A short documentary film about my grandfather and his passion for cycling. I made this as a gift for his 80th birthday (or his ‘4th 20th birthday’, as he likes to say).
Filming and editing : Florent Piovesan
Titles : AmsMusic :
Cliff Martinez - He Had A Good Time
Cliff Martinez - I Drive
Mike Patton - Snow Angel
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TedStriker May 18, 2014 8:31:23pm |
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:34:28pm |
re: #1 Charles Johnson
Notice: he wears a helmet.
Said 80 year old cyclist also wears a helmet. pic.twitter.com/Akf4rrxRXg— Gus (@Gus_802) May 19, 2014
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The War TARDIS May 18, 2014 8:35:39pm |
My Best Friend, she fell head over heels for the person her parents found for her in Pakistan.
She decided to stay. Without anyone to share things with, I cancelled most summer plans.
I didn’t get the job either. I am going to have all but two friends leave by July. Meaning I am stuck at a stressful customer service job, with low pay, no-one to share things with, and being a failure of a human being.
Because, why else would my heart be crushed like this. She will still talk to me, and plan on vacations here, but I can’t go anywhere with them.
I just want something good to last for once. But it isn’t in the cards.
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Charles Johnson May 18, 2014 8:36:03pm |
That was one of the more freakish exchanges I’ve had on Twitter. Being accused of taking something out of context by quoting the exact words. Wow. Are these people drunk or something?
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:37:01pm |
re: #5 jaunte
Join helmet or die.
A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to not wear a cycling helmet shall not be infringed.
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:42:01pm |
re: #8 Charles Johnson
That was one of the more freakish exchanges I’ve had on Twitter. Being accused of taking something out of context by quoting the exact words. Wow. Are these people drunk or something?
Vox is already a club.
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TedStriker May 18, 2014 8:43:03pm |
re: #8 Charles Johnson
That was one of the more freakish exchanges I’ve had on Twitter. Being accused of taking something out of context by quoting the exact words. Wow. Are these people drunk or something?
‘Completely insane’ fits.
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jaunte May 18, 2014 8:43:23pm |
re: #10 Gus
We can’t just criticize the author’s actual written words without also factoring in the subtle emanations of their unspoken positive intentions.
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:44:04pm |
“Every year in this country around 19,000 cyclists are killed or injured in reported road accidents.” http://t.co/VTNAZSNZKb— Gus (@Gus_802) May 19, 2014
“Around three quarters of cyclists killed have major head injuries.”— Gus (@Gus_802) May 19, 2014
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Lidane May 18, 2014 8:44:21pm |
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:45:22pm |
Head injuries, ranging from fatal skull fractures and brain damage to minor concussion and cuts, are very common injuries to cyclists. Hospital data shows that over 40% of cyclists, and 45% of child cyclists, suffer head injuries. A study of 116 fatal cyclist accidents in London and rural areas found over 70% of the cyclist fatalities in London had moderate or serious head injuries in London, and over 80% of those killed in collisions on rural roads.
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:46:34pm |
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:49:15pm |
Pedestrians, cyclists among main road traffic crash victims
Half of 1.27 million people who die in road traffic crashes every year are pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists, finds new WHO study.
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EmmaAnne May 18, 2014 8:49:25pm |
re: #17 Gus
Head injuries, ranging from fatal skull fractures and brain damage to minor concussion and cuts, are very common injuries to cyclists. Hospital data shows that over 40% of cyclists, and 45% of child cyclists, suffer head injuries. A study of 116 fatal cyclist accidents in London and rural areas found over 70% of the cyclist fatalities in London had moderate or serious head injuries in London, and over 80% of those killed in collisions on rural roads.
Concussion here, as well as several teeth knocked loose, leading to long-term dental problems. This was many years ago when most people didn’t wear helmets, but I certainly never went without one again.
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jaunte May 18, 2014 8:50:31pm |
re: #19 The War TARDIS
Try not to worry so much. To use your card analogy, they will keep being dealt. Just be aware when the time comes.
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b_sharp May 18, 2014 8:50:41pm |
re: #19 The War TARDIS
Sorry for butting in.
You aren’t butting in. You’re a member of the site, but I don’t think anyone knows what to say to you.
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:51:26pm |
Approximately 1.3 million people die each year on the world’s roads, and between 20 and 50 million sustain non-fatal injuries. The Global status report on road safety is the first broad assessment of the road safety situation in 178 countries, using data drawn from a standardized survey. The results show that road traffic injuries remain an important public health problem, particularly for low-income and middle-income countries. Pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists make up almost half of those killed on the roads, highlighting the need for these road users to be given more attention in road safety programmes. The results suggest that in many countries road safety laws need to be made more comprehensive while enforcement should be strengthened. The Global status report on road safety results clearly show that significantly more action is needed to make the world’s roads safer.
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The War TARDIS May 18, 2014 8:52:54pm |
re: #22 jaunte
To use your analogy, I can’t imagine having a good deal of cards happen where it isn’t reversed two hands later.
I feel like The Doctor in the The Snowman.
Except I know for a fact there will be no Clara.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 8:54:47pm |
re: #19 The War TARDIS
Sorry for butting in.
Don’t be. I noticed. If you wish, I’ll add you to my daily prayers?
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Charles Johnson May 18, 2014 8:55:00pm |
Uh oh, that dudebro’s throwing a little fit because I blocked and started ignoring him. Now I’m supposed to “own up to what I did.” Un-freaking-real.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 8:56:11pm |
re: #22 jaunte
Try not to worry so much. To use your card analogy, they will keep being dealt. Just be aware when the time comes.
True enough. I’m in the middle of some seriously shitty hands. I’ve had good ones & worse ones though and tomorrow is another day. As long as I’m on this side of the daisies, I’m happy.
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Gus May 18, 2014 8:56:30pm |
Pedestrians, cyclists among main road traffic crash victims
Half of 1.27 million people who die in road traffic crashes every year are pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists, finds new WHO study.
News release
15 June 2006 | Geneva/New York - The first global assessment of road safety finds that almost half of the estimated 1.27 million people who die in road traffic crashes every year are pedestrians, motorcyclists and cyclists. While progress has been made towards protecting people in cars, the needs of these vulnerable groups of road users are not being met.
The Global status report on road safety published today provides the first worldwide analysis of how well countries are implementing a number of effective road safety measures. These include limiting speed, reducing drink-driving, and increasing the use of seatbelts, child restraints and motorcycle helmets. Funded by Bloomberg Philanthropies, the report presents information from 178 countries, accounting for over 98% of the world’s population. It uses a standardized method that allows comparisons between countries to be made.
“We found that in many countries, the laws necessary to protect people are either not in place or are not comprehensive. And even when there is adequate legislation, most countries report that their enforcement is low,” said WHO Director-General Dr Margaret Chan. “We are not giving sufficient attention to the needs of pedestrians, cyclists and motorcyclists many of whom end up in clinics and hospitals. We must do better if we are to halt or reverse the rise in road traffic injuries, disability and deaths.”
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TedStriker May 18, 2014 8:56:42pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 8:57:37pm |
re: #27 Charles Johnson
Uh oh, that dudebro’s throwing a little fit because I blocked and started ignoring him. Now I’m supposed to “own up to what I did.” Un-freaking-real.
If I tweeted I’d go laugh at him. But that’s one of the biggest reasons I don’t. I have better things to do with my life than piss into the wind at dudebros on Twitter.
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Shiplord Kirel May 18, 2014 8:59:38pm |
With your indulgence, a re-post from the dead thread.
Someone mentioned being old enough to associate the initials “OAS” with the Organization of American States.
Well, I’m so old I still associate “OAS” with the Organisation de l’armée secrète, a very nasty French terrorist gang that opposed Algerian independence in the early 1960s.
The OAS operated mostly within the French army and had few if any scruples about its methods. They tried to assassinate President Charles DeGaulle and writer Jean-Paul Sartre and did assassinate many others. At one point in 1962, the OAS was setting off more than a hundred bombs a day. They gleefully massacred Arabs and routinely killed french civilians and fellow French soldiers. One fight between OAS gunmen and loyal troops resulted in 35 fatalities.
The organization was eventually broken up and its members imprisoned. Several OAS hitmen were executed but the leaders, including General Raoul Salan, got off lightly in comparison to the atrocities they had committed. Salan was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment. He was released in 1968 and re-instated in the army at his former rank in 1982. He died of natural causes in 1984.
In later years, OAS veterans were a factor in many, many anti-insurgency and subversion operations in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
The OAS still has a supposed presence in French right wing circles. It is generally “credited” with inventing the car bomb, or at least popularizing it.
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The War TARDIS May 18, 2014 8:59:48pm |
re: #26 William Barnett-Lewis
Yeah, for a miracle.
Because half of this isn’t in my control. And when it isn’t it always goes against me.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 8:59:50pm |
re: #25 The War TARDIS
During the worst period of my life (thus far!) I adopted this song as my personal theme song:
I still haven’t… ;)
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:02:26pm |
re: #34 The War TARDIS
Yeah, for a miracle.
Because half of this isn’t in my control. And when it isn’t it always goes against me.
Simply being alive is a miracle to begin with. Keep using what you’ve been given and you may find more of them.
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The War TARDIS May 18, 2014 9:03:25pm |
re: #35 William Barnett-Lewis
Heh. I had the last of my optimism blown off today.
You will literally have to have a real-life equivalent to Clara come into my life to convince me the Universe isn’t set against me.
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:04:40pm |
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:06:27pm |
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Charles Johnson May 18, 2014 9:07:23pm |
Watch - now the stalkers will contact that guy. This kind of stuff gets them all lathered up.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:09:02pm |
re: #37 The War TARDIS
Heh. I had the last of my optimism blown off today.
You will literally have to have a real-life equivalent to Clara come into my life to convince me the Universe isn’t set against me.
I’ve had that happen. About 19 years ago.
I’ve also had her walk away. Not nastily perhaps, but none-the-less…
Less than a month ago.
Gotta keep plugging.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:12:47pm |
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel
Hadn’t thought of those slime in a very long time. Not quite old enough to know of them from the news, but I remember the first time I read “Day of the Jackal” with it’s plot against de Gaulle.
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:13:11pm |
Conspiracy!
Excellent TEDxTalk. One of my favs. The most telling reality he describes is how auto manufacturers are pushing for bicycle helmets not because they care about the safety of bikers, but to scare people away from bicycles. The health benefits of bicycling are awesome. Bicycling is fun, freeing, good exercise and more.
From this derp: ▶ TEDxCopenhagen - Mikael Colville-Andersen - Why We Shouldn’t Bike with a Helmet - YouTube
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:15:46pm |
He compares approving bike helmets to approving vaccines.
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Eclectic Cyborg May 18, 2014 9:17:13pm |
I completely owned a “states rights” fool earlier tonight.
He was telling me how Federal Courts should stay out of the gay marriage issue and respect the wishes of the voters on that and anything else.
I then replied to him: “Ok, so what if the residents in New York voted to ban guns?”
I still haven’t heard back.
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The War TARDIS May 18, 2014 9:19:11pm |
re: #41 William Barnett-Lewis
I don’t have the energy anymore.
All the messages I get on singlemuslim.com are all people trying to take advantage of me from overseas.
If I saw one damn sign of hope, I would get back up.
But one friend will go to England in late June. The other works for Lankford’s campaign here. Polling shows him losing, she will go elsewhere in July or August likely. Hell, I would register as Republican if I could just to make sure he wins, and she stays here a little longer.
One friend is back in August, but will graduate in May. Then gone to Pakistan.
Leaving my Imam.
My Dad was just a big a jackass as ever over the weekend, and my Grandfather is beginning to weaken mentally. Under siege from all sides, with no sign of aid.
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:21:47pm |
“Auto manufacturers are pushing for bicycle helmets.”
Uh huh.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:23:01pm |
re: #47 The War TARDIS
Leaving my Imam.
I seriously can’t help you with any of the rest from here, but I can say this -
Don’t.
Right now I know my priest is the only one keeping me something resembling sane. From what I see of you across the net, I know you need that too.
I’ll just say this then I won’t mention it again: Please don’t?
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Lidane May 18, 2014 9:25:15pm |
re: #35 William Barnett-Lewis
Excellent choice. I’m also partial to this one:
It’s impossible for me to stay in a bad mood when I play it.
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Mattand May 18, 2014 9:25:24pm |
re: #8 Charles Johnson
That was one of the more freakish exchanges I’ve had on Twitter. Being accused of taking something out of context by quoting the exact words. Wow. Are these people drunk or something?
I think Newt Gingrich pulled something like back in 2011 or so. IIRC, people were pointing out that he was Team Health Insurance Mandate until Teh Seecret Muzlim in the White House™ got behind it.
I think he said something to the effect than anyone quoting his past statements were illegitimate or they weren’t factual or something.
It’s a Republican thing. I don’t get it, because I’m not brain damaged.
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Jocko's Rocket Ship May 18, 2014 9:32:56pm |
I know what the Vox write was getting at, but it had the economist-type, removed-from-reality argument that drives me crazy. There is always initial resistance to safety laws, but they work in the long run as the action becomes the norm. A helmet is a no-brainer for bicyclists.
Also, there is no way that biking is as safe as walking or driving. I’m not going to bother backing it up because it’s obviously wrong. It’s certainly not as safe in the area we are trying to promote, commuting in urban areas. Biking in the city is intense, it takes 100% attention to every detail that change every second. I love that it’s challenging - I get locked in and my brain works faster than any other time - and that I have more control over my commute -it’s quicker by a lot - but I’m acutely aware that it’s more dangerous.
But I do agree with the Idaho law. Stop signs are yields and red lights are stop signs. If I had to stop at every stop sign, I’d quit biking. Plus, it would push bikers off side streets and onto more dangerous busy thoroughfares where they muck up traffic if there isn’t a bike lane.
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The War TARDIS May 18, 2014 9:36:20pm |
re: #47 The War TARDIS
This was me taking stock of what I have at this point.
I do have one friend’s family who wants to be sure I am ok, and be happy. I am un-related uncle to my friends child.
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darthstar May 18, 2014 9:36:33pm |
Just watched GOT: Note to contractors…forget the moon door.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:38:36pm |
re: #52 Jocko’s Rocket Ship
But I do agree with the Idaho law. Stop signs are yields and red lights are stop signs. If I had to stop at every stop sign, I’d quit biking. Plus, it would push bikers off side streets and onto more dangerous busy thoroughfares where they muck up traffic if there isn’t a bike lane.
The real danger in this idea? The idiot cagers (my motorcycling past is showing through & WE’RE more visible than you!) will see them doing this, find out the “justification” and start doing it too. How many dead will be needed before it’s seen as the bad idea that it is?
Yeah, coming to a full stop is a pain. But I’d rather suffer that than kiss a grill at even 20 mph. I like my legs and my head intact.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:39:39pm |
re: #53 The War TARDIS
And you do have us. Please do no denigrate that.
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darthstar May 18, 2014 9:39:45pm |
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:40:09pm |
re: #52 Jocko’s Rocket Ship
You stand. I learned how to stand on my bike.
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Shiplord Kirel May 18, 2014 9:41:20pm |
re: #42 William Barnett-Lewis
Hadn’t thought of those slime in a very long time. Not quite old enough to know of them from the news, but I remember the first time I read “Day of the Jackal” with it’s plot against de Gaulle.
In the spring of 1962, the OAS and its depredations were the lead story for weeks on end, with footage from the previous day’s attacks jetted across the Atlantic in time for the evening news. The scale of the assault is almost unbelievable today, though its wanton cruelty set a pattern that is all too familiar these days. At one point, OAS gunmen massacred dozens of Arab cleaning ladies as they gathered at their employer’s office to be paid. The employer, a Frenchman, was also killed. Attacks on schools and even random groups of children were commonplace. Hospitals were blown up, bazaars bombed, and mortar shells were fired randomly into Arab neighborhoods. The authorities got the upper hand rather suddenly with Salan’s arrest and hundreds of terrorists were rounded up, but attacks continued at a reduced rate for the rest of the year.
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darthstar May 18, 2014 9:42:12pm |
re: #59 b_sharp
I’ve always wondered if that was possible.
