Fuck its silent in here.......

[J. Walter Weatherman]

I would kill to fire a .50 cal Barrett one day.

I'd definitely still recommend the shotgun in this instance...



/lawsuit bait

[Gilgamesh]

I would kill to fire a .50 cal Barrett one day.

I'd definitely still recommend the shotgun in this instance...



/lawsuit bait

THI.

[Yeti]

I would kill to fire a .50 cal Barrett one day.

I'd definitely still recommend the shotgun in this instance...



/lawsuit bait

Kill them with the SPAS-12. Use a .50 cal on Theriot. Done deal

[Wheezer]

Yes the shotgun is a more effective home defense weapon.
And in many ways safer because it is less inclined to overpenetrate in a home environment.
But it is unwieldy in comparison and a bit harder to store safely and with quick access.

A pump-action shotgun is safer for the average Joe for more reasons than just not accidentally shooting the neighbors when you inevitably miss, and I'd count "unwieldiness" as one of them, as it encourages having a plan, including properly aiming the thing, rather than fantasies about running around with laser sights and springing from behind corners and so forth.

[Gilgamesh]

Why are Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee bashing Thurgood Marshall?

[Internet Apex]

Why are Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee bashing Thurgood Marshall?

Is that a trick question?

[Gilgamesh]

Why are Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee bashing Thurgood Marshall?

Is that a trick question?

Listening to many of them today, you'd think that Marshall was some kind of radical activist who literally tore up the constitution and wiped his ass with it.

[Oleg]

Why are Republicans on the Senate Judiciary Committee bashing Thurgood Marshall?

Is that a trick question?

Listening to many of them today, you'd think that Marshall was some kind of radical activist who literally tore up the constitution and wiped his ass with it.

I'll just continue to assume that he did...in a good way.

[flannj]

Yes the shotgun is a more effective home defense weapon.
And in many ways safer because it is less inclined to overpenetrate in a home environment.
But it is unwieldy in comparison and a bit harder to store safely and with quick access.

A pump-action shotgun is safer for the average Joe for more reasons than just not accidentally shooting the neighbors when you inevitably miss, and I'd count "unwieldiness" as one of them, as it encourages having a plan, including properly aiming the thing, rather than fantasies about running around with laser sights and springing from behind corners and so forth.

What? You don't think spray and pray qualifies as having a plan?

[R-V]

I know Matt Taibbi hasn't been a favorite round these parts, but I enjoyed his latest bile-soaked rant about lapdog reporters.

As to this whole "unspoken agreement" business: the reason Lara Logan thinks this is because she's like pretty much every other "reputable" journalist in this country, in that she suffers from a profound confusion about who she's supposed to be working for. I know this from my years covering presidential campaigns, where the same dynamic applies. Hey, assholes: you do not work for the people you're covering! Jesus, is this concept that fucking hard? On the campaign trail, I watch reporters nod solemnly as they hear about the hundreds of millions of dollars candidates X and Y and Z collect from the likes of Citigroup and Raytheon and Archer Daniels Midland, and it blows my mind that they never seem to connect the dots and grasp where all that money is going. The answer, you idiots, is that it's buying advertising! People like George Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, and General McChrystal for that matter, they can afford to buy their own P.R. — and they do, in ways both honest and dishonest, visible and invisible.

They don't need your help, and you're giving it to them anyway, because you just want to be part of the club so so badly. Disgustingly, that's really what it comes down to. Most of these reporters just want to be inside the ropeline so badly, they want to be able to say they had that beer with Hillary Clinton in a bowling alley in Scranton or whatever, that it colors their whole worldview.

[SKO]

I know Matt Taibbi hasn't been a favorite round these parts, but I enjoyed his latest bile-soaked rant about lapdog reporters.

As to this whole "unspoken agreement" business: the reason Lara Logan thinks this is because she's like pretty much every other "reputable" journalist in this country, in that she suffers from a profound confusion about who she's supposed to be working for. I know this from my years covering presidential campaigns, where the same dynamic applies. Hey, assholes: you do not work for the people you're covering! Jesus, is this concept that fucking hard? On the campaign trail, I watch reporters nod solemnly as they hear about the hundreds of millions of dollars candidates X and Y and Z collect from the likes of Citigroup and Raytheon and Archer Daniels Midland, and it blows my mind that they never seem to connect the dots and grasp where all that money is going. The answer, you idiots, is that it's buying advertising! People like George Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, and General McChrystal for that matter, they can afford to buy their own P.R. — and they do, in ways both honest and dishonest, visible and invisible.

