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1 Wtf with Kankles?

Posted by: vlogforce one at May 20, 2015 08:37 AM (n2MHW)

2 Georgie "Steps" Stephanopoulos should be slut shamed.

Posted by: vlogforce one at May 20, 2015 08:39 AM (n2MHW)

3 The long wait is over...

Posted by: HH at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (Ce4DF)

4 Hillary is nothing but an image.

No substance.

Posted by: Feh at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (M97F+)

5 Hill lied, Huma plied!
(See 'Benghazi'.)

Posted by: Hill lied, Huma plied! at May 20, 2015 08:40 AM (PQNzC)

6 http://preview.tinyurl.com/kh4es5m

Posted by: Hill lied, Huma plied! at May 20, 2015 08:41 AM (PQNzC)

7 loretta sanchez insulting Native Americans "woo woo woo"

http://tinyurl.com/knaoucn

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 08:42 AM (0O7c5)

8 Hillary is a grifter who attends to the emotional impulses of feminists and communists and follows wherever they lead. This way, she ends up being a representative of their aspirations, and they follow along, eating the crumbs that drop from her table. She wants their emotions and money. They want the power and the ride.

Posted by: Feh at May 20, 2015 08:44 AM (M97F+)

9 Updated NASA satellite data show the polar ice caps remained at approximately their 1979 extent until the middle of the last decade. Beginning in 2005, however, polar ice modestly receded for several years. By 2012, polar sea ice had receded by approximately 10 percent from 1979 measurements.

Posted by: Rachel Carson at May 20, 2015 08:47 AM (e8kgV)

10 That the world isn't rallying to stop the destruction of this world patrimony, blows me away:

http://tinyurl.com/ly6f4la

But I must remind myself that the strategy is working.

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 20, 2015 08:48 AM (BZAd3)

11 Re: Government as Faction:
Reprehensible!
If you did a time-on-target attack on those actual few agitators for their deeply unpopular aims, it would be over very quickly.
Think of "astro-turf" vs. actual grass roots.
Even FDR thought public employee unions were a bad idea.
When the regime changes in Tehran, we must not make the same mistake we did after the USSR fell. Round them all up.
It's why they need 'Community Organizers'.
http://preview.tinyurl.com/m9y5wy8

Posted by: Hill lied, Huma plied! at May 20, 2015 08:48 AM (PQNzC)

12 Bear Aliens? Oh Boy!

http://tinyurl.com/ad6qwl

Posted by: Barney at May 20, 2015 08:48 AM (0FSuD)

13 The ignoring the Hildabeast is an idea mentioned on Red-Eye last night. If she won't answer question....just walk on by...MSM.

Posted by: Paladin at May 20, 2015 08:49 AM (YNPwP)

14 So will the aliens be 'bear'ing arms?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:50 AM (B0IEg)

15 On a planet that has existed for billions and billions of years, speculating that any 10, 20, 50, 100-year climate trend is significant is just asinine. Coming melt down, coming Ice Age, whatever, they're always coming, whether we live in caves or MegaCities. And we can neither predict nor prevent these cycles.

Posted by: LincolnTf at May 20, 2015 08:51 AM (2cS/G)

16 "loretta sanchez insulting Native Americans"

For those not from Commiefornia and unfamiliar with Sanchez, think of Barbara Boxer with a conveniently Hispanic surname. An unsurpassed dimwit.

She has probably blown up her Senatorial hopes with this gaffe. Unfortunately that leaves the prospective frontrunner in the Senate race to succeed Boxer unchanged, that frontrunner being Kamala Harris.

If you want a capsule summary of Harris, think again of the brains of Babs Boxer, except crossed with the ugly racial politics and leftist lawfare propensities of Eric Holder.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 08:52 AM (noWW6)

17 Gun control activists may use recent DC ruling as a basis to try to get the courts to start interpreting the shit out of the 2nd Amendment:

http://tinyurl.com/k4ryudf

Posted by: LoneStarHeeb at May 20, 2015 08:53 AM (BZAd3)

18 How is Kamala Harris handling the revelations one of her minions was part of the Masonic police? Was parading around in a phony police uniform and all that?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:54 AM (B0IEg)

19 LGBT Activists Arm For Further War On Free Speech

Well, I was feeling pretty lighthearted and content this morning.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2015 08:54 AM (zF6Iw)

20 Loretta Sanchez. Is she the fat one or the hot one?

Posted by: blaster at May 20, 2015 08:55 AM (2Ocf1)

21 Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 08:52 AM (noWW6)

loretta lynch stole the seat from b-1 bob dornan and the GOP wouldn't help him fight it.....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 08:55 AM (0O7c5)

22 So TFG is still selling AGW crapola? Whoa, big surprise there.

Today I'm selling anti-AGW charts.... in my nic.

Also, I have the book The Right To Arm Bears

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Right_to_Arm_Bears

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 20, 2015 08:55 AM (hWqbq)

23 I wish someone would ask the GOP candidates the following :

If elected, which Federal Agency would you eliminate, and how would you justify doing so?

Just to see how they would answer.

Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 08:56 AM (cQTYI)

24 "Gun control activists may use recent DC ruling as a basis to try to get the courts to start interpreting the shit out of the 2nd Amendment"

Emanations.

Penumbras.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 08:57 AM (noWW6)

25 Regarding the shows the media loves, but the unwashed don't, I see that the progs trip over themselves to heap awards to the show about a tranny parent. I have no clue as to the number of people who watch that, but I suspect is not a large number, comparatively.

Of course, there's also the human shit-stain Lena Dunham's show which I know does poorly in the ratings - and yet she's everywhere.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 20, 2015 08:57 AM (7RXcs)

26 Just A Reminder, A Lot Of Shows Popular With The Media Aren't Popular With Most People

That anti-Catholic show is going to be pushed and pushed and pushed.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 08:58 AM (fWAjv)

27 In a just world Thomas Sowell would have a column in the NYT and Charles Blow would be teaching at some obscure college.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 08:58 AM (9+3PX)

28 404 on Federalist link (Common Core)

Posted by: se pa moron at May 20, 2015 08:58 AM (xQX/f)

29 Time for some art

http://www.ufunk.net/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/Yuta-Onoda-13.jpg

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 08:58 AM (B0IEg)

30 >>That anti-Catholic show is going to be pushed and pushed and pushed.