And now you can die knowing it was.
/sorry…still on Game of Thrones mode here…
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The War TARDIS May 18, 2014 9:44:02pm |
re: #56 William Barnett-Lewis
I don’t, but things are…different in person. You can’t give hugs over the internet, and you can’t spend time in physical contact with a person.
The internet feels more cold, I guess.
Heh, it’s ironic, people talk about Autistic People having an easier time on the internet, but for me, I even eschew talking on the phone, because the voice is distorted.
I always, if I am able, communicate in person, or failing that, by text.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:45:37pm |
re: #57 darthstar
Someone had to hold up both sides till the key “monitor” was put in place. That’s really wild.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 9:47:51pm |
re: #62 The War TARDIS
I don’t, but things are…different in person. You can’t give hugs over the internet, and you can’t spend time in physical contact with a person.
The internet feels more cold, I guess.
Heh, it’s ironic, people talk about Autistic People having an easier time on the internet, but for me, I even eschew talking on the phone, because the voice is distorted.
I always, if I am able, communicate in person, or failing that, by text.
Well, you can always send a message to wlewisiii via google mail if you desire. Can’t say how much _good_ it’ll do, but it’s there.
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:51:20pm |
Pierre Omidyar in 2009: “Anybody who publishes stolen info should help catch the thief” http://t.co/xyxwHHm3lv— Jean (@setislady) May 18, 2014
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:52:05pm |
@loic I said ystrdy: @techcrunch and anybody else who pubs stolen info should help catch the thief. Shldnt pub in the 1st place.— Pierre Omidyar (@pierre) July 16, 2009
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Gus May 18, 2014 9:54:00pm |
re: #67 Lidane
That sound you hear is my irony meter going ‘splodey.
Big time! I’m laughing here. Double plus good.
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Gus May 18, 2014 10:02:03pm |
To catch a thief. By Pierre Omidyar. https://t.co/seRzseGMqP— Gus (@Gus_802) May 19, 2014
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SteveMcGazi May 18, 2014 10:07:41pm |
re: #62 The War TARDIS
I don’t, but things are…different in person. You can’t give hugs over the internet, and you can’t spend time in physical contact with a person.
The internet feels more cold, I guess.
Heh, it’s ironic, people talk about Autistic People having an easier time on the internet, but for me, I even eschew talking on the phone, because the voice is distorted.
I always, if I am able, communicate in person, or failing that, by text.
I’m finding out the hard way that you can’t depend on people. If you have to get something off your chest, do it here where people only know you by handle. I’ve been finding myself abandoned by everybody I know and I haven’t even done anything to deserve it. People just bailing left and right. People who said they’d be there for me don’t have room in their lives. The darndest thing was I needed so little.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 10:14:12pm |
“You only hear the music
When your heart begins to break”
And with that, I’ll leave for the night, Goodnight & godspeed.
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Jocko's Rocket Ship May 18, 2014 10:22:53pm |
re: #55 William Barnett-Lewis
Ok, just curious, where do you live and do you bike in a city?
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Gus May 18, 2014 10:24:28pm |
Sorry @MonaHol @pierre @ggreenwald, you can't sit with us. #PayPal14 pic.twitter.com/VOemLY9Sqj— AutonomousOperations (@YourRevoCentral) May 19, 2014
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piratedan May 18, 2014 10:38:38pm |
if these folks seriously think that they’re safer riding without a helmet, can they do us all a favor and activate themselves as organ donors… just because you want to be willfully stupid doesn’t mean that you still can’t be useful.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 18, 2014 10:46:39pm |
re: #73 Jocko’s Rocket Ship
Ok, just curious, where do you live and do you bike in a city?
Now? In the boonies. I’ll even ride a bicycle to work up here because it’s not suicidal.
Before? Madison WI where we suffered from bicycle riding road rage on a weekly basis. I have little love and less respect for bicycles. I started CCW before it was legal in Wisconsin because of my fear of bicycle riders.
The worst thing though is that car drivers are even worse.
Take it as you will.
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Gus May 18, 2014 10:54:16pm |
R.E.M. - World Leader Pretend: http://t.co/X5twWR8jAc— Gus (@Gus_802) May 19, 2014
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Gus May 18, 2014 11:00:01pm |
Five for Fighting - World: http://t.co/k9ucEFS0xk— Gus (@Gus_802) May 19, 2014
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Kragar May 18, 2014 11:21:55pm |
Maybe talk to your GOP buddies and tell them do something besides sabotage the government @realDonaldTrump— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) May 19, 2014
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Gus May 18, 2014 11:27:09pm |
Paisajes de Catamarca - Los Chalchaleros: http://t.co/hk8MbM1uUl— Gus (@Gus_802) May 19, 2014
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Alyosha May 19, 2014 1:44:18am |
re: #80 Kragar
[Embedded content]
I always have to double-check that an imbedded Donald Trump tweet isn’t by the Donald Drumpf mock account.
Not that it makes a great deal of difference. The man is a self-parody.
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Rev_Arthur_Belling May 19, 2014 3:49:47am |
re: #34 The War TARDIS
Yeah, for a miracle.
Because half of this isn’t in my control. And when it isn’t it always goes against me.
I read your post above, and I’m not sure if you’re around, but I just wanted to encourage you to hang in there. I went through a pretty shitty time recently, and I seem to be on an upward trend.
One of the things that has helped me through this is a saying: “You cannot control what life and other people do, only your own reaction.”
You mentioned that you don’t have someone to do things with. Perhaps try meetup.com, or some local hobby-based group and meet some new people to do things with. I know it’s hard, but find some things you can do that will absorb your attention away from whatever negative emotions you are feeling.
Hope things get better for you soon.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 3:56:53am |
Oh wow, first we have to put up with insane twittering by the ‘bagger types, now the libertarian dudebros? Makes me doubly glad I never opened an acct.
Too many people use twittering as the exact opposite of a reasoned, civil approach to communications.
But—keep calm and carry on.
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Rev_Arthur_Belling May 19, 2014 4:00:14am |
re: #85 Justanotherhuman
Oh wow, first we have to put up with insane twittering by the ‘bagger types, now the libertarian dudebros? Makes me doubly glad I never opened an acct.
Too many people use twittering as the exact opposite of a reasoned, civil approach to communications.
But—stay calm and carry on.
Eh, I have an account I use for work-related stuff. Fortunately, even though it’s tangentially related to politics, I don’t get a lot of dudebro seepage. Twitter’s a tool, a platform, and you can tailor it to suit your interests. I’m more disappointed when I see that shit on my FB feed. Lost respect for quite a few people I’ve known over the years when I see what kind of derp they post on their timeline.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 4:01:34am |
re: #85 Justanotherhuman
Too many people use twittering as the exact opposite of a reasoned, civil approach to communications.
Twitter is for posting photos of what you had for lunch or telling us who you are hanging with and where. It does not allow for any sort of nuanced, reasoned political discussion, just spreading memes and spouting talking points.
on the other hand, that is pretty much all that most news media do these days, anyways…
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 4:03:09am |
Is Russia rethinking its strategy or is it the same old, same old with them, that is, lies, more lies, and more damned lies?
More: Lavrov says Slovakia’s decision to allow for reverse gas flows to Ukraine does not violate agreements with Gazprom and Russian government - @Reuters
Russian Foreign Minister Lavrov says Russia’s relations with the EU and NATO require ‘rethinking’ due to Ukraine crisis - @Reuters
End of alert
NATO sees no sign of Russian troops returning to bases after drills near Ukraine, NATO military officer says - @Reuters
End of alert
Update: Moscow urges Ukraine’s government to withdraw troops from southeast Ukraine - Interfax
Kremlin says Russia’s President Putin has ordered troops near Ukraine to return to their home bases - @AP
End of alert
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Rev_Arthur_Belling May 19, 2014 4:06:48am |
re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Twitter is for posting photos of what you had for lunch or telling us who you are hanging with and where. It does not allow for any sort of nuanced, reasoned political discussion, just spreading memes and spouting talking points.
This is where I think my point above comes in. Twitter can be more than that. And there are people who use it for more than that, to promote worthwhile content that they’ve found elsewhere on the web, to live tweet from a conference or event, and to talk about particular industry issues (the whole # chat phenomenon). I find it very useful for those things.
But again, I stay away from the overtly political on Twitter, because you’re right, it’s not nuanced or thoughtful.
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Rev_Arthur_Belling May 19, 2014 4:08:49am |
Just as an example, if I were into cooking, I could follow a bunch of people who are focused on cooking (not all major media outlets) and get ideas for cooking, maybe some inspiration, maybe connect and engage with other people who enjoy cooking who wouldn’t be on a forum or major web site.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 4:12:29am |
re: #86 Rev_Arthur_Belling
Eh, I have an account I use for work-related stuff. Fortunately, even though it’s tangentially related to politics, I don’t get a lot of dudebro seepage. Twitter’s a tool, a platform, and you can tailor it to suit your interests. I’m more disappointed when I see that shit on my FB feed. Lost respect for quite a few people I’ve known over the years when I see what kind of derp they post on their timeline.
I don’t do FB, either. Only “social” stuff I do online is here.
I like to think I pick my friends wisely, not just have them reflect off me. I like to learn from others, and I hope I teach them a little bit, too. That’s the kind of social interaction I like.
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Rev_Arthur_Belling May 19, 2014 4:20:40am |
re: #91 Justanotherhuman
I don’t do FB, either. Only “social” stuff I do online is here.
I like to think I pick my friends wisely, not just have them reflect off me. I like to learn from others, and I hope I teach them a little bit, too. That’s the kind of social interaction I like.
To each his/her own. :) I’m certainly not saying everyone should have a Twitter or FB account.
I didn’t do FB for a long time, but I started using it a couple of years ago, and it’s good for keeping up with some local people coordinating events and such, and family goings-on. It’s okay, but I may start drawing back from it. I try to set certain boundaries for myself on any “social” site. I will post stuff here, for instance, that I wouldn’t post on FB or Twitter. I guess I have little compartments I put each of them into.
As for Twitter, I’ve never used it for any type of “friend” purpose. It’s just another source of information for me, and I find it helpful for my job. If I weren’t in the field I’m in, I wouldn’t use Twitter at all.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 4:21:20am |
China recovers space debris: State media
BEIJING (AFP) - Objects that crashed to the ground in China have been identified as space debris, state media reported, after a Russian rocket carrying a communications satellite fell back to Earth minutes after lift-off.
“Qiqihar city in the northeastern province of Heilongjiang, which borders Russia’s far east, reported that several objects appeared to have fallen from the sky on Friday, the Xinhua news agency said.
“After analysis, experts have concluded they were “parts from a carrier rocket or a satellite”, Xinhua said Sunday, citing the China National Space Administration.” More
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 4:36:32am |
re: #33 Shiplord Kirel
With your indulgence, a re-post from the dead thread.
Someone mentioned being old enough to associate the initials “OAS” with the Organization of American States.
Well, I’m so old I still associate “OAS” with the Organisation de l’armée secrète, a very nasty French terrorist gang that opposed Algerian independence in the early 1960s.
The OAS operated mostly within the French army and had few if any scruples about its methods. They tried to assassinate President Charles DeGaulle and writer Jean-Paul Sartre and did assassinate many others. At one point in 1962, the OAS was setting off more than a hundred bombs a day. They gleefully massacred Arabs and routinely killed french civilians and fellow French soldiers. One fight between OAS gunmen and loyal troops resulted in 35 fatalities.
The organization was eventually broken up and its members imprisoned. Several OAS hitmen were executed but the leaders, including General Raoul Salan, got off lightly in comparison to the atrocities they had committed. Salan was sentenced to death, but this was commuted to life imprisonment. He was released in 1968 and re-instated in the army at his former rank in 1982. He died of natural causes in 1984.
In later years, OAS veterans were a factor in many, many anti-insurgency and subversion operations in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East.
The OAS still has a supposed presence in French right wing circles. It is generally “credited” with inventing the car bomb, or at least popularizing it.
Indeed, a very nasty bunch. Their attempted assassination of Charles de Gaulle forms the opening scene of The Day Of The Jackal and from what I understand, it was quite faithfully recreated for the film.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 4:44:56am |
re: #92 Rev_Arthur_Belling
As a general rule, I restrict my FB contacts to people I know from Real Life® and wish to remain in contact with. It is useful for organizing events and posting photos, but I tend to keep away from political discussion, and I have unfriended people for getting to carried away on the political stuff there.
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 5:22:34am |
Once again, it is morning. It is beautiful and quite right now, but those in the know say it’s going to change in my part of the world.
It’s too early for the allergy report, but my sinus’s are most cranky.
you?
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 5:27:24am |
William Randolph Hearst is the reason Marijuana is illegal?
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 5:28:46am |
Heat Wave expected in Germany, temps pushing into the 90’s, which sounds piddling for anyone from the southern USA, but there are very, very few residential air conditioners in use here.
Fortunately I live in an old farmhouse with thick walls and roller blinds.
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 5:31:15am |
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Heat Wave expected in Germany, temps pushing into the 90’s, which sounds piddling for anyone from the southern USA, but there are very, very few residential air conditioners in use here.
Fortunately I live in an old farmhouse with thick walls and roller blinds.
Looks like it’ll get up 84° F here in Ostrava by Sunday, and much like in Germany, yeah……there’s very little in the way of residential A/C around here.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 5:31:20am |
Temp here is 52, it’s expected to go up to the 70’s today.
We are going to Canada for the holiday weekend.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 5:31:46am |
We have only used the AC one day this year.
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JustMark May 19, 2014 5:35:23am |
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Heat Wave expected in Germany, temps pushing into the 90’s, which sounds piddling for anyone from the southern USA, but there are very, very few residential air conditioners in use here.
Fortunately I live in an old farmhouse with thick walls and roller blinds.
I went to HS in Germany and remember how temps in the 80s would lay the locals out. Our school didn’t have AC either, but we had those huge turboprop fans that would drown out all but the most determined teacher.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 5:40:47am |
Make your bed, brush your teeth, wash your face, comb your hair, tie your shoes, eat your veggies, keep doing trivial shit so you don’t have any time for “changing the world.”
Words of wisdom from Admiral McRaven to new grads: “If you want to change the world, start off by making your bed.” http://t.co/0eDZuYu4lu— Senator Ted Cruz (@SenTedCruz) May 19, 2014
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 5:42:53am |
re: #103 Pie-onist Overlord
Make your bed, brush your teeth, wash your face, comb your hair, tie your shoes, eat your veggies, keep doing trivial shit so you don’t have any time for “changing the world.”
And the Admiral better be able to bounce a quarter off those covers, seaman, or it’s galley duty for the next two weeks!
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 5:44:48am |
I attended a junior high school in Gary, Indiana, that was designed to have AC…but the school board sorta ran out of money to install it…and somehow managed to install the insulation backwards so that it kept the heat in instead of out.
So there were only two small windows in each classroom that opened and whenever temps got above 85° they had to cancel classes. We finally wound up going to school like German kids: from 7.30 am until 1:30 pm without a lunch break.
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 5:49:54am |
Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney were both born in 1947. Remember how the #GOP worried about Mitt's age? Me neither.— BADGOP (@BADGOP) May 19, 2014
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 5:53:28am |
U.S. Charges China With Cyber-Spying on American Firms
“The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against several Chinese government officials, accusing them of stealing American trade secrets through cyber espionage, according to U.S. officials familiar with the case.
“It’s the first time the United States has brought hacking charges against a state actor.
(snip)
“The charges will name several individuals who are Chinese government employees, according to a U.S. official. “They used military and intelligence facilities to commit cyber espionage against U.S. companies,” the official said.” More
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 5:54:01am |
Oklahoma Legislators Don’t Want Their Schoolchildren To Learn About Science http://t.co/3qZXMrXnPZ via crooksandliars— politicalgrrls (@PoliticalGrrls) May 19, 2014
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 5:59:10am |
re: #108 FemNaziBitch
Also from ‘Crooks and Liars’;
Stewart Rhodes of the Oathkeepers admits to distributing thousands of dollars worth of ammunition to Bundy’s militia supporters on the ranch that he suspected were “mentally imbalanced.”
