Friday Jam: The Bird and the Bee, “Will You Dance?”

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A great funny video for a song from The Bird and the Bee’s excellent new side, with some actors you may recognize. I loves me some Bird and Bee.

“Will You Dance?” from the bird and the bee’s forthcoming album is out now on iTunes & Spotify! smarturl.it

Video stars Patton Oswalt & Simon Helberg
Directed by Jake Kasdan

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323 comments
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Chan Kobun  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:42:14pm

I’d like to thank soma.fm’s Lush for turning me on to stuff like The Bird & The Bee. It’s background music that pushes its way into your head without trying too hard.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:43:15pm

heh

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:45:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:46:25pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:48:10pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:48:36pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:49:42pm

I miss Roger a lot. Great guy in every way.

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psddluva4evah  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:52:06pm

Alright, alright, alright! My youngest little sister (I practically raised her) changed her wedding date and looks like I’ll be able to make it.

I had bought tickets for Aug 20 just to visit friends and my sister after the wedding, but I just switched my tickets to the new date and apparently Southwest has ANOTHER sale! And it was cheaper than the first sale I got. Shoot, I came out with a $16 credit!

Shit, this was me, when I saw that $16 credit.

I just KNEW I’d have to pay for a higher rate, but nope

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:55:58pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 5:57:30pm
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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:08:15pm

Oh ‘Mercia, it’s Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs performing “No Mas Tequila”!

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:08:22pm
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#FergusonFireside  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:10:33pm

re: #4 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Peeps on their way to Vegas. Weekend lost. I would’ve been stripping to my non underware in that heat. And that secluded.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:11:35pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

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Especially what with Texas being a community property state and Oklahoma not—oh well, it’d be worse the other way around, I guess….

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Joe Bacon  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:12:17pm

re: #11 De Kolta Chair

Oh ‘Mercia, it’s Billy Bacon & The Forbidden Pigs performing “No Mas Tequila”!

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Say Whaaat?????

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:12:43pm

The word is getting around! Upchuck suspended again!

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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:12:58pm
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Franklin  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:12:59pm

So I posted this this afternoon:

Little did I know I would run into my Congressman Stephen Lynch (D-MA) at dinner tonight to personally thank him. He was actually taken aback, I’m sure he was not expecting someone at a bar in South Boston to thank him for his support of the #IranDeal.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:15:40pm

re: #16 A Cranky One

The word is getting around! Upchuck suspended again!

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:15:56pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I miss Roger a lot. Great guy in every way.

Ty. Tears. He was a beautiful human.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:16:17pm

re: #15 Joe Bacon

Say Whaaat?????

I saw what you did there. Leastways I think I did…
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Decatur Deb  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:21:00pm

re: #3 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hunter Thompson sighting.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:29:53pm

Eric made mention downstairs about the cost of treating snakebite in this country.

This beauty was in my front yard.

This is 1 of 3 I have relocated out of the yard. I have seen prolly 7 of them in the 8 years we’ve lived here. They love the garden and are very timid and secretive. If it wasn’t for the dogs I’d just leave them be. They eat other snakes.

Antivenin for the Texas coral snake, which is neurotoxic and akin to the cobra, can run to $20k a dose. An adult may take 15-20 doses for a bad bite. They USED TO make it in Mexico but quit manufacturing it due to the scarcity of bites and the high cost to make it. Current stocks are most likely years out of date but it’s all they got.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:31:30pm

DD, just so you know (I may have said this before no matta) I read the comment then look up. I know it’s DD. A thing of beauty ‘tis.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:34:03pm

niterz, lizardz!

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Decatur Deb  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:34:41pm

re: #23 Dave In Austin

Eric made mention downstairs about the cost of treating snakebite in this country.

This beauty was in my front yard.

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This is 1 of 3 I have relocated out of the yard. I have seen prolly 7 of them in the 8 years we’ve lived here. They love the garden and are very timid and secretive. If it wasn’t for the dogs I’d just leave them be. They eat other snakes.

Antivenin for the Texas coral snake, which is neurotoxic and akin to the cobra, can run to $20k a dose. An adult may take 15-20 doses for a bad bite. They USED TO make it in Mexico but quit manufacturing it due to the scarcity of bites and the high cost to make it. Current stocks are most likely years out of date but it’s all they got.

“Red and yellow, kill a fellow…” by the time you finish the identification ditty, you’re screwed.

Better “Red, black, yellow, I’m outta here.”

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Decatur Deb  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:35:30pm

re: #24 #FergusonFireside

DD, just so you know (I may have said this before no matta) I read the comment then look up. I know it’s DD. A thing of beauty ‘tis.

I read all the Classics Illustrated.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:45:41pm

re: #27 Decatur Deb

I read all the Classics Illustrated.

Me too. My personal favorite…

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:51:22pm

re: #27 Decatur Deb

I read all the Classics Illustrated.

Same here. My parents were pretty conservative about comics though Classics Illustrated were okay with them. The neat part is that reading the Classics version often led me to read the full book.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:52:15pm

re: #28 De Kolta Chair

Me too. My personal favorite…

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psddluva4evah  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:53:52pm
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The War TARDIS  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:56:25pm

I am grumpy at the video game I am playing.

Kingdom Hearts II, Final Mix.

I am stuck on a stupid Mushroom that I need to juggle in the air 85 times.

The highest I have gotten is 20-ist tries is 77. Either the Mushroom bounces in a weird direction, or one of my attacks goes past it, and it falls to the ground.

Whoever made that goal is a damn sadist.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 17, 2015 • 6:56:34pm

re: #23 Dave In Austin

Snake, capture, and associated facts, all completely impressive. How did you catch it? I realized that I have no idea how I’d get a small venomous snake into a bucket.

(Kudos for not killing it. I hate killing things.)

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:04:37pm

Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump took aim at The Huffington Post after the publication announced Friday it would only cover his campaign in the entertainment section.

In a scathing statement, Trump blasted the liberal news website, saying he has “never been a fan of Arianna Huffington or the money-losing Huffington Post.”
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The Huffington Post said Friday it “wont take the bait” and told readers news about his campaign would be found “next to stories on the Kardashians and The Bachelorette.”

“Our reason is simple: Trump’s campaign is a sideshow,” the website’s Washington bureau chief Ryan Grim said.

this is blatantly an attempt by the huff po to make trump continue to take his candidacy seriously and help destroy the republican party by keeping him in the race

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:05:32pm

re: #31 psddluva4evah

Good on Emma Didlake!

