Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Rupert, come get your orange boy, you petrified old dinosaur turd.

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

I desperately hope that, yet again, i am wrong.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

The words do not have to be perfect.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

Second rate reporter says what?

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

The republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

How any woman could possibly vote for this smug smarmy piece of misogynistic crap is beyond understanding.

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

He seems like a smart guy, but JFC, what a dick!

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

Well, whatever it is, it’s better than being a Republican.

Come on, man.

Celebrate the fucking wins.

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  4. 4.

    The Moar You Know

    Discuss which major event you think was an elaborate hoax.

    Funny, I was thinking about this at lunch. My honest answer: All of them. I wasn’t there and cannot testify to their veracity of any “major event” save for the 1989 Loma Prieta earthquake in Northern California. I can testify that this event happened, as I was there.

    But the rest might as well be hoaxes. Wasn’t there, didn’t see it happen, didn’t know anyone affected.

  8. 8.

    Schlemizel

    L’il Andy? Really? sigh

    OTOH the paultard I work with saw a video on line of a missile hitting that plant in West Tx. SO now he is sure it was an attack. He is not sure yet if it was the Government or Monsanto.

    And little Tard Jr. today says he has no problem with using drones to shot and kill criminals in the US. He specifically mentioned a guy coming out of a liquor store with a gun & $50. Libertarians finest!

  11. 11.

    Redshirt

    So I feel a bit guilty. Here’s why:

    Put up a bird feeder last week. Havin’ a blast! Some crazy red sparrow was there today, beautiful bird.

    But then today, a Turkey Vulture kept sweeping by the bird feeder. I was thinking he was going to go for one of my birds, so when I saw he had perched in a tree, I ran out and scared him off, then did so again an hour later.

    I just went outside and just below where the vulture was perching is a very fresh dead bunny rabbit with its head missing and guts splayed open.

    Thus, I just prevented the vulture from a good meal.

    Boo, me!

    I trust someone else will eat dead rabbit. But probably not that dude. Alas.

  12. 12.

    YellowJournalism

    Y2K actually happened, later on the computers took over the world, and we are all just stuck in a Matrix program.

  13. 13.

    Ben Franklin

    Using Sullivan as a source? I guess he’s somewhere in the Muddle.

    As to conspirasees…..Let’s all build a campfire and sing some songs.

  15. 15.

    scav

    Everything prior to WWI. Clearly the world was never Sepia because the invention of color would have been covered in depth by CNN and the History Channel.

  16. 16.

    jibeaux

    That’s a great dog picture.
    We have a dog and one foster dog, which have developed something of a bond for one another and we have a nice household rapport now with no one having any particularly bad habits. The place we got the foster from is now trying to place a lot more dogs — 14 that it pulled from a hoarding situation with FORTY dogs, all of whom will be pulled by the county on Fri. if they’re not disbursed. It’s just heartbreaking. If you’re so inclined, sponsor. I know, it’s in every town in every state of the union, every day of the year, but it’s worth a link.

  20. 20.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    Andrew Sullivan is an elaborate hoax; it is the simplest possible explanation.

  21. 21.

    Suffern ACE

    @Redshirt: Yeah, don’t worry about the turkey vultures eating your birds. If they eat the dead things, you don’t need to dig a hole to bury them yourself. The vultures aren’t really designed to catch things, especially things that aren’t already sick and seriously wounded. Your birds are fine.

  22. 22.

    Redshirt

    @Suffern ACE: It wasn’t so much that I was afraid the vultures would eat my little friends, but rather that he was scaring them off. I want my entertainment!

    Sorry again, Mr (or Mrs.) turkey vulture. :(

  26. 26.

    IowaOldLady

    OT, but I wish to bitch. Last week, Mr IOL and I were in the south of France, like the dissolute, effete wine guzzlers we are. And for reasons I won’t go into, I wound up talking to an attorney from Florida at the next table. I mentioned I taught at Iowa State and we chatted about other stuff and then he came back to the topic of Iowa in general.

    He said he asked a friend from Iowa why the state is “so darn liberal.” Which first of all, what? The friend apparently told him it was because 50% of the state population worked for government at some level. Which also, what? And also too, I just told him I taught at ISU. Did he mean insult me to my face somehow or…what?

    I was so mad I told him he was speaking BS. Mr IOL laughed and we left.

  32. 32.

