January 30, 2014


— Ace

Before getting into that, here's a p-shop that Jay Caruso made to goof on NBC Political Director Mark Murray and his absurd claim that Obama's struggles were just like Cory Rehmburg's.

More such mockery at the Federalist. Not exactly related, but they also caught Buzzfeed Capitol Hill reporter Kate Nocera squeeing something ridiculous about the Imperial Pomp of the State of the Union.


Every. Important. Person in the country. Well I have thought about it, and I agree, that thought is insane.

MSNBC is catching more grief for their "rightwingers hate biracial families and Cheerios" tweet. The Washington Post's Eric Wemple, who I take to be progressive-leaning based on his posts, is pretty rough on MSNBC.

He points out something important: This wasn't just an errant tweet. Just as Mark Murray's absurd tweet, comparing Obama to a ten-tour, severely wounded veteran, was itself just a shortened version of a longer, more considered article, so too was this tweet actually taken from an MSNBC "news" article, quoted below:


So that's an MSNBC writer, not dashing off a barely-considered tweet, but writing an article for publication, considering his words, submitting it to an editor, and that editor giving it the thumb's up for posting.

Wemple notices that MSNBC is doing a lot of apologizing lately, because they're crossing the line an awful lot. But rather than recognize their problem, they simply continue tossing the same crude chum into the water, and then saying "Ooh sorry we didn't mean that" each time.

At what point does Serial Contrition, with no effort to modify one's egregious behavior, simply become... enabling, as Wemple terms it? That MSNBC has adopted the attitude that they can be a divisive, petty, crude, and Jerry Springer as they like, because they'll just issue an apology in a couple of days?


The tweet in question isn’t clever, helpful or fair. It’s a divisive piece of taunting nastiness driven by a worldview that MSNBC personalities have surfaced with great regularity in recent memory, always followed by excellent apologies. After then-MSNBC host Martin Bashir suggested that Sarah Palin be subjected to an excrement-related punishment visited upon slaves, he said, “My words were wholly unacceptable,” among other very contrite things. After short-lived MSNBC host Alec Baldwin allegedly shouted down a paparazzo with homophobic language, he said, “I did not intend to hurt or offend anyone with my choice of words, but clearly I have — and for that I am deeply sorry.” After host Melissa Harris-Perry presided over a segment that mocked Mitt Romney’s family over a photo featuring his adopted African-American grandson, the host said, among other things, “So without reservation or qualification, I apologize to the Romney family. Adults who enter into public life implicitly consent to having less privacy. But their families, and especially their children, should not be treated callously or thoughtlessly.”

And now this Cheerios thing. The string of offenses raises doubts about Wolffe’s claim that the tweet from last night doesn’t reflect “who we are at msnbc.” Rather, the tweet appears to a careful observer to define precisely what MSNBC is becoming: A place that offends and apologizes with equal vigor.

The Erik Wemple Blog supports media organizations that muster strong apologies. Too often, mistakes are followed by stonewalling and a failure to repent. Apologies can be an important measure of accountability. Yet this string of meae culpae suggests that the apology may be morphing into an enabling device for the networkÂ’s tendentious and divisive attitudes. Sometimes a bad tweet represents the errant and unrepresentative thoughts of some employee managing the social-media accounts. And sometimes it represents institutional morays [sic] and prejudices.

It's not "morays," which are eels, but mores. But otherwise, all solid.

So, why is what I assume is a progressive taking MSNBC into the woodshed?

Why does anyone on the right take anyone on the right to the woodshed?

Because MSNBC is embarrassing progressives, particularly progressive journalists, who still wish to pretend that they are offering unbiased reportage and non-partisan analysis on current affairs.

MSNBC will not permit them to cling to that vanity. MSNBC will not allow them that pretense.

MSNBC is basically your drunk, crude, arrested-deveolopment man-child friend who still acts like he's 18 even though you, and he, have all turned 35. You invite him to a dinner party, hoping, for once, that he will behave as an adult. You wish to behave as an adult yourself. You'd like a nice dinner party, where people sort of slightly put on airs a bit (what we used to call "behaving properly") and attempt to be a little more refined, and witty, and cosmopolitan than they really are in their daily lives.

But your friend won't have that. He insists on insists on puncturing everyone's vanities and bringing them down to his level by putting on a show of crudeness, boorishness, and general jackassery.

That's MSNBC. Many progressive reporters would like to think of themselves as somewhat elevated. MSNBC will not allow them that. MSNBC will give them no place to hide. MSNBC will allow them no cover, not even an inch of it.

In a way, MSNBC is conservatives' best friend: We attempt to puncture the smug illusions that progressive media types have about themselves, but only MSNBC is really doing so.

And so MSNBC tells progressive reporters: This is what you really are. This is not what you wish to be, or what you pretend to be; this is what you really are, down deep, past the veneer of pretense and posturing. In your gut, you're just low, crude, unthinking partisan animals.

Just.

Like.

Us.

It is then with conflict that I greet the RNC's declaration that they are urging a conservative boycott of MSNBC (of appearing on the network; no conservative watches the channel, of course).

Why boycott them? Why not just appear on MSNBC and interrogate their ultrapartisan goons about their ridiculous, crude ethos and juvenile view of the world?

If MSNBC wants to let its Freak Flag fly -- and, by doing so, reveal the only-slightly hidden Freak Flags of the rest of the leftwing media-- should we not encourage them?

MSNBC presents a challenge to the rest of the leftwing media. And they, like your drunk, rowdy, Peter Pan friend, have something of a point: There is a certain honesty in crudeness and stupidity. We are, at root, crude and stupid. It is only by effort -- by counterfeiting ourselves -- we rise above our crude and stupid urges.

MSNBC challenges the rest of the progressive media to accept this fact. The fact that the rest of the progressive media hides its partisan id slightly better is not to the progressive media's credit, but rather to its shame.

The real face of the progressive movement is not Anderson Cooper's affable, bland urbanity.

The real face of the progressive movement is Ed Shultz, and Martin Bashir, and Lawrence O'Donnell, and Chris Matthews, and Melissa Harris-Perry, and Alec Baldwin, and Rachel Maddow queening over all of the lesser progressives.

If they are embarrassing the rest of the leftwing media -- and I have no doubt that they are -- should we not be firm in our calls to Let MSNBC Be MSNBC?

Posted by: Ace at 10:52 AM | Comments (507)
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1 Big face makes me nauseous.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 10:53 AM (IXrOn)

2 That pre-cancerous growth on the JEF's nose looks scarier close up. It looks like an institutional moray.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 10:55 AM (7ObY1)

3 Big face is creepy.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 10:55 AM (xZxMD)

4 Murray should be mocked. He's suppose to be a news director - not obama's personal secretary.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 10:55 AM (E4MKN)

5 Good lord, Mark Murray looks like a doofus.


Posted by: EC at January 30, 2014 10:55 AM (GQ8sn)

6 I feel the strange urge to tilt my head to the right...

Posted by: Gran at January 30, 2014 10:56 AM (mw0FO)

7 Ha! fixed.

Posted by: Gran at January 30, 2014 10:56 AM (mw0FO)

8 Eesh, that Face of B.O. is horrifying.

Posted by: Face of Boe at January 30, 2014 10:56 AM (TB/3z)

9

If it were an Oreos advert I'd be all outragey.

 

For the Children.

Posted by: Bigby's Jazz Hands at January 30, 2014 10:57 AM (3ZtZW)

10 5 Good lord, Mark Murray looks like a doofus. Even after he manpapers his face with a gentle cleansing scrub and facial loofah, followed by some Oil of Olay and a relaxing mani-pedi day at the spa?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 10:57 AM (7ObY1)

11 Damn, this is a good one, Ace. I guess I'll put off that trudge to the grocery store for a bit...

Posted by: shredded chi - tired of shoveling FACTs out of the driveway at January 30, 2014 10:57 AM (W/b66)

12 I wonder how much of this is due to MSNBC out-rating CNN. CNN is perceived as the serious, proper news network while MSNBC is full of outrageous goofs even by the left (while they nod in agreement). Seeing CNN fall behind has to hurt their worldview.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 10:57 AM (zfY+H)

13 Cheerios give me gas.

Posted by: Michele Obama's Landing Strip at January 30, 2014 10:57 AM (W103X)

14 >>Wemple notices that MSNBC is doing a lot of apologizing lately, because they're crossing the line an awful lot. But rather than recognize their problem, they simply continue tossing the same crude chum into the water, and then saying "Ooh sorry we didn't mean that" each time.<<

Nice line you got there. Be a shame if something happened to it.

Honestly, it's like hitting someone with a flame-thrower and then saying- "My bad".

Posted by: Marcus T at January 30, 2014 10:58 AM (GGCsk)

15 Speaking of MSDNC. Has anyone ever seen Will Wheaton and Rachel Madcow in the same room?

Posted by: Minnfidel at January 30, 2014 10:58 AM (/o+xv)

16 That pre-cancerous growth on the JEF's nose looks scarier close up. It's a genital wart that hopped off of Reggie Love's cornhole when Barack was tossing his salad.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 10:59 AM (lyoPE)

17 The thing is, all that stuff DOES represent who they are at MSNBC, and its due to their near-total or actually-total isolation. They live in a bubble where everyone agrees about their straw man conservative and nobody is around to doubt or object. So they feed on each other and it comes out on the air, then they are stunned to see how people react.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 10:59 AM (zfY+H)

18 If it were an Oreos advert I'd be all outragey.

Those things are inedible since the food Nazis forced the recipe change.

Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 11:00 AM (ZKzrr)

19

So, let me get this straight:

Step 1:   make up a     false    scenario   of a misdeed

Step 2:  accuse someone of     the misdeed

Step 3:  bemoan and rail against the     evil people who didn't actually do anything.

 

This has a 1930s Moscow feel to it.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 30, 2014 11:00 AM (9T/th)

20 They are again yapping that the Amanda Knox verdict is imminent.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:00 AM (E4MKN)

21 But they have no reason to be embrrassed,unlike on the right they never face any blowback for their crudity or even iolentt statements.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:00 AM (zqvg6)

22 Call me a cynic, but I half suspect that General Mills went running to the usual race-baiters right off the bat with this. I mean, look at the free publicity they're getting.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:00 AM (7ObY1)

23 Hell, I wasn't there in the &%^#ing insane room and neither were any of my family and friends; and we are the most important people in the galaxy.

Posted by: Angel with a sword at January 30, 2014 11:00 AM (hpgw1)

24 Pajama Boy's father?

Posted by: UWP at January 30, 2014 11:01 AM (2hQRj)

25 MSNBC is the Völkischer Beobachter of the US.

I hope they find a bunker sometime soon.

Posted by: weft cut-loop[/i] [/b] at January 30, 2014 11:01 AM (cxs6V)

26 The internet, as a viable source of information for the common man, is relatively new. Newer still is the ability for the common man to disseminate information. Now, with the advent of real-time services such as twitter, bullshit like this is squashed with record speed. I shudder to imagine how much of history has been lost due to our limited access to information.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:01 AM (DmNpO)

27 Damn, now that I skimmed the Thread it looks like I won't get invited to Ace's next dinner party.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:01 AM (lyoPE)

28 Yep, MSNBC is showing a tad too much of their true colors and that's the only reasone Wimple has a problem with it. Must maintain appearances children.

Posted by: Adam at January 30, 2014 11:01 AM (Aif/5)

29 I've seen MSNBC's ratings.  It seems there is a de-facto boycott in full force already.   NOBODY but the True Believers are tuning in.

Posted by: McCool at January 30, 2014 11:01 AM (nCSwS)

30 >>It's a genital wart that hopped off of Reggie Love's cornhole when Barack was tossing his salad. Dude. I'm eating lunch here.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2014 11:01 AM (g1DWB)

31 20 They are again yapping that the Amanda Knox verdict is imminent. I'm gonna go stare at that picture of her standing on her head wearing panties again and hope for the best...

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (7ObY1)

32 Re: the boycott. I'd be all for letting RNC people go on MSNBC is they were 1) able to speak as well as Paul, Cruz, or even that Dahm guy or 2) the RNC trained them up to not say stupid things and prep for the gotcha questions. As it is though, MSNBC has shown they're willfully partisan and unless you go loaded for bear, you'll be ambushed and your words will be twisted to make you look bad.

Posted by: AMDG at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (t7OO0)

33 "Every important person in the country will be in one room tonight which is insane when you think about it." Fuck that was nothing, you should have seen my funeral.

Posted by: Nelson Mandela at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (1Y+hH)

34 Pajama Boy's father? Sister.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (xZxMD)

35 Knox verdict! Shep is on it!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (bCEmE)

36 Mark Murray looks like he's been "man handled" a lot and likes it. What an idiotic expression he holds.

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (A98Xu)

37 First it was 1 minute, 30 minutes, within an hour, 3 pm EST, between 3:30 - 4 pm. Why should I be surprised that Italy can't get their shit together?

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (E4MKN)

38 Wait, someone beset MSNBC with moray eels and I missed it? You're fired, you're all fired! So, ace, what you're saying is that the rest of Progressive journalism is Shaun in Shaun of the Dead and MSNBC is Ed? That actually holds up pretty well, now that I ponder it.

Posted by: alexthechick - Please SMOD. Just for me? at January 30, 2014 11:02 AM (VtjlW)

39 The only time MSNBC ever has Republicans on in the first place is when said Republican is there to bash Republicans or their policies.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 11:03 AM (SY2Kh)

40 MSNBC's ratings go as low as their scruples. But it occurred to me today that the Clown Network isn't intended to be successful ratings-wise. It's designed to be a propaganda arm for the Democrats, and the payoff isn't in ad revenue, it's in government cream. Madcow et al are just being used, probably willingly so, to drive the angry left core as hard and fast and extreme as possible to serve the purposes of the Democrat Machine and reap the benefits it provides. Following a reasonable standard is not in the plan.

Posted by: --- at January 30, 2014 11:03 AM (MMC8r)

41 MSNBC is the portrait in the MSM/Democrat/Left's attic.  The one that is aging gracefully - I mean hideously.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy a Hissy or Coniption, Get a Free Fitting! at January 30, 2014 11:03 AM (hLRSq)

42

Whoops!  Looks like Ace just italicized the blog...

 

Aside from that, though, good piece.  It's getting to the point where a faux-news comedy routine could run a regular "Racist MSNBC comment of the week!" feature.  Unfortunately, we all know that isn't going to happen.  But the potential is definitely there.

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:03 AM (UWFpX)

43 "I shudder to imagine how much of history has been lost due to our limited access to information."
I have been having a lot of fun going over past events with a fine tooth comb and finding the stuff that was missed at the time - stuff that's seeped into public consciousness and become common knowledge. There's an awful lot of it out there.
Some of it is so ingrained and certain that people think you're crazy for bringing it up. Look at the heat Michelle Malkin got for questioning the official line on internment in WW2.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 11:03 AM (zfY+H)

44 It's a genital wart that hopped off of Reggie Love's cornhole when Barack was tossing his salad. Dude. I'm eating lunch here. Posted by: JackStraw Not any more........

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:03 AM (xZxMD)

45 Why boycott them? Why not just appear on MSNBC and interrogate their ultrapartisan goons about their ridiculous, crude ethos and juvenile view of the world?


Because the GOP would find a way to screw it up. Seriously, the less these guys talk, the better.

Posted by: joncelli at January 30, 2014 11:03 AM (RD7QR)

46

Yet this string of meae culpae ...

 

 

Latin isn't one of the languages I fake, but that looks wrong.  Wouldn't you pluralize culpae but not mea?

 

 

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (A0sHn)

47 Posted by: Vashta Nerada at January 30, 2014 03:00 PM (9T/th) The problem is that the "misdeed" wasn't wholly manufactured. There are (sadly) still racists left in the world. And the internet allows them to be heard. That and trolls, honestly this is Poe Law. In any case, MSNBC tried to ascribe that behavior to the right wing. That's the bad part. It's like if I find my pumpkins smashed on Halloween, I should ascribe the deed to my 70 year old neighbor just because I disagree with her political opinions.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (GaqMa)

48

A box of   Cheerios walks into a bar  and orders a glass of  half chocolate milk and half white milk. 

