Overnight Video: Raveyards - ‘Remember’
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, May 10, 2012 10:25:48pm |
I liked the music. . .
dancer has awesome control of his body
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Lidane Thu, May 10, 2012 10:31:35pm |
Cleared out my hard drive of everything and anything to do with grad school except for a couple of papers that I was ridiculously happy with. The rest has gone into the digital graveyard where 1's and 0's go to die.
Graduation is on Saturday morning. I can't believe it's all over.
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Targetpractice Thu, May 10, 2012 10:38:22pm |
re: #4 Lidane
Cleared out my hard drive of everything and anything to do with grad school except for a couple of papers that I was ridiculously happy with. The rest has gone into the digital graveyard where 1's and 0's go to die.
Graduation is on Saturday morning. I can't believe it's all over.
Destroying all the evidence, eh?
//
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Dark_Falcon Thu, May 10, 2012 10:48:12pm |
re: #4 Lidane
Cleared out my hard drive of everything and anything to do with grad school except for a couple of papers that I was ridiculously happy with. The rest has gone into the digital graveyard where 1's and 0's go to die.
Graduation is on Saturday morning. I can't believe it's all over.
Con-grad-ulations!
And now, I'm off to bed.
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Cheechako Thu, May 10, 2012 10:53:47pm |
I'm not much of a computer expert and have a question. Currently I'm using Firefox 3.6.28 and Firefox wants me to up grade to Firefox 12.0. Is this a good up-grade? When Firefox started "improving" I read that newer versions were not very good and had many bugs?
So, the question is: Should I up-grade to 12.0?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, May 10, 2012 11:00:59pm |
re: #4 Lidane
Cleared out my hard drive of everything and anything to do with grad school except for a couple of papers that I was ridiculously happy with. The rest has gone into the digital graveyard where 1's and 0's go to die.
Graduation is on Saturday morning. I can't believe it's all over.
Congrats!
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, May 10, 2012 11:01:14pm |
re: #8 Cheechako
I'm not much of a computer expert and have a question. Currently I'm using Firefox 3.6.28 and Firefox wants me to up grade to Firefox 12.0. Is this a good up-grade? When Firefox started "improving" I read that newer versions were not very good and had many bugs?
So, the question is: Should I up-grade to 12.0?
switch to Chrome
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Big Joe Thu, May 10, 2012 11:10:09pm |
re: #8 Cheechako
I still use FF, it's good. Ad Block is the main reason. I also use chromium 20.0, ad block is kinda funky with it.
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ProGunLiberal Thu, May 10, 2012 11:10:16pm |
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, May 10, 2012 11:13:11pm |
ahhh!
Dryer Door kept popping open because the latch thingy was bent out of shape and came out of it's slot. I got the One-Size Fits All Wonder Tool (slotted screwdriver) out and rebent the thingy and put it back in its slot. Dryer door popped open again.
Now, I don't have time to start the dryer every 5 minutes and not alot of laundry was drying.
So, once again I did the rebending, repositioning the thingy exercise --slammed the door shut and sealed it with duct tape. Dryer door has stayed closed.
Yes, my Dear Ole' Dad was an Engineer!
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, May 10, 2012 11:13:56pm |
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Targetpractice Thu, May 10, 2012 11:14:04pm |
re: #13 ggt
ahhh!
Dryer Door kept popping open because the latch thingy was bent out of shape and came out of it's slot. I got the One-Size Fits All Wonder Tool (slotted screwdriver) out and rebend the thingy and put it back in its slot. Dryer door popped open again.
Now, I don't have time to start the dryer every 5 minutes and not alot of laundry was drying.
So, once again I did the rebending, repositioning the thingy exercise --slammed the door shut and sealed it with duct tape. Dryer door has stayed closed.
Yes, my Dear Ole' Dad was an Engineer!
Redneck engineering at its finest.
/
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, May 10, 2012 11:14:57pm |
re: #15 Targetpractice
Redneck engineering at its finest.
/
$150 for Appliance Repair guy service call vs. Duct Tape
I call it smart economics!
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ProGunLiberal Thu, May 10, 2012 11:16:16pm |
re: #14 ggt
My advisor is well aware of how my "dad" has acted with me and my amily, and how it has degraded my emotional strength over the past year.
He is also blunter than a hammer. There may be fireworks on Saturday during the reception.
Also, I invited many of the friends I still have at OU after the loss of APO, so I can be with them one last time. They are all in MSA.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Thu, May 10, 2012 11:18:13pm |
re: #17 ProGunLiberal
My advisor is well aware of how my "dad" has acted with me and my amily, and how it has degraded my emotional strength over the past year.
He is also blunter than a hammer. There may be fireworks on Saturday during the reception.
Also, I invited many of the friends I still have at OU after the loss of APO, so I can be with them one last time. They are all in MSA.
At some point you'll learn how to stop giving your Dad the power to do that to you. I think I was 35? by the time I learned.
It does get better if you keep working at it.
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AK-47% Thu, May 10, 2012 11:55:40pm |
re: #4 Lidane
Cleared out my hard drive of everything and anything to do with grad school except for a couple of papers that I was ridiculously happy with. The rest has gone into the digital graveyard where 1's and 0's go to die.
Graduation is on Saturday morning. I can't believe it's all over.
My grad school notes were all on ring binders, which I loaned to another student who was doing his finals, they were all washed away in a flood in Tucson...
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WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, May 11, 2012 12:24:26am |
from twitter @aardvarkwizard
Atlas Shrugged is a v funny book wherein the bourgeois think that if they disappear society will collapse, lmao
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 12:38:49am |
re: #21 WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.]
from twitter @aardvarkwizard
funny in that the bougeois think they can exist without the rest of society...
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 12:49:50am |
oh dear, style slip...bourgeoise with an e when it's a noun. Forgive me, Mr Safire!!!
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Kragar Fri, May 11, 2012 1:06:34am |
re: #23 Expand Your Ground
funny in that the bougeois think they can exist without the rest of society...
How many septic systems is John Galt going to build, install, and maintain with the sweat from his own brow?
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 1:10:04am |
Everyone knows that private sewer systems are more efficient at dumping your shit on other people than government-run ones...
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 4:22:07am |
re: #25 Kragar
How many septic systems is John Galt going to build, install, and maintain with the sweat from his own brow?
You forget the freedom-loving serfs who will make their pilgrimage to the gulch in order to happily slave away, 12 hours a day, for less than minimum wage.
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Decatur Deb Fri, May 11, 2012 4:31:57am |
re: #31 iossarian
You forget the freedom-loving serfs who will make their pilgrimage to the gulch in order to happily slave away, 12 hours a day, for less than minimum wage.
Most of all I love the libertarian seasteading schemes. Visions of the 'black gangs' rising from belowdecks with daggers in their teeth.
[Link: www.seasteading.org...]
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Shropshire_Slasher Fri, May 11, 2012 4:33:32am |
Lion tigers and bears OH MY!
[Link: www.timesunion.com...]
thought the pictures of the bear was cute.
Good Morning!
TGIF
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 4:52:50am |
re: #32 Decatur Deb
Most of all I love the libertarian seasteading schemes. Visions of the 'black gangs' rising from belowdecks with daggers in their teeth.
[Link: www.seasteading.org...]
That's a great website.
The wealth of the modern world comes from specialization and trade. Rather than trying to be self-sufficient, seasteads will specialize – trading sushi for steak.
I hear sushi chefs are highly paid!
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Obdicut Fri, May 11, 2012 5:01:56am |
re: #32 Decatur Deb
Wait, that's a fucking non-profit asking for donations. How uncapitalist.
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Decatur Deb Fri, May 11, 2012 5:08:22am |
Off for my monthly breakfast with the scum and villains I worked with for 30 yrs. BBL
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 5:43:12am |
Morning Lizardim from the beautifully sunny wild north country. The governor's fishing opener is tomorrow, and for only the second time in 75 years, it will be held at a lake in the Twin Cities metro area. I don't plan on attending, but it should be a nice draw for the community; best of luck to Governor Dayton in catching the big one. Especially now that he can rest on his laurels for a bit after pushing through the Vikings stadium bill, which he signed. The final proposal calls for 49% of the cost to go through the team, with $150 million of the remaining to be supplied by the City of Minneapolis and the other roughly $350 million supplied by the state. And the best part of all this is, they'll have this nice new stadium, but the team is so bad, no one will ever actually go to it.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 5:52:09am |
Feels like a blow dryer outside here in Germany, brewing up for a summer thunderstorm in May.
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 5:59:51am |
Interesting replies to my comment on facebook "Right fuckin' on, Mr. President"
My brother He can now come out of the closet... (he's an anti-taxes conservative who is smart enough not to buy into the Obama hates America shit but does it anyway and fuels my dad's irrational hatred of the president)
His son At least he is taking a stand for liberty... isnt that what America is about? (also a conservative, graduating from a Catholic boys high school next month so it's not like he's exposed to alternative opinions all that often)
The change in attitude is, in fact, generational. In another 15 years, people will forget we ever had this debate.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:08:39am |
Mah brainz!*
*It's not really that bad. I just said that for dramatic purposes.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:09:58am |
re: #40 Gus
Mah brainz!*
*It's not really that bad. I just said that for dramatic purposes.
No, it really is that bad. I've been in your head, remember.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:10:33am |
re: #41 thedopefishlives
No, it really is that bad. I've been in your head, remember.
Thought I heard somebody.
//
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:13:23am |
re: #42 Gus
Thought I heard somebody.
//
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, "Hey, is there room in here for one more?"
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:14:25am |
re: #43 thedopefishlives
Madness does not always howl. Sometimes, it is the quiet voice at the end of the day, saying, "Hey, is there room in here for one more?"
Madness doesn't have to be a lonely experience. There's always somebody to talk to.
//
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:15:34am |
re: #44 Gus
Madness doesn't have to be a lonely experience. There's always somebody to talk to.
//
It's enough to drive a man to madness. 'Course, for me, that's a pretty short trip.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:18:03am |
re: #45 thedopefishlives
It's enough to drive a man to madness. 'Course, for me, that's a pretty short trip.
Coffee helps prevent madness.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:18:15am |
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:19:40am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:20:07am |
re: #49 thedopefishlives
I'm such a commie, I drink pink tea instead of green or black.
Better red than sleepy.
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William Barnett-Lewis Fri, May 11, 2012 6:20:44am |
re: #8 Cheechako
I'm not much of a computer expert and have a question. Currently I'm using Firefox 3.6.28 and Firefox wants me to up grade to Firefox 12.0. Is this a good up-grade? When Firefox started "improving" I read that newer versions were not very good and had many bugs?
So, the question is: Should I up-grade to 12.0?
