1 1st?

2

I severly doubt a starting lineman in the NFL would any weapon at all to kill a woman.

 

 

3 I see ace has read and largely summarized the comments of the earlier thread about AtC's blogpost-thing.

4 Being first isnt going to uplift my spirits today. AtC, I liked your post.

5 More fabulous Jason Whitlock:


WHITLOCK: Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world when sports lends itself to that and try to open people’s eyes. You know, I did not go as far as I’d like to go because my thoughts on the NRA and America’s gun culture – I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously don’t have our best interests [at heart].



The epic stupid in this statement should show you what it takes to be a sports journalist.

It's WHITEY'S fault that black kill other blacks with GUNS.  Nothing racist about THAT mindset Nuh uh......

6

 

Ban Bob Costas, before he causes another death from the eye-rolling his stupidity causes!  It's for the children!

7

Come on a little closer over here, Mr. Costas, so I can put my

bien  foot  up  your  bien  ass.

8 I know...let's finally prove these elitists right...and shoot them all in the head.

9 The real criminal is the person that dyes Bob's hair. What color is that? Saucy Chestnut?

10 In the UK, there is a "Knives Take Lives" campaign which has successfully banned large hunting knives. We're headed there. It's not a silly joke. Also, this atc sounds hot.

11 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a malignant traitor.

12 Mr. Whitlock needs to sit a bit less.

13 People who beat their swords into plowshares, will plow for those who didn't. Been true for all of human history. Ain't changing any time soon.

14 Posted by: Glum at December 03, 2012 02:30 PM (UK9cE)

Meh, that's nothing.  Channel surfing on Sunday, I saw that idiot Melissa Harry Paris or whatever, try to tie to the filibuster to racism because Strom Thurman once used one.
Yes, seriously.  Every time she said "The filibuster" she added "which was used once by Strom Thurman to fight the civil rights act."

15 Off fail sock.

16 Was this movie about guns?

17
Anything to distract from the insane amount of violence in football, which is needed for the game to, you know, survive and be a big business.

The NFL has a strong PR reach...

18 Ever notice that sports "journalists" (i use the term rather loosly) are perhaps even more leftwing than journalists as a whole? That in itself is pretty impressive.

19 Ace, here's a great word for you to use - Ultracrepidarian. It fits perfectly with your quote of
But is as usually the case, people have the strongest opinions when they have the least actual knowledge.

20 As I understand it, the UK has, in fact, enacted knife control. As a result, the yobs are killing each other with rocks and their bare hands. The killing, however, has not stopped.

21 Shorter Ace: Guns don't kill people, people kill people.

22 An unarmed citizen is a Peasant.  That's where we're headed.

Those that are not armed cannot defend, but also cannot rebel.

23

That's a problem, because what we might call "conventional traditionalist white middle-class culture" happens to have seized on a great many extremely positive and useful mores, so any culture which is broadly oppositional to that culture is going to wind up rejecting many crucial moral guidances.

 

One of the tenets of Obama's black liberation church was "A rejection of middle-class culture."  Or, "middle-classedness" I think they called it.

 

Wonder what is said behind the church doors, and how much damage it has done.

24 I don't remember that shrimp Bob Costas castigating Obama for giving guns to Mexican criminals which resulted directly with the death of Brian Terry. Where were you, Bob, when Brian Terry was killed?

25 I've actually waxed eloquent about this a few times at my blog today.

Errr... that is, I would have.  If I had a blog.

Including a link to Rachel Corrie being much better at killing "the wrong kind" than Margaret Sanger could ever have hoped to be.

26

Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that
I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world
when sports lends itself to that and try to open peopleÂ’s eyes. You
know, I did not go as far as IÂ’d like to go because my thoughts on the
NRA and America’s gun culture – I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And
that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our
community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is
the work of people who obviously donÂ’t have our best interests [at
heart].

 

First off, the stupid BURNS.   It BURNS, dammit.   I feel like Bloody    Mary has just crawled out of my mirror and clawed my eyes out    to actually rescue me from having to read this stupid tripe again.

 

But this is especially galling:

 

Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that
I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world
when sports lends itself to that and try to open peopleÂ’s eyes.

 

Hey, fuckwad!   Did you ever think that maybe the reason people watch sports so much, and the reason they tune out the "real world" as they do so,    is because the real world sucks a fat one?   And maybe, just maybe, those people who sink into sports for a little escapism don't want their brief respite from the weeklong slog to be interrupted by some pantywaist harridon    fat   liberal     asswipe who wants to take advantage of his     job as a glorified play-by-play caller to "educate" them?

27 Well said, Ace. Although, I'll repeat my bugaboo that it's more effective verbiage to call them the "ruling class" instead of the "elite class". "Elite" implies they deserve it. I want "elite" athletes on my pro team and "elite" doctors trying to cure me and "elite" engineers designing my car and "elite" pilots flying my plane. Usually I want the elite in charge of things. What I don't want in charge is people who've rigged the system to put themselves in charge, ahead of more qualified people. I don't want the legacies and affirmative action babies and trustafarian connectionistas. I don't want unqualified people who've somehow bought, finagled, cocktail partied, or ethnicized their way into power.

28 By the way, I was also in a long term relationship with an out of control violent person. It was scary and I was in survival mode every day. I never felt in fear of my life. But I constantly feared jail or some other horrible fate. She had me arrested twice for domestic assault and battery. It was a real ongoing possibility. I can't imagine what it's like to be in fear of your life but I do know fear.

29 Crazy idea. Lets ban murder. You know, with laws. It seems that weapons are only limited to a person's imigination. Which of course means that McGuyver is a mass murderer waiting to happen.

30 Sorry, Ace, I preferred AtC's earlier post to yours.

31 Less then 3 weeks until SMOD.

32 the notion of mastery over the human condition, via the policy preferences of the dominant liberal elite class.

And, Ace, I think the term you're looking for to express this idea is "The Perfectibility of Man."

33 "The first flawed idea is the notion of mastery over the human condition, via the policy preferences of the dominant liberal elite class." It's not an 'idea', it's dogma. It's axiomatic if you're a liberal that society is made through its government's laws and not the other way around, no proof is necessary. You can't be a liberal if you don't believe it. If Bob Costas had instead said at halftime that the Devil made Jovan Belcher kill his girlfriend and himself, he'd have been equally logical and for the same reasons. Liberalism is a religion.

34 There is no black counterculture. It's an anticulture. I can't see how anything that promotes crime, violence, illegitimacy, illiteracy, and intoxication can be called a "culture."

35 The ghastly irony is that even if you sat down a liberal hack like Costas and   went over the cause-and-effect gun control examples of Chicago, Detroit,   Philly, San Francisco, L.A., Baltimore, Boston, etc., he'd miss the point.    Which is the whole point.  Leftism is a mental disorder, not a legitimate political   ideology.   

36 As I understand it, the UK has, in fact, enacted knife control. As a result, the yobs are killing each other with rocks and their bare hands. The killing, however, has not stopped.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 02:35 PM (VtjlW)

 

Japan has bladed weapon bans, too, regarding what you can have on your person in public.   A pretty standard pocket knife could get you chucked in   the tanty.

37 It's kind of "A Thing" in philosophical circles.

38 Yup. Because nobody died by violence before guns were invented.

39 >> And they don't need guns to do this, as they have never needed guns to do this. A knife works pretty effectively; a woman can use a knife, too. She's every bit a man's physical equal when a man is asleep, or pass-out drunk, or drugged. And beyond knives there is poison, and there are of course bludgeons and ligatures; and drowning people in bathtubs; and running them down with a vehicle; and dousing them with kerosene and setting them on fire. I blame the opposable thumb. They should be outlawed.

40 Costas attended the same school as my step kids, who came out of it with the notion that they didn't know if they were heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual until they tried them all. It is a very good school in a very good area, and it is a shame that with all the tax we pay I have to pay private tuition for my kids now.

41 So, you were saying boycott NBC? I'm on board now. Packer fan, but will listen on the radio next week.

42 No gun is needed for such murders, since men are generally much stronger than women. _____ Yeah, but BOB COSTAS. Ha, ha, he's trying to castrate himself

43 Bob, O.J. and Javon are all idiots. Two of them are murderous idiots and now out of our hair.  What any of them say has no real bearing on what any of us should do or think.  Might as well ask my dogs what they wish to do. (It's "eat", if you don't know).  For them, it's "get in line behind O'Bumbles" or whoever is leading the Circus at the moment. Curse them all.

44 A lot of these emotional-snap murders involve setting people on fire, including setting one's children on fire

When was this?  I can't recall any recent immolation type murders of young children caught in custody disputes.

45 Maybe if the girlfriend had a gun. We'd only be talking about one shooting.

46

The ghastly irony is that even if you sat down a liberal hack like Costas

 

MURDERER!

47
32 the notion of mastery over the human condition, via the policy preferences of the dominant liberal elite class.

---------------

And, Ace, I think the term you're looking for to express this idea is "The Perfectibility of Man."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) Channelling Breitbart at December 03, 2012 02:37 PM (5DR1j)

Humanism

48 Let's just focus on this sentence:

I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is the work of people who obviously donÂ’t have our best interests [at heart].


The NRA is standing on the street corner of the black community and handing young black Americans a 9 mm pistol and an 8 ball because they're WHITE and hate BLACK people. 

Jason, YOU sir, are the racist in this situation.  YOU are the one that can't see beyond the color.  YOU, sir, are the one that takes race relations back to the 1850's.

That and your writing sucks.

49 29 Crazy idea. Lets ban murder. You know, with laws. It seems that weapons are only limited to a person's imigination. Which of course means that McGuyver is rednecks are mass murderers waiting to happen.

50 Costas had surgery since his rant. have look see http://edwardcropper.blogspot.com/

51 Cain "shot" Abel!  Who knew?

52 Yup. Because nobody died by violence before guns were invented.

Posted by: joncelli at December 03, 2012 02:38 PM (RD7QR)

 

I know, right?   The fuck   is wrong with these dopes?

53 Costas attended the same school as my step kids, who came out of it with the notion that they didn't know if they were heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual until they tried them all.
It is a very good school in a very good area

I submit that if the kids leave school believing they have to "try" various flavors of sexuality before they know their own sexual orientation, it is not a "very good school."  I would submit it is not even a "pretty okay school, once you get past all the crap."  I would submit such a school is a piss-poor example of institutions of education, and should be completely abandoned.

54 I snapped, post-divorce.  I went to the top of our ten-story office building with the full intent of throwing myself off.  The door to the roof was locked.  Normally it wasn't.  I'm glad today it wasn't.  I don't know if the football player was anything near my state of mind at the time.  It doesn't excuse what he did, just like there would have been no excuse for leaving my two kids with no dad.

But I understand it.

