Again: Department of Justice Awards $585,719 Grant to University to Study "Far Right Extremism" on the Internet

Terrorist threats must be excused away, apologized for, and tolerated, except the one hypothetical kind.

The Department of Justice is concentrating on "far-right" groups in a new study of social media usage aimed at combatting violent extremism.
The Justice Department’s National Institute of Justice (NIJ) awarded Michigan State University $585,719 for the study, which was praised by Eric Holder, the former attorney general, earlier this year.
"There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter, in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and radicalize individuals to violence," according to the NIJ grant. "The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements."
The study draws more upon right-wing forums than upon the corners of the web inhabited by Islamist extremists.
"We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right and three from the Islamic Extremist community, as well as posts made in Facebook, LiveJournal, Twitter, YouTube, and Pastebin accounts used by members of each movement," the grant said.

They should use that money to begin investigating British GQ, which recently did an interview with right-wing extremist Vince Vaughn.

On the American right to own a gun:
"I support people having a gun in public full stop, not just in your home. We don't have the right to bear arms because of burglars; we have the right to bear arms to resist the supreme power of a corrupt and abusive government. It's not about duck hunting; it's about the ability of the individual. It's the same reason we have freedom of speech. It's well known that the greatest defence against an intruder is the sound of a gun hammer being pulled back. All these gun shootings that have gone down in America since 1950, only one or maybe two have happened in non-gun-free zones. Take mass shootings. They've only happened in places that don't allow guns. These people are sick in the head and are going to kill innocent people. They are looking to slaughter defenceless human beings. They do not want confrontation. In all of our schools it is illegal to have guns on campus, so again and again these guys go and shoot up these f***ing schools because they know there are no guns there. They are monsters killing six-year-olds."
On whether guns should be allowed in schools:
"Of course. You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to? They do. And we should be allowed the same rights. Banning guns is like banning forks in an attempt to stop making people fat. Taking away guns, taking away drugs, the booze, it won't rid the world of criminality."

A movie critic and alleged writer greeted this interview the only way they know how:

I always suspected that Vince Vaughn was stunningly stupid, and now my suspicions have been confirmed.
— Scott Weinberg (@scottEweinberg) June 1, 2015

Stunningly stupid?

Sounds like someone's got a lot of Adverb Friends!!!!

That "said" looks awfully lonely. Maybe you should give it an adverb friend. Maybe you should give them ALL adverb friends.
— The Worst Muse (@WorstMuse) July 9, 2014

Posted by: Ace at 03:38 PM

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1 Adverb? Never heard of it.

Posted by: Charlie Gibson at June 01, 2015 03:36 PM (A98Xu)

2 Was watching Mr. and Mrs. Smith the other day and was struck by how it's arguably a very conservative movie. Which makes sense considering the views of many of the actors in it.

Posted by: Colorado Alex at June 01, 2015 03:37 PM (10ydV)

3 "Stunningly stupid" applies to A LOT of Hollywood, but I'd start with Sean Penn and Rosie O'Donnell.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 03:38 PM (umo6N)

4 "There is currently limited knowledge of the role of technology and
computer mediated communications (CMCs), such as Facebook and Twitter,
in the dissemination of messages that promote extremist agendas and
radicalize individuals to violence,""

Where the fuck do these people live? The entire Ferguson and Baltimore protests were organized and proliferated on social media. But they have "limited knowledge" of that role? Were the hell do they live in a barn?

Posted by: Marcus T at June 01, 2015 03:40 PM (GGCsk)

5 Lolly, lolly, lolly get your adverbs here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dDwXHTcodNg

Posted by: JackStraw at June 01, 2015 03:40 PM (g1DWB)

6 the right of the people means the right of the state, and don't you fergit it.

Posted by: mallfly at June 01, 2015 03:40 PM (qSIlh)

7 Ha, My People calling a group radical extremists.

Posted by: Titanium at June 01, 2015 03:40 PM (2blpY)

8 >>The study draws more upon right-wing forums than upon the corners of the web inhabited by Islamist extremists.

Naturally. Because you don't want those dang Lutherans pulling off a surprise domestic terror attack or something. They also don't have advocates nestled into the federal government like Mohammed Elibiary ensuring that their "civil rights" aren't violated by profiling or unfair bias against their religion.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 03:41 PM (umo6N)

9

I'd like to ask anyone on the so-called Left to identify the extremists on their side.

There is no right and left. It's a false paradigm. You either believe in liberty and limited government as espoused by the Framers and the Scottish Enlightenment or you believe in an all powerful state that controls your life to a lesser or greater extent.

One or the other. Liberty or tyranny.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 01, 2015 03:41 PM (St6BJ)

10 Well, shuckie-darn.

Posted by: Killerdog at June 01, 2015 03:41 PM (18QvC)

11 I read the post, and the linked article, and I know what the words mean, but I don't know what Obama means when he speaks those words.

Well, I suspect that what Obama really means is something different than what those words mean to me.

In Obama's universe right wing extremists could easily describe the Rotary Club, or the Lions Club, or a host of other social clubs that are white, christian, and conservative.

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 03:41 PM (n4VVw)

12 That said, I give Vince Vaughn's comments the same weight I give Rosie O'Donnell's: next to none. I don't seek, nor do I care what these dancing monkeys think about my rights.

I pay your organ grinder a nickel to watch you dance. When your dance is over, get back in your box. When I want to see another dance, I'll pay another nickel. I don't give a damn what you think.

It is nice to see the occasional celebrity with the guts to stand up for rights, but still....

Posted by: chiefjaybob at June 01, 2015 03:42 PM (4CBaM)

13 >>Where the fuck do these people live? The entire Ferguson and Baltimore
protests were organized and proliferated on social media.

But that's not "violent extremism" in their view.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 03:42 PM (umo6N)

14 Other than having heard the name, I have no idea who "Vince Vaughn" is.

I like his thinking on this subject.

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 01, 2015 03:43 PM (KCxzN)

15 11 Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 03:41 PM (n4VVw)

Right wing extremist = anyone who disagrees with the direction of the nation and those driving it that way.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at June 01, 2015 03:43 PM (St6BJ)

16 Whoa. Who said we need the metadata program. Apparently it's all right there on Twitter and Facebook.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 01, 2015 03:43 PM (GGCsk)

17 The Ferguson and Baltimore protests are justified rebellion against oppression. (In Obama's Universe.)

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 03:44 PM (n4VVw)

18 I'm glad the Justice Department is looking into all the right-wing extremism going on in the country. Those nut jobs have killed so many lately: Sandy Hook, Aurora, Phoenix, Ft. Hood, the list goes on and on.

Posted by: chiefjaybob at June 01, 2015 03:44 PM (4CBaM)

19 Save time and money and visit the SLPC website. I'm sure all the korrect right-wing terror groups are all right there.

Posted by: fly gal at June 01, 2015 03:44 PM (8TdcF)

20 Vince Vaughn's Garbage (soon to be) hardest hit.

Posted by: Brian Schweitzer at June 01, 2015 03:44 PM (IrH2i)

21 I always suspected that Scott Weinburg was stunningly stupid, and now my suspicions have been confirmed

Posted by: Vince Vaughn at June 01, 2015 03:44 PM (kLAQB)

22 >>Whoa. Who said we need the metadata program. Apparently it's all right there on Twitter and Facebook.

One of the big reasons I am on neither Twitter nor Facebook. I am amused at the people who scream about government overreach but post EVERYTHING on their Facebook page.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 01, 2015 03:44 PM (g1DWB)

23 The music gets louder.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 01, 2015 03:45 PM (evdj2)

24 Which four forums used by members of the "far right" are they going to check? I'd like a general idea of what constitutes "far right" for them. Lutheran potluck recipes forums?

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at June 01, 2015 03:45 PM (9Y7bY)

25 >>"We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right<

Foxnews
AOSHQ
The Blaze
WaTimes

Posted by: Marcus T at June 01, 2015 03:45 PM (GGCsk)

26 GovernorSockOFF

Posted by: Garrett at June 01, 2015 03:45 PM (IrH2i)

27 I always vaguely suspected that Scott Weinberg was stunningly stupid, and now my bristly suspicions have been explosively confirmed.

Posted by: MTF at June 01, 2015 03:45 PM (DkJ4E)

28 Now I know that Scott Weinberg is frighteningly fatuous.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 01, 2015 03:46 PM (8ZskC)

29 The gubmint's obsession with so-called "right wing" extremism never ceases to darkly amuse me. For every supposed whackadoodle who claims to be a one man (or woman) militia, there are LEGIONS -- literally -- of hardcore leftwing extremists who actively and continually agitate for violence and often partake in it. But what does teh gubmint say?

Nothing.

Or, more often than not, they dismiss them as "mostly peaceful."

Bull to the shit.

But no. Leftwing anarchist cults and black power groups and Communist hardliners are totes legit, folks. Destroying public and private property while wearing Guy Fawkes masks and screaming "FUCK THE POLICE! EAT THE RICH! KILL ALL MEN! DIE, HONKY!" is just their way of exercising their freedom of speech rights.

Oh, you want to hold a Tea Party rally in front of the State House in celebration of the Constitution? TERRORIST!

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Assault Hobbit & Vaginassassin, aka Beth at June 01, 2015 03:46 PM (4df7R)

30 Vince Vaughn could buy Scott Weinburg with the change in his couch.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 01, 2015 03:46 PM (evdj2)

31 Vince Vaughn was great. They cant refute what he said so they have to resort to name calling. Which makes them...stunningly stupid

Posted by: ThunderB at June 01, 2015 03:47 PM (zOTsN)

32 This is why I say inside every lefty is someone just waiting for the Gulags to open up.

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2015 03:47 PM (kLAQB)

33 The simple truth is that Islamic Extremists are not an existential threat to the Sitting US Government.

They have proven incompetent when faced by professional opposition.

'Right Wing' US Extremists, being Conservatives, are the very definition of Competent... and if it really hits the fan... ARE an existential threat to the Professional Political Class which this Government now protects...

ergo.... DHS and DOJ will focus on the real threat.

