Rumper Room

An endless open thread for registered members of Rumproast.  Newest comments appear at the top (150 per page), so read from the bottom if you need to catch up.

*sighs*

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2013/06/house-p asses-bill-banning-abortion-after-20-weeks/

Kind of appalling that we need an old white guy’s opinion on whether the black guy is making the right decisions…still. :P

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2013/06/14/on-s yria-bill-clinton-says-obama-decision-trending-in-right-dire ction/?cid=sf_twitter

Despite some of the contumelious comments stating this isn’t really impromptu because of stadium music being piped in, I maintain that spontaneous displays of crowd music are wonderful.

So Congress is taking on sexual assault in the military. This is good. But it seems like maybe it’s a “save our ass because of our record on women” kind of move.

Oh my, lookit what our favorite Pint-Sized PUMA Paranoid-Schizophrenic has done now.

It’s twofer: Dujan and Chambers ridiculed webwide! Chambers’ article’s now been pulled from the Examiner site (Charlie Pierce should know it’s a different beast to the Washington Examiner, which is bad enough in its own way, but then he guzzles enough antifreeze as it is without venturing too far into the bowels of the rightisphere), so either they feared a lawsuit of some sort or the finger-pointing wasn’t enough of a tradeoff for the clicks. Do they imagine they’ve got any credibility anyway?

Seems FB is finally listening…maybe:

https://www.facebook.com/notes/facebook-safety/contr oversial-harmful-and-hateful-speech-on-facebook/574430655911 054

We’ll see what happens in practice. Cynical? No, not me! ;)

FB is now banning people who post in support of the #FBRape campaign while claiming they aren’t being biased at all. They are also deleting reports of content that violates their anti-hate, anti-violence guidelines from the reporters’ dashboards.

Nope, no misogyny there!

Actually, I should apologize to paranoid-schizophrenics for lumping them in with that creep.

Oh my, lookit what our favorite Pint-Sized PUMA Paranoid-Schizophrenic has done now.

Btw, one of the more interesting companies who are continuing to pay for FB ads despite the content they appear on is Dove. Supposedly in support of strong women, but doesn’t care that it’s ads are placed on pages where women are beaten and rape is encouraged. Just blows my mind.

Everyday Sexism is leading the charge on Facebook’s insanely inconsistent approach to violence towards woman. Follow some of the links in their feed. They are pressuring companies to pull advertising until FB finally fully and consistently follows through on their stated content guidelines.

Oh my lord….

http://www.forwardprogressives.com/attacking-obama-b ecause-of-an-umbrella-republicans-reach-new-lows/

To add to today’s crazy (yesterday’s crazy, actually), I got the weirdest rejection of my novel yet. The sample drew her in! The character was interesting! The writing was well done! Nice voice! The setting was excellent!

But she didn’t love it.

At least nothing in the novel appears to be broken? I was beginning to wonder….

Ug. Georgia politicians are already lining up to run for Prez. So far, they all seem to be touting how they are more conservative than their opponents.

So not only do I have to deal with the running for office bs for THREE YEARS, but I also have to deal with the OMG crazies.

I could cry.

I’m just tryin’ to keep it light here.

What?!  What frivolous frippery is this?!  I come here for hard-nosed journalism and piercing analysis!  What do you think this is, some sort of humor blog?!

I actually have business in the ‘Burgh this fall.  Once I have the dates, I’ll follow up.  I have a taste for fine single malts my own self, and my debit card is fully rated up to several rounds for any ‘Roasters who’d care for some analog world merriment.

I’ll have my Tranya with a sprig of cilantro, por favor.

Nothing but the best for our Lowkey and Strange~~~the Tranya’s on me!

Oh don’t tell me you can’t get Tranya in a Mos Eisley joint, at least the Pittsburgh franchise. I’ve seen hairy creatures pounding down even hairier Pan-Galactic Gargleblasters there.

@Lowkey:
Sorry you don’t have the same sense of humor as your muscular wing-headed brother, Asgardian blogger-dude! I’m just tryin’ to keep it light here. If you’re ever headed my way, use the blog as a GPS device. There are dozens of Mos Eisley cantinas in this town…most of which carry top-shelf single malt scotch and clear tequila made from vibrant blue agave. I love high-octane, unblended booze that’s strong enough to burn a hole in your debit card…or MY debit card, depending.

Let’s go on a memorable tear!

I will never, ever, EVER have to look at John Boehner’s evil rubber face again.

NOT WORTH IT, homeboy.  I attempt to cope by drawing dicks on every picture of him.

Glad you’re still around and about, you weird bastard.  One of these days, I’mma get back Pittsburgh way, and you’d better believe I’ll be pouring a few drinks into you.

