1 Damn

2 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

3 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

4

5 Mike Daisey is a stumbling clusterf*ck of a miserable liar.

6

There is no war," Remington wrote to his boss. "Request to be recalled."

Remington's boss, William Randolph Hearst, sent a cable in reply: "Please remain. You furnish the pictures, I'll furnish the war."

 

I thought Hearst never said that?  I could be wrong on that but I thought it's been acknowledged that Hearst never sent a cable saying that. 

 

You know what pisses me off about this is that it's going to hurt the cause of human rights (actual real human rights) in China because why should I or anyone else believe the reporting that's coming out about conditions over there.  Good job on giving murderous dictators cover!

7 What is it Penfold?  Cat got your tongue?

8 Oops, i had intended to say something witty, but maybe a blank is better to indicate how much i trust the MBM.

9 Actually, it's not so much the case that for a leftist being "right" is more important than being factual. You're giving them too much credit. You're greatly overestimating them. Leftism is a mental disorder, not a real ideology. It manifests itself via projection and transference. To a leftist being correct about a particular matter is a opaque hypothetical for which they do not posses the requisite critical thinking. Leftists have emotional agendas they must push, not logical arguments for which they're seeking affirmation facts be damned. Corporation = bad. Profits = greed. Workers = oppressed. So on, so forth. This Mike Daisey character didn't care about being "right." He only cared about pushing his agenda. Whether it was true or not was irrelevant to him. It's a function of him needing to have satisfied his personal emotional miasma. It made him "feel good" to write that story; nothing else mattered.

10

But I want it to be true.

 

 

11 Hey, the whole RatherGate thing did scare off the MSM from looking for Barack Obama's college and law school records, not the mention his early career as a "radical" community organizer.

12

First...establish what the Propaganda Line is.....then, shut down any opposition thought against it.

 

There shall be no questioning of what has been deemed to be "The Truth".

13 There doesn't appear to be any sort of political calculations behind the story. We already know the high rate of suicide among these workers, how do we know this isn't just push back from China?

14

Its a deeper pathology IMO.

 

The 'saying' and belief, that "Perception is Reality" is a blatant falsehood, that people believe enough to act upon.  Reality is Reality... and when you perceive somthing different, reality bitch slaps you upside the head...

 

But the Left believes this saying... and as they CAN change Peoples perceptions, they believe they CAN change Reality.  Thus we go from a good line in a speech, that "all men are created equal" to the false narrative that all people are THE SAME... smart/dumb, Man/Woman... all are the SAME, which is flying in the face of reality... but because we are NOT the same, we then have to give an advantage to those who are 'less' to create the 'perception' of equality...

 

Thus, they think that the Laws of Thermodynamics and Physics are not in effect, and Man IS causing global warming through CO2 because they 'Perceive' it to be so....

 

Thus the 'Fake but Accurate'  meme goes with this belief.... if they can get enough people to 'Perceive', it becomes 'Reality'.... problem is that its NOT TRUE...

15 God, I wish I was a leftist.

I  could be tall, young, handsome, rich, intelligent, compassionate, and popular.

...but I live in the real world.

16 The thing is, there are plenty of tragedies around the world, but they rarely involve those evil capitalists at Apple and Halliburton, or the US government.  They involve tribalism and communism and socialism and islamofascism and those things are inherently NOT evil because collectivism is the goal for all the good little journalists.  They are seeking out evil where they want it to exist and where it does not exist, they fake it up.

17 Okay- on the background for this post: Who is Mike Daisey, what did he say, and what is the truth?

A synopsis and/or links would be greatly appreciated.

18 16 God, I wish I was a leftist.

I could be tall, young, handsome, rich, intelligent, compassionate, and popular.

...but I live in the real world.
 

Posted by: minuteman (formerly trainer) until Juggy is gone at March 23, 2012 10:52 AM (Rojyk)

 

Perceive it, and it will be so.... Perceive... or perceive not... there is no reality...

19
One mantra to rule them all, one truth to find them,
One cause to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

20 Democrats are either tools or, if they are smart enough, evil. Either way I have no use for them.

21 The thing is, for the Left, the end justifies the means. That's why it's not so far-fetched to link Hitler to the left, a la Hayek. They are all visionaries and we just don't get it, so they have to lie to us for our own good.

