Chevy

The poor car died after attempting to jump an elevated railroad crossing, breaking an A frame and tearing the exhaust manifold off the engine, taking a chunk of the block with it.

I’m ok though, don’t worry.

4-door, 4-speed, 4-cylinder Chevy Chevette. Got eight guys in it (brother’s army buddies), drove them fifty miles back to post for accountability formation. Dudes were stacked in the back seat like cordwood.

for a while we had a 1970 green buick lesabre that ALWAYS had muffler problems…we called it ‘le bamba’…many a good road trip in that vehicle…

64 Rambler wagon. Clapped out nine ways to Sunday. The throttle linkage was fucked up so it was binary – full throttle or nothing. The engine mounts were shot and all six cylinders put together had maybe 80 psi compression so from a stop I’d mash the pedal and the engine would just rock back and forth in the loose engine mounts for a while with the whole car shaking. Then, after a few seconds, it would slowly start to move. This was in northwest Pennsylvania. When we went to East Branch Dam some of the guys would have to get out and walk up some of the hills on the way back.

I cut the “Rambler” off and remounted the letters so it was a “mabel.” That car had a good heater.

Pennis you were right, those liberal racists just won’t stop tormenting Hank Aaron!

http://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/mlb/2014/04/14/jackie-robinson-day-mlb-hank-aaron-racism-still-exists/7723045/

Mom and dad had a ’59 Rambler. PINK (I shit you not. Cop driving this thing in about 1974). The floorboards in the back seat were rusted through, so my brother and I would watch the road go by under the car, drop whatever we could find through the holes to watch them bounce behind the car…

Boy, they sure don’t make them like they used to.

GOOD FUCKING THING, TOO.

Mom and dad had a ’59 Rambler. PINK

Pink was a fairly popular car color in the 1950s and wasn’t considered to be “girly”.

Two-tone paint schemes were big in the 50s and pink/black was a very popular combination.

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY I hope they blow up this one too!

http://www.kgw.com/news/Dead-whale-floats-onto-busy-Seaside-beach-255375221.html

You kids and your modern technology. The first family car I recall was an Austin 1951 A40. I looked up the picture on Google because I couldn’t remember the details, only that my Dad always called it “the Austin”.

Elvis had PINK Cadillacs.

Pink was a fairly popular car color in the 1950s and wasn’t considered to be “girly”.

Yeah, I don’t remember my dad being embarrassed about the color. The exhaust leaks, the squeaking and rattling and the rotten kids in the back seat dropping shit through the floor, though, I think was an embarrassment.

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY I hope they blow up this one too!

I hope they get the math all wrong and blow it all over the coast like before too!!!

Elvis had PINK Cadillacs.

There’s a story about a woman admiring one of Elvis’ Cadillacs while it was parked in front of a Memphis car dealership.

As the story goes: Elvis walked up to her, asked if she liked the car, and then bought her one just like it.

And in return she …?

People who met him have told me that Elvis (despite his other problems) was a very nice and generous person.

And in return she …?

screamed and threw her panties at him?

People who met him have told me that Elvis (despite his other problems) was a very nice and generous person.

i have always heard this too…i am not ashamed to admit that in the trophy/award room at graceland, i got goosebumps and bawled my eyes out at what an awesome giver he was…

OH BOY OH BOY OH BOY I hope they blow up this one too!

I hope they get the math all wrong and blow it all over the coast like before too!!!

this here’s the only thing that could make that scenario even more awesome…

And in return she …?

Bought his records, which was how he got rich in the first place.

Pup: I liked the link.

I don’t think there are any Russians
And there ain’t no Yanks
Just corporate criminals
playin’ with tanks

Curse you, bbkf! You link to a 6-second clip of Farm Report … and I wander around SCTV clips for the next hour. (Also, hubbkf’s photo was excellent. And there’s another nifty thing about rural areas: Almost no light pollution; spectacular night skies.)

Battlecar Galactica.