Rhodes at the 38:4 mark says:
The problem is there are a few, a small handful of complete nuts who are not kicked off the property …. My point is, is that there are true — like mentally imbalanced people who are allowed to stay there with weapons. And those are the ones who threatened to shoot my guys. Those are the guys who went running back to their — their truck and got an AR and came runnin back to draw on my guy until they run away. He could-a shot him but he didn’t. They’re the ones who are putting their hands on their guns like this and posturing and going into a gun-fighter claw [holds right hand over gun in side holster with fingers in claw shape
*smh*
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darthstar May 19, 2014 5:59:41am |
?! MT @HDNER #Turkish PM’s adviser goes on sick leave for injury to leg used to kick protester http://t.co/YuQ2M7uMOq pic.twitter.com/UDGBZQOZDg— Anup Kaphle (@AnupKaphle) May 19, 2014
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Rev_Arthur_Belling May 19, 2014 6:01:52am |
re: #107 Justanotherhuman
U.S. Charges China With Cyber-Spying on American Firms
“The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against several Chinese government officials, accusing them of stealing American trade secrets through cyber espionage, according to U.S. officials familiar with the case.
“It’s the first time the United States has brought hacking charges against a state actor.
(snip)
“The charges will name several individuals who are Chinese government employees, according to a U.S. official. “They used military and intelligence facilities to commit cyber espionage against U.S. companies,” the official said.” More
BUT TEH NSA IS READING UR EMAILZ WORSER!
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 6:02:31am |
Meanwhile, in Libya:
Armed group attacks Libyan parliament
Government insists it is in control after attack on parliament by forces loyal to a renegade general.
Libya’s government has insisted it is still in control of the worsening security situation, even as an al-Qaeda-inspired group vowed to fight troops loyal to a renegade general behind an attack on the country’s parliament.
Gunmen launched an attack on the parliament in the capital Tripoli on Sunday and demanded its suspension and an airport in the Eastern city of Benghazi came under rocket attack early on Monday.
Later on Monday the al-Qaeda-inspired Lions of Monotheism Group said it would fight forces apparently loyal to a renegade Libyan general, Khalifa Hifter, after they attacked parliament and suspended its activities.
ETA: Succeeding where Operation American Spring failed.
*headdesk*
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:03:02am |
re: #109 Dr Lizardo
Also from ‘Crooks and Liars’;
*smh*
Yeah, My Dear Ole’ Dad wouldn’t have gone for that.
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:03:42am |
The allergy report is in, but I won’t be sharing it.
Far to abysmal.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 6:06:08am |
re: #112 Dr Lizardo
I read some reports that the leader of the Libyan uprising had spent some time in Langley, Virginia, where he even supposedly admitted having contact with the CIA. Anything behind those stories?
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:07:34am |
Debunking the Hemp Conspiracy Theory
Pot isn’t illegal because the paper industry is afraid of competing with hemp — it’s because of racism and the culture wars.
ah!
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:10:03am |
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:11:53am |
re: #107 Justanotherhuman
U.S. Charges China With Cyber-Spying on American Firms
“The Justice Department has filed criminal charges against several Chinese government officials, accusing them of stealing American trade secrets through cyber espionage, according to U.S. officials familiar with the case.
“It’s the first time the United States has brought hacking charges against a state actor.
(snip)
“The charges will name several individuals who are Chinese government employees, according to a U.S. official. “They used military and intelligence facilities to commit cyber espionage against U.S. companies,” the official said.” More
Stay tuned for categorical denials from China, and complaints that the US has hurt the Chinese people’s feelings by leveling such groundless accusations.
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Rev_Arthur_Belling May 19, 2014 6:12:01am |
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Killgore Trout was linking to that several times yesterday.
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 6:13:43am |
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I read some reports that the leader of the Libyan uprising had spent some time in Langley, Virginia, where he even supposedly admitted having contact with the CIA. Anything behind those stories?
Honestly, I don’t how true that is, but Gen. Hifter did live in VA for about 20 years or so before returning to Libya in 2011. And of course, Langley is home to The Shop, so I suppose anything’s possible.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:17:23am |
re: #121 FemNaziBitch
I like that photo. Any idea which country they are from?
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:19:07am |
re: #122 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
I like that photo. Any idea which country they are from?
None what so ever. Just one of those fb graphics.
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:24:24am |
I don’t know which is worse. The idea that William Randolph Hearst not racism and culture were responsible for marijuana being banned or the idea that a Capitalist has that much power being ignored.
Ah! Liberatarians …
Why, then, do so many people believe in the “hemp conspiracy”? First, it’s the influence of The Emperor Wears No Clothes ; many people inspired to cannabis activism by Jack Herer’s hemp-can-save-the-world vision and passionate denunciations of pot prohibition buy into the whole “conspiracy against marijuana” package. Another is that many stoners love a good conspiracy theory; secret cabals are simpler and sexier villains than sociopolitical forces. The conspiracist worldview, a hybrid of the who-really-killed-the-Kennedys suspicions of the ’60s left and the Bilderbergs-and-Illuminati demonology of the far right, is especially common in rural areas and among pothead Ron Paul supporters. Most people don’t have the historical or political knowledge to dispute a conspiracist flood of detailed half-truths.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 6:25:16am |
re: #115 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I read some reports that the leader of the Libyan uprising had spent some time in Langley, Virginia, where he even supposedly admitted having contact with the CIA. Anything behind those stories?
It seems true but I don’t believe the rumors that he might somehow still be acting on our behalf. From what I can tell this is a breakdown of the semiprivate militia system. Since the Libyans left most of these militias in tact after the revolution it was inevitable that someone would get ambitious and make a power grab.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:25:59am |
re: #123 FemNaziBitch
None what so ever. Just one of those fb graphics.
I just wondered if they were Nigerian kids. It’s impossible to tell from the uniforms, unfortunately.
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:26:43am |
re: #126 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
I just wondered if they were Nigerian kids. It’s impossible to tell from the uniforms, unfortunately.
Could be Jamaica or somewhere in the US for all I know.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 6:27:35am |
re: #127 FemNaziBitch
Could be Jamaica or somewhere in the US for all I know.
They are all waving little green and white flags.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 6:27:37am |
Wow, this is unexpected…
Libya orders Islamist militias to oppose rogue general
What a fucking mess.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:28:44am |
re: #127 FemNaziBitch
Could be Jamaica or somewhere in the US for all I know.
i doubt it’s the US. The uniforms and the kids have an African look about them. Kinda hard to explain unless you’ve been there. But Jamaica or one of the other Caribbean nations might be plausible, too.
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FemNaziBitch May 19, 2014 6:30:00am |
re: #128 Pie-onist Overlord
They are all waving little green and white flags.
Well, aren’t you chipper and observant in the morning!
:0
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darthstar May 19, 2014 6:30:31am |
Republicans killed their starship troopers immigration bill http://t.co/Prjs3DwRHn via @stevebenen— AdamSerwer (@AdamSerwer) May 19, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 6:31:04am |
re: #128 Pie-onist Overlord
They are all waving little green and white flags.
Given the crest you can see on some of them it might be Rhodesia pre-1979.
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 6:31:13am |
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:32:38am |
re: #128 Pie-onist Overlord
They are all waving little green and white flags.
Oh, good eye! I missed them. it’s the Nigerian flag.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 6:33:56am |
This reminds me of something.
Might be a good idea for someone to create a list of anti-Christian businesses #onward #godlessamerica— toddstarnes (@toddstarnes) May 19, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 6:35:10am |
“Anti-Christian” businesses=businesses that don’t refuse to serve gay people.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 6:35:59am |
Kauft nur bei den Christen!
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:36:30am |
re: #139 Pie-onist Overlord
“Anti-Christian” businesses=businesses that don’t refuse to serve gay people.
Pretty much, yeah. Starnes is like Fischer — got a bug up his ass (so to speak) about TEH GHEY.
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Eventual Carrion May 19, 2014 6:38:28am |
re: #138 Pie-onist Overlord
This reminds me of something.
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Sure Todd, and maybe a list of Jewish, Muslim and atheist ones too just to be safe huh? Maybe put a sign or something on the store so everyone knows and can act accordingly.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 6:39:11am |
re: #138 Pie-onist Overlord
This reminds me of something.
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Reminds me that I refuse to do business with anyone flaunting the Ichthys fish symbol on their advertising or door or whatever. I’d probably like a copy of his list to use as a “buy from” reference since the odds are really bad that they’re actually anti-christian.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 6:39:55am |
Came across this on a walk the other day. An organization that I had never heard of - and my initial impression was whether Christian Science had been branching out. The reality is somewhat different from that.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:40:37am |
re: #139 Pie-onist Overlord
“Anti-Christian” businesses=businesses that don’t refuse to serve gay people.
I still don’t get how a business owner is supposed to know who is LGBT and who isn’t. Take a restaurant, for instance. Two men have lunch together. Or two women. Do hyper-Christian restaurant operators have hyper-gaydar to scan these people to find out if they’re straight or not?
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 6:42:08am |
re: #144 Feline Fearless Leader
Came across this on a walk the other day. An organization that I had never heard of - and my initial impression was whether Christian Science had been branching out. The reality is somewhat different from that.
Yep, the Moorish Science Temple has been around a looooong time.
Some have said that the founder of the Nation of Islam was originally a member of the MSTA but left after a leadership dispute when the founder of the MSTA died; he went to Detroit and founded what was to become the NOI.
The [MSTA] community was further split when Wallace Fard Muhammad, known within the temple as David Ford El, also claimed (or was taken by some) to be the reincarnation of Drew Ali. When his leadership was rejected, Ford-El broke away from the Moorish Science Temple. He moved to Detroit, where he formed his own group, an organization that would become the Nation of Islam, although the Nation of Islam denies any historical connection with the Moorish Science Temple.
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 6:46:08am |
Dick Cheney wants Hillary Clinton ‘held accountable’ for Benghazi terror attacks
Hillary should be held accountable for #Benghazi the moment dick and Dubyah are held accountable for 9/11. #tcot #opslam #tgdn #libcrib— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) May 19, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 6:48:44am |
Yeah well, you can’t always get what you want.
Here is all I want… #tcot #patriots #ccot #teaparty #pjnet #America pic.twitter.com/H5DtvE7Ide— Kathy (@kathyjustme) May 19, 2014
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 6:50:36am |
re: #148 Pie-onist Overlord
Yeah well, you can’t always get what you want.
But if you try real hard, you just might get what you need
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 6:50:41am |
re: #148 Pie-onist Overlord
Yeah well, you can’t always get what you want.
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She forgot her kkk hashtag…
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 6:52:24am |
re: #144 Feline Fearless Leader
Came across this on a walk the other day. An organization that I had never heard of - and my initial impression was whether Christian Science had been branching out. The reality is somewhat different from that.
And if you want to read something really interesting, read up on Wallace Fard Muhammad, the found of the Nation of Islam. He was a piece of work, to put it mildly. en.wikipedia.org
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 6:59:27am |
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
And if you want to read something really interesting, read up on Wallace Fard Muhammad, the found of the Nation of Islam. He was a piece of work, to put it mildly. en.wikipedia.org
A lot of sects seem to have founders with shady, shadowy, or just odd backgrounds. And then generate some sort of succession crisis at some point.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 7:03:03am |
re: #152 Feline Fearless Leader
A lot of sects seem to have founders with shady, shadowy, or just odd backgrounds. And then generate some sort of succession crisis at some point.
Sometimes these leaders have psychological problems, judging from what I’ve read about them.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 7:04:05am |
Libyan air force base in eastern city says joins forces of renegade general
A Libyan air force base in the eastern city of Tobruk has decided to join forces of a renegade general which have been fighting militant Islamists, according to a statement published on Monday.
“The Torbuk air force base will join … the army under the command of General Khalifa Qassim Haftar,” said the statement posted on social media websites. Staff at the air base confirmed its authenticity
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Kid A May 19, 2014 7:04:42am |
Nice tweet from a photo colleague that I admire about my Ironman work on Saturday. Link to said work provided.
@coomerchron Thanks, Brett. I appreciate it.— Eric Christian Smith (@ericphototx) May 19, 2014
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 7:04:55am |
re: #152 Feline Fearless Leader
A lot of sects seem to have founders with shady, shadowy, or just odd backgrounds. And then generate some sort of succession crisis at some point.
The interesting about Wallace Fard Muhammad is that no one really knows with any certainty where he was from, what his real name was, and most importantly, what the hell happened to him after he pulled a disappearing act in the 1930s. There were stories that he was originally from New Zealand, from Pakistan, from Afghanistan….you name it.
One researcher, Karl Evanzz, a noted authority on the NOI has written;
that Fard was born Wali Dodd Fard in New Zealand in 1893. His parents were Zared Fard (a New Zealander whose parents were from an area of East India that eventually became Pakistan) and Beatrice (of New Zealand’s minority British population).
Evanzz believes that Fard immigrated to the United States via Canada in 1913. He earned his living at various times as a restaurateur, gambler, bootlegger and traveling salesman. Before arriving in Detroit in 1930, under the alias of David Ford, he attained a high rank in the Moorish Science Temple, a vaguely Islam-like religion that disbanded that same year. Evanzz reported that Wallace D. Fard died in Chicago in 1971 at the age of 78.
It is to me quite fascinating because it is perhaps such a uniquely American tale, and the NOI - like Scientology and the Mormons - is a uniquely American religion.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 7:06:33am |
LOL RT @AmyHamnerWalker I think we're gonna need a bigger milk carton. #OperationAmericanSpring #UniteBlue #LibCrib pic.twitter.com/cjZRQHMOzN— G?IM ??Y? ????? G?P (@Grim_The_Great) May 19, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:07:06am |
re: #153 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Sometimes these leaders have psychological problems, judging from what I’ve read about them.
Quite possible. From my limiting reading many claim to be a direct prophet or representative for God(s). This could be psychological, or simply the basis for claiming authority and establishing a grift and hold on followers.
I guess it’s a cult if it’s non-religious or stays small. A sect if it gets bigger and lasts longer. And a religion if it grows and lasts long enough to be something that the establishment has to treat with some sort of respect.
I do note that these groups appear to be supplying something to their followers. Community, identity, or something else.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 7:07:19am |
Saudi Arabia shuts embassy in Libya: Saudi Arabia closes its embassy in Libya and withdraws staff after weeken… http://t.co/pjqk49iNNp— Nour-Eddine Zorgui (@NourzorguiBBC) May 19, 2014
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:09:10am |
Well, I just had to install another anti-virus, firewall because AVG got all crazy. Evidently, some of these are not going to be available to those of us still slogging along on XP. I didn’t even have a firewall any longer when I checked my XP “security site”.
So, I went to Zone Alarm Security, downloaded and am fixed for the time being. I suppose at some point, I’m going to have to bite the bullet and get a new computer and OS. My car is 12 yrs old, why can’t my computer be? : )
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:10:52am |
re: #160 Justanotherhuman
Well, I just had to install another anti-virus, firewall because AVG got all crazy. Evidently, some of these are not going to be available to those of us still slogging along on XP. I didn’t even have a firewall any longer when I checked my XP “security site”.
So, I went to Zone Alarm Security, downloaded and am fixed for the time being. I suppose at some point, I’m going to have to bite the bullet and get a new computer and OS. My car is 12 yrs old, why can’t my computer be? : )
Because if MS designed car engines they’d be the size of the Chrysler Building by now.
;p
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 7:11:39am |
re: #159 NJDhockeyfan
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I’m still looking for some sort of analysis about what’s going on. I guess all the pundits with knowledge about Libyan affairs are still in bed.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:11:46am |
re: #161 Feline Fearless Leader
Because if MS designed car engines they’d be the size of the Chrysler Building by now.
;p
Haha, some old people wish their cars were the size of the Chrysler Bldg. : )
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 7:12:11am |
Live on http://t.co/U7XlyvnPtJ: U.S. expected to charge 5 individuals in the Chinese military with cyber espionage: http://t.co/7QswxGqLh0— CNN (@CNN) May 19, 2014
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 7:13:52am |
re: #161 Feline Fearless Leader
Because if MS designed car engines they’d be the size of the Chrysler Building by now.