    David Koch

    So Rand Paul came out today in favor of using DЯØИ3Z to kill liquor store burglars and he wanted to use to DЯØИ3Z to kill the Boston bombers.

    So he was against DЯØИ3Z before he was for DЯØИ3Z.

    And all the firebagging/PUMA morons fell for AqquaBuddha’s filibuster

    I’m Shocked! I’m Shocked!

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    I think the American Revolution was a hoax. We’re really still part of the United Kingdom, but they’re playing us for fools by letting us think we’re independent.

  34. 34.

    ruemara

    Oh my lawd. Young, very smart, scientist friend is posting bullshit conspiracy theories about the government blowing up civilians in Boston to cover for CISPA being passed by Congress. Only my fondness for him preserves me from saying, You’re too damned smart for this bullshittery, you’re a fucking scientist, do research! So I kindly introduced him to the 2 bodies of Congress and how laws are passed along with how militarized the police force is along with the fact that his brown middle eastern heritage ass would be in these pictures too, if he was in Boston with a backpack. Good Lord. What is it about smart people and bullshit conspiracy theories?

  37. 37.

    Mnemosyne

    @Redshirt:

    I’m sure he’ll be back for his meal at some point, so I wouldn’t feel too guilty. The other birds can figure out he’s a vulture and not a hawk, so I don’t think they would be very bothered by him once he settles in to eat.

    Circle of life!

  45. 45.

    Redshirt

    @Anne Laurie: Awesome! It was a house finch. The google images matches him exactly. Thank you! I need to get a bird book as I’m at a loss how to identify most of the birds showing up.

    The vulture was definitely a vulture though. Got a good look at him – they’ve returned for the season, from wherever they go in the Winter.

  48. 48.

    Redshirt

    @Mnemosyne: I hope so. Now, selfishly once again, I want the dead fluffy bunny gone, preferably not by own hands.

    I wonder who killed him first. They didn’t eat much, as the head is gone, one leg is detached, the belly opened, but everything else is pretty intact. Fresh as hell.

    I’ve got a feeling I’ve got some cats of prey around here (bobcat), but no evidence than a fleeting glimpse of some weird, blond cat off in the woods.

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    @Ben Franklin:
    Somehow you didn’t mention the part where the President has threatened to veto the thing if it reaches his desk. I wonder why…

  51. 51.

    The Moar You Know

    @David Koch: Rand will be known to future historians as one of the era’s consummate politicians, a man who truly grasps that to a culture as seriously stupid as America’s, you really can be all things to all people.

  53. 53.

    Punchy

    The Sue-Nammy of 2004 was faked. Giant wave machine built by GE and run by the Koch brothers. All of the video was from paid participants. Notice how no celebrities died? B/c they all had advanced warning from a George Soros email and early flights out via TWA.

  54. 54.

    MattR

    @ranchandsyrup: I was pretty sure you were not in CO. SD area right? At least you get to stick that name in Chargers fan’s faces. Nobody really cares in NY/NJ, except for a couple really old school die hard Yankees fans :)

    I am still annoyed I forgot to buy a custom #18 jersey with the name “Not Tebow” to wear to the game vs Carolina last year.

  57. 57.

    ranchandsyrup

    @MattR: Oh yeah. I do that all the time. Standard comeback: I would have named him Fouts or Rivers but they never won anything.

    Sometimes I wonder if I erred in naming him after a wingnut, but I have come to peace with admiring Horse Tooth Elway for his on-field acts only.

    LOL re: “Not Tebow”.

  61. 61.

    Morzer

    @Anne Laurie:

    Actually, the color of house finches is dependent on the pigment of berries and fruit in their diet, which is is why it seems to be seasonal.

  63. 63.

    MattR

    @ranchandsyrup:

    LOL re: “Not Tebow”

    The reason why the Peyton Manning signing was brilliant even if he reinjured his neck and never played a down.

    Sometimes I wonder if I erred in naming him after a wingnut, but I have come to peace with admiring Horse Tooth Elway for his on-field acts only.

    I had the same problem and reached the same conclusion. But at least he’s not Joe Ellis, right? My rule of thumb is that as long as any famous person is not too active with their wingnuttery, I try to ignore that and focus on their performance in their field (Adam Baldwin is another.)

  65. 65.

