Sweet jeebus the trolls have been busy.
Went down the street to my parent’s house for dinner, which was nice. Relaxing with three dogs on my lap and getting ready top watch some WVU basketball at nine. Really excited for the good bowl games to start soon.
Oh, and BUY A CALENDAR BUY A CALENDAR BUY A CALENDAR. Instead of us toying with your emotions begging for loot to save a desperate dog, here you can help out a dog and YOU GET SOMETHING BACK!
MikeJ
Will WVU score more bball points than U dub scored in football?
Roger Moore
You only just noticed? And can we have a ban on the BO_Bill imposter for ranting paranoid international Jewish conspiracy crap?
slag
I don’t suppose anyone’s inclined to fix the code in folkbum’s comment in Tom’s thread?
Trentrunner
Recently uncovered video of Ron Paul doing research for his newsletters.
(Link fixed.)
Chuck Butcher
Over at Chas Pierce…
Read more: http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/rick-santorum-lobbying-6628544#ixzz1i4YjIySX
Ron
I guess this is as good a spot as any for this. We just got 4 meds for my wife. The retail cost for them is almost $1800. Thankfully we have decent insurance so we didn’t pay anywhere near that much. But it shows me how screwed our health care system is. If someone didn’t have health care they’d be screwed. (And this isn’t for some cutting edge rare cancer treatment or anything like that)
shoutingattherain
Here’s an idea. Just ban the fucking trolls. Nobody will mind. Many will cheer.
amk
@Chuck Butcher: Congrats dengre. Way to go.
amk
After months of deliberate blackout of him, msm hacks are now whining about ron paul not giving them ‘access’. I don’t blame paulbots for their collective FU’s to these fifth columnists.
Mnemosyne
TCM is showing Tootsie and I’ve gotten sucked into watching it. It really does hold up pretty well.
“I think Dorothy is smarter than I am.”
slag
@Chuck Butcher: That was a good post!
Phylllis
@Mnemosyne: I’m dvr’ing that. Love that movie.
PaulW
Happy New Year, mofos.
RossInDetroit
I have nothing to add.
lamh35
Catching up on Person of Intrest. I gotta say Jesus is pretty bad-ass (by Jesus I mean Jim Cavaziel, can’t think of ole dude as anything but Passion of The Christ, so I still call him Jesus). The show is pretty well executed.
kay
I just bought a calendar and I’m afraid of dogs.
Not any of the dogs on that calendar, though. All those other, mean dogs.
Chuck Butcher
Reading Pierce is partly about politics and more about reading what I aspire to write and noting just how short of that I am. A nice h/t to Dennis G and thought the community would like to know.
Satanicpanic
Any other old GOSsaks remember Edtastic? I think BOBill is Edtastic.
Steeplejack
Dog-sitting again. Dick Cheney, the elderly Italian greyhound, got bitten (stung?) by a spider last weekend and has a horrible wound on his nose and maw. He is wearing a cone to prevent him from scratching it, and he is not liking that. Just helped him move from in front of the fireplace to his “cooling off” spot on the couch. Kitty, the big greyhound, remains dormant, conserving her energy in case a 20-second burst of pure speed is needed.
I saw The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, Hollywood edition, today. It’s pretty damn good.
Elizabelle
@Mnemosyne:
I’m watching “Tootsie” too.
Could lose the 80s soundtrack, though.
Mnemosyne
@Phylllis:
I had almost forgotten about the sad little love triangle that develops between Dorothy/Michael, Julie, and Julie’s dad. Damn, Charles Durning can be good when he wants to be.
ETA:
@Elizabelle:
Yeah, the soundtrack, um, doesn’t hold up as well as the rest of the movie. It’s a common problem in 80s movies.
Steeplejack
@lamh35:
Yeah, it started slow but has been getting better and better. Tonight was a rerun, right, the one where the machine “erroneously” spits out the name of a dead girl? I didn’t watch it, but I have the DVR set to record all episodes, not just new ones, because I think there might be one or two I missed in the early going.
slag
@Elizabelle: Interesting. I loved the 80s music in the Muppets. Partially for the kitsch factor; partially for the awesome factor.