;p
And would require updates every 9 hours.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:15:02am |
re: #165 Dr. Matt
And would require updates every 9 hours.
And would have been forced to issue a belated recall regarding Win ME.
;)
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 7:15:54am |
re: #8 Charles Johnson
That was one of the more freakish exchanges I’ve had on Twitter. Being accused of taking something out of context by quoting the exact words. Wow. Are these people drunk or something?
You just don’t understand nuance, you drooling lickspittle…
///
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:16:42am |
Around here teabaggers and their sympathizers consider bicycles and its relevant infrastructure as akin to communism. A group donated privately funded bike racks to place on whats left of our bus system a while back and the wailing it aroused surely reached the ear of the FSM. AM radio exploited this mine of stupidity for weeks. Mind you that 99% of these bigots wouldn’t be caught dead on a public bus or on a bicycle does not stop their idiotic rantings.
It’s fucking communism you stupid sheeple!!!
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:19:35am |
Another reason to consider going vegetarian I guess. And I’m sure Detroit enjoys the additional publicity.
Then again, have to be careful with the vegetables as well due to various outbreaks traced back to them.
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Stanley Sea May 19, 2014 7:20:15am |
Check out the google doodle today. And good luck.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:20:34am |
re: #168 Amory Blaine
Around here teabaggers and their sympathizers consider bicycles and its relevant infrastructure as akin to communism. A group donated privately funded bike racks to place on whats left of our bus system a while back and the wailing it aroused surely reached the ear of the FSM. AM radio exploited this mine of stupidity for weeks. Mind you that 99% of these bigots wouldn’t be caught dead on a public bus or on a bicycle does not stop their idiotic rantings.
It’s fucking communism you stupid sheeple!!!
Is that the same group of nuts who referred to a bike rack on the front of a public bus as a “socialist cowcatcher”?
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:21:12am |
Former New York Times editor Jill Abramson in Wake Forest commencement speech: ‘I am here today to talk to everybody out there who has ever been dumped’ - @SteveCase
End of alert
Wakefuckingforest? Even though it calls itself “nonsectarian” the Baptists are still in full control.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:21:31am |
Wearing safety equipment can cause the user to be more aware of their surroundings. When you have a hard hat on, you are more likely to think “yeah I’m around some shit that could cave my skull in so I better be careful”.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 7:21:50am |
Might be a good idea for someone to create a list of anti-Christian businesses
If this is so important, maybe Todd should do it his own damn self. //
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:22:51am |
re: #171 Feline Fearless Leader
Haha that’s a good one.
IDK the derp flies so fast it’s easy to miss stuff.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 7:25:08am |
Hillary Clinton and Mitt Romney were both born in 1947. Remember how the
#GOP
worried about Mitt’s age? Me neither.
Yeah but Hillary and her head and Shutup
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 7:25:12am |
re: #160 Justanotherhuman
Well, I just had to install another anti-virus, firewall because AVG got all crazy. Evidently, some of these are not going to be available to those of us still slogging along on XP. I didn’t even have a firewall any longer when I checked my XP “security site”.
So, I went to Zone Alarm Security, downloaded and am fixed for the time being. I suppose at some point, I’m going to have to bite the bullet and get a new computer and OS. My car is 12 yrs old, why can’t my computer be? : )
I find Xubuntu is a very good way to continue to use older computers. Depends on what you need to do, but Chrome is available to browse with and the free office replacements are good enough for home users (and most offices too but that’s another story…). If there is anything on Windows that you really need, WINE is your friend.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 7:25:28am |
Boko Haram: Inside the State Department debate over the ‘terrorist’ label
Hindsight is always 20/20. In retrospect, perhaps the State Department could have moved quicker with a designation, as Jackson conceded to Congress. But at the time the officials involved in the discussions believed they had come up with an acceptable compromise that would not upset the Nigerian government and would have helped improve the behavior of the Nigerian military.
Given the facts at hand, it was not an unreasonable solution — and the process by which the decision was made was fair-minded and thorough. Officials on both sides of the debate argued their case, and, as is often the case, a compromise was reached. Moreover, there is no evidence that an FTO designation any sooner would have prevented the kidnapping of the girls.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:27:30am |
re: #179 Amory Blaine
Use Avast!. Much better free solution.
I heard that solution is hard on the “R” key.
;P
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:31:33am |
Thanks for the recommendations. This was recommended, so I’ll see how it performs. I only use this computer to get on the internet, nothing else, and my internet usage is limited anyway. I have plenty of other fish to fry in meat world, as you say. Plus, I’m old, and after typing docs for 40 yrs of some kind of another, I never want to use word processing or a spreadsheet ever again. I’m done with all that. : )
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:34:54am |
You could run Ubuntu off of a disk to see if you like it.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:35:15am |
Another time shredder.
Anonymous social network Whisper now lets you search for secrets in your city
Major iOS app update adds categories and worldwide search options
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:36:27am |
re: #182 Amory Blaine
You could run Ubuntu off of a disk to see if you like it.
I’m not crazy about Chrome, though. I like Firefox a lot and have used it for a number of years now.
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 7:37:10am |
re: #178 Killgore Trout
they had come up with an acceptable compromise that would not upset the Nigerian government and would have helped improve the behavior of the Nigerian military.
I’m left to wonder what/ if the conversations were like with the Nigerians during this debate
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:37:25am |
re: #184 Justanotherhuman
Ubuntu has firefox installed I think.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:38:11am |
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 7:38:14am |
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
I haz baby chickens:
Next year at this time, you could have an excellent BBQ!!!
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 7:38:17am |
Here is an update on the murder of Waynesboro, Va police Captain Kevin Quick. My wife went to HS with him. He went to visit his mother who lives down the street from where we used to live and then left to go to his gf’s house but never made it. I think we left at the right time.
4 Gang Members Indicted in Capt. Kevin Quick Murder; 5 Others Charged in Case
Daniel Mathis, Shantai Shelton, Mersadies Shelton and Travis Bell are charged with murdering Quick
CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. (WRIC) - According to federal court documents, four people have been charged with murder in the death investigation of Capt. Kevin Quick.
Daniel Mathis, Shantai Shelton, Mersadies Shelton and Travis Bell (a.k.a. Kweli Uhuru) are charged with murdering Quick. The capital murder charge could carry a very serious penalty, according to U.S. Attorney Tim Heaphy.
“That is a penalty up to the death sentence in this case that is available for that offense.”Five others - Gert Wright III, Anthony White, Anthony Stokes, Leslie Casterlow and Devante Bell - are facing gang-related racketeering charges in connection to the case.
Those indicted are all members of a subset of the Bloods street gang known as the 99 Goon Syndicate.
The indictment spells out how members of the gang allegedly carjacked and kidnapped Quick and then drove around to various banks, attempting to withdraw cash from his accounts before murdering him and dumping his body in Goochland County.
The gang is also charged with numerous robberies, shootings and assaults taking place across Central Virginia as well as drug and weapons charges.
…To read the full indictment, click here.
Charlottesville is a small college town. Seeing the Bloods gang in the area is scary to say the least. The indictment is an interesting read with the history of the Bloods gang.
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 7:39:21am |
re: #136 Dr Lizardo
That’s the flag of Nigeria.
Here’s a version of the Nigerian flag that includes the crest:
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 7:41:13am |
re: #145 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
I still don’t get how a business owner is supposed to know who is LGBT and who isn’t. Take a restaurant, for instance. Two men have lunch together. Or two women. Do hyper-Christian restaurant operators have hyper-gaydar to scan these people to find out if they’re straight or not?
Perhaps a mandatory symbol sewn on their clothing would be helpful here. I’m sure Bryan Fischer has some ideas on the matter.
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 7:41:27am |
re: #188 Feline Fearless Leader
What mix of breeds?
They are two collections (Rainbow Layers and Ornamental) that we’ll have to play “guess the breed” as they grow up. Two of the chicks are definitely White Crested Black Polish and two are Black Cochins.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:43:06am |
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 7:44:07am |
re: #184 Justanotherhuman
I’m not crazy about Chrome, though. I like Firefox a lot and have used it for a number of years now.
That’s fine - it’s available too. I didn’t like it much so I just stopped using it as soon as there was a viable alternative. At least it’s one area where there are real alternatives.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 7:44:31am |
HAHAHA
Latest column: Bryan Fischer: Mitt Romney, the godfather of gay marriage http://t.co/zwh0JIJXiq— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) May 19, 2014
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 7:44:37am |
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 7:44:59am |
re: #195 Justanotherhuman
Do I see a Rhode Island Red? : )
yep, good chance that big one on the left is a Rhode Island Red.
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 7:45:25am |
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:45:58am |
Our neighbor has chickens and they get through his fence and strut around the complex sometimes. They don’t run off and my g-grandson loves ‘em.
They have a couple of ducks, too. Used to have a couple of horses, but those are gone.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 7:46:08am |
re: #187 Amory Blaine
Ubuntu has firefox installed I think.
It does. I did suggest Xubuntu because the XFCE UI uses far less memory and cpu resources than does the Unity UI in stock Ubuntu. That can be important for re-purposing an older machine.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:49:03am |
That’s a good point, a shiny UI can use alot of memory. And if you use Firefox you’re going to need all the memory you can get.
/ducks
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 7:49:10am |
Group of OAS goobers, sitting on their fat asses, in front of WH fence, with sign.
Note to goobers: If you’re going to bother making signs, why not make them so they can be read?
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 7:49:55am |
re: #202 William Barnett-Lewis
It does. I did suggest Xubuntu because the XFCE UI uses far less memory and cpu resources than does the Unity UI in stock Ubuntu. That can be important for re-purposing an older machine.
Zone Alarm uses 84MB. I still have about 73% free on my hard drive.
And 2GB of RAM.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:51:40am |
If you ran the OS off a disk, you really don’t need AV if it’s just one machine on the network.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 7:52:32am |
re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth
They are two collections (Rainbow Layers and Ornamental) that we’ll have to play “guess the breed” as they grow up. Two of the chicks are definitely White Crested Black Polish and two are Black Cochins.
I think the world needs more breeds of chicken…
;)
My brother’s flock stays pretty limited: Rhode Island Reds, Barred Plymouth Rocks, Araucunas (black), and perhaps a Dark Brahma or two.
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Decatur Deb May 19, 2014 7:58:40am |
re: #152 Feline Fearless Leader
A lot of sects seem to have founders with shady, shadowy, or just odd backgrounds. And then generate some sort of succession crisis at some point.
Common theme for messianic/millenarian religions, particularly those that rose in response to disastrous contact between native and European groups. The founders of the Ghost Dance, Handsome Lake, and any number of African/Pacific Island sects were marginal persons, often reformed alcoholics, with one foot in each culture.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 7:58:43am |
I skillfully ducked my obligation to put a gate up in the backyard by distracting my wife with a nice lunch along Lake Michigan yesterday.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 7:58:57am |
re: #204 Skip Intro
Group of OAS goobers, sitting on their fat asses, in front of WH fence, with sign.
Note to goobers: If you’re going to bother making signs, why not make them so they can be read?
They’re like some people who make Powerpoint slides
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 7:59:16am |
So just how dumb are birthers? Sometimes they like to post screen shots of what they’re working on.
Birther and Conspiracy Theorist too crazy even for Free Republic Butterdezillion does it like this:
Yeah, that’s right, she uses a camera.
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 8:00:59am |
re: #209 Amory Blaine
I skillfully ducked my obligation to put a gate up in the backyard by distracting my wife with a nice lunch along Lake Michigan yesterday.
So now you STILL have to put the gate up and are out the $$$ for lunch!!
Good plan!
/
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:01:37am |
Love the OAS birther sign. That’s just awesomesauce, guys. Very Serious! //
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 8:01:48am |
New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo announces the state will conduct a ‘rigorous’ review of the Time Warner Cable-Comcast merger - via @NBCNews
End of alert
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:02:11am |
re: #212 sattv4u2
So now you STILL have to put the gate up and are out the $$$ for lunch!!
Good plan!
/
He’s thinking that if global warming generates a big storm and knocks the whole fence down than the gate will cease to be an important issue.
;)
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:03:48am |
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 8:03:57am |
re: #173 Amory Blaine
Wearing safety equipment can cause the user to be more aware of their surroundings. When you have a hard hat on, you are more likely to think “yeah I’m around some shit that could cave my skull in so I better be careful”.
All The Gear, All The Time.
A number of people give me somewhat-odd looks or little “Man, don’t you get hot / isn’t all that stuff heavy?” quips when they see me coming in or going out in full armor for my motorcycle. I explain to them every time — I’m not concerned about my riding. I’m concerned about when that asshole runs a red light and T-bones me at 50+ MPH. And wearing all the gear serves as a constant reminder to me that there is a reason I wear all that gear, and to pay some damn attention.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 8:04:17am |
re: #217 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
How about the AT&T-DirecTV merger? That one gives me the willies, too.
Give him time…
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 8:05:06am |
re: #217 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
How about the AT&T-DirecTV merger? That one gives me the willies, too.
It’s not a “merger”. AT&T is buying DTV for a mere $48.5 Billion
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:05:25am |
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 8:05:30am |
re: #218 GunstarGreen
All The Gear, All The Time.
A number of people give me somewhat-odd looks or little “Man, don’t you get hot / isn’t all that stuff heavy?” quips when they see me coming in or going out in full armor for my motorcycle. I explain to them every time — I’m not concerned about my riding. I’m concerned about when that asshole runs a red light and T-bones me at 50+ MPH. And wearing all the gear serves as a constant reminder to me that there is a reason I wear all that gear, and to pay some damn attention.
So, you don’t drive in a bikini like I saw a woman do the other day here? : )
I couldn’t believe my eyes or the recklessness.
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 8:05:43am |
re: #211 Skip Intro
So just how dumb are birthers? Sometimes they like to post screen shots of what they’re working on.
Birther and Conspiracy Theorist too crazy even for Free Republic Butterdezillion does it like this:
Yeah, that’s right, she uses a camera.
The image is blurry. What’s going on?
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 19, 2014 8:05:45am |
Euphemistic weasel-speak annoys me.
The 69 words you can’t use at GM
always, annihilate, apocalyptic, asphyxiating, bad, Band-Aid, big time, brakes like an “X” car, cataclysmic, catastrophic, Challenger, chaotic, Cobain, condemns, Corvair-like, crippling, critical, dangerous, deathtrap, debilitating, decapitating, defect, defective, detonate, disemboweling, enfeebling, evil, eviscerated, explode, failed, flawed, genocide, ghastly, grenadelike, grisly, gruesome, Hindenburg, Hobbling, Horrific, impaling, inferno, Kevorkianesque, lacerating, life-threatening, maiming, malicious, mangling, maniacal, mutilating, never, potentially-disfiguring, powder keg, problem, rolling sarcophagus (tomb or coffin), safety, safety related, serious, spontaneous combustion, startling, suffocating, suicidal, terrifying, Titanic, unstable, widow-maker, words or phrases with a biblical connotation, you’re toast
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:06:05am |
re: #220 sattv4u2
It’s not a “merger”. AT&T is buying DTV for a mere $48.5 Billion
Does that mean more wires, or fewer?
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:06:58am |
re: #220 sattv4u2
It’s not a “merger”. AT&T is buying DTV for a mere $48.5 Billion
Details, details …
In your professional opinion, would AT&T owning DTV change anything, like programming, service, etc.?
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First As Tragedy, Then As Farce May 19, 2014 8:07:49am |
re: #225 Feline Fearless Leader
Does that mean more wires, or fewer?
It means that all the damned junk mail I get from Direct TV and AT&T will probably become more obnoxious and probably no less voluminous.
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 8:08:18am |
re: #225 Feline Fearless Leader
Does that mean more wires, or fewer?
Means AT&T wants to be on an equal footing competitively with COMCAST for TV distribution. AT&T’s “U-Verse” has been somewhat of a bust nationally. getting DTV’s customer base/ distribution vaults them up to where Comcast’s XFINITY brand is
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 8:08:39am |
re: #222 Justanotherhuman
So, you don’t drive in a bikini like I saw a woman do the other day here? : )
I couldn’t believe my eyes or the recklessness.
