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Franklin  Jul 10, 2015 7:03:43pm

Yes Yes a Thousand Times Yes!

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Kragar  Jul 10, 2015 7:04:12pm

So my brother will be sitting on his first panel for Comic-Con coming up in about 30 minutes

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2015 7:07:58pm

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 7:08:51pm

When trailers are too long and include too much I begin to wonder if the actual show will be any good.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 10, 2015 7:11:01pm

re: #4 freetoken

When trailers are too long and include too much I begin to wonder if the actual show will be any good.

That’s usually more of a problem for comedies, where they use up all the best gags. Then you see the movie, and realize it was 90 minutes of awful punctuated by those gags.

Which you already saw.

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Kragar  Jul 10, 2015 7:13:00pm

re: #4 freetoken

When trailers are too long and include too much I begin to wonder if the actual show will be any good.

I agree that can be an issue for a 90 minute movie, but less of one for a TV series

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Franklin  Jul 10, 2015 7:13:31pm

Yeah. Basically take any inferences you took from TWD trailer and forget it. Intentional misdirections abound.

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RealityBasedSteve  Jul 10, 2015 7:13:35pm

and in other acts of fiction…. over at Freep they have least initially bit on this hook, line and sinker. it’s not NBC(dot)Com, it’s NBC(dot)Com(dot)co

Christian Pastor In Vermont Sentenced To One Year In Prison After Refusing To Marry Gay Couple
nbc.com | July 10, 2015 | nbc.com
Proctor, VT — According to NBC News, a pastor at the Christian Proctor Church in Vermont, has been sentenced to one year in federal prison after refusing to marry gay couples. This comes shortly after the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision ruling that states must allow gay-marriage.

The Christian Pastor, 56-year-old Paul Horner, had his lawyer speak to reporters on his behalf.

“We are currently disputing the guilty verdict and I am confident my client will be a free man here shortly,” said attorney Tom Downey. “Horner was just using his best judgement according to his rights and religious freedom in this country.”

The Honorable Myron Danus handed down the harsh sentence.

You would think the Judge’s name might be a give-a-way on it.

I’d almost go even money that DimJim picks up on this one.

RBS

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 10, 2015 7:13:42pm

re: #2 Kragar

So my brother will be sitting on his first panel for Comic-Con coming up in about 30 minutes

“Wait a minute! Didn’t I say that on the other side of the record?”

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 7:14:36pm

Speaking of the dead walking…

I’ve written before about the SBC, largest of the fundamentalist denominations in the US, and their purging of their colleges and seminaries of the heretics.

And it has happened to other colleges which are part of smaller organizations too, such as what happened in TN last year.

Well, here is another example:

Response to Jim Stump’s Resignation from Bethel College

My friend and colleague Jim Stump is a highly valued member of the BioLogos staff, serving as our Content Manager since 2013. He is an active scholar in the philosophy of science and the author or editor of several articles and books, including editor of the Blackwell Companion to Science and Christianity. At BioLogos, he has communicated our message to evangelical audiences with warmth and clarity, convened key scholars to write on important topics for our blog, and held a central role in our ongoing dialogues with Reasons to Believe and Southern Baptist scholars. During this time, he has also continued his work as a Professor of philosophy at Bethel College in Indiana, where he is an award-winning teacher. Jim recently resigned from Bethel in response to changes in policy there. He plans to continue in his BioLogos role.

Bethel College is affiliated with the Missionary Church denomination. The denomination’s Articles of Faith and Practice include the line “We believe that the first man, Adam, was created by an immediate act of God and not by a process of evolution.” Until recently, Bethel faculty have not been required to subscribe to the views of the denomination, but to a separate, brief faith statement. After a few years of discussion between the college and the denomination, the Bethel Board of Trustees approved a new policy on June 9, stating that the denomination’s view on Adam “should be advocated as the official, meritorious, and theologically responsible position of the College, without disparagement.” Because of this change in policy, Bethel faculty may no longer advocate for, nor do scholarship supporting, the view that God used an evolutionary process to create the first humans

[…]

The fundamentalists in this country continue to circle their epistemological wagons into a perfect epistemic closure. Even highly qualified and cherished teachers are not exempt, if they will not bow before the fundamentalists’ tenets, in this case the spontaneous Adam of mythology.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 10, 2015 7:16:01pm

I have not had the heart to watch The Walking Dead since they offed Beth. And I’m not usually one to say, “I’ll never watch again!”. I just haven’t.

Beautifully crafted descent into Hell, followed by season after season of thing just getting shittier, still beautifully crafted. I wish I had the heart to watch it.

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Kragar  Jul 10, 2015 7:17:03pm
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Stephen T.  Jul 10, 2015 7:20:13pm

re: #2 Kragar

So my brother will be sitting on his first panel for Comic-Con coming up in about 30 minutes

I’m jealous.

Living as I do about as far away from San Diego Comic-con while still being in the U.S. means going would be a once in a life time kind of trip. I really want to go at least once. Those are my people.

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RealityBasedSteve  Jul 10, 2015 7:24:05pm

Gang, I’m am outta here. Was at the shop from midnight until about 3 am unloading the van and trailer, filling tanks and getting it loaded up again for the run out to Morehead City NC. Came home, crashed for about 5 hours, and then back into the shop.

Back in at 7:30am or so tomorrow, and I’m fading fast. Have a feeling I’ll sleep like a log.

Have fun and don’t eat the mushrooms, I think they have gone bad or something.

RBS

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teleskiguy  Jul 10, 2015 7:30:03pm
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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 7:33:25pm

The one thing about ComicCon that I can always spot - people on the trolley dressed even more strangely than the usual strange.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jul 10, 2015 7:40:13pm

I got such a kick out of this video. Dude’s singing his heart out and the audience just sits there.

Just slide the little ball to about the 5 minute mark or so.

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The War TARDIS  Jul 10, 2015 8:00:38pm

OT, and sorry for the grumpiness on Palestine.

However, I found major information on my family’s unit during the Civil War. Page Worthy in fact.

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b_sharp  Jul 10, 2015 8:06:24pm

re: #14 RealityBasedSteve

Gang, I’m am outta here. Was at the shop from midnight until about 3 am unloading the van and trailer, filling tanks and getting it loaded up again for the run out to Morehead City NC. Came home, crashed for about 5 hours, and then back into the shop.

Back in at 7:30am or so tomorrow, and I’m fading fast. Have a feeling I’ll sleep like a log.

Have fun and don’t eat the mushrooms, I think they have gone bad or something.

RBS

The mushrooms are fine, you just want them for yourself.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 10, 2015 8:17:48pm

Headline: David Weigel Rehired by Washington Post

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 10, 2015 8:19:01pm

Fear the walking dead = the great panic of WWZ.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 10, 2015 8:22:50pm

Night. Back to weekend work. Need to be fresh.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 8:41:57pm

Well, we’re Luddites and don’t have cable, so we binge on various series when they become available at Vulcan Video, our local purveyor of crack.

It’s a hell of a lot cheaper than any of the other money-sucking vampire companies out there.

We haven’t invested our time in The Walking Dead, so it’s probably time to gorge on Season 1.

Heh!

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electrotek  Jul 10, 2015 8:44:54pm

Wow, Serbs are going crazy on Twitter tonight with their genocide denial.

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The War TARDIS  Jul 10, 2015 8:45:25pm

re: #24 electrotek

Disgusting.

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electrotek  Jul 10, 2015 8:49:20pm

re: #25 The War TARDIS

Disgusting.

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Lidane  Jul 10, 2015 8:58:36pm

That sound you hear is the remainder of the GOP’s Latino vote going up in flames:

His “immigration rally” tomorrow is going to be a total shitshow.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 10, 2015 9:09:03pm

re: #27 Lidane

That sound you hear is the remainder of the GOP’s Latino vote going up in flames:

[Embedded content]

His “immigration rally” tomorrow is going to be a total shitshow.

And look how far Trump’s rhetoric had to go before alarms went off in the upper ranks of the GOP.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 9:10:02pm

Popcorn!

The rest of the GOP candidates, by responding to Trump’s outrageous wide brush (w/ crickets), are losing the 2016 election in slow but inexorable motion.

The Donald will never be The Candidate, but couldn’t someone step forward and call him the incredibly ignorant egoistical asshole that he is and separate themselves from the chaff?

Is there one actual grain of wheat, a man or woman of integrity, in the bunch?

My Obscene Magic 8 Ball says “Not A Fucking Chance”.

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The War TARDIS  Jul 10, 2015 9:11:23pm

re: #26 electrotek

I will let that guy deal with those clowns.

For the first time in weeks, I feel a little healthy, and a little bit proud.

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Lidane  Jul 10, 2015 9:13:42pm

re: #29 austin_blue

Goodhair made an attempt at hitting back at Trump:

Won’t do much good since Perry’s got less of a chance than Jindal of becoming POTUS, but he gave it the old college try.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 9:14:36pm

re: #31 Lidane

.@realDonaldTrump’s comments don’t reflect Republican values and are bad for the Republican Party

Except that Trump seems to be doing quite well in polling among Republicans.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 10, 2015 9:15:10pm

re: #31 Lidane

Good for Perry. I will applaud even a shred of decency from the other side.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 9:17:59pm

re: #33 Higgs Boson’s Mate

That tweet was two days ago.

Here’s Goodhair’s latest tweets:

Just more pandering to the xenophobes.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 9:19:45pm

re: #31 Lidane

Goodhair made an attempt at hitting back at Trump:

[Embedded content]

Won’t do much good since Perry’s got less of a chance than Jindal of becoming POTUS, but he gave it the old college try.

Richard Perry, this cycle’s recycled Rick Perry (no oopsies!) is dead meat. Despite the serious glasses and feigned gravitas, he’s still as dumb as a box of rocks.

He’ll not be on the stage for the first debate in August. Which is a shame, because I’d love to see him dance on his dick again.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 9:22:54pm

re: #32 freetoken

Except that Trump seems to be doing quite well in polling among Republicans.

That’s the point, isn’t it? Trump is tapping into the primary voters’ angst.

Queers, Meskins, crime, and disenfranchisement.

