The-Mole posted:

There are actually a ton of people who took a bunch of acid, had religious experiences, and then became born-again Christians.

Mecca-Benghazi posted:

Shageletic posted:

Here's a pretty interesting article I found on the Democratic primary losses of "progressive" candidates in Illinois and Maryland.



The rest of the thing is here: http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2014/07/summer-rerun-left-slice-democrats-getting-crushed.html

Ballz posted:

Eagles be illin'

Raskolnikov38 posted:

That's one of my favorite parts of Hastings' book. "WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU DIDN'T SAY IT WAS OFF THE RECORD," McChrystal's staff freaking out after the article is published is hilarious.

Fried Chicken posted:

So I got a new set of tumblers yesterday, and today David Frum went on an unhinged twitter rant accusing others of wanting to kill jews if they weren't cheering for killing muslims.

It's fate man.


Anyways since we are in recess I'm working on an effort post on American infrastructure. Not just the "what is required, what we spend" think that was meant for the OP, but also a thing of why American infrastructure projects are so much more expensive and take so much longer than projects in other developed countries.

Fried Chicken posted:

So I got a new set of tumblers yesterday, and today David Frum went on an unhinged twitter rant accusing others of wanting to kill jews if they weren't cheering for killing muslims.

It's fate man.


Anyways since we are in recess I'm working on an effort post on American infrastructure. Not just the "what is required, what we spend" think that was meant for the OP, but also a thing of why American infrastructure projects are so much more expensive and take so much longer than projects in other developed countries.

Defenestration posted:

the "stop hitting yourself!" defense. Truly a great journalist of our time.

Bizarro Kanyon posted:

A high school history teacher of mine would always use this terminolgy when the students were talking about partying over the weekend.

Student: "So we were out drinking this weekend..."
Teacher: "That's a sick bird!"
Student: "What?"
Teacher: "That's a sick bird, that's an ill eagle and unless you are a bird vet, then you need to stop talking about it."

ComradeCosmobot posted:

To be fair, given recent history, anyone who expects much otherwise and thinks Hamas seriously has a chance of challenging the game on the ground is probably deluding themselves to the sheer technological/firepower superiority of the IDF (c.f. Cast Lead).

That's not to say they couldn't continue guerrilla tactics for a time or that Iron Dome is actually useful (that is, pretty much, all they can do) but so far there's no real reason to think that this time is any different than before. Correct me if I'm wrong though.

DemeaninDemon posted:

...There was a fireworks stand on the road I drive to work named Ill Eagle Fireworks. The sign had a sickly looking bird on it. Also flying the Gadsden flag.

The-Mole posted:

There are actually a ton of people who took a bunch of acid, had religious experiences, and then became born-again Christians.

sleepingbuddha posted:

I went to high school with a couple people like this, and that was in the 90s.

internalized misogyny posted:

“Men do tend to talk about things on a much higher level,” Ellmers said. “Many of my male colleagues, when they go to the House floor, you know, they’ve got some pie chart or graph behind them and they’re talking about trillions of dollars and how, you know, the debt is awful and, you know, we all agree with that.

First she’s saying that men (perhaps only Republican men) don’t know how to connect with people. Second, she’s saying people are too stupid to understand pie charts.

Ellmers then said that women mainly want more time in their lives (don’t men as well?) and the first example she gave was that women wanted “more time in the morning to get ready.”

As for connecting to women specifically, Ellmers drove it home with a line that, had there been liberals in the audience, would have made the news.

“We need our male colleagues to understand that if you can bring it down to a woman’s level and what everything that she is balancing in her life — that’s the way to go,” Ellmers said.

Pope Guilty posted:

Representative Renee Ellmers (R-GA) has advice for men on how to explain political issues so that women can understand them.

Pope Guilty posted:

Representative Renee Ellmers (R-GA) has advice for men on how to explain political issues so that women can understand them.

Pope Guilty posted:

Representative Renee Ellmers (R-GA) has advice for men on how to explain political issues so that women can understand them.

zoux posted:

Uh oh the Malevolent Spirit of Gender Treachery has abandoned Phyllis Schafly and found a new host.

Kanos posted:

How can someone simultaneously believe that they are an inherently inferior female but also believe that they're qualified to hold an important government post(instead of an inherently superior male)?