 

 

Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (m2CN7)

49 http://videochat.corriere.it/index_Reuters01.shtml?1391070298 Live Stream Knox Verdict.

Posted by: John Roberts at January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (g5X0d)

50 Moraynado!

Posted by: Lincolntf at January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (ZshNr)

51 Some of it is so ingrained and certain that people think you're crazy for bringing it up. Look at the heat Michelle Malkin got for questioning the official line on internment in WW2. *** Indeed! Folks went completely nuts over it.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (DmNpO)

52 Fuck that was nothing, you should have seen my funeral. Posted by: Nelson Mandela We did. Thanks to the deaf visuals.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:04 AM (xZxMD)

53 Most important people in the world? FFS, where do you even start responding to that?

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 11:05 AM (LSJmV)

54 Ace, that's a really good point. MSNBC is the drunk uncle of the Left.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:05 AM (ZPrif)

55 "Every. Important. Person in the country. Well I have thought about it, and I agree, that thought is insane."

We laugh and joke about it.  We mock the left incessantly, here.

But this thinking? 

This mentality?

Read a few history books (I know you have, it's rhetorical).

People, even people I didn't even suspect as being concerned about their liberties are

FKN PISSED

The Eagle is awake.  And he's not very goddam happy.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:05 AM (x3YFz)

56 BTW, CT, that subject, your findings, would make for an excellent blog post.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:05 AM (DmNpO)

57 I guess I'll put off that trudge to the grocery store for a bit... Posted by: shredded chi - tired of shoveling FACTs out of the driveway at January 30, 2014 02:57 PM (W/b66) Got that out of the way this morning. Then, had to hide all the Superbowl goodies from my husband. I bought chips, which we never buy, normally. So, he'll be searching the house for them tonight. He'll have to wait.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (IXrOn)

58 I seriously think that most of MSNBC's ratings come from conservative pundits looking for red meat posts. I'm serious, I know a lot of lefties and all of them think its a pit of retarded monkeys they want no part of.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (zfY+H)

59


>>>Latin isn't one of the languages I fake, but that looks wrong. Wouldn't you pluralize culpae but not mea?

 

Mesa Culpae

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (3ZtZW)

60 You are much too dismissive of institutional eels. I think you need to take them more seriously.

Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (IN7k+)

61

I love to eat Cheerios for breakfast.  They taste good, except for the ones that fall into the car seat.  They get kind of stale and I end up making the grandkids cry when I eat them.

Posted by: Joe Biden at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (xvtYZ)

62 Gawd, get that picture away from me.

Posted by: rickl at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (zoehZ)

63 Do they have an appetizer first or just read the verdict?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (g5X0d)

64 Moray is my cousin that just got hired here.

Posted by: Toure Neblett at January 30, 2014 11:06 AM (TB/3z)

65 MSNBC is the Henry Waxman of cable news. We need these guys.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (u2a4R)

66 The best thing to do about MSNBC is ignore its existence. It is only watched seriously by those who are lost for good anyway.

Posted by: Nelson Mandela at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (1Y+hH)

67

Most important people in the world? FFS, where do you even start responding to that?

 

A perfectly timed nuke?

Posted by: Infidel at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (Z1SI2)

68 MSNBC is basically your drunk, crude, arrested-deveolopment man-child friend who still acts like he's 18 even though you, and he, have all turned 35. Ace is 36 right? So he's not the jackass in this story?

Posted by: wooga at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (ZbVc6)

69 The RNC thinks all the same things about conservatives.

Posted by: Mega at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (hHFOx)

70

I still love ,  I think NBC's,  atttempt to entrap  the NASCAR  crowd into making racist statements  and came away empty handed. 

 

I don't love that their attempt and results got about 10 seconds of publicity. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (m2CN7)

71 Bye commie-Mandy sock

Posted by: Meremortal at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (1Y+hH)

72 63 Do they have an appetizer first or just read the verdict? Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 03:06 PM (g5X0d) Wine first...duh.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (bCEmE)

73 "BTW, CT, that subject, your findings, would make for an excellent blog post."
Its made for a long series of blog posts, several of which have been ONT'd here.
http://tinyurl.com/mvkwnok

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (zfY+H)

74 Why does anyone talk about MSNBC? Their continual loop of idiocy is watched by hardly anyone and yet they get tons of press by conservative sites.

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 11:07 AM (A98Xu)

75 And to be fair, they're just following orders when it comes to the ridiculous race-baiting and such.

They don't lift a finger without explicit or implicit White House approval.  One disapproving phone call from ValJar and they'd knock that shit off.

That such phone call hasn't taken place tells us all we need to know.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (SY2Kh)

76 >>>Damn, now that I skimmed the Thread it looks like I won't get invited to Ace's next dinner party. so you CAN take a hint. I wasn't sure.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (/FnUH)

77 If they are embarrassing the rest of the leftwing media -- and I have no doubt that they are -- should we not be firm in our calls to Let MSNBC Be MSNBC? Dunno. The others can simply claim it's not them, and they are above that. We can be spiteful, yes. Or, we can go for shutting down a channel hazardous to our society. The bigger question: Just how long do we endure it, then?

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (IXrOn)

78

Posted by: Jar Jar Binks at January 30, 2014 03:06 PM (3ZtZW)

Never invoke the /nic of the bile that is George Lucas or we will have your balls eaten by fireants!

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (x3YFz)

79 If you're watching the Knox verdict...That sign on the wall in Italian says "The law is equal for all" Some suspects are more equal than others, apparently...

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (7ObY1)

80 Does anyone know someone under the age of 70 who has an issue with interracial marriage?

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (hFL/3)

81 I saw The Outrageous Cheerios open for The Chemical Brothers a few years back in Oregon.

Posted by: Bigby's Jazz Hands at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (3ZtZW)

82 The cartoon writes itself: 1st Frame: MSNSB talking head slaps generic republican. 2nd Frame: MSNBC talking head, "Sorry". 3rd Frame: MSNSB talking head slaps generic republican. 4tf Frame: MSNBC talking head, "Sorry". 5th Frame: MSNSB talking head slaps generic republican. 6th Frame: MSNBC talking head, "Sorry". etc...

Posted by: SavEcig at January 30, 2014 11:08 AM (zWaPh)

83 Republicans should only agree to appear on MSNBC if they constantly refer to their host as "Communist Whores" and "Stalinist Lickspittles" - even in their press releases.

Posted by: Inspector Cussword at January 30, 2014 11:09 AM (FApZx)

84

I tend to respect people (and organizations) who are straight-up about who and what they are and what they believe. I mean, give me a hardcore, in-your-face, old-school Marxist socialist any day of the week. At least I know where he or she stands. I'd prefer dealing with an out-loud-and-proud Mao-loving communist than some smarmy, disenguous, chickenshit weasel who hides his real sympathies and disguises his real agenda behind an objective veneer.

 

So yeah, let MSNBC be MSNBC without apology. I only wish they'd invite conservatives on their shows--or even a real Republican. I have yet to be convinced that Joe Scarborough, for example, is a Republican of any sort.

Posted by: troyriser at January 30, 2014 11:09 AM (O66NZ)

85 I marine biologist once told me that she knew one joke. "When you're SCUBA diving, stick your hand into a hole in a rock formation and pull back a bloody stump? That a moray." I laughed, but mainly because I was picturing her stunning figure poured into a tight wet suit.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 11:09 AM (LSJmV)

86 63 Do they have an appetizer first or just read the verdict? Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 03:06 PM (g5X0d) The Italian and French courthouses I've visited all had bars. Very nice.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:09 AM (E4MKN)

87 Rather than whinge about MSNBC, we could just work to remove their heroes and role models from power in Washington. Then, they would have no reason to exist and perhaps have their broadcast space taken up by, say, one of the home shopping networks.

Cutting off their Lords of D.C. would have the side benefit of saving the country, so there's that, too.

Frankly, I care as much about MSNBC -- which I have never actually watched -- as I do Justin Beiber's latest escapades. Maybe less.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 30, 2014 11:09 AM (ff7/5)

88 75 And to be fair, they're just following orders when it comes to the ridiculous race-baiting and such.


Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 03:08 PM (SY2Kh)

Do you actually read what you write?  And then if you do, do you still think it's a good idea?  Seriously?

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:09 AM (x3YFz)

89 Murray just wants some "Barky" cock, poor little guy.

Posted by: Killerdog at January 30, 2014 11:09 AM (dgTbk)

90 The Left could keep it quiet when they just all read DailyKos and DU and filter out most of the craziness. But now it just goes straight from the Progtard interweb depths to MSNBC, no filter.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:10 AM (ZPrif)

91 Its made for a long series of blog posts, several of which have been ONT'd here. http://tinyurl.com/mvkwnok **** thanks. Heck, if you have enough of them, they might make a great book.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:10 AM (DmNpO)

92 all News has become Fake But Utopially Accurate btw, how bout that 3.2% GDP?!? What was once 'anemic' or 'dismal' is now 'robust.' Because we live in Shamelot. And the GDP and Unemployment is never bad... in Shamelot! in Shamelot!

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:10 AM (g7osp)

93 Murray has a blank cult like stare which is appropriate considering he's a mindless Obama groupie

Posted by: TheQuietMan at January 30, 2014 11:10 AM (1Jaio)

94

@80 Does anyone know someone under the age of 70 who has an issue with interracial marriage?

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At least some black women, apparently...

 

(not that I know any who have mentioned the issue in front of me)

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:10 AM (UWFpX)

95 What do you immature? Doesn't every woman have a pair of tampon earrings?

Posted by: Melissa Harris Perry at January 30, 2014 11:10 AM (xWgW3)

96 I have been having a lot of fun going over past events with a fine tooth comb and finding the stuff that was missed at the time - stuff that's seeped into public consciousness and become common knowledge. There's an awful lot of it out there. The idea that "straw purchase" might not be illegal, and may just have been made up by a regulatory agency blows my mind. Nobody questioned it before, and it could all just be fake? *head explodes*

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:10 AM (8ifMA)

97 Nah. Why give MSNBC oxygen and a fig-leaf of balance? I think RNC is right about refusing to appear there.

Posted by: Y-not on the phone at January 30, 2014 11:11 AM (zDsvJ)

98 What do you think Mark Murray makes a year? That's what's so crappy about so many news organizations, the witless, the dull and fervent followers get paid (a lot) for nonsense. (How do I get a gig like that?)

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 11:11 AM (A98Xu)

99 Damn, now that I skimmed the Thread it looks like I won't get invited to Ace's next dinner party. so you CAN take a hint. I wasn't sure. I KNOW mine just has to be in the mail......

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:11 AM (xZxMD)

100 85 I marine biologist once told me that she knew one joke. "When you're SCUBA diving, stick your hand into a hole in a rock formation and pull back a bloody stump? That a moray."

I laughed, but mainly because I was picturing her stunning figure poured into a tight wet suit.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 03:09 PM (LSJmV)

huh... weird how people think.

I went immediately to how to apply a tourniquet underwater and ascend with wounded.

just how brains work, I guess.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:12 AM (x3YFz)

101 I swear that MSNBC guy looks like PJ boy's brother. Does having a dick up your ass make your eyes bulge like that?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 30, 2014 11:12 AM (0FSuD)

102 omg that video it's perfect

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:12 AM (IXrOn)

103 Actually, morays are a form of weasel.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 30, 2014 11:12 AM (8ZskC)

104 I wonder if Reggie ever aims for the mole?

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 11:12 AM (LSJmV)

105 I always wondered why Microsoft nave insisted that NBC take the MS of MSNBC?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:12 AM (t3UFN)

106 Prosecutor is in the court and more cops have entered.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:12 AM (E4MKN)

107 Nobody questioned it before, and it could all just be fake? *head explodes*

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2014 03:10 PM (8ifMA)

 

Not that I ever officially questioned it but I always wondered how that was a law as it prevented people from buying a gun as a gift  and that was something that was done all the time.   Does the form indicate - purchase as a gift? 

Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 11:13 AM (m2CN7)

108 "The Washington Post's Eric Wemple, who I take to be progressive-leaning based on his posts, is pretty rough on MSNBC." Huh. I took that he was a progressive based on his name.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 30, 2014 11:13 AM (oFCZn)

109 It is odd how the craziest stupid crap on leftist blogs ends up somewhere in formerly respectable, established news sources later in the day, like NYT and CNN.
It gives you a good idea why we get news stories about how now antioxidants are giving us cancer after 10 years of saying they save people from cancer. They get a press release, they run it, unless its from a conspicuously right-leaning organization.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 11:13 AM (zfY+H)

110 Now, all the attys are sitting at the tables.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:13 AM (E4MKN)

111

Washington Post News Alert 2:24:24 pm

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 20-year-old man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than two hundred others in April, according to a former U.S official briefed on the decision.

U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.Â’s decision ends months of speculation in the case. If Holder had instead sought life in prison instead, it might have fueled Republicans attacks that the administration and the attorney general were soft on terrorism.

2:27:56 pm revision

The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 20-year-old man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than two hundred others in April, according to a former U.S official briefed on the decision.

 

 

Posted by: slick at January 30, 2014 11:13 AM (RIdwM)

112 If MSNBC wants to let its Freak Flag fly -- and, by doing so, reveal the only-slightly hidden Freak Flags of the rest of the leftwing media-- should we not encourage them? If they are embarrassing the rest of the leftwing media -- and I have no doubt that they are -- should we not be firm in our calls to Let MSNBC Be MSNBC? _________ Rhetorical questions, I know. But emphatically, YES and YES. Let them continue to show what bufoons they are, and by all means, let's show up to the party and help them along. No boycott - hell, we should be fighting tooth and nail to get on the air with them! It'll only serve to make them show their cards that much quicker. While we're at it, at every opportunity, we need to make sure any LIV watching knows that this is just a slightly more severe version of the race-baiting, biased, moonbat "news" organization that has been lying to them for years. And yes, there are plenty of idiots out there watching CNN & MessNBC just to feel smart & informed.

Posted by: shredded chi - tired of shoveling FACTs out of the driveway at January 30, 2014 11:13 AM (W/b66)

113 That Mark Murray dude looks like on of  those  Heaven's Gate dinks.

He's got that culty happy face.

Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 11:13 AM (KXm42)

114 110 Now, all the attys are sitting at the tables. Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 03:13 PM (E4MKN) Shep must be pissing his pants because Fox is in commercial.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (bCEmE)

115 MSNBC is the drunk uncle of the Left. Hey, that's my schtick!

Posted by: Uncle Al, The Kiddies' Pal at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (PpAf4)

116 Their justice system may suck bags of dicks, but everyone in the courtroom looks stylish and fab-u-lous.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (7ObY1)

117 In a way, MSNBC is conservatives' best friend Excellent point and true. I've thought this for quite awhile. They are so unhinged, they drive the 11th level Proglatards to new levels of retardation and keep these subhumans in the light where the (D)Marxocrats can't hide them away.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (U/7VF)

118 Isn't Amanda Knox back in the U.S.? They're trying her again? What are they going to do if she's found guilty-kidnap her and send her back to Italy? The whole thing is a farce.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (7kkQJ)

119 For once I agree with the federal government... Boston bomber will face the death penalty!

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (hFL/3)

120 La legge è uguale per tutti. I think that's veal parmesan.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (g5X0d)

121 99 Damn, now that I skimmed the Thread it looks like I won't get invited to Ace's next dinner party.

so you CAN take a hint.

I wasn't sure.


I KNOW mine just has to be in the mail......

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 03:11 PM (xZxMD)

I still say we hit Vegas in Jan next year.  Not kidding.  Those frequent flier miles won't spend themselves. 

