Overnight Jam: Mad Satta, “Reach Out”

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Joanna Teters is the singer for Drew Ofthe Drew, whose video I posted a few days ago, and this is another great band she sings for. Really cool to see young musicians bringing funk and R&B traditions into the modern age.

Official music video for “Reach Out” by Mad Satta, from their album “Comfort”.
Available at http://madsatta.bandcamp.com/

DIRECTED BY
Luke Carr
PHOTOGRAPHY
Lucas McGowen
Will Croxton
HAIR
Kate Caretta
MAKEUP
Annie O’Brien
PA
Marcus Stewart

SPECIAL THANKS
Robin Harbour
Sean Nichols
Harrison Jaffee
Dan Normile

Original song by Zane West
Performed by Mad Satta

MAD SATTA:
Joanna Teters- vox
Ben Carr- bass
Ted Morcaldi- guitar
Zane West- drums
Kevin Theodore- keyboard
Eric Zeiser- trumpet
Collin Wade- alto saxophone
Jason Fitch- tenor saxophone

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Filmed in Brooklyn and Queens, New York, Summer 2013

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319 comments
1
austin_blue  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:14:20pm

Immediately off-topic from the previous thread (I consider this acceptable for the overnight jams):

Dammit, logged on late and missed the fireworks.

Good baseball game, though.

A flounce? A troll? Fill me in, please?

2
Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:15:04pm

Well I’m off to bed Lizard folk…but sadly I think this Planned Parenthood thing has a few days of life left in it.

3
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:16:59pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Immediately off-topic from the previous thread (I consider this acceptable for the overnight jams):

Dammit, logged on late and missed the fireworks.

Good baseball game, though.

A flounce? A troll? Fill me in, please?

Dire Straits (a user, not the band) was insulting Charles, Alouette and The War TARDIS, but mostly Charles. Something to do with the Iran deal and latent hostility toward anyone associated with LGF.

4
A Cranky One  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:18:15pm

re: #1 austin_blue

Immediately off-topic from the previous thread (I consider this acceptable for the overnight jams):

Dammit, logged on late and missed the fireworks.

Good baseball game, though.

A flounce? A troll? Fill me in, please?

Basically just called our host and several lizards poopyheads.

I’ve heard more interesting insults and arguments from 3 year olds.

5
jaunte  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:18:36pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:20:10pm

Reposted from downstairs…

Update on Dryer Balls: Mrs. FBW excoriated me for linking to GENERIC wool dryer balls, and insists I post this link.

Chastened, I do so now….

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:21:05pm

re: #5 jaunte

[Embedded content]

“A cock on a rope, what have I here?
“This is my dong-dangler, my Mama dear!”

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:22:09pm

re: #1 austin_blue

A flounce? A troll? Fill me in, please?

Not even worth grilling. Very gamey meat. You didn’t miss much.

This is the guts of what troll said, “Charles is fat and washed up. LGF readers are a bunch of robots. Since you support the Iran deal you’re all a bunch of anti semitics.” Went on for a good dozen comments or so. Totally uninspired.

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freetoken  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:23:50pm

re: #1 austin_blue

A flounce? A troll? Fill me in, please?

MP3 Audio

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A Cranky One  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:24:42pm

re: #8 teleskiguy

Still seems to be logged in on the last thread. Can’t even flounce correctly.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:25:44pm
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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:26:11pm

Joanna Teters has got some pipes, man!

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Jenner7  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:26:42pm

I missed the action too. I went and saw Minions with hubby and kiddos. It was pretty funny, especially when most of it is in gibberish.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:27:00pm

OT, but the @RonReaganLives Twitter account has been relatively quiet since it was accused of fronting for Chuck C Johnson. Only retweets there mostly.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:29:17pm

On topic, that’s the NYC subway she’s riding in the video.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:29:47pm

re: #14 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

His lone original tweet today.

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WhatEVs  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:31:07pm

re: #13 Jenner7

I missed the action too. I went and saw Minions with hubby and kiddos. It was pretty funny, especially when most of it is in gibberish.

Oh goody!! I want to see it. Glad to hear a good “review”!

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BeachDem  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:31:09pm

re: #3 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Wheat-dogg—in case you’re still maintaining the dossier and missed this, a repeat:

littlegreenfootballs.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:32:02pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

His lone original tweet today.

Now, you see, Chuck often used the word “friend” in tweets replying to his detractors. If RRL starts calling people “honey” then we’ll know it’s CCJ.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:33:22pm

re: #18 BeachDem

Wheat-dogg—in case you’re still maintaining the dossier and missed this, a repeat:

littlegreenfootballs.com

Yeah, I missed that one. I’ll add to the dossier, which has been lying fallow since Chuck lost his Twitter bullhorn.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:35:48pm
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jaunte  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:36:37pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

He does have all the rest of the Bond villain panoply in place.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:37:46pm

re: #22 jaunte

He does have all the rest of the Bond villain panoply in place.

Instead of the fluffy kitty, he has his hair thing.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:39:09pm

re: #6 Blind Frog Belly White

Reposted from downstairs…

Update on Dryer Balls: Mrs. FBW excoriated me for linking to GENERIC wool dryer balls, and insists I post this link.

Chastened, I do so now….

I had dryer balls for much of the Seventies because all the big American cars back then had an air conditioning vent right under the steering column.

25
Lancelot Link  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:42:34pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

That’s pretty ironic, considering Nancy Reagan supports embryonic stem cell research.

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BeachDem  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:43:16pm

re: #20 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yeah, I missed that one. I’ll add to the dossier, which has been lying fallow since Chuck lost his Twitter bullhorn.

Even with all his self-congratulatory bloviating, I’d never heard him mention working at a Christian center for abused women (and how did he meet all those pimps there? Usually, abused women don’t bring their pimps to the shelters.)

Edited to add: Don’t miss this one about when he tried out for Jeopardy.

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Cheechako  Jul 14, 2015 • 9:59:58pm

One more dryer sheet use. An unused dryer sheet makes an excellent mosquito repellent. Just pin one to your hat and no more mosquitos, gnats, or no see’ums, buzzing around your head.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:08:20pm

I wonder when this Onion article from four years ago will start being passed around conservative circles as legitimate.

TOPEKA, KS—Planned Parenthood announced Tuesday the grand opening of its long-planned $8 billion Abortionplex, a sprawling abortion facility that will allow the organization to terminate unborn lives with an efficiency never before thought possible.

During a press conference, Planned Parenthood president Cecile Richards told reporters that the new state-of-the-art fetus-killing facility located in the nation’s heartland offers quick, easy, in-and-out abortions to all women, and represents a bold reinvention of the group’s long-standing mission and values.

“Although we’ve traditionally dedicated 97 percent of our resources to other important services such as contraception distribution, cancer screening, and STD testing, this new complex allows us to devote our full attention to what has always been our true passion: abortion,” said Richards, standing under a banner emblazoned with Planned Parenthood’s new slogan, “No Life Is Sacred.” “And since Congress voted to retain our federal funding, it’s going to be that much easier for us to maximize the number of tiny, beating hearts we stop every day.”

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:09:47pm

I see we had an idiot in the previous thread, but not any more.

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jaunte  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:10:51pm

re: #29 Charles Johnson

The struggle chicken of would-be trolls.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:14:34pm

Windows 7 now downloading 21 updates. Did I fall behind, or something?

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:14:35pm

We used to have some doozy trolls we could grill up and wind up and grill some more.

This troll was pathetic.

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Single-handed sailor  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:16:14pm

re: #31 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Windows 7 now downloading 21 updates. Did I fall behind, or something?

Just Update Tuesday.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:17:47pm

re: #33 Single-handed sailor

Just Update Tuesday.

Ah. Yeah. It’s Wednesday here, Tuesday in Redmond.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:18:36pm

Saw this earlier.

I tend to agree with Lou here.

Lou Dawson writes a backcountry skiing blog, wildsnow.com He’s the first person to ski all of the 14,000 ft. peaks in Colorado.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:19:10pm

I think that was ‘Rodan,’ by the way.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:23:23pm

re: #35 teleskiguy

Saw this earlier.

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I tend to agree with Lou here.

Lou Dawson writes a backcountry skiing blog, wildsnow.com He’s the first person to ski all of the 14,000 ft. peaks in Colorado.

I’ve been saying this for years too. Flash is ugly and it wants to die.

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Jenner7  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:33:11pm

Ugh, I really need to stop reading comments on this PP story. With every one I read, I get more angry.

One was “how can this women eat her lunch and casually talk about crushing baby heads?”

Sigh.

I have to wonder about people who mourn dead fetuses and ignore the plight of millions of living children in this world.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:36:49pm

re: #38 Jenner7

Ugh, I really need to stop reading comments on this PP story. With every one I read, I get more angry.

One was “how can this women eat her lunch and casually talk about crushing baby heads?”

Sigh.

I have to wonder about people who mourn dead fetuses and ignore the plight of millions of living children in this world.

And the fetuses are not really babies, as they are not fully formed. These people use “baby” to create the image of an adorable, cooing, fully formed infant in the crib. Such a creature does not exist during the first 20 weeks in utero

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:38:10pm

re: #38 Jenner7

And by ‘today’ I mean never.

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teleskiguy  Jul 14, 2015 • 10:41:02pm

ONE OF MAH SENATORS IS A RINO SQUISH!!!11 HALF THE REPUBLICANZ IZ DEMOCRAT AND HALF THE DEMOCRATS AR COMMUNIST!!!!111

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 12:42:01am

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 12:43:18am

That was a very young Buddy Rich on drums, I believe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 2:42:52am

re: #43 freetoken

That was a very young Buddy Rich on drums, I believe.

ah, to be young and rich…

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 15, 2015 • 3:15:29am

re: #21 teleskiguy

Nah. If Trump had atomic weapons he’d have used them by now.

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RadicalModerate  Jul 15, 2015 • 3:26:26am

Here we go again. North Texas and racist idiocy just seem to go hand-in-hand lately.

