The wingnuts haven’t.
The wingnuts have been threatening people for years, and when they are called on it, they turn up the rhetoric, and whinge about “persecution”.
Exactly correct Bryan. But we all knew that anyway. 😉 Here is a perfect example of this from Jon Stewart (this has to be one of his best shows so far this year! Truly!) 😉
Petty Woman
Credit for Sarah Palin’s recovery from being unfairly linked to the Tucson shootings has to go to her nurse, Sean Hannity. (08:01)
Jon promises Sarah Palin a classy conversation and reveals his love for Neil deGrasse Tyson.
I know, I know!! It’s two of the worst excuses for human beings in existence! But you have to watch it. 😀 It’s too funny! 😆 (well, I laughed!) 😛
Besides… it has an interview with one of the far more interesting examples of a human on the planet! 😀
TDS – January 18, 2011 – Neil deGrasse Tyson
Thankfully, we’ll NEVER have to worry about Palin ever appearing on TDS, because, as we know, the rightwingnuts all have one other (probably genetically inherited) trait in common… they are abject cowards. 🙂
OT: OK, so… REALLY busy etc., moving this Sat and have no idea how long until I get back online. *shrug* 🙂 Lucky you all get a break for a week, or so… 😉 😛
]]>The wingnuts haven’t.
The wingnuts have been threatening people for years, and when they are called on it, they turn up the rhetoric, and whinge about “persecution”.
We had two Sheriff’s deputies murdered by a gun-slinging wingnut in my county, and three people associated with family planning clinics murdered in my area, so don’t talk to me about “both sides do it”.
Only one side is inciting people to violence, and then advocating that people need guns to protect themselves. It is obvious where the violence against people is coming from, and it isn’t from people who want universal health care and good schools.
]]>In other words, Mr. Duff, you can kiss my fine feathered ass. I sure ain’t gonna apologize for calling death threats against me and mine from the likes of the people I list above unwarranted, uncalled for, and un-American. As I’ve pointed out time after time, right-wing terrorism has killed thousands of Americans over the past twenty years. So I call bullshit on the notion that them calling for my death is “just joking”. And I sure ain’t gonna apologize to those assholes, yo.
– Badtux the Rude Penguin
]]>I had a roommate for one semester in college who was a Green Beret and arrived on campus 48 hours after he left Vietnam. That was an interesting experience. I at least could speak the language because I was a military brat, and could connect him with some VA help in the area.
After World War II they at least had the time on the transports to decompress, not that it helped everyone, as your uncle proved, but it took the edge off for a lot of people. When people are going from combat to the “normal” world in hours, there is no time to come down.
OT: They are actually looking at two major issues, the timing on the system so they know they can’t be preempted, and the trend in the orders. If someone nibbles at one of their absurd bids it is a clue to a swing, which is where the real money is made. It can be used to establish the absolutely highest price and the absolutely lowest, enabling you to maximize the profit of your trade. You sell at or near the peak, and buy down in the valley. Of course, this is being done by software, and can cause a cascading effect on the system. The pricing has nothing to do with the actual value of the stock, only with the movement in the price.
The entire thing is divorced from the corporations that the stocks represent, which is why CEOs get calls from analysts about big swings in stock price, and don’t have a clue as to why it happened. It is especially obvious when a corporation releases some really great news, like a major contract, and the stock falls. The common excuse for the behavior is that the gain that should have been there had already been “anticipated” by the market, so the news was anticlimactic.
Wall Street has nothing to do with real business, it is just a very high stakes casino, with the standard game being a distorted version of liars poker.
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