I spent a few hours this morning with my bro-in-law at the busy Baltimore Mondawmin Mall office of his ophthalmologist, Dr. Patricia Schmoke, wife of former Baltimore mayor Kurt Schmoke, and the game show The Price Is Right was on the boob tube and a 99 year-young lady spun the wheel. She didn’t win. but she was most gracious.

I’m 58 and can barely spin a dreidel , which probably explains why I’ve never ever spun a gimel. //

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Dave In Austin  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:13:15pm

re: #33 Pawn of the Oppressor

Snake, capture, and associated facts, all completely impressive. How did you catch it? I realized that I have no idea how I’d get a small venomous snake into a bucket.

(Kudos for not killing it. I hate killing things.)

While I have a snake hook, I just used leather gloves to capture it. They are a mid (grooved) fanged snake. The fangs are small and they would have to chew a bit to inject venom. They are very fast, and as I said above, they want nothing to do with humans. Blink and they are gone. And as with all snakes, you may see it once, but chances are you will never see it again.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:13:54pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:14:08pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:14:23pm
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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:14:49pm
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Dave In Austin  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:17:02pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

Charles, Is there any way to see your “Blocked Users”? the number should be becoming impressive.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:17:51pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

UpChuck could have been a contender but, noooooo.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:22:12pm
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The War TARDIS  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:22:47pm

re: #32 The War TARDIS

Update:

Must have been my a try in the 40’s to 50’s, but holy shit, I did it.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:23:09pm

re: #41 Dave In Austin

Charles, Is there any way to see your “Blocked Users”? the number should be becoming impressive.

Last time I checked it was somewhere around 10,000.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:30:08pm

re: #30 Decatur Deb

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That’s a good one, maybe the best one they ever did. I remember reading R.L. Stevenson’s novel “Kidnapped” and being sadly disappointed by the Classics Illustrated version. An enlightening epiphany for a 12 year old who was dreaming of going into publishing.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:34:46pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

Those two jerks at #37 and #38 were Caitlin Jenner haters, right? Or were they spewing bigoted hatred at someone else?

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goddamnedfrank  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:37:40pm

re: #41 Dave In Austin

Charles, Is there any way to see your “Blocked Users”? the number should be becoming impressive.

Here’s how to get the number. Go to Twitter -> Settings -> Blocked Accounts -> Advanced Options -> Export your list.

Then open the downloaded .csv file in Excel or whatever spreadsheet program you use and scroll to the bottom.

Your list may be exported as multiple files if it’s over a certain size.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:37:49pm

re: #47 Dark_Falcon

They were spewing hatred at @ZoeyTur.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:40:07pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

They were spewing hatred at @ZoeyTur.

Thanks for the clarification. I agree with you of course: Fuck ‘em.

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Chan Kobun  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:43:17pm

I’ve blocked 1325 accounts on Twitter.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:45:33pm

re: #49 Charles Johnson

They were spewing hatred at @ZoeyTur.

One can’t help but notice how uncomfortable Shapiro was next to Zoey. And, the rage.

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Franklin  Jul 17, 2015 • 7:54:43pm

It’s Bionic, Dan Bidondi

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:02:27pm

re: #53 Franklin

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It’s Bionic, Dan Bidondi

Dan Brown?

So the grand villain of the piece is Opus Dei? I just knew Rick Santorum was involved!

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RealityBasedSteve  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:06:57pm

re: #54 Dark_Falcon

Dan Brown?

So the grand villain of the piece is Opus Dei? I just knew Rick Santorum was involved!

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I, for one, welcome our albino assassin monk overlords.

RBS

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:10:18pm
Huh!?! O_O

Sighted in DC today.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:12:26pm

re: #54 Dark_Falcon

Dan Brown?

So the grand villain of the piece is Opus Dei? I just knew Rick Santorum was involved!

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Not to defend the church, but the yummy chocolaty mitre filling is worth at least ten Hail Mary’s.

Grazie Ghirardelli e domino biscuit.
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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:13:01pm

Good evening Lizards from our nation’s capitol. Took the Metro in this morning and played tourist most of the day. A lot of walking before meeting people to visit the International Spy Museum and then go to dinner. Ate too much, so I’m sitting a bit before going to bed.

A few other photos. Better stuff on the Nikon, but it hasn’t been downloaded yet.

Samurai crossing the Delaware
Kitteh!
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TedStriker  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:16:28pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Last time I checked it was somewhere around 10,000.

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makeitstop  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:18:08pm

re: #56 Feline Fearless Leader

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Sighted in DC today.

Is that why he’s running? An elaborate PR stunt to promote a hotel?

I actually wouldn’t put it past him.

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psddluva4evah  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:18:10pm

I’m off to bed soon, but I keep seeing the trailer for the new Mission Impossible film and they are showing the plane stunt scene behind the scenes clip as part of the advert for the film.

Have ya’ll seen the BTS clip. OMG!!! Tom Cruise is OUT.OF.HIS.FUQ’N.MIND!!! And when it comes to Mission Impossible movies…I am here for it!

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Jebediah, RBG  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:20:16pm

re: #60 makeitstop

oh, gross…and so easily believable.

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RealityBasedSteve  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:21:41pm

re: #61 psddluva4evah

I’m off to bed soon, but I keep seeing the trailer for the new Mission Impossible film and they are showing the plane stunt scene behind the scenes clip as part of the advert for the film.

Have ya’ll seen the BTS clip. OMG!!! Tom Cruise is OUT.OF.HIS.FUQ’N.MIND!!! And when it comes to Mission Impossible movies…I am here for it!

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And they were popping Xanax like they were breathmints at the insurance company that covered that until they got the “All OK Call” I’m sure.

RBS

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makeitstop  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:26:12pm

re: #62 Jebediah, RBG

oh, gross…and so easily believable.

If he starts using a catch phrase like ‘Donald Trump is going to Washington,’ I’ll really be suspicious.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:29:36pm

re: #64 makeitstop

If he starts using a catch phrase like ‘Donald Trump is going to Washington,’ I’ll really be suspicious.

I was at a dinner tonight and sitting with a group of older engineers from the Midwest, most of them retired at this point. Conservatives for the most part who seem to essentially utterly deplore Trump and think he should just shut up.

