Tonight on The Independents: Ukraine, Oscars, Pot Commercials, Bone Marrow Transplants, My Brother's Keeper, De Blasio's Attacks on Charter Schools, and a Mournful After-Show Featuring the Deceased Lysander Spooner
Tonight's live episode of The Independents (Fox Business Network 9 pm ET, 6 pm PT; repeats three hours later) will start off with an extended look at Russia's invasion of Ukraine, and what that says about American politics and political discourse (in addition to actual, um, Ukrainians). Joining in that effort will be on-the-ground reporter Jared Morgan in Kiev, former CIA dude Buck Sexton from The Blaze, and tonight's Party Panel of Sun Sentinel columnist and "GOP/Republican strategist" Noelle Nikpour and "Democratic/Liberal pundit" Steve Leser.
Institute for Justice Senior Attorney Jeff Rowes will be on to discuss I.J.'s work in trying to legalize compensation for bone marrow transplants. Kmele Foster will give the what-for to President Barack Obama's "My Brother's Keeper" initiative. New York Mayor Bill De Blasio will get a rhetorical shiv or two in the ribs for his decision to start croaking Gotham charter schools. The party panel will also be back with post-game comments about last night's Oscars.
Did I say Oscars? Here are two Oscar-related segments from Friday's show, featuring New York Post critic Kyle Smith and Reason.com's own Kurt Loder:
The sexy after-show tonight will feature much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the death of our beloved bullfrog, Lysander. Make sure to send tweets to @IndependentsFBN, using the hashtag #indFBN, and we'll see you at 9.
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Kmele Foster will give the what-for to President Barack Obama’s “My Brother’s Keeper” initiative
Would that name be racially insensitive if a white POTUS used it for a black outreach program?
Also raising the minimum wage really won’t help persons of color get jobs.
Sure it will, if they want to be social workers, cops or court officials dealing with the unemployed getting into mischief.
“Deceased Lysander Spooner”?
Tell us more, please!
Grave-robbing for ratings. What will the networks sink to next?
The sexy after-show tonight will feature much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the death of our beloved bullfrog, Lysander.
You killed him, didn’t you Matt? You just couldn’t handle being the 4th most attractive thing on camera for those segments.
If he did, I’m pretty sure it was to ensure he never had to be exposed to a frog on television again.
His aversion to frogs is weird. After all, he married one!
http://instantrimshot.com/
Would that name be racially insensitive if a white POTUS used it for a black outreach program?
Ooohhh….that’s…..ooohhh.
First Lou Read, then that poor actor guy, now Lysander Spooner? I’m not sure how much tragic news I can take.
Franco’s still dead, last I checked.
At least Nelson Mandela’s OK.
Buck Sexton has been Valerie Plamed by the Independents!
Buck Sexton is CIA??!!! WHOA!
Wait…..so Ol’ Spoony croaked???
/Here all week, folks.
Lou Reed’s dead, man
no h/t?
https://reason.com/blog/2014/03…..nt_4350714
When you love someone, they’re never really gone, Al.
I liked Kennedy’s sexy black dress in the second video, and I saw none of those movies. So…. #WINNING
No way Buck Sexton is his real name, right? That’s too awesome a name to be real.
I know, right? Love him on RedEye. Look for reference to his “Shaggin’ Wagon” in high school. Srsly…
He got it from a … Hair dryer?
Damn you!!!
Maybe he had to change it because some character on TV had the same name as him and was making him look bad.
He got it off a hair dryer.
This is all obviously a liberal plot to make conservatives look STUPID AGAIN!
I am so sick of the media bias to make rednecks look like GOP afterbirth!
I hope Hugo the Hipster can fix your engine.
The sexy after-show tonight will feature much wailing and gnashing of teeth about the death of our beloved bullfrog, Lysander.
A funeral well be held, after which there will be a reception where the deceased shall have his legs butchered, deep fried, and served in a buttery sauce.
Then Homer Simpson will give his pet lobster a nice warm bath.
Pinchy! Boo hoo hoo nom nom!
“Would that name be racially insensitive if a white POTUS used it for a black outreach program?”
I think the name is supposed to reference the black mentors and businesspersons whom the program seems aimed towards coordinating in the effort. Some of what is being proposed actually sounds good (like the program to get schools to suspend students less).
It’s almost as if that comment I made was facetious.
Oh, I agree, it almost was.
This headline from the Newsmax Ad to my right is pure, Red-state genius: “Soros Group Ushers Inmates Into Obamacare”
It skillfully connects three arch-boogeymen of conservatives into a trifecta. What would be the Blue-State version? “Koch’s SuperPACS Funnel Money to Oil Company CEO’s Anti-Gay Marriage Efforts?”
Where is Epi? I have a bone to pick with him & his flipping AWFUL taste in movies.
I’m all ears.
I sat through Drive on Saturday night & I want however long that time-sucking piece of crap took out of my life returned, statim.
Well, there’s no accounting for (your) taste, but I’m curious what you didn’t like about it. Was it the violence? The homages to prior driving/thief films? The excellent soundtrack? Ryan Gosling?
