Because I could(n’t resist):
SHARE UPDATE BURNS OREGON! CHRISTIANS THE BATTLE TRUMPET HAS BEEN SOUNDED TIME TO RISE! CALL TO ACTION SEND IN THE TROOPS TO STAND WITH US IN BURNS OREGON!
Posted by Blaine Cooper on Sunday, January 17, 2016
Just to ram the point home: if I were those guys I’d think long and hard about the story of Nadab and Abihu. False prophets do not usually achieve happy endings. A sheepish withdrawal is by far their best outcome…which would let them get back (continue) to fleece their flock.
But I’ll say this: those big horns are not that easy to blow. Kudos for that at least.
Amir Khalid
I’ll give them this: they do sound mellower than vuvuzelas.
JPL
Buzzfeed has the transcript of Sarah’s speech.. link If I were brave, I’d try to recite it aloud.
Looking around at all of you, you hard-working Iowa families. You farm families, and teachers, and teamsters, and cops, and cooks. You rockin’ rollers. And holy rollers! All of you who work so hard. You full-time moms. You with the hands that rock the cradle. You all make the world go round, and now our cause is one.
different-church-lady
“Eight year-olds, Dude.”
Chyron HR
THE OREGON PATRIOTS HAVE SOUNDED THE TRUMP!
Please stop sending them canned beans.
Baud
FTFY
BGinCHI
False Profits?
Trump can’t be far away.
BGinCHI
@JPL: It’s like the Medley of Covers from a Statler Brothers/Shanana concert.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone :)
OzarkHillbilly
Off topic but I wanted to say that it is hilariously funny that of the prisoners we swapped with Iran to get the 4 Americans back, not one of them has gone back to Iran. So we get ours back and give up absolutely nothing in return.
I keep waiting for a Republican to explain to me how Obama sold us out with this horrible no good deal. Maybe Trump. He’s all about making deals.
OzarkHillbilly
@OzarkHillbilly: Correction: one of the people Iran has released has chosen to stay in Iran. The other 3 are coming home.
Amir Khalid
@JPL:
Sarah is clearly trying to Gish-gallop incoherence at a speed beyond even Tina Fey’s capacity to parody it.
Tim F.
Dude, Nadab and Abihu was my bar mitzvah torah portion. That story is so metal. In a fair world Ozzy Osbourne would have written a hit song about it.
Instead we got the Indigo Girls.
https://youtu.be/aB5tx68i1M4
SFAW
What is it with these morons? Is a group including the FBI, CIA, Army Rangers, SEAL Team Six, Jason Bourne, Jack Reacher, Steve Rogers, Gandalf, Aragorn, the Seven Santini Brothers, and Cletus Spucker planning to storm the compound? If not, then what’s with the idiotic “battle trumpet”?
I swear, sometimes I think Ted Cruz had the right idea re: carpet bombing — just the wrong location.
That those assholes are not grease spots is the strongest argument ever that there is no such thing as a just and vengeful God. Got that, you stupid fucking Dominionists?
Sorry. Sometimes I just get so tired of reading about assholes like these guys.
raven
@BGinCHI: I saw Shanana open for Tull at the Aragon in 70!
damn, there is a boot!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WJ3JprWg46I
rikyrah
Snyder apologized.
APOLOGIZED?
Muthaphucka, you permanently poisoned THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE…
and you APOLOGIZE?
PHUCK.OUTTA.HERE.
BGinCHI
@raven: Greasers then a rock flautist.
I hope you were high.
different-church-lady
@Amir Khalid: My money’s on Tina. She has a talent for the quick kill-shot.
K488
Götterdämmerung, Act II, the Disney remake.
raven
@BGinCHI: As the cost of living!
gogol's wife
@BGinCHI:
When I saw Jethro Tull (KCMO, prob 1970 or so), the opening act was Steeleye Span, and somebody stole their costumes before the concert! There was a mournful announcement by the road manager, more in sorrow than in anger.
I blame my tinnitus on all that stuff.
rikyrah
G-T-F-O-H
Criminal enterprise, from beginning to end.
…………………………………
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 1/19/16
Remorseful Snyder apologizes to people of Flint in state address
Rachel Maddow reports on the latest developments in the Flint, Michigan water crisis, including the mayor of Flint visiting the White House, the federal government sending a Health and Human Services official to help coordinate the response, and Governor Rick Snyder apologizing to the people of Flint in his State of the State address.