Don’t forget the flip flops. First time I saw that I couldn’t believe anyone would be dumb enough to ride a crotch rocket wearing them. (shorts, sleeveless T & mirror shades completed the kit…)
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:08:41am |
re: #227 First As Tragedy, Then As Farce
It means that all the damned junk mail I get from Direct TV and AT&T will probably become more obnoxious and probably no less voluminous.
Now there’s a postage rate the USPS should jack up.
;P
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 8:09:32am |
re: #226 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Details, details …
In your professional opinion, would AT&T owning DTV change anything, like programming, service, etc.?
No. But AT&T might eventually dump their UVERSE service, giving those customers a “free” dish and install
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 8:09:39am |
Irony: Calling Obama an “epic fail” at a protest of 100 people while expecting 10 million.
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 8:09:58am |
re: #222 Justanotherhuman
So, you don’t drive in a bikini like I saw a woman do the other day here? : )
I couldn’t believe my eyes or the recklessness.
There’s a whole lot of squidjockeys around here that ride in a t-shirt and shorts. They wear helmets, I can only presume because the law requires it and not by choice. Alright guy/gal, so your noodle won’t splatter when you come off the bike, but you’re cool with losing large tracts of your skin?
I benefit from a good reinforcer though, I suppose. When I took my safety course, one of the instructors was goofing around during our lunch break and lowsided one of the training bikes; he was wearing jeans and a long-sleeve shirt, but no actual armor other than the helmet. Walked away from that with a nice chunk torn out of his arm.
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 8:10:07am |
re: #226 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Details, details …
In your professional opinion, would AT&T owning DTV change anything, like programming, service, etc.?
Not a pro, but I look at it like this: a company with hideous customer service that pushes overpriced content that isn’t worth watching being bought by a company with even worse customer service that likes to push bad content priced to make the first company’s trash seem cheap. Such a win for the Consumer!
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:10:40am |
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 8:11:06am |
My dad has a lot of old biker friends around here and about 10 years ago I ran into a gentle giant he knew. He gave me a ride home on the back of his bike.
I sat behind his girlfriend!
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:11:15am |
re: #234 William Barnett-Lewis
Not a pro, but I look at it like this: a company with hideous customer service that pushes overpriced content that isn’t worth watching being bought by a company with even worse customer service that likes to push bad content priced to make the first company’s trash seem cheap. Such a win for the Consumer!
Your attitude has been noted.
;)
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 8:11:20am |
re: #223 Dr. Matt
The image is blurry. What’s going on?
I think when she dropped the film off at WalMart to be developed they screwed it up somehow.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:12:06am |
Obama also epic-failing at locking all the RWNJ in FEMA death panel trailer camps like promised. /
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 8:12:37am |
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William Barnett-Lewis May 19, 2014 8:12:47am |
re: #228 sattv4u2
Means AT&T wants to be on an equal footing competitively with COMCAST for TV distribution. AT&T’s “U-Verse” has been somewhat of a bust nationally. getting DTV’s customer base/ distribution vaults them up to where Comcast’s XFINITY brand is
Shudder. U-Verse was a nightmare for the last 6 months we were in Madison after we were forced onto it. If the phone range we lost internet for 5 to 15 minutes. The speed was less than 1/2 of what was promised (and 1/3 of what we had been getting prior to U-Verse.)
We had killed our TV a couple of years before; AT&T damn near killed the internet for us too.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 8:12:52am |
re: #239 Bulworth
Obama also epic-failing at locking all the RWNJ in FEMA death panel trailer camps like promised. /
Worst dictator ever.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 8:12:52am |
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 8:13:54am |
re: #226 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Details, details …
In your professional opinion, would AT&T owning DTV change anything, like programming, service, etc.?
Like price. They have to make back their investment, so they’ll do it the old fashioned way: raise prices.
Service too, because ATT is second only to Comcast in having the worst customer service in it’s field.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:14:07am |
“Irony: Calling Obama an “epic fail” at a protest of 100 people while expecting 10 million.”
Is that an upside down flag in that picture?
Is that like a distress signal or meant to convey how hopeless the U.S. is when we participate in and adhere to the regular, constitutional, democratic electoral process?
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lawhawk May 19, 2014 8:14:09am |
re: #204 Skip Intro
Where’s Obama’s Birth Certificate . com ?
That’s the sum total of that guy’s sign? Really?
Another bunch of birthers. Super.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:14:23am |
Oh good grief. A couple of “friends” on FB are pulling passive-aggressive BS by posting/sharing a picture of the text of the Pledge of Allegiance along with some claim that they want to see how many will re-post it before someone gets pissed off about it. And, of course, they’re recalling how they said The Pledge in school every day without growing up badly.
I responded that I preferred the pre-1952 version personally.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:15:29am |
re: #245 Bulworth
“Irony: Calling Obama an “epic fail” at a protest of 100 people while expecting 10 million.”
Is that an upside down flag in that picture?
Is that like a distress signal or meant to convey how hopeless the U.S. is when we participate in and adhere to the regular, constitutional, democratic electoral process?
I thought flying the flag upside down was a real no-no unless there is for-real, serious distress.
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 8:15:42am |
re: #239 Bulworth
Obama also epic-failing at locking all the RWNJ in FEMA death panel trailer camps like promised. /
But EPIC WIN at disbanding the protest via HAARP
Washington Times reader: 01) Yes. I agree, the Feds fired-up HAARP. However, do not let this be an end to this noble movement. Restart! Frankly, I wish the event had been staged locally, and at state capitals, in compliment to the DC event. I think what “scared-off” potential attendees was the logistics of a supposed-rally of 30 million-that’s roughly 10% of the population! Similar anti-Barry events in DC have been MUCH more successful and noteworthy. This one, thought noble, proved a terrible embarrassment, only ennobling and enabling the tyrant-in-chief and his minions. The failure here wasn’t in cause, but in planning and forethought and the failure of a supportive conservative press. Restart!
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 8:15:46am |
U-Verse around here sucks too. Most complaints are for slow internet. Comcast has the best internet by far in the Nashvile area…until Google arrives. Then a true competition will be on.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 8:16:39am |
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:16:55am |
Oh good grief. A couple of “friends” on FB are pulling passive-aggressive BS by posting/sharing a picture of the text of the Pledge of Allegiance along with some claim that they want to see how many will re-post it before someone gets pissed off about it.
If you don’t repost this it’ll mean you hate Amercia. //
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:16:58am |
re: #244 Skip Intro
Like price. They have to make back their investment, so they’ll do it the old fashioned way: raise prices.
Service too, because ATT is second only to Comcast in having the worst customer service in it’s field.
Prices go up, services go down. Sounds familiar.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 8:17:10am |
re: #223 Dr. Matt
They took an actual screen shot with a camera rather than use the “prt scr” button.
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 8:18:28am |
re: #254 Amory Blaine
They took an actual screen shot with a camera rather than use the “prt scr” button.
aahhhhh. Ok. A little slow today. Stayed up late watching the Tigs sweep the Sox. Thnx
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:19:07am |
The failure here wasn’t in cause, but in planning and forethought and the failure of a supportive conservative press. Restart!
RWNJ has never failed, it has only been failed. Also, too, NOBLE!!!
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:19:29am |
re: #252 Bulworth
If you don’t repost this it’ll mean you hate Amercia. //
Of course.
Another friend posted about leaving his loaded shotgun out on a chair for a day or so, then coming back and noting that it had not shot anyone in the meantime.
I did not post that I had sort of wished it had been stolen during that period due to the stupidity and non-responsibility of the action.
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Shiplord Kirel May 19, 2014 8:19:52am |
Know them by their fruits: America’s second most conservative city.
I paid my Lubbock friend’s electric bill again today. It was as high as mine here in Palo Pinto County and I have 4 times the floor space to light, plus a fair amount of machinery. The bill was due April 28, he got an extension till today, and they were going to cut it off tomorrow (21 days past due). He could pay it Wednesday and he told them so. Too bad, they said, no flexibility at all. He will pay me instead. What would their precious Jesus think? He would chase them into the street with a whip and throw their JBS/GOP propaganda after them.
Rent and utility costs in Lubbock are higher than in Fort Worth while average hourly wage is less than 70% as much. How does Lubbock’s dried-scum neo-Conderate, Bircher upper crust stay in business when the working and middle classes are too poor to be worth scamming?
It’s simple, they scam outsiders who benefit from cheap labor products and they scam the state and federal governments in more ways than I have time to enumerate. So much for their libertarian small government rhetoric. Without all the federal grants, federal support for the massive poor population, state and fed money at Texas Tech and the medical centers, and federal ag money, the place would dry up and blow away.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:20:41am |
re: #248 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
I thought flying the flag upside down was a real no-no unless there is for-real, serious distress.
I bet they were in serious distress in their view from making themselves look like total idiots.
//
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:21:34am |
re: #257 Feline Fearless Leader
Of course.
Another friend posted about leaving his loaded shotgun out on a chair for a day or so, then coming back and noting that it had not shot anyone in the meantime.
I did not post that I had sort of wished it had been stolen during that period due to the stupidity and non-responsibility of the action.
In some neighborhoods that would an open invitation for someone to grab the gun and rob his sorry ass.
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 8:22:02am |
re: #244 Skip Intro
Like price. They have to make back their investment, so they’ll do it the old fashioned way: raise prices.
Service too, because ATT is second only to Comcast in having the worst customer service in it’s field.
Not necessarily. They get an immediate cash flow on day 1 from all the current Direct TV customers to start recouping. It’s not like they’re buying a startup business that has no assets or cash flow
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 8:22:05am |
Putin’s retreat update: still not retreating
Kremlin Announces Ukraine Pullback, but NATO Doesn’t See It
The Kremlin announced Monday that President Vladimir V. Putin had ordered Russian troops conducting exercises along the Ukrainian border to return to their home bases at the conclusion of the drills, apparently sending another loud signal that Russia is not planning any military action in eastern Ukraine ahead of that country’s presidential elections on Sunday.
However, the NATO secretary general, Anders Fogh Rasmussen, said the Western allies had not seen any sign of a withdrawal of Russian forces. During a news conference at NATO headquarters in Brussels, Mr. Rasmussen noted that it was the third such statement by Mr. Putin without any evidence of a pullback of troops or equipment from the Ukrainian border.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 8:22:56am |
re: #250 NJDhockeyfan
U-Verse around here sucks too. Most complaints are for slow internet. Comcast has the best internet by far in the Nashvile area…until Google arrives. Then a true competition will be on.
We’re getting Google sometime soon in Portland too. I’m very excited.
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 8:23:27am |
Stop in one of our locations and snag a FREE TRIPLE Cheeseburger on us by showing this to a crew member! #FreeTCB pic.twitter.com/cUvqIFNbaw— NW FL McDonald's (@McD_NWFlorida) May 17, 2014
Free Burgers? Yes
Livable wage? Hell no
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 8:23:29am |
re: #262 Killgore Trout
Putin’s retreat update: still not retreating
Kremlin Announces Ukraine Pullback, but NATO Doesn’t See It
one step(pe) back, two step(pe)s forward
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 8:25:10am |
re: #265 sattv4u2
one step(pe) back, two step(pe)s forward
Putin has fallen for our trap and we’ve got him just were we want him!
/
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 8:25:30am |
re: #257 Feline Fearless Leader
Of course.
Another friend posted about leaving his loaded shotgun out on a chair for a day or so, then coming back and noting that it had not shot anyone in the meantime.
I did not post that I had sort of wished it had been stolen during that period due to the stupidity and non-responsibility of the action.
Another Responsible Gun Owner™.
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BeenHereAwhile May 19, 2014 8:26:05am |
re: #46 Eclectic Cyborg
I completely owned a “states rights” fool earlier tonight.
He was telling me how Federal Courts should stay out of the gay marriage issue and respect the wishes of the voters on that and anything else.
I then replied to him: “Ok, so what if the residents in New York voted to ban guns?”
I still haven’t heard back.
New Jersey state law: unless you can show “justifiable need” and get a permit, you better not possess a hand gun outside your residence (even in the trunk of your car).
The permits are not easy to obtain.
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 8:27:13am |
re: #261 sattv4u2
Not necessarily. They get an immediate cash flow on day 1 from all the current Direct TV customers to start recouping. It’s not like they’re buying a startup business that has no assets or cash flow
Not from me. Since if the Comcast/TWC merger goes through, I’ll be switched from Charter to Comcast. While I’d love to drop cable/satellite altogether, the wife won’t have it so I may drop ATTDirectv and put everything with Comcast.
It will definitely be cheaper, especially with the bundling.
I admit, I hate ATT, and I used to work there (back when there really was an ATT, not the current reconstituted old RBOCs that killed the old ATT and took its name).
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 8:28:26am |
re: #264 Dr. Matt
[Embedded content]
Free Burgers? Yes
Livable wage? Hell no
Looks to be around 3000 calories. Should be able to live off of that for a couple of days.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:28:28am |
Free Burgers? Yes
Livable wage? Hell no
If you raise the minimum wage you make me pay for free burgers!!!
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:30:36am |
Free Burgers? Yes
Livable wage? Hell no
Don’t tell job creators Freedom what to do except if they’re anti-Christian and hire teh gay then….put them on a list!!!1
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sattv4u2 May 19, 2014 8:31:16am |
re: #270 Skip Intro
It will definitely be cheaper, especially with the bundling.
Up until a little while ago, COMCAST wasn’t available in my neighborhood
I had AT&T for phone and internet, Direct TV for television
Due to my companies working relationship with Direct TV I got a 25% discount off that service
NOW,, I have COMCAST for all three. I only get a 15% discount, but I have faster internet, better TV service and it comes out to about $15 per month less
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 8:31:37am |
re: #271 Skip Intro
Looks to be around 3000 calories. Should be able to live off of that for a couple of days.
We have absolutely no idea why America is fat.
It must be genetics or thyroids.
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CuriousLurker May 19, 2014 8:32:57am |
re: #247 Feline Fearless Leader
Oh good grief. A couple of “friends” on FB are pulling passive-aggressive BS by posting/sharing a picture of the text of the Pledge of Allegiance along with some claim that they want to see how many will re-post it before someone gets pissed off about it. And, of course, they’re recalling how they said The Pledge in school every day without growing up badly.
I responded that I preferred the pre-1952 version personally.
Tell them it was written by a socialist. That ought to set them off. Send them to Bellmay’s wiki page, or to this page. If they really want to dig deep, which I doubt, they can go here.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 8:33:14am |
YAY Free Market! Oh no wait YAY Regulations! 1.8 million pounds of beef recalled for E. coli risk http://t.co/Xo0i07qBdi #UniteBlue #tcot— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) May 19, 2014
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:35:25am |
re: #271 Skip Intro
Looks to be around 3000 calories. Should be able to live off of that for a couple of days.
530 Calories, according to the company website mcdonalds.com
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 8:35:49am |
The only answer is to stop the government from alerting us about poisonous meat. The free market will sort this all out.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:37:07am |
re: #279 Amory Blaine
The only answer is to stop the government from alerting us about poisonous meat. The free market will sort this all out.
And … it will decrease the surplus population!
//
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 8:38:36am |
One is left wondering why Putin would have to order troops to withdraw from #Ukraine's border, if he previously claimed he had done it— Evgen Vorobiov (@vorobyov) May 19, 2014
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 8:38:42am |
re: #278 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
530 Calories, according to the company website mcdonalds.com
I stand corrected. I’m amazed.
Ah, I see my error. It’s only 7 oz. total weight.
Damn trick photography.
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 8:39:04am |
re: #249 Dr. Matt
But EPIC WIN at disbanding the protest via HAARP
Washington Times reader: 01) Yes. I agree, the Feds fired-up HAARP. However, do not let this be an end to this noble movement. Restart! Frankly, I wish the event had been staged locally, and at state capitals, in compliment to the DC event. I think what “scared-off” potential attendees was the logistics of a supposed-rally of 30 million-that’s roughly 10% of the population! Similar anti-Barry events in DC have been MUCH more successful and noteworthy. This one, thought noble, proved a terrible embarrassment, only ennobling and enabling the tyrant-in-chief and his minions. The failure here wasn’t in cause, but in planning and forethought and the failure of a supportive conservative press. Restart!
