Jonathan Coulton’s Awesome New Retro Text Adventure Video: “All This Time”

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From his new album Solid State, out April 28.

The album has a companion graphic novel written by Matt Fraction and drawn by Albert Monteys. It’s a science fiction story about the internet, the future, artificial intelligence, and how probably only love will save us.

The book, CD, Vinyl, Tshirts, and deluxe bundles of fantastic things can be pre-ordered right now at http://solidstate.jonathancoulton.com/

Digital pre-orders available at iTunes and wherever else digital music is sold these days.

Jonathan Coulton made this video all by himself. Hooray!

The display was done using an app called Cathode: http://www.secretgeometry.com/apps/cathode/

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freetoken  Apr 24, 2017 • 8:50:36pm

Posted this downstairs, but it’s worth watching. I’m not sure I agree with the speaker on some things, but the topic is both intriguing and, I propose, is relevant to our Trump-affected society:

Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow with Yuval Noah Harari

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TedStriker  Apr 24, 2017 • 8:52:02pm

Just posted this downstairs:

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Kragar  Apr 24, 2017 • 8:54:15pm

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Joe Bacon  Apr 24, 2017 • 8:59:24pm

re: #2 TedStriker

Farm Film Report2

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Puss Power  Apr 24, 2017 • 9:06:41pm

Boarding!!!

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Interesting Times  Apr 24, 2017 • 9:07:53pm

In honor of tangerine tyrant’s eventual trip to the UK:

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Kragar  Apr 24, 2017 • 9:44:22pm
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Ace-o-aces  Apr 24, 2017 • 10:20:42pm
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bratwurst  Apr 24, 2017 • 10:21:24pm

Uh, this is the same Netanyahu who gave Glenn Beck an award, then campaigned for Mitt Romney, right?

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The Ghost of Senator Incitatus  Apr 24, 2017 • 11:06:13pm

How the hell do you create a seasoning mix that tastes saltier than actual salt?

I think I just mummified a pound of hamburger.

Fuck, now I have to wrap it in linen bandages inscribed with The Book of the Dead, or it’s ka is going to haunt my kitchen.

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allegro  Apr 24, 2017 • 11:13:56pm

re: #10 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus

How the hell do you create a seasoning mix that tastes saltier than actual salt?

I think I just mummified a pound of hamburger.

Fuck, now I have to wrap it in linen bandages inscribed with The Book of the Dead, or it’s ka is going to haunt my kitchen.

I dunno about that. It’s after 1am and I have to get the symphony and the wine to end at the same time and it’s a hard, hard thing.

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Puss Power  Apr 24, 2017 • 11:41:12pm

re: #10 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus

How the hell do you create a seasoning mix that tastes saltier than actual salt?

I think I just mummified a pound of hamburger.

Fuck, now I have to wrap it in linen bandages inscribed with The Book of the Dead, or it’s ka is going to haunt my kitchen.

If it’s not too late, freeze it and add it to unadulterated hamburger (probably more than one meal unless you’re feeding an army).

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:16:45am
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Puss Power  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:16:46am

Home

Sweet

Home.

‘Night.

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teleskiguy  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:21:27am
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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:32:55am
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Grunthos the Flatulent  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:40:46am

re: #10 The Ghost of Senator Incitatus

How the hell do you create a seasoning mix that tastes saltier than actual salt?

I think I just mummified a pound of hamburger.

Fuck, now I have to wrap it in linen bandages inscribed with The Book of the Dead, or it’s ka is going to haunt my kitchen.

Well if you’d kept the natron in the bathroom where it belonged, instead of storing it in the larder, maybe you wouldn’t have had this wee problem.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:41:59am
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 1:46:04am

Probably ought to be sent to the Virginia senator whinging about New Orleans removing its monuments to white supremacy (the plinth of the first removed specifically mentions it):

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:19:31am

re: #2 TedStriker

Just posted this downstairs:

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Ah, good ol’ Corey Stewart. I somehow ended up on that nutbar’s e-mail list. I would unsubscribe but I like to track the bad crazy in my state.

I keep wanting to dismiss his run for Governor, but then I remember Donald Trump.

Ugh.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:29:39am

FOX News Channel now being sued for racial discrimination on top of their sexual harassment lawsuits:

wonkette.com (as always, NSFW, more at the link)

According to the plaintiffs’ attorneys, Slater demanded that black employees hold “arm wrestling matches’” with white female employees in her office, just down the hall from Ailes’s office on the 2nd floor of Fox headquarters. “Forcing a black woman employee to ‘fight’ for the amusement and pleasure of her white superiors is horrifying. This highly offensive and humiliating act is reminiscent of Jim Crow era battle royals,” the letter says, referring to the practice of paying black men to fight blindfolded at carnivals for white spectators’ entertainment. The lawyers argue that [Slater’s boss, director of accounting Tammy] Efinger bragged about wanting to “fight” a black employee.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:27:14am

re: #9 bratwurst

Uh, this is the same Netanyahu who gave Glenn Beck an award, then campaigned for Mitt Romney, right?

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The same. Fucking Bibi.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:30:42am

re: #19 Anymouse

Probably ought to be sent to the Virginia senator whinging about New Orleans removing its monuments to white supremacy (the plinth of the first removed specifically mentions it):

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You mean Corey Stewart? He’s not a senator, he’s in an executive position in his county. Fucked up thing is he’s not even a southerner, he’s from Minnesota. We have a tradition of Yankees who want the Good Ole Boys to like them by pandering with the CSA flag going back to George Allen though.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:32:10am

re: #20 Timothy Watson

Ah, good ol’ Corey Stewart. I somehow ended up on that nutbar’s e-mail list. I would unsubscribe but I like to track the bad crazy in my state.

I keep wanting to dismiss his run for Governor, but then I remember Donald Trump.

Ugh.

I know. Northam or Perriello, I may be all in for Tom but we need to keep this seat Democratic.

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:33:39am

re: #18 Anymouse

Pretty dang cold of Scott to say that. Whoa. He’s the quintessential Conservative — judgmental and unsympathetic.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:39:14am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:41:09am

re: #26 The Vicious Babushka

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Congrats! That’s so cool.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:49:43am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 4:59:56am

heh

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Targetpractice  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:17:56am

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Robin Hood Men In Tights: Bullshit

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:21:21am
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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:28:54am

re: #23 HappyWarrior

You mean Corey Stewart? He’s not a senator, he’s in an executive position in his county. Fucked up thing is he’s not even a southerner, he’s from Minnesota. We have a tradition of Yankees who want the Good Ole Boys to like them by pandering with the CSA flag going back to George Allen though.

Did you see this shit?

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Nothing is worse than a Yankee white man telling a Southerner black man that his monuments don’t life doesn’t matter.

Fix that for him.

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jeffreyw  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:38:59am

Imgur
Good morning!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:43:46am

re: #34 Timothy Watson

Did you see this shit?

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Fix that for him.

Nope, what a fucking pathetic pandering asshole.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:46:01am

Gr, got another Grouplove song stuck in my head:

Grouplove - Ways to Go [Official music video]

Thought the video was apt given the situation in Korea.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:50:16am

You know what I love though? Black people need to get over slavery and Jim Crow but Southerners never need to get over that the CSA was a complete failure and the Civil War cost American lives. The Army of Northern Virginia no exaggeration was responsible for thousands of American deaths. I’m definitely not saying one should fly an ISIS or Nazi flag but why is flying a CSA flag socially acceptable at all? And the only reason why the CSA flag itself made a comeback is because Southern governments in the 50’s and 60’s wanted to intimidate the Civil Rights movement. It’s never been about heritage. It’s always been about justifying white supremacy. From about 1877(official end of Reconstruction)to 1954(the year Brown v Board was decided), the CSA flag did not have a place in Southern life.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:58:00am

I mean I get hearing those stories about how your great or great great grandpa fought with Lee till the end but you know what, he still did technically commit treason and yet most of the people who I know who wave CSA flags and talk about CSA “heritage” are the same ones who love to cast questions about the left’s love of this country. I’ve never celebrated any group that took up arms against the US. I in fact have a tattoo dedicated to a brigade of primarily Irish immigrants who have fought for this country and I’ve had family serve the US military in some shape or form since the War of 1812. Do I wear a flag lapin or flag on my house? No but I love my country. I see my country as great but one that could even be ebtter. That’s patriotism.

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dharmamark  Apr 25, 2017 • 5:58:12am

re: #38 HappyWarrior

Man, I want to steal this…

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:01:30am

Assumes facts not in evidence: how do we know Trump can read?

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Patricia Kayden  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:02:52am

re: #38 HappyWarrior

“It’s never been about heritage.”

True. Even if it was about “heritage”, that wouldn’t justify the celebration of traitors, racists and slavery proponents. There is no reason to celebrate all aspects of one’s heritage — especially on public property.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:03:16am

re: #34 Timothy Watson

Oh, those monuments matter, just not in the way this nitwit thinks.

They’re a monument to historical racial discrimination and honors those who fought an insurrection against the federal government all to preserve the institution of slavery, and once that was over, then fought to install a scheme so that minorities were subjugated - Jim Crow.

To this day, these people are still trying to subjugate minorities and keep the uppity folks (women, minorities, etc.) in their “place.”

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:03:20am

re: #40 dharmamark

Man, I want to steal this…

By all means. And you know what, Southerners like to talk about their pride. But what about us with Army of the Potomac ancestors? Why is Great Great Grandpa who fought for the Army of Northern Virginia a noble warrior whereas Great Great Grandpa who fought for the Army of the Potomac just a pawn of Lincoln. I have no illusions. My second great grandfather was very likely not an abolitionist, nor did he probably care too much for the plight of slaves, or definitely shared my 21st century views on racial equality but the man, a German immigrant no less still enlisted for his adopted coutnry in her darkest hour.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:05:40am

Read the rest here: thecorrespondent.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:05:54am

re: #44 HappyWarrior

By all means. And you know what, Southerners like to talk about their pride. But what about us with Army of the Potomac ancestors? Why is Great Great Grandpa who fought for the Army of Northern Virginia a noble warrior whereas Great Great Grandpa who fought for the Army of the Potomac just a pawn of Lincoln. I have no illusions. My second great grandfather was very likely not an abolitionist, nor did he probably care too much for the plight of slaves, or definitely shared my 21st century views on racial equality but the man, a German immigrant no less still enlisted for his adopted coutnry in her darkest hour.

