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Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Nyarai posted:

How does anti-vax mom think we fought off most of those diseases? Do these people think that smallpox and polio just got tired of killing people?

I've had such people tell me that widespread access to soap and clean water is the cause of the decline in those diseases. The timing of each disease prevalence falling correlating to vaccine use is apparently a complete coincidence.

# ¿ Feb 22, 2015 03:56

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 03:17

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Fulchrum posted:

The media should apologise for reporting what Scott Walker says, instead of what he later realised would have been betyter to say!!!!

What Walker story do they think was retracted recently?

# ¿ Mar 6, 2015 23:26

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

This crossed my FB feed last night:

# ¿ Mar 25, 2015 21:35

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

I am terrified of President Ted Cruz in roughly the same proportion I am of a zombie attack. If it happens it will be catastrophic and gently caress everything up and I will run screaming. But it has precisely zero chance of actually occurring, and the people who cream their pants over the idea are creepy as hell.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 05:23

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Ashcans posted:

One day, a whale will beach itself and live. On that day, the reign of man will end, and the era of the cetaceans will begin. We will be nothing more than picturebook monsters for their children.

I'd be okay with this.

# ¿ Mar 26, 2015 14:04

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Bake them two cakes.

# ¿ Apr 7, 2015 22:44

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

seiferguy posted:

Don't forget that there were 13 attacks on diplomatic missions with 60 deaths under Bush, and nary a peep came out of either Republicans or Democrats at the time.

IIRC most of those deaths weren't Americans, and therefore officially Don't Count.

# ¿ Apr 15, 2015 00:15

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Duke Igthorn posted:

Holy poo poo it's even worse than I thought

I knew this but

He literally killed a literal minister. Holy poo poo. I wonder if he was no angel.

Need an ever growing

I hate to defend this, because this kid's actions were abhorrent, but the factors influencing the judge's decision here ("is there any hope of helping this person not do poo poo like this in the future, and if so, how?" instead of "lock this child up and throw away the key") ought to be the dominant guiding principles behind the justice system. The hosed up thing here is that those are only things we think about when wealthy white kids are the ones on trial.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 20:44

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Unzip and Attack posted:

Yeah I'm sure his probation will really impart a sense of value of other people's lives instead of just enabling more awful decisions up to and including the murder of more innocent people.

No, but the rehab and psych treatment might make a difference. And hey, here's a situation where somebody realized that throwing a minor into the nightmare that is the prison system might just be doing more harm than good in terms of rehabilitation.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 21:15

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Duke Igthorn posted:

Lemniscate Blue posted:

The hosed up thing here is that those are only things we think about when wealthy white kids are the ones on trial.

# ¿ May 21, 2015 21:59

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Samfucius posted:

I'm dumb. What's the joke?

It would then be $14.88.

EDIT: vvv nyah nyah vvv

Lemniscate Blue fucked around with this message at 06:09 on Jun 2, 2015

# ¿ Jun 2, 2015 06:04

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Knight posted:

Wait, we're talking about Ronald Reagan, right? Was this before PATCO went down?

Edit - Wow, I had no idea. https://historyrat.wordpress.com/2012/10/14/reagan-and-the-patco-strike-broken-promises/

Remember that Reagan was twice elected president of the Screen Actors Guild, and fought against right-to-work in California. He had cred with the unions, before PATCO.

But even while he was head of SAG, he was secretly ratting his fellow actors out to the FBI. The man was a loving snake.

# ¿ Jun 5, 2015 21:31

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Kit Walker posted:

Someday society at large will realize that it's actually the workers who do the work and that treating them well results in more and better work being done. Someday...

Haha, everybody look at the optimist! Point and laugh!

# ¿ Jun 14, 2015 17:31

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

ModernMajorGeneral posted:

I'm pretty sure this is already what happens unless you're allowed to concealed carry to meet the president.

They mean including the Secret Service's guns.