This may be missed by you since it's the next morning now but:
Skip Firefox.
Install Chrome instead.
You'll be much happier.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:22:23am |
re: #50 Gus
Better red than sleepy.
I have a bit of an issue with chronic tiredness anyway. Actually, I'm going to see a doctor about that, along with a few other health issues, on Tuesday. I hate going to the doctor, but I have a wife and a kid now and I owe it to them to make sure the ticker keeps on tickin'.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:26:20am |
re: #52 thedopefishlives
I have a bit of an issue with chronic tiredness anyway. Actually, I'm going to see a doctor about that, along with a few other health issues, on Tuesday. I hate going to the doctor, but I have a wife and a kid now and I owe it to them to make sure the ticker keeps on tickin'.
As long as I can remember I've always been tired. Never enough sleep or now some body part that doesn't get enough rest. Weird part is that I can handle not getting enough sleep better now than when I was younger.
This is making me sleepy.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:28:53am |
re: #53 Gus
As long as I can remember I've always been tired. Never enough sleep or now some body part that doesn't get enough rest. Weird part is that I can handle not getting enough sleep better now than when I was younger.
This is making me sleepy.
I do wish that I had retained my ability to run myself ragged and then turn around and sleep for 18 straight hours that I had when I was younger, though. That would feel pretty nice every now and again.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 6:30:26am |
re: #39 darthstar
Interesting replies to my comment on facebook "Right fuckin' on, Mr. President"
The change in attitude is, in fact, generational. In another 15 years, people will forget we ever had this debate.
I hope so. I thought the debate on contraception was over 20 years ago, too
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:31:26am |
re: #54 thedopefishlives
I do wish that I had retained my ability to run myself ragged and then turn around and sleep for 18 straight hours that I had when I was younger, though. That would feel pretty nice every now and again.
I'm lucky if I can get 8 hours of straight sleep. Of course I will nap from time to time. That kind of sucks though because I'll use up my coffee quicker.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:32:52am |
re: #56 Gus
I'm lucky if I can get 8 hours of straight sleep. Of course I will nap from time to time. That kind of sucks though because I'll use up my coffee quicker.
Yeah, that's how I am now. My wife grumbles because I get up so early even on weekends, but I can't sleep in like I used to anymore. And I have found that it is rather futile for me to try to get to sleep too early on weekdays. Easier for me to just summon caffeine the next day than to try to force more sleep than my body will take.
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 6:33:06am |
re: #56 Gus
I'm lucky if I can get 8 hours of straight sleep. Of course I will nap from time to time. That kind of sucks though because I'll use up my coffee quicker.
Have you tried gay sleep?
//
Me, I go to bed around 9:30 or 10:00 and wake up at 5:30. It's not easy sleeping through the night like that, but apparently somebody has to do it.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:34:07am |
re: #58 darthstar
Have you tried gay sleep?
//Me, I go to bed around 9:30 or 10:00 and wake up at 5:30. It's not easy sleeping through the night like that, but apparently somebody has to do it.
I'm a homosleeptual.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:38:16am |
re: #60 Gus
Classy...
I don't even want to think about the comments that must be appearing over at Faux News right about now.
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 6:39:12am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:39:37am |
re: #61 thedopefishlives
I don't even want to think about the comments that must be appearing over at Faux News right about now.
I haven't looked at any wingnut site in weeks. It's the never ending insanity which will eventually lead to "peak wingnut" which some say is unattainable. ;)
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:40:18am |
re: #63 Gus
I haven't looked at any wingnuts site in weeks. It's the never ending insanity which will eventually lead to "peak wingnut" which some say is unattainable. ;)
Are you suffering from withdrawal symptoms?
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:40:59am |
re: #64 thedopefishlives
Are you suffering from withdrawal symptoms?
Not yet! Well. My hands are shaking less.
//
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 6:47:40am |
re: #65 Gus
Not yet! Well. My hands are shaking less.
//
I bet your blood pressure is probably coming down a bit, too. Well, we can give you some meds for that./
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 6:54:33am |
Okay...the beach beckons. Happy Friday everyone.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 6:57:40am |
Christie Vetoes Obamacare Health Insurance Exchange in New Jersey
After months of mulling his options, Gov. Chris Christie vetoed state legislation Thursday that would have established a health insurance exchange in New Jersey, a fundamental step in implementing the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—known coloquially as "Obamacare"—in the state.
Christie had until Thursday, May 10, to make a decision on Assembly Bill #2171, passed by the New Jersey state Legislature in March, or the bill would have become law, with or without his signature.
Christie said that because the U.S. Supreme Court [SCOTUS] decided to take on Obamacare in March, just 10 days after the New Jersey Assembly passed the health exchange bill, the Affordable Care Act "might not survive [legal] scrutiny."...
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Interesting Times Fri, May 11, 2012 6:59:55am |
Thank you, Mitt Romney for being the face of the out of touch millionaire class of bullies who are screwing up our economy and our democracy— Jesse LaGreca (@JesseLaGreca) May 11, 2012
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 7:00:36am |
Governor Walker comes out as anti-labor
Not that anyone's really surprised, I guess.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:04:18am |
I give up. OK, maybe for an hour. But right about now I'm feeling a part of any great "American community." Welcome to the United States of Narcissism. It's all about me. He with the most toys money wins. Now bend over.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:07:30am |
Pittsburgh Tea Party Leader: "Obama's like the Nazis. There's an evil in the country and you are standing against it" thkpr.gs/IYff6j— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) May 11, 2012
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:07:38am |
Who does Steve Doocy blame for JP Morgan's losses? Obama. "If he's the President, he's the President of the banks too" bit.ly/J5c9YK— Media Matters (@mmfa) May 11, 2012
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 7:07:58am |
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 7:09:45am |
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 11, 2012 7:09:47am |
Fox News doing its best to be a propaganda arm aren't they?
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:10:09am |
Three cheers for the red, white and bleh...
[Falls to the ground.]
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 7:10:17am |
re: #78 Gus
Yep. See what I mean? (RE #74). All of it. Including the Christie veto. It might as well be 1952.
Ugh. It's like I'm living in a bizarro world. Proud to be an American? Hardly.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 7:13:03am |
Bill Donohue: "Nature Has Ordained" That Only Men And Women "Can Have A Family. Gay People Have Been Disqualified From Nature"
Bill Derp has been disqualified from having a brain.
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Killgore Trout Fri, May 11, 2012 7:13:41am |
Banks still playing dangerous games.
Regulators Looking into JPMorgan Trading Activities Before $2 Billion Loss
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:13:55am |
re: #83 Varek Raith
Bill Donohue: "Nature Has Ordained" That Only Men And Women "Can Have A Family. Gay People Have Been Disqualified From Nature"
Bill Derp has been disqualified from having a brain.
That stupid old argument. People don't always get married to create a family.
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 7:15:14am |
re: #84 Killgore Trout
Banks still playing dangerous games.
Regulators Looking into JPMorgan Trading Activities Before $2 Billion Loss
Surprise quotient: zero.
Bet the bankers all got paid shedloads of money though. Happy days. Hookers and blow.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 7:15:49am |
re: #83 Varek Raith
Bill Donohue: "Nature Has Ordained" That Only Men And Women "Can Have A Family. Gay People Have Been Disqualified From Nature"
Bill Derp has been disqualified from having a brain.
Same old, same old from Donohue. Bigoted and willfully ignorant to the end; ignoring the reality that his statement is, among other things, demonstrably false.
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Killgore Trout Fri, May 11, 2012 7:16:43am |
re: #86 iossarian
Surprise quotient: zero.
Bet the bankers all got paid shedloads of money though. Happy days. Hookers and blow.
It's only a matter of time until they crash the global economy again.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 11, 2012 7:16:50am |
re: #83 Varek Raith
Bill Donohue: "Nature Has Ordained" That Only Men And Women "Can Have A Family. Gay People Have Been Disqualified From Nature"
Bill Derp has been disqualified from having a brain.
This is the same guy who wants to have the law discriminate against LGBT people but then whines whenever the Catholic Church is portrayed in an anything but flattering light. Donohue's a jerkoff. He's turning into a Catholic Bryan Fischer.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 7:17:58am |
re: #89 HappyWarrior
This is the same guy who wants to have the law discriminate against LGBT people but then whines whenever the Catholic Church is portrayed in an anything but flattering light. Donohue's a jerkoff. He's turning into a Catholic Bryan Fischer.
Oh, not turning into. This is nothing new for him. He just has started getting more exposure again recently.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 7:18:07am |
Wow. I can't fathom how Steve Doocy makes infinitely dumber statements.
That's gotta be against the laws of physics.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 7:19:59am |
Breaking News
Obama is President of NewsCorp
More@Derp
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 7:20:08am |
re: #85 Gus
That stupid old argument. People don't always get married to create a family.
Ah, but under Catholic teachings it is. Wrong as his position may be, it's perfectly in line with what the Church says.
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HappyWarrior Fri, May 11, 2012 7:22:56am |
re: #90 Simply Sarah
Oh, not turning into. This is nothing new for him. He just has started getting more exposure again recently.
True enough.
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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, May 11, 2012 7:23:30am |
re: #53 Gus
As long as I can remember I've always been tired. Never enough sleep or now some body part that doesn't get enough rest. Weird part is that I can handle not getting enough sleep better now than when I was younger.
This is making me sleepy.
It's a mysterious process called "getting older."
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Obdicut Fri, May 11, 2012 7:23:31am |
re: #92 Varek Raith
Anything wrong in the US: Obama's fault.
Anything good in the US: In spite of Obama.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:24:15am |
re: #91 Varek Raith
Wow. I can't fathom how Steve Doocy makes infinitely dumber statements.
That's gotta be against the laws of physics.
Cartoon financial news from the Fox Cartoon-News Channel. The people in that segment even look and sound like cartoon characters. So JP Morgan Chase loses 2 billion dollars on volatile derivatives investments. They'll live I'm sure. That's the way these banks assholes make their money. The Fed will turn around and blindly give them another 0 percent interest "loan." Pigs at the trough. SNAFU.
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Eventual Carrion Fri, May 11, 2012 7:30:07am |
re: #83 Varek Raith
Bill Donohue: "Nature Has Ordained" That Only Men And Women "Can Have A Family. Gay People Have Been Disqualified From Nature"
Bill Derp has been disqualified from having a brain.
Nature has many examples of asexual reproduction. Maybe he should have paid a little more attention in science class rather then filling his head with mythology and misinformation. And then I am sure a worm coupling would blow his mind taking it to the other side from asexual reproduction.
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Eventual Carrion Fri, May 11, 2012 7:31:35am |
re: #90 Simply Sarah
Oh, not turning into. This is nothing new for him. He just has started getting more exposure again recently.