Then again, these are also people who are now working with charities and non-profits like United Way, American Cancer Society, etc. on a local level.

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stpaulbear  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:33:59pm

re: #64 makeitstop

If he starts using a catch phrase like ‘Donald Trump is going to Washington,’ I’ll really be suspicious.

He’s already lost the star chef that was going to operate the restaurant in that building because of the shit he said about Mexicans. Of course Trump has threatened to sue the crap out of him, but he can’t really sue for loss of rental unless he leaves a huge chunk of his first floor unoccupied.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:47:36pm

And here we have a sad first: A Slate article that is objectively pro-Daesh:

The Chattanooga Killings Aren’t Terrorism
They are a rational, horrific act of war.
By William Saletan

When we target a training facility and kill its inhabitants, we don’t call that terrorism. We call it moral success. Last fall, at a poststrike briefing, the Pentagon’s spokesman showed reporters a video of a “residence” on the Iraq-Syria border:

This was a residential area that had been used for a training site and for a logistics site for [ISIS] fighters. It was engaged with multiple GPS-guided missiles. … And, as you can see, the aircraft targeted locations within the boundaries, within the fence line of the residence. … It was through the careful planning and coordination of U.S. Central Command’s combined air operations center, located in the region, that these strikes were successful with minimal collateral damage.

That’s how we evaluate our own strikes overseas: If we target a training site, and if the only people we kill are the fighters or trainees inside, our hands are clean. And that seems to be what Abdulazeez did to our own men in Chattanooga. We don’t yet know his motive. But if it turns out that he was angry about U.S. military action abroad—and if his response was to kill U.S. military personnel—does that make him a terrorist? Or just an enemy combatant?

Chattanooga wasn’t the first attack on a military facility in the United States, and it won’t be the last. We’ve been hit before, in Little Rock, Arkansas, and in Fort Hood, Texas. According to the New America Foundation, 1 of every 3 Americans who have been accused of planning domestic attacks since Sept. 11—that’s nearly 40 people, out of 119—targeted military sites.

I’m glad many of those miscreants are sitting in prison. And I’m sorry that a few succeeded. But if they’re going to come after us, it’s better that they target our service members than our schools and buses. We should aspire to more than winning this war, or the next one. We should aspire, all of us, to ending the deliberate killing of civilians.

William Saletan is going to catch Hell for writing this, and I’m going to help ensure he does. Because he has pissed me off massively.

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Mattand  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:48:03pm

re: #66 stpaulbear

He’s already lost the star chef that was going to operate the restaurant in that building because of the shit he said about Mexicans. Of course Trump has threatened to sue the crap out of him, but he can’t really sue for loss of rental unless he leaves a huge chunk of his first floor unoccupied.

If I were Andrés, I’d be making the argument that associating my brand with someone spouting such inflammatory comments would irreparably damage it.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:51:02pm

Deleted, as I used ‘liberal’ when I should have used ‘far-left’.

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:51:54pm

re: #58 Feline Fearless Leader

Good evening Lizards from our nation’s capitol. Took the Metro in this morning and played tourist most of the day. A lot of walking before meeting people to visit the International Spy Museum and then go to dinner. Ate too much, so I’m sitting a bit before going to bed.

A few other photos. Better stuff on the Nikon, but it hasn’t been downloaded yet.

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The Spy Museum eh? Quick, what was your cover identity?
Spent my last trip to DC doing a lot of the Smithsonian and the usual touristy stuff, as well as art galleries, etc. But the Spy Museum was a fun break and had some cool stuff. One of my favorites was the passive bug built into the Great Seal. Great story behind that.

Great Korean tacos to be had in the area. I can probably get a recommendation if you’ve never tried any. Instant fan.

Have fun!

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:52:25pm

Here’s a peculiar Twitter account. @Trump4Prezident

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jaunte  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:53:20pm

re: #71 teleskiguy

Trump’s is the sort of face that needs no alteration to be caricature.

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bratwurst  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:54:36pm

re: #69 Dark_Falcon

I had resisted the downding on your original post, but your “liberal moral equivalence” line put me over the top. You can absolutely dislike that commentary, but it is NOT “pro-ISIS”.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:56:56pm

re: #70 A Cranky One

The Spy Museum eh? Quick, what was your cover identity?
Spent my last trip to DC doing a lot of the Smithsonian and the usual touristy stuff, as well as art galleries, etc. But the Spy Museum was a fun break and had some cool stuff. One of my favorites was the passive bug built into the Great Seal. Great story behind that.

Great Korean tacos to be had in the area. I can probably get a recommendation if you’ve never tried any. Instant fan.

Have fun!

I was a 20-ish teacher from Canada traveling to Singpore who had been born in New Zealand. ;P
The Great Seal theramin-designed bug is a great one. Took years for the US to figure out how it worked. Some real interesting spy artifacts mixed in with a bunch of fictional and their “your on a mission” thing. (Which I skipped after the first couple due to a long line to do the interactive parts.)

There also was something there on the Viet Cong Cu Chi tunnel system - which was neat since I visited those four years ago and got to see some of the tunnels (widened for tourists) and spider holes, traps, and other features*.

Some interesting stuff in the museum, but not a favorite that I will go back too.

* - Including 40-year-old extant bomb craters since the US carpet bombed the place with B-52s at least once.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 8:57:09pm

re: #73 bratwurst

I had resisted the downding on your original post, but your “liberal moral equivalence” line put me over the top. You can absolutely dislike that commentary, but it is NOT “pro-ISIS”.

re: #69 Dark_Falcon

Deleted, as I used ‘liberal’ when I should have used ‘far-left’.

My apologies, I spoke in anger. The post is gone, so I’d ask you to remove the downding. I’m withdrawing the tweet as well and I’ll redo it properly.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:00:49pm

I also made a docent’s day in the National Portrait Gallery today. She was in front of the portrait of Benjamin Franklin* talking about how he dressed while being presented to the King of France in the 1778(?) as one of the diplomats trying to arrange for loans and an alliance with France to aid the colonies.

I turned up about then, added a few useful comments, and then recommended a book that I had just finished called _A Great Improvisation_ on that very subject.

A good karma day. :)

* - It’s the portrait that is the basis of the Franklin on the $100. I also got a picture of the Hamilton portrait that is currently used on the $10.

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:01:04pm

Egads, either a virus or Satanic possession has struck my PC. Wants me to download Windows 10. Free. Hah. Not falling for that!