Posted by: BB Wolf at June 01, 2015 03:47 PM (qh617)

34 >>> Posted by: chiefjaybob at June 01, 2015 03:42 PM (4CBaM)

I get your point, but I think it's good for us when someone with as high a profile as Vince Vaughn speaks up on these issues. It makes it harder to otherize us as kooks and bitter clingers if popular actors like him and Clint Eastwood agree with us. I wish he had made that statement in the American GQ instead of the Brit one. I'm sure he'll get pilloried for it on social media anyway.

Posted by: L, Elle at June 01, 2015 03:47 PM (2x3L+)

35 Wait, how does this even work!! So you can get paid to read the internet? Awesome-sauce!!

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton, CEO, Clinton Foundation at June 01, 2015 03:48 PM (DkJ4E)

36 Now I know that Scott Weinberg is frighteningly fatuous.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at June 01, 2015 03:46 PM (8ZskC)

I argue Scott Weinberg is a pusillanimous pissmire--or would that be 'pusillanimously pissmirish'?

Posted by: troyriser at June 01, 2015 03:49 PM (S08gh)

37 Stupid
[stoo-pid]

tediously dull, especially due to lack of meaning or sense; inane; pointless:

Hi Scott Weinberg.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 01, 2015 03:49 PM (GGCsk)

38 1. God Bless Vince Vaughan. I knew I liked that guy for a reason.

2. I know people dislike going 'godwin' but there is a reason totalitarian governments try to control the populations speech and ability to fight back.

3. I have been for some reason watching old xmen cartoons from the 90's and there is a whole thing on the sentinels (which I think were in the not great recent movie), but the attempt to wipe out mutants via robots (basically) is morphing into the terminators and skynet in my brain...And then you start thinking what the current crew would do with something like that and it's scary as hell. Let's hope we don't ever get that far gone...

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 03:49 PM (lIU4e)

39 I'm alluringly alliterative.

Posted by: Scott Weinberg at June 01, 2015 03:49 PM (8ZskC)

40 MWR, to the LIV leftists, tea party members represent a bigger challenge to their interests than violent leftists

Posted by: Barb the Evil Genius at June 01, 2015 03:50 PM (9Y7bY)

41 Even though this is not Rapey Tuesday, I feel that ace is raping me again and again.

I know what I'll do. I'll file a lawsuit.

Posted by: OregonMuse at June 01, 2015 03:50 PM (I8YZX)

42 I'm alluringly alliterative.

Also impressively illiterate.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 01, 2015 03:50 PM (evdj2)

43 22 >>Whoa. Who said we need the metadata program. Apparently it's all right there on Twitter and Facebook.

One of the big reasons I am on neither Twitter nor Facebook. I am amused at the people who scream about government overreach but post EVERYTHING on their Facebook page.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 01, 2015 03:44 PM (g1DWB)

And Facebook is part of the Catalist network... a HUGE database of personal information which its OWN MISSION STATEMENT says is for Progressive causes....

and if you use their info, you have to GIVE them info...

ergo...

Posted by: BB Wolf at June 01, 2015 03:50 PM (qh617)

44 39 I'm alluringly alliterative.
========================

Blindingly bumbling?

Posted by: Chelsea Clinton, CEO, Clinton Foundation at June 01, 2015 03:51 PM (DkJ4E)

45 "We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right..."

I'm just excited to see us all involved in a government-funded study.

Think we could stuff the ballot-boxes, at it were?

Posted by: Washington Nearsider, Keeper of the Guards, returned from 1080 exile at June 01, 2015 03:51 PM (cv6Ng)

46 this is as bad as the time they opened my can of diet coke

Posted by: ThunderB at June 01, 2015 03:51 PM (zOTsN)

47 >>But what does teh gubmint say?Nothing.

It's worse than that MWR, they are working with them - Sharpton, CAIR, Code Pink - and then Obama lectures *us* that we have to tolerate the Frguson inspired mobs blocking our streets, our bridges because this is what it takes to bring about change.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 03:51 PM (umo6N)

48 Scott Weinberg please get to the back of the line.

Posted by: Cruzinator at June 01, 2015 03:52 PM (XX9+E)

49 John has a long mustache.

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 01, 2015 03:52 PM (evdj2)

50 Condescendingly contumacious?

Posted by: MTF at June 01, 2015 03:52 PM (DkJ4E)

51 Condescendingly contumacious?

Posted by: MTF at June 01, 2015 03:52 PM (DkJ4E)

52
So they are not going study the online ravings of Dan Savage since he inspired the guy to shoot up the Family Research Council offices.

Posted by: Benji Carver at June 01, 2015 03:52 PM (OD2ni)

53 Wienberg is a quisling quim

Posted by: ThunderB at June 01, 2015 03:53 PM (zOTsN)

54 Wrong group to be looking at... Try left wing extremists...

Posted by: donna at June 01, 2015 03:53 PM (Bn6aD)

55 Disgustingly doubled

Posted by: MTF at June 01, 2015 03:53 PM (DkJ4E)

56 Well, if Google and Facebook really are collecting data for the great social cleansing, then I'm screwed.

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 03:53 PM (n4VVw)

57 We will collect posts made in four active forums used by members of the far-right...

So, they're going to investigate Hector's death threats, then?

Oh, wait. Those death threats were made against US.

Never mind.

Posted by: Citizen X at June 01, 2015 03:54 PM (7ObY1)

58 Hey, Uncle Sam.
Come and get me, you wanker.

Posted by: Y-not at June 01, 2015 03:54 PM (RWGcK)

59 Some of my best friends are expletives.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 03:55 PM (9mTYi)

60 Scott Weinberg 29minutes ago

I've blocked more people in an hour than I have in a year. All because I said Vince Vaughn is a moron. Learn to pick your battles, people.

What a brave, brave Twitter warrior.

Posted by: Citizen X at June 01, 2015 03:55 PM (7ObY1)

61 Maybe you should give them ALL adverb friends.

Can I adverb an adverb? *srednop*

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 01, 2015 03:56 PM (ZKzrr)

62 Well, if Google and Facebook really are collecting data for the great social cleansing, then I'm screwed.
Posted by: Armound
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Yeah..., we really need to get to work on that secret handshake to be used in the camps.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 03:56 PM (9mTYi)

63 56 Well, if Google and Facebook really are collecting data for the great social cleansing, then I'm screwed.

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 03:53 PM (n4VVw)

There aint no such thing as a free lunch...

If you are not the customer, you are the product.

Posted by: BB Wolf at June 01, 2015 03:57 PM (qh617)

64 Can I adverb an adverb?

extremely erasable earthling ?

Posted by: Grump928(c) a prohet with out honor at June 01, 2015 03:57 PM (evdj2)

65 in today's data mining world, where you go, what you are looking at, and what you search exists technically forever.

There aren't that many conservatives and I'm confident conservatives could be removed from polite company if they really wanted. Indeed some are calling for it now.

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 03:57 PM (wkuqO)

66 One supposes that The List was compiled by the SPLC.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 03:58 PM (9mTYi)

67 "Some of my best friends are expletives."

Effin' straight.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 01, 2015 03:58 PM (LA7Cm)

68 That time Ace accused me of being a Friends fan was like rape.

Posted by: Garrett at June 01, 2015 03:58 PM (IrH2i)

69 in today's data mining world, where you go, what you are looking at, and what you search exists technically forever.
---------

Bwahahaha....

Posted by: Hillary's destryed emails. at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (9mTYi)

70 "Of course. You think the politicians that run my country and your country don't have guns in the schools their kids go to?"

Wait, you mean Sidwell Friends is not a gun free zone???

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (C278+)

71 I really don't get the fascination with righties, Eric.

Just tell us where and when to report to Fun Camp, and you can count on us being there. You needn't worry about our guns, because we will bring them with us when we report.

All you'll have to do is ask the nice DOJ men in the black uniforms to take them away from us.

Posted by: MTF at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (DkJ4E)

72 "The proposed study will address this gap through a series of qualitative
and quantitative analyses of posts from various forms of CMC used by
members of both the far-right and Islamic extremist movements."

PHEW!!!!

Posted by: PETA, ELF, ALF, Code Pink, ACORN, Cummuinst Party USA at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (umo6N)

73 Yeah..., we really need to get to work on that secret handshake to be used in the camps.

I'll never make the camps.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (sUwfN)

74 That time Ace accused me of being a Friends fan was like rape.

Ace calling me a homophobe was like 911 to me.

Posted by: Grump928(c) beating memes to death since 2006 at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (evdj2)

75 There's something about Lindsey Graham I like a lot. Can't quite put my finger on it. BTW, I also liked Larry Craig and Denny Hastert, also for reasons I can't really articulate. Now excuse me while I go drool over Caitlyn Jenner.

Posted by: Log Cabin Republican at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (7u7u7)

76 Why do you never see anyone in the MFM say anything about the "far left"? Why does the MFM put an "I" after commie Sanders instead of a "C"?

And Why is the corrupt DOJ giving money to the communists. Everyone with a working brain knows that these grants are nothing but a vehicle to funnel government largess to cronies.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at June 01, 2015 04:00 PM (GpgJl)

77 >>Well, if Google and Facebook really are collecting data for the great social cleansing, then I'm screwed.
Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 03:53 PM (n4VVw)

Facebook knows stuff about me but I don't talk about politics on it. Google otoh...

Also my phone knows when I'm driving home and how long it will take to get there and sometimes (this varies) even knows when I'm going to appointments and where they are...so that's creepy.

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:00 PM (lIU4e)

78
I bet Brit heads are exploding over the VV interview.

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at June 01, 2015 04:00 PM (iQIUe)

79 I am all for rooting out violent extremism at it's source. I say we begin in the White House and Justice Department, move on to Baltimore, then start more broadly cleaning up the Democratic party.

Posted by: flounder at June 01, 2015 04:00 PM (ecDRv)

80 Of course my home address and work address and probably a host of other things about me are a matter of public record.

We really are not a very private society.

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:01 PM (lIU4e)

81 And I hope that idiot Lindsay is happy with his new corrupt AG.

Posted by: Vic We Have No Party at June 01, 2015 04:01 PM (GpgJl)

82 "Stunningly stupid "

Shit I probably do this all the time, I probably have more adverb friends than he does.