Yeah, but Romney has someone to bet with now at least.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:32:16am |
A Shock From JPMorgan Is New Fodder for Reformers
It didn’t take long for bank reformers to say we told you so.
JPMorgan Chase’s $2 billion trading loss, which was disclosed on Thursday, could give supporters of tighter industry regulation a huge new piece of ammunition as they fight a last-ditch battle with the banks over new federal rules that may redefine how banks do business.
“The enormous loss JPMorgan announced today is just the latest evidence that what banks call ‘hedges’ are often risky bets that so-called ‘too big to fail’ banks have no business making,” said Senator Carl Levin, a Michigan Democrat who co-wrote the language at the heart of the battle between the financial and government worlds, in a statement. “Today’s announcement is a stark reminder of the need for regulators to establish tough, effective standards.”
The centerpiece of the new regulations, the so-called Volcker Rule, forbids banks from making bets with their own money, and a final version is expected to be issued by federal officials in the coming months. With the financial crisis fading from view, banks have successfully pushed for some exceptions that critics say will allow them to simply make proprietary trades under a different name, in this case for the purposes of hedging and market-making...
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 7:34:05am |
Good morning lizards...here's a novel idea...
Free birth control and sterilization for drug addicts!
Group pays drug addicts to get sterilized or receive long-term birth control, sparks criticism
A controversial nonprofit group is seeking out drug-addicted women and paying them cold hard cash to get sterilized.
The group, Project Prevention, hangs stark ads in clinics and homeless shelters to reel in drug users. The posters feature hard-hitting taglines such as, "Don't let a pregnancy ruin your drug habit," and "She has her daddy's eyes ... and her mommy's heroin addiction."
Barbara Harris, founder of the program, insists she is only trying to help prevent unwanted pregnancies, which often lead to children being fed into an overwhelmed foster care system, and that she's not forcing anyone to get sterilized.
"I think it's really important for people to understand that the majority of women we sterilize are women who have had multiple children and don't want anymore," she told the Daily News. "It's their decision."
"And to say, 'Let's go ahead and let them keep having babies because one day they might decide to clean up and keep one?' It's just not fair," she said. "And it's preventable."
Harris said that the last 20 women she paid to get sterilized had been pregnant a total of 121 times.
"Thirty were either aborted, stillborn or died after being born," she said. "Seventy-eight are in foster care."
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Interesting Times Fri, May 11, 2012 7:35:25am |
We now present your morning dead-thread derp. 9_9
OMG Obamas background is teh mystery! We know NOTHING about him!!1! #vettheprez #WAR
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:36:25am |
So JP Morgan loses 2 billion. If I heard correctly they're going to cut back on banking hours. Which means those employed will be making less -- spending less. They will feel the effect. Those at the top? Business as usual an barely felt. The execs will get their bonuses.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:37:30am |
re: #102 Interesting Times
We now present your morning dead-thread derp. 9_9
I've been trying to ignore him. Still digging.
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Interesting Times Fri, May 11, 2012 7:39:33am |
re: #104 Gus
I've been trying to ignore him. Still digging.
Remember how Obama ultimately handled the long-form birth certificate issue? Perhaps he's planning a similar move with his college transcripts, perfectly timed to make dribbling wingnuts look even dumber than they presently are :)
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dragonfire1981 Fri, May 11, 2012 7:39:56am |
You know all that religious right support Romney picked up yesterday?
I think he just lost most of it:
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 7:41:10am |
re: #106 dragonfire1981
You know all that religious right support Romney picked up yesterday?
I think he just lost most of it:
Somewhere out there, a wingnut is crying, "Why do you keep toying with my emotions, Mr. Romney?!?"
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:42:00am |
re: #106 dragonfire1981
You know all that religious right support Romney picked up yesterday?
I think he just lost most of it:
Doesn't he realize that gay couple adopting straight babies will only turn those babies gay and create more gays in this world!!!!!!
//
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dragonfire1981 Fri, May 11, 2012 7:42:01am |
Also, in more backwards insanity:
Catholic Boys baseball team forfeits title because it doesn't want to play a girl
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 7:43:12am |
I recall the old Christian adage of "Hate the sin, love the sinner". But for some people their attitude about gays seems to be that the sin and the sinner are identical.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:46:24am |
Investors favor Obama as a leader for the global economy over Romney, according to a recent poll | bloom.bg/LwlJY4— Bloomberg News (@BloombergNews) May 11, 2012
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 7:49:36am |
Chicago police bulk up with $1m in riot gear for 'peaceful' Nato summit protests
Police in Chicago have spent $1m on riot-control equipment in the last few months ahead of next month's Nato summit, which is expected to attract thousands of anti-war protesters.
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Killgore Trout Fri, May 11, 2012 7:53:27am |
re: #112 NJDhockeyfan
Chicago police bulk up with $1m in riot gear for 'peaceful' Nato summit protests
I seriously doubt Chicago is going to let these idiots riot. Let's hope we don't see any terrorism beyond harmless white powder mailings. I assume the Feds have informants on the case.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:53:40am |
re: #112 NJDhockeyfan
Chicago police bulk up with $1m in riot gear for 'peaceful' Nato summit protests
I'm sure that 1 million was wisely spent.
//
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dragonfire1981 Fri, May 11, 2012 7:53:49am |
re: #110 Expand Your Ground
I recall the old Christian adage of "Hate the sin, love the sinner". But for some people their attitude about gays seems to be that the sin and the sinner are identical.
I personally interpret it as: I may disagree with certain aspects of your lifestyle but that has no bearing on the way I will treat you. I will still afford you the same courtesy, respect and dignity I would afford to anyone else regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or any other means of classification.
Or, to put it more simply: I will treat other human beings the way I wish others to treat me.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 7:54:52am |
re: #113 Killgore Trout
I seriously doubt Chicago is going to let these idiots riot. Let's hope we don't see any terrorism beyond harmless white powder mailings. I assume the Feds have informants on the case.
We should probably open up internment camps for these hippies and avoid the possibility altogether!
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 7:55:07am |
re: #115 dragonfire1981
I personally interpret it as: I may disagree with certain aspects of your lifestyle but that has no bearing on the way I will treat you. I will still afford you the same courtesy, respect and dignity I would afford to anyone else regardless of race, religion, sexual orientation or any other means of classification.
Or, to put it more simply: I will treat other human beings the way I wish others to treat me.
That's how it should be. Unfortunately, a lot of the rabid right-winger Christians still somehow think it's OK to look down on someone they feel is "less moral". As if we don't all have skeletons in our closet.
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 7:58:13am |
re: #116 Gus
We should probably open up internment camps for these hippies and avoid the possibility altogether!
I hear FEMA has a few beds available at their concentration camps. Send the hippies there.
/Alex Jones
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 7:58:14am |
re: #113 Killgore Trout
I seriously doubt Chicago is going to let these idiots riot. Let's hope we don't see any terrorism beyond harmless white powder mailings. I assume the Feds have informants on the case.
If the violence is kept to a minimum...broken storefront glass, white powder, Molotov cocktails, brick throwing, etc...it will be considered a peaceful protest.
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Killgore Trout Fri, May 11, 2012 7:58:56am |
re: #119 NJDhockeyfan
If the violence is kept to a minimum...broken storefront glass, white powder, Molotov cocktails, brick throwing, etc...it will be considered a peaceful protest.
Yeah, I think that's the best we can hope for.
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Interesting Times Fri, May 11, 2012 8:00:47am |
re: #116 Gus
We should probably open up internment camps for these hippies and avoid the possibility altogether!
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SidewaysQuark Fri, May 11, 2012 8:00:53am |
This is what passes for "clever satire" among conservatives these days:
If the intent was a satire of the worldview of the right wing, it succeeded.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 8:03:10am |
re: #113 Killgore Trout
I seriously doubt Chicago is going to let these idiots riot. Let's hope we don't see any terrorism beyond harmless white powder mailings. I assume the Feds have informants on the case.
Rahm Emmanuel has a reputation as a control freak and he is not going let anything get out of hand.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 8:03:16am |
Prominent Ron Paul Supporter Muses About Assassinating Mitt Romney
The co-founder of Veterans for Ron Paul devoted a segment on his talk show earlier this week to musing aloud about whether or not Mitt Romney should be assassinated.
Adam Kokesh, a prominent Paul supporter who has a YouTube talk show called "Adam vs. The Man" and was backed by Paul in his 2010 congressional bid, read parts of an email from a listener contemplating whether to kill Romney.
"There is a way the nomination can be given to Ron Paul," he read aloud. "There is a way to fix the situation we currently face with Obama versus Romney. Romney needs to die." Kokesh says the email came from a 19-year-old in Mississippi whom he wouldn't name.
In the video, Kokesh says of the email, "I have never endorsed such a plan. I have never suggested such a plan. But I cannot deny that the thought hasn't crossed my mind as well as so many other libertarians and Ron Paul supporters of late."
Kokesh says that "obviously this raises some interesting moral issues" and "it sure is tempting isn't it, to think that you could take out one life and prevent the deaths of so many others."
"Whatever you do, please please please don't forward this video to the Secret Service," Kokesh concludes.
Reached by BuzzFeed, Kokesh clarified that he wasn't endorsing the plan.
I suspect the Secret Service will be knocking on his door today.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:03:32am |
re: #127 Expand Your Ground
Rahm Emmanuel has a reputation as a control freak and he is not going let anything get out of hand.
Yep.
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Obdicut Fri, May 11, 2012 8:04:35am |
re: #126 Gus
This is pretty cool:
German Police Used Only 85 Bullets Against People in 2011
"49 warning shots, 36 shots on suspects. 15 persons were injured, 6 were killed."
Meanwhile, in the U.S., where the population is little less than four times the size of Germany's, well, we can get to 85 in just one sitting, thank you very much. 84 shots fired at one murder suspect in Harlem, another 90 shot at one fleeing unarmed man in Los Angeles
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:04:41am |
re: #98 RayFerd
Nature has many examples of asexual reproduction. Maybe he should have paid a little more attention in science class rather then filling his head with mythology and misinformation. And then I am sure a worm coupling would blow his mind taking it to the other side from asexual reproduction.
Don't give him too many ideas. So species of aphid are born already pregnant.
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lawhawk Fri, May 11, 2012 8:04:44am |
About that $2 billion loss at JP Morgan. Seems that a significant percentage may be the work of one guy working out of a London office who was pushing these derivatives as a hedge on risk, but instead flooded the company with red ink.
The firm put on a complicated strategy that bet on the improving credit of selected companies. At the time, the trades were widely thought to be placed by a large firm backed with ample capital. The trader behind the strategy became known as "the London whale," though we now know that it was a French-born JPMorgan employee named Bruno Michel Iksil.
