Today on Tommy Ts Obsession with the Freeperati – “Drop and give me $20” edition

Morning, troops!

Before we get started on the usual Freeper madness, I have to advise you that as of this morning (the 6th), the never-ending freepathon phenomenon seems to be in sight – or, as one Freeper put it :

To: jazusamo
My computer crashed yesterday, I lost several of my graphics, including my little guy. I have to go search for him again!

MAYBE I’ll have time to do that during the 2 weeks between our FReepathons!

50 posted on 6/5/2015, 2:01:22 PM by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
Disgruntled loser? Non-contributor?
Nope – onyx is one of the Freepathon admins, responsible for posting kitten and “Hillary sucks!” pics, and logging contributions for public display on this thread.
Completion-wise, they’re stuck in the low 90s, and have been for a week now. Monthly donations have already been rolled into the total, and it hasn’t moved appreciably since.
What’s the hangup?

Somebody ping me when we are done talking about Bruce Jenner.

Then I’ll come back.

199 posted on 6/5/2015, 7:57:03 PM by ButThreeLeftsDo (END THIS FREEPATHON TODAY!!!)
To: ButThreeLeftsDo
And the Duggars.
200 posted on 6/5/2015, 8:03:07 PM by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FR. Donate Monthly or Join Club 300! God bless you all.)
Ouch.
Now, why would something like the Josh Duggar Experience divide Freepers so?
Sarah Palin Calls Lena Dunham A ‘Pedophile’ And Defends Duggar Family
Guardian (UK) ^ | June 5, 2015 | Alan Yuhas
Posted on 6/5/2015, 11:29:28 PM by Steelfish

Sarah Palin Calls Lena Dunham A ‘Pedophile’ And Defends Duggar Family

Alan Yuhas 5 June 2015

Sarah Palin has accused TV star Lena Dunham of pedophilia and decried the “double standards” of the media as she defended a conservative family whose eldest son allegedly molested his sisters.

In a Facebook post about the media treatment of the Duggar family, stars of TLC reality show 19 Kids and Counting, Palin writes: “Hey Lena, why not laugh off everyone’s sexual ‘experiments’ as you haughtily enjoy the rewards of your own perversion? You pedophile, you.”

Jim Bob and Michelle Duggar, the parents of Josh Duggar, said their son fondled four of his sisters and a family babysitter when he was a teenager and confessed to them. Josh Duggar has apologized for unspecified bad behavior.

Palin writes that she is “not defending the Duggar boy’s obvious wrongdoing” and that she is “not an apologist for any sexual predator”.

But she insists that “the Duggar debate needs to shift from solely the boy’s obvious wrongdoing when he was 14 years old”. Josh Duggar is now 27.

Palin is referring to an essay Dunham wrote that described how, as a seven-year-old, Dunham asked her one-year-old sister for kisses in exchange for candies, and also looked at her sibling’s vagina.

Last year Dunham apologized to anyone who may have found parts of her book “painful or triggering for people to read”, and for an “insensitive” joke in the passage.

But Palin writes that the media has not sufficiently denounced Dunham, and instead suggests the media think “Dunham’s sexual assault on her sibling is cute, and she’s rewarded for it with fame and fortune”.

“Meanwhile, they crucify another, along with an entire family,” she continues..

In her post Palin decries the “disgusting hypocrites” of the media

1 posted on 6/5/2015, 11:29:28 PM by Steelfish
To: Steelfish

Palin writes that she is “not defending the Duggar boy’s obvious wrongdoing” and that she is “not an apologist for any sexual predator”.

She was doing good until she just had to throw in that “but”.

3 posted on 6/5/2015, 11:38:01 PM by Snickering Hound
(insert your own booty call joke here)
To: Steelfish

The seven year old is a pedophile, but a teenager was just mistaken.

Yes, Brilliant Mrs Palin, any kind words for Dennis Hastert or Mark Foley?

11 posted on 6/6/2015, 1:41:09 AM by CharleysPride (non chiedere cio che non si puo prendere — Charlie Daniels)

Heh.
To: Oliviaforever
What a 15 year old Josh Duggar did was a “wrongdoing.” What a seven year old Lena Dunham did was “sexual assault.”You’re grossly ignorant of the subject matter. Both young teens and younger children have extremely low recidivism rates. That is one of the reasons states like Arkansas keep the records of juveniles in cases like Duggar’s confidential.