I love these idiots on Twitter who are all TEH WOAH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVERY, IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE TARRIFFS. LOOK IT UP LIBTARD! and I’m like I did look it up, here are the Declarations of Secession which mention slavery like eleventy bazillion times and taxes 0 times!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:06:22am

re: #42 Patricia Kayden

“It’s never been about heritage.”

True. Even if it was about “heritage”, that wouldn’t justify the celebration of traitors, racists and slavery proponents. There is no reason to celebrate all aspects of one’s heritage — especially on public property.

Honestly, how can one have heritage in something that barely lasted four years? And most of the time the people of the CSA were desperate for food. The only people who really benefited from the CSA were the planter elite. The CSA was pretty much an oligarchy with a lot of feudal characteristics. It really is too bad that poor white Southerners never realized their common lot with the slaves and overthrew the planter hierahcy.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:07:44am

re: #46 The Vicious Babushka

I love these idiots on Twitter who are all TEH WOAH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVERY, IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE TARRIFFS. LOOK IT UP LIBTARD! and I’m like I did look it up, here are the Declarations of Secession which mention slavery like eleventy bazillion times and taxes 0 times!

Indeed, they even admit in their documents that it was about slavery. It only became after slavery became pretty much universally unacceptable that it started becoming about “taxes” and “states rights.” And I’ll remind CSA fans again that 9/13 of the CSA states actually seceded while Buchanan was President which is why it’s absurd to call Lincoln the aggressor.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:09:14am
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Again Flynn’s name comes up in respect to Russia and improper contacts/conduct.

The GOP continues enabling this administration despite a mountain of evidence showing how compromised and corrupt Trump and his cronies are.

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I cannot.  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:09:28am

And Now the Good News #238: Early Diagnosis with SHERLOCK

Shocks timed when memory fails causes memory to work correctly…so they created a way to predict WHEN memory would fail so they could use it.

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dharmamark  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:10:57am

re: #44 HappyWarrior

Thanks.

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dharmamark  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:12:13am

Come for the politics, leave with an education - every damn day. Thanks, Lizards.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:13:31am
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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:15:52am
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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:17:35am

BUILD A WALL ON THE NORTHERN BORDER

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:18:36am

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BUILD A WALL ON THE NORTHERN BORDER

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:19:25am

re: #55 The Vicious Babushka

BUILD A WALL ON THE NORTHERN BORDER

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I like how he wants protectionist policies for us but acts shocked when other countries do the same. Fucking imbecile.

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I cannot.  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:19:27am

re: #55 The Vicious Babushka

We’re going to end up invading Quebec, aren’t we?

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:20:33am

re: #58 I cannot.

We’re going to end up invading Quebec, aren’t we?

Alberta has the oil. Quebec has the maple syrup.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:20:33am

re: #58 I cannot.

We’re going to end up invading Quebec, aren’t we?

Let me tell you about the Great Poutine War, Billy.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:28:12am
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What’s interesting about this photo, among other things, is the module latched behind the conning tower.

That’s a dry deck shelter, and it’s designed to allow divers (aka SEALs) access to a submarine while submerged.

Here, it’s so that the US could send the sub to an area close to enemy territory and launch the SEALs unnoticed where they could then infiltrate enemy territory to carry out their mission.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:32:19am

The war gives southern “heritage” a whiff of honor/legitimacy that the ideology does not.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:33:09am

LOL, Corey Stewart is from fuckin’ Duluth and is now pretending to be a southern good ol’ boy what cares about “heritage.”

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Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:34:22am

re: #61 lawhawk

Haha. Yeah, it’s lurking alright, being pushed around by 2 huge tugboats. FOX news..

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:36:47am

re: #63 A wild WITHAK appeared!

LOL, Corey Stewart is from fuckin’ Duluth and is now pretending to be a southern good ol’ boy what cares about “heritage.”

I know. George Allen was from California and loved waving a CSA flag in his office. His father was born in Virginia but raised in Michigan and his grandfather seems to be from New York from what I’ve found.

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dharmamark  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:37:11am

re: #64 Amory Blaine

Haha. Yeah, it’s lurking alright, being pushed around by 2 huge tugboats. FOX news..

Picture’s probably from Groton…

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:39:24am

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Honestly, how can one have heritage in something that barely lasted four years? And most of the time the people of the CSA were desperate for food. The only people who really benefited from the CSA were the planter elite. The CSA was pretty much an oligarchy with a lot of feudal characteristics. It really is too bad that poor white Southerners never realized their common lot with the slaves and overthrew the planter hierahcy.

Ah, but no matter how poor a whiteman was, he was still better than the slaves.

It’s called Herrenvolk democracy.

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I cannot.  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:39:54am

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

And given this crowd, they’ll probably be aiming for Alberta, and end up in Quebec.

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Joe Bacon  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:40:37am

re: #44 HappyWarrior

By all means. And you know what, Southerners like to talk about their pride. But what about us with Army of the Potomac ancestors? Why is Great Great Grandpa who fought for the Army of Northern Virginia a noble warrior whereas Great Great Grandpa who fought for the Army of the Potomac just a pawn of Lincoln. I have no illusions. My second great grandfather was very likely not an abolitionist, nor did he probably care too much for the plight of slaves, or definitely shared my 21st century views on racial equality but the man, a German immigrant no less still enlisted for his adopted coutnry in her darkest hour.

My great great grandfather Peter Bacon was the Union General in charge of the defense of Washington DC. He’s buried in the D.C. Congressional Cemetery. I got a feeling I know what he would think if he saw a Confederate flag!

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:40:59am

re: #61 lawhawk

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What’s interesting about this photo, among other things, is the module latched behind the conning tower.

That’s a dry deck shelter, and it’s designed to allow divers (aka SEALs) access to a submarine while submerged.

Here, it’s so that the US could send the sub to an area close to enemy territory and launch the SEALs unnoticed where they could then infiltrate enemy territory to carry out their mission.

It’s also one of the converted Ohio-class submarines which pack 154 Tomahawk cruise missiles.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:41:30am

re: #64 Amory Blaine

re: #66 dharmamark

Here’s where it gets weird.

stripes.com

The sub in that photo has a dry shelter module, but the CNN video shows no such module appearing and disappearing - and it takes time for that to be installed/removed:

cnn.com

So, it’s quite possible that it was stock footage.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:43:06am

re: #71 lawhawk

Here’s where it gets weird.

stripes.com

The sub in that photo has a dry shelter module, but the CNN video shows no such module appearing and disappearing - and it takes time for that to be installed/removed:

cnn.com

So, it’s quite possible that it was stock footage.

Reuters photo from Apr. 25, 2017 port call:
the-star.co.ke

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:43:43am

re: #67 Timothy Watson

Ah, but no matter how poor a whiteman was, he was still better than the slaves.

It’s called Herrenvolk democracy.

Yep, my Georgia born U.S history professor at NVCC made that a reoccuring theme. Professor Reed was a great professor. Liberal minded, fair, and had great lectures. I ended up using him as a reference when I transferred to GMU. I hope he still teaches.

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dharmamark  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:44:39am

re: #72 Timothy Watson

Reuters photo from Apr. 25, 2017 port call:
the-star.co.ke

Well, there you have it.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:45:34am

re: #69 Joe Bacon

My great great grandfather Peter Bacon was the Union General in charge of the defense of Washington DC. He’s buried in the D.C. Congressional Cemetery. I got a feeling I know what he would think if he saw a Confederate flag!

The thing that frustrates me is they love to talk about state and heritage especially when lauding Lee and Jackson but there were people from Southern states like George Thomas that stayed loyal to the Union. I don’t hate Robert E. Lee like I do Nathan Bedford Forrest but I don’t see him as the noble portrait that the Lost Causers made in the post war hagiography either.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:46:09am

re: #66 dharmamark

Picture’s probably from Groton…

Probably, just seems an odd choice when the headline is “lurking”.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:47:24am

Ahh I’m a day late and a dollar short as usual, well done guys.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:47:31am

re: #75 HappyWarrior

The thing that frustrates me is they love to talk about state and heritage especially when lauding Lee and Jackson but there were people from Southern states like George Thomas that stayed loyal to the Union. I don’t hate Robert E. Lee like I do Nathan Bedford Forrest but I don’t see him as the noble portrait that the Lost Causers made in the post war hagiography either.

And it pisses me off that Route 1 in Virginia is “Jefferson Davis Highway”. He wasn’t a Virginian, and was a political leader, not military.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:50:53am

re: #78 Timothy Watson

And it pisses me off that Route 1 in Virginia is “Jefferson Davis Highway”. He wasn’t a Virginian, and was a political leader, not military.

My Dad can point out that he went to George C. Marshall high school. That’s the heritage we should be celebrating. Celebrate that Virginians have contributed to serving this country from Washington to this very day. But yeah I hate that too and i always was so confused by Lee-Jackson-King Day as a kid. Yeah let’s celebrate MLK and also two guys who fought including one who died to preserve the right of people to own slaves! Yay?

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:51:27am

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Jay C  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:54:15am

re: #47 HappyWarrior

The CSA was pretty much an oligarchy with a lot of feudal characteristics. It really is too bad that poor white Southerners never realized their common lot with the slaves and overthrew the planter hierarchy.

Yep. But the latter point went to the very core of the slavery-based Southern society. The existence of a race-based Designated Underclass (and one regarded as only “technically” human under the legal and social structures of that society) was universally praised by Southerners as providing a better and more-secure underpinning for true democracy: i.e. by ensuring that even the poorest white man was officially recognized as a member of the “superior” race, all whites, rich or poor, would have a deeper stake in the system. ( seriously, they made this argument all the time).
The sad thing is, this attitude has never gone completely away in American society.

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:55:24am

re: #55 The Vicious Babushka

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He forgot “hold my beer!”

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:56:10am

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

Alberta has the oil. Quebec has the maple syrup.

Per gallon maple syrup is more valuable.