The violence was fine. The homages were probably mostly lost on me, so…that could be part of it?
The soundtrack made me want to kill myself & oh my heck all the sentimental crap between him & the kid & the girl. Gag me with a spoon. The pacing was all wrong & Ryan Gosling is the least threatening man on the planet.
That’s too bad, and I’m sorry I steered you wrong. The homages are a big part of it.
WHY ARE YOU BEING SO NICE? I wanted to be angry at you & you’re making that impossible. =(
The important thing about Drive is that it spawned the greatest YouTube video ever.
That was magnificent. I’m saddened I can’t bulk watch all 2 1/2 seasons on Netflix right now.
You didn’t like ‘Drive’?
In fact, I hated it with the fury of a thousand burning suns.
Ha! See, Epi was giving me shit for not “appreciating” the movie’s pretensions and homages.
I just saw an average action movie featuring a laconic hero that’s not nearly as interesting as the movie thinks he is.
Good, I’m not the only one. What overrated garbage. Everytime somebody asked Ryan Gosling a question and he just sat there staring like a retard for a good 5 seconds before the person gave up waiting for a response, I wanted to strangle him. And I wanted to strangle the other person for not asking him “what the hell’s your problem, douche?”
Yeah, it sucked balls. I would rather watch Battlefield Earth.
I went to the PREMIER of Battlefield Earth.
Long story. I wore my tux. My host fell asleep. Many people walked out.
I enjoyed the hell out of the Scadentulpa this morning, can’t believe I missed it last night.
I wanted to use the handle “Tulpa’s Sock” for something, but everything I came up with was too dirty, or not dirty enough.
How about Tulpuppet?
Not dirty enough.
I like it!
Whoa – now it has popped up below and seems to have gone into full freak-out meltdown with a twist of lime.
Uh oh. Where is Francisco?
While you wait for the Independents to assemble, watch this reporter get blasted with snow from a plow.
INDEPENDENTS, ASSEMBLE!!!!
Not cool, dude. He still has 3 minutes.
The purpose of the call is to get people time to urinate or get another drink.
Delaying it is unacceptable and I motion to censure Francisco for dereliction of duty. Unless he froze to death out in that wilderness, that is.
Thanks, missed it.
Role reversal.
Socially liberal journalism magazine (Columbia Journalism Review) Fox network gives airtime to more dissenting views than its competitors.
“Though MSNBC has a handful of moderate conservatives?namely Morning Joe’s Joe Scarborough?Fox stands out for the prominence it awards its on-air naysayers, many of whom occupy regular roles on the network’s most popular shows.”
It’s a clever marketing move, and may be even more sinister: “the way the voice of dissent is wielded?liberals are always outnumbered, thrust into subjects that descend into brawls?often undercuts balance in favor of fireworks. It’s a version of on-air political theater that some research suggests can actually further polarize opinions. Put another way, having two conservatives and a liberal can be a more powerful force than three conservatives?a counterintuitive approach that can solidify political beliefs and quash the other side.”
http://www.cjr.org/feature/and…..p?page=all
Okay, the show hasn’t started yet, so there shouldn’t be all these comments. This is a commenting thread for The Independents.
The thread always includes a pre-party.
Hey, time is a flat circle (or, so I’ve heard), so they’ll come around. Soon.
INDEPENDENTS – WHERE THE HELL ARE YOU??
COSMOTARIANS CONGREGATE!
I’m drinking a Tom Collins, you?
I was not aware of the Institute of Justice’s work to get compensation for transplants legalized. Would legalization of compensation for bone marrow transplants violate the Catholic Church’s policy on compensated organ donations?
“According to the Church, the selling of an organ violates the dignity of the human being because it eliminates the criterion of true charity for making such a donation, and promotes a market system that benefits only those who can pay. Pope John Paul II often said that organ transplants should be undertaken as an ‘act of self-giving, from the love that gives life.’ Speaking to the International Congress on Transplants in 2000, he said ‘?any procedure which tends to commercialize human organs or to consider them as items for exchange or trade must be considered morally unacceptable, because to use the body as an ‘object’ is to violate the dignity of the human person.’ The Ethical and Religious Directives for Catholic Health Care Services state that ‘economic advantages should not accrue to the [organ] donor.'”
http://www.discovery.org/a/15091
Hoops.
It’s Ukraine, not *the* Ukraine
Tell that to *the* Hague.
Or “The” Ohio Sta…wait.
Kids these days…
Since Slavic languages don’t have articles one could say the same about any such name, Czech Republic not *the* Czech Republic. And one would be an obnoxious pedant for doing so.
Obnoxious pedants are the best kind of pedants.
I’ll say it once and I’ll say it again, the Google hangout at work guy is a fucking douchebag.
I won’t be swayed by Welch’s suede jacket.
Hoops don’t even merit a mention anymore.
Ukraine-American Pussy – I am 100% in favor!
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0267812/
Vera Farmiga – for you dunderheads.
The correct answer is “Mila Kunis”.
