Month: March 2012

Adrastos, Film, Religion, Web/Tech4 Comments

Hacked Off Vatican

Peter Adrastos Athas

The Italian branch of Anonymous has put the Vatican web site in limbo or is that purgatory? In short, they’ve gone didatic on the papal ass. What that means beats the hell outta me but it sounds good: In a statement on its Italian-language website, the collective accused the Catholic Church of being responsible for a long list of misdeeds throughout history, including the selling of indulgences in the 16th century and burning heretics during the Inquisition. “Anonymous decided today to besiege your site in response to the doctrine, to the liturgies, to the absurd and anachronistic concepts that your … Continue reading Hacked Off Vatican

Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T13 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – SCOTUS live thread edition

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OK, everyone – you knew this was coming, so suit up.

BioHazardSuits

AirlockDoor
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Let the games begin!

Affordable Care Act SCOTUS Decision–Live Thread
SCOTUSblog ^ | June 28, 2012 | SCOTUSblog

Posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 6:56:21 AM by John W

To: John W

In before the ouster of communism…

4 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:00:17 AM by IrishPennant (Are you behind a “Blade of Grass?”)
Вы бы хотели некоторые соли для вашей раны , comrade twatwaffle?

To: John W

I wanna see Obagumby break down in tears today.

5 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:00:56 AM by nhoward14

ObamaLauging
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To:John W

Man I hope this dies – I don’t think I can stand hearing the term “ObamaCare” the rest of my life.

6 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:01:19 AM by mike_9958

Which is what this is all about, of course – let your family and friends fall by the wayside, just as long as you don’t have to hear the O-word for the rest of your life.

To: All

Watch how the stock market reacts too. This will have a major economic impact.

81 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 7:47:02 AM by OrangeHoof (Our economy won’t heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)

Yeah –20 whole points down at the end of the day Thursday.
I’ve seen bigger hits to the Dow when Bernake wears his tie crooked.
Maybe a delayed reaction? Hasn’t had time to sink in yet?
Nope – Dow closed at 277.83 up at the end of Friday.
Can’t you morons get anything right?

To: OneVike

My prediction is 8 to 1 to throw the whole thing out… the senile old bag will be the only dissention..

This thing is just soooooo blantantly unconstitutional, even the damn libs should be able to see it

95 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:06:37 AM by joe fonebone (I am the 15%)

Forget I asked.

To: unixfox
This along with the Holder contempt vote today. Could be a bad day for the commie/marxists.

I can’t wait to taste the tears of their sorrow!

109 posted on Thursday, June 28, 2012 8:20:51 AM by freebird5850 (Just don’t have a tagline today. This administration makes me quite sad.)

Paging Scott Tennorman!
Please report to below the jump…

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Athenae, So Called Liberal Media3 Comments

Blogger Ethics Panels! Gatekeeping!

Allison Hantschel

How will we know who’s really writing the stories with all those anonymous people on the Internet commenting under names like DoTheDougie36? Journatic CEO Brian Timpone says fake bylines were often used for the company’s Blockshopper.com real estate stories, and clients — including the Chicago Tribune — asked to run those pieces on their hyperlocal sites. Journatic said that was okay, but never removed — or apparently told clients about — the made-up bylines. “It was an oversight on our part — we should have addressed that,” Timpone tells the Chicago Tribune’s Robert Channick. I swear to God, nothing ever … Continue reading Blogger Ethics Panels! Gatekeeping!

Athenae, Political Crack6 Comments

Newt Hates Everybody

Jesus, was he pissed last night. Santorum actually gave an animated, charismatic speech (in which nearly everything was patriarchal, insulting or just plain weird, like let your 93-year-old mom sit DOWN, for fuck’s sake), and Romney managed to not invoke the ghost of the King of Lichtenstein or whatever the hell his problem with Europe is, but by far the most hateful of the whole night was Newt.I mean: And June and July were really hard, and it was precisely because the national elite — especially in the Republican Party — had decided that a Gingrich presidency was so frightening … Continue reading Newt Hates Everybody

Athenae, Geek Cred, Television4 Comments

Be Grateful You Weren’t Facing The Other Way: The Newsroom Thread

Allison Hantschel

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First of all, I have to talk about this, because I spent the first part of last week being actually really upset and ill about it:

“Listen here, Internet girl,” he says, getting up. “It wouldn’t kill you to watch a film or pick up a newspaper once in a while.” I’m not sure how he’s forgotten that I am writing for a newspaper; looking over the publicist’s shoulder, I see that every reporter is from a print publication (do not see: Drew Magary). I remind him. I say also, factually, “I have a New York Timessubscription and an HBO subscription. Any other advice?”

He looks surprised, then high-fives me. Being not a person who high-fives or generally makes physical contact with interview subjects, I look more surprised.

