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[Travis Retriever]

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I think I made Rene sad in the pants.

[Travis Retriever]

And my mom, despite crying about how organ meat = teh ebil cuz the Bible says so, is saying that fish heads are teh awesome.  *facepalms*
Shame, because liver is one of the few foods worthy of the name superfoods.  But you'll never hear it marketed that way because it's not a kind of rabbit food...

"Are you eating enough fruits/veggies?"
I'll care when I have the calories to spare, kthxbai.

[dallen68]

And my mom, despite crying about how organ meat = teh ebil cuz the Bible says so, is saying that fish heads are teh awesome.  *facepalms*
Shame, because liver is one of the few foods worthy of the name superfoods.  But you'll never hear it marketed that way because it's not a kind of rabbit food...

"Are you eating enough fruits/veggies?"
I'll care when I have the calories to spare, kthxbai.

You really should consider making a seperate thread. "Travis' Mom's Diet Fails?"  But actually, when I was a kid, liver was actually marketed sorta that way (one of the best sources of iron...). Except the word "superfood" hadn't been invented yet. Before that, the go to thing was spinach, after the liver thing passed it was milk, then brussel sprouts, then... Any way, whatever not enough of is being sold/is something the average person isn't eating/has an overabundant supply for the demand seems to be the "superfood" of the day.

[Travis Retriever]

You really should consider making a seperate thread. "Travis' Mom's Diet Fails?"  But actually, when I was a kid, liver was actually marketed sorta that way (one of the best sources of iron...). Except the word "superfood" hadn't been invented yet. Before that, the go to thing was spinach, after the liver thing passed it was milk, then brussel sprouts, then... Any way, whatever not enough of is being sold/is something the average person isn't eating/has an overabundant supply for the demand seems to be the "superfood" of the day.

I have considered it.  Something like "momscience fails" or something like that.  However, it fails into the broader category of fail quotes, however, so it still fits this thread.  So says I, as the original poster/starter of this thread.

[BlameThe1st]

Ann Coulter: YOUR 'TO DO' LIST TO SAVE AMERICA

The biggest current danger for Republicans is that idiots will vote for Libertarian candidates in do-or-die Senate elections, including Kentucky, Kansas, North Carolina and Colorado. (That's in addition to the "Independent" in Kansas who's a Democrat.) Democratic candidates don't have to put up with this crap -- they're even trying to dump the official Democrat in Kansas to give the stealth Democrat a better shot.

When we're all dying from lack of health care across the United States of Mexico, we'll be deeply impressed with your integrity, libertarians.

Which brings me to my final assignment this week: If you are considering voting for the Libertarian candidate in any Senate election, please send me your name and address so I can track you down and drown you.

Yeah, and freak yourself, too, Ann!

Sweet Celestia! I can't believe I actually reads this woman's books and agreed with her.

And of course she's wrong about libertarians stealing votes from Republicans. Here in Florida, it's Adrian Wyllie who is stealing votes from Democrat Charlie Christ, not Republican Rick Scott. I even used this fact to convince my neocon mother to vote for the guy. (She doesn't like Scott, but she dislikes Christ even more!)

[MrBogosity]

And of course she's wrong about libertarians stealing votes from Republicans. Here in Florida, it's Adrian Wyllie who is stealing votes from Democrat Charlie Christ, not Republican Rick Scott. I even used this fact to convince my neocon mother to vote for the guy. (She doesn't like Scott, but she dislikes Christ even more!)

She mentioned North Carolina specifically. But polls show Sean Haugh is drawing equal support from those who would otherwise vote Hagan or Tillis. The Republicans only have themselves to blame for their inevitable loss by nominating someone as mind-bogglingly unlikeable as Tillis! This election should be a cakewalk for them, as Hagan is hated by 60% of NC voters, but Tillis is hated by more than 80% of NC voters!

As Sean said, if the Republicans really want to unseat Hagan, their only option is for Tillis to drop out the race and tell everyone to vote Libertarian.

[Travis Retriever]

She mentioned North Carolina specifically. But polls show Sean Haugh is drawing equal support from those who would otherwise vote Hagan or Tillis. The Republicans only have themselves to blame for their inevitable loss by nominating someone as mind-bogglingly unlikeable as Tillis! This election should be a cakewalk for them, as Hagan is hated by 60% of NC voters, but Tillis is hated by more than 80% of NC voters!

As Sean said, if the Republicans really want to unseat Hagan, their only option is for Tillis to drop out the race and tell everyone to vote Libertarian.