    MattR

    @Certified Mutant Enemy: I have heard Seth talk about that. Crazy. IIRC, he has a history of arriving late and missing/almost missing flights. It would have been much crazier if he was one of those people who arrives three hours earlier just in case. But I am also sure there are a ton of those type of stories. We just never hear about them because they aren’t happening to celebrities.

  66. 66.

    Bobby Thomson

    @IowaOldLady: You should have said “Because we can read.”

    Seriously, Iowa has a high literacy rate and good public schools. My grandmother (who heard Carver when he was at Simpson College) taught in them for decades.

  69. 69.

    The Moar You Know

    Because you are an idiotic troll with neither credibility nor facts at your disposal.

    @Morzer: Seconded.

    If you want to discuss matters of importance, it’s probably not best to make a career out of proving that you’re incapable of doing just that.

  70. 70.

    Jerzy Russian

    @ranchandsyrup: Sometimes I wonder if I erred in naming him after a wingnut, but I have come to peace with admiring Horse Tooth Elway for his on-field acts only.

    How wingnutty is the real John Elway? I was a fan back in the day, but I have not gone out of my way to track down his present-day activities (apart from being the GM of the Broncos).

  71. 71.

    ranchandsyrup

    @MattR: I’m stealing your rule of thumb. It’s a goodun.

    Was going through some old pics a while back and found a pic of me in my Orange Crush shirt in 1978 with Craig Morton. Good times. My parents swore I told him that I cried after they lost in the SB to the Cowboys and he said, “Me too.”

  73. 73.

    NotMax

    What, no “Tsarnaev born in Kenya, wet nursed by Obama relation” conspiracy blather from the Taitz wing of the asylum?

  75. 75.

    gbear

    @Redshirt: I wish something would kill off the bunnies in my yard. They killed off a couple of young crabapple trees in my yard last winter, and they’re eating the living pellets out of my garden. They’re everywhere. I have a live trap that I need to start loading up with carrots. I can take them down to the parks near the Mississippi for the hawks, eagles and foxes to pick off.

  76. 76.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    the ad on this page – “President Palin? Vote” – is clearly a hoax.

  77. 77.

    danielx

    Hospital surgery waiting areas suck, especially when they’re fixing something that they should have done correctly when they were doing surgery on your daughter 27 days ago. Fuck fuckity fuck and double fuck.

  79. 79.

    MattR

    @ranchandsyrup: Nice. Morton was a bit before my time (and probably a good thing I did not have to suffer through one more super bowl loss. OTOH, maybe that loss would have better prepared me for the Giants loss – which was a real tough one for an 11 year old living in the NYC suburbs). Elway was the reason I became a Broncos fan at age 8 though I ouldn’t tell you now exactly why.

  81. 81.

    ArchTeryx

    @Redshirt: Well, they’ll eventually figure out that Turkey Vulture =/= Sharp-Shinned (or Cooper’s) Hawk, the two you REALLY have to watch for at a bird feeder. They’re both accipiters, i.e. bird-eating specialists (there’s a reason why the European version is called a Sparrowhawk) and they lurves them some bird feeders – they serve up movable feasts.

    Hey, you learned, and the vulture was no worse off, really. The one thing they usually don’t have to worry about is a shortage of dead things to eat, particularly around human habitation.

  82. 82.

    Sad_Dem

    @IowaOldLady: Embarrassing moments in being an American #1: Sitting on a plane next to a nice young Spanish man. On his other side: an older American couple who spent much of the flight illuminating him with their Bircher insights on the dangers of communism.

  83. 83.

    Roger Moore

    @ranchandsyrup:

    Oh yeah. I do that all the time. Standard comeback: I would have named him Fouts or Rivers but they never won anything.

    Shouldn’t the dog be named after the guy who does the catching, though, rather than the one who does the throwing?

  85. 85.

    Roger Moore

    @ranchandsyrup:

    Was going through some old pics a while back and found a pic of me in my Orange Crush shirt in 1978 with Craig Morton.

    Wow, that brings back memories. I was five that season, and I’ve been a fan ever since.

  86. 86.

    Ben Franklin

    Nothing to see here…carry on

    http://www.globalresearch.ca/the-boston-bombings-and-the-fbi-official-tsarnaev-story-makes-no-sense/5332535

    In early 2011 the FBI interview Tsarnaev and trawl his papers and computers but apparently – remarkably for somebody allegedly radicalised by internet – the habitually paranoid FBI find nothing of concern.

