This is a rare thematic PFT post featuring books by 2, count ’em 2, well known genre writers. I’ve read both Dick and Gardner but neither of these books. I will, however, keep my eyes peeled for them: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Eyes Have It
Wow. Ordinarily the Summer Olympics do nothing for me. The attention on gymnastics has always bordered on creepy for me, and nothing else really grabs me as much as ice hockey and skating do, but I’m gonna be trying to find Nur Suryani’s event and watch it, because what a badass. A. Continue reading Fuck Yeah Olympians!
I know, I feel gross about it, but: TV news — and especially local TV news — is dominated by news of violent crime, the more spectacular and murderous the better. TV news creates a false picture of a country under attack by rampaging criminals, and especially nonwhite criminals. The people who watch the most TV news, Americans older than 50, also happen to be the group most likely to own a gun. Only one-fifth of young Americans own a gun; one-third of over-50 Americans do.Republicans are twice as likely to own a gun as Democrats. Maybe not so coincidentally, … Continue reading In Which I Agree with David Frum
This is a rare thematic PFT post featuring books by 2, count ’em 2, well known genre writers. I’ve read both Dick and Gardner but neither of these books. I will, however, keep my eyes peeled for them: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: The Eyes Have It
Wow. Ordinarily the Summer Olympics do nothing for me. The attention on gymnastics has always bordered on creepy for me, and nothing else really grabs me as much as ice hockey and skating do, but I’m gonna be trying to find Nur Suryani’s event and watch it, because what a badass. A. Continue reading Fuck Yeah Olympians!
FromAlbum4 SoMitt’s in full walkback/denial mode as to his adviser’s cloddishphrasing… But aside from the piss-poor choice of words — dog whistle, even for wingnuts, calls for a bit more tact — was anyone really surprised? Clift, not my favorite writer, gets it right this time — there’s been a sustained and ongoing effort to paint Obama as less-than-American…and, to paraphrase another not favorite writer, only a fool — or a pundit — would fail to see what’s so “other” about the president. And you can bet if it had gotten some positive traction they’d be shouting Anglo-Saxon from the … Continue reading Gaffe – n. – When You Accidentally Say What You Think
When Obama visited Europe prior to his election, it was a sign that he was secretly French and wanted to draw America naked and then not call Her the next day. Romney’s visit to Europe, on the other hand, I mean, what the sweet-and-sour CHRIST, here: As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America’s enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that he would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London. In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was … Continue reading Mitt Romney’s Saxon Alliance Will Kick Some Norman ASS!
Good morning, everybody – looks like True Blue Liberty and Jim Rob are still exchanging shots across each others’ bows.
From the TBL thread about JR’s “If you get caught with that other website, I’m divorcing you” thread:
JR getting ready to zot rogue yam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905011/posts?page=478#478
JR pinging the coven to a post saying they need someone to replace Romney. (Holy crap the loons REALLY think Sarah will save them?Or they think eternal vigilence will?) They REALLY want Obama re elected!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2905011/replies?c=443
Wolfcreek on the way out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2905011/replies?c=335
I don’t see TOL there dancing the sick zot so JR is just play acting drama to get more money.
9% begathon goal met.
JIM JUST POSTED!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905136/posts
That is some pure crazy right there.
Agreed. So what are ya gonna do about it?
Jim Robinson to me: “You’re headed for a ZOT”
Me: “Zot This, Fool!”
I was a bit too embarrassed to share this in my other thread. But I will. Robinson leaves his phone number at the bottom of the screen on the Home Page there.I made the mistake of calling him and asking him why I was banned. Lets just say getting fired from my first radio job back when I was 18 years old was a more pleasant conversation. He yelled at me. Insulted me. I couldn’t understand some of what he said. He never answered my question. He called me “Mr Young Conservative”. Told me that I was banned and to never come back and then screamed good bye !
.
Once JR realized Saint Sarah bowed out of running, after she took fools like him on a merry ride, he picks statist New World Order Newt as worthy of dropping all those so called principles he claims he had for.