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:14 AM (x3YFz)

122 " The whole thing is a farce." Italy's "justice" system is a farce.

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (hFL/3)

123 marine biologist once told me that she knew one joke. "When you're SCUBA diving, stick your hand into a hole in an rock formation eye-tie and pull back a bloody stump? That's a moray[s/] amore."

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (xZxMD)

124 118 Isn't Amanda Knox back in the U.S.? They're trying her again? What are they going to do if she's found guilty-kidnap her and send her back to Italy? The whole thing is a farce. John F'ing Kerry gonna protect her? Like Hillary! did?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (7ObY1)

125 >>They don't lift a finger without explicit or implicit White House approval. One disapproving phone call from ValJar and they'd knock that shit off. And thats why its interesting to watch MSNBC from time to time. They are basically an extension of the Obama press office. Whatever Obama wants propagated, they are the outlet.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (g1DWB)

126 113 That Mark Murray dude looks like on of those Heaven's Gate dinks.

He's got that culty happy face.

Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 03:13 PM (KXm42)


That makes sense, given that their leader castrated himself.

Posted by: joncelli at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (RD7QR)

127 111 Washington Post News Alert 2:24:24 pm The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 20-year-old man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than two hundred others in April, according to a former U.S official briefed on the decision. Bit of an easy call...

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (E4MKN)

128 >>> Every. Important. Person in the country. Well I have thought about it, and I agree, that thought is insane. Well Willie Robertson WAS there, do she's not completely off base... But yeah, the mask is slipping.

Posted by: LizLem at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (oE73X)

129 MSNBC whips up the core of imbeciles, who flood social media with the 'BINDERS OF WOMEN!!!!' and the "WAR ON WOMYN!!!!" and turn the weight of the National Debate into their hysterical stewpot of hatred of conservatives. Their audience is small, but insane and loud. It's intended to fill the air with the constant chatter of HATE REPUBLICANS. And it's the Democrats seeing that they do.

Posted by: --- at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (MMC8r)

130 She is not present. Maybe they will extradite?

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (g5X0d)

131

I'm trying to parse the words here, and I'm not sure I got it right.

 

Are you saying you ADMIRE  the left trying to reign in MSNBC, or that you think MSNBC is better than they others  for letting their freak flag fly? 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (TOk1P)

132

>>>Murray has a blank cult like stare which is appropriate considering he's a mindless Obama groupie

 

Wonder what post-Obama MSM will be like?

 

Withdrawing like junkies? Forced deprogramming? Sulking, depressed reportage of anything not Obama? Following TFG like 14yo Bieber girls reporting on minutia?

Posted by: Bigby's Jazz Hands at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (3ZtZW)

133 120 La legge è uguale per tutti. I think that's veal parmesan. All suspects are equal under the law, but some suspects are more equal than others.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:15 AM (7ObY1)

134 For once I agree with the federal government... Boston bomber will face the death penalty! Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 03:14 PM (hFL/3) By the time it ever comes to that, if it ever does, I will probably be dead and buried or a senile old man, I mean more senile than I am now. What are we talking about?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:16 AM (t3UFN)

135 Call me a cynic, but I half suspect that General Mills went running to the usual race-baiters right off the bat with this. I mean, look at the free publicity they're getting. Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 03:00 PM (7ObY1) It's sad that conservatives understand the new media so poorly that this escapes them. How do you think MSNBC stays in business with such low ratings? By selling ads that will air on blogs, in taxi cabs, on domestic flights, etc.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 30, 2014 11:16 AM (Y92Nd)

136 Do you actually read what you write? And then if you do, do you still think it's a good idea? Seriously?

Congrats on missing the point. 

Again.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 11:16 AM (SY2Kh)

137 It's 9:15 pm at night in Perugia. What's the delay?

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:17 AM (E4MKN)

138 She is not present. Maybe they will extradite? Supposedly, we won't send.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:17 AM (xZxMD)

139 MSNBC is the JournOlisters' equivalent to Dorian Gray's portrait. Except it's out in plain view for everyone to see. Wait--just got a communication from beyond the grave--Morton Downey Jr. just said, "Damn, dude!"

Posted by: Brother Cavil at January 30, 2014 11:17 AM (naUcP)

140 Big fucking deal,if convicted he will be executed,MAYBE,20 years from now.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:17 AM (zqvg6)

141 pull back a bloody stump? That a moray." I laughed, but mainly because I was picturing her stunning figure poured into a tight wet suit. Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 03:09 PM (LSJmV) huh... weird how people think. I went immediately to how to apply a tourniquet underwater and ascend with wounded. just how brains work, I guess. Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 03:12 PM (x3YFz) I went to: Sharks!

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:17 AM (IXrOn)

142 That makes sense, given that their leader castrated himself.

I thought they all did.

Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 11:17 AM (KXm42)

143 I do enjoy the musical chairs game played by MSNBC hosts as they step over the line. Also, there is a lot of satisfaction gained with tearful apologies when they thought initially they were being so sophisticated in their comments. These things help demoralize the left, when their heroes have to eat a big shit sandwich on prime time. The ratings always prove to be confirmation of the leftÂ’s waning poplularity. It would be a shame to lose such entertainment.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:17 AM (u2a4R)

144 Yeah, I most likely stuffed Mark Murray into his locker then atomic wedgied him into the Home-Ec.room, where he most certainly belongs.


 

Posted by: dananjcon at January 30, 2014 11:18 AM (NpXoL)

145 I can't understand all this criticism of Italy's justice system. It's one of the best systems in all of Africa.

Posted by: Sheila Jackson Lee at January 30, 2014 11:18 AM (JQuNB)

146

@118 Isn't Amanda Knox back in the U.S.? They're trying her again? What are they going to do if she's found guilty-kidnap her and send her back to Italy? The whole thing is a farce.

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They'll just put out a warrant for her that will essentially keep her from ever traveling through Europe again (unless she wants to spend the rest of her life in an Italian prison).

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:18 AM (UWFpX)

147 NYC Caves On Stop-And-Frisk, Comrade de Blasio Says ItÂ’ll Make City Safer Fellow travelers an useless idiots.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:18 AM (t3UFN)

148 Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 03:13 PM (m2CN7) I worry the courts are going to take the most cautious route on that though. Noting that he did lie on the form but that it shouldn't be considered during a purchase (however the lying is still a crime.) The question won't be removed because as they say "how many divisions does the Supreme Court have?"

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:18 AM (GaqMa)

149

Washington Post News Alert 2:24:24 pm
The Justice Department will seek the death penalty for Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 20-year-old man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than two hundred others in April, according to a former U.S official briefed on the decision.

<b>U.S. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr.Â’s decision ends months of speculation in the case. If Holder had instead sought life in prison instead, it might have fueled Republicans attacks that the administration and the attorney general were soft on terrorism.</b>


2:27:56 pm revision
The Justice Department will seek the death penalty against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, the 20-year-old man accused of bombing the Boston Marathon, killing three people and injuring more than two hundred others in April, according to a former U.S official briefed on the decision.

Posted by: slick at January 30, 2014 11:18 AM (RIdwM)

150 NBC, NBCUniversal and Comcast should take just as much flak for this as MSNBC.   This behavior has been going on for too long and they all condone it through inaction.

Posted by: Hepcat at January 30, 2014 11:18 AM (Q4mug)

151 Seriously he looks like he'd be walking up to you on the street to offer you "literature".

Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (KXm42)

152 Isn't Amanda Knox back in the U.S.? They're trying her again? What are they going to do if she's found guilty-kidnap her and send her back to Italy? The whole thing is a farce. *** yes, It is. They intend to try her repeatedly until they get a guilty verdict that sticks. The U.S. will not extradite her either way. That said, if she is found guilty, and the verdict survives their supreme court, she will never again be able to travel to Europe or to any country with an extradition agreement with them. Basically, she is border-bound here in the U.S. Not a bad place to end up.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (DmNpO)

153 It's 9:15 pm at night in Perugia. What's the delay?

They're taking a well-advised timeout.

Posted by: Andy Reid at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (RUvjp)

154 If you remove the evidence of bias, does that mean the bias is gone too?

Posted by: slick at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (RIdwM)

155 Oh, I can take a hint. Still won't stop me from crashing the thing and making a hostess sandwich with another moron and your inflatable girlfriend, though.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (YSNKg)

156 It's not "morays," which are eels, but mores. Didn't any of these youngsters ever bother to get their words and spelling right in school? Or is it that the quality of the proofreaders (assuming there are proofreaders) has fallen into the basement? Up until about maybe ten or fifteen years ago, misspellings or incorrect word usage were almost nonexistent.

Posted by: Blacque Jacques Shellacque at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (itCai)

157 They'll just put out a warrant for her that will essentially keep her from ever traveling through Europe again -------- How can I get them to do this for me?

Posted by: Adam at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (Aif/5)

158 No, Tsarnaev will never face the death penalty. In fact, Obama may pardon him, one of his last acts before he leaves the WH (If indeed he does leave) as a final nose thumbing to the US.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (7kkQJ)

159 When is the last time an FNC host had to apologize for something they said?

Posted by: Mega at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (hHFOx)

160 Actually, when I was with my black ex-gf we were semi-regularly (once a month or so) harassed by random black dudes on the street who would, not sure how to describe, kind of bark at us. It was odd. And once a bunch of drunk black service fraternity dudes (Q-dogs, I think) harassed us outside of a bar with a lot of racial bullshit and tried to pick a fight with me. There were six of them so I had to talk my way out of it while they called me a pussy and a faggot and threatened to basically rape my gf and show her what a *real* black man was like. Fucking drunk assholes. Also knew a white guy who got beat up by some Korean dudes for dating one of the Korean dude's sister.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (ZPrif)

161 man that clip is going to get some coverage. Where the fuck did you find that?

Posted by: Nip Sip at January 30, 2014 11:19 AM (0FSuD)

162 I need to be president for an hour. Italy would sink.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (g5X0d)

163 Not that I ever officially questioned it but I always wondered how that was a law as it prevented people from buying a gun as a gift and that was something that was done all the time. Does the form indicate - purchase as a gift? Here is the question and the instruction on the Federal form 4473. Are you the actual transferee/buyer of the firearm(s) listed on this form? Warning: You are not the actual buyer if you are acquiring the firearm(s) on behalf of another person. If you are not the actual buyer, the dealer cannot transfer the firearm(s) to you. (See Instructions for Question 11.a.) Exception: If you are picking up a repaired firearm(s) for another person, you are not required to answer 11.a. and may proceed to question 11.b. Question 11.a. Actual Transferee/Buyer: For purposes of this form, you are the actual transferee/buyer if you are purchasing the firearm for yourself or otherwise acquiring the firearm for yourself (e.g., redeeming the firearm from pawn/retrieving it from consignment, firearm raffle winner). You are also the actual transferee/buyer if you are legitimately purchasing the firearm as a gift for a third party.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (8ifMA)

164 She is not present. Maybe they will extradite? Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 03:15 PM (g5X0d) Thankfully our extradition treaties usually allow us an out if the trial would violate rights commonly held by US citizens. Protection from Double Jeopardy included in that.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (GaqMa)

165 The Big Face should be the official Presidential photo. Constantly watching. Constantly.

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (fWAjv)

166

Obama is the Fifth Way.

Posted by: P D Ouspensky at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (3ZtZW)

167 It's 9:15 pm at night in Perugia. What's the delay? You've never been to Italy I see

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (t3UFN)

168 Ever notice that the cohort of obama sycophants who refer to obama's 'struggle' are always the Soft-Handed White Privileged Elite? With just a little sodium pentathol I'll bet my leftnut they'd admit to regarding obama as some civilized savage, as they do all Black people. That's why they think obama is so awesome -- to them, he overcame his Blackness, ie, his inferiority.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (g7osp)

169 Ace, if you're around... Didn't you post something about the Knox case in the past? A revisit of the post would be great.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:20 AM (DmNpO)

170 What disturbs me about the ad is that while the woman is in the kitchen she is neither barefoot nor pregnant. The miscegenation is just an added insult.

Posted by: Dr Spank at January 30, 2014 11:21 AM (P1WNR)

171 Every house should have a  big  picture  of  Dear  Leader.  In every room.

Posted by: Winston Smith at January 30, 2014 11:21 AM (B5y+v)

172 Thankfully our extradition treaties usually allow us an out if the trial would violate rights commonly held by US citizens. Protection from Double Jeopardy included in that. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 03:20 PM (GaqMa) This would NOT be considered double jeapordy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:21 AM (t3UFN)

173 Basically, she is border-bound here in the U.S. Not a bad place to end up. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 03:19 PM (DmNpO) Indeed. And while I feel awful for what happened to her, she would be wise not to say "I can never travel the world again, woe is me" as many citizens in the US are boarder-bound as a normal life circumstance. (i.e. money.)

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (GaqMa)

174 It would be a shame to lose such entertainment. Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 03:17 PM (u2a4R) SNL 2.0

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (IXrOn)

175 Mark Murray looks like that guy at the end of American Dad that waves and says 'Have a beautiful evening' Good job MSDNC. Your whole network is nothing but racists.

Posted by: Schwalbe: The Me-262© at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (9Bdcz)

176 I say we first make an exchange with Canada - Amanda Knox for Justin Bieber. Then send Bieber to Italy for a player to be named later. Or a container of old FIAT parts.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (LSJmV)

177 Ace i completely agree with you: far from boycotting MSNBC, RNC Republicans should be swarming their shows & be ready to stop interview segments in their tracks to ask for answers from MSNBC hosts to the very many shall we say delicate and pointed questions badly in need of asking.

And then just sit there repeating the questions over and over again until somebody is held accountable. Hijack every segment.

The RNC/GOP should re-double their effort to book people on MSNBC, not retreat away and make childish demands about network honchos apologizing that will never be met.

 

Posted by: miked at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (xaIQZ)

178 The case that's making its way through the courts is considering whether a man who purchased a gun, then sold it to a person who is legally allowed to own a gun is a straw purchaser. That doesn't make sense to me. If the buyer sells the gun privately to a person who can legally own a gun, what's the problem?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (8ifMA)

179 Doesn't MSNBC create an atmosphere of ... malice...as in libel and perjury of public officials levels of malice.

Posted by: oeJay44incday endorses Cotton Mather's Night Rider Puritan Holy War on Strumpets and Wastrels at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (QxSug)

180 And who are the ones who are always insisting obama is 'really smart?' They say it as if they're talking about a child who needs constant positive affirmation...because he's special.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (g7osp)

181 >>>Are you saying you ADMIRE the left trying to reign in MSNBC, or that you think MSNBC is better than they others for letting their freak flag fly? i'm really just making trouble. However, I have added new sentences that makes it clear I actually am more on MSNBC's side, at least as between MSNBC's open, crude bias, and CNN's more hidden, more sophisticated bias. I favor MSNBC's honesty in declaring "This is what we actually are" instead of lying about it like CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. NBC is just a subsidiary of MSNBC, so I guess they're honest too.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (/FnUH)

182 171 Especially the shitter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (g5X0d)

183 You are also the actual transferee/buyer if you are legitimately purchasing the firearm as a gift for a third party. Which gives Holder an out since F & F were "gifts".

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (xZxMD)

184 That big face is soooo... China, Russia, NK...

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:22 AM (IXrOn)

185 Yeah, Comcast owns MSNBC. Comcast allows this. I'd be fine with antitrust that blocked cable monopolies like Comcast from owning content. That's what the Feds did in the 40s -- split Hollywood studios from theater chains. They could own either the movies, or the theaters. Split up the content and distribution. Comcast and Time-Warner are both huge cable monopolies and two of the largest content owners. Lot of room for abuse of their cable monopoly.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (ZPrif)

186 Memo to the lying liars in the MFM: "Foxy Knoxy" was a nickname given to Amanda by her high school soccer teammates, and it referred to her crafty moves on the soccer field, not her looks. Lying fucking liars.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (7ObY1)

187 We use the Big Face at the center of the Whorl

Posted by: Whirling Dervishes at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (3ZtZW)

188 117 In a way, MSNBC is conservatives' best friend

Excellent point and true. I've thought this for quite awhile. They are so unhinged, they drive the 11th level Proglatards to new levels of retardation and keep these subhumans in the light where the (D)Marxocrats can't hide them away.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at January 30, 2014 03:14 PM (U/7VF)

Yes, and no.  Let's get clear here and skip the BS.  This is an insurgency.  It's been ongoing for 100 years or so.