22 What would tighten up journalism? A change to slander/libel laws making civil cases easier.

23 So, rather than characterizing this as media malpractice ... how about calling it journalistic taqiyya?

24 And if, perchance, election results go so they lose, that "war" will escalate. You think MSDNC is shrill now? Just wait (and hope.)

25 What would tighten up journalism?

The right to physically assault "journalists" caught in lies.

26 OT somewhere there has to be footage of that jihadi getting shot in the head as he jumps out the window.There's GOT to be.

27

I can't say I'm all that interested in this story.  Essentially what you have is a reporter guy who is a lying liar who tells lies.  Ho hum. 

 

What I find interesting is that the end result is to discredit a report that made Apple Corp. look bad.  Now, I don't know if Apple Corp. is doing EEEEEVIL things over there in China, but I do know there are people in this country who hate Apple Corp., and there are people who will do anything to defend Apple Corp. against any accusastions of anything. 

 

Those of us who aren't there, and don't have access to all the information, we'll never know.  It's like watching two carnival barkers though, one who is saying his show is the greatest thing on Earth, while the other one is saying it's the worst, and that his is the best!  I'm just going to shrug my shoulders and walk away from both.  Maybe  go have a corndog with Michele Bachmann or something instead. 

28

Hardship is having to pay for your own birth control, and a tragedy is when others refuse.

 

29 >>Perceive it, and it will be so....

Oprah made a billion dollars selling that shit.

Didn't get rich and thin sitting on your couch watching TV? You just didn't visualize hard enough.

30

26....The right to physically assault "journalists" caught in lies.

 

With cattle prods.

31 I have absolutely no love for Apple, as they are a threat to open computing(iOS becoming a "standard" OS(ugh), lawsuits to Android makers, etc), but it's their right to seek cheaper labor elsewhere to increase their profit margins if that's what they think is best.

Besides, it's apparently turning almost all robotic in the next decade.

32 32 I visualise myself motorboating Christina Hendricks tittehs everyday.Hasn't come true yet.

33 They have to lie to tell the truth, because the Truth doesn't exist, otherwise they wouldn't have to lie.

34 This is not the Truth you're looking for.

35 29 23 What would tighten up journalism? A change to slander/libel laws making civil cases easier.
.....Posted by: Jean at March 23, 2012 10:56 AM (5HAgy)


------   That's a two-edged sword, though. It's not hard to see how that would be misused by the left to crush conservative media. In the liberal mind, an ideological disagreement or even pointing out facts contrary to their preconceived notions are falsehoods. The lawsuits would start flying.

.....Posted by: Insomniac at March 23, 2012 10:58 AM (v+QvA)

 

------

 

Yeah, it would be a gift to the Left....and all their leftist lawyers. ....The increase in lawsuits agains conservatives would be stupefying. 

36 Yeah, it would be a gift to the Left....and all their leftist lawyers. ....The increase in lawsuits agains conservatives would be stupefying.

That's why I like beatings.  Or, if you're feeling more civilized, dueling.

37 Steevy, they make rifle scope integrated cameras, for training purposes

38 That's why I like beatings. Or, if you're feeling more civilized, dueling.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 23, 2012 11:05 AM (8y9MW)

Then conservatives would win. Genius!

39 In related news, MSNBC's own Al Sharpton says,  "Duh."

40 Oh.  He was the dude who "covered" the EEEEEVIL!!! at Foxconn.  Got it.

I'm so surprised that a journalist would lie to make an American company look bad that... wait, no, that was just some gas.  Never mind.

41 Then conservatives would win. Genius!

At the very least it would cut down on faux-trage.

42 That's reprehensible behavior. Now watch this explosion...!

43 AllenG, I've long been an advocate of dueling.

44 Consider that a story like this is a golden ticket to the top of your field and the reason to lie is manifest.

45 I think what's missing here is that the left and Democrats, BIRM, has taken lying to be a legitimate political tactic. Just look at their support of Democrats in run ups to elections when the Democrat runs against gay marriage, or doesn't run as a gun grabber. The reaction is "we know he's just saying that to fool the rubes". They "know" their guy is lying and really doesn't believe that, so they can still in their head justify supporting him and vilifying Republicans for having the same position. Hell look at the anti war movement, you see those fucks anymore? Their supposed "principled" positions were all a fcking lie. My two cents

46 The Hearst/Remington thing about the Cuban War NEVER happened

The hoary claim that the yellow journalism of William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer brought on the Spanish-American War is often asserted but never persuasively substantiated.