“I’m sick of girls who don’t know how to high-five,” he says. He makes me try to do it “properly,” six times. He also makes me laugh; I’m nervous, and it’s so absurd. He loves it. He says, “Let me manhandle you.” Then he ambles off, hoping I’ll write something nice, as though he has never known how the news works, how many stories can be true.

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Adrastos, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks5 Comments

Fluke you, Rush

Peter Adrastos Athas

I rarely, if ever, write about Rush Limbaugh. He’s just not that interesting to me andearlier today the Queen Bee of First Draftnailed the misogynistic fuck to the wall. I am, however, enjoying the latest controversy because it looks as if Rushbo has finally gone too far even for some Republicans. If calling a law student a slut and a prostitute polls badly, Mitt Romney may even mildly criticize the GOP’s barrage buffoon. Of course, as an elder of a deeply misogynistic church, that’s unlikely… A few things about this mess have tickled my fancy. Rush’s suggestion that Ms. Fluke … Continue reading Fluke you, Rush

Athenae, Immoral Values, So Called Liberal Media4 Comments

Our Utter Capriciousness MEANS SOMETHING DAMMIT

Learned People discuss how Twitter and Facebook made it okay to say that Rush Limbaugh was arepehensible fuckstick: Jeremy Stahl: I disagree. Jack Shafer had a greattweet on this over the weekend: “Is this Limbaugh’s Imus moment? His enemies leveraging public opinion to send him into exile for what he’s done in the open for decades?” Had Rush said the same exact thing as Imus pre-social media, he would have been fine. One could argue that he has said the equivalent or worse to what he said about Fluke for years and hasn’t suffered any consequences until now. Twitter and … Continue reading Our Utter Capriciousness MEANS SOMETHING DAMMIT

Athenae, On Wisconsin, So Called Liberal Media5 Comments

Doing Our Job is HARD MOM

The Wisconsin State Journal doesn’t WANNA GO TO SCHOOL and you’re being SO MEAN MAKING US and one of these days OUR REAL MOM WHO’S A PRINCESS WILL COME AND TAKE US AWAY FROM HERE andTHEN YOU’LL BE SORRY: Now that Gov. Scott Walker has said he won’t challenge the estimated 1 million signatures filed against him, let’s move to a recall election as soon as possible. The threat of an unprecedented recall attempt against Wisconsin’s governor has loomed long enough. It has complicated the state’s already mangled politics and made it difficult to get even small things done at … Continue reading Doing Our Job is HARD MOM

Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T10 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Assassins and Freepers and Sluts – Oh My! Edition

Well, gentle people – I had planned to beg off this week and take a break, as long as there were no Breaking News developments in Freeperville.

Am I stupid, or what?

Let’s jump right in.

Before we get to the paramoid ravings of Freeperdom about gangs of Obama hit squads roaming the coutryside to shoot frozen virus darts into fringe right-wing commentators, we need to address something else first – misogyny.

Right-wing nutworld has always been a stronghold of misogyny, and I wasn’t particularly surprised when a right-wing nutjob(whose previous claim to fame was getting caught with non-prescribed Viagra on his way back from the Dominican republic) got all “sluts-R-us” on an uppity female who dared to speak up for contraception as a part of healthcare. Didn’t surprise me a bit.

This, however, did :

Obama phones woman called ‘slut’ by Limbaugh
Politico ^ | 3/2/12 | JENNIFER EPSTEIN

Posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:39:13 PM byColdOne

The young woman who was called a “slut” by Rush Limbaugh got a call Friday from President Obama who voiced support for her pro-birth control advocacy.

“He encouraged me and supported me and thanked me for speaking out about the concerns of American women,” Georgetown law student Sandra Fluke said on MSNBC’s “Andrea Mitchell Reports.” She got the call from Obama while in a green room waiting to appear on the show.

“What was really personal for me was that he said to tell my parents that they should be proud and that meant a lot because Rush Limbaugh questioned whether or not my family would be proud of me,” Fluke said. “So I just appreciated that very much.”

Soon after she appeared on TV, Fluke also thanked Obama on her Twitter account. “Thank you @BARACKOBAMA for your call and words of support. It means so much to me and millions of women! #WeWillNotBeSilenced,” she wrote.

1 posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:39:19 PM byColdOne
Now, as the good ole boys like to say: “The difference between a whore and a slut is that a whore will fuck everyone, and a slut will fuck everyonebut you“, so there’s a lot of this :

To: ColdOne

If she’s still having issues getting contraception, she should try oral sex. It’s proven to make teeth whiter.

7 posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:42:56 PM byInsidiousMongo
To: ColdOne

Looking for some, I guress. Georgetown women are apparently easy.