Joementum posted:

Reminder: Kentucky is the state where last month the State Senate Majority Whip said that climate change is a hoax because Earth and Mars are the same temperature.

quote:

Despite the absence of a time series for Martian global temperatures, K. I. Abdusamatov has proposed that "parallel global warmings" observed simultaneously on Mars and on Earth can only be a consequence of the same factor: a long-time change in solar irradiance." While some individuals who reject the science of global warming take this as proof that humans are not causing climate change, Abdusamatov's hypothesis has not been accepted by the scientific community. His assertions have not been published in the peer-reviewed literature, and have been dismissed by other scientists, who have stated that "the idea just isn't supported by the theory or by the observations" and that it "doesn't make physical sense." Other scientists have proposed that the observed variations are caused by irregularities in the orbit of Mars or a possible combination of solar and orbital effects.

Lightning Jim posted:

I know this is a page back but in looking into this I think I know what he meant.

He severely fumbled this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_of_Mars#Solar_irradiance


Surprise, surprise, it's actually NOT accepted by academia.

Y-Hat posted:

Good to see Joseph Gribble making an appearance after King of the Hill ended.

Jimmy Haslam, owner of the Cleveland Browns, paid $92 million dollars in fines (aka "a cost of doing business" if you're massively big as his trucking company is) to prevent federal prosecution. And if that last name sounds familiar, that's because his brother is the governor of Tennessee, who probably had a part in the subsidy fraud of Pilot Flying J (which sounds less like a trucking company name and more like an anime title). Does TN have elections this year? Because if they do, I still see brother Haslam winning in a walk.

Pope Guilty posted:

Representative Renee Ellmers (R-GA) has advice for men on how to explain political issues so that women can understand them.

zoux posted:

Uh oh the Malevolent Spirit of Gender Treachery has abandoned Phyllis Schafly and found a new host.

CannonFodder posted:

Pilot Flying J is not a trucking company, it is a chain of truck stops. The fraud was that Pilot J was setting up exclusion contracts with trucking companies so the company would only buy fuel at Pilot Js and get a 10 cent per gallon discount ... and then not actually giving the discount. Since a truck goes through 500 to 1000 gallons a week, that discount can add up quickly with a large fleet.

BTW: profit margin on a gallon of diesel is about 30 cents.
Hey, let's get this right, she's from NC, not GA. My state

zoux posted:

Is there a gender equivalent term for "Uncle Tom"?

zoux posted:

His statement was straight up "every scientist will tell you that Mars and Earth are the exact same temperature".

Jackson Taus posted:

Right, but I think the point was that even if you correct for the guy mis-stating his argument rather dramatically, the argument he was probably referring to is also full of poo poo.

Spiderfist Island posted:

Between this and the "abiotic oil" theory, I'm surprised that Republicans haven't been also using Lysenkoism and the New Chronology for arguments if they're so willing to believe Russian pseudoscience.

Kanos posted:

How can someone simultaneously believe that they are an inherently inferior female but also believe that they're qualified to hold an important government post(instead of an inherently superior male)?

Phobeste posted:

This is kinda the group most likely to have already seen it, but some guy created a twitter bot that scrapes anonymous edits to wikipedia originating from Capitol Hill IP addresses. It hasn't been going long, but it's already grabbed some good ones.

Like somebody removing references to COINTELPRO being illegal under the guise of a "link being dead" instead of using any of the results from the first page of Google (I know some of these links are bad but one is also a .gov so it evens out).

Or somebody linking JFK's assassination to Castro based on no evidence.

It's pretty minor, but a nice little window into something I think we don't often consider as part of the political process.

CannonFodder posted:

Pilot Flying J is not a trucking company, it is a chain of truck stops. The fraud was that Pilot J was setting up exclusion contracts with trucking companies so the company would only buy fuel at Pilot Js and get a 10 cent per gallon discount ... and then not actually giving the discount. Since a truck goes through 500 to 1000 gallons a week, that discount can add up quickly with a large fleet.

BTW: profit margin on a gallon of diesel is about 30 cents.

FuturePastNow posted:

They've got some really bored interns in the Capitol.

quote:

Venture capitalist Timothy Draper's Six Californias initiative tweeted Monday that he planned to file the signatures Tuesday in Sacramento.

A spokesman for the campaign, Roger Salazar, told Reuters that that the initiative had gathered more than the roughly 808,000 signatures needed to place it on the November 2016 ballot.

radical meme posted:

And so the destruction of the 200+ year old experiment in Federalism begins. Not with secession, but with the fracturing of the states; slicing off each segment of our Union by wealth and ethnicity, the enclaving of America with each little oligarch grabbing for his own fiefdom with the poor and middle class left with all of the unwanted portions, the Galting of America. Let the ending begin. Tech Investor Says Plan To Split California Headed For 2016 Ballot