Collin County Residents Condemn Proposal For Muslim Cemetery

FARMERSVILLE (cbsdfw.com) - A proposal for a cemetery operated by the Islamic Association of Collin County was greeted with fear and condemnation in Collin County. People are in an uproar.

“We used to grow onions here. We sure enough don’t want to be growing bodies,” said Farmersville resident Mont Hendrick.

But if the undeveloped land off highway 380 becomes a Muslim cemetery, Hendrick and fellow resident Troy Gosnell will have a major problem with it.

“This is not a money maker for the city of Farmersville. It doesn’t conform,” said Gosnell.

It has generated opposition from people who don’t want Muslims in the small town of 3000. Some residents even question how they bury their dead.

“When somebody dies they bury them at that time. They don’t know whether they were shot, diseased or anything else. All they do is wrap them in a sheet from the grave and bury them,” said Gosnell.

Concerns were raised that the Muslim burial practice could impact the town’s drinking water.
[…]
Farmersville city council members didn’t even discuss the cemetery Tuesday night since it isn’t ready for a vote. But residents have organized and some are making threats to keep it from being approved. Some are threatening to dump pigs blood and put pigs heads on a post so Muslims won’t buy the land.

For those of you who don’t know the area, this is about 10 miles north of Garland, where Pamela Geller staged her “draw Muhammad” hatefest and 5 miles east of McKinney, site of the recent incident of a power-tripping cop assaulting a 15-year old African-American girl at a pool party.

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aagcobb  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:22:19am

Speaking of Trump, today he has said he will file his financial disclosure form, which a lot of people assumed he would never do. Looks like he is serious about continuing with his new reality TV show, The Candidate! If he really does file, I don’t see any way Fox or the RNC can keep him off the debate stage, which will make the GOP debate must see tv.

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darthstar  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:26:08am
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darthstar  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:26:31am

That’s funny.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:34:11am
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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:37:37am

re: #47 aagcobb

Trump suggested in PHX that he’d file on Thursday.

We’ll see.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:42:00am

Wow what happened last night while I was asleep, I missed the party.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:45:51am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:48:16am

The Insane Rage Swarm on Teh Twitters is getting their torches pitchforks & rope to lynch this AP reporter==>

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:52:06am

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

The Insane Rage Swarm on Teh Twitters is getting their torches pitchforks & rope to lynch this AP reporter==>

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What about it has their knickers in a twist? I mean besides reality not mirroring their fantasies?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:54:23am

re: #55 Targetpractice

What about it has their knickers in a twist? I mean besides reality not mirroring their fantasies?

Basically the article says PP did nothing wrong and Dana haz teh sads that she can’t schedule a fake ‘borshun and then whip out her GUNZ

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:56:12am

re: #56 The Vicious Babushka

Basically the article says PP did nothing wrong and Dana haz teh sads that she can’t schedule a fake ‘borshun and then whip out her GUNZ

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I’m still getting a kick out of this. If this is really a black market deal, one which I assume the wingnuts think is a major source of income for PP, then why sell tissue for $30-$100 bucks? Why aren’t they charging five figures or above per gram or similar?

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:56:50am

Caught Tuesday morning here and throughout the net was the OK GOP Facebook posting using the often tweeted idiotic comparison of food stamp recipients to zoo animals.

Heated reaction to OKGOP Facebook post

[…]

The Oklahoma GOP posted an apology this afternoon.

“It read in part….this post was supposed to be an analogy that compared two situations illustrating the cycle of government dependency in America, not humans as animals.

“We believe that ‘free market principles are the best to stimulate our economic development rather than government subsidies or programs’ and I was doing my best to echo that view.

Again, I apologize for any misconceptions that were created.”

The apology was made by the party chair, Randy Brogdon.

[…]

We’ve posted here before (and here, and see Charles keypost here) about Brodgon - he’s quite the theocrat.

So I went over to Facebook to check out the “apology”:

Last night, there was a post on our OKGOP Facebook page, and it was misinterpreted by many. I offer my apologies for those who were offended - that was not my intention.

This post was supposed to be an analogy that compared two situations illustrating the cycle of government dependency in America, not humans as animals.

However I do think that it’s important to have conversations about government welfare programs since our dependency on government is at its highest level ever.

Quoting President Reagan, “We should measure welfare’s success by how many people leave welfare, not by how many are added.”

As read in our Oklahoma Republican Statement of Principles, we believe that “free market principles are the best to stimulate our economic development rather than government subsidies or programs” and I was doing my best to echo that view.

Again, I apologize for any misconceptions that were created.

-Randy

Essentially he’s saying he still believes what his Facebook post said, just that it was the readers who misinterpreted it.

Even though it was a graphic that’s been on twitter a zillion times and pointed out what the graphic really said.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 4:59:13am

re: #57 Targetpractice

I’m still getting a kick out of this. If this is really a black market deal, one which I assume the wingnuts think is a major source of income for PP, then why sell tissue for $30-$100 bucks? Why aren’t they charging five figures or above per gram or similar?

Let Dana ‘splain it for u

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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:00:04am

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

Let Dana ‘splain it for u

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If it was so illegal then why is that company still in business?

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:01:41am

There’s a small hitch in Dana’s crusade, one I’m sure anybody with a modicum of sense could tell her: In order to charge PP with selling fetal tissue in violation of the law, they’d actually have to catch them in the act or find evidence (financial records, signed agreements, etc) that such sales had been done. A conversation where a woman quotes a price that could just as easily fit the price range for priority shipping costs on living tissue is not that evidence.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:02:17am

re: #60 Timothy Watson

If it was so illegal then why is that company still in business?

HURR HURR TEH VIDEO CAUGHT THEM RED HANDED LITERALLY!!!! PROVE IT NOT TRUE!!!! TEH VIDEO SHOWS ALL!!!!!!

Wingnuts will be rioting in the streets over this video. Just like Benghazi.

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:02:48am

The PP video really is playing well in the religious right crowd, with the usual lack of critical thinking about the source and what the real story is.

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:03:55am

Still, to see how many people lap up what the DailyCaller or Breitbart dishes out, as if they are legitimate news sources, is really sad.

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:04:24am

re: #63 freetoken

The PP video really is playing well in the religious right crowd, with the usual lack of critical thinking about the source and what the real story is.

It’s because the religious right approve of the source and don’t care for the real story if the one they’ve concocted can assist in achieving their aim.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:08:24am

Even fellow wingnuts admit there was no violation of the law (link donotlinked):
THE SALE OF FETAL BODY PARTS IS GRUESOME—BUT IT’S ALSO LEGAL

See also, CNS:
No Federal Law Broken In Sale of Fetal Body Parts, US Attorney Says

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:13:04am

re: #65 Targetpractice

It’s because the religious right approve of the source and don’t care for the real story if the one they’ve concocted can assist in achieving their aim.

Who needs evidence when you have Truth™?

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:13:28am

Ah, yes, Texas, a never ending source of derp stories:

Texas Republican: Democrats must ‘apologize now’ for their Confederate flag or ‘shut up’

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:13:54am

re: #66 Timothy Watson

Even fellow wingnuts admit there was no violation of the law (link donotlinked):
THE SALE OF FETAL BODY PARTS IS GRUESOME—BUT IT’S ALSO LEGAL

See also, CNS:
No Federal Law Broken In Sale of Fetal Body Parts, US Attorney Says

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Really, this is a fight I’m not sure the GOP wants to be taking on in an election year. Do they really want to hand Hillary the female vote on a silver platter by making not only their crusade against abortion, but Planned Parenthood as a whole, into a campaign issue? Does the name “Todd Akin” ring any bells in those decayed ruins called their heads?

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:15:31am

re: #66 Timothy Watson

Even fellow wingnuts admit there was no violation of the law (link donotlinked):
THE SALE OF FETAL BODY PARTS IS GRUESOME—BUT IT’S ALSO LEGAL

See also, CNS:
No Federal Law Broken In Sale of Fetal Body Parts, US Attorney Says

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Snort. Even when they don’t agree with their fellow wingnuts they still believe the horseshit being peddled.

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:15:54am

re: #68 freetoken

Ah, yes, Texas, a never ending source of derp stories:

Texas Republican: Democrats must ‘apologize now’ for their Confederate flag or ‘shut up’

“This flag is a Democrat flag and they bear responsibility for it…but it’s also a symbol of Southern heritage and there’s nothing negative about it!”

Don’t you love it when Republicans talk out of both sides of their ass?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:16:40am

re: #68 freetoken

Ah, yes, Texas, a never ending source of derp stories:

Texas Republican: Democrats must ‘apologize now’ for their Confederate flag or ‘shut up’

Talking points is talking points.

Democrats = party of slaveholders

Republicans = party of Lincoln

any further political and social developments since 1860 will be ignored or glossed over.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:23:38am

If the Confederate rag is a “Democrat Flag”, why are so many conservatives furious that they flag is coming down? Moreover, why is the rag only proudly displayed in deep, red, conservative states?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:24:37am

re: #73 Dr. Matt

If the Confederate rag is a “Democrat Flag”, why are so many conservatives furious that they flag is coming down? Moreover, why is the rag only proudly displayed in deep, red, conservative states?

As we have seen, it is also flown with pride by ignorant bigots north of the Mason-Dixon line.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:30:16am

re: #74 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

As we have seen, it is also flown with pride by ignorant bigots north of the Mason-Dixon line.

It doesn’t change the fact that conservatives and red states proudly display it as State symbols. It doesn’t change the fact that conservatives in red states are having confederate rag parades. It doesn’t change the fact that conservatives in red states are making the biggest fuss about it.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:31:58am

LOL. “Both sides do it” argument. For fuck’s sake.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:38:01am

re: #75 Dr. Matt

It doesn’t change the fact that conservatives and red states proudly display it as State symbols. It doesn’t change the fact that conservatives in red states are having confederate rag parades. It doesn’t change the fact that conservatives in red states are making the biggest fuss about it.

and it pisses off libruls, which was their original motivation in returning it to their state legislatures in the 1960’s

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:39:31am

The deep reproach of the religious right to a modern understanding of being human has many dimensions, but at the heart (pun intended, see below) of it is that the reality of our being a collection of cells working together in a giant colony is just not magical enough for the religious-thought.

