Retort: The Saturday Nooner

Saturday, February 23, 2013

The Nooner for Saturday February 23, 2013. A place to discuss the stories that aren't making news, ask questions about how the site is run, or just mess around. Be nice or be funny.

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Look it up!

#2 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-23 12:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

Fiscal Cliff Dies Hard: T-minus six days and counting.

Stand by for Deflective Rhetoric Week!

#3 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-23 12:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

One Killed, Three Injured in Shootings in Chicago overnight

www.dnainfo.com

#4 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2013-02-23 01:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

2,184 people in America have died as a result of gun violence since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012

nocera.blogs.nytimes.com

#5 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2013-02-23 01:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

DEATHS AND INJURIES

· In 1997, 225 children ages 14 and under died in bicycle-related Motor vehicles were involved in more than 200 of these deaths.

In 1998, nearly 362,000 children ages 14 and under were treated in hospital emergency rooms for bicycle-related injuries.
In 1998, children ages 14 and under accounted for approximately 28 percent of bicyclists injured in motor vehicle crashes. It is estimated that collisions with motor vehicles account for nearly 90 percent of all bicycle-related deaths and 10 percent of all nonfatal bicycle-related injuries. Collision with a motor vehicle increases the risk of death, severity of injury, and the probability of sustaining a head injury.
More than 40 percent of all head injury-related deaths and approximately three-fourths of head injuries occur among children ages 14 and under. Younger children suffer a higher proportion of head injuries than older children. isn't it time to ban bicycles,cars buses,trucks,trains and air planes. Then we can move on to knifes forks and spoons. The first killing was done with a stick,still waiting on that to be ban!

#6 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-23 01:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

#2 false online rumor.... old at that.

#7 | Posted by Corky at 2013-02-23 01:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

2,184 people in America have died as a result of gun violence since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012

Meaning you kill each other.. every year.... in far greater numbers than were killed on 9-11???

So what was all the fuss about? Hurt pride?

#8 | Posted by Rigel at 2013-02-23 01:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

Man kills one, injures another at a car wash... with a gun...

www.whiotv.com …

#9 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2013-02-23 02:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

Woman shot in the head while driving her car on the highway

www.wdam.com …

#10 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2013-02-23 02:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

How about a thread about the Nuclear waste leak in Washington? I don't know how to poast a thread.

#11 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2013-02-23 02:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

Pursuit suspect arrested after deputy-involved shooting in Anaheim: cbsloc.al

#12 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2013-02-23 02:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

Four dead in Prince George's County, MD following gun violence

www.washingtonpost.com …

#13 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2013-02-23 02:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

Man, there's so much shooting that happened in the last 24 hours. I'm gonna post a new thread everyday called 'Today in U.S. gun violence'. That would be better that cluttering up the Nooner(tm)

#14 | Posted by lee_the_agent at 2013-02-23 02:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

"How about a thread about the Nuclear waste leak in Washington?"

Been on the back page for about 10 hours.

#15 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-23 02:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

#14 | POSTED BY LEE_THE_AGENT

Where was Joe and his shotgun?

#16 | Posted by paneocon at 2013-02-23 02:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

#6 | Posted by truthteller101
"It is estimated that collisions with motor vehicles account for nearly 90 percent of all bicycle-related deaths"

Well, YEAH. It is VERY difficult to die on a bicycle.
Usually requires something large, metal, and fast-moving colliding with you.

#17 | Posted by TheTom at 2013-02-23 02:22 PM | Reply | Flag:

#11 | Posted by phesterOBoyle
"I don't know how to poast a thread."

Click me! Do it! Do it now!

#18 | Posted by TheTom at 2013-02-23 02:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Man, there's so much shooting that happened in the last 24 hours."

Well if there are 30,000 odd shootings per year it works out to 80 or 90 per day.

#19 | Posted by REDIAL at 2013-02-23 02:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

Been on the back page for about 10 hours.
#15 | Posted by REDIAL

Thank you

#20 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2013-02-23 02:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

#18 ok so each thread starts with a blog entry? Thank you

#21 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2013-02-23 02:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

With all the violence were seeing today,we can't blame guns,bicycles,car buses,trucks airplanes or sticks. It's must be people who are at fault.So by increasing the number of abortions would seem to some what improve the over all picture of things. Too many people seem to be the real problem.
But it's only an opinion!

#22 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-23 02:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

I appears the joe biden's toenail eye got cleared up yippy.