Mouse Tolliver
Well this is just nauseating. Kelly Clarkson’s album sales spike after Ron Paul endorsement. I’ve been seeing this story all day. That Clarkson had to deal with Twitter backlash for endorsing Ron Paul. Half the reports don’t even bother to mention people were pissed about it because of Paul’s racist crackpot newsletters.
Mark S.
@Steeplejack:
Your friend named the dog Dick Cheney? Does he or she hate him?
Satanicpanic
Sorry, not that Edtastic, Edscan. My apologies to Edtastic. Edscan wrote really cryptic posts and got banned when it turned out he was talking about the JOOZ. I think Edscan is BO Bill.
different-church-lady
I take it you’re getting w(h)ine by mail?
BGinCHI
Any other fans of calvados or armagnac out there? I’ve got a taste for both and need to get out and restock.
Good article on calvados for the uninitiated:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/02/dining/calvados-a-taste-of-apples-and-fall-the-pour.html
If you’ve had a good one lately sing its praises.
Satanicpanic
Banned from GOS that is. Sheesh, I can’t comment right at all. Time for beer. Happy New Years!
WereBear (itouch)
Love Tootsie. Yes. Oh, poor Dustin Hoffman. Tough being a fake girl, huh. The real thing? Even tougher. Still, love that movie.
I hope everyone begs my pardon for engaging with a troll, 12/30/11. I d hold out as long as I can.
I just hope the Mayans were wrong.
SiubhanDuinne
@kay:
Blue dogs?
amk
@Satanicpanic: Congrats on getting out of that particular lunatic asylum. Enjoy the new year.
Mnemosyne
@slag:
I still need to see The Muppets. Maybe I can finally drag G to see it this weekend.
I think the music in the original Muppet Movie still holds up, but that’s because Paul Williams is an extremely underrated songwriter.
lamh35
@Steeplejack: yeah, I think it’s in reruns to the new year.
I’m catching up on the episodes before Christmas. I’m really beginning to enjoy the dynamic between the the “good guys” and Detective Carter.
What I really find interesting is the way in which they keep track of everyone they are trying to save. It makes me wonder if some of the ways they use are really possible.
Steeplejack
@Mark S.:
No, the dog’s name isn’t really Dick Cheney. That’s the nom de blog I gave him for here. It fits his increasingly crotchety personality as he slows down in his golden years. He is 12 or 13, I think. Don’t know for sure. My brother got him from a shelter.
eemom
what was funny about that earlier thread was that folks were STILL feeding that insufferable Bullshitas troll long after even IT got bored and moved on.
Help. We needz it.
Steeplejack
@BGinCHI:
I like calvados. Haven’t had any in quite a while, and I was thinking about getting a bottle to start the new year. I’ll have to check out that article.
Kola Noscopy
So cute.
John, you know you are BJ’s most trollingnest troll ever.
However, since the BJ Circle Jerk Kids’ definition of a troll is “someone who disagrees with me,” the word often becomes a term of positive distinction here.
Mnemosyne
@WereBear (itouch):
Well, to be fair, that’s the same conclusion the movie comes to. It wouldn’t work nearly as well if the last 20 minutes weren’t Michael having to apologize to everyone in his life for the deception.
BGinCHI
@Steeplejack: It has some solid recommendations, too. Let me know if you get something good. Try something from a smaller producer if you can afford it. Perfect winter sipper.
Kola Noscopy
@shoutingattherain:
Can you please provide a precise definition of that term?
Thank you.
Cacti
Okay, an open question for any of our Teabagger trolls…
How does the GOP win in 2012 with 23 percent of the Hispanic vote ?
That’s 8 percent less than Grandpa Walnuts got when he was blown out 3 years ago.
BGinCHI
@Kola Noscopy: Wow, you should write for Salon. So refreshingly contrary.
Mnemosyne
Now I can’t decide if the movie I should watch next to create a Tootsie double feature is Some Like It Hot or Soapdish.
ETA: Seriously, though, Bill Murray makes this movie. Without him as the conscience/confidante, it wouldn’t work nearly as well.
WereBear (itouch)
@Mnemosyne: Still love that Bill Murray line:
Which cracks me up every time.
