There’s a big ass sinkhole in ruralAssumption Parish, which forced the evacuation of 150 homes some 7 months ago. The folks there have been asking Governor PBJ to come and have a look-see ever since. Jindal, of course, has been busy; first lauding Willard Mittbot Romney and the trashing him after he lost.the election.He has finally agreed to do his job and take a belated gander at the Bayou Corne sinkholenext week. Jindal has been like the damned elusive pimpernel when it comes to going anywhere in the Gret Stet. I make the, uh, assumption that there are two reasons … Continue reading Too bad it’s not in Iowa
This is about a movie but not Steven Spielberg’s fine 2002 sci-fi flick, Minority Report. (If you haven’t seen it, check it out, it’s got a BSG kinda vibe.) Instead, I’m talking aboutSam Raimi’s new film, Oz the Great and Powerful. Audiences have flocked to it but the critics have been lukewarm. A critic I admire, David Edelstien of New York Magazinesaw a different flick to the one Dr. A and I saw. He called it “peculiarly joyless” whereas I thought it was spot on and charming as all get out. There were technical diffculties at our screening so we … Continue reading Minority Report
For God’s sake, if you mean “fucking,” just say “fucking:” University of Portland is a Catholic institution that allowed students to form an official Gay-Straight Partnership in 2008, but not everyone was happy with the decision. As conservative siteLifeNews wrote at the time: Although the Gay Straight Partnership has made pains to state that it will be adhering to Catholic teaching on sexuality, experience has shown pro-family advocates that such alliances typically result in the push to normalize and to affirm as morally acceptable an active homosexual lifestyle amongst university students. That’s exactlywhat the students campaigning today want: A campus … Continue reading I Have An Active Heterosexual Lifestyle, Right?
Good morning, gentle people – I’ve been pushing the drums of Freeper stoopid marked “Mah cold dead hands” to the back for a while now, but with the imminent invasion of NATO’s Agenda 21 task force. I can ignore them no longer.
Maybe if I start opening the oldest ones first, the fumes won’t be as toxic.
Posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013 9:01:42 PM byhawkeye101
A former Tarleton State University student who wrote the
best-selling book, “American Sniper,” was one of two victims shot and killed at
Rough Creek Lodge late Saturday afternoon. Chris Kyle and a friend were found
dead at Rough Creek’s shooting range.
1
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:01:51 PM byhawkeye101
As usual, the Freeperati take careful aim at the target, hold their collective breath, squeeze slowly, and score a direct hit – on their own foot.
To: hawkeye101
First the internet guy in his car and now this. Looks like the left
wants to play rough.
2
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:05:30 PM byBenLurkin (This is not a statement of fact. It is either opinion
or satire; or both)
To: hawkeye101
Law enforcement officials throughout the
county were searching for a large four-door Ford pickup that is high off the
ground and covered in Rhino liner. There is a skull sticker in the backwindow.
What the dickens is this about?Political killing?
6
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:09:36 PM byCicero (Marcus Tullius)
Of course – since the black helicopter was in the shop for its FAR Part 29 inspection, the rhino-covered monster truck with the skull decal on the back window was the next-most-stealthiest choice.
To: hawkeye101
these are not random. they have been targeted.
10
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:11:24 PM bySecret Agent Man (I can neitherconfirm
or deny that; even if I could, I couldn’t – it’s classified.)
To: hawkeye101
They are taking out those they fear the most. and that will be on
Our side.
13
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:14:29 PM byeasternsky
To: hawkeye101
It’s a hit, period.
We are at war and the president is on the wrong side.
17
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:17:17 PM byKakaze (I want The Republic back !)
Who could have perpetrated this horrible political hit job??
To: hawkeye101
I think mooslims are responsible.
29
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:24:56 PM byGreatRoad (O < 0)
Silly me.
To: BenLurkin
Don’t forget Breitbart. And, yes, I think he was offed.
What a wonderfully baroque world these guys live in.
To: nuconvert
“That truck doesn’t sound like an inconspicuous vehicle.”
Red herring? Make it appear that a redneck, bitter clinger is the
suspect?
Meanwhile, he switches to a Pendleton shirt, khakis, and drives
away in his Volvo.