#23 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2013-02-23 02:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

2,184 people in America have died as a result of gun violence since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012
nocera.blogs.nytimes.com

#5 | POSTED BY LEE_THE_AGENT AT 2013-02-23 01:17 PM | FLAG: MANY ON THE LEFT FOR DECADES HAVE ESPOUSED POPULATION CONTROL, SO WHAT'S THE PROBLEM? ;)

#24 | Posted by MSgt at 2013-02-23 02:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

#22 TRUTHTELLER101

Remembered this from HS years ago-
Experiments with rats and mice-Living in confined space.

In July 1968 four pairs of mice were introduced into the Utopian universe. The universe was a 9-foot (2.7 m) square metal pen with 54-inch-high (1.4 m) sides. Each side had four groups of four vertical, wire mesh "tunnels"
The "tunnels" gave access to nesting boxes, food hoppers, and water dispensers. There was no shortage of food or water or nesting material. There were no predators. The only adversity was the limit on space.
Initially the population grew rapidly, doubling every 55 days. The population reached 620 by day 315, after which the population growth dropped markedly. The last surviving birth was on day 600. This period between day 315 and day 600 saw a breakdown in social structure and in normal social behavior.
www.google.com

#25 | Posted by Whizzo at 2013-02-23 02:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

"2,184 people in America have died as a result of gun violence since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012."

7,890 people in America have died as a result of second hand tobacco smoke since December 14, 2012. When you get near a point, make it.

#26 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-23 02:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

This was on the radio last night.

Jobs are slowly moving out of China and into Cambodia where wages are at 23 cents per hour. So if anyone's looking for a job!

Attention Walmart shoppers, prices are falling!

#27 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-23 03:01 PM | Reply | Flag:

Jobs are slowly moving out of China and into Cambodia where wages are at 23 cents per hour. So if anyone's looking for a job!
Attention Walmart shoppers, prices are falling!
#27 | Posted by truthteller101

So does this mean that Obama is going to let our offshore mfg jobs
go to Cambodia?

#28 | Posted by phesterOBoyle at 2013-02-23 03:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

NAFTA agreed to by Republicans and Democrats already said goodbye to your jobs!

Where have you been,you haven't heard?

#29 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-23 03:12 PM | Reply | Flag:

WOW ! look at all the links to shootings and killings and other incidents that couldn't mean anything other than confiscation has to be the answer...

gee wilikers........I guess its a good thing for these people who are ALIVE TODAY because their gun wasn't taken away...ah but its just the lives of his family and they aren't NEAR as important as some punk cop killer who the radical left has taken up to be their 'cause of the month'

www.foxnews.com

#30 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 03:27 PM | Reply | Flag:

"NAFTA agreed to by Republicans and Democrats already said goodbye to your jobs!"

It was solely the Republicans fault!
--Clintonites

#31 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-02-23 03:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

more lies, exaggeration and hyperbole...

kerry and napitalano ( sp)...say that if sequester happens our nuclear weapons are in danger.....

well then that settles it....

one half of one per cent

EVEN WITH sequester wont the budget STILL GO UP????

the real danger is all of the people who are slurping this stuff up..

#32 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 03:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

#5 | Posted by lee_the_agent
2,184 people in America have died as a result of gun violence since the Newtown massacre on December 14, 2012.

Define gun violence. Is it meant to describe conduct that can be prevented by more gun laws? Does it include legally justified use of force? Or just criminal acts? How about accidents? Suicides?

BTW, the Slate tracker on which the number is based is "male bovine fecal matter."

#33 | Posted by et_al at 2013-02-23 03:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH

on cavuto on business during the fox business block..JUST heard a liberal businessman ( adam lachinsky) say the following..

the 'affordable healthcare act' is going cost more money..

lets say that again CLASS< this time a little slower

the "AFFORDABLE" healthcare act is going to "COST MORE MONEY"..

oh..uh..okay

#34 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 04:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

Yes the affordable health care act is going to cost you!

If your one of those people who have no health care insurance and liked skipping out on your medical bills. Like the 40% of the people who use the ER at the hospitals.

Oh yes it will cost you and its about time,your free ride is over!

#35 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-23 05:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

Mononucleosis? GTFO. Sick as a dog. Thank God I got a pedicure and massage before I went to the walk-in today. I can die pretty now.