BGinCHI
@Kola Noscopy: People who think Fox News is fair & balanced and can’t wait to repeat exactly what is said there on blogs where smarter people know more than they do.
Yutsano
@BGinCHI: Don’t bother. The pedo’s shit never stinks. Just ask him.
kay
@SiubhanDuinne:
Most dogs.
I (ended up) really liking the rescue greyhound we had for 15 years but she was really my daughter’s, and I don’t think there’s another one like her. She was just sweet. Dumb as a rock (honestly: if I moved her water dish 5 feet she was confused and required additional instructions) but a great, great dog, as far as temperament and absolute devotion.
Steeplejack
@BGinCHI:
I think it will end up being a somewhat limited choice among whichever handful of brands the store has. I don’t remember seeing a big selection at any store around here, although I haven’t checked at Total Wine in a long time. Probably will go over there next week, so I’ll see what they have then.
Maigret often has a calvados in the Bruno Crémer series.
Kola Noscopy
@eemom:
Exactly. Why do you think people here do this?
BGinCHI
@Mnemosyne: SLIH then The Apartment, where Jack Lemon’s character plays a feminized corporate climber.
khead
Open thread needs relaxing kitteh.
Elizabelle
the playwright/roommate: (soothingly) “No one would call you stupid to your face.”
Heh heh.
ETA: And it’s a Bill Murray line.
Mnemosyne
“Michael, are you gay?”
Pause.
“In what sense?”
Mnemosyne
“No, we are not friends. I don’t take this shit from friends, only from lovers.”
Kola Noscopy
@Yutsano:
Yutsy, since you continue to refer to me as the vile perjorative term “pedo,” despite my request that you not do so, I believe I’ll have to respond in kind, you reeking cunt.
Steeplejack
@kay:
I think a lot of greyhounds are like that. My brother has had a series of rescue greyhounds, and all of them have been among the “nicest” dogs (personality-wise) I have ever known.
For dumb, though, nobody beats Dick Cheney, the little Italian greyhound. It is agonizing to watch him try to fluff up a throw and get under it while standing in the middle of it.
I don’t know how the breed ever survived. My brother’s theory is that there were a lot of idle contessas with time on their hands in the Renaissance.
MikeInSewickley
By the way, the link to Chas Pierce’s article has a link in the comments to a NYTimes article.
It shows the homes of the Republican candidates.
Santorum’s looks like the biggest of the lot (other than Mitten’s 65 homes).
https://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/12/29/garden/20111229-CANDIDATE.html
Mush as I detest Ron Paul’s fake attempt at representing the people, his house appears the least palatial.
Mnemosyne
@kay:
@Steeplejack:
If you haven’t read this from Hyperbole and a Half about her dog, you must.
WereBear (itouch)
Mnemosyne
I think I just scared the cats with how loud I laughed.
“That is one nutty hospital.”
Yutsano
@Kola Noscopy: It’s just words on a blog. If it upsets you so much just skip by it. Pedo.
@Steeplejack:
Yorkies, at least, were bred with a purpose.
Steeplejack
@Mnemosyne:
I have read that. It’s a classic.
Amir Khalid
@Kola Noscopy:
It was you who gave Yutsano cause to call you a pedo, when you said that maybe that witness was right not to stop Jerry Sandusky raping a child because the child might have been enjoying the sex. That is indeed a pedophile’s argument.
Kola Noscopy
@Yutsano:
Will do, cunt.
Kola Noscopy
@Amir Khalid:
Well, gee, genius, how can that be? I am NOT a pedophile and yet that WAS part of my argument, so gee, uh…just how can this be so? A “pedophile’s judgement coming from someone who isn’t a pedophile…just a puzzle.
Of course you left out the parts where I wrote that if Sandusky was doing as alleged, he should be punished to the full extent of the law, but the kid should not be additionally traumatized in the moment if he was not being physically forced. Doing so would cause additional shame and long lasting harm.
But you and the other self righteous c#nt don’t care about that because you’re so eager to see everything in black and white and be a hero.
Yutsano
@Kola Noscopy: There now. Don’t you feel better? Of course, you will still be an advocate for the sexualization of children. And using a sexist insult to boot.