Posted by: Mae West at June 01, 2015 04:01 PM (RJMhd)

83 Does anyone know anything about New Hampshire's Porcfest - The Porcupine Freedom Festival?

Posted by: Actinide at June 01, 2015 04:01 PM (jppz9)

84 78 Watch out for the yelow teeth shrapnel!

Posted by: steevy at June 01, 2015 04:02 PM (mGBKM)

85 I think Vaughn is delightfully daffy!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:02 PM (umo6N)

86 Ugh, more fantasy related policy.

99.9999999999999999999999999999999999% of terrorist violence would be eliminated if you just carefully tracked and acted upon intelligence generated by-

muslims, radical leftards, radical ecotards.

The remaining .000000000000000000000000000001%

could be stopped by getting schizophrenic loonies to take their meds or locking them up.

Right wing terrorism is practically nonexistent compared to all of these other groups.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 01, 2015 04:02 PM (0cMkb)

87 Hillary, thou art a hungry, heartless harridan!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:02 PM (9mTYi)

88 79 I am all for rooting out violent extremism at it's source. I say we begin in the White House and Justice Department, move on to Baltimore, then start more broadly cleaning up the Democratic party.
Posted by: flounder at June 01, 2015 04:00 PM (ecDRv)

I'm somewhat lazy, I'm pretty sure they will do themselves in with their military grade stupid.

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 04:03 PM (wkuqO)

89 ....and Scott Weinberg is uncommonly unctuous.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:03 PM (umo6N)

90 In Obama's universe right wing extremists could easily describe the Rotary Club, or the Lions Club, or a host of other social clubs that are white, christian, and conservative.

Right, and those who live in Obama's universe are very much afraid of "right-wing terrorism", which they consider to be a very much greater threat than ISIS

Posted by: OregonMuse at June 01, 2015 04:03 PM (I8YZX)

91 Damn it I double dutched on probably.

Posted by: Mae West at June 01, 2015 04:03 PM (RJMhd)

92 I apparently insulted a bunch of Rubio fans on Twitter by saying that he is inexperienced and mentioned the Gof8 debacle. I was called a one-issue voter. Huh? I am disgustingly dim I guess.

Posted by: jmel at June 01, 2015 04:04 PM (cYlXD)

93 Weinberg is a Zoroastrian zealot

Posted by: ThunderB at June 01, 2015 04:04 PM (zOTsN)

94
Has anyone presented our list of DEMANDS to Ace yet?

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at June 01, 2015 04:04 PM (iQIUe)

95 The Left has weaponized the bureaucracy.

We either replace it or it will consume us.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 04:04 PM (oVJmc)

96 "The road to hell is paved with adverbs." - S. King

Posted by: A. Guy at June 01, 2015 04:04 PM (d6iMX)

97 Scott Weinberg was a fan of Tom Swift novels when he was a kid, Snerdly said Snidely.

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 04:04 PM (n4VVw)

98 I LOVE Vincent Vaughn. And now I love him even more.

Posted by: small town girl, crusader at June 01, 2015 04:05 PM (Ml0T/)

99 >> I am disgustingly dim I guess.

Or searingly succinct?

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:05 PM (umo6N)

100
The good thing is you are saving the govt money just with this post and comments. Giving the pot smoking researchers their first research.

Something I always thought was stunningly stupid was the thought that one more gun law added to the 20,000 we already have would be the one to make all criminal use of guns stop.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at June 01, 2015 04:05 PM (ODxAs)

101 In Obama's universe right wing extremists could easily describe the Rotary Club, or the Lions Club, or a host of other social clubs that are white, christian, and conservative.

===========

They also provide real charity and help to people in need -- unlike the obamas and their racist church.

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at June 01, 2015 04:05 PM (iQIUe)

102 he is an ygelsian yidiot

Posted by: ThunderB at June 01, 2015 04:05 PM (zOTsN)

103 >>Department of Justice Awards $585,719 Grant to University to Study "Far Right Extremism" on the Internet

This shouldn't go unnoticed either. The government gives massive grants to universities all the time to "research" their favorite causes or punish their enemies. The left whines incessantly about Big Oil giving to scientists who don't follow the AGW bullshit but say nada about the millions and millions of tax dollars that flow to AGW scare groups.

Get federal government money out of schools, all schools.

Posted by: JackStraw at June 01, 2015 04:06 PM (g1DWB)

104 >>
I LOVE Vincent Vaughn. And now I love him even more.

Me, too. Have you seen this? Love the "Swingers" dudes.

http://grantland.com/features/an-oral-history-swingers/

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:06 PM (umo6N)

105 >>> The study draws more upon right-wing forums than upon the corners of the web inhabited by Islamist extremists.

No language skills?

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:06 PM (3ZtZW)

106 Facebook knows stuff about me but I don't talk about politics on it. Google otoh...

Also my phone knows when I'm driving home and how long it will take to get there and sometimes (this varies) even knows when I'm going to appointments and where they are...so that's creepy.
Posted by: Lea
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Feds are considering *mandating* that automobiles broadcast their location, direction and and speed.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:07 PM (9mTYi)

107 This is small potatoes for an outfit that has been known to run guns to the Mexican cartels, and force corporations to make payoffs to favored groups like ACORN as part of their 'settlement' of charges.

Posted by: GnuBreed at June 01, 2015 04:08 PM (c2Gn9)

108 The DOJ at this point is so corrupt that it might have to be disbanded and rebuilt. Along with the IRS and the EPA, and.....Yada Yada Yada

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 01, 2015 04:08 PM (rDqRv)

109 Old and busted: Adjectives

New hotness: Adverbs

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at June 01, 2015 04:08 PM (TV9BR)

110 I'm not worried about government surveillance. It hasn't help Britain much, apparently.

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 04:08 PM (n4VVw)

111 I the Olde Dayes, it was perfectly acceptable, commonplace and normal for actors and celebrities to express conservative opinions in interviews and in public. Not just the obvious ones like John Wayne, Bob Hope and Ronald Reagan, but the rank-and-file of Hollywood.

All of that changed starting in the '60s, and ahs now accelerated to the point where expressing extreme "progressivism" is not only commonplace but de rigueur in Hollywood.

That's why it a good thing that people like Vince Vaughn come out of the closet to help break the leftist monopoly on Hollywood opinions. The more who come out, the more the monopoly is broken, freeing more and more to come out. The floodgates will open.

Posted by: zombie at June 01, 2015 04:09 PM (jBuUi)

112 I'm sure the genius of the first tweet will explain all the ways what Vaugn said is stupid or not factual.

Posted by: chique d'afrique (the artist formerly known as african chick) at June 01, 2015 04:09 PM (shFKH)

113 Good news, B'more set a record for homicides in may!!

WINNING!!!

Posted by: Jukin, Former Republican at June 01, 2015 04:09 PM (TV9BR)

114 I'd say Vaughn's got a lot more defense for his position than the pissy critic does.

Remember when concealed carry was getting approved around the country? 'It'll be the Wild West, with shootouts in the streets!' they said.

Crime went down. No shootouts, not among CC people.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 04:09 PM (oVJmc)

115 Shit I feel like the Bruce Jenner of grammar did Ace mix up adverb with adjective?

Is Ace running a test of the grammar nazi broadcasting system?

Posted by: Mae West at June 01, 2015 04:11 PM (RJMhd)

116 So..., 'verbing' of nouns is out? Can't we dialog about this?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:11 PM (9mTYi)

117 I love his latest stunningly self-regarding stupidity

"twitter should have a warning label that says 'you don't have to respond to things you don't like'"

Yeah sure, asshat, we should ignore your totalitarian response to a statement of basic human rights because Politically Correct!

Posted by: MTF at June 01, 2015 04:11 PM (DkJ4E)

118 Guys, this is what happens when you don't spend all of your time shilling for Paun Raul.

Posted by: Lad Ys, not a paultard at June 01, 2015 04:12 PM (Q819Q)

119 " I'm sure the genius of the first tweet will explain all the ways what Vaugn said is stupid or not factual."

In another Tweet he says something along the lines of "If you think the answer for America is more guns then you're on crack."

So, that's kinda his truthbringing.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 01, 2015 04:12 PM (LA7Cm)

120
"Good news, B'more set a record for homicides in may!!"

Great. I can go back and play with my cornhole.

Posted by: Mayor Stephanie Rawlings Blake (D) at June 01, 2015 04:12 PM (OD2ni)

121 Y-Not: I am beginning to feel like a gratitude stalker. Thanks for compiling the archive of gardening threads. That was very helpful.

Sambo

Posted by: Sambo at June 01, 2015 04:12 PM (9UV3C)

122 I'm glad more of our tax dollars are going to harass and investigate political enemies of the Obama administration. How can we ever be safe until everyone thinks the same?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:12 PM (39g3+)

123 hours until said critic complains he was bullied on the intertoobs?

Posted by: ThunderB at June 01, 2015 04:13 PM (zOTsN)

124 "twitter should have a warning label that says 'you don't have to respond to things you don't like'"

That's not wrong but if you post on social media, what kind of knuckle dragging imbecile do you have to be to not expect public response?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:13 PM (39g3+)

125 Critic critiques critics, cries.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 04:14 PM (oVJmc)

126 Right wing terrorism is practically nonexistent compared to all of these other groups.

Posted by: naturalfake at June 01, 2015 04:02 PM (0cMkb)

Currently? Yes...

As the Progressives continue to ratchet up Laws, and continue to limit freedom... AS THEY PLAN????

That could change... I think they understand the consequences of their actions, and are preparing for a future battlefield.

Posted by: BB Wolf at June 01, 2015 04:14 PM (qh617)

127 I await the results of the $3 Million spent on the lesbian obesity study.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:14 PM (9mTYi)

128 Have no idea who Scott E. Weinberg is, but thanks Scott for confirming for everyone that you are, indeed, stunningly stupid yourself -- whoever the hell you are.

Posted by: TrivialPursuer at June 01, 2015 04:14 PM (lmdHn)

129 >>Learn to pick your battles, people.

Hahaha. So he bitches that someone is stupid, gets called on it, and then says 'pick your battles'? Who started this particular battle, idiot?