    So far, so weird. But now this gets utterly incredible. In 2012 Tamerlan Tsarnaev, who is of such concern to Russian security, is able to fly to Russia and pass through the airport security checks of the world’s most thoroughly and brutally efficient security services without being picked up.

    He is then able to proceed to Dagestan – right at the heart of the world’s heaviest military occupation and the world’s most far reaching secret police surveillance – again without being intercepted, and he is able there to go through some form of terror training or further Islamist indoctrination. He then flies out again without any intervention by the Russian security services.

    That is the official story and I have no doubt it did not happen. I know Russia and I know the Russian security services. Whatever else they may be, they are extremely well-equipped, experienced and efficient and embedded into a social fabric accustomed to cooperation with their mastery.

    This scenario is simply impossible in the real world.

    We have, by the official account, the involvement of the two Tsarnaev brothers, the FBI and the Russian security services. The FBI have a massive recent record of running agent provocateur operations to entrap gullible Muslims into terrorism.

    The Russian security services have form on false flag Chechen bombings. Where the truth lies may be difficult to dig out. But the above official version is not true.

  87. 87.

    Roger Moore

    @gbear:

    I wish something would kill off the bunnies in my yard.

    Have you considered a large cat or medium sized dog? It’s either that, or put coyote attractant- perhaps an ACME catalog- in your yard.

  88. 88.

    ArchTeryx

    @Roger Moore: You’d think that after all those years of chasing road runners, bunny rabbits would have been a peaceful retirement in comparison.

    Then, there actually was a Wile E. Coyote/Bugs Bunny crossover. It didn’t end well then, either!

  89. 89.

    David Koch

    Joss Whedon would have offed Buzz Aldrin in the third act.

    Whedon would have cast Eliza Dushku instead of Aldrin.

  90. 90.

    bemused

    @Schlemizel:

    Is Monsanto hating a new thing with rightwingers? I was puzzled reading a comment in a local paper from a wingnut just fuming about the evils of Monsanto. It’s kind of bizarre that they think food coops are run by environmental whackadoodle socialists while at the same time think Monsanto is just as dangerous.

  91. 91.

    Roger Moore

    @David Koch:

    Whedon would have cast Eliza Dushku instead of Aldrin.

    In which case you can be sure it would have been Armstrong Nathan Fillion who would have gotten the axe. No way does Wheedon kill off Dushku.

  93. 93.

    gbear

    @Roger Moore: I’ve got two cats but they’re indoor only. My neighbors have a great dane that jumps around and barks about the bunnies, but I’ve never seen him actually catch one.

  95. 95.

    NotMax

    General query:

    First time using a gel-type dishwasher detergent rather than old-fashioned granular soap.

    Supposed to use the same amount as do with the powdered stuff?

  96. 96.

    Roger Moore

    @gbear:

    My neighbors have a great dane that jumps around and barks about the bunnies, but I’ve never seen him actually catch one.

    The key thing is whether the animal is willing to chase the bunny. Barking won’t scare them off for long, but enough chasing will convince them that your yard is a hostile environment. Even if they never actually get caught, they’ll look for a more welcoming place to eat if they can’t sit down and munch in peace.

  97. 97.

    Ben Franklin

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    I put that thru Google translate, and although it appears to be English, the best it can come up with is ‘absolutely confused about important matters other than American Idol’

    Is that what you get?

  98. 98.

    Helmut Monotreme

    That is the official story and I have no doubt it did not happen. I know Russia and I know the Russian security services. Whatever else they may be, they are extremely well-equipped, experienced and efficient and embedded into a social fabric accustomed to cooperation with their mastery.

    Every organization has two sides. The highly efficient side they show to the press and the public which is full of ambitious competent go-getters, and the side they try to hide filled with screw ups, time servers and nepotism. I guess what I’m trying to say is, in the words of a great man whose identity I can’t recall is: “never ascribe to malice that which can adequately be explained by incompetence”.

  103. 103.

    Keith G

    The Israeli military is being more insistent on its reporting that there are signs of the use of sarin gas in Syria. Hoax? Hope so.

    If that turns out to be happening, what does the US do?

  104. 104.

    LanceThruster

    @Ben Franklin:

    Well then, ambassador to a place no one’s ever heard of means that he was just exiled there and has no knowledge or understanding of what goes on locally.

  108. 108.