Like Glee and Girls.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 08:59 AM (9+3PX)

31 Dear mom of the chubby kid who sings the National Anthem:

He seems like a nice young man, Now lay the hell off the carbs. For his sake.

Thanks.

Posted by: Just some guy at May 20, 2015 09:01 AM (yxw0r)

32 Common Core link worked fine for me.

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 20, 2015 09:01 AM (7RXcs)

33 Carryover from the open thread:

That mattress chick is so crazy you might say that she is Serta-fiable.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at May 20, 2015 09:01 AM (NeFrd)

34 The Tranny show is an Amazon productions - so available as on-demand video to Amazon Prime members. So, a niche market.
Kinda like those obscure anti-war/anti-America documentaries that manage to win Oscars despite not making over $100,00 at the box office.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:02 AM (9+3PX)

35 On a planet that has existed for billions and billions of years, speculating that any 10, 20, 50, 100-year climate trend is significant is just asinine. Coming melt down, coming Ice Age, whatever, they're always coming, whether we live in caves or MegaCities. And we can neither predict nor prevent these cycles.

Exactly. The ice levels are always going to fluctuate. Who can know the "proper" amount of polar ice anyway? Maybe the measurements in 1979 were at a time when polar ice was at an extremely high point? This time period of measurement is but a tiny blip in the existence of Earth.

But it's all about controlling the narrative.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 20, 2015 09:03 AM (kca06)

36 27
In a just world Thomas Sowell would have a column in the NYT and Charles Blow would be teaching at some obscure community college.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 08:58 AM (9+3PX)

FIFY

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:04 AM (0FSuD)

37 Sowell story won't open. Too many hits?

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:05 AM (0FSuD)

38 "That anti-Catholic show is going to be pushed and pushed and pushed. "

What anti Catholic show? Sorry; I missed the reference.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:05 AM (1sJza)

39 33 Carryover from the open thread:

That mattress chick is so crazy you might say that she is Serta-fiable.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at May 20, 2015 09:01 AM (NeFrd)

Give it a dream rest.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:05 AM (fWAjv)

40 I was browsing a local newspaper yesterday. Entertainment section.Movies. Every movie reviewed had some sort of theme that was other then hetero-normative.

That's the crap that people pay money to watch?

Now I may have some research interest in scientific documentaries dealing with very busty, very naked lesbians, but FreePornTube satisfies my purely scientific curiosity without expending any money.

Posted by: se pa moron at May 20, 2015 09:06 AM (xQX/f)

41 "I wish someone would ask the GOP candidates the following : If elected, which Federal Agency would you eliminate, and how would you justify doing so? Just to see how they would answer."

Since I have no hope of being elected:

"Which federal agency would I eliminate? Well, if elimination of federal agencies is a goal, let me point out that on our current fiscal trajectory, by the year 2035, which is only two decades from now, the federal government's entire budget will consist of spending for Social Security, Medicare, and interest on the debt. AND THAT'S IT. There will be NO MONEY for any other government function including even for national defense. So nearly ALL of the federal agencies are going to be going away if nothing is done. I hope that puts things in perspective. Now what was your question again?"

#Torque2016

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 09:07 AM (noWW6)

42 Mattress Girl needs to reside in a padded cell.

She's already 1/6th the way there.

Jim
Sunk New Dawn
Galveston, TX

Posted by: Jim at May 20, 2015 09:07 AM (RzZOc)

43 Sowell story won't open. Too many hits?
Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:05 AM (0FSuD)

----

Opened for me.... just finished it.

Pretty blunt for Sowell. Basically called Obama a liars liar.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 20, 2015 09:07 AM (8XRCm)

44 What anti Catholic show? Sorry; I missed the reference.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:05 AM (1sJza)

http://tinyurl.com/n3z3dyh

New show by Dan Savage. 'The Real O'Neals.'

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:08 AM (fWAjv)

45 38 Some new show coming out written by none other than Dan Savage.

Posted by: steevy at May 20, 2015 09:08 AM (mGBKM)

46 >>>Of course, there's also the human shit-stain Lena Dunham's show which I know does poorly in the ratings - and yet she's everywhere.

30 Rock is another show the media propped up despite low ratings. For myself, I refuse to watch anything with that loathsome Tina Fey in it.

Posted by: Citizen Cake at May 20, 2015 09:08 AM (ppaKI)

47 Give it a dream rest.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:05 AM (fWAjv)

Numbers bed?

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:08 AM (0FSuD)

48 I don't know if it's a victory against Common Core, but I certainly feel victorious over high stakes testing. I put my kids back in Catholic school for the next school year after one year of trying out FCPS. My fourth grader is so worried about the stupid SOLs, he had a stomach ache all Sunday night. His teacher told him that if they don't pass the test, they don't go to the next grade. A friend of mine encouraged me to opt him out of the test, but I wanted him to see for himself that it wasn't as bad as he thought it would be. Opting out is fine, but you cannot escape the two months of test review that preceded it, hence the return to Catholic school.

Posted by: no good deed at May 20, 2015 09:08 AM (GgxVX)

49 Three cheers for the (literal) corpse who won her election last night in Allegheny County!

Posted by: Baldy at May 20, 2015 09:09 AM (sEXjW)

50 If I want to be insulted for being Catholic, will watch the 'every sperm is sacred' clip from a Monty Python movie. At least its funny.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:09 AM (B0IEg)

51 Posted by: se pa moron at May 20, 2015 09:06 AM (xQX/f)

That is the stupidity of Hollywood. Kids and family movies (G and PG) make more money than R stuff, but they keep plugging away with a plan that has been proven not to work.

I wonder why?

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 20, 2015 09:09 AM (Zu3d9)

52 The mattress girl? What kind of slut asks for anal then decides she didn't really ask for anal and was raped.

Is this Wonkette's daughter?

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:09 AM (0FSuD)

53 Emma Sulky is the the proud product of two psychologists.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:10 AM (B0IEg)

54 Hillary's entire political career is pretty much like The Silence in Dr. Who

Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 09:11 AM (3ZtZW)

55
Numbers bed?

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:08 AM (0FSuD)

Not sure.

