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Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

“That’s what the insurrection act is for!”

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

“woke” is the new caravan.

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  2. 2.

    Elisabeth

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I don’t know ~ I ended up at a Jim Hoft story about how Obama partied while Egypt burned. Didn’t read the comments, though. Don’t have to.

  5. 5.

    Ash Can

    A Fox link, eh? Any reason to believe that there’s anything but severe brain damage on the other end?

  6. 6.

    RalfW

    I guess warmer air is more humid than cold air is waaaaaay to scientific a concept for Drudge America.

  7. 7.

    Comrade Mary

    Meanwhile, a tropical cyclone almost as large as the continental US is about to eat a fair chunk of Australia.

    Australia’s Cyclone Yasi may destroy even “cyclone proof” homes”

    Australia’s Cyclone Yasi, with winds of up to 300 km (186 miles) per hour, is so powerful it could blow apart even “cyclone proof” houses, engineers said on Wednesday.
    __
    Yasi is headed for major towns and cities along the northeast coast. It is believed to be the strongest ever to hit Australia, surpassing Cyclone Tracy which largely destroyed the northern city of Darwin in 1974.
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    “Once you get to extreme cases, you are in uncharted ground and the test data I have got I would not trust it if I had to live there myself,” said Dr Robert Leicester, a researcher with the government’s national scientific research body.

  9. 9.

    Parallel 5ths (Jewish Steel)

    My locally observed event contradicts your globally observed data! Fuck you, Earth Day!

    So, what part of Chicago are you from?

  13. 13.

    El Cid

    Apparently Frank Gaffney thinks the Muslim Brotherhood has its tendrils everywhere. Of course in the Kenyonesian White House, especially that Muslim Brotherhood fan, Janet Napolitano.

    [Gaffney: “Janet Napolitano, Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, is incessantly meeting with Muslim Brotherhood front organizations and I think has in the past, if not today, employed people who are associated with them.”

    But one can’t be too careful: CPAC’s riddled with them, too.

    …Frank Gaffney, a leader of the conservative movement for the last 30 years, charges that CPAC has come under the influence of the Muslim Brotherhood, which is working to bring America under Saudi-style Shariah law.
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    Gaffney, deputy assistant secretary of defense under Ronald Reagan, is founder and president of the Center for Security Policy and co-author of the new book “Shariah: The Threat to America.” He told WND that Islamism has infiltrated the American Conservative Union, the host of CPAC, in the person of Washington attorney and political activist Suhail Khan and a group called Muslims for America.

  14. 14.

    freelancer

    @RalfW:

    YES. As a matter of fact, it is. They don’t get the concept of water vapor in the atmosphere, and the capacity varies with temp. They just know BRR Cold SNOW! means Al Gore wuz WRONG! Suckonmytrucknutzlibs!

  16. 16.

    General Stuck

    @Comrade Mary:

    Jeebus, 186 mph hour, and spinning clockwise down under. If I remember correctly, Katrina briefly hit 170 mph, but made landfall at around 145 mph, or so. Global warming may not be creating more of these tropical storms, but you can’t convince me they aren’t making them bigger and more powerful.

  21. 21.

    Jody

    Oh my god, the stupid. And the comments…I had to bail before I saw a manbearpig reference, but I’m sure it’s there and in great quantities.

  22. 22.

    freelancer

    @RalfW:

    No, you just can’t fit it in a bumper sticker or a 30 second ad. I’ve been there, trying to explain any complex any idea with any nuance to a hostile audience is a profoundly difficult task, “Well there’s this thing called a Dew Point, and it’s a measure of the temperature at which the air is fully saturated with wator vap-”
    “Awwww, look at the librul! Tryin’ to spin shit and makin’ excuses for people who can’t admit they’re wrong! It snowed dumbass! Does it snow when it’s warm? No, Never has, never will.”

  24. 24.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Comrade Mary:

    Meanwhile, a tropical cyclone almost as large as the continental US is about to eat a fair chunk of Australia.

    Yasi is probably the most impressive cyclone (hurricane) in living memory. At the moment it has just gone category 5 (Katrina was category 3) and the core is about 500 miles wide.

    It’s likely to be devastating on its own, but it also happens to be hitting a section of coast that was subject to extremely severe flooding a couple of weeks ago. A small cyclone also passed through about a week ago.

    It’s expected to pass inland and reach the Northern Territory still classed as a cyclone. To get an idea of scale this would have been roughly equivalent to Katrina hitting New Orleans and continuing on inland to hit Omaha.