^This.

[Dallas Wildman]

More from IAB:
http://www.i-am-bored.com/bored_link.cfm?link_id=103147
Some points I agree with others are just stupid

5. Obama failed to reform immigration.

He spent all of his political capital, and then some, on the failed stimulus and the ObamaCare boondoggle, leaving nothing for immigration reform. Having failed to get anything through Congress, he floated a dubious plan to enact amnesty through a unilateral executive authority that he doesnt have. Then he dropped the idea.

Instead, he has simply failed to enforce the immigration laws, contributing to a crisis on our southern border.

The result: he has managed to enrage the right, the left, and the middle. He hasnt cracked down on illegal immigration, he hasnt legalized it, and he hasnt forged any kind of compromise or consensus on the issue. Nobody is happy and nothing has been accomplished.

6. He withdrew prematurely from Iraq.

Obama was so eager to not be George W. Bush that he pulled all of our troops out of Iraq as soon as possible, then totally ignored the country, even as a terrorist threat re-established itself there. For most of this year, he foolishly downplayed the rise of the Islamic State. Even as Kurds and the Iraqi government issued increasingly panicked warnings, and the Islamic State took over more and more territory, he let the problem get worse for months without bothering to interrupt his golf schedule.

A few weeks ago, he admitted to having no strategy for dealing with the Islamic State. Last week, he hastily assembled one, but its looking like it might be unrealistic and lacks international support.

Bush went into Iraq with multiple UN resolutions, congressional approval, a broad coalition of the willing, and (as it turned out) the resolve to use whatever means were necessary to prevent a terrorist state from establishing itself there. Obama is going back into Iraq with none of that. So I guess he really isnt anything like George W. Bush.

Who could have guessed that he would be the one to suffer by that comparison?

7. He blew the Arab Spring.

When a series of uprisings overthrew dictators across the Middle East, Obama failed to adopt any meaningful policy or to turn the situation to our advantage. He dithered for so long on Egypt that all of the factions there hate him, and most of Egypts liberals concluded that he was secretly backing the Muslim Brotherhood. The result is that Egypt went right back to where it was before, except this time the military dictatorship regards America as a useless and irrelevant ally.

Meanwhile, the two places where we could have taken advantage of the Arab Spring to get rid of truly nasty dictators who have been hostile to our interests for decadesLibya and Syriaended in disaster. In Libya, the killing of our ambassador in Benghazi was just the beginning of a slow collapse into chaos and civil war. In Syria, three years of administration dithering allowed the rise of ISIS, which then spilled over into Iraq.

And lets not forget about 2009, when Iranians poured out onto the street to oppose their own brutal, theocratic, terror-sponsoring regimeand Obama sat back passively because he preferred to cut a diplomatic deal with the ayatollahs.

8. Obama ignored the threat of a resurgent Russian dictatorship.

During a debate with Mitt Romney in 2012, Obama dismissed Romneys suggestion that Russia might be a threat to American interests, sneering, The 1980s are now calling to ask for their foreign policy back. Now its looking more like the 1970s are calling, with an aggressive Russian dictatorship invading its neighbors, leaving our European allies feeling exposed and unsure whether they can really count on support from the US and NATO. Polands foreign minister has been overheard complaining abouthow shall I put this politely?his countrys unrequited love for America.

The presidents response to Russian aggression has been to impose a few more sanctions, make a speech in Estonia, and otherwise ignore the crisis and hope it goes away.

9. He didnt shut down Guantanamo, keep the NSA from spying, or rein in the drones.

I know people who sincerely believe that all of these are good policies and who will defend them vigorously if asked. Barack Obama is not one of those people. Yet all of these policies have been pursued during his presidency, on his authority.

President Obama came into office having loudly condemned many of the Bush administrations measures against terrorism. Then he continued them. You can call this hypocrisy or you can call it subversion. But President Obama has achieved a unique combination: managing to morally discredit Americas anti-terrorism policies without actually ending them.

10. He has made America irrelevant.
You will notice that most of Obamas failures result, not from taking a bold stand, but from taking no stand and just letting events drift. Certainly, in a lot of these cases, Obama has given speeches or press conference to announce his enlightened intentionsthen done nothing to plan for how to actually achieve his goals.

But if he is irrelevant, that makes America irrelevant. We can look at the Arab Spring, at Ukraine, and at Iraq, but lets add one more example. For most of his presidency, Obama has declared his intention to pivot to Asia, extricating himself from the Middle East and focusing on bolstering our Pacific allies to peacefully manage the rise of China. Its pretty widely acknowledged that he never managed to do it, letting the Asia pivot die of neglect.