It's a notion that suggests the worst tendencies of the news media - that in extreme cases, they media can plunge the country into war, as Hearst and Pulitzer supposedly did with the sometimes-inflammatory content of their New York City newspapers.

Although the claim was long ago demolished as a media-driven myth, it remains too good not to be true, too delicious to resist

http://tinyurl.com/7olgsqg

47 If you're still online, Museisluse, check out my reply to your post regarding your visit to the Czech Republic...

48 “I have a different take, Brian, on that,” Rivera said. “I believe that George Zimmerman, the overzealous neighborhood watch captain should be investigated to the fullest extent of the law and if he is criminally liable, he should be prosecuted. But I am urging the parents of black and Latino youngsters particularly to not let their children go out wearing hoodies. I think the hoodie is as much responsible for Trayvon Martin’s death as George Zimmerman was.”

Well, this line of analysis has the advantage of being novel.
Before long we will have complaints of “hoodie profiling” to add to the usual dreck.

49 49 The war was caused ostensibly by the explosion of the Maine but US impatience with Spain over Cuba went back years before that.Americans had been executed by Spain for interfering in Cuba.

50 51 Anybody hear the recording where you can supposedly hear Zimmerman say "damn coons"?

51

You can have my GWAR hoodie when you pry it off my cold dead body.

52 So what did this fictional hatchet job accomplish?

Apple stock goes for over $600 per share and is keeping the market propped up

Lefty Macolytes still line up for hours at an Apple store if they so much as announce a new power cord

They lied and it didn't even move their own comrades

53

 

 

Diversity is good. We must have diversity.

 

Except for....um....diversity of thought. We will tell you the "right way" to think.

54 Geraldo is a retard,almost every teen,white and black or whatever wear hoodies now days.

55 53, In Spanish?

56 >>Consider that a story like this is a golden ticket to the top of your field and the reason to lie is manifest.

Speaking of, Wikipedia informs me today is Jayson Blair's birthday.

57 55 I remember people talking about it,nobody seemed to blame Apple so much as communist China.

58 58 It's over at The Blaze but I haven't listened.

59

and having learned nothing of eithical value from the Stephen Glass incident,

 

I learned a lot from the Stephen Glass incident:

The MSM can lie their asses off and publish pure fiction (with some of the most ridiculous names one could think of) and nothing happens to the magazine or anyone who was working there and gave their okay to the fictional stories time after time.  And then, you can have a movie made about you, while the joke magazine continues to publish others' fiction ... again with no repercussions at all.

 

That's what I learned from the Stephen Glass affair.

60 So when Obama doesn't win enough electoral votes to get re-elected, the MFM will say he still "won", as they continue to do with Algore. I could actually live with that "truthiness", as long as the asshole leaves the White House.

61 Well,it had to happen,Obama has commented on the Martin case.

62 You know- on the "diversity" thing- I heard a commercial on my way home last night asking people to write some group or other in support of diversity in home-ownership.

Now, besides the fact the commercial itself was offensive (it was), I was flabbergasted by the lack of intelligence inherent in their position.  Not that I have any problem with whoever can afford one owning a home- but the very fact you're pushing for "diversity" in home-ownership means you're less concerned about people being able to afford them, and more interested in some quota of people of different races owning homes.

This is EXACTLY what led to the housing meltdown of 2008.

63 So, Glass is looking over his shoulder for PLA goons?

64 Disagree with the conclusion.  There are plenty of real tragedies that WILL affect them, no need to invent adversity.  As someone above said lefties have a mental defect.  Some simply do not have the capability to see reality, others are just evil.

65 Some simply do not have the capability to see reality, others are just evil.

You say potato, I say "hearty root vegetable."

66 @64 - only one person is more attracted to news cameras that Al Sharpton or Jesse Jackson. It was inevitable.

67 Well,it had to happen,Obama has commented on the Martin case.

Why does Obama hate Hispanics?

68

Why does Obama hate Hispanics?

 

They don't support a Palestinian State.

69

JRR Tokin'

 

Or Tim Benzedrine, his alter ego.

