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Re: Why Don't They Call It Domestic Terror?

UncommonSense — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 12:49:48 -0000

"Fox News Induced Terrorism" works for me. Or, just "Fox News Terrorism."

Re: Why Don't They Call It Domestic Terror?

UncommonSense — Tue, 10 Jun 2014 11:24:20 -0000

Or dump the modifier and call it what it is: terrorism.

Re: 17-Year-Old Fatally Shot Coming Home From Graduation In ‘Random’ Shooting Spree

UncommonSense — Mon, 02 Jun 2014 09:50:23 -0000

Your link goes to an article about film director John Waters, not to the source article for this post.

Re: 6-year-old fatally shoots grandfather - WSVN-TV - 7NEWS Miami Ft. Lauderdale News, Weather, Deco

UncommonSense — Thu, 29 May 2014 16:11:43 -0000

Why was the assault rifle loaded? It's one thing to want to show off your big fancy gun, if that's your thing. But is it necessary to load it and, apparently, chamber a round? That's just asking for trouble. Obviously.

Re: Eschaton: Matlock

UncommonSense — Thu, 29 May 2014 10:05:36 -0000

I see the same thing.

Re: Eschaton: Matlock

UncommonSense — Thu, 29 May 2014 09:31:26 -0000

It ain't just Billo. The median age for Megyn Kelly's audience is just a few months younger than his:

Megyn Kelly, now the 9 o’clock host for Fox News, also had a big overall audience of 1.8 million; but her total of 260,000 in the advertiser-preferred group was also Fox’s lowest in 13 years. (Her audience’s median age also edged up above 70 at 71.7.)

Fox "News" is the station for angry, old white people.

Re: The Incoherent Backlashes to Black Actors Playing 'White' Superheroes

UncommonSense — Thu, 20 Feb 2014 15:58:05 -0000

The racists went ballistic, too, when Samuel L. Jackson was cast as Nick Fury in Avengers and its affiliated Marvel movies. And then, when Marvel changed the comic book character into a black man, they really lost it.
Oh, well. Anything that makes racists freak out is a good thing. I'd love it if the "Man of Steel" sequel reveals that Superman is a devout Muslim.

Re: GOP’s Huckabee on birth control: Fed govt shouldn’t help women who can’t control their “libido”

UncommonSense — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 15:06:13 -0000

They just can't help themselves. The only way for them to talk about women and not be offensive is to never talk about women.
I think Fox needs to rename Huck's show: Mike Huckabee Mansplains It All.

Re: GOP’s Huckabee on birth control: Fed govt shouldn’t help women who can’t control their “libido”

UncommonSense — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 14:44:33 -0000

"Victims of their gender?" What does that even mean?

Re: McAllister upsets Riser in La. House runoff

UncommonSense — Sun, 17 Nov 2013 16:13:00 -0000

The Jindal political machine - such as it is - gasps and wheezes to a shivering halt.

Re: Beach Blanket Boredom

UncommonSense — Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:04:50 -0000

Just when you thought you were out....
A ray of sunlight on an otherwise murky day.
Welcome back.

Re: Netflix and On-Demand Aren't Killing 'Water-Cooler TV'—They're Saving It

UncommonSense — Mon, 30 Sep 2013 16:41:45 -0000

I was only marginally aware of Breaking Bad during its first three seasons. I became a fan only after finding those episodes available for streaming on Netflix. The first episode transfixed me. The rest of the three-season run captured me. I started watching it on Netflix only after the fourth season had begun on AMC, and did not want to jump in late. So, I waited and bought the fourth season on DVD. The final two half-seasons were the first that I watched in real time on AMC. As devoted a fan as I am, AMC and the show's advertisers only had my eyeballs in that traditional format for the concluding arc.

I started watching Mad Men on Netflix, too. Now, I watch it in real time, or the next day on my DVR.

And for what it is worth, I think The Walking Dead has captured the public imagination to the same degree that Breaking Bad and Mad Men have done. And while I have been watching that one from the beginning in real time, I find myself catching up on the earlier episodes on Netflix during the weeks before a new season begins.

Re: Guys give restaurant servers $200 just to make their day (video)

UncommonSense — Tue, 17 Sep 2013 09:34:51 -0000

No, actually, you can hear one of the co-workers say she was on her bike when she got hit by the car, and that her colleagues chipped in a bought her a new one. So, this tip had to seem like a miracle.