Faith or belief in God?  You're ridiculed
Family structure?  You're ridiculed
Wave an American flag?  You're ridiculed
Own a gun?  You're ridiculed

I could go on, but the point is that the character that makes us American is the character of our forefathers.  They weren't perfect by a long shot, but, dammit, they did pretty good.

MSNBC is nothing more than FSB/KGB propaganda.  If it looks like a duck, shits like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a fucking duck.

And don't be so quick to remit the people who watch MSNBC or John whatshisface on comedy central.  Some are lost, some are just ignorant, some (most) are just lazy.

That's where you and I come in.  Every day.  In the trenches.  We fight.  No one will remember us, but we'll make the difference.

Hold.
The.
Line.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (x3YFz)

189 And thats why its interesting to watch MSNBC from time to time. They are basically an extension of the Obama press office. Whatever Obama wants propagated, they are the outlet.

Yep.

The concerted "Disapproval of Obama is racist" effort that so frequently results in absurdity and the offensive was pushed by Team Obama.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (SY2Kh)

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

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (PYAXX)

191

@157 They'll just put out a warrant for her that will essentially keep her from ever traveling through Europe again
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How can I get them to do this for me?

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The current residents may suck, but there's a lot of ancient stuff in the Old World that's still nice to go see - at least until their new Wahabbi overlords destroy it all after population growth lets them take control in a few decades.

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (UWFpX)

192 That doesn't make sense to me. If the buyer sells the gun privately to a person who can legally own a gun, what's the problem? This would also make guns ungiftable (for lack of a real word.), no?

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (YSNKg)

193 In fact, Obama may pardon him, one of his last acts before he leaves the WH (If indeed he does leave) as a final nose thumbing to the US. Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 03:19 PM (7kkQJ) 1. Edward Snowden wins a Nobel Peace Prize. 2. Republicans win the Senate. 3. Obama is impeached and Obamacare is fully repealed. I pray for this twice a day at least.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (Y92Nd)

194 Didn't you post something about the Knox case in the past? A revisit of the post would be great. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 03:20 PM (DmNpO) Isn't that going to awaken it??? totally drawing a blank of who it was

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (fWAjv)

195 Meus is an adjectival pronoun and it gets declined. Mea culpa is ablative. Genitive of I/me/my would be mei; dative mihi. So I guess culpa mei or would be possible too. Not sure about mihi, vaguely recall dative is sometimes used for possession especially where there is Semitic influence (septuagintal koine?).

Posted by: dick morris at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (lLwfW)

196 "Up until about maybe ten or fifteen years ago, misspellings or incorrect word usage were almost nonexistent."
Spellcheck makes writers lazy.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (zfY+H)

197 Conservatives will never win the less racist than thou sniping, partially because the modern GOP coalition is built on white middle/working class anxieties. This isn't a BAD thing BTW but the way GOP pols try to shore up their diversity cared is generally lame.

Posted by: JL at January 30, 2014 11:23 AM (CqwLx)

198 Fuckin' institutional eels, man.

Posted by: Tee09 at January 30, 2014 11:24 AM (uJFYb)

199 >>>Didn't you post something about the Knox case in the past? A revisit of the post would be great. not exactly, not like what you're thinking of (I think). It's a big case and you have to know all the evidence to understand how insane it all is. I always wanted to write a post on it, but i never did, as it would take so long. I have long recommended the Heilmann-Zanetti report, which was written by judges reviewing her conviction, and DESTROYED every single claim the prosecutors made, and overturned her conviction, and set her free.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:24 AM (/FnUH)

200 This would NOT be considered double jeapordy So no bonus round?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:24 AM (xZxMD)

201 Off toe slurping sock

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 30, 2014 11:24 AM (lLwfW)

202 Isn't that going to awaken it??? totally drawing a blank of who it was ** I can't remember if it was a Knox post, or just a really nutty Knox comments thread, but I definitely remember Ace mixing it up.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (DmNpO)

203 First straw men and now straw buyers. Methinks he's grasping at straws.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (g5X0d)

204 Sadly, I think many of the GOP establishment like the old hidden bias better. Also, MTV VJ Kennedy is all over FoxNews lately. They are trying to make her a star. She needs bigger boobs. And by bigger I mean existing at all. She's got the chest of a 12 year old boy. How is that possible?

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (ZPrif)

205 What disturbs me about the ad is that while the woman is in the kitchen she is neither barefoot nor pregnant. The miscegenation is just an added insult. Posted by: Dr Spank at January 30, 2014 03:21 PM (P1WNR) I see you haven't watched the ad . This would NOT be considered double jeapordy Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:21 PM (t3UFN) Howsthatnow? Does the argument go that "a new trial was ordered" not an overturning on appeal (with jeopardy attached?) In any case, while not a lawyer I'm reasonably certain even a half competent lawyer could make the case that the Italian court is not attaching significant protections that would allow extradition under our agreements for extraditing citizens.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (GaqMa)

206 >>>Memo to the lying liars in the MFM: "Foxy Knoxy" was a nickname given to Amanda by her high school soccer teammates, and it referred to her crafty moves on the soccer field, not her looks. Lying fucking liars. ... the Italian tabloids translated this as "The Evil Fox." No seriously, that was their translation.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (/FnUH)

207 Obama and Michelle are the New True Parents.

Posted by: Unification Church at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (3ZtZW)

208 I have to take a whiz so the verdict will come in when I'm gone...

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (E4MKN)

209 like "le volpe cavitto" or whatever.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:25 AM (/FnUH)

210 "Memo to the lying liars in the MFM: "Foxy Knoxy" was a nickname given to Amanda by her high school soccer teammates, and it referred to her crafty moves on the soccer field, not her looks. "
That said, she's preeetty foxy

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 11:26 AM (zfY+H)

211 "196 "Up until about maybe ten or fifteen years ago, misspellings or incorrect word usage were almost nonexistent." Muahahahahah. Bask in my legacy.

Posted by: Whole Language at January 30, 2014 11:26 AM (hFL/3)

212 If we had a source of coordination between the right’s blogs, print, talk radio and Fox, the most effective jab would be to drop any reference to “MS” when referring to MSNBC. Just call everything NBC. “NBC’s Chris Mathews said….” There would be liberals jumping off the 30 Rock building in shame.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:26 AM (u2a4R)

213 Knox is kinda cute but just for the record, which is the one who did not flush the toilet?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:26 AM (t3UFN)

214 I guess that MSNBC is indeed a means of entertainment and hilarity.

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 11:26 AM (A98Xu)

215 When do boycotts ever work?  I feel like all they do is cause minimum controversy, and inevitably leaves the boycotted stronger. 

People need to learn that the boycotts of the civil rights era were a special case scenario.

Posted by: Shoot Me at January 30, 2014 11:26 AM (qiXMt)

216 not exactly, not like what you're thinking of (I think). It's a big case and you have to know all the evidence to understand how insane it all is. I always wanted to write a post on it, but i never did, as it would take so long. I have long recommended the Heilmann-Zanetti report, which was written by judges reviewing her conviction, and DESTROYED every single claim the prosecutors made, and overturned her conviction, and set her free. *** thanks for the clarification. Whatever the verdict, there should be interesting discussion following the news.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (DmNpO)

217 Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 03:24 PM (xZxMD) I wanted to ask you on the other thread but had unexpected visitors. You know Coral Court?!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (bCEmE)

218 Ace, you really are an excellent writer.  Just thought I'd throw that out there.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (Oa7B2)

219

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2014 03:20 PM (8ifMA)

 

I had a  friend's wife who was going to buy him a gun in Louisiana and told the clerk she was going to give it as a gift to her husband.   He refused to selll it to her because he said he  now has knowledge that she was not buying it for herself. 

 

From what you are saying,  that clerk  needed a cluebat. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (m2CN7)

220 They are trying to make her a star. She needs bigger boobs. And by bigger I mean existing at all. She's got the chest of a 12 year old boy. How is that possible? They should change her name to Less E. Cupps.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (YSNKg)

221 Judge Wampner was always on time.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (g5X0d)

222

@202 I can't remember if it was a Knox post, or just a really nutty Knox comments thread, but I definitely remember Ace mixing it up.

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iirc, the post you're probably thinking of had more to do with what a nut job that prosecutor is.  And also iirc, we ended up with a nut job who was defending the prosecutor in the comments thread.

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (UWFpX)

223 Where is the Zimmerman/NBC suit?

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (u2a4R)

224 gooble gobble. Good lord, where do you find this shit

Posted by: RonUSA at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (EaqMa)

225 the Italian tabloids translated this as "The Evil Fox." ********* Jezzuz. Do we blame the googles?

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (RJMhd)

226 They'll just put out a warrant for her that will essentially keep her from ever traveling through Europe again (unless she wants to spend the rest of her life in an Italian prison).

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 03:18 PM (UWFpX)

*


Italian Prison??


Cut...Jib...Letter!



Posted by: Anderson Goo-per at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (NpXoL)

227 the Italian tabloids translated this as "The Evil Fox." No seriously, that was their translation Remember when this whole thing started, one of the reasons the MFM rushed to convict her was because she once posed with a (gasp) GUN! On a high school field trip. It was an old historic cannon-type of gun. But that didn't matter because ZOMG-GUN!!!!1!!!!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (7ObY1)

228 When do boycotts ever work? I feel like all they do is cause minimum controversy, and inevitably leaves the boycotted stronger. *** The boycott just helps the news of this incident to disappear more quickly. Fail.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:27 AM (DmNpO)

229

181 -

 

Thanks for the clarification. 

 

It's easy to lose sight of  who to root for sometimes, especially when it's progressive on progressive.  Maybe it's best to go back to the old standby:  the  best way to combat speech is with MORE speech. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (TOk1P)

230 Every important person in the country will be in one room tonight which is insane when you think about it.
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This may be true.  I mean, I heard on the radio that Bieber is in jail in Canada now so he's not technically "in the country."

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (XUKZU)

231 Kennedy is fine, itty bitties need love too.

Posted by: Christopher Taylor at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (zfY+H)

232 What disturbs me about the ad is that while the woman is in the kitchen she is neither barefoot nor pregnant. The miscegenation is just an added insult.
Posted by: Dr Spank at January 30, 2014 03:21 PM

What disturbs me about it is this: if Gen'l Mills follows the pattern employed by every other damn advertiser in the Teevee World, they will run it sixty billion zillion skillion times, to the point where it becomes a provoker of anger not for its "message" but for the fact that you can't get away from it.

They have had a "biracial family" ad running (and running, and running) for many months now. I guess they're trying for the Choom Boy thing, where they get lots o' lovin' because it's a Historic First.

I say: let the Cheerios commercials DIAF -- along with GEICO, Progressive, State Farm, Toyota and Lincoln commercials that, after too much exposure, make me despise the people who made 'em, the people who paid for 'em, and the teevee networks that run 'em.

Posted by: MrScribbler at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (ff7/5)

233 213 The African drifter who actually killed the girl.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (g5X0d)

234 In a way, MSNBC is conservatives' best friend Excellent point and true. I've thought this for quite awhile. They are so unhinged, they drive the 11th level Proglatards to new levels of retardation and keep these subhumans in the light where the (D)Marxocrats can't hide them away. Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at January 30, 2014 03:14 PM (U/7VF) Dunno. Just look at the actual representatives in the Democrat Party. Look at how outlandish, how hideous, and how unhinged they can be and get away with it -- all at the taxpayers expense. The POTUS - straight up lying and race baiting. It's not just msnbc, it's all of them. And, they let each other slide and off the hook day after hideous day.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (IXrOn)

235 I thought a straw purchase would be more like a guy buying alcohol for kids. Person B gives person A $500 to purchase a weapon. Person A buys the gun and hands it to person B. I thought that was a straw purchase.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (8ifMA)

236 i'm really just making trouble. However, I have added new sentences that makes it clear I actually am more on MSNBC's side, at least as between MSNBC's open, crude bias, and CNN's more hidden, more sophisticated bias. I favor MSNBC's honesty in declaring "This is what we actually are" instead of lying about it like CNN, ABC, CBS, etc. NBC is just a subsidiary of MSNBC, so I guess they're honest too. Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 03:22 PM (/FnUH) Someone pointed it out upthread. MSNBC is the propaganda arm of the White House. Whichever ad agency won the pitch for this commercial coordinated this publicity stunt with MSNBC. They bought Superbowl air time, and they're stretching their dollar. There is no outrage. There is no backlash. This is pure kabuki bought and paid for by corporate rent seekers. Even General Mills can use a little help from Uncle Sugar.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 30, 2014 11:28 AM (Y92Nd)

237 The Dailymail UK has new pictures of Amanda with a bob haircut and kind of "Seattle-like" clothing on. (Those of you from the area will know what I mean.) She looks terrible. Maybe trying to downplay her natural beauty?

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (A98Xu)

238 Or is it that the quality of the proofreaders (assuming there are proofreaders) has fallen into the basement?

Proofreaders were the first to go in the newspaper layoffs.

Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (ZKzrr)

239 thanks to Johnny Quest I know the French word for Werewolf: LOUP GAROU!

Posted by: soothsayerwing plover at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (g7osp)

240 >>I see you haven't watched the ad .


I watched the ad, is she pregnant in it?






Posted by: Dr Spank at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (P1WNR)

241 That said, she's preeetty foxy I'll put up the headstand/panties pic again if they find her innocent.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (7ObY1)

242 201 Off toe slurping sock

Posted by: boulder toilet hobo at January 30, 2014 03:24 PM (lLwfW)

LOL!  Dude your nic alone is almost a sock.

socknic (tm)

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (x3YFz)

243 Does the argument go that "a new trial was ordered" not an overturning on appeal (with jeopardy attached?) In any case, while not a lawyer I'm reasonably certain even a half competent lawyer could make the case that the Italian court is not attaching significant protections that would allow extradition under our agreements for extraditing citizens. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 03:25 PM (GaqMa) Yeah more or less- The verdict was overturned but returned to the lower courts to redo it. Look this is a bad case for all involved. Any rational person in Italy does not want this to become a legal pissing contest between Italy and the USA. Any rational person just wants it to go away. But I never saw the term rational and Italy in the same sentence and I love Italy

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (t3UFN)

244 I wanted to ask you on the other thread but had unexpected visitors. You know Coral Court?! Yes, but not in the biblical sense. Born & raised in St. Louis. CC was up Gravois from Red Bird Lanes. I was a bowling alley rat growing up.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (xZxMD)

245 46 Yet this string of meae culpae ... Latin isn't one of the languages I fake, but that looks wrong. Wouldn't you pluralize culpae but not mea? Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at January 30, 2014 03:04 PM (A0sHn) -------------------------------- In English the proper plural would be mea culpas, just as the proper plural of Pater Noster (Our Father, referring to the Lord's Prayer) would be Pater Nosters. The "Mea Culpa" is the old Catholic prayer of contrition, which begins with the words "mea culpa" (my fault.) That is what is meant here, i.e., a statement confessing fault. These are the names of prayers so all you can do is add an s. If you were just a guy on the streets of ancient Rome talking about "my faults," you would say "meae culpae," just as you would say "patri nostri" to mean our fathers. (Well, the endings would change depending on how the phrase is used in the sentence, but that's a different story.) But if you are saying the prayers/statements, you say 5 mea culpas and 46 Pater Nosters, depending on how naughty you have been.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 30, 2014 11:29 AM (dfYL9)

246
obama has that big thing by his nose, which is really the same as the struggle of a wounded warrior.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2014 11:30 AM (n0DEs)

247 I am FREEZING my ass off and still can't get the odor out of my house. My choices: Close the doors and deal with dead animal smell, or leave them open and suffer hypothermia.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:30 AM (DmNpO)

248 She looks terrible. Maybe trying to downplay her natural beauty? She does look a lot better than she did while in prison. She looked like fucking hell at that last hearing in Italy. At least she got some meat back on her bones. I don't think she would have lasted much longer in that prison.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:30 AM (7ObY1)

249 Oh, I think Kennedy is pretty cute. I was just pointing out that she's SE Cupp minus the hot librarian glasses and awesome sweater puppies.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (YSNKg)

250 Boycotts alone are ineffective. Boycotts with thousands of letters and calls to a corporation who advertises do work.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (g7osp)

251 I think the Kennedy thing is Fox trying to go after a younger demo. Kinda like the rise of Gutfeld. It might help if Fox found these people before they started needing bifocals.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (ZPrif)

252 Didn't you post something about the Knox case in the past? A revisit of the post would be great. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 03:20 PM (DmNpO) It was about the Monster of Florence I think as that case showed the insanity of the Italian justice system.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (oFCZn)

253 Posted by: Dr Spank at January 30, 2014 03:29 PM (P1WNR) The cheerios commercial? The current one? That's kinda the point of it. Last years where she dumps the cheerios on his chest? No, in that one no.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (GaqMa)

254 Also, MTV VJ Kennedy is all over FoxNews lately.

They are trying to make her a star. She needs bigger boobs. And by bigger I mean existing at all. She's got the chest of a 12 year old boy. How is that possible?

