Re: the Navy Yard shooting, how soon before we get the NRA saying that the shooting wouldn’t have happened if only those Navy people had access to firearms.
@Josie: I just try to soldier on and be the change I want to see in others.
7.
HelloRochester
Yeah, I heard that from an active-duty Army Teatard right after Ft. Hood. And Aurora. And Sandy Hook….
8.
HelloRochester
Yeah, I heard that from an active-duty Army Teatard right after Ft. Hood. And Aurora. And Sandy Hook….
9.
srv
Donald Trump weighed in Monday on the Federal Reserve, predicting Janet Yellen will most likely be the next chairwoman following the news that Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has withdrawn his name from consideration.
…
Trump added that Yellen is “gonna be printing money” and said that’s good news for him as a developer. “I have to say selfishly, as long as I’m in my role as developer, I love cheap money, I mean I’ve always loved it,” Trump said.
All Bills fans should very happy today! Only the second game and you’ve already hit the mark for half the wins you’ll have this season!
18.
Corner Stone
@Punchy: Please tell me you’ve been holding back on that one.
19.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Corner Stone, I am prepared to confront you if need be. I won’t tolerate any of your casual insouciance to the feelings of others, particularly woeful Bills fans.
@srv: Trump still thinks of himself as a developer? To the rest of us he’s on the level of a Jersey Shore castmember.
32.
The Red Pen
On a subject not related to shooting: the Wingnut Wurlizer has been cranked to 11 (it’s stuck in that setting, really) about some Obamacare provision to collect information on patients’ sexual history.
I haven’t had a chance to dig into the actual facts behind this complaint, but I have noticed that the Usual Whingers are whinging in unison on the subject. Prepare for St. Rush to call someone a slut again this week.
I suppose it’s mildly ironic that DC is one place that Trump is, in fact, a real estate developer.
34.
Yatsuno
@Elizabelle: I work in a federal building, so there are armed guards at the entrances. However I have a government ID that allows me to get through easier. In fact inside job was my thought as I am never searched upon entering. I wonder if that will change now.
Latest update: Seven dead at the Navy Yard, four wounded and in critical condition. Still searching for two other potential gunmen/persons of interest.
The dead shooter was previously mis-identified and there is currently no official identification.
@Punchy: You can get a gig writing for Southpark with quips like that!
40.
Mike E
@Yatsuno: Requiem is pretty amazing. I worked on the production that recorded the Pavarotti competition/festival that also included Un Ballo in Maschera and La Boheme. Back a century ago!
Corporate America, banks, the super rich and the index investing concept have gained. Savers, low-skilled workers, many homeowners, and stock exchanges have suffered.
Latest update: Seven dead at the Navy Yard, four wounded and in critical condition.
I know there’s a joke in there somewhere but I can’t find it. Punchy?
45.
patroclus
The UN report on Syria is now available – and it shows multiple positives for sarin and other types of gases, as well as multiple missiles and delivery agents characteristic of the Syrian military. They aren’t laying blame, of course, but I think it’s pretty well confirmed now by the UN.
@MattF: My money is on him not actually renovating anything and leaving someone else on the hook for the $3M a year they’re leasing it for.
47.
eemom
A stressful Monday afternoon in the midst of a shooting crisis is really not the time or place for football.
Plz confront. Thx.
48.
raven
Mayor says 12 dead.
49.
Poopyman
@Poopyman: Mayor Gray is on my TV again, and he’s saying 12 fatalities.
50.
Paul in KY
@Yatsuno: After looking at some of the pictures from the Navy Yard shooting today, if a bad guy can get a blue flak jacket & put a convincing ‘FEDERAL AGENT’ yellow decal on it (and maybe have a nice looking big badge of some kind), they could create all sorts of havoc.
Would help your deception if you were a pasty faced, short haired white guy.
Looking for White male 40-50, wearing tan military uniform & beret, Black male 40-50 in olive military style uniform. “Multiple pieces of information” indicating these individuals had firearms and were involved.
Still searching the base. It’s a big place.
Feel the neighborhood is safe, but stay out of Navy Yard area.
The Canadian government in recent years has banned government scientists from talking about a growing list of research topics including: snowflakes, the ozone layer, salmon, and previously published work about a 13,000-year-old flood.
This plus the industry-favorable redeployment of shrinking funds. Soon the usual suspects will be pushing Canada as a role model along with Poot-Poot-Putin?
Concordia is mesmerizing. And all the history of ships and metaphorical weight woven into it.
Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy’s civil protection agency, said that the parbuckling was proceeding “exactly according to predictions”. He said: “There is a correspondence between the reality and the projection, and we note this with satisfaction.”
59.
Corner Stone
@CONGRATULATIONS!: If he doesn’t comment in an open thread then he’s a de facto liar?