[yea, I know, been watching too many spy movies lately…]
49
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:36:31 PM byBwanaNdege (“To learn who rules over you simply find out who you
are not allowed to criticize”- Voltaire)
See?
To: RushIsMyTeddyBear
Obama is offing his enemies one by one..nothing would surprise me
about this Administration, absolutely nothing
44
posted on Saturday, February 02, 2013
9:33:27 PM bySarah Barracuda
Posted on Sunday, February 03, 2013 2:57:33 AM byzeestephen
Chris Kyle, known as “the most lethal sniper in U.S. military
history,” was reportedly shot and killed on Saturday. “Kyle was shot point-blank
while helping another soldier who is recovering from PTSD.”
1
posted on Sunday, February 03, 2013
2:57:39 AM byzeestephen
Oops.
To: zeestephen
Wow. Very sad. He was trying to do a great thing and was
killed as was his innocent neighbor.
The military needs to rethink this style of therapy. Clearly not
safe for those helping. Case and point.
3
posted on Sunday, February 03, 2013
3:01:27 AM byGOP Poet
But…but…but…Muzzies! Presidential hit teams!VINCE FUCKING FOSTER!!!!
To: 101stAirborneVet
I believe the idea of prohibiting a vet with PTSD from having a gun
was proposed by some liberals. As you noted – the symptoms can vary greatly.And
it is probably hard enough to get them to see a doctor about it already – just
think if they knew their guns would be taken away how hard it would be to get
help for these guys.
12
posted on Sunday, February 03, 2013
3:22:37 AM by21twelve (“We’ve got the guns, and we got the numbers” adapted and
revised from Jim M.)
If that was the “well-aged and mellow” crazy, I’m afraid to open up any more drums of teh stupid.
It’s been a very quiet Hurricane season in the Gulf. We’re on the verge of the first near miss of the season, Tropical Storm Karen, which seems destined to hit Mobile, Alabama, but folks in NOLA are still freaking out. I think they should chillax and sing this Dylan tune instead: Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again
Investigative reporting is so expensive: We conservatively estimate the cost of this coverage at $750,000; it could be more. This covers the reporters, news applications and web developers, editors, video production, social media and PR, travel, legal review, half of the public opinion poll etc. It does NOT include any costs of the work at This American Life. I would rather have 33 of ProPublica’s stories than even one minute of Matt Lauer on the air annually. There is plenty of money for journalism. We just spend it on other things right now, is all. A. Continue reading That’s 33 Matt Lauer Units
I wonder if he would have treated a large, muscle-y, male ranger the same way. Probably not. If there’s one thing teawads are, consistently, across the entire demographic, it’s cowards. Pierce: They are always surrounded — by intellectuals, by scientists, by the all-powerful Left that exists primarily in their imaginations, because it certainly doesn’t exist in American politics, and hasn’t since the days of Joe McCarthy. Culturally, this always has been expressed partly by the endless conservative bleating that somebody, somewhereis getting laid. The Gospels tell us that the gates of hell will not prevail against Christ’s church. The Republicans … Continue reading And Then There’s This Asshole: Shutdown Stuff
The shutdown continues. Anyone surprised? The hostage takers are resorting to a classic tactic: selective release of hostages. Elderly veterans pissed off? Fund the World War II Memorial. Kids being denied cancer treatments? Fund the NIH. I’m glad to report that congressional Democrats are not falling for these tactics and are standing firm. The only way to deal with bullies is to stand up to them and whap them upside the head if need be. Senator Aqua Buddha spoke out today and compared Park Rangers to goons. Imagine messing with Smokey the Bear when you’re the one who played with … Continue reading America Held Hostage Day 3
This just in from My Bloody Valentine leader, Kevin Shields: Kevin Shields has raised the notion that Britpop was part of a government conspiracy. Speaking to the Guardian in an exclusive interview, to be published online later today and in the G2 Film&Music section tomorrow, the My Bloody Valentine leader reacted angrily to a mention of the Cool Britannia phenomenon. “Britpop was massively pushed by the government,” he said. “Someday it would be interesting to read all the MI5 files on Britpop. The wool was pulled right over everyone’s eyes there.” In the early years of Tony Blair’s premiership, Britpop … Continue reading What’s The Conspiracy Theory, Morning Glory?