--

What she really needs is to ditch the Clark Kent glasses.  Nothing wrong with glasses, but hers usually aren't flattering.

Posted by: Lady in Black at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (Oa7B2)

255 That doesn't make sense to me. If the buyer sells the gun privately to a person who can legally own a gun, what's the problem?

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2014 03:22 PM (8ifMA)

 

There should be no problem because  that logic says  you can never sell you guns.  

Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (m2CN7)

256 There is no outrage. There is no backlash. This is pure kabuki bought and paid for by corporate rent seekers. Even General Mills can use a little help from Uncle Sugar.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 30, 2014 03:28 PM (Y92Nd)

//looks up from grinding blade on the guillotine

Sorry, what was that you said?


Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:31 AM (x3YFz)

257 Looks like the judge finally finished his antipasto. Man is this taking a long time. But here come da judge...

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (7ObY1)

258 I can't remember if it was a Knox post, or just a really nutty Knox comments thread, but I definitely remember Ace mixing it up. Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 03:25 PM (DmNpO) No, wasn't ace. Whatever the topic was the person would start talking Know. All. The. Time.

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (fWAjv)

259 Ace's post on Amanda Knox completely changed my view on the trial.

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (A98Xu)

260 Yes, but not in the biblical sense. Born & raised in St. Louis. CC was up Gravois from Red Bird Lanes. I was a bowling alley rat growing up. Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 03:29 PM (xZxMD) Ah, ok. My now husband (and then boyfriend) knew it...well.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (bCEmE)

261 This would NOT be considered double jeapordy


So no bonus round?



Nooo.....sorry.....the answer was  Holy Roman Empire.............Holy Roman Empire.

Posted by: Alex Trebeck with the f'ing answers in his hand at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (KXm42)

262 From what you are saying, that clerk needed a cluebat.

Not really, no.

The ATF holds that such "straw purchases" are prohibited.  The clerk didn't have much choice- if on form 4473 you don't affirm that you're buying strictly for yourself, the purchase gets denied.

Problem is, it turns out that the ATF pulled that rule out of their ass with no actual law prohibiting straw purchases.

Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (SY2Kh)

263 Why is she doing a headstand in panties in her cell though?

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (zqvg6)

264 *sigh* All tests passing- including brand new integration tests. And changes checked in... Sweet. Have I mentioned this whole "working at work" thing sucks?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 11:32 AM (PYAXX)

265

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 03:30 PM (DmNpO)

 

Swimming nose clips until you eliminate the smell. 

Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 11:33 AM (m2CN7)

266 220 They are trying to make her a star. She needs bigger boobs. And by bigger I mean existing at all. She's got the chest of a 12 year old boy. How is that possible?


They should change her name to Less E. Cupps.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 03:27 PM (YSNKg)

you clowns are just...

you'd hit it so fast you'd get a ticket, so quit playin.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:33 AM (x3YFz)

267 I don't mind small boobs. I don't think I'm being too much of a retrograde sexist to prefer women who have actual, noticeable breasts. Flat-chested is supposed to be an exaggeration that just means small boobs, not an actually flat chest.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:33 AM (ZPrif)

268 264 Why is she doing a headstand in panties in her cell though? I dunno, but never look a gift horse in the, uh...vulva?

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:34 AM (7ObY1)

269 http://www.injusticeinperugia.org/ This site explains everything. Click everything. A very good read.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:34 AM (g5X0d)

270 Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 03:32 PM (SY2Kh) As I said, I'm concerned the court will say "while this question isn't required by law, he answered it and did so knowingly falsely." Then good luck getting the question removed/made optional/whatever.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:34 AM (GaqMa)

271 This reminded me of something I saw earlier today. In The Economist there was a headline If the French ran America in one of the recent issues. It said this in summary: But seriously… Would America be a better place if its public figures behaved like François Hollande, Ségolène Royal, Valérie Trierweiler, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand, and if its people took as relaxed a view of sex as the French do? Probably more talented Americans would go into politics if they did not think they would be roasted alive for normal human frailty. There would be more Jack Kennedys and fewer Mitt Romneys. On the other hand, if France’s politicians were not protected by the law and a quiescent press, perhaps the National Front’s anti-elitist message would not go down so well. The answer, of course, is to follow the example of Britain, whose near-saintly politicians are gracefully monitored by the famously dignified denizens of Fleet Street. http://tinyurl.com/kkkgvq7

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:34 AM (IXrOn)

272 Jedediah Bila has small perkies and I'd hit that in a New York second. She's what, in her mid-30s? She has the perkies of a college cheerleader.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:35 AM (7ObY1)

273 I thought that was Jody Arias doing the headstand?

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:35 AM (g7osp)

274 I used to think Obama was rather a handsome guy  except the ears (lol)and  the one thing i did like was his voice.

Now i can't stand his ears, voice or Him , anything, shyster, divisive jerk.

Posted by: willow at January 30, 2014 11:35 AM (nqBYe)

275

Rinse went after them because it's pro wrasslin to him.

He needs an enemy to prop up to make sure we know he's on our side, while he sells the shit out of all of us.

His response was so quick that I would not be surprised at all he knew this was coming.

As you said ace, they knew what they were saying.

Don't trust Rinse, nor the GOP. They are snakes in the grass, like Tully Blanchard! Let me tell ya somethin!




Posted by: Rev Dr E Buzz Christies at January 30, 2014 11:35 AM (xggaJ)

276 260 Ace's post on Amanda Knox completely changed my view on the trial.

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 03:32 PM (A98Xu)

My view changed from:

what?

To:

I really don't give a shit.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:35 AM (x3YFz)

277 Ah, ok. My now husband (and then boyfriend) knew it...well IIRC, the Coral Court Motel was on the passenger side of the car traveling from the city towards the county. South/southwest?

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:36 AM (xZxMD)

278 My view changed from: what? To: I really don't give a shit. Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 03:35 PM (x3YFz) Ditto

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:36 AM (t3UFN)

279 Everybody but the dumbass judges are there.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:36 AM (E4MKN)

280

245 -

 

Not Gravois.  It was on Watson.

 

I have been there, but by the time I was old enough to go it was pretty much done for. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:36 AM (TOk1P)

281 All tests passing- including brand new integration tests.

I know all those words, but I've never heard them in that order.

Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 11:36 AM (ZKzrr)

282 Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 03:35 PM (x3YFz) mine pretty much stayed where it was. "Sounds like she got hosed. Never trust the court systems in a foreign country to protect your rights. At the first HINT of trouble, return to the US."

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:36 AM (GaqMa)

283 J. Bila is cute, but Remy Spencer is where it's at. I have given serious thought to getting arrested in NJ just so I can hire her to defend me.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (YSNKg)

284 Which wine goes with conviction?

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (XUKZU)

285 238 The Dailymail UK has new pictures of Amanda with a bob haircut and kind of "Seattle-like" clothing on. (Those of you from the area will know what I mean.)

She looks terrible. Maybe trying to downplay her natural beauty?

Posted by: Seems legit at January 30, 2014 03:29 PM (A98Xu)


The experience she's had would age anybody by a couple decades.

Posted by: joncelli at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (RD7QR)

286 The usual Monstor.com comercials during the superbowl should have the Left going crazy.  Jobs are for Right Wing nuts.

Posted by: airandee at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (tkNAb)

287 Yes, what America needs is a more relaxed view of sex. And by 'sex' I mean honor and committments. What a bunch of assholes at the Economist.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (g7osp)

288 The usual Monster.com comercials during the superbowl should have the Left going crazy.  Jobs are for Right Wing nuts.

Posted by: airandee at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (tkNAb)

289 Would America be a better place if its public figures behaved like François Hollande, Ségolène Royal, Valérie Trierweiler, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand, and if its people took as relaxed a view of sex as the French do

hmm well i guess His x wife and children and the women just tossed out have taken it well.

if you like broken things and slammed doors.

of course being able to throw  some serious dough at them might help the pain of it all.

Posted by: willow at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (nqBYe)

290 woman*

Posted by: willow at January 30, 2014 11:37 AM (nqBYe)

291

It's a big case and you have to know all the evidence to understand how insane it all is. I always wanted to write a post on it, but i never did, as it would take so long.

 

 

You wrote post-length comments about it.  That's where I got all my info.

Posted by: Frumious Bandersnatch at January 30, 2014 11:38 AM (A0sHn)

292 I actually kinda dig the glasses. But i kinda dig the raven-hair, fast-talking, sassy, northeast smart chick look. Which is how I end up dating so many liberal jewish chicks that hate my politics. But they always had boobs. That was never lacking. That was also a key feature along with the raven-hair and smart mouth.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:38 AM (ZPrif)

293 Two things, because I'm a pig: I always read the lovely Ms. Cupp's name as 'C Cup'. Can't help it. Don't know if it's still out there, but in the early days of the internet, there was a Kennedy picture floating around. Some perv with a hidden camera caught her changing clothes like was later done to Erin Andrews.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 11:38 AM (LSJmV)

294 218 “Ace, you really are an excellent writer. Just thought I'd throw that out there.” He is coming along, isn’t he? I remember when it all started. Some of us wanted a forum for our comments, but none of the existing bloggers fit our style. One day, we saw Ace trading sexual favors for hits off of Val-U-Rite bottle behind a dumpster. “Hey, kid! You wanna be a blogger?” He looked up and said “Sure, Mister”. The rest is history.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:38 AM (u2a4R)

295 285 Which wine goes with conviction? Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 03:37 PM (XUKZU) ****** chianti.

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 11:38 AM (RJMhd)

296 As I said, I'm concerned the court will say "while this question isn't required by law, he answered it and did so knowingly falsely."

Then good luck getting the question removed/made optional/whatever.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 03:34 PM (GaqMa)

Ohyeah!  (Picture Kool-Aid smashing through the wall)

HE'S FKD!

Lie to the police or any state/city/county official after you've been mirandizerated?  Yer done, cupcake.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:38 AM (x3YFz)

297

278 -

 

Correct.  If you head out of  the city  on Chippewa, it turns into  Watson at the River Des Peres, and there are all sorts of cheap no-tell motels on both sides of Watson.  Coral Courts was on the right (west) side of Watson, the same side  that was/is  the site  of Crestwood Mall  (now closed). 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:38 AM (TOk1P)

298 //looks up from grinding blade on the guillotine Sorry, what was that you said? Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 03:31 PM (x3YFz) J'accuse! J'accuse! But seriously, the breakfast cereal business is hurting from steady declines as McDonald's and other fastfood franchises step up their cheap breakfast offerings and food fads lose their luster. (Kashi is on the decline, but Chex has jumped on the gluten-free trend and soared.) Yellow-box Cheerios are down the past couple years, but Honey-Nut Cheerios is the #1 breakfast cereal right now. Probably because bees are so much in the headlines.

Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 30, 2014 11:39 AM (Y92Nd)

299 The Economist used to be pretty sane. Pity.

Posted by: joncelli at January 30, 2014 11:39 AM (RD7QR)

300 'Talking Know.' = 'Talking Knox

Posted by: RWC at January 30, 2014 11:39 AM (fWAjv)

301 I know all those words, but I've never heard them in that order. Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 03:36 PM (ZKzrr) Remember, I'm a developer. I have no illusions- our QA team will be up here cursing my name when they get around to testing it next week.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 11:39 AM (PYAXX)

302 Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 03:36 PM (TOk1P) Heh, I lived in the apartment complex right by there when the wife and I got married.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:39 AM (GaqMa)

303 This would also make guns ungiftable (for lack of a real word.), no? No. The wording of the question specifically allows for gifts. The problem as I see it is they seem to have an unstated cooling off period before you can sell to another person. If you sell on the same day, straw purchase. If you sell x days later, not a straw purchase.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:39 AM (2hTlI)

304 Remy Spencer is where it's at. Yeah, I find her completely alluring too. Gutfeld does know how to pick 'em.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:39 AM (7ObY1)

305 "I don't wanna be a pinheadÂ… Gabba gabba hey".

Posted by: dc at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (UdPlZ)

306 What a bunch of assholes at the Economist. Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 03:37 PM (g7osp) Reminds me of just about every french movie I've seen. And, I've seen A LOT. Someone screws around, it's cool, donthchaknow. But, in the end, someone is truly, deeply hurt. Nothing is ever the same. Someone always gets hurt.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (IXrOn)

307

@290 hmm well i guess His x wife and children and the women just tossed out have taken it well.

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

 

You talking about Hollande?  Actually, I don't think he's ever been married.  iirc, his kids are from his non-married relationship with Segolene Royale.

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (UWFpX)

308 As I said, I'm concerned the court will say "while this question isn't required by law, he answered it and did so knowingly falsely."

Ah, I missed the last part of your original comment.

Technically then, a purchase intended to be a gift is legitimate according to the ATF instructions.  I never really considered it before.


Posted by: Hollowpoint at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (SY2Kh)

309 >>>Why is she doing a headstand in panties in her cell though? she was doing yoga, because she had been at the police station an awful lot and was sitting on a hard wooden bench. She did some exercises to wake up/relax. A male cop noticed her doing this and asked something like, "Can you do a headstand?" Probably, and let's be realistic, because he wanted to see how her clothes might fall on her nubile body in a different position. So she said "Sure" and did it. That or a cartwheel (which is sort of failed headstand).

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (/FnUH)

310 msnbc, we should remember this was Obama's recommend.

i just call it the Obama channel.

Posted by: willow at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (nqBYe)

311 IIRC, the Coral Court Motel was on the passenger side of the car traveling from the city towards the county. South/southwest? Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 03:36 PM (xZxMD) Yes it was.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (bCEmE)

312

Lessons Amanda Knox learned the hard way:

 

1.  Careful who you hang with

 

2.  Hashish  and  drugs  will put you in the wrong crowd.

 

3.  Never lie to try and cover up some other indiscretion  during a murder investigation.

 

That said,   an innocent Knox  didn't  deserve more than a slap on the wrist for lying to investigators.

Posted by: polynikes at January 30, 2014 11:40 AM (m2CN7)

313 NBC is just a subsidiary of MSNBC, so I guess they're honest too.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 03:22 PM (/FnUH)

 

 

Now that's an example of the inmates taking over the asylum.