This is an amazing level of trolling, troll.
60.
Corner Stone
Fuckhead, get a grip on your groupie. Apparently she’s decided she’s the official Hall Decorum Monitor ™ of BJ.
@flukebucket: Counsel for 12 year olds would like a word.
62.
Paul in KY
@CONGRATULATIONS!: I don’t think the word ‘gun’ or ‘firearm’ was specifically mentioned in the thread we are commenting on.
Other places to be to keep the memes on track! Excelsior!
63.
Hal
@Corner Stone: ugh. I’m from the area and based on Facebook posts you would have thought the Bills won the Superbowl.
64.
Ben Franklin
I say Walter is in his redemptive stage. He let Skylar off the hook, now he has revenge on the skinheads and rescuing Jesse as his only raison d’etre.
65.
Bob's Had Enough
An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between a US and Iranian leader since Iran’s 1979 revolution.
Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, is also due to meet his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the UN general assembly meeting in New York, adding to guarded optimism that the June election of Rouhani, a Glasgow-educated moderate, and his appointment of a largely pragmatic cabinet, has opened the door to a diplomatic solution to the 11-year international standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme.
11-year standoff, or 11-D Chess?
BAM! Just blew your mind.
68.
johnny aquitard
@Corner Stone: @CONGRATULATIONS!: He got hammered for spouting the standard NRA line of “too early!” and “gun laws won’t keep lawbreakers from getting guns!”.
Whether he was aware of it or not, man he sure was parroting the NRA line.
69.
burnspbesq
David Sirota is, in my view, mostly living on Gumdrop Mountain with the unicorn ranchers, occupy wannabes, and various other leftish crackpots, but this is unusually good.
@johnny aquitard: Clearly, waiting to determine actual facts from this event is a batsignal that someone is an NRA stooge.
But either way, trolling from Congratulations! that the commenter wasn’t saying something also in this open thread is pretty pathetic.
That was my response, not whether glocksman is or is not an NRA stooge, which I take him at his word that he is not as he has been commenting here for years and doesn’t mince words when he has something to say. IMO.
71.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Corner Stone: Right now, I’m working on a plan to create an uneasy peace between you two. It will of course require each of you to slop slagging the other.
My plan B is to ban Martin again as a lesson to everyone else.
@raven: and the holder of a concealed carry permit. (but not a true Scotsman, I’m sure)
77.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@raven: Wow, he’s a patriot AND he didn’t butcher any children. I feel a lot better about this massacre than the last couple. I feel like we may be moving in the right direction here.
Had not been following the story, so I find the diagrams on the Beeb site very helpful in ‘splaining what they’re planning to do. Just the photos with the half-gazillion lifting cables had me very confused.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Thank you mistermix. The usual suspects completely derailed the last thread with their yelling and accusations of trollery.
PaulW
Re: the Navy Yard shooting, how soon before we get the NRA saying that the shooting wouldn’t have happened if only those Navy people had access to firearms.
Josie
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader:
That must have been terribly upsetting for you.
Villago Delenda Est
@PaulW:
I’m sure they’re already saying it. What’s good for gun sales is what’s good for the NRA, the shills of the merchants of death.
Ash Can
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: OK, I lol’d.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Josie: I just try to soldier on and be the change I want to see in others.
HelloRochester
Yeah, I heard that from an active-duty Army Teatard right after Ft. Hood. And Aurora. And Sandy Hook….
HelloRochester
Yeah, I heard that from an active-duty Army Teatard right after Ft. Hood. And Aurora. And Sandy Hook….
srv
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Ash Can: Please don’t feed me.
Corner Stone
Luke Russert looks like he is 16 years old.
Mike E
@srv: His toupee had no comment.
flukebucket
@Corner Stone:
Luke acts like he is 12 years old
Punchy
@PaulW: What kind of dick shoots seamen?
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Punchy: Awesome.
Roxy
Just because it’s time: Here’s something fabulous and interesting that is happening in Giglio, Italy.
Live video here
Live update here
Corner Stone
All Bills fans should very happy today! Only the second game and you’ve already hit the mark for half the wins you’ll have this season!
Corner Stone
@Punchy: Please tell me you’ve been holding back on that one.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Corner Stone, I am prepared to confront you if need be. I won’t tolerate any of your casual insouciance to the feelings of others, particularly woeful Bills fans.
Elizabelle
@Roxy:
Thank you. That will pass for my vacay in the Mediterranean this year.
Fascinating. Needs an opera soundtrack.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: I doubt it will come to that. After all, most Bills fans can’t read.
Yatsuno
@Elizabelle: Verdi or nothin’. Maybe a couple of the more obscure operas.