Tangential: I am so bummed that I’m going to be in Santa Fe and Albuquerque on business, and missing Rebecca Schoenkopf’s meetups by less than a week.  I want to drink martinis and talk shit with that woman so bad.

Wonder if there’s a 12 step program for that.

I’m only aware of a 1 step program that depends entirely on your father’s irresponsibility in leaving his super-powered WWII firearms lying around the house after his funeral. Unfortunately, as it turns out, that was a stupid program that didn’t work, blinded me, stuck me in a hospital for two years and left me with the all-consuming desire to throw one more post up the Rumproast wire ASAP.

I love this blog. I love the snarkmasters who write for it, and the immensely talented groundlings who fuel the comment section. Granted, I miss the ability to see sunrises and sunsets, but the good news is that I will never, ever, EVER have to look at John Boehner’s evil rubber face again.

We’re rumproast addicts. Wonder if there’s a 12 step program for that.

There is something about this blog; I have vowed to spend less time on the ‘net, and yet here I am…

I just hate that I wasn’t really all that active to begin with and now I’m even less so. Just too much else demanding attention these days. :/

BTw, sorry I’m hit and miss these days.

LOL, domynoe, I just apologized in Betty’s open thread up front.  What is it about this magical blog?!

BTw, sorry I’m hit and miss these days. I’m busily subbing 2 novels and working on 3 others, plus editing, plus covering all the household stuff now that all the kids are pretty much moved out and hubs works 2 1/2 jobs (3rd job is when he has time for it, which he hasn’t had much of lately since the other 2 keep him 60-80 hours a week). I try to visit, but my time is so short that most times all I can do is skim and maybe throw a link up here every now and then.

I seriously need more hours in the day…and probably still wouldn’t have enough time. :P

Journalist tries to show how the poors can eat healthy on £1 a day and rightly gets shown what a crock he is.

Ya know, I was getting rooked by the Daily Currant before it went mainstream. #justsayin #hipsterglasses #wait #isntthistwitter

As I told Strange in his latest post, jazz-it-up, music is the international language and I aint never lied!

with you fracking him

House Of Frackula!

Heh.  In the wingnut mind, the easiest way to stop unwanted enlightenment in its tracks is to vomit belligerence at it.

A methane bubble, John. Muir’s self-regard could fuel a small city, particularly with you fracking him.

Unfortunately, his ability to operate without shame is common in Teabaggery. Sanctimonious assholism seems to provide an impermeable barrier against creeping awareness.

So… Muir was doing a story where his righteous right-wingers are arrested by the EVIL DHS, for being well, righteous right-wingers—and then Boston went and happened.

Now, there are many ways to handle such a development.  Muir naturally managed to choose the worst—folding it into his storyline.  So now his characters are ranting about Bill Ayers in response to questioning. 

He really does live in a bubble.

Great speech by a aye voter:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pCDEiaoEP2U

Lucky 13!  The ayes: 77 the nahs: 44 I love you, New Zealand!

If you can watch livestreams coming from any country in the world then you may be interested in the gay marriage debate (final vote in one and a half hours) at this link.  http://www.3news.co.nz/Marriage-equality-bill-debates-v ote/tabid/1568/articleID/294595/Default.aspx

It’s an AWESOME debate.  I’m sure the bill will pass.

I just…don’t even know anymore. No, I don’t….

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/03/north-carol ina-religion-bill_n_3003401.html

Oh, ay-up.

She’s mainly hanging out around myiq2xu‘s hole nowadays. Figures.

The pirouettings from some of the left-behind PUMA crowd

I noticed puma helenk(an early conflucian) posted a comment under one of Johnson’s screeds.  Remember her?  Better question, remember her old sig line?:

WOMEN WITH INTELLIGENCE AND EXPERIENCE,MEN WHO SUPPORT THEM AND COUNTRY BEFORE PARTY ALWAYS PUMAS,BUBBA,EQUALISTS AND THOSE PEOPLE RULE

Larry topped himself today

Good grief. That’s the first time I’ve looked at his comments for a while. The pirouettings from some of the left-behind PUMA crowd as they veer from “Huh? Really, Larry?” via the standard “Ermagerd 0bamamessiah wharrgarble” to “I agree. I’m fat, too, and I shouldn’t be in charge of the SS” are Olympic-standard.

Has anybody seen a recent pic of Johnson? His own BMI was nothing to boast about last I saw.

Larry topped himself today: Why Did Obama Put a Fat Girl in Charge of Secret Service? Featuring the ever-classy line “this pudgy porker ain’t the ticket.”