Posted by: Mikey NTH - Buy a Hissy or Coniption, Get a Free Fitting! at January 30, 2014 11:41 AM (hLRSq)

314 Gutfeld is married isn't he?Wonder if his wife is hot.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:41 AM (zqvg6)

315 290 Would America be a better place if its public figures behaved like François Hollande, Ségolène Royal, Valérie Trierweiler, Nicolas Sarkozy, Jacques Chirac and François Mitterrand, and if its people took as relaxed a view of sex as the French do hmm well i guess His x wife and children and the women just tossed out have taken it well. if you like broken things and slammed doors. of course being able to throw some serious dough at them might help the pain of it all. Posted by: willow at January 30, 2014 03:37 PM (nqBYe) The Bonga-Bonga party guy, also Italian, couldn't be bothered to attend his son's HS graduation because he was busy having an orgy with underage prostitutes.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:41 AM (E4MKN)

316 310 That was the original headstand at the police station. The picture is a later one of her doing yoga in her cell. Why she's not wearing pants, I don't know. But that's gotta make her an honorary member of the Moron Horde.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:42 AM (7ObY1)

317 CNN: Stranded Mother Gives Birth At Home How does one get stranded at home? Easy. When a Republican is governor at the time of a politicized ice storm.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:42 AM (g7osp)

318 304 This would also make guns ungiftable (for lack of a real word.), no?

No. The wording of the question specifically allows for gifts.

The problem as I see it is they seem to have an unstated cooling off period before you can sell to another person. If you sell on the same day, straw purchase. If you sell x days later, not a straw purchase.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2014 03:39 PM (2hTlI)

Hah.  Enforce it.

Shit my grandad, my dad, I have bought and sold pistols and rifles on the fly for about (thinking) 100 years now.

So you think somehow the federal govt gets to regulate that now?

Wait.... there.... in the top right desk hand drawer is a tightly wrapped piece of go fuck yourself.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:42 AM (x3YFz)

319 Not Gravois. It was on Watson. I have been there, but by the time I was old enough to go it was pretty much done for. Posted by: BurtTC Which one am I thinking of? It was before Grant's farm.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:42 AM (xZxMD)

320 310 Italian cops are wise.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:42 AM (zqvg6)

321 and she wasn't in her panties and she wasn't in a cell. She was in the waiting room of the police station. I'm not sure of what she was wearing but I think it was the sweatpants and sweatshirt she had been wearing for the past 24 hours (she was not permitted inside her apartment to get a change of clothes). By the way, the whole panty thing, that she bought "sexy panties" at a store the next day, was made up. She didn't buy sexy panties. She bought UNDERWEAR, just plain underwear, because she had no clothes except those on her back and was not permitted to get her own clothes to change.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:42 AM (/FnUH)

322 Check this out: http://www.thewire.com/politics/2014/01/why-gop-against-msnbcs-and-nbcs-and-cnns-free-speech/357545/

Posted by: Patrap at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (m+unH)

323 Yoga always equals murderer /sarc

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (RJMhd)

324 Also, any size real boobs are better than any size fake ones.

Posted by: Countrysquire at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (LSJmV)

325 From what you are saying, that clerk needed a cluebat. From the instructions on FF 4473: "You are also the actual transferee/buyer if you are legitimately purchasing the firearm as a gift for a third party."

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (2hTlI)

326 MSNBC is the only place that would counter the complaint that they lack diversity by having all their anchors wear blackface.

Posted by: Roy at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (6SqJF)

327

2 That pre-cancerous growth on the JEF's nose looks scarier close up.

 

It might be a fly larvae warble.

Posted by: wth at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (wAQA5)

328 315 Gutfeld is married isn't he?Wonder if his wife is hot. Last night he said he's been married 7 years. I've always wondered what his wife looks like, can't seem to find a pic.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (7ObY1)

329 You can get stranded in ALL places... except your own home. But "stranded" is a better word to use because...Republican governor.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (g7osp)

330 junior, oh, so 4 children  and no shared/desired  commitment . actually  perhaps this isn't a horrid idea, i imagine the divorce isn't as fraught with hell and lawyers  ..
or maybe they are.

i hope she got a nice chunk of change to take care of the children. Of course perhaps he got custody. either way.

Posted by: willow at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (nqBYe)

331

303 -

 

Wow, it sure is a small world... and  in  an effort to not let it get any smaller, I'm not going to disclose any further information/knowledge of the area of which we are speaking. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:43 AM (TOk1P)

332 >>>Remy Spencer is where it's at....

Gutfeld does know how to pick 'em.<<<




Hotter RedEye regular, lawyer -- Brooke Goldstein.

Posted by: at January 30, 2014 11:44 AM (TB/3z)

333 Never talk to the police. Especially in foreign countries.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:44 AM (g5X0d)

334 So MSNBC is just a larger drunker version of Chrissy Matthews.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 30, 2014 11:44 AM (wL/ra)

335 just plain underwear AoSHQ - Crushing moron fantasies for over a decade.

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:44 AM (YSNKg)

336 Elena Moussa-Gutfeld http://binged.it/MlWM75

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:44 AM (DmNpO)

337 A male cop noticed her doing this and asked something like, "Can you do a headstand?" Probably, and let's be realistic, because he wanted to see how her clothes might fall on her nubile body in a different position. So she said "Sure" and did it. That or a cartwheel (which is sort of failed headstand). Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 03:40 PM (/FnUH) Yeah I tried that once with a girl and all I got was kicked in the balls?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:45 AM (t3UFN)

338 Gooble Gobble! One of us! We accept him!

Posted by: Kaboom Kids at January 30, 2014 11:45 AM (nbGZj)

339 IIRC, the Coral Court Motel was on the passenger side of the car traveling from the city towards the county. South/southwest? Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 03:36 PM (xZxMD) Yes it was. We moved in '79 so all of those memories were from the backseat.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:45 AM (xZxMD)

340 337 Elena Moussa-Gutfeld http://binged.it/MlWM75 Nice find! She's pretty hot.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:46 AM (7ObY1)

341 Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 03:42 PM (xZxMD) There's a weird old hotel turned flop house type thing a bit west of that on Watson, maybe that's what your thinking of?

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:46 AM (GaqMa)

342 325 "Also, any size real boobs are better than any size fake ones". I can see how a flat lesbian would feel this way, but rest of the world appreciates finely sculpted artificial tits.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:47 AM (u2a4R)

343

320 -

 

Hmmm, good question.  I'm sure I know of any no-tell motels on Gravois.  Some apartment complexes...

 

Well, again, I start getting a little  uncomfortable when discussion on the internet gets, literally, too close to home, and we're about  at that point for me. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:47 AM (TOk1P)

344 The Bonga-Bonga party guy, also Italian, couldn't be bothered to attend his son's HS graduation because he was busy having an orgy with underage prostitutes.

And someone thinks our elected officials don't do shit like this?

Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 11:47 AM (ZKzrr)

345 334 Never talk to the police. Especially in foreign countries.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 03:44 PM (g5X0d)

Well.. if you find yourself on the business end of a rusty AK-47, you talk or don't talk based on whatever keeps your ass alive.

Norulesville.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:47 AM (x3YFz)

346 The Judges are drinking some nice red wine and eating some antipasto and laughing their asses off

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:47 AM (t3UFN)

347 Tapper interviewed obama today. Can't wait to ignore it and not see all ba llwashing.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:48 AM (g7osp)

348 "I can see how a flat lesbian would feel this way, but rest of the world appreciates finely sculpted artificial tits." Wait, my husband is a lesbian? I'm so confused.

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 11:48 AM (hFL/3)

349 I got pulled over by the police in Italy, in Calabria, in a random traffic stop.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:48 AM (t3UFN)

350 O.M.G.


Is Gutfeld a..........Jooo?

Posted by: Alex Trebeck with the f'ing answers in his hand at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (KXm42)

351 236 I thought a straw purchase would be more like a guy buying alcohol for kids.

Person B gives person A $500 to purchase a weapon. Person A buys the gun and hands it to person B.

I thought that was a straw purchase.

Posted by: bonhomme at January 30, 2014 03:28 PM (8ifMA)


Yes and no. In the case in question, the guy did get the money and then bought the gun to deliver it to another person. However, the other person was himself allowed to own a gun. The whole reason for the straw purchase was to take advantage of a discount available to Person A (a retired LEO). They were not trying to get a gun into the hands of someone prohibited from owning a gun.


Story here: http://www.guns.com/2014/01/22/straw-purchasing-case-heard-supreme-court-today/


Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (IN7k+)

352 The Judges are drinking some nice red wine and eating some antipasto and laughing their asses off *** Now I want antipasto

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (DmNpO)

353 Correct. If you head out of the city on Chippewa, it turns into Watson at the River Des Peres, and there are all sorts of cheap no-tell motels on both sides of Watson. Coral Courts was on the right (west) side of Watson, the same side that was/is the site of Crestwood Mall (now closed). Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 03:38 PM (TOk1P) I was born and raised in Crestwood but moved away after I got married in '79. Was away for 34 years before moving back to MO last year. Went past Crestwood mall a couple of weeks ago. OMG...what a shame. All that prime property just sitting there empty. I was stunned.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (bCEmE)

354 She isn't wearing sweatpants in the picture bluestate posted.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (zqvg6)

355 Holy DC Batman!
http://tinyurl.com/m5ex8ut

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (wL/ra)

356 Don't boycott MSNBC.  They will continue pushing the envelope and delving deeper in the gutter.  Let everyone see/hear/read about who they really are.

Posted by: Cheri at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (G+Wff)

357 Is Gutfeld a..........Jooo? *** raised Catholic, I think he's now agnostic

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:49 AM (DmNpO)

358 350 I got pulled over by the police in Italy, in Calabria, in a random traffic stop. Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:48 PM (t3UFN) Are you the Monster of Florence? If that's the case, nice dodge.

Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (oFCZn)

359 And by 'interview' I mean Tapper gave obama a platfofm to lie en masse to the masses.

Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (g7osp)

360 There's a weird old hotel turned flop house type thing a bit west of that on Watson, maybe that's what your thinking of? No idea. This was way back in the late 60's thru mid 70's.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (xZxMD)

361 352 Another special benefit for an LEO.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (zqvg6)

362 Posted by: Tattoo De Plane at January 30, 2014 03:23 PM (Y92Nd) Why do you want Snowden to win a Nobel Peace Prize?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (7kkQJ)

363 335 So MSNBC is just a larger drunker version of Chrissy Matthews.

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 30, 2014 03:44 PM (wL/ra)

Girl, I wish it could be dismissed that easily.

It's concerted, focused, determined propaganda.

Agenda driven, but the good news is that progressives, american progressives, neveau progressives, SUCK at propaganda.

If they were good at it, this would have been over 20 years ago.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (x3YFz)

364

@331 oh, so 4 children and no shared/desired commitment . actually perhaps this isn't a horrid idea, i imagine the divorce isn't as fraught with hell and lawyers ..
or maybe they are.

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

 

Willow, dunno about the lack of commitment on her part.  I've heard that the French public has taken a certain amount of glee in the current "First Lady's" relationship problems.  They're apparently seeing it as a sort of comeuppance as she pulled him away from Royale.  That would suggest to me that there was at least a certain amount of implied committment between Hollande and Royale.

 

But I'm just speculating.

 

I do think that there should be quite a bit of disgust with Hollande himself over the whole thing.  But that doesn't appear to be the case.

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (UWFpX)

365 The same people yelling that she is guilty are the people who haven't met a death row killer they didn't claim was innocent and a fluffy kitten.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (E4MKN)

366 I get pasta-antipasta confused with matter-antimatter.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:50 AM (g5X0d)

367 360 I thought by "interview" you meant a sloppy blowjob.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:51 AM (zqvg6)

368 Exactly, Ace. As others have said: the answer to objectionable speech is MORE speech, not less. And the right to respond with loud guffaws when needed. I don't know why people don't loudly guffaw at obama and his democrat brethren when they say stupid things like paying unemployment benefits somehow stimulates the economy. We won't unmask the beast by refusing to engage with it.

Posted by: elaine at January 30, 2014 11:51 AM (GNZ0/)

369 I don't really care if they are real or fake when I'm just looking at their outline on a TV newsbabe. I just like the contour. It's not like they are my gf or wife or I'll ever touch them. So for flat-chest TV newsbabes I'm fine with them getting implants.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:51 AM (ZPrif)

370 Are you the Monster of Florence? If that's the case, nice dodge. Posted by: Dack Thrombosis at January 30, 2014 03:50 PM (oFCZn) Nah. I rolled down the window and the cop started in in Italian and I turned to my friend who is from there and he " American" and they both laughed and the cop smiled and waved me on

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (t3UFN)

371

 I got pulled over by the police in Italy, in Calabria, in a random traffic stop.

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:48 PM (t3UFN)

I used to be stationed in Calabria and was frequently pulled over by the Polizia for being blonde.

Posted by: Cheri at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (G+Wff)

372 Door's open and everyone standing. In another hour or two, judges will enter.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (E4MKN)

373 Has anybody ever attended a "Martin Bashir dinner party?"

You'll need a wet suit, snorkel, and a twelve pack of Charmin.

Posted by: Fritz at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (TKFmG)

374

354 -

 

The city is fighting with developers who want to convert the site to a combination shopping/entertainment venue.  I'm not  sure exactly what that means, but the bottom line appears to be greedy city officials fighting  with greedy developers, and the citizens of Crestwood getting stuck in the middle. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (TOk1P)

375 "Wait, my husband is a lesbian? I'm so confused." Lauren, please. So he's telling you he prefers the smaller natural tits to (yours) to the enhanced version (the totally stacked girl across the street)? He's lying. But that's ok. Since you're probably telling him size doesn't matter.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (u2a4R)

376 http://www.guns.com/2014/01/22/straw-purchasing-case-heard-supreme-court-today/ So the uncle sent a check before the purchase. Apparently that's the "straw purchase" angle. The story I read didn't emphasize that fact.

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (2hTlI)

377 299 --- I wonder if all those "free" school breakfasts have hurt cereal sales--- or at least the sale of brand-name stuff. Dry cereal, whether Cheerios or (gasp!) Kaboom, is the go-to breakfast for school days.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 30, 2014 11:52 AM (dfYL9)

378 Correct. If you head out of the city on Chippewa, it turns into Watson at the River Des Peres, and there are all sorts of cheap no-tell motels on both sides of Watson. Coral Courts was on the right (west) side of Watson, the same side that was/is the site of Crestwood Mall (now closed). Crap. Must have been Watson. We'd either go out Chippewa or Gravois to go out to my aunts & uncles in the county.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 11:53 AM (xZxMD)

379 I used to be stationed in Calabria and was frequently pulled over by the Polizia for being blonde. Posted by: Cheri at January 30, 2014 03:52 PM (G+Wff) Yes they are very freindly

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:53 AM (t3UFN)

380 You'll need a wet suit, snorkel, and a twelve pack of Charmin. Posted by: Fritz at January 30, 2014 03:52 PM (TKFmG) In fairness, I'm pretty sure the same would apply to parties thrown by some of the Morons. Albeit for different reasons.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 11:53 AM (PYAXX)

381 @BurtTC, Rickb223 This place is what I was thinking of: http://goo.gl/BnyTiL

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:53 AM (GaqMa)

382 They were not trying to get a gun into the hands of someone prohibited from owning a gun. Was he not an American accorded Constitutional rights?

Posted by: Cicero Kid at January 30, 2014 11:53 AM (Bps3R)

383 376 "Wait, my husband is a lesbian? I'm so confused." Lauren, please. So he's telling you he prefers the smaller natural tits to (yours) to the enhanced version (the totally stacked girl across the street)? He's lying. But that's ok. Since you're probably telling him size doesn't matter. Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 03:52 PM (u2a4R) *********** By gawd--why you're such a diplomat you could solve the Middle East conflict.

