Gross Irony of the Day: Donald Trump Calls Ted Cruz an “Anchor Baby”

Now he’s spewing bigotry at the other candidates
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Remember when all the GOP candidates were racing to the bottom to match Donald Trump’s bigotry, after Trump defiantly refused to stop using the blatantly offensive slur “anchor babies?”

Well, now the Trumpenstein is hauling out this racially-charged slur again, but this time he’s flinging it at one of the other GOP candidates: Trump: Cruz is an ‘anchor baby.’

“Ted Cruz may not be a U.S. citizen,” Trump said at a town hall in New Hampshire.

“Ted Cruz is an anchor baby in Canada, but Canada doesn’t accept anchor babies.”

The term “anchor babies” has been used by Trump and others to describe the children of parents who came to America so that their child could be a U.S. citizen by birth.

Trump faced significant criticism over the summer for using the term in his call to seal the borders but has doubled down and said he’ll continue to use the word.

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301 comments
1
WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:27:29pm

And Trump walks through the door the GOP left unlocked and wide open.

Karma, man. Karma.

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lockjawcanbefun  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:28:21pm

Actually, the first one:

cic.gc.ca

You are probably a Canadian citizen if…

you were born in Canada,

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:28:27pm

Ted “Oily Consigliere” Cruz is getting everything he sowed back tenfold.

4
Dr. Matt  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:29:32pm
hahahahahaha
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FormerDirtDart  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:29:39pm
6
WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:31:17pm

re: #5 FormerDirtDart

Well, that makes perfect sens…wait, what?

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:33:33pm

re: #6 WhatEVs

Well, that makes perfect sens…wait, what?

Next thing you know, Matt Taibbi will be endorsing Rick Santorum…

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:34:24pm

re: #5 FormerDirtDart

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Jenner7  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:39:15pm

I really dislike the media.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:39:40pm

NOTHING is giving me more pleasure than seeing Trump annihilating that TexAssHole Kochsucker! And this is going just like I predicted it would a couple weeks ago! He’s going full birther on the TexAssHole. Seems that the rank and file want to see L’il Rafael’s DS-2909.

Steve King may spin that all he wants but it’s going to bite him in his ass as well!

For me, this is payback for that asshole shutting down the government in 2013 and forcing me to work 19 days without getting paid.

Oh, I’ll feel sooooo goooood Monday night if the TexAssHole comes in 3rd behind Trump and Rubio in Iowa!

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:41:23pm

re: #7 FormerDirtDart

Next thing you know, Matt Taibbi will be endorsing Rick Santorum…

And Dan Savage.

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TedStriker  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:42:16pm

re: #4 Dr. Matt

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:42:31pm

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This is a masterpiece.
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Jenner7  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:43:33pm

Good afternoon, Lizards.

But we’ll put it out there first, then correct the record later. Because, you know, we suck donkey balls.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:44:44pm

re: #5 FormerDirtDart

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WTF? Trump is why the rent is too damn high.

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:46:23pm

re: #13 Aunty Entity Dragon

At least this one reminds them to bring snacks.

No mention of dildos though.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:47:17pm

re: #16 451_Montag

At least this one reminds them to bring snacks.

No mention of dildos though.

Dildos are Militia TA-50.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:48:21pm

re: #17 Decatur Deb

Dildos are Militia TA-50.

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:48:55pm

re: #10 Joe Bacon

It is a weird roller-coaster of emotion though. I cheer The Donald on when he slaps Cruz around, but can’t stand him either. Dilemma.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:49:11pm

This Republican sh*tshow is exploding into the stratosphere of Stupid so poetically, it would make Bizarro-Shakespeare proud. This entire field of weasels perfectly represents the end-game of Republican fear mongering and divisiveness they engorged in the last 40 years.

Time for the GOP to push back from their right wing buffet table of fear and lies and barf all over the floor. Enjoy the show.

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b_sharp  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:49:17pm

I have no idea how the American political system works. When do you get to decide who will represent the two parties?

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:49:54pm

re: #19 451_Montag

It is a weird roller-coaster of emotion though. I cheer The Donald on when he slaps Cruz around, but can’t stand him either. Dilemma.

I want to see casualties on both sides. Is that wrong?

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ObserverArt  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:50:14pm

I’ve mentioned a few times I like to catch the opening half-hour of Morning Joke just to see what the Republican talking points of the day are going to be.

Lately though Joke Scarborough has been tonguing “Donald” so much I can only go a couple of minutes because it is not fun watching Joke act like a 12 year old teen girl seeing Justin Bieber for the first time.

This morning it was sickening. He was totally blown away by Trump’s gig last night, glowing about watching his plane coming is, his entrance, etc.

And then he got into mentioning in one of his talks with “Donald” Mr. Lump told him that if he gets the GOP nomination he will be swinging to the center in the general election.

Good fucking luck with that. Trump has been so extreme he has the extremists pulling for him like Mitt Romney and John McCain could only wish. There is no way the base he has turned on will stick with him if he goes center…in fact they may just turn on him.

Maybe my prediction of wild times in Cleveland this summer is really going to be true. Look out Republicans and look out Cleveland.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:50:23pm

re: #21 b_sharp

I have no idea how the American political system works. When do you get to decide who will represent the two parties?

That’s okay. Most of us don’t understand it anymore either.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:51:49pm

re: #21 b_sharp

I have no idea how the American political system works. When do you get to decide who will represent the two parties?

State-by-state primary elections and caucuses that start Monday and go on until early Summer. A few territories in there, too. Trust us.

Then, if that fails, it gets ugly.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:51:56pm

re: #19 451_Montag

I cheer The Donald on when he slaps Cruz around, but can’t stand him either. Dilemma.

It’s like watching your hated mother-in-law drive off the cliff in your new Lexus.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:52:05pm

re: #23 ObserverArt

Lately though Joke Scarborough has been tonguing “Donald” so much I can only go a couple of minutes

Thank you for that lovely mental picture. Excuse me while I find some brain bleach…

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ObserverArt  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:54:03pm

re: #27 Aunty Entity Dragon

Thank you for that lovely mental picture. Excuse me while I find some brain bleach…

Sorry. But it is ugly, so I wanted to be descriptive.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:54:30pm

Honestly if Gilbert and Sullivan were still alive they’d be having a field day goofing on the GOP!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:54:45pm

re: #21 b_sharp

I have no idea how the American political system works. When do you get to decide who will represent the two parties?

Not soon enough.

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ObserverArt  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:55:11pm

re: #25 Decatur Deb

State-by-state primary elections and caucuses that start Monday and go on until early Summer. A few territories in there, too. Trust us.

What if I as an American don’t trust us?

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:56:04pm

re: #31 ObserverArt

What if I as an American don’t trust us?

Sling arms, fill your magazines, and report to Burns, OR.

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:56:42pm

If you can laugh at lies and frauds, today has just been hilarious.
Trump-Anchor baby actually born in another country?! LOL

Hillary Clinton
“We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.”
Wut?

Ted Cruz
Obamacare “is the biggest job-killer in this country — millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work.”

Chris Christie
Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters “knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it.”

Bernie Sanders
“Almost all of the polls that have come out suggest that I am a much stronger candidate against the Republicans than is Hillary Clinton.”

politifact.com

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:58:59pm

re: #33 Great White Snark

If you can laugh at lies and frauds, today has just been hilarious.
Trump-Anchor baby actually born in another country?! LOL

Hillary Clinton
“We now have more jobs in solar than we do in oil.”
Wut?

Ted Cruz
Obamacare “is the biggest job-killer in this country — millions of Americans have lost their jobs, have been forced into part-time work.”

Chris Christie
Neighbors of the San Bernardino shooters “knew that they were talking about trying to take our country and attack it.”

Bernie Sanders
“Almost all of the polls that have come out suggest that I am a much stronger candidate against the Republicans than is Hillary Clinton.”

politifact.com

HRC screwed up that line, if that’s what she said. More than coal, not oil, is the meme.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:59:23pm

re: #34 Decatur Deb

HRC screwed up that line, if that’s what she said. More than coal, not oil, is the meme.

But hey, lies and fraud, am I right?