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 8:39:32am |
re: #282 Skip Intro
The rubber in the bread is calorie free.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 8:39:42am |
re: #276 CuriousLurker
Tell them it was written by a socialist. That ought to set them off. Send them to Bellmay’s wiki page, or to this page. If they really want to dig deep, which I doubt, they can go here.
That’s the next step if they escalate it. I know about Bellmay since he was born in a town adjacent to where my brother teaches, and they have a sign about it being his birthplace.
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 8:40:11am |
re: #263 Killgore Trout
We’re getting Google sometime soon in Portland too. I’m very excited.
That’s good to hear; if I’m remembering right, Portland is Comcast territory.
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:40:15am |
re: #282 Skip Intro
I stand corrected. I’m amazed.
Yeah, but check the sodium and fat content. It’s not what you’d call a healthy meal, especially if you made a habit of eating them more than once a week, with fries and a Coke.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 8:40:32am |
Activists in Ukraine want to fix everything with kittens: http://t.co/vrBvzYVOwn pic.twitter.com/srathyjtZN— VICE News (@vicenews) May 19, 2014
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 8:40:55am |
re: #279 Amory Blaine
The only answer is to stop the government from alerting us about poisonous meat. The free market will sort this all out.
A complete waste of food that the poors could be eating instead of expecting us to pay to feed them. Just more government meddling proving the Dems hate the poors.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 8:42:35am |
re: #286 Dr Lizardo
That’s good to hear; if I’m remembering right, Portland is Comcast territory.
So is Nashville, Kansas City….etc. I think they are aiming for Comcast because of their fastest internet. Google is going to steal away a shitload of Comcast customers.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 8:43:20am |
re: #286 Dr Lizardo
That’s good to hear; if I’m remembering right, Portland is Comcast territory.
Yup, I’m looking forward to giving Comcast the boot.
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Flounder May 19, 2014 8:43:42am |
re: #185 Backwoods_Sleuth
Funny thing about baby chicks under a heat lamp, they smell like chicken!!!
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 8:45:12am |
re: #291 Killgore Trout
Yup, I’m looking forward to giving Comcast the boot.
Oh, I’m sure lots of folks in Portland are looking forward to that glorious day when they can tell Comcast to shove it. :)
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 8:47:39am |
re: #287 wheat-doggha — oo bird outside my window
Yeah, but check the sodium and fat content. It’s not what you’d call a healthy meal, especially if you made a habit of eating them more than once a week, with fries and a Coke.
Yeah, worth noting is that the sandwich alone is 530 cals — and who knows weather McD’s is counting any other condiments in that total. Pretty much nobody gets just a sandwich at one of those places. Comes with hundreds more calories worth of fries and soda/tea. A lot of their ‘meals’ easily top 1,000.
So when you’re getting half or more of your daily caloric need from a single, ultra-quick meal? Yeah, that’s how the obesity epidemic happened.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 8:49:32am |
Google homepage has a working Rubik’s cube on it.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 8:50:17am |
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wheat-dogghazi May 19, 2014 8:54:05am |
re: #294 GunstarGreen
Especially when you consider some folks eat at fast food joints more than once a day, and may have gotten the habit from their parents, and tend not to be physically active. it’s a snowball effect.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 8:54:10am |
“Google homepage has a working Rubik’s cube on it.”
I was great with that Rubik’s cube. Especially after I bought the book showing how to solve it.
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BeenHereAwhile May 19, 2014 8:54:56am |
re: #86 Rev_Arthur_Belling
Eh, I have an account I use for work-related stuff. Fortunately, even though it’s tangentially related to politics, I don’t get a lot of dudebro seepage. Twitter’s a tool, a platform, and you can tailor it to suit your interests. I’m more disappointed when I see that shit on my FB feed. Lost respect for quite a few people I’ve known over the years when I see what kind of derp they post on their timeline.
I’ve had a twitter account since 2009.
Found the best use is use twitter as information aggregator by following people who know what the hell they are writing about, on topics I’m interested in.
e.g. I turn off the TV on election night, and follow returns via twitter. The comments or RTs by the folk I follow are insightful and sometimes very humorous.
Do I follow network, cable or news organizations? No.
Currently following about 90 people, whom I don’t always agree with, but if they get too nutso, be it political left or right, I unfollow.
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Slap May 19, 2014 8:55:08am |
re: #143 William Barnett-Lewis
Worth remembering the words of Uncle Frank:
“Whenever you see THE FISH, it’s time to grab THE HARPOON.”
(I have conjured many mental harpoons over the years….!)
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 8:56:42am |
Amazon sells art (who knew?)
Critics respond.
Yoshitomo Nara’s “Untitled” (1993)
Price: $33,250
Reminds Me of My Own
★ ★ ★ ★ ★
Pretty sure I drew this exact painting in 2nd grade. It was in crayon though and I lost it so now I’m so excited that I can buy back for a fairly reasonable price! Too bad it isn’t prime eligible though… has me thinking twice
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 8:57:04am |
re: #298 Bulworth
“Google homepage has a working Rubik’s cube on it.”
I was great with that Rubik’s cube. Especially after I bought the book showing how to solve it.
I got one side all green.
I’ll stop while I’m ahead.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:04:16am |
re: #301 Skip Intro
Amazon sells art (who knew?)
Critics respond.
I have a bunch of my kids art and schoolwork from K-3rd grade in the basement. I didn’t realize how much of a goldmine is sitting in those boxes down there.
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 9:05:05am |
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 9:07:43am |
Grown-Ass Men Fighting Over A Baseball Bat, In Extreme Slow Motion
1. Is this that “Texas southern hospitality” they are always bragging about.
2. That is an assault…and remember RWNJs want to pass laws to allow firearms into stadiums. Drunken armed fanatics and a stadium…..what could go wrong?
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 9:08:04am |
re: #304 Dr Lizardo
Huh? $33,250?
*sigh*
The art lies in the fact that he can fetch prices like that.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:10:48am |
Woops….busted!
CNN fires news editor Marie-Louise Gumuchian for plagiarism [Updated] http://t.co/sxhFgzEwyD— ENCS (@ENCSBlog) May 19, 2014
…An internal investigation at the network found that Marie-Louise Gumuchian had published about 50 stories containing plagiarized work. Those pieces contain a total of 128 separate instances of plagiarism, according to a CNN source, and the investigation is ongoing. Gumuchian covered international news, including Africa, Europe and the Middle East.
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 9:12:46am |
re: #304 Dr Lizardo
Perhaps you lean towards impressionism?
Le portrait d’une jeune femme, 1870 - $800,000.00 & FREE Shipping
Buyers have some questions.
Q: Does this come with the room pictured?
A: You can have any room you want!
Then the damn critics.
I picked this up to cover a large hole the … December 12, 2013 By JRB
I picked this up to cover a large hole the plumber made in the wall to repair a leaky pipe. Unfortunately this painting was too small to completely cover the opening and mice were sneaking through the uncovered gap. I returned it and the seller gave me a full refund despite the bite marks.
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BeenHereAwhile May 19, 2014 9:15:21am |
re: #151 Dr Lizardo
And if you want to read something really interesting, read up on Wallace Fard Muhammad, the found of the Nation of Islam. He was a piece of work, to put it mildly. en.wikipedia.org
Who was followed by Elijah (Robert Poole) Muhammad.
Who moved from Macon, GA, to Detroit.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 9:17:29am |
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Dr Lizardo May 19, 2014 9:18:42am |
re: #312 BeenHereAwhile
Who was followed by Elijah (Robert Poole) Muhammad.
Who moved from Macon, GA, to Detroit.
Yeah, the NOI is an interesting bunch. A Sufi friend of mine in Berlin asked me to explain their beliefs - to the best of my knowledge - and when I did (with surprising accuracy, actually) his reaction was like this:
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:18:43am |
A Chicago man was charged with selling drugs out of a building with a daycare https://t.co/dGP6IGLCyW pic.twitter.com/N2683wlmmp— [ Crime News ] (@goinsidecrime) May 18, 2014
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 9:19:39am |
re: #309 Amory Blaine
2014 commencement speech:
“Sucks to be you”
2015 commencement speeches:
“Thanks for not protesting me”
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 9:21:21am |
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CuriousLurker May 19, 2014 9:23:08am |
re: #283 Dr Lizardo
Late last night I was having trouble synching my Kindle, so I had the list of wifi networks open. Suddenly, “FBI Surveillance Van 3” appeared on the list—my first reaction was to LOL, then I wondered what would happen if there were any conspiracy theorists in the neighborhood. Grab the tin foil, stat!!
Anyway, it disappeared after 2-3 minutes, so I figured someone was probably just bored and playing around renaming their wifi network. Either that or…
*peeks out window to check for black helicopters (and suspicious vans)*
BTW, I googled wifi fbi surveillance van and found this Gawker article which has some really funny comments WRT wifi network names.
Okay, time to get back to work.
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jaunte May 19, 2014 9:23:08am |
We're still at war: Photo of the day for May 19, 2014 http://t.co/4sBTW88mK9 pic.twitter.com/qbd7aKBGMh
— Mother Jones (@MotherJones) May 19, 2014
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Shiplord Kirel May 19, 2014 9:24:56am |
Dust bowl, Bible belt
Got more churches than trees
Raise me, praise me, couldn’t save me
Couldn’t keep me on my knees
Oh, boy, rave on down loop 289
That’ll be the day you see me back
In this fool’s paradiseTemptation’s strong
(Salvation’s gone)
I’m on my way
To hell’s half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven nowThrowing stones from the top of your rock
Thinking no one can see
The secrets you hide behind
Your southern hospitality
On the strip the kids get lit
So they can have a real good time
Come Sunday they can just take their pick
From the crucifix skylineTemptation’s strong
(Salvation’s gone)
I’m on my way
To hell’s half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now
Get to heaven nowInternational airport
A quarter after nine
Paris Texas, Athens Georgia’s
Not what I had in mind
As I’m getting out I laugh to myself
Cause this is the only place
Where as you’re getting on the plane
You see Buddy Holly’s faceI hear they hate me now
Just like they hated you
Maybe when I’m dead and gone
I’m gonna get a statue tooTemptation’s strong
(Salvation’s gone)
I’m on my way
To hell’s half acre
How will I ever
How will I ever
Get to heaven now
Get to heaven now
How will I everGet to heaven now (emphasis added)
Natalie exaggerates for effect: Lubbock does have more trees than churches though not by a huge amount. It also has about the same number of bars as churches (ca. 210 of each) and several dozen licensed liquor stores.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:26:53am |
Cauliflower is nothing but cabbage with a college education.— Mark Twain (@MarkTwainQuote) May 16, 2014
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:28:36am |
Man was made at the end of the week's work when God was tired.— Mark Twain (@MarkTwainQuote) May 7, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 9:29:44am |
DUMBEST. MEME. OF. THE. DAY.
It takes more than roads, it takes the FREE MARKET #tcot #ccot #pjnet #YouDidBuildThat pic.twitter.com/quFnbiKC0R— Consmover (@consmover) May 18, 2014
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:31:26am |
re: #324 Pie-onist Overlord
DUMBEST. MEME. OF. THE. DAY.
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What exactly is the argument there anyhow? You need infrastructure for markets to flourish and exist. That’s something that Smith would have strongly agreed with too.
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 9:31:44am |
re: #300 Slap
Worth remembering the words of Uncle Frank:
“Whenever you see THE FISH, it’s time to grab THE HARPOON.”
(I have conjured many mental harpoons over the years….!)
The other day, I saw a Title Pawn shop with Da Fish on its sign.
And here I was, thinking that Jesus had some pretty specific things to say about money-changers and usurers.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 9:32:39am |
re: #324 Pie-onist Overlord
DUMBEST. MEME. OF. THE. DAY.
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And let unregulated trucks wreck the highways with excessive loads?
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Varek Raith May 19, 2014 9:32:40am |
re: #324 Pie-onist Overlord
DUMBEST. MEME. OF. THE. DAY.
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And without the roads…
Ugh, nevermind.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 9:32:59am |
The new Stalingrad movie is high on production value and the propaganda would make Putin smile.
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 9:33:13am |
re: #325 HappyWarrior
What exactly is the argument there anyhow? You need infrastructure for markets to flourish and exist. That’s something that Smith would have strongly agreed with too.
The ‘argument’, such as it is, boils down to soothing the butthurt of JRRB KREEAYTORZ!!1!!1!!1 that got miffed when Obama reminded them of the fact that their business skills count for exactly jack shit without the publicly-funded infrastructure that enables it.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:33:49am |
re: #328 Varek Raith
And without the roads…
Ugh, nevermind.
Seriously but I’ll say this about wingnuts. They’re products of modernity where they can take for granted things like infrastructure.
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CuriousLurker May 19, 2014 9:34:02am |
re: #322 NJDhockeyfan
My all time favorite:
When I was a boy of 14, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be 21, I was astonished at how much the old man had learned in seven years. —Mark Twain
My son experienced the same epiphany in his early 20’s, heh.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:34:10am |
A man who carries a cat by the tail learns something he can learn in no other way.— Mark Twain (@MarkTwainQuote) April 12, 2014
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:34:46am |
re: #330 GunstarGreen
The ‘argument’, such as it is, boils down to soothing the butthurt of JRRB KREEAYTORZ!!1!!1!!1 that got miffed when Obama reminded them of the fact that their business skills count for exactly jack shit without the publicly-funded infrastructure that enables it.
Ah yes the creators who think that they built everything themselves and no one helped them along the way and that they pulled themselves up with only bootstraps and sheer grit.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 9:35:10am |
It takes more than roads, it takes the FREE MARKET
—-
FACT. Checkmate, Libtards!!!1
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Varek Raith May 19, 2014 9:35:22am |
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BeenHereAwhile May 19, 2014 9:35:32am |
re: #228 sattv4u2
Means AT&T wants to be on an equal footing competitively with COMCAST for TV distribution. AT&T’s “U-Verse” has been somewhat of a bust nationally. getting DTV’s customer base/ distribution vaults them up to where Comcast’s XFINITY brand is
And AT&T is pulling copper and installing fiber.
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jaunte May 19, 2014 9:35:47am |
re: #330 GunstarGreen
The ‘argument’, such as it is, boils down to soothing the butthurt of JRRB KREEAYTORZ!!1!!1!!1 that got miffed when Obama reminded them of the fact that their business skills count for exactly jack shit without the publicly-funded infrastructure that enables it.
The economy of sucking up.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:36:22am |
Doh!
Egyptian TV Channel Insists: Jewish Lobbies behind The Simpsons, MEMRI Responsible for Fuss http://t.co/MVc8Ub14pt #MEMRI #Egypt— MEMRI (@MEMRIReports) May 19, 2014
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 9:37:35am |
Meet the GOP candidate running in GA to replace Paul “Lies From The Pit of Hell” Broun.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:38:36am |
re: #339 NJDhockeyfan
Doh!
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I think this falls in the same category of the NRA blaming American Psycho and Natural Born Killers for Sandy Hook in the game of “Late to Pop Culture.”
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BeenHereAwhile May 19, 2014 9:38:47am |
re: #229 William Barnett-Lewis
Don’t forget the flip flops. First time I saw that I couldn’t believe anyone would be dumb enough to ride a crotch rocket wearing them. (shorts, sleeveless T & mirror shades completed the kit…)
Very common in Miami, FL.
I quit riding street bikes when I moved to Miami.
Too many folk from other places who considered it an insult to their manhood to carry vehicle insurance, or stop at red lights and stop signs.
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jaunte May 19, 2014 9:39:33am |
Is Mad Max driving a limo in New York City?? http://t.co/KJqQWH07XY pic.twitter.com/yey9qu7B7G
— Scout (@nycscout) May 19, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 9:40:41am |
re: #328 Varek Raith
And without the roads…
Ugh, nevermind.
Not to mention, during the 19th century, that “Golden Age” of unregulated Free Enterprise, the railroads were highly subsidized.