As I said, Popcorn!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 10, 2015 9:23:18pm

re: #34 freetoken

What a disappointment. Immigration reform must now be a complete no-go for the Republican hopefuls. That suggests the extent to which they’re reliant on the bigots and the xenophobes.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 9:28:27pm

I expect the RNC to convince Faux News that only candidates who have filed can be on the “debate”, and since Trump is only playing a candidate and has not filed he will be excluded.

Same for CNN the following month.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 9:29:29pm

re: #33 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Good for Perry. I will applaud even a shred of decency from the other side.

Umm… err…

It’s Rick Perry, dude. Trust us Lib Texans when we say that he is an intellectually challenged yet canny politician and the biggest hypocrite you will ever encounter.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 9:31:28pm

re: #39 austin_blue

Trump is providing the other GOP candidates with plenty of ‘sista souljah’ moment opportunities, but the only thing that has happened is the limp gurglings of Goodhair.

That’s telling.

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 9:32:51pm

re: #38 freetoken

I expect the RNC to convince Faux News that only candidates who have filed can be on the “debate”, and since Trump is only playing a candidate and has not filed he will be excluded.

Same for CNN the following month.

I think he’ll file at the last minute. He just wants to be up there slinging shit prior to an independent run.

It’s all ego with roadkill hair.

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Stephen T.  Jul 10, 2015 9:39:31pm

re: #38 freetoken

I believe that Trump has already “officially filed.”

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 9:43:18pm

re: #42 Stephen T.

I believe he has not completed it.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 10, 2015 9:45:22pm

re: #40 freetoken

Trump is providing the other GOP candidates with plenty of ‘sista souljah’ moment opportunities, but the only thing that has happened is the limp gurglings of Goodhair.

That’s telling.

Jeb Bush went after Trump pretty hard as well, though Trump seemed to be glad to have gotten a rise out of the current frontrunner.

Which once again proves Trump a fool. The men of the Bush family are even-tempered and slow to anger, but once you piss them off they don’t forget the wrongs you’ve done them. There’s also the fact that once primary voters get a good look at both Jeb and The Donald, I think they’ll favor Jeb simply because he’s not an asshole and Trump very clearly is.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 9:46:21pm

Trump has only filed that he has a committee:

docquery.fec.gov

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Stephen T.  Jul 10, 2015 9:48:15pm

re: #45 freetoken

Trump has only filed that he has a committee:

docquery.fec.gov

Thanks for the correction.

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aagcobb  Jul 10, 2015 9:48:22pm

re: #45 freetoken

Trump has only filed that he has a committee:

docquery.fec.gov

He still has to file his financial disclosure, which he swears he will do on time without a request for an extension. Many are skeptical that he will disclose what he is actually worth.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 9:49:30pm

re: #47 aagcobb

I’m skeptical too.

Here was the committee filing:

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Archangelus  Jul 10, 2015 9:56:35pm

re: #27 Lidane

That sound you hear is the remainder of the GOP’s Latino vote going up in flames:

[Embedded content]

His “immigration rally” tomorrow is going to be a total shitshow.

That noise coming across the skies that some of you might have heard just now was the sound of Hillary’s laughter echoing across the globe…

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 10, 2015 9:57:02pm

re: #42 Stephen T.

I believe that Trump has already “officially filed.”

Fox wants the candidates in the debates to have filed their financial disclosure forms. For sitting senators this isn’t a problem, since they have to disclose almost all the needed information anyway, and its usually not a problem for sitting governors, either.

But for Donald Trump, such a requirement poses a dilemma:

“As we have said from the beginning, part of that criteria involves filing ‘all necessary paperwork with the [Federal Election Commission],’” Fox News vice president Michael Clemente said in a statement. “The FEC, as is well known, requires that presidential candidates file a financial disclosure statement as part of that paperwork.” Under federal law, presidential candidates have 30 days from when they officially launch their campaigns to file. But candidates can, and often do, request and receive as many as two 45-day extensions—something most Trump watchers believed he would do as way to prolong his campaign without giving the world a closer look at his finances. While Clemente’s statement didn’t explicitly say candidates couldn’t use those extensions, the Post’s sources say that will indeed be the case. “They must fill out the form, putting the dollars and cents on the table, before they step on the debate stage,” one source told the paper.

For his part, Trump said during his campaign launch last month that he won’t be asking for any extensions—“We’ll be filing right on time”—although the media has treated that claim with the dubiousness it deserves. If he doesn’t ask for an extension, Trump would have until July 22 to file his disclosure. If he does file, the world will get a rare firsthand look at his business empire, the exact worth of which remains very much in debate. If he would have been allowed to take his extensions by Fox, he would have been able to take part in the debate and still drop out of the race later this year without ever having to declare how much he’s actually worth as opposed to how much he claims to be worth.

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Archangelus  Jul 10, 2015 9:59:33pm

While on the topic of media awesomeness, behold - straight from Comic-Con - the just released behind-the-scenes reel for Star Wars: The Force Awakens:

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stpaulbear  Jul 10, 2015 10:02:13pm

If Trump gets kicked out of the debates I’d bet money that he’ll hold a press conference at the same time (where he’ll get all the time). Why wouldn’t he?

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 10:09:52pm

Hehe… the same company that Trump is using to manage contacts and paperwork for his campaign also manages… the Mitt Romney for President committee!

Yes, really.

Here for example is one of Romney’s campaign filings:

Do all Republicans use Red Curve Solutions in Beverly, MA? Is that something the RNC has set up?

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 10:11:55pm

Well, maybe not. Rubio appears to be running his own committee:

So perhaps only the rich ones use Red Curve Solutions?

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Archangelus  Jul 10, 2015 10:13:31pm

Here’s an alternative link for the new Walking Dead season trailer for those of you beyond US borders like myself:

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 10, 2015 10:14:04pm

Remember that time that Donald Trump creeped on his own daughter?

“I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

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Archangelus  Jul 10, 2015 10:15:59pm

re: #56 goddamnedfrank

Remember that time that Donald Trump creeped on his own daughter?

“I’ve said if Ivanka weren’t my daughter, perhaps I’d be dating her.”

Nope, did not know that one… excuse me while I pour myself a nice glass of this…

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 10:17:02pm

Seems all the testimonials on the Red Curve webpage is from Republicans:

redcurve.com

Maybe Democrats have a ‘Blue Curve’ equivalent?

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TedStriker  Jul 10, 2015 10:21:09pm

This thread has some Walking Dead and Star Wars love, but now it’s time to Hail (to) the King, Baby:

/Groovy…

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Archangelus  Jul 10, 2015 10:21:19pm

So near the end of the year we’ll have more Walking Dead, Star Wars and This, of which I did not even know about until just now… epic!

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TedStriker  Jul 10, 2015 10:22:26pm

re: #60 Archangelus

So near the end of the year we’ll have more Walking Dead, Star Wars and This, of which I did not even know about until just now… epic!

[Embedded content]

Talk about GMTA…

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 10:23:09pm

LA Time opinion writer David Horsey said it well today, which concludes with:

The Republican Party’s biggest Trump problem is that he embodies the spirit of the party all too well.

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Varek Raith  Jul 10, 2015 10:23:12pm

Shot Smart; Shop S-Mart.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 10, 2015 10:24:05pm

re: #54 freetoken

Well, maybe not. Rubio appears to be running his own committee:

[Embedded content]

So perhaps only the rich ones use Red Curve Solutions?

Marco Rubio doesn’t have the money to have expensive lawyers do everything for him. Unlike Trump and Romney, he’s not a millionaire, and he has to do somethings himself that other candidates might fob off. But what the result lacks in polish it might gain back in authenticity and identification: People may see Rubio as more like them and he won’t be seen as the disliked 1%er Romney ended up being seen as (with some reason, to be sure).

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2015 10:24:33pm

Back from doing real world stuff, the gotnwes.com staff covers the most burning issue of the day in Chuck Johnson-ville.

GotNewsDotCom’s Earth-shattering news flash: Washington Post employs people I don’t like

Being a free translation of the latest nwes bullshit bulletin from Award Winning JournalistTM occasional blogger Chuck C. Johnson, who really doesn’t David Weigel.

That rag, The Washington Post, has re-hired Journolist Davod Weigol, even though he’s said bad things about me. Also, he says he’s depressive, so they should’ve hired me instead.

But I’m not jealous. Really. Stop snickering.

Davod Weigol was fired — he says he resigned — from the Post after he said on a listserv that some conservatives should die. (The Daily Caller, where I used to work before I resigned — some say fired — broke this story, which is important to probably no one other than Davod Weigol and me. Also some other guy wrote about it, so that’s maybe four people who think it’s important.)

More at gotnwes.com

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Archangelus  Jul 10, 2015 10:24:48pm

re: #61 TedStriker

Talk about GMTA…

Haha, true enough!
Also, damnit, beaten by mere seconds! Guess that’s what I get for going to get a drink from the kitchen before hitting the “post it” button… :)

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 10:43:21pm

re: #64 Dark_Falcon

Marco Rubio doesn’t have the money to have expensive lawyers do everything for him. Unlike Trump and Romney, he’s not a millionaire, and he has to do somethings himself that other candidates might fob off. But what the result lacks in polish it might gain back in authenticity and identification: People may see Rubio as more like them and he won’t be seen as the disliked 1%er Romney ended up being seen as (with some reason, to be sure).

Oh, horseshit, DF. He’s not an idiot. He has a tremendous amount of money behind him.

He ‘s just another Republican pussy.

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Archangelus  Jul 10, 2015 10:43:29pm

The Fear of the Walking Dead trailer for international viewers:

Am I alone in finding it utterly, insanely ridiculous that videos such as these are even region-locked to begin with?

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 10:47:20pm

Trump has lots of fans:

Slain Football Player Jamiel Shaw’s Father: Donald Trump ‘Is Telling the Truth’ on Immigration

Ex-Arizona gov: Trump telling it like it is

Carson: Trump a ‘possible’ veep

Carson also said he does not believe Trump should back down from his criticism of illegal immigrants and America’s border security.

“I would say that there’s a whole lot of oxygen in the room, and we need to hear everybody,” he said. “We need to discuss these things openly.”

“I like people who are willing to say what they believe.”

Welcome, Donald Trump! ‘Most popular’ man in Arizona

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austin_blue  Jul 10, 2015 10:50:30pm
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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 11:03:25pm

TownHall runs John Hawkins little adoration of Trump… and the first comment is from a birther!