I was just being Sealy.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:11 AM (fWAjv)

56 CNN: TEXAS hunter bags his rhino. How could he do it, he should be hunted next. /sac

Posted by: colin at May 20, 2015 09:11 AM (rOQws)

57 33 Carryover from the open thread:

That mattress chick is so crazy you might say that she is Serta-fiable.
Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at May 20, 2015 09:01 AM (NeFrd)

She got more than a few blown springs.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:11 AM (2Ojst)

58 The polar bears will die if they don't have enough sea ice. If the polar bears live they will kill seals, because that is what they eat.

Funny how the environmental whackos never consider Polar Bears for what they actually are; flesh eating killers.

Posted by: se pa moron at May 20, 2015 09:11 AM (xQX/f)

59
The only tranny show Im going to see will feature clutchpacks, shifpoints, valve body rebuilds and very cool Snapon tools.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 20, 2015 09:12 AM (8XRCm)

60 Dan Savage is a very sick man-which has nothing to do with his sexual orientation. He's just a nasty, crude, mean spirited man.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:12 AM (1sJza)

61 Finally got Sowell to open.

He is Milton Freidman's heir! Smart and concise.

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:12 AM (0FSuD)

62 #Torque2016

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 09:07 AM (noWW6)

Signs up to be a part of Torque's campaign team.

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at May 20, 2015 09:13 AM (fwARV)

63 Local schools are so dependent on federal money that they can't operate without it?

What is it that local school administrators and local school boards do if the Federal government sets the curriculum, tells them what textbooks to buy, and from whom. Specifies teacher lesson plans, regulates sports programs, sex education, math and science instruction, classroom discipline, bathrooms and locker rooms.

What's left for the local school administration to do? Manage school busses and drivers? So local school administration are basically a taxi service and bureaucrats filing government reports and paid a wage that is twice the local wage scale. Sweet

Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 09:13 AM (cQTYI)

64 "Emma Sulky is the the proud product of two psychologists."

Might be some sort of lesson buried in that little sniglet

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2015 09:13 AM (VPLuQ)

65 #Torque2016

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 09:07 AM (noWW6)

Torque/Math 2016!!!!!!!

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards at May 20, 2015 09:14 AM (fwARV)

66 60 Dan Savage is a very sick man-which has nothing to do with his sexual orientation. He's just a nasty, crude, mean spirited man.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:12 AM (1sJza)

Yes. Yes he is. He's a vile excuse of a human being.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:14 AM (2Ojst)

67
If elected, which Federal Agency would you eliminate, and how would you justify doing so?

Three agencies! The EPA, the Department of Education, and uh...and uh...

Oops.

Posted by: Rick Perry at May 20, 2015 09:14 AM (JtwS4)

68 Oh no, mattress meme started.

His her mattress "soft" or "firm"

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:14 AM (0FSuD)

69 Why do republican candidates continue to talk to the press? It's idiotic. You don't talk to the other side's campaign team do you?

Posted by: james at May 20, 2015 09:15 AM (rVEMe)

70 Whether you speak of AGW Cultists, Hillary voters, Militant Feminazis, or Big Anus Warriors for Government-Enforced Compliance... you cannot change the mind of a True Believer, there's nothing there to change. As I've always said though, you can run them through with a saber.

Posted by: Saber, pistol, and rifle at May 20, 2015 09:15 AM (X5+jU)

71 Odysseus' oar
Diogenes' lamp
Sisyphus' rock
The Ancient Mariner's albatross
The Hollies' wounded Vietnam vet
Hillary's husband

Mattress girl is just carrying on a long literary tradition of allegorical burdens.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at May 20, 2015 09:16 AM (NeFrd)

72 her sleep number bed keeps track of the rapes

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 09:16 AM (0O7c5)

73 What bothers me more were the 3(or 4) girls that helped her with her stunt and the university allowing it.I hope. Columbia gets reamed in the guys lawsuit.

Posted by: steevy at May 20, 2015 09:16 AM (mGBKM)

74 Please don't ask me what my comfort number is.

Posted by: mattress girl at May 20, 2015 09:16 AM (U7H1n)

75 Posture-pedantic mattress?

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:17 AM (B0IEg)

76 CBD - They've infiltrated the kids/rated G market, believe me. My son assessed all kids movies as follows at the ripe old age of 10 - e was explaining why he didn't want to see any more of 'em: So there's this nice kid/animal/alien that's afraid of another kid or animal/alien/monster, but they figure out they're not so different and become friends.. The end.

Oh, and almost every dang kids movie/tv show mentions global warming or the fact that humans are killing mama earth.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:17 AM (9+3PX)

77 What's left for the local school administration to do?

Rake in that sweet, sweet federal lucre while they poor mouth and increase class size and lay off teachers.

Posted by: no good deed at May 20, 2015 09:17 AM (GgxVX)

78 Local schools are so dependent on federal money that they can't operate without it?

What is it that local school administrators and local school boards do if the Federal government sets the curriculum, tells them what textbooks to buy, and from whom. Specifies teacher lesson plans, regulates sports programs, sex education, math and science instruction, classroom discipline, bathrooms and locker rooms.

What's left for the local school administration to do? Manage school busses and drivers? So local school administration are basically a taxi service and bureaucrats filing government reports and paid a wage that is twice the local wage scale. Sweet
Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 09:13 AM (cQTYI)

nailed it

Posted by: ghost of hallelujah at May 20, 2015 09:18 AM (7RXcs)

79 Barack Obama is a SCOAMT.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:18 AM (kff5f)

80 Bear sized aliens are acceptable as long as they come in Kate Upton proportions.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 20, 2015 09:18 AM (JtwS4)

81 Burn it down.
Scatter the stones.
Salt the earth where it stood.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (kff5f)

82 Mattress girl was probably real popular on campus,since she was easy and likes it up the squeaker.

Posted by: steevy at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (mGBKM)

83 Exactly. The ice levels are always going to fluctuate. Who can know the "proper" amount of polar ice anyway? Maybe the measurements in 1979 were at a time when polar ice was at an extremely high point? This time period of measurement is but a tiny blip in the existence of Earth.

Well we do know that the polar icecap at one time extended down to the Pittsburgh area. So we do know that the icecap has been receding for several 10's of thousands of years. So, for all we know the 1979 icepack may be it's low point.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (S+el1)

84 68 Oh no, mattress meme started.

His her mattress "soft" or "firm"

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:14 AM (0FSuD)

Mattress meme. It Serta started on the last thread.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (fWAjv)

85 "Torque/Math 2016!!!!!!!"