Virtus tempestate mihi de te, quod ignis potestatem super te, ego interitupotestatem super te potestatem super te in lucem dedi. Atque ego proiciam vosspiritum immundum. sancta discessit, aut dissipabuntur in ignem. Precipio tibirelinquo, relinquere cogunt vos me vade et vinci.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:03:22pm

My corrected Tweet:

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:06:27pm

Apparently Batman works for the Russians now.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:08:04pm

And a few paintings from the National Gallery/Smithsonian Art Museum.

I saw the second from across the room and told myself - “looks like a Singer Sargent…” and it was.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:09:29pm
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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:12:10pm

re: #76 Feline Fearless Leader

I also made a docent’s day in the National Portrait Gallery today. She was in front of the portrait of Benjamin Franklin* talking about how he dressed while being presented to the King of France in the 1778(?) as one of the diplomats trying to arrange for loans and an alliance with France to aid the colonies.

I turned up about then, added a few useful comments, and then recommended a book that I had just finished called _A Great Improvisation_ on that very subject.

A good karma day. :)

* - It’s the portrait that is the basis of the Franklin on the $100. I also got a picture of the Hamilton portrait that is currently used on the $10.

Made sure to go there on my last trip. My favorite place is the Smithsonian, but a week was but a fraction of the time it would take to see even most of it. Did make a point of getting to the National Air and Space Museum. Some incredible history on display there, from space suits covered with moon dust to an SR-71. Spy Museum was a fun break, but I could spend months just working through the Smithsonian. So much worth studying instead of a quick walk by.

Darn, now I’d like to make another visit.

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stpaulbear  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:13:00pm

Great. Another lulu of a storm bearing in on the Twin Cities. I hope this is like the last one where it started to break down at about 11:30.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:13:04pm

re: #78 Dark_Falcon

My corrected Tweet:

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You’re upset about that article? Why? Moral confusion? What are you talking about? It’s not ‘moral confusion’, it’s semantic accuracy.

It’s a discussion of the nature of targets, military or civilian, and attempts to define the difference between the much abused term ‘act of terror’ and the underused term ‘act of war’.

The fact that ISIS does things and believes things we find atrocious does not automatically make anything they do terrorism.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:14:29pm

re: #23 Dave In Austin

Eric made mention downstairs about the cost of treating snakebite in this country.

This beauty was in my front yard.

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This is 1 of 3 I have relocated out of the yard. I have seen prolly 7 of them in the 8 years we’ve lived here. They love the garden and are very timid and secretive. If it wasn’t for the dogs I’d just leave them be. They eat other snakes.

Antivenin for the Texas coral snake, which is neurotoxic and akin to the cobra, can run to $20k a dose. An adult may take 15-20 doses for a bad bite. They USED TO make it in Mexico but quit manufacturing it due to the scarcity of bites and the high cost to make it. Current stocks are most likely years out of date but it’s all they got.

Cute little guy! They’ve really got to chew on you to get the toxin into you, as they have short, fixed fangs. And their heads is teensy weensy. That’s what, a 9” snake?

I stumbled across a three-footer in the Barton Creek greenbelt one day soon after I moved to Austin (in ‘89). I had no gear, so I just followed it and warned people off until it got into some heavy cover. Two guys, at separate points, offered to kill it. I told them that if they tried, I’d pick it up and throw it at ‘em.

Mocassins are mean. Timber Rats are mean. Most other vipers, especially coral snakes, just want to get out of your way.

(By the way, I got nailed by a copperhead, too. I was 13 years old and living in Fairfax Co., Va. I was a proud member of the Northern Virginia Herpetological Association and we were walking the C&O canal just north of the Potomac in Maryland, and, get this, looking to bag some copperheads. We had sticks, bags, gloves, boots, &c. We were rigged up!

And I stepped on a 4-footer in the autumn leaves who freaked and hit me just above the top of my boot on the outside of my right calf.

By the time they got me back to the trailhead and into the ambulance to Bethesda, I had screamed my voice away. The most fundamental pain I have ever experienced.

At Bethesda (this was 1969) a bunch of trauma surgeons with Vietnam experience, who had dealt with *lots* of snakebites came into the ER, looked at the bite site, confirmed that it was intramuscular, and stuck two big gauge needles above and below the bite and flushed it with saline.

If you want to know what a copperhead’s hemotoxin does to muscle tissue tissue, buy cheap frozen hamburger patties. That “pink slime” that cooks out of it? That was what came out of my leg. Some painkillers, continued flushing, and no anti-venom. Sick as a dog for two days and the next morning my lymph ducts looked like someone had taken a highlighter to them on the inside of my arms and legs.

I had a 1 1/2” X 3” crater in my calf for about a year until the muscle built back in. One 1/2” hole in the skin in the immediate area of the bite.

But the bottom line is that it was never going to be fatal. Most snake bites by pit vipers in the US aren’t. Maybe 5% without treatment.)

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bratwurst  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:14:37pm

re: #75 Dark_Falcon

My apologies, I spoke in anger. The post is gone, so I’d ask you to remove the downding. I’m withdrawing the tweet as well and I’ll redo it properly.

Downding stands as a reminder for future reference to take a deep breath before posting something you will almost instantly regret yet again. Nobody has to withdraw posts anywhere near as often as you. I also think that while you are obviously entitled to dislike that piece, you are projecting things onto it that are not there.

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:19:03pm
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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:19:31pm
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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:25:42pm

re: #82 A Cranky One

Made sure to go there on my last trip. My favorite place is the Smithsonian, but a week was but a fraction of the time it would take to see even most of it. Did make a point of getting to the National Air and Space Museum. Some incredible history on display there, from space suits covered with moon dust to an SR-71. Spy Museum was a fun break, but I could spend months just working through the Smithsonian. So much worth studying instead of a quick walk by.

Darn, now I’d like to make another visit.

It’s pretty easy to spend multiple days doing the Smithsonian Museums and other stuff. Since I have extra time in the area after this weekend I have the option to come back into central DC and poke around more. I got in the central Air and Space Museum today - which was crowded. Hope to go out to the annex near Dulles to look at the big stuff on either Sunday or Monday. Beyond that I mainly was in and out of the other three other museums today. I skipped Natural History since the contents heavily overlap with other such museums of that type I have been in elsewhere.