This must be what happens to bloggers when their popularity wanes and they don’t have any hobbies.

I’d like to know what’s been contaminating his precious bodily fluids…

SOY, GODDAMNIT!  He’s not speaking anecdotally about the moob-induced ghey… he’s patient fucking zero!

Gawd, to think I used to read Johnson when he was the place to go for Plame umbrage.  I’d like to know what’s been contaminating his precious bodily fluids…  Er, maybe not.

Larry “Whitey” Johnson has realized the money in Obama-bashing isn’t what it used to be, and has branched out. His new targets: gay marriage and the unfermented soy products that are to blame. That the only link he proposes is that soy causes moobs (therefore, ipso facto, the ghey, Q.E. mother-fucking D.) is awesome.

From a friend on Twitter: All I think of when I see the new GOP GO RED scheme is the Communist Russia Flag.

LOL!

Yeah, I needed a ciggie afterwards.

I did some digging on Sieradski, as I’d never heard of him before.

The Talk page on his Wikipedia article is awash with perfidious attempts to edit him out of the public record and slander him (they eventually locked the article for a while), and one nut even set up a blog a couple of years ago (linked anonymously toward the end of the Talk page, but the IP address reveals it’s one “Malik Shabazz”, which I imagine is a pseudonym as that was Malcom X’s alternym) with just one post that smeared him to high heaven as an anti-Semite yadayadayada. So I imagine he must be doing something right!

Damn, YAFB, that is a corker.  Thanks for sharing.

This Twitter exchange between Daniel Sieradski and David Dombrowsky was a doozy:

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency

MT @OccupyJudaism: If only U.S. Jewish leaders were as welcoming of this statement as the Israelis who applauded it. pic.twitter.com/ZOgdkKAsSG

David Dombrowsky ‏@ddombrowsky 10h

@selfagency @OccupyJudaism So the moral of the story would be…. violence and murder will lead to victory? How is that right?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 10h

@ddombrowsky If that is your takeaway, I suspect there is little to gain from attempting to reason with you.

David Dombrowsky @ddombrowsky 10h

@selfagency Smug and condescending, just what I’ve come to expect from Mr. Sieradski. Have a nice day :)

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 10h

@ddombrowsky I am happy to be smug and condescend to hateful, racist idiots.

David Dombrowsky @ddombrowsky 7h

@selfagency I say “have a nice day” and you call me a “racist idiot?” Do you realize how much of a fool you sound?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 7h

@ddombrowsky Suggesting that Palestinians are all violent murderers & that their freedom would be a victory for terrorists is racist idiocy.

David Dombrowsky @ddombrowsky 2h

@selfagency Rewarding murders, whatever their “race,” would indeed be giving victory to terrorists. Negotiation requires good faith.

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky Palestinians have an inalienable right to self-determination that does not cease to be because of armed resistance.

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky Do you call stealing the land that would constitute a future Palestinian state negotiating in good faith?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky Do you call imprisoning thousands of Palestinians under administrative detention (ie., without charges) good faith?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky Do you call extrajudicial assassination good faith?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky Do you call demolishing civilian infrastructure and private homes good faith?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky Do you realize that Israel led a terrorist campaign against Britain in its pursuit of independence? Was Israel terror’s reward?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Irgun_attacks …

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky Did you know we have a shrine in Tel Aviv in honor of our terrorists, with scale model reproductions of our bombs & targets?

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewschool/67653583/in/set- 1460138 …

Daniel Sieradski ‏@selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewschool/67653328/in/set- 1460138 …

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky http://www.flickr.com/photos/jewschool/67653093/in/set- 1460138 …

Daniel Sieradski @selfagency 1h

@ddombrowsky So please do us all a favor and save it for someone who doesn’t know any better.

This may provide better context for the previous post

What happens when Snoop Double-D-O-G meets a hillbilly? What does it sound like when Dr. Dre jams with the best fiddle near this here holler?

Here’s the answer, and it’s pretty damn good.

Rollin’ down the street smokin’ endo and sippin’ on gin and juice as done in Appalachia.

Not sure if y’all have seen the viral video of the CCC (cali conservation corps) kids dancing with their supervisors. I do not know the man, but many others do and he’s a Humboldt guy who has also written a children’s book.

Here he is being interviewed on local radio

LOL, I love it that libertarians yowl about freedom, and then skip hand-in-hand with Tony Perkins to CPAC.

We do, however, have Grambling v. Southern as a reminder

And our Navy band played the Popeye theme, the 60s version of the Batman song and then, in a soulful and contemplative pause, they broke out the Superman anthem.