If I knew who this person was before today my opinion would have sunk.

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:15 PM (lIU4e)

130 "Good news, B'more set a record for homicides in may!!"

Yeah, us!

As an aside, to understand the real numbers involved....
The month that we had 44 murders, the population was about 920,000 people.
Last month, with 43 murders, Baltimore's population is around 630,000 people.

Per capita, the month of May blew the roof off, with numbers that are staggering, even when compared to Chicago, and it 2 million plus population.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2015 04:15 PM (VPLuQ)

131 Feds are considering *mandating* that automobiles broadcast their location, direction and and speed.
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:07 PM (9mTYi)

It's almost enough to make me want to hold onto my old car. Just like old, un tracked guns. And boats, apparently, according to some guy the other day.

Creepy.

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:15 PM (lIU4e)

132 That could change... I think they understand the consequences of their actions, and are preparing for a future battlefield.

No, they live their lives in constant throbbing concern that anything anyone does anywhere will trigger some awful response from an army of strawmen they have in their heads. You can't say that or x will do y!

90% of leftist policy is to preempt a negative that they believe someone they've invented in their heads will engage in.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:15 PM (39g3+)

133 by "pick your battles" he means don't hit back

Posted by: ThunderB at June 01, 2015 04:16 PM (zOTsN)

134 "And Facebook is part of the Catalist network... a HUGE database of personal information which its OWN MISSION STATEMENT says is for Progressive causes...."

It's not just Zuckerberg at Facebook.

Eric Schmidt from Google detailed a team of top engineers to go work directly with their counterparts at Obama For America in 2012. Tuning up the Obama operation's extensive data-mining and microtargeting of voters. And Schmidt was personally in the loop supervising the last-minute online efforts by OFA on Election Day.

Can you say "unreported in-kind campaign contribution", kids? You can! I knew you could.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 01, 2015 04:16 PM (noWW6)

135 And this is why I consider it the moral duty of all Americans to do every legal thing they can to minimize the amount of taxes they send to the federal government.

Posted by: David at June 01, 2015 04:16 PM (5mPls)

136 >>>> 'It'll be the Wild West, with shootouts in the streets!' they said.

And it IS!

By cops and in Baltimore and shit like that anyway.

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:17 PM (3ZtZW)

137 "I was terrified of them. Everyone was terrified of Far Right Extremists. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Far Right Extremists. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Far Right Extremists."

"What did they do?"

"They used...sarcasm"

Posted by: MSU Study of Far Right Extremists on the Internet - Page 53 at June 01, 2015 04:17 PM (nFdGS)

138 The whole country is turning left. The redacted parts of the Constitution will be the downfall of liberty for the common man. Of course most of the commons would trade their liberty for a bowl of soup.

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 04:17 PM (wkuqO)

139 @130
Obvious proof that law abiding people living in low crime areas must have their long guns confiscated.
Count on it.

Posted by: NYC Parent at June 01, 2015 04:17 PM (qmb7O)

140 everything is about retaining Power for themselves, the Constant agitation of the population making everyone fearful of their status in america.

they have become shameless, and i gawk at it and the peoples non response to it.
where are all those smart folks , the lawyers, the leaders of companies, the military leadership watching it all.

do they believe they will be saved from the rech of the progressive?

Are they so sure of themselves that they never imagine this type of system and power structure set up where attacking your enemies (fellow citizens, dears for those LIV's not getting it)They desire will swing back at them?

Posted by: willow at June 01, 2015 04:18 PM (nqBYe)

141 Everyone was terrified of Far Right Extremists.

Obligatory.
http://is.gd/C4ysVY

I'm still waiting for the next 33 pages...

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 01, 2015 04:18 PM (ZKzrr)

142 "I was terrified of them. Everyone was terrified of Far Right Extremists. I've seen grown men pull their own heads off rather than see Far Right Extremists. Even Dinsdale was frightened of Far Right Extremists."

"What did they do?"

"They used...sarcasm"

Srsly?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:18 PM (sUwfN)

143 Whenever I think of Wild West Shootouts I think of Chicago.

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 04:18 PM (n4VVw)

144
Last month, with 43 murders, Baltimore's population is around 630,000 people.

Number killed by evil racist cops? 0.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 04:19 PM (oVJmc)

145 Please don't shame them for wearing guy falkes masks. I can't make out ironic tee-shirts through a scope anymore,

Posted by: jwpaine, a silly millimeter longer at June 01, 2015 04:19 PM (0bXhD)

146
Srsly?

Monty Python.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 04:19 PM (oVJmc)

147 Off topic but applicable: for those who haven't seen him - here is a picture of the engineer from the Amtrak train crash.

http://tinyurl.com/qa2rhok

I doubt our ancestors would have been so stupid as to allow him to control hundreds of tons of metal moving at 100 mph.

Posted by: Rachel Treadmark Corrie at June 01, 2015 04:19 PM (ju6Lt)

148 What I was astounded by was that this was the only new building in the area!

Posted by: Totally Unaware CNN Reporter Watching CVS Burn at June 01, 2015 04:19 PM (HstNY)

149 Well I haven't seen a lot of "right wing extremists" out on the streets looting and rioting lately.... Maybe they're looking at the wrong "group."

Posted by: donna at June 01, 2015 04:19 PM (Bn6aD)

150 >>Obligatory.
http://is.gd/C4ysVY

Such a classic!

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:19 PM (umo6N)

151 By 0Bama, it's time they did this!! Do you know there are actually people in this country who believe that budgets should be balanced, Constitutions should be obeyed, thugs (I denounce myself) should be punished for their crimes, and the Zionist Entity (boooooo, hiss!) should be allowed to defend itself??!? Yessssssss...........*nods head slowly*

Forward, for the Children!

Posted by: Way Too Typical Democrat Voter at June 01, 2015 04:20 PM (sCHw2)

152 Srsly?

Monty Python.

Srsly WAS sarcasm. LOL.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:20 PM (sUwfN)

153 i say we grab our matzo balls and jello salad and attack them at dawn

Posted by: willow at June 01, 2015 04:21 PM (nqBYe)

154 Little Scotty Weiner is getting very "wupset" on Twitter. Don't get mad snookums. Get some grammar lessons.

Posted by: Marcus T at June 01, 2015 04:21 PM (GGCsk)

155 Ron Fournier thinks lack of trust in the NSA is a crisis, probably because he lives in sheer terror of 60 year old Tea Partiers and people won't support funding to track them

https://twitter.com/kbdabear/status/605469080255098881

Posted by: kbdabear at June 01, 2015 04:21 PM (GrXXa)

156 Cuz, Timothy Mc Veigh.

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (ygfmC)

157 Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 01, 2015 04:18 PM

Never. Not. Funny.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (h4vJk)

158 "What did they do?"

"They used...sarcasm"

Srsly?

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:18 PM (sUwfN)

But it was Weaponized Sarcasm.... lots of killing words in there...

Posted by: Maud'Dork... whose name is a Snarking Word... at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (qh617)

159 >>>> i say we grab our matzo balls and jello salad and attack them at dawn

Just wear a cup, geez

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (3ZtZW)

160 i say we grab our matzo balls and jello salad and attack them at dawn

Thru the 3 bean salad we charged......

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (sUwfN)

161 Glorious use of Monty Python. 1 xp and a hero point.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (39g3+)

162 Creepy.
Posted by: Lea
-----------

It's for your own good.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (9mTYi)

163 "Number killed by evil racist cops? 0."

It is somewhat unsettling that out of the six Officers facing multiple charges, only one Officer has been charged with murder in any form or degree.
And that is the black guy who's sole job is to drive the paddy Wagon around.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2015 04:22 PM (VPLuQ)

164 Thru the 3 bean salad we charged......
Posted by: rickb223
------------

What do you have against Presbyterians?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:24 PM (9mTYi)

165 I'd like to see a good Rasmussen poll of registered Democrat voters: "When you think of a 'far right winger' what type of beliefs and policies do you think they endorse"?

Not sure if it means we could reach any of them, just would be interesting. I think that 90% of people who use that phrase have never even thought of any content to go with it.

If pressed, they would probably murmur something about "gun nuts" and "bible thumpers" --which should again prompt the question: "Just what policy or belief do you think 'Bible thumpers' and 'gun nuts' have that you consider so far out of acceptable discourse?

Posted by: NYC Parent at June 01, 2015 04:24 PM (qmb7O)

166 *waves at grad students studying extremism*

Posted by: Lauren at June 01, 2015 04:24 PM (MYCIw)

167 Telling people to correct their grammar and spelling on Twitter is to not understand the medium. Yes, as an author it annoys me, but the character limit requires some creative typing at times.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:24 PM (39g3+)

168 Telling people to correct their grammar and spelling on Twitter is to not understand the medium. Yes, as an author it annoys me, but the character limit requires some creative typing at times.

#banbossy

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:25 PM (sUwfN)

169 *waves at grad students studying extremism*
Posted by: Lauren
------------------

* moons grad students *

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM (9mTYi)

170 Telling people to correct their grammar and spelling on Twitter is to not understand the medium. Yes, as an author it annoys me, but the character limit requires some creative typing at times.

lulz

Posted by: Grump928(c) at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM (evdj2)

171 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:13 PM (39g3+)
====================

Precisely. Also, irony.

Posted by: MTF at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM (DkJ4E)

172 Hunh.

Ken Nordine is still alive.

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM (3ZtZW)

173 I'd like to see a good Rasmussen poll of registered Democrat voters: "When you think of a 'far right winger' what type of beliefs and policies do you think they endorse"?

I got a leftist pretty flustered once asking him what about the tea party was so crazy. Generally pinning them down results in arms flailing around like Kermit the Frog introducing the Muppet show and lots of buzz phrases and confused looks.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM (39g3+)

174 *waves at grad students studying extremism*
Posted by: Lauren

*farts in general direction*

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM (C278+)

175 "They used...sarcasm"

Srsly?
Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:18 PM (sUwfN)

I read somewhere that they (can't remember the exact agency) are going to monitor, get this, sarcasm on Facebook.