This one sounds by far the best to me, considering your history.

but I’m a man of a certain age.

And of a highly-unusual military occupation, formerly with access to Omigosh nuclear weapons codewords.

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Provider: Looking forward to audio, video, stills–and most of all–narrative of the gig and prep. I’ve thought about it off and on for the last three weeks (your post about bass and drums locking in, and your callus build-up).

While browsing SCTV, I found Famous Philosopher’s School a minute-long solo bit by Harold Ramis.

Smut Clyde, ref 10:52. Can you expand a bit on the environment you were / are in?

So at rehearsal last night at the drummer’s place, we were between songs when there was a knock on the door. Oh shit, we said, the neighbors are pissed. And not the good, British kind of pissed either.

So we opened the door reluctantly, to find two neighbor women on the porch who wanted to know when our next show was. We all had a very nice chat and they promised to show up. That’s a first for me.

Not only that but today they threatened to show up at our next practice and drink and dance on the lawn.

I’m postiively basking.

Can you expand a bit on the environment you were / are in?

It was a while ago. Let’s just say that there were few job opportunities so well-suited my particular skill combination in group theory, low-level programming, and a working knowledge of which language models to apply to the intercept linguistics.
I have a vague impression that Pupienus might have some tales to tell if you buy him enough beer.

http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/Perception_And_Reality

So we opened the door reluctantly, to find two neighbor women on the porch who wanted to know when our next show was. We all had a very nice chat and they promised to show up. That’s a first for me.

Awesome, dude!

Had a similar experience meself. The last band I was in had just finished a song we coughed up on the spot when there was a knock on the door. Turns out that a dj from the local college station had listened to the last couple of minutes of the tune and wanted to request a recording…I just laughed while at the same time flattered, explained that we had all heard that particular tune for the first time simultaneously, but that we would get in touch should we ever make it to the studio.

Fenwick, a still for you until I get the rest. This was taken by my friend in town from Dayton and pressed into service as a “roadie” and “videographer.” Having extensive experience in stage craft made him a natural, but that was not why I invited him.

Anyhoo, I am the cat on the left hand side of the stage, the guy in the middle is the Drummer Laureate that I gush about (at one point I catch him out of the corner of my eye climbing atop the floor tom and playing from there.) Yeah I need to do a proper write-up of the situation. The guy on the right with the Les Paul is fucking crazy…but he can throw down. We were the only trio on the bill, the other three bands were 5 pieces…We were not overpowered.

Oh and for the first time in my entire life (of playing the bass guitar, so 25 -28 years) I broke a fucking string. The E string, my bread and fucking butter. And as I was freaking out for about 3 seconds figuring out where the fuck I was gonna play the rest of the song, I was pleased to discover that the song ended on A and was over. Grabbed the back up and with minimal delay we were out of the gates with song number two.

Also, too, punkrocknight.com should have some pictures up soon.

…

Cillizza wrote the following day, arguing that the guts of the matter are secondary to how people perceive the law. “My job is to assess not the rightness of each argument but to deal in the real world of campaign politics in which perception often (if not always) trumps reality. I deal in the world as voters believe it is, not as I (or anyone else) thinks it should be. And, I’m far from the only one.”

wow…

ugh…it is freaking snowing AGAIN…the last two *major* weather events we were supposed to have fizzled out because i had nothing to do those two days…today the daughter has her annual meeting 45 miles away and we also are invited to her boyfriend’s birthday party tonight (meeting his foster parents for the first time) and it is snowing like a bitch…supposed to start blowing also, too…i mean, really?!

PENIS

Oregon Beer Snob said,

April 16, 2014 at 18:35

ha! that made me laff a li’l bit…sounds like our meeting might get called off 🙁

Also, too: non-PENIS comic: EASTER.

EASTER

So they’re nice people in the hallways. In America’s living rooms, which is where it matters, they’re hateful and hurful excess human baggage. Pieces of shit.