OzarkHillbilly
@BGinCHI: It was not possible to be straight at a concert in those days, a contact high was unavoidable.
kc
While we snark, these heavily armed white men have seized a national wildlife refuge, held it for weeks, evicted the employees, rifled personnel files, damaged property, and are now openly planning to do the same thing elsewhere.
With ZERO consequences.
This shit is not funny.
BGinCHI
@gogol’s wife: In 1996 or 97 I saw U2. The opener was Los Lobos.
When they came out they didn’t really look right, or something was up. After 2 or 3 songs they exited the stage.
Turns out Los Lobos had some transportation problem and couldn’t make the show, so U2 got some sombreros and serapes and played the only couple songs they knew in disguise.
NorthLeft12
@rikyrah: So much for Mr. Snyder’s presidential or Senate aspirations.
Real conservatives NEVER.APOLOGIZE. He is toast.
Sloegin
Probably not the only horns they’re blowing out there, amirite?
BGinCHI
@kc: To be truly outraged and not also able to use humor is a moral failure.
–Aristotle
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Semi-funny story. I was friends with a guy who went to Columbia Univ back in the late 60’s and sang with the a cappella group that was the incubator for them. So his friends were splitting off to do this doo wop thing, and he said doo wop? There’s no future in that. Couple of years later they were raking in the dough and he was kicking himself.
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Very funny. It’s like Tom Joiner. He was in an early version of the Commodores and his mom and wife told him to get away from that Lionel Ritchie!
OzarkHillbilly
@gogol’s wife:
The day after an Emerson Lake and Palmer concert, a buddy of mine went in for his West Point physical and just plain flat out failed the hearing part of it. After explaining he was allowed to come back in 2 weeks and passed it the 2nd time.
raven
@raven: Joyner
Davebo
@OzarkHillbilly: The two freed from Houston have strong ties and I’m not at all surprised they chose to stay. The charges were BS to begin with.
Just glad we aren’t paying the $200 a night each it cost to keep them in the federal detention center.
raven
@gogol’s wife: I didn’t say much about all that when I got my hearing aid from the VA!
Snarkworth
If the Oregon crowd is joined by some Buddhist and Christian monks, we’ll have Rama Lama Ding Dong.
Mobil RoonieRoo
@kc: I’m starting to see the lack of response in a different light. TPM has an interesting take on it that kind of makes sense. Josh pointed out that their cause is slowly being eroded the more people hear and see what they are doing and they keep recording themselves committing various crimes. Over time they are hanging themselves and they will continue to lose support so their eventual arrests will be a non-story.
That is one view I’ve read and I am beginning to hope that is what the government is going for.
Immanentize
The cub scouts at the refuge are Jewish?? Are they trying to sho how far they will go to appropriate cultures? First native american land, now the monotheistic call to the new moon?
PIGL
@raven: not a pairing anyone would find inevitable.
raven
@PIGL: Well, Shanana played Woodstock so there was a lot of that going on.
catclub
@Snarkworth: How far is the Malheur from Antelope?
buckydoc
@Amir Khalid: And plus, she blew what was supposed to be her mic-drop moment. She orated:”Right-wingin, Bitter-clingin, proud clingers of our God and our religion and our Constitution.”
But wouldn’t it have scanned better as “Right-wingin, Bitter-clingin, GUN-SLINGIN, ANTHEM-SINGIN….??”
I think she’s losing it.
Steve in the ATL
@BGinCHI:
As an employment lawyer, I find this deeply troubling.
As a Los Lobos and U2 fan, I find this effing awesome.
dedc79
@Mobil RoonieRoo: I’ve been hoping the feds would move in and arrest all of them, the sooner the better. That said, if the end result is that (1) people stop paying them any attention at all and (2) they leave not because they were forced to, but because their lives there become so miserable and boring and then (3) they are all arrested one by one and (4) they are appropriately charged with a number of federal crimes and serve significant jail times and pay significant penalties, that would be even better.
Germy
@OzarkHillbilly: I remember back in the ’90s a man sued Barry Manilow because his ears wouldn’t stop ringing after attending one of Barry’s concerts. I think it was settled in court that Manilow had to donate several thousand dollars to a hearing institute.
BGinCHI
@Germy: Where was the guy, inside the piano?
Germy
@BGinCHI: No, it was just over-amplified and he was seated right in front of the speakers.
Ken
@buckydoc: Maybe instead of Bill Shatner doing it as a dramatic recitation, we should find someone to rap her speech.
buckydoc
@Ken: OMG…. imagine the beefs!!!