*facepalm*

Evidently, we're experts.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at June 01, 2015 04:27 PM (mmlFU)

176 So good news. Korean car dealers have their shit together. I ran over a curb and fcuked up a tire. No one had the tire anywhere.

The dealer did. Installed it for same price Tire Rack would have charged to ship it. That and the dealer's people where marvelous!

The customer service girl was HOT! I mean HOT! Did I mention she was HOT! I might have to have more flats.

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 01, 2015 04:27 PM (0FSuD)

177 Is he still doing voice work? Nah can't be....

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:27 PM (3ZtZW)

178 @173
"Racist!" So there.

Posted by: Registered D at June 01, 2015 04:27 PM (qmb7O)

179 I got a leftist pretty flustered once asking him what about the tea party was so crazy.

Everyone knows it man! **runs away screaming**

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:28 PM (sUwfN)

180 First the Rush mention last month, now an honest-to-God government study of us wingnutz? The traffic will be through the roof!

Posted by: jdub at June 01, 2015 04:28 PM (WDySP)

181 Supposedly, nazis in uniform attacked the occupy crowd in Olympia Wash. One egg was thrown at them, allegedly. Everyone always has a camera but not one photo of a nazi in a uniform or even a nazi. There was a photo of an egg but who threw it is still up to debate. These little lefty twits were claiming how they fought the nazis off. lol

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at June 01, 2015 04:28 PM (iQIUe)

182 >>I read somewhere that they (can't remember the exact agency) are going to monitor, get this, sarcasm on Facebook.

They'd be better off just studying Ace's headlines.
Master of sarcasm.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (umo6N)

183 176 So good news. Korean car dealers have their shit together. I ran over a curb and fcuked up a tire. No one had the tire anywhere.

Drinking and driving and curbs. Funny how they go together.

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (wkuqO)

184 Vince Vaughn's mom is some kind of famous stock market guru/genius. He's obviously quick thinking in adlibbing witty dialogue in movies. I doubt he's stupid.

Posted by: Old Hob at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (T1Jm0)

185 There was a request for proposal from some federal intelligence agency for software that could detect sarcasm. They were willing to hand out grant money to anyone who could code a sarcasm detector to use on social media.

Posted by: Armound45C at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (n4VVw)

186 Vaughn wore a gadsen flag tshirt in a movie a few years back and online movie fans freaked out that he might not be a lefty

Posted by: brak at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (Tj+s6)

187 with the recent discovery that Lefty organizations are paying protestors it wouldn't surprise me that the Justus Department is forwarding cash to them as well.

Posted by: Skip at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (kLAQB)

188 waves at grad students studying extremism*
Posted by: Lauren
------------------

that brought up a thought for me.

so we converse about rights shared to americans by our system of govts.

we share ideas on bill of rights and why

we all do that in discussions on boards across the internet in a cheerful , productive way.

Is it possible they didn't learn civics or govt or world history and what an amazing experiment the American system was set up to be for Free men and women?
unlike Other Countries?

maybe?

Posted by: willow at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (nqBYe)

189 "The traffic will be through the roof!"

I still ain't wearing fcuking pants.

And when are the guys supposed to get shirts?

Don't give me this #twoweeks sheit.

I want a shipping date.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (VPLuQ)

190 Not content with Hollywood's ginning up phony enemies, the DoJ needs ammunition for its own Operation Infinite Justice.

Posted by: derit at June 01, 2015 04:30 PM (jT+gh)

191 First the Rush mention last month, now an honest-to-God government study of us wingnutz? The traffic will be through the roof!

Still not wearing pants.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:30 PM (sUwfN)

192 The customer service girl was HOT! I mean HOT! Did I mention she was HOT! I might have to have more flats.

Was she Korean? Because its hard to find a Korean girl that hasn't been surgically adjusted.

Everyone always has a camera but not one photo of a nazi in a uniform or even a nazi.

Given how the nazis JOINED occupy at one point, this story seems doubtful.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:30 PM (39g3+)

193 165

Jonathan Haidt has done research which shows that conservatives are able to articulate the liberal position better than liberals articulating the conservative position. Interesting stuff.

Posted by: Titanium at June 01, 2015 04:30 PM (oDFTq)

194 Drinking and driving and curbs. Funny how they go together.

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (wkuqO)
Not as bad as running into my own garage.

Guilty with an explanation you honor.

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 01, 2015 04:30 PM (0FSuD)

195 *waves at grad students studying extremism*
Posted by: Lauren

*farts in general direction*

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM

I'm picturing the Horde reenacting the kilt-raising pre-battle mockery scene from Braveheart.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 01, 2015 04:31 PM (h4vJk)

196 Posted by: Nip Sip at June 01, 2015 04:30 PM (0FSuD)

LOL good answer.

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 04:31 PM (wkuqO)

197 I got a leftist pretty flustered once asking him what about the tea party was so crazy. Generally pinning them down results in arms flailing around like Kermit the Frog introducing the Muppet show and lots of buzz phrases and confused looks.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:26 PM (39g3+)

Done that. Same topic. I just put my head down, ever so slightly, and gave both the slightly bemused look of watching a helpless child explain away a self-created mess.

Lotsa fun!

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at June 01, 2015 04:31 PM (mmlFU)

198 Vince Vaughn is worth over $50 million, is doing what he wants to do, and has a beautiful family. Sounds smart to me.

Posted by: Bruce with a Wang! at June 01, 2015 04:32 PM (iQIUe)

199 There was a request for proposal from some federal intelligence agency for software that could detect sarcasm. They were willing to hand out grant money to anyone who could code a sarcasm detector to use on social media.

It must be hard to detect the little "/s" at the end of a post.

It's not just us. Everybody does that, right?

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 04:32 PM (0HooB)

200 Is it possible they didn't learn civics or govt or world history and what an amazing experiment the American system was set up to be for Free men and women?
unlike Other Countries?

maybe?
Posted by: willow at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM

Their mentors learned it, Willow. And they hate it. Deeply.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 01, 2015 04:32 PM (h4vJk)

201 We HAVE to fuck with them.

Posted by: The Funnyman at June 01, 2015 04:33 PM (g95nI)

202 Not content with Hollywood's ginning up phony enemies

Best example ever of this: Turning the bad guys in "Sum Of All Fears," one of Clancy's best books, from Muslim radicals into... a white supremacist militia.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:33 PM (39g3+)

203 We HAVE to fuck with them.

Posted by: The Funnyman at June 01, 2015 04:33 PM

It's a moral imperative.

Posted by: Chris Knight at June 01, 2015 04:34 PM (h4vJk)

204 Sigh.

Alas... in spite of this, and in spite of Michael Moore wearing their hats... I am and shall ever be a Spartan.

You know this coulda been worse - they could have given the task to the Wolverines (shudder).

Posted by: weew at June 01, 2015 04:34 PM (EaEMG)

205 zero fucks given. This country died when we elected a full bore commie. It has already been flushed and is on it's way to treatment. Wait til we get to Rodham's fun camps. Live it up today morons, the future does not belong to us.

Posted by: Chavez the Hugo at June 01, 2015 04:34 PM (ucDmr)

206
Best example ever of this: Turning the bad guys in "Sum Of All
Fears," one of Clancy's best books, from Muslim radicals into... a white
supremacist militia.

I enjoy pointing out the commentary track for that film that began "Hi, I'm Tom Clancy, and I wrote the book they ignored."

That's the first time I ever saw a disclaimer for a commentary track.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 04:34 PM (oVJmc)

207 LOL good answer.

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 04:31 PM (wkuqO)

I'd stop wrecking my cars, but my body shop guy would go out of business.

I really did run a new car into my own fcuking garage. Just missed the door by six inches and $4K

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (0FSuD)

208
Battle of the Dancing Monkeys of the Adversarial Adverbial Stars?

Yes! It can work!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars(TM) at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (95CzI)

209 Evidently, we're experts.
Posted by: 98ZJUSMC
--------------

* senses opportunity *

I may start posting more of my babble in Latin. That way they might actually *learn* something.

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (9mTYi)

210 They'd be better off just studying Ace's headlines.
Master of sarcasm.
Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:29 PM (umo6N)

Unquestionably, as is the Horde, in general. My time here has improved my competency immeasurably.

It like a degree, or something......

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (mmlFU)

211 I've never read anything so astoundingly asinine in 140 characters or less. Scott Weinberg should be in the Guiness Book or something.

Posted by: Fritz at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (UzPAd)

212 Who would you rather have a beer with? Vaughn or the big dummy

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (zOTsN)

213 Best example ever of this: Turning the bad guys in "Sum Of All Fears," one of Clancy's best books, from Muslim radicals into... a white supremacist militia.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:33 PM (39g3+)

There was also a period of time where all bad guys were turned into Columbian drug lords.

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (lIU4e)

214 Hey can I post Jenner's glamour pic at work?
Who would dare be offended?

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (8uhgy)

215 Scott Weinberg sticks his head up out of his bubble, then retreats, buttcheeks aflame...

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 04:36 PM (oVJmc)

216 If these fragile kids are going to be studying this place it's probably a good idea to put a trigger warning on the ONT.

Posted by: For the Children at June 01, 2015 04:36 PM (HstNY)

217 I may start posting more of my babble in Latin. That way they might actually *learn* something.

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (9mTYi)

Semper Ubi Sub Ubi

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:36 PM (C278+)

218 We HAVE to fuck with them.

Posted by: The Funnyman at June 01, 2015 04:33 PM

It's a moral imperative.

*assumes Museum Guide persona*

"Ladies and germs, this way to the Overnight Thread. It is here where we do our best work."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM (0HooB)

219 I enjoy pointing out the commentary track for that film that began "Hi, I'm Tom Clancy, and I wrote the book they ignored."
***

That is amazing. I wish you could get commentary on Netflix/amazon instant video...

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM (lIU4e)

220 >>> Jonathan Haidt has done research which shows that conservatives are able to articulate the liberal position better than liberals articulating the conservative position

We both caricature each other. Its just that Leftisits ARE caricatures.

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM (3ZtZW)

221 >>Best example ever of this: Turning the bad guys in "Sum Of All Fears,"
one of Clancy's best books, from Muslim radicals into... a white
supremacist militia.