As much as they might rend their garments over body parts, the physical reality remains that cells are just cells.

What makes a human a “person”, given what we know today, is that a person is capable of (even rudimentary) cognition. Body parts can always be replaced. What makes a “person” unique is their unique experiences that then become memory and an identity. ( I furthermore take a more holistic approach, since I think as a giant colony of trillions of cells that the entire person is not just the cerebrum but all of the storage units of sensory data in the body, but that is something for another discussion.)

Anyway, now to the news:

Scientists create ‘mini hearts’ from stem cells

Scientists have developed beating heart tissue from stem cells, an advance that could help screen for drugs likely to generate cardiac birth defects and guide decisions about which drugs are dangerous during pregnancy.

University of California Berkeley researchers, in collaboration with scientists at the Gladstone Institutes, have developed a template for growing beating cardiac tissue from stem cells, creating a system that could serve as a model for early heart development and as a drug-screening tool to make pregnancies safer.

[…]

The scientists mimicked human tissue formation by starting with stem cells genetically reprogrammed from adult skin tissue to form small chambers with beating human heart cells.

[…]

The Nature Communications letter: nature.com

Now it is not a new thing to grow heart tissue from stem cells, but apparently this innovation makes for a better way to create beating hearts for lab study.

Also, it shows that one can take skin cell and make it think it wants to grow into a heart.

I bring this case to light here because the heart, as an organ, is one of the body parts to which religious people in the past have ascribed special properties.

But a heart is just a colony of cells. And those cells can be made from other kinds of cells.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:44:33am

re: #78 freetoken

…the reality of our being a collection of cells working together in a giant colony is just not magical enough for the religious-thought.

There was a Louis CK sketch about heaven and he points out that God must be really annoyed that we are not amazed enough at the wondrous, glorious, infinite universe he is created for us, we are demanding something better

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:47:25am

re: #64 freetoken

Still, to see how many people lap up what the DailyCaller or Breitbart dishes out, as if they are legitimate news sources, is really sad.

Even sadder, they are trained to believe standard media sources, like CNN, NYTimes, WashPost, etc. are LYING TO US!!!!!

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:47:36am

In a related development Tuesday, a new federal audit suggested that Border Patrol agents and Customs and Border Protection officers may have illegally deported thousands of unaccompanied Mexican children under 14 years old over the past five years.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:48:29am

LOL==>

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 15, 2015 • 5:51:49am

re: #82 The Vicious Babushka

Be still, my beating heart

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:01:40am

re: #81 wrenchwench

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The GAO report said, rather diplomatically, that agents “made inconsistent screening decisions, had varying levels of awareness about … screening criteria, and did not consistently document the rationales for their decisions.”

Even when agents document them, their rationales can be troublesome. Earlier this year, the American Immigration Lawyers Association challenged separate incidents in which Border Patrol agents wrote that children told them they had crossed the border to look for work. In two separate cases, the child who allegedly said this was 3 years old. In another, the child was 11 days old.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:02:23am

The New Horizons team has a social media hashtag, #PlutoTime, coupled with an online app to find when local conditions approximate the lighting on Pluto’s surface. For me today, that was 7:44 pm, and here’s my photo.

Jishou University campus, PlutoTime conditions, 19:44

Forgot all the photo-nerd stuff. Nikon D3300, Nikkor 18-55 VR lens at 26mm, ASA 400, 1/20 sec at f/4. Five shots stitched together with Microsoft Image Composite Editor.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:04:18am

re: #84 wrenchwench

Those Mexican kids are prodigies — speaking at 11 days and giving interviews at 3 yoa. Why are we sending them back?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:05:25am

re: #66 Timothy Watson

Even fellow wingnuts admit there was no violation of the law (link donotlinked):
THE SALE OF FETAL BODY PARTS IS GRUESOME—BUT IT’S ALSO LEGAL

See also, CNS:
No Federal Law Broken In Sale of Fetal Body Parts, US Attorney Says

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Hurr hurr we still wants Investigation and Defund PP.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:06:59am

re: #61 Targetpractice

There’s a small hitch in Dana’s crusade, one I’m sure anybody with a modicum of sense could tell her: In order to charge PP with selling fetal tissue in violation of the law, they’d actually have to catch them in the act or find evidence (financial records, signed agreements, etc) that such sales had been done. A conversation where a woman quotes a price that could just as easily fit the price range for priority shipping costs on living tissue is not that evidence.

Hurr hurr we haz video PROOF right thare on the video tape!!!11

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:07:45am

Some cell colonies a bit funkier than others:

Volcanic discoveries create Sydney’s hottest new suburb

Image: deep-sea-fish.jpg

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:07:53am

re: #87 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Hurr hurr we still wants Investigation and Defund PP.

This sort of approach worked in shutting down Acorn and Shirley Sherrod, time to use it against Slut Services Unlimited, aka Planned Parenthood

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:08:39am

re: #59 The Vicious Babushka

Let Dana ‘splain it for u

Really appreciate Dana’s link there to the source of her statement.

/

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:11:19am

re: #86 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Those Mexican kids are prodigies — speaking at 11 days and giving interviews at 3 yoa. Why are we sending them back?

Trump was right— they’re smarter than us! //

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:13:23am

She joined twitter the day she was born. We have a chance!

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Decatur Deb  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:13:30am

Colbert takes on Tyson to defend the honor of Pluto. Watch your ear, Stephen.

entertainthis.usatoday.com

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Great White Snark  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:14:00am

Anyone see the just released video of an unarmed kid getting shot by police in Redondo Beach? Federal judge ordered the video released. I can’t find a link that works, seem to all be flash.

latimes.com

What makes these guys so likely to shoot before a weapon or threat is visible?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:14:49am

re: #90 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This sort of approach worked in shutting down Acorn and Shirley Sherrod, time to use it against Slut Services Unlimited, aka Planned Parenthood

Yeah, the alleged “selling” of organs and such is a secondary matter for the people behind the video. They probably don’t care much whether they can “prove” anything illegal or not. It has more to do with what Target Practice mentioned yesterday, that being the PR part of this, get somebody from PP on video saying icky things, get the GOP candidates to denounce PP, etc.

In addition, it provides the OUTRAGE!! necessary to keep the wingnut welfare dollars flowing.

But for the life of me, can’t understand how PP isn’t more careful about these things. They know they’re a target, and they should have a pretty good idea who these people are they’re being interviewed by, not give interviews with people purporting to be from XYZ organization, some outfit they don’t know, since presumably it doesn’t exist.

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:17:36am

re: #94 Decatur Deb

Colbert takes on Tyson to defend the honor of Pluto. Watch your ear, Stephen.

entertainthis.usatoday.com

Not THAT Tyson!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:17:51am

re: #96 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Yeah, the alleged “selling” of organs and such is a secondary matter for the people behind the video. They probably don’t care much whether they can “prove” anything illegal or not. It has more to do with what Target Practice mentioned yesterday, that being the PR part of this, get somebody from PP on video saying icky things, get the GOP candidates to denounce PP, etc.

In addition, it provides the OUTRAGE!! necessary to keep the wingnut welfare dollars flowing.

But for the life of me, can’t understand how PP isn’t more careful about these things. They know they’re a target, and they should have a pretty good idea who these people are they’re being interviewed by, not give interviews with people purporting to be from XYZ organization, some outfit they don’t know, since presumably it doesn’t exist.

If I were the PR director of any organization likely to be targeted by the RWNJs, I’d circulate mug shots of O’Keefe and his accomplices to every office with the warning “do not engage.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:21:11am

Frenzied mob is in a frenzy

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:21:54am

re: #96 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

But for the life of me, can’t understand how PP isn’t more careful about these things. They know they’re a target, and they should have a pretty good idea who these people are they’re being interviewed by, not give interviews with people purporting to be from XYZ organization, some outfit they don’t know, since presumably it doesn’t exist.

Just because you are doing nothing wrong, it does not mean that people are not out to get you.

Unfortunately, these people to not eat a big bowl of paranoia every morning with their breakfast cereal.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:22:12am
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Decatur Deb  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:24:02am

re: #97 wrenchwench

Not THAT Tyson!

NDG needs moar tattoos.

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:24:36am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:25:03am

re: #101 The Vicious Babushka

Deceptive edits in the Planned Parenthood video.

preaching to the choir here, unfortunately. anti PP activists see it as justified to lie bare the “deeper truth” about what they are perceived to do

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:25:39am

As we learned from the ACORN fiasco, it doesn’t matter what the truth is, the anti-choice crowd will just drown out those telling the truth with their screams for “something” to be done. I reiterate that I don’t think the GOP, or at least the leadership, really wants to have this fight in the middle of an election year. We’re just a few weeks away from the first debates, do they really want to draw questions about whether a Republican candidate would defund PP or further strangle abortion access if elected?

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Great White Snark  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:26:17am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:27:02am

re: #103 wrenchwench

yes, and it does mirror the sort of thinking that we pay our Preisdent to engage in. which is why we cannot afford to elect a doctrinaire, ideologically blindered simpleton to do that job

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:29:15am

re: #105 Targetpractice

As we learned from the ACORN fiasco, it doesn’t matter what the truth is, the anti-choice crowd will just drown out those telling the truth with their screams for “something” to be done. I reiterate that I don’t think the GOP, or at least the leadership, really wants to have this fight in the middle of an election year. We’re just a few weeks away from the first debates, do they really want to draw questions about whether a Republican candidate would defund PP or further strangle abortion access if elected?

Debates = time to pander to the base

Later/later = deal with the consequences.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:29:55am

re: #100 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Just because you are doing nothing wrong, it does not mean that people are not out to get you.