Jus’ sayin’
Mila vs Vera?
I would happily DIE on a taste test.
Fair enough….he said knowingly.
It is true.. If the great GAWD of the universe were to ask me now – what is yer purpose? Is it to taste vagina?
I would die on a cross for that!
Just die, asshole.
Russian soldiers coming over on fairies?
Kennedy’s faux-tie looks like a black vortex that’s going to suck the audience in like the monolith from 2001.
Fuck you. She’s like a hot Paula Poundstone, tonight.
I never said she wasn’t hot.
Who? Paula Poundstone? She plays for team Lavender.
Just’ sayin’
And they can have her. Yeessshhh.
HM, I love most of the words I’ve seen you put down here on H and R, but “hot” and “Paula Poundstone”…they don’t compute.
Well, as I noted before, I’m drinking Tom Collins-es (Collini? Collinensis?), so…yeah.
Not enough Tom Collins in the world to make “hot” and “Paula Poundstone” work in the same sentence.
Well…..shit. OK, enjoy and keep away from hack comics.
I think the stone that pounded her face was red hot.
This dude isn’t the best phone interview
I don’t care for this guy’s file photo.
The toque really makes it terrible.
Sign me up for the Unified Theory
More and more, right?
You are stalker gravity.
It’s a skill.
More like a useless super power.
He has a name you know. It’s Kiev Ukraine.
Chicken Kiev?
In Joe’s defense, it’s the teleprompter who is making those promises.
Kmele’s tie/shirt combo is like hell made of lines.
“hell made of lines”
So, London.
Oooo, she got the apology tour and bowing in her answer.
Embargo Russian oil and gas? That’s going to work out well (do we actually buy any Ruskie oil?)
Kennedy just had the stupidest rant of her life. Alternate energy? Screw oil? WTF!!
Kennedy wants a Manhattan Project for perpetual motion?
An anti-gas medicine advertisement? They’re getting closer to my demographic.
How ’bout an X Prize for the Dean drive.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dean_drive
Yes, Kennedy, death is tragic and stupid.
Kennedy completely lost me on her anti-oil (fossil fuels) rant. It makes her sound like a green weenie that doesn’t understand economics.
Me too.
Going after the Maddow fans?
I thought that was a joke.
You can sell blood plasma, why not bone marrow?
And according to my dog, it’s delicious.
Let’s defer to dogs on what to eat, sure
The best part of my mom’s pea soup is the bone marrow. It’s like meat jelly.
They seem happy, compared to people. Maybe they’re doing it right…
Maybe the ability to lick one’s testicles and asses is the secret to happiness.
My cats seem pretty thrilled with that ability & they’re definitely the happiest beings I’ve ever met.
Plus, let’s be honest, men would be ecstatic over that kind of flexibility for…reasons.
Plus, let’s be honest, men would be ecstatic over that kind of flexibility for…reasons.
I’ve never done any polling on the subject, but I personally find the notion of autofellatio very unappealing.
” I personally find the notion of autofellatio very unappealing.”
Ever since I slipped a disk in my neck.
Yes, kibby, but they also have the ability to lick their own genitals in combination with the lack of any concept of shame.
One of my dogs ate the cat shit out of the litter box this morning…
…and then kissed my wife.
Marrow is delicious. Throw on a little parsley and garlic salt, broil it, and slurp it right out of the bone.
And ridiculously healthy, lots of healthy vit K2. Too bad my wife and kid find it too strong and gamey.
I liked this guy better the first time I saw him, when he was Mo Rocca.
Kidney shoutouts. Fist
It’s pretty insensitive, really.
Independents Attire Review, March 3, 2014
Kennedy = “Hello little schoolgirl… I’m a little schoolboy too”
Matt Welch = Hi brings Tie #1 in a classic throwback to the “I only own 2 ties!”-days. I have always retained a fondness for purple-yellow candy-cane matched with the ubiquitous pink shirt (I really hope you own 2 man…) The kangaroo-pelt jacket, however, is something I will only tolerate without further comment.
Kmele = Jesus man you could wear a sweater vest with a turtleneck and still bring deep *pimpthug*. No, actually again the only thing giving Kmele the constant edge seems to be his deep-accessory-reservoir, with the tie clip, hanky and lapel pin holding together an ensemble that raises far more questions than it answers.
Thank you.
…
Damn, kennedy makes me want to get a *van*. I’ll be in my bunk.
“Would you like some candy? A lollipop?”
This line of thought got so creepy so very quickly. *hides*
I take it back.
Kmele looks properly dope. Either he has *6* sport coats, or is really milking the shit out of 3 of them such that he makes it seem fresh each time. Unlike matt, I can not recall a single shirt worn *twice*…
Bravo. (throws bouquet)
“Jesus man you could wear a sweater vest with a turtleneck and still bring deep *pimpthug*.”
Upon reflection, I am realizing that this is indeed a pretty pimping look. I think Curtis Mayfield rocked it for a while.
I ALWAYS give bone marrow *altruistically*. Is there any other way?