That was a good one, but my favorite was "Easy A" where a nerdy gal was mocked and harassed by the popular girl clique that was a bunch of prudish Christians. Yeah, popular HS kids are ALL about enforcing chastity and mean-girling anyone who has sex nowadays.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM (umo6N)

222 Children, this is a vulgar place.
Go home NOW.

Posted by: JohnnyBoy at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM (8uhgy)

223 RedMindBlueState,

It doesn't make any sense to hate it unless you only desire slaves and servants!

what other country offerED the ability to become whatever your hearts desire within your ability strength willpower and effort.

i would like a right wing nutcase to go around to illegals and new legal immigrants and ask WHY they want to be in America.

americans have forgotten why.

Posted by: willow at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM (nqBYe)

224 Evidently, we're experts.

No, we're not.

Posted by: Monty Python arguing guy at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM (W5DcG)

225 Papa dissentit

Posted by: just saying at June 01, 2015 04:38 PM (wkuqO)

226 I may start posting more of my babble in Latin. That way they might actually *learn* something.

Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!
Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (9mTYi)

...and I refused to let my parents send me to Catholic High School.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Suntanning in Bizzaro World at June 01, 2015 04:38 PM (mmlFU)

227 You have to be taller than the line to take the ride

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:38 PM (zOTsN)

228 This study is needed because I need my muslim friends to guard me against the white supremacist nazis stalking me all the time!

Posted by: Cahrsel Joshnon at June 01, 2015 04:39 PM (GrXXa)

229 All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Choice
Clinic think President Obama should give more money to study this subject and to pursue Bush who lied to the Persons of color community.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 01, 2015 04:39 PM (lNSdJ)

230 You have to be taller than the line to take the ride

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:38 PM (zOTsN)

Man AtC is going to be pissed

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:39 PM (C278+)

231 Almost $600K for that? Where's our money?

Posted by: Fat Lesbians at June 01, 2015 04:40 PM (JO9+V)

232 i would like a right wing nutcase to go around to illegals and new legal immigrants and ask WHY they want to be in America.

Mostly free stuff, but I will do jobs you people won't do.

Posted by: Just got here at June 01, 2015 04:40 PM (wkuqO)

233 I want it known I did not say that

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:40 PM (zOTsN)

234 Yeah, popular HS kids are ALL about enforcing chastity and mean-girling anyone who has sex nowadays.

A golden opportunity was missed in the remake of Footloose to have a Muslim community be the jerks who wouldn't let anyone dance. Given that even when the original was made no place in America was remotely like that it would even make more sense.

I mean. Seriously. Where in 1984 are you going to find a town that is run by a religious leader and bans dancing? But today? Some parts in the upper midwest its plausible.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:40 PM (39g3+)

235 If its cultural appopriation and wrong to sing soul music as a white guy... is it not gender appropriation for Bruce Jenner to get his bits hacked off and take drugs to pretend he's a woman?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:41 PM (39g3+)

236 Wrg500, don't run. You'll just die tired.

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:41 PM (zOTsN)

237 Man AtC is going to be pissed

I'm certainly not going to tell Her Malevolence.

I kinda like sleeping inside.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 04:41 PM (0HooB)

238 Telling people to correct their grammar and spelling on Twitter is to
not understand the medium. Yes, as an author it annoys me, but the
character limit requires some creative typing at times.

lol f@g

Posted by: Tina in shipping with a baritone voice at June 01, 2015 04:41 PM (Q819Q)

239 I'm alluringly alliterative.
Posted by: Scott Weinberg at June 01, 2015 03:49 PM (8ZskC)

Pretty confident that is a sign of schizophrenia.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at June 01, 2015 04:41 PM (nCKKS)

240 Unquestionably, as is the Horde, in general. My time here has improved my competency immeasurably.

It like a degree, or something.....

Indubitably!

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:42 PM (sUwfN)

241 You realize the majority of the Republican establishment agrees with Holder...right?

Posted by: Mr Wizard at June 01, 2015 04:42 PM (eOpVe)

242 It doesn't make any sense to hate it unless you only desire slaves and servants!

Exactly.

americans have forgotten why.

Posted by: willow at June 01, 2015 04:37 PM

Most of them have never learned. When we allowed the left control of the schools, we lost.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at June 01, 2015 04:42 PM (h4vJk)

243 If a muslim community was doing Footloose they'd be chopping off feet

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:42 PM (3ZtZW)

244 Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:41 PM (zOTsN)

Hey YOU made the "short" reference. I just pointed out our Queens displeasure to such references as YOURS.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:43 PM (C278+)

245
"Best example ever of this: Turning the bad guys in "Sum Of All Fears," one of Clancy's best books, from Muslim radicals into... a white supremacist militia."

They stole that trick from me.

Posted by: Writer for Law & Order at June 01, 2015 04:43 PM (OD2ni)

246 Yeh, the ONT is gonna be a real eye opener for some special snowflakes in the world.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2015 04:43 PM (VPLuQ)

247 >>A golden opportunity was missed in the remake of Footloose to have a
Muslim community be the jerks who wouldn't let anyone dance.

Heh, YES.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:43 PM (umo6N)

248 Unquestionably, as is the Horde, in general. My time here has improved my competency immeasurably.

It like a degree, or something.....

It's 100% Mental Wheaties around here.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 04:43 PM (0HooB)

249
That time Ace accused me of being a Friends fan was like rape.

Ace calling me a homophobe was like 911 to me.

Posted by: Grump928(c) beating memes to death since 2006 at June 01, 2015 03:59 PM (evdj2)

That's nothing. The last time I Bing'd something mentioned by Teh Horde was rapingly like 911......times 10.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at June 01, 2015 04:44 PM (XJkD9)

250 * wonders about 'sarcasm' bait *

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:44 PM (9mTYi)

251 Welcome, MSU coeds!

Posted by: Mustache Rides Guy at June 01, 2015 04:44 PM (ecDRv)

252 I, of course, was inferring the lil children that might happen upon this here hive of villany and scum. In no way would I ever refer to ATC as a child

But you just did

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:44 PM (zOTsN)

253 >>> You realize the majority of the Republican establishment agrees with Holder...right?

Yes. They count anybody who talks about trees of liberty, telephone poles, civil wars, secession and etc as crazy stoopid extremists

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:44 PM (3ZtZW)

254 i would like a right wing nutcase to go around to illegals and new legal immigrants and ask WHY they want to be in America.

I honestly, really do want to know why 25% of Mexico has come to America. Its not great down there but its not a horrific hellhole. Yes, there's nasty gang violence in some areas, but its not wracked with horrific violence. Why so many, I really want to know.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:44 PM (39g3+)

255 WTF is Jenner trying to sell? This has to be about money.

I don't think he's is a good Tampax salesmen. Fake tits?

Is there no shame left in this nation?

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 01, 2015 04:45 PM (0FSuD)

256 * wonders about 'sarcasm' bait *

Globull warmening.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:45 PM (sUwfN)

257 Is there any way we can sex up our far right extremism so it "turns" these Michigan Statists?

Do fascists wear chaps?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 01, 2015 04:46 PM (jR7Wy)

258 There's children here?
*pulls zipper down and slides bowl of candies close to keyboard*

It's gonna take some coders more then half a million to separate the truth from the sarcasm in that comment alone.

Posted by: Hairy Reid at June 01, 2015 04:46 PM (xQX/f)

259 "Is there no shame left in this nation?"

Google the show....Transparent.

Then get back to us.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2015 04:46 PM (VPLuQ)

260 Hey Washington Nearsider:
The "Extremist Crime Database from what I can gather is run by UMD.

Check out this load of bullshit:
The most common scheme type was tax avoidance (63%), which consists of various anti-tax strategies ranging from the simple refusal to pay income taxes to more complex scams involving bogus financial instruments and offshore tax havens. The second most common scheme type was the filing of bogus liens (17%). The primary motivation for engaging in financial crimes was ideological (47%), although greed and other motives were also at play in 40% of cases.

That's odd, sounds a shit ton like the Clintons and Sharpton!

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at June 01, 2015 04:46 PM (s92xH)

261 OK Imma go now

Posted by: Bigby's Boxing Gloves at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (3ZtZW)

262 Stunningly stupid shows up at ace of spades in a title but at least it's not Ace - it's Drew M.

Posted by: Mae West at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (RJMhd)

263 I don't think he's is a good Tampax salesmen. Fake tits?

No period. Gonna be hard.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (sUwfN)

264 I can't figure out how Law & Order and American Dad are still on television unless its a form of leftist propaganda subsidy by networks. American Dad is just.. awful. It isn't even funny enough to sort of smirk at once in a while. Even Family Guy was sometimes sort of funny. Rarely.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (39g3+)

265 >>Why so many, I really want to know.

To make money and send it home to their families still in Mexico. And if so inclined, also send whatever benefits they can partake, too. Read somewhere that immigrants send a lot of food home (from EBT, food banks, etc.).

If you really wanted to affect illegal immigration you would do something about money transfers from US-->Mexico.

Posted by: Lizzy at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (umo6N)

266 Is there any way we can sex up our far right extremism so it "turns" these Michigan Statists?

Well, there just has to be a reason why there are so many of us. *eyeroll*

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (0HooB)

267 I, of course, was inferring the lil children that might happen upon this here hive of villany and scum. In no way would I ever refer to ATC as a child

But you just did

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:44 PM (zOTsN)

No I simply pointed out that she would be displeased concerning your reference to height restrictions. You my friend made the disparaging remark concerning discrimination according to one's height not I.

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (C278+)

268 "Globull warmening."

Close

Glowbull Worming

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (VPLuQ)

269 Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant!

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:35 PM (9mTYi)

You mountain lawyers, can't do nothing with them.

Posted by: Nip Sip at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (0FSuD)

270 If a muslim community was doing Footloose they'd be chopping off feet

Not true. Hit your head against the prayer rug repeatedly while the call rings out over the loudspeakers and you can have as many stars dance before your eyes as Allah allows.

Posted by: derit at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (jT+gh)

271 Wait, you mean Sidwell Friends is not a gun free zone???

With all the perfumed princes and princesses that go there, there are probably more Secret Service on duty at Sidwell than the Treasury Building...