Unfortunately, these people to not eat a big bowl of paranoia every morning with their breakfast cereal.

When we registered voters in Tampa, Gainsville and little N. FL towns there was a bitter battle over voting rights, discarded registrations, and felonies. Even though we were out-of-state volunteers, none of the OFA shops we worked for gave us any warning on avoiding O’Keefish entrapment shit. A little paranoia helps.

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:31:50am

Everybody loves a cyclist:

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:33:02am

re: #101 The Vicious Babushka

My surprise face.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:33:54am

Dryer sheets coat your towels with something that makes them dry less effectively. Try a cup of vinegar in the rinse cycle instead for fluffy towels.

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:34:10am

re: #108 wrenchwench

Debates = time to pander to the base

Later/later = deal with the consequences.

Thing is, as we learned in the last two election seasons, primary debate remarks make excellent campaign ad fodder for the opposing party. Any candidate who comes out in favor of defunding PP or adding new restrictions on abortion are going to find themselves bombarded with ads next fall depicting them as wanting to take choice away from women.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:35:17am

re: #104 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

preaching to the choir here, unfortunately. anti PP activists see it as justified to lie bare the “deeper truth” about what they are perceived to do

The rage machine is so loud, it is important to know exactly what they did to create this firestorm.

This could very well lead to another Tiller/Slepian attack.

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:36:08am

re: #113 Targetpractice

Thing is, as we learned in the last two election seasons, primary debate remarks make excellent campaign ad fodder for the opposing party. Any candidate who comes out in favor of defunding PP or adding new restrictions on abortion are going to find themselves bombarded with ads next fall depicting them as wanting to take choice away from women.

I want to see the first meeting between the winning panderer and Hillary.

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:36:40am

re: #106 Great White Snark

These are people that don’t know and don’t care. They don’t care about what PP does; they care only to eliminate access to abortion (which is still legal in the US), and since PP is a major provider of abortion services in the US, it is their intention to do everything imaginable to shut them down.

That includes lying and smearing and making bogus claims in the hopes that someone buys into it - especially in Congress, so that funding is slashed.

Of course, any funding cuts to PP means millions of women whose health care is through PP is cut, putting their health at risk.

These anti-abortion folks are so pro-life that they can’t care about the lives of women now alive. The put the existence of zygotes ahead of those girls and women who get contraceptive, reproductive, and general health care through PP.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:36:46am

re: #105 Targetpractice

I reiterate that I don’t think the GOP, or at least the leadership, really wants to have this fight in the middle of an election year. We’re just a few weeks away from the first debates, do they really want to draw questions about whether a Republican candidate would defund PP or further strangle abortion access if elected?

Normal people would think that through. The RWNJs don’t think, they react. This is their current outrage and any GOP hopeful who doesn’t join them in it, and the one after that, and the one after that, stands a chance of losing the all important Lunatic Vote to someone who does.

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:38:05am
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Decatur Deb  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:38:06am

re: #112 Amory Blaine

Dryer sheets coat your towels with something that makes them dry less effectively. Try a cup of vinegar in the rinse cycle instead for fluffy towels.

Towels are an issue here. I’m not in that decision-making loop.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:39:25am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:39:27am

re: #113 Targetpractice

Thing is, as we learned in the last two election seasons, primary debate remarks make excellent campaign ad fodder for the opposing party. Any candidate who comes out in favor of defunding PP or adding new restrictions on abortion are going to find themselves bombarded with ads next fall depicting them as wanting to take choice away from women.

I really feel that most of the current crop of candidates are not going to make the “mistake” that Romney made of “not being conservative enough” to win.

They are going to go full-on wingnut and just ramp it up from there.

At lest voters will have a clear and distinct choice.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:41:33am

re: #112 Amory Blaine

Dryer sheets coat your towels with something that makes them dry less effectively. Try a cup of vinegar in the rinse cycle instead for fluffy towels.

THIS. Also use vinegar for linens.

It does not make your sheets & towels smell like salad dressing.

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withak  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:42:36am

Does “in the rinse cycle” mean I can put it in the fabric softener compartment?

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:45:16am

Towels… who uses towels?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:45:21am

re: #116 lawhawk

Of course, any funding cuts to PP means millions of women unworthy, promiscuous unmarried sluts who cannot find a husband who will provide for them while they stay home and raise children like God intended whose health care is through PP is cut, putting their health at risk.

.

fixed it to correspond to wingnutspeak

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:45:58am

re: #124 freetoken

Towels… who uses towels?

What do you use?

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:49:36am

re: #126 The Vicious Babushka

What do you use?

Given the low relative humidity most of the time here, I step out of the show and a minute later I’m dry as a bone.

Otherwise, yes I do have a few towels.

Water quality makes a big difference, for those who are able to use soft water then clothe ought to come out of the wash feeling much better.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:49:49am

re: #86 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Just think of the evil they can think of by the time they’re in 5th grade.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:50:29am

re: #123 withak

Yes if it empties out during the rinse cycle. You don’t want it in with detergents as it will mess with the pH and make the soap less effective.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:50:39am

re: #128 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Just think of the evil they can think of by the time they’re in 5th grade.

pneumatic smuggling tunels

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:51:49am

Shout out to Charles==>

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Archangelus  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:54:52am

re: #103 wrenchwench

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Yup, that seems fairly accurate…

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 6:56:35am
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Dave In Austin  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:02:09am

re: #133 lawhawk

You know the deal. One goes, they all go. Sickening.

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darthstar  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:10:23am
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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:12:14am

The meeting of half a minds:

Donald Trump confirms Wednesday meeting with Ted Cruz

Businessman and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday morning that he’ll be meeting later in the day with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas, one of the Republican candidates who has defended Mr. Trump in the wake of his recent comments about Mexico and illegal immigration.

“Ted Cruz called me, and I don’t know why I’m meeting [him], to be honest,” Mr. Trump said via phone on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” in response to a question from Bloomberg’s Mark Halperin. “But I do have respect for him. I respect the fact that, along with a couple others, he came out, and he came out very strongly and agreed with what I said on illegal immigration. And he came out very strongly and he came out early. And I respect that.”

“I like him,” he continued. “He called me, he wanted to meet, and we are going to meet. What it’s about, I have absolutely no idea, Mark, but I’m sure you’ll be the first to know it, figure it out.”

[…]

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:15:36am

So, I’m still around; I’m out in Odry, doing some intensive lessons, and they start early. At 6:00 am, to be precise. And the internet connection here isn’t all that hot.

I finally had a chance to see Birdman. Very good - an acting masterclass, with great performances all around, especially Michael Keaton and Edward Norton. Emma Stone was good as was, well, the entire cast. Great directing as well.

So, hopefully, I’ll be hope Friday afternoon and check in again and see what’s up. I see I missed a troll roasting. All the fun stuff happens when I’m not online. :D

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:16:26am

re: #135 darthstar

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We’ll read this as Kerry playing hardball to get the best deal possible, wingnuts will read it as proof that if we’d just held out longer, Iran would have given up everything with nothing in return.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:16:37am

re: #136 freetoken

Businessman and 2016 GOP presidential candidate Donald Trump confirmed Wednesday morning that he’ll be meeting later in the day with Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas

And people were worried about CERN creating a black hole.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:17:37am

re: #112 Amory Blaine

Dryer sheets coat your towels with something that makes them dry less effectively. Try a cup of vinegar in the rinse cycle instead for fluffy towels.

What is this “dryer” thing you speak of? We use a thing called “the clothesline” in flyover China country.

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darthstar  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:17:51am

re: #138 Targetpractice

We’ll read this as Kerry playing hardball to get the best deal possible, wingnuts will read it as proof that if we’d just held out longer, Iran would have given up everything with nothing in return.

They even pulled a moldy Joe Lieberman out of storage yesterday to criticize the deal.

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makeitstop  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:19:22am

‘Morning, Lizards!

Has Texas fallen to the marauding Northern hordes yet?

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:19:23am

re: #141 darthstar

They even pulled a moldy Joe Lieberman out of storage yesterday to criticize the deal.

The Senator from Aetna got some screen time?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:19:42am

re: #130 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

pneumatic smuggling tunels

High speed rail connecting Mexico and USA

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:22:08am

re: #137 Dr Lizardo

Ordry looks like a beautiful little town. And, any place good enough for Zikmund Korybutovič is good enough for me!

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Belafon  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:24:09am

As a Democrat in Texas, if you expect me to apologize for the flag, then I have a right to take down every one I see.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:24:22am

re: #140 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

What is this “dryer” thing you speak of? We use a thing called “the clothesline” in flyover China country.

Clotheslines and Pittsburgh-quality air pollution were a bad mix in the 50s.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:26:59am

re: #136 freetoken

“Ted Cruz called me, and I don’t know why I’m meeting [him], to be honest,” Mr. Trump said

This mashup is off to a great start.

/

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:27:30am

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

Even sadder, they are trained to believe standard media sources, like CNN, NYTimes, WashPost, etc. are LYING TO US!!!!!

Thank you FOX News.

They managed to turn “Fair and Balance” into “You can’t trust the mainstream media” with the help of brainiacs like Sarah “lamestream” Palin.

And it all came along with the ramp up of social media and new internet media where you can find what you want to hear not necessarily what you need to hear…truth and real facts.

The media is broken and it will take something extraordinary to make people trust certain sources as the ones everyone can believe and agree is the truth backed by facts.

In the meantime everyone is walking around ill informed but sure they know the real deal.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:28:21am

Says the guy who linked to a White Supremacist site 2 days ago==>

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:32:52am

I’m just gonna leave this right here:

With a group of Trump supporters picketing outside, Bush seemed to relish the chance to call out the mogul’s attacks on Mexican immigrants and to cast himself as an adult alternative.

“On our side, there are people that prey on people’s fears and their angst,” he told about 200 people. “I don’t know about you, but I think it is wrong. I believe we need to unify our country. . . .