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Amory Blaine  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:58:43am

Duluthians & the Civil War

..When the call to arms came in 1861, only the fringe of St. Louis County had been settled, and the inhabitants of the few little hamlets of the North Shore were denied the patiotic urge that in later wars swept most of the full-blooded and right-minded young men into the military forces. There was no chance of organizing a Duluth battalion in 1861; nor even a company. The patriots of that outpost of civilization who felt the military “urge,” who felt a patriotic desire to strike with the federal forces at the section which refused governance by the principles of liberty to all, had to warm their patriotism by stern and long-sustained resolution. They had to depart singly, at their own expense, and in some cases go long distances before they could reach the place where they could enlist. And then, to an extent, they were among strangers.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 6:59:32am

re: #82 Jay C

Yep. But the latter point went to the very core of the slavery-based Southern society. The existence of a race-based Designated Underclass (and one regarded as only “technically” human under the legal and social structures of that society) was universally praised by Southerners as providing a better and more-secure underpinning for true democracy: i.e. by ensuring that even the poorest white man was officially recognized as a member of the “superior” race, all whites, rich or poor, would have a deeper stake in the system. ( seriously, they made this argument all the time).
The sad thing is, this attitude has never gone completely away in American society.

Oh, I know. And yeah it continues to this day.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:00:18am

I get spam at work. The one I just got is titled “Can you be spoofed? Find out for a chance to win.” Win what?

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:01:09am

re: #85 A wild WITHAK appeared!

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Fortunately, I don’t think Stewart is going to be the GOP nominee but he’s awful just awful. He likes to brag he was Trump before there was Trump. I think he pissed off a lot of GOP establishment types though with his stunt at the RNC last year.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:04:30am

re: #89 HappyWarrior

Fortunately, I don’t think Stewart is going to be the GOP nominee but he’s awful just awful. He likes to brag he was Trump before there was Trump. I think he pissed off a lot of GOP establishment types though with his stunt at the RNC last year.

God, I really hope PWC finally gets rid of him in two years when he’s up for reelection for the Chairman position.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:05:51am

re: #90 Timothy Watson

God, I really hope PWC finally gets rid of him in two years when he’s up for reelection for the Chairman position.

I do too but I’m not holding my breath. Manasshole is probably the most right wing part of NOVA.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:09:10am

re: #73 HappyWarrior

Yep, my Georgia born U.S history professor at NVCC made that a reoccuring theme. Professor Reed was a great professor. Liberal minded, fair, and had great lectures. I ended up using him as a reference when I transferred to GMU. I hope he still teaches.

I took a Civil War & Reconstruction history class my semester in college. Wasn’t required, but I was paying for full-time and the amount was the same regardless of whether I took 12 credits or 18.

It was helpful, having grown up in Virginia and heard the “it wasn’t just about slavery” shit for two decades, to actually learn about the basis of the War and primary documents, etc.

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Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:09:59am

re: #91 HappyWarrior

I do too but I’m not holding my breath. Manasshole is probably the most right wing part of NOVA.

Hey!

:P

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:11:36am

re: #92 Timothy Watson

I took a Civil War & Reconstruction history class my semester in college. Wasn’t required, but I was paying for full-time and the amount was the same regardless of whether I took 12 credits or 18.

It was helpful, having grown up in Virginia and heard the “it wasn’t just about slavery” shit for two decades, to actually learn about the basis of the War and primary documents, etc.

Yeah when Alexander Stephens, VP of the CSA no less says it was about slavery, it was about slavery. I really think the reason why the stopped admitting it was about slavery is because slavery was just completely unacceptable by the end of the 19th century but Jubal Early and the Lost Causers needed to make Lee and Jackson look like noble knights.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:11:55am

re: #93 Varek Raith

Hey!

:P

You do have Bob Marshall but who the hell am I to talk when I have Dick Black.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:13:42am

re: #91 HappyWarrior

I do too but I’m not holding my breath. Manasshole is probably the most right wing part of NOVA.

It’s annoying that Clinton can win PWC with 57% of the vote which is the same percentage that Stewart got in 2015. But no one bothers to show up for those elections. :\

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caseyjr  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:19:29am

re: #78 Timothy Watson

Rte 7 in NOVA is Lee Hwy.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:20:43am

thinkprogress.org

North Carolina’s Republican legislature passed a bill, vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to strip members from the state appeals court to prevent Mr. Cooper from appointing replacements.

The legislature claims it is due to reduced workload, but a bipartisan committee jurists claims this is not so.

In response, a Republican judge approaching mandatory retirement age retired early, allowing Gov. Cooper to appoint a replacement before the legislature can override the governor’s veto.

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caseyjr  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:22:32am

re: #68 I cannot.

And given this crowd, they’ll probably be aiming for Alberta, and end up in Quebec.

Trump may order a carrier group to Great Slave Lake, who knows?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:22:55am

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:23:39am

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:23:40am

re: #94 HappyWarrior

Yeah when Alexander Stephens, VP of the CSA no less says it was about slavery, it was about slavery. I really think the reason why the stopped admitting it was about slavery is because slavery was just completely unacceptable by the end of the 19th century but Jubal Early and the Lost Causers needed to make Lee and Jackson look like noble knights.

Even more basic than that - the articles of secession by several states explicitly stated that preserving the institution of slavery was central to their action.

For instance, in South Carolina directly mentions slavery as a key reason for seceding - and uses the term 18 times to bolster its case.

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:24:40am

re: #99 caseyjr

Trump may order a carrier group to Great Slave Lake, who knows?

If the USA were to try to invade Quebec for its maple syrup supply we’ll likely end up with a carrier group on the North Platte in Nebraska.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:27:11am

re: #98 Anymouse

thinkprogress.org

North Carolina’s Republican legislature passed a bill, vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to strip members from the state appeals court to prevent Mr. Cooper from appointing replacements.

The legislature claims it is due to reduced workload, but a bipartisan committee jurists claims this is not so.

In response, a Republican judge approaching mandatory retirement age retired early, allowing Gov. Cooper to appoint a replacement before the legislature can override the governor’s veto.

Wow. And I said that out loud.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:28:11am

re: #101 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:28:20am

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:37:24am

Man Kills His Baby Daughter on Facebook Live (goes to the BBC)

A Thai man hanged his baby daughter on Facebook Live, then hanged himself.

Facebook sent condolences to the family and removed the content.

Facebook promised to review its procedures after a killing was broadcast live a month ago.

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Colère Tueur de Lapin  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:37:45am

That was a brilliant video. Took me back to Zork and all the other text games back when there were a few die-hards writing really bizarre and weirdly complex games that didn’t have an entire universe behind them, just an adventure.

Ok, back the the MMO grind and FPS killings. Enough of that silly introspection.

Thanks, Charles.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:38:26am

re: #98 Anymouse

thinkprogress.org

North Carolina’s Republican legislature passed a bill, vetoed by Gov. Roy Cooper (D) to strip members from the state appeals court to prevent Mr. Cooper from appointing replacements.

The legislature claims it is due to reduced workload, but a bipartisan committee jurists claims this is not so.

In response, a Republican judge approaching mandatory retirement age retired early, allowing Gov. Cooper to appoint a replacement before the legislature can override the governor’s veto.

Also, if anyone is despairing over fighting Trump: North Carolina minorities and Democrats have been having this fight for a lot longer, even when they have voting majorities.

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:44:31am
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Anymouse  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:46:55am

re: #110 Belafon

Also, if anyone is despairing over fighting Trump: North Carolina minorities and Democrats have been having this fight for a lot longer, even when they have voting majorities.

Yup, the Moral Mondays fights with Rev. Barber come to mind.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:49:07am

LIVE STREAM: President Trump remarks on Holocaust Remembrance Day

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:50:21am

Did North Korea blink?
Big live fire artillery drills, Great Leader present etc. IOW not missiles of any kind, no nuke detonation, but something to save pride and appearances. Maybe this is really good news at least short term.
CNN

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I cannot.  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:52:12am

re: #113 The Vicious Babushka

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:53:37am

re: #113 The Vicious Babushka

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Fuck that shit.

I rather stab myself in my eye.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:54:19am

re: #113 The Vicious Babushka

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Can it be any worse than yesterday’s stone-faced, monotone, thorazined-to-the-gills teleprompter recitation?

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Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:56:46am

re: #118 The Vicious Babushka

Can it be any worse than yesterday’s stone-faced, monotone, thorazined-to-the-gills teleprompter recitation?

CHALLENGE ACCEPTED

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I cannot.  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:58:09am

re: #118 The Vicious Babushka

Are you SURE you want to ask that question? Because you might get an answer to it.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 7:59:03am

re: #120 I cannot.

Are you SURE you want to ask that question? Because you might get an answer to it.

I don’t want to watch.

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:00:13am

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:01:30am

Meanwhile, here in Europe:

The Council of Europe has voted to reopen its monitoring procedure against Turkey. The decision deals another potentially fatal blow to Ankara’s EU membership hopes, as exiting the process was made a precondition of negotiations back in 2004.

The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) voted earlier today (25 April) in favour of restarting its monitoring of Turkey’s respect for fundamental freedoms, which concluded in 2004. 113 of the assembly’s lawmakers voted in favour, 45 against and 12 abstained.

Predictably, the Turkish government is severely butthurt at this development:

After today’s vote, the Turkish foreign ministry said in a statement that it “strongly condemns this unjust decision of PACE taken with political motives in contravention to the established procedures”.

The ministry is headed by Mevlüt Çavuşoğlu who, ironically, was PACE president between 2010 and 2012.

The ministry also warned that the decision, which “will serve terror organisations”, “leaves no choice to Turkey but to reconsider its relations with PACE”. Turkey was one of the first countries to join the Council of Europe when it was established in 1949.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:05:57am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:06:02am

re: #122 electrotek

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It doesn’t give you wings anyhow.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:06:18am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

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So transparent.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:07:04am

re: #126 HappyWarrior

So transparent.

Bigly transparent, and not on token stuff like visitors logs.

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:07:31am

re: #125 HappyWarrior

It doesn’t give you wings anyhow.

It’s easy to boycott Monster drinks because of who the founder is.

But with all the great work Red Bull has done, especially in the field of music, this makes it even difficult. I’m in a bind, literally.

This really fucking sucks. I wish he would have kept his fucking mouth shut before alienating lots of music afficianados whose politics are not aligned to the CEO’s.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:07:35am

Meanwhile, MOAR SUCK:

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:08:32am

re: #95 HappyWarrior

You do have Bob Marshall but who the hell am I to talk when I have Dick Black.