And I was pressed for time since I was doing the monument loop, and missed the Jefferson anyways. :( Saw the WW2 monument for the first time, as well as the Korean War one. The latter looks like one that would border on creepy in the right weather or lighting conditions. I also got a real nice picture of a young woman standing next to the “Freedom is not free” engraving there.

On the wildlife side I got karma points back from missing catbird and heron pictures when up near Boston. While sitting on a bench a catbird holding a moth in its mouth hung around me twittering for more than five minutes - including landing on the bench about 5’ from me and staying there long enough for pictures. (As close as I can figure it was agitated since a few garden employees were 30-40’ down the hedge banding the chicks in its nest. Why it opted to hang out near me and not down near them I don’t know.)

I got pictures of a great blue heron at fairly close range down at a shallow pond along Constitution Avenue. I guess due to the constant pedestrian traffic it simply wasn’t being skittish. Didn’t use the telephoto, so I hope the standard lens shots come out well enough.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:31:47pm

re: #84 Blind Frog Belly White

This still is terrorism in my eyes and Daesh does not get to claim its attacks in the US as lawful acts of war because the attackers were unlawful combatants. Now I grant that if they’d tried to follow the rules for lawful combatants they’d have been gunned down a long way short of their targets, but that’s how the rules are written: They are slanted to favor established regular forces.

And no, the unfairness of that doesn’t bother me.

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:40:05pm

re: #89 Feline Fearless Leader

The one in Dulles is a must see if you have time. I was awestruck by all the history making machines/equipment. It’s such a different experience seeing that stuff in person than just in photos or video; there is a more tangible sense of the heroism involved when you see the actual machines. I recall thinking on more than one occasion “They really did it in that!?!?!”

Looking forward to more selected pictures from your trip.

Oh, did they still have the giant Clinton portrait that feels like an acid flashback on display at the portrait museum? After all the famous historical portraits that one made me do a double take.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:40:21pm

Yes, but your eyes don’t really matter. Words have their own meanings, and the fetishizing of the word ‘terrorism’ is one of the more annoying bits of dumbfuckery coming out of the RIght.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:40:27pm

Oh, a little background on the John Singer Sargent painting I posted a photo of:
jssgallery.org

There were other paintings by him there that I noticed. An oil of a spanish dancer that was a study for one of his larger paintings. And also a portrait of George Dewey.

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De Kolta Chair  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:40:28pm

‘Night all

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:41:20pm

For Curious Lurker and other Faithful Lizards:

The sun is down, the moon is new, and tomorrow is Eid al-Fitr.

May the next year bring you happiness, health, and financial success, Insha’Allah.

All my best wishes to all of you!

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:43:47pm

re: #95 austin_blue

From me as well. I’ll be calling a few friends tomorrow with the same sentiment.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:45:24pm

re: #91 A Cranky One

The one in Dulles is a must see if you have time. I was awestruck by all the history making machines/equipment. It’s such a different experience seeing that stuff in person than just in photos or video; there is a more tangible sense of the heroism involved when you see the actual machines. I recall thinking on more than one occasion “They really did it in that!?!?!”

Looking forward to more selected pictures from your trip.

Oh, did they still have the giant Clinton portrait that feels like an acid flashback on display at the portrait museum? After all the famous historical portraits that one made me do a double take.

The set of Presidential portraits you mean? Yes. Though the highlight of course is the set of Gilbert paintings of the early ones. I didn’t give that museum the time it deserved. The section that has Brady/Gardner civil-war era prints is pretty engrossing as well. (Not original prints, but taking the original glass plates and using equivalent materials and chemicals to make new prints - which are put on display in rotation.)

I will probably post some stuff later in the week. Especially after the visit to the annex at Dulles. I am also thinking of going down to Quantico and visiting the USMC museum since I am sure there will be some interesting stuff there.

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A Cranky One  Jul 17, 2015 • 9:49:08pm

re: #97 Feline Fearless Leader

Looking forward to the stories and photos. Hope it’s a fun and productive visit!

And with that, good night to the lizard legion. Wishing all a pleasant weekend.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:03:47pm

I spruced up my brief GotNwes post with some screencaps of @RonReaganLives tweets.

Twitter 7 - Chuck Johnson 0 — How’s that strategy working out, sonny?

Chuck C. Johnson has been banned from Twitter once again, after the behavior of a sock puppet account, @RonReaganLives, got a little too similar to that of his six previous accounts.

This is Johnson’s seventh banning since Memorial Day, an achievement for the record books.

Meanwhile, his parody of a blog has returned to its dormant state, because without Twitter Johnson don’t GotNews. Or so it seems.

So much for his vaunted strategy.

UPDATE: Before @RonReaganLives rejoined the dead, GotNwes captured some of the rapid-fire tweets in its timeline. We present them here as a public service, to show how NOT to be stealthy. Those familiar with the prose style of Chuck C. Johnson may notice some similarities between the two accounts.

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:10:28pm

Aieee!

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:19:02pm

re: #99 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:19:05pm

sometimes in this life you gotta write code in a language you never cracked a book on

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:20:51pm

re: #101 teleskiguy

Twitter ahead of UpChuck by a touchdown!

(I hate American football)

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:22:05pm

re: #100 teleskiguy

Aieee!

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Yeesh. That looks nasty!

And they have just issued a Tornado Warning for the area just west of (and pointing at!) Minneapolis/St. Paul.

It’s a twister, Auntie Em!

SEVERE WEATHER STATEMENT
NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE TWIN CITIES/CHANHASSEN MN
1213 AM CDT SAT JUL 18 2015

MNC053-180530-
/o.con.kmpx.to.W.0024.000000T0000Z-150718T0530Z/
HENNEPIN MN-
1213 AM CDT SAT JUL 18 2015

…A TORNADO WARNING REMAINS IN EFFECT UNTIL 1230 AM CDT FOR
NORTHWESTERN HENNEPIN COUNTY…

AT 1213 AM CDT…A SEVERE THUNDERSTORM CAPABLE OF PRODUCING A TORNADO
WAS LOCATED OVER INDEPENDENCE…OR 15 MILES SOUTHEAST OF BUFFALO…
MOVING EAST AT 45 MPH.

HAZARD…TORNADO.

SOURCE…RADAR INDICATED ROTATION.