“And whether it’s Donald Trump or Barack Obama, their rhetoric of divisiveness is wrong. A Republican will never win by striking fear in people’s hearts,” he added.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:33:37am
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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:35:30am

And there’s a Chucky Johnson connection too:

Here is even more bullshit.
In 2009, a wee lad “journalist” named Charles Johnson, writing at his site the Claremont Conservative, reported a riveting tale about “David Daleiden’s Group, Live Action” producing a video that showed Planned Parenthood doing naughty crime things, like covering up statutory rape. (Yes, Charles Johnson is that Charles Johnson, aka Charles C. Johnson, aka Chuck Johnson, aka that orange-haired asshole troll who is now permanently banned from Twitter. It’s like all these jerk “citizen journalists” know each other or something, WEIRD.)

That particular video was one of a series of “sting” videos created by Live Action, in which “pro-life” activists like Daleiden go undercover, as pimps and prostitutes, or as minors with their older statutory rapist boyfriends, to try to coax Planned Parenthood employees into breaking the law. Almost all of the time, Live Action failed to get what it wanted, because Planned Parenthood is not actually a criminal enterprise run by Big Abortion’s most evil masterminds. So Live Action simply edited its videos to make it appear as if Planned Parenthood workers were breaking the law. Then it released these edited videos and shouted “GOTCHA!” and demanded further investigations into Planned Parenthood’s supposed wrongdoing. Just as CMP is doing now, with its GOTCHA! video. Huh, what a strange coincidence.

Read more at wonkette.com

Liars and smear merchants tag teaming to go after PP. Figures.

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:39:54am

re: #117 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Normal people would think that through. The RWNJs don’t think, they react. This is their current outrage and any GOP hopeful who doesn’t join them in it, and the one after that, and the one after that, stands a chance of losing the all important Lunatic Vote to someone who does.

And when you court the lunatics you become one too. And that is where almost every single GOP politician is right now.

The old thinking of rise above it all and bring the lowly with you has been replaced with get down in the mud with them and squeal like a pig!

Oink! Oink!

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:40:11am

re: #136 freetoken

The meeting of half a minds:

Donald Trump confirms Wednesday meeting with Ted Cruz

There will be some serious policy ideas come out of that meeting I bet. /

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:41:24am

re: #155 Tigger2

There will be some serious policy ideas come out of that meeting I bet. /

The ideas will be YOOOGE!!!!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:42:11am

re: #153 lawhawk

The video is a secret recording of some off-camera undercover “journalists” having a lunch meeting with Dr. Deborah Nucatola, senior director of medical services for Planned Parenthood Federation of America, so it’s hard to understand how it took three years to “investigate” hitting the record button and then uploading it to YouTube.

An article full of win.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:44:08am

re: #151 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

“…A Republican will never win by striking fear in people’s hearts,” he added.

Politicians who lie don’t annoy me half as much as politicians who believe that I’m stupid enough to believe a lie as blatant as this one.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:45:31am

Wingnut mindset in a nutshell:
CARRY A FETUS WITH A FATAL DEFECT TO TERM & THEN WATCH IT DIE IN AGONY!!!!! WHAT JESUS WANTS!!!!

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:46:47am

re: #142 makeitstop

‘Morning, Lizards!

Has Texas fallen to the marauding Northern hordes yet?

Not quite yet. They had to stop off at the nearest Planned Parenthood Center and pick up some money from the sale of all those baby parts. It is how the whole Jade Helm program is being funded. That Obama!!!

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:47:07am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnut mindset in a nutshell:
CARRY A FETUS WITH A FATAL DEFECT TO TERM & THEN WATCH IT DIE IN AGONY!!!!! WHAT JESUS WANTS!!!!

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That tweet comes from a sick sick mind.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:47:57am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnut mindset in a nutshell:
CARRY A FETUS WITH A FATAL DEFECT TO TERM & THEN WATCH IT DIE IN AGONY!!!!! WHAT JESUS WANTS!!!!

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It’s amazing how much of a dick God is for allowing a baby to have a fatal defect.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:49:21am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

God is in charge. And I know exactly what God wants.

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:49:30am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnut mindset in a nutshell:
CARRY A FETUS WITH A FATAL DEFECT TO TERM & THEN WATCH IT DIE IN AGONY!!!!! WHAT JESUS WANTS!!!!

[Embedded content]

The same mindset that says it is better for a cancer patient to linger in pain for ages instead of being allowed to voluntarily end their suffering because it makes the deity in the sky angry that you didn’t allow him to get his kicks watching your misery.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:50:22am

re: #162 Timothy Watson

It’s amazing how much of a dick God is for allowing a baby to have a fatal defect.

I’m with ya. If I were still on twitter I would have to really fight the urge to reply to that person that if their god is like that then fuck their god.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:52:36am
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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:53:55am

So, when do the Texans begin greeting our troops as liberators and throwing roses at their feet?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:54:19am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnut mindset in a nutshell:
CARRY A FETUS WITH A FATAL DEFECT TO TERM & THEN WATCH IT DIE IN AGONY!!!!! WHAT JESUS WANTS!!!!

[Embedded content]

It’s the same thought process that demands that terminally ill patients die in agony, with their suffering extended as long as possible, no matter what the patient wants.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:54:39am

re: #160 ObserverArt

Not quite yet. They had to stop off at the nearest Planned Parenthood Center and pick up some money from the sale of all those baby parts. It is how the whole Jade Helm program is being funded. That Obama!!!

There have been several credible reports that the United States has occupied the United States.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:56:18am
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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:57:45am

Where do the “do not mess with God’s plan” fundies stand when the doctors and sciences are helping people that can’t have children assist through artificial means?

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:58:36am

Meanwhile, troops at Fort Hood and Lackland AFB are mystified at this invasion talk:

“Invasion? Hey, what are we? Chopped liver?”

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:58:47am

re: #169 Decatur Deb

There have been several credible reports that the United States has occupied the United States.

Don’t you just hate when that happens?

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 7:59:06am

re: #171 ObserverArt

Where do the “do not mess with God’s plan” fundies stand when the doctors and sciences are helping people that can’t have children assist through artificial means?

I think most are OK with it unless you are a gay couple, Then to fundies it’s a no no.

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darthstar  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:04:16am
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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:04:48am

re: #174 Tigger2

Unless you are a gay couple.

Good point. It shows all the contortions it takes to think like a fundie.

Can you imagine having to diagram the patterns of thought a fundie goes through daily. It’d be like the world’s biggest and most difficult maze, yet they manage to get through it with simplistic ease. Of course God helps!

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:05:14am
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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:06:01am

re: #171 ObserverArt

Where do the “do not mess with God’s plan” fundies stand when the doctors and sciences are helping people that can’t have children assist through artificial means?

Uh…the fundies no like IVF, “it’s against God’s plan” and “those poor frozen embryos that aren’t used are an abomination!”

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:06:21am

re: #175 darthstar

[Embedded content]

Dad, put your shirt on and go home. You’re drunk.

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:07:35am

re: #176 ObserverArt

Good point. It shows all the contortions it takes to think like a fundie.

Can you imagine having to diagram the patterns of thought a fundie goes through daily. It’d be like the world’s biggest and most difficult maze, yet they manage to get through it with simplistic ease. Of course God helps!

God helps or God hangs and shakes his head in amazement at how they has distorted his word on so many things..

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:09:45am

Taliban leader Mullah Omar hails ‘legitimate’ peace talks in Eid message

In a written message, the reclusive head of the Taliban, Mullah Omar has signaled approval for peace talks with the Afghan government. The message comes a week after talks in Pakistan.

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:10:51am
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darthstar  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:17:04am

re: #181 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Taliban leader Mullah Omar hails ‘legitimate’ peace talks in Eid message

Oh, jesus…now everyone wants to make peace. What is this world coming to?

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:19:36am

re: #178 Timothy Watson

Uh…the fundies no like IVF, “it’s against God’s plan” and “those poor frozen embryos that aren’t used are an abomination!”

They may say that, but I bet there have been fundies that have had children through IVF and been blessed by God’s divine ways and celebrated at their churches.

What everyone doesn’t know won’t hurt.

I learned that through being raised a Catholic. ///

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:21:59am

re: #182 lawhawk

GOP wants to be tough on Iran like Reagan was? Would that include selling arms for hostages? Asking for a friend.

The GOP never talks about the real-life Reagan, they simply refer to the mythological, rose-colored, warm, fuzzy-recollection-of-how-America-ought-to-be Reagan.

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:24:07am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The GOP never talks about the real-life Reagan, they simply refer to the mythological, rose-colored, warm, fuzzy-recollection-of-how-America-ought-to-be Reagan.

America would have been better off If Reagan would have just remained a B actor and stayed out of politics.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:26:36am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The GOP never talks about the real-life Reagan, they simply refer to the mythological, rose-colored, warm, fuzzy-recollection-of-how-America-ought-to-be Reagan.

The GOP loves everything about the Good Old Days - except the marginal tax rates.

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Kid A  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:26:50am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The GOP never talks about the real-life Reagan, they simply refer to the mythological, rose-colored, warm, fuzzy-recollection-of-how-America-ought-to-be Reagan.

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:29:00am

re: #182 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Rachel Maddow played part of this Ronald Reagan address to America last evening. She showed the part from about 3:23 in on.

…

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stpaulbear  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:29:56am

re: #146 Belafon

As a Democrat in Texas, if you expect me to apologize for the flag, then I have a right to take down every one I see.

Can the Texas Democrats take the opportunity to write up a lengthy, scathing history of the confederate flag and denounce it in no uncertain terms as a symbol of racism and repression?

On second thought, I can see the headlines: “Democrat Party Apologizes for Racist Past”. These things have to be made as stupid as possible.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:34:24am

Oh look I got hate-followed.
Any Lizards know what the second list is? Aunty Entity Dragon?

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:34:46am

Reagan…”A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”

Can you just imagine the howling if Obama tried those same words today?

And Reagan was still lying. No way he didn’t know what was going on. But hey…hero!