JPMorgan Chase acknowledges $2 billion trading loss
As the bet moved against the London Whale, Jamie Dimon brushed it off and even went so far as to say it was a "complete tempest in a teapot," during last quarter's earnings call. In off the record quotes, some JPM employees said the bank had run tests that showed that the strategy worked in any market conditions.
Huh?
This reminds me when a trader told me that Morgan Stanley's sub-prime bets were 100 percent hedged, except they weren't. Perhaps that's why Dimon called the mistake "egregious" and "self inflicted" and vowed to "learn from it ... fix it and move on."
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 8:05:00am |
re: #83 Varek Raith
Bill Donohue: "Nature Has Ordained" That Only Men And Women "Can Have A Family. Gay People Have Been Disqualified From Nature"
Bill Derp has been disqualified from having a brain.
I hope he keeps flogging this all the way through the election, especially now that the Romney camp has said that they will actively campaign on passing a Constitutional amendment banning gay marriage.
And I'm still waiting for these bigots to tell me when we have ever amended the Constitution to take away equal rights.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:05:37am |
re: #130 Obdicut
This is pretty cool:
85 bullets? That like the average shots fired from one cop at one "suspect" holding onto a cell phone that "looked like a gun" in New York City.
//
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Daniel Ballard Fri, May 11, 2012 8:05:44am |
Just got time for a friendly drive by
Ran across this music. Dude sounds like Freddie Mercury. Band called Fun. The song is Some Nights.
Intro
[Link: open.spotify.com...]
The track itself
[Link: open.spotify.com...]
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:06:22am |
re: #135 Daniel Ballard
Just got time for a friendly drive by
Ran across this music. Dude sounds like Freddie Mercury. Band called Fun. The song is Some Nights.Intro
[Link: open.spotify.com...]The track itself
[Link: open.spotify.com...][Embedded content]
Don't forget about the ramp closures in LA today.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:06:40am |
Carmageddon II: Drivers, officials prepare for ramp closures on 405 lat.ms/JFtUSR— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 11, 2012
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 8:06:48am |
re: #130 Obdicut
This is pretty cool:
I prefer to live in a country where everyone is as free as possible to fire guns at everyone else.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:07:15am |
re: #138 iossarian
I prefer to live in a country where everyone is as free as possible to fire guns at everyone else.
Especially if a gang of thugs attacks you trying to cut your hair.
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:07:27am |
re: #121 Gus
NATO: Alliance partner Israel not invited to Chicago summit, chief denies any Turkey link!!!
And the chef for the summit denied he is serving Sharia turkey as well.
/
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:07:44am |
re: #132 lawhawk
Whoopsy. I bet that's coming out of his paycheck.
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 8:07:47am |
re: #139 Gus
Especially if a gang of thugs attacks you trying to cut your hair.
No, then you should just calmly accept your fate as one of life's underlings.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:08:12am |
re: #143 iossarian
No, then you should just calmly accept your fate as one of life's underlings.
Scene at the country club from a 1980s movie.
//
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 8:08:32am |
More rational GOP rhetoric:
Report: Pittsburgh Tea Party Chair Compares Obama To Nazi Regime
At a Tea Party rally two weeks ago, Pittsburgh Tea Party Chair Patricia “Patti” Weaver told supporters that President Barack Obama, like the Nazis in World War II, is an “an evil in this country that you are standing up to,” according to a recent story in the daily Butler Eagle newspaper. Weaver is an elected representative for Allegheny County on the Pennsylvania’s Republican state committee and mounted an aborted campaign for Allegheny County Controller in 2011.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:10:23am |
JPMorgan lost $2 billion on synthetic credit securities. In other news, JPMorgan announced a new $2 billion Loss Recuperation Fee.— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) May 11, 2012
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The Left Fri, May 11, 2012 8:10:56am |
re: #144 Gus
Scene at the country club from a 1980s movie.
//
"The world needs ditchdiggers too!"
--Caddyshack
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 8:11:36am |
Haha, this is awesome:
Colbert: Jesus Opposed Gay Marriage So Much He Was Speechless About It
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:13:13am |
re: #149 Millicent Islam
"The world needs ditchdiggers too!"
--Caddyshack
Mittens should just start wearing those extra huge Annie Hall glasses.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:16:25am |
re: #137 Gus
Carmageddon II: Drivers, officials prepare for ramp closures on 405 lat.ms/JFtUSR— Los Angeles Times (@latimes) May 11, 2012
Trying to remember where I saw the article, but there was one on how the original Carmageddon produced a sudden spate of pregnancies in the Los Angeles area. See, even the Carpocalypse has its upsides, if you plan for it.
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:17:34am |
A belated good morning to the resident Lizards.
Feline Overlord went to the vet today for a follow-up on the eye.
Eyeball pressure is normal, so the steroid eyedrop is being discontinued. The blood in the pupil is lessening, but still covering about half of the eye, so the other eyedrop is continuing. His overall blood pressure is high normal, so his dosage of medication there (pills) is being tweaked slightly.
He got home from the vet in a cranky mood, ate half a can of cat food, and then allowed himself to be petted for a while before taking a nap while I went back to work.
A good enough prognosis that he does not need another follow-up until after Memorial Day. (Though the current challenge is getting a pet sitter who can give pills over Memorial Day weekend since I will be away.)
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 8:19:12am |
We can always count on Joe Biden for a good laugh...
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The Left Fri, May 11, 2012 8:19:41am |
I see the wingnuts over at BrietBlart are spinning madly away over Mitt's haircutting issues....
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:19:51am |
re: #153 thedopefishlives
Trying to remember where I saw the article, but there was one on how the original Carmageddon produced a sudden spate of pregnancies in the Los Angeles area. See, even the Carpocalypse has its upsides, if you plan for it.
I thought the Carpocalypse was when all the fish come out of the Mississippi River and overrun St. Paul.
O_O
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:20:17am |
re: #154 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
Oh good. Glad to hear that the Feline Overlord is doing okay.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:20:20am |
re: #158 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
Trying to remember where I saw the article, but there was one on how the original Carmageddon produced a sudden spate of pregnancies in the Los Angeles area. See, even the Carpocalypse has its upsides, if you plan for it.
I thought the Carpocalypse was when all the fish come out of the Mississippi River and overrun St. Paul.
O_O
*Shakes head*
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:20:50am |
re: #158 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
I thought the Carpocalypse was when all the fish come out of the Mississippi River and overrun St. Paul.
O_O
No, that's just a fish fry Friday.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:21:14am |
re: #157 Millicent Islam
I see the wingnuts over at BrietBlart are spinning madly away over Mitt's haircutting issues...
Tough guys no doubt. I'd like to see their reaction if this happened to one of their sons.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:22:25am |
Romney Will Increase Military Spending By $2.1 Trillion With No Plan To Pay For It
Fiscal Responsibility!
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:22:42am |
re: #162 Gus
Tough guys now doubt. I'd like to see their reaction if this happened to one of their sons.
Could kill two birds with one stone by having a bunch of rowdy teens play a "prank" by grabbing him and waterboarding instead of a haircut.
///
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:22:54am |
re: #157 Millicent Islam
I see the wingnuts over at BrietBlart are spinning madly away over Mitt's haircutting issues...
I see...
.@AmPowerBlog the day I click a breitbart link is the day I eat a deep-fried shoelace. Bye-bye now.— Imani ABL (@AngryBlackLady) May 11, 2012
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:23:26am |
re: #163 Varek Raith
Romney Will Increase Military Spending By $2.1 Trillion With No Plan To Pay For It
Fiscal Responsibility!
Just budgeting for a war there instead of it ending up being paid for by spending resolutions as things go along.
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Daniel Ballard Fri, May 11, 2012 8:23:29am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:24:03am |
re: #167 Millicent Islam
That ABL response was hilarious!
Freaking Donald Douglas. One of the original doughy pant loads of the 101st Fighting Keyboards.
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bratwurst Fri, May 11, 2012 8:24:29am |
re: #130 Obdicut
This is pretty cool:
Come on now...you know darn well we could never have that situation here due to the ongoing crisis with violent hippies. /
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:24:53am |
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 8:26:31am |
re: #168 Daniel Ballard
Yeah but those early Christians didn't have guns and McDonald's so they're not, in fact, real Christians.
I bet they didn't even watch NASCAR. That's how heathen and ungodly they were.
YEEHAW!
*shoots tin can with shotgun*
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ProGunLiberal Fri, May 11, 2012 8:26:42am |
Well, this happened in Norway:
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:26:56am |
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Obdicut Fri, May 11, 2012 8:27:05am |
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The Left Fri, May 11, 2012 8:27:14am |
Fox News Smears Obama As A Drug Dealer
As Fox News discussed the report that Mitt Romney forcibly cut a high school classmate's hair, the channel's hosts steered conversation toward President Obama admitting to drug use in his memoir, Dreams From My Father.
But Fox could not confine itself to reliving the details of a book published 17 years ago -- its hosts baselessly suggested that Obama had dealt drugs.
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Killgore Trout Fri, May 11, 2012 8:27:49am |
re: #168 Daniel Ballard
That's interesting. I guess it should be too surprising. The Church's views on abortion has varied widely over 2,000 years as well.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:27:54am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:28:03am |
Loesch And Hoft Respond To Bullying Story By Dredging Up Long-Debunked Infanticide Smear bit.ly/J3v1Or /@mmfa #danaloesch #jimhoft— Justin Gibson (@JGibsonDem) May 11, 2012
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Daniel Ballard Fri, May 11, 2012 8:28:47am |
re: #175 Obdicut
Okay I'll repeat my caveat from the Page-My first look at the material. Do you think I should hide hide the Page, or is it worth kicking around?
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 8:28:53am |
Well, this was inevitable:
Rush Limbaugh Attacks Shep Smith Over Gay Marriage Comments
Rush Limbaugh went after Fox News host Shepard Smith for comments he made Wednesday that seemed to endorse President Obama's support for same-sex marriage.
Following Obama's announcement on Wednesday, Smith described the president as now sitting on the "right side of the 21st century." He then asked his colleague Bret Baier if the GOP would campaign against same-sex marriage "while sitting very firmly, without much question, on the wrong side of history on it."
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Obdicut Fri, May 11, 2012 8:29:39am |
re: #180 Daniel Ballard
Okay I'll repeat my caveat from the Page-My first look at the material. Do you think I should hide hide the Page, or is it worth kicking around?
I'll dig up the good refutation of it and post it there. No need to hide it, I'm sure it'll be kicked around the web plenty. It has in one form or another for a long time.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:30:03am |
re: #182 Millicent Islam
Hey Varek! Good to see you! Things are fine here but cold-- maybe 45 Fahrenheit. How are you?