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 2:59:34pm

re: #20 Rocky-in-Connecticut

This Republican sh*tshow is exploding into the stratosphere of Stupid so poetically, it would make Bizarro-Shakespeare proud. This entire field of weasels perfectly represents the end-game of Republican fear mongering and divisiveness they engorged in the last 40 years.

Time for the GOP to push back from their right wing buffet table of fear and lies and barf all over the floor. Enjoy the show.

The GOP will not stop mainlining the poisons of aggressive stupidity and resentful scapegoating any time soon. After all, just about everyone in the main stream media still pretends that the Republican party is not shit.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:01:48pm

re: #21 b_sharp

I have no idea how the American political system works. When do you get to decide who will represent the two parties?

The actual choice is formalized by a vote of state delegates at the national party conventions next summer. The primaries and caucuses are technically about selecting the delegates who will represent each state party at the convention. Each candidate has a slate of delegates who are pledged to support that candidate at the convention. In practice, primary voters simply select the candidate they want to be the nominee.

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:01:54pm

re: #17 Decatur Deb

Dildos are Militia TA-50.

I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.

Attack dildos on fire off the shoulder of Uranus.

I watched G-spots glitter in the dark near the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

All those moments will be lost in time, like tears…in…rain.

Time to die.

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Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:02:23pm

re: #36 EPR-radar

The GOP will not stop mainlining the poisons of aggressive stupidity and resentful scapegoating any time soon. After all, just about everyone in the main stream media still pretends that the Republican party is not shit.

It’s all about the money. Preaching hate & anger & fear at this audience ensures their continued loyalty. Continued loyalty = ratings.

Ratings = money from rapacious advertisers. Watch Fox & listen to Rush. Reverse mortgages. Gold-plated nickels.

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:02:46pm

re: #22 Aunty Entity Dragon

I want to see casualties on both sides. Is that wrong?

No, no it’s not

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ObserverArt  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:03:36pm

This Clinton email thing, released on the Friday before the Iowa caucuses is getting played up big time by the media it seems.

It will be interesting to see how she takes this on this weekend. She has her worked cut out for her.

And that is all I am going to say about it because I am getting frustrated by it, the media…

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:03:52pm

re: #34 Decatur Deb

And a real big whopper about health costs being the lowest in 50 years. However lets keep some perspective she gets a true and mostly true for a sum of about half the time.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:05:25pm

Will Republican delegates and candidates be allowed to open carry their guns into the convention?

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:06:05pm

re: #43 Shiplord Kirel

Will Republican delegates and candidates be allowed to open carry their guns into the convention?

Only if the kevlar panels get installed on the folding chairs in time.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:06:11pm
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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:06:54pm

re: #42 Great White Snark

And a real big whopper about health costs being the lowest in 50 years. However lets keep some perspective she gets a true and mostly true for a sum of about half the time.

Didn’t see that healthcare line. She has a habit of conflating factoids when speaking off the cuff. Needs to work around that, or she’ll run into sniper fire.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:07:41pm

re: #43 Shiplord Kirel

Will Republican delegates and candidates be allowed to open carry their guns into the convention?

We should insist on it.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:09:04pm

Dinner to cook,Warhammer stuff to paint…BBL.

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:10:30pm

re: #46 Decatur Deb

Didn’t see that healthcare line. She has a habit of conflating factoids when speaking off the cuff. Needs to work around that, or she’ll run into sniper fire.

Also the most lied about candidate by far. Which earns my sympathy.

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Billy Batts  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:15:20pm
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TedStriker  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:15:47pm

re: #23 ObserverArt

I’ve mentioned a few times I like to catch the opening half-hour of Morning Joke just to see what the Republican talking points of the day are going to be.

Lately though Joke Scarborough has been tonguing “Donald” so much I can only go a couple of minutes because it is not fun watching Joke act like a 12 year old teen girl seeing Justin Bieber for the first time.

This morning it was sickening. He was totally blown away by Trump’s gig last night, glowing about watching his plane coming is, his entrance, etc.

And then he got into mentioning in one of his talks with “Donald” Mr. Lump told him that if he gets the GOP nomination he will be swinging to the center in the general election.

Good fucking luck with that. Trump has been so extreme he has the extremists pulling for him like Mitt Romney and John McCain could only wish. There is no way the base he has turned on will stick with him if he goes center…in fact they may just turn on him.

Maybe my prediction of wild times in Cleveland this summer is really going to be true. Look out Republicans and look out Cleveland.

Trump tries to tack to the center if he gets the GOP nom, he’ll piss just about everyone off: the extremists and fringers will say he abandoned them and “sold out” to the establishment, the moderates (if they’re smart) will remember that Trump shit on them to pander to the extremists and fringers.

Let’s just hope that kills the prospect of Trump making it to the general.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:20:04pm

The whole thread is worth reading, honestly. Using Star Wars as a metaphor for the idiots in Oregon.

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Skip Intro  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:22:05pm

Trump is the perfect Republican. He lays out in the open everything they pretend they’re not. No wonder he appears to be unstoppable.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:22:29pm

re: #47 Decatur Deb

We should insist on it.

Speaking of conventions, the GOP has moved its Cleveland convention up to July partly to avoid a conflict with the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In that enlightened country, the authorities will mobilize a security force of 200,000 for the event. Most will be armed. These come from all branches of the armed forces (including the air force), the military police (state troops in Brazil), private contractors, and every other security organization available to the state including some newly created ones. To the best of my knowledge, Brazil resident Glenn Greenwald has said nothing about this overwhelming display, nor has he commented on the increasing frequency of military police sweeps through the local favelas.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:23:57pm

re: #13 Aunty Entity Dragon

I just can NOT stop laughing at their tears of outrageous outrage.
What a bunch of clueless dweebs.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:25:00pm

re: #55 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:26:09pm

Patriots to FBI: “WE ARE ESCORTINATING YOU OUT OF THE PLACE, U MUST LEAVE!!1.
FBI: “No.”

*pause*

Patriots: “OK then. Uhm… VICTORY WILL BE OURS!!!!11”

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Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:28:07pm

re: #54 Shiplord Kirel

Speaking of conventions, the GOP has moved its Cleveland convention up to July partly to avoid a conflict with the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In that enlightened country, the authorities will mobilize a security force of 200,000 for the event. Most will be armed. These come from all branches of the armed forces (including the air force), the military police (state troops in Brazil), private contractors, and every other security organization available to the state including some newly created ones. To the best of my knowledge, Brazil resident Glenn Greenwald has said nothing about this overwhelming display, nor has he commented on the increasing frequency of military police sweeps through the local favelas.

With the Brazilian economy in a total death spiral, look for widespread civil unrest building throughout the spring. Most people don’t realize that Brazil was under a military dictatorship until the late 80s … and they may be headed that way again.

It’s painful for me to acknowledge that there are times when the political corruption and dysfunction on LatAm countries periodically gets so damn bad that the local populace is actually in favor of military coups. Because the military is seen as the one institution that attracts and retains men who have a sense of honor and pride, and who aren’t perverted kleptocrats, lazing about their pools with their big-boobed mistresses, and funnelling billions to their Swiss bank accounts.

Of course, after a few years of hard-ass dicatatorship, with summary field executions for petty crimes (such as the routine embezzling of tax revenues), the economy generally improves, and people start wanting their freedom of speech back. And so the cycle begins again.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:28:29pm

re: #45 goddamnedfrank

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:29:22pm

re: #54 Shiplord Kirel

Speaking of conventions, the GOP has moved its Cleveland convention up to July partly to avoid a conflict with the Rio de Janeiro Olympics. In that enlightened country, the authorities will mobilize a security force of 200,000 for the event. Most will be armed. These come from all branches of the armed forces (including the air force), the military police (state troops in Brazil), private contractors, and every other security organization available to the state including some newly created ones. To the best of my knowledge, Brazil resident Glenn Greenwald has said nothing about this overwhelming display, nor has he commented on the increasing frequency of military police sweeps through the local favelas.

A while back I read that there were real concerns about safety for some of the water sports events in the Rio games. Since everything in Rio that isn’t a wealthy enclave is basically an open sewer (more blessings of feral capitalism in action), it turns out to be rather difficult to avoid E. coli and worse in the venues. Chlorinating the hell out of the swimming pools probably won’t work for the boat races.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:33:18pm

re: #60 EPR-radar

“Concerns” is putting it mildly - the article I read was horrifying. Apparently they don’t treat their sewage at all, and pretty much everybody who wasn’t raised there was getting infections after swimming in the practice courses. The levels of critters in the water were something like tens of thousands of times higher than even our standards permit. It was enough to put me off of ever visiting Brazil.