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jaunte May 19, 2014 9:42:29am |
Maybe the thinking is that if they flatter the ‘job creators’ hard enough, some jobs might happen.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:42:54am |
re: #345 Pie-onist Overlord
Not to mention, during the 19th century, that “Golden Age” of unregulated Free Enterprise, the railroads were highly subsidized.
But let’s not let facts get away in the way of a good wingnut delusion that enterprise is possible in the modern world without infrastructure.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 9:44:44am |
re: #346 jaunte
Maybe the thinking is that if they flatter the ‘job creators’ hard enough, some jobs might happen.
ALL TEH JRRBS COME FROM TEH JRRB CREEYATERZ1!!!! THEY DON’T NEED UR WORTHLESS ASS FLIPPIN THERE BURGERS & STOCKIN THERE STORE SHELVES, MACHINES CAN DO THAT!!!! THEY JUST HAS PITY ON UR WORTHLESS ASS & GIVES YOU TEH MONEYS BUT U SHUD WORK FOR LESS & BE GRATEFUL U HAS A JRRB WORTHLESS MOOCHER!!!!!!
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 9:44:58am |
re: #347 HappyWarrior
But let’s not let facts get away in the way of a good wingnut delusion that enterprise is possible in the modern world without infrastructure.
Privately owned infrastructure controlled by robber barons.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:46:10am |
re: #349 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Privately owned infrastructure controlled by robber barons.
Yeah privatize it all. God they’re as delusional if not more so than communists are about the reality of how the world around them works.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 9:47:27am |
re: #350 HappyWarrior
Yeah privatize it all. God they’re as delusional if not more so than communists are about the reality of how the world around them works.
HURR HURR!!!! WE HAZ BUILT TAHT WITH ARE GUNZ!!!!!!
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 9:48:52am |
They live in mental world where we all live autonomously on our 40 acres of land that we have carved out of the wilderness with our bare hands and need no government.
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wrenchwench May 19, 2014 9:49:54am |
re: #311 Gus
BenghaziHELMETS!
Happy to sign to #RaiseTheWage. #OFAction @OFA @OFA_CA pic.twitter.com/aEDj7sG2YF— Jean Christofferson (@jeanc57) May 19, 2014
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Decatur Deb May 19, 2014 9:51:24am |
re: #352 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
They live in mental world where we all live autonomously on our 40 acres of land that we have carved out of the wilderness with our bare hands and need no government.
Except to drive off or kill the previous tenants.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:51:54am |
The thing that amuses me most about them is they don’t want government involved in things like infrastructure, making sure health care is affordable to all, etc but they sure as hell love the government being the arbitrator of their morals.
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Hercules Grytpype-Thynneghazi May 19, 2014 9:52:01am |
re: #324 Pie-onist Overlord
DUMBEST. MEME. OF. THE. DAY.
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“Day ain’t over yet.” - Curly (Jack Palance), City Slickers
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:52:08am |
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 9:52:19am |
re: #354 Decatur Deb
Except to drive off or kill the previous tenants.
A mental world, one that has very little to do with current or historical realities…
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 9:53:43am |
Preaching tolerance to the intolerant
WATCH: Commencement Speaker Slams Students’ ‘Immature, Arrogant’ Protest
Bowen also criticized the student leaders of the protest, who hailed Birgeneau’s withdrawal as a “minor victory.” “It represents nothing of the kind,” Bowen responded. “In keeping with the views of many others in higher education, I regard this outcome as a defeat, pure and simple, for Haverford - no victory for anyone who believes, as I think most of us do, in both openness to many points of view and mutual respect.”
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 9:53:58am |
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 9:54:53am |
re: #355 HappyWarrior
The thing that amuses me most about them is they don’t want government involved in things like infrastructure, making sure health care is affordable to all, etc but they sure as hell love the government being the arbitrator of their morals.
As I’ve said so many times before, Big Government vs. Big Gub’mint™.
They want a huge government that is highly involved in our lives. It’s just that they want that government dictating religion, rather than safety regulations. All of this is, of course, based on their bizzaroland-style understanding of their own religion, wherein Baby Jesus thinks it’s fine to poison people with tainted meat but the utmost affront to God to let teh gayz marry each other.
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 9:56:11am |
Yes, let free markets regulate our interstate systems. Privatize all highways, freeways, state roads, farm-to-markets, etc and let’s see how life would be so much better and freer.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 9:56:17am |
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lawhawk May 19, 2014 9:57:07am |
A Blog For All: At the 9/11 Memorial http://t.co/NjLvSLRCnQ— lawhawk (@lawhawk) May 19, 2014
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 9:57:20am |
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 9:58:24am |
re: #361 GunstarGreen
As I’ve said so many times before, Big Government vs. Big Gub’mintTM.
They want a huge government that is highly involved in our lives. It’s just that they want that government dictating religion, rather than safety regulations. All of this is, of course, based on their bizzaroland-style understanding of their own religion, wherein Baby Jesus thinks it’s fine to poison people with tainted meat but the utmost affront to God to let teh gayz marry each other.
Yeah, I just don’t get how they live with that disconnect is all.
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Dr. Matt May 19, 2014 9:58:26am |
re: #360 NJDhockeyfan
Must be an upgrade from this one
As a kid I loved that movie and Snake Plissken….a silence, scoped Uzi (at night). Gun pron.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 10:01:23am |
Macklemore Accused of Anti-Semitism After Wearing Questionable Costume http://t.co/dbluNsSdem— Yahoo Music (@YahooMusic) May 19, 2014
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:01:37am |
re: #359 Killgore Trout
Preaching tolerance to the intolerant
WATCH: Commencement Speaker Slams Students’ ‘Immature, Arrogant’ Protest
I don’t know how to best phrase this but I am sympathetic to a recent graduate who puts a lot of time and cash into their university expressing their discontent with their university’s choice of commencement speaker.
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 10:01:45am |
re: #362 Dr. Matt
Yes, let free markets regulate our interstate systems. Privatize all highways, freeways, state roads, farm-to-markets, etc and let’s see how life would be so much better and freer.
Toll roads and bridges for EVERYBODY!
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 10:01:50am |
re: #362 Dr. Matt
Yes, let free markets regulate our interstate systems. Privatize all highways, freeways, state roads, farm-to-markets, etc and let’s see how life would be so much better and freer.
HURR HURR NO ROAD REPAIRS FOR TEH DEMOCRATZ!!!!!1!!!!
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 10:02:08am |
Republicans say they need to find out why security was insufficient (Congress underfunded), what the president did the night of the attack (read My Pet Goat), why the U.S. military didn’t intervene (ask and answered 84 times already), why initial explanations focused on a protest over a YouTube video (these people can’t read apparently) and whether the administration deliberately sought to hide evidence about its conduct (have you stopped beating your spouse?).
Note: I’ve added a few completely non-bi-partisan responses in parentheses
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 10:04:31am |
re: #366 HappyWarrior
Yeah, I just don’t get how they live with that disconnect is all.
“Fuck you, I got mine” is a pretty easy philosophy to live by, and neatly handles many such disconnects.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:05:50am |
re: #375 GunstarGreen
“Fuck you, I got mine” is a pretty easy philosophy to live by, and neatly handles many such disconnects.
Yep quite true. I just love the disconnect is all. To them, government can’t be trusted to make health care more affordable or schools more higher quality but it can be used to enforce their morals or to deport all the illegal aliens.
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 10:06:10am |
Next up on Fox News: Was the California drought caused by a massive solar panel spill that the Obama administration covered up?
— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) May 19, 2014
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 10:06:10am |
28,000 new jobs last year, a 3-year state low
MADISON — Gov. Scott Walker’s administration reported Thursday that just over 28,000 private-sector jobs were created in Wisconsin last year, the lowest annual amount since Walker took office.
Walker promised during the 2010 election, and again during the recall less than two years later, that by the end of 2014 the state would add 250,000 private-sector jobs. But after three years, based on the employment count Walker chose and that economists say is the most accurate, the state is only 37 percent of the way toward meeting the promise.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:06:37am |
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 10:10:50am |
“Fuck you, I got mine” is a pretty easy philosophy to live by, and neatly handles many such disconnects.
And it’s totally what Jesus Christ and all the prophets taught in the Bible. //
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 10:11:46am |
DUMBER. MEME. OF. THE. DAY.
There are human beings, not robots, behind the counter, dipshit.
@redsoutrage @DefendWallSt I Can't Believe This Is The Future! #RedNationRising #TCOT #WAAR #UniteRight pic.twitter.com/P0nY6hCsbE— James Nathaniel (@JamesNathaniel7) May 19, 2014
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:12:07am |
re: #380 Bulworth
And it’s totally what Jesus Christ and all the prophets taught in the Bible. //
And Jesus sayeth to the poor man, get lost moocher, I won’t fund you and your children because I worked hard and you didn’t.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 10:13:56am |
re: #364 lawhawk
Great pics Lawhawk. I hope to be privileged enough to go back to NYC and see the finished memorial.
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A Mom Anon May 19, 2014 10:14:30am |
re: #332 CuriousLurker
Haha. My daughter just turned 30 and is about to have baby number 4. From age 8 or 9 til she was about 25 I was THE biggest idiot in the world EVAR. Now she calls me almost every day to ask my advice. It’s amazing how brilliant I am now, lol.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 10:14:46am |
re: #381 Pie-onist Overlord
I’ve seen ipads in fancier joints being used for ordering.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 10:15:28am |
Did the artist making this cartoon use Mona Holland’s Twitter avi as inspiration?
#tcot #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/OO0VmyqT6R— Mary (@fritchee) May 19, 2014
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 10:16:23am |
re: #345 Pie-onist Overlord
Not to mention, during the 19th century, that “Golden Age” of unregulated Free Enterprise, the railroads were highly subsidized.
And the northern states that did so had a transportation network in place when the 1861 Great Unpleasantness started.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 10:16:40am |
re: #385 Amory Blaine
Not that I cared for it I think it’s just for the fad. Same with the steak joint where you cook your own steak. Why am I even going out to eat if I’m doing all the work?
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 10:17:20am |
Feds turn over email evidence in tax case against U.S. Rep. Michael Grimm, a former FBI agent. http://t.co/EMnMglvhE6— AP Politics (@AP_Politics) May 19, 2014
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 10:17:31am |
re: #381 Pie-onist Overlord
DUMBER. MEME. OF. THE. DAY.
There are human beings, not robots, behind the counter, dipshit.[Embedded content]
As with so many parts of wingnut ideology, it requires one to turn off their brain and not think about… well, anything really.
Okay, so you order from the machine instead of relaying it to a person who puts it into a machine. Then you pick up your order from the pickup line. This is… pretty much exactly the way the drive-through works right now, except that you’re punching buttons instead of relaying your order to somebody else who punches the buttons. They still have to have cooks to make the food, they still have to have people to bag the food up into orders and deliver them to customers. At the absolute most, this would only replace the order-taking personnel.
And it won’t do that completely, ever, for the exact same reason that U-Scan has been present in every major grocery store for over a decade now and yet it still hasn’t replaced all of the checkout belts. Because machines break down, or customers fail to understand how to use them, or just plain prefer dealing with other humans rather than machines in the first place.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 10:18:56am |
re: #387 Feline Fearless Leader
And the northern states that did so had a transportation network in place when the 1861 Great Unpleasantness started.
Many years ago, I read that one of the factors that contributed to the South’s defeat was the fact that they used different railroad gauges and their rolling stock was not standardized. STATES RIGHTS & PRIVATE ENTERPRISE!!!!!
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:19:25am |
re: #390 GunstarGreen
As with so many parts of wingnut ideology, it requires one to turn off their brain and not think about… well, anything really.
Okay, so you order from the machine instead of relaying it to a person who puts it into a machine. Then you pick up your order from the pickup line. This is… pretty much exactly the way the drive-through works right now, except that you’re punching buttons instead of relaying your order to somebody else who punches the buttons. They still have to have cooks to make the food, they still have to have people to bag the food up into orders and deliver them to customers. At the absolute most, this would only replace the order-taking personnel.
And it won’t do that completely, ever, for the exact same reason that U-Scan has been present in every major grocery store for over a decade now and yet it still hasn’t replaced all of the checkout belts. Because machines break down, or customers fail to understand how to use them, or just plain prefer dealing with other humans rather than machines in the first place.
Precisely. And honestly having this technology from McD’s pov is a good thing for profits. Another wingnut economics fail.
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 10:19:48am |
The only teller-staffed cash register at Home Depot is at the contractor desk. Otherwise it’s DIY. Pretty soon you’ll have to cook and assemble your own burger at Mickey D’s.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 10:20:45am |
re: #393 Amory Blaine
The only teller-staffed cash register at Home Depot is at the contractor desk. Otherwise it’s DIY. Pretty soon you’ll have to cook and assemble your own burger at Mickey D’s.
The one here still has cashiers on both sides.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:20:50am |
re: #391 Pie-onist Overlord
Many years ago, I read that one of the factors that contributed to the South’s defeat was the fact that they used different railroad gauges and their rolling stock was not standardized. STATES RIGHTS & PRIVATE ENTERPRISE!!!!!
Never heard that but the CSA if you ask me doomed itself from the start. When you’re a society founded on the principle that you can just split whenever you want to because you don’t like certain laws, bad things are going to happen to you.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 10:22:30am |
re: #395 HappyWarrior
Never heard that but the CSA if you ask me doomed itself from the start. When you’re a society founded on the principle that you can just split whenever you want to because you don’t like certain laws, bad things are going to happen to you.
Had the war turned out differently, I wonder how long the CSA would have held together before it split into separate states.
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 10:22:51am |
re: #395 HappyWarrior
Never heard that but the CSA if you ask me doomed itself from the start. When you’re a society founded on the principle that you can just split whenever you want to because you don’t like certain laws, bad things are going to happen to you.
The CSA was founded on the principle of owning other human beings as property. The secession thing was just a means to an end.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 10:23:07am |
And it won’t do that completely, ever, for the exact same reason that U-Scan has been present in every major grocery store for over a decade now and yet it still hasn’t replaced all of the checkout belts. Because machines break down, or customers fail to understand how to use them, or just plain prefer dealing with other humans rather than machines in the first place.
And because how to scan lettuce and oranges and stuff like that. If I have anything that’s not in a box or bag with one of those scan things on it then I don’t go through the DIY line.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:24:33am |
re: #397 Pie-onist Overlord
The CSA was founded on the principle of owning other human beings as property. The secession thing was just a means to an end.
I know. I’m just saying that they doomed themselves from the start making secession the basis of their whole existence. A little known part of the war is that the CSA tried to or failed crushed secessionist movements within the CSA. The latter’s result is why the state of West Virginia exists today.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 10:24:55am |
re: #391 Pie-onist Overlord
Many years ago, I read that one of the factors that contributed to the South’s defeat was the fact that they used different railroad gauges and their rolling stock was not standardized. STATES RIGHTS & PRIVATE ENTERPRISE!!!!!
That. And also that most of their railroads ran from market center (that bought cotton) to port (that shipped cotton). Lots of local lines for that with their different gauges and rolling stock. The North by then had interest in running products from the East Coast to Chicago and beyond, and thus larger companies, greater interest in common gauge*, and also more interest in varied goods and passengers.
* - Was not a universal gauge, but the main lines were fairly standardized in order to simplify transfer of loaded freight cars. There were also narrow gauge railroads still running in a number of places, and also railroads who laid a third rail to allow the running of either narrow or standard gauge trains. (Note: I picked up most of this from a book specifically on the development and evolution of railroads in western New York state.)
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:25:57am |
re: #396 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Had the war turned out differently, I wonder how long the CSA would have held together before it split into separate states.
Yep, I think that’s something to wonder about and I think that’s something that the CSA leadership feared since as it was pointed out to me here a couple weeks back that the CSA constitution explicitly forbade secession.
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Kragar May 19, 2014 10:26:34am |
re: #398 Bulworth
And because how to scan lettuce and oranges and stuff like that. If I have anything that’s not in a box or bag with one of those scan things on it then I don’t go through the DIY line.