IMPACT…FLYING DEBRIS WILL BE DANGEROUS TO THOSE CAUGHT WITHOUT
SHELTER. MOBILE HOMES WILL BE DAMAGED OR DESTROYED. DAMAGE
TO ROOFS…WINDOWS AND VEHICLES WILL OCCUR. TREE DAMAGE IS
LIKELY.

LOCATIONS IMPACTED INCLUDE…
PLYMOUTH…MAPLE GROVE…MINNETONKA…HOPKINS…MOUND…ORONO…
MINNETRISTA…DELANO…CORCORAN…MEDINA…ROCKFORD AND WAYZATA.

THIS INCLUDES THE FOLLOWING HIGHWAYS…
INTERSTATE 94 IN MINNESOTA BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 213 AND 217.
U.S. HIGHWAY 12 BETWEEN MILE MARKERS 141 AND 156.

PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS…

TAKE COVER NOW! MOVE TO A BASEMENT OR AN INTERIOR ROOM ON THE LOWEST
FLOOR OF A STURDY BUILDING. AVOID WINDOWS. IF YOU ARE OUTDOORS…IN A
MOBILE HOME…OR IN A VEHICLE…MOVE TO THE CLOSEST SUBSTANTIAL
SHELTER AND PROTECT YOURSELF FROM FLYING DEBRIS.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:26:11pm

re: #103 teleskiguy

Twitter ahead of UpChuck by a touchdown!

(I hate American football)

As Charles has already mentioned, it takes a certain kind of abject obstinacy, or blind disregard for the facts, to continually challenge Twitter and lose each time. If his strategy is to embarrass Twitter, or show how tyrannical it is, it’s failing. If he had laid low with this new account, he could have still had access. But no, he got overconfident and outed himself. That takes some kinda talent, for sure.

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RealityBasedSteve  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:28:29pm

re: #105 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

As Charles has already mentioned, it takes a certain kind of abject obstinacy, or blind disregard for the facts, to continually challenge Twitter and lose each time. If his strategy is to embarrass Twitter, or show how tyrannical it is, it’s failing. If he had laid low with this new account, he could have still had access. But no, he got overconfident and outed himself. That takes some kinda talent, for sure.

Wasn’t his crack(head) legal team also planning to sue Twitter, for felonious butthurtz or something like that?

RBS

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:30:53pm

re: #106 RealityBasedSteve

Wasn’t his crack(head) legal team also planning to sue Twitter, for felonious butthurtz or something like that?

RBS

At first, he said he was. Then the story changed to filing a complaint with the FCC (O_o) and that he was “going to file” suit against Twitter. So, who knows?

The deadline for responses to the Gawker suit is the 23rd. It’ll be interesting to see what happens with that suit.

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Kragar  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:31:06pm

Trump supporters are morons, example 1233223232

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:32:04pm

If you are in the Twin Cities right now, back up everything and shut your electronics down. This is an expanding supercell and you will likely lose power. Nasty storm. Given that it is in a bow wave, probably not tornadic, but the straight line winds will be fierce.

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:32:32pm

re: #105 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

As Charles has already mentioned, it takes a certain kind of abject obstinacy, or blind disregard for the facts, to continually challenge Twitter and lose each time. If his strategy is to embarrass Twitter, or show how tyrannical it is, it’s failing. If he had laid low with this new account, he could have still had access. But no, he got overconfident and outed himself. That takes some kinda talent, for sure.

I don’t know what it is, it’s very easy to generate Hulk Hogan memes. Shooting fish in a barrel.

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Kragar  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:34:09pm
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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:37:09pm

The squall line west of the Twin Cities is weakening about ten miles west Minneapolis.

You are free to tweet around the country.

Man! That was looking nasty, but then it went pfffffttt…

and collapsed into a meh squall line. It will still have strong straight line winds, lightning, and some power outages, but that central cell looked like a killer for twenty minutes or so.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:46:15pm

It has to gall Chucksie that inferior negroes with their inferior journalism genes are posting and getting attention on Twitter while he, the superior White Manly Man, is CENSOREDE!!11 by a libturd konsipracee. OPPRESSION!

In my professional legal opinion (which is better than his actual lawyer’s opinion), what he needs to do is declare himself an independent territory and demand State’s Rights to be a white supremacist dick. Kind of like Rhodesia, but with more of a furry slob-hipster vibe.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:47:38pm

re: #113 Pawn of the Oppressor

It has to gall Chucksie that inferior negroes with their inferior journalism genes are posting and getting attention on Twitter while he, the superior White Manly Man, is CENSOREDE!!11 by a libturd konsipracee. OPPRESSION!

In my professional legal opinion (which is better than his actual lawyer’s opinion), what he needs to do is declare himself an independent territory and demand State’s Rights to be a white supremacist dick. Kind of like Rhodesia, but with more of a furry slob-hipster vibe.

Comedy Gold!

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Kragar  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:47:54pm
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Kragar  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:52:06pm

Got a new pair of glasses this evening, old ones were wearing out, the coating was starting to flake off and ended up with my first new prescription in close to 15 years. Eyes are straining to make the adjustment.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:54:09pm

re: #115 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Wait, what?

The left hemisphere of my cerebral cortex just shot out of my right ear hole.

So gobsmacked…

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:54:36pm

re: #116 Kragar

Got a new pair of glasses this evening, old ones were wearing out, the coating was starting to flake off and ended up with my first new prescription in close to 15 years. Eyes are straining to make the adjustment.

Don’t look down.

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:57:26pm

Another derecho in the making? Frickin’ frick!

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 10:59:36pm

Night all! Tomorrow is another opportunity to excel!

Oh, wait, it’s Saturday…

Okay then, just fuck around and have fun.

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austin_blue  Jul 17, 2015 • 11:01:34pm

re: #119 teleskiguy

Another derecho in the making? Frickin’ frick!

[Embedded content]

Don’t think so. It’s just summertime meh.

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teleskiguy  Jul 17, 2015 • 11:05:27pm

re: #121 austin_blue

Don’t think so. It’s just summertime meh.

Whatever you say, Mister Experienced-Airman-Smartypants!

/

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Varek Raith  Jul 17, 2015 • 11:05:53pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Last time I checked it was somewhere around 10,000.

No “it’s over 9000!” joke?
I am disappoint.
/

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TedStriker  Jul 17, 2015 • 11:08:01pm

re: #77 A Cranky One

Egads, either a virus or Satanic possession has struck my PC. Wants me to download Windows 10. Free. Hah. Not falling for that!