Edit: found the article I read. Even if it’s sensationalist propaganda, it’s still stomach-churning.

My mistake… MILLIONS of times higher

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:33:18pm
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thedopefishlives  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:34:23pm

Evening Lizardim.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:37:43pm
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goddamnedfrank  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:39:19pm

re: #59 Charles Johnson

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Teukka  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:42:11pm

So this happened tonight in my town…

A large police presence has been going on for Friday night in downtown Stockholm police helicopter circulating in the air.

One person was arrested in connection with the incident, and several persons were arrested.

- There were gangs that were masked and wore black clothes, they had pieces of wood in his hands and the guards came after them. They ran towards Sergelgatan, says a witness.

On Friday night, there has been unrest around the center of Stockholm. Many young people are in motion, and the police are in place with several patrols.

Among other things, there were riot police equipped in place at the Centre and a police helicopter has been circulating across central Stockholm.

- One person has been arrested on suspicion of assault, we even have a few people who has been placed, it is crime against knife Act and assaulting a police officer, said Albin Birch bark Berg at the Stockholm police.
Must have beaten people who looked to have foreign backgrounds

According to Aftonbladet, a large group of black-clad and masked people beating people who looked to have a foreign background.

Before that racist leaflets with the message “It’s enough now!” were spread on the scene writes Aftonbladet.

Police would not comment on the type or types of groups that have been on the site and caused the altercation. They do not want to comment on the racist pamphlets that will be distributed.

- There are all kinds of groupings are interested in a such a night like this, says Albin Birch bark Mountains.

No person shall, however, have been injured in connection with tonight’s fight.

Patrols from Norrmalm police are in place in central Stockholm. According to the jail at the Norrmalm Police have a number of people entered.

- It has brought four five detainees from a brawl in the city, says Fredrik Nylen, at the Norrmalm Police arrested department.
Police have followed different groups of young people

Very policemen are in circulation, moving at the Centre, vasagatan and Sergel Square. Police would not comment on whether it concerns a special effort and refers to the wage weekend and mild weather outside.

- We have many in the area, they have followed different groups of young people, says Albin Birch.

A person who works at a nearby restaurant says that it was messy on the plate during the evening.

- There were gangs that were masked and wore black clothes, they had pieces of wood in his hands and the guards came after them. They ran towards Sergelgatan, said the witness.

According to him, 20-30 people were involved

More: expressen.se
*SMFH*

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Billy Batts  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:45:39pm

Question. How do you only show the comment to registered users?

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:46:19pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:47:46pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:47:59pm
Speaking of conventions, the GOP has moved its Cleveland convention up to July partly to avoid a conflict with the Rio de Janeiro Olympics.

In honor of the late departed Paul Kantner:
Jefferson Starship - Stairway To Cleveland - 5/28/1982 - Moscone Center (Official)

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thedopefishlives  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:48:20pm

re: #67 Billy Batts

Question. How do you only show the comment to registered users?

[ private ]Your text here[ /private ]

Without the spaces.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:48:42pm

re: #67 Billy Batts

Question. How do you only show the comment to registered users?

[ private name of user ] message [ /private ]

No spaces. Name of user is the registered one (click on the icon by their name. For me, I am JustJay not WhatEVs

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nines09  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:49:38pm

Trump has never met anyone he couldn’t either rip off, denigrate or piss on.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:50:23pm

re: #71 thedopefishlives

This displays to ALL users:

[ private ]Your text here[ /private ]

Without the spaces.

re: #72 WhatEVs

This displays to select users

[ private name of user ] message [ /private ]

No spaces. Name of user is the registered one (click on the icon by their name. For me, I am JustJay not WhatEVs

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Billy Batts  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:53:24pm

cpt9sNtQ13sphaWfLz7n+6z496b7x0EhtECDrlNCoJA=

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Decatur Deb  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:54:22pm

Grandkid’s kindergarten had a great idea. It’s their hundredth day, so teach said every kid should dress up like a hundred-year-old fogy. Y’know, ‘cause that’s what it feels like. So 15 groggy 5-year-old boys pile out of the cars with grayed hair and canes, and sticks.

Scene shifts to the 3PM pickup line, where the substitute teacher hands back the battered kid with his broken ‘walking stick’.

Mom: “I didn’t think that was a good idea.”

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:54:32pm

Also testing. I was looking for a Private button the other day, didn’t know I could code it.

Fpg/lz+0ht6+CUdxtOsBHNixN2sUTZTkvg3GNEITmqk=

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:54:35pm

Some good news for Hillary, Obama is nearly above water in the RCP average of his approval rating. Now if gasoline stays dirt cheap and unemployment drops below 5% this Summer, he could be over 50% on election day! Kind of puts a damper on the GOP campaign to “fix the damage.”

realclearpolitics.com

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Billy Batts  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:54:36pm

re: #74 WhatEVs

This displays to ALL users:

This displays to select users

xD3KST5a2QjJAJdDEzTKmWQm764xrBVl

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:54:41pm

re: #75 Billy Batts

Yay! If you click Preview, you will confirm that it is Private before you post it.

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Billy Batts  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:55:12pm

re: #80 WhatEVs

Thanks! I was just curious how to use it.

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:55:48pm

re: #75 Billy Batts

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:56:32pm
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FormerDirtDart  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:58:50pm
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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:59:52pm

re: #79 Billy Batts

got it

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 3:59:53pm

re: #84 FormerDirtDart

They should make him clean up the campsite before he goes to jail.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:01:37pm

re: #83 jaunte

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Christ. It’s like somebody erected a Somebody Else’s Problem field over the whole goddamn city.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:02:49pm
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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:03:03pm

re: #86 jaunte

They should make him clean up the campsite before he goes to jail.

With his tongue.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:04:01pm

re: #89 EPR-radar

Cliven can get a few licks in too.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:04:20pm

Lots of stuff scattered around, definitely a sign of a hasty departure.
But, should be noted that some of that gear may be from the people in the convoy

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:04:21pm

re: #87 thedopefishlives

Christ. It’s like somebody erected a Somebody Else’s Problem field over the whole goddamn city.

SOP for Republicans. W’s Iraq boondoggle being the canonical foreign policy example for this generation.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:06:03pm

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

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So few people try to imitate the Joker in mugshots.

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FourEyeFreckleFace  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:06:58pm

re: #83 jaunte

That is absolutely heart wrenching.

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Whack-A-Mole  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:07:18pm

re: #86 jaunte

Nope. That’s for the 1,000,000,000 hours of community service he’s going to have to complete after prison.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:07:31pm

re: #89 EPR-radar

With his tongue.

I’ve seen more than than the usual mentions of tongue today.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:08:36pm

re: #96 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

I’ve seen more than than the usual mentions of tongue today.

Hey now, keep that to yourself.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:09:05pm

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

That’s hysterical. Molon Labia! HA!!

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Mattand  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:09:46pm

re: #92 EPR-radar

SOP for Republicans. W’s Iraq boondoggle being the canonical foreign policy example for this generation.

Last I heard, MI and Snyder were all like “Nope, pipes are fine. Bottled water instantly fixes lead poisoning.”

I haven’t been following too much mainstream coverage of this, but is everyone still refusing to identify Snyder’s emergency manager (and the law that put him place) as the main culprit?

As I mentioned the other day, even the fucking Daily Show got all Magic Balance Fairy on who’s really to blame. Not that they’re a news org; but I generally figure if they won’t acknowledge something like in order to appease the MBF, no one else will.

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Mattand  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:10:22pm

re: #98 WhatEVs

That’s hysterical. Molon Labia! HA!!

I read this as Moon Labia initially.

Make of that what you will.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:10:32pm

re: #93 Timothy Watson

So few people try to imitate the Joker in mugshots.

The last Bundy associate to imitate the Joker killed two cops.

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FourEyeFreckleFace  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:10:36pm

re: #91 FormerDirtDart

Lots of stuff scattered around, definitely a sign of a hasty departure.
But, should be noted that some of that gear may be from the people in the convoy

Ugh, “Patriot Dorm Smell.” It’s wafting this way!