55 Short people got no reason Short people got no reason Short people got no reason To live They got little hands Little eyes They walk around Tellin' great big lies They got little noses And tiny little teeth They wear platform shoes On their nasty little feet Well, I don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people `Round here Short people are just the same As you and I (A fool such as I) All men are brothers Until the day they die (It's a wonderful world) Short people got nobody Short people got nobody Short people got nobody To love They got little baby legs That stand so low You got to pick em up Just to say hello They got little cars That go beep, beep, beep They got little voices Goin' peep, peep, peep They got grubby little fingers And dirty little minds They're gonna get you every time Well, I don't want no short people Don't want no short people Don't want no short people 'Round here Hey Bob Costas that one's for you!

56 In the past 2-3 weeks in Chicago, there have been, of course, multiple shooting murders.  One emblematic one was the shooting (assassination) of a couple of gangbangers at a church for the funeral of another gangbanger who had been shot.  This follows a tradition of gangbanger funeral processions where the scum weave in and out of traffic while waving guns around.  It was even reported that a couple of guns were recovered at the scene of the shooting with only some police reporting later that the recovered guns were from the two scummy gangbangers who had been shot.  Chicago does not have a murder problem but, instead, has a black murder problem.  What mindset would make shootouts at funeral sensible.  Over to you, Bob and Jason.

57 By the way, I was also in a long term relationship with an out of control violent person. It was scary and I was in survival mode every day. I never felt in fear of my life. But I constantly feared jail or some other horrible fate. What women do to men is just as horrible and, in many ways, far more insidious. Not to mention that women also physically abuse men and good luck getting that taken seriously. I'm not kidding that I could pick a guy's name out of the phone book at random, show up at the courthouse crying my eyes out and claim that he hit me and I'm terrified of him and the court would immediately issue a temporary protective order that would include confiscation of all of his guns. A few days later, the hearing gets held and I don't show up and it gets dropped. Nothing will happen to me. The guy has to go through the nightmare of trying to get his guns back and, as a bonus, he now has on his record that, yup, someone once took out a restraining order against him. Let me repeat, it is highly unlikely that there would ever be consequences against me for doing this. It's a helluva way to get rid of guns at someone's house if they have something you want to steal.

58 Outlaw bullets.

Problem solved.

59 For hunter-gatherer cultures, the most common cause of death is blunt trauma -- basically somebody sneaking up and braining you in the back of the head with a rock while you are taking a dump. No guns, no knives. Anything heavy to the back of the head. There's a reason UFC bans blows to the back of the head. Human beings are really vulnerable there.

60 Captain Whitebread:  I'm glad you didn't follow through.  We need you   'round here.

61 ::::It's WHITEY'S fault that black kill other blacks with GUNS. Nothing racist about THAT mindset Nuh uh......:;;; After a while, you get tired of waiting for all the AIDS and crack you pumped in to the inner cities to do their job. So every third shipment or so, I'll toss in some shitty Romanian AKs and a crate of Norinco 9mms.

62 Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 03, 2012 02:39 PM (da5Wo)

Humanism does assume the Perfectibility of Man, but so do other philosophies/religions.  Humanism is an especially egregious example, though.

63 It's not 'gun culture' that Jason Whitlock is talking about with teens shooting teens over music at convenience stores. It's THUG CULTURE, which, should I mention it, Jason Whitlock will immediately and reflexively condemn me as a racist.

64 Would it better if they was throwed outta windas? - Archie Bunker

65 Hey Bob Costas that one's for you!

Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2012 02:41 PM (79ueO)

Is it wrong that I had that as the ringtone for my wife at one point?

66 The Sunday Night Football FB page was slammed with comments about this last night.....you'd be hard pressed to find ONE that supported Costas out of thousands.



And really, it's bad enough that he did this at all but how effing stupid to do it during a Cowboys game in TEXAS!

67 As I understand it, the UK has, in fact, enacted knife control. As a result, the yobs are killing each other with rocks and their bare hands. The killing, however, has not stopped. Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December I have known these youths, deprived of weaponry, use beer and booze bottles to slash each other rountinely

68 Whitlock works for Fox Sports. Why isn't he fired over this?

69 In light of this weekend's vicious dolphin attack, we are reassessing our policy of maintaining the park as a gun-free zone.

70 Jason Whitlock is so fucking stupid that stupid is offended by the comparison.

71 >>>Although, I'll repeat my bugaboo that it's more effective verbiage to call them the "ruling class" instead of the "elite class". "Elite" implies they deserve it. yeah I go both ways on that. But they actually are "elite" in terms of wealth and influence.

72

>>Was this movie about guns?

 

Yeah, EC, I think it was called "Bowling for Costas".

73 Is it wrong that I had that as the ringtone for my wife at one point? Posted by: © Sponge at December 03, 2012 02:43 PM (UK9cE) I can think of a lot worse

74 Try outlawing cutlery and see how Whitlock responds.

Wouldn't. Be. Pretty.

75 These Leftist jackasses don't actually care about Men with Guns.  They actually depend on Men with Guns.  They live in their swank New York apartments and stroll around the yuppie shopping districts because Men with Guns enable them to do so -- they're called "police."

Costas doesn't object to Men with Guns, so long as those Men have the appropriate government-certified credentials. 

What they object to is you and I having a gun.  They object to Non-Governmental Men with Guns -- men whose livelihood does not depend on the elite governmental class (the pool from which men like Costas are drawn) who dole out salaries to lower-class men who do real work for a living protecting yuppies, and are thus more willing to follow their orders. 

Assholes like Costas don't have a problem with guns.  They have a problem with freedom.  More specifically, they have a problem with men they can't control. 

76 The way to not get caught is to beat an enemy to death with another enemy.  Two birds with one stone, as it were.  Cops will say they must have repeatedly flung themselves at each other until dead.  (from a great George Carlin bit.  He had some good ones on guns too.)

77 Guns don't kill people, I kill people

78 Outlaw bullets. Problem solved. Posted by: Dr Spank at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (b+jI9) Isn't the EPA trying to do just that?

79 After a while, you get tired of waiting for all the AIDS and crack you pumped in to the inner cities to do their job. So every third shipment or so, I'll toss in some shitty Romanian AKs and a crate of Norinco 9mms.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (+yYvY)

Hell, I'm still waiting for all that Church's Chicken to take effect.

80 WHITLOCK:
Sports gets so much attention, and people tune out the real world, that
I try to take advantage of the opportunity to talk about the real world
when sports lends itself to that and try to open peopleÂ’s eyes. You
know, I did not go as far as IÂ’d like to go because my thoughts on the
NRA and America’s gun culture – I believe the NRA is the new KKK. And
that the arming of so many black youths, uh, and loading up our
community with drugs, and then just having an open shooting gallery, is
the work of people who obviously donÂ’t have our best interests [at
heart].





So the NRA is supplying black youth with guns and drugs? When did the KKK supply blacks with guns and drugs? I suppose the NRA is also creating gangs and forcing them into them too

81 As I understand it, the UK has, in fact, enacted knife control.

Guns for show.  Knives for the pro.

82 >> After a while, you get tired of waiting for all the AIDS and crack you pumped in to the inner cities to do their job. So every third shipment or so, I'll toss in some shitty Romanian AKs and a crate of Norinco 9mms. This would've been a better script to Prometheus than that shit Lindelof came up with.

83 The first mistake is assuming a TV "personality" has something intelligent or useful to say.

How do they get that credibility from some folks in the first place?

Maybe if Costas comments next on some nuclear physics advancement we can give that some play too. You know, because he's a TV PERSONALITY so it must be worth discussing.

84 I have known these youths, deprived of weaponry, use beer and booze bottles to slash each other rountinely

Some of them throw dogs at each other.

And really, it's bad enough that he did this at all but how effing stupid to do it during a Cowboys game in TEXAS!

That was my thought last night, too.  Okay, demographics of someone watching Sunday Night Football.  Demographics of gun ownership.  Venn Diagram.  Let's think that through.

85 Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 03, 2012 02:39 PM (da5Wo)

Arguably Aristotle was a humanist.  He'd be appealed by the use of legislation to force good moral behavior, precisely because it doesn't work.  Virtue has to be learned and acted, not forced under coercion.

86 In the past 2-3 weeks in Chicago, there have been, of course, multiple shooting murders. One emblematic one was the shooting (assassination) of a couple of gangbangers at a church for the funeral of another gangbanger who had been shot. This follows a tradition of gangbanger funeral processions where the scum weave in and out of traffic while waving guns around. It was even reported that a couple of guns were recovered at the scene of the shooting with only some police reporting later that the recovered guns were from the two scummy gangbangers who had been shot. Chicago does not have a murder problem but, instead, has a black murder problem. What mindset would make shootouts at funeral sensible. Over to you, Bob and Jason. this si what I meant in the previous thread by families and communities that tolerate violent and impulsive behavior. It all starts in the family, cause they know first

87 Isn't the EPA trying to do just that

They were doing something about the gun ranges and unsafe levels of lead.  Ammunition industry responded by making lead-free bullets that are a little more expensive than regular ones, but not impossible to carry on with.

88 After a while, you get tired of waiting for all the AIDS and crack you pumped in to the inner cities to do their job. So every third shipment or so, I'll toss in some shitty Romanian AKs and a crate of Norinco 9mms.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (+yYvY)

 

EoJ, you're missing out on the cheap, effective meth market!   Cheap to produce, fast to cook and distribute, and it has a high addiction rate.   And if you play your cards right and set up your meth lab IN an inner city, you can actually make the    lab site and the surrounding area a toxic, hazardous waste zone!  

 

I really think this is a growth area you need to add to your imperial portfolio.

89 When was this? I can't recall any recent immolation type murders of young children caught in custody disputes.

Posted by: EC at December 03, 2012 02:38 PM (GQ8sn)

 

 

------------------------------------------------

 

 

We had a bad one in OKC not too long ago.  Yes, it happens.  Think about the youth sport in large urban areas of setting homeless people on fire.  Same thing. 

90 Guns for show. Knives for the pro.

Posted by: EC at December 03, 2012 02:45 PM (GQ8sn)

 

SOAP.

 

*hearts*

91 Thanks, MWR.  I would have missed a lot: the new job, new friends, and the Cutest Grandaughter In The Universe (don't argue with me, you'll lose). 

92 For most of human history blunt force trauma was the most common cause of death. At least for males. Clearly we need to ban rocks. And all rock-sized objects. We need to gather up all the rocks and rock-sized objects and roll them up, Katamari Damacy style, into boulder-sized objects. It's very hard to boulder smash someone in the heat of the moment. That shit takes planning.

93

Sorry, Ace, I preferred AtC's earlier post to yours.

 

Posted by: L, Elle at December 03, 2012 02:36 PM (0PiQ4)

 

I don't anyone is ranking them. The issue can actually accomodate two lines of thought.

 

 

 

 

94 Well, I don't know about you, but the gun safety instructor at the sheriff's that I dealt with was all about telling us to just go ahead and shoot people - i mean, fkrs - if they cut us off in traffic. Also the buds down at the range always bring down a few minorities to tie up to the post down range, particularly in winter - but I find that distasteful and only chain up small white children, per NRA guidelines.