My teen years are fully two decades behind me, and I can tell you with absolute certaintywhat nonsense like this would have made me want to do. Here’s a hint: It wouldn’t be shutting up: The students, some wearing duct tape over their mouths and carrying signs, were protesting an announcement at the beginning of the day, in which Strongsville High School Principal William Steffen asked the children to refrain from posting on social media sites like Twitter and Facebook. Steffen said he’s been trying to tell students since yesterday-when several videos, Tweets and Facebook posts depicted disorganization and unruliness … Continue reading Have These People Ever Met a Teenager?
Fallows: This time, the fight that matters is within the Republican party, and that fight is over whether compromise itself is legitimate.** Outsiders to this struggle — the president and his administration, Democratic legislators as a group, voters or “opinion leaders” outside the generally safe districts that elected the new House majority — have essentially no leverage in this fight. I can’t recall any situation like this in my own experience, and the only even-approximate historic parallel (with obvious differences) is the inability of Northern/free-state opinion to affect the debate within the slave-state South from the 1840s onward. You have … Continue reading Actually, The Historic Parallel is Pretty Good Here
Flags I by Jasper Johns, 1973. I keep dating myself (I kiss and tell too) on this blog but I do it for a good cause. I remember when ABC News launched a late night newscast after bored students stormed the US Embassy in Tehran and took a bunch of hostages to avoid studying for finals. The show was originally called America Held Hostage before morphing into Nightline, which is apparently still airing but I haven’t seen it in eons. A late night network news show is now kinda quaint but it was cutting edge in 1979. We’re in the … Continue reading America Held Hostage Day 2
Blind Willie McTell weekend continues with Statesboro Blues. It’s best known as done by the Allman Brothers Band. Why? It’s awesome,and the arrangement is brilliant and essentially fool proof regardless of who’s in the band. We’ll kick it off with Mistah McTell: Then it’s the Allman Brothers with Gregg Almman singing and brother Duane Allman and Dicky Betts on guitar: : Finally, a video version featuring Gregg on vox and Wayne Haynes and Derek Trucks on guitar: Continue reading Saturday Night Music: Statesboro Blues
My editor and I were sitting in the newsroom the other day planning the start of academic year when the phone rang. It’s a rare thing these days, as most of the communication with news staff comes via their cell phones, emails and other less traditional formats. She grabbed the phone and all I heard was her end of the conversation. “OK. Explain it to me… I need to know more about this… Can you give me your name? … Outline what you’re talking about in an email then…” I figured it was a big news story or a tip … Continue reading Undoing history: Walker-style
Going to get rid of some more aging drums of Freepitude later on, but first, in case you were wondering about the Freeperati’s take on Syria –You can’t be Syriaus!
Posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 9:48:00 PM by Innovative
Ted Cruz: Number one, under no circumstances should we be arming
rebels who are affiliated with al-Qaeda. And this administration has
already suggested they want to arm the rebels with no reliable means of
differentiating al-Qaeda from non-al-Qaeda.
And number two, our
concern should be those chemical weapons, preventing them from falling
into the hands of Hezbollah, preventing them from falling into the hands
of al-Qaeda. That should be guiding our actions, not expressing some
moral outrage from a university faculty lounge.
…
You
know, Sean, it was striking when the protests were occurring in Egypt
against the Muslim Brotherhood, that the protesters were waving banners
that said President Obama supports Morsi, the United States supports the
radical Islamic government that is oppressing us. What a sad state of
affairs when the United States is arm and arm with oppressive Islamist
governments.
***************************
Ted Cruz is right.
1
posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 9:48:00 PM
by Innovative
.
Also, the President is near!
Let’s look into why the Freeperati are suddenly against bombing brown people, shall we?
To: Innovative
Cruz is correct.
The real question is why is obama focused on Syria, hee hasn’t cared about it for two years…so why is he trying to deflect?
7
posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:02:04 PM
by svcw
(Stand or die)
Obviously a False Flag operation, right out of the Saul Alinsky playbook!