70 BTW they say he says "fucking coons",but CNN isolated the audio.Still,I wouldn't be surprised.God,I hope this doesn't end up helping Obama somehow.

71 Suckers of Cock sucking cock.  News @ 11.

72 if obama had any sense ( yeah I know ) he'd stay the fuck out of this Florida Incident. All he can do is muddy the waters and make things worse

73 What Ed is missing is that, to the left, being "right" is more important than being factual




Poppin' is too busy constructing an "in fairness" counter-argument.

74 All he can do is muddy the waters and make things worse
--
That's the objective.

75

65.....I was flabbergasted by the lack of intelligence inherent in their position.

 

No intelligence required, AllenG. ....The Left tells its followers what to think. ....And the followers seem to like it that way.

76 70 Well,it had to happen,Obama has commented on the Martin case.

Why does Obama hate Hispanics?

Posted by: AmishDude at March 23, 2012 11:26 AM (T0NGe)

Something about acting stupidly? Why can't the SCOAMF butt out of state-level legal matters?

77 The partisan left-right war restarted a decade ago in Florida. Why shouldn't the race  wars restart there too?

78 75 DOJ is involved,it's already fucked up.

79 What's particularly galling is that when Hollywood produces a movie based on true events or history, 95 percent of it is bullshit called "artistic license"

That's why people still go to the Titanic cemetery in Halifax looking for Jack Dawson's grave

That's why I laughed when the Lakota ran from a Pawnee raid in Dances with Wolves, when in reality the Lakota would have ripped the Pawnees heads off and shit down their necks

80

Yes, the stupid fuck, Il Douche, said:  "if I had a son, heÂ’d look like Trayvon."  Right, Barry, just like that white kid who was lit on fire by the black gangbangers would look a lot like my son, if I had one.  Because the white kid would be, you know, white, and shit.

 

Jimminy Fucking Christmas.  How did a certifiable TMR (Trainable Mental Retard) end up president of this country?

81 No intelligence required, AllenG. ....The Left tells its followers what to think. ....And the followers seem to like it that way.

Okay, I get that: but shouldn't the Left, itself, be capable of coherent thought?  I mean, it's one thing to tell people what to believe, it's something else to spout utter nonsense while attempting to do so.

I know, I'm giving them far too much credit.

82 79 He was asked,I'msure he was thrilled to be asked but he was asked.

83 DOJ is involved,it's already fucked up. Posted by: steevy at March 23, 2012 11:31 AM (7W3wI) yeah i know. just glad it's not up here in NJ or NY

84 Jimminy Fucking Christmas. How did a certifiable TMR (Trainable Mental Retard) end up president of this country?

Posted by: Sharkman at March 23, 2012 11:31 AM (RtpCp)

We were lied to! And gullible as hell! But mostly lied to!

85   16 God, I wish I was a leftist.

I could be tall, young, handsome, rich, intelligent, compassionate, and popular.

...but I live in the real world.

Posted by: minuteman (formerly trainer) until Juggy is gone at March 23, 2012 10:52 AM (Rojyk)

**

George Clooney?? Are you socking us??

86 That's why I like beatings. Or, if you're feeling more civilized, dueling.

 

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 23, 2012 11:05 AM (8y9MW)

 

You have NO idea how much I'd LOVE for dueling to come back... our Elizabethan Fencing school would make BANK teaching folks to defend themselves... (now we do it for free)

 

Not to add, the Judicars, or Judicial Fenceing opportunities...

 

Kyle Greywolf, BlackScarf

Band of Black Tigers Fencing School

87 Off syphalitic fluke sock

88 @Chris_Moody Santorum spokesman: "I wouldn't be surprised if Romney picked Obama as his running mate." http://yhoo.it/GJH3pm

@Chris_Moody Santorum spokesman: "Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have been teammates for decades." http://yhoo.it/GJH3pm

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

Sorry, no accident now. The Santorum campaign is doubling-down.

89 Karen Finney, filling in for Martin Bashir, flat-out blamed the words of Rush Limbaugh, Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum for creating the environment that lead to the horrible shooting death of teen Trayvon Martin in Florida. Sucker of cock

90

Just a random FYI...there was an interesting article on Glass in the ABA Journal this month.  He graduated from Georgetown Law (they're certainly picking winners, no?) in 2000 and passed both the NY and CA bar exams. 

