Colorful News

Street gangs tone down use of colors, tattoos

 

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — Nearly gone are the gang days of the 1980s and '90s, when the Bloods wore head-to-toe red

the Crips wore blue and Latin Kings wore black and gold.

 

 Gangs from coast to coast have toned down their use of colors and are even removing or altering tattoos.
Today, the most you might see is part of a red handkerchief hanging out of a back pocket or a gold and black baseball cap, said Johnmichael O'Hare, a Hartford police sergeant who monitors gangs.



         






















One such neighborhood gang in Hartford, Money Green/Bedroc, often wore the kind of athletic jerseys popular among kids nationwide,








In Los Angeles, court injunctions allow police to enforce nighttime curfews and arrest people for hanging out in public and wearing gang colors."So we don't see so much wearing of the colors. We don't see so much of the tattooing,"

Karl Rove is still shameless.

Holy fuck, this prick doesn't even make a pretense of anything approaching honesty.

This is what that piece of shit had to say on some garbage FOX show:

The president is suffering because of the policies of his administration, squandered the peace, and have led to the circumstances we find ourselves in today

The peace.

He squandered "the peace."

The two wars he inherited apparently qualify as "the peace."

Un fucking believable.

I love a parade Vol. III

Just a few more pictures from the Dragon*Con Parade.


These are Gumbys
The person on the far right wins my award for cleverest costume - Gumby dressed as a Gumby..

 

 This would appear to be tiny Spiderman hanging out with Gotham City villains.

 

Not cool, tiny Spidey, not cool.

Probably the less said about this next group the better: 

 

More Box Heroes, an Atlanta institution:

 

→ ←

 

 

 No idea.

Um, a robot?

 

I have no clue.

Wait, now I do:

Putting the Dragon in Dragon*Con

Admiral Akbar busting ghosts?

This has to be from Star Wars, right?

Oh my God, I actually know this one!
Back to the Future!

 

 

Ooh, two in a row -- Indy!

Scary sword guy?

On the right, Powerpuff Girls. On the left? Maybe porn characters?

The Periodic Table of Elements

And as we all know, the most terrifying element is Sodium:

The Ice King

Some guy. Looks like a jerk.

Avatars:

Wreck-it Ralph, Disney princesses and some walking eclairs.

 

And, to reward you for your patience, I will close with a little beefcake:

Georgia Republicans Say Things Out Loud

If you ever wonder why we rarely venture outside of Atlanta. . .

Georgia State Senator Complains That Voting Is Too Convenient For Black People (Updated)

by Josh Israel Posted on September 9, 2014 at 12:31 pm

Now, granted, he said this to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, so he had a fairly good chance no one would ever see it.

 

But holy shit! You're supposed to pretend that your voting restrictions are preventing "voter fraud." You're not supposed to admit that you don't really want them coloreds votin'.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported on Tuesday that Georgia state Senator Fran Millar (R) penned an angry response to DeKalb County’s announcement that early voting will be available on Sunday, October 26, and that an early-voting location will be opened at The Gallery at South DeKalb Mall. Millar represents part of the county and is Senior Deputy Whip for the Georgia Senate Republicans.

Millar wrote:
Now we are to have Sunday voting at South DeKalb Mall just prior to the election. Per Jim Galloway of the AJC, this location is dominated by African American shoppers and it is near several large African American mega churches such as New Birth Missionary Baptist. Galloway also points out the Democratic Party thinks this is a wonderful idea – what a surprise. I’m sure Michelle Nunn and Jason Carter are delighted with this blatantly partisan move in DeKalb.

  

(Pictured: Michelle Nunn being delighted)

 Hmm, if only there were a way to make it worse. . .

On his Facebook page Tuesday, Millar stood by his comments, writing: “I would prefer more educated voters than a greater increase in the number of voters. If you don’t believe this is an efort [SIC] to maximize Democratic votes pure and simple, then you are not a realist. This is a partisan stunt and I hope it can be stopped.”

 Wow! Well, played, sir!
(yes, I said "sir." Despite having an old lady name, Fran Millar is actually a man.)

State Sen. Fran Millar (R-GA)

 Any other Georgia Republicans want to step tp the plate and say something out loud that you shouldn't?
Next up, Congressman Jack Kingston:

 

I swear, this was the most flattering picture I could find.

A lot of people would like to stay on the sideline and say, ‘Just bomb the place and tell us about it later.’ It’s an election year. A lot of Democrats don’t know how it would play in their party, and Republicans don’t want to change anything. We like the path we’re on now. We can denounce it if it goes bad, and praise it if it goes well and ask what took him so long.

Oh my Gawd!
That's the sort of thing that Stephen Colbert says when he's parodying you people!
Do you have any idea how this sounds to a normal, sane person?

 You're talking about a horrible situation in which people are being beheaded, buried alive, crucified, etc. And you're seeing this through the prism of a pr victory for your party? That's what you're focused on? The incredibly difficult decision that leaders in Washington and in other countries are facing about whether to intervene at the possible cost of even more lives, you see this as an electoral win-win?
And you actually admit out loud that your strategy is to wait until the President does something, anything, and then figure out how to criticize whatever it is he did or didn't do? You're actually admitting that. I mean, we've all pretty much figured out that that's what you folks have been doing since 2009, but holy fuck, man. You're not supposed to say it out loud!

Creepy, creepy, creepy

I don't know why these fundamentalists are so obsessed with sex, but you'd think sex-obsessed people would be a lot less creepy talking about it.

Pastor Mark Driscoll Called Women “Penis Homes”

And that's not even the creepy part. That's just the horribly offensive part.

Here comes the creepy part:

The first thing to know about your penis is, that despite the way it may see, it is not your penis. Ultimately, God created you and it is his penis. You are simply borrowing it for a while.

Hmm, shouldn't it be a lot more impressive then?

While His penis is on loan you must admit that it is sort of just hanging out there very lonely as if it needed a home, sort of like a man wondering the streets looking for a house to live in.

Um, if it's just "hanging out there" you need to put on some goddamm pants, you pervert!

Knowing that His penis would need a home, God created a woman to be your wife and when you marry her and look down you will notice that your wife is shaped differently than you and makes a very nice home.

Because, prior to marriage, you would have no reason to suspect that women might be built differently "down there."

I wonder how long most fellas are married before they notice that "hey, my wife has a thingy down there and I'll just bet you that my peener might fit in there!"

 

Huh! Would ya look at that?

Therefore, if you are single you must remember that your penis is homeless and needs a home. But, though you may believe your hand is shaped like a home, it is not.

Um, you know hands are pretty flexible, right? You know that they can be configured into any number of shapes, right?

 

"Penis house" is actually one of the easier configurations.

 

So simple, even a dolt can do it!

 And, though women other than your wife may look like a home, to rest there would be breaking into another man’s home.

 Wait, what?

I thought you were going to say that cheating on your wife is a shitty thing to do, but WHAT? You shouldn't sleep with another woman because she is, what, the property of another man?

 

And, if you look at a man it is quite obvious that what a homeless man does not need is another man without a home.

No, they have homes. you just have to know where to look.

 

Paul tells us that your penis actually belongs to your wife, and once you are married she will trade you it for her home (I Corinthians 7:4), and every man knows this is a very good trade for him to make.

Her "home?" Can you just say the word "vagina" at least?

This might be slightly less creepy if you didn't sound like a 9-yeqr-old boy with a vague idea of how sex works.

Also, how does that trade work? If it already belongs to her, and also it already belongs to God, how can I trade it to her for anything? It doesn't add up. And it's creepy, creepy, creepy!