95

couldn't not respond to this one: lets do everyone a favor and flood the NFL with calls to fire Bob Costas

1-212-450-2000

I already called and expressed my disgust; if they don't fire him like they fired Hank Williams, Jr. (for voicing a personal opinion) they are unmitigated assholes

96 Well, Obama has already outlawed forks at dinners with peasants.

So somehow, this makes sense. To NBC at least.

97 It's a helluva way to get rid of guns at someone's house if they have something you want to steal.
Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (VtjlW)

True but the wiley gun owner will always have at least one gun that is legal yet off the records and hence unknown to the authorities. Generally any gun imported before the 1968 GCA and transferred via private parties will fit the bill.

98

Bob Costas gets around this (he thinks) by suggesting it's not just about the gun, but about "gun culture," a culture, if I'm to understand this correctly, that encourages violent outcomes to personal disputes.

Responsible gun owners certainly don't believe that. Irresponsible gun owners and criminals do, but that's hardly a "gun culture" extending to responsible citizens.

Nail on the fricking head.

Of course, its too profound of a thought for the drooling left to comprehend that it WAS NOT an NRA member or white republican who did this.

It was one of THEIR pets.

99 Nobody needs more than a 10-tooth Eqqus africanus jawbone.

100 A lot of these emotional-snap murders involve setting people on fire, including setting one's children on fire When was this? I can't recall any recent immolation type murders of young children caught in custody disputes. Posted by: EC at December 03, 2012 02:38 PM (GQ8sn) pretty popular with the pakis and acid burning too

101 It's good to know in places like the UK, Australia, and Sweeden that domestic abuse or gun violence has ceased to exist. That once you ban guns all crime stops. We should try making murder and pedophilia against the law too.

102 It's a helluva way to get rid of guns at someone's house if they have something you want to steal.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (VtjlW)

Suddenly I'm think AtC is a supervillian in disguise.

I'm also transferring all of my gun registrations to my wife! (Hah, that'll do an endrun around you trying to steal my stuff AtC.  Note: IANAL, YMMV, that may not even be legal.)

103 O wait, I know - for every gun sold it has to come with a gun lock AND a Bible.

104 Don't want no short people Don't want no short people 'Round here Hey Bob Costas that one's for you! Posted by: Nevergiveup at December 03, 2012 02:41 PM (79ueO) _______________ That reminds me, I was at the concert at (I think) Avery Fisher Hall when Randy Newman was doing his tour for that album. Joel Grey was in the crowd. After "Short People," he got up and walked out.

105 We had a bad one in OKC not too long ago. Yes, it happens. Think about the youth sport in large urban areas of setting homeless people on fire. Same thing.

Fuck me, that's truly horrible.  Nothing comes close to agonizing suffering than being burned alive, but not all the way dead.  You'd wish you were dead.

106 We don't all have fenced in yards in fenced in neighborhoods, supplemented with security teams, Bob.

107 this si what I meant in the previous thread by families and communities that tolerate violent and impulsive behavior. It all starts in the family, cause they know first

Posted by: Thunderb at December 03, 2012 02:47 PM (Dnbau)

 

And how many times after someone gets   murdered     do you see the mother or grandmother of both the shooter and the victim in front the TV cameras wailing, "He's such a good boy!  He never did nothing wrong!  He's a good boy!   You got the wrong boy!"

108 Suddenly I'm think AtC is a supervillian in disguise. Pffft. Like I bother with a disguise. Um. Like I would bother. If I were a supervillian. Which I'm not. *shiftyeyes*

109 >> It all starts in the family, cause they know first Yep. And those trillions of Great Society dollars that utterly destroyed the black family structure are more responsible for this sorry state of affairs than the contents of my gun safe are. But knock yourself out, Costas.

110 78 Outlaw bullets. Problem solved. Posted by: Dr Spank at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (b+jI9) Isn't the EPA trying to do just that? And they'll just go back to shotguns. Load the shell with nails, bolts, nuts, ball bearings, etc.

111  The killing, however, has not stopped.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 02:35 PM (VtjlW)

 

 

-------------Well at least we have that

112

Clearly we need to ban rocks. And all rock-sized objects.

 

Or all blunt objects.  They turn up in autopsies all the time.

 

I thought we had a ban when they stopped selling videotape-rewind  machines -- objects that are horribly blunt. Turns out they stopped selling them because people  stopped needing them, not out  of  corporate  responsibility.

113 83 The first mistake is assuming a TV "personality" has something intelligent or useful to say.

Agreed.  I've been in radio my entire adult life. I know it takes some talent, but I also know it doesn't take MUCH.

114 Only Democrats care about skin color.

115 We should try making .... pedophilia against the law too.

h8er

116 Tell me again, was it the NRA that sent guns over our border?

117 It's long been part of conservative doctrine that there is no such thing as the "New Man".  Any attemps to create such a creature enevitably end in pain and dispair. 

118 Yeah.... ban rocks.... please....

119 Oh, and it should just be pointed out that sportscasters as a group tend to be miserable human beings who get to report on people who are younger, richer, thinner, more praised and more physically capable than they are. They're mere journalists, but with more-wounded egos.

120 92 Rocks And ban leather for slings. And jawbones from asses.

121 Look, Whitlock, Planned Parenthood can't do all the work to genocide the black community. Someone else has to pick up the slack.

122

Clearly we need to ban rocks. And all rock-sized objects.

 

Just ban hands.   Problem solved.

 

(Note to self:  Invent "stump gun.")

123 It's good to know in places like the UK, Australia, and Sweeden that domestic abuse or gun violence has ceased to exist. That once you ban guns all crime stops. We should try making murder and pedophilia against the law too.

Posted by: YaHump at December 03, 2012 02:49 PM (yJlNz)

Fuck you.  We're going as fast as we can.  I got the Big Gulp outlawed.  The gun thing will happen, buddy.

124 >>Clearly we need to ban rocks. And all rock-sized objects.


We all should be required to wear helmets and body armor 24/7, it's the only way to be sure.

125 Maybe Jovan Belcher was a Muslim and it was an honor killing??? In that case I am sure liberals would say - "Oh that's OK then".

126 What does gun control have to do with sports reporting?

127 I would respectfully like to point out that I was found innocent in a court of law.

128 Suddenly I'm think AtC is a supervillian in disguise.




Pffft. A disguise. A low cut shirt and stompy boots means no one will ever recognize her face

129

Jason Whitlock is most qualified to write a Fodor's-type guide to America's urban stripclubs.

And about his buddy Jeff George.

130

Just ban hands. Problem solved.

 

(Note to self: Invent "stump gun.")

 

 

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit, rooting for SMOD or the Mayans, whichever comes first at December 03, 2012 02:53 PM (4df7R)

 

Stompy Boots Control?

131

I would respectfully like to point out that I was found innocent in a court of law.

 

Posted by: O.J. Simpson at December 03, 2012 02:54 PM (H84UO)

 

 

Shut up and go back to getting ass-raped in prison, Juicey-Juice. 

132 Brain injuries can get you to start seeing double. For instance, that phrase "unthinking liberalism".

133 127 I would respectfully like to point out that I was found innocent in a court of law.

Posted by: O.J. Simpson at December 03, 2012 02:54 PM (H84UO)

Yo, OJ... up high.. one time!!

134 Clearly civilians have no reason to own military-grade catapults. This just results in minor disputes over cattle and women turning into bloody rock wars.

135 Remember "Curtis Got Slapped" and how his mother was going on about the government beaming rays from HAARP into black neighbourhoods and putting "things" in the water supply to control them? I grew up in a nearly 70% poor, black city. This type of paranoia is depressingly common. In poorly-educated black communities, conspiracy theories abound. "They" blew up the levees. "They" put drugs in our schools. Never mind that there is no possible motive or benefit "They" could conceivably derive from these conspiracies. Arguing with them is useless. They KNOW what they know.

136 he's raciss gun culture = thug life yo.

137 @AtC,

Stompy boots qualify as a disguise for this purpose. I find you guilty or something.  Now don't use your incredible woman powers to have me locked up.  Please .

138

those trillions of Great Society dollars that utterly destroyed the black family structure are more responsible for this sorry state of affairs than the contents of my gun safe are.

THIS is the real crime against the black community.  It's disgraceful.

139 Of course, the northeast didn't embrace gun control until after the great migration of blacks out of the South. Northeast whites only started clamoring for gun control when black people moved into the neighborhood. The parts of New England that are still lily-white are still pro-gun.

140 If anyone ever needed evidence that football makes you dumber, Bob provides ample evidence.

141 I would respectfully like to point out that I was found innocent in a court of law.


That's not my recollection.

142 128 Suddenly I'm think AtC is a supervillian in disguise. Pffft. A disguise. A lowcutshirtand stompyboots means no one will ever recognize her face Pics. Or it didn't happen.

143 (Note to self: Invent "stump gun.") Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit, rooting for SMOD or the Mayans, whichever comes first at December 03, 2012 02:53 PM (4df7R) I'm pretty sure that Merle and Daryl will beat you to that.

144 Right on the money ace. A rare moment I can find nothing more to add nor anything to with which to disagree. Right on the money

145 You'll always notice that the people closest to these murderers are always stunned and struggling to understand how and why it happened. And you'll always notice that doesn't stop the media from pontificating on their pet reasons before the bodies are cold.

146 @EoJ,

In fairness they blow up a lot of levees around my parts (MO).  Mostly to help stop downstream effects to save people who stupidly believe they blew the levees in a major metro area.
Next time, I suggest we keep the farm land.

@BCochran1981,
Punch, me, beaten to.  Damnit.

147 We all should be required to wear helmets and body armor 24/7, it's the only way to be sure.

No, no no -- we need to force everyone to walk around naked at all times.

And while we're at it, we need to ban these naked people from picking up any object that could be used as a weapon. 

Basically, we need to be naked all the time, and have a rule that says that no one can touch anything, ever, except when your feet touch the ground. 

Problem solved.

148 "What women do to men is just as horrible and, in many ways, far more insidious. Not to mention that women also physically abuse men and good luck getting that taken seriously."

Outlaw brooms!

149 Arguing with them is useless. They KNOW what they know. Victimology is their woobie.

150

It's not 'gun culture' that Jason Whitlock is talking about with teens shooting teens over music at convenience stores. It's THUG CULTURE, which, should I mention it, Jason Whitlock will immediately and reflexively condemn me as a racist.

 

What is the number of guns-per-capita in rural areas, with hunters, etc. compared to the cities? I can't help but  notice that there are large swaths of the country where people possess guns, yet  somehow  fight the urge to shoot each other.

151 If anyone ever needed evidence that football makes you dumber, Bob provides ample evidence.

All all Bob does is suck the cocks of the people who actually play the game.

152 Stompy Boots Control?

Posted by: Romeo13 at December 03, 2012 02:55 PM (lZBBB)

 

I wouldn't presume to speak for AtC, but they can have my stompy boots when they rip them off my cold, dead, impressively accurate in the crotchular region feet.