@Amir Khalid: I think you’re using facts. You’ll confuse the pedo with those. Not to mention you will soon get a blustery demand that those were HIS EXACT WORDS, with multiple links and external references.
WereBear (itouch)
@Steeplejack: As someone who had an intellectually challenged dog; it makes me laugh and cry.
As someone with an intellectually challenged cat; it makes me cry. Because people don’t understand that.
Mnemosyne
@Yutsano:
Has there ever been a troll more thin-skinned than our KC? It makes me laugh every. single. time.
Elizabelle
@Kola Noscopy:
I know we call each other dicks here all the time, and suggest that others eat bags of salted dicks but
I really do not like your use of the “C” word.
Offensive.
jl
Cole have any garden gnomes? Some say, I have heard, from reliable rumor, that garden gnomes attract trolls for various reasons.
Maybe keep Tunch a little hungrier and he will hunt them down and gobble them.
Kola Noscopy
@Yutsano:
An idiotic c#nt to boot.
You know, I don’t really think “pedo” is any less offensive than “cunt.” I’d say it’s more so. So take your delicate fee fees and place them in that fetid, gaping maw which is now your namesake. Perhaps you will be comforted that at long last something, anything, made its way up there.
Southern Beale
Breaking news: Two doctors who performed late-term abortions charged with murder in Md.
So now we’re hauling doctors off to jail. Women next?
Kola Noscopy
@Elizabelle:
good god, you dumbass, do you even READ the relevant comments directed at me, and to which I am responding?
Once Yutsy cleans up her act, I’ll be more than happy to cease using her new name.
By the way, how the hell is “BAG OF DICKS,” which clearly refers to a sack of dismembered male members, any less sexist and offensive than the c word?
Delicate fee fees are even more bogus when so selectively sensitive.
Mnemosyne
@Southern Beale:
Assuming the reporter’s facts are correct (ahem), the doctors do sound a bit sketchy, which makes it even more crappy that women who needed a late-term abortion were forced to deal with them instead of actual medical professionals.
Mnemosyne
@Yutsano:
So do you think KC really doesn’t know you’re a man, or is he using a homophobic insult against a gay man?
Inquiring minds would love to know, but I suspect I’ve been pied by the troll in question.
Lojasmo
@Kola Noscopy:
Fuck yourself.
hildebrand
@Kola Noscopy: Or you could be the better person and lead by example.
amk
Aside from the whining, what do you intend to do about the trolls, john ?
Yutsano
@Kola Noscopy:
Oh you poor delicate wallflower. You’re so flummoxed your genders are askew.
You murdered irony once already today. A repeat performance wasn’t necessary.
Kola Noscopy
@Mnemosyne:
I have no desire, Mnem, to use the alleged pie filter, if in fact it exists. It seems I often see people on here who claim to be using it responding to comments they couldn’t have read if that were the case.
Either way, does it really matter if Yuts says it’s a man or a woman? After all we’re all just pixels on a screen to each other; I have no way to verify either claim.
Yuts persists in addressing me with a grossly offensive term; I respond in kind. Pretty simple.
Lojasmo
@Yutsano:
Perhaps @Kolo noscopy: is a pederast. Perhaps that is the cause of all the anal algesia
Kola Noscopy
@Lojasmo:
ah…poor baby. Offended?
magurakurin
@Kola Noscopy: now I see why you were so insistent on a precise definition of troll.
Southern Beale
@Mnemosyne:
My thoughts as well. Abortion is supposed to be legal in this country yet women are forced to seek out sketchy providers, or in the case of that Idaho woman, turn to the internet for pharmaceuticals? And there isn’t outrage because … ???
Richard
Ron Paul/Pastor who wants all gays to be executed, 2012
http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/ron-pauls-campaign-touts-endorsement-of-pastor-who-advocates-killing-gay-people/
Paul is a whore who doesn’t care where his support comes from.
Kola Noscopy
@hildebrand:
Meh. Magnanimous behavior isn’t well represented at BJ…I wouldn’t want to break the tradition.
Southern Beale
This NY Times piece on the GOP Candidats’ Homes is classic. Something is really fishy about the deal that landed Michele Bachmann her in a $1.75 million “charity” home for a mere $760,000.