Brr! Keep warm over there, you and Jimmah.
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The Left Fri, May 11, 2012 8:31:57am |
re: #185 Gus
Drink more octopus juice with whisky.
//
I think Jimmah and I are going to the pub tomorrow-- first time in a while. If so we'll probably drunk post when we get back!
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Obdicut Fri, May 11, 2012 8:32:27am |
re: #180 Daniel Ballard
Here's the refutation.
[Link: www.learnedhand.com...]
Thus the Greek words that Boswell translates as "be united together" in the third section of the document quoted above are, in fact, rather ordinary words that mean "become brothers" (adelphoi genesthai); and when they are translated in this more straightforward manner, they impart a quite different sense to the reader.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:32:37am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:33:07am |
re: #188 Varek Raith
Good, good. Chilly here too.
That's funny. Kind of chilly here as well!
See! What global warming? ///////////////////////////
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:33:44am |
re: #189 Gus
That's funny. Kind of chilly here as well!
See! What global warming? ///
We've got your global warming, freaking 75 degree heat threatening to blister off all of my fair white pasty skin.
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Killgore Trout Fri, May 11, 2012 8:33:48am |
Nigeria soldiers arrest Boko Haram commander
The arrested operation commander was identified by Nigerian authorities as Suleiman Mohammed, a Yoruba tribe member from Ogbomosho in southwest Nigeria. Sophisticated weapons were recovered during the raid, including a rifle, 10 improvised explosive devices (IEDs), three pistols, and 1,000 rounds of live ammunition. No shots were fired during the raid on Mr. Mohammed’s home.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:33:59am |
re: #189 Gus
That's funny. Kind of chilly here as well!
See! What global warming? ///
I know! When two yahoos on the intertoobz can outdo climatologists....
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The Left Fri, May 11, 2012 8:34:29am |
Rush Limbaugh: 1965 Was "A Great Year; Bullying Was Legal"
Rush Limbaugh today dismissed a Washington Post report detailing "pranks" and "troubling incidents" Mitt Romney engaged in as a high school student, saying: "You had long hair in 1965, you were gonna get razzed. It didn't matter. They weren't gonna think you were in the Beatles. If you had long hair in 1965, you were gonna get made fun of." Limbaugh added: "See, 1965's a great year; bullying was legal."
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:34:57am |
re: #186 Millicent Islam
I think Jimmah and I are going to the pub tomorrow-- first time in a while. If so we'll probably drunk post when we get back!
How did the oatmeal chili come out?
:)
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The Left Fri, May 11, 2012 8:35:26am |
re: #194 Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste
How did the oatmeal chili come out?
:)
Good! We're finishing it up today. :)
Glad to hear it sounds like things are improving for your kitty.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:36:10am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:37:03am |
re: #195 Millicent Islam
Good! We're finishing it up today. :)
I had oatmeal once. I know what it's like to suffer. -- Mitt Romney
//
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:37:26am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:38:33am |
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:38:36am |
re: #198 Millicent Islam
It's snowing in Inverness and Aberdeen.
The Mrs. Fish would be ecstatic. Of course, she's starting to actually get into the swing of spring now, so I don't know.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 8:39:20am |
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 8:40:45am |
re: #155 NJDhockeyfan
We can always count on Joe Biden for a good laugh...
He was just checking that everything was in place: spectacles, testicles, billfold, mobile...
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 8:41:23am |
re: #203 Varek Raith
Snow! What the hell is that?!?!
Temperature based fall-out caused by the triggering of a large scale endothermic weapon.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:41:50am |
Lovely.
Top Romney aide gleefully outed transgender woman, ending her political career
Fehrnstrom saved his cheap shots for smaller-time Massachusetts pols. When a political activist and gadfly named Althea Garrison was elected to the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the fact that she was transgender was an open secret in Boston political circles. But Fehrnstrom was the first one to put that information into print—"I can remember his glee when he found the birth certificate," says former Herald reporter Robert Connolly—thus bringing a swift end to Garrison's future on Beacon Hill.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 8:41:58am |
re: #168 Daniel Ballard
we had this discussion yesterday.
notions and understanding of (homo)sexuality have changed and, well "evolved" over the years. Something we need to keep in mind when we are reading historical documents and Holy Scriptures as well...
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 8:42:09am |
re: #200 Varek Raith
Fuck that ignorant, deluded, uneducated Faux News Barbie doll. She can get bent.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 8:43:52am |
re: #200 Varek Raith
You know, I thought the "work/life balance" discussion was resolved with the intruduction of the 40-hour workweek.
Another thing that has been tossed aside in the name of the Free Market.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:44:25am |
Damn. These people are scum. I used to think Mittens was a creep with some good points but never knew he was this big a creep. He really is a wingnut.
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 8:45:09am |
re: #209 Expand Your Ground
You know, I thought the "work/life balance" discussion was resolved with the intruduction of the 40-hour workweek.
Another thing that has been tossed aside in the name of the Free Market.
You mean the same 40-hour work week that was the result of union protests and union efforts to create work/life balance? These cretins don't acknowledge anything that unions gave them.
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Douchecanoe and Ryan Too Fri, May 11, 2012 8:45:47am |
re: #211 Lidane
You mean the same 40-hour work week that was the result of union protests and union efforts to create work/life balance? These cretins don't acknowledge anything that unions gave them.
Wait, the unions did something good?! COMMIE!
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SidewaysQuark Fri, May 11, 2012 8:50:39am |
re: #208 Lidane
Fuck that ignorant, deluded, uneducated Faux News Barbie doll. She can get bent.
I don't know any college grads who worry about a "work-life balance". Most of them able to find jobs spend their 20-somethings working their asses off, in my experience.
I am confident that this current trend of ragging on the efforts of every young person (young by Repub. standards meaning "under 45") in America will bear the fruit at the polls that any dummy could predict.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 8:51:11am |
This may create some friction between Bill Clinton and Obama...
Book Claims Bill Clinton Urged Hillary To Run Against 'Incompetent' Obama In 2012
A new book claims that former U.S. President Bill Clinton was so unimpressed with President Barack Obama, he urged his wife Hillary Clinton to quit her job as U.S. secretary of state and run against him in the primaries last summer -- calling the president "amateur" and "incompetent."
The New York Post published excerpts of best-selling and controversial author Edward Klein's unauthorized biography about Obama coming out Monday, "The Amateur," which includes bombshell revelations about the former president's aleged true feelings about Obama.
Reporter Carl Campanile writes that Bill Clinton "unloaded on Obama and pressed Hillary to run against her boss during a gathering in the ex-president's home office in Chappaqua last August that included longtime friends," according to Klein.
"The economy's a mess, it's dead flat. America has lost its Triple-A rating ... You know better than Obama does," Bill Clinton is quoted as saying in the book.
Bill Clinton reportedly continued to say that he had "no relationship" with Obama, who "doesn't know how to be president" and is "incompetent."
Klein based the conversation on interviews with two guests that were present for the Chappaqua meeting. According to those two sources, Hillary Clinton resisted her husband's plea.
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ProGunLiberal Fri, May 11, 2012 8:51:54am |
re: #191 Killgore Trout
Awww, they didn't shoot him.
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Obdicut Fri, May 11, 2012 8:52:22am |
re: #216 NJDhockeyfan
The Clinton camp has already called the author a liar, and I have no idea why the allegation is simply being reported as true.
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SidewaysQuark Fri, May 11, 2012 8:53:03am |
re: #218 Obdicut
The Clinton camp has already called the author a liar, and I have no idea why the allegation is simply being reported as true.
Hey, never let the truth get in the way of a good story!
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 8:53:07am |
re: #216 NJDhockeyfan
This may create some friction between Bill Clinton and Obama...
Book Claims Bill Clinton Urged Hillary To Run Against 'Incompetent' Obama In 2012
Doubtful. Everyone was and is well aware about how Bill Clinton felt during the 2008 election. It's no secret. The Clinton campaign was somewhat brutal but that's politics. Water under the bridge.
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Killgore Trout Fri, May 11, 2012 8:55:36am |
re: #217 ProGunLiberal
Awww, they didn't shoot him.
He's too valuable as a source of intelligence. His life will be short and hellish.
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 8:58:25am |
re: #216 NJDhockeyfan
This may create some friction between Bill Clinton and Obama...
Book Claims Bill Clinton Urged Hillary To Run Against 'Incompetent' Obama In 2012
That's the spirit.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 8:59:09am |
re: #206 Gus
Lovely.
Top Romney aide gleefully outed transgender woman, ending her political career
Glee? Glee? Over destroying someone? What the fuck? Then again, after the article yesterday about how offended and disgusted Fehrnstrom supposedly was at the idea of transgendered people getting any sort of support or recognition, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. That man is clearly a hateful excuse for a human being.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:00:46am |
re: #39 darthstar
Interesting replies to my comment on facebook "Right fuckin' on, Mr. President"
The change in attitude is, in fact, generational. In another 15 years, people will forget we ever had this debate.
Good luck with that -- In 1972 the Supreme Court decided that unmarried people could have contracepton --now we are arguing it again.
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 9:00:50am |
re: #224 Gus
I HAVE NEVER SEEN THE COLLEGE TRANSCRIPTS OF ANY OTHER POLITICIAN I'VE VOTED FOR, BUT FOR SOME UNKNOWN REASON I CANNOT BRING MYSELF TO BELIEVE THAT BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA WENT TO HARVARD ON MERIT ALONE
PS I AM NOT A RACIST
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 9:00:55am |
re: #223 Simply Sarah
Glee? Glee? Over destroying someone? What the fuck? Then again, after the article yesterday about how offended and disgusted Fehrnstrom supposedly was at the idea of transgendered people getting any sort of support or recognition, I suppose I shouldn't be surprised. That man is clearly a hateful excuse for a human being.
Fehrnstrom is a disgusting little man. You ever seen him in action off camera? That is on video tape? He's like this wired, neurotic thing. Like a "bad boss" personality.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:01:33am |
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allegro Fri, May 11, 2012 9:02:54am |
re: #216 NJDhockeyfan
This may create some friction between Bill Clinton and Obama...
Book Claims Bill Clinton Urged Hillary To Run Against 'Incompetent' Obama In 2012
I can see where President Clinton might have issues and I'm sure he would be delighted to be back in the White House as First Gentleman. However, too many of those statements accredited to him just don't make sense, specifically about the economy and credit rating. Clinton knows better than most how little power the President has over that with a recalcitrant Congress and I'm not buying that he's ignorant as to the obstruction going on since 2009.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 9:03:27am |
re: #227 Gus
Fehrnstrom is a disgusting little man. You ever seen him in action off camera? That is on video tape? He's like this wired, neurotic thing. Like a "bad boss" personality.
