May 23
RonK, Seattle commented on Holder Signed Off on Warrant to Seize Fox News Reporter's Personal E-Mails.
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May 22
RonK, Seattle commented on Wanna Be a Young Sexy Hempfest Calendar Girl?.
Seems like somebody's going to an awful lot of trouble just to get a series of unsuspecting young women naked and stoned. What could he possibly have in mind?
May 21
RonK, Seattle commented on The Justice Department Spied on Fox News and White House Staffers, Too.
Fucking Christ. Doesn't everybody know that White House staff and press pool are automatically exempt from the Espionage Act?
Oh. Wait. They're not.
Nevermind.
Oh. Wait. They're not.
Nevermind.
May 21
RonK, Seattle commented on Wicked Clown Countdown: Juggalo Army to Invade Seattle (Do You Have a Date Yet?).
WALK A MILE IN MY CLOWN SHOES PPL
May 21
RonK, Seattle commented on Rightwing Anti-Gay French Activist Commits Suicide at Notre Dame Cathedral.
@48 -- Trending ...
Tuesday's death comes less than a week after another unusual suicide in central Paris, when a man shot himself in front of a dozen schoolchildren at a private Catholic school in the French capital.
May 21
RonK, Seattle commented on I'd Kneecap a Baby for a 3D Pop-Tart Right Now.
Let them eat Play-Doh.
May 21
RonK, Seattle commented on White People More Likely to See Anger in Obama's Expressions.
@15 -- 1) The peer-reviewed paper is not yet generally available.
2) Neither co-author claims academic credentials in psychology.
What we're discussing in this comment thread is a brief summary for general audiences (and not necessarily a summary endorsed by the co-authors). For instance, it doesn't even mention that the study found differential response depended on the degree of support for Obama. Given the high-90's strong support for Obama among African-Americans, it would seem difficult to parse race-based differentials out of response data from 100 subjects.
Still, the paper was accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, so it's fair to suspend judgment - rather than leaping to conclusions.
2) Neither co-author claims academic credentials in psychology.
What we're discussing in this comment thread is a brief summary for general audiences (and not necessarily a summary endorsed by the co-authors). For instance, it doesn't even mention that the study found differential response depended on the degree of support for Obama. Given the high-90's strong support for Obama among African-Americans, it would seem difficult to parse race-based differentials out of response data from 100 subjects.
Still, the paper was accepted for publication in a peer-reviewed journal, so it's fair to suspend judgment - rather than leaping to conclusions.
May 21
RonK, Seattle commented on White People More Likely to See Anger in Obama's Expressions.
Huh? I've been looking for Obama's anger for years ... and I'm still looking. An occasionally forced smile (as the linked article notes), yes. An expression approaching 'pique' in respond to a problematic question, maybe. But I haven't seen anger since 2007, when he followed a subpar debate performance by claiming that Hillary had conspired with the moderators to stack the deck.
May 19
RonK, Seattle commented on Slog Bible Study: Revelation 1:9.
Jesus screwed up. Instead of telling his followers to render unto Caesar, he should have told them to go forth and multiply a vast array of legal entities applying for tax exempt status as 501c4 social welfare organizations.
May 17
RonK, Seattle commented on America Doesn't Care About Black People.
The brothers were arrested Wednesday and Thursday. Nobody got killed. Unlike many other incidents, the shooters were not attempting a mass shooting (or other mass casualty event). They spotted a rival gang member on their turf, they were trying to take him out, and they were indifferent to their shooting's effect on rest of the crowd. "Collateral damage".
And if you want to raise the question of who does or doesn't give a shit about black people in America, you might start with those two brothers.
And if you want to raise the question of who does or doesn't give a shit about black people in America, you might start with those two brothers.
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As Jack Shafer notes here:This ain't the Pentagon Papers. It ain't Watergate. It's just a media whore turning tricks for a juicy scoop, at the expense of others who have life-and-death responsibilities.
Note also, there's no suggestion Rosen is a target of prosecution, and every indication to the contrary.
How can Holder conduct a fair review? How can the media provide fair coverage of a story in which their direct special interests are so overwhelmingly one-sided?