Virtus tempestate mihi de te, quod ignis potestatem super te, ego interitupotestatem super te potestatem super te in lucem dedi. Atque ego proiciam vosspiritum immundum. sancta discessit, aut dissipabuntur in ignem. Precipio tibirelinquo, relinquere cogunt vos me vade et vinci.

It’s no trick…for one year, Microsoft is offering to upgrade most everyone currently running Windows 7, 8, and 8.1 (excluding enterprise versions) to the corresponding Windows 10 version, starting July 29th.

microsoft.com

They’re pushing it out via Windows Update in a rolling release, hence the Get Windows 10 icon in your system tray to inform you and to get you to “reserve” a copy.

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William Lewis  Jul 17, 2015 • 11:19:15pm

re: #124 TedStriker

Except that there are some of us who would say that IS the trick… My last windows box remains on xp.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jul 17, 2015 • 11:20:29pm

re: #93 Feline Fearless Leader

Oh, a little background on the John Singer Sargent painting I posted a photo of:
jssgallery.org

There were other paintings by him there that I noticed. An oil of a spanish dancer that was a study for one of his larger paintings. And also a portrait of George Dewey.

Sargent was a force of nature. There’s always been a natural gap between what the public perceives as artistic merit, vs. what artists value, and I will say as an artist that Sargent was a beast.

I think there’s some merit to the argument that Modernism and Post-Modernism has de-valued rendering skill - or rather, allowed people with deficient rendering skill to make a buck from the public (But is that really a crime? that argument could go on forever). It is also a weird world we live in where some of the absolute best artists these days are all working their asses off for movie and game studios, cranking out concept art and comics. If you follow the thread of looking for real, solid, marks-on-paper skill - seeing a scene, drawing it accurately, rendering it in a beautiful way, and catching and communicating some kind of emotion with it - Sargent is up there with the best IMO. His feeling for light and facial expression is just amazing.

This is not to say that I don’t love modern things and only worship the academic, but I do believe the modern attitude that all art is equally valid expression is puffery. Some artists ARE better than others. ;)

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Varek Raith  Jul 17, 2015 • 11:32:27pm

re: #90 Dark_Falcon

I’m going to go off on a tangent here, but isn’t it interesting how quick the media was to label this a terrorist act while stepping on eggshells around calling Roof one?
Also notice how we were told right quick what Mosque he attended and the type of gun used? Didn’t see that with Roof either. Notice how quickly extremism was brought up with the TN attack and hardly mentioned with Roof?
It’s not just Roof, either. If the perpetrator is not Muslim they get treated with kid gloves for doing things sometimes worse. I found out more in the media in 24hrs about the TN attack than I ever did about Roof from the same media. Even though Roof’s attack killed more than twice as many people.

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Kragar  Jul 18, 2015 • 1:59:00am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 18, 2015 • 2:15:30am

re: #127 Varek Raith

I’m going to go off on a tangent here, but isn’t it interesting how quick the media was to label this a terrorist act while stepping on eggshells around calling Roof one blatanltly refusing to call the fellow at Bundy ranch aiming a sniper rifle at federal agents a terrorist?

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 3:01:22am

MP3 Audio

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Dave In Austin  Jul 18, 2015 • 4:47:41am

re: #85 austin_blue

We should prolly do coffee……
We think along the same lines and are about the same age. You fish?

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 4:52:54am

Watching California burn brings to question what our future will really be like.

What will the 2065 hold?

How about in 2215?

The deep future, say the year 4000? (… so tempted to throw in some Zager and Evans…)

One thing that immediately tells me that a TV show or major motion picture that is set in the far future has not been thought out is when people in the future are presented like our society today, in particular when it mirrors late 20th century American society with people clearly identifiable as African-American, or Northern European, etc.

What the likes of VDare and their ilk fear is indeed what is happening - people of different ethnic backgrounds having sex and thus having babies with quite mixed ancestry.

50 generations in the future, some 1500 to 2000 years from now, the people inhabiting North America will be brown-ish, blue eyes will be rarer, blond hair even rarer.

The future of language is harder to project (though I always give props to Firefly for portraying the future where Kanji and not a Latin alphabet predominates). The safest bet is that some evolution of Spanglish will be the most common dialect in North America.

Even if DNA editing comes the fore and we design our successors, the future North American society in the year 4000 will not look physically like our populations today.

Climate change and miscellaneous problems will force North American populations to move, to resettle. Old cities will be gone. The landscape will be changed. I suspect there will be few if any forests - see what humans have done to southwest Asia and southern Europe since the beginning of the Holocene for an example, where the entire ecosystem was changed by farming and the rapidly growing human population.

There is the chance we will simply kill ourselves off, but I consider that to be unlikely. Rather, I expect the total world population to oscillate, with major die-offs interspersed with population growth.

Much of what we cherish as products of our culture will be forgotten.

I can’t guess how much of the modern materialistic, scientific, view of the world will survive. Humans are innately religious and I expect that to be true still in 2000 years. The system of El and pantheon will continue in some form or other.

I’m not sure if cannibalism is on the menu or not.

Assuming more of the population will have to move pole-ward I expect that architecture will take on a form more reminiscent of Scandinavian villages. No matter if the world is 4 or 5C warmer in 2000 years, the seasonal changes will still be dominant and it will still freeze at night. Increased precipitation will mean increased snow-fall at high latitudes. I wonder if the communal-farm arrangement of life from old Scandinavia will come back strongly in the middle portion of this continent.

Even though the coasts will look quite different from today they will still be major population centers. Even if the ecosystem undergoes major trauma at the hands of man, the squid and seaweed will survive and I suspect will be major dietary components of those living by the sea.

Sea mammals will likely be extinct, as will all large, non-domesticated, land mammals.

Gambling and prostitution will not be extinct.

Marxism will not be around. Even with gene editing, humans will remain a hierarchical animal and so we expect some sort of feudalism-centered economy. Perhaps periods of meritocracy will come and go, sort of like ancient China, where skilled bureaucrats steer society. The importance of this type of structure is immediately realized when it comes to energy systems - when the last easy-to-find fossil fuels are burned the elite is society will have to keep nuclear power plants and advanced wind and solar systems going and thus there will always be a premium on a technical class and thus a highly skilled fraction of the working masses will be maintained at all costs.

But there will still be tyrants and they will have wars.