Now witness the firepower of this _fully armed and operational_ differential equation.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (noWW6)

86 Really, her so-called rapist thought she was down with it.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (9+3PX)

87 68 Oh no, mattress meme started.

His her mattress "soft" or "firm"

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:14 AM (0FSuD)

My sleep number is 69. What's yours?

Posted by: Mattress gurl at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (01ktV)

88 Well, really the key point is "newly updated NASA satellite data" .... they are frantically "updating" and "adjusting" the data to show warming where there is none.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 20, 2015 09:20 AM (S0bOl)

89 Where do you put the quarters in her mattress?

http://tinyurl.com/kkgt9uz

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:20 AM (0FSuD)

90 99

Don't think about it.

Posted by: mattress girl at May 20, 2015 09:20 AM (U7H1n)

91 And Dan Savage is a coward. He wouldn't do a show about "The Real Muhammeds" based on the religion that throws gays from buildings, but Irish Catholics? it's fair game. Weenie.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:20 AM (1sJza)

92

My sleep number is 69. What's yours?

Posted by: Mattress gurl at May 20, 2015 09:19 AM (01ktV)

My sleep number is stay on your side of the bed damn it.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 20, 2015 09:20 AM (S+el1)

93 Too bad he forgot to comforter afterwards.
Instead, she saw it as a sham.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:21 AM (9+3PX)

94 The school situation isn't quite as bad in Texas since we make most of our decisions and have opted out of common core. Plus all districts are ISDs which means they're able to collect taxes independent from the town.

Of course, it all depends on where you live, and Texas still doesn't have school choice like a lot of places.

Posted by: Lauren at May 20, 2015 09:21 AM (MYCIw)

95 Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:21 AM (9+3PX)

You seem in a ruffle today.

Posted by: wrg500 at May 20, 2015 09:22 AM (S+el1)

96 Why do republican candidates continue to talk to the press? It's idiotic. You don't talk to the other side's campaign team do you?

Posted by: james at May 20, 2015 09:15 AM (rVEMe)

Why they don't simply come out and call them lying Democrat hacks to their faces is beyond me.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2015 09:22 AM (zF6Iw)

97 Greetings gentlefappers.

What fresh hell awaits us this fine day?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 20, 2015 09:22 AM (0HooB)

98 Given her proclivities, wouldn't it be more apt for her to be carrying the mattress in front of her?

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at May 20, 2015 09:23 AM (NeFrd)

99 "Well we do know that the polar icecap at one time extended down to the Pittsburgh area. So we do know that the icecap has been receding for several 10's of thousands of years. So, for all we know the 1979 icepack may be it's low point."

Perhaps we should wish to go back to that degree of ice coverage.

If Natural climactic ebb and flow denialists are allowed to point to a specific period in the cycle and say "There, that's what the climate should be forever", why can't I?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2015 09:23 AM (VPLuQ)

100 Where do you put the quarters in her mattress?

How's her box spring?

Yeah, I got nothing.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2015 09:24 AM (zF6Iw)

101 It was a misunderstanding from the start - she commented on his bedroom rug and he thought she wanted to shag.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:24 AM (9+3PX)

102 Her mattress takes most major credit cards, debit cards, and EBT.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:24 AM (B0IEg)

103 72 her sleep number bed keeps track of the rapes
Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 09:16 AM (0O7c5)

Ha!

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:25 AM (2Ojst)

104 If Natural climactic ebb and flow denialists are allowed to point to a specific period in the cycle and say "There, that's what the climate should be forever", why can't I?

And I am sure its just a coincidence that the specific period they point to happens to coincide with the period when Baby Boomers were in their youth.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 09:25 AM (O7MnT)

105 Bear Sized Aliens, "Family Law" by Mackey Chandler.

I loved that book, the sequel "The Long Voyage of the Little Fleet" was just as interesting.

ya, ya, some news story about a young black bear wandered into Yonkers or some such. Climbed a tree and the dog catcher trank'd it.

Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 09:26 AM (cQTYI)

106 Public Schools absolutely need standardized tests. For decades, the Teacher's Unions have been churning out functional illiterates as "Graduates", defrauding both the taxpayers and the kids themselves. I've seen some of these tests, and they're not that bad (not counting Common Core, of course). The fact is that if a high school kid can't identify a Right Angle or identify the Author of Huckleberry Finn, then every Math/English grade they've received since sixth grade was a lie. And believe me, many HS Seniors get that basic shit wrong when subjected to Testing. Standardized tests are a check on the rampant failure and corruption of Teacher's Unions, that's why they fight them. Has nothing to do with the kids.

Posted by: LincolnTf at May 20, 2015 09:26 AM (2cS/G)

107 Powerline talks about an interesting Sean Trende article, talking about how the country falls in love with the GOP every time there is a Democrat president. The public loves the Repubs most when they are in vigorous opposition. Somebody should tell Bitch McConnell and/or John Boehner.

http://bit.ly/1Hh545q

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 09:26 AM (LISuA)

108 She's deemed him quilty until proven innocent.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:26 AM (9+3PX)

109 Why they don't simply come out and call them lying Democrat hacks to their faces is beyond me.

Because except for a very few of them: they're on the same team.

Those rare exceptions, therefore, cannot afford to do so- lest "everyone" (bipartisanship!) call them mean, uncivil, etc.

And, like it or not, such things do matter.

Now, if Republicans (in general) were *not* on the same team as Democrats, and *all* of them started calling the MFM lying scrunts, then it might be different. But remember: John Boehner, Mitch McConnel, and Lindsey Graham are not the RINOs. You and I are (well, you are, I'm not a "Republican" even in name (not registered)).

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:27 AM (kff5f)

110 BBL off to pack. Have to drive to ATL from CLT.

No fun.

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:27 AM (0FSuD)

111 I saw this is a trailer before "Far From the Madding Crowd". It's a teen movie which actually sounds good:

http://tinyurl.com/nx9o2b9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:27 AM (1sJza)

112 Don't piss her off. She is known for her bad tempur-pedic.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (fWAjv)

113 identify the Author of Huckleberry Finn

****

Ummm.....Maya Angelou??

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (NeFrd)

114
Ruh roh. I googled mattress girl and she's kind of hot.

My heads are at war with each other.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (JtwS4)

115 80 Bear sized aliens are acceptable as long as they come in Kate Upton proportions.
==========================

Are we sure the aliens aren't Bare, and not Bear?