Five Big Things The Other Candidates Can Learn From Donald Trump

Rachel Slomovic * Hospital Administrator at Retired
“something he’s doing right now is obviously resonating with the voters,”
This is actually the second time he is doing this. The first one was when he demanded that Obama produce an authentic birth certificate, and he was dismissed. Too bad. Because now we know Obama is not interested in the good of this country, he actually hates what America stands for and that is why he pledged to “fundamentally transform” the country, and of course he did not declare he will IMPROVE IT!!! If his presidency was depended on his birth certificate, and if both parties realized that this was an important issue maybe the socond thing Trump is now talking about would not have been needed. When we see an actual young girl who was killed as a direct result of Obama’s immigration - invasion - policies this is tangible proof, and it resonates with all of us.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 10, 2015 11:06:44pm

re: #65 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Chuck’s really losing it. This new post is even more incoherent than usual for him.

And… he just posted another one.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 11:25:14pm

Fathom the depth of derp in the atavist twitters:

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jul 10, 2015 11:26:06pm

re: #73 freetoken

Fathom the depth of derp in the atavist twitters:

[Embedded content]

Are they having a derp-off?
Or maybe they’re just derping off.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 11:27:50pm

re: #74 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Shiffler retweets Nolte, just so you know where he’s coming from.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 11:30:33pm

Note to xenophobes: the whole world are immigrants:

Viking-age hut found in Reykjavik

Archaeologists digging on Lækjargata in central Reykjavik were looking for traces of a farm cottage built in 1799 - and found a Viking longhouse from some 900 years earlier.

The longhouse is at least 20 m long at 5.5m wide at it widest point. The ‘long fire’ in the centre of the hut is one of the largest ever found in Iceland, which visible traces suggesting it was over 5.2 m long.

[…]

The building is from the first years of the settlement of Iceland - a period usually dated 870-930 AD - but more exact dating will need to wait until after the excavation has been completed.

The group conducting the dig has already found weaving implements within the hut and a silver ring and a pearl in the immediate vicinity.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2015 11:31:46pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Chuck’s really losing it. This new post is even more incoherent than usual for him.

And… he just posted another one.

Award Winning Journalism™ — in which CCJ mocks people who don’t support Trump.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 10, 2015 11:35:25pm

re: #72 Charles Johnson

Chuck’s really losing it. This new post is even more incoherent than usual for him.

And… he just posted another one.

Do you figure he’s outside the hotel because Trump’s people wouldn’t let him inside the event?

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 10, 2015 11:40:52pm

The Runaways Rape Story is getting weirder. Cherie Currie posted an odd kind of denial on her Facebook page, but then in the same thread posted clear confirmation that the rape story she wrote about in her book was in fact a rape of Jackie by Fowley.

Also, beyond how gross it is to quibble over exactly how “brutal” a sexual assault she clearly identified as “rape” was, what was really disgusting was Currie’s attempt to recast some anonymous groupie as the victim and then place the actual victim Fuch’s one of the bystanders.

“Read my book” !!!

Seriously go buy that shit because mama needs a new swimming pool. Motherfuck, I mean do these goddamned pieces of shit have no shame at all?!

“Oh yeah we totally watched Kim fuck this drugged up unconscious girl, and oh yeah I wrote that she was just some anon groupie but it really was Jackie, but I TAKE SERIOUS ISSUE with the characterization that the rape was brutal. If it was a “brutal” rape we would have done something. I mean what do you think we are, fucking savages?”

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 10, 2015 11:46:02pm
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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 11:47:37pm

The hate-right is really lining up behind Trump. Perhaps robbing Cruz of some support.

Goodhair, Rubio, and Bush seem to be the ones who think they can pick up some stray votes by distancing themselves from Trump.

Carson on the other hand is cozying up to Trump, and Cruz is playing as if he’s cool with Trump.

The others are in limbo somewhere.

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 11:51:15pm

Great photo of Trump:

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freetoken  Jul 10, 2015 11:58:18pm

Another great photo:

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 11, 2015 12:09:15am

re: #83 freetoken

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Kragar  Jul 11, 2015 12:14:14am

re: #84 goddamnedfrank

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 12:16:35am

re: #4 freetoken

When trailers are too long and include too much I begin to wonder if the actual show will be any good.

The onion nailed that a few years ago

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 11, 2015 12:28:51am
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goddamnedfrank  Jul 11, 2015 1:19:57am

I can’t wrap my head around this. Currie’s half ass quibbling denial over “brutality” is disgusting enough considering she fully admits now that the rape she wrote about in her book is the exact same rape that Fuch’s and the other witnesses say happened. But it’s the casting of the victim as just another passive bystander that can really never, ever be forgiven. Not only did Currie seek to erase Fuchs’ status as victim but in effect she sought to tar her with the same sin of passivity in the face of rape that Currie, Jett, and the other bystanders to Fuchs’ assault carried. That demonstrates a level of continued abuse and disregard for Fuchs’ feelings and basic human worth that is simply pathological.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 1:24:25am

So it seems that rape comes in numerous varieties these days, “passive”, “brutal”, “date” and “legitimate” being the most common…

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 2:10:06am

re: #32 freetoken

Except that Trump seems to be doing quite well in polling among Republicans.

Ten to one Trump’s setting up for a third-party run. Given the colossal egomaniac that he is, that wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.

Morning, Lizards.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 2:20:05am

re: #90 Dr Lizardo

Ten to one Trump’s setting up for a third-party run. Given the colossal egomaniac that he is, that wouldn’t surprise me in the slightest.

Morning, Lizards.

I see him blackmailing the party with the threat. Still not sure what he is after, though. Cabinet post? Minister of Scalp Wombats?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 2:34:12am

re: #91 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I see him blackmailing the party with the threat. Still not sure what he is after, though. Cabinet post? Minister of Scalp Wombats?

Personally, I think he really does believe he’s got a serious shot. He’s harnessing the xenophobic/nativist wing of the GOP, and he probably thinks that might be enough to give him the nomination - and if not, it’s enough to convince him that he can successfully run for POTUS as an indie candidate.

If he really does go third-party, and provided he doesn’t flake like Perot did, he could pull in about 10 to15% of the popular vote, I’d say, almost exclusively from older white voters. And that would be the death-knell for whomever the GOP candidate is.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jul 11, 2015 2:54:42am

I still don’t see Trump submitting his financials. He’ll troll everybody for a couple months and give the GOP contenders a chance to feign their outrage over his remarks. By the end of the summer, Trump will drop out, they’ll all blame the media and you won’t hear another word about Mexicans.
It doesn’t matter whether the GOP courts the Hispanic vote. Remember between voter ID and dog whistle politics, the polling will be neck and neck anyway.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 3:15:44am

re: #93 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Kind of agree, he onnetheless represents a solid core of base bigots, but once a viable candidate emerges from the pack (still most likely Jeb) then he will drop out.

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Jayleia  Jul 11, 2015 3:25:23am

Weird, front page changed back to the way it used to be…and I approve of that. Still loving the new font though.

EDIT: And now back to the new style? That’s just weird.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 3:26:40am

Interesting attempt at Trump damage control from the national review

“…The base of the party is angry. They’re angry about Obama’s lawless chicanery on immigration. They’re angry about the GOP’s patented inability to cross the street without stepping on its own d*ck and then having to apologize for it. They’re angry that the Left’s culture warriors are behaving like an invading army that shoots the survivors even after they’ve surrendered…”

These are people who see compromise as weakness, they do not retreat, they reload. It took a mass murder in a church to finally get them to back off from they hollow, cynical assertion that that Confederate Flag over the state capitol was simply an expression of “southern heritage”

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 3:33:15am

Meanwhile, here in Europe, don’t break open that bottle of Moët just yet:

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 3:36:47am

re: #97 Dr Lizardo

Meanwhile, here in Europe, don’t break open that bottle of Moët just yet:

50-50 chance of Greek bailout deal, sources say

why? I see it as a win-win either way…just a matter of deciding which unpleasant consequences to face, the immediate or the long-term.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 3:42:21am

re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

why? I see it as a win-win either way…just a matter of deciding which unpleasant consequences to face, the immediate or the long-term.

Realistically, Greece never should have been part of the single currency. There’s a good argument to be made that now is the chance for the Eurozone to correct that mistake.

But it’s gonna suck in Greece, at least for the forseeable future, that’s for sure.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 3:44:40am

There may also be fallout within Greece, at least politically, if this Tweet is more than just a mere rumor:

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 3:48:57am

And regardless of today’s outcome here in Europe, there’s a major hurdle to all of this: The parliaments of some of the Eurozone countries have to vote to approve any deal that emerges, and that has to be unanimous “yes” among the EZ countries for things to move forward.

The Baltic States (and possibly Slovakia) could torpedo the whole thing with a “no” vote.

This Twitter user pointed that out:

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 3:54:37am

re: #99 Dr Lizardo

Realistically, Greece never should have been part of the single currency. There’s a good argument to be made that now is the chance for the Eurozone to correct that mistake.

But it’s gonna suck in Greece, at least for the forseeable future, that’s for sure.

It’s gonna suck either way, the only democratic thing to do is to let the Greek people decide how they want to face the music, either dramatic austerity measures or back to the Drachma.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 3:57:30am

re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It’s gonna suck either way, the only democratic thing to do is to let the Greek people decide how they want to face the music, either dramatic austerity measures or back to the Drachma.

I agree; that should be the real referendum put forward to the Greek voters.

In or out? Dramatic bone-crunching austerity or go back to Drachma? Simple majority prevails.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 4:05:49am

re: #103 Dr Lizardo

I agree; that should be the real referendum put forward to the Greek voters.

In or out? Dramatic bone-crunching austerity or go back to Drachma? Simple majority prevails.

It is like forcing couples to face the decision of divorcing and living alone or remaining in a soul-crushing, loveless marriage. You tend to put it off until outside circumstances force a decision.

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2015 4:29:30am

re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

National Racists love their “angry base” . They are the customer base of NR as well as being, in recent times, the base of the GOP.