    Global Warming? You betcha.

  27. 27.

    Debbie(aussie)

    Global warming is about as moronic as evolution, although that might help explain the liberals. Even though I believe at least the conservatives were “created”, maybe the libs did evolve? Interesting thought.

    Read more: http://nation.foxnews.com/al-gore/2011/02/01/internet-inventor-gores-website-crashed-drudge#ixzz1Cp0MbjvE
    Now that is, truly a “moran” statement for you. Science being only theories and all.
    Oh and a by the way. Nth Qld, Australia is bracing for a catagory 5 cyclone over 500miles in diametre with gusts to 300kmh. Eye expected to cross the coast at approx 10pm (aus/qld time) tonight. Woll still be a cat2 approx 1000k in land. Now global warming here. ;)

  28. 28.

    jl

    @El Cid: I wonder whether nuts like Gaffney, Beck, etc. will totally 100% melt down on air one of these days and have to be led away in a straight jacket.

    CPAC? I have wondered whether Gaffney is a cynical manipulator, or nuts, but this bit of evidence points to nuts.

    At least we can depend on Palin and Bachmann to stay in role, or not drop the Kayfabe (a cool Pro wrestling word I larned right here on Balloon-juice).

    Edit: I see Gaffney suddenly staring with horror straight into the camera, and pointing at the cameraman. “You! You’re one of them too! I saw that, I saw you! You don’t remember the man with the parrot in Timbuktu, do you! Ha!”

  29. 29.

    junebug

    Actually met Gore at a book signing in 2004. Not a good place for someone NOT in the draft Gore place. My friend got her book signed just before me and urged him to run. I just said thank you. Gore responded differently.

    I hate all this shit of personality and nonsense. There’s even one guy on the radio who claims to have invented the internet with someone who is not Al Gore.

    This is nonsense. Complete crap. ‘m going to check on my outside kittens. There lives in these freezing temps mean more than Drudge or any of his links. Hasn’t Facebook and Twitter proven that yet?

    If not, HURRY UP!

    I haven’t heard “DRUDGE” mentioned lately.

  30. 30.

    RalfW

    @freelancer: For some, it’s that the explanation is longer than a Jay Leno joke.

    But there is a wide streak of near total anti-science to a lot of Beckian, Drudgeian types.

    Ideologies are incontrovertible, but scientific facts are all opinions cooked up by pointy headed liberals who blew the curve in their 8th grade class so they should be beat up and laughed at.

  31. 31.

    GregB

    It is getting tough not getting discouraged as we watch this nation drowning slowly in a vast ocean of idiocy.

  32. 32.

    Paul

    Gore’s website crashed almost immediately following Drudge’s link. The irony for Gore is that he has touted his role of “creating the Internet.”

    Yes, ironic, like rain on your wedding day.

  35. 35.

    KG

    @freelancer: part of the problem is that it’s called global warming. They hear “warming” and then see three feet of snow and say, “see, you were wrong, wrong, wrong.” That’s why they always bring up the fact that people use to worry about an ice age, and now worry about warming.

  37. 37.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Paul:

    The irony for Gore is that he has touted his role of “creating the Internet.”

    The irony being that he probably did. At least the Internet as it exists today.

    Internet pioneers Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn stated that “we don’t think, as some people have argued, that Gore intended to claim he ‘invented’ the Internet. Moreover, there is no question in our minds that while serving as Senator, Gore’s initiatives had a significant and beneficial effect on the still-evolving Internet.” Cerf would also later state: “Al Gore had seen what happened with the National Interstate and Defense Highways Act of 1956, which his father introduced as a military bill. It was very powerful. Housing went up, suburban boom happened, everybody became mobile. Al was attuned to the power of networking much more than any of his elective colleagues. His initiatives led directly to the commercialization of the Internet. So he really does deserve credit.”

    Vint Cerf and Bob Kahn were the government employess who actually did invent the Internet. All that Al Gore can really lay claim to is turning that Internet from a Geek Ghetto into the World Wide Web. Nothing important at all.

  39. 39.

    KG

    @freelancer: ha! but it has electrolytes! it has what plants need!

    I also wish the state of the union was more like that movie.

    ETA: the other one you hear a lot is, “you mean there was an ice age a few million years ago, good thing we weren’t driving cars”

  41. 41.