Mnemosyne
@Kola Noscopy:
I just find it odd that a purported gay man like yourself would be so comfortable flinging homophobic insults at another gay man.
amk
Muslims boycott Bloomberg’s interfaith breakfast.
eemom
@Kola Noscopy:
Can’t we all be nice to each other? It’s the New Year, ferfuxsake.
SIA
Another thread totally effed up by trolls and worse, people engaging them. IT DOESN’T HAVE TO BE THIS WAY. Fuck!
Edited to hopefully stop italics!
Mnemosyne
@Southern Beale:
Because BAYBEEZ, of course. After all, as everyone knows, every pregnancy always goes completely smoothly unless the woman does something wrong like letting the fetus get the umbilical cord wrapped around its neck in the womb or deliberately shutting her own kidneys down with pre-eclampsia.
Jebediah
@khead:
Wicked cute!
Mnemosyne
@SIA:
Someone in another thread had an interesting suggestion to only allow trolls on certain threads and ignore them on others. I’d be willing to abide by that.
Yutsano
@Southern Beale: Watch out for the BUT REZKO!! screamers to emerge yet again. The fact that it never stuck to Obama still burns them to this day.
Southern Beale
@Mnemosyne:
No, no, no. Because SEX SEX SEX SCARY VAGINA SEX SEX SEX.
Women who have sex must be punished. It all goes back to male control issues. Freud thought women had penis envy? We don’t. But certain men have reproduction envy. They want to control the one thing they will never EVER be able to control
Women have been controlling their reproduction since cave man days. That ain’t changing. Deal with it.
Southern Beale
@Mnemosyne:
No, no, no. Because SEX SEX SEX SCARY VAGINA SEX SEX SEX.
Women who have sex must be punished. It all goes back to male control issues. Freud thought women had p3nis envy? We don’t. But certain men have reproduction envy. They want to control the one thing they will never EVER be able to control.
Women have been controlling their reproduction since cave man days. That ain’t changing. Deal with it.
SIA
@Mnemosyne: Sounds like a plan. I’m really sick of this shit.
A Humble Lurker
@Kola Noscopy:
There’s a difference. Yutsano is not a cunt. But you are a pedophile sympathizer, at the very least.
Southern Beale
@Yutsano:
BUT REZKO????
Kola Noscopy
@eemom:
“Can’t we all be nice to each other? ”
I have offered to mutually disarm re “pedo/cunt.”
Ball’s in Yutsy’s court.
Mnemosyne
@Southern Beale:
Well, sure, that’s the real reason. But the excuse is BAYBEEZ!
different-church-lady
@BGinCHI: I have a couple of favorite autumnal cocktails that involve Calvados, but I can’t say I’ve ever had a really fine one for straight sipping.
Raven
This is no fun.
Kola Noscopy
@SIA:
Are ya now? Interesting that you weren’t “sick of this shit” when Yutsy regularly tossed around sexually derogatory language, isn’t it?
Raven
@BGinCHI: Just came from one of those swell Athens parties. Great food, lot’s of international folks a food!
Felinious Wench
@Mnemosyne:
That was me. I freely admit, I enjoy troll-baiting. Keeps my wits sharp and my knives sharper. But I also recognize that playing with a troll who is shitting all over a thread is causing every single thread to devolve into “I know you are but what am I?” So, I’ve sheathed my knives, but I want to have my fun too. Troll threads!
Kola Noscopy
@A Humble Lurker:
What does that term mean to you? How do you know Yutsy is one thing or another? Who decides? Why is “bag of dicks” ok, but “cunt” is not?
I do know that you are an idiot.
Yutsano
@Southern Beale: Hee. I feel indulged.
Kola Noscopy
@Felinious Wench:
Hey genius: Would you say that a commenter who repeatedly uses an offensive/sexually suggestive/accusatory term when addressing another commenter is, perhaps, TROLLING for a reaction?
Is it the responsibility of the target to ignore it, or of the name caller to cease and desist, thus cleaning up your precious thread?
Had not Yutsy, for the 50th time, called me an offensive name, I would not have responded. But then, that’s not really your concern. You are OK with the trolls with whom you agree.
amk
Cole, nearly quarter of this thread is that troll related. Get a fucking grip of your own blog.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@Yutsano: “It’s just words on a blog. If it upsets you so much just skip by it. Pedo.”