That'll make a difference.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (LISuA)

116 Standardized tests are a check on the rampant failure and corruption of Teacher's Unions, that's why they fight them. Has nothing to do with the kids.

Posted by: LincolnTf

And yet they're mad for certification. People with math degrees can't teach

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (Spluw)

117 Stephanopoulos Helped Hatch Dem Strategy Dating Back To 2009
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I found it even bizarre in 2012 that a former Clinton mouth-piece was allowed to moderate Republican debates. With all of this coming up, I seriously ask myself if sitting on the RNC requires one to be certifiably insane.

Posted by: Harley Quinn at May 20, 2015 09:29 AM (CpiLj)

118 Somebody should tell Bitch McConnell and/or John Boehner.

I think Bitch and Boner know this to be true; and paradoxically, the more the country hates Democrats, the more Republicans have cover to act like Democrats.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 09:29 AM (O7MnT)

119 I'm going to have to insist on a new mattress for each thread.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:29 AM (659DL)

120 And yet they're mad for certification. People with math degrees can't teach
Posted by: Blue Hen at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (Spluw)

It drives me nuts that they routinely put teachers in the classroom who know dick about the subject matter they're supposed to teach.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:29 AM (2Ojst)

121 Bear sized aliens are acceptable as long as they come in Kate Upton proportions.

Soooo, furry bewbs are OK?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 20, 2015 09:30 AM (0HooB)

122 I hope to hell that "bear-sized alien" scientists wasn't working off taxpayer dollars.

Because that was the most worthless bit of pseudo-scientific drivel I've read this week.

The amount of purely out-of-the-ass assumptions in that makes me think the author of this bit of fanciful fluff has bought into NDGT's masturbatory fantasy that Giordano Bruno was the epitome of science, rather than a simple-minded mushroom popping proto-hippy.

Which means it probably was[/] paid for by tax dollars.

Posted by: krakatoa at May 20, 2015 09:30 AM (RCS9o)

123 Dammit.

Posted by: krakatoa at May 20, 2015 09:31 AM (RCS9o)

124
119 I'm going to have to insist on a new mattress for each thread.

Not in the budget.

We do add fresh bed lice in each thread, though.

Posted by: AoSHQ Style Guide Compliance Division at May 20, 2015 09:31 AM (JtwS4)

125 My heads are at war with each other.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (JtwS4)

i'm sure you'll work it out

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 09:31 AM (0O7c5)

126 114

Ruh roh. I googled mattress girl and she's kind of hot.

My heads are at war with each other.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (JtwS4)

I suggest a higher standard. Foreign looking flat chested girls with skinny legs are a dime a dozen

Posted by: Nip Sip at May 20, 2015 09:31 AM (0FSuD)

127 Beer-sized aliens on the other hand would be confusing and an interglactic war would probably ensue.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:31 AM (659DL)

128 Maybe Nungesser started all this trouble by trying to remove her "Do Not Remove Tag"

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 09:32 AM (LISuA)

129 103
72 her sleep number bed keeps track of the rapes

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 09:16 AM (0O7c5)

Ha!

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:25 AM (2Ojst)

thank you....i'm here until friday....try the veal...tip your waiters....

Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 09:32 AM (0O7c5)

130 If Common Core, standardized testing, and Federal control of local schools is the answer to our problems, what's the deal with Detroit! schools?

Not enough money. Right.

Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 09:32 AM (cQTYI)

131
Soooo, furry bewbs are OK?

Patricia Arquette, Human Nature.

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 20, 2015 09:32 AM (JtwS4)

132 There's a guy who could help with bear-sized aliens: Troy Hurtubise

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troy_Hurtubise

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:32 AM (9+3PX)

133 And yet they're mad for certification. People with math degrees can't teach

Posted by: Blue Hen at May 20, 2015 09:28 AM (Spluw)

I don't think that's an "and yet." I think the two are linked.

If only "certified teachers" "know how to teach" then whatever certified teachers say must be the truth. Therefore, keeping out anyone who might attempt to buck the system is paramount. Then when all the certified teachers (who must know, because they're certified - right?) say that "standardized testing doesn't work," well, of course who can dispute it- you're not a certified teacher, are you?

So it's all part of the same scam. Notice the fact they want to require certification but they absolutely abhor continuing education requirements and recertification. Oh, no, once you're certified you know it all and never need additional training or to verify (through a recert process) that you're up-to-date on best practices and such.

Full disclosure: there are lots of my family members who are or have been teachers, including my mother and brother- I know of what I speak.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:33 AM (kff5f)

134
Matress meme????

That's sofa king stupid.

Posted by: fixerupper at May 20, 2015 09:33 AM (8XRCm)

135
"Gun control activists may use recent DC ruling as a basis to try to get the courts to start interpreting the shit out of the 2nd Amendment"

Emanations.

Penumbras.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 08:57 AM (noWW6)

The last time I ate refried beans I had emanations for days. The penumbra didn't even succumb to a healthy dose of Lysol sprayed in the air.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2015 09:33 AM (lpeQC)

136 OK--some Moron called it a couple of days ago. The train engineer union says the solution to the Amtrak safety issue in the northeast is...wait for it...TWO engineers on the trains.

Predictable as clockwork, these people.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:33 AM (659DL)

137 FenelonSpoke, could always dig up the 1967 version of Far From the Madding Crowd with Julie Christie.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0061648/?ref_=nv_sr_2

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:34 AM (B0IEg)

138 Sweden's plan to combat ISIS -

When a person wishes to leave a violent extremist grouping or coming home from combat overseas, it is crucial to provide customized inclusion efforts. Even then, it is important to have a local cooperation between various actors. Voluntary organizations can provide targeted support and advice. Even faith communities working with advice, but also psychosocial support.

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Be extra nice to them when they return from fighting.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:34 AM (fWAjv)

139 the more the country hates Democrats, the more Republicans have cover to act like Democrats.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 09:29 AM (O7MnT)
=========================

Jefferson advocated periodic watering of liberty trees for this very reason.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 09:34 AM (LISuA)

140 She was asking for it, what with that mini-bedskirt!

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:34 AM (9+3PX)

141 Standardized tests measure Teacher performance, not student performance. Remove them and you've surrendered the entire notion of Education. Every kid will have read "Heather Has Two Mommies" and watched "An Inconvenient Truth" a dozen times, none will know how to do long division.