    Wilson Heath

    I see retarded people. Walking around like loons in tricorner hats. They don’t see reality. They only see what billionaires want them to. They don’t know they’re retarded.

  43. 43.

    scav

    @GregB:

    It is getting tough not getting discouraged as we watch this nation drowning slowly in a vast ocean of idiocy.

    Makes extinction seem like a pareto-improving solution though. Sigh.

  45. 45.

    Paul

    @Viva BrisVegas:

    It would be ironic if Al Gore invented the internet with the intent to crash Drudge’s website or some such, otherwise not too much irony here, is all I was sayin’.

  47. 47.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @Paul:

    It would be ironic if Al Gore invented the internet with the intent to crash Drudge’s website or some such, otherwise not too much irony here, is all I was sayin’.

    Sorry Paul, I wasn’t pointing the finger at you. I was just pointing out how the Drudge Drones are so completely unaware of how ironic are their own comments about irony.

  48. 48.

    Seth Finkelstein

    Gore never claimed to have *invented* the Internet. It you read his whole statement, in context, it is completely clear he was making a prosaic claim about his legislative work in support of Internet development.

    I maintain a page about this story, at http://sethf.com/gore/

    The invented story was basically fabricated by an infamous right-wing (Libertarian type) “journalist”, who gleefully worked with the Republicans to attack Al Gore here. And has been hugely successfully at spreading his invention.

  49. 49.

    hampton

    this reminds of the times when alexander graham bell got a busy signal and henry ford got a flat tire.

  50. 50.

    suzanne

    The only reason I doubt evolution is because there’s still so many people who are dumber than a fucking box of rocks.

    That’s a joke, for the record.

  51. 51.

    BGinCHI

    Followed the link, went on the Fox site, got mad (it’s a blizzard, couple drinks), and thought I’d bomb the thread with some suggestive comments.

    Tried to sign in with the handle “ailessucksdicks” but it informed me this was already taken.

    That was good enough for me.

    On the shoulders of giants.

  52. 52.

    fucen tarmal

    it must be c-pap time, teh conservatards are trotting out all the old chestnuts of their oppression fantasies.

    for grins i read a brett bozzell cry-for-help, er editiorial, on town hall, about how after 100 years the media is finally starting to blow reagan enough for him, i mean correct me if i am wrong, but most of reagan’s 100 years weren’t worth even the heartiest of mythmaking, but yes the media is 100 years too slow, they should have circled reagan’s crib like wise men around a manger, and preserved his swaddling like the shroud of turin if it weren’t fake, like reagan, because it should have been obvious to all from day one that reagan was always perfect and infalliable, except for hawking cigarettes and making bonzo movies, but even jesus had some bush years he would rather no one account for….

  53. 53.

    Malron

    HAHA, they actually moderate comments over there but that drivel still made it through. I’m sure mine won’t though. “Never in the history of the internet have so many idiots been assembled in one place” probably doesn’t survive the wingnut filter. Plus, there’s a picture of a black guy next to my comment so I’m not optimistic about my chances….

  54. 54.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Everything the wingtards spout about “liberals” is projection. The suppression of dissent in particular. Free Republic, the notorious reactionary web site that was a hotbed of Clinton hatred back in the 90’s, would ban comments that dared to break the wingtard echo chamber effect, in mere minutes after them being posted, and the poster would be banned.

  55. 55.

    Ranger 3

    I am so inspired by the protests in Cairo. The picture of Mubarak with the Star of David etched in his forehead is especially inspiring.

    It’s like MLK said… I have a dream of THE STREETS RUNNING WITH THE BLOOD OF THE NON-BELIEVERS!

    Oh wait… I may have gotten that part wrong.

  58. 58.

    freelancer

    @Ranger 3:

    I am so inspired by the protests in Cairo. The picture of Mubarak with the Star of David etched in his forehead is especially inspiring.

    Uhhhm, here.

    Minutes after Mr. Mubarak announced that he would not seek another term in office, Sonia Verma, a reporter for Canada’s Globe and Mail, witnessed an interesting clash between members of the Islamist Muslim Brotherhood and other protesters in Cairo’s Tahrir Square. She reported via Twitter:

    Brotherhood chanting “Allah Akbar.” Others shout them down. This is still a secular protest.

    And all the protesters against the Iraq war were cuckoo for cocoa puffs members of Code Pink. The plural of anecdote is not data. The plural of wingnut puke-funnel news-cycle reports is a new species of narrative broadcast life known as Wrongi. Many people like them on pizza, but are awful.