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:12:20pm

re: #101 goddamnedfrank

I think that twitter account is parody. I would bet that picture is a fake.

No?

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:16:47pm

I’l just drop this here. BBL.

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bratwurst  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:18:19pm
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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:19:50pm

re: #104 WhatEVs

I’l just drop this here. BBL.

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I am really beginning to not like Bernie.

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freetoken  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:21:07pm

Cruzenfreude.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:21:09pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:22:06pm
17% of Republicans say the government helps white people “a lot.”

They forgot “corporations are people.”

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freetoken  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:22:16pm

re: #108 jaunte

There really never was any confusion over what the Southern Strategy was all about.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:23:45pm

NO REGERTS

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:25:08pm

Nothing says winning at life like a big permanent Trump face inked into your skin.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:26:11pm

yep

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:26:12pm

re: #111 jaunte

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NO REGERTS

Piss poor Tat doesn’t even look like him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:27:08pm

re: #69 FormerDirtDart

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Alephnaught  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:27:56pm

Just come back from another Celtic Connections- this time the absolutely rocking AnDa Union in the sublime setting of Mackintosh Queen’s Cross:

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:31:12pm

re: #111 jaunte

Needs a surround with “I make poor decisions” in Latin, like a motto.

Google translate says that’s Ego Pauper Iudicium but I don’t think that’s correct.

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ausador  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:31:21pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:32:29pm

re: #118 ausador

If elected, I will have these people rounded up and shot into the Sun.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:34:24pm

re: #104 WhatEVs

I’l just drop this here. BBL.

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Stupid.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:36:24pm

re: #120 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

Stupid.

Infuriating.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:36:41pm

re: #114 Tigger2

Piss poor Tat doesn’t even look like him.

Hair’s backwards.

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:37:46pm

re: #104 WhatEVs

I’l just drop this here. BBL.

“Attacked’?! if a feather pillow is a serious weapon I guess so.

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:39:22pm

re: #122 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

Hair’s backwards.

My nephew is a hell of a lot better than the guy that did that Tat.

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Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:39:46pm

re: #118 ausador

The True Scotsman rides again!

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:41:27pm

re: #123 Great White Snark

“Attacked’?! if a feather pillow is a serious weapon I guess so.

I agree it’s not an attack, but what purpose does it serve DEMOCRATS? I feel more and more that Bernie doesn’t care if he lets his Fuck Democrats flag fly.

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:42:26pm

re: #118 ausador

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Does that mean they were all holgrams, projected from drones by the NWO?

Just asking for a friend.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:43:22pm

re: #125 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

The True Scotsman rides again!

There can be only one…

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BeachDem  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:45:13pm

re: #111 jaunte

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NO REGERTS

That looks more like Kirk Douglas than Trump.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:46:51pm

re: #129 BeachDem

It’s not what you could call decorative.

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Billy Batts  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:48:09pm

re: #98 WhatEVs

That’s hysterical. Molon Labia! HA!!

MOLE ON LABIA!!!

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:48:21pm

re: #106 Tigger2

I am really beginning to not like Bernie.

Bernie’s statement may be true, from a certain point of view, but it is a piss-poor way to try to win a (D) primary.

Unfortunately, this summary seems to apply to most of Bernie’s entire campaign.

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KingKenrod  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:50:11pm

Amazing new video. If Jeb! weren’t so awful I would feel sorry for him.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:50:17pm

re: #131 Billy Batts

MOLE ON LABIA!!!

TMI!

:-)

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:50:27pm

Texas theocrat Dan Patrick:

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:51:19pm

re: #132 EPR-radar

Bernie’s statement may be true, from a certain point of view, but it is a piss-poor way to try to win a (D) primary.

Unfortunately, this summary seems to apply to most of Bernie’s entire campaign.

It’s really disappointing. His USP is as the non-politicians politician, then as soon as it is useful he starts to act all politiciany.

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BeachDem  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:52:36pm

re: #132 EPR-radar

Bernie’s statement may be true, from a certain point of view, but it is a piss-poor way to try to win a (D) primary.

Unfortunately, this summary seems to apply to most of Bernie’s entire campaign.

He also has a very disingenuous ad running, where, mixed in with his endorsements, there is a quote from the Des Moines Register that “looks like” an endorsement, but is actually a quote from the paper’s endorsement of Hillary. BERNIE HAS ALL THE INTEGRITY AND WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING THE LEAST BIT SHADY 11TY!!

nytimes.com

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:53:15pm

re: #132 EPR-radar

Bernie’s statement may be true, from a certain point of view, but it is a piss-poor way to try to win a (D) primary.

Unfortunately, this summary seems to apply to most of Bernie’s entire campaign.

I can’t help but feel sorry for him.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:53:40pm

re: #135 jaunte

You just know that the only kind of religious freedom Dan Patrick is interested in is the freedom for Christians to be obnoxious to others.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:55:19pm

re: #139 EPR-radar

You just know that the only kind of religious freedom Dan Patrick is interested in is the freedom for Christians to be obnoxious to others.

Well, yeah, because Christians are right and everybody else is wrong. They have to have freedom to be right.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:55:33pm

re: #137 BeachDem

He also has a very disingenuous ad running, where, mixed in with his endorsements, there is a quote from the Des Moines Register that “looks like” an endorsement, but is actually a quote from the paper’s endorsement of Hillary. BERNIE HAS ALL THE INTEGRITY AND WOULD NEVER DO ANYTHING THE LEAST BIT SHADY 11TY!!

nytimes.com

Twice in two days. Damnit, just stop. It makes dems look goddamned shady.

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lizardofid  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:56:31pm

re: #136 451_Montag

It’s really disappointing. His USP is as the non-politicians politician, then as soon as it is useful he starts to act all politiciany.

Not sure if it makes any difference, but the clip was from a forum with the Des Moines Register on Sept 3. The full 1 hour plus video adds a little context. (clip from the tweet is in the first 15 minutes or so.)

Add Link: desmoinesregister.com

Like I say, not sure if it makes a diff. :}

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:56:31pm

re: #138 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

I can’t help but feel sorry for him.

Not me. Bernie Sanders needed to be consistent on his issues and stick with running an issue-based campaign, win or lose. He should know better than to engage Hillary Clinton on the he-said she-said bullshit of attack politics, because she’s going to be a lot better at it than he is.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:56:38pm

Thanking God for a high school football win seems to be more of a setup for being disappointed than a way to strengthen faith.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:57:31pm

re: #111 jaunte

NO REGERTS

Scotty P

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:58:43pm
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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:58:47pm

re: #144 jaunte

Thanking God for a high school football win seems to be more of a setup for being disappointed than a way to strengthen faith.

In the right kind of high school (one that starts with the semi-pro player bullshit earlier than usual), this would seem to be a faith enhancer. Prosperity gospel + Calvinism in action, as it were.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 4:59:31pm

re: #147 EPR-radar

But eventually the team loses. They always do.

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Kragar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:00:00pm
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BeachDem  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:00:03pm

This just makes me so furious and sick, I want to go to Michigan to personally spit on Rick Snyder.

Out of over 270 pages of communications released, one comment was stunning in its admission of how shabbily complaints over the water were treated by state workers.

According to the NY Times, Snyder was informed in one email that a state nurse told one young mother to not worry about the damage being done to her child when her son’s blood showed an elevated lead level.

“It is just a few IQ points. … It is not the end of the world,” the nurse reportedly told the worried mom.

rawstory.com

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:00:50pm

re: #146 Charles Johnson

CBS was verrry concerned on the nightly news just a short while ago. All weasel wordy. I turned it off.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:01:13pm

Hyuck.

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thedopefishlives  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:01:20pm

re: #150 BeachDem

“It’s just a few IQ points, it’s not the end of the world.” What in the ever-loving actual FUCK is that.

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:02:29pm

re: #126 WhatEVs

I do not get where Obama gets a pass. Every election the outgoing guys policies get raked over the coals. TPP is a legit worry. He spoke the truth as he sees it.

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:04:16pm

LMAO

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bratwurst  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:04:27pm

The Blaze is about to get its 4th new CEO in less than 2 years.

Who could have guessed that a company built around a demonstrably crazy person would not be stable?