Oh, right = Epi pelts it at people and makes it into salad dressing and stuff.
I have been known to put bone marrow butter on my steak.
Business idea: when selling bone marrow becomes legal, open the Henry David Thoreau Clinic.
Registered trademark: Suck the Marrow Out of Life
*looks at you*
+1 Dead Poet
AGAIN WITH THE KIDNEY BASHING.
Feeling a little shorted?
do you get a standing 8 count for that?
Do they want people pissing blood?
Actually, this summer I literally had my kidney bashed pretty good to break up a stone. And yes, I was pissing blood and it was the most painful thing anyone anywhere ever had to endure ever.
That’s why I drink lots of water.
Me too… now.
I drink lots of water because people in my family have a tendency to faint at random when they don’t (we have low blood pressure and heart rates).
My father fainted on an airplane a few weeks ago, and he had to insist very strongly that he would go see a cardiologist as soon as they landed so that the flight didn’t land in Amarillo instead.
If you could trade one of your balls for a second kidney, would you do it?
Then I’d only have two balls?
I agree with Jeff, doctors shouldn’t get paid.
Kathleen Sebelius is intrigued by your ideas.
Single-payer legal care! Because no lawyer does anything worth more than minimum wage!
WE MUST SPEAK IN THE *IMPERATIVE* WHEN EVER REFERRING TO ORGAN TRANSFER!! URGENTLY! WITH EMPHASIS.
Transfer your ass to Mars!
I worked with Elvis’ cousin a few years ago, and he needed a bone marrow transplant. Many of us were tested. I told them I would want an insurance policy against dying in the procedure to protect my family. No one complained, but I wasn’t a match.
Stop acting like adults can arrange these things according to their taste for risk.
On topic: I’m trying to teach my 6 year old that negative attention is bad. It’s sad to see that some adults haven’t learned that lesson.
Developmental disabilities are a terrible thing. Also a hilarious thing in certain cases. Like this one.
Seriously guys should stop pushing him any further before we wake up to news tomorrow about some dude going Newtown at the Reason headquarters.
Why is it still here? Isn’t there a toll free number to call?
Mike Aliss’s email?
Refund my donation!
Teachers unions and Democrats taking it on the chin from Welch.
The monopoly schools suck and people want out. The Catholic schools are the choice in the big crapple.
The average charter school gets only about 1/3 of the funding of a comparable non-charter public school.
Hedge schools are even cheaper
Education unsupervised by the state?
Can’t have that.
I’ll be in my bunk.
That kiss, huh?
Yep.
I hope it isn’t for topic #3. She’s too old even for you.
Who doesn’t like a GGGGGILF?
Marty McFly?
There are only two commercials on the internet stream. The douchebag Google work guy and the obnoxious Google/Android phones marching like the 7 Dwarves ad.
Fuck this shit.
I got the Spanish soap opera.
There’s a picture of the snake swallowing the croc. SHOW THAT.
This is a family show, Fist.
Why does it sound strangely like you want to glorify a python?
I want the truth!
Free advertising for his chain of restaurants?
Kennedy seems to like talking about big snakes. NTTAWWT.
According to her autobiography, she chickened out when Michael Jordan’s 12 inch Alabama Blacksnake wanted to hit that.
You guys really don’t want Naomi Brockwell back on, don’t you?
Yes. Yes, we do.
Well of course we do. But I was addressing Kennedy and her Aussie accent imitation.
Damn, that is nice. Replace Welch with her.
So, matt is squeamish and hates reptiles AND spiders.
There goes his audition tape for Fear Factor!
Is that thing even on any more?
I’m sorry, are there people who like spiders that are not safely enclosed in a glass tank?
PETER PARKER
I think that one could go either way, given his life.
He’s not called Spider-Liker-Man!
I can’t say I *like* them. I kill them mercilessly. Which is usually a strong sign of dislike. But I don’t go “Eeeeeewww!!@” and jump on a chair. no, I usually groan and then try and decide which book I don’t mind having spider-guts smeared on. For some reason, Mencken? Its *solid*.
“But I don’t go “Eeeeeewww!!@” and jump on a chair.”
I would appreciate you not recording what happens in my apartment, thanks.
“They’re Arachnids!”
(/coworker tarantula fan)
That’s where she got the pink eye.
Carol Channing?
HOLY FUCK THEY’VE GOT MARY’S PICTURE ON THE INDEPENDENTS!
Liquor in the front. Poker in the back.
Angelina Jolie in 20 years!!!
+1 lipshitz
Is the Duck face-pic thing just now making its way over to China?
Kennedy = oil is evil
Matt = Zoos are slavery
Kmele??….
come on…. we know you’ve got your own secret-proggie wish?!
Lagunitas [Censored] Rich Copper Ale tonight. Yum!
I was going to have an old fashioned. I’m essentially out of bitters, though, so it’s more of a bourbon on the rocks with a dash of sugar and an orange peel. Not bad, really.
Not bad at all. Sounds delicious!
I’m going with the usual: Lagunitas Sucks, Brown Sugga Substitute.