A waste of carbon and air is what he is. Hell of a wingman, Mitt. Hell of a wingman.
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 9:04:01am |
re: #214 SidewaysQuark
I don't know any college grads who worry about a "work-life balance". Most of them able to find jobs spend their 20-somethings working their asses off, in my experience.
You're assuming that all new college grads are 22 years old, and that they went through university fresh out of high school. So is she. They're not.
I spent my 20's working my ass off. Spent my early 30's still working my ass off. Decided at 35 that I wasn't going to hit 40 without finishing college. I've spent the last four years finishing both an undergrad degree and an MBA. I graduate tomorrow.
I'm not the only one in this boat. College students these days are getting older, especially in terms of graduate and professional students. And yes, there are work/life balance issues for them, particularly if the student in question has a job and a family. It's ignorant and short sighted of Dana Perino to assume that a college grad doesn't have the "right" to worry about these things. We're not all 22 year old kids.
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 9:05:23am |
re: #216 NJDhockeyfan
This may create some friction between Bill Clinton and Obama...
You mean the same Bill Clinton that did a campaign ad for Obama about the OBL raid?
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 9:05:37am |
re: #230 allegro
I can see where President Clinton might have issues and I'm sure he would be delighted to be back in the White House as First Gentleman. However, too many of those statements accredited to him just don't make sense, specifically about the economy and credit rating. Clinton knows better than most how little power the President has over that with a recalcitrant Congress and I'm not buying that he's ignorant as to the obstruction going on since 2009.
Why would two people present at the meeting in Chappaqua say that? Do they have some sort of ax to grind with the President?
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allegro Fri, May 11, 2012 9:06:28am |
re: #233 Lidane
It's ignorant and short sighted of Dana Perino to assume that a college grad doesn't have the "right" to worry about these things. We're not all 22 year old kids.
Those 22 year old college grads have PLENTY to worry about as well. No right to worry? WTF?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:07:01am |
re: #193 Millicent Islam
1965 was before the Civil Rights act, The Pill and what else?
It was great if you were white and male . . .
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 9:07:08am |
re: #236 allegro
Those 22 year old college grads have PLENTY to worry about as well. No right to worry? WTF?
Well, that too. Especially with the clusterfuck that is student loan debt.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 9:07:14am |
re: #216 NJDhockeyfan
This may create some friction between Bill Clinton and Obama...
Book Claims Bill Clinton Urged Hillary To Run Against 'Incompetent' Obama In 2012
I don't care how much of this may or may not be true. Why? Because I don't care what Bill Clinton thinks or has to say.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:09:47am |
hahahahahahaha!
JPMorgan shares dive after $2bn trading loss
Mr Dimon said the type of trading that led to the loss would not be banned by the so-called Volcker rule, designed to censure certain types of trading by banks with their own money.
But he acknowledged that the errors would be particularly embarrassing, given his public criticism of the Volcker rule.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:13:54am |
because they aren't making enough money already?
Facebook tests 'pay to promote post' tool
The 'promote a post' system has so far only been tested in New Zealand
By paying a small fee users can ensure that information they post on the social network is more visible to friends, family and colleagues.
The tests are being carried out among the social network's users in New Zealand.
Facebook said the goal was to see if users were interested in paying to flag up their information.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 9:15:44am |
re: #239 Simply Sarah
I don't care how much of this may or may not be true. Why? Because I don't care what Bill Clinton thinks or has to say.
Klein's books have been dismissed by academics and journalists as "not only psychobabble", but "psychoblarney." An example of the criticism:
The Boston Herald has quoted him calling the late Carolyn Bessette Kennedy "a disturbed, neurotic, unstable young woman"; according to the Buffalo News, Klein's book The Kennedy Curse described Bessette Kennedy "sprawled on the floor in front of a sofa, disheveled and hollow-eyed, snorting cocaine with a gaggle of gay fashionistas." The News book review called The Kennedy Curse "a contrived and stretched effort that seeks legitimacy by surrounding a few interesting scoops with historical and psychological analysis," adding of one Klein passage: "He takes a long and involved analysis of Ireland's Great Famine of the 1840s, links it to the emigration of JFK's great-grandfather to Boston, and applies enough psychobabble to explain everything from President Kennedy's womanizing to William Kennedy Smith's celebrated rape trial in 1991."[2]
He came under fire for his biography of Hillary Clinton titled, The Truth about Hillary: What She Knew, When She Knew It, and How Far She'll Go to Become President which was released on June 21, 2005. On the day of its release Sean Hannity interviewed him on the radio. Radio host Al Franken, along with Joe Conason interviewed him on Air America that month as well. During the interview, Franken and Conason exposed inaccuracies in Klein's book, including incorrect names and deliberate omissions from quotes with the intention to deceive the reader.[3] Klein claimed that he was not told that Conason, who had authored The Hunting of the President in defense of the Clintons, would join the interview, but Franken asserted that Klein's publicist was informed that Conason would help conduct the interview.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:15:56am |
Oh, the Whackos are going to have a field day with this:
HIV prevention pill Truvada backed by US experts
Dr Robert Grant, Gladstone Institutes: ''I think we are in a era where we can see the end of the Aids epidemic''Continue reading the main story
A panel of US health experts has for the first time backed a drug to prevent HIV infection in healthy people.The panel recommended US regulators approve the daily pill, Truvada, for use by people considered at high risk of contracting the Aids virus.
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is not required to follow the panel's advice, but it usually does.
Some health workers and groups active in the HIV community have opposed the approval of the drug.
However, correspondents say the move could prove to be a new milestone in the fight against HIV/Aids.
Truvada is already approved by the FDA for people who are HIV-positive, and is taken along with existing anti-retroviral drugs.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:16:42am |
I think fb will eventually go the way of ebay. They priced themselves out of the market with fees, fees, fees.
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Varek Raith Fri, May 11, 2012 9:16:51am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 9:17:39am |
re: #245 Varek Raith
Point. Set. Match.
There's moar!
The Obama Identity: A Novel (Or Is It?) is a 2010 novel written by Edward Klein and former Republican United States Representative John LeBoutillier. Among other things, the book explores and promotes the Barack Obama citizenship conspiracy theories and Barack Obama religion conspiracy theories in the form of a novel. In an interview on Fox & Friends, Leboutillier claimed that the book uses "real things" and has "so much real stuff".[1] Following the interview, Media Matters for America published excerpts from the book in an article which criticized the book as having an "incomprehensible plot"
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 9:18:01am |
re: #242 Gus
Well, as I said, it may very well be a load of crap. It just doesn't much matter to me personally either way.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 9:28:09am |
Woot!
Lincoln Nebraska proposed LGBT protection ordinance: Best In Show!
Hat tip:
'P-E-N-I-S Goes Into The Anus To Rupture Intestines' Says Nebraska Lady, Nobody Sure Why bit.ly/J3Ivd6— Wonkette (@Wonkette) May 11, 2012
NSFW!
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:29:45am |
re: #249 Gus
Woot!
Lincoln Nebraska proposed LGBT protection ordinance: Best In Show!
[Embedded content] NSFW!
orgiers?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:31:01am |
re: #249 Gus
Woot!
Lincoln Nebraska proposed LGBT protection ordinance: Best In Show!
[Embedded content] NSFW!
What a disjointed --I don't know what it was . .
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:33:39am |
re: #250 Gus
I'm surprised nobody cracked up in the "audience."
The faces of the people behind her!
LOL
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 9:34:55am |
Soviet Union immigrants who escaped the horror of living under communism in the East are supporting the GOP.
Among New York’s Soviet Immigrants, Affinity for G.O.P.
To many Russian and Ukrainian immigrants, the cornucopia in the shops along Brighton Beach Avenue — pyramids of oranges, heaps of Kirby cucumbers, bushels of tomatoes with their vines still attached and a variety of fish, sausages and pastries — seems like an exuberant rebuke of the meager produce that was available to them when they lived in the Soviet Union.
This contrast helps explain a striking political anomaly: immigrants from the former Soviet Union are far more apt to vote for Republicans than are most New Yorkers, who often drink in Democratic Party allegiance with their mothers’ milk and are four times as likely to register as Democrats than as Republicans.
...One reason these voters tend to support Republicans is that they see them as more ardent warriors against the kind of big-government, business-stifling programs that soured their lives in the Soviet Union. Their conservative stances on issues like taxes and Israel seem to outweigh their more liberal views on social issues like abortion.
...Some scholars likened the attitudes of Soviet immigrants to those of the Vietnamese boat people who fled their homeland’s Communist government and of the Cuban refugees who fled the government of Fidel Castro, both of whom took a more conservative tack in the United States than the members of most immigrant groups.
“Having been seared by statism, they see Democrats as drifting toward statism and see that as dangerous for themselves and for the country,” said Fred Siegel, a senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute’s Center for State and Local Leadership.
Support for Israel is another motivator. The majority of the 350,000 Soviet immigrants in New York City are Jewish, culturally if not in practice; scholars estimate the number as between 70 percent and 90 percent. Many Russian speakers have relatives and friends in Israel, where their population has also exerted a rightward push on national politics, and they tend to reward Republicans, whom they view as more unswerving defenders of that nation.
...“The Republican Party was the party that brought them out of despair,” Mr. Yeger said.
Well how about that.
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The Left Fri, May 11, 2012 9:36:08am |
re: #249 Gus
Woot!
Lincoln Nebraska proposed LGBT protection ordinance: Best In Show!
[Embedded content] NSFW!
Every body found without clothes has a partner that murdered them!
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 9:38:06am |
re: #255 Millicent Islam
Every body found without clothes has a partner that murdered them!
Not The Onion! This video is hilarious. The hat lends itself to the rhetoric.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 9:38:24am |
re: #255 Millicent Islam
Every body found without clothes has a homosexual partner that murdered them!
FTFY
hahahahahahahahaha
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 9:39:31am |
re: #218 Obdicut
The Clinton camp has already called the author a liar, and I have no idea why the allegation is simply being reported as true.
Concern troll doesn't care. He cuts and pastes, and is apparently very proud of this ability.
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 9:41:15am |
re: #254 NJDhockeyfan
Soviet Union immigrants who escaped the horror of living under communism in the East are supporting the GOP.
Among New York’s Soviet Immigrants, Affinity for G.O.P.
Well how about that.
How about that? Do you have an opinion? Can you shed some light on the issue, or even discuss it?
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 9:41:33am |
re: #258 palomino
Concern troll doesn't care. He cuts and pastes, and is apparently very proud of this ability.
When the lefties on here does it...awesome!
When I do it...troll!