153

/sigh Bob is totally ignorant of the facts.

 

Reiterating probably what everyone else has already said, "You are entitled to your opinion, but facts are facts." He's ignorant and needs to stop pontificating.

154

Posted by: Dr Spank at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (b+jI9)

 

Reminds me of the Chris Rock bit where he says don't outlaw guns or bullets.  Just make the bullet cost $5000.

There would be no innocent driveby shootings.

'Hey motherf----- I'd shoot you but I got my house note to pay and shit. "

 

Unfortunately the left would put a 5000 tax on bullets if they could.

 

 

155 I'm pretty sure that Merle and Daryl will beat you to that.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 02:57 PM (VtjlW)

 

'Sokay.  I will gladly hang around in their shadows and let them take all the credit.   *swoon*

156

Posted by: Dave S. at December 03, 2012 02:58 PM (HEWhR)

 

Good point.... he IMMEDIATLY Politized the Murder / Suicide...

157

122  Clearly we need to ban rocks. And all rock-sized objects.

Just ban hands. Problem solved.

(Note to self: Invent "stump gun.")

 

----------

 

I LoL'd.

 

But yeah...ban feet too, because a kick to the head can do the trick.

 

And ball bats...and lead pipes.

 

If bullets are banned, then people could still make Ice Bullets.

So then we gotta ban water.

 

People could still use a piece of wire to garrot someone with.

So we gotta ban wire.

 

And then there is rope...can't have people hanging themselves or someone else with an evil piece of rope!

 

158 No, no, no, what? And here I thought that what Bob and Jason were trying to convey is that guns and gun culture allow men to take it too far without making an effort, that what they're telling me is that every woman needs a good beating now and again.

Right?

159 Why    are    the    sidewalks    always   so  close    to    my    ass?

160 Costa's worst mistake... not knowing his audience.  He is speaking to football fans, he is not on NPR.

161 And you'll always notice that doesn't stop the media from pontificating on their pet reasons before the bodies are cold.

Posted by: Dave S. at December 03, 2012 02:58 PM (HEWhR)

But heaven forbid a political candidate of the right-leaning variety should have an opinion on the record. Oh noes.

162 Now don't use your incredible woman powers to have me locked up. Please . Posted by: tsrblke (work) at December 03, 2012 02:56 PM (i177X) I promise nothing.

163 The Great Society did terrible damage to the black family. But black crime rates -- especially violent crimes like rape, murder, assault -- were much higher than white crime rates long before the Great Society. Black crime rates have been much higher than white crime rates for as long as the US has kept any statistics. And crime has come down in the past 20 years even as single mom black families have soared -- now at 80% I believe. Black violent crime rates have always been 5-10x that of whites. And whites are 2-3x that of asians. Impulse control is not uniformly distributed among humanity.

164 I grew up in a nearly 70% poor, black city.

I did not know you were black, Jeff.

165 Monroe NRA Rifle Club. RAAAAACIST!!!!! Never happened!!

166

Posted by: wheatie at December 03, 2012 03:00 PM (CM59X)

 

And buckets... because according to National Statistics there are a number (small) of people who die every year from drowning in buckets...

167 I put this in the earlier thread but; It never occurs to Costas et al that blaming guns, football, steroids, concussions and mental illness removes the personal responsibility from such an act, and enables the tolerance of abusers. That includes race. He didn't kill cause he was black. He killed because he had been violent before and people, perhaps Kassandra, his family, his team, his community, tolerated it. Focus on all these other things make them the cause, and divorces abusers from responsibility for what they do

168 Why are the sidewalks always so close to my ass?

Posted by: Bob Costas at December 03, 2012 03:00 PM (wIgpo)

 

I laughed. A LOT.

169 2008: Sportscaster Nice Marinello convicted of gunning down his wife near New Orleans. 1971: Sportscaster Stan Duke convicted of shooting his estranged wife's lover to death. 2006: Part-time sportscaster Mark Unger of Detroit is convicted of murdering his wife by pushing her off a ledge. 1997: Sportscaster Marv Albert commits assault and battery while dressed in women's clothing. 2011: Sportscaster Marvell Scott for WABC in New York is convicted of child prostitution. Culture of crime?

170 Costa's worst mistake... not knowing his audience. He is speaking to football fans, he is not on NPR.


Wait.  What?

171 Boxers. Talk about people who get their brains scrambled by sports. How many boxers freak out and kill their wives/girlfriends and then kill themselves?

172 And it came about when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother and shot him point blank with a Glock 9mm. Or something....

173 80 After a while, you get tired of waiting for all the
AIDS and crack you pumped in to the inner cities to do their job. So
every third shipment or so, I'll toss in some shitty Romanian AKs and a
crate of Norinco 9mms.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at December 03, 2012 02:42 PM (+yYvY)


Hell, I'm still waiting for all that Church's Chicken to take effect.

Posted by: © Sponge at December 03, 2012 02:45 PM (UK9cE)

 

Patience boys. Soon.

 

Dr. Colt 45 will be along soon with a status report. It seems his "pimp cup" and "purple drank" have been adopted and are proceeding nicely.

174

Bob Costas gets around this (he thinks) by suggesting it's not just about the gun, but about "gun culture," a culture, if I'm to understand this correctly, that encourages violent outcomes to personal disputes.

 

 

Straight up racism. What culture most encourages violent outcomes to personal disputes? Here's a hint: in what demographic is the leading cause of death of males 15-25 homicide - by gun - by other males of the same demographic? Hmmm?

175 Costa's worst mistake... not knowing his audience. He is speaking to football fans, he is not on NPR.

True enough.  Had Bob displayed this staggering level of stupidity there, no one would have even noticed.

176 Does examining the "gun culture" include examining the disgustingly violent, misogynistic, and drug glorifying lyrics of rap music?  Or would that be racist?

177 the violent culture that causes the problem.... let me see... where could it be... hold on a minute, wow! look at that celebration when the qb was sacked!  that line backer's a stud!  wow! what a hit!  anyway, where was I?  oh yeah, the culture of violence and machismo... and false bravado, where could it be? 

178 Bob Costas doesn't mind flying coach because he still has first class legroom.

179 Posted by: AndrewsDad at December 03, 2012 03:00 PM (C2//T)

Maybe he forgot he was doing football and was in his ice dancing frame of mind.

180 Guy died over the weekend from being beaten by another guy with a baseball bat. Over some perceived insult or other insignificant thing. So now, one guy who happened to be drinking in a bar is dead, and another guy who happened to be drinking in a bar is in jail for a long time.


So, do we ban booze, bars, or baseball bats?


Or just shoot the banners.

181 More difficult to discuss is the very violence implicit in football itself -- violence that leads to concussions and brain injuries Yet soccer players, who head a ball dropping from ~50 feet in the air at 32 feet per second, and jar the shit out of their cerebellums on a weekly basis, are infinitely more likely to BE murdered then to commit a murder. I think the NFL is being pussy-fied by the threat of lawsuits. These 'athletes' are people who, if they weren't getting paid mega-millions to beat up on other teams, would gladly beat up on any other individual for the pure joy.

182 :;;164 I grew up in a nearly 70% poor, black city. I did not know you were black, Jeff. Posted by: EC at December 03, 2012 03:01 PM (GQ8sn):;; Me, either.

183 Are postal workers prone to concussions?

184 If bullets are banned, then people could still make Ice Bullets.
So then we gotta ban water.

OMG!  I remember an episode of CSI where some guy made a "meat bullet".  He froze a piece of beef and then molded it into the shape of a 9mm or .45 ACP slug and hand loaded several rounds of meat bullets to kill someone with.  When the cops did their forensic analysis, all they found was massive gunshot wound trauma but no bullet fragments!  The meat was disguised among the wounded human tissue.

Frakkin' brilliant!

185 Why are the sidewalks always so close to my ass? Posted by: Bob Costas at December 03, 2012 03:00 PM (wIgpo) True story: I was standing on a ladder trying to reach something which put me at roughly the eye level of a guy friend of mine who is about 6'6". I looked down and blurted out "But the ground is so far away!" He was in the other room, heard this and nearly burst something he was laughing so hard. Bastard.

186 Bien Pissant would more appropriately describe Bob Costas.

187 Stupid history, always getting in the way.... ---- Officially sanctioned as the Monroe NRA Rifle Club Mr. Williams recruited other Black veterans. The group armed themselves and started training with their guns. This further infuriated the Klan but it also inflamed the white liberals who had previously supported Mr. Williams and Dr. Perry. The liberals were no more interested in seeing Black men exercising their Second Amendment rights than the Klan was. The White liberals were only interested in the Black population attaining some rights, not in securing the full rights afforded all free men by their creator. The Klan was quick to recognize that the Blacks no longer enjoyed the support of the White liberals and increased their harassment of the Black community. Armed Klansmen regularly drove through the Black section of town shooting into homes and shooting at anyone unfortunate enough to be out after dark. Frequently, these drive-by shootings were preceded by a police patrol car that scouted targets for the Klan. Unable to disband either the local NAACP branch or the local NRA branch, the Klan decided to mount a full, armed assault on Dr. PerryÂ’s home. They thought they could bring down the groups by eliminating their most influential leader. The local NRA branch heard about the planned raid and quickly called a meeting to be held at the doctorÂ’s house on that night. Well armed men showed up at the doctors house and prepared for the assault they knew was coming. When the Klan arrived, instead of finding the good doctor alone with his family they found the house fortified with sandbags and guarded by armed men who knew how to use their weapons. A firefight ensued. The Klan and their police support were no match for the local NRA members. The NRA members drove off the attackers inflicting unknown causalities on the raiders.

188 Guy died over the weekend from being beaten by another guy with a baseball bat.

Was it a wooden bat?  If so, chalk up another death to deforestation and global warming.

189 2008: Sportscaster Nice Marinello convicted of gunning down his wife near New Orleans.
1971: Sportscaster Stan Duke convicted of shooting his estranged wife's lover to death.
2006: Part-time sportscaster Mark Unger of Detroit is convicted of murdering his wife by pushing her off a ledge.
1997: Sportscaster Marv Albert commits assault and battery while dressed in women's clothing.
2011: Sportscaster Marvell Scott for WABC in New York is convicted of child prostitution.

I look like a fucking angel now, don't I?

190 As long as they don't outlaw teeth, I'm good....

191 Now here's Bob Costas with a message from the Lollipop Guild.

192 I love how the press never mentions that it's racist as Hell to assume every black male will automatically commit a homicide if given access to means and opportunity instead of being under the correct opinion that they, along with all other members of the human race, are all ultimately responsible for our own behavior.

193

You could probably make a bullet out of....frozen Jello, too.

 

194 Posted by: EC at December 03, 2012 03:04 PM (GQ8sn)

I thought Mystbusters covered that and determined it was also more or less impossible.  The various heats from the gunshot (powder burn, friction, etc.) melted the meat rendering it...ineffective.