Haven’t tried that – is it a rich, dark brew?
Dark Ale
IBU 63.21
ABV 7.85
It’s a seasonal, so I’ll switch back to Little Sumpin’ when it’s gone.
Damn!
[throws down laptop and flies out the door to the store]
Touchdown Packers!
Fat Rush! Fat Rush!
FAT RUSH!
TURN IT UP!!
TURN IT UP!!
FAT RUSH!! KING OF THE REDNECKS!!!!!!
Ya’know, I was about to say how lucky we were to have you as a troll vs. Mary,
*I know*?? You too?
PB, mary makes you look…..
…uh…..
Well, you should be happy!
SweatingGin|3.3.14 @ 9:40PM|#
“Ya’know, I was about to say how lucky we were to have you as a troll vs. Mary,”
And then you realized there was nothing to chose between the two.
I feel a great disturbance in the Derp, as if a million retards cried out for cake and were suddenly silenced.
I fear someone terribly stupid is here.
L-O-freaking-L!
*slow golf clap*
Jesus won an Oscar?
Was Travolta recovering from a stroke?
Depends-where there any masseuses in the building?
Shit is gorgeously empowering and what.
How many presenters couldn’t read the prompter?
“Actors are sheep, and should be treated as such” – A Hitchcock
“I never said actors were cattle. I said they should be treated like cattle.” –A. Hitchcock
Meow.
This dude didn’t know who Bill Murray is? At first I thought he was spacing on Rodney Dangerfield’s name.
Kmele should have slapped him out of his chair.
Brain fart.
*the* Ukraine, then Ukraine. Balance out the wrong one with a right one.
10 mins about the Oscars, and the segment on Ukraine will be done in a breathless 45 seconds.
And no fashion critiques from you?
Look upthread.
Already done. Not much to say except kennedy makes me want to tickle her, Matt’s jacket is going to be confiscated by the EPA for illegal koala pelt importation or something, and kmele is just still killing it.
tickle her
Jesus, and I thought the van was bad.
This is why I love Gilmore.
We’ll hide that secret from your betrothed.
Oh, and best wishes on that – I was too late to comment when I first read you post on the subject.
Thank you!
Naah.
I was looking for critiques of the Oscar creatures.
WHAT YOU CALLING ME A HOMO?!
But Mr. BLACKWELL!
I finally now understand the reference
http://tmagazine.blogs.nytimes…..-maverick/
I *approve*
Kiss wrote a song about him?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gfk_AdTDME4
it actually sounds like Zappa. I like it.
Is his pullover made out of his own hair?
Pubic hair.
I’m starting to side with Ollo. You are pretty terrible.
If I’ve lost FoE, I’ve lost…the balance of terror?
Gods help you, Episiarch. Now you are truly lost.
I once was lost, kibby, but now I’m found.
Tell us about your salvation, Epi. I’m sure it will be properly horrifying & give us nightmares.
Well, that’s about right, since it wasn’t “salvation” so much as “demonification”.
“And now, one more duty to perform…”
In another reality, I could have blocked Episiarch.
Buck Sexton is a good gay pornstar name.
Good? Or Best?
I think it would work equally well for a straight one, if I’m honest.
He’d be Twink Sexton if he were gay 4 pay.
You seem to know an awful lot about this subject area.
Dennis Reynolds: He’s a bear. You see, some gay guys are twinks and other are bears. This gay guy’s a bear. By the way, we are totally cool with that. To each his own.
Frank Reynolds: Wait, I’m a little confused here. What’s a twink?
Dennis Reynolds: A twink is small and slender, like mac.
Mac: Oh, no, I’m too muscular. I would be a bear.
Dennis Reynolds: Uh, don’t think so, bro. Not hairy enough.
Frank Reynolds: Smooth. Now, I would be a bear.
Dennis Reynolds: No, no. See, I don’t think you’d be a bear either. As a matter of fact, I don’t know what you’d be. You’re definitely not a twink.
Frank Reynolds: I’d be a top, that’s for sure.
Mac: Can a twink be a top or is that reserved for bears?
Dennis Reynolds: I’m sure there’s a great deal of switching back and forth but I think more often then not bears are tops, unless they happen to be power bottoms.
Frank Reynolds: What’s a power bottom?
Mac: A power bottom is a bottom that is capable of receiving an enormous amount of power.
Dennis Reynolds: Actually Mac, you’ve got it backwards. You see, the power bottom is actually generating the power by doing most of the work.
Frank Reynolds: Does power have to do with size or strength of the bottom?
Mac: Now Dennis, I heard speed has something to do with it.
Dennis Reynolds: Speed has everything to do with it! You see, the speed of the bottom informs the top how much pressure he’s supposed to apply. Speed’s the name of the game.
So which one are you, is my question.
He’s Rickety Cricket.
What do you want me to be?
I want you to be happy in whatever lifestyle you choose, kiddo.
Aww, that’s sweet and very much out of place at Hit & Run.
And I’m happy choosing to be heterosexual with an affinity for breasts.