Your physician?

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:09:19am

re: #128 electrotek

It’s easy to boycott Monster drinks because of who the founder is.

But with all the great work Red Bull has done, especially in the field of music, this makes it even difficult. I’m in a bind, literally.

This really fucking sucks. I wish he would have kept his fucking mouth shut before alienating lots of music afficianados whose politics are not aligned to the CEO’s.

Oh I didn’t know that. That does suck.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:09:39am

re: #130 Eventual Carrion

Your physician?

Worse, my State Senator who praises Assad.

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Unshaken Defiance  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:12:32am

re: #61 lawhawk

Pretty explicit threat there.
That’s one of the listed modifications for the few Ohio class boats that were converted from ballistic missile subs to launchers that accommodate 150 new cruise missiles, or a mix of MALD (radar defeating jet drones) and a few tubes set aside for special forces with lockout as the photo shows. I don’t know how often it carries that extra module. That sub is very quiet. designed to silently patrol or deploy SEAL teams.

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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:16:16am

re: #131 HappyWarrior

Oh I didn’t know that. That does suck.

Red Bull Music Academy has done some wonderful work in their field of expertise, that’s for sure.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:16:58am
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electrotek  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:17:10am

re: #131 HappyWarrior

Oh I didn’t know that. That does suck.

I said my piece here, btw.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:21:34am

re: #136 electrotek

I said my piece here, btw.

I’m starting to find the whining about PC more obnoxious than the PC itself. Yes, a lot of political correctness may go a little far but some of it just not being a douche to people.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:22:18am

re: #135 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Eventual Carrion  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:25:08am

re: #124 The Vicious Babushka

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More of that transparency I keep hearing about no doubt. Most transparent in history I hear tell.

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:31:09am

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

Meanwhile, MOAR SUCK:

[Israel indicts U.S.-Israeli teen over bomb threats]

Capitalists need to call out their radical extremists.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:32:39am

re: #141 wrenchwench

Capitalists need to call out their radical extremists.

Going after an autistic kid with a brain tumor. Stay classy Bibi’s justice department.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:32:40am

This is actually pretty cool - if I had the $$$, it looks like it could be a fun way to travel.

embraerexecutivejets.com

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:35:28am

re: #143 Dr Lizardo

This is actually pretty cool - if I had the $$$, it looks like it could be a fun way to travel.

embraerexecutivejets.com

The good life. But yeah I’d like to travel that way too. Maybe one day I can travel 1st class. I love to travel but I hate the being in the air part because I’m mildly claustrophobic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:36:07am

trump cannot pronounce the word “nazis”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:36:39am

re: #46 The Vicious Babushka

I love these idiots on Twitter who are all TEH WOAH HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH SLAVERY, IT WAS ALL ABOUT THE TARRIFFS. LOOK IT UP LIBTARD! and I’m like I did look it up, here are the Declarations of Secession which mention slavery like eleventy bazillion times and taxes 0 times!

It can be argued that there were other reasons for secession besides slavery, but to ignore slavery is to ignore history.

and remember, no Confederate battle flag ever flew above a Confederate state capitol: they flew the Stars and Bars. The battle flag was raised in the 1960’s to remind uppity Negroes and pesky carpetbagger civil righters who was in charge

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:37:15am

re: #144 HappyWarrior

The good life. But yeah I’d like to travel that way too. Maybe one day I can travel 1st class. I love to travel but I hate the being in the air part because I’m mildly claustrophobic.

A first class ticket is basically paying a ransom to not be treated like shit, not a luxury experience.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:37:35am

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

trump cannot pronounce the word “nazis”.

He probably keeps trying to say “friends” but Ivanka tells him not to through the earpiece.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:37:40am

re: #146 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

It can be argued that there were other reasons for secession besides slavery, but to ignore slavery is to ignore history.

and remember, no Confederate battle flag ever flew above a Confederate state capitol: they flew the Stars and Bars. The battle flag was raised in the 1960’s to remind uppity Negroes and pesky carpetbagger civil righters who was in charge

Exactly, to ignore slavery is just ignorant. And yeah the battle flag being raised in the Civil Rights era is a biggie.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:38:20am

re: #147 The Vicious Babushka

A first class ticket is basically paying a ransom to not be treated like shit, not a luxury experience.

Is that so. Then I guess I’ll stick to coach. I mean my flight experiences aren’t what I call fun but I persevere.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:38:47am

re: #145 Backwoods_Sleuth

trump cannot pronounce the word “nazis”.

Good hombres doesn’t sound that good.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:39:27am

re: #62 Amory Blaine

The war gives southern “heritage” a whiff of honor/legitimacy that the ideology does not.

If you want to talk about personal or family heritage, then it is fine to display Confederate regalia - on private property. But it has no place on public property except perhaps in a museum of failed ideologies.

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TedStriker  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:40:11am

re: #152 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

If you want to talk about personal or family heritage, then it is fine to display Confederate regalia - on private property. But it has no place on public property except perhaps in a museum of failed ideologies.

Or at national battlefields.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:40:31am
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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:42:44am

Pres. Trump: “This is my pledge to you: We will confront anti-Semitism..I will always stand with the Jewish people.…

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:43:05am

re: #148 Belafon

He probably keeps trying to say “friends” but Ivanka tells him not to through the earpiece.

The modern equivalent of this?

Nancy Reagan Prompts President Reagan

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:43:37am

Okay, here’s an idea. Allow the CSA flag to remain public places but with acknowledgment it was the flag of a society founded to defend slavery. Oh wait, the heritagers don’t want the truth about their beloved “country” that is a bigger loser than the Chicago Cubs historically.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:43:56am

re: #155 The Vicious Babushka

“I will always stand with the Jewish people” when they’re my son-in-law.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:44:03am

re: #155 The Vicious Babushka

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:44:11am

re: #154 The Vicious Babushka

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Is he trying to imitate Cotton Hill from King of the Hill?

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:45:11am

re: #158 Belafon

“I will always stand with the Jewish people” when they’re my son-in-law.

“The American people have a special bond with my son in law and I will always protect Jared.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:45:14am

Trump doesn’t want us to forget what the “Nozzies” did

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:45:24am

re: #157 HappyWarrior

Okay, here’s an idea. Allow the CSA flag to remain public places but with acknowledgment it was the flag of a society founded to defend slavery. Oh wait, the heritagers don’t want the truth about their beloved “country” that is a bigger loser than the Chicago Cubs historically.

We put up a plaque saying “This is the Confederate flag” and have it be a replica of the surrender flag.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:48:27am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

We are seeing a man who won’t even remember he said this when he leaves. He could go to a Nazi rally right after and have no trouble talking about global bankers ruining everything.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:48:55am

Same monotone and blank facial expression as yesterday’s teleprompter recital. Thorazined up the wazoo.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:49:25am

I mentioned the Corey Stewart e-mails I get:

Stewart on New Orleans’ Statue Removal: “They Will Not Stop with Lee and Beauregard”

Woodbridge, VA - Republican gubernatorial candidate Corey Stewart released a statement on the removal of confederate monuments deemed “racist” in New Orleans.

“The removal of these historical monuments is nothing less than the blatant destruction of U.S. history,” Stewart said. “This is what happens when weak-chinned Republicans refuse to stand up to the tyrannical political correctness on the left.”

“Democrats in New Orleans are destroying history today, just like they’re trying to in Charlottesville. This will not stop with Robert E. Lee or P. G. T. Beauregard. Next, they will tear down statues of Washington and Jefferson.”

He sent out a similar e-mail yesterday defending one of his supporters flying a Confederate Flag at Shad Planking, a statewide bipartisan political event.

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Barefoot Grin  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:55:27am

I’d love it if Monument avenue in Richmond were just Arthur Ashe.

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wheat-dogg  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:57:15am

Here’s something to take your mind off Trump and the Nozzies, a convergence of guitar and GoT.

Game Of Throne Theme - Sungha Jung

The player is about 20 years old. Search his channel and he was playing some incredible stuff *by ear* when he was not even 12.

Also, check out Gabriella Quevedo, another finger-style player, who despite what you might expect from her name is Swedish. Ja.

Jung is South Korean. Both have played with Tommy Emmanuel.

YouTube is seriously addicting.

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I cannot.  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:57:41am

re: #147 The Vicious Babushka

Depends on which airline you’re on…if you’re on any American based carrier, paying for first class means is like paying to have FEWER lottery tickets in the “How bad will my flight suck” lottery.

Then you have a bunch of foreign carriers that treat customers like customers, instead of inmates.

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wheat-dogg  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:59:32am

re: #170 I cannot.

Depends on which airline you’re on…if you’re on any American based carrier, paying for first class means is like paying to have FEWER lottery tickets in the “How bad will my flight suck” lottery.

Then you have a bunch of foreign carriers that treat customers like customers, instead of inmates.

I fly once a year between China and the States. I’ve decided Chinese and Japanese airlines provide better service than either American or U(it shall not be named) Airlines.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:00:40am

re: #171 The Vicious Babushka

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:00:55am

WHAT A TENDER CRYBABY

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Mike Lamb  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:01:18am

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:02:16am

re: #173 Dr. Matt

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:02:57am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

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The motherfucker really thinks this is going to propel him to victory in Virginia. Go away Corey. Go away to the 19th century.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:03:13am

re: #171 The Vicious Babushka

I can think of a lot of things that are worse:
losing your job
getting in a wreck
stubbing your toe
the light turning red right before you get to it
oversleeping your alarm
being out of ice cream
wanting sweet tea but the restaurant doesn’t serve it (I cannot get enough sugar in)
your phone battery dying

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:03:22am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

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Dr. Matt  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:03:25am

re: #176 HappyWarrior

He’s a fucking Yankee himself. There’s a word that Southerners before the war used for peple like him and I’ve used it for Roberts before too and it’s doughface.

Ah, he’s part of the Ted Nugent caucasus.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:03:27am

re: #175 Mike Lamb

You are right Ivanka, the daughter acting as First Lady is quite new.

Well, it has happened in the past when the POTUS was either a widower or the Mrs. was quite sick.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:03:57am

re: #180 Dr. Matt

Ah, he’s part of the Ted Nugent caucasus.

