Joe MommaSan

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• Commented on Brutal police violence at Berlin "Freedom not Fear" demonstration
  Here in Kansas City, cops in the nearby suburb of Raymore are under fire for taking a 19-year-old declawed housecat into an open field and "putting it down" by shooting it twice in the head. Isn't abusing or killing animals...
• Commented on Screw Key
  Eight bucks shipping kills it for me. I'd buy them for five bucks a set - thirteen is too high....
• Commented on Leftie, pacifist, Detroit indie-rock band plays Gitmo library. Interesting tale ensues.
  Is it just me, or do they appear to not be having very much fun? The people in the average Vegas club's house band look to be enjoying themselves more than these guys. They've definitely got the chops, but there's...
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  famous corrupt, authoritarian Spiro Agnew The last vice president who had to worry about a statute of limitations....
• Commented on Bob Dylan mistaken for hobo, 40 years after Woodstock
  How we used to laugh at those old WWII movies where the Gestapo thug barked "Papers, please!" even as we naively assured ourselves that nothing like that would ever happen here. Not so funny now, is it?...
• Commented on Bill Maher: Birthers must be stopped
  My second wife was born in Germany, to a US soldier serving there and his American wife. There was never even the slightest doubt about her US citizenship, and since she later worked for both the IRS and Social Security,...
• Commented on How to avoid ads in Gmail (or not)
  Trouble is, if one method of circumventing the ads becomes common, Google will simply come up with another (potentially even more obnoxious) method of serving them that's designed to circumvent the circumvention. As several people have noted, the ads are...
• Commented on The Amazing Unseen Hitler Films
  You've just let a thread about Hitler and the Nazis deteriorate into a thread about civil liberties. Heck, might as well not even comment on this - Little John's already won....
• Commented on Birther congresspeople run from Huffington Post video reporter
  My second wife was born in Germany, to an American soldier and his (also American) wife. There was never any doubt about her American citizenship - she worked for both the IRS and Social Security, so she'd been thoroughly vetted....
• Commented on Slap on the wrist for cop who assaulted paramedic
  Great, so he goes to work for Blackwater/Xe. Better than working as a cop. Blackwater/Xe employees are not essentially immune from accountability or prosecution like cops are, at least not inside the USA....
• Commented on Artist Heidi Cody and her grocery store mascot mutiny
  We can identify corporate logos by the tiniest fragment The only ones I got were Crayola Crayons, Scotch Tape, and Avery Labels. I think one of the others might be Chevron, but I wouldn't swear to it. I'd probably do...
• Commented on Tom Hanks trash can
  Cue lawsuit and/or cease-and-desist letter from Hanks' lawyers/agents in 3...2...1......
• Commented on Slap on the wrist for cop who assaulted paramedic
  death penalty for police caught using steroids No need. Just take their badge and gun away, and prohibit them from ever again working as an LEO anywhere in the country. It's far too easy to become a cop, and even...
• Commented on US military blows up piles of poppy seeds to win the “hearts of minds” of Afghan citizens
  Should the military blow up some grain silos to help them out? I'm so stealing that....
• Commented on Slate reports on animal onanism
  Put it this way - if I'd been a little faster with the camera a few years back, there would be a Youtube video titled something along the lines of "Lesbian Pussy 69" showing our two female cats engaging in...
• Commented on Hmm. Maybe that wasn't such a good idea after all.
  Frank's only real mistake was handing Lesnar a defeat in his MMA premier last year. Brock has been chomping at the bit for revenge ever since. Anyone who saw the first fight could easily see that Mir (while a highly...
• Commented on Is A Knife-Less Leatherman Still a Leatherman?
  Like most encounters with government entities, your results will be a complete and total crapshoot depending on such factors as the mood of the TSA flunky, what he or she had for breakfast, and whether they got laid last night....
• Commented on In the eye of the beholder
  A wide based pyramid of foot soldiers earn, bleed and obey to support a few cunning and ruthless strongmen on top. Sounds like you're describing most, if not all, of the world's governments....
• Commented on Bletchley Park codebreakers recognized by British government
  Turing was arrested for homosexuality in 1952 and committed suicide shortly afterwards, having received no official recognition for his work in his lifetime. Typical of the sort of "reward" you get for serving a country or government....
• Commented on United Breaks Guitars, the complaint anthem
  I feel for the guy, but how could you not know the airline (almost any airline) will screw up your guitar if you check it as baggage? Especially going through O'Hare, the worst airport in the country for lost or...
• Commented on Abusive "coal-thugs" try to break up anti-mountaintop-removal festival
  Part of my heart goes out to those drunk rednecks Mine doesn't. Assholes like that are the reason I own a shotgun....
• Commented on Skateboarder trips, strips, and disturbs neighbors
  If you have good intentions, the best thing to do is not to call the cops. No kidding. In most cases, the cops are NOT going to "help" the tripper. He'll be lucky if he doesn't fall off the roof...
• Commented on Eliot Spitzer explains himself
  If he'd gone to jail, I might feel a bit of sympathy for him. But he didn't, unlike other people he prosecuted for doing the same thing. Now he wants to apologize and get his job back? Not if I...
• Commented on Delving into the psyche of men who buy exfoliant advertised for use after mother-daughter threeways
  But I bought one because it looked like a good exfoliating product that didn't look girly as fuck. Sorry, but exfoliating is girly. I don't make the rules - I just enforce them....
• Commented on Chickens killed by poisonous snake bites taken off menu
  wntd t pck "" nd "" bt my cmmnts kp gttng dsmvwld....
• Commented on Apple bans EFF RSS feed display-app from iPhone store
  Apparently it objects to an EFF blog post that linked to Brad Templeton's Downfall remix (also mentioned on Boing Boing last week, BTW). The parody includes the fleeting appearance of the f-bomb in a subtitle." Forgive me if this is...
• Commented on Young Conservative rappers explain Jesus, Ayn Rand, and ANWR drilling
  Proving once again that it's no longer possible to parody or satirize conservatives, because the reality is way more over-the-top than the parody. I'll bet the writers at the Daily Show, SNL, and Colbert Report are jealous as hell. EVERYONE...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  Maybe if the public discussion went beyond "You're filthy" and "Yeah! Free speech, dude!", guys like this would have a better chance of mounting a successful defense. The only thing that's going to give him a better chance of mounting...
• Commented on Manga collector faces 15 years in jail because some of his comics included sexual images of children
  Ah, you gotta love that American-style morality. Torturing actual human beings in violation of the law and treaty obligations: OK, and perfectly justifiable. Looking at drawings of cartoon children engaged in sexual activities: BAD, and worthy of being locked up...
• Commented on "We did not know that child abuse was a crime," says retired Catholic archbishop
  Was anyone else reminded of OJ and that gawdawful "If I Did It" book he was flogging a few years back?...