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (XO6WW)

272 Where in 1984 are you going to find a town that is run by a religious
leader and bans dancing? But today? Some parts in the upper midwest
its plausible.

Better odds in New York State.

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (ZKzrr)

273 Facebook is run by complete idiots.

Case in point: Today they sent me to some "flashback" page that showed highlights of things that had happened on this day over several years.

One of the posts? My step sister writing on my wall 6 years ago to see if is heard the news that our cousin was murdered.

I'm thinking "murder" should be something excluded from those happy memory flashbacks.

Posted by: Lauren at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (tO0wb)

274 263
I don't think he's is a good Tampax salesmen. Fake tits?

No period. Gonna be hard.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (sUwfN)

Introducing Bruce Jennie, for the velcro vag.

Posted by: By The People That Brought You Detachable Penis at June 01, 2015 04:48 PM (ecDRv)

275 Well, there just has to be a reason why there are so many of us. *eyeroll*
Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 04:47 PM (0HooB)
---
For me, it was the Hugo Boss uniforms.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 01, 2015 04:49 PM (jR7Wy)

276 Is there any way we can sex up our far right extremism so it "turns" these Michigan Statists?

Anal.

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:49 PM (sUwfN)

277

Thanks Thom!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 01, 2015 04:49 PM (kdS6q)

278 Speaking of awful TV, there's a new show called "Your Family or Mine" that sports some mid level talent like Ed Bagely jr and Richard Dreyfuss that is just... beyond awful based on the previews I was forced to sit through to watch an on demand show. Just terrible.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:49 PM (39g3+)

279 Is there any way we can sex up our far right extremism so it "turns" these Michigan Statists?

Yes we can.

Posted by: Free the nipples San Diego State University at June 01, 2015 04:49 PM (wkuqO)

280 254
i would like a right wing nutcase to go around to illegals and new legal immigrants and ask WHY they want to be in America.

I honestly, really do want to know why 25% of Mexico has come to
America. Its not great down there but its not a horrific hellhole. Yes,
there's nasty gang violence in some areas, but its not wracked with
horrific violence. Why so many, I really want to know.

FREE. SHIT.

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at June 01, 2015 04:50 PM (XO6WW)

281

shit

I meant the lil children

Not ATC

I lacked the requisite intent. It's not my fault. My dog ate it.

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:50 PM (zOTsN)

282 I don't know, saying of an ex's restraining order "Is it thick enough to stop a bullet?" seems pretty threatening

-
But was it a threat threat?

- Boyhowdy Goldberg

Posted by: The Great White Snark at June 01, 2015 04:50 PM (XUKZU)

283 >>The primary motivation for engaging in financial crimes was ideological (47%), although greed and other motives were also at play in 40% of cases.

This kinda sounds like bullshit. I would say 90-100% of financial crimes are committed for greedy purposes...

>>I'm thinking "murder" should be something excluded from those happy memory flashbacks.

Shit! They aren't very smart about it, are they?

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:51 PM (lIU4e)

284 No period. Gonna be hard.

Ain't no law against shoving them little white pills up yer brown plastic cooter even though it don't bleed. Or going on TeeVee to sell other circus freaks on joinin yer party.

Posted by: Tina in shipping with a baritone voice at June 01, 2015 04:51 PM (Q819Q)

285 " Utinam logica falsa tuam philosophiam totam suffodiant! "

You, sir, are an educated man.

Posted by: Doc Holliday at June 01, 2015 04:51 PM (LA7Cm)

286 I lacked the requisite intent. It's not my fault. My dog ate it.

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:50 PM (zOTsN)

Throwing yourself on the mercy of AtC?? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:52 PM (C278+)

287 To make money and send it home to their families still in Mexico.

Yeah I know there's a lot of that going on, billions every year. Its why Mexico fights so hard to never, ever reduce the border crossings and even encourages and helps people do it. But so many? There's something to this we're not seeing, some aspect.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:52 PM (39g3+)

288 This is why they need all those illegals to do work Americans won't.
Build the camps we will put in. Moron Nation and others.
Will we have WI-Fi in the camps?

Posted by: Paladin at June 01, 2015 04:52 PM (WujO7)

289 Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:51 PM (lIU4e

"Government doesn't deserve my money" likely equals "ideological."

Granted that's not really right or left.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at June 01, 2015 04:52 PM (s92xH)

290 In almost every TV show they have to have an Archie Bunker character. Old fat racist Republican white guy. It's a Hollywood rule.

Posted by: Cruzinator at June 01, 2015 04:52 PM (XX9+E)

291 the point i was trying to raise was why immigrants immigrate .

opportunity UNLIKE where they came from.

where previously citizens weren't considered Peasants like where they came From.
Where you could provide for your families own 2 cars a home, new shoes, flat screen tv's with your Own earnings.

Unlike where they came from!

so they move here and want it to be Like(?) where they came from

so when they hold hands with the same Ideas we and they can all Live Like the place they ran away from.

Posted by: willow at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (nqBYe)

292 About Bruce Jenner. Sort of creepy he is doing this now, just as his daughter Kendall's modeling career is taking off. Like he is competing with her

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (zOTsN)

293 Ain't no law against shoving them little white pills up yer brown plastic cooter even though it don't bleed. Or going on TeeVee to sell other circus freaks on joinin yer party.

Since "Truth in Advertising" is dead, "Tampax Eliminates Periods!" "Just ask Caitlin Jenner!"

Posted by: rickb223 at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (sUwfN)

294 We should take advantage of this opportunity.

For example, I posted a picture at my website of me with my shirt off carrying a 300-lb Pacific Common Dolphin back into deep water after it beached itself.

Um, someone DID mention coeds, right?

Posted by: Richard McEnroe at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (XO6WW)

295 With all the perfumed princes and princesses that go there, there are probably more armed Secret Service on duty at Sidwell than the Treasury Building...
Posted by: Richard
------------------------

For reasons that Liberals *do* understand, but which their philosophy forbids them to speak aloud.

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (9mTYi)

296
Thanks Thom!

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 01, 2015 04:49 PM (kdS6q)

Alright, I'll bite, WTF did he do now?

Posted by: Nip Sip, head Tillis troll at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (0FSuD)

297 There's something to this we're not seeing, some aspect.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:52 PM (39g3+)
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Funding the Reconquista?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (jR7Wy)

298 One of the posts? My step sister writing on my wall 6 years ago to see if is heard the news that our cousin was murdered.

Facebook as the proper socially acceptable venue to reveal murder to a family member?

It's De-evolution at the speed of light.

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at June 01, 2015 04:53 PM (xQX/f)

299 I'm alluringly alliterative.
Posted by: Scott Weinberg at June 01, 2015 03:49 PM (8ZskC)

Or assininely assonant.

Posted by: bergerbilder at June 01, 2015 04:54 PM (ygfmC)

300 Sock off

Posted by: An Observation at June 01, 2015 04:54 PM (Elkc6)

301 Fun fact about my cousins murder.

He was killed on the same day as George Tiller in Kansas and was kidnapped and tortured before his death.

His killer is already out on work release.

Meanwhile Tiller's killer will be in prison for the rest of his life.

Priorities.

Posted by: Lauren at June 01, 2015 04:54 PM (tO0wb)

302 "

Facebook as the proper socially acceptable venue to reveal murder to a family member?
"

Oh, I already knew.

Posted by: Lauren at June 01, 2015 04:55 PM (tO0wb)

303 So how *does* one reply to something "stunningly stupid?" Sometimes that's really the only explanation to things idiot leftists (BIRM) say.

I'm of the opinion that the reason they hold these "opinions" they are told they must hold is that they are truly stupid, but the dems have told them for so long they are sooooo smart for believing what they are told to believe.

It must be pretty wonderful to be mind-numbingly stupid and have such a powerful group tell you how smart you are. I do have to hand it to the dems; they have put together quite the army of drooling buffoons who will never turn on them. I'm not really interested in changing their little pea-brains (couldn't anyway), but... they're stupid. What's the best reply?

Posted by: hindmost at June 01, 2015 04:56 PM (7/oiP)

304 I got a leftist pretty flustered once asking him what about the tea party was so crazy. Generally pinning them down results in arms flailing around like Kermit the Frog introducing the Muppet show and lots of buzz phrases and confused looks.

-
We don't do details!

- Occupy Mom's Basement

Posted by: The Great White Snark at June 01, 2015 04:56 PM (XUKZU)

305 the point i was trying to raise was why immigrants immigrate .

opportunity UNLIKE where they came from.

I'd like to believe that's the reason for the flood but is it? Are they even aware of that, or is America just being portrayed as the land of free stuff and easy money?

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:56 PM (39g3+)

306
What else could they spend that money studying? How about the percentage of violent crime committed by illegal aliens? How about the percentage of American Muslims that believe in free speech? Maybe some studies on the rates of actual illegal voters, say by cross indexing registered voters with people refusing jury duty because they are non-citizens?

I always think it funny how money gets spent studying things that are not terrible relevant or important. I mean, the role that facebook and twitter have in disseminating "extremist" messages? Same role they have spreading all messages.

Posted by: PT Barnum at June 01, 2015 04:56 PM (/EkKm)

307 "He was killed on the same day as George Tiller in Kansas and was kidnapped and tortured before his death. "

Damn, Lauren. Sounds like emotion was involved otherwise just do them and take their stuff.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 01, 2015 04:57 PM (LA7Cm)

308 If Ace is lurking, the sidebar has been Italicanisized.

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 04:57 PM (0HooB)

309 I know you've mentioned it before, but that is absolutely horrific, Lauren.

Our real issue as a country is with the parole and work release system. Last year, we had multiple prisoners escaping while on work duty. Like three in a three weeks. Some of them murderers.

And any crime less than murder or drugs means you're not likely to do any time at all, so we have all these recidivists on the streets, breaking into people's houses and escalating their crimes to another level. It's a mess.

But what do these 'activists' want to talk about? Too many black criminals in jail.