They don't need your help, and you're giving it to them anyway, because you just want to be part of the club so so badly. Disgustingly, that's really what it comes down to. Most of these reporters just want to be inside the ropeline so badly, they want to be able to say they had that beer with Hillary Clinton in a bowling alley in Scranton or whatever, that it colors their whole worldview.

I've had that dream. That frightening, terrible dream.

[Internet Apex]

I know Matt Taibbi hasn't been a favorite round these parts, but I enjoyed his latest bile-soaked rant about lapdog reporters.

As to this whole "unspoken agreement" business: the reason Lara Logan thinks this is because she's like pretty much every other "reputable" journalist in this country, in that she suffers from a profound confusion about who she's supposed to be working for. I know this from my years covering presidential campaigns, where the same dynamic applies. Hey, assholes: you do not work for the people you're covering! Jesus, is this concept that fucking hard? On the campaign trail, I watch reporters nod solemnly as they hear about the hundreds of millions of dollars candidates X and Y and Z collect from the likes of Citigroup and Raytheon and Archer Daniels Midland, and it blows my mind that they never seem to connect the dots and grasp where all that money is going. The answer, you idiots, is that it's buying advertising! People like George Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, and General McChrystal for that matter, they can afford to buy their own P.R. — and they do, in ways both honest and dishonest, visible and invisible.

They don't need your help, and you're giving it to them anyway, because you just want to be part of the club so so badly. Disgustingly, that's really what it comes down to. Most of these reporters just want to be inside the ropeline so badly, they want to be able to say they had that beer with Hillary Clinton in a bowling alley in Scranton or whatever, that it colors their whole worldview.

All of this is b.s. Only Fox News does this. Everybody else is ont eh level.

[Gilgamesh]

Matt Taibbi's takedown off Lara Logan is fantastic.

When I first heard her say that, I thought to myself, "That has to be a joke. It's sarcasm, right?" But then I went back and replayed the clip – no sarcasm! She meant it! If I'm hearing [Lara] Logan correctly, what Hastings is supposed to have done in that situation is interrupt these drunken assholes and say, "Excuse me, fellas, I know we're all having fun and all, but you're saying things that may not be in your best interest! As a reporter, it is my duty to inform you that you may end up looking like insubordinate douche bags in front of two million Rolling Stone readers if you don't shut your mouths this very instant!" I mean, where did Logan go to journalism school – the Burson-Marsteller agency?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512

Fuck the mainstream media.  Cowards, all of them.

[R-V]

Matt Taibbi's takedown off Lara Logan is fantastic.

When I first heard her say that, I thought to myself, "That has to be a joke. It's sarcasm, right?" But then I went back and replayed the clip – no sarcasm! She meant it! If I'm hearing [Lara] Logan correctly, what Hastings is supposed to have done in that situation is interrupt these drunken assholes and say, "Excuse me, fellas, I know we're all having fun and all, but you're saying things that may not be in your best interest! As a reporter, it is my duty to inform you that you may end up looking like insubordinate douche bags in front of two million Rolling Stone readers if you don't shut your mouths this very instant!" I mean, where did Logan go to journalism school – the Burson-Marsteller agency?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512

Fuck the mainstream media.  Cowards, all of them.

Would you like some crackers for your FACESOUP?

[Gilgamesh]

Matt Taibbi's takedown off Lara Logan is fantastic.

When I first heard her say that, I thought to myself, "That has to be a joke. It's sarcasm, right?" But then I went back and replayed the clip – no sarcasm! She meant it! If I'm hearing [Lara] Logan correctly, what Hastings is supposed to have done in that situation is interrupt these drunken assholes and say, "Excuse me, fellas, I know we're all having fun and all, but you're saying things that may not be in your best interest! As a reporter, it is my duty to inform you that you may end up looking like insubordinate douche bags in front of two million Rolling Stone readers if you don't shut your mouths this very instant!" I mean, where did Logan go to journalism school – the Burson-Marsteller agency?

http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/matt-taibbi/blogs/TaibbiData_May2010/122137/83512

Fuck the mainstream media.  Cowards, all of them.

Would you like some crackers for your FACESOUP?

Oyster crackers please.

Fuck.