195 The left ceased to be intellectual a loooooooong time ago. Every single argument they make amounts to, "because shut up." Everything is designed to alleviate the responsibility of further thought.

196 Frakkin' brilliant! Posted by: EC at December 03, 2012 03:04 PM (GQ8sn) Crap. Who wrote the short story about the police coming to investigate how some nice old man died and his poor widow offered them some of the nice leg of lamb she had cooking in the oven?

197 You could probably make a bullet out of....frozen Jello, too.

Will the Lutheran violence never end?!?!

198 True story: I was standing on a ladder trying to reach something which put me at roughly the eye level of a guy friend of mine who is about 65'6". I looked down and blurted out "But the ground is so far away!" He was in the other room, heard this and nearly burst something he was laughing so hard.


Bastard.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:04 PM (VtjlW)

Fixed for accuracy

199

Posted by: EC at December 03, 2012 03:04 PM (GQ8sn)

 

And Use PIG Meat for the Jihadi's!!! 

 

Bonus Score!

200 Who wrote the short story about the police coming to investigate how some nice old man died and his poor widow offered them some of the nice leg of lamb she had cooking in the oven?

I'm not sure it was "the" original, but I first ran into that on Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

201

One thing Bob did wrong is conflate "gun culture" with that of "thug culture."

 

When you say "gun culture" you mean Charlton Heston and mostly white rednecks (myself included) who are more apt to be found at a tea party than a drug party.

 

I'm not sure, but I really don't think this asshole that shot his girlfriend and himself was a supporter of 2nd amendment rights.

202 Bastard.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:04 PM (VtjlW)

Having married into a ridiculously tall family, my uncle-to-be offered me his pair of drywall stilts for the walk down the aisle, and for the wedding photos.

Bastard.

Honestly, what do they need all that extra height for anyway? Makes it hell on buying clothes and getting my floors clean. They can't even see the dirt from that high up.

Bastards.

203 Frakkin' brilliant!>>

It would be if we changed the laws of physics so that meat bullets produced wounds equivalent to lead bullets. Densities a bitch when trying to make disappearing projectiles.

204

I wonder if a baseball bat had been used instead of a gun, if Bob Costas would take to the air to plea for baseball to be banned?

205

I remember an episode of CSI where some guy made a "meat bullet".

 

 

What about the beef bayonet?

206 I'm disappointed it took Costas and the Left so long to determine Belcher was not a practitioner of Islam or one of its other sacred cows. Their vetting department is slipping.

207

The "gun culture" reference is one of the broadest brush statements I have seen, meant to ensnare all 2nd amendment supporters in an emotional argument that somehow makes them guilty of this unfortunate woman's murder.

If different types of "culture" are on the table to speak of in terms of identifying unwanted and criminal behaviors, why not "black culture", "gang culture", "thug culture", "hip-hop culture", "rap culture", "drug culture"?

208 Crap. Who wrote the short story about the police coming to investigate how some nice old man died and his poor widow offered them some of the nice leg of lamb she had cooking in the oven?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:07 PM (VtjlW)

Get outta my head!  I was JUST thinking about that.  Was it a Dragnet episode?

209

Why can't Costas have his office above the 9th floor?

 

Because that's the highest elevator button he can reach.

210 Fixed for accuracy Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 03, 2012 03:07 PM (da5Wo) Here. Have this blanket.

211 I thought Mystbusters covered that and determined it was also more or less impossible. The various heats from the gunshot (powder burn, friction, etc.) melted the meat rendering it...ineffective.

Damn. 

212 I see that CNN has now weighed in on this (linked on Drudge):

"Belcher was a man living in the supersized macho world of football, a world in which many of us American males reside, be it football or not. Too many of us have been taught manhood in a way that is not healthy. Be tough, men do not cry, man up -- these are the things I've heard my entire life, and I now cringe when I hear this relayed to boys or younger men by teachers, coaches, fathers, mentors and leaders."

Yeah, that's right.  It's male culture that caused this.  Yeah, the patriarchy rears its ugly head yet again.  If only Belcher could have cried while he was playing with dolls, none of this would ever have happened.  We need to ban all networks except for the Lifetime Movie Network.

213

One thing Bob did wrong is conflate "gun culture" with that of "thug culture."

 

Easiest way to tell the difference:

 

GUN CULTURE:  Gun owner holds gun correctly and    only in appropriate situations.

 

THUG CULTURE:  Gun possessor pulls out a gun for any damn thing and holds it sideways like a fucking doucheturd.

214 It is bigotry to assume that a grown ass man can't control himself Its a choice. Blaming anything else defends him.

215 Fuck Obama
Fuck Costas
Fuck liberals

216
Yes, seriously. Every time she said "The filibuster" she added "which was used once by Strom Thurman to fight the civil rights act."

Posted by: tsrblke (work) at December 03, 2012 02:34 PM (i177X)

She forgot the rest of the phrase, "while Sen Thurman was a Democrat".

217 That picture is a homerun.

218 Here. Have this blanket.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:10 PM (VtjlW)

Thanks.

What? No, I don't know who put your XBox controller on the top shelf.

219 Get outta my head! I was JUST thinking about that. Was it a Dragnet episode?

---

An episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Show.

220 Is there a prominent left-wing anti-gun nut who doesn't live in a gated community and/or have an armed security detail?

221

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 03, 2012 03:10 PM (Hx5uv)

 

 

Ah..... the Gay Lobby chimes in... (not you... CNN post)

222 "Belcher was a man living in the supersized macho world of football, a world in which many of us American males reside, be it football or not. Too many of us have been taught manhood in a way that is not healthy. Be tough, men do not cry, man up -- these are the things I've heard my entire life, and I now cringe when I hear this relayed to boys or younger men by teachers, coaches, fathers, mentors and leaders." Yeah, that's right. It's male culture that caused this. Yeah, the patriarchy rears its ugly head yet again. If only Belcher could have cried while he was playing with dolls, none of this would ever have happened. We need to ban all networks except for the Lifetime Movie Network. Posted by: WalrusRex at December 03, 2012 03:10 PM (Hx5uv) Belcher the victim. This pisses me off

223 re: "Costa's worst mistake... not knowing his audience. He is speaking to football fans, he is not on NPR."

He knows football fans are abject pussies with no dignity and they'll be back waiting for him to shit in their faces again next week.

224 BCochran1981:


Watch out for the stompy boots headed your way. Next we will have to ban those, too.

225 You could stab someone with an icicle. 

226 I know how to make democrats appreciate guns and the 2nd Amndt:


Take away all metal detectors and Secret Service protection around Washington, DC for one week.

227

Good post, Ace.  And I know you are on eggshells writing about black culture, but the black football culture in this country is another thing entirely that needs some light shed on it.  It would be really nice if some people like Jason Whitlock and Bob Costas would do this, but since it is politically incorrect to write or say anything bad about black people in America now, that's not gonna happen, instead we will just Blame The Guns.

 

It's entirely possible that Javon Belcher never even wanted to be a professional football player.  That his greedy-ass parent(s) pushed him and bullied him and bullied other people to get him to a level where he could play in the NFL and make the big bucks so they would live on Easy Street.  That he read and thought on an 8th-grade level because his football prowess got him the doctored grades and the fake college degree in African American Studies, so he had no clue about anything to do with being a functioning adult, much less a father.  Isn't it just possible that such a young man carries an incredible amount of anger and guilt and angst within him, with no place to put it except knocking the hell out of opposing players on the football field?  Until that one day, when his girlfriend has had enough, and she snaps, and he snaps. 

228 Ban golf clubs!

229 Man oh man, if only Costas had been aroundin my day!! Who knew that banning guns solves domestic violence? I'd have escaped a world of trouble.

230 Costas is 100% correct. In England they have no guns and so nobody ever gets murdered.

<i>"A teenager stabbed to death after a party advertised on Facebook spiralled out of control has been buried in a Cookie Monster coffin. Jay Whiston, 17, died from a single stab wound to his heart after he attended a party being held by a 15-year-old schoolgirl in an upmarket neighbourhood in Colchester, Essex.

Despite efforts from the girlÂ’s family to keep the revellers closely monitored, the event became overrun with up to 100 gatecrashers after it was leaked onto Facebook. Jay, a student who lived in nearby Clacton, was stabbed to death in the road just yards away from the house." </i>

231 Belcher is a murderer. What else is there really to say, except god bless his daughter having to grow up knowing daddy was a murderous thug and mommy is in heaven?


A son of a bitch remains exactly that, regardless of the circumstances that may or may not have led him there.

232

What's unfortunate about all of this is that the leftists have the MFM microphone.  It's not going to stop.  If anything, it's going to get worse until the "top men" in DC think they have to do something about it.

 

Remember.  We're  the minority in America now.

233 Watch out for the stompy boots headed your way. Next we will have to ban those, too.

Posted by: tcn at December 03, 2012 03:12 PM (VLG62)

What's that? A super duper devious plan to tick AtC off enough that she dons the stompy boots and a leather corset while grabbing the whip?

That doesn't sound like me at all.....

234 Hey Bob Costas!  Why do you want to take guns away from black men?  Freaking RACIST!!!

235 Watch out for the stompy boots headed your way. Next we will have to ban those, too.

I'm reminded of Terry Pratchet's Men At Arms, (paraphrased) "There were lots of ways to commit suicide.  Saying "shorty" to a dwarf or "rockface" to a troll.  But those all had reasons.  Actual murder was very rare."

236

@223

 

I quit watching pro football and most pro sports years ago. (I never watched basketball. I watched Jodan)

They're all a bunch of overpaid pussy crybabies paid millions to play a game kids play for free because they enjoy it. No heart. No glory.

237

 What about the beef bayonet?

 

And then there are those big lethal Icicles hanging off of roofs...

Should we ban roofs...or melting snow?

 

238 We need to ban all networks except for the Lifetime Movie Network. Posted by: WalrusRex at December 03, 2012 03:10 PM (Hx5uv) I am reasonably certain that if that happen I would go on a multi-continent spree. THUG CULTURE: Gun possessor pulls out a gun for any damn thing and holds it sideways like a fucking doucheturd. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit, rooting for SMOD or the Mayans, whichever comes first at December 03, 2012 03:10 PM (4df7R) Crap, I can't find the Better Off Ted clip where Phil is shooting a gun sideways and Lem tells him "that only makes you look whiter".

239

Belcher was a man living in the supersized macho world of football, a world in which many of us American males reside, be it football or not. Too many of us have been taught manhood in a way that is not healthy. Be tough, men do not cry, man up -- these are the things I've heard my entire life, and I now cringe when I hear this relayed to boys or younger men by teachers, coaches, fathers, mentors and leaders."

 

Written like a true theta male.    Probably pissed his pants writing that    because he scared himself.

 

Providing it was written by a male.  It's got the    kind of    patronizing, elitist tone to it that most   women "journalists" have when writing about things like this.

 

Here's my take:  men are raised to be tough.   This is what it is, and it happens on its own if it's not helped along.   That's fine.  