    Another Halocene Human

    @IowaOldLady: Rich Southerners like to feel each other out by casually making their Bizarro World statements to each other when in exile from Christiandom. It doesn’t matter where they go, they see the world through Southern Elite glasses.

    There’s a lady, she’s the inlaw of my inlaws, who freaked when she found out that my wife and I were headed for SE Europe on vacation a few years ago basically because some young people had been protesting their total lack of jobs in Spain. Okay… geography fail… geopolitics fail… sociology fail…

    Also, too, betcha this guy is a corporate lizard. Everything he’s saying smacks of “that hate us for our freedoms” rationalization. Florida is too durn liberal for him but the state GOP managed to subvert the will of the people (a plebiscite no less) and enacted one last gerrymander to keep control of Tallahassee a little bit longer. Regular people in Florida are pretty sick of the GOP but he can excuse them as government workers (ie, the only middle class Florida’s got), government pensioners, and moochers & takers (private sector workers and their families). If only the franchise were limited to landowners/job creators!

  112. 112.

    Redshirt

    @Redshift: Thanks, Doppelganger. Bookmarked and will use.

    I’ve counted 9 different birds so far, and all but 2 I’ve identified. There’s been two finches, or sparrows, who show typical brown/white wing patterns, but have stripes of color on their head. One had yellow stripes, the other had red spots almost stretched to stripes.

    It’s fun watching their behavior. Like taking turns! And cleaning up after yourself. Everyone plays fair and square, except for the Blue Jays.

  113. 113.

    Schlemizel

    it seems the opinion here is that Ben Franklin has risen to the level of Douche & Bag on the troll-o-meter. This raises the question, Why is anyone intentionally interacting with them?

    Since attention is all they crave why give it to them? Sure, he will throw a giant tantrum at some point but when it does not get them the attention they never got from mommy and daddy they will go away.

  114. 114.

    Another Halocene Human

    @ruemara: What is it about smart people and bullshit conspiracy theories?

    What is it with Nobel laureates pushing megadose Vitamin C as a panacea?

    Sometimes people who are really, really, really good in their specialty fall victim to making really, really, really stupid pronouncements outside of it, but with all the confidence that being really, really, really good at that one thing grants them.

    It’s some sort of cognitive pitfall which we sometimes term hubris.

  116. 116.

    The Moar You Know

    The Israeli military is being more insistent on its reporting that there are signs of the use of sarin gas in Syria. Hoax? Hope so.

    If that turns out to be happening, what does the US do?

    @Keith G: Cheer on the Syrians. Otherwise, not a fucking thing.

  117. 117.

    Ben Franklin

    @Schlemizel:

    Since attention is all they crave why give it to them?

    Boy, are you wrong…….even though y’all like to compartmentalize and control the dialogue, you are full of shit and must acquit.

  120. 120.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    @NotMax:

    What, no “Tsarnaev born in Kenya, wet nursed by Obama relation” conspiracy blather from the Taitz wing of the asylum?

    It’s all part of the conspiracy masterminded by Vince Foster after he faked his death to cover up his lesbian affair with Hillary Clinton.

  123. 123.

    MattR

    @2liberal: I heard on CNN that cat pictures always land picture side up. At least that was what their source was telling them.

  124. 124.

    Ben Franklin

    Sorry for the temporary interruption of your favorite program, folks. The air needs to be cleared…..or new thread to escape to?

  125. 125.

    Schlemizel

    isn’t that cute? It wants me to rise to the bait. Honey, if Douche & Bag couldn’t make it happen that weak troll-fu won’t.

  127. 127.

    Tara the Antisocial Social Worker

    @MattR:

    And since toast always lands butter-side down, if you strap a piece of buttered toast to a cat’s back and then drop it, it will hover 6 inches above the ground, turning endlessly.

    Or so the theory goes. Cole tried it once with Tunch, and Rosie ate the toast while Tunch was still midair, and Tunch landed on Cole’s foot, causing him to trip over Lily and give himself a massive goose egg on the forehead.

    If you haven’t heard about this, it’s a conspiracy by Dougj and ABL!

  130. 130.

    NotMax

    @Lance Thruster

    ambassador to a place no one’s ever heard of

    Uzbekistan? Under the iron fist of the authoritarian despot Karimov, whose role in the brutal Andijan massacre prompted the U.S. to put him and the country on the black list of human rights violators, leading Karimov to ‘request’ the U.S. vacate their base of operations there?

