TBogg commented on the blog post If You Like Pina Coladas, And Getting Droned In Cafés

Whereas Rand is skeet-shootin’ buddies with Nobama

TBogg commented on the blog post Closing Time At Café Drone

Needs moar Fight the Power.

But thanks for the over the top demonstration. Much appreciated.

TBogg commented on the blog post Closing Time At Café Drone

It becomes frivolous when it reaches black helicopter paranoia levels. Ted Cruz wants to know if it is Constitutionally permissible to kill an American on US soil with a drone. Is it okay if a SWAT sniper shoots a kidnapper who is threatening his victim? If yes, then how about with a drone if that were possible? But when Eric Holder tried to explain that Cruz’s question left out any nuance or circumstances, he was browbeaten for not giving it a blanket thumbs down. That is the stupid discussion we are having now in America.

It’s the whole scary “flying killer robot” thing that is making everyone stupid. As for the Bin Laden thing, many of these same people have called his killing an “extrajudicial murder” which is where they lose me because they seem to have no regard for the safety of the people who actually have to do the dirty work of getting in there and getting out. They shouldn’t be pawns in someone’s late night dorm room discussion about ” how the world should be”.

Does the surveillance aspect of drones bother me? Not anymore than stop light cameras that catch some people running red lights and discourage others from doing so. Or CCTV that helps to prevent crime or even exposes the police when they act like criminals. It’s a tool and sometimes it gets misused, but on the whole it serves its purpose and we never think to complain about it then.

There you go. That’s my drone speech in miniature. Happy now?

TBogg commented on the blog post Closing Time At Café Drone

Or possibly acknowledging the rise, once again, of those idealistic young Paultards who were able to set aside Ron Paul’s history of racism and Fed conspiracy theories because he was anti-war and pro-decriminalization of marijuana.

And I’m not saying drones are passé . Only that I know how the argument is going to go for the next few days, and I have no interest in arguing (again) with people who, in the end, are just going to call me history’s greatest monster because I am not as fanatically obsessed with drones ( or Bradley Manning for that matter) as Glenn Greenwald or Kevin Gosztola to the exclusion of actual everyday issues that affect people who don’t have the leisure time to sit around and have wonky debates at high decibel levels.

Put simply: if you think Osama bin Laden was “assassinated”, as has been asserted, then I’m no more interested in your opinion than if you want to talk about the fake moon landing.

And, as I have said before: I’m not a progressive. I work for a living and I live on planet Earth.

TBogg commented on the blog post Yesterday’s News Is Today’s Attention Whore

fxd for your pleasure

TBogg commented on the blog post One Little Hitler Does The Other One’s Will

Shorter Jimbo: I have no family or friends so I am here to bore you . Ready? Ahem…. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaarrrrrrrrttttt.

You may now applaud. I’ll wait.

TBogg commented on the blog post When Will Rep. Issa’s Hearings On Aaron Swartz Begin?

And the White House staff also personally oversees every counterfeiting investigation in the US. No wonder they haven’t brought about peace and prosperity yet.

TBogg commented on the blog post “What I wouldn’t give for a large sock with horse manure in it…”

Obviously Jake is one of the privileged few who can afford rocks to say nothing of his carelessly just throwing them around like they were worth nothing. Why, in China, kids would kill to have a rock of their own.

TBogg commented on the blog post When Will Rep. Issa’s Hearings On Aaron Swartz Begin?

I’ll bet Carmen Ortiz was wearing an earpiece with Barack Obomber whispering advice to her during all negotiations with Swartz’s attorney because he is a combination Professor Moriarty/Keyser Söze/Ming the Merciless.

Also, too, he is telling me to write these things and I am helpless before his smooth-talking ways…

But, hey, if you guys want Issa running yet another hard-hitting investigation on The Most Corrupt Administration Ever Ever Ever, knock yourselves out. I hear Jill Stein is about 1,354,732th in the line of succession.

TBogg commented on the blog post When Will Rep. Issa’s Hearings On Aaron Swartz Begin?

And it all begins with finding out exactly what happened and that requires an investigation.

What happened is that a US Attorney went harder than necessary after someone than she needed to. But if you want to turn this into The Left’s Benghazi, have at it.

Show investigations are always good theater…

TBogg commented on the blog post “What I wouldn’t give for a large sock with horse manure in it…”

A couple of things.

Out of respect for Kevin I don’t post comments on his posts. His audience is his audience and mine is mine, with precious little crossover I would guess. Most of his readers think I’m History’s Greatest Monster and, to be honest, I don’t give a fuck what they think, but it is still his territory.

Having said that… to me source material is source material whether it is on RedState, Breitbart or even FDL. Stupidity and pretentiousness observe no boundaries.

TBogg commented on the blog post “What I wouldn’t give for a large sock with horse manure in it…”

Adam Serwer was gloating about Kathryn Bigelow not winning anything because, you know, she didn’t make the anti-torture movie that Adam Serwer would have made.

TBogg commented on the blog post Like A Hole In The Head

Or, even worse, extending credit to the Green Party.

TBogg commented on the blog post Mama, Weer All Crazee Now

Enjoy your return to pissy Rage Against The Obvious Land

Crap…now it’s going to take me days to get rid of the smell of patchouli and broken childhood illusions.

TBogg commented on the blog post Mama, Weer All Crazee Now

While posting humorless bombast in comment sections on blogs is changing the hearts and minds of America in ways that are the envy of Madison Ave.

Kudos, future Kommizar of Rightthink

TBogg commented on the blog post Mama, Weer All Crazee Now

You forgot to include WAKE UP!!! SHEEPLE! EDUCATE YOURSELF … DRONEZ!! READ YOUR CHOMSKY, therefore you have failed to qualify for your Socialist Skout Tedious Angst merit badge.

Sorry komrade, them’s the rules….

TBogg commented on the diary post Zero Dark Thirty: Hijacking History by Barry Lando.

When your critical chops are limited to an ideological hammer, every film looks like a nail.

However I did enjoy the inclusion of grassy knollers and truthers in the comments. It gives this thread the frisson of shithouse crazy is so richly deserves.

TBogg commented on the blog post White Paper Asserts Obama Administration May Kill Americans Without Due Process

I could write something parodying some of the reactions to this, but I could never top this:

Am I the only one missing the Cold War?? I remember vividly as a child ducking under desks and sitting in hallways with our coats over our heads…then being walked in line to Tin shelters..will children today be hiding under desks from our own Governments drones??

The Statue of Liberty..has tears running down her face..but soon Blood may replace those tears!

Needs moar “WAKE-UP SHEEPLE!!!”

TBogg commented on the blog post Bill Kristol Now Double-Dog Daring Liberals To Be As Wrong As Him

I already have a nice career in place, thankyewverymuch.

Having said that, and outside of my loathing of Nevada, I wouldn’t draw the line at it. You may also be surprised to learn that I am not 100% anti-death penalty.

See. Never ask a question unless you already know what the answer will be.

TBogg commented on the blog post Bill Kristol Now Double-Dog Daring Liberals To Be As Wrong As Him

I see that you enjoy trolling… just like Bill Kristol!

Eerie….