MattF
@PaulW: Yeah, those Marines need to be armed.
Comrade Jake
@srv: Well if Trump likes her, then she must be a good match.
I do wonder how Yellen will feel about being appointed by a POTUS who wasn’t born in America, however. Funny Trump didn’t mention that.
CONGRATULATIONS!
I’m going to go home and tenderly clean my gun collection, and reassure them that no liberal hippies will come and take them away from me.
Days like this are so hard for my cold steel babies.
Comrade Jake
There’s a nice recap of last night’s Breaking Bad episode over at Grantland. I’m still recovering.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Corner Stone:
I think there’s a small chance a Seahawks fan could read out loud your distasteful remarks to the hapless Bills fans and then explain the dig to them.
Elizabelle
@Yatsuno:
Hello Yatsuno.
Do you have to pass a barrage of security to get through your worksite?
Thinking that taxation and the IRS is Satan Incarnate to some.
Elizabelle
Sunset and twilight over the Costa Concordia.
NOT what the ship’s owners would have expected to see in their crystal ball, lo many months ago.
piratedan
@Corner Stone: it’s good that he does, because his intelligence rivals are much younger
SatanicPanic
@srv: Trump still thinks of himself as a developer? To the rest of us he’s on the level of a Jersey Shore castmember.
The Red Pen
On a subject not related to shooting: the Wingnut Wurlizer has been cranked to 11 (it’s stuck in that setting, really) about some Obamacare provision to collect information on patients’ sexual history.
I haven’t had a chance to dig into the actual facts behind this complaint, but I have noticed that the Usual Whingers are whinging in unison on the subject. Prepare for St. Rush to call someone a slut again this week.
MattF
@SatanicPanic: You’d be surprised:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/02/07/trump-old-post-office-hotel_n_1260810.html
I suppose it’s mildly ironic that DC is one place that Trump is, in fact, a real estate developer.
Yatsuno
@Elizabelle: I work in a federal building, so there are armed guards at the entrances. However I have a government ID that allows me to get through easier. In fact inside job was my thought as I am never searched upon entering. I wonder if that will change now.
Corner Stone
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: Seahawks fan? What kind of self-hating scum would admit to being a Seahawks fan?
Poopyman
Latest update: Seven dead at the Navy Yard, four wounded and in critical condition. Still searching for two other potential gunmen/persons of interest.
The dead shooter was previously mis-identified and there is currently no official identification.
ranchandsyrup
@SatanicPanic: Oh he’s a member, allright.
Corner Stone
Tebow to the Jags. This *has* to happen.
Paul in KY
@Punchy: You can get a gig writing for Southpark with quips like that!
Mike E
@Yatsuno: Requiem is pretty amazing. I worked on the production that recorded the Pavarotti competition/festival that also included Un Ballo in Maschera and La Boheme. Back a century ago!
Elizabelle
LA Times: losers and winners five years after the financial meltdown.
Subhead:
JCJ
@Comrade Jake:
Yeah, I was miserable after that episode. I listened to Bryan Cranston reading “Ozymandias” twice this morning.
ranchandsyrup
@Corner Stone: Rally today at 3:16 for Timmy. Supposed to last three hours and sixteen minutes. http://www.news4jax.com/news/rally-to-be-held-for-tebow-monday/-/475880/21954126/-/dgr8xw/-/index.html
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Poopyman:
I know there’s a joke in there somewhere but I can’t find it. Punchy?
patroclus
The UN report on Syria is now available – and it shows multiple positives for sarin and other types of gases, as well as multiple missiles and delivery agents characteristic of the Syrian military. They aren’t laying blame, of course, but I think it’s pretty well confirmed now by the UN.
SatanicPanic
@MattF: My money is on him not actually renovating anything and leaving someone else on the hook for the $3M a year they’re leasing it for.
eemom
A stressful Monday afternoon in the midst of a shooting crisis is really not the time or place for football.
Plz confront. Thx.
raven
Mayor says 12 dead.
Poopyman
@Poopyman: Mayor Gray is on my TV again, and he’s saying 12 fatalities.
Paul in KY
@Yatsuno: After looking at some of the pictures from the Navy Yard shooting today, if a bad guy can get a blue flak jacket & put a convincing ‘FEDERAL AGENT’ yellow decal on it (and maybe have a nice looking big badge of some kind), they could create all sorts of havoc.
Would help your deception if you were a pasty faced, short haired white guy.
? Martin
@ranchandsyrup: I’m guessing 3 supporters and 16 reporters actually show up.
Poopyman
@Poopyman: Still unknown as to other shooters.
Chief Lanier:
Looking for White male 40-50, wearing tan military uniform & beret, Black male 40-50 in olive military style uniform. “Multiple pieces of information” indicating these individuals had firearms and were involved.