This may fit with the quasi-isolationist mood that has taken hold in America in recent years, but it is yet another case where Obama promised something very different. He campaigned on the promise that America would be more respected in the world after the Bush yearsnot that we would be considered a useless ally and an ineffectual opponent.

I dont know if you could come up with a more comprehensive list of presidential failures, encompassing foreign policy and domestic policy, economics, race, and immigration. And Im sure I left a lot of things off this list, not least of which is the targeting of Obamas political opponents by a corrupt IRS, which continues to announce the oh-so-mysterious loss of potentially incriminating data by its employees.

Combine all of this with his frequent vacations and golf outings and his fascination with the trappings of pop-culture celebrity, and you get the impression that Obama has checked out of the presidency and lost interest in the responsibility he is neither willing nor able to shoulder.

Obama was originally elected on the basis of celebrity, on vague slogans about hope and change, on a sense of self-congratulatory smugness about how progressive and enlightened we would all be if we voted for him. He was re-elected on all of that, plus the smearing of his political opposition as racists and mean rich white guys.

If the result is an utter failure of leadership, maybe there are a few lessons we ought to learn for the next presidential election.

It amazes me how conservatives will NOT give up on global social engineer-I'm sorry "Foreign Policy" or "Defense Policy".

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[tnu]

http://m.tickld.com/x/this-woman-just-changed-harry-potter-for-her-kids-seriously

FSM this is insane.

[BlameThe1st]

Feminists: Slow Motion Is 'Sexist'

Slow Motion Is 'Sexist'

Slow Motion Is 'Sexist'

Slow Motion Is 'Sexist'

How do these feminist SJW breathe?!?!

[AnCap Dave]

This cunt

Not that there was any doubt, but the entrance of right wing ideologues into the faux controversy "#GamerGate" makes it almost comically clear how this is not, was not, and never will be about "ethics in journalism", but about harnessing the inchoate anger of a bunch of people who feel left out by the Cool Kids and aiming it directly at the goal of eroding women's right to basic equality with men. (For those who wish to argue that point, feel free to read this, and please comment there, in the wasteland where zero #GamerGate enthusiasts have yet to actually argue with any of my actual points.) It was a grassroots movement of 4chan misogynists who just want to punish individual women online to get back at women as a group for some incoherent sins against them (insufficient blow jobs, not sneaking into their houses to clean shit while they're away), but now the conservative vultures are swirling. They see some marks and they, by god, are going to pick them up. And like watching a vulture tear into carrion, it's simultaneously revolting and fascinating.

Two of the biggies are this asshole from Breitbart.com and female misogynist Christina Hoff Sommers. Oh yeah, and Adam Baldwin. At the top of the list of things these two could not give less of a fuck about:

1) Ethics in journalism (I mean, good lord, it's Breitbart.com.)

2) Gaming (I mean, maybe Adam Baldwin plays games, but rest assured, he gives no fuck about the "gaming community".)

I mean, they care less about these two things than they do about where their shit goes when they flush it. The only reason—only reason—that you're starting to see figures like this inject themselves is because they see roadkill, and like good vultures, they are coming in for a feast. In this case, the "roadkill" is rageful idiot sexist gamers and the "feast" is channeling that rage into their own political ends. Which would be the promotion of misogyny and the general conservative agenda.

It's kind of interesting seeing the right wing recruiting strategy in action, particularly in a nascent stage with a new set of marks. Watching it go down, I think I've figured out the strategy.

1) Find a weakness or insecurity of some sort. Perhaps the mark is bad with women. Perhaps he feels that he's not as economically successful as he should be. Perhaps he knows he isn't as smart as he pretends to be and fears people will find him out.

2) Stoke the mark's insecurity while telling him that someone else—women, black people, gay people, you name it—is the real villain here. They are stealing from you. They are depriving you of what is rightfully yours. Think of how white people are encouraged to believe they would have all this extra money if black people weren't using up all the welfare.

3) Create a sham theory to justify their screeching, bigoted rage. Using the welfare example: Tell them that this isn't about black people, but about "fiscal conservatism" and "personal responsibility". Some will handle the bullshit better than others, but as long as some perform the dance well enough, they might be able to hoodwink the mainstream media into buying it.