Why? Cause Sarah voted for Newt.
If conservatives on his websire thought he had gone batshit crazy, they were right. He should have gotten behind the only one left that shared his socon beliefs and helped push him over the finish line against Romney.
But he didn’t. The voters did not want New World Order Newt in spite of the love affair he and his harpychicks tried to foment. You see, it wasn’t JR and his chicks that were wrong, it was all the voters in all the states except GA and SC.
Oh really? I have to think that his intentions were really screwed up. And for that, he deserves a failed Griftathon. He can feed the kool aid to the dumbos that still are fool enough to attach their lips to his behind. Hope thay have a lot of cash.
Well, Freeperville was down for over 14 hours Wed-Thu, so whatever they’re spending those bucks on, it ain’t servers.
Ha ha. Seems like ol’ Jimbo’s paltry beg-a-thon results are driving him f***ing batshit. (Even more than usual)
The following is his latest foaming-at-the-mouth rant from the following thread:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2904755/posts?page=534#534
A little “strawman action” going on here? WOO HOO!
“Well, the freaking true blue blind batshit RINOs foisted this abortionist/homosexualist statist bastard on us over our objections and in spite of our warnings that we’d never support this lying fraud. Romney is a bald-faced liar and total fraud. Always has been. Always will be. An abortionist/homosexualist liberal judge appointing, gun-grabbing big government pushing, mandate-loving, liberty-killing, big government Keynesian, progressive statist bastard!!
Never will I grant my consent to be lorded over by a statist RINO creep!!
Those of you who elevated this piece of human excrement despite our protestations can now get him elected. You trampled, attacked, bashed and trashed us and our conservative candidates during the primaries and now you dare whine and cry to us when you think you need us? Even while continuing to attack, bash and trash us?
A pox on RINOs and all liberty hating abortionist/homosexualist statists!!
534 posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:31:17 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
Which begs the question:
He said the same thing about Newt Gingrich. I cannot stand when he puts a ‘pox’ on people. Then all of his old lady harpies will parrot him.WTF does put a pox on someone, exactly mean? A curse? Isn’t that anti-Christian? That does not match his anti abortion, anti homos, pro God, mantra.
I ask this question in all seriousness…
If it possible this guy is just losing it mentally? Dementia? Worse?
When I had to stay in a nursing home for awhile there were a few older people who were mean and critical of others for no reason what so ever. The nurse had to warn me about it the first day and I just tried to stay away from them !
This next one is rather prescient, considering that it comes from a former Freeper:
Jim Robinson had to spend two months begging and pleading and whining to his own followers in order to meet his last (reduced) Begathon goal but that same site “almost by itself” could overturn the will of millions of voters in primary elections?
In psychiatry, such an irrational though process is called “Magical Thinking” and it is a symptom of patients with schizotypal personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorders.
Roses are red, violets are blue;
I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.
Back to Freeperville after the leap of faith..