Rat-a-tat-tat-motherfuckers

Damn, HB, those drumline links—I used to be part of a public school orchestra before I went three years “gleek” in h.s.(I am a way better singer than a bass player, let me tell you)—I never saw that kind of discipline. They work like a well-disciplined machine of percussive awesomeness rather than a unit of talented individuals—I can not fathom how much time they have to practice together to get that synchronized. But it’s a compelling joy to watch.

Swiss drumline tearing it up at last year’s Tattoo in Edinburgh.

If O’Keefe’s statement regarding the settlement is any indication, he hasn’t learned a fucking thing.  I just hope he doesn’t destroy someone else’s life before the next time he plops into a legal beef.

I am hoping that this is just the start of many, many lawsuits that have O’Keefe’s kiester in the crosshairs.

O hai!! Look what edgy young journalism hasbeen has to dole out big bucks for his biased misportrayal or an ACORN employee.

Any guessing whether that sort of damage is covered under his wingnut welfare mealticket?

If you need a laugh just listen to this young man describe a field trip during his 3rd grade year.

NSFL

Ya know, HB, God put those fossils there just to test the faith of His dogs.  All good Christian dogs know the Earth was created about 850 years ago.

Stupid scientists with their fossils and research and evolution stuff

@SOaS: LOL, keep on keepin’ relevant, conservatives.

Ain’t room for but one guv at CPAC, and St. $arah’s already got that spot nailed down!

Awww, it seems yet another popular blue/purple state governor isn’t invited to CPAC this year.

Granted, it’s probably not the worst thing for Bible Bob’s national ambitions to end his association with that yowling loonfest.  It’s still fun to watch the Tea Party eat the Republican young.

Please think of the children.

Here’s another short film from my buddy, Eyez, it even has some Monk.

@D Johnston: HA!  I love Tom Scocca.

Ooh.  The Editrix is quite cross at the Wonketteers, and rightly so.  If I had to personally apologize to Michelle Malkin, I’d burn my blog down.

I feel an urge to buy the woman a martini.

I had to put on my serious face at my eponymous haunt because, seriously, what is up with Scalia and that “racial entitlement” statement?  I was already expecting this based on his assertion that the only people who count are those that the founders counted, and his assertion that the Constitution itself was dead—but is he really so sold on the death of the Constitution that he can’t acknowledge the existence of Amendments made after whatever point in time he thinks the Founders perfected it and had it killed and bronzed? Even if the Constitution they created included the process for new Amendments to be made? Meaning he is at the outset a cosmic schmuck for his contra-historical position?

Let me simplify my general position thusly: Politically biased SCJ is politically biased.

There need to be more takedowns of David Brooks columns in the blogosphere. The problem is that they’re all basically the same - complaining that the government is wasting money keeping useless old people alive instead of “investing in the future,” whatever the hell that means.

Maybe that’s the idea behind this column. If Brooks throws around a bunch of old-timey sounding “dance steps,” people will be so blinded by derisive laughter that they won’t realize how sociopathic the argument is.

Oh, GAWD.

David Fucking Brooks is trying to get hip and rap at the kidz that both sides are financially wack, yo.

After I’m done brushing the vomit out of my mouth, I will desperately await a skilled fisking of this… column.  Thing.  Words fail.

LOL!  This, in your head, should sound exactly like this.

“Friends of Humus”.  Time to pound them into the sand with this tag! 

I love the smell of wingers being ridiculed, morning, night, any ol’ time.

This is the part where I’d normally leave some flippant little phrase mocking Ben Shapiro, but I’m not sure whether I should go with “Citizen journalism!” or “Self-correcting blogosphere!” So many options.

Don’t have the link with me, but a few hours ago Shapiro dropped another post claiming that Friedman admitted he was wrong. Needless to say, this was false as well.

Hope y’all are following the hilarious Breitbart.com meltdown over the Hagel/“Friends of Hamas” fuckup.

Given their continuing corpse-adulation of ole Breity and drive to pepetuate his journalistic standards, maybe they should rename themselves Friends of Humus.

Senator McCain just told someone that he was entitled to his opinion but he wasn’t entitled to his facts.

WTH does THAT mean? lol

I just don’t want to lose FR to a system that can’t grow, especially in these dark times. We need FR to live!

Isn’t that the final line from Old Yeller?

Free Republic has been down for the best part of two days.

Supposedly they’ve had a database server crash, requiring Jimbob’s henchtech John to hotfoot to Santa Fe to try to fix it, then hotfoot back home for the night when he couldn’t figure out WTF was going on, now tasked with procuring a shiny new server so the wingnuts currently scattered to Facebook, the unofficial FR backup site, and Yahoo! will cease to whine and pine/won’t go finding a better hole to hang out in and deprive Jimbob of his pension.