I prefer referring to him as Kola Noscopy: NAMBLA Lobbyist
Pedo is fairly descriptive too. :)
@Kola Noscopy: NAMBLA Lobbyist: “Hey genius: Would you say that a commenter who repeatedly uses an offensive/sexually suggestive/accusatory term when addressing another commenter is, perhaps, TROLLING for a reaction?”
If the foo shits, wear it. You’re wearing it.
different-church-lady
For the latecomers: there’s this kind of intellectual desert between about #60 and #80, and you’re going to want to avert your eyes as the page scrolls on by.
UPDATE: the 100’s are starting to look a bit arid too.
R in Fla
Ran across the correction below via Google News, had to share it…
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (Bennington Vale Evening Transcript) — The editors and staff of The Bennington Vale Evening Transcript apologize for the unintentional inaccuracies
http://www.benningtonvalepress.com/2011/12/correction-to-story-on-dangerous.html
The story was meant to cover both Santorum’s surge in the Iowa polls and the threat of the sinkhole to Allentown residents. Unfortunately, the information came across as: “A giant stinkhole in Pennsylvania evacuated a surge of Santorum Thursday, putting over 20,000 veterans in their graves.” Some of the confusion stemmed from conflicting interpretations of Santorum and a related article we published yesterday.
R in Fla
Ran across the correction below via Google News, had to share it…
ALLENTOWN, Pa. (Bennington Vale Evening Transcript) — The editors and staff of The Bennington Vale Evening Transcript apologize for the unintentional inaccuracies
http://www.benningtonvalepress.com/2011/12/correction-to-story-on-dangerous.html
The story was meant to cover both Santorum’s surge in the Iowa polls and the threat of the sinkhole to Allentown residents. Unfortunately, the information came across as: “A giant stinkhole in Pennsylvania evacuated a surge of Santorum Thursday, putting over 20,000 veterans in their graves.” Some of the confusion stemmed from conflicting interpretations of Santorum and a related article we published yesterday.
Kola Noscopy
@amk:
Hey genius: Would you say that a commenter who repeatedly uses an offensive/sexually suggestive/accusatory term when addressing another commenter is, perhaps, TROLLING for a reaction?
Is it the responsibility of the target to ignore it, or of the name caller to cease and desist, thus cleaning up your precious thread?
Had not Yutsy, for the 50th time, called me an offensive name, I would not have responded. But then, that’s not really your concern. You are OK with the trolls with whom you agree.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Well,this thread has been ruined.
Ruckus
@kay:
And I thought I had the dumbest dog a while back. Almost as dumb as a rethuglican. She was smart enough to breath on her own and didn’t seem to have an evil bone in her but after that…
Southern Beale
@Mnemosyne:
Fetuses. If they gave a shit about BAYBEEZ we’d have some kind of support for WIC, etc. Nope, the wingnuts have a Fetus Fetish.
Say that 10 times fast, BTW….
Mnemosyne
@Kola Noscopy:
Hey, here’s a thought — if you hadn’t decided to vehemently defend pedophilia, maybe people wouldn’t keep calling you a pedophile.
SIA
@Raven: Did you ever see the comment I posted after you sent me the link to The Last Resort? I waited tables with the now-owners mother. I remember her (the daughter) as a young girl hanging around the restaurant (Sparkys). Small, tiny world.
Kola Noscopy
@Mnemosyne:
You really, really can’t read, can you? Or maybe you’re just stupid?
Yutsano
@Kola Noscopy:
You respond beautifully too. Like a puppet on a string you are. You suffer under the delusion that this blog must fit your EXACT tastes and likes. It’s not your blog. Period. It’s not mine either. I’m just here for the cookies.
Mnemosyne
@Kola Noscopy:
Oh, I can read. We all read what you wrote. That’s why we keep calling you a pedophile.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
pedoc#nt now there is a band name.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@The prophet Nostradumbass:
I look at it like a barn. Lots of really nice animals in it; horses, cows, pigs, chickens, a few roosters…
and a floor covered in shit. I come here to admire the animals and kick the shit.