He was forced to withdraw his application for admission to the NY bar because he was going to be denied on character and fitness grounds. 

He also got denied in California, but has gone through the appeals process, and the California Supreme Court is going to hear his case very shortly.  The case might get a lot of publicity.

[Also - I'm hoping this formats correctly since the few times I've posted there are always spaces missing from my sentences.  What's up with that?]

91 73 BTW they say he says "fucking coons",but CNN isolated the audio.Still,I wouldn't be surprised.God,I hope this doesn't end up helping Obama somehow. Posted by: steevy at March 23, 2012 11:28 AM

Sure, some guy shot and killed a black kid in Florida. Let's forget all his other fuckups and sing kumbaya.

We'll hear howls about racism from celebrities who live in Beverly Hills and Malibu, both places where the cops will pull over and search any car with black kids in it

92 OK guys, tomorrow we are going to commit some serious violations of morality

93 We already know the high rate of suicide among these workers, how do we know this isn't just push back from China?

How do we know this? Was it "reported" in a newspaper?

94 our ElizabethanFencing school would make BANK teaching folks to defend themselves...

I would take up quarterstaff.

As someone once said: "If you suddenly find yourself attacked by people with Rapiers- go grab your quarterstaff."

95 Sorry, no accident now. The Santorum campaign is doubling-down.

Posted by: AmishDude at March 23, 2012 11:34 AM (T0NGe)

Santorum is so far around the bend that he's doubling back on himself. Time for his money people to bail out and let him collapse.

96 91 Yep.

97 Race Politics: When the race war comes, we know who we can blame

98 Capt Ed misses a lot of stuff; sincerity is no substitute for discernment

He also misses the Obvious Fact that the last shreds of journalism died out decades ago on the Left.

99

The Santorum campaign is doubling-down.

 

Does that mean I get a free etch-a-sketch? Because that would be awesome.

100 Time for his money people to bail out and let him collapse.

Sadly, I agree.  He was good for the race, for a while, but this is just stupid.

101 He allegedly said 'coons' ? I thought he was a 28 year old Hispanic Floridian and not a 70 year old Alabama redneck.

102 104 Tried to listen to the clip but it wasn't working for me.

103 OT, but Newt will be at my campus/place of work this afternoon.  The local news people were forced, probably at knifepoint, to mention it this morning, but they didn't say where on campus; and there is NO mention of it on the school's official website (despite the fact Newt is an alumnus!) or in the chatty little email the president sends out every week.  Isn't that odd.

I found the building and room on NG's website, and I'm going.  Might send out an "informative" little note to all the people on my contact list. . . .

104 >>You say potato, I say "hearty root vegetable."

We ain't no potatoes...

105 Time for his money people to bail out and let him collapse. Sadly, I agree. He was good for the race, for a while, but this is just stupid. Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 23, 2012 11:37 AM (8y9MW) More than stupid. he is approaching ron paul territory. as of now I would not even let him speak at the convention

106 I would take up quarterstaff.

As someone once said: "If you suddenly find yourself attacked by people with Rapiers- go grab your quarterstaff."

He probably said that right before some dude with a $65 Lorcin shot him in the face.

107 Holy fucking hand grenades this asshole has to stick his fucking nose into everything!!!

"My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said.

Who fucking cares what your fictional "son" would look like.  The correct response is "This is a matter for the local authorities there in Florida.  I have full faith that they will carry out their duties."  End of fucking comment.  Why the hell is the FBI involved.  We have to get this statist out!!

108 I've seen a photo of Zimmerman.  Can you say 'Mestizo'?

okay, how about, "definitely not White'?????

btw, there is a witness who says it was Mestizo Zimmerman who was shouting for help; M.Z. who was on his back with "the big guy" punching him. 

TayVoNN's papa listened to the 911 tapes and says it was not his son calling for help. 

109 >>We'll hear howls about racism from celebrities who live in Beverly Hills and Malibu, both places where the cops will pull over and search any car with black kids in it

Anyone know how many black teenagers were killed by other black teenagers between the time Martin got shot and the time Obama commented on it?