I ended up blocking the whole bunch of them in that thread. Dumbass libertarian scum.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 10:27:18am |
re: #401 HappyWarrior
Yep, I think that’s something to wonder about and I think that’s something that the CSA leadership feared since as it was pointed out to me here a couple weeks back that the CSA constitution explicitly forbade secession.
no fooling. talk about the ultimate irony…
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 10:28:17am |
Dog rescuing a cat from a flood in Bosnia. pic.twitter.com/ZSpXpzgyoP— Fascinating Pictures (@Fascinatingpics) May 19, 2014
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 10:28:38am |
So my feline overlord crisis last week was one of my male cats not eating/lethargic, which precipitated a three day/night hospital stay and tests all to reveal what seems to be pancreatitus. Brought him home yesterday with lots of medicine to dispense. But he seems much better.
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wrenchwench May 19, 2014 10:28:58am |
The dudebro attitude about helmets has got to be one of the dudebroyest positions there is:
Fewer people ride when helmets are mandated, and when fewer people ride, it’s more dangerous for ME to ride because of the safety-in-numbers factor.
Never mind that the dudebro’s safety comes at the cost of endangering newbie cyclists by encouraging them to ride helmetless.
It’s actually the same argument used to promote bike lanes.
Teh number one reason non-cyclists give for not riding is that they don’t feel safe. Let’s make them feel safe by painting stripes on the road and telling them they are safer there! Then I’ll be safer because there will be lots of newbs out there and drivers will be watching more!
Again, the dudebro’s safety comes at the expense of the newbs being used as the traffic equivalent of cannon fodder.
I have even seen the argument, in mainstream Bicycling Magazine, no less, that colorful lycra outfits are to be abandoned because they discourage newbs from taking up the sport.
BTW, the number one difference between cyclists who have accidents and those who don’t is experience.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 10:30:07am |
If Joe Hockey was a dog…. ”Cat? What cat? I haven't seen a cat….this cat? This isn't a cat….” #qanda #auspol pic.twitter.com/aQdLtw246Y— DarrenWheels (@DarrenWheels) May 19, 2014
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 10:30:25am |
Unicorns and rainbows for all.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 10:31:15am |
re: #404 NJDhockeyfan
Don’t wanna harsh your buzz, but that looks more like a garden pond than a flood area. cute pic, though
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 10:31:54am |
re: #401 HappyWarrior
Yep, I think that’s something to wonder about and I think that’s something that the CSA leadership feared since as it was pointed out to me here a couple weeks back that the CSA constitution explicitly forbade secession.
Is there?
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:32:00am |
re: #406 wrenchwench
The dudebro attitude about helmets has got to be one of the dudebroyest positions there is:
Fewer people ride when helmets are mandated, and when fewer people ride, it’s more dangerous for ME to ride because of the safety-in-numbers factor.
Never mind that the dudebro’s safety comes at the cost of endangering newbie cyclists by encouraging them to ride helmetless.
It’s actually the same argument used to promote bike lanes.
Teh number one reason non-cyclists give for not riding is that they don’t feel safe. Let’s make them feel safe by painting stripes on the road and telling them they are safer there! Then I’ll be safer because there will be lots of newbs out there and drivers will be watching more!
Again, the dudebro’s safety comes at the expense of the newbs being used as the traffic equivalent of cannon fodder.
I have even seen the argument, in mainstream Bicycling Magazine, no less, that colorful lycra outfits are to be abandoned because they discourage newbs from taking up the sport.
BTW, the number one difference between cyclists who have accidents and those who don’t is experience.
The attitude about helmets reminds me of how they approach nutrition honestly.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 10:34:33am |
re: #405 Bulworth
So my feline overlord crisis last week was one of my male cats not eating/lethargic, which precipitated a three day/night hospital stay and tests all to reveal what seems to be pancreatitus. Brought him home yesterday with lots of medicine to dispense. But he seems much better.
Ouch. It’s recoverable though since my Siamese who lived to 21 had a bout of that due to a poor reaction to a hyperthyroid medicine when he was 15 or so. He spent 3 days at the vet and was on additional medication for an extra week or so.
Hope your F.O. rides things out without any additional complications.
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Killgore Trout May 19, 2014 10:34:37am |
re: #370 HappyWarrior
I don’t know how to best phrase this but I am sympathetic to a recent graduate who puts a lot of time and cash into their university expressing their discontent with their university’s choice of commencement speaker.
I can see that point but they are paying for an education, they aren’t paying to be told what they want to hear. I can see cases where boycotting a speaker would be warranted but it’s become way too common and it’s creating (or reflecting) a culture of intolerance.
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 10:35:19am |
re: #406 wrenchwench
The dudebro attitude about helmets has got to be one of the dudebroyest positions there is:
Fewer people ride when helmets are mandated, and when fewer people ride, it’s more dangerous for ME to ride because of the safety-in-numbers factor.
Never mind that the dudebro’s safety comes at the cost of endangering newbie cyclists by encouraging them to ride helmetless.
It’s actually the same argument used to promote bike lanes.
Teh number one reason non-cyclists give for not riding is that they don’t feel safe. Let’s make them feel safe by painting stripes on the road and telling them they are safer there! Then I’ll be safer because there will be lots of newbs out there and drivers will be watching more!
Again, the dudebro’s safety comes at the expense of the newbs being used as the traffic equivalent of cannon fodder.
I have even seen the argument, in mainstream Bicycling Magazine, no less, that colorful lycra outfits are to be abandoned because they discourage newbs from taking up the sport.
BTW, the number one difference between cyclists who have accidents and those who don’t is experience.
The kind of person that rides a two-wheeled vehicle, which is inherently more prone to dislodging and injuring the operator than a four-wheeled vehicle, without a helmet is the kind of person that bears a flagrant disregard for basic safety and common sense, and should not be riding in the first place.
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Backwoods_Sleuth May 19, 2014 10:35:27am |
Source tells me that Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who called President Obama the n-word, has resigned
— Wesley Lowery (@WesleyLowery) May 19, 2014
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Ian G. May 19, 2014 10:35:29am |
Good afternoon, lizards. Looks like that extended weekend I took in Portland, OR made me miss the glorious American Spring revolution, although by the looks of things, I would have missed it if I were standing at the base of the freakin’ Washington Monument.
One thing that never gets old about the Pacific Northwest every time I visit it is the view of the mountains on a clear day. I mean, the view of the Rocky Mountains from Denver is spectacular, but with Portland or Seattle, you have the mountains, but you also have The Mountain: Rainier, Hood, Adams, etc., rising majestically above the rest, covered in glaciers. The snow line at Mt. Hood was at about 4,000’, and up at the Timberline Lodge, there were snowdrifts 3-4 times as tall as me, in mid-May. No wonder Jack Nicholson went nuts there.
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NJDhockeyfan May 19, 2014 10:36:16am |
A bandaged cat, 1935 pic.twitter.com/CJMmejLn5Q— History Pics (@ThatsHistory) May 19, 2014
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GunstarGreen May 19, 2014 10:36:50am |
re: #413 Killgore Trout
I can see that point but they are paying for an education, they aren’t paying to be told what they want to hear. I can see cases where boycotting a speaker would be warranted but it’s become way too common and it’s creating (or reflecting) a culture of intolerance.
There’s nothing wrong with intolerance where bad crazy is concerned.
Tolerating lunacy for the sake of tolerance is how American politics have gotten as toxic and broken as they are now.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) May 19, 2014 10:38:19am |
re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth
Source tells me that Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who called President Obama the n-word, has resigned
But he had CRITERIA!!!
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:39:56am |
re: #413 Killgore Trout
I can see that point but they are paying for an education, they aren’t paying to be told what they want to hear. I can see cases where boycotting a speaker would be warranted but it’s become way too common and it’s creating (or reflecting) a culture of intolerance.
See, that’s the point KT. It’s subjective. Someone who may be warranted a boycott may be different in my eyes, your eyes, or these students’ eyes. Some in the Notre Dame student body wanted to boycott Obama because of his pro-choice views. I understand what you mean about a culture of intolerance but at the same time, I really do feel that if you put in tons of time and money to one’s college education, you definitely do have the right to express your displeasure if you feel your college has chosen someone who you feel doesn’t represent your values. I’m phrasing this poorly I concede but I just don’t know what the solution if any to this. There’s always going to be discontent. There was in the early 70’s when my father was of college age and there is now, and I know there will be when I have children of college age.
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blueraven May 19, 2014 10:40:20am |
re: #404 NJDhockeyfan
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That looks like a backyard pond to me. You can see the plants are in a pot.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:43:29am |
re: #418 GunstarGreen
There’s nothing wrong with intolerance where bad crazy is concerned.
Tolerating lunacy for the sake of tolerance is how American politics have gotten as toxic and broken as they are now.
This is certainly true too. My broader point is obviously these students feel that the university’s choice of speaker is someone who they feel doesn’t reflect the values that they put forth in earning their degree. Put yourselves in their shoes. You put a lot of hard work and money in to getting your degree and the university chooses someone whose views that you and many among your peers find abhorrent to speak at your graduation ceremony. I’m sympathetic to protesting that.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 10:46:01am |
Source tells me that Wolfeboro Police Commissioner Robert Copeland, who called President Obama the n-word, has resigned
POlitcal Correctness police amock!!! What about FReedom speach???! Obama thugs fire all there enemies in America!!11
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:46:09am |
Honestly though, I don’t think this generation of American college students is any more tolerant or intolerant of differing points of views. We’re reading more about student discontent with choices of speakers because well we’re a more connected society than we were in the past. Word gets around quicker. That’s 2014 America. It’s for that same reason I don’t believe that people are any more (I actually believe less) hateful than they were in the past but hate just has a larger platform than it did when my parents were my age.
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Varek Raith May 19, 2014 10:47:11am |
Yeah, I’m going to be ‘intolerant’ of someone who lied us in to war.
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Bulworth May 19, 2014 10:50:14am |
Hope your F.O. rides things out without any additional complications.
Thanks. He’s my real sweet fella. Sleeps on my pillow. Sits on the arm of my recliner when I is watching the teevee. I sure missed him those few days. He also apparently made lots of human friends at the hospital who just loved him.
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 10:55:43am |
Fox and Morons misspell Selfie while doing a segment on selfies.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 10:56:10am |
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 10:58:36am |
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 10:58:47am |
So, it appears AVG is not taking kindly to my dumping them. They will not be ignored. Or removed.
Internet cut off, router screwed up, had to cut the power to everything and start over.
I hate when that happens.
Everything is well for the moment…
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 10:59:47am |
Jesus called Bryan and said “I’M COMING TO KICK YOUR ASS!”
When will Jesus return? I'll tell you on Focal Point today at 1:05 pm CT. http://t.co/9KefYOeEoU— Bryan Fischer (@BryanJFischer) May 19, 2014
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 11:00:12am |
re: #386 Pie-onist Overlord
Did the artist making this cartoon use Mona Holland’s Twitter avi as inspiration?
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I was thinking it might be Peggy Noonan.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 11:00:14am |
And getting a message from Chrome saying it won’t support this computer any longer with updates.
Are they in cahoots with MS?
At least I got Firefox back. : )
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Kragar May 19, 2014 11:00:24am |
Sweet. RT @BryanJFischer: When will Jesus return? I'll tell you on Focal Point today at 1:05 pm CT.— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) May 19, 2014
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lawhawk May 19, 2014 11:00:30am |
re: #432 Pie-onist Overlord
Jesus called Bryan and said “I’M COMING TO KICK YOUR ASS!”
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He keeps mishearing.
It’s Hey! Zeus!
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Skip Intro May 19, 2014 11:02:16am |
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 11:02:35am |
re: #436 lawhawk
He keeps mishearing.
It’s Hey! Zeus!
It’s Jesus, he’s an undocumented Mexican immigrant.
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 11:02:56am |
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BeenHereAwhile May 19, 2014 11:03:37am |
re: #431 Justanotherhuman
So, it appears AVG is not taking kindly to my dumping them. They will not be ignored. Or removed.
Internet cut off, router screwed up, had to cut the power to everything and start over.
I hate when that happens.
Everything is well for the moment…
How To Uninstall McAfee Antivirus
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 11:05:43am |
OH TEH BUTTHURT
Asswipe mocks #AmericanSpring => @ Ciardetti #tcot #tgdn #CTOT #CCOT #LTOT #resist44 #waar #PJNET— Dude Aaron Batten(TM) (@dmbatten2) May 19, 2014
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Sergey Romanov May 19, 2014 11:06:24am |
re: #247 Feline Fearless Leader
Oh good grief. A couple of “friends” on FB are pulling passive-aggressive BS by posting/sharing a picture of the text of the Pledge of Allegiance along with some claim that they want to see how many will re-post it before someone gets pissed off about it. And, of course, they’re recalling how they said The Pledge in school every day without growing up badly.
I responded that I preferred the pre-1952 version personally.
Why not make a pic with the original text and see if they share it?
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HappyWarrior May 19, 2014 11:07:11am |
re: #441 Pie-onist Overlord
OH TEH BUTTHURT
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Why shouldn’t American Spring be mocked? You’re an asswipe if you don’t mock a bunch of people who thought they’d have 10 million people removing Obama last weekend. I jest but they’re worthy of the mocking they’ve gotten.
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Ian G. May 19, 2014 11:08:50am |
re: #432 Pie-onist Overlord
I await Bryan’s answer with bated breath.
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Sergey Romanov May 19, 2014 11:09:12am |
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Ian G. May 19, 2014 11:10:03am |
re: #443 HappyWarrior
Why shouldn’t American Spring be mocked? You’re an asswipe if you don’t mock a bunch of people who thought they’d have 10 million people removing Obama last weekend. I jest but they’re worthy of the mocking they’ve gotten.
Right. I’m guessing this guy would have had no problem mocking International ANSWER’s rallies during the Bush administration, and I really don’t see much of a difference between then and the American Spring clowns.
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Justanotherhuman May 19, 2014 11:11:18am |
Report: Twitter is considering a deal to buy SoundCloud - @Recode
Read more on recode.net
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Ian G. May 19, 2014 11:11:42am |
re: #442 Sergey Romanov
Why not make a pic with the original text and see if they share it?
Or mention that the author of the pledge was a socialist.
And then mention that the author of “America the Beautiful” was a socialist lesbian.
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Jordy LuhPhorj May 19, 2014 11:12:50am |
re: #429 Amory Blaine
Ooooo yah! Up der in da Yoo Pee ya know we’re just darn tootin’ soh happy about dis recognition! Did ya see da turdy pointer…er no?
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Pie-onist Overlord May 19, 2014 11:24:52am |
re: #446 Ian G.
Right. I’m guessing this guy would have had no problem mocking International ANSWER’s rallies during the Bush administration, and I really don’t see much of a difference between then and the American Spring clowns.
Well, ANSWER, ISM and CODE PINK got more turnout, and they had better Giant Puppets.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 11:26:14am |
I had to search to find the commencement speaker for my college graduation (which I did not attend). I was not pleased with my alma mater to be at that point over a number of issues.
Philadelphia-area House Rep (at the time). Went on to be House Majority Whip and later head of the United Negro College Fund.
Given that I’d attended my sister’s graduation at a smaller school years before and seen Coretta Scott King speak I must have thought this guy was pretty small potatoes in comparison.
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Feline Fearless Leader May 19, 2014 11:27:06am |
re: #436 lawhawk
He keeps mishearing.
It’s Hey! Zeus!
How soon until a bad sitcom with that title comes out?
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Amory Blaine May 19, 2014 11:27:57am |
Even the almighty is pulling for me. As I began digging the hole for the gate post the skies opened up!!
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bluebonnetbunny May 19, 2014 11:42:05am |
re: #176 Bulworth
Mitt was in a coma for three days after a car accident in France. Accounts of the circumstances surrounding the accident have changed over the years and don’t reflect well on Mitt. dailykos.com
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Eventual Carrion May 19, 2014 1:26:00pm |
re: #371 Backwoods_Sleuth
Toll roads and bridges for EVERYBODY!
Yep. $20 a day just for the privilege of driving on their roads back and forth for work. Of course the big businesses know they won’t have to pay near that much for their trucks because they will have made backroom deals to keep their costs down, and the toll road owner will just push the costs of that deal onto the scum going back and forth to work every day. Win Win for the big money.
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