It did lead to a neat exchange on one of their backup hangouts:

Re: FR database server down
Posted By: victorygalusa
Tue Feb 19, 2013 4:40 pm

Very sorry, Jim Rob. :-( FR is by far and away the best forum I have the pleasure and honor to be a part of.

I hate to say it, because I think you’ve talked about it before, but it really may be time to reboot FR on a more scalable, less homegrown system. I just don’t want to lose FR to a system that can’t grow, especially in these dark times. We need FR to live!

Best Wishes,
Thea (VictoryGal)

Re: FR database server down
Posted By: editor.surveyor
Tue Feb 19, 2013 9:36 pm

FR’s present software is the only acceptable package out there. Nothing else even comes close. We have far more features available than any other site has. It would be like all the other stone age joke sites.

HAHAHAHAHAHA!

*gasp, puff, wheeze*

...BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

*wipes tears away*

Oh man, that is just, too, too perfect.  Peretz is all like “my creation?  I know thee not.  You’ve become so liberal!”  And Nathan Bedford McCain is like, “TROLOLOLOL, libtards!”

I sorta feel sorry for that reporter/blogger/whatever she is. The WaPo’s editors? Asleep at the wheel.

I feel so much better about that time I got rooked by The Daily Currant.  Of course, that means my skepticism is only slightly stronger than the WaPo’s editors’, but hey, I don’t get paid for this shit.

Well, this is shaping up to be a lovely week.

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2013/02/11/1571751 /texas-congressman-invites-ted-nugent-who-threatened-the-pre sidents-life-to-the-state-of-the-union/?mobile=nc

The Examiner is right-wing pay-per-click linkbait. No one touches their stuff because that’s exactly what they want.

Have we covered this one yet?

http://www.examiner.com/article/new-study-confirms-e conomy-was-destroyed-by-democrat-policies

Ummmm….

New Mexico Bill Would Imprison Rape Victims Who Receive Abortions

*head desk*

(I tried to articulate something more…snarky…but just couldn’t…I’m just…yea.)

There’s at least one dead person on that list, you know. Nora Ephron died last year and she’s still mentioned. My guess is that they harvested this thing from old petitions and memberships and never bothered to double-check it.

I was impressed by how comprehensive the list is. Especially all the of religious orgs.  It defines paranoia.

Well isn’t that precious, publishing an enemies list.  How…..retro; how…...Nixonian; how…..predictably stupid.  You know, eventually the overdramatic screaming toddler realizes their schtick is having the opposite of the intended effect.  I don’t see that kind of self awareness amongst the NRA yet, and I doubt I ever will.

NRA publishes it’s Enemies List

@YAFB “Excellent. It’s one thing to find a job, but a really worthwhile one ...”

Thanks, man.  It’s the one I’ve been volunteering at since October after staying there.  We’ve helped each other out.  2013 is bloody awesome so far.

RIGHT the hell ON.  Just for once, I’m not going to be a cynical smartass, and credit this to some Republicans acting in good faith defense of democracy, and not suggest that they’re recoiling from the sunlight of the Times and WaPo.

...

Whoops, it appears I’m not very good at not being a cynical smartass.

The Tundra Twit no longer broadcasting from the AK bearskin rug studio?  Or any other Faux location?  Is it my birthday?

@YAFB: We traffic in gossip and innuendo around these parts.  Fuck it, if you’ve got something funny to write, write it.  You know Charlie Pierce cruises the Roast, it’d make his day, and he’s been having a bad couple of ‘em.

Yeah, Lowkey, Malia’s usually pretty reliable, but if it was firmer, I might even have frontpaged it.

@YAFB: I’m not ready to take the unnamed switchboard operator source as gospel, but…

WHEEE!  A sad, fucked-up part of me will miss the Princess, but watching her final slide into irrelevancy oblivion is going to be a fucking gas.

Brace yourself for mass formation fainting over at Conservatives4Palin—Fox didn’t renew the Quitter’s contract!

Lowkey, this disenfranchisement crap is exhibit A for why I want to strangle people, who when told what the rethugs are planning on doing, andswer with “oh, they’d never do something THAT unpopular, you must be mistaken”.  Makes you want to scream.

Charlie Pierce is much better at being angry than I am.

GODDAMNIT.  I have got to figure out a way to help raise so much hell that they cut this shit out.

@SoaS: The scuttlebutt is that this move just sank the rest Governor Bible Bob’s agenda, and whatever shreds of national ambition he had after Rmoney blew it.

Which doesn’t suck.