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Alephnaught  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:05:48pm

I posted my photo of AnDa Union on Twitter, and they replied!

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:06:47pm

re: #153 thedopefishlives

“It’s just a few IQ points, it’s not the end of the world.” What in the ever-loving actual FUCK is that.

It’s someone who sees people in the lower socio-economic classes as stupid to start, likely going to be on public assistance anyway, and hey, it’s not my kid; no big deal.

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b.d.  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:07:44pm

re: #156 bratwurst

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Company is about to get its 4th new CEO in less than 2 years.

Who could have guessed that a company built around a demonstrably crazy person would not be stable?

The Blaze could just merge with Politico.

//

I really need to slow down and savor this wingnut cannibalistic, implosion more. I’ve been waiting a long time for this.

Thanks Donald!

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Reckless Disregard  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:07:49pm

re: #156 bratwurst

I’m guessing they built their business model using the exact same one the Oakland Raiders came up with.

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BeachDem  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:07:53pm

re: #153 thedopefishlives

“It’s just a few IQ points, it’s not the end of the world.” What in the ever-loving actual FUCK is that.

It’s one of the most heinous comments out of all the ugly revelations about Flint.

The little ditty about how he quietly trucked in water to put water coolers in state offices in Flint a fucking year before is another one that makes me furious. The fucking fucker knew what was going on and he fucking didn’t care. I really do want him to go to prison, because he is a totally depraved asshole.

Whew. Sorry ‘bout that—I’m just so…I don’t have the words to describe it.

THIS is the story that should lead every fucking newscast every fucking night. But TRUMP. Ugh.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:08:03pm

re: #150 BeachDem

You really start to wonder about the motivations for Snyder et al. in this mess.

Weakening the Detroit Water system by taking away Flint as a customer as a prelude to privatizing it for the benefit of Snyder’s rich cronies is a plausible motivation, and is still my pick as the most likely motive.

But the GOP in general and Snyder in particular are so bad that comic-book super villain motives are in-character. For example, perhaps the GOP is displeased by the overall decrease in crime rates because it weakens the appeal of their over the top fear-based law and order crap. Deliberately inducing lead poisoning is a perfect antidote to that, especially if done in heavily minority areas. About the only thing that make this implausible is that the long-range planning involved is unrealistic.

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:08:24pm

re: #142 lizardofid

Not sure if it makes any difference, but the clip was from a forum with the Des Moines Register on Sept 3. The full 1 hour plus video adds a little context. (clip from the tweet is in the first 15 minutes or so.)

Like I say, not sure if it makes a diff. :}

It doesnt to me. I really wanted to like him, hell I still do. I like his ideas and positions. I’m enough of a realist to know the scope of change he wants is unrealistic, but I was still happy for him to forcefully lay out positions that are think should be aspirational, and maybe move the narrative left a bit.

I still like Hillary, I think her reputation is based on 30 years of republican framing that everyone left or right now have stuck in their heads, but I wanted Bernie to be an if not viable alternative, then one who deserved a second look.

The last few weeks have burst that bubble for me. No MBF bs, but he does appear to be like the rest.

Look at the gun liability issue. He could have owned it. Just say the People who voted for me wanted it, that’s my job for good or bad. He didn’t, just fudged it a bit. I don’t expect perfection, but I do like a bit of consistency. If he sells himself on doing the right thing whatever the political cost, then he should. All he’s done is label himself as the same of the rest, which is as far from his ni age as it could be.

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:08:30pm
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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:09:27pm

re: #154 Great White Snark

I do not get where Obama gets a pass. Every election the outgoing guys policies get raked over the coals. TPP is a legit worry. He spoke the truth as he sees it.

I’m not giving Obama a pass. I’m talking optics for THE PARTY; for taking back state governments and congressional seats.

TPP was smart. It gives us control over our IP in our terms. It was beneficial to our interests.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:10:49pm
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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:11:06pm

re: #165 WhatEVs

I’m not giving Obama a pass. I’m talking optics for THE PARTY; for taking back state governments and congressional seats.

TPP was smart. It gives us control over our IP in our terms. It was beneficial to our interests.

Do we know for sure what’s actually in the TPP yet? As far as I know, it still needs to go to Congress for the up or down vote, and the final text is not yet available.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:12:03pm
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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:12:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:12:45pm

yep, because the judge won’t even start to consider bail for the Bundy gang as long as those yahoos are still hanging out at the refuge.

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Kragar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:13:23pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

You’ve got mail

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b_sharp  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:13:26pm

re: #111 jaunte

[Embedded content]

NO REGERTS

Is that blood coming out of Trump’s eyes?

Whatever.

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Alephnaught  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:13:29pm

re: #161 BeachDem

THIS is the story that should lead every fucking newscast every fucking night. But TRUMP. Ugh.

If this was the UK, that IQ comment would have been on the front pages of all the newspapers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:13:58pm

re: #156 bratwurst

So Glenn Beck isn’t qualified to run his own company??

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:14:14pm

re: #171 Kragar

You’ve got mail

got it

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:14:19pm

re: #165 WhatEVs

I’m not giving Obama a pass. I’m talking optics for THE PARTY; for taking back state governments and congressional seats.

TPP was smart. It gives us control over our IP in our terms. It was beneficial to our interests.

Look at the mid-terms. The all hung the Big O out to dry. Shows a shows a lack of cohesiveness that plays into the image of the Dems as being a bit light-weight and u able to govern.

Look how that played out.

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:14:45pm

re: #168 jaunte

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Lame

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:15:36pm

re: #177 Tigger2

And impossible for a group to chant in unison.

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Kragar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:15:38pm

The point, it was missed

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:16:01pm

re: #177 Tigger2

Lame

Perhaps not. As I understand it, hooting and hollering in public is an important part of the Iowa caucuses.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:16:08pm
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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:16:35pm

re: #179 Kragar

She thinks LaVoy should have had a chance to take a shot before they did anything.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:17:25pm

re: #179 Kragar

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The point, it was missed

The only points these militia-apologist assclowns won’t miss are the points on top of their heads.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:17:29pm

re: #150 BeachDem

This just makes me so furious and sick, I want to go to Michigan to personally spit on Rick Snyder.

Out of over 270 pages of communications released, one comment was stunning in its admission of how shabbily complaints over the water were treated by state workers.

According to the NY Times, Snyder was informed in one email that a state nurse told one young mother to not worry about the damage being done to her child when her son’s blood showed an elevated lead level.

“It is just a few IQ points. … It is not the end of the world,” the nurse reportedly told the worried mom.

rawstory.com

Jesus. I don’t know what to even say.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:17:37pm
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lizardofid  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:18:27pm

re: #163 451_Montag

No problem with anything you said.

I’m optimistic that when HRC becomes the candidate, Bernie will get firmly behind her, and encourage his supporters to do the same. If he does that, we’ll someday look back favorably on his run, for moving the Overton Window in a more fair and equitable direction.

But, I’m a bit of an idealist at times. ;}

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:19:01pm

re: #167 EPR-radar

Do we know for sure what’s actually in the TPP yet? As far as I know, it still needs to go to Congress for the up or down vote, and the final text is not yet available.

I can only go by what I read.

What ticks me off is that you can’t force manufacturing back to the US. that’s how the TPP is being positioned, that it’s bad for blue collar workers. What’s bad for blue collar workers is wanting more than $20 bucks a week for labor - globalization. And that’s simply not going to stop.

You can’t protect the US (import tariffs) without actual harm to our workers (export tariffs).

It’s simplistic populism (everything is these days) when its in reality complex global economics and policy.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:19:01pm

re: #143 EPR-radar

Not me. Bernie Sanders needed to be consistent on his issues and stick with running an issue-based campaign, win or lose. He should know better than to engage Hillary Clinton on the he-said she-said bullshit of attack politics, because she’s going to be a lot better at it than he is.

I was talking about Jeb!

edit - I responded to wrong comment.

proceed.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:19:02pm

re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lawyer: ‘The whole purpose of accessing the refuge was to get attention to an issue that was being ignored’

Pretty passive word for an armed hijacking.

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Tigger2  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:19:19pm

re: #180 EPR-radar

Perhaps not. As I understand it, hooting and hollering in public is an important part of the Iowa caucuses.