I know the second I post this again, the one that got lost in the aether is going to show up, but whatever.
You & I would be good friends in real life.
TV pitch: Quantum Derp
Intro:
Theorizing that one could derp travel within his own handle, Dr. Tulpa Rollo stepped into the Quantum Derp accelerator and vanished… He woke to find himself trapped in the H and R forum, using handles that were not his own and driven by an unknown force to change things for the dumber. His only guide on this journey is Episiarch, an observer from his own time, who appears in the form of a hologram that only Tulpa can see and hear. And so Dr. Tulpa finds himself leaping from handle to handle, striving to put right what once went wrong and hoping each time that his next leap will be the leap home.
Okay, we need a female main character.
Make it Mary. Tulpa is one of her personalities.
And get me a treatment by Friday.
How about your mom?
Why ya’ gotta be like that?
I think a better question is: why does she have to be like that?
Relevant: Yes, you are.
So then what YouTube video caused the events in Ukraine, smart guy?
This one.
She would take ALL my money!!!
“Thanks, Foreign Affairs Fratboy! Next we’ll hear from Economist Cheerleader Girl”
Ahem. “Foreign Affairs Fratboy” Buck Sexton.
Tesla is a sweet car? Kennedy dropped several levels tonight.
Yeah, don’t get that lapse of logic.
The Ford Nucleon is a “sweet car”.
Pretty sweet, but no place to put the pizzas.
So was the Edsel; imagine how many of those lemons they could have moved with gov’t subsidies!
Nothing says “asshole” quite so much as the type of person who adds a pseudo Spanish accent when saying, Latino
what, ‘Messikans’ aint *good enough* for you?
It’s very Jeff Winger of him.
AH! Lou Dobbs.
Did Matt just cross himself?
I hope they ate the frog’s legs.
Aftershow (bufferring) tonight?
I am assured that the Live Stream will begin soon.
And Welch is Catholic?
A ring-kissing, bead-counting mackerel-snapper?
I bet he’s really going to party tomorrow like it’s Mardi Gras – which it is.
It’s a French word!
“and in the last 30 seconds of the show we’ll ask the black guy what he thinks about race issues…GO!”
“well, first off there’s the important role of..”
“THANK YOU THAT WAS THE INDEPENDENTS LA LA LA LA LA!”
We’re all in Carcosa now.
JESUS, DOBBS!! RUSSIAN TANKS!!
LOL… this makes me laugh every time.
Fission reactor in everyone’s pot.
Every garage too. See the Ford Nucleon^
Get off the oil. You are an idiot!
At what price?? All the other technologies are too expensive. I’ve been working in this for 40 years. It ain’t easy and it ain’t close.
Kmele is on the comments. Fucking 1984, man!
“You can eat a bag of bananas”
I don’t care about her views on energy. Between that comment and the outfit, I love her MORE THAN EVER.
Kibby: is it sexist if I tell Kennedy to just introduce the Nirvana video instead of talking about electric cars and oil?
Not if you would say the same thing to Kurt Loder if he were on saying what she said.
Because Loder only did MTV News.
I was a small child in those years, so forgive my error.
I said worse things about Kurt Loder… on Friday. I think.
It’s like a tuxedo shirt.
My wife just leaned over and, in hearing Kennedy said ” *Thai accent* She not let anyone talk. *giggle*”
It’s a cross=linguistic phenomenon.
Kennedy undercuts her ‘reasonableness’ with rants like that.
Frac away, yes. But that won’t displace oil, only supplement it.
Foster is laying down the smack.
I’ll frack her.
Kmele is beating Kennedy’s dumbass oil comments into the floor.
Jebus, Kmele is endearing himself to all of us and burning every bridge he sees
Which is awesome.
Kennedy – technologically ignorant.
Energy alternatives have been intensively studied a lot longer than cell phones. You can’t just will things into existence. Kmele is talking sense and she just doesn’t get it.
I can’t wait for Lysander Spooner to start saying things like “Jeve Stobs” and “Trar Stek”
Kmele…smack-down!
Usually the after-show is LESS chaotic than the show-show.
Everyone knows they already have an engine that runs on water.
Well, actually, water and unicorn farts.
Bat shit? What’s FOX policy on naughty words on the live stream?
Fuck if I know.
Is Kmele describing the death of Lysander or the night he lost his virginity?
Both.
Anyone else just get an error?
Kennedy keeps on digging that hole. She might as well hope for Jetsons-style flying cars.
If the president pronounces it, that means that it’s not wrong.
has no one ever sat Kennedy down and explained energy economics to the poor girl?
or explained how converting, say, all cars in the world to a electricity would be even *worse* for the environment in like, 10 different ways? (just one = we’d need millions of batteries made out of some of the most toxic shit on earth? or multiply the number of power plants by 5-10X? … I mean, does she REALLY feel better about Nat Gas extraction everywhere? because you can’t have your goddamn electric car without MOAR FRACKING hunny.)
you’ve been a very naughty girl, kennedy.
“a electricity”
reminds me of my friends dad, who once asked, “have you kids ever smoked a marijuana?”