The difference between Duggar and Dunham is that Duggar knows he was wrong while Dunham doesn’t.

13 posted on 6/6/2015, 2:04:15 AM by Kazan
To: Kazan

Both were wrong, both offended. One did so at age seven, the other at age 14 and up.

At age 14 and up, one can be charged and prosecuted as an adult. We do not charge seven year olds as adults as seven year olds do not know right from wrong.

At age 14 and up, one should know right from wrong.

14 posted on 6/6/2015, 2:08:46 AM by Oliviaforever

OK – my questions about Freeper infighting on the Dig Duggar affair have been answered – more on this Joshing around after the inappropriate touch.

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They Don’t Care about the Consequences

What the culture wars cost:  Conservative political forces in Indiana were driven by religious fervor to gut all public funding from Planned Parenthood. They led the nation in demonizing the organization because 3 percent of its services involved reproductive services — abortion. To sterilize that contagion, the remaining 97 percent of Planned Parenthood services would be expunged as necessary collateral damage. Private interest became public mandate. The people of Austin bore that burden for Indiana’s War on Planned Parenthood. In 2011, Planned Parenthood ran five rural clinics in Indiana. They tested for HIV and offered prevention, intervention and counseling for … Continue reading They Don’t Care about the Consequences

Investing in People

This is tricky, right?  The legislation, introduced by Michigan Representative John Conyers, would create a $5.5 billion fund, $4 billion earmarked for the employment of people between 16 and 24, $1.5 billion for job training grants. There are no pay-fors. It would ask a Congress that is dead-set against “big government” to employ people, with the help of big government. Yet the bill’s Senate sponsor is Vermont’s Bernie Sanders. That matters quite a lot in June 2015. On Thursday morning, Sanders joined Conyers on a visit to the H.O.P.E. Project in southeast Washington. The presidential candidate toured a small but … Continue reading Investing in People

Saturday Odds & Sods: Everbody’s Been Burned

Dizneylandrieu

The spirit of Dizneylandrieu is still alive and well here in New Orleans as you’ll learn from one of the entries below. Not only that but summer has arrived with a vengeance. I don’t believe in sky gods or celestial overlords, but I am convinced that someone flicks a switch and it becomes summer in my city. This year the switch was flipped on Wednesday June 4, which is somewhat later than usual. I guess that whole non-existent climate change thing has its upside. El Nino is a popular dude in these parts, less so on the West Coast but it could end the drought so…

This week’s theme song implanted itself in my head by way of the new NBC drama Aquarius. It’s more like a gritty FX or HBO show than network fare. Plus, it’s being rolled out in its entirety On Demand as well as on broadcast, which shows the impact Netflix is having on the teevee universe. I’m convinced that Aquarius was pitched as follows: Philip Marlowe meets Charlie Manson. It’s particularly fun to watch David Duchovny cast against type as a hardass and hawkish LAPD detective.

Back to Everybody’s Been Burned. It was written by David Crosby and originally recorded when he was a member of one of my all-time favorite bands, the Byrds:

FWIW, I have an old friend who’s a dead ringer for Crosby who, in turn, is a dead ringer for Bert Lahr as the Cowardly Lion.

More obscure references after the break.

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Understanding Tenure

This might be the last post I’m able to accomplish for quite some time. I’m not sure what the future holds, now that the UW Regents brought to you by Carl’s Jr…. er… Scott Walker have failed to fight back against the plan to eliminate the state statute that protects professorial tenure. Those who have supported this move in the statehouse, especially Alberta Darling, whose name is an anagram for “Blaring Alert Ad,” have said this isn’t the elimination of tenure. Instead, it’s simply moving it from the state law to the regents’ control, so it’s the same basic thing. … Continue reading Understanding Tenure

Thursday Night Music: Little Hands

Regular reader and frequent commenter, SG, asked me what I thought of Moby Grape founder Skip Spence’s lone solo album, Oar. I think it’s at the very least a minor classic as well as a fascinating look at the mind and music of a talented but deeply disturbed man. Spence was in many ways the Sixties Bay Area music scene’s answer to Syd Barrett. He was also an original member of Jefferson Airplane, and a very creative man who could not cope with life. Little Hands is the opening track of Oar, an  album that was recreated in 1999 by Robert Plant and Beck to … Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Little Hands

The Jindal Candidacy: To Protest Or Not To Protest?