    Uzbekistan? Where poltitical finagling allowed the re-establishment of some U.S. military operations there after we had left?

    Uzbekistan? Where Karimov and the country is now back in better graces with the U.S., and negotiations for a new base of operations to be used for materiel storage and a launch site for quick strike operations inside Afghanistan after U.S. troops leave in 2014?

    That Uzbekistan?

  131. 131.

    Citizen_X

    Best hoax evar? That whole Jesus-is-resurrected thing that Paul did. Still has people going two thousand years on.

  132. 132.

    Keith G

    @The Moar You Know: Not a totally bad option, depending on which Syrians you are cheering for.

    That said, if the regime has actually used sarin, does that means that chemical weapons are forward-deployed and no longer “locked safe” in bunkers? What is our interest in seeing that change?

  133. 133.

    Matt McIrvin

    @IowaOldLady:

    He said he asked a friend from Iowa why the state is “so darn liberal.” Which first of all, what?

    Legal gay marriage + voting for Obama = so darn liberal. Florida is only one out of two.

  135. 135.

    Another Halocene Human

    @David Koch: And all the firebagging/PUMA morons fell for AqquaBuddha’s filibuster

    And in the end the fear your take is greater than the fear you make

    or vice versa or something

  136. 136.

    Ben Franklin

    @Bruce S:

    We know. But he wasn’t actually freed, ya know, because the Feds haven’t dropped charges, or so say the local consigliere

  138. 138.

    Another Halocene Human

    @bemused: Wait, let me cook some popcorn, this sounds good.

    ETA: Oh fuck, US grown corn is probably GMO, I’m in on it too. The GMO’s communicate with the CIA implant in my skull!! Swear off popcorn before it’s too late!!

    PS: so that’s why I can’t find corn pasta, all the gluten-free faddists want to eat non GMO food, never mind GERD suffering me just wants some noodles that don’t cause vurps and don’t taste like fucking cardboard, fucking nasty brown rice noodles, ugh ugh ugh

  139. 139.

    Morzer

    @efgoldman:

    The trick is that their plumage varies depending on their diet, so you get house finches in shades of yellow, orange and red. Impressive, but hard to pin down.

  140. 140.

    mai naem

    I thought this thread was going to be full of snarky stuff about the Holocaust denial and photoshopped Hurricane Katrina pics. BJ posters have disappointed me.

  142. 142.

    Randy P

    @Roger Moore: Our Labrador was a fanatical squirrel chaser and of course she never came close to catching one. Till one winter day when the snow was deep enough to slow down the squirrel but not her, so she basically tripped over it. Had no idea what to do with it, just stood back up, let it start running again and resumed the chase.

    Probably discouraged the squirrel for at least a little while, but perhaps not. Squirrels around here don’t intimidate easy.

  144. 144.

    Eric U.

    I’m pretty sure our dog has caught and killed a couple of bunnies, which is impressive since he’s tied up when he’s in the back yard. He has the wire rope pretty well figured out, he heads off running in the direction where it will offer the least resistance for most of his run at the victim. I’ve seen him get really close, I’m pretty sure all the gutted rabbits I have seen have been within the length of the rope. Rabbits eat right at the edge of where he can get and just ignore him most of the time, drives him nuts.

  146. 146.

    bemused

    @Another Halocene Human:

    The commenter was quite incensed about Monsanto taking over our food supply. I’m afraid my eyes glazed over and I don’t remember the details. The funny part is that he (I assume old, white male) had just finished ranting about food coops. Wingnut & food coop folks have many of the same complaints but wingnut didn’t even realize that. Weirdest thing.

  148. 148.

    ruemara

    @bemused: I find it disconcerting when our minimal, rare population of wingnuts show up at our local co-op with the NOBAMA bumperstickers and the gun stickers. Who are you people, why aren’t you at the Savemart? But no, they want their pure organic healthy stuff too. They just prefer to believe crap and vote for people that would destroy all the organic and the healthy in a heartbeat. O. K.

  149. 149.

    OmerosPeanut

    George R.R. Martin was hired to write early drafts of Apollo 13 but the bankrollers felt it went too far.

  155. 155.

    LanceThruster

    @RobNYNY1957:

    I’m with you there. He couldn’t asked for a sweeter deal. Dying while the verdict was appealed meant it was treated as no conviction.

    Lucky little “Kenny boy.”

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