Yeah, that works with regular people.

It doesn’t work with people who are paid to lie.

So we opened the door reluctantly, to find two neighbor women on the porch who wanted to know when our next show was. We all had a very nice chat and they promised to show up. That’s a first for me.

If there was ever a sincere good review of a band, this is it right here. WELL DONE, BRO.

Cillizza wrote the following day, arguing that the guts of the matter are secondary to how people perceive the law.

There it is, people. 21st Century journalism. propaganda campaigns.

There it is, people. 21st Century journalism. propaganda campaigns.

Yay, journamalism!

Putting aside the philosophical modifiers of omission and nuance and setting up a piece to be perceived in a specific manner, it should still be the mission of a journalist to report FACTS. Not the perception of facts. Perception of the facts could be a fact that is reported in a journalistic piece, but that piece should dispel incorrect perception if the facts don’t back up the perception. Something tells me Cillizza knows this, and accidently let the not-for-public-consumption mission statement out of the bag.

he’s reporting facts – the fact of people’s perception. Which has been shaped largely by earlier reporting of perception of factual perceptions. Which in turn. … Rinse and repeat.

Been busy elsewhere on the Intertoobz talking to someone claiming to be a Catholic theologian. Cizilla’s arguments sound similar. They can justify anything with a special aptitude for glossing over contradictions and avoiding direct answers to uncomfortable questions.

They can justify anything with a special aptitude for glossing over contradictions and avoiding direct answers to uncomfortable questions.

It’s the conservative hive-ass… they can pull any sort of crap out of it to flog their positions.

I was in the mood for some really good schadenfreude, so I checked out Freeperville. The Freepers are in a tizzy about Glenn Beck’s statements about the Bundy ranch standoff. I think his grift is just about over.

Suck on that, Porno Pete Labarbera.

http://www.salon.com/2014/04/16/“you’re_leaving_are_you_effing_kidding”_an_anti_gay_bigot_gets_humiliated/

Pupienus said,
April 16, 2014 at 18:51
EASTER

What’s this about putting the Oestrus back into Easter?

Suck on that, Porno Pete Labarbera.

http://globalnews.ca/news/1271048/anti-gay-activist-peter-labarbera-arrested-in-regina/

http://globalnews.ca/news/1271048/anti-gay-activist-peter-labarbera-arrested-in-regina/

PERSECUTION!

We’re putting Osiris back in Easter? Well, a god chiefly of regeneration and rebirth would seem to fit into the narrative.

What’s this about putting the Oestrus back into Easter?

If she got rid of a botfly I would never recommend putting it back. They’re NASTY.

Nothing is happening and nobody knows what it is.

http://cdn.memegenerator.net/instances/250×250/43055531.jpg

If she got rid of a botfly I would never recommend putting it back. They’re NASTY.

It all depends on how they’re programmed.

http://files.abovetopsecret.com/files/img/bs511d5131.jpg

And in today’s minster rapist news, http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2014/04/16/minnesota-minister-told-girls-that-gods-word-made-raping-them-normal/

I should remind myself to type minister-rapist or something similar in future to allay fears that I have become a D-KW like vengeance machine. Or something.

Rapist minister to blame gays, secularists, moral equivalence and OBAMA HUSSEIN BENGAWZI in 4…3….2….

I should remind myself to type minister-rapist or something similar in future to allay fears that I have become a D-KW like vengeance machine. Or something.

iswydth…

Vengeance machine has a nice sound to it actually.

Vengeance machine has a nice sound to it actually.

Until it kills wedding parties.

The Freepers are in a tizzy about Glenn Beck’s statements about the Bundy ranch standoff. I think his grift is just about over.

Lynx please? I never wander into the swamp, so I don’t know how to navigate to the bestest mangoes. Plus I’m a Luddite who is easily confused. Thanx much.

I don ‘t link to Free Republic- I even feel dirty checking it out.

New post!

Heard you all liked shorters, so I bought the triple pack.