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lawhawk Fri, May 11, 2012 9:43:44am |
re: #254 NJDhockeyfan
Yet, the way Brighton Beach actually votes runs counter: their local city council representative is a Democrat, their Congressional representative was Anthony Weiner (another Democrat) before his ouster and replacement by a Republican (Bob Turner), and their state assembly representative is on the Democrat/Republican/Working Families lines.
Not exactly running deep Republican. One could argue that the election of Turner and Grimm are the result of the locals punishing the Democrats for the malfeasance by Weiner - not necessarily because they're moving hard towards the GOP.
[addendum] - I'm pretty familiar with the area having grown up in nearby Sheepshead Bay and frequented Brighton Beach growing up (it really is Odessa by the Sea with the large population from the former Soviet republics).
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 9:43:46am |
re: #260 NJDhockeyfan
When the lefties on here does it...awesome!
When I do it...troll!
Yeah, it's all a double standard meant to persecute you specifically. Do you have delusions of grandeur too?
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SidewaysQuark Fri, May 11, 2012 9:44:01am |
re: #233 Lidane
You're assuming that all new college grads are 22 years old, and that they went through university fresh out of high school. So is she. They're not.
I spent my 20's working my ass off. Spent my early 30's still working my ass off. Decided at 35 that I wasn't going to hit 40 without finishing college. I've spent the last four years finishing both an undergrad degree and an MBA. I graduate tomorrow.
I'm not the only one in this boat. College students these days are getting older, especially in terms of graduate and professional students. And yes, there are work/life balance issues for them, particularly if the student in question has a job and a family. It's ignorant and short sighted of Dana Perino to assume that a college grad doesn't have the "right" to worry about these things. We're not all 22 year old kids.
Oh for sure. I'm someone who didn't finish grad school until well into my 30's, myself. My only point is that most young people are working hard to get by just like anyone else, and understandably aren't content to tacitly stand by while those born with silver spoons in their mouths deride their attempted contributions and work ethic.
And congrats on graduating - sounds like it's been a long road!
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 9:45:55am |
re: #259 palomino
How about that? Do you have an opinion? Can you shed some light on the issue, or even discuss it?
I think it's awesome. I've talked to a few people who lived inside USSR and they are extremely grateful to be living in this country. Looks like they are not at all happy with what the Democrats are doing. Any reason you can think of to why they support the GOP over the Dems and where they are wrong?
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 9:46:52am |
Chivalry or cowardice? Here's an interesting tidbit about that Catholic school that forfeited rather than play a girl:
[Link: tucsoncitizen.com...]
All second baseman Paige Sultzbach wanted to do was play in her school’s state championship baseball game.
But because she is a girl, that won’t happen.
Sultzbach is a freshman at Mesa Preparatory Academy, which had been scheduled to play Our Lady of Sorrows Academy in Thursday’s Arizona Charter Athletic Association state championship at Phoenix College.
But Our Lady of Sorrows, a fundamentalist Catholic school in Phoenix that lost twice to Mesa Prep during the regular season, chose to forfeit the championship game rather than play a team fielding a female player.
They played that team with a girl twice and lost twice. I'd say that drove their decision to be a bunch of pathetic, sexist cowards more than anything else.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 9:48:25am |
re: #265 Lidane
Chivalry or cowardice? Here's an interesting tidbit about that Catholic school that forfeited rather than play a girl:
[Link: tucsoncitizen.com...]
They played that team with a girl twice and lost twice. I'd say that drove their decision to be a bunch of pathetic, sexist cowards more than anything else.
She didn't play in the prior two games. Her team kept her off the field out of "respect" for the other team.
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 9:48:58am |
re: #260 NJDhockeyfan
When the lefties on here does it...awesome!
When I do it...troll!
It's more than just magical balance fairy fodder. The Clintons and Obama are as close as ever, regardless of what your pet sites say.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 9:50:38am |
re: #264 NJDhockeyfan
I think it's awesome. I've talked to a few people who lived inside USSR and they are extremely grateful to be living in this country. Looks like they are not at all happy with what the Democrats are doing. Any reason you can think of to why they support the GOP over the Dems and where they are wrong?
Russians are very socially conservative, Soviet and post-Soviet society is still 50 years behind us on women's, gay and minority rights.
And coming from a country where almost every aspect of life was regulated down to detail, they would tend to support a party that is for less regulation.
it is as much a gut reaction as a measured, intellectual response. But that is how politics works.
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 9:51:00am |
re: #266 Simply Sarah
She didn't play in the prior two games. Her team kept her off the field out of "respect" for the other team.
And they weren't going to keep her off the field this time. She earned the right to play in the championship game and the school wasn't going to deny her.
The point still stands, though-- even without the girl playing, the fundie school that forfeited still couldn't beat them. They played twice and lost twice.
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gwangung Fri, May 11, 2012 9:51:03am |
Just FYI
African-Americans Support Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Stance
[Link: www.thedailybeast.com...]
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lawhawk Fri, May 11, 2012 9:51:28am |
re: #267 darthstar
Well, it does provide a certain service - it provides insight into how the right views that relationship and if they think that it's on the rocks, that will hurt them going into November because it overestimates the problems and underestimates just how much the Clintons can help in Obama's reelection bid.
It gives the right a false sense of security that no one on the right should be banking on.
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gwangung Fri, May 11, 2012 9:51:49am |
re: #269 Lidane
And they weren't going to keep her off the field this time. She earned the right to play in the championship game and the school wasn't going to deny her.
The point still stands, though-- even without the girl playing, the fundie school that forfeited still couldn't beat them. They played twice and lost twice.
Gotta agree. Losers. And twits.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 9:51:51am |
re: #269 Lidane
And they weren't going to keep her off the field this time. She earned the right to play in the championship game and the school wasn't going to deny her.
The point still stands, though-- even without the girl playing, the fundie school that forfeited still couldn't beat them. They played twice and lost twice.
Oh, I agree entirely. The whole idea of "We won't play teams with girls on them" is backwards and ignorant.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 9:52:45am |
re: #270 gwangung
Just FYI
African-Americans Support Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Stance
[Link: www.thedailybeast.com...]
Let us also keep in mind that not all voters are single-issue ideologues. They look at all aspects of a candidate's positions and weigh them according to their own priorities.
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 9:53:04am |
re: #264 NJDhockeyfan
I think it's awesome. I've talked to a few people who lived inside USSR and they are extremely grateful to be living in this country. Looks like they are not at all happy with what the Democrats are doing. Any reason you can think of to why they support the GOP over the Dems and where they are wrong?
Obviously there are a number of factors motivating their decisions, as you know, I'm sure, because you read the whole article, right?
But your implication that the Dems are somehow like the old Soviet government is so absurd I think even you know it. And if the immigrants are under the impression that the Dems have much in common with their former totalitarian masters in the USSR, then they are seriously misinformed.
Most immigrant groups support the Dems, but there are always exceptions. I guess that's enough to get you excited.
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 9:53:53am |
re: #273 Simply Sarah
Oh, I agree entirely. The whole idea of "We won't play teams with girls on them" is backwards and ignorant.
Especially when they played an all-boy team twice and still couldn't win.
What a bunch of ignorant cowards.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 9:54:04am |
Russians in NYC lean Republican. That's nice. Doesn't mean a thing to me.
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lawhawk Fri, May 11, 2012 9:55:41am |
re: #277 Gus
And they don't even do so as much as the Times article implies once you actually look at their voting habits.
But not that it matters, because once the general election rolls around, NY will go for Obama quite strongly.
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ProGunLiberal Fri, May 11, 2012 9:55:54am |
I reading through a Something Awful thread on Arpaio, and becoming horrified. Any updates on the investigation into the little fascist?
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 9:56:58am |
re: #277 Gus
Russians in NYC lean Republican. That's nice. Doesn't mean a thing to me.
Don't you get it? The whole state is about to turn blue, fulfilling every hockey fan's wildest dreams. I mean they just legalized gay marriage, so they must be really conservative, right?
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gwangung Fri, May 11, 2012 9:58:32am |
re: #274 Expand Your Ground
Let us also keep in mind that not all voters are single-issue ideologues. They look at all aspects of a candidate's positions and weigh them according to their own priorities.
Yup. Even in the so-called special interest groups, voters always have multiple interests.
It's something everyone should keep in mind. But I NEVER bought into warnings that blacks would abandon Obama over this. He hasn't done anything to harm black interests and fair enough to help them. And his power as a symbol is therefore great enough for the black community for them to give him the benefit of a doubt.
Similarly, not convinced that Republicans will make inroads into the Latino community. And they sure as hell won't into the Asian American community. They had their chance in the 1990s and they threw it away.
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 9:59:10am |
re: #279 ProGunLiberal
I reading through a Something Awful thread on Arpaio, and becoming horrified. Any updates on the investigation into the little fascist?
He's a lunatic. Somehow he managed to help turn Arizona into a part of the Deep South. He's like a second rate J. Edgar Hoover, with his tremendous unchecked power and overall bigotry.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 10:00:29am |
re: #278 lawhawk
And they don't even do so as much as the Times article implies once you actually look at their voting habits.
But not that it matters, because once the general election rolls around, NY will go for Obama quite strongly.
Breaking news! Republicans and right wingers in Staten Island!
//
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 10:01:05am |
re: #270 gwangung
Just FYI
African-Americans Support Obama’s Same-Sex Marriage Stance
[Link: www.thedailybeast.com...]
Well, I do suspect there is a deal of truth to the idea that some African-Americans will revisit and rethink their positions on this as a result of President Obama's statement, perhaps more than I originally gave him credit for. I mean, surprise, he's highly respected in much of the community and, as a result, isn't going to be dismissed out of hand on this.
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 10:01:20am |
Headed to Roger Waters' 'The Wall Live' tour tonight at AT&T park...this should be fun. It's always nice when my wife hooks me up like this.
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jaunte Fri, May 11, 2012 10:02:09am |
re: #277 Gus
Maybe they're used to decaying national infrastructure.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 10:02:27am |
re: #285 darthstar
Headed to Roger Waters' 'The Wall Live' tour tonight at AT&T park...this should be fun. It's always nice when my wife hooks me up like this.
Hey you!
Someone on last night's thread wants a bumper sticker with your Osama/GM saying on it.
Can you add it to your cp store and post it?
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 10:04:28am |
re: #286 jaunte
Maybe they're used to decaying national infrastructure.
Exactly.
What's really stupid (even more so than the usual cut'n'paste daily fail stupidity) about that this argument is that, if ex-communists were supporting the Democrats, it would be all EX-COMMUNISTS SUPPORT DEMOCRATS ZOMG DEMS ARE COMMIE SCUM.