George Allen too. The guy’s from fucking Duluth.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:04:15am

re: #179 Timothy Watson

He’s the preciousest snowflake ever.

He makes Cucci look like a statesman. / almost.

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FormerDirtDart  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:05:28am

re: #133 Unshaken Defiance

Pretty explicit threat there.
That’s one of the listed modifications for the few Ohio class boats that were converted from ballistic missile subs to launchers that accommodate 150 new cruise missiles, or a mix of MALD (radar defeating jet drones) and a few tubes set aside for special forces with lockout as the photo shows. I don’t know how often it carries that extra module. That sub is very quiet. designed to silently patrol or deploy SEAL teams.

The Dry Deck Shelter seen in images mounted on the USS Michigan is not capable of transporting the Advance SEAL Delivery System depicted in the image you posted. The ASDS is mounted similarly and instead of a DDS.
The DDS seen on the Michigan can carry smaller, less technically capable SEAL Delivery Vehicle. It may simply carry a number of Zodiacs, or other stored equipment. It may even be transporting a experimental Unmanned Undersea Vessel.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:06:06am

Someone should actually say to him how stupid northern people sound when they try to be from the South.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:07:54am

re: #178 Belafon

I can think of a lot of things that are worse:
losing your job
getting in a wreck
stubbing your toe
the light turning red right before you get to it
oversleeping your alarm
being out of ice cream
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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:08:38am

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:12:56am

I mean I get it, you move to Virginia and you think it’s cool to try to get the Good Ole Boys to like you by pandering to their CSA flag love and you saw how well it worked for George Allen. A ltttle advise for Corey, George Allen’s career is dead here in VA because being a bigot doesn’t pay like it used to when Harry Byrd had pull and Pat Robertson’s dad was a Senator.

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Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:14:09am

Haha, Corey Stewart.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:14:48am

re: #189 HappyWarrior

I mean I get it, you move to Virginia and you think it’s cool to try to get the Good Ole Boys to like you by pandering to their CSA flag love and you saw how well it worked for George Allen. A ltttle advise for Corey, George Allen’s career is dead here in VA because being a bigot doesn’t pay like it used to when Harry Byrd had pull and Pat Robertson’s dad was a Senator.

And no matter how much of a doughface he is, he’ll still be a “come here” to the people he’s pandering to.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:16:30am

Another Facebook live killing. This time in Thailand. A father killed his baby daughter and then himself.

Time for FB to just end this “feature” completely. Get rid of it. Now.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:17:47am

re: #191 Timothy Watson

And no matter how much of a doughface he is, he’ll still be a “come here” to the people he’s pandering to.

Exactly. It’s pretty pathetic that Corey thinks running his campaign like it’s 1950 will work in Virginia.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:18:05am

re: #192 GlutenFreeJesus

Another Facebook live killing. This time in Thailand. A father killed his baby daughter and then himself.

Time for FB to just end this “feature” completely. Get rid of it. Now.

That poor little girl. Sigh.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:19:39am

re: #193 HappyWarrior

Exactly. It’s pretty pathetic that Corey thinks running his campaign like it’s 1950 1850 will work in Virginia.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:20:06am

re: #193 HappyWarrior

Exactly. It’s pretty pathetic that Corey thinks running his campaign like it’s 1950 will work in Virginia.

The odds that he’ll get 40% base support? I put that near 100%.

There’s 40% that will support that kind of idiocy regardless of what he says or does, because he’s got that (R) next to the name.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:21:32am

re: #196 lawhawk

The odds that he’ll get 40% base support? I put that near 100%.

There’s 40% that will support that kind of idiocy regardless of what he says or does, because he’s got that (R) next to the name.

But at least in VA, that’s no longer enough to get you elected in a statewide office. How I wish it were true here in Texas.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:22:52am

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Ace Rothstein  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:23:02am

It’s been 24 hours and I am still furious about the SCP (So-Called President) comment about his ratings about 9/11. I can’t get over it, I really can’t.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:24:03am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:24:46am

re: #195 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah, should have said that.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:25:07am

re: #196 lawhawk

The odds that he’ll get 40% base support? I put that near 100%.

There’s 40% that will support that kind of idiocy regardless of what he says or does, because he’s got that (R) next to the name.

Well he’s not their nominee and not favorite but yes.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:26:04am

re: #197 Belafon

But at least in VA, that’s no longer enough to get you elected in a statewide office. How I wish it were true here in Texas.

We’ve come a long way. I have a lot of younger volunteers I work with who were too young when George Allen was the face of the state GOP. Thank goodness for NOVA’s diversity.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:26:55am

Ed Gillespie is just an as big scumbag but in different ways. Fortunately he’s like Mitt Romney so I think he can be beaten pretty easily but Northam or Perriello can’t take anything for granted.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:27:24am

re: #193 HappyWarrior

Exactly. It’s pretty pathetic that Corey thinks running his campaign like it’s 1950 will work in Virginia.

He’s hoping to take the Trump campaign to the next level, and continue the white supremacists march. Hopefully VA will crush it.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:32:40am
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Flynn’s flam is wearing real thin. The DOJ has to start handing down indictments here, but I seriously concerned that Sessions wont act because he’s running interference for Trump (and Trump also got the federal prosecutors to resign, meaning that there’s no one to take on cases on their own independently).

All the while, the GOP continues to enable Trump, and that makes them complicit in the criminal enterprise Trump’s running.

Of course, Trump’s supporters find absolutely nothing wrong with any of this, and are buying Trump’s lies and lines about how he’s the one who’s shaking things up and this is the Establishment’s revenge.

Right-O. The Establishment was the one who set up all Trump cronies with Russian contacts that they then lied about (some engaging in perjury)? The Establishment was the one who revised the GOP Platform to make it very Russia friendly?

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:36:08am

re: #206 Belafon

He’s hoping to take the Trump campaign to the next level, and continue the white supremacists march. Hopefully VA will crush it.

Yep and I think we will. I really like how Perriello is running his campaign. It’s populist but without the problems I have with Sanders brand of populism which tells minority groups hat their gripes should be ignored in favor of the WWC.

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Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:38:51am

re: #209 HappyWarrior

Yep and I think we will. I really like how Perriello is running his campaign. It’s populist but without the problems I have with Sanders brand of populism which tells minority groups hat their gripes should be ignored in favor of the WWC.

It also helps that Stewart is hellbent on falling on the CSA sword.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:42:25am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:44:30am

re: #210 Varek Raith

It also helps that Stewart is hellbent on falling on the CSA sword.

Really does. The motherfucker may be more tone deaf than Cucci was.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:47:31am

re: #211 The Vicious Babushka

My son is the mythology expert at his school. Even the teachers know it. But occasionally, some student will attempt to challenge him. It’s especially funny when it happens in front of a teacher.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:48:44am

re: #213 Belafon

My son is the mythology expert at his school. Even the teachers know it. But occasionally, some student will attempt to challenge him. It’s especially funny when it happens in front of a teacher.

Take it he was a Percy Jackson fan. My brother who also enjoys mythology liked those books.He doesn’t read too much YA books anymore though.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:53:10am

re: #214 HappyWarrior

Take it he was a Percy Jackson fan. My brother who also enjoys mythology liked those books.He doesn’t read too much YA books anymore though.

Yep. I kept trying to find a set of books to read to get him hooked, and those were it. Not only did those get him to read, but he started reading about other religions and mythologies beyond Greek and Roman. He’s also moved beyond reading those (Dorian Grey for example), but those got him hooked.

And any books, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, Junie B. Jones, that will get kids to love to read are great books for that reason alone.

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A wild WITHAK appeared!  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:54:29am

re: #215 Belafon

Yep. I kept trying to find a set of books to read to get him hooked, and those were it. Not only did those get him to read, but he started reading about other religions and mythologies beyond Greek and Roman. He’s also moved beyond reading those (Dorian Grey for example), but those got him hooked.

And any books, Percy Jackson, Harry Potter, Lemony Snicket, that will get kids to love to read are great books for that reason alone.

I think we’ve finally found a series that my son will read in the Percy Jackson novels.

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 9:55:56am

re: #122 electrotek

Goddammit

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Red Bull is of the devil because of Dietrich Mateschitz. The guy has said some strange stuff before. He is an arrogant ass too…I am familiar with that from his racing teams in Formula One.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:03:36am

re: #208 gocart mozart

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:08:01am

re: #219 Stanley Sea

That was great!

We Want Plates!

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Skip Intro  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:08:34am

re: #218 ObserverArt

You could always switch over to Rockstar, owned by Russ Goldencloud Weiner, the wingnut son of the insane Savage Weiner.

Or maybe just stick to coffee.

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Romantic Heretic  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:12:33am

re: #58 I cannot.

I’m not worried. I know how Canada can defeat the US in a war.

Except we Canadians are not going to have to implement my strategy. The GOP is already doing it for us, and quite successfully.

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Alephnaught  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:14:03am

re: #122 electrotek

Goddammit

“Red Bull CEO outlines pro-Trump, anti-refugee beliefs in rare interview “

“Red Bull gives you (right) wings!”

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:14:37am
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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:16:17am

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Jay C  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:17:04am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

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Not a lot of imagination needed: FWIW, Marc Mezvinsky’s father actually was sent up.

but yeah, one can imagine the howls of outrage from the usual quarters….

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b.d.  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:17:05am

re: #226 Kragar

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:17:55am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

WHAT A TENDER CRYBABY

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What Stewart is really saying is “Some of us southerners are proud that we were bigoted assholes and we want it preserved in statues and plaques as a reminder that were are still bigoted and dangerous assholes. We just can’t let it show like we want. So be aware we don’t like nobody tellin’ us what to do. We have not changed and we never will so let the reminders stand for all time.”

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:18:50am

re: #230 b.d.

I thought the wingnuts hated EOs?

Only when they’re Obama issued.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:19:59am

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:21:05am
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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:24:17am

re: #198 The Vicious Babushka

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I’ve never heard her try to speak about political issues before. She has definitely learned the Trump way of speaking a lot of words that have no meaning.

I think that video just started my first episode of Sick of Ivanka. It’s all downhill from here.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:24:40am

He’s actually bragging that he signed more EOs than his predecessors. What a fucking assclown.