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BeachDem  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:35:20am

And from Charles P. Pierce:

The video is the product of some long-time anti-choice yahoos and acolytes of convicted felon James O’Keefe. Nevertheless, and despite the fact that the video should have the approximate credibility of whatever you found stuck to the sole of your shoe this morning, the usual suspects are in full cry and high-sterics.

“Bobby” Jindal is putting every point of his 28-percent approval rating in Louisiana behind an “investigation” of this horrible situation, and Ted Cruz wants Congress to get into it. More alarmingly, and surely in the interest of just being fair to the grifters who produced this mess, and surely in the interest of objectivity, the mainstream media is, you know, “covering the controversy…”

Once again, I’d like to thank the Democratic members of Congress for chickening out on ACORN and on Shirley Sherrod back in the day so as to make this kind of long con possible. But there is absolutely no reason save cowardice for actual journalists to buy this nonsense simply as a “controversy” that’s “out there.” That’s malpractice of the highest order.

esquire.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:42:30am

OK I figured out that was Gaelic for “libtards”

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:44:48am

re: #193 BeachDem

And from Charles P. Pierce:

Once again, I’d like to thank the Democratic members of Congress for chickening out on ACORN and on Shirley Sherrod back in the day so as to make this kind of long con possible. But there is absolutely no reason save cowardice for actual journalists to buy this nonsense simply as a “controversy” that’s “out there.” That’s malpractice of the highest order.

They smelled blood and it aroused their righteous rage.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:45:30am

I found this profile of James O’Keefe today. He shares certain traits with Chuck Johnson.
vocativ.com

During his junior prom, he glided across the dance floor like the King of Pop himself. “And now wherever I go,” he says, “they ask me to do the Michael Jackson move.” It was his first taste of fame, and many people that have known O’Keefe agree that he cares very much about being famous. (He occasionally produces pop music with a friend, and moonwalks in music videos.)

In 2002, he enrolled at Rutgers University, where his public persona began to take shape. As a freshman, he was ill-equipped for life on a campus with some 30,000 undergraduates, nearly three times the size of his hometown. He had a hard time making friends, and seemingly desperate to connect with people, he created an online diary. The entries from that period reflect a boy who is becoming politically radicalized, but rather than dive headfirst into left-wing idealism, as one might expect of a young college student, O’Keefe seems to have cannonballed into Rush Limbaugh’s swimming pool.

In January of his freshman year, he wrote a post entitled “Tolerate This.” Written as a slam poem, O’Keefe attacked his classmates for not appreciating the heroic efforts of the sitting president: “Your ignorance thrives when you describe/Bush as a Texas cowboy running astray.”

As an upperclassman, life improved markedly for O’Keefe. He found likeminded friends and formed a small, conservative circle, developing an outspoken political voice. He started a provocative conservative journal called The Centurion with a $500 grant from the Leadership Institute, a group based in Washington, D.C., that trains young conservative activists, journalists and future politicians. (Its alumni include Mitch McConnell and Ralph Reed.) The journal was an anachronism, recalling the neocon spirit of the early ’80s. Its chief targets were political correctness, multiculturalism and affirmative action.

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Teukka  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:46:15am

OT, but this came across my news feed:
…
Long story short is that a gas truck carrying 16,500 litres of gasoline lost its trailer in a tunnel, it began leaking and then exploded.
13 people are known to have made it out of the tunnel, 3 have been hospitalized.
As water levels inside the tunnel (which runs under water for a bit of its 1.9 km length) are rising, emergency personnel have evacuated the tunnel, and nearby houses have also been evacuated.
The consensus is that there is a significant risk the tunnel will collapse.

I’m keeping an eye this one.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:48:02am

re: #189 ObserverArt

Man… what a dick. He knew exactly what was going on with regards to Iran/CONTRA.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 15, 2015 • 8:49:20am

New Page: Clyde Tombaugh Memoral Window: Las Cruces, New Mexico

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:01:43am

re: #192 ObserverArt

Reagan…”A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”

Can you just imagine the howling if Obama tried those same words today?

And Reagan was still lying. No way he didn’t know what was going on. But hey…hero!

So like a true conservative, fuck the facts believe what I say/feel. God he was an addle-brained shitstain.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:03:11am

re: #200 Eventual Carrion

So like a true conservative, fuck the facts believe what I say/feel. God he was an addle-brained shitstain.

No, he was brilliant at what he did, which was telling the American people what they wanted to hear and believe about him, themselves and America. And lots of them still believe it.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:06:35am

Amazon’s craptacular sale is teh meh.

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Franklin  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:07:02am

re: #192 ObserverArt

Reagan…”A few months ago I told the American people I did not trade arms for hostages. My heart and my best intentions still tell me that is true. But the facts and the evidence tell me it is not.”

Can you just imagine the howling if Obama tried those same words today?

And Reagan was still lying. No way he didn’t know what was going on. But hey…hero!

I love that in the movie Hot Tub Time Machine they have that address from the Oval Office playing on the TV when they go back to 1986. But unfortunately the address took place in 1987.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:08:29am

re: #202 Amory Blaine

Amazon’s craptacular sale is teh meh.

Yeah, gotta agree, it looks like they’re just trying to dump inventory before a new kindle comes out or something.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:09:44am

re: #202 Amory Blaine

But, hey, you can 20% off of ski masks right now!!1!

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Skip Intro  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:10:18am

re: #155 Tigger2

I think Trump wants to see Cruz’s birth certificate. After all, if Obama is ineligible, then Cruz is double ineligible.

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Skip Intro  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:10:41am

re: #202 Amory Blaine

Amazon’s craptacular sale is teh meh.

That’s my opinion too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:16:30am

re: #202 Amory Blaine

Amazon’s craptacular sale is teh meh.

I don’t go there to shop, I go there to seek specific items

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stpaulbear  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:17:24am

re: #202 Amory Blaine

Amazon’s craptacular sale is teh meh.

I was looking through their daily deals page last night until I noticed that all the stuff they were listing was for prime members only, but it was still the same old stuff that’s usually there.

I sign up for prime whenever it’s free, but it’s not something I would ever pay them for the ‘privelege’ of membership.

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:18:52am
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:21:48am

The Texas Department of State Health Services seems to have come up with a novel solution to the GOP perceived “anchor baby” problem, don’t issue birth certificates children who were born in Texas to undocumented parents, other wise known as “citizens of the United States of America and the State of Texas” (at least according to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, but we all know only the first two count in Texas)

Civil rights lawsuit filed against the Texas Department of State Health Services, alleging constitutional discrimination.

According to the lawsuit, the women who requested birth certificates for their children at the state’s vital statistics offices in Cameron and Hidalgo counties were turned away because of insufficient proof of their identities. State law allows the use of a foreign ID if the mother lacks a Texas driver’s license or a U.S. passport.

But employees at the offices, which are run by the Texas Department of State Health Services, told the women they would no longer accept either the matricula consular, which is a photo ID issued by the Mexican Consulate to Mexican nationals living in the U.S., or a foreign passport without a current U.S. visa. Undocumented Central American women are also being turned away because they only have a passport without a U.S. visa.

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b.d.  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:24:25am

re: #202 Amory Blaine

Amazon’s craptacular sale is teh meh.

It looks like a gigantic garage sale. Time to get those non-sellers out of the warehouse so they can stock up on Christmas stuff.

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retired cynic  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:25:42am

re: #212 b.d.

stock up on Christmas stuff.

Nooooooooo!

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Mattand  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:26:15am

re: #202 Amory Blaine

Amazon’s craptacular sale is teh meh.

Yep. Less than impressed, to put it mildly.

I’m beginning to think this was a misdirect to get as many people as as possible to sign up for Prime.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:26:56am

re: #211 FormerDirtDart

The Texas Department of State Health Services seems to have come up with a novel solution to the GOP perceived “anchor baby” problem, don’t issue birth certificates children who were born in Texas to undocumented parents, other wise known as “citizens of the United States of America and the State of Texas” (at least according to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, but we all know only the first two count in Texas)

Civil rights lawsuit filed against the Texas Department of State Health Services, alleging constitutional discrimination.

And they are not real sure about the first one depending on who is using it. I guess they are kinda the same with the second one in regards to brown people also.

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Mattand  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:27:08am

re: #205 Timothy Watson

But, hey, you can 20% off of ski masks right now!!1!

If the terrorist have Prime, then they’ve won.

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:29:01am

Because of him I asked my local hippie food mart whether they can order me some rendered duck fat.

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Mattand  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:29:26am

re: #215 Eventual Carrion

And they are not real sure about the first one depending on who is using it. I guess they are kinda the same with the second one in regards to brown people also.

Since I’m in conspiracy theory mood, I can see the bigots that run TX going “Okay, fine, here’s your birth certificate. By the way, we just deported your parents.”

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BeachDem  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:30:58am

re: #209 stpaulbear

I was looking through their daily deals page last night until I noticed that all the stuff they were listing was for prime members only, but it was still the same old stuff that’s usually there.

I sign up for prime whenever it’s free, but it’s not something I would ever pay them for the ‘privelege’ of membership.

I totally get the most out of Prime membership with free shipping and streaming video. It paid for itself the first year in free shipping alone.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:32:33am

re: #219 BeachDem

I totally get the most out of Prime membership with free shipping and streaming video. It paid for itself the first year in free shipping alone.

Same here, which is good since Prime streaming is pretty bad, and will try to charge you extra for shows beyond the first few episodes. Netflix does not have this problem.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:32:51am

re: #219 BeachDem

I totally get the most out of Prime membership with free shipping and streaming video. It paid for itself the first year in free shipping alone.

I’ve got Student Prime which is less expensive, but I don’t stream (crappy Internet service at home and I commute to class) and I haven’t ordered that much this year so I am not sure I’m getting my monies worth.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:33:08am

re: #218 Mattand

Since I’m in conspiracy theory mood, I can see the bigots that run TX going “Okay, fine, here’s your birth certificate. By the way, we just deported your parents.”