  59. 59.

    niknik

    Wilson Heath wins the Internet for the day.

    I made it through a grand total of three comments before I had to stop. I just don’t have the patience for these fucktards and their “opinions”. What is wrong with these people?

  60. 60.

    Ranger 3

    @freelancer: The “ummm…” thing is the most annoying catchphrase on the internet. Just getting that out of the way for starters.

    The plural of wingnut puke-funnel news-cycle reports is a new species of narrative broadcast life known as Wrongi.

    You are the wingnut, friend. I belong neither to your tribe nor the Fox News tribe. I find the idea that the Egyptian population are going to bring about a just and rational government in the wake of Mubarak implausible, because they are in fact a bunch of ignorant, impoverished Arabs. I think it is more likely that we can expect a government which is hostile to the US and extremely hostile to Israel.

    Now I am willing to stipulate that Israel is the most evilest country evah in order to expidite this argument (which you are losing… badly), but as I am partial to the US this may not be a good thing.

    It is impossible for anyone to know for certain how this will pan out. But while you laugh at the Fox News set for their predictions of a Greek Caliphate, your claims of this event being some sort of victory for egalitarian democracy are just as delusional.

    I’d like to think this is all a good thing, and who knows, maybe it is. But the available evidence suggests it will not be. I realize it’s hard for you to imagine that any government independent of the US could do bad things, but actually it could happen.

  63. 63.

    JGabriel

    jl:

    At least we can depend on Palin and Bachmann to stay in role, or not drop the Kayfabe (a cool Pro wrestling word I larned right here on Balloon-juice).

    I like the implied analogy — Fox News : Cable News :: Professional Wrestling : Professional Sports.

    .

  64. 64.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Ranger 3:

    Now I am willing to stipulate that Israel is the most evilest country evah in order to expidite this argument (which you are losing… badly), but as I am partial to the US this may not be a good thing.

    When I read your comment as satire, its hilarious.

    ETA: Arkon DougJ, you’ve linked to a place where I cannot follow, for that way lies only madness.

  65. 65.

    rickstersherpa

    One of the sad things in the world of the last 20 years is how grifters like Gaffney have been awarded. Originally, his thing was flogging the Red Menance to support every possible military contract, particularly the missile defense Star War contracts during the Reagan and Bush I administration. Then he switched and started flogging the coming Red Chinese menance during Clinton years (however, these were dry years for him as the MSM was far more interested in President Clinton’s sex life and telling tall tales about the detestable Al Gore (see Dowd, Maureen; Connolly, Ceci; and Klein, Joseph).

    We humans are tribal creatures, when we have choices between being good members of the tribe and the truth, most choose to be good members of the tribe.

  66. 66.

    Maude

    Juan Williams doesn’t like Obama. He was pontificating about Obama and Egypt. It would have been far easier if he had said he didn’t like Obama and everything Obama does is wrong. Oh, Obama should have sided with the protesters. Now that the Egyptian army has said that the protests have gone on long enough and may be backing Mubarak, yeah, encourage the protesters to go up against the army and government.

  68. 68.

    Shabbazz

    I find the idea that the Egyptian population are going to bring about a just and rational government in the wake of Mubarak implausible, because they are in fact a bunch of ignorant, impoverished Arabs.

    I can’t believe I really have to say this, but…No. Egyptians are, in fact, NEITHER Arabs nor ignorant. Un-freaking-believable.

  69. 69.

    evinfuilt

    After looking at a few comments there, I know feel like a Gumby. “My brain hurts”, or I could just say “Moisture, how does it work” but thats not as funny.

    That is a sad slice of illiterate America. Purposeful ignorance is a truly sad sight.

  71. 71.

    soonergrunt

    @General Stuck: May 3, 1999 tornado, Oklahoma City, F5 (old scale, probably F6 “wrath of God”).
    320mph+ (514kph+) winds (NOAA Doppler radar was not capable of accurately measuring winds above 320 mph)
    1.1 billion dollars in damage.
    It was one of over 60 tornadoes in a 72 hour period.
    It was a rough week.

  72. 72.

    booda

    Anybody here know why wingnuts call him “Algore”? Rush does it and so do my crazy conservative relatives and they seem to think it’s really clever and funny. Am I missing something here? What’s the joke? Or is it – as usual – a wingnut comedy fail?

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