Posted by: LincolnTf at May 20, 2015 09:34 AM (2cS/G)

142 "The school situation isn't quite as bad in Texas since we make most of our decisions and have opted out of common core."

I caught an interview with Rick Perry on the radio the other day, and he was talking up the claim that TX high school graduation rates went up significantly during his gubernatorial tenure.

As one does, I proceeded to shout angrily at the dashboard, "That's because the big urban school districts have been kiting the test numbers, you dope!"

Dallas, Houston, Austin, San Antonio, El Paso: they've all got suspicious testing practices going on. And of course this is not limited to Texas. It's rife in all big school districts across the country. I could cite chapter and verse from here in Commiefornia.

Nothing will change, anywhere, until there is genuine school choice and school competition. Plus genuinely independent administration and proctoring of the tests which are used to compare schools. Leaving proctoring in the hands of ISD officials is putting the foxes in charge of henhouse security.

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 09:35 AM (noWW6)

143 Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:27 AM (kff5f)

Oh, I know, Allen. I should have just put "rhetorical question" at the end of my post.

I'm sick to death of comity uber alles that is SOP in DC and with these goddamn MFM hacks. For fuck's sake, you don't try to "understand" the slimeball who's trying to rape your daughter and you don't consider a thug breaking into your house an "esteemed colleague," so why the hell are you not breaking the jaw of the Dems whose political actions are the equivalent of rape and robbery?

I know I'm in the minority and that the game has to be played, but I would put myself into serious debt if somebody like Teh Ted would throw a carton of baby wipes at Chris Matthews' or Chris Wallace's face and say "Here. Don't forget to wipe Hillary's ass after you've finished kissing it" live on national TV.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2015 09:35 AM (zF6Iw)

144 What's the deal with mattress girl? Anyone got a 500 or less word summary? My own two-word summary is this: Art. Project.

But I figure maybe there's something to this thing I haven't heard because I haven't really been paying attention.

I have to say, she's one of those chicks who is mildly attractive at 22, but by the time she his 26/27 she will go downhill fast. Better carry that thing around with you now, girl, while you still can.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2015 09:35 AM (TOk1P)

145 "Gun control activists may use recent DC ruling as a basis to try to get the courts to start interpreting the shit out of the 2nd Amendment"

Wait, what? The one that struck down DC's somethingorother ban because it tried to make an end-run around the 2nd? Or some other DC ruling?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:35 AM (kff5f)

146 thank you....i'm here until friday....try the veal...tip your waiters....
Posted by: phoenixgirl at May 20, 2015 09:32 AM (0O7c5)

I think I'll try the waitress...she's kinda cute.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:36 AM (2Ojst)

147 138 Sweden's plan to combat ISIS
======================

It can be cold in Sweden's winters, so I hope they provide full metal jackets for all returning ISIS fighters.

That'll keep out the chill.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 09:36 AM (LISuA)

148 Soooo, furry bewbs are OK?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 20, 2015 09:30 AM (0HooB)

Doesn't seem to have hurt Mooch any.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2015 09:36 AM (zF6Iw)

149 But I figure maybe there's something to this thing I haven't heard because I haven't really been paying attention.

I have to say, she's one of those chicks who is mildly attractive at 22, but by the time she his 26/27 she will go downhill fast. Better carry that thing around with you now, girl, while you still can.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2015 09:35 AM (TOk1P)

Accused a fellow student of rape and was glorified by Rolling Stone.

Turns out she lied and she is bat shit crazy.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:37 AM (fWAjv)

150 Sweden's plan to combat ISIS

Gustavus Adolphus is going to come back and swat some people.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:37 AM (659DL)

151
As horrible as she is and even with two psych parents, mattress girl has serious mental health problems and I do feel sorry for her. No one is helping he with them. They just enable her. Still, she's got rich parents and that will always make her life comfortable.

Posted by: Bruce J. at May 20, 2015 09:37 AM (iQIUe)

152 The collected 'ette Emma Sulkowicz commentary wins the internet for today.

Posted by: MTF at May 20, 2015 09:38 AM (LISuA)

153 MP4 -
who says you're (we're) in the minority ?

I think that that would resonate with 90 % of the population.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 20, 2015 09:38 AM (S0bOl)

154 identify the Author of Huckleberry Finn

-
Hanna Babera?

Posted by: The Great White Snark at May 20, 2015 09:38 AM (SfFYg)

155 Bandersnatch and Insomniac

https://youtu.be/CHgv8xoIHM8

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:38 AM (B0IEg)

156 So speaking of gay bullying, the facebook propaganda generator on their sidebar is telling me that some random pastor in Michigan resigned because a website posted his profile from Grindr.

So, facebook is going to put a hit out on the poor man as well? Fucking dick heads. There's absolutely no reason to report this "news" other than to name and shame him.

Posted by: Lauren at May 20, 2015 09:38 AM (MYCIw)

157 Shorter "Sweden's plan to combat ISIS" - They just need hugs.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 09:38 AM (O7MnT)

158 And aside from the RCC, Dan Savage must hate his family too if the show is based on his family, because can anyone believe that a Irish Catholic woman is going to put a picture or statue of the Virgin Mary on a toilet seat to reins people to put the seat down? It's not even funny. Somebody probably could do funny stuff about being raised Irish Catholic- any number of Catholic writers have. Take Frank Harris who writes about a boy having his first Confession. The boy somehow hangs upside down by his feet in the confessional so that the priest hears a voice coming from above. The difference is that kind of thing comes from genuine affection. You may not agree with everything the church says, but you don't hate it. I don't think real comedy can come from a place of hate.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:39 AM (1sJza)

159 Posted by: Bruce J. at May 20, 2015 09:37 AM (iQIUe)

And here's the problem: if you were to say that just about anywhere but here, you'd be told how evil you were for not "understanding."

No longer is it virtuous to call out psychological problems and attempt to get the one so affected some help. No, now we must indulge their delusions lest their precious feelings be hurt.

See also: the recent Girl Scout decision to allow boys "as long as they identify as girls."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:39 AM (kff5f)

160 I am afriad to ask what "Grindr" is.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:39 AM (659DL)

161

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2015 09:40 AM (t//F+)

162 OK--some Moron called it a couple of days ago. The train engineer union says the solution to the Amtrak safety issue in the northeast is...wait for it...TWO engineers on the trains.