They need something simpler than that, that is going to be a cluster when people start trying to chant that.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:19:50pm

re: #190 Tigger2

Go…
Ted…

Is about the right speed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:19:51pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:20:21pm

re: #189 jaunte

Pretty passive word for an armed hijacking.

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Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:20:32pm

It can happen here: Trumpism, Franklin Graham, and respectable white evangelicalism

This is, for those white evangelical gatekeepers, “something that’s very new, very strange.” They have spent decades vigilantly patrolling the tribe’s “liberal” political boundary while ensuring all along that it doesn’t have any boundary on the far right. People like Rich Cizik or Rachel Held Evans or Matthew Vines have been swiftly anathematized, but all along people like Phyllis Schlafly, James Dobson, Bryan Fisher, Franklin Graham, The Liar Tony Perkins, Jerry Falwell, and Richard Land have remained as family members in good standing.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:20:41pm

@jaunte…

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:20:41pm

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

So Glenn Beck isn’t qualified to run his own company??

Could have stopped after “qualified”.

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FormerDirtDart  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:21:26pm

re: #182 jaunte

She thinks LaVoy should have had a chance to take a shot before they did anything.

Obviously, because he was a good (white) guy with a gun, and a rancher, the backbone of ‘Murica.
Really, it’s in LaVoy’s book…

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:22:47pm

re: #187 WhatEVs

I can only go by what I read.

What ticks me off is that you can’t force manufacturing back to the US. that’s how the TPP is being positioned, that it’s bad for blue collar workers. What’s bad for blue collar workers is wanting more than $20 bucks a week for labor - globalization. And that’s simply not going to stop.

You can’t protect the US (import tariffs) without actual harm to our workers (export tariffs).

It’s simplistic populism (everything is these days) when its in reality complex global economics and policy.

The track record of globalism is sufficiently bad that I think it a mistake to simply accept it as inevitable and try to live with the consequences. That is rapidly becoming unbearable.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:23:30pm

re: #182 jaunte

She thinks LaVoy should have had a chance to take a shot before they did anything.

All of them do. It was all over Facebook today.

But a 12 year old with a toy? NUKE EM!!!!11!!

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Timothy Watson  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:23:38pm

re: #195 Aunty Entity Dragon

@jaunte…

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Seems like every GOP candidate is taking lessons from It Can’t Happen Here.

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TedStriker  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:23:41pm

re: #156 bratwurst

The Blaze is about to get its 4th new CEO in less than 2 years.

Who could have guessed that a company built around a demonstrably crazy person would not be stable?

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:23:58pm

re: #186 lizardofid

No problem with anything you said.

I’m optimistic that when HRC becomes the candidate, Bernie will get firmly behind her, and encourage his supporters to do the same. If he does that, we’ll someday look back favorably on his run, for moving the Overton Window in a more fair and equitable direction.

But, I’m a bit of an idealist at times. ;}

Not Bernie I worry about. Kos has gone all Chai-Party over this. They have epic threads about it. While I think most will vote for whoever wins, but why take the risk? the Dems really don’t need the hassle of a civil war, especially over quite close policy differences.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:24:48pm

Oh, lordy, looks like the 1980s have returned to a Detroit strip club….that let’s you toss a dwarf.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:25:23pm

re: #200 Timothy Watson

Seems like every GOP candidate is taking lessons from It Can’t Happen Here.

Or that Jack London novel The Iron Heel.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:25:36pm
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Kragar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:25:36pm

re: #201 TedStriker

AWOLNATION - Burn It Down

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:25:43pm

re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth

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451_Montag  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:26:09pm

re: #200 Timothy Watson

Seems like every GOP candidate is taking lessons from It Can’t Happen Here.

They think its a how to guide. ” Governing for Dummies”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:26:10pm

re: #170 Backwoods_Sleuth

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yep, because the judge won’t even start to consider bail for the Bundy gang as long as those yahoos are still hanging out at the refuge.

Yeah? Well, WE’RE aren’t leaving till you release HIM!

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:26:41pm

re: #192 Backwoods_Sleuth

perhaps @cmichaelarnold is unaware, but the loyalty at the refuge is not to Bundy, but to Finicum, who was killed.

That’s interesting. I did not know that. Thanks.

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KingKenrod  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:28:04pm

re: #156 bratwurst

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The Blaze is about to get its 4th new CEO in less than 2 years.

Who could have guessed that a company built around a demonstrably crazy person would not be stable?

The Blaze has lost 43% of its traffic in the past year, and Beck’s own website traffic dropped 68%.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:30:55pm

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This term “civil disobedience” does not mean what the Bundy Bund lawyer thinks it means. Gandhi and MLK practiced civil disobedience. George Washington, Jefferson Davis and Che Guevara did not.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:31:15pm

re: #203 Eric The Fruit Bat

Oh, lordy, looks like the 1980s have returned to a Detroit strip club….that let’s you toss a dwarf.

I thought that was outlawed. Well, pretty sure it was in IL, where I’m from.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:32:27pm

re: #213 WhatEVs

Maybe in IL, NY and FL it was, but it hasn’t been banned in MI.

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lizardofid  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:33:49pm

re: #202 451_Montag

Not Bernie I worry about. Kos has gone all Chai-Party over this. They have epic threads about it. While I think most will vote for whoever wins, but why take the risk? the Dems really don’t need the hassle of a civil war, especially over quite close policy differences.

I’ve no answers to that. I just know a lot of the Bernie supporters are young folks. My experience in trying to influence members of that group has been limited to my own children, and that has never amounted to much more than suggestions. ; }

Good night all!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:34:01pm

re: #210 WhatEVs

That’s interesting. I did not know that. Thanks.

Actually, it seems more like their loyalties are all to Sean Anderson - they’re holding out for him to not be arrested, even after he openly called for killing LEOs on the YouTube feed.

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stpaulbear  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:34:01pm

re: #206 Kragar

Minneapolis’ first 70’s style punk band (as compared to the zillions of great 60’s garage bands from the area). I think the guy who put this video together went on to make Devo’s videos.

Suicide Commandos - “Burn It Down”

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De Kolta Chair  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:35:10pm
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Kragar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:37:34pm

re: #217 stpaulbear

Can’t beat the classics…

Fire - The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown @ TOTP 1968

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:39:06pm

re: #218 De Kolta Chair

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:39:16pm

Cool! This post just got retweeted by @JoaquinCastrotx.

Man, it hurts to be this irrelevant.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:39:34pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

Actually, it seems more like their loyalties are all to Sean Anderson - they’re holding out for him to not be arrested, even after he openly called for killing LEOs on the YouTube feed.

That’s terrifying. That guy is nucking futs!

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:41:11pm

re: #189 jaunte

Pretty passive word for an armed hijacking.

We lawyers know how to massage the message.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:41:16pm

re: #203 Eric The Fruit Bat

Oh, lordy, looks like the 1980s have returned to a Detroit strip club….that let’s you toss a dwarf.

Speaking of strip clubs - see the Gilbert Arenas story?

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:42:38pm

re: #224 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

Love the screen name.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:43:19pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:44:19pm

re: #198 EPR-radar

The track record of globalism is sufficiently bad that I think it a mistake to simply accept it as inevitable and try to live with the consequences. That is rapidly becoming unbearable.

OTOH, billions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, so maybe it isn’t all bad.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:44:59pm

re: #224 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

Who is that? Should I know the name or is he a random criminal?

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:47:12pm

re: #228 WhatEVs

Who is that? Should I know the name or is he a random criminal?

Basketball player. Found a scam..

I hate strip clubs. It’s a sick scene.

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De Kolta Chair  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:47:51pm

Maybe there really is a god after all…

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Timothy Watson  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:48:00pm

re: #228 WhatEVs

Who is that? Should I know the name or is he a random criminal?

He used to play for the Washington Wizards and now plays for some Chinese team.

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EPR-radar  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:50:02pm

re: #227 Big Beautiful Door

OTOH, billions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, so maybe it isn’t all bad.

My viewpoint on globalism is US-specific, and is thus provincial.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:51:16pm

Booked my Spring Break vacation at Disney Resorts in Orlando. I haven’t been since I was ten y.o. 43 years ago, but I have a 12 and 9 y.o. now, and they are very excited.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:51:51pm

re: #231 Timothy Watson

He used to play for the Washington Wizards and now plays for some Chinese team.