But somehow the fact that ex-communists support the GOP means that the GOP is wonderful and not at all bigoted or dysfunctional.
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 10:05:22am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 10:06:02am |
re: #288 iossarian
Exactly.
What's really stupid (even more so than the usual cut'n'paste daily fail stupidity) about that this argument is that, if ex-communists were supporting the Democrats, it would be all EX-COMMUNISTS SUPPORT DEMOCRATS ZOMG DEMS ARE COMMIE SCUM.
But somehow the fact that ex-communists support the GOP means that the GOP is wonderful and not at all bigoted or dysfunctional.
That seems to be part of the RW narrative. "These guys used to live under the Soviets! They know communism and see how the Demoncrats are really communists!"
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 10:06:11am |
re: #285 darthstar
Headed to Roger Waters' 'The Wall Live' tour tonight at AT&T park...this should be fun. It's always nice when my wife hooks me up like this.
Major awesome! I saw Pink Floyd twice during the Delicate Sounds of Thunder tour and they did a bunch of The Wall songs. Too bad Roger Waters wasn't with the band.
Who is in Roger Water's band?
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 10:06:20am |
re: #287 ggt
Hey you!
Someone on last night's thread wants a bumper sticker with your Osama/GM saying on it.
Can you add it to your cp store and post it?
Oh bumpersticker...I'll add those now.
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 10:06:21am |
re: #288 iossarian
Exactly.
What's really stupid (even more so than the usual cut'n'paste daily fail stupidity) about that this argument is that, if ex-communists were supporting the Democrats, it would be all EX-COMMUNISTS SUPPORT DEMOCRATS ZOMG DEMS ARE COMMIE SCUM.
But somehow the fact that ex-communists support the GOP means that the GOP is wonderful and not at all bigoted or dysfunctional.
The GOP version of the MBF is actually Monotonous Boring Fallacies.
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 10:06:42am |
Maybe Russians in NYC support Republicans because they're nostalgic for government that is harshly authoritarian, unaccountable and rife with cronyism.
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allegro Fri, May 11, 2012 10:06:48am |
re: #287 ggt
Hey you!
Someone on last night's thread wants a bumper sticker with your Osama/GM saying on it.
Can you add it to your cp store and post it?
That reminds me of the car I was sitting behind at a light yesterday. Had a Marine Corp sticker, sticker that indicated the driver/owner had been in Iraq, a disabled vet license plate... and a sticker for Obama. I liked that.
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 10:08:44am |
re: #281 gwangung
Yup. Even in the so-called special interest groups, voters always have multiple interests.
It's something everyone should keep in mind. But I NEVER bought into warnings that blacks would abandon Obama over this. He hasn't done anything to harm black interests and fair enough to help them. And his power as a symbol is therefore great enough for the black community for them to give him the benefit of a doubt.
Similarly, not convinced that Republicans will make inroads into the Latino community. And they sure as hell won't into the Asian American community. They had their chance in the 1990s and they threw it away.
Blacks have been voting 90%+ for Dems for decades now. And in most cases those candidates they cast ballots for were white. Hateful cynics on the other side will proclaim that it's racist for the vast majority of blacks to "support Obama because they only like him for being black." (It's the meme that Limbaugh helped establish when he said that Colin Powell, probably America's greatest living war hero, only endorsed Obama cuz he's black. It's a vicious insult to a highly respected General, and how the hell does Limbaugh know anyway?)
But first, untrue...Pres. Clinton, for example, had approval ratings among blacks that were nearly as high, and he got the same % of the black vote. Second, what the hell is so wrong about blacks having a special pride in Obama, particularly given our nation's history?
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Gretchen G.Tiger Fri, May 11, 2012 10:08:47am |
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 10:09:09am |
re: #295 iossarian
Maybe Russians in NYC support Republicans because they're nostalgic for government that is harshly authoritarian, unaccountable and rife with cronyism.
Also keep in mind that we're looking at NYC Republicans. Yeah, that one group headed by Arkadiy Fridman backs Romney.
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 10:09:12am |
re: #293 darthstar
Oh bumpersticker...I'll add those now.
Done...the square sticker has a better perspective on the image...I'll have to make a new template for the wide bumper sticker.
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gwangung Fri, May 11, 2012 10:10:30am |
re: #297 palomino
Second, what the hell is so wrong about blacks having a special pride in Obama, particularly given our nation's history?
Nothing, if you're a normal, thinking human being.
Everything in the world, if you're a Republican these days, apparently...
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lawhawk Fri, May 11, 2012 10:11:10am |
re: #292 NJDhockeyfan
Saw them at Giants Stadium 10th row when they were on the Pulse Tour (when they played DSOTM). Amazing show.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 10:11:53am |
Yeah. Aversion to "big government." Like big government telling people who they can or cannot marry. And whether or not they can have an abortion. That's just for starters. You know. This all comes from THAT political party. Doesn't begin with a "D".
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lawhawk Fri, May 11, 2012 10:13:13am |
re: #303 Gus
Big government. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 10:17:04am |
re: #302 lawhawk
Saw them at Giants Stadium 10th row when they were on the Pulse Tour (when they played DSOTM). Amazing show.
I saw them at Giants Stadium in 1988 and Nassau Coliseum a few months later. They recorded the Nassau Coliseum concert and put out a video of the concert. My roommate didn't make it and I have her unused ticket.
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palomino Fri, May 11, 2012 10:17:23am |
re: #303 Gus
Yeah. Aversion to "big government." Like big government telling people who they can or cannot marry. And whether or not they can have an abortion. That's just for starters. You know. This all comes from THAT political party. Doesn't begin with a "D".
One reason for the gender gap is that women are far less suspicious of the kind of "big govt" that Republicans hate so much. The kind of big govt they fear is the one you mentioned, that gets all up in their lady parts.
When govt gets too big, of course problems ensue. But the GOP seems to be taking the extreme position that govt.--one of the hallmarks of modern civilization--should be as small as possible and do as little as possible, which is a step backward in the development of fully functional democracies.
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 10:17:23am |
re: #304 lawhawk
Big government. They keep using that word. I do not think it means what they think it means.
It means "Goverment that does stuff I don't like (or at least don't like having to pay for in taxes)."
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darthstar Fri, May 11, 2012 10:18:55am |
re: #292 NJDhockeyfan
Major awesome! I saw Pink Floyd twice during the Delicate Sounds of Thunder tour and they did a bunch of The Wall songs. Too bad Roger Waters wasn't with the band.
Who is in Roger Water's band?
Not sure...but it should be a good show. I'll take lots of pics and post some.
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 10:19:02am |
re: #303 Gus
Yeah. Aversion to "big government." Like big government telling people who they can or cannot marry. And whether or not they can have an abortion. That's just for starters. You know. This all comes from THAT political party. Doesn't begin with a "D".
Oops.
NYS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NYSEDAP)
ROUND #2 ALLOCATION PLAN
Staten Island Community Center $250,000
Arkadiy Fridman - President of SICC
That's the same "Republican Russian" mentioned in the NY Times piece.
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Lidane Fri, May 11, 2012 10:19:14am |
re: #306 palomino
But the GOP seems to be taking the extreme position that govt.--one of the hallmarks of modern civilization--should be as small as possible and do as little as possible, which is a step backward in the development of fully functional democracies.
The problem is, they believe that government should only be small and ineffective if it impacts their investment portfolio. They've got no problems making government as big and obtrusive as possible when it comes to women, gays, minorities, etc.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 10:19:26am |
re: #303 Gus
Yeah. Aversion to "big government." Like big government telling people who they can or cannot marry. And whether or not they can have an abortion. That's just for starters. You know. This all comes from THAT political party. Doesn't begin with a "D".
The simple fact is that the mainstream and even most of the fringes of both parties aren't really for "smaller government". Rather, they're all for sizable government intervention some areas and often less in others. All "smaller government" means to much of the current GOP is "Screw helping people that aren't rich, white, and male."
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AK-47% Fri, May 11, 2012 10:19:32am |
re: #306 palomino
When govt gets too big, of course problems ensue. But the GOP seems to be taking the extreme position that govt.--one of the hallmarks of modern civilization--should be as small as possible and do as little as possible, which is a step backward in the development of fully functional democracies.
I agree with Jefferson in that "the government is best that governs least", bu the GOP is dominated by ideologues like Grover Norquist who take it to the extreme of "The ideal government is the one that does nothing at all (except legislate morality)".
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iossarian Fri, May 11, 2012 10:19:53am |
re: #309 Gus
Oops.
NYS ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT ASSISTANCE PROGRAM (NYSEDAP)
ROUND #2 ALLOCATION PLAN
Staten Island Community Center $250,000
Arkadiy Fridman - President of SICCThat's the same "Republican Russian" mentioned in the NY Times piece.
WHAT'S A COMMUNITY CENTER IS IT LIKE A COMMUNITY ORGANISER SOUNDS GAY TO ME HURR DURR
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Gus Fri, May 11, 2012 10:20:52am |
re: #313 iossarian
WHAT'S A COMMUNITY CENTER IS IT LIKE A COMMUNITY ORGANISER SOUNDS GAY TO ME HURR DURR
Methinks Mr. Fridman is talking out of his ass. Saying one thing and then grabbing "government money" with the other hand. Typical.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 10:21:18am |
As for me, I don't care about the size of government beyond wanting it to be as big as it needs to be, but no bigger.
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Feline Emperor of the Conservative Waste Fri, May 11, 2012 10:22:51am |
re: #315 Simply Sarah
As for me, I don't care about the size of government beyond wanting it to be as big as it needs to be, but no bigger.
But you don't want it to be run like a business? Oh wait, the goal of a lot of businesses is continual growth...
/
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NJDhockeyfan Fri, May 11, 2012 10:23:37am |
re: #308 darthstar
Not sure...but it should be a good show. I'll take lots of pics and post some.
Please do. I hope they come here. I would go see them in a heart beat. I would have loved to have been at the concert in Berlin in 1990.
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allegro Fri, May 11, 2012 10:55:07am |
re: #315 Simply Sarah
I don't care about big or small. Those terms are meaningless. I want effective government, one that meets the needs for the greater good in those things a government can do best by economy of scale and good sense as in education, infrastructure, single payer health (see Medicare and the VA system), law enforcement, environmental industry regulation, anti-trust, safety net programs, etc.
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Simply Sarah Fri, May 11, 2012 10:55:51am |
re: #318 allegro
I don't care about big or small. Those terms are meaningless. I want effective government, one that meets the needs for the greater good in those things a government can do best by economy of scale and good sense as in education, infrastructure, single payer health (see Medicare and the VA system), law enforcement, environmental industry regulation, anti-trust, safety net programs, etc.
Exactly. I was basically trying to say as much in my own flippant manner.
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