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 11:53 AM (RJMhd)

384 NYC elementary school canceled their gifted program for smarter students cause it had too many white kids. Not enough diversity.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:54 AM (ZPrif)

385 Are you the Monster of Florence?
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The only thing keeping Waxman from being the Monster of Florence is he's not in Florence.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 11:54 AM (XUKZU)

386 380 I used to be stationed in Calabria Anywhere near Catanzaro? My family hails from Gimigliano, Catanzaro.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (7ObY1)

387 The reason we're getting our ass kicked on every front is:

We don't control the message.


It's really that simple.  Hard fight, given that we've had assholes like McLame and such as "forerunners."  But that's not it.

Look... we could have the most patriotic, American, dyed in the wool of the flag candidate, and it will.  Mean.  Zero.

We have to regain control of the media and the schools.

Trenches, fuckers.  Get in them.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (x3YFz)

388 Went past Crestwood mall a couple of weeks ago. OMG...what a shame. All that prime property just sitting there empty. I was stunned. Posted by: Tami at January 30, 2014 03:49 PM (bCEmE) Yes, well, failing to adapt to the revamp of WestCo mall will do that.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (GaqMa)

389 "So he's telling you he prefers the smaller natural tits to (yours) to the enhanced version (the totally stacked girl across the street)? " No. Mine are real and they're fantastic. But he has told me on multiple occasions that one of his biggest turn offs are fake tits. Especially during the saline generation. *shudder*

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (hFL/3)

390 >>>Lessons Amanda Knox learned the hard way: 1. Careful who you hang with ... She did not hang with the killer, Rudy Guede. Rudy Guede hung out, very occasionally, with her downstairs male housemates (top floor apartment all girls, bottom floor all boys). In no way did she invite Rudy Guede into her life; the downstairs boys played basketball with him, and once or twice allowed him to hang at the downstairs apartment. It was there he saw both Meredith and Amanda and asked about the availability of both. He was a confirmed "Girl Botherer," as people who had to deal with him called him. One of those aggressive guys who doesn't take no for an answer. >>>2. Hashish and drugs will put you in the wrong crowd. It is true she smoked a popular drug that most of the college kids did, a cigarette of tobacco, hash, and pot. However, as far as "drugs" -- it was the downstairs boys who actually had the marijuana plants. Amanda had nothing to do with this. She didn't know these boys before just moving into the upstairs apartment. People speak of this pot-plant connection as if Amanda had something to do with it. She didn't. It was her downstairs neighbors. >>>3. Never lie to try and cover up some other indiscretion during a murder investigation. She had no other indiscretion to cover up. The problem was that the cops kept telling her she was guilty, and also, people don't get this, but she actually didn't speak italian. She had gone to italy to LEARN italian. She was one month into her studies when this happened. People think that they will persist forever in proclaiming their innocence to cops in a heated, coercive environment. In fact, most won't. At some point, most will agree to say whatever the cops tell them to say, if the cops promise them "and then this will all go away." After three days of interrogation, the cops demanded she either implicate a perfectly innocent man (who they, in their buffoonish incompetence, had decided must be the culprit), and then she could go free. At that point they asked her to IMAGINE him doing the crime. She complied, and imagined it. They then had her write down her imagining of him doing the crime. Which is why it's oddly phrased, like 'In my mind I can see him in the kitchen." Because they told her all they wanted was her IMAGININGS of how he would have killed Meredith, if he did And based on that, she's claimed to have perjured herself and implicated an innocent man.

Posted by: ace at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (/FnUH)

391 NYC elementary school canceled their gifted program for smarter students cause it had too many white kids. Not enough diversity. ... I'm moderately surprised an NYC public school has any "smarter students." Though, "smarter" is (by definition) a relative term.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (PYAXX)

392

@385 NYC elementary school canceled their gifted program for smarter students cause it had too many white kids. Not enough diversity.

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Lemme guess - it was cancelled by the same sorts of people who will tell us with a straight face that the reason why certain non-white-male groups can't get ahead in school is because their classrooms have too many white male kids in them, and the mere presence of the white male kids intimidates the non-white-male students into silence.

 

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (UWFpX)

393 Guilty? I'm having a hard time understanding her.

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:55 AM (DmNpO)

394 Sounds like they are going to find her guilty?

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:56 AM (t3UFN)

395 Re: the straw purchase case

Are the feds trying to argue that this is a method of bypassing background checks, and therefore still qualifies as a straw purchase?

It'd be bullshit, regardless, but I wouldn't doubt they've already tried it.

Posted by: grognard at January 30, 2014 11:56 AM (/29Nl)

396 Did he just say "Knox is illegally in her home country."?!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:56 AM (bCEmE)

397 Phil Griffin (MSNBC President) just issued an apology on the Cheerio thing.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 11:56 AM (u2a4R)

398 So he's telling you he prefers the smaller natural tits to (yours) to the enhanced version (the totally stacked girl across the street)? He's lying. Maybe. I've seen some boob jobs that were horrendous. Big globular things are not natural looking, at all. Especially when you lay down and you see weird creases or hard lines. I'd absolutely prefer a nice natural b cup to a birthday balloon dd cup. (If I weren't married to my lovely wife who has a very nice body TYVM).

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 11:56 AM (2hTlI)

399 390 You know,we are going to need pictures.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 11:56 AM (zqvg6)

400 Guilty?

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 11:56 AM (RJMhd)

401 I get pasta-antipasta confused with matter-antimatter.
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A recent discovery thanks to my wife: Vidalia onion salad dressing.  Yum yum.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 11:57 AM (XUKZU)

402 Did he just say "Knox is illegally in her home country."?! *** Yes they did

Posted by: Niedermeyer's Dead Horse at January 30, 2014 11:57 AM (DmNpO)

403 They convicted her and now they can go to hell.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 11:57 AM (E4MKN)

404 395 Sounds like they are going to find her guilty? Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 03:56 PM (t3UFN) ****** Ya...seems like it.

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 11:57 AM (RJMhd)

405 Don't get arrested in Italy


( that is all )

Posted by: "A" from Seattle at January 30, 2014 11:57 AM (omBWL)

406 Cover this MSNBC: Son of Sen. Mark Udall, D-Colo., arrested on heroin, vehicular-trespassing charges in Boulder County, Colo. - @dailycamera

Posted by: Meremortal at January 30, 2014 11:57 AM (1Y+hH)

407 Guilty with a Side of Meatballs : The Amanda Knox Story

Posted by: garrett at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (YSNKg)

408 No conservatives watch the channel? Where else are we going to go for that kind of entertainment. I still remember their stated reason why my (democrat) senator lost. She was too conservative. For Arkansas.

Posted by: Lea at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (lIU4e)

409

@392 I'm moderately surprised an NYC public school has any "smarter students." Though, "smarter" is (by definition) a relative term.

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

 

There's always at least one parent who annoys some of the teachers by taking an actual interest in their child's education.

 

Even in public schools.

 

 

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (UWFpX)

410 Verdict: Guilty. You know, I do feel bad for the Kircher family but they really need to stop this witch hunt. Putting an innocent person in jail is not going to bring their daughter back.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (7ObY1)

411 As a European colleague once asked, "does the US media ever shut the f*ck about race? It's boring."

Posted by: Buckeye Abroad at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (u275u)

412 Seems like they overturned the last-- "not guilty".

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (RJMhd)

413 I'd actually prefer smaller real boobs to bigger fake boobs in real life, with my actual gf. But for TV? I don't care what they feel like. And for newsbabes they will be mostly covered up anyway, so it's mainly for contour. Fake boobs on swimsuit models can actually look terrible sometimes. Usually they are too big are off somehow. The no body fat with giant boobs look is not pleasing to the eye. I'm talking that weird like fitness model look where the chick has a visible abdominals and giant tits. It's freakishly unnatural looking. But newsbabes where clothing and keep mostly covered up, so not an issue.

Posted by: Flatbush Joe at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (ZPrif)

414

382 -

 

Oh yeah.  I thought that's what you were talking about. 

 

If  you have never seen the inside of any of those buildings, they are every bit as horrifying as you would imagine, and yes, people are living there. 

Posted by: BurtTC at January 30, 2014 11:58 AM (TOk1P)

415
Ugh.  They have to be everywhere don't they?  Mooch to be on the puppy bowl show.  3 more f'ing years.

Posted by: Guy Mohawk at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (n0DEs)

416 I see there's a story over on msnbc "Why the economy seems better under democrats?"  Yeah, I was wondering that just today....

Posted by: Buddha at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (s/sIv)

417 Why was that stupid boyfriend sitting in court?!

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (bCEmE)

418 Nuke the fuck out of them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (g5X0d)

419 Also, Morays. That's such an amusing typo/autocorrect/wrong word choice.

Posted by: Lea at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (lIU4e)

420
So he's telling you he prefers the smaller natural tits to (yours) to the enhanced version (the totally stacked girl across the street)?

He's lying.

But that's ok.

Since you're probably telling him size doesn't matter.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 03:52 PM (u2a4R)

You're just kind of a fucking asshole, aren't you?

I mean really?  Fk me.... PLEASE come to the Moron Meet Up In Vegas (acronym MMUIV).

Please.

Why do you have to be an asshole?  Is it like a "calling?"

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (x3YFz)

421 See first it was a sex fueled murder and now it's a not flushed toilet? Hey look I don't know what happened but if Knox is lucky she is here and there

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (t3UFN)

422 Italy is to justice as England is to food



Posted by: "A" from Seattle at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (omBWL)

423 Here is the deal...we're too nice. I've been saying that for a while. We don't use words like "lie," "wrong," and "unAmerican" with anywhere near the frequency that we should. Differences over policy are one thing. We all would have welcomed the chance to debate the healthcare debacle when it unfolded, but were serially denied the opportunity and then told to shut and like it. And now, we are asked to provide alternatives as the train fully derails and heads for the fuel tank farm over that ridge. Enough. I'm tired of being called a racist when discussing immigration (my wife is Hispanic), of being called a racist when pointing out the national tragedy of gang violence, of being called a misogynist when noting that 55 million abortions in fourty years is not the sign of a healthy culture, being called a warmonger for calling for a strong, to-be-feared-by-adversaries military, being called an ignorant for being from the south, being called ignorant becasue my degrees are not from institutions that consider me to be a hick, being called selfish for not wanting to give more money to a rapacious, ineffective government and instead seek to help others via tithing or direct gifts to charity, and most of all being called anti-education for wanting schools to teach knowledge and not grievance.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at January 30, 2014 11:59 AM (659DL)

424 Now I have to boycott Italy and possibly the UK, too.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (E4MKN)

425 "No. Mine are real and they're fantastic." I believe you, but some of the skeptics here require numerous photos. Personally, I think they are being overly demanding, but I just work here.

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (u2a4R)

426
They'll just put out a warrant for her that will essentially keep her from ever traveling through Europe again (unless she wants to spend the rest of her life in an Italian prison).

Posted by: junior at January 30, 2014 03:18 PM (UWFpX)










Serious question. Besides a few museums, American military cemeteries, and The Vatican, is there ANYTHING in Europe that's worth bothering to see? Especially when we have so much beauty here in the US.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (TIIx5)

427 It is outrageous that the State Department didn't just tell Italy to drop this whole mess. "Ms. Knox was declared innocent by one of your own courts. If you persist in targeting an innocent woman for prosecution there will be... consequences." And then, if they persist, you PNG the entire fucking Italian diplomatic delegation.

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (PYAXX)

428 The fact that Knox is not there means she will be convicted.  It means this is simply symbolic and the court is not going to expose itself to criticism for a symbolic acquittal of a degenerate, quite possibly capitalist, American.

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (XUKZU)

429 In a way, MSNBC is conservatives' best friend: We attempt to puncture the smug illusions that progressive media types have about themselves, but only MSNBC is really doing so. Ace If they were our best friend they would be helping out our cause. However reruns of Captain Kangaroo get better ratings & the livs have no notion how fucked up & wrong they are

Posted by: Misanthropic Humanitarian at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (HVff2)

430 Don't get arrested in Italy

Never get involved in a land war in Asia.

Posted by: Vizzini at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (RUvjp)

431 Don't get arrested in a  foreign  country period.

Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 12:00 PM (KXm42)

432 Got a friend who just finished a Euro-tour with his fusion band. He was in Germany, Belgium, France, Switzerland. I said, no Italy? He said the agent said Italy having too many economic problems, not worth it.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (1Y+hH)

433 she was found guilty as was her ex-boyfriend, who WAS there in Italy

Posted by: thunderb at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (zOTsN)

434 Yes, well, failing to adapt to the revamp of WestCo mall will do that. Jeez, just did a google map of Chippewa. It's like a time warp. Ted Drewe's & Arby's are still there. Went to them in grade school.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (xZxMD)

435 Both World Wars were started for less.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (g5X0d)

436 Are they so petty that the fact she left means-- guilty now. It could be like that.

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (RJMhd)

437 362 352 Another special benefit for an LEO.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 03:50 PM (zqvg6)


LEOs buy lots of weapons. Gun retailers want to get that business. So many of them offer discounts to LEOs. Unless there is some evidence that the powers that be are muscling the retailers into offering the discount, I don't see what the problem is. I mean, the buffet joint down the street offers discounts to seniors. I don't qualify, so I have to pay more. If I don't like it, I can refuse to patronize the joint. Everybody is within their rights.


Posted by: Anon Y. Mous at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (IN7k+)

438 Fucking fuckholes. Here's the yoga pic anyways. http://preview.tinyurl.com/q5fehq5

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (7ObY1)

439 >>Don't get arrested in a foreign country period. I make it a point to try not to get arrested anywhere but thats just me.

Posted by: JackStraw at January 30, 2014 12:01 PM (g1DWB)

440 Don't get arrested in a foreign country period. Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 04:00 PM (KXm42) Wise advise

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 12:02 PM (t3UFN)

441

First BOR has to interview the JEF prior to the Super Bowl, (not sure which is more arrogant) and now Mooch has to ruin the Puppy Bowl?  Can't we just have ONE FUCKIN DAY WITHOUT A REMINDER OF THOSE TWO?

 

Sorry

 

/rant

Posted by: Infidel at January 30, 2014 12:02 PM (Z1SI2)

442 jwest.   you are hereby awarded the AoSHQ Throat Punch Of The Week.

Asshole

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 12:02 PM (x3YFz)

443 Lunch time for me!  Think I'll pick up some moray tempura.

Posted by: Beth just south of Berkeley and just east of San Francisco at January 30, 2014 12:02 PM (/yzYn)

444 the Black dude did it, then gets a reduced sentence because ( instead of him killing her alone in a botched burglary ) Amanda and her boyfriend joined in in The Deed


he's still in an Italian prison, the Italian justice system is .............dysfunctional


( an understatement )

Posted by: Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This at January 30, 2014 12:02 PM (omBWL)

445 >>>Don't get arrested in a foreign country period.

Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 04:00 PM (KXm42)



Don't make a You Tube video here.

Posted by: guy in jail for making a video at January 30, 2014 12:02 PM (ZpYz+)

446

Don't get arrested in a foreign country period.
Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 04:00 PM (KXm42)

 

They're generally not too big on that whole due process, right against self-incrimination thing. 

Posted by: Insomniac at January 30, 2014 12:03 PM (DrWcr)

447 428 It is outrageous that the State Department didn't just tell Italy to drop this whole mess. Hillary! promised the Knox family she would help them, and then proceeded to do nothing for years.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 12:03 PM (7ObY1)

448 442 She is!!Damnit,there goes my halftime plans.

Posted by: steevy at January 30, 2014 12:03 PM (zqvg6)

449 Don't get arrested in a foreign country period.

--

You're telling me...

Posted by: Billy Hayes at January 30, 2014 12:03 PM (Oa7B2)

450 Lunch time for me! Think I'll pick up some moray tempura.

Posted by: Beth just south of Berkeley and just east of San Francisco at January 30, 2014 04:02 PM (/yzYn)

 

Which is, of course, a type of weasel.