5 posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:42:35 PM bytbpiper
To: ColdOne

Just Obama trying to distract us momentarily from the fact it was probably his agents who murdered Andrew Breitbart.

4 posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:42:22 PM bymuawiyah
Hey! I said we’d get to younutcases a little later. End of the line!

To: Kartographer

After Michelle found out about the call she told the Zero “You called that slut? I’m going to cut your nuts off!”.

8 posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:43:59 PM byImJustAnotherOkie (zerogottago)
To: ImJustAnotherOkie
I’m wondering the same.

Michelle: BARACK! You called that white ho?

18 posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:48:35 PM byEnterprise (“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” Voltaire)
And then there’s this :

To: ILS21R
She’ll probably move to San Fran and go for Pelosi’s seat…er chair.

Pull Fluke from her chair and it will make a suction sound.

13 posted on Friday, March 02, 2012 1:46:48 PM bydragonblustar (Allah Ain’t So Akbar!)

Now I thought I was pretty hardened to this kind of thing, but apparently I’m not.
I should be able to laugh this thing off as the normal hatred of women from this crew(Yes, I know they claim to love women, but they really despise them and fear them), but this time I’m all out of ha-has.
I don’t know if it stems from fear of their mothers as children, or just their inability to get laid, or their troglydytic longing for women to shut up and spread their legs while the hunter-gatherers go out and stalk mammoths, or what, but this takes the putrid and decaying cake.
Suction cups.
I can picture them as kids dying to find out what’s down there, and then (after a session of “I’ll show you mine if you show me yours”) horrified at the sight of where-somebody-surely-must-have-hacked-something-off-and-left-a-hole.
Suction cups.
This is what it comes down to.
Breitbart assassins and so much more after the jump. I need to hit the bleach showers, and then I’ll be right there…

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Adrastos, Sports12 Comments

Stupid and Reprehensible

Peter Adrastos Athas

Last week I wasproud to be a New Orleanian. This week not so much after the revelation of theSaints’ “bounty” scandal. Football is a violent enough sport without players deliberately trying to hurt someone. Unfortunately, some Saints fans are already resorting to the lame “everyone does it” defense. That reminds me of Tricky Dick’s apologists during Watergate. The Picayune’s Jeff Duncan sums the whole sordid mess up quite well: In the wake of Hurricane Katrina, the Saints had become America’s Team. Everyone universally loved the story of their post-storm chumps-to-champs makeover. So much for that. The Saints will now rank … Continue reading Stupid and Reprehensible

Uncategorized13 Comments

Weekend Question Thread

You’re magically made president of the United States. What’s the first thing you do? Realistically I would order whatever critter is the Attorney General to prepare indictments of everyone involved in planning the Iraq War, but first I’d really like to issue an executive order to force everyone on the planet to make their house numbers be visible from the street. Be, like, ten feet high in neon, actually. I spend half my life driving around in the fucking dark trying to figure out if X is the house I want or if somebody in there is going to call … Continue reading Weekend Question Thread

Diary, Doc

Brain droppings

On the road for another media convention. Here are the random bits and bites that have given me pause over the past couple days: – With my brain clearly on autopilot, I managed to forget to pull my laptop out of my bag, thus setting off the “you are clearly a terrorist” red light on the scanner. Totally my fault, but then the guy did the special “wipe” thing on my laptop, which somehow came back positive for something dangerous. Given the current condition of my computer, it sure as heck wasn’t a cleaning supply chemical that set it off. … Continue reading Brain droppings

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Friday Catblogging

I was messing around with an old Canon point and shoot, shutter speed and lights when lines started running through the display so I switched to video. Willie B stuck his face in for a few moments. Only 45 seconds long WARNING:There is a period of flashing in the middle which may bother someone susceptible to strobing effect…Just saying. Continue reading Friday Catblogging

Athenae, Diary3 Comments

Friday Ferretblogging

I bought this ugly yellow coat last year, because it was warm and on sale, and during last year’s brutal winter it was more important to be warm than to look good. Jude saw me in it at one point and said, “You have murdered Big Bird and taken his powers.” In the fake-fur hood, I can’t see a thing and I look like a stuffed animal. Or a particularly successful Muppet-hunter. The one cold day we had this week I hauled it out and left it hanging on the back of the dining room chair, and this morning I … Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging

Michael F7 Comments

The Dispensing of “Limited Government”

FromAlbum4 Shorter Brion McClanahan (Warning, Daily Caller link): You can exchange your clean urine for Victory Cheese as soon as we remove the transvaginal probe…you slut. In a comment a week or so ago, I said you can have a government that does things for you, or a government that does things TO you. I think we know where Brion stands. That said, maybe the surest way to not go down that path is…tell Brion to work out somereal numbers and put forth an actual plan. I bet he’s far too lazy. Continue reading The Dispensing of “Limited Government”