 

But     If a man feels that he needs to talk to someone about a problem, then what I DON"T support is telling that man, "Don't be a pussy!"   Men have every right to a   calm,   centered internal life as women do.  If there's a problem that they can't work out for themselves, then I want that person to find someone who can help them instead of fighting a losing battle with their pride.   Giving oneself permission to ask for help is, in many ways, as beneficial as actually asking for help itself.

240 The major flaw of Costas' (and the other guy) logic is that the lack of gun would have prevented the tragedy.

In other words, Bob Costas believes the KC player only meant to SHOOT himself and his girlfriend, which is - of course - absurd. The player intended to kill himself and her as well.

Intent to kill is irrelevant to the weapon used. When someone intends to kill, they will find the most convenient method to carry out that killing. In the absence of a gun, the KC player would have used an icepick, a frying pan or his fists...as to the suicide there are a few high locations he would have thrown himself from...in the absence of a gun.

The idea that the player and his girlfriend would still be alive is infantile. One way or the other he would have dispatched himself and his girlfriend. The gun was simply the most convenient method available.

241

Be tough, men do not cry, man up -- these are the things I've heard my entire life

 

I bet what he really heard was:

 

"Be tough, men do not cry, man up, stop sucking guys' dicks -- these are the things I've heard my entire life"

 

 

242 Agreed. I've been in radio my entire adult life. I know it takes some talent, but I also know it doesn't take MUCH. Captain Whitebread: get me a job. I fit that description perfectly, and I'm quite comfortable sitting in a room for hours talking to myself.

243 What if it's true that different groups in society have different levels of impulse control and violent impulses? We know men engage in lethal violence at 10x+ the rate that women do. Men, on average, have more violent impulses and less impulse control than women. On average.

244 Wasn't there a story about some woman that tried to snuff a man out with her boobs?

In Bob Costas's lilliputian world, there would be NO TITS.

245 Crap. Who wrote the short story about the police coming to investigate how some nice old man died and his poor widow offered them some of the nice leg of lamb she had cooking in the oven? Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:07 PM (VtjlW) Roald Dahl. 'Lamb to the Slaughter.'

246 An episode of The Alfred Hitchcock Show.

Posted by: WalrusRex at December 03, 2012 03:12 PM (Hx5uv)

Ah.....thanks!

247 I feel like I'm the last sane man on a planet of fucking idiots. Why are you talking about Bob Costas? unplug his network and he doesn't exist any more. Unplug cable. This isn't complicated!

248 In Bob Costas's lilliputian world, there would be NO TITS.

Posted by: © Sponge at December 03, 2012 03:17 PM (UK9cE)

Now you've gone too damned far for this blog. Yes, you have.

249 I fit that description perfectly, and I'm quite comfortable sitting in a room for hours talking to myself.

I think that describes most of the Horde.  It certainly describes me.

250 40 the notion that they didn't know if they were heterosexual, homosexual or bisexual until they tried them all. Posted by: Justamom at December 03, 2012 02:38 PM (Sptt --- If the kids are at any time able to access the internet for at least five minutes when no one is around during the day, the following school-administered (of course) advice should be sufficient for them to determine their orientation: (1) They should note which version of the sites they visit to watch streaming videos (2) If in doubt, they can click over to other version of a site, see if those videos do anything for them, or if they can even bring yourself to click one once they see the thumbnail. Pretty simple. In fact, letting them visit these sites during sex ed. class sounds a lot healthier than whatever the "teacher" is doing for them. Oh, and maybe some STI descriptive statistics tables broken down by gender and orientation so they don't leave with the wrong idea about the risks involved with spontaneous experimentation.

251 What's that? A super duper devious plan to tick AtC off enough that she dons the stompy boots and a leather corset while grabbing the whip? That doesn't sound like me at all..... Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 03, 2012 03:14 PM (da5Wo) You do realize that what you'll really get is me in a burqua reading through the begats in Numbers to you while soothing John Tesh music plays in the background, right?

252 More from that CNN article:

Or we use derogatory and sexist or homophobic words to describe men or boys who do not meet the "normal" of what a male is supposed to be. Some of these male authority figures mean well, or are simply repeating what they were socialized to be or to do, and do not realize that they are unwittingly teaching that manhood has little room to express hurt, disappointment and sorrow.

That is the problem for so many of us. We do not talk about much of anything, except sports, women and sex. Everything else is routinely ignored. Or repressed. Until we explode.



So Belcher killed because he was a repressed homosexual and sexism?

253 Unplug cable. This isn't complicated!

Posted by: fyscyl clyff at December 03, 2012 03:18 PM (cVYiZ)

You miss the point, asshole. I can unplug it, but that does nothing for the culture at large. The sheep will still think that sawed-off twit is their shepherd, when he is just as much a sheep as any one of them.

254 Get outta my head! I was JUST thinking about that. Was it a Dragnet episode? Posted by: Tami at December 03, 2012 03:09 PM (X6akg) Alfred Hitchcock Presents

255 You do realize that what you'll really get is me in a burqua reading through the begats in Numbers to you while soothing John Tesh music plays in the background, right?

Now I know you're evil.

256 Posted by: Not Ready To Unsock at December 03, 2012 03:18 PM (yFJUJ) are you a parent?

257 You do realize that what you'll really get is me in a burqua reading through the begats in Numbers to you while soothing John Tesh music plays in the background, right?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:18 PM (VtjlW)

Bullshit. Be honest, you could barely type that. The thought of doing that? Causes sweats. Actually doing it? You'd stroke out trying to buy the John Tesh cassette.

258 I went to a HS football game recently and as one ofthe teams was leaving the field after warming up, one of the kids dads was walking with him SCREAMING AT HIM!!!!

"NOBODY CAN TOUCH YOU!!!  NOBODY CAN FUCKING TOUCH YOU ON THAT FIELD!!!"

on and on and on, in front of hundreds of people. 

I was embarrassed for the kid, having to live with a POS father like that.

Of course, his team went on to lose 44-0.  I can only imagine what it was like in that kid's house after the game....

259 That is the problem for so many of us. We do not talk about much of anything, except sports, women and sex. Everything else is routinely ignored. Or repressed. Until we explode. All female killers are what, lesbians?

260

I saw someone get killed in a movie...by plastic wrap around his head.

 

Saran Wrap -- the silent killer.

 

261 Bob Costas, pissant.

262 >GUN CULTURE: Gun owner holds gun correctly and only in appropriate situations.

>THUG CULTURE: Gun possessor pulls out a gun for any damn thing and holds it sideways like a fucking doucheturd.

Easier way:

Gun Culture: Buys nicely made and sometimes expensive leather holsters for their weapon.

Thug Culture:  Doesn't.

263 You'd stroke out trying to buy the John Tesh cassette.

Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 03, 2012 03:20 PM (da5Wo)

What's a cassette?

264

But If a man feels that he needs to talk to someone about a problem, then what I DON"T support is telling that man, "Don't be a pussy!" Men have every right to a calm, centered internal life as women do. If there's a problem that they can't work out for themselves, then I want that person to find someone who can help them instead of fighting a losing battle with their pride. Giving oneself permission to ask for help is, in many ways, as beneficial as actually asking for help itself.

 

Men need support and an outlet same as women, but the two methods of achieving this are different.  Part of the problem is that society has been systematically destroying male institutions for the last 40 years.  As a result, most men have no place to escape from the daily demands placed on them and no private space or circle that they can turn to for help.

265 http://preview.tinyurl.com/cdle4o5 As Americans face a fiscal cliff, the Obamas make do with 54 Christmas trees

266 Bullshit. Be honest, you could barely type that. The thought of doing that? Causes sweats. Actually doing it? You'd stroke out trying to buy the John Tesh cassette. Posted by: BCochran1981 at December 03, 2012 03:20 PM (da5Wo) No, no, just picturing the look on your face is enough to make it worthwhile.

267 Why does OJ have his hand up my ass?

268 Costas only hates guns because most shotguns are taller than he is.

269 8 I know...let's finally prove these elitists right...and shoot them all in the head. Good. Use your aggressive feelings, boy. Let the hate flow through you. Strike them down with all of your hatred and your journey towards the dark side will be complete!

270 >>>I was embarrassed for the kid, having to live with a POS father like that. Wow all judgy and stuff. Pretending you know what happened afterward and all is a nice touch. I'm sure a dad whom took 0 interest in his sons athleticism would be far superior a father.

271 I still think the 2,000 pound elephant in the room is the fact that the mother of a 3 month old was out partying after midnight the night before she was murdered. Without husband/murdering spouse. Not to engage in victim blame bias, but WTF? My wife was inseparable from her babies until they were like 20 years old. It kinda has an entire OJ quality to it.

272 Yeah, while we're at it, let's go ahead and ban anvils, and safes, and pianos and springy pogo shoes. Aw hell, let's just shut down the whole ACME company.

273 No, no, just picturing the look on your face is enough to make it worthwhile.

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:24 PM (VtjlW)

Something like this?



http://tinyurl.com/btjern2

274 >>> tcn - "You miss the point, asshole. I can unplug it, but that does nothing for the culture at large. The sheep will still think that sawed-off twit is their shepherd, when he is just as much a sheep as any one of them." How many Conservatives have cable? I'm guessing at least half of all cable subscriptions are Conservatives. We unplug. They die. I miss the point? We stop watching the idiot box. They die. THAT'S the point.

275 And Bob Costas never opened his fucking flap on national TV about the scores of dead bodies piling up in gun-controlled Chicago every weekend. But an idiot on a football team makes it a societal crisis.

276 >>> As a result, most men have no place to escape from the daily demands placed on them and no private space or circle that they can turn to for help. Yes the most important part of male support is trust. Trust in someone you really know. Not some therapist you got a few reviews on the intertubes, and hired at $60 an hour. A area of true friends whom you know will not judge.

277 31 Less then 3 weeks until SMOD. Faster, please.

278 The premise of gun control is that someone who will break the law against murder will not break a law against weapon possession, and will not seek alternate means. . Since that obviously makes no sense, maybe the motive isn't what they tell you it is. . P.S. Knife and gun murders still happen in England and Australia. Just less self defense.

279 From Wiki:  "After graduating from college (University of Maine, Child Development), he won an Academic Momentum Award from the National Consortium for Academics and Sports' Scholar-Baller Program.

Scholar-Baller?  Wow...

280

Or we use derogatory and sexist or homophobic words to describe men or
boys who do not meet the "normal" of what a male is supposed to be. Some
of these male authority figures mean well, or are simply repeating what
they were socialized to be or to do, and do not realize that they are
unwittingly teaching that manhood has little room to express hurt,
disappointment and sorrow.

 

I've been called fat    and laughed at my entire life.      Guys in school used to leave fake love notes in my locker thinking I'd fall for that gag like some idiot Molly Ringwald character in an 80s movie.   I never really    cared much about going to dances or doing all the "girly" things that girls are supposed to like to do.  And I got teased unmercifully for it.   for most of elementary and middle school I just kept to myself and didn't make waves.  Then in high school I woke up and realized, "Wait a second -- these people are IDIOTS."   And I was much happier from then on.