I just finished watching the last episode of PBS’ First Peoples. While I (pedantically) lament this or that about the series, this last episode (on Europe) drives home the point that the reason the Neanderthals became extinct (as a separate group of humans) is that the H. sapiens just overtook them by numbers, a higher population enabled by the ability to have cultural connections with more people than the Neanderthals had or could do.

Along that same line of thinking I approach National Racists Online and the whole tea-partying atavist scene. They are angry because they know they are losing the culture war. And the reason they are losing the culture war is that the more modern cultural attitudes have arisen due to more contact with different groups of people.

That’s why young people are “leaving the church”, as is lamented. The problem for the fundamentalists is that once the young ones leave the home and go out and experience more cultures they can never go back to the isolated epistemic islands of the fundamentalists.

So yes, Jonah Goldberg whines about the “Left’s culture warriors are behaving like an invading army” because in fact the forces of modernity are invading the little cubicles of throwbacks that exist in pockets around this large nation-state.

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2015 4:38:26am

Thing is, the changes that became formal in 1965 in this country have taken 50 years to work out in practice into all the little corners of this big land, and it is a big land.

As our population grows, more and more people will be living in cities, large or small, and a small percentage in truly rural areas. And those living in small cities will be tied even more, culturally, to the large cities, which are the hubs of cultural integration.

So at least in the mid term I am not so negative on how we can handle the atavists. There will always be conflicts and this or that flare up of hate, but our current cultural trajectory is away from the white Protestant fundamentalist hegemony of the last 350 years or so. That doesn’t mean we shouldn’t push back against atavist flare-ups, just that we should be confident that when we do push back we can make progress.

Long term - well, there are so many problems with overpopulation and ecosystem sustainability that in the end we will all go the way of our ancestral species - extinct.

But for now you can eat, drink, and be merry.

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FemNaziBitch  Jul 11, 2015 4:41:44am

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

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I can’t wrap my head around this. Currie’s half ass quibbling denial over “brutality” is disgusting enough considering she fully admits now that the rape she wrote about in her book is the exact same rape that Fuch’s and the other witnesses say happened. But it’s the casting of the victim as just another passive bystander that can really never, ever be forgiven. Not only did Currie seek to erase Fuchs’ status as victim but in effect she sought to tar her with the same sin of passivity in the face of rape that Currie, Jett, and the other bystanders to Fuchs’ assault carried. That demonstrates a level of continued abuse and disregard for Fuchs’ feelings and basic human worth that is simply pathological.

I don’t normally follow Silicon Valley doings, but this paragraph resonated with me:

Ms. Pao wrote in a Reddit post on Friday that in her eight months as chief executive, “I’ve seen the good, the bad and the ugly.” She added that “the good has been off-the-wall inspiring, and the ugly made me doubt humanity.”

Thus, I made a Pages Post.

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freetoken  Jul 11, 2015 4:45:49am

I notice the rabbling commenters on Jonah’s piece on Trump are really digging in.

I’m not sure the world has enough popcorn for us to watch this show in the entirety.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 4:57:53am

re: #106 freetoken

Thing is, the changes that became formal in 1965 in this country have taken 50 years to work out in practice into all the little corners of this big land, and it is a big land.

There are still plenty of people all over who are working hard to see those changes revoked. We cannot begin to take them for granted, even in the light of recent developments.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 5:25:51am

re: #105 freetoken

National Racists love their “angry base” . They are the customer base of NR as well as being, in recent times, the base of the GOP.

…snip
So yes, Jonah Goldberg whines about the “Left’s culture warriors are behaving like an invading army” because in fact the forces of modernity are invading the little cubicles of throwbacks that exist in pockets around this large nation-state.

Need more nylons, Hershey Bars, Lucky Strikes and parachute silk.

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FemNaziBitch  Jul 11, 2015 5:27:47am

bbl

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 5:43:24am

This right wing paper is pissed at the WiGOP.

Times seeks documents related to open records attack

In a bid to find out who orchestrated last week’s ill-fated attack on the state’s open records laws, The Lakeland Times has filed open records requests with an array of GOP officials, Times publisher Gregg Walker has announced.

The Times is seeking all public communications, digital and otherwise, for the officials and their staff members from June 24 to July 6. The request includes text messages, emails, letters, and any and all correspondence.

Walker said the newspaper wants all correspondence, not merely those records that mention the proposed open records revisions to the budget. That’s necessary, Walker said, to truly find out who was behind the attack.

“Politicians and their staff members are really adept at masking the true nature of their correspondence with each other by using overly broad language designed to circumvent open records requests that use key words,” Walker said. “So we want all the records for the weeks leading up to when the provisions were inserted into the budget.

Refreshing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 5:46:06am

re: #105 freetoken


They are angry because they know they are losing the culture war.

They were so damn smug about getting away with displaying their CSA flag over state capitals as a “symbol of southern heritage” and are incensed that in the wake of a brutal racist murder, they have been finally caught out on what was really behind it.

Now their only recourse is to maintain that the rainbow flag is some sort of symbol of oppression. It is truly sad.

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b.d.  Jul 11, 2015 5:50:38am

So Pierre is going to start giving money to that dangerous psychopath Barrett Brown:

Nice to have all of those Dudebros in one place where the non-tinfoil wearing populace can avoid them en mass.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:05:41am

Scott Walker to sign budget Sunday — a day before presidential announcement

Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker is poised to clear the way for his White House campaign with the signing of his two-year $72.7 billion budget that freezes taxes and tuition at University of Wisconsin campuses, cuts university funding and leaves for the future a lasting solution for state road funding.

The Republican governor is set to sign the budget at 4 p.m. Sunday in Waukesha at Valveworks USA, a manufacturing company that makes components for mining.

Walker’s budget signing comes 12 days late, rather than weeks early as he had hoped, and with the largest number of GOP no votes of any of his three budgets. But he is keeping his promise to sign the state spending and taxing plan before announcing his presidential run and embarking on a weeklong tour of four early primary states — Nevada, South Carolina, New Hampshire and above all Iowa.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:07:38am

Party of “personal responsibility”.

Scott Walker: Open records changes ‘a huge mistake’ that ‘didn’t come from us’

Gov. Scott Walker pointed the finger at Republican lawmakers Friday on a widely criticized proposal to curtail Wisconsin’s open records laws, calling it “a huge mistake” that didn’t originate in his office.

“I think it was a mistake to even think about it in the budget, even though it didn’t come from us,” Walker told radio host Charlie Sykes on Friday.

Walker’s office earlier this week acknowledged it helped draft the changes, which were stripped from the 2015-17 budget after a fierce outcry from conservatives and liberals alike, including a broad array of lawmakers, open government advocates and media organizations.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:08:23am

re: #116 Amory Blaine

Senate Majority Leader Scott Fitzgerald, R-Juneau, said Tuesday that Walker’s office collaborated with Assembly and Senate leaders to draft the changes.

Someone is lying.

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b.d.  Jul 11, 2015 6:08:49am

Happy Trump/Arpaio Day all!

I trust that this day will live up to my expectations.

It is another good day to not be a wingnut.

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Lancelot Link  Jul 11, 2015 6:15:45am

re: #114 b.d.

I predict that after the next election Pierre stops funding them and they all go to Taki’s Magazine.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:23:19am

Scott Walker to signal Iowa dedication with three-day announcement tour

The Wisconsin governor intends to eventually hit all 99 counties

Republican Scott Walker will signal Iowa’s importance to his presidential campaign by digging in for a three-day tour in a recreation vehicle here next week after he formally jumps into the race.

But instead of hitting first-in-the-nation Iowa first, Walker will campaign in reverse order in the early voting states, spending one day each in Nevada, South Carolina and New Hampshire before making a bigger push in Iowa, aides told The Des Moines Register. He intends to eventually visit all 99 counties.

Expectations are high in Iowa for Walker to prove his Midwest appeal in an oversized presidential field - he’s governor of neighboring Wisconsin; he’s the frontrunner in the GOP polling here; and he lived in Plainfield as a child.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:25:44am

Wisconsin swindled by Scott Walker’s jobs scam

Over the course of the last month, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker has been scrambling to do damage control in the wake of revelations about one of his signature economic programs.

In the name of creating jobs, this trademark initiative of the potential Republican presidential candidate handed hundreds of millions of dollars in taxpayer money to businesses across the state. But Walker’s administration apparently neglected to check if these companies actually hired any new employees as a result.

Wisconsinites have been understandably roiled — but this is not a problem that’s confined to their state.

Across the country, “economic development” programs in states such as Texas, Florida, Michigan and New York are handing out public resources to private hands in the name of spurring “job creators.” Astoundingly, they often fail to uphold even the most minimal level of accountability and oversight over how this public money is used.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 6:33:09am

re: #121 Amory Blaine

Wisconsin swindled by Scott Walker’s jobs scam

Across the country, “economic development” programs in states such as Texas, Florida, Michigan and New York are handing out public resources to private hands in the name of spurring “job creators.” Astoundingly, they often fail to uphold even the most minimal level of accountability and oversight over how this public money is used.

The same goes for charter schools and government scholarships that benefit for-profit universities

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:34:07am

Jobs agency lent $1.2 million to businessman with troubled finances

Wisconsin’s flagship jobs agency failed to run adequate checks and gave two awards worth more than $1.2 million to a financially troubled De Pere businessman who had not disclosed his problems to the state, a Milwaukee Journal Sentinel review has found.

Despite those omissions in 2011 and 2012, Gov. Scott Walker’s administration kept working with Ron Van Den Heuvel and his clean energy company, Green Box, into 2014, state records show.

There is no record so far of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corp. notifying the City of De Pere about the company’s money troubles even though Green Box was working with the city in an unsuccessful attempt to get tax-exempt bonds — in part to repay the state’s soured loan.

It’s the second case disclosed in recent weeks in which WEDC failed to catch omissions by businesses about their troubled finances and then continued to work with them.

But hey, as long as people on food stamps can’t buy steak right?