Would expect nothing less from the compassionate conservatives that they are. And I say this as someone who lived in Houston and surrounding area for 12 years (and one of my sons and his wife still live in San Antonio).

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ObserverArt  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:33:21am

I am convinced Texas has some truly evil politicians in it.

What I do not understand is how a state with that large a population has that many screwballs that manage to out vote the sane folks.

What is up with that?

And with that…back later…gotta go into work search mode. It’s been a bitch.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:33:26am

re: #211 FormerDirtDart

The Texas Department of State Health Services seems to have come up with a novel solution to the GOP perceived “anchor baby” problem, don’t issue birth certificates children who were born in Texas to undocumented parents, other wise known as “citizens of the United States of America and the State of Texas” (at least according to the Fourteenth Amendment of the Constitution, but we all know only the first two count in Texas)

Civil rights lawsuit filed against the Texas Department of State Health Services, alleging constitutional discrimination.

We could solve this issue entirely (along with voter ID and general immigration/work/residency issues) by issuing a mandatory national ID card for all US citizens and legal resident aliens.

Any takers on that proposition?

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Jenner7  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:35:11am

I hope Dr. Deborah Nucatola has protection. Her life is in danger now and Fox News will only fuel the fire.

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Kragar  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:35:12am

Getting pro-lifers sending me “WATCH THE UNEDITED VIDEO” and sending me the 45 minute edited version of the original 3 hour tape.

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BeachDem  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:35:36am

re: #220 No Country For Old Haters

Same here, which is good since Prime streaming is pretty bad, and will try to charge you extra for shows beyond the first few episodes. Netflix does not have this problem.

Yeah, their streaming choices leave a lot to be desired, but I find some stuff that’s worth watching (and full seasons free), and the free 2-day shipping makes the video streaming more of a bonus feature.

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Jenner7  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:36:56am

re: #133 lawhawk

How many more of these do we have to watch? That poor man didn’t know what was coming. No doubt about it, he was murdered.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:38:41am

Good day everyone!

So, has Obama taken over Texas yet?

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:38:54am

re: #228 Jenner7

Apparently we have to watch at least one a day. Every day. Because at least that many people are killed in officer-involved shootings every day in the US.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:39:32am

Late but made it to the party

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:40:34am

re: #226 Kragar

Yes, watch the unedited video, which shows the doctor saying that you don’t sell tissue samples. Watch the unedited video, which shows the doctor discussing reimbursements for fetal tissue samples being shipped, which is normal for all tissue samples.

Oh wait. You want to show me the highly edited and bogus video? Gotcha. /

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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:41:48am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

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b.d.  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:43:10am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

Late but made it to the party

[Embedded content]

I dare them to announce their findings as loudly as they are announcing their investigation.

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:43:47am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

Late but made it to the party

[Embedded content]

You can pretty much already see it now in your mind, looking like a Soviet show trial. Bring in someone from Planned Parenthood to “testify,” only to spend the entirety of the time allotted going on rants about how “evil” abortion is and how “wrong” it is for federal dollars to go to it, along with snide suggestions that anybody who doesn’t want to join in the public flogging is supporting “murdering babies.”

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:43:51am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

Late but made it to the party

[Embedded content]

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BeachDem  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:44:34am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

Late but made it to the party

[Embedded content]

So now Louie makes decisions for all of Congress? Good to know!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:44:39am

I’m not surprised at all; we’ve gotten 4.97 inches of rain here in the Backwoods just in the last week alone:

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:45:51am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:49:08am
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Kragar  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:50:02am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:51:08am

re: #241 Kragar

What If They Were Dead Puppy Parts Instead of Dead Baby Parts?.

what if they were neither?

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:51:46am

re: #240 The Vicious Babushka

[Embedded content]

What if you had a brain instead of not having a brain?

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Mike Lamb  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:52:40am

re: #231 The Vicious Babushka

Late but made it to the party

[Embedded content]

He misspelled “railroad”.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:52:50am

re: #233 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

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Franklin  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:52:50am
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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:53:51am

re: #241 Kragar

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Dave In Austin  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:53:59am
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stpaulbear  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:55:01am

re: #219 BeachDem

I totally get the most out of Prime membership with free shipping and streaming video. It paid for itself the first year in free shipping alone.

The free Amazon shipping wouldn’t do much for me because almost 2/3 of the stuff I buy is through marketplace sellers. I’ve had really great luck with all but a couple of them, and the cost is often much cheaper even if you include the shipping charges. I don’t stream video and I don’t care about the prime audio features (I’ve got over 2000 songs in my cloud player now due to CD and LP purchases).

If I order anything though Amazon proper, I just wait until I have more than $35 worth of stuff and the shipping is free anyway (although they really put you on the slow boat).

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:55:56am

re: #248 Dave In Austin

[Embedded content]

She should. It would help research on sever brain damage.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:57:11am

re: #249 stpaulbear

I get some use out of Prime audio, since my Echo plays from that, but like the video streaming the selection is weak unless you pay extra.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:57:48am

I bet we could completely stage a video ourselves and the RWNJ would fall for it.

Be a fun social experiment if I had the time.

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:58:58am

re: #248 Dave In Austin

[Embedded content]

Science could study her brain for generations and not figure out how she functioned.

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wrenchwench  Jul 15, 2015 • 9:59:56am
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FormerDirtDart  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:01:51am

I guess Simple Sarah’s addled mind can’t make the connection between the study of fetal tissue and the prenatal diagnosis of her son Trig’s Down syndrome

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Jenner7  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:04:31am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:04:38am

I keep hoping one of these days she’ll disappear and never come back.

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BeachDem  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:04:38am

re: #253 Tigger2

Science could study her brain for generations and not figure out how she functioned.

Apropos?

I’m still looking at a Republican party primary electorate that seems to have been passed over by the Cambrian Explosion, let alone the 20th century.

esquire.com

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:11:18am

re: #256 Jenner7

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How utterly fucking Patriotic of them. Fucking fake Patriots.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:13:26am

re: #256 Jenner7

When President Barack Obama arrives in Durant today to give a speech, he will apparently be greeted by residents waving Confederate flags.

Most of the flag wavers couldn’t tell you the century in which the Civil War was fought. I know that to be true because they don’t seem to know that they lost that time as well.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:15:11am

re: #259 Tigger2

How utterly fucking Patriotic of them. Fucking fake Patriots.

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Kragar  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:16:30am

Fire at the Midway museum this morning.

nbcsandiego.com

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Dave In Austin  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:21:02am
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jaunte  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:21:20am

Pro-lifers: “Too bad, that’s the hand you were dealt, kids.”

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:22:06am

re: #262 Kragar

Fire at the Midway museum this morning.

nbcsandiego.com

Welders! Damn.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:22:19am

re: #264 jaunte

[Embedded content]

Pro-lifers: “Too bad, that’s the hand you were dealt, kids.”

HURR HURR U MADE TEH WRONG DECISION NOW LIVE WITH IT!!!!

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:22:56am

re: #136 freetoken

“He called me, he wanted to meet, and we are going to meet. What it’s about, I have absolutely no idea…”

Topic #1: The Portland dildo dangler.

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A Cranky One  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:23:01am

re: #37 Charles Johnson

I’ve been saying this for years too. Flash is ugly and it wants to die.

On this topic:
Not everyone is happy with possible death of flash

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:23:43am

re: #263 Dave In Austin

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No information on damage, casualties, points of resistance or general tactical situation here in Palo Pinto County. Must be the media blackout.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:25:09am

re: #262 Kragar

Fire at the Midway museum this morning.

nbcsandiego.com

Damn! You know you’re getting old when some of the boats you served on become floating museums. In my case, they’re the U.S.S. Lexington and the U.S.S. Intrepid. Hope that Midway isn’t too badly damaged.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:25:35am

Now the wingnut talking point is HURR HURR WHY DID TEH LIBRUL MEDIA WAIT SO LONG BEFORE REPORTING ON TEH SOLD BABBY PARTS ATROCITY!!!!!!

It’s called “gathering facts” dipshits. You should try it sometime.

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Kragar  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:27:47am

re: #270 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Nope, they say they planned to open as normal. The fire apparently occurred in an area under construction, away from any displays. They noticed something was burning and it took them 2 hours to find the fire.

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calochortus  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:29:28am

re: #270 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Damn! You know you’re getting old when some of the boats you served on become floating museums. In my case, they’re the U.S.S. Lexington and the U.S.S. Intrepid. Hope that Midway isn’t too badly damaged.

You and my husband can have that conversation. He served on the Midway in the early/mid 70s.

We toured the Midway a few months ago. It was surprisingly interesting even speaking as someone who has little interest in things military and/or nautical.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:29:30am

re: #269 Shiplord Kirel

No information on damage, casualties, points of resistance or general tactical situation here in Palo Pinto County. Must be the media blackout.

The British tabloids are reporting that Jade Helm forces are looting Diagon Alley. Exclusive photo from the Daily Mail:

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blueraven  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:30:40am

Live CSPAN: President Obama News Conference on Iran Nuclear Deal

c-span.org

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Kilroy01  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:30:54am

Just out of Radio Free Texas

Video

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:33:03am

re: #272 Kragar

Nope, they say they planned to open as normal. The fire apparently occurred in an area under construction, away from any displays. They noticed something was burning and it took them 2 hours to find the fire.

The first time I flew out to the Lex it took me nearly an hour to find my damned rack. There are plaques on every frame of the ship that use a numbering system to let you know where you are, but they aren’t much help if you aren’t altogether sure of where you want to be. That it took two hours to find the fire in that ship’s maze of compartments is not surprising.

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Kragar  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:34:29am
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lawhawk  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:36:32am

re: #263 Dave In Austin

Battle: Los Angeles?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:38:31am

MOAR UTTER BULLSHIT from “LifeNews” site==>

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:38:54am

re: #263 Dave In Austin

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Timothy Watson  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:38:54am

re: #278 Kragar

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OBAMA/SOROS RELEASED PLANNED PARENTHOOD VIDEO TO DISTRACT FROM JADE HELM!1!!