Wow. A real brain trust there.

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gwangung  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:51:55pm

re: #227 Big Beautiful Door

OTOH, billions of people have been lifted out of extreme poverty, so maybe it isn’t all bad.

It’s not even clear what the net effect is, whether TPP affects it or will it matter for our interests if it had gone down. Globalism is definitely not an unalloyed good, but it’s not clear if alternatives would be worse.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:53:07pm

re: #233 Big Beautiful Door

Enjoy. Are you staying inside Walt Disney World or outside?

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:53:22pm

re: #235 gwangung

It’s not even clear what the net effect is, whether TPP affects it or will it matter for our interests if it had gone down. Globalism is definitely not an unalloyed good, but it’s not clear if alternatives would be worse.

I have to admit I don’t really understand it, but from what I’ve read I think the TPP is neither as good or bad for the US as each side would have us believe.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:53:45pm

re: #234 WhatEVs

Wow. A real brain trust there.

Yep, he got suspended and later released by the Wizards after bringing a handgun into the locker room to threaten a fellow player.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:53:50pm

re: #232 EPR-radar

My viewpoint on globalism is US-specific, and is thus provincial.

We have a lot of stuff that goes out, too. Europe especially, as our quality, for now, is much better than China and the Euro to Dollar is still favorable to them. Tariffs will hurt us.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:53:57pm

re: #236 PhillyPretzel

Enjoy. Are you staying inside Walt Disney World or outside?

Staying at the Disney All-Star Movie resort.

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:54:37pm

re: #240 Big Beautiful Door

I never heard of that one before. Is it a new one?

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:56:13pm

re: #241 PhillyPretzel

I never heard of that one before. Is it a new one?

Don’t really know; they have resorts with different themes like Pop, music and sports. They are at the Animal Kingdom Resort area, so that may be pretty new.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:56:47pm

re: #224 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

Looks like AMEX and others are investigating this.

Rule 1 - If you get away with something-keep your Goddam mouth SHUT. Period.

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Big Beautiful Door  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:57:06pm

Going to watch Grimm now, good night!

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ausador  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:58:01pm

So we are building two different versions of these ships meant for shallow water/close to land fights with two different contractors. Both versions feature tiny crews with automated internet based monitoring taking the place of the missing sailors. So far the real world results for both are rather less than adequate…

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PhillyPretzel  Jan 29, 2016 • 5:58:47pm

re: #242 Big Beautiful Door

That sounds very good. The only hotel I remember that was a must visit was the Contemporary. When I went with friends we stayed outside the resorts. Traffic jams every morning.

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:00:51pm

Welp. Probably knew this already but I’m in a tough spot come election day. Most similar. Least bad. Not sure how good a measure this vote easy thing is, but here is my result such as it is.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:02:17pm

re: #242 Big Beautiful Door

Don’t really know; they have resorts with different themes like Pop, music and sports. They are at the Animal Kingdom Resort area, so that may be pretty new.

The main hotel at the Animal Kingdom is insane. Giraffe’s come up to the balcony’s to feed. Try to fit it in.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:04:14pm

re: #245 ausador

So we are building two different versions of these ships meant for shallow water/close to land fights with two different contractors. Both versions feature tiny crews with automated internet based monitoring taking the place of the missing sailors. So far the real world results for both are rather less than adequate…

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THANKS OBAMA MCCAIN!11!!

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:07:00pm

re: #131 Billy Batts

MOLE ON LABIA!!!

That was an actual answer in the process to get my wife a green card (not really).

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bratwurst  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:07:54pm

Hmmmm….

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De Kolta Chair  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:08:18pm

Funny short bit o’ Brit humour…

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Belafon  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:09:09pm

re: #155 Tigger2

LMAO

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Billionaire Saudi Prince Trolls @realDonaldTrump: “I’ve Bailed You Out Twice”

One of the Republicans should bring this up.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:11:37pm
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makeitstop  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:12:26pm

re: #217 stpaulbear

Minneapolis’ first 70’s style punk band (as compared to the zillions of great 60’s garage bands from the area). I think the guy who put this video together went on to make Devo’s videos.

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Video

I love that guy’s Les Paul. Want.

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Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:17:19pm

re: #254 Charles Johnson

Also, because what could embarass these people?

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:18:34pm
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makeitstop  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:19:13pm

re: #228 WhatEVs

Who is that? Should I know the name or is he a random criminal?

Former NBA player for Washington, flushed his career by bringing guns into the locker room and nearly having a shootout with a team mate.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:19:27pm

re: #257 jaunte

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Dream on weaver.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:19:50pm

re: #257 jaunte

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I forget, when did Hillary become Secretary of Defense or Commander in Chief?

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:20:01pm

“We can never see the email that proves our conspiracy theory because the government has classified it.”

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makeitstop  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:20:52pm

re: #229 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

Basketball player. Found a scam..

I hate strip clubs. It’s a sick scene.

Never saw the attraction. You might as well drive down the street, throwing your money out the window.

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jaunte  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:21:08pm

It’s the Platonic ideal of conspiracy.

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stpaulbear  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:22:06pm

re: #247 Great White Snark

Welp. Probably knew this already but I’m in a tough spot come election day. Most similar. Least bad. Not sure how good a measure this vote easy thing is, but here is my result such as it is.

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Why does that put you in a tough spot? Hillary is far from perfect but I’d walk over broken glass to vote for her in this election. If she’s the best representative of your views in that poll, it doesn’t seem like it should be a hard choice.

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danarchy  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:24:22pm

re: #251 bratwurst

Hmmmm….

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Didn’t I hear Al Jazeera America went out of business?

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Brian J.  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:24:54pm

re: #265 danarchy

Didn’t I hear Al Jazeera America went out of business?

They’ll still be broadcasting until April.

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:26:32pm

re: #217 stpaulbear

Minneapolis’ first 70’s style punk band (as compared to the zillions of great 60’s garage bands from the area). I think the guy who put this video together went on to make Devo’s videos.

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Cool. A friend of mine who went to St. John’s had a band that lived in Minneapolis and played lots of gigs in the Twin Cities in the ’80s; he also worked at Northern Lights for a couple of years. The were called Big and Scary.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:27:34pm

I don’t know about you all, but this week, hell these last 2 have been hard. I’m for lack of a better phrase, down in the dumps. Talked to my parents & 3 friends, all are same.

End of January blues? Holiday love hangover? I’m not a young cat, I should have noticed this trend before.

I blame Trump that fuck.

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stpaulbear  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:31:08pm

re: #267 Barefoot Grin

Cool. A friend of mine who went to St. John’s had a band that lived in Minneapolis and played lots of gigs in the Twin Cities in the ’80s; he also worked at Northern Lights for a couple of years. The were called Big and Scary.

Northern Lights was a great music store. Great band name but I don’t remember them. Were they late 80’s? I quit drinking in ‘84 so I went out a lot less and lost track of local music. Does your friend remember a band called Fine Art? (yes, we knew the name was pretentious)

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KingKenrod  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:34:20pm

The NY Times has a profile of MoFo and their involvement with the NAF lawsuit. I didn’t know they took the case pro bono.

Anyone know where the lawsuit stands at the moment?

nytimes.com

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makeitstop  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:34:31pm

re: #268 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

I don’t know about you all, but this week, hell these last 2 have been hard. I’m for lack of a better phrase, down in the dumps. Talked to my parents & 3 friends, all are same.

End of January blues? Holiday love hangover? I’m not a young cat, I should have noticed this trend before.

I blame Trump that fuck.

It’s that time of year, Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s gotten me bad the last couple of years, but I’m learning how to fight it.

Hang in there, kid. Spring is coming.

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retired cynic  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:39:10pm

re: #256 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis

Also, because what could embarass these people?

I’m afraid he already embarrasses me!

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:40:31pm

re: #271 makeitstop

It’s that time of year, Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s gotten me bad the last couple of years, but I’m learning how to fight it.

Hang in there, kid. Spring is coming.

TY. I’m eating good food as a cure. Whatev. :)

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danarchy  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:43:16pm

re: #271 makeitstop

It’s that time of year, Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s gotten me bad the last couple of years, but I’m learning how to fight it.