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 6:35:03am

Herr Doktor Nein (German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble) has arrived in Brussels to spread some cheer:

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:37:49am

Business that has profited from undocumented labor has distorted the market with their criminality. They should be regarded like drug dealers. If you have made your profits from undocumented labor, all assets should be seized by the state and funds directed towards correcting the distortion.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2015 6:38:51am

re: #120 Amory Blaine

Scott Walker to signal Iowa dedication with three-day announcement tour

The Wisconsin governor intends to eventually hit all 99 counties

How the bejeezus fuck can Iowa have 99 counties? I just looked it up: It’s got ~79% the area of Washington and 44% of the population—and it’s got 99 counties vs. 39? I kept looking around—Indiana’s got 92 counties? I think there needs to be some serious consolidation in flyover country.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 6:40:02am

re: #125 Amory Blaine

Business that has profited from undocumented labor has distorted the market with their criminality. They should be regarded like drug dealers. If you have made your profits from undocumented labor, all assets should be seized by the state and funds directed towards correcting the distortion.

Are interstate sales of that shit legal yet? If so, send me a dime bag.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:43:51am

re: #127 Decatur Deb

Xenophobia is only available by the ton.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 6:46:15am

re: #129 Amory Blaine

Xenophobia is only available by the ton.

Nah, I mean the stuff that makes you think the profiteer/donors could be inconvenienced.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:48:13am

re: #130 Decatur Deb

Ahh yes delusion, that is available by the dime bag. I collect it right from the unicorns ass.

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electrotek  Jul 11, 2015 6:48:38am

Um yeah /facepalm

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aagcobb  Jul 11, 2015 6:52:02am

re: #113 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They were so damn smug about getting away with displaying their CSA flag over state capitals as a “symbol of southern heritage” and are incensed that in the wake of a brutal racist murder, they have been finally caught out on what was really behind it.

Now their only recourse is to maintain that the rainbow flag is some sort of symbol of oppression. It is truly sad.

The horrors of bakers being forced to bake cakes just like they bake every day. Oppression!

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aagcobb  Jul 11, 2015 6:53:21am

re: #117 Amory Blaine

Someone is lying.

Love circular firing squads.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 6:58:11am
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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 6:58:51am

The way it works ‘round these parts: Life in an Alabama prison.

Seems harsh until you read he has four previous felonies. Then it becomes outrage when the four felonies are 3 weed possessions and one other controlled substance rap.
” Keener’s prior felony convictions included three counts of first-degree possession of marijuana and unlawful possession of a controlled substance.”

dothaneagle.com

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aagcobb  Jul 11, 2015 7:02:36am

re: #124 Dr Lizardo

Herr Doktor Nein (German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble) has arrived in Brussels to spread some cheer:

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Its German tradition to ruthlessly crush dissent.

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aagcobb  Jul 11, 2015 7:03:30am

re: #126 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

How the bejeezus fuck can Iowa have 99 counties? I just looked it up: It’s got ~79% the area of Washington and 44% of the population—and it’s got 99 counties vs. 39? I kept looking around—Indiana’s got 92 counties? I think there needs to be some serious consolidation in flyover country.

We have 120 counties in Kentucky; its ridiculous.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2015 7:08:44am

re: #138 aagcobb

We have 120 counties in Kentucky; its ridiculous.

I was once told KY’s counties were created so that each county seat was no more than a day’s horse ride away.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 7:09:12am

re: #138 aagcobb

We have 120 counties in Kentucky; its ridiculous.

One can assume that is is a legacy of a time when it was a sparsely populated state without telegraph or telephone, people needed a county seat that could be reached within a day’s travel.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 7:12:50am

re: #139 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I was once told KY’s counties were created so that each county seat was no more than a day’s horse ride away.

They need faster horses.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 11, 2015 7:17:02am

re: #44 Dark_Falcon

Sorry. But after the ‘People must work longer to save the economy’, by which he meant, ‘People must work longer for the same pay so people like me can become even wealthier’, Jeb! proved he is an asshole as well.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2015 7:17:31am

re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

One can assume that is is a legacy of a time when it was a sparsely populated state without telegraph or telephone, people needed a county set that could be reached within a day’s trvel.

In the Western states, counties started out enormous and then were subdivided as more people moved in. It looks like at first all of Eastern Washington was two counties—Skamania and Walla Walla. And remember that includes Idaho and that part of Montana they missurveyed, thus giving Idaho a panhandle.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 7:20:25am

Now that the silly-assed flag is down, we can assume all is progressing nicely here in Dixie.

Gay couple refused marriage license 4 times leading charge for rallies across Alabama

al.com

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 11, 2015 7:20:38am

re: #142 Romantic Heretic

Sorry. But after the ‘People must work longer to save the economy’, by which he meant, ‘People must work longer for the same pay so people like me can become even wealthier’, Jeb! proved he is an asshole as well.

I don’t believe that’s what he meant. I accept his explanation that he meant too many people who wanted to work full-time were stuck with part time work. Jeb’s a Bush and so an occasional malapropism is to be expected.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 7:22:10am

re: #145 Dark_Falcon

I don’t believe that’s what he meant. I accept his explanation that he meant too many people who wanted to work full-time were stuck with part time work. Jeb’s a Bush and so an occasional malapropism mistaken invasion is to be expected.

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aagcobb  Jul 11, 2015 7:22:52am

re: #139 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I was once told KY’s counties were created so that each county seat was no more than a day’s horse ride away.

But now we have interstate highways, so we could get rid of some of them, except then some county officials would lose their jobs, and we can’t have that.//

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Lancelot Link  Jul 11, 2015 7:26:05am

re: #126 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

How the bejeezus fuck can Iowa have 99 counties? I just looked it up: It’s got ~79% the area of Washington and 44% of the population—and it’s got 99 counties vs. 39? I kept looking around—Indiana’s got 92 counties? I think there needs to be some serious consolidation in flyover country.

You think that’s bad - California only has 58 counties. Los Angeles county alone has three times the population of Iowa.

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Targetpractice  Jul 11, 2015 7:27:14am

re: #145 Dark_Falcon

I don’t believe that’s what he meant. I accept his explanation that he meant too many people who wanted to work full-time were stuck with part time work. Jeb’s a Bush and so an occasional malapropism is to be expected.

I’m with Josh Marshall on this, it’s the kind of statement that only makes sense when you’re a person who views “work” as something other people do. He was born in the purple and hasn’t the first clue what the average worker really wants. Being “stuck” with part-time work is not the problem, the problem is that wages have been stagnate when they haven’t been falling, and that’s a situation that has been going on since his daddy decided that being VP was more important than holding to your principles.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 7:27:14am

More improvements seen in SWA managerial opportunities:

foxnews.com

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 11, 2015 7:31:15am

re: #97 Dr Lizardo

Don’t like to comment here on that subject but the only thing I wonder about now is what sort of fanatics will take over Greece when its economy falls apart; Fascist or Communist.

In either case Greece will be leaving the EU and will be giving the finger to the IMF.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 7:32:33am

re: #151 Romantic Heretic

Don’t like to comment here on that subject but the only thing I wonder about now is what sort of fanatics will take over Greece when its economy falls apart; Fascist or Communist.

In either case Greece will be leaving the EU and will be giving the finger to the IMF.

Greece wouldn’t be leaving the EU proper - just the Eurozone.

I certainly hope that Golden Dawn doesn’t end up in charge; they are genuine Fascists and they make no bones about it.

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Great White Snark  Jul 11, 2015 7:37:33am

re: #79 goddamnedfrank

The Runaways Rape Story is getting weirder. Cherie Currie posted an odd kind of denial on her Facebook page, but then in the same thread posted clear confirmation that the rape story she wrote about in her book was in fact a rape of Jackie by Fowley.

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Also, beyond how gross it is to quibble over exactly how “brutal” a sexual assault she clearly identified as “rape” was, what was really disgusting was Currie’s attempt to recast some anonymous groupie as the victim and then place the actual victim Fuch’s one of the bystanders.

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“Read my book” !!!

Seriously go buy that shit because mama needs a new swimming pool. Motherfuck, I mean do these goddamned pieces of shit have no shame at all?!

I’m certain that lots of celebrities people that partied it up back in the Quaalude days saw this kind of thing happen. Like drunk driving in the 1950’s attitudes are much more conservative than back then. I’m very glad I was not into anything but marijuana back then. That drug came off the market for very good reason. Hell of a date rape drug, albeit with the consent to take it. How desperate and effed up do you have to be to be into unconscious sex partners? All ya can get? That’s not consenting adults.

There are thousands of Quaalude secret stories. And some of those women felt somewhat complicit just because they took the drug. So the reaction became tuck that incident way into the secret closet and move on. Damn shame.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2015 7:40:01am

Remember all you Twitter people—today is #TWEETLIKETRUMPDAY

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 11, 2015 7:45:21am

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

Greece wouldn’t be leaving the EU proper - just the Eurozone.

I certainly hope that Golden Dawn doesn’t end up in charge; they are genuine Fascists and they make no bones about it.

I’m finding a lot of parallels between Greece today and the Weimar Republic.

The Weimar Republic seriously screwed up its economy. This reduced the people’s trust in the Government opening the door for the Fascists.

The other European countries refused to help and insisted that Germany pay the tribute that was demanded by The Versailles Treaty. This pushed the Germans through the door that the Weimar Republic opened.

The rest, as they say, is history.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 11, 2015 7:48:38am

re: #96 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Actually, Jonah Goldberg laid out a good case against Donald Trump;

Immigration: You seem to think he’s an immigration hardliner, and he’s certainly pretending to be. But why can’t you see through it? He condemned Mitt Romney as an immigration hardliner in 2012 and favored comprehensive immigration reform. He told Bill O’Reilly he was in favor of a “path to citizenship” for 30 million illegal immigrants:

Trump: You have to give them a path. You have 20 million, 30 million, nobody knows what it is. It used to be 11 million. Now, today I hear it’s 11, but I don’t think it’s 11. I actually heard you probably have 30 million. You have to give them a path, and you have to make it possible for them to succeed. You have to do that.

Question: Just how many rapists and drug dealers did Donald Trump want to give green cards to?

However, it must be noted that any attempt by Jonah Goldberg to go into the historical record immediately runs into a serious usability problem.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2015 7:48:45am

re: #138 aagcobb

We have 120 counties in Kentucky; its ridiculous.

95 counties here in Virginia along with 38 cities which are independent of any county.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 7:51:12am

I love it when grifters grift their own.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 7:51:55am

So these zombie shows on TV…does anybody watch them?

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 11, 2015 7:52:49am

re: #155 Romantic Heretic

I’m finding a lot of parallels between Greece today and the Weimar Republic.

The Weimar Republic seriously screwed up its economy. This reduced the people’s trust in the Government opening the door for the Fascists.

The other European countries refused to help and insisted that Germany pay the tribute that was demanded by The Versailles Treaty. This pushed the Germans through the door that the Weimar Republic opened.

The rest, as they say, is history.

The big difference is that Germany did and still does have great deal more inherent power than does Greece. Germany had been temporarily brought to its knees by blockade and defeat in war. But Germany could and did recover its strength. 17 years after France marched troops into the Ruhr in 1923 and Germany’s financial system collapsed, Germany invaded France and smashed the French army thoroughly.

There is no way Greece could do such a thing to Germany.

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Great White Snark  Jul 11, 2015 7:54:35am

re: #159 darthstar

So these zombie shows on TV…does anybody watch them?

Everyone but thee and me apparently.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 11, 2015 7:55:59am

re: #161 Great White Snark

Everyone but thee and me apparently.

And me.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:00:41am

re: #161 Great White Snark

Everyone but thee and me apparently.

I just don’t understand these documentaries about the undead. Why are the undead undead? Why haven’t scientists studied them and figured out their cognitive abilities? Certainly they’re capable of more than campaigning for Republicans.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:03:26am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:04:10am

re: #145 Dark_Falcon

I don’t believe that’s what he meant. I accept his explanation that he meant too many people who wanted to work full-time were stuck with part time work. Jeb’s a Bush and so an occasional malapropism is to be expected.

The problem with that is that the way he said it, even when he tried to correct himself, was that it put the onus on the workers, not the employers.

What SHOULD he have said? Something like, “Employers need to stop gaming the system with temps and part time workers”, because that’s what’s going on.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 8:04:59am

re: #159 darthstar

So these zombie shows on TV…does anybody watch them?

I enjoyed the book World War Z, but that is because it is not so much about zombies as about how society deals with any crisis: first ignore it, then deny that it exists, then try to cover it up, all of which only makes it worse when it finally hits and nearly overwhelms us.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:07:00am

re: #164 darthstar

This of course happens every year…apparently Republicans think “La Raza” translates into something evil.

Some Republican presidential candidates did criticize Trump’s xenophobic and bigoted remarks about Mexican immigrants, but their true sentiments were revealed when every potential Republican candidate turned down an invitation from the nation’s largest Latino advocacy group to attend its annual convention next week.

The group, the National Council of La Raza invited every presidential candidate, Democrat and Republican, to attend their convention, but no Republican is attending.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:08:30am

re: #165 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, and while part timers and temps are a PART of the problem, the biggest problem is that workers aren’t paid enough. When you build your economy based on consumer spending, you have to pay the consumers, so they can spend. We’ve hit the wall on just making it easier for them to borrow money to spend. And that was always a thinly veiled upward redistribution of wealth anyway.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 11, 2015 8:08:37am

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

The big difference is that Germany did and still does have great deal more inherent power than does Greece. Germany had been temporarily brought to its knees by blockade and defeat in war. But Germany could and did recover its strength. 17 years after France marched troops into the Ruhr in 1923 and Germany’s financial system collapsed, Germany invaded France and smashed the French army thoroughly.

There is no way Greece could do such a thing to Germany.

Oh I quite agree. Greece doesn’t have the power to do much damage to Europe or the world.

But that’s not what I was saying. I was saying that incompetence on the part of the government undermined the people’s confidence in the government and the power madness on the parts of the other European countries created the opportunity for the Nazis to come to power.

WWII was a consequence, not a cause.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:10:18am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I enjoyed the book World War Z, but that is because it is not so much about zombies as about how society deals with any crisis: first ignore it, then deny that it exists, then try to cover it up, all of which only makes it worse when it finally hits and nearly overwhelms us.

I should try reading a zombie book…I’d probably enjoy that. I watched five minutes of WWZ and whatever boy toy lead they had had me wishing for his quick and painful death in seconds.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 8:14:09am

re: #170 darthstar

I should try reading a zombie book…I’d probably enjoy that. I watched five minutes of WWZ and whatever boy toy lead they had had me wishing for his quick and painful death in seconds.

I did not mention that the movie sucks morbid zombie dick, assumed that was self evident…

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Great White Snark  Jul 11, 2015 8:15:20am

re: #166 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I really liked the vignette, short story micro dramas format. The downed pilot for example.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:15:56am

re: #170 darthstar

I should try reading a zombie book…I’d probably enjoy that. I watched five minutes of WWZ and whatever boy toy lead they had had me wishing for his quick and painful death in seconds.

It was Pitt…couldn’t remember if it was him or Cruise (always the short fuckers in these roles). Look how scared and pathetic he is…come on zombies, eat him. Eat him now!

I suspect I’d have a similar reaction to the new Survivor Netflix series.

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electrotek  Jul 11, 2015 8:17:06am

re: #158 darthstar

I love it when grifters grift their own.

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lol I went to high school with that Ali Akbar dude, hilarious

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:17:44am

‘Day Of The Triffids’ is essentially Zombie story, though using plants instead of the undead as the unstoppable menace.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 11, 2015 8:26:48am

Congratulations Serena!

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:27:28am

re: #175 Blind Frog Belly White

‘Day Of The Triffids’ is essentially Zombie story, though using plants instead of the undead as the unstoppable menace.

Now that’s something I can identify with. I have ivy invading my bedroom. I yank the crap out, pull as much as I can from under the deck, and a few weeks later I open the door and see the little tendrils sneaking in.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:28:13am

re: #176 #FergusonFireside

Congratulations Serena!

Yeah, twitter is all about her at the moment. Another win. #6. And I think she holds all four GS titles currently too.

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Targetpractice  Jul 11, 2015 8:28:54am

The World War Z film was two hours of Brad Pitt getting other people killed with his stupidity. The only thing that made seeing it even more insulting to me was finding out the original ending actually hewed closer to the original novel, was much darker, and would have portrayed the war as…well…a war.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2015 8:29:32am

heh:

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:33:03am

re: #171 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I did not mention that the movie sucks morbid zombie dick, assumed that was self evident…

A zombie dick sucking scene might have at least made it interesting…nobody’s tried that in film as far as I know. Anyway, I’m done ranting about zombie shows - honestly, I’m sure they’re very creative endeavors and the writers work very hard on making them believable. Just thought I’d try a different topic than mocking special needs people (Bush, Cruz, Trump) for a change.

I will say, if they ever do a zombie musical on Broadway I’d probably go see it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:33:13am

re: #177 darthstar

Now that’s something I can identify with. I have ivy invading my bedroom. I yank the crap out, pull as much as I can from under the deck, and a few weeks later I open the door and see the little tendrils sneaking in.

Goats. You gotta get goats.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 11, 2015 8:35:01am

re: #92 Dr Lizardo

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If he really does go third-party, and provided he doesn’t flake like Perot did, he could pull in about 10 to15% of the popular vote, I’d say, almost exclusively from older white voters. And that would be the death-knell for whomever the GOP candidate is.

Perot got 19% of the votes.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:35:24am

re: #180 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh:

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Rob has 22 followers and is closing in on 18,000 notifications on Twitter. I hope he had email notifications of mentions/favorites enabled.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:36:31am

re: #182 Blind Frog Belly White

Goats. You gotta get goats.

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Don’t tempt me. We’re zoned for animals.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:38:37am

Ouch

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:39:23am

Just noticed I had a letter ‘m’ in my web site field…sorry about the blue handle.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 8:39:28am

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

Perot got 19% of the votes.

I don’t know if Trump would get that high; his message is dramtically different than Perot’s. For instance, I don’t recall Perot screaming about INVADING RAPEY STABBY BROWN HORDES!! and whatnot. Perot’s themes were more economic than anything else.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Jul 11, 2015 8:40:28am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know if Trump would get that high; his message is dramtically different than Perot’s. For instance, I don’t recall Perot screaming about INVADING RAPEY STABBY BROWN HORDES!! and whatnot. Perot’s themes were more economic than anything else.

I don’t think that Trump will run as a third party. He’s crazy, bit not that crazy.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 11, 2015 8:40:35am

re: #178 darthstar

Yeah, twitter is all about her at the moment. Another win. #6. And I think she holds all four GS titles currently too.

I think she has a full Dinner set of Wimbledons. That’s a lot of soup.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:42:21am

Ooh…Clint likes the Donald…this is going to be good.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2015 8:42:49am

re: #183 Eventual Carrion

Perot got 19% of the votes.

I’m really hoping for something like Clinton/Bush/Trump 60/30/10. One can hope, right?

I think the GOP leadership is scared to death, and rightly so, that they can’t survive 16 years of Democratic administrations that see Health Care Reform and a gradual economic recovery from the disaster the Republicans caused in the first place.

It’s really stupid—if they hadn’t dug their heels in every way imaginable to delay the recovery, they could have engineered another recession just in time for the 2016 election. But no, they had to deny the black guy any success, however temporary.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 8:42:58am

re: #189 Iwouldprefernotto

I don’t think that Trump will run as a third party. He’s crazy, bit not that crazy.

You never know; Trump’s quite the megalomaniac, and megalomaniac’s are certainly one thing - unpredictable.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:44:37am

re: #192 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I’m really hoping for something like Clinton/Bush/Trump 60/30/10. One can hope, right?

I’m hoping it has a similar effectaffect(effect is a verb) on the House and Senate races.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:44:43am

re: #188 Dr Lizardo

I don’t know if Trump would get that high; his message is dramtically different than Perot’s. For instance, I don’t recall Perot screaming about INVADING RAPEY STABBY BROWN HORDES!! and whatnot. Perot’s themes were more economic than anything else.

Perot’s message was not primarily xenophobic, but you may recall that at that time, the GOP wasn’t as xenophobic, either. Hell, Reagan passed an actual amnesty bill.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 11, 2015 8:44:44am

re: #191 darthstar

Clint likes empty chairs. So no surprise he likes empty suits.

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2015 8:45:23am

re: #18 The War TARDIS

It’s all too easy to get grumpy over the Israel-Palestinian impasse. Totally understandable. I still believe that land swaps and figuring out the status of Jerusalem are the easy part - maps and land swaps have been done before, and can be done again.

The problem is that there’s no trust between Israeli leaders and Palestinian leaders. None. Without the right leaders on both sides, neither will move towards peace. They’ll stick to the ongoing conditions, as bad as they are.

The wildcard is that IS might challenge Hamas, which means that Hamas will be forced to either carry out attacks against Israel to fend off an even more extremist group or else they will backchannel some form of a deal with Israel - a detente of sorts - because they’d rather maintain power than see Israel totally crush IS and take out Hamas in the process. Watch Israel play the sides against each other, even though that hasn’t exactly worked out to Israel’s benefit in the past.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:45:36am

re: #191 darthstar

Ooh…Clint likes the Donald…this is going to be good.

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Can we look forward to another empty chair interview?

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2015 8:46:54am

re: #191 darthstar

They love the Trump of what time-period? The one that was all for a single payer system from a few years back, or the anti-immigrant, xenophobic/racist version of today? Or a melange of the two?

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lawhawk  Jul 11, 2015 8:47:18am

re: #198 Blind Frog Belly White

Can we look forward to another empty chair interview?

GOP debates in a nutshell, except that the candidates will be sitting in for the chair.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 8:47:22am

re: #198 Blind Frog Belly White

Can we look forward to another empty chair interview?

I think this time, Clint should interview Trump’s toupee.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:49:30am

re: #201 Dr Lizardo

I think this time, Clint should interview Trump’s toupee.

The funniest thing about that episode, to me anyway, was the wingnuts trying desperately to claim that not only wasn’t it embarrassingly, agonizingly weird, but that it was brilliant theater and a rousing success.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 8:49:30am

re: #198 Blind Frog Belly White

Can we look forward to another empty chair interview?

If Clint debates imaginary Obama again, he’ll lose…again.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2015 8:50:34am

re: #199 lawhawk

They love the Trump of what time-period? The one that was all for a single payer system from a few years back, or the anti-immigrant, xenophobic/racist version of today? Or a melange of the two?

The current Trump is just performance art. If by some incredible fluke they did manage to get Trump into the White House, I think his current supporters would be bitterly disappointed with how it turned out. I don’t think he gives a rat’s ass about forwarding any SoCon/Racist crap—just feeding his ego and his wallet.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 11, 2015 8:50:46am

Go ahead. Make my toupee.

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Bird in the Paw  Jul 11, 2015 8:52:39am

re: #105 freetoken

I just finished watching the last episode of PBS’ First Peoples. While I (pedantically) lament this or that about the series, this last episode (on Europe) drives home the point that the reason the Neanderthals became extinct (as a separate group of humans) is that the H. sapiens just overtook them by numbers, a higher population enabled by the ability to have cultural connections with more people than the Neanderthals had or

Did the show discuss the theory that an aspect of survival of H. sapiens over Neaderthals was the domestication/symbiosis with Wolves/pre-dogs?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2015 8:54:53am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 8:58:32am

re: #199 lawhawk

They love the Trump of what time-period? The one that was all for a single payer system from a few years back, or the anti-immigrant, xenophobic/racist version of today? Or a melange of the two?

Perhaps Trump could debate himself.

There’s more about Trump that reminds me of Perot, though - it’s the vague answers to questions about policy, that all rely on you accepting the notion that he’s really that good. ‘Clean out the barn’ and ‘giant sucking sound’ sounds good, but doesn’t convey any actual policy.

When Perot’s team had to actually put together his economic plan, it was loaded with tax increases - most notably a gas tax - and spending cuts - like reducing Social Security benefits. It would have been electoral, and economic poison.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:00:12am

Oh, for fuck’s sake…I only joked about zombies and Republicans…

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:01:25am
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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 11, 2015 9:01:54am

Trump’s toupee needs a name. I like Floppy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 9:02:28am

re: #211 JadeHelmCurious

Trump’s toupee needs a name. I like Floppy.

Yeah, but he already calls his dick that.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:03:05am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2015 9:04:31am

re: #212 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, but he already calls his dick that.

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bratwurst  Jul 11, 2015 9:04:55am

Best Trump related tweets so far today:

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:05:18am

re: #211 JadeHelmCurious

Trump’s toupee needs a name. I like Floppy.

The Trump Your Cat thing is cute. Brush some cat hair, make it into a toupee, and put it on your cat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2015 9:07:47am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 9:07:50am

re: #213 darthstar

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But what about Cleveland Amory?

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 11, 2015 9:09:22am

re: #216 darthstar

The Trump Your Cat thing is cute. Brush some cat hair, make it into a toupee, and put it on your cat.

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It’s all fun and games ‘til the cat bites you.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 9:09:26am

re: #216 darthstar

The Trump Your Cat thing is cute. Brush some cat hair, make it into a toupee, and put it on your cat.

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I look at Trump, and I remember the opening scene from “American Hustle”, with Christian Bale elaborately constructing his combover.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:11:50am

The smart brother.

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Targetpractice  Jul 11, 2015 9:12:13am

re: #219 Dark_Falcon

It’s all fun and games ‘til the cat bites you.

My cat doesn’t bite. He just quietly plots his revenge.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 9:12:43am

re: #220 Blind Frog Belly White

I look at Trump, and I remember the opening scene from “American Hustle”, with Christian Bale elaborately constructing his combover.

For those who’ve never seen American Hustle:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2015 9:13:02am
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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 11, 2015 9:13:45am

re: #221 darthstar

Use your small words.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 11, 2015 9:21:14am

I AM DESTROYER OF THREADS.

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2015 9:23:05am

re: #220 Blind Frog Belly White

I look at Trump, and I remember the opening scene from “American Hustle”, with Christian Bale elaborately constructing his combover.

He reminds me of this alien slug from Farscape:

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:23:25am

MIND. BLOWN.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:24:09am

re: #223 Dr Lizardo

For those who’ve never seen American Hustle:

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It’s a great movie. Definitely worth watching. Sadly, no zombies.

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2015 9:24:40am

re: #153 Great White Snark

I’m certain that lots of celebrities people that partied it up back in the Quaalude days saw this kind of thing happen. Like drunk driving in the 1950’s attitudes are much more conservative than back then. I’m very glad I was not into anything but marijuana back then. That drug came off the market for very good reason. Hell of a date rape drug, albeit with the consent to take it. How desperate and effed up do you have to be to be into unconscious sex partners? All ya can get? That’s not consenting adults.

There are thousands of Quaalude secret stories. And some of those women felt somewhat complicit just because they took the drug. So the reaction became tuck that incident way into the secret closet and move on. Damn shame.

I wrote something along this line of thinking late Thursday night after that story about the Runaways was posted here. I don’t think it was like to 50s and alcohol because I think we all knew what was going on. That does bot mean anyone was in control…just a conscience decision to get out of control.

Here is my comment from Thursday: Rape & The Times

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 9:26:44am

re: #182 Blind Frog Belly White

Goats. You gotta get goats.

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Little lambs eat ivy.

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bratwurst  Jul 11, 2015 9:27:12am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 9:27:50am

re: #229 darthstar

It’s a great movie. Definitely worth watching. Sadly, no zombies.

I look at the opening there with Bale in American Hustle and the contrast between that and our introduction to his Patrick Bateman character in American Psycho.

(note: may be NSFW ‘cuz it shows his ass for a quick second)

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wrenchwench  Jul 11, 2015 9:28:25am

re: #231 Decatur Deb

Little lambs eat ivy.

A kid’ll eat ivy too.

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TDG2112  Jul 11, 2015 9:29:18am

re: #59 TedStriker

I love Army of Darkness, and this looks a great way to revisit it.

But in general, I really detest the Zombie/Post Apocalypse craze that masquerades “sci-fi.” Is that really what people see as the future? Is that really what people are “looking forward” to? Where is the City of Tomorrow? The Car of Tomorrow? The Plane of Tomorrow? Where the hell is the notion that we are explorers and builders? That we are here to improve ourselves? Is it lost? Is that the fascination with Zombies? That people have given up hope in Tomorrow?

After I watched Zombie Land, I finally got it. It’s us against the world. The rest of the world/people in real life are faceless Zombies, and we have to overcome them. I don’t like looking at the world like that. Yeah, there are people out there trying to bring me down, but I don’t let that get in the way. I’d much rather work to make things better, than to obsess over how “everyone else” (the Zombies of the world) are trying to bring it down.

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2015 9:29:31am

re: #234 wrenchwench

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2015 9:32:04am

re: #199 lawhawk

They love the Trump of what time-period? The one that was all for a single payer system from a few years back, or the anti-immigrant, xenophobic/racist version of today? Or a melange of the two?

Yeah…that one!

/// Does it matter?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 9:33:20am

re: #234 wrenchwench

A kid’ll eat ivy too.

Yes, but only after they’ve eaten every other goddam bit of green in the yard!!!

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 9:34:44am

re: #236 jaunte

Good, good , good.

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wrenchwench  Jul 11, 2015 9:34:45am

re: #238 Blind Frog Belly White

Yes, but only after they’ve eaten every other goddam bit of green in the yard!!!

Shhhh! Trolling for oldster updings. It’s working!

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2015 9:35:54am

re: #216 darthstar

The Trump Your Cat thing is cute. Brush some cat hair, make it into a toupee, and put it on your cat.

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Upper right hand Trump Cat for the win!

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Timothy Watson  Jul 11, 2015 9:36:08am

re: #227 jaunte

He reminds me of this alien slug from Farscape:

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Hey now, I would prefer Dominar Rygel XVI to be President over Trump.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 9:37:30am

re: #242 Timothy Watson

Hey now, I would prefer Dominar Rygel XVI to be President over Trump.

He was kind of a dick at times, IIRC. OTOH, Trump is a COMPLETE dick ALL THE TIME.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 11, 2015 9:38:24am

re: #226 JadeHelmCurious

I thought I was the thread killer. Hmm. Do you want to co-author a book on thread killers? //

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Decatur Deb  Jul 11, 2015 9:39:53am

re: #240 wrenchwench

It’s Saturday. You get upding-and-a-half for the first eight threads.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:39:56am

re: #235 TDG2112

After I watched Zombie Land, I finally got it. It’s us against the world. The rest of the world/people in real life are faceless Zombies, and we have to overcome them. I don’t like looking at the world like that. Yeah, there are people out there trying to bring me down, but I don’t let that get in the way. I’d much rather work to make things better, than to obsess over how “everyone else” (the Zombies of the world) are trying to bring it down.