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “More meta than meta” edition”
I grew up during the Cold War. It seemed to be insoluble but it got solved in the late 1980’s and early 1990’s. Yay, team Velvet Revolution. The Soviet Union went out of business but somebody forgot to tellMitt and the bunch because they keep referring to that non-existent country: …longtime Republican diplomat Rich Williamson, a Romney adviser, speaking at the Brookings Institution Wednesday. Williamson was condemning the Obama approach to Syria. He called the country “strategically important to the Soviet Union.” <snip> It’s true that modern-day Russia is an ally of Syria — and has been accused of standing … Continue reading Cold War Nostalgia
Accused mass murderer James Holmes remains in the news; especially because he looked so wild eyed and out of it in his court appearance.There’s a bit of hysteria on the internets that he might get off with an insanity defense. Not bloody likely: there’s big difference between crazy and legally crazy. Holmes may well be insane BUT this carefully planned murder scheme as well as the booby trapped apartment means that he is NOT legally crazy. I hope that some of the folks who are freaking out about this will take a deep breath and relax. Holmes is more likely … Continue reading Not legally crazy
This item about the complete lack of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania reminded me of a conversation I had recently. I’m taking a beginning Spanish class offered by the wonderful Tennessee Foreign Languages Institute. I should clarify: it’s a very beginning Spanish class, as in, the most rudimentary basics. For instance, did you know that both the adjectives and the nouns have to agree in regards to gender and singular or plural? Like, there’s a masculine and feminine “blue”? That’s so weird to me. But I digress. Our Spanish teacher is a very nice older lady from Chile who has … Continue reading Voter Fraud Nonsense
I know, I feel gross about it, but: TV news — and especially local TV news — isdominated by news of violent crime, the more spectacular and murderous the better. TV news creates a false picture of a country under attack by rampaging criminals, and especially nonwhite criminals. The people who watch the most TV news, Americans older than 50, also happen to be the group most likely to own a gun. Only one-fifth of young Americans own a gun; one-third of over-50 Americans do.Republicans are twice as likely to own a gun as Democrats. Maybe not so coincidentally, Republicans … Continue reading In Which I Agree with David Frum
When Obamavisited Europe prior to his election, it was a sign that he was secretly French and wanted to draw America naked and then not call Her the next day. Romney’s visit to Europe, on the other hand, I mean, what the sweet-and-sour CHRIST, here: As the Republican presidential challenger accused Barack Obama of appeasing America’s enemies in his first foreign policy speech of the US general election campaign, advisers told The Daily Telegraph that he would abandon Mr Obama’s “Left-wing” coolness towards London. In remarks that may prompt accusations of racial insensitivity, one suggested that Mr Romney was better … Continue reading Mitt Romney’s Saxon Alliance Will Kick Some Norman ASS!
Accused mass murderer James Holmes remains in the news; especially because he looked so wild eyed and out of it in his court appearance.There’s a bit of hysteria on the internets that he might get off with an insanity defense. Not bloody likely: there’s big difference between crazy and legally crazy. Holmes may well be insane BUT this carefully planned murder scheme as well as the booby trapped apartment means that he is NOT legally crazy. I hope that some of the folks who are freaking out about this will take a deep breath and relax. Holmes is more likely … Continue reading Not legally crazy
This item about the complete lack of in-person voter fraud in Pennsylvania reminded me of a conversation I had recently. I’m taking a beginning Spanish class offered by the wonderful Tennessee Foreign Languages Institute. I should clarify: it’s avery beginning Spanish class, as in, the most rudimentary basics. For instance, did you know that both the adjectives and the nouns have to agree in regards to gender and singular or plural? Like, there’s a masculine and feminine “blue”? That’s so weird to me. But I digress. Our Spanish teacher is a very nice older lady from Chile who has told … Continue reading Voter Fraud Nonsense
This is a 100-round magazine for 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition. You do not need that. No one outside of an infantry engagement needs that. That is all.* *Cue gun fetishists telling me that I don’t know what I’m talking about, others accusing me of wanting the eeevil gub’mint to enslave us all, others saying that I’m a traitor to the Constitution, and still others rationalizing that this maniac would have murdered a dozen people with Matchbox cars if he hadn’t had 100 rounds of .223 Remington ammo at his disposal. Yes, I’ve been down this road before. Continue reading Just A Thought
Frequent commenter outrage_broken’s friend was killed in the Aurora shootings.This is a donation site to assist the two little girls she left behind. I know you all know what to do. A. Continue reading A Way To Help
So Journatic’s content service plagiarized and slapped other people’s names on overseas freelancers’ stories, but the Chicago Tribune is here to help: The Chicago Tribune has decided to keep using Journatic LLC, despite recent revelations about the way the local news provider has done business, the paper announced in a story and in a memo to staff. Journatic came under fire most recently when it was disclosed it had used fake bylines on more than 350 stories published on behalf of the Houston Chronicle. “The Chicago Tribune will try to help Journatic improve its practices,” reads the Tribune story. It … Continue reading How News Gets Broken
Frequent commenteroutrage_broken’s friend was killed in the Aurora shootings.This is a donation site to assist the two little girls she left behind. I know you all know what to do. A. Continue reading A Way To Help
Do you have a nickname? Other than your screen name, that is? A couple of people have tried to call me Alli over the years, or Al. It doesn’t really take. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
So Journatic’s content service plagiarized and slapped other people’s names on overseas freelancers’ stories, butthe Chicago Tribune is here to help: The Chicago Tribune has decided to keep using Journatic LLC, despite recent revelations about the way the local news provider has done business, the paperannounced in a story and in a memo to staff. Journatic came under fire most recently when it was disclosedit had used fake bylines on more than 350 stories published on behalf of the Houston Chronicle. “The Chicago Tribune will try to help Journatic improve its practices,” reads the Tribune story. It continues: “On Friday, … Continue reading How News Gets Broken
Good morning, everybody – looks like True Blue Liberty and Jim Rob are still exchanging shots across each others’ bows.