Hang in there, kid. Spring is coming.

Just read an article that said SAD may be one of those things that everyone accepts but may not be supported by science.

sciencedaily.com

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Barefoot Grin  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:44:25pm

re: #269 stpaulbear

Northern Lights was a great music store. Great band name but I don’t remember them. Were they late 80’s? I quit drinking in ‘84 so I went out a lot less and lost track of local music. Does your friend remember a band called Fine Art? (yes, we knew the name was pretentious)

I think they were active in ‘86-‘88. I’ll ask if he knows Fine Art (there’s no such thing as a pretentious name). I visited him the summer after I graduated in ‘87. We walked to a bar and saw Alex Chilton. The next night we went downtown to the big bar where Prince filmed those scenes with The Time (can’t remember the name) and saw a local legend. But I was drinking. I know it wasn’t The Replacements, but I can’t remember.

Actually, I went there a couple of years before. My brother went to Macalaster’s Theater program. He lived with a bunch of people in a big, old drafty house in St. Paul. He had a job as a cake maker at a nice restaurant/bakery. I got there on Dec. 31 (during my own winter break). The house was empty and cold. No TV. Nothing. I called him: “yeah, I’m just about off work; get a cab and meet us at…..” There were no cabs on a cold and snowy New Years Eve. There was no champagne or beer or anything of cheer in their big old house. I found a blanket and seethed into the New Year. Anger kept me warm.

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:45:52pm

re: #273 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

TY. I’m eating good food as a cure. Whatev. :)

You rang? :-D

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:46:45pm

re: #276 WhatEVs

You rang? :-D

Come do my dishes please.

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allegro  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:47:02pm

re: #276 WhatEVs

You rang? :-D

Hiya! Meatballs… good!

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:48:03pm

re: #277 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

Come do my dishes please.

$40 an hour, plus travel expenses. When would you like me to arrive?

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:48:39pm

re: #278 allegro

Hiya! Meatballs… good!

Awesomesauce!! Glad you liked them!!

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:49:17pm

re: #279 WhatEVs

$40 an hour, plus travel expenses. When would you like me to arrive?

Ha. I’ll break down & clean.

Tomorrow.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:50:15pm

re: #280 WhatEVs

Awesomesauce!! Glad you liked them!!

I missed this recipe.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:50:25pm

re: #268 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

It’s the time. Holidays are over, we’re in a dead zone between a big celebration and valentine’s day (which is a downer day for many people)… Holiday bills due, taxes, cold weather dampening social life, darkness, loss of momentum from new years, car registration and insurance policies all renewing, pets are getting sick, and companies are doing new year budget trims and post-holiday layoffs. January/February sucks.

I get the hardest seasonal depression not long after the time change. Mine was really bad this year… I just did not give a fuck. I ate ice cream and cake like I was trying to destroy myself. I put on something like 10 pounds BEYOND my already expected year-end gain. I’m on the way to 40 and my body is definitely telling me it’s going to kill me if I keep doing this. Texas is really killing me. Or at least, making it easier to destroy myself.

Catch the bad tendencies while young and have a coping strategy in place, says I.

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De Kolta Chair  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:52:59pm
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makeitstop  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:53:30pm

BTW, that Gilbert Arenas story looks like Agent Zero was trolling.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:53:37pm

re: #283 Pawn of the Oppressor

xxoo let’s hang in there.

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Jay C  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:53:48pm

re: #245 ausador

re: #249 Timothy Watson

Isn’t that just par for the course when it comes to naval scenarios in the Persian Gulf? ISTR that the Navy has run numerous “fleet problems” over the years to deal with possible hostilities vs. Iran, and in general, despite a supposed “overwhelming” force superiority, it comes out a draw as often as not.
That this should prove true vs. the USN’s newest wonder-ships, USS Boondoggle, and its sister ship USS Porkbarrel shouldn’t be a surprise: the LCS project(s) long predate the Obama (or even Bush 43) Administrations: in their main mission (bolstering the MIC bottom line) they have been a smashing success: for warfare at sea: not so much.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:55:12pm

re: #285 makeitstop

BTW, that Gilbert Arenas story looks like Agent Zero was trolling.

haha. Good one. He got everyone. Cept AMEX.

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makeitstop  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:55:34pm

re: #283 Pawn of the Oppressor

It’s the time. Holidays are over, we’re in a dead zone between a big celebration and valentine’s day (which is a downer day for many people)… Holiday bills due, taxes, cold weather dampening social life, darkness, loss of momentum from new years, car registration and insurance policies all renewing, pets are getting sick, and companies are doing new year budget trims and post-holiday layoffs. January/February sucks.

I get the hardest seasonal depression not long after the time change. Mine was really bad this year… I just did not give a fuck. I ate ice cream and cake like I was trying to destroy myself. I put on something like 10 pounds BEYOND my already expected year-end gain. I’m on the way to 40 and my body is definitely telling me it’s going to kill me if I keep doing this. Texas is really killing me. Or at least, making it easier to destroy myself.

Catch the bad tendencies while young and have a coping strategy in place, says I.

My approach is just to keep moving forward. I keep myself as busy as I can and don’t allow myself to disappear into my own head. Seems to work for me.

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Great White Snark  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:56:02pm

re: #268 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

I don’t know about you all, but this week, hell these last 2 have been hard. I’m for lack of a better phrase, down in the dumps. Talked to my parents & 3 friends, all are same.

End of January blues? Holiday love hangover? I’m not a young cat, I should have noticed this trend before.

I blame Trump that fuck.

Bad people having their way while some of the great among us fall plus winter… Yeah potent stuff. Little bit of the same around GWS HQ. it’s a bit like that two am or three am funk. “Hour of the wolf”

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WhatEVs  Jan 29, 2016 • 6:57:34pm

re: #282 SS. Trump = that splat on your window

I missed this recipe.

lifestylefood.com.au

Great alone or with this broth (which I think is divine)!

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WCBadger  Jan 29, 2016 • 7:04:23pm

They both spew hateful bile. Trump may or may not believe what he’s saying. Cruz believes his drivel and that is scary.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 7:04:47pm

re: #291 WhatEVs

lifestylefood.com.au

Great alone or with this broth (which I think is divine)!

Whoa. Yum. Saved.

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Stanley Sea  Jan 29, 2016 • 7:05:20pm

Going up

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 29, 2016 • 7:09:00pm

re: #271 makeitstop

It’s that time of year, Seasonal Affective Disorder. It’s gotten me bad the last couple of years, but I’m learning how to fight it.

Hang in there, kid. Spring is coming.

Check out your Vitamin D intake as well. I know a number of people who do a D supplement over the winter since they obviously are not getting any sun exposure or D from other usual sources.

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ausador  Jan 29, 2016 • 7:10:42pm

re: #257 jaunte

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William Lewis  Jan 29, 2016 • 7:15:14pm

re: #269 stpaulbear

Northern Lights was a great music store. Great band name but I don’t remember them. Were they late 80’s? I quit drinking in ‘84 so I went out a lot less and lost track of local music. Does your friend remember a band called Fine Art? (yes, we knew the name was pretentious)

Heh. Living in East Claire WI we would drive up to go to northern lights and catch a show. Replacements, Husker Dutch, and so. Many more.

Do you remember (heh, sorry couldn’t resist) the Urban Guerrillas? Still love their music decades later.

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CleverToad  Jan 29, 2016 • 9:41:41pm

re: #52 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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The whole thread is worth reading, honestly. Using Star Wars as a metaphor for the idiots in Oregon.

Late reply, but thanks for the heads-up. Well worth reading! I love Ursula’s books but I’m not on Twitter, so would have missed this masterful analogy.

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Sophist: Make America Grate Again  Jan 29, 2016 • 11:11:20pm

re: #111 jaunte

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NO REGERTS

Nothing classier than a trampTrump stamp.

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originalben  Jan 30, 2016 • 7:52:34am

re: #247 Great White Snark

Not sure how I could possibly end up with 88% for both Hillary and Bernie.
And so it goes.
Guess I have both aspirations and realistic expectations in equal measure;^)

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originalben  Jan 30, 2016 • 7:54:36am

re: #249 Timothy Watson

They should involve the F-35s…at night…in the rain…within a migratory flight path.

Or not.


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