This is why I keep an abalone iron under the seat of my truck. Okay, it’s also good for banging on the starter and solenoid.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 11, 2015 9:41:38am

re: #60 Archangelus

The still pic on this video makes Ashe look like Mitt Romney.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 11, 2015 9:41:49am

re: #245 Decatur Deb

It’s Saturday. You get upding-and-a-half for the first eight threads.

With Six You Get Eggroll Upding.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 11, 2015 9:42:23am
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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2015 9:44:52am

re: #244 PhillyPretzel

I thought I was the thread killer. Hmm. Do you want to co-author a book on thread killers?

I dunno, but JadeHelmCurious sounds more mass thread killer than PhillyPretzel. It’s that three name thing…like John Wayne Gacy or Henry Lee Lucas.

Maybe PhillyPretzelDestroyer or something like that.

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Skip Intro  Jul 11, 2015 9:45:04am

After 8 years of this asshat, Jeb should be polling around 2%.

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2015 9:45:39am

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 11, 2015 9:46:29am

re: #153 Great White Snark

I’m certain that lots of celebrities people that partied it up back in the Quaalude days saw this kind of thing happen.

At the time, I had an acquaintance who was into ‘ludes. I wasn’t into them at all and he thought that they were marvelous. Anyway, I went over for a visit one Saturday afternoon and found him and a buddy in a darkened bedroom, ‘luded out and racing slot cars by the cars’ tiny little headlights. It took them around five minutes to put the cars back on the track and ten seconds for them to be off again.
Decided that Quaaludes weren’t for me.

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allegro  Jul 11, 2015 9:48:03am

re: #251 Skip Intro

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After 8 years of this asshat, Jeb should be polling around 2%.

That is the superior definition of tacky. Yet, the vets invited him and paid the fee. Can’t say who comes out looking worse in the deal.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 11, 2015 9:48:40am

re: #250 ObserverArt

I do not want to change my screen name.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:48:46am
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 11, 2015 9:49:47am

re: #256 darthstar

Isn’t that the ‘impossibly photogenic gorilla’ in Japan I’ve read about? Looks like him.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:51:09am
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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2015 9:53:44am

re: #255 PhillyPretzel

I do not want to change my screen name.

I understand. You’re a nice person not a serial thread killer!

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:53:57am

re: #257 Dr Lizardo

Isn’t that the ‘impossibly photogenic gorilla’ in Japan I’ve read about? Looks like him.

Yep…and he is photogenic.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 9:54:13am
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allegro  Jul 11, 2015 9:58:16am

I cannot tell you how much he reminds me of my late husband. LOL

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wrenchwench  Jul 11, 2015 10:03:01am

I need to follow 13 more tweeters to reach 666. Anybody here I’m not following? Or recommendations?

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Belafon  Jul 11, 2015 10:03:53am

re: #252 jaunte

“Built like a man” means “there’s no way a regular woman could be that successful.”

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 11, 2015 10:05:47am

re: #264 Belafon

“Built like a man” means “there’s no way a regular woman could be that successful.”

It means: “I get my idea of what women look like from The Women of WalMart.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 10:07:29am
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b_sharp  Jul 11, 2015 10:08:20am

re: #252 jaunte

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The main reasons for her success is talent, dedication, & practice, practice, practice.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 10:11:37am

Okay…time to put some clothes on and enjoy the day. Laterz.

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darthstar  Jul 11, 2015 10:12:07am

And yes, I have been naked this whole time. Isn’t everyone online?

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A Cranky One  Jul 11, 2015 10:14:09am

re: #269 darthstar

And yes, I have been naked this whole time. Isn’t everyone online?

Damn it, did I leave the webcam on again? Curses.

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2015 10:17:49am

re: #253 Higgs Boson’s Mate

At the time, I had an acquaintance who was into ‘ludes. I wasn’t into them at all and he thought that they were marvelous. Anyway, I went over for a visit one Saturday afternoon and found him and a buddy in a darkened bedroom, ‘luded out and racing slot cars by the cars’ tiny little headlights. It took them around five minutes to put the cars back on the track and ten seconds for them to be off again.
Decided that Quaaludes weren’t for me.

They were real popular around Columbus in the early 70s. At one time Whitehall, a small suburb east of downtown, was jokingly called the Soper Capital of America. The damn things were everywhere. And a lot of the college age women loved to party with the more mild ones like the Parke-Davis line as they could get drunk and fuzzy feeling without getting drunk and feeling like crap the next day.

The Ohio State University, CCAD the art school and the other smaller universities all had them available.

Crazy times. Looking back it is hard to believe they all hit the streets from major drug manufacturers in mass quantities. I still wonder how they got out to street level in such numbers. It was almost like they were shipped out of warehouses straight to dealers…no docs writing fake scripts.

And at the same time, speed (Amphetamine, Dexedrine) was all over too. Talk about problems. One night down, the next day up…and add in all the other activities like pot and alcohol and it is a wonder many of the late boomers made it through.

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Bird in the Paw  Jul 11, 2015 10:18:21am

re: #263 wrenchwench

I need to follow 13 more tweeters to reach 666. Anybody here I’m not following? Or recommendations?

You can follow me @Laneman42 - I will not overload your feed with … anything because I don’t tweet ;-)

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BeachDem  Jul 11, 2015 10:19:25am

re: #223 Dr Lizardo

For those who’ve never seen American Hustle:

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Good movie, but I was sad that they didn’t include the most colorful of the Abscam pols. Google “Capitol Steps” and you’ll see who and what I mean.

SmVucmV0dGUgaXMgc3RpbGwgYWxpdmUsIHdlbGwgYW5kIGZ1bm55IGFzIGhlbGwu

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jaunte  Jul 11, 2015 10:20:06am
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wrenchwench  Jul 11, 2015 10:20:13am

re: #272 Bird in the Paw

You can follow me @Laneman42 - I will not overload your feed with … anything because I don’t tweet ;-)

I increased your followers by 25%!

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b_sharp  Jul 11, 2015 10:21:28am

re: #275 wrenchwench

I increased your followers by 25%!

I got ripped off. I only increased it by 20%.

Edit: The numbers are wrong here.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 11, 2015 10:21:44am

re: #264 Belafon

“Built like a man” means “there’s no way a regular woman could be that successful.”

It also means the english soccer fan is probably angry at women because they don’ t give him any attention. Maybe if he wasn’t a dick?

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b_sharp  Jul 11, 2015 10:22:04am

re: #275 wrenchwench

I increased your followers by 25%!

No, actually you increased it by 33% and I increased it by 25%.

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wrenchwench  Jul 11, 2015 10:24:51am

OMG! Diversity hits the whitest sport on the planet!

He should be proud. Teklehaimanot is the first black man to wear a leader’s jersey in the Tour de France, and he rides on first African team ever to compete there, MTN-Qhubeka Qhubeka is a word used by the Nguni people of southern Africa, meaning “carry on” or “move forward.”

He’s not the first black cyclist to make a splash, but the first of this generation. That I know of. I don’t follow the sport that closely.

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Jenner7  Jul 11, 2015 10:25:36am

re: #252 jaunte

Serena is fine and fierce. Been a fan of hers since she started playing professionally. I loved watching her play Hingis.

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wrenchwench  Jul 11, 2015 10:26:17am

re: #278 b_sharp

No, actually you increased it by 33% and I increased it by 25%.

I could use someone to hang around and do the math for me. Or I could get better acquainted with my calculator.

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Bird in the Paw  Jul 11, 2015 10:27:40am

re: #278 b_sharp

No, actually you increased it by 33% and I increased it by 25%.

The same fun with numbers allows fair tax scammers to fudge to push regressive taxes.

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b_sharp  Jul 11, 2015 10:31:28am

re: #281 wrenchwench

I could use someone to hang around and do the math for me. Or I could get better acquainted with my calculator.

A calculator wouldn’t have helped. It was a concept problem, not a number problem.

You calculated your contribution from the final number not the initial number. I’m sure it was just a mental slip on your part. (And mine initially)

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ObserverArt  Jul 11, 2015 10:33:06am

Serena Williams is somewhat like LeBron James in that they are athletic specimens and probably could play a lot of different sports and excel at them.

And, I’d pay money to watch some of the idiots that are calling Serena out as “not being a woman” do it to her face. I bet she could kick some of their lame asses big time.

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wrenchwench  Jul 11, 2015 10:34:51am

re: #283 b_sharp

A calculator wouldn’t have helped. It was a concept problem, not a number problem.

You calculated your contribution from the final number not the initial number. I’m sure it was just a mental slip on your part. (And mine initially)

Then I definitely need help. PT for the brain.

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William Lewis  Jul 11, 2015 11:34:17am

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

The big difference is that Germany did and still does have great deal more inherent power than does Greece. Germany had been temporarily brought to its knees by blockade and defeat in war. But Germany could and did recover its strength. 17 years after France marched troops into the Ruhr in 1923 and Germany’s financial system collapsed, Germany invaded France and smashed the French army thoroughly.

There is no way Greece could do such a thing to Germany.

Even then, as shown by Adam Tooze in “The Wages of Destruction” the Germans had no possibility of winning. Their economy was too small, the had insufficient industry and insufficient natural resources. If that was the case for Germany, Greece is even less likely to be able to do anything but murder it’s own again as it did under the Colonels Junta.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 11, 2015 12:02:01pm

re: #253 Higgs Boson’s Mate

At the time, I had an acquaintance who was into ‘ludes. I wasn’t into them at all and he thought that they were marvelous. Anyway, I went over for a visit one Saturday afternoon and found him and a buddy in a darkened bedroom, ‘luded out and racing slot cars by the cars’ tiny little headlights. It took them around five minutes to put the cars back on the track and ten seconds for them to be off again.
Decided that Quaaludes weren’t for me.

I think I treid them once and did not understand what was so great about being oblivious.

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CleverToad  Jul 11, 2015 6:01:58pm

re: #256 darthstar

“Man descended, the ornery cuss,
But brother, he didn’t descend from us!”


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