To: svcw
“The real question is why is obama focused on Syria, hee hasn’t
cared about it for two years…so why is he trying to deflect?“
Note that now Syria is on the front pages, nobody is talking about
the IRS’ abuse of power of targeting conservative groups, the disaster
of Obamacare, Benghazi, sequestration, the budget, etc., etc…
Looks like Obama is achieving his objective. And he’ll get away with
it — now he wants approval from Congress, which he is not going to get,
so he will blame them, claiming that he, Obama wanted to do “the right
thing”, but Congress prevented him…
8
posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:15:12 PM
by Innovative
(“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” — Vince Lombardi)
My GOD, what a master of Machiavellian mayhem!
First, he organizes an “Arab Spring”-style uprising against Morsi in Egypt, then he convinces Al-Asad in Syria to bomb, shell, and gas his own people, and now he’s pushed BENGHAZZZZI all the way off the front page that it was on just three short months ago!
What a master manipulator!
To: Innovative
Is Obama paying back Saudi for favors given him – money in the last election?
13
posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:33:43 PM
by YukonGreen
To: YukonGreen
The Saudis hate the jihadists — they are supporting the military
leadership in Egypt against the Muslim Brotherhood – and they are
putting their money where their mouth is. They wouldn’t possibly be
supporting the Al Qaeda dominated rebels in Syria.
14
posted on Saturday, August 31, 2013 10:35:22 PM
by Innovative
(“Winning isn’t everything, it’s the only thing.” — Vince Lombardi)
.
To: Candor7
The House of Saud is playing Obama like a fiddle
They also played both Bushes like a fiddle.
21
posted on Sunday, September 01, 2013 1:18:22 AM
by dfwgator
.
Older stuffs after the clickable linky tool of Al-Queda!
What bad habit have you broken recently? I’m almost 100 percent over chewing on my nails. Paying for the occasonal manicure helps because then I can be like no, don’t chew on that, you paid money for it. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
If you’re in the US, how many states have you visited? If we’re counting just the ones I was old enough to remember, I think 20. South Dakota and North Dakota, I was pretty young, but I think we were in both of them on some family car trip or other. A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
There’s amust read article in the Guardian about Jack White’s involvement in re-releasing some vintage Delta blooze records from the Document Records catalog. One of the artists is the late Blind Willie McTell who is best known for writingStatesboro Blues. Tonight’s tune is a song that White discusses in the aforementioned article: In the White Stripes, White coveredYour Southern Can Is Mine by Blind Willie McTell, the third artist in the initial series. “I love that phrase,” he says. “At first I thought: ‘Your can? What are you talking about? A cup of coffee? Then I realised he’s talking about … Continue reading Friday Night Music: Your Southern Can Is Mine
There’s been a huge case brewing in New Orleans involving the River Birch Landfill. If you’re shocked to hear that “waste management” could be a lucrative source of graft for grifters, you haven’t watchedThe Sopranos 97 times like I have. Tony Soprano always told everyone he was in “waste management” and so is local lawyerFred Heebe who was Malaka Of The Week on 3/15/2012. The River Birch Landfill case seems to have finally and definitively collapsed today. Charges against two of the primary shitbirds were dismissed with prejudice, which means they cannot be re-filed. These were the alleged bribers but … Continue reading The American Way
The idea of grade inflation is back in the news around here when a local newspaper decided to put all of those computer-assisted reporting classes to work and investigate the local university.Truth be told, I often enjoy deeper pieces and if anything is going to help newspapers increase their value (both financially and intellectually) it’s going to come in the form of stuff like this. The core of the story is the same as it always is: Grades are going up, professors are doling out A’s like they’re Halloween candy and dammit, why aren’t you using the Bell Curve to … Continue reading Grading the graders (again)
Chicken-Riot has been unaccountably affectionate since we got back, following me around everywhere. I think he’s saying, “When are we going back to the pet-sitter’s? I don’t know who you are but she was AWESOME.” A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging
How dare I not be able to get my ick all over you while you smile at me and give me presents? If these people are successful in banning the use of Indian names for football teams, you can bet the rent money that won’t end their agenda. Our military has a number of fighting aircraft named with what busybodies and tyrants might consider racial slights, such as the Apache, Iroquois, Kiowa, Lakota and Mescalero. We also have military aircraft named after animals, such as the Eagle, Falcon, Raptor, Cobra and Dolphin. The people fighting against the Redskins name might … Continue reading If I Cannot Force You to Approve of My Racism, I Am Not Free