# ¿ Jul 5, 2015 18:03

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Toasticle posted:

:bikerchat:

That's "Independent Bikers" that does the toys for tots things. I worked for a biker rag for 3 years and there's pretty much 3 types:
-Hell's Angels and various wanna-be groups. These are the Meth dealing assholes.
-"Independent Bikers" and other local versions. These guys fit the stereotype in how they look but they are probably the most awesome group of people I've ever met. They are the ones that have subgroups like BACA, Bikers Against Child Abuse, they are the ones that if a kid feels scared or intimidated they will literally act as guards for the kid. Sit outside their house, escort them to school and go to court with them, fill the front row in court and tell the kids if they feel scared to look at them not the guy on trial. They make the kids honorary members of the "gang", some of the stories make even old fucks like me misty eyed ( http://iwastesomuchtime.com/on/?i=84207 ). They're also the guys who go to funerals and form a line and rev their engines to drown out westboro baptist church assholes.
-Weekend bikers. Dentists and Lawyers who want to play biker on the weekends. Both the former groups despise them.

Funny thing is even the Hell's Angels are fiercely anti-pedo. Talked to two guys who used to be in and said the two biggest rules before you're even considered (Which takes years and getting in to a local chapter has to be a unanimous vote) is no pedos and no connection to law enforcement.

Sorry for derail but I had the same view of bikers till I worked there, never have met a more awesome group of people who would literally give the shirt off their back to anyone who needed it.

This matches most of my experiences (I'm not involved other than volunteering every year to work with the Texas Toy Run) but there's always some people at that event that spout off with absolutely vile stuff in that "everyone around me is a white male" sort of way and nobody but a few of us volunteers seems at all bothered. Plus the "why are you picking on us innocent bikers" reaction after the Waco thing earlier this year really makes me wonder how many of your second group identify more with the real hardcore nasties than the independents.

# ¿ Jul 7, 2015 18:46

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

OAquinas posted:

Also, why does the white guy have a nicer gun?

Department issue sidearm.

# ¿ Jul 11, 2015 22:04

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Fulchrum posted:

So the 9th Amendment is more important than the 10th Amendment, is that what I'm seeing?

# ¿ Jul 18, 2015 16:13

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Leaving aside the whole "do you really want to agree with the Joker?" aspect:

Apparently universal condemnation and support for the Marines and the families of those killed is not batting an eye.

# ¿ Jul 18, 2015 21:33

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Fulchrum posted:

The same one, actually.

# ¿ Jul 20, 2015 05:25

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Long, so TIMGed.

Poor Ray Volver's just beating his head against the wall here. I didn't even bother to jump in, it's hopeless.

# ¿ Jul 25, 2015 03:41

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Mister Bates posted:

I will give him credit for being incredibly self-aware about it and not above poking fun at himself occasionally. He once cameoed in Mystery Men as the leader of a themed gang called 'The Fratboys'.

Holy poo poo.

I love this movie and have watched it at least a dozen times, but I never knew this.

# ¿ Jul 31, 2015 05:16

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Dr. Arbitrary posted:

The thing about the EPA is that they immediately accepted full responsibility and is actively working to perform such a thorough cleanup that they avoid any lawsuits.

I would be thrilled if that was the standard for companies when they gently caress up, but no, you have to summon an army of lawyers to force them to clean up their own messes.

And the other thing is that the EPA was attempting to clean up a horrible mess left by a mining corporation. So gently caress these people twice over.

# ¿ Aug 16, 2015 22:31

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Today I learned that Chicago is a state.

# ¿ Oct 4, 2015 23:45

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Somebody lit the LeJackal Signal and he Kramered in quoting the Moonie Times. Ye gods.

# ¿ Oct 28, 2015 16:38

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

I know that poo poo like this has been discussed before, but I don't remember how long ago and can't find it. Anybody point me to a good set of points as to why this is bullshit?

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 22:16

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

I bit, and got this back:

I'm dropping it at this point. I have a Halloween party to get to.

# ¿ Oct 31, 2015 23:28

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Plus words and language were incredibly important to the Norse peoples. They had a tradition called "flyting" that was a literal insult poetry contest - a rap battle - and a real man was expected to be really good at it because words and poetry were a major part of the culture.

No actual Viking would ever, ever be so dismissive of "mere words".