4) Watch as donations to conservative orgs roll in. Republican candidates promise that they'll be able to make the people singled out in step #2 give you back what they stole from you, and they get your votes. Voila! You have someone who will likely be your stooge for life.

We can see how this is working out in #GamerGate. In fact, a lot of the work was already done for them. The sexist gamers themselves are all over #2 and #3, for instance. But let's take this step by step, to show why the vultures think they have such easy carrion to chew on.

1) Find a weakness or insecurity of some sort. Easy enough for the vultures. They're dealing with a bunch of nerdy young men here. Odds are sky-high they feel like they aren't very cool and that their sexual prospects are diminished because of it. Not saying whether that's true or not, but easy guess that this is what the marks themselves are feeling.

2) Stoke the mark's insecurity while telling him that someone else is the real villain here. The #GamerGate screechers made this laughably easy for the vultures. They blame women for not giving them the sex they feel entitled to and they feel gaming journalists are Cool Kids who are shutting them out of the parties.

But despite that, you really see how masterfully the vultures are stoking the insecurities here. Breitbart douchebag is reprinting emails from some kind of gaming journalism/industry listserv, trying a redux of the "Journolist" faux-scandal. (Full disclosure: I was on Journolist.) Back then, the excuse was that the existence of a collegial listserv amongst liberal journalists was some sort of scandal because apparently we're not supposed to be friends with each other. (Note: There are similar conservative listservs, but that's different because reasons.) But the actual motivation had a lot more to do with the ongoing resentment many conservatives in media have of their liberal brethren, because, and let's face it, liberals are just  cooler. It really was a Cool-Kids-don't-invite-us-to-the-parties thing. They're victims because we laugh at them for not knowing who Girl Talk is. Not that they'd ever admit it, but there's a reason that these kind of "wah, we're not invited to their parties" faux-scandals only go one way.

I'm not saying liberals are cool, mind you. I mean, I am. *cough* But liberals are certainly cooler, and everything is relative when it comes to the politics of resentment.

Sommers doesn't even try to hide that this is the game she is playing: "Well, now, gamers are dealing with a new army of critics: gender activists and, I don't know, hipsters with a degree in cultural studies." In other words, she's trying to tell them that the girls and the Cool Kids that they already resent for supposedly shunning them are now trying to steal their games. It's like yelling "Obamaphone" at a bunch of Sarah Palin fans.

3) Create a sham theory to justify their screeching, bigoted rage. Yeah, the "ethics in journalism" thing. "Ethics" being defined as "how dare you go to parties or have sexual encounters in which I and 5,000 other 19-year-old gamers you don't know weren't invited".

4) Turn your new recruits towards political gain. Still up in the air, but I have little doubt that many of the guys being targeted now will soon be amendable to hearing about how they need to vote Republican to keep those sluts from getting abortions. You know, because of ethics in journalism or whatever.

But I do, as I've said before, feel kind of bad for some of the participants in #GamerGate. It's hard to, I know, when you're dealing with people who think a multi-week harassment campaign against some random woman because she has a normal social and sexual life is okay. But honestly, a lot of these guys are really young, like high school and early years of college young. Their youth is part of the reason the vultures are swirling, of course, because they know that if you get 'em young, you often have 'em for life. But that's also why it's really sad. A lot of these guys probably would probably have been okay. I was a a bit of a late bloomer. I'll bet many of the people they are targeting with jealous rage were, too. But now a lot of people who might have otherwise been late bloomers who turned out alright are on the path to being seething, misogynist wingnuts. (Which is not going to help them in the getting invited to parties, people's beds department.) They really are being targeted by vultures. I just hope some of them wake up and see what's happening before they're too far gone.

[MrBogosity]

This cunt

Is it just me, or does that read like the rantings of someone whose ideology is circling the drain and she knows it?

[Dallas Wildman]

Ann Coulter: YOUR 'TO DO' LIST TO SAVE AMERICA

Yeah, and freak yourself, too, Ann!

Sweet Celestia! I can't believe I actually reads this woman's books and agreed with her.

And of course she's wrong about libertarians stealing votes from Republicans. Here in Florida, it's Adrian Wyllie who is stealing votes from Democrat Charlie Christ, not Republican Rick Scott. I even used this fact to convince my neocon mother to vote for the guy. (She doesn't like Scott, but she dislikes Christ even more!)

I nominate Ann Coulter for Idiot Extraordinaire.

[AnCap Dave]

Is it just me, or does that read like the rantings of someone whose ideology is circling the drain and she knows it?

You could say that about a lot of social justice writers.