From the TBL thread about JR’s“If you get caught with that other website, I’m divorcing you” thread:
JR getting ready to zot rogue yam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905011/posts?page=478#478
JR pinging the coven to a post saying they need someone to replace Romney. (Holy crap the loons REALLY think Sarah will save them?Or they think eternal vigilence will?) They REALLY want Obama re elected!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2905011/replies?c=443
Wolfcreek on the way out
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2905011/replies?c=335
I don’t see TOL there dancing the sick zot so JR is just play acting drama to get more money.
9% begathon goal met.
JIM JUST POSTED!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2905136/posts
That is some pure crazy right there.
Agreed. So what are ya gonna do about it?
Jim Robinson to me: “You’re headed for a ZOT”
Me: “Zot This, Fool!”
I was a bit too embarrassed to share this in my other thread. But I will. Robinson leaves his phone number at the bottom of the screen on the Home Page there.I made the mistake of calling him and asking him why I was banned. Lets just say getting fired from my first radio job back when I was 18 years old was a more pleasant conversation. He yelled at me. Insulted me. I couldn’t understand some of what he said. He never answered my question. He called me “Mr Young Conservative”. Told me that I was banned and to never come back and then screamed good bye !
.
Once JR realized Saint Sarah bowed out of running, after she took fools like him on a merry ride, he picks statist New World Order Newt as worthy of dropping all those so called principles he claims he had for.
Why? Cause Sarah voted for Newt.
If conservatives on his websire thought he had gone batshit crazy, they were right. He should have gotten behind the only one left that shared his socon beliefs and helped push him over the finish line against Romney.
But he didn’t. The voters did not want New World Order Newt in spite of the love affair he and his harpychicks tried to foment. You see, it wasn’t JR and his chicks that were wrong, it was all the voters in all the states except GA and SC.
Oh really? I have to think that his intentions were really screwed up. And for that, he deserves a failed Griftathon. He can feed the kool aid to the dumbos that still are fool enough to attach their lips to his behind. Hope thay have a lot of cash.
Well, Freeperville was down for over 14 hours Wed-Thu, so whatever they’re spending those bucks on, it ain’t servers.
Ha ha. Seems like ol’ Jimbo’s paltry beg-a-thon results are driving him f***ing batshit. (Even more than usual)
The following is his latest foaming-at-the-mouth rant from the following thread:http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2904755/posts?page=534#534
A little “strawman action” going on here? WOO HOO!
“Well, the freaking true blue blind batshit RINOs foisted this abortionist/homosexualist statist bastard on us over our objections and in spite of our warnings that we’d never support this lying fraud. Romney is a bald-faced liar and total fraud. Always has been. Always will be. An abortionist/homosexualist liberal judge appointing, gun-grabbing big government pushing, mandate-loving, liberty-killing, big government Keynesian, progressive statist bastard!!
Never will I grant my consent to be lorded over by a statist RINO creep!!
Those of you who elevated this piece of human excrement despite our protestations can now get him elected. You trampled, attacked, bashed and trashed us and our conservative candidates during the primaries and now you dare whine and cry to us when you think you need us? Even while continuing to attack, bash and trash us?