#36 | Posted by gracieamazed at 2013-02-23 05:40 PM | Reply | Flag:

SIT DOWN TT101

only because you are going to get wobbly when you see that I agree with you...

however, how many of the people you describe are illegals, welfare receivers or any of the other obama base..

#37 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 05:49 PM | Reply | Flag:

Welfare people are already on medicaid,has been that way for the last 30 years. Nothing new there!

Illegal can't get the affordable health care,they will wind up getting turned away.

#38 | Posted by truthteller101 at 2013-02-23 06:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

and with the billions and billions of dollars wasted across the board on all sorts of fraud and deceit..you can prove that illegals wont get obamacare?

#39 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 07:41 PM | Reply | Flag:

Mononucleosis? GTFO. Sick as a dog. Thank God I got a pedicure and massage before I went to the walk-in today. I can die pretty now.

#36 | Posted by gracieamazed

So maybe Nulli has another reason as to why he'll "disappear" for three weeks. Grace and Nulli, sittin' in a tree...

#44 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-23 08:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

"So maybe Nulli has another reason as to why he'll "disappear" for three weeks. Grace and Nulli, sittin' in a tree..."

Huh? What are you talking about? Who said I was going to "disappear"?

#45 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-02-23 08:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

and with the billions and billions of dollars wasted across the board on all sorts of fraud and deceit..you can prove that illegals wont get obamacare?

#39 | Posted by afkabl2

So you are equating medicare fraud with the cost of an F-35's taxiing costs? I'll bet illegals don't get to fly one. Then again, right now nobody does.

#46 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-23 08:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

7,890 people in America have died as a result of second hand tobacco smoke since December 14, 2012.
And yet, nobody lines up to support smokers' rights to blow smoke in your face.

#47 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-23 08:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

#25 | Posted by Whizzo

Interesting theory. Now explain the lack of gun crime in Japan compared to the mass shootings in suburban areas.

#48 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-23 08:37 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun"
- Chairman Mao Zedong (Tse-tung)

Father of the NRA.

#49 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013-02-23 08:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

Chairman Mao Zedong (Tse-tung)

Father of the NRA.

NRA: Founded in 1871.
Mao: Born in 1893.

Try again.

#50 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-23 08:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

To whom it may concern:

Thanks, and God Bless the United States of America.

#51 | Posted by nullifidian at 2013-02-23 08:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

Your tax dollars at work.
www.youtube.com

#52 | Posted by Zatoichi at 2013-02-23 08:54 PM | Reply | Flag:

I agree. I understand in Texas teacher/scammers get socialist pensions and healthcare based on having a full-time job when they actually "work" six hours a day, thirty weeks a year. And I use the word "work" only because typing "hiding behind a music stand and bemoaning their terrible, unproductive lives" was too long to type.

#43 | Posted by northguy3 at

I am truly sorry that you life is apparently so miserable and less than full filling that you have to take such effort to attempt to demean others of their life's work and such because while other times at least there was a visable attempt at humor, this is just really pathetic. Perhaps the next time you post a reply you might actually say something actually pertinent to the issue.

#53 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 11:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

So you are equating medicare fraud with the cost of an F-35's taxiing costs? I'll bet illegals don't get to fly one. Then again, right now nobody does.

#46 | Posted by northguy3 at 2013

both are apparently wasting our tax money..

#54 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 11:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

TOMORROW NIGHT....

gaga over hollywood doing broadway..

please...whats his name the actor couldnt stay on the same stage with this guy

www.youtube.com

#55 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2013-02-23 11:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

both are apparently wasting our tax money..

#54 | POSTED BY AFKABL2

I'd love to see Obama use that scalpel he campaigned on. Honestly.

Didn't everyone expect him to shrewdly cut costs after all the promises? Why do people pretend that isn't his record? It certainly was the record he ran on in '08.

It is a 'failure in leadership,' indeed.

#57 | Posted by DixvilleNotch at 2013-02-24 02:36 AM | Reply | Flag:

Speed Week at Daytona!

I'd say "Yippi!" but I'm exhausted.

#58 | Posted by Twinpac at 2013-02-24 05:55 AM | Reply | Flag:

Interesting theory. Now explain the lack of gun crime in Japan compared to the mass shootings in suburban areas.
#48 NORTHGUY3

Maybe because they're more conservative and we're more liberal?
Or maybe we're just crazy futhermuckers?

#59 | Posted by Whizzo at 2013-02-24 10:53 AM | Reply | Flag: