A beautifully drawn and animated short film with a thought-provoking story, for your Tuesday evening enjoyment.
Director: Minhyuk Jang
Production manager: Minwoo Jang
Character Rig & Animator: Wonsuk Choi
Modeling: Minwoo Jang, Wonsuk Choi, Minhyuk Jang
Editor: Minhyuk Jang
Picture-book coordinator: Choun Sanghyun
Sound Design: Galaga Sound WorksOriginal Story & Illustration: Ara Cho
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 5:33:09pm |
In my wingnut days I avoided events like CPAC. Now I sort of wish I hadn't - might have woken me up sooner to the true nature of the right.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:33:17pm |
Kneel down and feel the power of the Ginger Avenger!!11!!!
.@The405radio you are arrogant and foolish and canceled a radio appearance because I disagreed with your pathetic politics.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 30, 2014 5:34:56pm |
@Green_Footballs But then the stalkers would have Tweeted photos of you at those events for the next infinity forever.— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) December 31, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:36:15pm |
He’s the man who can do it!
I'm not here to refight Iraq. I don't know what I would have done at the time. I'm here to stop Syria & North Korea if the intel is flawed.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:36:59pm |
He is totally nutso tonight. I haven’t laughed this much in ages.
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 5:37:02pm |
Maybe I subconsciously knew I didn't want to see what was going on at CPAC/Values Voters/etc.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
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Belafon Dec 30, 2014 5:37:57pm |
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
Except he didn’t prevent a cyberwar between the US and North Korea: North Korea lost their internet access.
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Belafon Dec 30, 2014 5:39:38pm |
re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth
Remember when Chuck stopped Bill Belichick from spying on opposing teams?
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Justanotherhuman Dec 30, 2014 5:40:07pm |
re: #7 Belafon
Except he didn’t prevent a cyberwar between the US and North Korea: North Korea lost their internet access.
And S Korea had to fax a talks proposal to NK.
NK may have nuclear weapons, but their internet capabilities suck.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:40:34pm |
re: #8 Belafon
Remember when Chuck stopped Bill Belichick from spying on opposing teams?
He was really taken with the Updog introductory offer, as I recall…
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:42:03pm |
No truer words:
Racists sure do love to tweet.
— Rex Huppke (@RexHuppke) December 30, 2014
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 5:42:09pm |
If god wanted us to kill each other with high velocity chunks of lead he would have given us 45 calibre penises.
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Apocalypse Dec 30, 2014 5:42:52pm |
A happy New years Eve to people’s of the lizardsphere, finally got around to subscribing.
Your Friendly neighborhood Apocalypse.
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 5:43:16pm |
Even then, I knew these were probably not my people.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 5:44:23pm |
re: #13 Apocalypse
A happy New years Eve to people’s of the lizardsphere, finally got around to subscribing.
Your Friendly neighborhood Apocalypse.
Thank you very much for your subscription.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:48:21pm |
Up to four retweets (including UpChuck) and two favorites for this:
You need a blue check and a whole lot more twitter followers. @ChuckCJohnson— justa farmer (@justafarmer4) December 31, 2014
I certainly hope these people aren’t breeding…
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Justanotherhuman Dec 30, 2014 5:50:24pm |
Keep calm and carry on, Lizards!
Anticipating what 2015 will bring, along with watching more British cop shows in which no guns are used to catch criminals. They could teach American cops how to de-escalate, for sure. : )
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Apocalypse Dec 30, 2014 5:50:56pm |
re: #16 Charles Johnson
It’s the least I can do. I usually use Ad-block on my Laptop, but If it helps out, it helps out.
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Varek Raith Dec 30, 2014 5:50:58pm |
re: #12 b_sharp
If god wanted us to kill each other with high velocity chunks of lead he would have given us 45 calibre penises.
Okely dokely?
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 5:51:17pm |
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
Up to four retweets (including UpChuck) and two favorites for this:
[Embedded content]
I certainly hope these people aren’t breeding…
The fact that UpChuck retweeted you shows the complete lack of self-awareness. I’ll bet the fucker doesn’t even know how to tie his own shoes.
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 5:51:58pm |
re: #17 Backwoods_Sleuth
Up to four retweets (including UpChuck) and two favorites for this:
[Embedded content]
I certainly hope these people aren’t breeding…
They are… and the scariest part is that they are breeding with each other. Think about it… who else would have them?
RBS
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 5:52:54pm |
Getting very irritated with Apple Mail, crashing daily since I installed Yosemite, even after rebuilding the Envelope Index.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
Email is ugly and it wants to die.— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 5:53:29pm |
re: #21 teleskiguy
The fact that UpChuck retweeted you shows the complete lack of self-awareness. I’ll bet the fucker doesn’t even know how to tie his own shoes.
All his shoes have Velcro closures.
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 5:53:46pm |
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
I’m not here to refight Iraq. I don’t know what I would have done at the time. I’m here to stop Syria & North Korea if the intel is flawed.
Unless they challenge him to a charity boxing match.
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 5:53:49pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 5:54:21pm |
re: #12 b_sharp
If god wanted us to kill each other with high velocity chunks of lead he would have given us 45 calibre penises.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:54:43pm |
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 5:55:33pm |
re: #19 Apocalypse
It’s the least I can do. I usually use Ad-block on my Laptop, but If it helps out, it helps out.
I was on the fence for years. “How good can it be?” I’d ask myself.
Sometime in 2013-2014 I realized that LGF is my kind of site. Not only in the content and comments, but community. I had less than a thousand comments at the beginning of the year, but something clicked and I decided to post a little more often.
With the subscription, the pages load so much faster, the site is much cleaner looking, and now I feel I have a stake in keeping LGF quality.
If you comment more than five times a day, give Charles some money. A lot of work goes into it, compensation is polite and righteous.
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Belafon Dec 30, 2014 5:55:38pm |
re: #23 Charles Johnson
Just because someone decides to build the Yugo of email services doesn’t mean that email is dead. My email is about the only way I remember some things.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 5:55:59pm |
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 5:57:12pm |
re: #30 teleskiguy
I was on the fence for years. “How good can it be?” I’d ask myself.
Sometime in 2013-2014 I realized that LGF is my kind of site. Not only in the content and comments, but community. I had less than a thousand comments at the beginning of the year, but something clicked and I decided to post a little more often.
With the subscription, the pages load so much faster, the site is much cleaner looking, and now I fell I have a stake in keeping LGF quality.
If you comment more than five times a day, give Charles some money. A lot of work goes into it, compensation is polite and righteous.
Whenever things click with me, it’s always my knees.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 5:57:18pm |
re: #25 b_sharp
I see him more as a flip-flop person.
Flip-flops that are two or three sizes too large…
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 5:57:54pm |
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
I see him more as a flip-flop person.
Flip-flops that are two or three sizes too large…
Not good with cold weather.
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wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality Dec 30, 2014 5:57:58pm |
Reposted from downstairs:
I may be offline for a few days. Going to a wedding in another town and I’m not sure of my Internet access. I’ll just drop this link here and run to the train station.
GotNwes has the name of the person of interest in Sony hack. You will be surprised.
Leaping lizards!
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 5:58:08pm |
re: #32 #FergusonFireside
top bottom, bottom top.
upChuck, when told as a child, to put on his shoes and socks spent half an hour trying to do it. Finally mommy had to show him (again) that the Socks go on first, then the Shoes. (Yes, I totally made that up, but as literal as he can be at times he would probably interpret the directions in that order)
RBS
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 5:58:31pm |
re: #33 b_sharp
Whenever things click with me, it’s always my knees.
Me too! It’s probably from nearly 30 years of skiing. What’s your excuse?
:-P
/
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 30, 2014 5:59:28pm |
re: #37 RealityBasedSteve
upChuck, when told as a child, to put on his shoes and socks spent half an hour trying to do it. Finally mommy had to show him (again) that the Socks go on first, then the Shoes. (Yes, I totally made that up, but as literal as he can be at times he would probably interpret the directions in that order)
RBS
My kids always corrected me when I told them to “Put on your shoes and socks, the school bus will be here!”
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Apocalypse Dec 30, 2014 5:59:46pm |
re: #37 RealityBasedSteve
He still put his pants on after the socks though.
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 30, 2014 5:59:51pm |
re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth
He’s the man who can do it!
[Embedded content]
Someone needs to warn Upchuck about cirrhosis of the liver…
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:00:00pm |
re: #38 teleskiguy
Me too! It’s probably from nearly 30 years of skiing. What’s your excuse?
:-P
/
I’m an old fart.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:00:04pm |
re: #30 teleskiguy
I was on the fence for years. “How good can it be?” I’d ask myself.
Sometime in 2013-2014 I realized that LGF is my kind of site. Not only in the content and comments, but community. I had less than a thousand comments at the beginning of the year, but something clicked and I decided to post a little more often.
With the subscription, the pages load so much faster, the site is much cleaner looking, and now I fell I have a stake in keeping LGF quality.
If you comment more than five times a day, give Charles some money. A lot of work goes into it, compensation is polite and righteous.
And there are extra perks for subscribers that are nice.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:01:57pm |
re: #36 wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality
@ChuckCJohnson Yo dawg! Show Hollywood who's boss! BREAKING: Gotnwes has name of person of interest in Sony hack. http://t.co/M9JHZa0h7q— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) December 31, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:02:25pm |
Roast is put away, a batch of bread dough is starting to work, I may do pancakes for breakfast. Waiting on a friend to call to pick his brain on selling things via Facebook.
Life is good.
RBS
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:02:32pm |
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:03:38pm |
re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth
And there are extra perks for subscribers that are nice.
I have yet to see these “perks.” Maybe because I’m a very new subscriber. Are they like Easter Eggs, where one day I’ll be like “Holy Shit, I never saw that before I got a subscription!”?
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Skip Intro Dec 30, 2014 6:03:45pm |
re: #40 Apocalypse
He still put his pants on after the socks though.
Why does he need pants? He never leaves the house.
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unproven innocence Dec 30, 2014 6:03:55pm |
re: #21 teleskiguy
The fact that UpChuck retweeted you shows the complete lack of self-awareness. I’ll bet the fucker doesn’t even know how to tie his own shoes.
Low blow. According to a biography I read, the older guy lacked that skill too.
Image: File:Paul_Erdos_with_Terence_Tao.jpg
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Snarknado! Dec 30, 2014 6:04:37pm |
re: #30 teleskiguy
I was on the fence for years. “How good can it be?” I’d ask myself.
Sometime in 2013-2014 I realized that LGF is my kind of site. Not only in the content and comments, but community. I had less than a thousand comments at the beginning of the year, but something clicked and I decided to post a little more often.
With the subscription, the pages load so much faster, the site is much cleaner looking, and now I feel I have a stake in keeping LGF quality.
If you comment more than five times a day, give Charles some money. A lot of work goes into it, compensation is polite and righteous.
I subscribed as soon as subscriptions were enabled. I knew then and know now that it’s worth it to me not to have to use twitter and check the wingnut sites — it’s all done for me here.
(Also, I can afford it, so it’s my bit to support the site for people who can’t.)
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:05:02pm |
re: #48 Skip Intro
Why does he need pants? He never leaves the house.
He has dress sweat pants for social events.
RBS
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wheat-dogghazi-bola-trality Dec 30, 2014 6:06:27pm |
re: #44 teleskiguy
Oh, my timeline will be interesting to see once I get back to town and my VPN.
Mwahahaha!
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Skip Intro Dec 30, 2014 6:06:56pm |
re: #51 b_sharp
So no cold weather?
WTF is that like?
Fresno has cold weather, tule fog, and unbreathable air. That’s what makes it the Silicon Valley of RWNJ sites like FR and Goatnews.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:07:52pm |
re: #47 teleskiguy
I have yet to see these “perks.” Maybe because I’m a very new subscriber. Are they like Easter Eggs, where one day I’ll be like “Holy Shit, I never saw that before I got a subscription!”?
Yep!
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:08:26pm |
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Jenner7 Dec 30, 2014 6:08:48pm |
Just watched this….
and I’m supposed to just trust cops??? Because they serve and protect and put their life on the line??
Um, NO.
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 6:09:25pm |
Got home a little early, thought I would read on of my Christmas books
2 hours later, I wake up. Wife said I passed the hell out.
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:10:35pm |
re: #61 Kragar
Got home a little early, thought I would read on of my Christmas books
2 hours later, I wake up. Wife said I passed the hell out.
It must have been an interesting book.
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Jenner7 Dec 30, 2014 6:10:53pm |
It is 6 degrees right now, with wind chills at -7.
Ick.
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 30, 2014 6:11:55pm |
re: #63 Jenner7
It is 6 degrees right now, with wind chills at -7.
Ick.
Toasty. -5/-15 here. Wind expected to pick up overnight.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 6:12:06pm |
re: #61 Kragar
Got home a little early, thought I would read on of my Christmas books
2 hours later, I wake up. Wife said I passed the hell out.
Did you pass out in Your Chair?
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Jenner7 Dec 30, 2014 6:13:01pm |
re: #64 William Barnett-Lewis
Damn, here I thought it was cold. lol Keep warm.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 6:14:04pm |
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:14:07pm |
re: #63 Jenner7
It is 6 degrees right now, with wind chills at -7.
Ick.
Chilly.
-14C here, feels like -24C. Similar to where you are.
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Apocalypse Dec 30, 2014 6:14:26pm |
re: #63 Jenner7
As someone in Australia, Its kind of funny reading about cold weather, given it’s 37C or 99F here.
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:15:21pm |
re: #69 Apocalypse
As someone in Australia, Its kind of funny reading about cold weather, given it’s 37C or 99F here.
Yah, but you guys hang upside down all the time anyway.
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compound_Idaho Dec 30, 2014 6:15:37pm |
re: #39 The Vicious Babushka
My kids always corrected me when I told them to “Put on your shoes and socks, the school bus will be here!”
When I was in school I had a friend that would lie in bed until he saw the school bus on the county road south of his home. He knew he had about 15 min to catch his ride.
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:16:16pm |
re: #51 b_sharp
So no cold weather?
WTF is that like?
I’m debating going to the “Dive into New Year” scuba dive tomorrow night. Problem is that it’s going to be about 20* tomorrow night, and with no real place to get out of the weather there I think I’m going to pass. I’m going to Atlanta on Friday to dive the Aquarium (the big tank with the rays and whale sharks). The chance of getting sick is too high to mess up something I’m really looking forward too.
Besides, I have the possibility of a drunken upChuck New Year Tweeting for our enjoyment.
RBS
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TedStriker Dec 30, 2014 6:16:38pm |
re: #12 b_sharp
If god wanted us to kill each other with high velocity chunks of lead he would have given us 45 calibre penises.
You don’t have one? Why am I feeling a bit special right now…
*scratches crotch*
BANG BANG BANG
///
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 6:18:31pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:18:32pm |
re: #74 TedStriker
You don’t have one? Why am I feeling a bit special right now…
*scratches crotch*
BANG BANG BANG
///
Was that a spontaneous cookoff?
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Varek Raith Dec 30, 2014 6:18:56pm |
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 6:19:13pm |
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:19:21pm |
re: #74 TedStriker
You don’t have one? Why am I feeling a bit special right now…
*scratches crotch*
BANG BANG BANG
///
Is that penis loaded, or are you just hap.. BANG!
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:19:47pm |
Weather update, eh?
15° F, light snow. calm winds.
It’s colder on the other side of the Continental Divide by 15+ degrees. Forecast low in Denver tonight might be the coldest temperature recorded in modern times in Denver, -18° F.
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 6:20:30pm |
Chuck rolls over and presents his belly.
@ChuckCJohnson LOL. Thanks. Keep up the good work.— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) December 31, 2014
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:20:30pm |
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b.d. Dec 30, 2014 6:21:13pm |
We all need to use the same measuring units or more planes will crash.
//
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:21:31pm |
re: #86 Charles Johnson
Chuck rolls over and presents his belly.
[Embedded content]
I think I just got sick in my mouth a little bit reading that.
RBS
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 6:21:32pm |
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Snarknado! Dec 30, 2014 6:21:48pm |
re: #76 b_sharp
Can we start posting local temps in Kelvin here? Please?
283 here, but it feels colder (windy).
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 6:22:17pm |
-4° now and -15° on the overnight. That’s outside. No comment about the interior.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:22:20pm |
re: #63 Jenner7
It is 6 degrees right now, with wind chills at -7.
Ick.
26 here at the moment, 5 mph north wind, windchill 20, forecast low overnight is 19. High tomorrow is 29.
Could be worse, but I still don’t have to like it…
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 30, 2014 6:22:23pm |
re: #69 Apocalypse
As someone in Australia, Its kind of funny reading about cold weather, given it’s 37C or 99F here.
But it’s a dry heat? //// I actually didn’t mind that temp when I was in Arizona for the Army but I’ve never been happy about the cold.
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 6:23:29pm |
Chuck rolls over and presents his belly. pic.twitter.com/LBz0n0Cu20— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
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Pip's Squeak Dec 30, 2014 6:23:55pm |
O C here. But the place is blanketed with tourists.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:25:29pm |
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Apocalypse Dec 30, 2014 6:25:46pm |
re: #97 Charles Johnson
If it weren’t for the fact that Chunk has been seen in the flesh, I’d swear he was an A.I. or an actor playing a character.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 6:26:43pm |
re: #88 b.d.
We all need to use the same measuring units or more planes will crash.
//
Dunno about planes, but orbiters for sure.
(CNN) — NASA lost a $125 million Mars orbiter because a Lockheed Martin engineering team used English units of measurement while the agency’s team used the more conventional metric system for a key spacecraft operation, according to a review finding released Thursday.
;)
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:26:49pm |
re: #99 b_sharp
Jesus, that’s cold.
By Wednesday it’ll be back in the near zero Celsius or above range at Gus’s twenty, so he’s got that going for him.
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PhillyPretzel Dec 30, 2014 6:27:12pm |
re: #102 Gus
Philly is a little chilly. forecast.weather.gov
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 6:27:39pm |
re: #104 teleskiguy
By Wednesday it’ll be back in the near zero Celsius or above range at Gus’s twenty, so he’s got that going for him.
Yeah. Yip. Eee.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:27:55pm |
re: #76 b_sharp
Can we start posting local temps in Kelvin here? Please?
It’s 269.817 Kelvin here at the moment.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:28:23pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:29:36pm |
re: #103 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Dunno about planes, but orbiters for sure.
;)
I actually used that as a teaching point when I taught software design and architecture. How a little thing can really come back and bit you if all the terms aren’t defined the same for all parties.
On as side note, how would you like to be on the After Action Review team when you start to realized just how stupid a thing caused the problem????
RBS
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:29:39pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:30:40pm |
re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth
Who’s a good dog? You are! Yes, you are!!!
Doesn’t matter how much you praise him, he’ll still poop on the floor when he’s stressed.
RBS
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 30, 2014 6:31:58pm |
re: #113 RealityBasedSteve
Doesn’t matter how much you praise him, he’ll still poop on the floor when he’s stressed.
RBS
Poop in my turf, will you?!?
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Snarknado! Dec 30, 2014 6:32:46pm |
re: #111 RealityBasedSteve
I actually used that as a teaching point when I taught software design and architecture. How a little thing can really come back and bit you if all the terms aren’t defined the same for all parties.
On as side note, how would you like to be on the After Action Review team when you start to realized just how stupid a thing caused the problem????
RBS
Do you remember the plane that ran out of fuel because someone used liters instead of gallons? Brilliant piloting plus a handy paved road prevented a full-scale catastrophe.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 6:35:24pm |
Didn’t someone name their daughter something like that?
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 6:35:44pm |
Now Chuck inserts himself in ME politics, with predictably racist ethnic cleansing proposals.
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 30, 2014 6:36:25pm |
re: #12 b_sharp
If god wanted us to kill each other with high velocity chunks of lead he would have given us 45 calibre penises.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 6:37:01pm |
Yeah, it’s getting near Freaking Cold in My Part of The World (tm)
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 6:38:01pm |
re: #118 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Why can't we just pay the “Palestinian” people to move out of Judea & Samaria?— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
He then retweets someone endorsing Moshe Feiglin, a neo-fascist Israeli politician.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 6:38:06pm |
Krauthammer: Obama's Rev. Wright Far Worse Than Scalise's KKK Meeting http://t.co/v7snwu8i32 (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/4swp7tkwF6— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 31, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:38:14pm |
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 30, 2014 6:38:26pm |
I know I’ve said it before, but I love the looks I get from people down here when I talk about dealing with -40 temps in Canadian winters.
Many jaws have dropped.
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b.d. Dec 30, 2014 6:39:04pm |
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compound_Idaho Dec 30, 2014 6:41:01pm |
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
I know I’ve said it before, but I love the looks I get from people down here when I talk about dealing with -40 temps in Canadian winters.
Many jaws have dropped.
-40 f = -40 c maybe that was your point
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:41:08pm |
re: #124 Eclectic Cyborg
I know I’ve said it before, but I love the looks I get from people down here when I talk about dealing with -40 temps in Canadian winters.
Many jaws have dropped.
I went to college in Gunnison, CO, we dealt with similar cold snaps there. We’d see a couple of weeks straight of temperatures not exceeding -15°F. Then suddenly the temp would jump up to 19° and all of a sudden everybody is in shorts and t-shirts playing volleyball outside!
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 6:41:33pm |
It’s a balmy 275 K after a day of rain here in the San Gabriel foothills. Rain’s good for us. The burned-over foothills are starting to show slight traces of green.
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 30, 2014 6:42:42pm |
re: #126 compound_Idaho
-40 f = -40 c maybe that was your point
Yes it was. -40 is fricking cold no matter which scale you use!
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:43:20pm |
Back in the ’70s it was much colder on average than it is now. I can remember quite a few Halloweens where it was too cold to go trick or treating for more than a dozen houses.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 6:44:01pm |
LOL whut???
I'm being accused by someone in the North Korea is always wrong industry of being a #NorthKorea spy. How ridiculous. pic.twitter.com/yuE5JJnDQk
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:44:02pm |
re: #115 Snarknado!
Do you remember the plane that ran out of fuel because someone used liters instead of gallons? Brilliant piloting plus a handy paved road prevented a full-scale catastrophe.
The Gimli Glider. That was a case of an event cycle that could have been broken at a number of different points over 2 days. It was a combination of conversion errors, a broken gauge, and a willingness to ‘go along’ rather than make a scene / delay a flight by getting the fuel in the tanks measured.
It’s a great example of an accident cycle that had a very small initiating event that gradually turned into an incident pit they couldn’t climb out of. It’s a miracle (and a tribute to the pilot who was a skilled glider pilot) that nobody was injured. There is a great book on it that breaks out the whole series of events.
RBS
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 30, 2014 6:44:06pm |
re: #130 b_sharp
Back in the ’70s it was much colder on average than it is now. I can remember quite a few Halloweens where it was too cold to go trick or treating for more than a dozen houses.
But the earth is cooling!!
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 6:44:38pm |
At -61.33°C your breath freezes and falls to the ground.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 6:45:12pm |
re: #130 b_sharp
Back in the ’70s it was much colder on average than it is now. I can remember quite a few Halloweens where it was too cold to go trick or treating for more than a dozen houses.
Back when it was sooooo cold you’d start talking funny?
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 6:46:03pm |
re: #121 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
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He then retweets someone endorsing Moshe Feiglin, a neo-fascist Israeli politician.
He is such a pig.
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 6:47:04pm |
re: #134 teleskiguy
At -61.33°C your breath freezes and falls to the ground.
When I was stationed at the Arctic Training Center, it often was so cold that we couldn’t talk. The words would freeze up in the air, we had to take them inside and thaw them out so we could hear each other.
RBS
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:47:15pm |
re: #134 teleskiguy
At -61.33°C your breath freezes and falls to the ground.
Every year we have days where you can throw a glass of water into the air and it will freeze before it hits the ground.
We’re too damned close to that stupid zero daylight Arctic.
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 30, 2014 6:50:37pm |
re: #138 RealityBasedSteve
When I was stationed at the Arctic Training Center, it often was so cold that we couldn’t talk. The words would freeze up in the air, we had to take them inside and thaw them out so we could hear each other.
RBS
And everyone wore earplugs for a full week once the spring thaw came.
:)
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 6:52:21pm |
re: #130 b_sharp
Back in the ’70s it was much colder on average than it is now. I can remember quite a few Halloweens where it was too cold to go trick or treating for more than a dozen houses.
It was very much colder back then. In those days the onions on my belt stayed fresh for weeks.
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 6:53:47pm |
re: #141 Higgs Boson’s Mate
It was very much colder back then. In those days the onions on my belt stayed fresh for weeks.
Still wear those do you?
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 6:54:11pm |
Feiglin is more or less like David Duke, so no surprise that Chuck endorses him.
You can find places where we say the same things. You can also find places where we are different. I was in the army when Meir, Hashem yikom damo [may God avenge his blood], was [most] active, so I didn’t get to know him so well. But I can definitely say that the slogan “Kahane tzadak - Kahane was right” has proven itself many times.
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Arabs are “a gang of bandits that never produced anything and never wanted to produce anything - a gang of bandits that for over one thousand years (since Islam was born) has lived on robbery and terror… . Since their establishment, the Arab states have produced nothing but poverty, suffering, wars - and fantastic wealth for their leaders.”
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The Arabs engage in typical Amalek behaviour. I can’t prove this genetically but this is the behaviour of Amalek.
(Since it’s God’s commandment to exterminate Amalek, it’s basically a call for genocide.)-
We shall offer them human rights without civil rights, so long as they prove their loyalty to their Jewish state host and accept Jewish sovereignty over their land. In such a situation they will be given legal-resident status and they can carry on their private affairs without anyone infringing on their human rights.
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Why should non-Jews have a say in the policy of a Jewish state?… For two thousand years, Jews dreamed of a Jewish state, not a democratic state. Democracy should serve the values of the state, not destroy them… You can’t teach a monkey to speak and you can’t teach an Arab to be democratic. You’re dealing with a culture of thieves and robbers.The Arab destroys everything he touches.
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Hitler was an unparalleled military genius. Nazism promoted Germany from a low to a fantastic physical and ideological status. The ragged, trashy youth body turned into a neat and orderly part of society and Germany received an exemplary regime, a proper justice system and public order. Hitler savored good music. He would paint. This was no bunch of thugs.
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The gay pride parade isn’t about rights. It’s about forcing the values of the minority onto the majority, effectively locking the majority into the proverbial closet. Homosexual “rights” undermine the normative family, the foundation of our nation.
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Feiglin is banned from entering the United Kingdom due to a decision by Home Secretary Jacqui Smith, made public in March 2008, excluding Feiglin on the grounds that his presence in the country “would not be conducive to the public good.” A letter to Feiglin from the Home Office said that Smith based her decision on an assessment that his activities “foment or justify terrorist violence in furtherance of particular beliefs; seek to provoke others to terrorist acts; foment other serious criminal activity or seek to provoke others to serious criminal acts and foster hatred which might lead to inter-community violence in the UK.”
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 6:57:08pm |
Award-winning right wing journalism. pic.twitter.com/QMQRCms9DW— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 6:58:14pm |
re: #144 Charles Johnson
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Calling the President of the United States a faggot, classy. Did he learn that one from Rush or his Rush fan grandmother?
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 6:58:31pm |
re: #142 b_sharp
Still wear those do you?
Yes, I do. I’ve saved up enough to be able to afford pearl onions. I’m considering selling my lovely hair to the toothbrush people so that I can buy some digitized smart onions.
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 30, 2014 6:58:36pm |
Welp, I bought this present for my granddaughter, it’s a Play Dough set with one of those penis-shaped thingys.
My daughter-in-law hasn’t unfriended me on Facebook yet.
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 6:59:03pm |
But remember folks, the Dixie Chicks deserved to be blacklisted for saying they were ashamed the president was from their state but it’s perfectly acceptable Little CCJ to call the president a faggot.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:02:57pm |
Chuck’s patriotism.
@ChuckCJohnson How much money would it take for you to give-up your home and your entire community, and start life in a new country?— Peter Simonetti (@Pietro5266) December 31, 2014
@Pietro5266 about a half million.— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:02:59pm |
re: #144 Charles Johnson
@ChuckCJohnson @mrkswft @instapundit Way to buck Political Correctness! One day a statue of you will be erected b/c you called O a faggot.— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) December 31, 2014
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 7:03:43pm |
re: #149 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Chuck’s patriotism.
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Can we give him to you guys or would that be too cruel?
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 7:04:39pm |
re: #150 teleskiguy
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He’s really standing up to pc! Seriously this guy’s just a sad shit. He wants to be our generation’s Rush Limbaugh so bad but what he doesn’t get is that guys like Rush are toxic to Generation Y.
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 30, 2014 7:04:59pm |
re: #149 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Chuck’s patriotism.
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IF I CAN’T BE FREE I’LL BE CHEAP!!!!
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:04:59pm |
re: #151 HappyWarrior
Can we give him to you guys or would that be too cruel?
Let him choose, but don’t waste time and do start a kickstarter already. ;)
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:05:42pm |
re: #149 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
about a half million.
Damn. UpChuck is cheap. It’d take a whole hell of a lot more than $500,000 for me to consider leaving my whole life I have led thus far behind.
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 7:06:00pm |
re: #156 jaunte
I’d pay a buck to move him to Peru.
No, that wouldn’t be fair to my sister in law’s relatives. Give him to the Antarctic.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:06:19pm |
re: #147 The Vicious Babushka
Welp, I bought this present for my granddaughter, it’s a Play Dough set with one of those penis-shaped thingys.
My daughter-in-law hasn’t unfriended me on Facebook yet.
l o l
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b.d. Dec 30, 2014 7:06:39pm |
re: #158 HappyWarrior
No, that wouldn’t be fair to my sister in law’s relatives. Give him to the Antarctic.
Think of the penguins. Won’t someone please think of the penguins.
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 7:07:01pm |
re: #149 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Chuck’s patriotism.
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It’s only a half-million. Do you think we could do a kick-starter, bake sale and flea market to raise the cash? If each lizard hit the plasma donation centers 2-3 times a week we could make it happen.
RBS
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:07:18pm |
re: #149 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Chuck’s patriotism.
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Seriously, this time he hit my button. What a hateful genocidal fuck.
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 7:07:41pm |
re: #161 b.d.
Think of the penguins. Won’t someone please think of the penguins.
That’s true. He’d be challenging the penguins to a fight by the end of his first day.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:09:39pm |
l o l
My lol was much more extreme, it just didn’t convert to the blog. Bummer.
and I laughed so much, cause I saw the penis thingy earlier. Go Go Babushka. Make a mark, however you can.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:10:46pm |
Yes. He does like Duke.
It's a lot harder to say that David Duke wasn't targeted by the IRS for his political views these days. #Scalise pic.twitter.com/qQ2Eoix9bH— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 7:11:31pm |
re: #165 HappyWarrior
That’s true. He’d be challenging the penguins to a fight by the end of his first day.
And they would so kick his ginger ass.
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 7:11:42pm |
re: #167 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Yes. He does like Duke.
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Yeah the IRS always getting the white man down right Chuckles?
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 7:11:57pm |
re: #168 Backwoods_Sleuth
And they would so kick his ginger ass.
Of course, they would, they’re penguins.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:12:01pm |
re: #167 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Gah, my first reaction is tan hair, pure white beard. Sorry, no.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:12:26pm |
Why do I have that feeling that it’s gonna be one of those nights with UpChuck?
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 7:12:27pm |
re: #157 teleskiguy
Damn. UpChuck is cheap. It’d take a whole hell of a lot more than $500,000 for me to consider leaving my whole life I have led thus far behind.
Consider that he has to take himself wherever he goes. The likeliest outcome is that in this connected world he’d have to pay his adopted homeland $499,999.50 to take him.
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bubba zanetti Dec 30, 2014 7:13:00pm |
re: #157 teleskiguy
Damn. UpChuck is cheap. It’d take a whole hell of a lot more than $500,000 for me to consider leaving my whole life I have led thus far behind.
Yeah, but he lives in Fresno…
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:14:04pm |
re: #169 HappyWarrior
Yeah the IRS always getting the white man down right Chuckles?
The message, OK. Why the complimentary photo? Poor, persecuted Aryan Duke.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:14:18pm |
re: #174 bubba zanetti
Yeah, but he lives in Fresno…
So true! I live 20 minutes (with good roads) away from world-class skiing. There is a difference.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 7:14:50pm |
>The Pearl of Lao Tzu (also referred to as Pearl of Lao Tze and previously as Pearl of Allah) is the largest known pearl in the world. The pearl was found in the Palawan sea, which surrounds the island of Palawan in the Philippines, and was found by a Filipino diver. It is not considered a gemstone pearl, but is instead what is known as a “clam pearl” or “Tridacna pearl” from a giant clam. It measures 24 centimeters in diameter (9.45 inches) and weighs 6.4 kilograms (14.1 lb).
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GlutenFreeJesus Dec 30, 2014 7:16:03pm |
re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth
@ChuckCJohnson @The405radio You're a floorshitter who won't face an opponent for a charity fight.— efuseakay (@efuseakay) December 31, 2014
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:17:00pm |
re: #172 teleskiguy
Why do I have that feeling that it’s gonna be one of those nights with UpChuck?
Yup, he’s drinking tonight.
To the victor goes the Sapporos. #japaneseculture pic.twitter.com/vSCprLUwjx— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 7:17:01pm |
re: #172 teleskiguy
Why do I have that feeling that’s it’s gonna be one of those nights with UpChuck?
Because there’s a sale on vodka in Fresno?
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Snarknado! Dec 30, 2014 7:17:54pm |
re: #172 teleskiguy
Why do I have that feeling that’s it’s gonna be one of those nights with UpChuck?
Because every night is one of those nights for him?
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 7:19:06pm |
re: #167 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
In that photo Duke has the faraway look of someone loading his diaper.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:19:06pm |
re: #181 Snarknado!
Because every night is one of those nights for him?
Some nights are better (worse?) than others. He’s been known to spew incoherent right-wing hatred like a fire hose until the wee hours of the morning.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 7:19:41pm |
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:19:55pm |
re: #181 Snarknado!
Because every night is one of those nights for him?
Wifey is home from work, exhausted, safely tucked into her bed. And there he goes.
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 7:20:54pm |
Well, back from Urgentcare, less than a minute after I sat down before, my wife cut her finger badly on a can. No stitches, but they put a major bandage on it.
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 7:22:01pm |
re: #185 FemNaziBitch
Strange looking thing. I know it’s one of a kind, but I can’t imagine someone paying millions for it.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:22:06pm |
re: #182 Higgs Boson’s Mate
In that photo Duke has the faraway look of someone loading his diaper.
The Vitter connection…?
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 30, 2014 7:22:15pm |
re: #179 teleskiguy
Yup, he’s drinking tonight.
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More likely Nighttrain or Cisco than Sapporo.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 7:22:59pm |
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 7:23:11pm |
Hmmm, 4,000,000 Palestinians @ $500,000 = $2,000,000,000,000
Plus the cost of new land elsewhere, transport costs, new structures, infrastructure, community support organizations, governments and we’re looking at what? 15 - 20 trillion dollars?
Then add in all the anger over being forced to move, and the production of a new crop of terrorists.
Yah, that plan will work.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 7:23:47pm |
re: #192 b_sharp
Hmmm, 4,000,000 Palestinians @ $500,000 = $2,000,000,000,000
Plus the cost of new land elsewhere, transport costs, new structures, infrastructure, community support organizations, governments and we’re looking at what? 15 - 20 trillion dollars?Then add in all the anger over being forced to move, and the production of a new crop of terrorists.
Yah, that plan will work.
Well. You know what they want instead.
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PhillyPretzel Dec 30, 2014 7:23:56pm |
re: #185 FemNaziBitch
It looks better suited to a museum piece rather than something that an individual would buy.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:24:30pm |
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:24:35pm |
re: #192 b_sharp
Hmmm, 4,000,000 Palestinians @ $500,000 = $2,000,000,000,000
Plus the cost of new land elsewhere, transport costs, new structures, infrastructure, community support organizations, governments and we’re looking at what? 15 - 20 trillion dollars?Then add in all the anger over being forced to move, and the production of a new crop of terrorists.
Yah, that plan will work.
Plus full international isolation over an ethnic cleansing.
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Charles Johnson Dec 30, 2014 7:25:01pm |
How great to see Chuck coming right out and supporting David Duke. pic.twitter.com/Dqqxqvwhrx— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) December 31, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 7:26:37pm |
Wifey is home from work, exhausted, safely tucked into her bed. And there he goes.
it could be worse, he could be spreading his genes.
RBS
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 30, 2014 7:26:38pm |
re: #195 teleskiguy
Old Crow?
Nah, Old Crow is actually not bad for a cheap bourbon. It’s the same “beer” (as the grain stock for liquor is called) as Jim Beam into the still and simply aged a shorter time.
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 7:26:52pm |
David Duke got dirt on all these fools. You can tell by the way they snapped to attention after he threatened to share
— The Tweet Miser (@eclecticbrotha) December 31, 2014
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:27:02pm |
re: #197 Charles Johnson
He’s making a point by posting that photo: “Look, can this true Aryan guy be really that bad?”
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 7:28:59pm |
MEK… It’s a hell of a drug.I think he’s getting it in buck at Home Depot.
RBS
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:29:02pm |
re: #192 b_sharp
Hmmm, 4,000,000 Palestinians @ $500,000 = $2,000,000,000,000
Plus the cost of new land elsewhere, transport costs, new structures, infrastructure, community support organizations, governments and we’re looking at what? 15 - 20 trillion dollars?Then add in all the anger over being forced to move, and the production of a new crop of terrorists.
Yah, that plan will work.
I had to tell UpChuck this! I did it through the only avenue he knows how to engage people, through a couple of tweets.
@ChuckCJohnson @Pietro5266 1/2 With your plan and at a rate of half a mil it would take 2 trillion to move the Palestinians, not to mention— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) December 31, 2014
@ChuckCJohnson @Pietro5266 2/2 the associated costs of housing, infrastructure, government services. You're a fucking genius Chuck!— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) December 31, 2014
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 7:30:10pm |
re: #203 teleskiguy
I had to tell UpChuck this! I did it through the only avenue he knows how to engage people, through a couple of tweets.
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TedStriker Dec 30, 2014 7:30:30pm |
re: #74 TedStriker
You don’t have one? Why am I feeling a bit special right now…
*scratches crotch*
BANG BANG BANG
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re: #157 teleskiguy
Damn. UpChuck is cheap. It’d take a whole hell of a lot more than $500,000 for me to consider leaving my whole life I have led thus far behind.
He probably thinks that he could take the wife and that $500K and move down to Costa Rica and live like royalty, just like his idol Rush Limbaugh.
Oh, wait…
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 7:30:37pm |
David Duke wasn't targeted by the IRS for his political views. @ChuckCJohnson Nope, just as easy to say as ever.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 31, 2014
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 7:32:02pm |
In March 2009, scientists released the results of their research on deep-sea (depths of ~300 to 3,000 m) corals throughout the world. They discovered specimens of Leiopathes to be among the oldest continuously living organisms on the planet: around 4,265 years old. They show that the “radial growth rates are as low as 4 to 35 micrometers per year and that individual colony longevities are on the order of thousands of years”.[2][3]
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 7:33:12pm |
BREAKING: http://t.co/6ZmImXdiOt will pay #DavidDuke for the names of all politicians who have met w/ him. #Scalise pic.twitter.com/vxiTYSNUoR— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:34:21pm |
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 7:34:31pm |
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 30, 2014 7:35:29pm |
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 7:36:06pm |
re: #208 Kragar
BREAKING: gotnews.com enters new round of fundraising.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:36:19pm |
It’s hilariously sad that as soon as David Duke threatens to reveal his political associations the national Republican Party just shuts the fuck up and goes about business as usual.
Today’s GOP is rotten. The lunatics have taken over the asylum, and the next two years are going to be brutal.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 7:36:49pm |
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 7:37:03pm |
.@ChuckCJohnson Hey genius. You could always Tweet @SteveScalise's friend at @DrDavidDuke— Gus (@Gus_802) December 31, 2014
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 7:37:52pm |
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
That would be UpChuck’s crack research mad skillz at work…
BREAKING: GOTNEWS HAS INFORMATION LEADING TO THE LOCATION OF DAVID DUKE’S TWITTERS!
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 7:37:56pm |
re: #213 jaunte
BREAKING: gotnews.com enters new round of fundraising.
Let me check ebay, see what he’s selling. (I’d suggest his soul, but he must have sold that years ago)
RBS
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 7:38:15pm |
Anyone got a contact for #DavidDuke? #Scalise pic.twitter.com/TeJ19XBvfF— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 7:40:07pm |
Odd. You would think an “Award winning” journalist with an IQ over 150 would be able to find that information. @ChuckCJohnson— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 31, 2014
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:40:45pm |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 7:41:23pm |
re: #208 Kragar
Pretty sure that Duke will want more than UpChuck’s usual $50…
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:41:27pm |
That’s some groundbreaking journamalism.
@JustinWilson71 link me.— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:42:39pm |
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 7:42:54pm |
re: #223 jaunte
I see he has not met Google yet.
He’s a rolling train wreck. You can’t help but stare. When he crashes and burns it’s going to not be a small event.
RBS
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:42:59pm |
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for us Lizards. Except he’s impervious to any constructive criticism because of his blatant sociopathy. He’s emboldened by our barbs.
Hey jaunte, I’d pay a dollar to send him to Peru too.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:43:38pm |
re: #198 RealityBasedSteve
it could be worse, he could be spreading his genes.
RBS
I doubt he’s spreading them now.
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 7:44:01pm |
You know, I've seen some lazy chickenshit motherfuckers in my life, but @ChuckCJohnson takes the cake @JustinWilson71— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) December 31, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 7:44:23pm |
re: #228 teleskiguy
It’s like shooting fish in a barrel for us Lizards. Except he’s impervious to any constructive criticism because of his blatant sociopathy. He’s emboldened by our barbs.
Hey jaunte, I’d pay a dollar to send him to Peru too.
And I’m willing to sell of one of teleskiguys kidneys to help with the expenses.
RBS
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:44:51pm |
Duke wrote a self-help book for women to raise money under the pseudonym Dorothy Vanderbilt and James Konrad, titled Finders-Keepers - Finding and Keeping the Man You Want which contains sexual, diet, fashion, cosmetic and relationship advice, published by Arlington Place Books in 1976. Professor Lawrence N. Powell, who read a rare copy of the book given to him by Patsy Sims, wrote that it includes advice on vaginal exercises, fellatio, and anal sex.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:45:28pm |
re: #203 teleskiguy
I had to tell UpChuck this! I did it through the only avenue he knows how to engage people, through a couple of tweets.
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There is no price to ethnic cleansing. I will not go down this road.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:46:06pm |
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 30, 2014 7:46:11pm |
Please let #DavidDuke know that I'll pay double for the names of any Democrats he met with. #Scalise #scaliseexcuses pic.twitter.com/VLXBpbKRky— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
Upchuck can start with former Democrat David Duke.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:46:44pm |
re: #231 RealityBasedSteve
And I’m willing to sell of one of teleskiguys kidneys to help with the expenses.
RBS
Hey, they say you only need one, right?
/
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 7:47:25pm |
I doubt he’s spreading them now.
I bet he’s spreading them in many a sock.
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 7:47:31pm |
Please let #DavidDuke know that I’ll pay double for the names of any Democrats he met with.
*multiplies 2 by zero…*
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:49:27pm |
The cherry on top, the tweet that solidifies UpChuck’s love for David Duke, at least for now.
Let's out everyone who ever met with David Duke & then move on. In America we can meet with who we want. #Scalise pic.twitter.com/0fBYMUzQRV— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 7:49:37pm |
Just hit Dukes web site (and now I need a shower). Proudly offered for sale are such fine tracts as “The Jewish War on Christmas”, “The International Jew, The World’s Foremost Problem” (vol 1 and 2) and of course “The Duke Report”, the illustration showing the headline “Zionist Running Dog Obama”.
And in upChucks miswired world, this is someone who needs defending.
RBS
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:50:12pm |
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Upchuck can start with former Democrat David Duke.
Pay double? Double what?
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:50:45pm |
re: #235 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Upchuck can start with former Democrat David Duke.
Oh and dark hair, pure white beard.
Fucked up.
Men, don’t do it. Ever.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 7:51:18pm |
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:51:30pm |
Ho. Lee. Shit.
I’ll let someone else post it if they want, but UpChuck is getting vile tonight.
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 7:55:24pm |
Oh and dark hair, pure white beard.
Fucked up.
Men, don’t do it. Ever.
Looks like he’s a number 8.
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Kragar Dec 30, 2014 7:55:34pm |
Obama has no problem negotiating with terrorists but no should ever be permitted to meet with white nationalists. #DavidDuke #Scalise— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:56:07pm |
@Pietro5266 @ChuckCJohnson Good point. Genocide it is then!— embrace_the_oblivion (@e_the_o) December 31, 2014
@Pietro5266 @ChuckCJohnson I'll take 10 million Israelis w/their backs to the wall over a whole continent of Eurofags anyday.— embrace_the_oblivion (@e_the_o) December 31, 2014
@e_the_o @Pietro5266 there are only 6 million and I would too— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
@ChuckCJohnson @Pietro5266 Btw Chuck, you have the heart of an Israeli. Thank you for what you do!— embrace_the_oblivion (@e_the_o) December 31, 2014
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Jenner7 Dec 30, 2014 7:56:39pm |
I’d love to. I haven’t been in a long time.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 7:57:08pm |
My mentor Alan Dershowitz offered to defend Matthew Hale on principle even though he hated Hale's white supremacist views. #Scalise— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 7:58:02pm |
It’s instructive to see the replies in UpChuck’s timeline, especially the ones that agree with him, of which there are numerous.
Every single reply that agrees with UpChuck belongs to a Twitter user who in some way, shape or form have eliminated some facet of reality in their lives so their world views conform. We’re talking many millions of United States citizens.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 7:58:18pm |
re: #249 Gus
Shades of Greenwald.
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 7:59:56pm |
@ChuckCJohnson What exactly were #DavidDuke #Scalise negotiating? You don't do logic, do you?
— Dumas Dufus (@DoubleDumas) December 31, 2014
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:00:29pm |
So he retweets praise from a guy who has just called for genocide.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:01:24pm |
re: #245 jaunte
Looks like he’s a number 8.
g a g
We love you as you are.
Not Duke of course, men with grey hair.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 8:01:41pm |
re: #253 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
So he retweets praise from a guy who has just called for genocide.
Saw that.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:02:09pm |
re: #253 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
So he retweets praise from a guy who has just called for genocide.
Also:
@JoeNBC @ThePlumLineGS @kausmickey Well if we're gonna have a race war, let's do it while the #s are still in our favor.— embrace_the_oblivion (@e_the_o) December 30, 2014
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:02:37pm |
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 8:03:14pm |
g a g
We love you as you are.
Not Duke of course, men with grey hair.
I don’t have any grey hair on my head - most of the time.
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jaunte Dec 30, 2014 8:03:20pm |
re: #256 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Nihilist trolls are the worst.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 8:04:31pm |
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TedStriker Dec 30, 2014 8:04:48pm |
re: #180 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Because there’s a sale on vodka in Fresno?
I think Chuck hits the vodka with a Drano chaser…
Oh and dark hair, pure white beard.
Fucked up.
Men, don’t do it. Ever.
Dye job up top?
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:06:18pm |
re: #262 TedStriker
Dye job up top?
No! Natural. The fake shows. It shows.
We love you as you are.
So sorry to drop this in a fucking genocide call out, but you guys, I’ll speak my piece.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 8:08:27pm |
re: #257 b_sharp
Does Alan Dershowitz even know Chuckie?
Nope. Don’t think so. Maybe they met once. He’s Joel Pollak’s “friend.” Not sure how deep they go. Dershowitz endorsed Pollak for congress once.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:10:57pm |
re: #265 Gus
I think he was his intern or something. “Research assistant”.
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unproven innocence Dec 30, 2014 8:11:53pm |
Scorned 1958 African-American Rose Bowl Queen to Ride in This Year’s Parade
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 8:13:38pm |
re: #266 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
I think he was his intern or something. “Research assistant”.
I see now. Yeah, Dershowitz is all about Dershowitz.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:13:51pm |
I wonder if it’s him.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:15:08pm |
re: #268 Gus
Cruz, Pollak, Chuck… Lotsa useless folks around him.
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bratwurst Dec 30, 2014 8:16:59pm |
Seems like this is becoming yet another example of idiots confusing free speech with consequence-free speech. Scalise can, of course, speak to anyone he wants. The question at hand is whether someone who apparently didn’t realize he was cavorting with white supremacists posses the necessary judgement to hold a leadership position in one of our two major political parties.
I honestly feel like someone has to be willfully ignorant not to be able to make this distinction.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:18:14pm |
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:19:44pm |
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:20:07pm |
So Chuck helped to research a book against the religious right.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 8:20:23pm |
Looks like I’m stuck on this side of the whatever it is that’s between this side and the other side. The damn rope broke. I was all set (I even bought a single gallon of gas just because I’m a prick). I set myself up and the next thing I knew I had sprained my left knee, I had bit my tongue, my larynx was throbbing and my pants were completely soaked. Whatever despair and rage had driven me to this point was quickly replaced but annoyance. I tried again but by this time my neck was so sore I just gave up. At least I hadn’t said any grand good byes, that would be sort of awkward tomorrow!
So I figure I’ve reached rock bottom. Nowhere to go but up, right?
I think I’m going to be wearing a turtleneck for the next few days, however.
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 8:21:56pm |
re: #230 Kragar
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@Kragar_LGF @ChuckCJohnson @JustinWilson71 That's award-winning lazy chickenshit motherfucker to you, sir.— mattand (@mattand) December 31, 2014
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 8:22:01pm |
re: #275 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Looks like I’m stuck on this side of the whatever it is that’s between this side and the other side. The damn rope broke. I was all set (I even bought a single gallon of gas just because I’m a prick). I set myself up and the next thing I knew I had sprained my left knee, I had bit my tongue, my larynx was throbbing and my pants were completely soaked. Whatever despair and rage had driven me to this point was quickly replaced but annoyance. I tried again but by this time my neck was so sore I just gave up. At least I hadn’t said any grand good byes, that would be sort of awkward tomorrow!
So I figure I’ve reached rock bottom. Nowhere to go but up, right?
I think I’m going to be wearing a turtleneck for the next few days, however.
WTF?
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 8:22:13pm |
Look at Shane McConkey’s season pass picture from 2004/2005 season at Sugar Bowl, CA!
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 8:22:16pm |
re: #271 bratwurst
Considering conservatives’ oft and loudly stated beliefs regarding economics, climate change, the age of the Earth, pollution, etc., I think that the rank and file considers “Willfully Ignorant” to be a virtue and their politicians consider that to be a boon.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 8:22:31pm |
re: #276 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
I see a big blank space.
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 8:22:59pm |
re: #275 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Looks like I’m stuck on this side of the whatever it is that’s between this side and the other side. The damn rope broke. I was all set (I even bought a single gallon of gas just because I’m a prick). I set myself up and the next thing I knew I had sprained my left knee, I had bit my tongue, my larynx was throbbing and my pants were completely soaked. Whatever despair and rage had driven me to this point was quickly replaced but annoyance. I tried again but by this time my neck was so sore I just gave up. At least I hadn’t said any grand good byes, that would be sort of awkward tomorrow!
So I figure I’ve reached rock bottom. Nowhere to go but up, right?
I think I’m going to be wearing a turtleneck for the next few days, however.
You okay?
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 8:25:15pm |
re: #282 Mattand
For the time being, sure. I think it’s God’s way of telling me we can do this the hard way, or we can do this the hard way.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:26:07pm |
<blockquote>Primitive interstellar meteorites were found to contain carbon possibly in the form of diamond (Lewis et al. 1987).[15] Not all diamonds found on Earth originated here. A type of diamond called carbonado that is found in South America and Africa may have been deposited there via an asteroid impact (not formed from the impact) about 3 billion years ago. These diamonds may have formed in the intrastellar environment, but as of 2008, there was no scientific consensus on how carbonado diamonds originated.[16][17]
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 8:27:04pm |
re: #275 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Looks like I’m stuck on this side of the whatever it is that’s between this side and the other side. The damn rope broke. I was all set (I even bought a single gallon of gas just because I’m a prick). I set myself up and the next thing I knew I had sprained my left knee, I had bit my tongue, my larynx was throbbing and my pants were completely soaked. Whatever despair and rage had driven me to this point was quickly replaced but annoyance. I tried again but by this time my neck was so sore I just gave up. At least I hadn’t said any grand good byes, that would be sort of awkward tomorrow!
So I figure I’ve reached rock bottom. Nowhere to go but up, right?
I think I’m going to be wearing a turtleneck for the next few days, however.
What?
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:27:32pm |
Scientific evidence indicates that white dwarf starshave a core of crystallized carbon and oxygen nuclei. The largest of these found in the universe so far, BPM 37093, is located 50 light-years (4.7×1014 km) away in the constellation Centaurus. A news release from the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics described the 2,500-mile (4,000 km)-wide stellar core as a diamond.[19] It was referred to as Lucy, after the Beatles’ song “Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds”.[20][21]
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 8:28:32pm |
re: #285 b_sharp
That was a picture of my brain activity.
You’re a liar. The brain never sleeps, my friend, until it is dead!
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 8:28:41pm |
re: #275 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Looks like I’m stuck on this side of the whatever it is that’s between this side and the other side. The damn rope broke. I was all set (I even bought a single gallon of gas just because I’m a prick). I set myself up and the next thing I knew I had sprained my left knee, I had bit my tongue, my larynx was throbbing and my pants were completely soaked. Whatever despair and rage had driven me to this point was quickly replaced but annoyance. I tried again but by this time my neck was so sore I just gave up. At least I hadn’t said any grand good byes, that would be sort of awkward tomorrow!
So I figure I’ve reached rock bottom. Nowhere to go but up, right?
I think I’m going to be wearing a turtleneck for the next few days, however.
Why? Where are you? Do you need help?
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Whack-A-Mole Dec 30, 2014 8:29:14pm |
re: #275 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
If you’re talking about what I think you are, please don’t do it. Call someone and get some help. It can and will get better. Nothing is worth slipping that around your neck. I know from personal experience.
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 8:30:14pm |
re: #291 teleskiguy
You’re a liar. The brain never sleeps, my friend, until it is dead!
Your brain maybe. Mine has been known to go into perfect stasis.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:31:06pm |
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retired cynic Dec 30, 2014 8:31:10pm |
re: #293 Whack-A-Mole
I know from personal experience, too. Please don’t!
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 8:32:37pm |
Anyway, long story short, it’s just a war against myself, and the voices in my head. So far, I guess it’s a draw. For all the horror and despair, there are moments of humor. Like the vigorous sympathetic nervous system response I got when I had passed out at the end of my belt. “YOU’RE LATE FOR CLINICAL!!!” (That’s probably how I sprained my knee) I ran right into my office door. There’s a pile of extension cords and straps all around my desk. Now I guess I have to replace my toner cartridge.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:33:56pm |
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 8:34:15pm |
re: #298 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Anyway, long story short, it’s just a war against myself, and the voices in my head. So far, I guess it’s a draw. For all the horror and despair, there are moments of humor. Like the vigorous sympathetic nervous system response I got when I had passed out at the end of my belt. “YOU’RE LATE FOR CLINICAL!!!” (That’s probably how I sprained my knee) I ran right into my office door. There’s a pile of extension cords and straps all around my desk. Now I guess I have to replace my toner cartridge.
Come here and talk before you act.
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retired cynic Dec 30, 2014 8:34:52pm |
re: #298 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
There are always moments of humor, and beauty. Sometimes you have to look really hard to see them.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:36:04pm |
Buckminsterfullerene (or bucky-ball)
Fur Real, Gomer?
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 8:37:19pm |
re: #298 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
For three years my only constant friend was thoughts of suicide. Coming here and talking to people about basically nothing is why I survived. It works.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:37:41pm |
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:38:36pm |
re: #300 b_sharp
Come here and talk before you act.
ALWAYS!!!!
Why the hell are we here if you can’t come to us?
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unproven innocence Dec 30, 2014 8:38:45pm |
re: #302 FemNaziBitch
Buckminsterfullerene (or bucky-ball)
Fur Real, Gomer?
Quite real. It’s sometimes exploited as a “cage” of sorts that can hold one or two other atoms, for various experiments.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:38:47pm |
re: #301 retired cynic
There are always moments of humor, and beauty. Sometimes you have to look really hard to see them.
like the Bucky-Ball.
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WhatEVs Dec 30, 2014 8:38:52pm |
re: #13 Apocalypse
A happy New years Eve to people’s of the lizardsphere, finally got around to subscribing.
Your Friendly neighborhood Apocalypse.
I did, too. I don’t feel like a freeloader anymore. :-)
I read almost all threads and comments usually daily, and post when I can. But this is always a daily stop for news and views.
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b_sharp Dec 30, 2014 8:39:14pm |
Time to wake V and give her her antibiotics.
I’ll be back tomorrow.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:39:16pm |
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Whack-A-Mole Dec 30, 2014 8:39:23pm |
re: #309 FemNaziBitch
And ChuckyC’s string of floor-shitting tweets.
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:39:35pm |
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 8:40:04pm |
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 8:41:03pm |
re: #298 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Anyway, long story short, it’s just a war against myself, and the voices in my head. So far, I guess it’s a draw. For all the horror and despair, there are moments of humor. Like the vigorous sympathetic nervous system response I got when I had passed out at the end of my belt. “YOU’RE LATE FOR CLINICAL!!!” (That’s probably how I sprained my knee) I ran right into my office door. There’s a pile of extension cords and straps all around my desk. Now I guess I have to replace my toner cartridge.
Call someone now. Get professional help now. Call a HOTLINE. Anything. Go to a church and talk to a priest. Anything.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:41:09pm |
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 8:41:45pm |
Thanks for your concern. These things usually flare up once or twice a day, everyday for the last 30-odd years. The next time I hear that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem I’m stomping on somebody’s balls. When your life is a burning building, sometimes you have to make your own exit. Anyway, I’m tougher than this, really. It probably wasn’t the most serious attempt in the world (although accidents CAN happen). Since I was young there is a elevated highway foundation that is there for me if I really need it, but I’ll give tomorrow a chance.
So is the Ginger Avenger really going to make the world safe for democracy?
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FemNaziBitch Dec 30, 2014 8:42:27pm |
Bucky Ball looks like a soccer (futball) to me.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:42:58pm |
re: #275 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Looks like I’m stuck on this side of the whatever it is that’s between this side and the other side. The damn rope broke. I was all set (I even bought a single gallon of gas just because I’m a prick). I set myself up and the next thing I knew I had sprained my left knee, I had bit my tongue, my larynx was throbbing and my pants were completely soaked. Whatever despair and rage had driven me to this point was quickly replaced but annoyance. I tried again but by this time my neck was so sore I just gave up. At least I hadn’t said any grand good byes, that would be sort of awkward tomorrow!
So I figure I’ve reached rock bottom. Nowhere to go but up, right?
I think I’m going to be wearing a turtleneck for the next few days, however.
I’m behind in the thread, but Steve?
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 30, 2014 8:43:27pm |
I’m off to bed myself. It’s 2 mile to the Starbucks, so I think that a brisk walk up there tomorrow for a hot drink and then a walk back home will be the order of the day tomorrow. Bundle up in the puffy coat and my watch cap and gloves.
RBS
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 8:43:54pm |
re: #287 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
For the time being, sure. I think it’s God’s way of telling me we can do this the hard way, or we can do this the hard way.
re: #293 Whack-A-Mole
If you’re talking about what I think you are, please don’t do it. Call someone and get some help. It can and will get better. Nothing is worth slipping that around your neck. I know from personal experience.
Seconding this. If you need help, please ask.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:44:03pm |
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retired cynic Dec 30, 2014 8:44:04pm |
re: #322 Jenner7
I don’t know. One day at a time, one hour, one breath. Whatever it takes.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 8:44:21pm |
re: #322 Jenner7
Give more than tomorrow. :)
I don’t get greedy. One day at a time. I know there are things down the road, but they’ll still be there when I get to them.
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 8:46:19pm |
re: #299 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
This needs to go wide, too.
Yes, yes it does. The guy was pretty much bragging that he was Duke without the Klansman stigma. Really pathetic to see how Boehner is standing by this asshole but it’s not surprising at all unfortunately.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:47:06pm |
re: #298 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Anyway, long story short, it’s just a war against myself, and the voices in my head. So far, I guess it’s a draw. For all the horror and despair, there are moments of humor. Like the vigorous sympathetic nervous system response I got when I had passed out at the end of my belt. “YOU’RE LATE FOR CLINICAL!!!” (That’s probably how I sprained my knee) I ran right into my office door. There’s a pile of extension cords and straps all around my desk. Now I guess I have to replace my toner cartridge.
Where do you reside, my friend.
If you are close I’m in my car with pastries and a friend’s heart,
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HappyWarrior Dec 30, 2014 8:47:12pm |
So it’s come to this. The third most important Republican in the House of Representatives once saw himself as being like David Duke but without the baggage. Sheesh. What the fuck is wrong with that party?
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WhatEVs Dec 30, 2014 8:47:28pm |
re: #59 Jenner7
Just watched this….
and I’m supposed to just trust cops??? Because they serve and protect and put their life on the line??
Um, NO.
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I’m wondering if Ellen is going to have him on her show. I hope she does.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 8:47:51pm |
re: #276 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Just a test.[Embedded content]
I thought I saw something weird. Now it’s my turn to go WTF on somebody else’s ass.
WTF
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 8:50:41pm |
Steve, where are you in this US of A
If you’re in the NJ/Philly/NYC area, let me know.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:51:00pm |
re: #334 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I tried inserting Google Books stuff, but apparently it uses javascript, so doesn’t work here.
If Charles reads this: maybe it’s possible to allow JS inserts for a limited number of safe websites, such as books google com?
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WhatEVs Dec 30, 2014 8:51:39pm |
re: #90 jaunte
Erickson comes out in favor of Twitter pooping.
Comes out, he’ll. He’s been taking dumps all over Twitter for years. Erickson is a passel of peni wrapped in a human costume.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:52:33pm |
Woll,
That’s how this long time Southerner says WELP
Steve, where are ya, talk to us.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 8:53:21pm |
Where do you reside, my friend.
If you are close I’m in my car with pastries and a friend’s heart,
Funny you should ask. I live on a short pier and I take long walks. This episode today was pretty serious, I would concede. But, I’m still here, tomorrow’s another day, there’s work to be done, one foot in front of the other, all that stuff. FWIW, I put my clothes in the laundry before I did this.
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WhatEVs Dec 30, 2014 8:54:01pm |
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:54:55pm |
re: #341 WhatEVs
What engineer (anywhere) uses English UOMs? I thought metric was the engineering standard.
Apparently Lockheed are some hillbilly hicks ;)
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Jenner7 Dec 30, 2014 8:56:06pm |
Well, I’m off to binge watch Supernatural. Take care all and Steve? I’ll be thinking of you. :)
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 8:56:18pm |
re: #342 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
AutoCAD (and other Autodesk products) exists in 2 versions - Imperial and metric.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 8:57:34pm |
re: #340 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Funny you should ask. I live on a short pier and I take long walks. This episode today was pretty serious, I would concede. But, I’m still here, tomorrow’s another day, there’s work to be done, one foot in front of the other, all that stuff. FWIW, I put my clothes in the laundry before I did this.
Love you stranger, if you are anywhere near San Diego I will drive up or you could come down for a fun ride at my house. Seriously it would change your life. Welcome Friend!
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WhatEVs Dec 30, 2014 8:59:38pm |
re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth
LOL whut???
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Yeah @ChuckCJohnson there's proof right there that English is not your first language. And you're definitely a shill for North Korea.— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) December 31, 2014
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 9:01:14pm |
re: #344 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
AutoCAD (and other Autodesk products) exist in 2 versions - Imperial and metric.
Actually! :D You can switch around inside the one version.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 9:01:45pm |
re: #336 Mattand
If you’re in the NJ/Philly/NYC area, let me know.
Philadelphia, actually.
I really appreciate the concern. Things are stable, honestly. I just figured I would would share the results of an unusual day. OK, So I flirted with disaster, granted. But I got away with it and am pretty satisfied that it’s going to take something really big and ugly to dispatch me. I’ve been attacked with an ax, burned, hit by a car, shot, fallen off a cliff, choked to death on a lemon, and had a really weird sledding accident. I’ll get by.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 9:05:36pm |
re: #348 Gus
Actually! :D You can switch around inside the one version.
Technically yes, it merely depends on the template. It’s a pain in the ass to convert metric files to imperial and vice versa. So I think of it as two versions :)
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 9:06:01pm |
re: #349 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I’m just across the Ben Franklin in South Jersey. If you need someone to talk to, I’m available right now.
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austin_blue Dec 30, 2014 9:06:19pm |
Love you stranger, if you are anywhere near San Diego I will drive up or you could come down for a fun ride at my house. Seriously it would change your life. Welcome Friend!
SS;
The fact that Steve is talking is good. The fact that he is not forthcoming with his physical location is a choice. He obviously wants some space right now. The fact that this is a long grind for him should be respected.
This time of year is always dangerous for folks with clinical depression. His comment that he thought “You’re Late For Clinical!” indicates he is in a Medical Field and that he is perfectly self-aware of the situation.
I hope he hangs in there. But man, that’s a tough life.
One day at a time, Steve. Good luck, my man.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 30, 2014 9:07:14pm |
re: #349 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
You need to call a number. It’s just to talk. But please talk. I’m afraid your day is not over.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 9:08:21pm |
re: #351 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Basically, my point is that there are two modes in the engineering software, so somebody must be using it.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 9:08:59pm |
re: #341 WhatEVs
What engineer (anywhere) uses English UOMs? I thought metric was the engineering standard.
When I had my little rubber factory we used both, depending on what we were working with. The gram is a very convenient unit because it’s pretty small. Millimeters were actually out of favor because it was too small a unit. It was easier to use increments of 16th inches. On larger blanks centimeters would have been useful, but since the stuff on the benches were made to English units, we went with inches for convenience. We did not use and measures for volume, and used the Fahrenheit scale because the smaller degree was more useful and it was safer because we were always afraid somebody might not realize how hot 170 C really was (335 F)
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 9:09:41pm |
re: #352 Mattand
I’m just across the Ben Franklin in South Jersey. If you need someone to talk to, I’m available right now.
At this time of night, I can be in Center City in about 15 minutes.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 9:10:41pm |
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 9:13:11pm |
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 30, 2014 9:20:03pm |
re: #357 Mattand
At this time of night, I can be in Center City in about 15 minutes.
I really appreciate it. I’ve calmed down. I’m actually a nursing student. It was a real treat when I was doing my clinical rotation at Friends Hospital. We were locked in the unit, with a network of tunnels between me and the outside. I would be trying to ask the doctor this question or that question about the patient while WW3 was going on inside! I kept thinking they were going to drag me back in every time. I also had a really freaky intuitive level of communication with the patients. I really gotta write a book.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 9:22:14pm |
re: #361 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I really appreciate it. I’ve calmed down. I’m actually a nursing student. It was a real treat when I was doing my clinical rotation at Friends Hospital. We were locked in the unit, with a network of tunnels between me and the outside. I would be trying to ask the doctor this question or that question about the patient while WW3 was going on inside! I kept thinking they were going to drag me back in every time. I also had a really freaky intuitive level of communication with the patients. I really gotta write a book.
Speaking as someone who’s been there and who goes there still, writing helps. Start with journaling. Journaling heals me by giving me some perspective.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 9:29:45pm |
Im’ma shovel the drive, it’s covered in snow.
BBS (Be back shortly?)
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 9:30:21pm |
re: #361 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I really appreciate it. I’ve calmed down. I’m actually a nursing student. It was a real treat when I was doing my clinical rotation at Friends Hospital. We were locked in the unit, with a network of tunnels between me and the outside. I would be trying to ask the doctor this question or that question about the patient while WW3 was going on inside! I kept thinking they were going to drag me back in every time. I also had a really freaky intuitive level of communication with the patients. I really gotta write a book.
No problem. I’ll be up for a little bit. Just downloaded Assassin’s Creed IV, so I’m going to take that for a spin. I’ll spot check the pages every so often.
Again, if you need help with anything, I’m not that far away.
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darthstar Dec 30, 2014 9:30:25pm |
Stephanie Grace: Scalise’s pitch to Duke supporters seems plausible http://t.co/4RQhQgyPpd “David Duke without the baggage.” Nice slogan.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 31, 2014
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 9:30:31pm |
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 9:35:03pm |
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A Cranky One Dec 30, 2014 9:35:12pm |
re: #349 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
… I’ve been attacked with an ax, burned, hit by a car, shot, fallen off a cliff, choked to death on a lemon, and had a really weird sledding accident.
I had a day like that once…
Some folks here understand only too well how you feel. Thanks for the trust shown by sharing. Folks care.
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darthstar Dec 30, 2014 9:35:13pm |
@chrislhayes @Maggyw519 @RyanLizza He only borrowed his lawn mower to trim the grass around the burning cross in his back yard.— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) December 31, 2014
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 9:35:28pm |
Is Scalise a fanatical cross-burning white supremacist who is known for fiery racial rhetoric or David Duke’s friend? No, he’s worse: he’s a serious, respectable politician who is comfortable with appealing to Duke’s electorate. That’s what it boils down to.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 9:37:23pm |
2014 marked my return to the pages of The Nation, with this essay on slavery, abolition and the climate http://t.co/MyuUnDdaHC— Christopher Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 31, 2014
Dear Chris, maybe write an essay on why it is bad to shill for Putin, as the nation does?
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austin_blue Dec 30, 2014 9:37:33pm |
re: #372 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Is Scalise a fanatical cross-burning white supremacist who is known for fiery racial rhetoric or David Duke’s friend? No, he’s worse: he’s a serious, respectable politician who is comfortable with appealing to Duke’s electorate. That’s what it boils down to.
And he’s got class. He always wears fitted sheets.
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3eff Jeff Dec 30, 2014 9:38:28pm |
re: #319 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Thanks for your concern. These things usually flare up once or twice a day, everyday for the last 30-odd years. The next time I hear that suicide is a permanent solution to a temporary problem I’m stomping on somebody’s balls.
As someone who has been there more often than he’d like to admit, that’s an entirely reasonable reaction to that particular bullshit platitude.
When your life is a burning building, sometimes you have to make your own exit. Anyway, I’m tougher than this, really. It probably wasn’t the most serious attempt in the world (although accidents CAN happen). Since I was young there is a elevated highway foundation that is there for me if I really need it, but I’ll give tomorrow a chance.
I’ve been being tougher than it for 20 years, too. But man, it’s a fucking awful way to deal with it. I’m in California, so it’s too far to go in any reasonable amount of time, but take some of the east coast lizards up on their offers. Worst case, you get to hug a friend.
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teleskiguy Dec 30, 2014 9:45:05pm |
And I’m back. Balaclavas are nice when temperatures are in the mid-single digits.
Yes Gus, it’s warmer up in the mountains than it is down in Denver.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 9:45:55pm |
Shot
Tweets about Happy Holidays: FDA Moves
Chaser
More #insanity from #FoxNews “Fox & Friends: ‘sprinkle ban’ that doesn’t exist is proof Obama will ban Xmas cookies” http://t.co/rmz0tMWrC6— Pitt Griffin (@pittgriffin) December 30, 2014
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3eff Jeff Dec 30, 2014 9:47:07pm |
It’s a chilly 503°R here, but I’m on the coast in California… So, not really cold at all. Light jacket, jeans and a ballcap are fine. Bit windy (there’s a downed limb on a powerline a block away).
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 9:49:09pm |
re: #377 Gus
Any dream lie will do.
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austin_blue Dec 30, 2014 9:49:46pm |
re: #377 Gus
Shot
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Well it used to be a War on Christmas. Now it’s a War on Christmas Traditions.
Like lard!
When will the madness end?!?!
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 9:50:39pm |
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Mattand Dec 30, 2014 9:50:49pm |
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 9:51:08pm |
re: #376 teleskiguy
And I’m back. Balaclavas are nice when temperatures are in the mid-sngle digits.
Yes Gus, it’s warmer up in the mountains than it is down in Denver.
Thanks! Yeah, it’s cold.
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Gus Dec 30, 2014 9:55:55pm |
According to @9NEWS ~ #Denver #Colorado is currently -15°F, and when you add the #WindChill, IT FEELS LIKE IT'S -32°F!! #BringInPETS #COWX— The 16th Street Mall (@16thStMALL) December 31, 2014
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darthstar Dec 30, 2014 10:00:20pm |
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 30, 2014 10:06:52pm |
I hate aliens coming over here taking our jobs. pic.twitter.com/pGB54QRjzn— You had one job (@_youhadonejob) December 28, 2014
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prairiefire Dec 30, 2014 10:14:43pm |
re: #361 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
One of my most intuitive moments I had with a stranger was with a male nurse after I had delivered my son.
I know what it’s like to have that heightened awareness because of mental pain, I wish you a good path for you in the healing of others.
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unproven innocence Dec 30, 2014 10:21:03pm |
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austin_blue Dec 30, 2014 10:28:06pm |
re: #392 prairiefire
One of my most intuitive moments I had with a stranger was with a male nurse after I had delivered my son.
I know what it’s like to have that heightened awareness because of mental pain, I wish you a good path for you in the healing of others.
Yes. That is so…human. Pain can engender strength and purpose. You just have to look at it a little bit sideways, shrug, and push on through it.
I’ve been impressed tonight by the Lizardii’s response to Steve’s really rough day. What a nice community we have.
What a lovely board we share.
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De Kolta Chair Dec 30, 2014 10:29:38pm |
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klystron Dec 30, 2014 10:35:33pm |
{{ Steve }}
I don’t know if you are still here for the evening but like so many others, I encourage talking to someone. I won’t say that there’s someone out there who knows exactly what it is like, because everyone’s experience is different - but there are a lot of us out there who care and are willing to listen, distract, and simply be so that you don’t have to feel so alone.
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klystron Dec 30, 2014 10:38:50pm |
Because this state delights in laughing at me, there is snow at Joshua Tree (!!!!!) while our trip to Sacramento yielded a fun day at the state railroad museum (actually highly recommended if you like trains in any way/shape/form, or history) and then delays on the train back to the Bay Area because high winds took some trees down onto the track.
The person behind me was really not happy about this development and clearly has not learned the trick of traveling on Amtrak anywhere outside of the Northeast Corridor …which is that you’re never going to get there on time, so just stop worrying and enjoy the ride.
The ability to get a gin and tonic still totally beats driving.
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klystron Dec 30, 2014 10:39:06pm |
There's enough snow on the ground in Joshua Tree that I could make a teeny tiny little snowball. #cawx @NWSVegas pic.twitter.com/hF2609NsP7— Cathy Bell (@CathyMBell) December 31, 2014
The Joshua Tree snow.
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austin_blue Dec 30, 2014 10:41:18pm |
re: #395 De Kolta Chair
Sarah Calderwood - Wild Mountain Thyme
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Sometimes channeling the 70’s is not good. That has to be in the Top 5 of Worst Album Covers of 2012.
And good night all. Happy New Year’s Eve/Eve Eve to Lizards all over the world.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 30, 2014 10:44:30pm |
re: #399 klystron
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The Joshua Tree snow.
Nice! I camp there during all four seasons. The cold and snow can be formidable.
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klystron Dec 30, 2014 10:52:02pm |
re: #402 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Nice! I camp there during all four seasons. The cold and snow can be formidable.
I am enjoying the …”cold”… but would like more actual weather to go with it.
The kind that involves some variety of water from the sky.
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De Kolta Chair Dec 30, 2014 10:52:30pm |
re: #400 austin_blue
Sometimes channeling the 70’s is not good. That has to be in the Top 5 of Worst Album Covers of 2012.
And good night all. Happy New Year’s Eve/Eve Eve to Lizards all over the world.
Paraphrasing Sigmund Freud, sometimes schmaltz is just schmaltz. Happy new year!
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De Kolta Chair Dec 30, 2014 10:58:48pm |
When James Joyce went electric:
Stately plump, Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed. A yellow dressing gown, ungirdled, was sustained gently-behind him by the mild morning air. He held the bowl aloft and intoned:
— How does it feel? How does it feel? To be on your own? Like a rolling stone?
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 30, 2014 11:35:03pm |
Hmm. Seems that LGF comes up fine on IE on our lobby computer but I can’t get any pages to load on my phone’s browser. Other pages load just fine but nothing from LGF so I’m testing here to make sure it’s on my end. Worked fine yesterday.
Has there been any code changes recently, Charles?
Any other phone users having trouble?
Samsung Galaxy S4 running Android 4.4.4
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unproven innocence Dec 30, 2014 11:52:27pm |
re: #407 William Barnett-Lewis
Displaying ok on a Galaxy S3/Android 4.4.2, using a recent Firefox.
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unproven innocence Dec 30, 2014 11:57:07pm |
re: #407 William Barnett-Lewis
Also, if your connection is slowish, that might be part of your issue.
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 31, 2014 12:18:02am |
May try resetting the network connection later then.
Thanks!
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Dec 31, 2014 2:04:06am |
Has anyone posted this latest responsible gun owners sotry?
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 31, 2014 4:25:34am |
Testing…. Seems to be working though with insane lag on my keyboard. Weird.
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Bubblehead II Dec 31, 2014 4:34:54am |
Morning Lizards from a slightly cool Twin Falls, Id. Anything up thread worth looking at?
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Bubblehead II Dec 31, 2014 4:41:16am |
re: #411 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Has anyone posted this latest responsible gun owners sotry?
Was just reading this and was thinking about paging it with the title, Killed by her own stupidity. WTF was she thinking? That weapon had to cocked and the safety off for a 2 yo kid to be able to discharge it.
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Bubblehead II Dec 31, 2014 4:54:28am |
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 5:06:51am |
I’m retired. It’s always Saturday for me.
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 31, 2014 5:31:25am |
It’s 72° this morning in Miami Beach. We are heading to the airport in about half an hour to fly home where the temp is 50° colder.
You would literally have to pay me to move out of Detroit. I live in a beautiful 5-bedroom house in a Detroit suburb, way too big for just 2 people, but because of the housing market here we could not get more than $200K for it. Plop this same house down in Brooklyn or Miami Beach or Toronto and it would be worth well more than $500K.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 5:36:41am |
re: #414 Bubblehead II
She wanted to be able to use the weapon in as little time as possible, would be the reason for having the gun in that state. It is indeed foolish and irresponsible.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 31, 2014 5:38:59am |
re: #419 Dark_Falcon
Why do you even NEED a gun in Idaho?
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 5:40:19am |
re: #418 The Vicious Babushka
Happy landings! It’s great that you could take a break from the cold.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 5:41:26am |
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 31, 2014 5:42:59am |
re: #420 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Why do you even NEED a gun in Idaho?
She probably saw every gun-fucking meme of Twitter and was convinced that a gun was the most effective “rape whistle”
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 5:43:18am |
re: #420 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Why do you even NEED a gun in Idaho?
Neo-Nazis, grizzly bears, wolves, and cougars.
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 5:44:42am |
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Bubblehead II Dec 31, 2014 5:44:44am |
Anyone out there been brave/stupid enough to download and install the new Windows 10 yet?
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Dr Lizardo Dec 31, 2014 5:45:49am |
re: #420 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Why do you even NEED a gun in Idaho?
Considering some of the neo-Nazi/Christian Identity/white supremacist/white nationalist nutburgers running around in Idaho, if I were living there, I’d seriously consider it. Those people are violent dirtbags.
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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Dec 31, 2014 5:58:31am |
re: #101 Apocalypse
re: #101 Apocalypse
If it weren’t for the fact that Chunk has been seen in the flesh, I’d swear he was an A.I. or an actor playing a character.
Why is it that we don’t see more of him “in the flesh”? Is no one here retired or ready to use some vacation time to do some real digging? If he was in Detroit instead of Sacramento, I am pretty sure I would be out there digging.
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 6:01:51am |
re: #419 Dark_Falcon
She wanted to be able to use the weapon in as little time as possible, would be the reason for having the gun in that state. It is indeed foolish and irresponsible.
Not to mention the fact that she had her gun in her purse. That defies the entire point of concealed carry for protection. What if her purse had been stolen? She’d be without her purse AND unarmed.
Of course, the sympathetic sob story is now coming out:
Rutledge isn’t just sad — he’s angry. Not at his grandson. Nor at his dead daughter-in-law, “who didn’t have a malicious fiber in her body,” he said. He’s angry at the observers already using the accident as an excuse to grandstand on gun rights.
“They are painting Veronica as irresponsible, and that is not the case,” he said. “… I brought my son up around guns, and he has extensive experience shooting it. And Veronica had had hand gun classes; they’re both licensed to carry, and this wasn’t just some purse she had thrown her gun into.”
I feel for that little boy who will grow up without his mother, but if she was truly a responsible gun owner she wouldn’t have left a loaded weapon unattended where a 2-year old could get it.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:06:39am |
re: #429 Lidane
Not to mention the fact that she had her gun in her purse. That defies the entire point of concealed carry for protection. What if her purse had been stolen? She’d be without her purse AND unarmed.
Of course, the sympathetic sob story is now coming out:
I feel for that little boy who will grow up without his mother, but if she was truly a responsible gun owner she wouldn’t have left a loaded weapon unattended where a 2-year old could get it.
The purse is a popular place for women who carry concealed in part because if done right the gun won’t ‘print’ in inside a purse. ‘Printing’ in this case means that the outline of the gun shows against clothing and it is to be avoided as it can get you in trouble with the cops and scare people who are afraid of guns.
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 6:06:48am |
re: #427 Dr Lizardo
Considering some of the neo-Nazi/Christian Identity/white supremacist/white nationalist nutburgers running around in Idaho, if I were living there, I’d seriously consider it. Those people are violent dirtbags.
Seriously. If I had to live in Idaho I’d consider arming myself.
Here in Texas, I just have to avoid East Texas to avoid most of the Klan-type yahoos. In Idaho they’re all over the damned place.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 6:07:54am |
re: #426 Bubblehead II
Anyone out there been brave/stupid enough to download and install the new Windows 10 yet?
Not me. I stayed with Windows 2000 until long after the hardware companies stopped writing drivers for it. Now I’m running Win7 64 bit and it’s stable and capable. Anyone who installs a new Windows before the first Service Pack is an unpaid Beta tester.
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Dave In Austin Dec 31, 2014 6:11:01am |
re: #431 Lidane
Seriously. If I had to live in Idaho I’d consider arming myself.
Here in Texas, I just have to avoid East Texas to avoid most of the Klan-type yahoos. In Idaho they’re all over the damned place.
Shoot… Look no further then Liberty Hill and the rest of rural Willco.
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Bubblehead II Dec 31, 2014 6:13:52am |
re: #431 Lidane
Seriously. If I had to live in Idaho I’d consider arming myself.
Here in Texas, I just have to avoid East Texas to avoid most of the Klan-type yahoos. In Idaho they’re all over the damned place.
I live in Idaho (Twin Falls to be exact) and while I own a variety of firearms, I don’t feel the need to carry, either openly or concealed. IMHO, doing so is just asking for problems. The only exception to this is when I am out hiking . Rattlesnakes are a problem and being able to dispatch one must be an option.
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 6:15:48am |
Tweet stolen from kos frontpage:
NYT to NYPD: 1. Don’t violate the Constitution 2. Don’t kill unarmed people To that we can add: 3. Do your jobs http://t.co/tJp9CTru8T
— Joe Sudbay (@JoeSudbay) December 31, 2014
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Bubblehead II Dec 31, 2014 6:16:42am |
re: #432 Higgs Boson’s Mate
Not me. I stayed with Windows 2000 until long after the hardware companies stopped writing drivers for it. Now I’m running Win7 64 bit and it’s stable and capable. Anyone who installs a new Windows before the first Service Pack is an unpaid Beta tester.
I am seriously considering giving it a shot. Backing up the secondary system right now. If things go the way they usually do, 10 should be reasonably stable and usable.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:19:06am |
re: #435 b.d.
Tweet stolen from kos frontpage:
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To which I’d reply to the NYT editorial board:
Step off, you liberal hecklers! You’ve run the NYPD down every chance you get and now you think they should actually regard you as having moral authority? Go take a long walk off a short East River pier.
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 6:19:10am |
re: #433 Dave In Austin
Shoot… Look no further then Liberty Hill and the rest of rural Willco.
True. Williamson County sucks ass.
Basically, I stay in Austin unless I don’t have a choice or if I go to visit family. The rest of this state has gotten really fucking weird in the last 20 years.
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 6:19:57am |
Touché
I'm pretty sure @SteveScalise wouldn't have “accidentally” spoken at a gay atheist convention
— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) December 31, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:20:13am |
Sometimes as a conservative it just plain feels good to stand up straight and flip a liberal institution the bird.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 6:21:13am |
re: #437 Dark_Falcon
To which I’d reply to the NYT editorial board:
Step off, you liberal hecklers! You’ve run the NYPD down every chance you get and now you think they should actually regard you as having moral authority? Go take a long walk off a short East River pier.
That’s what the psycho-cops should do.
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 6:22:27am |
OUTRAGE!
John McCain’s team has been ridding Arizona’s GOP apparatus of his tea party foes http://t.co/xgKxrexCpS— POLITICO (@politico) December 31, 2014
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 6:22:47am |
re: #420 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Why do you even NEED a gun in Idaho?
Because there are lots of other people with guns in Idaho?
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 6:23:01am |
re: #440 Dark_Falcon
Sometimes as a conservative it just plain feels good to stand up straight and flip a liberal institution the bird.
What liberal institution is that? The one who employed Judy Miller that published the Bush Iraq WMD lies that marched us into a unneeded war?
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 6:25:28am |
re: #436 Bubblehead II
I am seriously considering giving it a shot. Backing up the secondary system right now. If things go the way they usually do, 10 should be reasonably stable and usable.
You’re doing it right. You might consider dual booting Win10 with your current OS. That way, if you hate Win10 you can simply boot into your old OS, delete the Win10 partition and then load your Recovery Disk or install media and select Command Prompt then use the bootrec.exe /FixMbr command to straighten out your mbr.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:26:45am |
re: #442 Lidane
OUTRAGE!
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The screams of rage are from wingnuts who are angry that John McCain is getting the better of them yet again. He’s got experience, instincts, and intelligence, and all they’ve got is rage, single-mindedness, and butthurt.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 6:26:48am |
re: #434 Bubblehead II
I live in Idaho (Twin Falls to be exact) and while I own a variety of firearms, I don’t feel the need to carry, either openly or concealed. IMHO, doing so is just asking for problems. The only exception to this is when I am out hiking . Rattlesnakes are a problem and being able to dispatch one must be an option.
I’ve run across many a rattlesnake and never felt the need to shoot it. I just walked around it.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:28:12am |
re: #447 Sionainn
I’ve run across many a rattlesnake and never felt the need to shoot it. I just walked around it.
Sometimes you run into big ones up where Bubblehead II lives. Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes can be quite large.
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Varek Raith Dec 31, 2014 6:28:14am |
The NYPD’s actions brought this upon them, not the NYT.
Personal responsibility!
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 6:29:42am |
re: #449 Varek Raith
The NYPD’s actions brought this upon them, not the NYT.
Personal responsibility!
Besides, it has reached a new level. Turning backs was petulant and creepy - but not doing their fucking job is downright criminal.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 6:30:15am |
re: #448 Dark_Falcon
Sometimes you run into big ones up where Bubblehead II lives. Western Diamondback Rattlesnakes can be quite large.
I’ve run into large rattlesnakes. I’m well aware of how big they can get.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 6:35:11am |
re: #452 Sionainn
When my dad gets back from walking the dog, I’ll ask him what we’ve been running into the past few years while doing field work. I think they are the Western Diamondback, but I’ll get confirmation.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 6:35:37am |
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Varek Raith Dec 31, 2014 6:36:33am |
re: #455 Sionainn
What are they doing?
Graphics of boats with ping locators scouring the ocean bottom.
Again and again.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 6:36:50am |
re: #440 Dark_Falcon
Sometimes as a conservative it just plain feels good to stand up straight and flip a liberal institution the bird.
That’s brainless and reactionary, not conservative, but considering who calls themselves conservative these days it’s an easy mistake to make..
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:38:26am |
re: #457 No Country For Old Haters
That’s brainless and reactionary, not conservative, but considering who calls themselves conservative these days it’s an easy mistake to make..
No, it’s human and political.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 6:39:33am |
re: #456 Varek Raith
Graphics of boats with ping locators scouring the ocean bottom.
Again and again.
Sounds like they haven’t moved on very far from OJ Simpson-in-a-white-Bronco journalism.
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Apocalypse Dec 31, 2014 6:41:10am |
Happy New year! 40 minutes in to a new year and its raining heavily. So good so far.
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Dave In Austin Dec 31, 2014 6:42:01am |
I guess #Overit2014 is a thing.
Looks like FOX didn’t count on the response.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 6:43:38am |
re: #456 Varek Raith
Graphics of boats with ping locators scouring the ocean bottom.
Again and again.
LOL. When my dad gets back in, he’ll turn on MSNBC. I wonder what they’ll be doing. Yesterday, they kept asking why the plane went down and then trying to compare it to the other two downed flights in Asia before saying they are not the same. Ugh.
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Varek Raith Dec 31, 2014 6:47:10am |
re: #462 Sionainn
LOL. When my dad gets back in, he’ll turn on MSNBC. I wonder what they’ll be doing. Yesterday, they kept asking why the plane went down and then trying to compare it to the other two downed flights in Asia before saying they are not the same. Ugh.
Quantum singularity.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:47:36am |
re: #462 Sionainn
LOL. When my dad gets back in, he’ll turn on MSNBC. I wonder what they’ll be doing. Yesterday, they kept asking why the plane went down and then trying to compare it to the other two downed flights in Asia before saying they are not the same. Ugh.
If its doesn’t involve the US government, then all three newsnets will cover a disaster in roughly the same DERPy way.
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 6:48:28am |
On an unrelated note, owning a Kindle now means that I’m reading a hell of a lot more, especially since I’m borrowing eBooks from the public library. I plowed through five books over the Christmas holidays and have three more loaded up right now.
If you haven’t read Zealot by Reza Aslan, do it. I’m atheist, but the political Jesus in that book is far more interesting to me than anything I learned in Sunday school. And my current read is Griftopia by Matt Taibbi. Yeah, he’s a dudebro, but it’s an interesting takedown of the financial crisis.
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lawhawk Dec 31, 2014 6:49:34am |
re: #437 Dark_Falcon
Moral authority? Let’s see: Eric Garner is dead b/c of that moral authority to kill with impunity, even though the cop used an illegal chokehold under Department rules, and the grand jury didn’t even consider a reckless endangerment charge.
The DA in that case has expressed an interest in running for the Congressional seat being vacated by Michael Grimm btw. But I digress.
Other cops killed an unarmed man who was doing absolutely nothing wrong other than walking down a stairwell while a pair of cops was doing a sweep up the staircase. The NYPD calls it accidental, but what was the cop doing with his finger on the trigger in the first place? That goes to policy/procedure/practice, and training/tactics.
The NYPD pursued stop and frisk for years, generating hundreds of thousands of stops that resulted in no arrests at all. That procedure began to be curtailed last year and ended this year, and there’s been no resulting increase in crime. Correlation doesn’t equal causation, but it does make the claim that stop and frisk worked to reduce crime a bit more difficult to believe.
Cops do a difficult job, but when you have police union leadership blaming the politicians - Obama, Holder, and DeBlasio - for the deaths of two cops by saying what is indisputably true (that racial profiling leads parents to have conversations with their kids about how to act around cops), and union officials flat out lying and smearing the elected leaders in the process, what moral authority do they have?
The unions are pushing insubordination.
The unions are risking public safety with a “slowdown”.
The unions are worried about the safety of their own, but show a lack of interest in the safety of blacks who are killed at an alarming rate during stops - armed and unarmed. Whites are simply not killed at the same rates during these same kinds of stops.
Minority cops in the NYPD face racial discrimination and profiling by their fellow cops when out of uniform, so they too know the sting of what the “moral authority” the NYPD has.
These are significant problems, and the mayor calling for a fix to police policies and procedures isn’t an attack. It’s a clarion call to do better.
Period.
But of course the right wing and police unions want to turn this into an attack - there’s always elections to worry about and the union also faces a contract talks, so this is yet another tactic to get what the union wants, which isn’t necessarily what the public wants, needs, or can afford.
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Eventual Carrion Dec 31, 2014 6:50:55am |
re: #460 Apocalypse
Happy New year! 40 minutes in to a new year and its raining heavily. So good so far.
I’m about to send a job to verify services on a server we have running on Guam to get my first new years timestamp in the log. :-)
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Eventual Carrion Dec 31, 2014 6:51:26am |
re: #467 Eventual Carrion
I’m about to send a job to verify services on a server we have running on Guam to get my first new years timestamp in the log. :-)
EDIT: Oh, and Happy New Year.
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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Dec 31, 2014 6:51:59am |
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 31, 2014 6:52:37am |
re: #434 Bubblehead II
I live in Idaho (Twin Falls to be exact) and while I own a variety of firearms, I don’t feel the need to carry, either openly or concealed. IMHO, doing so is just asking for problems. The only exception to this is when I am out hiking . Rattlesnakes are a problem and being able to dispatch one must be an option.
Maybe it’s just me but I can’t help wondering:
If you need the gun to defend yourself from a rattler, something’s wrong. You’re more likely to shoot yourself in the foot than hit the rattler. I think that most people just step (or jump) backwards.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 6:53:10am |
re: #454 Sionainn
When my dad gets back from walking the dog, I’ll ask him what we’ve been running into the past few years while doing field work. I think they are the Western Diamondback, but I’ll get confirmation.
I was wrong…the ones we’ve been running into lately are Crotalus viridis helleri (Southern Pacific). We have Mohave Greens on our property in Arizona.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 6:54:07am |
re: #463 Varek Raith
Quantum singularity.
Everybody knows that airliners fall out of the sky because the airline companies are too cheap to buy ones made from the lighter-than-air Unobtanium alloys.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 6:54:35am |
re: #414 Bubblehead II
re: #287 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
For the time being, sure. I think it’s God’s way of telling me we can do this the hard way, or we can do this the hard way.
I’m pretty sure that gods are imaginary, and you’re just freaking out from a brain chemistry problem. What you need is a doctor, and the right medication. 60mg of celexa a day fixed my depression. Ketamine and MXE also work to immediately switch to an optimistic, joyful world-view if you have access to street drugs.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 6:56:50am |
re: #474 No Country For Old Haters
That’s just plain insulting. Downding.
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Dave In Austin Dec 31, 2014 6:56:54am |
re: #472 Sionainn
viridis is a timber rattler as I recall. Black tails are another sub species. Interesting. I saw pleanty of mohave’s around Wickenburg during my prospecting days.
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 6:57:17am |
re: #466 lawhawk
…
Other cops killed an unarmed man who was doing absolutely nothing wrong other than walking down a stairwell while a pair of cops was doing a sweep up the staircase. The NYPD calls it accidental, but what was the cop doing with his finger on the trigger in the first place? That goes to policy/procedure/practice, and training/tactics.
…
On top of that, the officers were incommunicado for several minutes texting their union rep instead of EMS.
Priorities.
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Apocalypse Dec 31, 2014 6:58:54am |
re: #456 Varek Raith
“now if we replace these boats with toasters, we now have a screensaver from the 90’s and you would just be as informed.”
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 7:02:18am |
re: #479 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Huh?
He said you were freaking out from a brain chemistry problem. In my family it is considering insulting to make such a suggestion.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 31, 2014 7:04:57am |
re: #480 Dark_Falcon
Maybe a little bit of education is in order. It is undoubtedly a biochemical defect shitstorm up there, coupled with years of conditioned emotional responses.
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 7:06:39am |
OUTRAGE!
Fox Flips over Claim Obama Is Trying to Ban Sprinkles http://t.co/WzM6O6etpp (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/yNMGDz9wAq— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 31, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 7:06:50am |
re: #481 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Maybe a little bit of education is in order. It is undoubtedly a biochemical
defectshitstorm up there, coupled with years of conditioned emotional responses.
He still should have said things better. But I’ll withdraw my downding if you withdraw yours. Deal?
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 7:07:58am |
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 7:08:47am |
re: #480 Dark_Falcon
He said you were freaking out from a brain chemistry problem. In my family it is considering insulting to make such a suggestion.
If telling the truth is a problem to you, the issue is entirely yours.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 7:09:24am |
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 7:09:41am |
re: #476 Dave In Austin
viridis is a timber rattler as I recall. Black tails are another sub species. Interesting. I saw pleanty of mohave’s around Wickenburg during my prospecting days.
Yeah, the Mohave Greens are definitely in the Wickenburg area. The Mohave Greens are really dangerous due to their specific neurotoxin.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 7:09:52am |
re: #481 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Maybe a little bit of education is in order. It is undoubtedly a biochemical
defectshitstorm up there, coupled with years of conditioned emotional responses.
And I’ve been there myself, and can tell you that I came out the other end and became a very happy person. So can you.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 31, 2014 7:10:10am |
Speaking of biochemistry, I would love someday to know how tissues can tell the diff between Na and K. Chemically, they’re very nearly identical. K is slightly more reactive than Na, but Na is no slouch, either. If I were the cell membrane, I would be like “Hey, they’re both +1 charges, what’s the problem dude?”
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 7:11:39am |
re: #481 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Maybe a little bit of education is in order. It is undoubtedly a biochemical
defectshitstorm up there, coupled with years of conditioned emotional responses.
I didn’t see your previous post until right now. I hope you are okay and seek some help. Please. I like you, Steve, and want you to stick around!
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 31, 2014 7:12:07am |
re: #483 Dark_Falcon
Negative. Downdings are special. You’re entitled to a moment of bitchiness. Let them stand.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 31, 2014 7:14:04am |
re: #491 Sionainn
It’s ok. Fortunately I didn’t send off any grandiose farewell messages that I would sheepishly have to retract!
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 7:14:06am |
re: #490 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Speaking of biochemistry, I would love someday to know how tissues can tell the diff between Na and K. Chemically, they’re very nearly identical. K is slightly more reactive than Na, but Na is no slouch, either. If I were the cell membrane, I would be like “Hey, they’re both +1 charges, what’s the problem dude?”
Can’t help with that, but I have another suggestion for you. Video Games. When I was at my worst, and just wanted to be dead, I could shut out the emotional pain by really immersing myself in a video game. For me it was Mass Effect 2, which was a big game at the time.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 7:15:35am |
re: #494 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
It’s ok. Fortunately I didn’t send off any grandiose farewell messages that I would sheepishly have to retract!
Well that’s good, because I think I speak for the group when I say we do like having you around.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 7:17:29am |
re: #494 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
It’s ok. Fortunately I didn’t send off any grandiose farewell messages that I would sheepishly have to retract!
I have a close friend who temporarily lost his mind to stress and alcoholism. In one day he drove his car into a house to try to kill himself, failed and went to work where he tried again by jumping from a second floor balcony, which got him a lot of time in the hospital to think. He’s doing fine now. Lot of us go through this, and fully recover to be happy again.
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Dec 31, 2014 7:23:14am |
Thanks to all for the good wishes. Happy New Year to all!
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Dave In Austin Dec 31, 2014 7:24:41am |
re: #488 Sionainn
And a real shitty attitude to boot. My response to all snakes is to view, enjoy, and step around.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 7:25:34am |
re: #498 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Thanks to all for the good wishes. Happy New Year to all!
You’re welcome. Same to you. Take care of yourself!
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 7:30:56am |
re: #465 Lidane
I borrow ebooks from the library a lot (several a week). I love being able to borrow without having to leave the house (the physical library is almost 20 miles away).
Right now, I’m reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
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lawhawk Dec 31, 2014 7:31:55am |
Member of David Duke group, on Scalise: “You don't go to James Brown concert and not know it's James Brown” http://t.co/yTl05GN3xQ— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) December 31, 2014
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 7:33:01am |
re: #501 Backwoods_Sleuth
I borrow ebooks from the library a lot (several a week). I love being able to borrow without having to leave the house (the physical library is almost 20 miles away).
Right now, I’m reading The Book Thief by Markus Zusak.
I save a lot of money using my Kindle to check out library books because I don’t have to pay overdue fees!
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 7:35:25am |
re: #503 Sionainn
I save a lot of money using my Kindle to check out library books because I don’t have to pay overdue fees!
That’s a major benefit as well!
:D
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 7:38:48am |
re: #502 lawhawk
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From the article:
Now the Anti-Defamation League — the venerable century-old organization that criticizes all forms of hate and bigotry and has long monitored Duke and his supporters — is weighing in on the controversy.
In an interview with me, Stacy Burdett, the ADL’s Government and National Affairs Director, said that Scalise, unintentionally or not, had “legitimized” Duke’s “hate and bigotry.” However, she said she was satisfied thus far with his response, though she added that it was just an “opening” and that it is still on Scalise in coming weeks to convert the affair into a positive lesson for the American people.
“By standing on their platform, whether he intended to or not, he potentially sent a message that he endorsed their views,” Burdett told me. “ADL speaks out whenever political leaders in any way give bigotry a platform or legitimacy.”
“Hate groups like David Duke’s organization are a real part of American life,” Burdett said. “Any appearance before such a group risks legitimizing their bigotry. The public is absolutely justified in taking it seriously when a senior leader in Congress participates in an event like that, which is practically synonymous with hate and bigotry in Americans’ minds.”
But Burdett added that the ADL is satisfied with the statement that Scalise released yesterday. In it, Scalise said that speaking to the group was a “mistake I regret,” adding that “I emphatically oppose the divisive racial and religious views groups like these hold,” and that “I reject that kind of hateful bigotry.”
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WhatEVs Dec 31, 2014 7:41:39am |
re: #503 Sionainn
re: #504 Backwoods_Sleuth
If you check Amazon every day, they often have zero cost surprises. I’ve gotten bestsellers for free and found great self published authors that way.
I also signed up for Kindle Unlimited which gives you access to tons of books.
Since my hands got all messed up, I have a hard time holding books. But my iPhone fits comfortably in my hand, so I read on it virtually non-stop when I’m not working. The Kindle app is the best thing ever for me.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 7:43:30am |
re: #506 WhatEVs
If you check Amazon every day, they often have zero cost surprises. I’ve gotten bestsellers for free and found great self published authors that way.
I also signed up for Kindle Unlimited which gives you access to tons of books.
Since my hands got all messed up, I have a hard time holding books. But my iPhone fits comfortably in my hand, so I read on it virtually non-stop when I’m not working. The Kindle app is the best thing ever for me.
I just signed up for Kindle Unlimited. Where do you check Amazon for the free bestsellers?
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 7:44:11am |
re: #502 lawhawk
Related:
Hannity Calls for Boehner to Step Down over Scalise Scandal http://t.co/y3tN0iqziI pic.twitter.com/x3XeUbj7IB— Mediaite (@Mediaite) December 31, 2014
Yes, because it’s Boehner’s fault that Scalise spoke at a white supremacist event.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 7:46:01am |
re: #508 Lidane
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Yes, because it’s Boehner’s fault that Scalise spoke at a white supremacist event.
Hannity is such a douche.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 7:46:01am |
re: #506 WhatEVs
MrBWS has an actual Kindle, I’ve got a couple of Androids with the Amazon Kindle app installed (also have a very old Sony ereader, so can only read epub books on that one).
The Kindle app is nice because if the battery goes low on one Android, I can continue reading on the other where the book will open to the same spot where I stopped.
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WhatEVs Dec 31, 2014 7:47:37am |
re: #507 Sionainn
I just signed up for Kindle Unlimited. Where do you check Amazon for the free bestsellers?
You have to look at all the free books, they don’t advertise them really. And bestsellers are just there periodically. Google “Free Kindle Books” and bookmark the page. It’s hard to navigate to on Amazon itself.
Caveat: many free books suck. Some authors think they write as well as American Idol contestants think they sing (not well). But some are very good.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 7:47:59am |
re: #508 Lidane
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Yes, because it’s Boehner’s fault that Scalise spoke at a white supremacist event.
Hannity has his own Nazi ties.
And this stand of his is not based on principle but rather on opportunity.
That said, I support the infighting.
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WhatEVs Dec 31, 2014 7:50:02am |
re: #508 Lidane
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Yes, because it’s Boehner’s fault that Scalise spoke at a white supremacist event.
Anything to rail on Boehner. He’s not teabaggy enough for Klannity.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 7:51:09am |
re: #511 WhatEVs
I get an email once a month for a free book (choice among four books of different genres). So far, those particular free books have been pretty good.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 7:51:25am |
Levin is also anti-Scalise:
Actually, Rep. Steve Scalise is a Boehner guy. Scalise took over the Republican Study Committee, which was originally established as the conservative alternative to House Republican RINOs many years ago. Paul Teller has a sterling reputation and has been a senior staffer at the RSC for many years. This is nothing short of a purge. Teller’s job was to work with conservatives in the House and outside groups to form and promote a conservative agenda. I don’t know him personally, but he is well known around Washington. Boehner needs to go, and Scalise has single-handedly destroyed the RSC, which can no longer be trusted to advance conservative principles.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 7:53:33am |
Breitbrats against Scalise?
Democratic National Committee communications director Mo Elleithee issued a statement earlier in the day rightfully noting that Scalise’s story was filled with holes. Elleithee said:
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 7:53:47am |
re: #513 WhatEVs
Anything to rail on Boehner. He’s not teabaggy enough for Klannity.
Hannity hate of Boehner went up to ‘eleventy’ after the “Cronimbus” bill passed. Which is to say, Sean Hannity hate John Boehner because Boehner was doing his job in a proper fashion. That says more about Hannity than it does about Boehner and what it says is not good.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 7:54:22am |
re: #517 Dark_Falcon
Hannity hate of Boehner went up to ‘eleventy’ after the “Cronimbus” bill passed. Which is to say, Sean Hannity hate John Boehner because Boehner was doing his job in a proper fashion. That says more about Hannity than it does about Boehner and what it says is not good.
Hannity hates anyone who does their job in a proper fashion.
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Snarknado! Dec 31, 2014 7:54:25am |
I have an (ancient, but its total lack of internet connection is why I keep it — no distractions!) ereader, and ereader apps, Kindle, Google, etc. on my phone and tablet — but I still prefer printed books. Somehow, the screen feels like too narrow a window into the book compared to the print edition. I keep hoping I’ll get used to it.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 7:54:32am |
re: #507 Sionainn
I just signed up for Kindle Unlimited. Where do you check Amazon for the free bestsellers?
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 7:55:07am |
re: #516 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Breitbrats against Scalise?
Could be because he’s an establishment guy? They were pretty supportive of McDaniel versus Cochran weren’t they?
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WhatEVs Dec 31, 2014 7:56:08am |
re: #514 Backwoods_Sleuth
I get an email once a month for a free book (choice among four books of different genres). So far, those particular free books have been pretty good.
A while back, they had Ed McBain books for free. I grabbed all I could. The rest were $.99. I grabbed those, too.
I’ll often get all I can for future reading. Can’t beat free, right? And if you see one free or cheap, grab it right away. I was about to get a bestseller for free when I got a call. When I went back to get it, it was regular price again. I was bummed.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 7:56:32am |
re: #521 HappyWarrior
Maybe. Coz it reads like something Dailykos might have written:
Aides to Boehner and McCarthy still haven’t answered specific questions about what their bosses knew and when they knew it, but perhaps even more troubling for them is that, as the two top House GOP officials rallied around Scalise, more damaging news emerged. It turns out that Scalise’s relationship with Duke’s top political hand, Kenneth Knight, was not just a flash in the pan at one specific event-it was a long-term relationship lasting several years, and involved the top aide to the former KKK head actually campaigning for Scalise on the ground in Louisiana to get him elected to the U.S. Congress. Also, in a twist of fate, by backing up Scalise, they’re actually siding with Duke—the former KKK Grand Wizard—who said Monday evening that he thinks Scalise shouldn’t face consequences like resignation over this.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 7:58:00am |
I almost want Scalise to stay as a permanent symbol of GOP’s ties with extremists.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 7:59:39am |
re: #524 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
I almost want Scalise to stay as a permanent symbol of GOP’s ties with extremists.
I hope to see his words about wanting to be David Duke without the baggage used against him and his party. They deserve it big time. If they’re going to call the Democrats and liberals anti-American, they deserve to be skewered big time for making their number three in the House a Duke wannabe.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 8:03:59am |
re: #518 HappyWarrior
Hannity hates anyone who does their job in a proper fashion.
Which is why I’ve come to dislike Sean Hannity. To quote Al Pacino’s mayor of New York in the movie City Hall, my view of Congress is that “All this is about is getting things done!”. Congress is supposed to set out the federal budget, pass needed laws, and oversee federal agencies to make sure they do their jobs right. It doesn’t exist to take moral stands or to wage prolonged ideological sieges.
Hannity seems to think it is the job of Congress to lead an uprising against President Obama. but that is not the job of Congress and John Boehner and Mitch McConnell know it. But Hannitty cares nothing for their practical concerns and instead cares only about riling up his viewing base.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 8:05:54am |
re: #519 Snarknado!
I still like printed books better, but the Kindle and ereaders are very convenient for reading in bed or when traveling. And, again, the very major convenience of borrowing library books without having to go to the actual library.
MrBWS loves his Kindle because of the narration feature: he can listen to his books when making the two-hour drive each way to work and back, then pick it up and start actually reading when he’s not driving.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:06:12am |
re: #526 Dark_Falcon
Which is why I’ve come to dislike Sean Hannity. To quote Al Pacino’s mayor of New York in the movie City Hall, my view of Congress is that “All this is about is getting things done!”. Congress is supposed to set out the federal budget, pass needed laws, and oversee federal agencies to make sure they do their jobs right. It doesn’t exist to take moral stands or to wage prolonged ideological sieges.
Hannity seems to think it is the job of Congress to lead an uprising against President Obama. but that is not the job of Congress and John Boehner and Mitch McConnell know it. But Hannitty cares nothing for their practical concerns and instead cares only about riling up his viewing base.
Well he’s typical of the many talk radio show hosts that your party panders to. Hannity wouldn’t last a day in the real world if not for wingnut welfare.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 8:08:44am |
re: #528 HappyWarrior
Well he’s typical of the many talk radio show hosts that your party panders to. Hannity wouldn’t last a day in the real world if not for wingnut welfare.
I hope Hannitty butthurt causes his actions and words to become insane enough that his viewers kick him to the curb.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 8:09:42am |
re: #519 Snarknado!
I have an (ancient, but its total lack of internet connection is why I keep it — no distractions!) ereader, and ereader apps, Kindle, Google, etc. on my phone and tablet — but I still prefer printed books. Somehow, the screen feels like too narrow a window into the book compared to the print edition. I keep hoping I’ll get used to it.
I thought I’d have a hard time getting used to a Kindle since I love real books, but I prefer the Kindle now because I can read it much more easily. If the print is too small for comfort, I can change the size of the font. Even with bifocals or reading glasses, books are more uncomfortable for me. It had gotten to the point where I was checking out books from the large print section…which in a way was good, because for some reason the brand-new books weren’t always out of stock.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:09:52am |
re: #529 Dark_Falcon
I hope Hannitty butthurt causes his actions and words to become insane enough that his viewers kick him to the curb.
Yeah well that hasn’t hurt Rush Limbaugh at all. His viewers love that shit man. Hell if anything, Hannity becoming more extreme would get him more fans on the right. The worst move Hannity could do for his career would be to actually praise Barack Obama as a father and husband.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:11:38am |
re: #530 Sionainn
I thought I’d have a hard time getting used to a Kindle since I love real books, but I prefer the Kindle now because I can read it much more easily. If the print is too small for comfort, I can change the size of the font. Even with bifocals or reading glasses, books are more uncomfortable for me. It had gotten to the point where I was checking out books from the large print section…which in a way was good, because for some reason the brand-new books weren’t always out of stock.
I was pleasantly surprised by the Kindle too. Ended up being a great pick up after I graduated college. Makes travel so much easier. I look at it being like a book version of a MP3 player.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Dec 31, 2014 8:12:15am |
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:16:15am |
re: #533 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Woman goes on shooting spree yet somehow isn’t automatically killed by police.
i’ve said it before. If you can capture Alex Holmes, Jared Loughner, and many others alive, you should have been able to handle Eric Garner, Tamir Rice, and Michael Brown without them dying. People who don’t see the race aspect in this are blinding themselves to reality.
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Snarknado! Dec 31, 2014 8:22:46am |
re: #527 Backwoods_Sleuth
re: #530 Sionainn
Oh, yes indeed — having it along when traveling is a great blessing (although I usually weigh myself down with printed books as well). I also like having immediate access to thousands of public domain books, just in case I get bored with what’s with me (most of my traveling has been out of internet range, so a few megabytes of classics on my hard drive keeps me from worrying that I’ll run out of reading material, although that’s never come close to happening).
My library is a 15-minute walk away, and my eyesight is still okay, although I need reading glasses, being a Person of Increased Age, so those aren’t so much of an issue. When I listen to something it’s usually classic radio programs or Teaching Company lectures.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 8:35:36am |
re: #532 HappyWarrior
I was pleasantly surprised by the Kindle too. Ended up being a great pick up after I graduated college. Makes travel so much easier. I look at it being like a book version of a MP3 player.
It’s excellent for traveling because I don’t have to haul around 25 pounds of books.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:37:23am |
re: #536 Sionainn
It’s excellent for traveling because I don’t have to haul around 25 pounds of books.
Yep. I still always bring one book for travel just in case of course.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 8:37:56am |
re: #537 Sionainn
Thanks!
I just picked up two fantasy novels for MrBWS and a mystery novel for me.
I like FREE!
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 8:38:23am |
re: #538 HappyWarrior
Yep. I still always bring one book for travel just in case of course.