110 The older brother of Toulouse terrorist Mohammed Merah says that he is "very proud" of his sibling, French newspaper Le Point reported. Abdelkader Merah is currently in detention and on Thursday was quoted as saying that he was unaware of his brother's murderous plans. (Ynet) Outstanding.

111 The MBM brings on these manicured and serious voiced journalists to tell us that they're honest and balanced because all they have to sell is their credibility and trust with the public

Mike Barnicle
Steven Glass
Mary Mapes
Dan Rather
Jayson Blair
Mike Daisey
Al Sharpton

112

84.....Okay, I get that: but shouldn't the Left, itself, be capable of coherent thought? I mean, it's one thing to tell people what to believe, it's something else to spout utter nonsense while attempting to do so.

 

Well that's the whole thing about 'Group Think', AllenG. ....It doesn't have to make sense. It must be followed....without questioning it.

 

I think that is basically the big difference between the Left and the Right. ....Conservatives tend to think for themselves, and afford others the same right. ....Conservatives don't tend to engage in 'group think'. ....Which is why we're having such a hard time coming together right now, to get behind one candidate.

113 >>okay, how about, "definitely not White'?????

One drop rule, or something.

114 How does this help Michelle's fictional fat son?

115 We'll hear howls about racism from celebrities who live in Beverly Hills and Malibu, both places where the cops will pull over and search any car with black kids in it

Posted by: kbdabear at March 23, 2012 11:35 AM (Y+DPZ)

They pull over drunk actor too, sugartits.

116 highest truth: from each according to his ability, to each according to his need.

2nd highest truth: certain people have been chosen to carry out the highest truth. Did you see the other day that Sullivan (I think is was Andy) claimed that Netanyahu was preventing Obama from achieving his destiny?
 http :// ace.mu.nu /archives/ 327699. php

all other truth flows from these two truths. If Obama decides that we don't need to use so much oil, then you are within the truth to say that we cannot drill our way out of a shortage (which doesn't actually exist)

Don't tell me this is BS -- people get PhDs from Ivy Leagues schools for writing a graduate thesis that makes even less sense than this.

117 He probably said that right before some dude with a $65 Lorcin shot him in the face.

It actually came from the beginning of the "swashbuckling" period in Europe.  England had outlawed dueling, and part of their propaganda against it was how useless the Rapier was as a sword of war (and it's pretty freaking useless as a sword of war).

So the English sword masters (it is said) would hold "demonstrations" where they'd have about a half-dozen of "their best students" attack them with rapiers.  The sword master would then defend himself with a quarterstaff (which really is the preferred weapon for defending yourself against a rapier, in fairness).

Few people seem to have thought about the fact that, if they were only trained by the English sword masters (who didn't look highly on the rapier) that their "best students" wouldn't be all that good.

118 113 Well yeah,by their standards he was a great success.He killed 7 or 8 infidels and apostates before he got croaked.

119 "My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said.

Posted by: Hedgehog at March 23, 2012 11:40 AM

I said before that the Trayvon Martin shooting just isn't registering much with me since the MBM didn't give a shit about a white teen set on fire by black teens in Kansas City because he was white, nor did they seem to care much when black mobs were targeting and attacking whites in Chicago and Philly last summer.

I don't remember the SCOAMF saying anything about that either

120 Why would the FL Governor need to do some SOUL SEARCHING?


OBAMA: i understand now that the governor of the state of florida has formed a task force to investigate what is taking place. to do some soul searching to figure out how does something like this happen. and that means that we examine the laws and the context for what happened. as well as the specifics of the incident. but my main message is to the parents of trayvon martin. you know, if i had a son, he would look like trayvon

121 the Jooos set me up; they control the cops in L.A.   !!!

122 "My main message is to the parents of Trayvon Martin. You know, if I had a son, he'd look like Trayvon," Obama said.

Who fucking cares what your fictional "son" would look like. The correct response is "This is a matter for the local authorities there in Florida. I have full faith that they will carry out their duties." End of fucking comment. Why the hell is the FBI involved. We have to get this statist out!!
Posted by: Hedgehog at March 23, 2012 11:40 AM

The authorities in Florida acted stupidly

123 Two agendas clash by night re TayVoNN Skittles:

pump up the Af-Am vote

start another war on 'Stand your Ground' / Castle doctrine

124 He probably said that right before some dude with a $65 Lorcin shot him in the face.

Right before someone with a crossbow shot that dude in the heart.