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:25:11am
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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:26:25am

re: #236 Dr. Matt

Trump and the GOP bitched about Obama using EOs. Obama used them at a lower rate than his predecessors.

Trump now using them at a higher rate than Obama, or his recent predecessors, and the GOP is silent.

Trump’s now bragging that he’s using EOs to get things done.

Mind you, he’s needed a pair of EOs to try and impose an unconstitutional Muslim ban (and will likely rely on a third that will also be found unconstitutional for the same reasons as the first two).

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:26:46am

The fact that he needs to issue so many EOs when his party controls both houses really says a lot.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:27:56am

Rich people are dumb.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:30:49am

re: #240 The Vicious Babushka

Rich people are dumb.

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Yeah stupid. Looks like something a Trump would buy to prove how “blue collar” they are.

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:31:32am

re: #240 The Vicious Babushka

Rich people are dumb.

[Nordstrom sells jeans with fake mud on them for $425]

They’re appropriating my culture!

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:31:43am

re: #242 HappyWarrior

Yeah stupid. Looks like something a Trump would buy to prove how “blue collar” they are.

I can see Donny Jr. & Eric wearing jeans with fake dirt, but Daddy & Ivanka? No way.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:31:54am

re: #241 Flying Squirrel Girl


Obama is a dictator. And a tyrant. And a…

Is Obama President, King, Dictator or Tyrant?

Christie: Obama wants to act as if he is a king, as if he is a dictator

Fact check: Obama is a lawless tyrant for using executive orders

I could go on all damn day…

Fucked up thing is that Obama was really conservative as far as issuing EOs which is all the more amazing given the Congress he had for much of his Presidency. I’ve seen some people bitch about the immigration EO but I’d point out that the GOP in Congress showed no willingness at all to cooperate on that so his hand was pressed big time on that issue.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:32:32am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

I can see Donny Jr. & Eric wearing jeans with fake dirt, but Daddy & Ivanka? No way.

YEah teh boys. There’s only one photo of Daddy in jeans and he looks fat and we know how he loves to portray himself as a great physical specimen.

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Dr. Matt  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:32:39am

*snicker*

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:35:08am

re: #245 HappyWarrior

That last link is actually satire, I just noticed. But yeah, I agree with your points. Obama was never reckless in anything he did, and much of the time his use of EOs was due to *actual* unprecedented obstruction from Congress.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:35:57am

Some people are just too dumb to breathe.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:36:31am

re: #248 Flying Squirrel Girl

That last link is actually satire, I just noticed. But yeah, I agree with your points. Obama was never reckless in anything he did, and much of the time his use of EOs was due to *actual* unprecedented obstruction from Congress.

I personally think Obama was reluctant to use EOs because he felt and I agree with him that Congress is the best way to impact long lasting change. It’s why I think he pushed for DADT to be repealed via Congress rather than an EO which would have been within his power as POTUS.

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:37:07am

re: #221 Skip Intro

You could always switch over to Rockstar, owned by Russ Goldencloud Weiner, the wingnut son of the insane Savage Weiner.

Or maybe just stick to coffee.

I don’t drink any of the sport drinks, never got into them.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:37:34am

re: #249 The Vicious Babushka

Some people are just too dumb to breathe.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:38:27am

re: #251 ObserverArt

I don’t drink any of the sport drinks, never got into them.

I think they’re more popular with the younger crowd. I never really had much use for energy drinks honestly myself. Just too salty for me.

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“…Here are the laws Trump wants “historic” credit for. Try not to laugh. Or cry.

- Allowing someone to serve as secretary of defense within seven years of leaving active military duty
- Clarifying some of the details of the General Accounting Office
- Nullifying a rule that required companies in the oil and natural gas industry to disclose bribes and payments to foreign governments
- Undoing a rule protecting streams from mining
- Overturning a rule implemented after the Virginia Tech massacre to prevent individuals with certain mental health conditions from buying guns
- Encouraging women to be entrepreneurs (not any programs or initiatives, just recognition)
- Encouraging women to be involved in space exploration (Trump has proposed cuts to NASA)
- Naming the “Abie Abraham VA Clinic” in Center Township, Pennsylvania
- Clarifying various bureaucratic details of NASA’s operations
- Disapproving a rule regarding labor laws and the Department of Defense, NASA, and General Services Administration
- Disapproving a rule dealing with the Bureau of Land Management and land use
- Disapproving a rule regarding teacher preparation
- Disapproving a rule regarding Department of Education bureaucracy
- Encouraging the display of the flag in honor of National Vietnam War Veterans Day
- Disapproving a rule on drug testing for unemployment applicants
- Naming the “Faleomavaega Eni Fa’aua’a Hunkin VA Clinic” in Pago Pago, American Samoa
- Approving the location of a memorial to soldiers who served in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm
- Nullifying a rule preventing hunting of wolves, bears, and coyotes on wildlife refuges in Alaska
- Nullifying a Department of Labor rule on keeping records on injuries
- Detailing how to appoint board members for the Office of Compliance
- Allowing internet providers to collect private information from their customers and sell it
- Allowing states to defund Planned Parenthood
- Disapproving a Department of Labor rule on savings arrangements for non-governmental state employees
- Improving weather research for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA)
- Amending legislation dealing with veteran health care (a bill introduced and sponsored by Democrats, for which he took credit)
- Reappointing Steve Case as a citizen regent on the Board of Regents for the Smithsonian
- Appointing Michael Govan to the Smithsonian Board of Regents
- Appointing Roger W. Ferguson to the Smithsonian Board of Regents

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:42:28am

re: #250 HappyWarrior

I agree. WRT DADT, Trump would have come right along and signed his own EO reversing Obama’s EO. Obama was smart to get it done through Congress.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:42:47am

re: #254 FormerDirtDart

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:43:49am

re: #256 Flying Squirrel Girl

I agree. WRT DADT, Trump would have come right along and signed his own EO reversing Obama’s EO. Obama was smart to get it done through Congress.

Yeah and that was Obama’s general approach. It’s why I think Clinton would have been a more progressive President and impacted more lasting change than Sanders since I think Clinton would have been much better at passing legislation than Sanders.

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:49:17am

re: #257 HappyWarrior

I think they copied and pasted a lot of stuff without checking “Is this something we really want to count as an accomplishment.”

It’s like a kid trying to drum up all his high school accomplishments so they have a big list under their yearbook picture.

But everyone in class knew it was all bullshit from the kid no one liked because he was a rich bully.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:52:09am

re: #261 ObserverArt

It’s like a kid trying to drum up all his high school accomplishments so they have a big list under their yearbook picture.

But everyone in class knew it was all bullshit from the kid no one liked because he was a rich bully.

Resume padding with bullshit qualifications/accomplishments.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:52:40am

Wingnuts have a BUTWHATABOUT deflection for every occasion.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:54:09am

re: #263 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts have a BUTWHATABOUT deflection for every occasion.

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Last I saw Larry, Valerie wasn’t Obama’s daughter. I had no problem with Karen Hughes’ role in the Bush WH. So nice try fuckwit, get off Trump’s nuts for once.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:54:24am

She’s a fucking windbag

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:54:40am

re: #263 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts have a BUTWHATABOUT deflection for every occasion.

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LOLWHUT

Jarrett had the same title as Kushner and Stephen Miller. Have we once been told WTF they are doing?

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:54:42am

re: #258 HappyWarrior

My brother and I got into a heated FB exchange over the following, which I thought perfectly illustrated why Bernie would have been a crappy candidate and even crappier president:
Bernie: “I think America should get a pony.”

Hillary: “How will you pay for the pony? Where will the pony come from? How will you get Congress to agree to the pony?”

Bernie: “Hillary thinks America doesn’t deserve a pony.”

Bernie Supporters: “Hilary hates ponies!”

Hillary: “Actually, I love ponies.”

Bernie Supporters: “She changed her position on ponies! ‪#‎WhichHillary‬ ‪#‎WitchHillary‬”

Headline: HILLARY REFUSES TO GIVE EVERY AMERICAN A PONY.

Debate Moderator: “Hillary, how do you feel when people say you lie about ponies?”

US Uncut Headline: Congressional Inquiry into Clinton’s Pony Lies.

Twitter trending: ‪#‎ponygate

My brother asked, in all seriousness, “So free college tuition is a pony?” One of the reasons I first deactivated and then deleted my FB account. Couldn’t stand the willful obtuseness from him and many other family members and friends. Some days I think I’m better off without FB, other days I think I should have kept FB and gotten rid of the asshole family/friends.

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:54:49am

re: #263 The Vicious Babushka

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:54:58am

Cake is absolutely an acceptable breakfast and I challenge anyone who says otherwise.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:55:51am

re: #238 lawhawk

Trump and the GOP bitched about Obama using EOs. Obama used them at a lower rate than his predecessors.

Trump now using them at a higher rate than Obama, or his recent predecessors, and the GOP is silent.

Trump’s now bragging that he’s using EOs to get things done.

Mind you, he’s needed a pair of EOs to try and impose an unconstitutional Muslim ban (and will likely rely on a third that will also be found unconstitutional for the same reasons as the first two).

You have to go back to Grant to find a two term president that issued fewer, and you have to go to Cleveland and McKinley to find two consecutive four year terms that were fewer: presidency.ucsb.edu.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:56:42am

re: #267 Flying Squirrel Girl

Yeah, I haven’t been on Facebook in a week and half.

No one on there I want to talk and no one who wants to talk to me…

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Stanley Sea  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:57:47am

Yup, mistakes were made in the cutty & pasty

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:57:49am

re: #267 Flying Squirrel Girl

Honestly I keep my FB account but have a VERY strict no politics on my page policy, and I hide people who talk politics all the time.

Despite that I have still managed to lose respect for a few extended family members as a result of displays of ignorance on FB. But at least I haven’t snapped at anyone.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:58:15am

re: #267 Flying Squirrel Girl

My brother and I got into a heated FB exchange over the following, which I thought perfectly illustrated why Bernie would have been a crappy candidate and even crappier president:
Bernie: “I think America should get a pony.”

Hillary: “How will you pay for the pony? Where will the pony come from? How will you get Congress to agree to the pony?”

Bernie: “Hillary thinks America doesn’t deserve a pony.”

Bernie Supporters: “Hilary hates ponies!”

Hillary: “Actually, I love ponies.”