Posted by: Insomniac at January 30, 2014 12:03 PM (DrWcr)

451 443 jwest. you are hereby awarded the AoSHQ Throat Punch Of The Week. Asshole Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 04:02 PM (x3YFz) *********** It's like he grabbed every third rail and then stuck his dick in a socket. ZZZZzzzzzzzZZZZZzz!!! Shock therapy gets him off.

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 12:03 PM (RJMhd)

452

>>Never talk to the police. Especially in foreign countries.
.

.

.Been there and had to do that.  I do not recommend *not* talking to the Police in Kenya.  You most likely won't like the results if you decide to remain silent.

Posted by: Registered Voter at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (QABaU)

453 Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 04:03 PM (7ObY1) Okay- that sucks for them. But I wonder if they'd be willing to make a radio spot or two...

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (PYAXX)

454 This place is what I was thinking of: http://goo.gl/BnyTiL Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 03:53 PM (GaqMa) Ok, now you're freaking me out. Remember the sister I mentioned earlier, 'Mueller'? I'm pretty sure she and her husband lived there when they first got married. '71 ish.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (bCEmE)

455 This is just pure anti-Americanism. Well, two can play that game. Fuck you, Italy. Fuck you, UK.

Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (E4MKN)

456 419 Nuke the fuck out of them.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 03:59 PM (g5X0d)

Who's "them?"

MSNBC?  Also located in the CONUS?

Yeah, not a good plan there Einstein.

Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (x3YFz)

457 One of the Senators for Washington supports her.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (g5X0d)

458 176 I say we first make an exchange with Canada - Amanda Knox for Justin Bieber. Then send Bieber to Italy for a player to be named later. Or a container of old FIAT parts.   Okay we'll take Bieber--but you keep Neil Young.

Posted by: Northernlurker at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (Xmw9g)

459 re you the Monster of Florence? - The only thing keeping Waxman from being the Monster of Florence is he's not in Florence. Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 03:54 PM (XUKZU) As long as we all leave David alone.

Posted by: artisanal 'ette at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (IXrOn)

460 Tutto quel tizio appena detto è una stronzata.

Posted by: Vinnie Gambini at January 30, 2014 12:04 PM (8ZskC)

461 I'm moderately surprised an NYC public school has any "smarter students." Though, "smarter" is (by definition) a relative term.

By law, schools in Iowa have to put a certain percentage of their students in "gifted" classes, regardless of how many of their students are actually gifted.

(I graduated with the "gifted and talented" teacher at my old elementary school; she's dumber'n a stump.)

Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 12:05 PM (ZKzrr)

462 Hillary! promised the Knox family she would help them, and then proceeded to do nothing for years. She also promised to get the guy who made that video, so ... wash?

Posted by: bonhomme[/i][/b][/s][/i][/b][/s] at January 30, 2014 12:05 PM (2hTlI)

463 It's like he grabbed every third rail and then stuck his dick in a socket.


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You mean..... he's.... CHEATING on me???

Posted by: The Toaster at January 30, 2014 12:05 PM (nELVU)

464 The comparison to the circus freaks from the movie "Freaks" is unfair to the circus freaks.

Posted by: The Political Hat at January 30, 2014 12:05 PM (XvHmy)

465 At least Amanda is very close to the border if she needs to make a run for it.

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 12:05 PM (7ObY1)

466 Been there and had to do that. I do not recommend *not* talking to the Police in Kenya. You most likely won't like the results if you decide to remain silent.

Posted by: Registered Voter at January 30, 2014 04:04 PM (QABaU)

 

Kenya be a little more specific?

Posted by: Insomniac at January 30, 2014 12:05 PM (DrWcr)

467 Note to self: Stay the hell out of Italy.

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (hFL/3)

468 nood

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (8ZskC)

469 Posted by: Tami at January 30, 2014 04:04 PM (bCEmE) :shrugs shoulders: I hope it was a lot nicer in 1971.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (GaqMa)

470 By law, schools in Iowa have to put a certain percentage of their students in "gifted" classes, regardless of how many of their students are actually gifted. O_o? I... Wha... Ho... What was who smoking, and where can I get some?

Posted by: AllenG (DedicatedTenther) Ah, F It. at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (PYAXX)

471 Italy isn't in CONUS. This is an act of war. Those barbarians only understand force.

Posted by: Boss Moss at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (g5X0d)

472 You mean..... he's.... CHEATING on me??? Posted by: The Toaster at January 30, 2014 04:05 PM (nELVU) ********* LOL!!

Posted by: tasker at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (RJMhd)

473 Italia...che disgrazia!

Posted by: BlueStateRebel at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (7ObY1)

474 Tutto quel tizio appena detto è una stronzata.

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Noodles with white cream sauce, easy on the garlic?

Posted by: WalrusRex at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (XUKZU)

475 Obviously that movie about an American in a Turkish prison needs to get back in circulation. 

Posted by: Anna Puma (+SmuD) at January 30, 2014 12:06 PM (wL/ra)

476 This is just pure anti-Americanism. Well, two can play that game. Fuck you, Italy. Fuck you, UK. Posted by: Judge Pug at January 30, 2014 04:04 PM (E4MKN) Not sure what your are so mad about? England? Just because the murdered girl was English? And no matter what happened it appears to me at least, that Amanda Knox was a tad out of control when she was in school there. Now that doesn't make her Bonnie Parker, but it also doesn't make her a Saint either

Posted by: Nevergiveup at January 30, 2014 12:07 PM (t3UFN)

477

449 442 She is!!Damnit,there goes my halftime plans.

 

Chi Town paper says she is going to "do a touchdown dance." 

 

Gag.

Posted by: Infidel at January 30, 2014 12:07 PM (Z1SI2)

478

>>Kenya be a little more specific?

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.Mombasa

Posted by: Registered Voter at January 30, 2014 12:07 PM (QABaU)

479 Posted by: Billy Hayes at January 30, 2014 04:03 PM (Oa7B2)


I  think that movie is on tonight  .

Posted by: eleven at January 30, 2014 12:07 PM (KXm42)

480 "By law, schools in Iowa have to put a certain percentage of their students in "gifted" classes, regardless of how many of their students are actually gifted." Yep. There are some schools around here where not a single student passes even one AP test.

Posted by: Lauren at January 30, 2014 12:08 PM (hFL/3)

481 I was with my Dad (born in Italy, now US citizen) some time years in Italy when he was stopped by the cops for some infraction. The lead cop (out of three) hollered for a while and then said he was going to not write a ticket. Dad flew into a snit and demanded the ticket. We lost another 10 minutes arguing that until the carabineri threw his hands in the air and walked away cursing under his breath.

Posted by: Meremortal at January 30, 2014 12:08 PM (1Y+hH)

482 I hope it was a lot nicer in 1971. Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 04:06 PM (GaqMa) Yeah....43 years ago. They were relatively new then.

Posted by: [/i][/b][/u][/s] Tami at January 30, 2014 12:08 PM (bCEmE)

483 Nood.

Posted by: rickb223 at January 30, 2014 12:08 PM (xZxMD)

484 if you get stopped by a cop in Italy, just slip him fifty Euro.  Unless it's a Carabiniere, with the silly big bronze cap badge ) and you'll be waved on.


the Caras, the national police force, require more delicate negotiations.  Just do ANYTHING to stay out of an Italian prison and not have formal charges filed.  Once they actually get you, you stay Got

Posted by: Momma Said There'd Be Days Like This at January 30, 2014 12:08 PM (omBWL)

485 What was who smoking, and where can I get some?

It's all about funneling money to the education-industrial complex.

Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 12:08 PM (ZKzrr)

486 DId Phil Griffin (MSNBC President) also announce any firings in connection with this ... tweet? A couple of executives, a presenter or two, maybe a consultant?

Posted by: Arbalest at January 30, 2014 12:08 PM (FlRtG)

487 MSNBC's slogan should just be "We're Sorry". They say it a hell of a lot more than "Lean Forward"

Posted by: Matticus at January 30, 2014 12:09 PM (0Mr4u)

488 the point is well sad but that video makes me want to weep

Posted by: thunderb at January 30, 2014 12:10 PM (zOTsN)

489 MSNBC is nothing more than FSB/KGB propaganda. If it looks like a duck, shits like a duck, quacks like a duck, it's probably a fucking duck. Agreed. Could not possibly agree more. And don't be so quick to remit the people who watch MSNBC or John whatshisface on comedy central. Some are lost, some are just ignorant, some (most) are just lazy. That's where you and I come in. Every day. In the trenches. We fight. No one will remember us, but we'll make the difference. Hold. The. Line. Posted by: tangonine at January 30, 2014 03:23 PM (x3YFz) I think the only way any of the MSLSD crowd is salvageable is by a serious dose of the disease they mule around. I have no doubts that ALL of these slobs have not the slightest clue what real Socialism is or have experienced it in reality. They only know the sterile, numbers-adjusted, human behavior-denying reality ignoring academic model that, sounds so wonderful when Professor Birkenstock is indoctrinating the doe-eyed teenaged dipshits. Giving them a real dose of it is the only way to wake SOME of them up. The rest are truly unrecoverable. Thy will continue to insist that the latest iteration was done wrong, by the wrong people. MSLSD. Continuously defined insanity by the most racist people on the planet.

Posted by: 98ZJUSMC Rounding Error Extraordinaire at January 30, 2014 12:10 PM (U/7VF)

490 Posted by: Tami at January 30, 2014 04:08 PM (bCEmE) Before my friend's father got married he actually live in the same apartment complex the wife and I lived in, some 30+ years later. The difference is this complex made some upgrades and kept things nice.

Posted by: tsrblke, PhD(c) No Really! at January 30, 2014 12:10 PM (GaqMa)

491
I'm moderately surprised an NYC public school has any "smarter students." Though, "smarter" is (by definition) a relative term.

By law, schools in Iowa have to put a certain percentage of their students in "gifted" classes, regardless of how many of their students are actually gifted.

(I graduated with the "gifted and talented" teacher at my old elementary school; she's dumber'n a stump.)

Posted by: HR at January 30, 2014 04:05 PM (ZKzrr)










If they're anything like the "gifted" classes I attended in jr high, they're just a way to allow kids to fuck around for a couple of hours with minimal supervision.

On the plus side, our teacher didn't believe in wearing bras, and always wore loose button up shirts. Lots of nip-slips.

Posted by: IllTemperedCur at January 30, 2014 12:11 PM (TIIx5)

492

Posted by: jwest at January 30, 2014 03:52 PM (u2a4R)

 

I dunno. My girlfriend has an amazing figure. She's a tall woman, taller than me, with legs that go on forever. Her body is proportionate, which means she doesn't have gargantuan stripper boobs and the truth is I don't want her to have gargantuan stripper boobs--you know, like the boobs on Bianca, your very expensive, anatomically correct sex doll.  So no, bigger is not always better.

Posted by: troyriser at January 30, 2014 12:12 PM (O66NZ)

493 MSNBC is basically your drunk, crude, arrested-deveolopment man-child friend who still acts like he's 18 even though you, and he, have all turned 35 Lifting material from Schultz's CV without attribution? You naughty, naughty boy, ace!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars™ [/i] [/b] [/s] [/u] at January 30, 2014 12:14 PM (HsTG8)

494 434 she was found guilty as was her ex-boyfriend, who WAS there in Italy Posted by: thunderb at January 30, 2014 04:01 PM (zOTsN) --------------------- I really ache for that young man. God willing, Knox will be able to stay here but he's cooked. A nice, studious, middle-class kid with hardly so much as a parking ticket on his record. A good kid. Makes me sick.

Posted by: Margarita DeVille at January 30, 2014 12:15 PM (dfYL9)

495 That was a very good post...except for that 'Gooble Gobble' video at the end...that was totally racist.

Posted by: rc at January 30, 2014 12:18 PM (9juRt)

496 boyfriend is Italian, guess that's why he stayed I understand the video, and the point being made, that other prog journalists are like the attractive women at the strange dinner party, thinking she is better than them, and shrinking in horror when she realizes they think she is no better than them but as the mother of a child with learning disabilities, its killing me. I call my child with disabilities my "dick detector" I know exactly who you are by how you treat him.

Posted by: thunderb at January 30, 2014 12:20 PM (zOTsN)

497 And yet who will The Simpsons and SNL make fun of? FOX News.

Posted by: brian at January 30, 2014 12:27 PM (mFsmf)

498 168 Ever notice that the cohort of obama sycophants who refer to obama's 'struggle' are always the Soft-Handed White Privileged Elite? With just a little sodium pentathol I'll bet my leftnut they'd admit to regarding obama as some civilized savage, as they do all Black people. That's why they think obama is so awesome -- to them, he overcame his Blackness, ie, his inferiority. Posted by: soothsayer at January 30, 2014 03:20 PM (g7osp) Dead on.

Posted by: baldilocks at January 30, 2014 12:30 PM (36Rjy)

499 Wow, just saw the verdict. That sucks for the Italian kid, because it sounds like they had ZERO evidence and actually convicted someone else. WTF is wrong with these people?

Posted by: Lea at January 30, 2014 12:45 PM (lIU4e)

500 If it hasn't already been noted several times already, MS/NBC is an arm of a much bigger institution. And the MS of NBC is the arm of the NBC body.

NBC is an activist political machine without being registered as one. NBC proper is the educational component of this activist institution and MSNBC is the action network. It has essentially become a de facto PAC.

What's more, National Broadcasting Corporation is a smaller corporation serving the interests of its owner corporations. NBC is serving them and NBC's function/politics are to further the money from other companies within the family. If the smaller unit breaks even or loses money, so what? It is serving a purpose for other units.

The "apologies" are a tactic as you say, Ace. The mission continues whether the apologies come or not. NBC is a cog of a bigger machine and NBC == MSNBC. Let's dispel the illusion that they're different, too. If you're going to boycott, you better skip their entire broadcasting operation.

Posted by: AnonymousDrivel at January 30, 2014 12:50 PM (eHIJJ)

501 Morays? That's a form of weasel, no?

Posted by: Bitter Clinger and All That (13th Level SoCon) at January 30, 2014 12:53 PM (LSDdO)

502 MSNBC is absolutely freakin' right. I'm a right winger and I haven't bought Cheerios since last week and I will never buy them again until my next shopping trip.

Posted by: Ken in NH at January 30, 2014 12:53 PM (MqjGP)

503 --But your friend won't have that. He insists on puncturing everyone's vanities and bringing them down to his level by putting on a show of crudeness, boorishness, and general jackassery. -- Hey! How do you know my brother in law?

Posted by: Francis W. Porretto at January 30, 2014 01:00 PM (d2g9U)

504 "... they simply continue tossing the same crude chum into the water, and then saying "Ooh sorry we didn't mean that" each time."

This reminds me of the scene in the movie The Fifth Element (1997) " when character Ruby Rhod (Chris Tucker) is holding a gun to the head of one of the evil Mangalores and he accidentally pulls the trigger.  Ruby Rhod then says "Sorry" while trying to tuck the Mangalores' brains back in his head.

Posted by: Leeloo Dallas Multi-Pass at January 30, 2014 01:26 PM (e8kgV)

505 Why boycott them? Why not just appear on MSNBC and interrogate their ultrapartisan goons about their ridiculous, crude ethos and juvenile view of the world?

Because the GOP has decided that it will be unavailingly polite to the left; the GOP only had enemies that it will critique and demonize to the right.

Posted by: Null at January 30, 2014 01:29 PM (P7hip)

506

It's not "morays," which are eels, but mores. But otherwise, all solid.

 

Us wingnutz knows us our eels, mofos!

Posted by: Ray Van Dune at January 30, 2014 02:44 PM (fb100)

507 But your friend won't have that. He insists on insists on puncturing everyone's vanities and bringing them down to his level by putting on a show of crudeness, boorishness, and general jackassery. So...my bringing hookers and blow to the AoSHQ's dinner party was...gauche?

Posted by: I R A Darth Aggie © at January 31, 2014 04:49 AM (1hM1d)

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