Posted by: Lea at June 01, 2015 04:57 PM (lIU4e)

310 They count anybody who talks about trees of liberty, telephone poles, civil wars, secession and etc as crazy stoopid extremists

Telephone poles?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot Jr. at June 01, 2015 04:57 PM (W5DcG)

311 Excuse me, is Mary ready to go back to the Home, yet? I've been waiting outside the Thread for at least an hour for her, and these platforms in my shoes are killin' me.......of course, the chicks dig 'em.

Posted by: Mary Cloggenstein's Short Bus Driver at June 01, 2015 04:58 PM (sCHw2)

312 "His killer is already out on work release."

Prof Reynolds frequently talks about stripping away the immunity provisions enjoyed by prosecutors. I demur. I want to strip the immunity from PAROLE BOARDS first of all.

Posted by: torquewrench at June 01, 2015 04:58 PM (noWW6)

313
How much do you want to bet their study will consist of posting their own "extremist" messages and counting how many times they get re-tweeted and forwarded? Morons.

Posted by: PT Barnum at June 01, 2015 04:58 PM (/EkKm)

314
Thanks Thom!

Alright, I'll bite, WTF did he do now?
Posted by: Nip Sip

Thom gets a heartfelt "thanks" every time his Attorney General and her Justice Department does something like this.

To save wear and tear on the Logitech, I've mapped it to Alt-F2 on my keyboard.

Posted by: Laurie David's Cervix at June 01, 2015 04:58 PM (kdS6q)

315
"Anal"

You know what I like.

Posted by: Mattress Girl at June 01, 2015 04:58 PM (OD2ni)

316 civil wars, secession and etc

War of Northern Aggression

Posted by: wrg500 at June 01, 2015 04:58 PM (C278+)

317 278 Speaking of awful TV, there's a new show called "Your Family or Mine" that sports some mid level talent like Ed Bagely jr and Richard Dreyfuss that is just... beyond awful based on the previews I was forced to sit through to watch an on demand show. Just terrible.
Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:49 PM (39g3+)

It is worse than the previews show. Dreyfus is a porn obsessed old grandpa making very crude remarks that you would never want to hear coming from an a guy that old. Basically he's Nip Sip.

It's a shame that there are so many good looking women on it. The one that looks really bad though is "clipped" the show about a barber shop/hair salon.

Posted by: Buzzion at June 01, 2015 04:58 PM (z/Ubi)

318 His killer is already out on work release.

Meanwhile Tiller's killer will be in prison for the rest of his life.

Yeah politics definitely plays a part, as does celebrity. A more famous case will usually get a more severe sentence. Justice should be blind to both, but that blindfold was ripped off at least by 1990.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 04:59 PM (39g3+)

319 They count anybody who talks about trees of liberty, telephone poles, civil wars, secession and etc as crazy stoopid extremists
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Hmm. So, I can still make snide remarks about Prius drivers?

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 04:59 PM (9mTYi)

320 The Constitution is a charger of negative liberties. Let me be clear, the people must have positive liberties, like the government freeing them from hate speech, gun ownership, and too much money.

Posted by: Barack the Magnificent at June 01, 2015 04:59 PM (HAqfD)

321 So this is interesting

FEMA is in my area. My house is fine but tons are not. FEMA came through the area to do inspections, incognito, not in uniform, in unmarked cars

Like they don't want people figuring out who they are and accosting them on the street

Posted by: Thunderb at June 01, 2015 04:59 PM (zOTsN)

322 Bold nood Ace Barreling.

Posted by: By The People That Brought You Detachable Penis at June 01, 2015 05:00 PM (ecDRv)

323 What's the best reply?

The one I use increasingly is, "Yeah, except that's not true."

Posted by: BackwardsBoy, who did not vote for this sh1t at June 01, 2015 05:00 PM (0HooB)

324 " the sidebar has been Italicanisized."

Whoever added the cats are jerks thing did it. Been a bit.

Posted by: Ricardo Kill at June 01, 2015 05:00 PM (LA7Cm)

325
"How much do you want to bet their study will consist of posting their own "extremist" messages and counting how many times they get re-tweeted and forwarded? Morons."

They have just sent the check to me.

Posted by: Moby at June 01, 2015 05:00 PM (OD2ni)

326 To save wear and tear on the Logitech, I've mapped it to Alt-F2 on my keyboard.
Posted by: Laurie
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Might as well make that, "Thanks, Richard and Thom"

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at June 01, 2015 05:01 PM (9mTYi)

327 The one that looks really bad though is "clipped" the show about a barber shop/hair salon.

Yeah it could work like a Wings or Cheers kind of show, but it looks like its just going to be a rehash of Girls or Two Broke Girls. Awful.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 05:02 PM (39g3+)

328 So does that mean they'll be monitoring aoshq?

Yikes... someone should take Bob the friendly NSA agent aside and have him provide a comprehensive list of trigger warnings for the snowflakes before they start reading or they'll be in therapy for the rest of their lives.

Posted by: mynewhandle at June 01, 2015 05:02 PM (AkOaV)

329 "Damn, Lauren. Sounds like emotion was involved otherwise just do them and take their stuff."

It was a "friend". He had gotten involved in drugs and wouldn't go along with something to do with a meth manufacturing thing. I don't know all the details but the cops knew his body was out there for a month before doing anything because they wanted to make the drug bust.

Poor guy was really troubled and the state really compounded the family's grief. The even sent the wrong remains to his parents.

Posted by: Lauren at June 01, 2015 05:03 PM (tO0wb)

330 Posted by: Christopher Taylor at June 01, 2015 05:02 PM (39g3

Well it does have NORM! in it.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) rogue bioethicst at June 01, 2015 05:03 PM (s92xH)

331 Speaking of awful TV, there's a new show called "Your Family or Mine"
that sports some mid level talent like Ed Bagely jr and Richard Dreyfuss
that is just... beyond awful based on the previews I was forced to sit
through to watch an on demand show. Just terrible.

That has to be the most revolting show I've ever. Every commercial for it is a pinnacle of non-top sleaze and smut.

Not a great recommendation, and that's what they're trying to draw you in with....

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 05:03 PM (oVJmc)

332 Comment #271 is the winning argument.

Posted by: River Guide at June 01, 2015 05:03 PM (RJMhd)

333 I also saw Ed Begley Jr. in those commercials for his new show and boggled at how insignificant he is as an actor compared to his father.

Posted by: Pappy O'Daniel at June 01, 2015 05:04 PM (oVJmc)

334 I don't know what other universities are doing, but at my place of employment they have added a "conservative" professor to the faculty. My impression is that his job is not to be conservative himself, but to study conservatives and present their position not as a valid philosophy, but as a study in aberrant human behavior. Sort of like an anthropological analysis of the primitive world of conservatives.

Much like David Brooks is a **wink/nod** "conservative" commentator, intended to present the conservative viewpoint for the bemusement of the "intelligentsia".

Sad state of affairs.

Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at June 01, 2015 05:04 PM (NeFrd)

335 Poor guy was really troubled and the state really compounded the
family's grief. The even sent the wrong remains to his parents.

"Government is just a word for things we do together."

Posted by: HR braucht ein Bier at June 01, 2015 05:06 PM (ZKzrr)

336 Posted by: Muldoon, a solid man at June 01, 2015 05:04 PM (NeFrd)

Yeah, I remember in college we'd get a balanced viewpoint like this:

"Enlightened, progressive people say gay marriage is about equal rights. Knuckle dragging neanderthals who call themselves conservatives say it's about their hokey religion. With education, however, some have been known to come around. It's tough to get through all of that ignorance though."

Posted by: mynewhandle at June 01, 2015 05:09 PM (AkOaV)

337 Get this, hillary's announcement on Roosevelt Island will try to attach her hip to Roosevelts and talk about the "freedom from fear", "freedom from want" and get this the "freedom of Religion" but she is holding on a Saturday so no Joooos can come!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at June 01, 2015 05:09 PM (rDqRv)

338
All of us down at the Brattleboro Women's Reproductive Health Choice
Clinic our proud of Bruce Jenner for doing the correct thing. Sometimes God makes mistakes and we must correct such is the case of Bruce Jenner whom should have been born a female.

Posted by: Mary Clogginstien from Brattleboro, VT at June 01, 2015 05:21 PM (lNSdJ)

339 118. Sock puppeting a regular can earn you a time-out, Interesting that I got under your skin!

Posted by: LadyS at June 01, 2015 05:24 PM (xYNhJ)

340 I'd like to believe that's the reason for the flood but is it? Are they
even aware of that, or is America just being portrayed as the land of
free stuff and easy money?

That is part of the reason. The other part is that they want to take back the territory they lost when the Texicans kicked their asses at San Jacinto. There is some sort of insane belief that the Gringos can be forced to give that land back. Actually I would really like to see the US cede the land back to Mexico so that us modern Texans could kick their asses again and this time not be stupid enough to join the US.

Posted by: An Observation at June 01, 2015 05:27 PM (Elkc6)

341 Oh, and I'll be at the NoVaMoMee on 6/19, with a big "LadyS" name tag. Sure would like to meet you in person.

Posted by: LadyS at June 01, 2015 05:33 PM (xYNhJ)

342 Someone kill the blog?

Posted by: SE Pa Moron at June 01, 2015 06:09 PM (xQX/f)

343 Someone kill the blog?

Yes.

Posted by: The DoJ at June 01, 2015 06:09 PM (oVJmc)

344 The brown shirt SS moves ever further into bully, thug intimidation tactics, until Obama lets them fully off their leashes. Sic 'em, says Obama, git dem whiten*ggers.

Posted by: ron n. at June 01, 2015 07:14 PM (YVQn/)

345 Nood.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 01, 2015 07:28 PM (BGCet)

346 Vince Vaughn is the subtle-ly hot, cool as shit, version of loser effeminate Ben Affleck; who pretends to be on top of the world, but is a weak asshole whiney pussy, who hates his himself. Vince is the real deal, you might say. He seems to be the always-a-gentleman guy who would lay a serious kiss on you at the office or pool party and blow your damn mind kind. So, preach on, brother. School them in some down to earth, trigger warning: TRUTH. Someone has to do it, might as well be you, amirite?

Posted by: Stephanie at June 01, 2015 08:09 PM (sF0CB)

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