Predictable as clockwork, these people.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:33 AM (659DL)

The NASA standard is 'triple redundancy'. That is one tech doing the work, a second tech observing with a checklist to insure the work is done properly, and a third NASA Certified tech to make sure the other two are doing the work according to NASA Standards.

All of which is documented, reports filed, and a large support staff of administrators, secretaries, and Information Technology Engineers to design and build the digital data systems to support the administrative demands of document storage and retrieval.

Two engineers on an Amtrak train won't be sufficient. Amtrak will still need those automated systems to monitor the performance of the train crews.

Posted by: Gerry Sitwell at May 20, 2015 09:40 AM (cQTYI)

163 Full disclosure: there are lots of my family members who are or have been teachers, including my mother and brother- I know of what I speak.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:33 AM (kff5f)

I have teachers in my family as well, who are rather smart people and whose fields of academic study are also the fields in which they teach. They loathe and despise all the asinine bullshit that's been going on in education, especially over the last few years.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:40 AM (2Ojst)

164 Grindr was one of Thor's goats.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2015 09:40 AM (t//F+)

165 "Playing the game" is how we got where we are today.

Time to do something different.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 20, 2015 09:40 AM (S0bOl)

166 I don't think real comedy can come from a place of hate.

-----

I do not understand those words in that order.

~ Kathy Griffin

Posted by: fixerupper at May 20, 2015 09:40 AM (8XRCm)

167 Standardized tests are a check on the rampant failure and corruption of Teacher's Unions, that's why they fight them. Has nothing to do with the kids.

Might also have to do with families and communities who not only do not prioritize learning, but sneer at it.

Never forget it's a multi-front round-robin Charlie Foxtrot.

Posted by: Brother Cavil, down with Eph 6:12 at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (DT3rQ)

168 >>What's the deal with mattress girl? Anyone got a 500 or less word summary? My own two-word summary is this: Art. Project.

IIRC: She was dating her "rapist's" friend, but hooking up w/said BF's friends.
Her "rapist" was a friend with whom she confided relationship woes.
They became friends w/benefits with her prompting (sent him tweets suggesting they do specific sexual things).
He took her up on her offer more than once but then stopped.
She got pissed and claimed rape.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (9+3PX)

169
What's the deal with mattress girl? Anyone got a 500 or less word summary?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2015 09:35 AM (TOk1P)

Three words.

Cray-cray.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (lpeQC)

170 And they are all so damn gleeful about it too. Openly celebrating destroying this man's life.

Posted by: Lauren at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (MYCIw)

171 I think that that would resonate with 90 % of the population.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 20, 2015 09:38 AM (S0bOl)

You're wrong. Most of the population still believes that journalists should be respected and "are just looking out for the little guy." Any Republican who did such a thing would be driven out of the party and civilized society faster than you can say "boo."

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (kff5f)

172 160 I am afriad to ask what "Grindr" is.
Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:39 AM (659DL)

I believe it's Tinder for teh gheyz.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (2Ojst)

173 Hanna Babera?

Val Kilmer?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at May 20, 2015 09:42 AM (0HooB)

174 Support for relatives: if a person has become active in a violent extremist grouping, or a trip to participate in battles abroad does not has gone to prevent it is very important to provide support to family, friends and related parties from the social and voluntary sectors. A national helpline targeted to anxious relatives will start in the autumn.
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So sweet of 'em.

Posted by: RWC - Team BOHICA at May 20, 2015 09:43 AM (fWAjv)

175 Sorry; The short story is by Frank O'Connor. It's really a nice story featuring the old style confessionals:

http://tinyurl.com/ybvs5k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:43 AM (1sJza)

176 I believe it's Tinder for teh gheyz.
Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (2Ojst)

----

They're setting gayz on fire???

Posted by: fixerupper at May 20, 2015 09:43 AM (8XRCm)

177 Grindr-Gay hook up site.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 20, 2015 09:43 AM (1sJza)

178 That live-science article about bear-sized aliens is vacuous.
The logic could support the idea that aliens will be large lemurs or tribbles.

I mean, yeah go ahead and love science sexually, but try to avoid the 16 YO fantasies based on nothing but rumors, popular movies and half-read magazine articles.

Posted by: Kindltot at May 20, 2015 09:43 AM (t//F+)

179 "Somebody probably could do funny stuff about being raised Irish Catholic- any number of Catholic writers have"

Jim Gaffigan has a brand new show starting that I imagine will deal with some of this since it's based on his life. And I expect it will actually be funny as well since he's hilarious.

Posted by: Lauren at May 20, 2015 09:44 AM (MYCIw)

180 (way up thread) the news about Kamala Harris's staff their "police force" died a quick death in the local news cycle here...

i don't think it lasted even a day: there certainly hasn't been any follow up in the local rags that i've heard of.

of course, Leland Yee hasn't been mentioned since his arrest either.

but, then again, this being #Failifornia, wtf did you expect?

the MFM has been running reports about how the local economy has been improving though...

Posted by: redc1c4 at May 20, 2015 09:44 AM (RiMtm)

181 Standardized testing is nothing new, but all the angst and anguish over them is. Back in the day, you didn't really prepare, there was no big deal made over them, you just went and took it and got on about your business. Now you have teachers stressing all year about it and projecting it onto the students to the point that they develop physical ailments.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:44 AM (2Ojst)

182 The author of Huckleberry Finn was F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:44 AM (659DL)

183 >>And I expect it will actually be funny as well since he's hilarious.

"Hot pockets!!"

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:45 AM (9+3PX)

184 On the Sulkowicz flap:

I had a male friend relate how he had been propositioned by a (in his retelling, quite attractive) woman who had previously made known to him her propensities for buttsechs and for hookups with strangers.

He politely declined and ran like hell.

I said, "What an opportunity missed for a memorable first date! I know this darling little STD clinic. Off the beaten path, far from the madding crowd, but small and traditional. The staff are unobtrusive but attentive. Real crisp white linen on the exam tables. And they do a lab culture Petri dish to die for. It's their house specialty."

Posted by: torquewrench at May 20, 2015 09:45 AM (noWW6)

185 Brooklyn 99 may have had half the viewers of I Love Lucy but it was twice as funny.

Posted by: Cruzinator at May 20, 2015 09:45 AM (8cSVB)

186 They're setting gayz on fire???
Posted by: fixerupper at May 20, 2015 09:43 AM (8XRCm)

Seems redundant, since they're already flaming.