Bernie Supporters: “She changed her position on ponies! ‪#‎WhichHillary‬ ‪#‎WitchHillary‬”

Headline: HILLARY REFUSES TO GIVE EVERY AMERICAN A PONY.

Debate Moderator: “Hillary, how do you feel when people say you lie about ponies?”

US Uncut Headline: Congressional Inquiry into Clinton’s Pony Lies.

Twitter trending: ‪#‎ponygate

My brother asked, in all seriousness, “So free college tuition is a pony?” One of the reasons I first deactivated and then deleted my FB account. Couldn’t stand the willful obtuseness from him and many other family members and friends. Some days I think I’m better off without FB, other days I think I should have kept FB and gotten rid of the asshole family/friends.

My brothers were Bernie fans too. Frustrating that your brother couldn’t get that point. I think Sanders has a lot of good ideas but I do think he would have been an ineffective executive. It’s more than just having ideas.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:58:50am

re: #265 Stanley Sea

She’s a fucking windbag

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:59:10am

re: #269 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Cake is absolutely an acceptable breakfast and I challenge anyone who says otherwise.

Cake contains eggs (protein), milk (dairy) and flour (grain) which is 3 of the 4 food groups.

Add a slice of pie (which contains fruit) and you have the perfect meal!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:59:29am

re: #271 Timothy Watson

Yeah, I haven’t been on Facebook in a week and half.

No one on there I want to talk and no one who wants to talk to me…

I feel too often like a man in the middle for many in our generation. I am not a Bernie fan and I’m obviously not a Trump fan or Ron Paul fan either. I’m a boring center liberal. I piss most everyone off.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:59:51am

re: #267 Flying Squirrel Girl

My brother and I got into a heated FB exchange over the following, which I thought perfectly illustrated why Bernie would have been a crappy candidate and even crappier president:
Bernie: “I think America should get a pony.”

Hillary: “How will you pay for the pony? Where will the pony come from? How will you get Congress to agree to the pony?”

Bernie: “Hillary thinks America doesn’t deserve a pony.”

Bernie Supporters: “Hilary hates ponies!”

Hillary: “Actually, I love ponies.”

Bernie Supporters: “She changed her position on ponies! ‪#‎WhichHillary‬ ‪#‎WitchHillary‬”

Headline: HILLARY REFUSES TO GIVE EVERY AMERICAN A PONY.

Debate Moderator: “Hillary, how do you feel when people say you lie about ponies?”

US Uncut Headline: Congressional Inquiry into Clinton’s Pony Lies.

Twitter trending: ‪#‎ponygate

My brother asked, in all seriousness, “So free college tuition is a pony?” One of the reasons I first deactivated and then deleted my FB account. Couldn’t stand the willful obtuseness from him and many other family members and friends. Some days I think I’m better off without FB, other days I think I should have kept FB and gotten rid of the asshole family/friends.

Your brother couldn’t mentally substitute “free tuition” for pony?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 10:59:54am

re: #276 The Vicious Babushka

Cake contains eggs (protein), milk (dairy) and flour (grain) which is 3 of the 4 food groups.

Add a slice of pie (which contains fruit) and you have the perfect meal!

This cake had strawberries in between one of the layers. I’m all set!

Except it was only half a piece of cake because I ate the other half last night.

But it was the half with more icing because I always save the best for last.

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:00:33am

re: #266 Timothy Watson

Jared’s busy running the government, even though no one has ever heard him speak in a public capacity.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:00:40am

re: #275 darthstar

Now now…she’s just a soulless automaton who will likely fill the next cabinet vacancy now that she’s got a few months of White House experience under her belt.

He’ll appoint her to UN Ambassador when he fires Haley for talking back. That way Ivanka will have foreign policy experience and can run in 2020.

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makeitstop  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:01:19am

re: #265 Stanley Sea

She’s a fucking windbag

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Her speaking style is different from Man-Baby’s, yet every bit as annoying.

It’s like listening to a goddamn bot.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:01:49am

re: #282 makeitstop

Her speaking style is different from Man-Baby’s, yet every bit as annoying.

It’s like listening to a goddamn bot.

She definitely gives off that Stepford vibe.

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:02:06am
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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:02:06am

re: #277 HappyWarrior

I feel too often like a man in the middle for many in our generation. I am not a Bernie fan and I’m obviously not a Trump fan or Ron Paul fan either. I’m a boring center liberal. I piss most everyone off.

My problems were more personal. I get really annoyed when I message someone and ask how they’re doing and they get an attitude like I’m fucking bothering them.

And these were people who I thought were actual friends and had interacted with significantly in real life.

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:02:15am

re: #281 Timothy Watson

He’ll appoint her to UN Ambassador when he fires Haley for talking back. That way Ivanka will have foreign policy experience and can run in 2020.

Maybe we should ask to see her tax returns.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:02:48am

Free and affordable tuition for all is an admirable goal but what happens when Congress says no. It’s an admirable idea but I do think it had some flaws too. I personally think there needs to be more help getting people to college in the first place which is why I am glad to see that Perriello supports affordable community college and trade school, there also eeds to be help to students with disabilities, and finally there needs to be help to people once they get on teh job market. That’s why I say despite its rhetoric, the Sanders campaign wasn’t that inclusive. The free tuition would have benefited the kids already in college.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:03:38am

re: #285 Timothy Watson

My problems were more personal. I get really annoyed when I message someone and ask how they’re doing and they get an attitude like I’m fucking bothering them.

And these were people who I thought were actual friends and had interacted with significantly in real life.

Jesus,. You know what I don’t get are people who add you on FB and then decide to delete you. It’s strange.

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:06:35am

re: #273 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Despite that I have still managed to lose respect for a few extended family members as a result of displays of ignorance on FB.

This. This is exactly the reason for me. I decided I need to catch up with much of my extended family at weddings and funerals and the occasional family reunion, but seeing their comments every day was changing the way I view them. I’m sure it works both ways and I took that into consideration as well.

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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:06:50am

re: #287 HappyWarrior

Free and affordable tuition for all is an admirable goal but what happens when Congress says no. It’s an admirable idea but I do think it had some flaws too. I personally think there needs to be more help getting people to college in the first place which is why I am glad to see that Perriello supports affordable community college and trade school, there also eeds to be help to students with disabilities, and finally there needs to be help to people once they get on teh job market. That’s why I say despite its rhetoric, the Sanders campaign wasn’t that inclusive. The free tuition would have benefited the kids already in college.

I like any politician who promotes community colleges. I started at Germanna Community College and you’ve mentioned going to NVCC. It really helped to reduce the total cost for my bachelor’s degree. Obama spent a lot of time promoting community/junior colleges too.

I don’t think that college should be totally free honestly. The student should have to put up some money I think.

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:08:11am

re: #278 Belafon

That’s where the willful obtuseness came in. COULD, yes, but refused to do so.

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Stanley Sea  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:08:13am

Measly 1 billion

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:08:13am

re: #279 klys (maker of Silmarils)

This cake had strawberries in between one of the layers. I’m all set!

It either had a strawberry filling, or it had strawberries between TWO of the layers. Sheesh. Aren’t you some kind of author? As of today?

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:08:49am

re: #272 Stanley Sea

Not just mistakes. Actively lying and trying to game the outcome so his dumbass supporters have yet another bullshit talking point.

The National Archives maintains an official list of all EOs issued by every president since Hoover.

Everything is in sequential order.

Donald J. Trump (2017-Present)
EOs 13765 - 13767 | Subject Index

Barack Obama (2009-2017)
EOs 13489 - 13764 | Subject Index

George W. Bush (2001-2009)
EOs 13198-13488 | Subject Index

William J. Clinton (1993-2001)
EOs 12834-13197 | Subject Index

George Bush (1989-1993)
EOs 12668-12833

Ronald Reagan (1981-1989)
EOs 12287-12667

Jimmy Carter (1977-1981)
EOs 11967-12286

Gerald R. Ford (1974-1977)
EOs 11798-11966

Richard Nixon (1969-1974)
EOs 11452-11797

Lyndon B. Johnson (1963-1969)
EOs 11128-11451

John F. Kennedy (1961-1963)
EOs 10914-11127

Dwight D. Eisenhower (1953-1961)
EOs 10432-10913

Harry S. Truman (1945-1953)
EOs 9538-10431

Franklin D. Roosevelt (1933-1945)
EOs 6071-9537

Within each president’s list, you can figure out how many were signed in each year (FDR had 573 signed in 1933 alone). Going over to the FDR library, you can find that broken down even more than that:

5971-6070, December 14, 1932 - March 3, 1933 View Online
6301-6106, March 8, 1933 - April 10, 1933 View Online

Trump and his people are spectacularly incompetent. Awful. They would fail basic civics or any basic research-related coursework.

They’re not just lazy, but they’re incompetent and don’t care. Their supporters don’t care either.

It took all of 5 minutes to find that their FDR figures were total bullshit.

Of course, that’s just raw numbers; what the EOs represent are something different entirely.

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The Vicious Babushka  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:12:04am

re: #290 Timothy Watson

I like any politician who promotes community colleges. I started at Germanna Community College and you’ve mentioned going to NVCC. It really helped to reduce the total cost for my bachelor’s degree. Obama spent a lot of time promoting community/junior colleges too.

I don’t think that college should be totally free honestly. The student should have to put up some money I think.

Yeah but should not need to take on debt that will take 30 years to pay off, like buying a house.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:12:21am

re: #289 Flying Squirrel Girl

This. This is exactly the reason for me. I decided I need to catch up with much of my extended family at weddings and funerals and the occasional family reunion, but seeing their comments every day was changing the way I view them. I’m sure it works both ways and I took that into consideration as well.

Yeah. I’m very careful about what I post to FB. My close friends and family all know where I stand.

The majority of my friends list is from back when it was college-only, invitation-only and friending everyone you were even slightly acquainted with was cool. I should trim it down, but I used to use lists to manage things. FB doesn’t like that though and keeps making it harder to scroll back in time to catch up when I want to, so I might need to trim things back or curate a lot.

FB really gets mad if you don’t look at it regularly and pops up all sorts of notifications on the phone. I’d stop bothering with it except it’s one of the places you need to have a presence when it comes to small business marketing type stuff so…

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:13:13am

re: #293 wrenchwench

It either had a strawberry filling, or it had strawberries between TWO of the layers. Sheesh. Aren’t you some kind of author? As of today?