(also they had a reputation all across Europe for being metrosexual pretty boys. Which isn't relevant to the picture but usually makes the people who post that sort of poo poo twitchy as hell)

# ¿ Nov 29, 2015 19:34

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Zaire hasn't been a country for like 20 years, right?

# ¿ Dec 12, 2015 21:23

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

AFewBricksShy posted:

My wife's cousin put this on facebook:

Rather than debate it, I just put her on ignore much as I do everyone else who posts terrible poo poo on facebook. She's actually really nice as is her husband, but this poo poo just pisses me off.

I looked it up on snopes and apparently it's true, so this doctor is a judgmental prick.

It's only "true" insofar as it's correctly attributed. There's no way to tell if the doctor was lying through his teeth.

# ¿ Dec 18, 2015 17:06

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Defenestration posted:

More Benghazi

"Moments later" being June 2013 after a standard 2-year tour of duty as AFRICOM in a perfectly normal change of command ceremony.

# ¿ Dec 27, 2015 07:54

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

DarkHorse posted:

I could have sworn Santelli spoke before Obama's election (let alone inauguration) but I was way off. It definitely tapped into some existing resentment of the bailouts because I remember all my friends with lovely opinions griping about Wall St. getting money before they had the Tea Party to latch on to, though racism definitely played into it.

Thanks for the correction.

Also, Santelli wasn't pissed off about the Wall Street bailouts so much. What triggered his initial rant was the idea being floated to receive homeowners who found themselves suddenly underwater on their mortgages - who were largely victims of predatory lending tactics, and also largely poor minorities.

So yeah - racist from the beginning.

# ¿ Dec 31, 2015 21:18

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Fitzy Fitz posted:

My favorite is how often they forget what a plant cultivar is or that flowers are used for pollination.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2z-OLG0KyR4

(Note the rose cultivar and the orchid that would grow so high in the canopy that people would never even see it)

Not to mention that the rose they've shown there is as artificial as corn.

Edit: oh, that's what you meant. Anyway it's true for that daisy as well, and probably most of the other plants they're using to demonstrate their bullshit.

# ¿ Jan 3, 2016 19:47

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Zephyrine posted:

That reminds me of people losing their minds over Heimdall being played by a black guy in Thor. Despite the fact that he owned the hell out of that role.

Or Samuel L Jackson playing Nick Fury.

My father-in-law surprised my by being upset by the Nick Fury casting. He grew up reading Howling Commandoes comics and has a distinct mental image of the character, but I've never known him to be racist in any way. You can shut him down on the topic pretty hard by reminding him that the last live-action adaptation that had a white Fury cast David Hasselhoff.

# ¿ Mar 4, 2016 14:22

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Goatman Sacks posted:

The tigers are to deal with the Burmese python problem.

But I don't know why she swallowed the fly...

# ¿ Mar 30, 2016 16:26

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

DeusExMachinima posted:

Last I read, this is not how Monica Lewinsky feels about it.

Maybe not, but ask Juanita Broaddrick next.

# ¿ Apr 2, 2016 18:28

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

moonsour posted:

Note: She is a self-professed beer fanatic and posts weekly about the latest microbrew she's drinking.

Some kind of beer fanatic who doesn't know that beer is literally as old as agriculture.

# ¿ Apr 23, 2016 04:42

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Guilty Spork posted:

Ah yes, Cuba, a nation known for having zero problems apart from communism.

No, see, all those problems are because of communism. Just like all Detroit's problems are because of Democrats.

# ¿ May 21, 2016 18:52

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

Defenestration posted:

I like how UAE counts as "in the region" of Benghazi. It is 2,500 miles away.

Gotta shout out to all those minesweepers in Bahrain that could have made the difference.

Although my favorite is the SWIFT boat in Tema. It could have made it! It says it's swift right in the name!

(Extra credit for being the only place without the country labeled.)

# ¿ Jun 4, 2016 16:07

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# ¿ May 10, 2024 03:17

Lemniscate Blue: Apr 21, 2006; Here we go again.

It's both, really.

# ¿ Jun 7, 2016 07:33

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