A pox on RINOs and all liberty hating abortionist/homosexualist statists!!
534 posted on Wednesday, July 11, 2012 4:31:17 PM by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
Which begs the question:
He said the same thing about Newt Gingrich. I cannot stand when he puts a ‘pox’ on people. Then all of his old lady harpies will parrot him.WTF does put a pox on someone, exactly mean? A curse? Isn’t that anti-Christian? That does not match his anti abortion, anti homos, pro God, mantra.
I ask this question in all seriousness…
If it possible this guy is just losing it mentally? Dementia? Worse?
When I had to stay in a nursing home for awhile there were a few older people who were mean and critical of others for no reason what so ever. The nurse had to warn me about it the first day and I just tried to stay away from them !
This next one is rather prescient, considering that it comes from a former Freeper:
Jim Robinson had to spend two months begging and pleading and whining to his own followers in order to meet his last (reduced) Begathon goal but that same site “almost by itself” could overturn the will of millions of voters in primary elections?
In psychiatry, such an irrational though process is called “Magical Thinking” and it is a symptom of patients with schizotypal personality disorder, obsessive-compulsive disorder and bipolar disorders.
Roses are red, violets are blue;
I’m schizophrenic, and so am I.
Back to Freeperville after the leap of faith..
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “More meta than meta” edition”
Coverage of the Colorado shooting was exceptionally stupid on the first day, about politics and guns.It isn’t getting any more intelligent when discussing the shooter’s apparent mental health issues: As mental health experts look at the shooting in Colorado, a Chicago psychologist points to certain patterns that are emerging which may offer insight into the mind of James Holmes. “The Individual knows right from wrong, but perhaps does not have a conscience,” said Rush University Medical Center Psychologist Stevan Hobfoll, who used the shooting at Columbine, less 20 miles away from Aurora, as an example. The 1999 Columbine High School … Continue reading Local News REACTS!
This is kinda sorta a song about a cookie: Continue reading Friday Night Music: Florentine Pogen
This is a very cool story from the first episode of the current season of History Detectives: Watch Frank Zappa’s Lost Collage on PBS. See more from History Detectives. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Lost Zappa Collage
This is a 100-round magazine for 5.56 x 45 mm ammunition. You do not need that. No one outside of an infantry engagement needs that. That is all.* *Cue gun fetishists telling me that I don’t know what I’m talking about, others accusing me of wanting the eeevil gub’mint to enslave us all, others saying that I’m a traitor to the Constitution, and still others rationalizing that this maniac would have murdered a dozen people with Matchbox cars if he hadn’t had 100 rounds of .223 Remington ammo at his disposal. Yes, I’ve been down this road before. Continue reading Just A Thought
Coverage of the Colorado shooting was exceptionally stupid on the first day, about politics and guns.It isn’t getting any more intelligent when discussing the shooter’s apparent mental health issues: As mental health experts look at the shooting in Colorado, a Chicago psychologist points to certain patterns that are emerging which may offer insight into the mind of James Holmes. “The Individual knows right from wrong, but perhaps does not have a conscience,” said Rush University Medical Center Psychologist Stevan Hobfoll, who used the shooting at Columbine, less 20 miles away from Aurora, as an example. The 1999 Columbine High School … Continue reading Local News REACTS!
This is a very cool story from the first episode of the current season ofHistory Detectives: http://dgjigvacl6ipj.cloudfront.net/media/swf/PBSPlayer.swf WatchFrank Zappa’s Lost Collage on PBS. See more fromHistory Detectives. Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: The Lost Zappa Collage
The last time Colorado experienced something like this, I was in a newsroom in Missouri with a kid who would later become a good friend and the best man at my wedding. It was 1999 and he was a junior in college. I, all of 24, was in my first real job as staff editor and adviser. Adam was from Colorado and he knew the area surrounding Littleton. He still had friends in that area. He had connections to that zone based on football rivalries, overlapping proms and other such things that happen to bring high schools from across the … Continue reading Colorado Shooting Evokes Memories of “Never Again…”