Still searching the base. It’s a big place.
Feel the neighborhood is safe, but stay out of Navy Yard area.
Next update in 2 hours.
ranchandsyrup
@? Martin: Heh. Well done Martin.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@Elizabelle: It’s taking much longer than they said it would, but it visibly IS coming up, and hasn’t come apart, so good on them.
Elizabelle
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
It is fascinating. Here’s Guardian coverage; their coverage has stopped for the night, although it appears engineers are still working.
Being an occasional insomniac, this will be a cool thing to look in on in the middle of the night.
Accident happened in January 2012. Seems more recent.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Hey, where’s glocksman? I thought he was a long-time commentor who posted in every thread here.
Looks like that was just as much bullshit as his claim to not be a bought-and-paid for tool of the NRA.
scav
For the greater openness:
Time passes more slowly for flies, study finds. Dog and possible kidlet details for them that likes, and other thrills.
Canadian scientists protest against government censorship
This plus the industry-favorable redeployment of shrinking funds. Soon the usual suspects will be pushing Canada as a role model along with Poot-Poot-Putin?
Concordia is mesmerizing. And all the history of ships and metaphorical weight woven into it.
BD of MN
@Elizabelle: I loved this quote:
Corner Stone
@CONGRATULATIONS!: If he doesn’t comment in an open thread then he’s a de facto liar?
This is an amazing level of trolling, troll.
Corner Stone
Fuckhead, get a grip on your groupie. Apparently she’s decided she’s the official Hall Decorum Monitor ™ of BJ.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@flukebucket: Counsel for 12 year olds would like a word.
Paul in KY
@CONGRATULATIONS!: I don’t think the word ‘gun’ or ‘firearm’ was specifically mentioned in the thread we are commenting on.
Other places to be to keep the memes on track! Excelsior!
Hal
@Corner Stone: ugh. I’m from the area and based on Facebook posts you would have thought the Bills won the Superbowl.
Ben Franklin
I say Walter is in his redemptive stage. He let Skylar off the hook, now he has revenge on the skinheads and rescuing Jesse as his only raison d’etre.
Bob's Had Enough
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/15/obama-rouhani-united-nations-meeting
Corner Stone
@Hal:
Well, they did beat the greatest QB of our generation, Cam!!…*whoa* Cam.
Corner Stone
@Bob’s Had Enough:
11-year standoff, or 11-D Chess?
BAM! Just blew your mind.
johnny aquitard
@Corner Stone: @CONGRATULATIONS!: He got hammered for spouting the standard NRA line of “too early!” and “gun laws won’t keep lawbreakers from getting guns!”.
Whether he was aware of it or not, man he sure was parroting the NRA line.
burnspbesq
David Sirota is, in my view, mostly living on Gumdrop Mountain with the unicorn ranchers, occupy wannabes, and various other leftish crackpots, but this is unusually good.
http://www.salon.com/2013/09/16/no_more_debt_the_new_plan_to_destroy_tuition_and_loans/
Corner Stone
@johnny aquitard: Clearly, waiting to determine actual facts from this event is a batsignal that someone is an NRA stooge.
But either way, trolling from Congratulations! that the commenter wasn’t saying something also in this open thread is pretty pathetic.
That was my response, not whether glocksman is or is not an NRA stooge, which I take him at his word that he is not as he has been commenting here for years and doesn’t mince words when he has something to say. IMO.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@Corner Stone: Right now, I’m working on a plan to create an uneasy peace between you two. It will of course require each of you to slop slagging the other.
My plan B is to ban Martin again as a lesson to everyone else.
eemom
@Corner Stone:
My God, you’re dense. Obviously, groupor Fuckhead is the official Hall Decorum Monitor.™ I was just bringing your shit behavior to his attention.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
Say goodbye Martin.
raven
34 year old Navy vet from Texas,
Chyron HR
@raven:
That song sucks, play Fly Like An Eagle instead.
joes527
@raven: and the holder of a concealed carry permit. (but not a true Scotsman, I’m sure)
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@raven: Wow, he’s a patriot AND he didn’t butcher any children. I feel a lot better about this massacre than the last couple. I feel like we may be moving in the right direction here.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven:
Texas. That figures.
raven
@Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader: Looks like he’s a brother.
Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader
@raven: Well, fuck. Two steps forward, one step back.
Trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
Had not been following the story, so I find the diagrams on the Beeb site very helpful in ‘splaining what they’re planning to do. Just the photos with the half-gazillion lifting cables had me very confused.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-24104741
Very cool piece of engineering, and the scale of the effort is mind-boggling.
BillsFan
@Corner Stone: Used to work up there. Nothing but leather Bills jackets and toothless grins. They could really clear snow though!