Immanentize
@Steve in the ATL: I went to a bar in Syracuse, New York in 1981 with my then-girlfriend, paid 3.75 each at the door, got to drink free beer for an hour — all; to see U2 on their Boy tour. They only knew thirteen songs, so they had to play three of them again ending with I will follow for the encore. Bono liked to sing on tip toe and barefoot back then. Someone stole one of his sneakers, but the crowd made the guy return it. My friend, Michelle, took the play list. Years later she contacted U2’s “people” re the song list and they told her it wasn’t authentic. Believe me, they had no roadies to produce those lists that night. I hate those “people.”
gogol's wife
@BGinCHI:
hahahaha
gogol's wife
@raven:
Blame it on Aqualung
gogol's wife
@Germy:
Now that’s sad, to get tinnitus from Barry Manilow. At least I can blame Hot Tuna and Black Sabbath.
Germy
@gogol’s wife: When I sit in the waiting room of my auto mechanic, I browse all the hunting magazines. The back pages are all full of dubious tinnitus “cures”.
Charles Darwin kept a journal, and every morning he’d describe the severity and tone of his tinnitus.
ThresherK
@Germy: Your mechanic doesn’t have boating magazines? He’s not charging you enough.
Germy
@ThresherK: Hunting magazines and car magazines. All from 2012-13
gogol's wife
@Germy:
Darwin was wrong. The only cure is to ignore it.
Germy
@gogol’s wife: Exactly.
I remember hearing a story once, a guy told his sister-in-law “everyone has tinnitus” and she replied “I don’t!”
A week later, he saw her again, and she said “you bastard!”
jimmiraybob
Feh. They’re no Tower of Power.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
Letter to the editor of the Oregonian.
Oh, and I’m pretty sure the Bundy Cosplayers think they’re invoking the battle trumpets of the Jaredites and the Nephites.
Mr. Prosser
Pass the goat jerky.
ribber
Why am I recalling Tom Hank’s character in The Ladykillers trying to relate to the Bible proclivities of his landlady with talk about “blowing the shofar” and she’s having none of it?
Tractarian
I see what you did there
a different chris
@dedc79: I think we should skip (3) & (4). It might make their supporters angry at the government.
Oatler.
I’ll praise the shofar bit since I love Old Testament puns.
theturtlemoves
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: LeGuin is one of my favorites. Saw her speak at the Eugene library a couple years ago. Don’t necessarily share her distaste of eReaders, but understand it. I do agree with her that this will keep going as long as the feds continue to just let them come and go at will, as I doubt getting told last night repeatedly and loudly at a public meeting in Burns to “get the hell out of my county” by multiple community members will sway them from their righteous path. Who can stand against them when God speaks to them and all that.
thalarctos (not the other one)
If they start screwing around with the Ark, don’t look. No matter what.
Origuy
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: When I saw those guys with the shofarot, I thought it meant that they were with Christian Identity, the group that thinks that the British are the true descendants of the Israelites. But I suppose it could be a Mormon thing.
Ramalama
@BGinCHI: wow. pretending to be the cover band of an opening act. how low can you go?
Frankensteinbeck
‘Please! Oppress us! Where’s our siege? Where’s our deadly shootout? How are we going to inspire a race war like this? You could at least try to starve us out! That’s dramatic, right? WHY DOES NO ONE RESPECT US?’
catclub
Are those kudu horns?
MomSense
@thalarctos (not the other one):
LOLOL!!
Enhanced Voting Techinques
What they are trolling for is a government over reaction like at Waco so they can claim to be martyrs. The second they are arrested they will make it all about the arrest and pretend that none of this happened.
Barry
@SFAW:”That those assholes are not grease spots is the strongest argument ever that there is no such thing as a just and vengeful God. Got that, you stupid fucking Dominionists?”
They don’t want justice.
Van Buren
I finally get to see what a Right Wing Noise Machine looks like!
Miss Bianca
@gogol’s wife:
Their *costumes*? Dang, as long as no one stole their voices…Maddy forever…
Ian Anderson produced one or two of Steeleye’s albums, as I recall…
DaveL
Blowing bighorns. Eat your heart out, Mickey Kaus.
columbusqueen
@Origuy: No question it’s a Mormon thing–they think they’re the lost tribes of Israel, after all.
Julia Grey
@Ramalama: wow. pretending to be the cover band of an opening act. how low can you go?
Pretending to BE the opening act of their own show? Awwwww-some.
Loneoak
Chiming in late just to say that is my favorite headline ever on a BJ post. That is all.