Yep, my typo game is on point today!

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darthstar  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:14:54am
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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:14:57am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah but should not need to take on debt that will take 30 years to pay off, like buying a house.

Not argument here, I currently have $23,485.23 in debt and I got off easy thanks to assistance from my parents.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:14:58am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah but should not need to take on debt that will take 30 years to pay off, like buying a house.

I like Germany’s version, where you’re responsible for room and board, which could be met with a part time job.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:15:08am

. re: #290 Timothy Watson

I like any politician who promotes community colleges. I started at Germanna Community College and you’ve mentioned going to NVCC. It really helped to reduce the total cost for my bachelor’s degree. Obama spent a lot of time promoting community/junior colleges too.

I don’t think that college should be totally free honestly. The student should have to put up some money I think.

It really helped me a lot. I agree with some of what you’re saying too. I’d like to study the German model for post secondary education some but I do think Sanders has sort of simplified the argument. What we need to be working towards is lower tuition first and foremost and I think that’s a much more doable task anyhow.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:15:57am

re: #292 Stanley Sea

Measly 1 billion

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and hahaha rubes.

Sucker.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:17:17am

re: #295 The Vicious Babushka

Yeah but should not need to take on debt that will take 30 years to pay off, like buying a house.

Definitely and things like textbook costs need to be worked on too. What my brother does and what I did too was try to find used copies but that sometimes isn’t always the best especially if you need a textbook with a CD rom.

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:18:01am

re: #298 darthstar

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The South shall rise again in someone’s ass.

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Dr Lizardo  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:19:34am

re: #292 Stanley Sea

Rush seems rather butthurt.

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Flying Squirrel Girl  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:20:07am

re: #296 klys (maker of Silmarils)

My sister owns a business and has to keep a FB profile in order to be the administrator of her business profile. But she’s had to hide many friends and family, and changed her name to a nickname so it is not so easily associated with her business for those who may go looking. So I understand the need to keep a presence.

Another reason for me is that I live in a small-ish town (300K - I know there are many towns that are much smaller, but as a former resident of Dallas, Austin and Houston, this place is small to me) and worried that my FB presence might limit my job opportunities if people were to find a post that identified my political leanings. I never have been good at keeping my opinions to myself (thanks mom)…

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:20:10am

re: #292 Stanley Sea

Caving on his demand.

It wasn’t so much a cave as vaporware. He never had any way to pay for any of this, and he’s just throwing bullshit figures out hoping something would stick. That’s not how budgets are done, and the GOP are incompetent when it comes to budget math as it is; they have bigger priorities - like trying to keep them from shutting down the government when they’re in complete control of the entire process.

Trump’s demands wont make any of the budget math easier.

In fact, Trump’s demands would blow up the deficit and shut things down, which would be bad - and past Trump would tweet at current Trump that he’d be on the hook for it (but as with everything else, all Trump statements have expiration dates), and the wall budgeting expiration date is that it wont be an actual wall, it wont be on the actual border, and it wont be paid for by Mexico (and that’s just for starters).

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:22:30am
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Varek Raith  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:23:04am

re: #284 Kragar

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Truman enacted 55 bills laws!

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:23:10am
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Sady Doyle:
“…By presenting a very specific type of exceptional success, she is the Trump presidency’s built-in excuse for failing the rest of us.”

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Joe Bacon  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:23:56am

re: #268 Kragar

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Larry Elder claims to be the Sage of South Central L.A. I wonder who the Parsley, Rosemary and Thyme are…

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Kragar  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:26:02am
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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:26:37am

re: #293 wrenchwench

It either had a strawberry filling, or it had strawberries between TWO of the layers. Sheesh. Aren’t you some kind of author? As of today?

All authors need a good editor. Looks like you’re up for the job!

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:28:19am

re: #312 Kragar

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Well yeah.But hey Trumpers, WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR THE WALL
YOU ARE!
You poor stupid fools actually thought he could get Mexico to pay for the wall.

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wrenchwench  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:28:24am

re: #310 jaunte

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Sady Doyle:
“…By presenting a very specific type of exceptional success, she is the Trump presidency’s built-in excuse for failing the rest of us.”

I just started following Sady Doyle. She’s great.

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plansbandc  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:29:21am

re: #269 klys (maker of Silmarils)

So’s pie. MMMMMMMMMpie.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:33:05am

re: #314 HappyWarrior

Well yeah.But hey Trumpers, WHO’S GOING TO PAY FOR THE WALL
YOU ARE!
You poor stupid fools actually thought he could get Mexico to pay for the wall.

Trump will just make it 10 feet taller. That’ll show ‘em.

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danarchy  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:33:36am

re: #238 lawhawk

Trump and the GOP bitched about Obama using EOs. Obama used them at a lower rate than his predecessors.

Trump now using them at a higher rate than Obama, or his recent predecessors, and the GOP is silent.

Trump’s now bragging that he’s using EOs to get things done.

Mind you, he’s needed a pair of EOs to try and impose an unconstitutional Muslim ban (and will likely rely on a third that will also be found unconstitutional for the same reasons as the first two).

But.. but… but …he has to to undo all of the executive orders Obama signed…

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:35:13am

re: #238 lawhawk

Trump and the GOP bitched about Obama using EOs. Obama used them at a lower rate than his predecessors.

Trump now using them at a higher rate than Obama, or his recent predecessors, and the GOP is silent.

Trump’s now bragging that he’s using EOs to get things done.

Mind you, he’s needed a pair of EOs to try and impose an unconstitutional Muslim ban (and will likely rely on a third that will also be found unconstitutional for the same reasons as the first two).

He’ll need at least four. The third one first has to strike all mentions by the administration that the EO is a Muslim ban from public record. Then he can issue the new EO.

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:39:47am
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“Who are we to judge?”

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:40:52am

From “lock her up” to “who can say?”

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:41:40am

re: #320 jaunte

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“Who are we to judge?”

Oh I see but chanting lock her up is fine.

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jaunte  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:42:41am
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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:42:51am

re: #288 HappyWarrior

Jesus,. You know what I don’t get are people who add you on FB and then decide to delete you. It’s strange.

Well…I have unfriended a couple people recently. Same people I mentioned earlier. Super-friendly when they want something but can’t be bothered to feign politeness if I message them asking how they’re doing.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:42:54am

re: #320 jaunte

“Who are we to judge?”

“We’re just not sure which agency.”

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:44:42am

re: #319 Belafon

No amount of EOs can strike his actions from the record. The Courts will take evidence of all their prior actions as evidence of intent to engage in an unconstitutional Muslim ban.

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ObserverArt  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:45:36am

re: #323 jaunte

Laura Rozen @lrozen
Spicer basically says it would have been too much trouble for WH to give House oversight comm list of everyone Flynn met/talked with as NSA
2:39 PM - 25 Apr 2017
11 11 Retweets 14 14 likes

Eay fix, just assume the whole administration is dirty from top to bottom. Start at that bottom and work your way up.

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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:46:28am

re: #326 lawhawk

No amount of EOs can strike his actions from the record. The Courts will take evidence of all their prior actions as evidence of intent to engage in an unconstitutional Muslim ban.

I know. But can’t you see him trying?

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:48:38am

re: #324 Timothy Watson

Well…I have unfriended a couple people recently. Same people I mentioned earlier. Super-friendly when they want something but can’t be bothered to feign politeness if I message them asking how they’re doing.

Oh yea, that’s one thing. I mean people who add you and then defriend you just like that.

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plansbandc  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:49:23am

A friend is arguing for keeping the racist monuments. Sigh.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:49:40am
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Belafon  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:52:40am

re: #330 plansbandc

A friend is arguing for keeping the racist monuments. Sigh.

“This bill specifies that, since Confederate monuments do not represent any existing government, no desecration of said monuments shall be prosecuted as against the law and are covered as free speech under the first amendment.”

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lawhawk  Apr 25, 2017 • 11:58:31am
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Timothy Watson  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:00:04pm

re: #331 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Spicer, asked whether WH failed in vetting ex-National Security Adviser Flynn, says applicants “fill out the forms”

The spokesidiot for the “master businessman” giving the most bureaucratic answer to a question: ‘He filled out all his forms properly.’

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HappyWarrior  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:04:29pm

re: #332 Belafon

“This bill specifies that, since Confederate monuments do not represent any existing government, no desecration of said monuments shall be prosecuted as against the law and are covered as free speech under the first amendment.”

That reminds me of how Benjamin Butler, a general justified not giving escaped slaves back to slaveowners in the CSA. “They don’t recognize the law of the Untied Sates so therefore I feel no need to follow the law that says to return escaped slaves.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:48:33pm

re: #249 The Vicious Babushka

This paint shop owner took on Donald Trump over an unpaid bill and won. Guess who he voted for.

but her e-mails…

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 25, 2017 • 12:50:40pm

re: #267 Flying Squirrel Girl

One of the reasons I first deactivated and then deleted my FB account. Couldn’t stand the willful obtuseness from him and many other family members and friends. Some days I think I’m better off without FB, other days I think I should have kept FB and gotten rid of the asshole family/friends.

I immediately delete all political posts, and block people who persist.

To me, FB is for finding out where your friends are hanging, stupid pet jokes and videos, kiddie and vacation photos.

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carey94tt  Apr 25, 2017 • 2:06:10pm

re: #46 The Vicious Babushka

civilwar.org

Search for “Tax”: 1 reference: “and burthening them with direct taxes for three-fifths of their slaves”

Search for “Slave”: 83 references

Wow

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NoSoapForYou  Apr 25, 2017 • 8:01:58pm

re: #205 gocart mozart

This whole album makes me smile.

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Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))  Apr 26, 2017 • 12:09:59am

re: #292 Stanley Sea

Measly 1 billion

Again, The Wall is all about the symbolic value: our resolve to Keep America Pure. As was the Muslim Ban, while the invoice he presented Germany for NATO was also a symbol of our resolve to Spend Shitloads of Money on Stuff We Don’t Need While Ignoring Pressing Issues That Negatively Affect Our Population and the World.

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MickardEMT  Apr 27, 2017 • 10:19:28am

You can still download and play this game….

en.wikipedia.org


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