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jaunte  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:39:28am
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A Cranky One  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:40:56am

re: #270 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Damn! You know you’re getting old when some of the boats you served on become floating museums. In my case, they’re the U.S.S. Lexington and the U.S.S. Intrepid. Hope that Midway isn’t too badly damaged.

I work in an industry where change is the norm, so I’m somewhat accustomed to seeing technologies I worked on disappear as time goes by. Heck, I’m often involved in making the stuff disappear by working on the new technologies to replace the previous stuff.

It’s been interesting. Things I worked on are old hat to me by the time they hit the marketplace as state of the art. Does take the fun out of the new toys that appear.

But as you note, seeing things you worked on show up in museums does make one feel a tad old. But then so do grandkids and the morning aches and pains. ;)

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freetoken  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:41:52am

re: #278 Kragar

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Khal Wimpo  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:43:36am

re: #137 Dr Lizardo

So, hopefully, I’ll be hope Friday afternoon and check in again and see what’s up. I see I missed a troll roasting. All the fun stuff happens when I’m not online. :D

Roasted troll was somewhat gamy. Buttocks were chewy and brisket needed more Emeril’s seasoning. No real meat on the bone, sadly.

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:43:53am

re: #279 lawhawk

Battle: Los Angeles?

Thought I recognized that picture from somewhere.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:43:54am

During a press conference this morning, Governor Abbott admitted making a major mistake in planning for Jade Helm

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BeachDem  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:44:10am

These people disgust me:

Private Comment

PGVtPiJHb3JpbGxhIGZhY2UgTWljaGVsbGUsIGNhbid0IGRpc2FncmVlIHdpdGggdGhhdCwiIHRoZSBtZXNzYWdlIHNhaWQuICJUaGUgd29tYW4gaXMgbm90IGF0dHJhY3RpdmUgZXhjZXB0IHRvIG1vbmtleSBtYW4gQmFyYWNrLiBDaGVjayBvdXQgdGhlbSBlYXJzLiBMT0wuIg==

“just playful back and forth banter that my friends and I do.”

Such amuse
Very play
So friend

“I made a mistake. I owned up to my mistake,” Rushing insisted. “If I do resign that’s admitting I’m a racist and I’m not.”

You’re a fucking racist whether you admit it or not, asshole.

rawstory.com

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teleskiguy  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:45:13am

re: #153 lawhawk

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

I’m putting this Wonkette tweet in my Facebook, it should act as a nice filtering mechanism for me.

:)

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:45:17am

dead puppy parts

president says it doesnt give him paws

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Kragar  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:46:45am

And obscure movie reference time…

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Dave In Austin  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:47:43am

re: #279 lawhawk

Battle: Los Angeles?

In my feed, maybe. On the other hand, work as usual today. It’s about 30 mi to Bastrop from here and no smoke yet.

I am seriously thinking of fishing the Bastrop power plant lake this weekend. I’m told the top water bite is awesome.

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Tigger2  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:48:10am

re: #281 Tigger2

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Had to change it to Mobile FEMA Reeducation Camps.

Left the Reeducation out of the tweet. lol

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:48:10am

SHAVE TRUMP NOW

or face the consequences

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:48:20am

re: #256 Jenner7

Obama to be greeted on Oklahoma visit by Confederate flags

There is nothing to forbid or prevent private citizens from displaying a Confederate flag. I assume these fellows see themselves as being provocative and defending their “rights”, when in fact they are just demonstrating that they are bigoted assholes.

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jaunte  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:50:31am

“…throughout the town Wednesday morning, residents were at ease and unconcerned about the operation. Others laughed, or expressed frustrations, when asked about the conspiracy theories surrounding Jade Helm.

“I think it’s a bunch of weirdoes that are afraid of the military,” Camille Crawford said.
trailblazersblog.dallasnews.com

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teleskiguy  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:51:56am

re: #286 Khal Wimpo

Roasted troll was somewhat gamy. Buttocks were chewy and brisket needed more Emeril’s seasoning. No real meat on the bone, sadly.

Private Comment

SXQgd2FzIGEgc3RhbGtlci1ibG9nIHRyb2xsLCBvbmUgb2YgPGEgaHJlZj0iaHR0cDovL2xpdHRsZWdyZWVuZm9vdGJhbGxzLmNvbS9hcnRpY2xlLzQwMTgyX1JvZGFuX0V4cG9zZWQtX1RoZV9TaG9ja2luZ19BdWRpbyI+Um9kYW48L2E+J3MgYnJhaW5kZWFkIHN5Y29waGFudHMuIFRoZXJlIGFyZSBzY3JlZW5zaG90cyBpZiBhbnlib2R5IGNhcmVzIHdoYXQgdGhleSBzYWlkIGxhc3QgbmlnaHQgKGl0IHJlYWxseSBpcyBzdHVwaWQgYW5kIG5vdCB3b3J0aCB5b3VyIHRpbWUpLCBqdXN0IERvTm90TGluayB0aGF0IHNoaXQsIG9rYXk/

That person was no fun at all. Boring. Uninspired.

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Lidane  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:52:07am

I’m currently having to explain to an RWNJ fuckwit that Netanyahu =/= Israel and that it’s possible to think that Bibi is a massive tool without hating Israel.

I swear wingnuts get dumber every year.

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Jenner7  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:52:27am
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jaunte  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:52:39am

re: #298 teleskiguy

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That person was no fun at all. Boring. Uninspired.

Incredibly slow.

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jaunte  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:53:05am
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De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:53:32am

The Dallas Morning News is reporting that Gov. Abbott has been on Skype all morning with Rudy Giuliani, peppering the former mayor with questions about Winston Churchill’s leadership during the Blitz.

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Targetpractice  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:53:40am

re: #299 Lidane

I’m currently having to explain to an RWNJ fuckwit that Netanyahu =/= Israel and that it’s possible to think that Bibi is a massive tool without hating Israel.

I swear wingnuts get dumber every year.

Ask them if hating the President means they hate America. When they try to say “That’s different!,” ask them how.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:55:50am

BREAKING NEWS!

Fighting has broken out between rival factions of the anti-Jade Helm movement!

Exclusive video!

…

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makeitstop  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:56:33am

I just checked that Counter Jade Helm site. No reports from any state….

ZOMG!! Evvybody is DEAD!!11

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:56:48am

re: #297 jaunte

“People are saying they’re going to confiscate our firearms,” [gun shop owner Dan] Whitaker said. “They don’t have enough trucks to put them all in.”

;^[)

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jaunte  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:57:47am

re: #307 De Kolta Chair

Confiscating all the guns in Texas would cause quakes as the Earth’s crust rose.

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No Depression  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:57:58am

I just watched a little bit of President Obama’s press conference on the Iran deal. The thing I love about him is how calm and logical he is. I’m gonna miss him when he’s gone. I really hope he doesn’t get replaced by some Republican dipshit.

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Khal Wimpo  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:58:05am

re: #298 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]That person was no fun at all. Boring. Uninspired.

Yep. I’ve heard more cogent analysis from the homeless guys in Venice who sit around all day screaming at their socks.

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A Cranky One  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:58:32am

re: #298 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

That person was no fun at all. Boring. Uninspired.

Yup. Basically just name calling and childish insults. Not even worth responding to, since there was nothing to rebut. It was like having a child tugging on your pants leg saying bad words it doesn’t understand and looking for a reaction.

As I noted at the time, boring troll was boring.

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Jenner7  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:58:51am
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Franklin  Jul 15, 2015 • 10:58:58am

re: #274 De Kolta Chair

The British tabloids are reporting that Jade Helm forces are looting Diagon Alley. Exclusive photo from the Daily Mail:

Embedded Image

Molly Weasley: What did he say dear?
Arthur Weasley: Diagonally.
Molly Weasley: I thought he did.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2015 • 11:01:09am

re: #306 makeitstop

I just checked that Counter Jade Helm site. No reports from any state….

ZOMG!! Evvybody is DEAD!!11

Lebensraum!

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Khal Wimpo  Jul 15, 2015 • 11:03:37am

re: #312 Jenner7

When Geraldo Rivera is calling you out for being a tasteless, exploitative ghoul … man, you know you’ve stepped over the line.

That video of him challenging the cowardly shitstain on Fox to a fistfight over his bigoted flogging of anti-immigrant rhetoric was an instant classic. If someone who is into the Fox gravy train as deep as Geraldo still has the reflex to object to the racist anti-Mexican storyline du jour, that means the GOP has really, really stepped in it.

I hope Steinle keeps hammering away at Trump and the GOP scumbags for this. The more they defend their kneejerk position of “all Mexicans are murdering rapists!!” the more they make their true nature clear to all.

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BeachDem  Jul 15, 2015 • 11:06:24am

re: #299 Lidane

I’m currently having to explain to an RWNJ fuckwit that Netanyahu =/= Israel and that it’s possible to think that Bibi is a massive tool without hating Israel.

I swear wingnuts get dumber every year.

To repeat, per Charles P. Pierce:

I’m still looking at a Republican party primary electorate that seems to have been passed over by the Cambrian Explosion, let alone the 20th century.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 15, 2015 • 11:13:15am

Sharp riposte from the president to CBS & the National Journal’s reporter Major Garrett’s claim that the president has abandoned Americans jailed in Iran.

Followed by a question (didn’t catch the reporter’s name) about revoking Bill Cosby’s Medal of Freedom. Yeesh.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 11:20:24am

re: #299 Lidane

I’m currently having to explain to an RWNJ fuckwit that Netanyahu =/= Israel and that it’s possible to think that Bibi is a massive tool without hating Israel.

I swear wingnuts get dumber every year.

And they don’t like PBO so they must hate America.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 15, 2015 • 11:21:06am

re: #304 Targetpractice

Ask them if hating the President means they hate America. When they try to say “That’s different!,” ask them how.

Beat me to it :-P


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