True, real books don’t need batteries.
:D
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Lidane Dec 31, 2014 8:38:25am |
re: #532 HappyWarrior
I was pleasantly surprised by the Kindle too. Ended up being a great pick up after I graduated college. Makes travel so much easier. I look at it being like a book version of a MP3 player.
It was a godsend when I went to my mom’s house for Christmas. She doesn’t have internet at all and there’s no easy WiFi to piggyback on in her neighborhood, so I’m usually bored, or I’d have to drag my laptop and a bunch of DVD’s down there to pass the time.
With the Kindle, I loaded up on a bunch of books I wanted to read. It was awesome. I’m finally getting to catch up on all the books that have caught my interest lately and I don’t have to go to the public library. Win!
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:39:34am |
re: #541 Lidane
It was a godsend when I went to my mom’s house for Christmas. She doesn’t have internet at all and there’s no easy WiFi to piggyback on in her neighborhood, so I’m usually bored, or I’d have to drag my laptop and a bunch of DVD’s down there to pass the time.
With the Kindle, I loaded up on a bunch of books I wanted to read. It was awesome. I’m finally getting to catch up on all the books that have caught my interest lately and I don’t have to go to the public library. Win!
Yeah super convenient.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 8:39:57am |
re: #538 HappyWarrior
Yep. I still always bring one book for travel just in case of course.
I figure if something happens, I can buy one while I’m there.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:40:38am |
re: #540 Backwoods_Sleuth
True, real books don’t need batteries.
:D
And there’s something about that new book feel. I do need to find something new to read though for the new year. Read a review about this journalist travelling in Russia on the Transsiberian railroad. That one looked interesting.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:41:13am |
re: #543 Sionainn
I figure if something happens, I can buy one while I’m there.
Yeah I always try to get a book on my trips too.
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 8:44:53am |
oops
A longtime adviser to former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke donated money to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), Federal Election Commission records show.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:46:03am |
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Snarknado! Dec 31, 2014 8:46:26am |
re: #543 Sionainn
I figure if something happens, I can buy one while I’m there.
Hard to do on a boat in the middle of the Pacific, though. (Cruise ships have libraries, but you never know what they’ll stock.)
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 31, 2014 8:47:04am |
$10 says David Duke gets an invite to the RNC convention next year,
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 8:47:18am |
re: #548 Snarknado!
Hard to do on a boat in the middle of the Pacific, though. (Cruise ships have libraries, but you never know what they’ll stock.)
That’s true. I could have been completely screwed on my cruise.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:48:15am |
re: #549 Eclectic Cyborg
$10 says David Duke gets an invite to the RNC convention next year,
Nah, they’re not that stupid.
Are they?
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WhatEVs Dec 31, 2014 8:48:40am |
re: #538 HappyWarrior
Yep. I still always bring one book for travel just in case of course.
Not me. A number of years ago (pre my buying my first kindle, when they were more than $300) I went to Germany for two weeks in business. I brought 10 books with me. I hated the weight and as I schlepped my luggage to the hotel, I kept cursing myself that I should have just ponied up the bucks for one slim device. I was already schlepping a 10 lb computer…a few extra ounces would have been cake.
The reason I wouldn’t cough up the cash for the first Kindles was that they weren’t backlit and had no night reading option other than an actual lamp. Ok, it was more like a book. Great. But, to me, there was something wrong with having to buy an electronic device (a book light) for an electronic device (the Kindle), especially when looking at $400 all told. Put a tiny lightbulb at the top…something.
All the griping aside, the Kindle was a revolution. And I can’t imagine life without it.
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 8:49:46am |
re: #549 Eclectic Cyborg
$10 says David Duke gets an invite to the RNC convention next year,
I’m waiting for someone to invite him as their guest to the White House Correspondent’s Dinner
:)
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 8:50:51am |
re: #552 WhatEVs
Not me. A number of years ago (pre my buying my first kindle, when they were more than $300) I went to Germany for two weeks in business. I brought 10 books with me. I hated the weight and as I schlepped my luggage to the hotel, I kept cursing myself that I should have just ponied up the bucks for one slim device. I was already schlepping a 10 lb computer…a few extra ounces would have been cake.
The reason I wouldn’t cough up the cash for the first Kindles was that they weren’t backlit and had no night reading option other than an actual lamp. Ok, it was more like a book. Great. But, to me, there was something wrong with having to buy an electronic device (a book light) for an electronic device (the Kindle), especially when looking at $400 all told. Put a tiny lightbulb at the top…something.
All the griping aside, the Kindle was a revolution. And I can’t imagine life without it.
Well I have one book that I’ve been reading on and off again for the past four years or so. It’s a collection of short stories by Cheever. It really is impossible to get board during a long flight now especially given that most of the major airlines have a wide range of movies to choose from. I watched The Departed on my way to Shannon last summer.
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Snarknado! Dec 31, 2014 8:57:58am |
re: #552 WhatEVs
Not me. A number of years ago (pre my buying my first kindle, when they were more than $300) I went to Germany for two weeks in business. I brought 10 books with me. I hated the weight and as I schlepped my luggage to the hotel, I kept cursing myself that I should have just ponied up the bucks for one slim device. I was already schlepping a 10 lb computer…a few extra ounces would have been cake.
The reason I wouldn’t cough up the cash for the first Kindles was that they weren’t backlit and had no night reading option other than an actual lamp. Ok, it was more like a book. Great. But, to me, there was something wrong with having to buy an electronic device (a book light) for an electronic device (the Kindle), especially when looking at $400 all told. Put a tiny lightbulb at the top…something.
All the griping aside, the Kindle was a revolution. And I can’t imagine life without it.
Another reason I keep the ancient ereader is that it’s not backlit, so the battery will last days and days. Also, it’s not so hard on the eyes. I added a book light for night reading and I do fine with it. (My travel computer weighs about 2 pounds, so I have weight and space left for a few books. Although I always load up with more than I need — I’m working on that….)
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 9:03:46am |
re: #552 WhatEVs
Not me. A number of years ago (pre my buying my first kindle, when they were more than $300) I went to Germany for two weeks in business. I brought 10 books with me. I hated the weight and as I schlepped my luggage to the hotel, I kept cursing myself that I should have just ponied up the bucks for one slim device. I was already schlepping a 10 lb computer…a few extra ounces would have been cake.
The reason I wouldn’t cough up the cash for the first Kindles was that they weren’t backlit and had no night reading option other than an actual lamp. Ok, it was more like a book. Great. But, to me, there was something wrong with having to buy an electronic device (a book light) for an electronic device (the Kindle), especially when looking at $400 all told. Put a tiny lightbulb at the top…something.
All the griping aside, the Kindle was a revolution. And I can’t imagine life without it.
LOL. We just bought my almost 10-year-old an early birthday gift…the regular Kindle. Well, she loves it, but it has no light and she can’t read it in the dark. I can’t stand it! It’s going back today and we are getting her a paper white Kindle today.
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WhatEVs Dec 31, 2014 9:04:33am |
re: #555 Snarknado!
I got really good at packing light, but for books and computers. I wound up losing the computer for an iPad and never looked back. If I was traveling now, I’d pony up the dough for a Surface, since these days I need more than what an iPad offers.
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calochortus Dec 31, 2014 9:08:11am |
re: #499 Dave In Austin
And a real shitty attitude to boot. My response to all snakes is to view, enjoy, and step around.
I’m a little late to this party, but if you have seen the rattlesnake, it isn’t a problem. You avoid it, it avoids you. If you haven’t seen the rattlesnake, a gun isn’t going to help.
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Romantic Heretic Dec 31, 2014 9:08:49am |
re: #452 Sionainn
I’ve run into large rattlesnakes. I’m well aware of how big they can get.
In the words of Heinlein, “There’s only one dangerous animal but most of the time you have to act as if they were as sweet and loving as a cobra.”
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Romantic Heretic Dec 31, 2014 9:10:33am |
re: #464 Dark_Falcon
If its doesn’t involve the US government, then all three newsnets will cover a disaster in roughly the same DERPy way.
They’ll pretty much cover US government the same way. They’re nothing if not consistent.
Consistently bad.
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Mike Lamb Dec 31, 2014 9:11:15am |
re: #471 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
Maybe it’s just me but I can’t help wondering:
If you need the gun to defend yourself from a rattler, something’s wrong. You’re more likely to shoot yourself in the foot than hit the rattler. I think that most people just step (or jump) backwards.
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that you’ve never come across a rattlesnake in the wild. They are damn near impossible to see and don’t always go off when you get near. If you have an animal with you, as an example, you might need to take drastic measures.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 9:12:41am |
UpCHuck is awake and apparently still drunk.
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 31, 2014 9:13:39am |
re: #505 Dark_Falcon
All Scalise regrets is someone remembering that he did it and bringing it up now.
:p
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 9:13:49am |
re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth
UpCHuck is awake and apparently still drunk.
New Years Eve started early for him huh. Reminds me, need to get supplies for tonight.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 9:13:58am |
re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth
UpCHuck is awake and apparently still drunk.
He’s high on hate, not booze.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 9:14:31am |
re: #563 Feline Fearless Leader
All Scalise regrets is someone remembering that he did it and bringing it up now.
:p
Yeah he’s sorry that this is seeing the light of day when he’s become the number three in the House behind Boehner and McCarthy.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 9:14:33am |
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 31, 2014 9:15:38am |
re: #515 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Levin is also anti-Scalise:
So the GOP establishment has subverted another Tea Party committee.
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Romantic Heretic Dec 31, 2014 9:17:17am |
re: #495 No Country For Old Haters
Can’t help with that, but I have another suggestion for you. Video Games. When I was at my worst, and just wanted to be dead, I could shut out the emotional pain by really immersing myself in a video game. For me it was Mass Effect 2, which was a big game at the time.
Still do that. Plus the fact that I can play games, or switch to another one, or just take a break, means I can keep the emotional stress to a minimum.
Out in The World you’re playing all the time with rules that favour the rule makers and you only stop playing when you’re dead.
Who needs that shit?
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 31, 2014 9:18:11am |
re: #529 Dark_Falcon
I hope Hannitty butthurt causes his actions and words to become insane enough that his viewers kick him to the curb.
Given Congress’ approval ratings I think Hannity is on fairly safe grounds in regards to his viewers.
///
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 31, 2014 9:18:57am |
re: #567 Backwoods_Sleuth
he was most definitely drunk last night.
Or definitely under the influence of…something.
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 9:19:47am |
re: #571 Eclectic Cyborg
Or definitely under the influence of…something.
I think he ate his New Year’s Black Eyed Peas without soaking them.
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 31, 2014 9:20:27am |
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Dec 31, 2014 9:20:32am |
Totally random (sorta, but it is new year’s eve) if you want to try something that is absolutely delicious get yourself some eggnog and a bottle of the Jagermeister Vanilla/Cinnamon blend. While that Jager is good on its own it is amazing mixed with eggnog.
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Romantic Heretic Dec 31, 2014 9:23:03am |
re: #506 WhatEVs
I also signed up for Kindle Unlimited which gives you access to tons of books.
It does, at a huge cost to authors. I know some self published author whose income has fallen 75% when they put their books on Unlimited.
Can’t say I’m surprised though. Amazon is approaching monopoly status in the ebook field and so they can get away with such things. The logic of making a profit means that they will do such things.
C’est la vie.
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 31, 2014 9:23:29am |
re: #574 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Totally random (sorta, but it is new year’s eve) if you want to try something that is absolutely delicious get yourself some eggnog and a bottle of the Jagermeister Vanilla/Cinnamon blend. While that Jager is good on its own it is amazing mixed with eggnog.
Crap. Forgot to buy more eggnog yesterday. :(
Today is making a stuffed pumpkin and some pies. Will post pictures of the latter if they come out well.
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Romantic Heretic Dec 31, 2014 9:24:06am |
re: #508 Lidane
Related:
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Yes, because it’s Boehner’s fault that Scalise spoke at a white supremacist event.
The so-called conservatives really don’t understand this personal responsibility thing they natter on about, do they?
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 9:25:28am |
re: #577 Romantic Heretic
The so-called conservatives really don;t understand this personal responsibility thing they natter on about, do they?
Have they ever? I mean they love projecting it on to other people certainly but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a conservative office holder actually take personal responsibility for his or her actions.
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 31, 2014 9:28:16am |
re: #575 Romantic Heretic
That’s why I refuse to put my books on unlimited. Writing may be a second job for me at the moment, but I expect at least some reasonable compensation from it.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 9:30:47am |
re: #578 HappyWarrior
Have they ever? I mean they love projecting it on to other people certainly but I don’t think I’ve ever actually seen a conservative office holder actually take personal responsibility for his or her actions.
The closest they get is when they’re caught doing something that they’ve roundly condemned as immoral and only then in the process of spraying themselves with forgiveness.
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WhatEVs Dec 31, 2014 9:33:58am |
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Romantic Heretic Dec 31, 2014 9:39:31am |
re: #580 Eclectic Cyborg
That’s why I refuse to put my books on unlimited. Writing may be a second job for me at the moment, but I expect at least some reasonable compensation from it.
Tried my hand at writing. When you factor all the paperwork I’ve had to do to get my money across the border, plus unsuccessful marketing, I’m seeing about $0.01 a day.
I’ll be making another shot at it in the New Year. This time I’ll just write with no expectations of sales. I do enjoy writing but my dashed hopes for success screwed that up for me. That and the horrible experience I had with a conservative author I co-wrote a couple of novels with.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 9:44:22am |
re: #208 Kragar
.@ChuckCJohnson Of course you would. Far-right-wing scoundrels like you are happy to give white supremacists money.— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) December 31, 2014
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 9:47:10am |
CCJ retweeted:
@ChuckCJohnson Now that Annie is Black, any future Annie movies with a non-Black Annie will be called racist.— Matthew Kramer (@mckramer) December 31, 2014
People bitching just to bitch.
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 9:48:36am |
Wars started by Nobel Peace Laureate Obama: Libya, Yemen,= 2 more(?) Wars stopped by me: Syria, nuclear #NorthKorea = 2 #SonyLeak— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 9:49:05am |
re: #587 Franklin
I hope .@mckramer is just mocking the beliefs of delusional reactionary wingnuts like .@ChuckCJohnson— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) December 31, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 9:49:42am |
He thinks this is “news”?
#TonyBlair was reportedly screwing Wendy Deng, Murdoch's now ex-wife.
— Charles C. Johnson (@ChuckCJohnson) December 31, 2014
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 9:50:43am |
The totally delusional .@ChuckCJohnson is pretty funny if you don't let pity get in the way of mocking this narcissistic dolt.— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) December 31, 2014
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 9:51:00am |
re: #587 Franklin
CCJ retweeted:
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People bitching just to bitch.
For years I’ve maintained that conservatives are addicted to making shit up and then getting angry about it.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 9:51:14am |
re: #561 Mike Lamb
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that you’ve never come across a rattlesnake in the wild. They are damn near impossible to see and don’t always go off when you get near. If you have an animal with you, as an example, you might need to take drastic measures.
My dad’s dog won’t go near them. Chances are, most people hiking have gone right on by rattlesnakes and never had a clue.
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Rightwingconspirator Dec 31, 2014 9:51:39am |
Developing protest story…
As the officers dragged me out, an officer grabbed my hand and went to twist it. I asked him why he was doing it. He pushed me out the door.
— deray mckesson (@deray) December 31, 2014
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darthstar Dec 31, 2014 9:52:20am |
Mornin’ everyone…unless you live in Russia (hi Eddie!), in which case, HANG ON, EVERYONE!
RT @businessinsider The ruble is plunging http://t.co/1r6h7Cnvty— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) December 31, 2014
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 9:54:10am |
2015 Goal: Try not to go carzy… I mean crazy. pic.twitter.com/KJkOTOxB7I— Mr. Quintero (@_QuinteroDj) December 31, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 31, 2014 9:55:38am |
I love my nexus 7 tablet. It’s pretty much my goto device. I’ll sometimes carry my old Asus eeePC netbook if I want something I can do some photo editing on, or have things that are PC only. Of course I also have a 160 GB iPod classic, so I’m not exactly cruising the edge of the tech world.
How fare the lizards this day? I’m sitting at a Starbucks after a nice brisk 24 degree 2 mile walk to it. Tomorrow I head to Atlanta to dive with whale sharks at the a aquarium. Just found our that m moo cameras allowed in the tank ( for 50 bucks they will sell you advd of your dive). I’ll probably shoot as much of the second group from outside as possible, and call it good.
RBS
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 9:58:03am |
re: #597 RealityBasedSteve
I love my nexus 7 tablet.
RBS
I had the original Nexus 7, but it got too slow after some OS updates, and I was barely using it, instead using a large smart phone, so I gave it to a friend who absolutely loves it for Plex playback. If you collect TV shows as MKV/AVI/MP4 files, check out Plex. It’s fantastic.
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 31, 2014 9:58:06am |
re: #596 wrenchwench
Hugs and high fives to WW
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 9:58:39am |
re: #593 Sionainn
My dad’s dog won’t go near them. Chances are, most people hiking have gone right on by rattlesnakes and never had a clue.
I’ve camped and hiked in California’s deserts and badlands for thirty years. I keep my eyes open, the dog stays home. I’ve never needed more than a alpenstock to deal with snakes. Both of us came away from those encounters uninjured.
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Eclectic Cyborg Dec 31, 2014 9:58:42am |
re: #585 Romantic Heretic
Tried my hand at writing. When you factor all the paperwork I’ve had to do to get my money across the border, plus unsuccessful marketing, I’m seeing about $0.01 a day.
I’ll be making another shot at it in the New Year. This time I’ll just write with no expectations of sales.
That’s basically what I did. Just self published a couple of ebooks on Amazon. I’ve actually been surprised by the sales. Not hundreds/thousands of copies but a little more than I expected to see.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 9:59:44am |
re: #600 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I’ve camped and hiked in California’s deserts and badlands for thirty years. I keep my eyes open, the dog stays home. I’ve never needed more than a alpenstock to deal with snakes. Both of us came away from those encounters uninjured.
Well done not killing things out of fear.
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 31, 2014 9:59:58am |
re: #597 RealityBasedSteve
I love my nexus 7 tablet. It’s pretty much my goto device. I’ll sometimes carry my old Asus eeePC netbook if I want something I can do some photo editing on, or have things that are PC only. Of course I also have a 160 GB iPod classic, so I’m not exactly cruising the edge of the tech world.
How fare the lizards this day? I’m sitting at a Starbucks after a nice brisk 24 degree 2 mile walk to it. Tomorrow I head to Atlanta to dive with whale sharks at the a aquarium. Just found our that m moo cameras allowed in the tank ( for 50 bucks they will sell you advd of your dive). I’ll probably shoot as much of the second group from outside as possible, and call it good.
RBS
Cooking food and then eating it today. Around freezing outside, but figured that I don’t want to bother with a trip to a Trader Joe’s since I figure their inventory has already been worked over.
Have a couple of Christmas present books to read as well. :)
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 10:00:56am |
re: #600 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I’ve camped and hiked in California’s deserts and badlands for thirty years. I keep my eyes open, the dog stays home. I’ve never needed more than a alpenstock to deal with snakes. Both of us came away from those encounters uninjured.