 

It's called "growing up."     Instead of taking insults to heart, you let them wash off or you use them to fuel yourself to get better.   It's hard and it really, REALLY sucks sometimes.  But when you grow up, guess what?   You're the ADULT now.  That means you get to do whatever you want and you don't have to listen to Sissy Spengler     laugh at your hair anymore.    You can laugh at Sissy Spengler.   Or, even better, ignore her entirely.   See how that works?   And as for physical   bullying,    I fully support any kid who    beats the living shit out of the bullies     by fighting dirty, mean, and low.   Give that kid a gold star.

 

If you're still holding on to childhood traumas to the extent that they negatively affect your adult life, then you need help.  And like I said previously, I think anyone who wants help should know that they can seek it without being mocked.    But dammit, sometimes you just have to put on your big girl panties and glare at the world and say, "Who gets stompy-booted today, assholes?"

281 <i>I'm sure a dad whom took 0 interest in his sons athleticism would be far superior a father.</i>

I sense... sarcasm.....

282 Bob Costas has always been an insufferable douchebag. I never understood why NBC always acts like he is their #1 guy. No talent hack. And Whitlock is a one trick pony. Every column is about race or liberal bullshit. Guh

283 Interestingly, Vermont has some of the most unrestrictive gun laws in the nation...and one of the lowest murder rates.

284 KEEF OBERDOUCHE in twitter rant Oberdouche called JR SALZMAN a dishonor to the military for disagreeing with Costas about gun control. this is JR SALZMAN, Emotionally affected by the September 11, 2001 attacks, Salzman chose to join the National Guard, enlisting shortly after the two-year anniversary. He was able to compete in the Great Outdoors Games twice more before his unit was activated as part of the 34th Infantry Division in the fall of 2005.[1] In the spring of 2006, he was deployed to Iraq. In Iraq, Salzman was primarily assigned to convoy security duties. On December 19, 2006, while scouting for improvised explosive devices (IEDs) in the lead Humvee of a convoy traveling through Baghdad, his vehicle was struck by an Explosively Formed Penetrator. His right arm was severed below the elbow and his left hand was pulverized by the blast. He also suffereed a traumatic brain injury. As he is allergic to morphine he was transported to a field hospital before any anesthetic was given.[1] The first thing he said to the medic, indicating that his legs were uninjured, was "at least I'll still be able to logroll." He recovered at Walter Reed Army Medical Center and a nearby Fisher House, learning to use a prosthetic arm and recover his physical skills including fly fishing. His brain injury causes him short-term memory loss, and he is considered 100 percent physically disabled.[3] Nevertheless, after returning to Hayward, he successfully attempted to logroll again, practicing with and without his prosthetic; "with" seemed to work better. Salzman returned to competition, and won a log rolling world title in 2009. He is an ESPY award winner. I would expect Olberdouche to know this

285

#264 Good point.  Men used to have the corner tavern, the Elks or Moose lodge, the poker group, etc. -- plenty of places to Just Be A Guy and shoot the shit with other guys.  Those that went to college had the frat house or the men's dorm.  My dad worked his ass off as a doctor, and had an exhausted wife and 5 kids at home, but he never missed his monthly poker game and his Elks meetings and his Temple Brotherhood meetings and his Civil War Round Table meetings.  Sometimes I would get mad when he left us to go to these things.  But he was one of the happiest people I ever knew, and his men friends were too, and overall they were great fathers and husbands.  They would never have dreamed of any sort of violence against their wives or kids. 

 

Women did a really good job of fucking all this up.

286 If you go to the FBI statistics, you are most likely to be murdered with a gun if you are young, male, and black. Most blacks are killed by other blacks, and most black males are killed by other black males.

287 P.S. Knife and gun murders still happen in England and Australia.

The Brit murder rate inched up after the most recent round of gun(and knife) bans. 

Their rate of burglary of occupied structures vastly exceeds ours.

288 Interestingly, Vermont has some of the most unrestrictive gun laws in the nation...and one of the lowest murder rates.

Posted by: joncelli at December 03, 2012 03:32 PM (RD7QR)

 

To be fair, VT is populated entirely by 50 granola-munching hippies and a million cows.

289 Costas is simply engaging in that frank discussion of race that Eric Holder told us about ie.  lecture about how dumb you are, how wrong you are and how smart I am.  What, you want me to address race and maybe, just maybe, say that black thug culture might be somehow responsible for the ridiculously high murder rates in that one segment of society-are you nuts, I'd lose my job.  Look at what happened to Jimmy the Greek as opposed to Dusty Baker.

290

A powerful man, overcome by jealousy, kills his wife/girlfriend/lover, then commits suicide.   Hmmmm... seems like I've heard that happening at different points through history and literature.

 

Like, say, f'in' Othello, Bob!   Did you read anything when you were a kid other than the sports pages?

291
Wow all judgy and stuff. Pretending you know what happened afterward and all is a nice touch. I'm sure a dad whom took 0 interest in his sons athleticism would be far superior a father.

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Is Shrugging at December 03, 2012 03:26 PM (WYBGy)

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I'd prefer that type of dad actually. I have never met the father of a sports prodigy that wasn't a complete asshole. And I've known several.

292 Vermont has some of the most unrestrictive gun laws in the nation...and one of the lowest murder rates.

VT essentially has no gun control laws of its own.  They're about one page.  They think the Federal law is enough.

Open carry, concealed carry, no bothering with carry permits.  If you can legally own a pistol, you can carry it open or concealed.

293 Women did a really good job of fucking all this up.

Posted by: rockmom at December 03, 2012 03:33 PM (aBlZ1)

 

Among my top five reasons why I'm a misogynst, btw:   womyn's slow, steady encroachment into all    areas of    male solidarity,   while simultaneously holding men at arm's length from traditionally female-oriented groups and pasttimes.   Bring a man to an Avon party and watch everyone blink awkwardly.

 

 

294 From what I can tell -- and lord knows I'm not a statistician -- if you remove urban blacks, southern rural whites, and indians on the reservation from the statistics, the US would have a homicide rate on a par with Canada.

295 From what I can tell -- and lord knows I'm not a statistician -- if you remove urban blacks, southern rural whites, and indians on the reservation from the statistics, the US would have a homicide rate on a par with Canada.

Posted by: joncelli at December 03, 2012 03:38 PM (RD7QR)

 

And drug and alcohol dependency would plummet.

296 >>>Or we use derogatory and sexist or homophobic words to describe men or boys who do not meet the "normal" of what a male is supposed to be. Some of these male authority figures mean well, or are simply repeating what they were socialized to be or to do, and do not realize that they are unwittingly teaching that manhood has little room to express hurt, disappointment and sorrow. The world is an uncaring and harsh place. And for 2000 years of civilization men have been the ones that acted as the shield for those around them. The deconstruction of male responsibility is society is one of the worst woes this civilization has visited upon itself. It is that death of concept that men need to be capable, ready, tough, wise and honorable that is the birth of the progressive state. That is exactly why the male archtype has been progressive enemy #1 for a century.

297 Bob Costas is advocating for women to be defenseless in the face of stronger angry husbands, rapists, and thieves. Why does Bob Costas hate women so much that he'd take away their right to own guns and protect their body? "My body, my right"

298

Among my top five reasons why I'm a misogynst, btw: womyn's slow, steady encroachment into all areas of male solidarity, while simultaneously holding men at arm's length from traditionally female-oriented groups and pasttimes. Bring a man to an Avon party and watch everyone blink awkwardly.

 

The best part is hearing all the complaints about how there are no more "good men" around.  Honey, you've destroyed everything that helped make us good...

299 How many Conservatives have cable? I'm guessing at least half of all cable subscriptions are Conservatives. We unplug. They die.

In what alternate reality fantasy world is your guess remotely close?

Half of all cable subscriptions in Texas aren't from conservatives.

300 I know it's impossible to make happen, but how about an outright boycott of all things NFL this week? The NFL and Bob know that you'll be back asking for more abuse in a few days and so they don't give a fuck what you think. They're no different than Hollywood. They can insult conservatives all day long because they know at the end of the day you'll be there begging for more.

301 I'd prefer that type of dad actually. I have never met the father of a sports prodigy that wasn't a complete asshole. And I've known several.

I support my kid when he plays baseball.  Go to all of his games I can make, talk to him about the game, play catch and pitch to him.

I have never once screamed at the top of my lungs in his ear before a game.  Nor have I ever made a scene at his games when the ump makes a bad call.

There is support.  Then there is over-the-top stupidity that le';s you think it's okay to scream "NO ONE CAN FUCKING TOUCH YOU!!" at your high school age son before a game in front of a crowd of hundreds of people.

That's the kind of guy who kills refs at hockey games.

302 >>>I'd prefer that type of dad actually. I have never met the father of a sports prodigy that wasn't a complete asshole. And I've known several. Well I've known plenty that were more than hyped up about their kids athletics that weren't jerks. Wow anecdotes they really prove nothing don't they?

303

#271 a HUGE part of the athletics culture in this country, which we also don't want to talk about - the conniving Baby Mama.  There are crap-tons of them hanging around every pro sports franchise, but because there are so many players on NFL teams, that's where most of them flock.  They ain't in it for the babies, they're in it for the child support checks.  The leagues actually have training classes for rookies to tell them how to stay away from these sharks, but men want what they want.

 

You would have thought the revelation years ago that Shawn Kemp fathered something like 13 kids with 13 different women would have shaken things up a bit, but apparently it has only gotten worse.  Too many black girls are growing up knowing only how to use their p---y to get financial security

304 Permit me a white-guy moment. One culture you missed is the prevalence of rap culture. Men kill their women. Beat them up. Screw them and leave them to deal with the baby. Drugs are fine. Quick money is good. Violence solves every dispute. Baddest mother-effer wins. The broader culture has not just allowed it to slip in, we have lauded it, cheered it, emulated it, repressed our own sensibilities of right/wrong to make accommodation for those whose life circumstances are different than our own. And it has taken over, and now professional sports are less athletic endeavors than they are semi-controlled street brawls. Take a kid who's been steeped in rap culture, give him millions of dollars and no repercussions for bad behavior, and what do you get? Now do it thousands of times and put them on squads of 30 to 70 of the same kinds of kids. The amazing thing about the Michael Vick thing a few years ago is not that his money corrupted him, but that it merely allowed him to do what he was probably doing all along; he just got caught when his wealth scaled the operation up to an obvious level. And I'm afraid it will never change until the inner-city culture changes for the better. But reactions to the OJ verdict and Obama elections pretty much tell you the chances of that happening.

305 294-you could stop at the first category (maybe add laaateenos) and you'd have a winner. 

306 Why does Bob Costas hate women so much that he'd take away their right to own guns and protect their body?

Women have mocked him in the past.  His nickname among the hookers is "Vienna Sausage".