125 if i had a son, he would look like
trayvon
---
Look black? Of course (although I have been told there is no genetic basis for that.(?))

On school suspension? Probably.

126 >>Why would the FL Governor need to do some SOUL SEARCHING?

How's that poem from Obama's coronation go?  If it's yellow, let it mellow, if it's white it must do what's right...?

127 They pull over drunk actor too, sugartits.
Posted by: Mel Gibson at March 23, 2012 11:43 AM

Only the Jooo cops, Mel

128 What ever happened to the two black girls that beat the shit out of the white girl in McDonalds?

129 Why would the FL Governor need to do some SOUL SEARCHING?

Because with the left it's about "Social Justice" not justice-justice.

Right before someone with a crossbow shot that dude in the heart.

Right before someone shot that dude with a longbow.

130

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 23, 2012 11:44 AM (8y9MW)

 

Which is why many of us in the 'sport' rapier community (WMA, SCA) are transitioning to Cut and Thrust techniques, which are much closer to Saber Fighting, which WAS Militarily useful for hundreds of years...

131 The duel scene in the movie Rob Roy was pretty awesome.

132 128 He probably said that right before some dude with a $65 Lorcin shot him in the face.

Right before someone with a crossbow shot that dude in the heart.
 

Posted by: Hollowpoint at March 23, 2012 11:48 AM (SY2Kh)

 

Dude.... ROCKS!

133 You'd have to require it to be in person, which I'm not sure the old code duello required (correct me here if I'm wrong)

You did not have to issue your challenge in person (a letter or messenger would suffice) but you could only choose a champion (someone better suited to fighting than you) in certain, very limited circumstances.

You could always have a Second, though, and most people chose the most competent person they had available.

134 Which is why many of us in the 'sport' rapier community (WMA, SCA) are transitioning to Cut and Thrust techniques, which are much closer to Saber Fighting, which WAS Militarily useful for hundreds of years...

Yeah.  I like Cut & Thrust better than rapier.  I like Saber better than Cut & Thrust.  And you can (if you look and have the time) still find Saber schools.  Their fencing rules are weird, though.

And, yes, once guns made armor more-or-less irrelevant, the Saber was the most practical war sword available.

135 I don't remember the SCOAMF saying anything about that either

Posted by: kbdabear at March 23, 2012 11:45 AM (Y+DPZ)

There have been 36 murders already this year here in Baltimore and O'Fuckstick's home town of Chicago has already reached the vaunted 100 landmark.  Has he bothered to comment on any of those?

136 Three rapiers versus one quarterstaff: http://tinyurl.com/6u4hfu4

137 132 What ever happened to the two black girls that beat the shit out of the white girl in McDonalds?

Posted by: momma at March 23, 2012 11:49 AM (oKsWl)

They both went to prison because the victim was a transexual.  You know a member of an OVG (official victims group).

138

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at March 23, 2012 11:51 AM (8y9MW)

 

Part of the 'Code' decreed whether it was a Personal, or Legal Matter.  Personal? you had to fight yourself if able... Legal, you could have a Champion... (or, if you were a Lady).

 

Remember, in many countries it was Legal to put a Legal question to "God" through Combat... as God would not allow 'evil to triumph'...

139

Hmmm, 28 y/o hispanic dude shoot AA teenager wearing a hoodie... 

 

Could be if he used the word "coon," he was referring to the Cartmann costume from South Park.  Which honestly, would be as likely a possibility as the racial epithet. 

 

Still, cops investigated, and decided not to charge the guy.  Why do lefties love the cops when it's about getting more "stimulus" money sent to cities, then hate them when they investigate something and it doesn't go their way? 

140 Good thing George Zimmerman doesn't have a more obvious hispanic surname, or the optics of O'Bongo's black minions yelling 'lynch him!' would not really resonate with the Spanish-speaking voters.

My guess is, Zimmerman wanted poor lil' Tray to justify his presence in the neighborhood, poor lil' Tray chimped out on Zimmerman and started to beat his ass, and Zimmerman shot him in self-defense. Zimmerman is gonna get railroaded.

141 Hi-ahh, ah'm Nay-an-sah Guh-rayce!

Zimmer-munnnn? Guilty! Whah haven't they hung him yet?