I guess I should be pleased that more people have started to detest my alleged Governor, Bobby Jindal. PBJ is genuinely detestable but there’s been  a lot of anti-Jindal bandwagon jumping of late. I wish some of these folks had been paying attention when his name was on the ballot but that’s how it often goes on the American Left. Remember the Frank theorum: Conservatives vote, liberals protest. Jindalism is a spent force here in the Gret Stet of Louisiana. He’s lost control of the debate as well as of the lege. That’s a tall order in a state where the Governor … Continue reading The Jindal Candidacy: To Protest Or Not To Protest?

Pulp Fiction Thursday: Hush-Hush Magazine

I’d never heard of Hush-Hush Magazine until I was doing some research for a post about Coach Hush Money. There’s not a lot of information out there about this sleazy gossip rag but Pulp International has a post up about the Liz and Ali cover, including scans of the interior of the magazine itself. So, if you’re into 50 year old gossip, check it out. Here are two representative covers: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Hush-Hush Magazine

Album Cover Art Wednesday: Wow/Grape Jam

Moby Grape were a  fairly successful San Francisco rock band in the 1960’s. Their story is like something out of Behind The Music but they weren’t big enough to be noticed by VH1. It’s a pity because the story is grape great and their music was pretty darn good too.

I’ll let the Wikpedia entry on Wow/Grape Jam do the heavy lifting:

Wow/Grape Jam is the second album by the rock band Moby Grape, released in 1968. It is different from mostdouble album releases in that it was released as two different albums in separate covers, but packaged together and sold for the price of a single LP. Grape Jam was originally intended to be given away as a free bonus album with Wow.

The cover art for Wow  is pretty swell and the Wikipedia entry goes into detail so I don’t have to:

Artwork of the Wow album (design and illustration) was done by Bob Cato. Cato proposed a surreal image without any input from the band. Cato was influenced by various Victorian woodcuts. According to [band member] Peter Lewis the title was left off the cover because “What was in the box was more important than the box.” It was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Recording Package in 1969.

Time to say Wow, man:

cover_Moby_Grape681

More Sixties stuff after the break. Wow, man.

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Charles Kennedy, R.I.P.

Charles Kennedy,  the leader of the British Liberal Democrats from 1999-2007, died today at the age of 55. He was far from perfect: he recently lost his  parliamentary seat in the SNP tsunami and lost his leadership post because of a serious drinking problem. But Kennedy stood tall when it most mattered in his political career and opposed the UK’s entry into the Iraq War: Doubtless it will be his decision to oppose the war in Iraq for which he will be defined as a politician. He described it as the biggest British foreign policy mistake since Suez, and told parliament … Continue reading Charles Kennedy, R.I.P.

FIFA’s Blatter Control Issues

I don’t know much about FIFA but I know from RICO indictments and FIFA appears to be in deep shit. The reason I know so much more about RICO was my criminal law professor, Oliver Houck. He focused on specific crimes as a means of teaching us criminal law. The most memorable were burglary and RICO. Professor Houck cut a terrifying figure in class: he threw unprepared students out of class and locked the door so you would be on time or else. Despite all of this, I learned a lot from him because he was so damn interesting. I recall … Continue reading FIFA’s Blatter Control Issues

Stephanie Grace On Bobby Jindal’s Fall From Grace

I’ve been following Bobby Jindal since the beginning and like to pass myself off as an expert on his currently imploding career. Gov PBJ continues to believe that this phase is the end of the beginning when it’s clearly the beginning of the end. The one thing that PBJ shares with the household God of his party, Ronald Reagan, is the capacity to believe in his own rhetoric. Unfortunately, for Jindal he lacks Reagan’s legendary communications skills and, as I have pointed out repeatedly over the years, the only time he faced a tough opponent, he lost. In California, Reagan … Continue reading Stephanie Grace On Bobby Jindal’s Fall From Grace

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Conservative clown car edition

Morning, all! Is there anyone who HASN’T declared he’s running for the Republican nom om nom nom?

Zoidberg2016

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Oh, shut up.

From Dead Breitbart and the no-longer-virgin Ben, let’s start with big tents and clown cars!

THE BIG TENT PARTY COLLAPSES
Breitbart.com ^ | 5-27-2015 | Ben Shapiro

Posted on 5‎/‎27‎/‎2015‎ ‎1‎:‎58‎:‎02‎ ‎PM by servo1969

The GOP is falling apart.

How else to explain the wide variance of positions within the Republican Party on basic issues ranging from same-sex marriage to immigration to tax policy? For years, GOP bigwigs have explained that the Republican Party can only succeed if it expands and evolves, embracing as many views as possible. There’s only one problem: that simply doesn’t work.

While the Democratic Party has moved toward leftist purity in which Hillary Clinton’s policy positions are virtually indistinguishable from socialist Bernie Sanders’, the Republican Party has become to political positions what COEXIST bumper stickers are to religion – an embrace of all and, thereby, a perversion of all. The media enjoy suggesting that the Republican Party has never been more right-wing, but the opposite is true: the Republican Party has never been more heterogeneous, and the Democratic Party has never been more radically homogenous.

Just look at the Republican field today: an agglomeration of random humans appealing to small segments of the population. The Republican Party has now fragmented into Tea Party Republicans who oppose Establishment Republicans, Socially Conservative Republicans who oppose Libertarian Republicans. None of these candidates are running for the nomination; all of them are running for approximately 25 percent of the vote in a primary. Winning one quarter of primary voters in the early states could win the nomination.

1 posted on ‎5‎/‎27‎/‎2015‎ ‎1‎:‎58‎:‎02‎ ‎PM by servo1969

Oh woe is you! What the hell happened, Freepers?

To: tbw2

It is about money and power and temporary satisfaction that contains both. Republican Elitism is largely about the urgency of now and the fewer impediments to that power and money. They could give a crap about their progeny’s future lot.

4 posted on 5‎/‎27‎/‎2015‎ ‎2‎:‎04‎:‎19‎ ‎PM by Gaffer

You’re JUST NOW FIGURING THIS OUT???
To: servo1969

The Republican Party is not collapsing….The RINO leadership is losing its power. Until and unless that leadership loses it’s power the rank and file will remain in a state of non support.

To the Republican Party….Change or face extinction…..

One way or another We the People will take back our power.

5 posted on 5‎/‎27‎/‎2015‎ ‎2‎:‎04‎:‎22‎ ‎PM by Forty-Niner (The barely bare berry bear formerly known as Arctos Horribilis.)

If you dickheads don’t quit playing Purity Wars, you’ll take back nothing, except the Whig Party’s place in the history books.
GOPentrance
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To: servo1969

What I am is a Small government Libertarian Republican who favors gun rights, lower taxes and states rights and I’m against abortion, open borders, Obamacare and federalism. My candidate is Ted Cruz…

21 posted on 5‎/‎27‎/‎2015‎ ‎2‎:‎48‎:‎36‎ ‎PM by ExCTCitizen (I’m ExCTCitizen and I approve this reply. If it does offend Libs, I’m NOT sorry…)

Ted Cruz?
BigTentSideEntrance
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And, of course:
To: servo1969
BUT Wait! There is More!“Sparky” Little Rick Perry wants to run too!

Always room for one more.

19 posted on 5‎/‎27‎/‎2015‎ ‎2‎:‎34‎:‎20‎ ‎PM by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a “Corn Check”)
And now – the post of the thread!
To: servo1969

Speaking of a circus, how do they get all those clowns in that little bitty car?

20 posted on 5‎/‎27‎/‎2015‎ ‎2‎:‎35‎:‎34‎ ‎PM by hadaclueonce (It is not heaven, it is Iowa. Everyone gets a “Corn Check”)

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More fun stuff after the purity whores…

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