Gilmore’s van
100000% appropriate tonight.
Way to harsh the vibe, Leser.
Seriously. Everybody else has fun with it & then THAT.
personal…political…argghshshsh!!!
And I thought that Lysander Spooner was the 19th century philosopher until I saw he was a literal frog.
Where is this after show I hear about? I see nothing on the independents FBN website.
You can get to it form the FBN site but it’s a pain in the ass to find it.
Bookmark for future reference:
http://video.foxbusiness.com/v…..show-clips
Thx. The link they posted on Twitter just goes to the main page with old show clips. Get your shit together FBN/Matt.
“Watch Live”
Yup, all over, already.
Thread is now “clean”
Shit. Now it looks like I was being horribly perverted and creepy to kibby.
Weren’t you being horribly perverted and creepy to Kibby?
That might be my default tone, but she was just a wee tyke when Loder was a news anchor. I’m not Plopper, man!
This is to be expected here, yes?
It’s true. For a time this was the most popular video on H n R
…where in the name of all that is unholy do you guys find this stuff?
First thought: Sure, I always fall asleep tastefully covered up when I’m naked.
Second thought: This looks like literally the most unenjoyable sex that’s ever occurred. & he is gross as sin.
& that’s before the weird stuff started.
You’re supposed to skip to the comments where the pervs complain that her belly didn’t expand enough for their fetish’s liking.
I have a strong constitution, good sir, but not enough to read youtube comments.
This always has me rolling on the floor laughing.
WHAT IN THE HELL.
My work here is done.
You have excellent taste in youtube.
How many times do you have to get hit upside the head before you learn to duck?
DON’T CLICK THE LINKS.
EVER.
ESPECIALLY IF WARTY POSTED IT.
IN THAT CASE, DELETE YOUR INTERNET CACHE AND RESTART YOUR COMPUTER.
I just learned that the plural of ‘yeast’ is, ‘yeastises’
“Your Honor, I was responding to the sock, you gotta believe me!”
And now I look like I’m calling myself batshit insane.
Only if all of you keep recommending terrible movies to me.
The Loved One.
See it. Laugh.
This house is clean.
House II?
Just ’cause:
Article yesterday headlined ‘Bay Area Weath Disparity Increases’.
Awright, today:
“California well-represented on Forbes billionaires list”
http://blog.sfgate.com/techchr…..21181101=0
Yeah, that’ll tend to make things ‘unequal’. My wealth didn’t hit a bil this year, so I’m not keeping up with the Gates!
Buck and the Preacher just started on the teevee.
Film by black filmmaker wins an academy award – women, minorities hardest hit.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03…..ml?hp&_r=0
Well, considering Sweet Sweetback’s Baadasssss Song should have won “Best Picture” more than 40 years ago….yeah.
Don’t forget JD’s Revenge in 1976. Weak year for movies and they still didn’t give Arthur Marks the Oscar he deserved.
Rocky wasn’t too bad a movie for the era.
Network, Taxi Driver, and Outlaw Josie Wales weren’t bad, either.
I’ve always wanted to have a girlfriend do Dunaway’s ratings-orgasm speech for me, but so far they’ve all found that way too kinky.
I didn’t google first – but then that was the year I went through boot camp so some movies are forever associated in my mind with that year.
Hack a computer like it’s 1993.
http://www.jurassicsystems.com/
Hold on to your butts!
THIS IS UNIX! I KNOW THIS!
Seriously, ++ for the Irix interface.
The part where the girl is mousing over the graphical depiction of the complex is a quicktime movie. You can see the progress bar at the bottom of the screen.
“When a bipartisan Senate panel last week lambasted Swiss bank Credit Suisse for helping rich Americans evade billions in taxes, some watching the high-profile hearing couldn’t help but notice an elephant in the room.
“That is, Sen. Rand Paul.
“The connection? Paul for years has single-handedly blocked an obscure U.S.-Swiss tax treaty that lawmakers, prosecutors, diplomats and banks say makes the difference between U.S. law enforcement rooting out the names of a few hundred fat-cat tax evaders ? and many thousands more.
“Kentucky’s tea party darling says the treaty infringes on privacy rights. But his critics say Paul’s hold just hamstrings the Justice Department’s tax evasion work.”
http://www.politico.com/story/…..z2uxjNT5dZ
“*Reasons aside,* Paul’s critics say his rationale doesn’t change the fact that his hold has hampered the Justice Department’s efforts to hold tax cheats accountable.” [emphasis added]
Dick – Part 2 of 18 – Alexyss K Tylor.
18. 18 Youtube videos on the subject.
Kos: What teachers would be worth if we paid them minimum wage
Let’s give them $3.00 an hour and only the hours they worked; not any of that silly planning time, or any time they spend before or after school. That would be $19.50 a day (7:45 to 3:00 PM with 45 min. off for lunch and planning — that equals 6-1/2 hours).
So each parent should pay $19.50 a day for these teachers to baby-sit their children. Now how many students do they teach in a day…maybe 30? So that’s $19.50 x 30 = $585 a day.