142

Posted by: Grey Fox at March 23, 2012 11:55 AM (MOcee)

 

As someone who fights rapier mellees.... involving HUNDREDs of combatants (Pennsic)... I'll take Three Rapier and Dagger fighters of my school, over just about anyone with a Q staff...

 

But then again, we actualy TRAIN in how to fight together... Qstaff can only engage one opponent at a time... the other two should have free attacks to an open quarter...

 

But then it wouldn't make as good of a story, would it... /smile...

143

Posted by: David, preparing his Sling at March 23, 2012 12:05 PM (lZBBB)

 

DOH... Sock... DEACTIVATE!

144 It's all a prelude to an attack on Florida's self defense laws and thoese of other states. There is no right to self defense according to our masters.

145 Re: my comment at 106: 

Scruit, I put the notice of Newt's town hall meeting, and the link to his website, up on the school calendar myself.  Hope they don't take it down before a few people read it.

146 All duel scenes pale in comparison to "The Duallists".

147 I heard that The Hunger Games movie comes out today.


Is it about Chris Christie and Newt Gingrich competing to find the best all-you-can-eat buffet restaurants in America??

148 I'm grateful that I live in an age of the New Media.

149 Linked.... 

This is a very informative post.  It also brings to mind the Bush letter and Rathergate.  The need to be "right" to fit their narrative, versus they need to be correct to fit the truth.  Unfortunately, the MSM will continue to adjust the news to more and more fit their "narrative"

150 Oh, I think it's pretty much a foregone conclusion that Mr. Zimmerman is doomed.

The local DA is going to lean very heavily on him to plea-bargain, so they can bundle him off to jail and avoid the difficulty of a trial.

If he stands his ground and does plead innocent, it's going to be him and one nervous public defender against the combined weight of all state and Federal law enforcement agencies and attorneys, plus the ACLU, $PLC, Sharpton, Jackson, and who knows who else.

And if he somehow manages to get acquitted . . . his life will be a hell of fear, petty harassment, death threats, and media character assassination.

Right now the only thing that could save him would be for him to discover he's gay.

151 I saw Mike Daisey about 10 years ago on tech tv, and his schtick back then was as a former tech-support worker, and his monologues were supposedly humorous asides from his time in that field. I instantly hated him, part one because he WAS NOT FUNNY, and two because he thought he was the funniest man alive. If you go back and check out his "work" after that, he latches on to genuinely famous people and crafts a shitty monologue about them. I guess it takes a lot of embellishment and lying to make his shitty non-interesting storytelling somewhat interesting. Fuck that fat fuck.

152

What would tighten up journalism?

 

Legalizing dueling.

 

In fact, that could have a salutory effect on manners generally speaking.

153 I think that fake Hearst quote is an example of "irony". Though, really, it comes down to a problem we all have: Even knowing we're being lied to, we tend to not realize how MUCH, how OFTEN, and how LONG it's been going on.

154 The War on Women

Nearly 1,000 Pakistani women ‘killed for honor’

al arabiya reports Pakistani Parliamentary praise for legislation providing women a sense of equal status with men that no one enforces. Lip service is worse than outright denial of rights, as if promising women protection when only setting the women up for execution by family members who will not be prosecuted for murdering female kin.

Funny thing about a law is that it's only as effective as its enforcement proves. (Take US border security and the federal refusal to enforce border control, and refusal to enforce immigration law; rather, the federal funding of illegal immigration as is.) In Sharia controlled society, the only laws enforced regarding women's rights is that they have no legitimacy. So Parliament can pass laws granting women superiority status over men; it wouldn't mean squat. 

Would Rush Limbaugh crusade consistently for Islamic women's rights?

155 O'Fuckstick's home town of Chicago has already reached the vaunted 100 landmark. Has he bothered to comment on any of those?
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He acted stupidly.

156 Beer Summit 2012

157 Please stop tweeting me about fake but accurate, people. We're past that now.

158 a

159 Ed's "missing" a lot of things. He's spineless & naive to the max.

160 Nice fucking piece, Open Blogger... Tightly wound and written with drive.

161

No signs of a scuffle would be left after the autopsy.  Funeral home does not get the body until after the coroner is done with it.

162
Anybody have any idea what the price of regular unleaded is today? I need to fill up.