My dad’s dog is his field dog, so he made sure he trained him to stay away from snakes.
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 31, 2014 10:01:57am |
re: #598 No Country For Old Haters
I had the original Nexus 7, but it got too slow after some OS updates, and I was barely using it, instead using a large smart phone, so I gave it to a friend who absolutely loves it for Plex playback. If you collect TV shows as MKV/AVI/MP4 files, check out Plex. It’s fantastic.
Thanks for the app tip. I’ve got the original, bought it off a friend who upgraded, I’ve soon that it benefits from a reboot each day. It does make a great control panel / remote for gopro cameras.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 10:04:00am |
re: #600 Higgs Boson’s Mate
I’ve camped and hiked in California’s deserts and badlands for thirty years. I keep my eyes open, the dog stays home. I’ve never needed more than a alpenstock to deal with snakes. Both of us came away from those encounters uninjured.
Eastern rattlers and copperheads abound in my woods (and copperheads are also around my house - one of my dogs was bitten in the face a few years ago). When I go hiking I have a stout stick and make lots of noise. Almost all of my snake encounters have ended well all around, except once when I got bit in the leg by a smallish copperhead, over by our pond, who should have been hibernating. Even that snake survived.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:05:43am |
re: #606 RealityBasedSteve
Thanks for the app tip. I’ve got the original, bought it off a friend who upgraded, I’ve soon that it benefits from a reboot each day. It does make a great control panel / remote for gopro cameras.
I have no doubt that you can still get a lot of use out of an original N7, and rebooting daily isn’t really a big deal. Even the original has a pretty sweet screen, though the screen on my first one did develop yellow spots. I replaced it when I broke the screen while getting out of my car with it in my pocket (be careful). The replacement did not have the yellowing problem, so they seem to have fixed it.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 10:06:04am |
re: #592 Higgs Boson’s Mate
For years I’ve maintained that conservatives are addicted to making shit up and then getting angry about it.
You’re not kidding. I mean I saw earlier today that Fox was claiming that Obama wants to ban sprinkles for Christmas cookies. Being a conservative means being outraged about something. I laugh at them honestly because they have so little perspective. Whereas your average liberal is concerned about something like racism or poverty. Your average conservative is flipping out over imaginary bs.
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Rightwingconspirator Dec 31, 2014 10:06:09am |
Happy New Year
We got record cold for the Rose Parade tomorrow, which will be a bit colder than today. Here is two maps that show whats up-Local road closures and a temperature map from earlier this morning of Pasadena on the parade route. *shiver* Californians just don’t do cold well.
Mountain road closures
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:06:21am |
re: #594 Rightwingconspirator
Developing protest story…
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@deray You go into a police HQ in force like that, of course police are going to be aggressive. It's a direct challenge to their authority.
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) December 31, 2014
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 10:06:23am |
re: #602 No Country For Old Haters
How are you doing?
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 10:08:02am |
re: #605 Sionainn
My dad’s dog is his field dog, so he made sure he trained him to stay away from snakes.
My dog, who’s my first pet in fifty years, is a small Terrier-Maltese mix. He’s a rescue and he’s a fun dog. He also seems to think that every other animal in the world is his best friend. He’s a baseball field dog at best.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:09:06am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
May he rest in peace.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:09:19am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
Sorry to hear that. My mom died very young, in her late 40’s, but my dad is fortunately still doing well in his early 70s. Losing people is the worst, even when you see it coming.
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Gus Dec 31, 2014 10:09:47am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
Hi wrenchwench. Sorry to hear about your dad. {{{wrenchwench}}} Hope you’re staying warm.
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 10:10:13am |
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Dr Lizardo Dec 31, 2014 10:10:28am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
My condolences.
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Bubblehead II Dec 31, 2014 10:10:33am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
{{{WW}}}
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:10:42am |
White Supremacist Leader Donated To #Scalise http://t.co/uH31agee88 via @HuffPostPol #tcot #UniteBlue
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) December 31, 2014
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 31, 2014 10:10:44am |
Hugs for WW. It’s always tough, even when you know it’s coming. My best wishes to you and yours, and the strongest hopes that next year is gentler on you than this one has. We need your bird pictures here
RBS
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Sionainn Dec 31, 2014 10:10:47am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
Oh, no. I’m so terribly sorry to hear this.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 10:11:48am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
Condolences. Always tough to lose a parent.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:12:20am |
re: #617 Sionainn
What did I miss?
Protesters in St. Louis (the city, not the county) went inside Metro PD HQ to stage an ‘Occupy’ protest. The cops ran most of them off and arrest a few of them.
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Kragar Dec 31, 2014 10:13:30am |
As 2015 begins, GOP's criticizing a President who's creating jobs & growing economy 5% & defending a guy who spoke at a neo-Nazi event #smh— Richard Hine (@richardhine) December 31, 2014
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 10:14:15am |
re: #620 Dark_Falcon
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They’re really looking dumb for sticking by with him. He seriously thinks people believe his story that he had no idea about what EURO stood for? And then we see that Knight gave his Congressional campaign a donation some years later. Lie with fleas.
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HappyWarrior Dec 31, 2014 10:14:38am |
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 10:15:03am |
re: #616 Gus
Hi wrenchwench. Sorry to hear about your dad. {{{wrenchwench}}} Hope you’re staying warm.
It did turn cold, didn’t it! We got snow a couple of days ago, and it’s still lurking in the shadows. We set up a bike on a trainer in the house so I’d get some exercise. That makes me warm!
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Snarknado! Dec 31, 2014 10:15:58am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
My condolences.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:17:12am |
re: #625 Kragar
.@richardhine So same as any other year since Obama was democratically elected. Too many Republicans are complete scum.— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) December 31, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:17:16am |
Ugh:
@20committee You don't do your credibility any favors by posting stuff from @ggreenwald 's site. He did aid the Snowden Operation, remember.
— Kurt Akemann (@Dark_Falcon7) December 31, 2014
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 10:18:31am |
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:18:50am |
re: #628 wrenchwench
It did turn cold, didn’t it! We got snow a couple of days ago, and it’s still lurking in the shadows. We set up a bike on a trainer in the house so I’d get some exercise. That makes me warm!
Good idea!
I should do this. I completely failed to get on my bike last summer, and it would be good to get some use out of it over the winter.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:19:39am |
re: #631 Dark_Falcon
@Dark_Falcon7 @ggreenwald it's FOUO, not a leak of classified — that I do not link to
— John Schindler (@20committee) December 31, 2014
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Varek Raith Dec 31, 2014 10:20:08am |
re: #628 wrenchwench
It did turn cold, didn’t it! We got snow a couple of days ago, and it’s still lurking in the shadows. We set up a bike on a trainer in the house so I’d get some exercise. That makes me warm!
Have you considered putting rockets on your bike???
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 10:21:58am |
re: #635 No Country For Old Haters
Good idea!
I should do this. I completely failed to get on my bike last summer, and it would be good to get some use out of it over the winter.
It’s the first time I’ve done it, though I’ve been selling trainers, and telling people how to use them, since 1987. It has given me an appetite for the first time since before the accident.
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 10:22:31am |
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 31, 2014 10:22:41am |
re: #637 Varek Raith
Have you considered putting rockets on your bike???
I understand ACME is having a new year’s blowup blowout sale on them
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Mike Lamb Dec 31, 2014 10:24:09am |
re: #593 Sionainn
My dad’s dog won’t go near them. Chances are, most people hiking have gone right on by rattlesnakes and never had a clue.
When I run the trails here in AZ in spring or fall, it can be a bit dicy. I’ve put my foot down within inches of a rattler’s head. Fortunately, my dog didn’t notice the snake. And there’s nothing like the speed work associated with a 200 yard sprint that you do after the unseen rattlesnake decides to warn you that you are invading his space.
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 10:25:18am |
re: #637 Varek Raith
Have you considered putting rockets on your bike???
I’ve always wanted to know a Darwin Award winner
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Romantic Heretic Dec 31, 2014 10:25:50am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
I’m so sorry for your loss. *HUGS*
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Mike Lamb Dec 31, 2014 10:26:51am |
re: #607 Backwoods_Sleuth
Eastern rattlers and copperheads abound in my woods (and copperheads are also around my house - one of my dogs was bitten in the face a few years ago). When I go hiking I have a stout stick and make lots of noise. Almost all of my snake encounters have ended well all around, except once when I got bit in the leg by a smallish copperhead, over by our pond, who should have been hibernating. Even that snake survived.
My grandmother was West Virginia. She was making preserves one day, and had to go outside for something. She was bitten on the hand by a copperhead. She then proceeded to go back inside, finish canning the preserves, before going to the hospital.
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Varek Raith Dec 31, 2014 10:27:21am |
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:27:58am |
re: #644 Mike Lamb
My grandmother was West Virginia. She was making preserves one day, and had to go outside for something. She was bitten on the hand by a copperhead. She then proceeded to go back inside, finish canning the preserves, before going to the hospital.
Brave, but not smart!
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b.d. Dec 31, 2014 10:30:11am |
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:30:18am |
re: #638 wrenchwench
It’s the first time I’ve done it, though I’ve been selling trainers, and telling people how to use them, since 1987. It has given me an appetite for the first time since before the accident.
Glad to hear it’s helping you feel better. I see a lot of options. Is there one you recommend? I get circulation problems when I don’t get enough cardio, and these issues came back a few days ago, so I really need to get up and move.
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 10:31:34am |
re: #644 Mike Lamb
I didn’t go to the hospital (no insurance or money at the time, and it was a sleepy little copperhead). Suctioned the bite area, applied a slippery elm poultice and antibiotic cream, and hoped for the best. It wasn’t pretty, took about a month to heal, and I still have the scar.
I watch carefully where I step now.
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#FergusonFireside Dec 31, 2014 10:32:58am |
My patio.
So Cal this morning pic.twitter.com/2qRuFsjYBX
— Michelle (@MichelleVista) December 31, 2014
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#FergusonFireside Dec 31, 2014 10:34:13am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
So sorry. So glad you got to see him.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:35:44am |
re: #592 Higgs Boson’s Mate
For years I’ve maintained that conservatives are addicted to making shit up and then getting angry about it.
Of course they are. Fake outrages are how they portray themselves as heroes in their fantasy role-play. If they got concerned about real problems, they’d realize that they’re the problem, rather than the people they hate.
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darthstar Dec 31, 2014 10:36:15am |
and it keeps coming… White Hate leader donated to #Scalise campaign… SIX YEARS after Scalise spoke to KKK: http://t.co/EnOiOqS9uj @GOP— Barracks O'Bama (@P0TUS) December 31, 2014
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 10:37:22am |
re: #654 darthstar
And UpChuck is whining on twitter how Scalise has been blood libeled and Twitter-lynched.
*spit*
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:39:06am |
Folks here are going to be shocked to read that this high profile fellow is funding work on criminal justice reform and actually has some activist support on the matter:
Charles Koch Wants To Change America’s Criminal Justice System
Charles Koch, the billionaire chairman and CEO of Koch Industries and leading conservative mega-donor, has set his sights on a new goal: reforming America’s criminal justice system.
In an interview with The Wichita Eagle published Saturday, Koch said his own experiences in courts — including the time a federal grand jury indicted Koch Industries on 97 counts of environmental crimes in 2000 — prompted him to study the justice system at both the state and federal level. In that particular case, centered on a Koch Petroleum Group refinery in Corpus Christi, Texas, prosecutors eventually dropped all but one of the charges after the corporation agreed to pay a settlement.
According to Koch’s chief counsel Mark Holden, the case made the billionaire industrialist wonder “how the little guy who doesn’t have Koch’s resources deals with prosecutions like that,” the Eagle reports.
SNIP
Koch pointed to sentencing as an area in desperate need of reform, arguing that sentences should be “more appropriate to the crime that has been committed.”
His new mission has precipitated some unlikely alliances. The Eagle reports that Koch has unofficially teamed up with progressive mega-donor George Soros and the American Civil Liberties Union to address prison reform. Koch has also earned praise from outgoing U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder, who told The Marshall Project that Koch’s donation to the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers, which funds training for attorneys who represent those in need, was a positive force. According to reports, Koch has been a supporter of the organization since 2004.
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 31, 2014 10:39:59am |
On the plane headed back to The D now.
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No Country For Old Haters Dec 31, 2014 10:40:26am |
re: #655 Backwoods_Sleuth
And UpChuck is whining on twitter how Scalise has been blood libeled and Twitter-lynched.
*spit*
Appealing to deranged wingnuts is one way to make some money while having no skills or work ethic. Unfortunately so many people on wingnut welfare actually believe their own bullshit.
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:41:49am |
re: #658 The Vicious Babushka
On the plane headed back to The D now.
I hope you don’t mind but I posted one of your Tweets.
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makeitstop Dec 31, 2014 10:44:01am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
Deepest sympathies, WW.
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Gus Dec 31, 2014 10:45:12am |
Garbage truck driver: Raccoon jumped in cab, caused wreck: http://t.co/mBPvPBsZq7— The Kansas City Star (@KCStar) December 31, 2014
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Varek Raith Dec 31, 2014 10:46:18am |
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The Vicious Babushka Dec 31, 2014 10:46:57am |
re: #660 Dark_Falcon
I hope you don’t mind but I posted one of your Tweets.
That’s good. Did you retweet?
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Backwoods_Sleuth Dec 31, 2014 10:47:27am |
re: #662 Gus
heh:
WBRZ-TV reports that the news release ends, “The raccoon is still at large with an active warrant pending.”
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Higgs Boson's Mate Dec 31, 2014 10:47:34am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
My deepest condolences.
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 10:47:42am |
re: #662 Gus
This would have been a much better story:
Garbage truck driver, Raccoon jumped in cab, caused wreck:
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 31, 2014 10:50:57am |
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RealityBasedSteve Dec 31, 2014 10:53:07am |
Well the two mile stroll back home beckons. It’s a good way for me to get out of the house, get some mild exercise and stretch out the legs
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Skip Intro Dec 31, 2014 10:53:27am |
re: #533 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
Woman goes on shooting spree yet somehow isn’t automatically killed by police.
Not even after she pointed her weapon at a cop.
Paged here
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 10:54:10am |
Gearing up for 2016?
BREAKING: Maryland Governor will commute all remaining death sentences to life without parole http://t.co/tWh7QLmVnF pic.twitter.com/4Ho67FTss5— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) December 31, 2014
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 10:54:27am |
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 10:54:58am |
I do not miss those days…
Recreate a NYE pub by waiting outside your kitchen for 30 mins for a can of Fosters, punching yourself at 1230am & setting fire to £100.— Nick Pettigrew (@Nick_Pettigrew) December 31, 2014
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 10:55:54am |
re: #670 RealityBasedSteve
Well the two mile stroll back home beckons.
Which reminds me: I hope Satty is OK wherever he is.
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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance Dec 31, 2014 10:56:11am |
re: #657 Dark_Falcon
I would say pleasantly surprised but in reality they only started caring after something happened to them. It’s not like they read anything about the horrid sentencing guidelines, or for that matter much about the CJS until they were dragged into court. Then again it probably won’t hurt them to push for it since they probably don’t have a lot of money at stake in privatized prisons.
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Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD Dec 31, 2014 10:57:15am |
re: #672 Franklin
Gearing up for 2016?
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Wouldn’t that entail the opposite, namely turning all life sentences into death ones? “Law and order”, “war on crime” and stuff. /////
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 10:59:27am |
re: #677 Prof. Backpfeifengesicht, PhD
Wouldn’t that entail the opposite, namely turning all life sentences into death ones? “Law and order”, “war on crime” and stuff. /////
No, you are thinking of outgoing Gov. Perry :)
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Dark_Falcon Dec 31, 2014 11:07:31am |
re: #676 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance
I would say pleasantly surprised but in reality they only started caring after something happened to them. It’s not like they read anything about the horrid sentencing guidelines, or for that matter much about the CJS until they were dragged into court. Then again it probably won’t hurt them to push for it since they probably don’t have a lot of money at stake in privatized prisons.
It’s not something the average non-black* person in the US thinks much about unless and until it impacts their lives. Especially if they’re as busy as a CEO typically is. Most substantial non-lawyer advocates for criminal justice system reform came to the cause as a result of their experiences within the justice system.
*: Black people are impacted by the CJS more than others, so they tend to be more aware of it even if they have not been personally effected.
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 11:12:20am |
re: #648 No Country For Old Haters
Glad to hear it’s helping you feel better. I see a lot of options. Is there one you recommend? I get circulation problems when I don’t get enough cardio, and these issues came back a few days ago, so I really need to get up and move.
I’m using a CyclOps Fluid model. I’ve sold a lot of them with only one (an early one) that went bad. You can’t outrun the fluid resistance unit.
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darthstar Dec 31, 2014 11:15:24am |
re: #672 Franklin
Gearing up for 2016?
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Four people had their sentences commuted. Law changed in 2013 - he’s just saving the state a shitload of money in legal costs for something they don’t feel they should do anyway. Good move.
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Franklin Dec 31, 2014 11:17:17am |
re: #681 darthstar
Four people had their sentences commuted. Law changed in 2013 - he’s just saving the state a shitload of money in legal costs for something they don’t feel they should do anyway. Good move.
Yeah, it was a little toungue-in-cheek.
Good move indeed.
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b_sharp Dec 31, 2014 11:24:57am |
re: #612 wrenchwench
I’m doing OK, though my Dad passed away two days ago. I visited him in Sept. and knew It would be the last time I saw him.
{{{{ WW }}}}
I’m thinking of you.
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BeenHereAwhile Dec 31, 2014 11:38:41am |
re: #561 Mike Lamb
I’m going to go out on a limb and suggest that you’ve never come across a rattlesnake in the wild. They are damn near impossible to see and don’t always go off when you get near. If you have an animal with you, as an example, you might need to take drastic measures.
One of the problems with rattlesnake roundups is that they end up killing the rattlers most prone to rattle.
Which means the odd rattlesnake that doesn’t always send out it’s audible warning ends up reproducing and possibly passing that characteristic onto it’s offspring. Making it more potentially dangerous.
There are species of “rattlesnakes” that don’t alert, most notably the Catalina Island Rattlesnake, which doesn’t have any rattle buttons.
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wrenchwench Dec 31, 2014 11:45:46am |
re: #683 b_sharp
{{{{ WW }}}}
I’m thinking of you.
I’m glad to read that your wife’s situation is improving. I hope that continues today and forever.
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Feline Fearless Leader Dec 31, 2014 12:25:07pm |
re: #667 Franklin
This would have been a much better story:
Garbage truck driver, Raccoon jumped in cab, caused wreck:
They couldn’t find the guy hiding in the bushes who kept saying, “I am groot”.
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A Cranky One Dec 31, 2014 12:37:01pm |
re: #612 wrenchwench
My condolences. Lost my dad a few years back, not an easy thing. Please take care!
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William Barnett-Lewis Dec 31, 2014 2:43:53pm |
re: #657 Dark_Falcon
When he wants something like that done all I can do is wonder how it advances his goal of subverting the nation. How does this move us closer to being enfiefed as serfs on the corporation’s manors? Because the Koch’s have utterly no interest in anything that advances freedom and democracy for anyone but themselves and the rest of the .01%
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