However, remember they only work 180 days a year!!! I am not going to pay them for any vacations.
LET’S SEE….
That’s $585 X 180= $105,300 per year. (Hold on! My calculator needs new batteries).
What about those special education teachers and the ones with Master’s degrees? Well, we could pay them minimum wage ($7.75), and just to be fair, round it off to $8.00 an hour. That would be $8 X 6-1/2 hours X 30 children X 180 days = $280,800 per year.
Wait a minute — there’s something wrong here! There sure is!
The average teacher’s salary (nationwide) is $50,000.
$50,000/180 days = $277.77 per day / 30 students = $9.25 / 6.5 hours = $1.42 per hour per student — a very inexpensive baby-sitter and they even EDUCATE your kids!)
WHAT A DEAL!!!!
Make a teacher smile; repost this to show appreciation for all educators.
Against stupidity the gods themselves contend in vain.
MATT DAMON!!
You want to make Finnish wages? Fine, Finland’s teachers are selected from the top 10 percent of college graduates and are required to have at least a master’s degree. Meet those requirements first, then we’ll talk.
‘they even EDUCATE your kids!”
uh, no they don’t.
http://educationnext.org/is-the-us-catching-up/
“The United States’ failure to educate its students leaves them unprepared to compete and threatens the country’s ability to thrive in a global economy.” Such was the dire warning issued recently by an education task force sponsored by the Council on Foreign Relations”
…
“In a report issued in 2010, we found only 6 percent of U.S. students performing at the advanced level in mathematics, a percentage lower than those attained by 30 other countries. And the problem isn’t limited to top-performing students. In 2011, we showed that just 32 percent of 8th graders in the United States were proficient in mathematics, placing the U.S. 32nd…”
I want my money back.
You know who else was purged?
That’s nothing. Ed Lover is a full on Rothbardian AnCap.
Video from SoCal Stormageddon 2014
Well that’s one way to skip out on the check.
Aww, I was late to the party and didnt get to see any of the batshit insane. It’s good to know Mary is still as fucktarded as ever based on the rest of y’all’s comments though.
I saw them earlier, the replies don’t do justice to the intensity of this latest bender. I think Mary wasn’t off her meds so much as on someone else’s meds as well.
This is what off label use of the live blog leads to.
You’ve gone off the deep-end into full Mary mode, dude. Just leave while you still have some shred of dignity left.
Butthurt is a terrible…I mean wonderful, thing.
He may, in fact, be Mary.
God damn I love butthurt.
Ya think?
You’re batfucking crazy is what you are.
“D”-fucking-licious…
Good point. Shred of sanity, maybe? Or is that lost too?
Tell me, Mary, which is more embarrassing? Accidentally replying from a sockpuppet handle, or accidentally posting a link with your real name in the URL?
Mary, Mary. Why ya buggin’?
Then the sum of the IQ’s of the two audiences is about the same. Thanks for the fun fact!
Fun Fact:
Tulpa is a Tibetan word that basically means an imaginary friend.
Oh, Tulpa, you sly dog, you left the clues right in front of us.
“DIDJA HEAR THAT GROOVUS IS DEAD?
I am not making this up.”
How do you know?
Wrong
WRONG. It’s called snowballing.
Holy shit dude, you’ve fucking lost it. Pull yourself back.
(I’m told.)
Don’t feed the insane sockpuppet.
Actually, Kmele’s penis pump, Carl.
Ho-ho! Bitcoins! No topical issue of note can escape your rapier-like wit, sir!
Oreo? You have problems spelling “Mulatto” I take it?
It’s Mary, not Tulpa. And completely off her meds.
It’s so easy to get you into bigot-mode, Calzone Kraphole.
I’d suggest you soothe your feelings of impotent rage with some nice interracial cuckold porn, while some dude fucks your wife, you lil’ Whiteboy sissy you.
Oh wow, crawling out of the woodwork today aren’t they. So we’re down to conversing with the sockpuppets of other trolls’ sockpuppets. Second-order sockpuppets.
Installed spell-check in your browser, I see. Again, I see I feature in your sexual fantasies, sissyboy cuck.
BigT|3.3.14 @ 9:28PM|#
“Don’t feed the insane sockpuppet.”
Sorry. I wasn’t following the thread, not being interested in fashion critiques. And I got suckered into thinking we had real info re: GM.
Now that I’ve scanned the thread, it’s obvious that Mary’s gotten access to a ‘puter again, to the detriment of the world at large.
Shreek, Tony and Mary; who picks the biggest asshole of the lot?
It’s sock-puppet trolls all the way down.
You started shit with me. I happily ignored you before you decided to jump on me. Or do you just want me to post more sissy cuck porn links for you?
Maddows show has triple the audience. So yes, the same sum of IQ.
So I guess ‘RED-BO’ had a melt-down and his comments are now gone?
No, this was Mary. Completely, bat shit crazy, off her meds, obsessed, Mary.
I thought it might be Tulpa at first. It took me a post or two to realize it wasn’t.