I can't stop laughing.

This is THE BEST GAME EVER!!!!!!

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I don't want to see the endless and interminable posts that puff up around shinyblurry like Pigpen in a Peanuts cartoon. They bore me. They slow down my ability to read posts that I enjoy.

I have a slick tool to use. I am using it.

That isn't censorship or cowering behind a curtain.

It is free will.

Oh -- and because I still miss my lovely @BoneRemake, another reason I adored him was his honesty. Searing honesty. Even when he was being his most pain-in-the-butt, there was something honest about it, in a convoluted way.

I miss him.

So ends my Wake for Bone.

@Chairman_woo -- I'm not hostile towards shiny. I don't use "ignore" in a hostile way. I just don't want to see it. It's too much. As I said above, we rarely see HIM. Years back, I attempted to engage with him as a person, told him I needed to hear something else from him, asked him some non-offensive personal questions (what are your hobbies, that sort of thing).

Just to get past the wall of words and lecture and see the person.

Nothing. He gave me back nothing.

I'm not hostile. I'm indifferent.

If you put someone on ignore, the wall of text collapses to a single line that you don't have to scroll through endlessly.

And @chingalera -- curiosity got the better of me, and I did read your response to my post. And yes, you are still on ignore. Again, not from hostility. It is about the same thing as shiny -- I just don't see YOU enough. It is all attitude and attempting to pick a fight. Why would I bother with that?

@BoneRemake, who is now gone, now banned, was pretty much roundly disliked here on the Sift. Difficult, argumentative, loved to rile people up and get them mad. Him I adored. Because he wasn't just that. When he wasn't being a pain, he was sweet, creative, generous, funny. He loves to cook. He loves to make things. He loves music.

Bone is a person. I miss him. But ching -- for me, I just see a wall of attitude. Shiny for me is a wall of preaching.

There is "no one home" for me with you guys. And if you are not home for me, then I am not home for you.

No hostility. Choice.

@shinyblurry, just so you know.... I have you on "ignore".

It's too much, shiny. Too many words, too many posts, too much repetition of same old, same old.

Too much of this, and very very little of YOU. The person. The human.

You don't show up as a human being. So I am exercising my right to exit the "relationship."

I see that you responded to a post I made. Haven't a clue what you said. I suspect it was a big long repetitive lecture in my direction. But if somewhere in there, you asked me a question?

You'll never get an answer.

Well, I am completely confused now.

I'll just say that my use of the word "outing" was meant to be mildly amusing wordplay. I'm vocally supportive of gay rights and marriage equality -- never occurred to me that it would be interpreted any other way.

Not sure where we are right now with this, since I am confused. Just so long as you don't confuse with myopic people, I'm happy!

I have a lot of relatives in Oklahoma and am well versed in how steeped they are in their religion. I am very careful about the way I talk there -- I"m not an atheist, but am pretty dang close to one.

I don't ever say it though. Too afraid of negative consequences on my relationships with family members.

@Lann understood my point, and called me out on my own ignorance of the true diversity in Southern communities. Plenty of atheists there. I always presumed them to be silent atheists -- and here this woman claims it for herself on national TV. Because she is a moral person, and wasn't going to lie.

So @newtboy, you got it right about my original motive, in general. However, you conflated me with shinyblurry.

I never said that morality comes from Jesus. I meant the exact opposite. My point is you don't need religion or Jesus or any god to be a moral person. I'm sick to death of some religious folks claiming only Jesus lovers can be moral.

For me, this short vid is proof of morality outside of religion -- she could have taken the easy way, and just politely nodded. But she didn't -- she didn't want to LIE. That is a moral choice, to me.

And good on her. Glad to know from Lann that there probably won't be any negative consequences to public act.

Anonymous, you say?

I wonder if morally this is related to a discussion elsewhere....


Hmmmm...

I say thank you Generous Meatbag Benefactor!

*promote even though promoting is kind of a waste of points....

*isdupe, so there will be a backup embed

Oopsy doopsy *dupe sy

Thanks! It's embarrassing -- I don't even hear it anymore....

DON'T DO IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Right @Lann?

@eric3579, here is a transcript. So you can get the info without the annoying delivery:


And finally, New Rule: there are scandals, and then there are scandals. And perspective is important. Yes, to explain Benghazi, Susan Rice used talking points. But at least she didn't have to read them off her hand! [graphic of Palin looking into her palm]

Now this week, someone was taken off a cross-country flight in handcuffs for singing "I Will Always Love You" for three straight hours. And that's still fewer times has said "Benghazi". I've seen this woman [Megyn Kelly] say Benghazi on my TV so many times, I don't know if it's a problem with the set, or I'm in an Asian horror movie, and there's a monster named Benghazi.

Congressman and friend of Real Time Darrell Issa is the Chairman of the Oversight Committee, and as most Californians know, he made his fortune in car alarms. And now, ironically, has become a loud, repetitive, but ultimately pointless device that you wish to God someone would shut off so you could get some sleep. (audience applause)

But here's the difference between Darrell Issa and a car alarm. Sometimes when a car alarm goes off, there's an actual crime. I keep looking for the crime here, I feel like Reese Witherspoon arguing with the cop. Why are you arresting me? Susan Rice said "mob" instead of "al-Qaeda"? Obama said "act of terror" instead of "terrorist act"?

Republicans are constantly coming up with these never before stated secret rules, that they only tell you about once you've broken them.

"You don't make important speeches from a teleprompter!"

OK.

"No golfing until we have a budget!"

All right.

"Thou shalt not criticize the President when he's on foreign soil, unless he's a Democrat, of course, then it's OK."

Congressman Peter King thundered that the President was almost four minutes into his first Benghazi statement before he mentioned an act of terror! Ah yes, the four-minute rule. Fuck, how could I forget?!

'Scuse me, Nixon ran a burglary ring out of the Oval Office. Reagan traded arms with terrorists. Bush ginned up a war where thousands died by sending Colin Powell to lie to the UN with props, remember that? He turned an American hero into General Carrot Top! But I let it go. I said this is the business we've chosen.

But please, don't tell me that freedom died because Susan Rice broke the scared bond between citizens and talk shows. In a poll this week, 4 in 10 Republicans said Benghazi is the worst scandal in American history. Second worst? Kanye West snatching the mic from Taylor Swift.

If you think Benghazi is worse than slavery, the Trail of Tears, Japanese internment, Tuskegee, purposefully injecting Guatemalan mental patients with syphilis, lying about WMDs, and the fact that banks today are still foreclosing on mortgages they don't own, then your hard-on for Obama has lasted more than four hours, and you need to call a doctor. (wild audience cheering and applause)

And while the press has been occupied with scandal, the biggest scandal, and the most important story of the century so far, happened last week. Scientists reported that the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere has passed the long-feared milestone of 400 parts per million. And unless you're a chimney sweep, that's bad news. Because humans have never lived through it.

You think Susan Rice gave bogus talking points about Benghazi? What about the bullshit talking points the entire Republican Party has been spewing on climate change since the 90s? (audience applause)

I wanna see the e-mails to find out who came up with the talking points that global warming is just a theory, and that it needs more study, and climate change is a hoax. The Obama administration isn't dirty, the air is.

Kill????? I love this guy!