*rimshot*

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:45 AM (2Ojst)

187 *Ambassador Kagu swings on his long banded lemur tail in zero gravity and snorts at the fanciful dream castles of these primitive humans*

"I have to add another chapter to my field notes it seems," Kagu says to Nolly.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:45 AM (B0IEg)

188 New one.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:46 AM (2Ojst)

189 AllenG -
Respectfully disagree .... I haven't talked to anyone in years who thinks that.
Even the few Urban Hipster Lefties we still know think that the news is all lies - for different reasons than we do, of course, but still liars lying to us.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 20, 2015 09:46 AM (S0bOl)

190 Corgis, nude NSA thread.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at May 20, 2015 09:46 AM (B0IEg)

191 They loathe and despise all the asinine bullshit that's been going on in education, especially over the last few years.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 20, 2015 09:40 AM (2Ojst)

I wish I could say the same. The members of my family were all quite excellent teachers. They all had/have the same complaints though.

"I don't get paid for a single day I don't work!" (Well, guess what- neither do I)

"I have to work after I get home" (Well, guess what- so do I)

"I have to have continuing education courses, and I have to pay out of my own pocket!" (Well, guess what- so do I- at least, if I want to be any good at my job).

"I don't get Social Security!" (Well, no, but a) SS may not exist by the time I'm ready to retire, and b) you *do* get State guaranteed retirement benefits for which you never had to set aside a single penny).

"Our health insurance sucks!" (Tell that to those of us who have been forced off regular health insurance all together by rising prices, reduced employer contributions, and flat wages).

Cry me a f*cking river.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:47 AM (kff5f)

192
The author of Huckleberry Finn was F. Scott Fitzgerald.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 20, 2015 09:44 AM (659DL)

You contemptible liar! It was William Faulkner.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2015 09:47 AM (lpeQC)

193 168 >>What's the deal with mattress girl? Anyone got a 500 or less word summary?

I wanted butt seks. When my boyfriend balked, I got my feelings hurt and cried 'rape!".

Posted by: Mattress gurl at May 20, 2015 09:47 AM (01ktV)

194 >>What's the deal with mattress girl? Anyone
got a 500 or less word summary? My own two-word summary is this: Art.
Project.

IIRC: She was dating her "rapist's" friend, but hooking up w/said BF's friends.

Her "rapist" was a friend with whom she confided relationship woes.

They became friends w/benefits with her prompting (sent him tweets suggesting they do specific sexual things).

He took her up on her offer more than once but then stopped.

She got pissed and claimed rape.

Posted by: Lizzy at May 20, 2015 09:41 AM (9+3PX)

Thanks! That's the stuff I didn't know. I knew she was claiming rape, and the police investigated and subsequently dropped it, but I didn't know the details.

Maybe we need a different word for actual rape, since it's being used so casually these days. Modifiers don't work. You can't say forcible rape, or violent rape, because then we have to start parsing those words too, just making it worse. We need a whole new word.

Same thing with marriage... but sorta backwards, I guess.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 20, 2015 09:48 AM (TOk1P)

195 You contemptible liar! It was William Faulkner.
Posted by: IllTemperedCur at May 20, 2015 09:47 AM (lpeQC)

Nuh uh. It was Nathaniel Hawthorne.

Posted by: 1bulwetweft at May 20, 2015 09:52 AM (nqiq9)

196
Bandersnatch and Insomniac

Oh! Aren't you just the givingest?

Posted by: Bandersnatch at May 20, 2015 09:53 AM (JtwS4)

197 Well, really the key point is "newly updated NASA satellite data" .... they are frantically "updating" and "adjusting" the data to show warming where there is none.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at May 20, 2015 09:20 AM (S0bOl)

That, and warmists are now rejecting the satellite data because it doesn't show what they expect. Since the data doesn't fit the theory, we must discard the data.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 20, 2015 09:55 AM (0RdKg)

198 I think that we should adopt the Sub-Safe methodology for every aspect of Amtrak.

BBL,
heading to the range for a bit of recoil therapy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at May 20, 2015 09:57 AM (VPLuQ)

199 "Somebody probably could do funny stuff about being raised Irish Catholic- any number of Catholic writers have"

A funny book about growing up Italian Catholic is Pagan Babies and Other Catholic Memories by Gina Cascone. You can get it for one cent on Amazon.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing at May 20, 2015 09:57 AM (zF6Iw)

200 >>> Grindr-Gay hook up site.

not exactly. Hook up *app* and totes anonymous, using GPS locating, says things like "this guy is 100 feet away!" and etc.

Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 10:00 AM (3ZtZW)

201 The school situation isn't quite as bad in Texas since we make most of our decisions and have opted out of common core.
Posted by: Lauren at May 20, 2015 09:21 AM (MYCIw)

I agree with you, Lauren.

Much of it depends on where you live and who you know. A friend that I grew up with teaches in the Dallas ISD and has become totally cray-cray. If I hadn't known her since Vic wore knickers I would unfriend her on FB. I feel sorry for her.

She's politically active, supports and is friends with the far-left activists on the Dallas ISD school board, and never met a leftist cause that she couldn't support. There are many, many more like her.

In the teaching profession, crazy is the new normal.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 20, 2015 10:10 AM (0RdKg)

202 >>> Grindr-Gay hook up site.

not exactly. Hook up *app* and totes anonymous, using GPS locating, says things like "this guy is 100 feet away!" and etc.

Posted by: Bigby's Punch Bug Blue at May 20, 2015 10:00 AM (3ZtZW)

... or, so I've heard.

Posted by: Gregory of Yardale at May 20, 2015 10:17 AM (O7MnT)

203 So it's all part of the same scam. Notice the fact they want to require certification but they absolutely abhor continuing education requirements and recertification. Oh, no, once you're certified you know it all and never need additional training or to verify (through a recert process) that you're up-to-date on best practices and such.
Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) - Quietly Seething at May 20, 2015 09:33 AM (kff5f)

^^^^^^^^^^^^^
This. The leftist teachers I know insist that teaching is some sort of magic and fight hard against people with hard math and science degrees entering their profession.

Posted by: Michael the Hobbit at May 20, 2015 10:25 AM (0RdKg)

204 The media doesn't want to make Hillary start answering questions. They want you to *believe* they want Hillary to start answering questions.

Posted by: holygoat at May 20, 2015 12:59 PM (t3wLW)

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