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UncommonSense — Fri, 16 Aug 2013 12:19:19 -0000

The World Net Daily subplot is based on something that actually happened. A New York Daily News reporter named Dan Friedman made a joke about a non-existent group called Friends of Hamas supporting then-Secretary of Defense nominee Chuck Hagel. The person Friedman was communicating with was a Republican congressional staff member. Friedman believes that person leaked the remark to Breitbart.com writer Ben Shapiro, who wrote a "blockbuster" story about it for the website. At no point prior to publication, did Shapiro bother to determine whether there even is such a group as Friends of Hamas. There isn't. When confronted with his mistake, Shapiro defended it, saying, "I have received this information from three separate sources, none of whom was Friedman," which is almost exactly what the fictional WND editor said in this episode of The Newsroom.

http://mediamatters.org/blo...

Re: TX cops search women’s vaginas for speeding, throwing cigs out window (video)

UncommonSense — Mon, 05 Aug 2013 13:55:17 -0000

Cavity searches for speeding and littering - FREEDOM!

Re: CNN’s Don Lemon’s controversial comments about race in America (video)

UncommonSense — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 09:37:58 -0000

Yep, as far back as I can remember. ;-)

Re: CNN’s Don Lemon’s controversial comments about race in America (video)

UncommonSense — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 08:10:35 -0000

As a life-long black man and the father of two black sons, I disagree with nothing Don Lemon says in either one of these clips. He is neither arrogrant nor ignorant. He's not focusing on clothes. He is critiquing an absurd fashion statement that demeans the people who adopt it. Seriously. Pull your pants up. Yes, Henry Louis Gates was dressed conservatively when he was arrested in his own home by a racist idiot police officer. That doesn't have anything to do with what Lemon is talking about here. Racism exists. You can't always protect yourself from it. But what you can do is educate yourself, respect yourself and your family, pull your damn pants up and do everything you can do to make your way in the world.

Re: Reid Sets Up Nuclear Showdown To Avoid Nullification Of Consumer, Labor Agencies

UncommonSense — Mon, 15 Jul 2013 11:25:03 -0000

The clash over these nominees is unique because Republicans haven’t
voiced objections to their qualifications or character. Republicans
don’t want these agencies to function unless they’re weakened, a tactic
that resembles an attempt at nullification.

No, this tactic does not "resemble" anything. It is an attempt at nullification.

Re: NSA-leaker Snowden defects to Russia

UncommonSense — Mon, 01 Jul 2013 14:22:41 -0000

Well said, John. When Snowden began leaking state secrets about U.S. intelligence operations against other countries, he crossed the line. I don't think "treason" is too strong a word.

Re: Open Thread: Do You Know The Way To San Jose?

UncommonSense — Sat, 22 Jun 2013 18:27:16 -0000

San Jacinto by Peter Gabriel

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

Re: Martin Bashir to Michael Steele: 'What does the GOP hope to accomplish?'

UncommonSense — Sun, 16 Jun 2013 20:07:49 -0000

I'm no fan of Michael Steele, but I'll give the man credit. He knew there was no point in spewing out a bunch of party-line happy talk, so he just threw in the towel on the question.

Re: Train explosion in Maryland caught on film (video)

UncommonSense — Wed, 29 May 2013 07:36:05 -0000

And of course the second something happens, the camera points straight down to the sidewalk. And I'm sorry, but there is no legitimate use of vertical video.

Re: There's a Reason Politicians Use Private E-Mail for Official Business

UncommonSense — Tue, 16 Apr 2013 09:31:56 -0000

Yes, there is a reason politicians use private email for official business: to keep official communications from being subject to subpoenas and public record requests. It's wrong. It should be punished when discovered.

Re: RNC Chair Priebus Suggests Democrats Support Infanticide

UncommonSense — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 15:37:51 -0000

No, it wouldn't be "actionable." It would be murder. And it would be prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
If it happened at all, which it didn't. Which doesn't matter to bomb-throwing liars like obvious anagram Reince Priebus.

Re: Idaho schools to ban vaginas?

UncommonSense — Thu, 28 Mar 2013 16:38:05 -0000

It's called the hoo ha.