307 Well I've known plenty that were more than hyped up about their kids athletics that weren't jerks.

I guess I just think that screaming obscenities at the top of your lungs directly into your son's ear in front of a huge crowd pretty much makes you a jerk right off the bat.

308 302 >>>I'd prefer that type of dad actually. I have never met the father of a sports prodigy that wasn't a complete asshole. And I've known several.

Well I've known plenty that were more than hyped up about their kids athletics that weren't jerks. Wow anecdotes they really prove nothing don't they?

Posted by: MikeTheMoose Is Shrugging at December 03, 2012 03:42 PM (WYBGy)

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Getting hyped up about your kid's athletics to begin with is a big problem. The whole Friday Night Lights phenomenon is insane. It's a sport played by kids. The fact that there are thousands of people out to see high school football never made sense to me. 

It's all about college scholarships and I get that. Which is the real big problem. Kids who can't do basic math getting a scholarship to a university (but that's a whole other discussion). 

And no before you ask, I played sports in high school too. I played for fun. I had no aspirations of turning pro. And on a good day there'd be maybe 50 people watching a game, most of them being siblings/girlfriends of team members.

309

The world is an uncaring and harsh place. And for 2000 years of civilization men have been the ones that acted as the shield for those around them. The deconstruction of male responsibility is society is one of the worst woes this civilization has visited upon itself. It is that death of concept that men need to be capable, ready, tough, wise and honorable that is the birth of the progressive state. That is exactly why the male archtype has been progressive enemy #1 for a century.

 

One of the reasons that men interact with each other the way that they do is to test each other and see how much stress you can take.  It's about trust; you have to know if the guy next to you can handle himself when life gets ugly.  The purist form of this is any combat unit. 

310 . I can't see how anything that promotes crime, violence, illegitimacy, illiteracy, and intoxication can be called a "culture."

Culture? You call this culture? Guacamole and a ghetto blaster, in the middle of a desert? In case you haven't noticed, the white people are melting here!
--Mr. Whitman the elder, from "Fools Rush In"

311 I especially enjoyed Costas' silly manner of speaking which tells ll of us HOW INCREDIBLY, MOVING, IMPORTANT and timely his words were. Beck kept plying them, and they made me laugh.

312

Over 70 percent of murders occur in about 3 percent of the counties in the U.S.

 

You want to talk, Bob? Want to keep it real, Whitlock?

 

Didn't think  so.

313 You do realize that what you'll really get is me in a burqua reading through the begats in Numbers to you while soothing John Tesh music plays in the background, right?

Posted by: alexthechick - SMOD. Also on Teams Daryl and Glenn. at December 03, 2012 03:18 PM (VtjlW)

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Wow. That's cruel, Alex.

314 "But I do know we're not talking about outlawing matches." That's coming after we do away with the scourge that is the tampon.

315 As a result, most men have no place to escape from the daily demands placed on them and no private space or circle that they can turn to for help.

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^^^^^This.

316 What is this crap about black culture in relation to this murder-suicide?

317 How many Conservatives have cable? I'm guessing at least half of all cable subscriptions are Conservatives. We unplug. They die. No. What we need to do is write letters to our CongressCritters to let them know that we want 'freedom of choice'. We do not want to choose a certain 'tier' of programming. We want to engage in 'state of the art' pick and choose -- something which is child's play for computer programmers to enact. I want science programs, FNC, and more science programs. I don't want some fucking 'tier' that gives part of my money to MSNBC. If any woman in this country can choose to toss her embryo into the medical waste container, then why-in-the-hell can't I choose to reward the programming that I want to see?

318

One culture you missed is the prevalence of rap culture. Men kill their women. Beat them up. Screw them and leave them to deal with the baby. Drugs are fine. Quick money is good. Violence solves every dispute. Baddest mother-effer wins.

 

The broader culture has not just allowed it to slip in, we have lauded it, cheered it, emulated it, repressed our own sensibilities of right/wrong to make accommodation for those whose life circumstances are different than our own.

 

This.  We've all made a PC Pact  to  pretend that rap  culture isn't god awful.

 

I remember posting on a hip, pop culture, nothing -s-sacred, humor board  and poking fun at rap.  Turns out rap is the one element of pop culture that is above legitimtate criticism. I compared it to Pro Wrestling (costumed jackasses with stage  names and 'hos bragging into a microphone and threatening violence....come on!)

 

I wasn't popular with that one.

319 What is this crap about black culture in relation to this murder-suicide? Sorry, I can't hear you, I've got some rappers on my Ipad bitchin' about the bitches and ho's. But you got the floor, so go ahead... while I dig up some lyrics for you to digest.

320 "I went to her house tah get her out of the pad Dumb hoe said something that made me mad She said something that i couldn't believe So i grabbed tha stupid ***** by her nappy-*** weave She started talkin' **** what did ya know Reached back like a pimp slapped tha hoe Her father jumped up and he started tah shout So i bombed on pops knocked his old *** out"

321 I had a friend describe seeing a colored (what they called themselves long ago) woman chop her drunk husband's head off with an axe. She told the witnesses 'I told him not to get drunk again'. This was in the late 40's early 50's, I think.

322 I still believe that kids, instead of playing video games where they engage in mass slaughter, would be better off having a gun and learning how to shoot it, be it at targets or animals during hunting.  Reality might wake some people up.

323 [Narrator] There you have it. The description of a bitch. Now ask yourself, are they talking about you? Are you that funky, dirty, money-hungry, scandalous, stuck-up, hair piece contact wearing bitch? Yep, you probably are. Bitch!

324 >>> Schrödinger - "How many Conservatives have cable? I'm guessing at least half of all cable subscriptions are Conservatives. We unplug. They die. No. What we need to do is write letters to our CongressCritters to let them know that we want 'freedom of choice'. ============= Yeah. That'll probably work... I'm talking about something WE can actually do ourselves. We need a campaign to cut cable.

325 Screw it. I got better stuff to do then dig up 1,000's of misogynist tunes that are one click away on the Internet.

326 >>> Moomoo aid: " I know it's impossible to make happen, but how about an outright boycott of all things NFL this week?" Bingo. But Why stop there? Stop funding our country's demise. Drop cable today. It's easy. You'll be better for it. Our country will be better for it.

327 I hope people don't think ill of me because I'm short.

328 What is this crap about black culture in relation to this murder-suicide? Posted by: baldilocks via iPad at December 03, 2012 03:59 PM (Su0W2) I saw you post earlier about single parenthood affecting the black community. When you look a the numbers, there is a clear picture that domestic violence is a problem, and a statistically greater problem in the black community. Why is that? I think it is racist to say it can't be helped, but what accounts for it? If it is the disintegration of the black family, isn't that part of its culture? Why is single parenthood so prevalent? Why is it accepted? Why are males not expected to be an integral part of the family unit? Why the hostility to women in song and slang? Why is that not just accepted but lionized? There has to be a reason the incidence is higher in the black community. If it is cultural, it can be addressed. Otherwise, what is the cause

329 I hope people don't think ill of me because I'm short. I believe I've expressed my opinion on this issue in the past.

330 If it isn't a reflection of culture, wouldn't one have to accept a genetic predisposition to awful violence, misogyny and crime? 

331 I've been loading the wife's flash drive which connects through her stereo with music the past couple days... So far, I have... See you in September, bitch... by the Lettermen Bitch raised me up... by Josh Groden Hold onto the night, ho... by Richard Marx

332 Bob Costas gets around this (he thinks) by suggesting it's not just
about the gun, but about "gun culture," a culture, if I'm to understand
this correctly, that encourages violent outcomes to personal disputes.

The assclown works for one of the networks/"industry" that glorifies the gun culture... and worked with a man accused of murdering his ex and her friend.  Never heard a peep out of his cockholster about Orenthal's issue... not to mention the two "Rev's that "represent" the African-American community... or the Choomer in Chief... or Calypso Louie...

Liberal/Progressive/Socialist hypocrites, each and every one of them

333 Isn't Chris Benoit an even better counterexample?  Same crimes (plus), and no weapon.

334 Even the Glock 27 Gen 4 with the new smaller backstrap is a little too big for my pudgy little fingers.

335 As President Obama's close campaign contributor, Jay Z, famously said: "I got 99 problems but a bitch ain't one." Yeah, lotta respect for women. Oozing with with respect. Ya think Costas will criticize Jay Z (the owner of the Brooklyn Nets) for contributing to the culture of hate against black women?

336 This Costas guy looks like a chronic sufferer of  Little Man Complex.  You can't let those Rumplestiltskin a**holes from the Lollipop Guild get a hold of the steering wheel on anything.  Case in point: Stalin, Hitler, Mao, Pol Pot, Schumer, Blomberg, Rahm Emmanuel, Anthony Weiner, Bob Costas and they all exhibit the same damn tendencies relating to the control of others.  We must strike first!

337 Yeah only the barbarous gun culture of the U.S. blows their adulterous wives away from a gun. True gentlemen take care of the uppity wife the old fashioned, like they do in the Middle East, by pouring acid on that devil woman's head.

338

Advise to Bob Costas:

Don't go Full Keith Olbermann, you should never go Full Keith Olbermann!

339 Ninety percent of human thought is, I sometimes think, devoted to rationalizing why things which are obviously true are not true. And we reward people who give us the best, most plausible falsehoods denying the obvious truth. This. And I'm quoting you on that ace.

340 Well done post, ace.  I've often thought (and occasionally mentioned) that the "Greatest Hitjobs" should be updated and, if it is, this is a post that should be included.

341 On September 12, 2001, did any one of these squish bags demand we outlaw airplanes or box cutters?

342 Bob Costas on the inner city streets preaching against the game "knockout punch". Which he believes was started by old white men to corrupt urban yuths.

343

When you find yourself saying "I agree with Jason Whitlok completely" you should consider it time to hang it up.

Costas is a tonedeaf boob. He says stupid crap all the time and gets a pass because he's mainly compared to idiots - his competition in sports broadcasting isn't staffed by sages people. The little twerp harshed on Cleveland Stadium Mustard while doing an Indians game, and couldn't fathom why the people in Cleveland think he's a pansy.

He's probably got a concealed carry permit actually.

344 There has to be a reason the incidence is higher in the black community. If it is cultural, it can be addressed. Otherwise, what is the cause Posted by: Thunderb at December 03, 2012 04:18 You're asking me whether illegitimacy is a part of "black (American) culture," presumably since slavery? You're an American, right? Don't you know the answer already? Don't you know American history?

345 elliot m: The real criminal is the person that dyes Bob's hair. What color is that? Saucy Chestnut? I believe upon further inspection that Bob dyes his hair with soy sauce. It'd be a shame to let all those free packets from the take out place go to waste.

346 Those same lefty rat moneyed liberal "elites" will have a bulletproof limousine and a mercenary security force with all the best weaponry to keep them safe from those too stupid to manage their own lives peasants.

347 Great critical deconstruction of the tool's comments.

348 I wouldn't piss on Bob if he was on fire.