The land-based cuisine will be dominated by grass seeds (wheat, rye, oats, maize, rice) because grasses are pollinated by the wind and thus don’t need bees and butterflies and other winged creatures.

Indoor plumbing will still be around, for those who can afford it. Those who can’t… will have to try and survive cholera.

There will still be music and dancing. There will not be iTunes.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 18, 2015 • 4:58:27am

re: #126 Pawn of the Oppressor

Sargent was a force of nature. There’s always been a natural gap between what the public perceives as artistic merit, vs. what artists value, and I will say as an artist that Sargent was a beast.

I think there’s some merit to the argument that Modernism and Post-Modernism has de-valued rendering skill - or rather, allowed people with deficient rendering skill to make a buck from the public (But is that really a crime? that argument could go on forever). It is also a weird world we live in where some of the absolute best artists these days are all working their asses off for movie and game studios, cranking out concept art and comics. If you follow the thread of looking for real, solid, marks-on-paper skill - seeing a scene, drawing it accurately, rendering it in a beautiful way, and catching and communicating some kind of emotion with it - Sargent is up there with the best IMO. His feeling for light and facial expression is just amazing.

This is not to say that I don’t love modern things and only worship the academic, but I do believe the modern attitude that all art is equally valid expression is puffery. Some artists ARE better than others. ;)

From traveling and being in a few art museums with my brother I have noted we have somewhat similar tastes in paintings and art. We’re both “meh” on a lot of the modern art movement, enjoy portrait work to a degree (and with a preference for older art before photography appeared to allow portrait art to go much more impressionist. And Sargent by time period bucked this trend to a certain degree.) And both like landscapes/seascapes from the period where the artists were going past clear and pin-point into being a bit more impressionist.

Though I also took a few pictures of seascapes by 17th century Dutch masters yesterday since they seemed to blend the two really well. Might simply be that the style is “right” as compared to the work being done by New England artists in the early 1800s.

There was an in-joke while going through a museum in Gloucester on whether we’d be willing to hang a given portrait in our living room. Since we’d both seen Sargent’s “Gassed” in London I mentioned it and said that one would need a bigger living room in order to display that one.

en.wikipedia.org
(For those who want to skip the link the painting is roughly 20’ x 8’ in size. And depicts a bunch of WW1 soldiers who have been blinded by a gas attack being led back to a dressing stations. NOT a subject one normally displays in one’s living room.)

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 18, 2015 • 4:59:50am

re: #127 Varek Raith

I’m going to go off on a tangent here, but isn’t it interesting how quick the media was to label this a terrorist act while stepping on eggshells around calling Roof one?
Also notice how we were told right quick what Mosque he attended and the type of gun used? Didn’t see that with Roof either. Notice how quickly extremism was brought up with the TN attack and hardly mentioned with Roof?
It’s not just Roof, either. If the perpetrator is not Muslim they get treated with kid gloves for doing things sometimes worse. I found out more in the media in 24hrs about the TN attack than I ever did about Roof from the same media. Even though Roof’s attack killed more than twice as many people.

I wonder as well if it’s partially who the victims were.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:17:18am

Austin has added to it’s culture this week……
imgur.com

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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:17:45am

re: #135 Dave In Austin

Austin has added to it’s culture this week……
imgur.com

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Do I want to know?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:28:50am

re: #136 Varek Raith

Do I want to know?

You didn’t hear?

Suicide by Cobra…..

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:29:37am

The top of your planet:

Image: 2015cam1_1.jpg

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Dave In Austin  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:30:20am
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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:34:31am

re: #137 Dave In Austin

You didn’t hear?

Suicide by Cobra…..

What a way to go.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:35:08am

re: #137 Dave In Austin

You didn’t hear?

Suicide by Cobra…..

How do I make a Cleopatra reference without sounding callous?

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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:45:17am
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Jayleia  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:49:06am

re: #141 Timothy Watson

If you think there’s a way to do that, you’re in denial.

And yeah, after I wrote that, you can’t even do it with two degrees of separation and not sound bad.

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 5:58:36am

Ben Carson speaks:

Presidential Candidate Ben Carson Visits Ottumwa

[…]

During his speech to Wapello County Republicans, Carson outlined his thoughts on abortion stating that it is wrong and it is the slaughtering of babies. He stated that he dedicated his career to helping heal babies, not giving women the mindset that they are free to kill their baby while it is in their body. He even stated that fetuses are more complex creatures than animals and fetuses cannot speak for themselves. Then Carson asserted that those who dedicate their lives to saving animals and the environment should instead fight for the lives of the babies being aborted every day.

Carson also discussed his views on religion.

“We must not yield to the secular progressives who want to remove God from our society,” said Carson.

Regarding taxes, Carson believes in a flat tax. He said taxing $1 from an individual who only has $10 is not only fair, but it enables that person to keep their pride and feel like they are making a contribution. Carson went on to say that a person making $1o billion should also be taxed 10%. He said that not overtaxing the rich will give them more room to charitably give and make more money.

[…]

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:09:35am

In case you missed it, Andrew Kaczynski highlights one of the more intense demagogues of the day:

Congressman: ‘I Think The Psychiatrists Would Have A Field Day With’ Obama

Speaking on the The Joe Piscopo Show on Friday, Republican Rep. Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania said of President Obama, “this is a person I think the psychiatrists would have a field day with him.”

[…]

Video

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:11:31am

re: #146 freetoken

In case you missed it, Andrew Kaczynski highlights one of the more intense demagogues of the day:

Congressman: ‘I Think The Psychiatrists Would Have A Field Day With’ Obama

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Shrinks would want to know how Obama manages to stay so cool and calm when he has to deal with batshit crazy members of the opposition.

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Lidane  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:12:39am

Smarter than the average bear:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:15:59am

re: #148 Lidane

Smarter than the average bear:

Rhubarb probably gives him gas.

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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:16:30am

re: #148 Lidane

Smarter than the average bear:

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He couldn’t… bear them!
/shame

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:18:14am

The Birchers are lovin’ them some Andrew Duncomb:

Oklahoman Calls Himself the Black Rebel in Confederate Flag Dispute

You can tell by the comments:

Cyberats • 18 hours ago
Black people in the civil war knew that the South was fighting for keeping the rights of the people & state over a centralized government. There was no instant freedom for slaves or equality, that only came 100yrs. later.
Death of Liberty began in 1865 with the loss of Amendments IX & X of the Bill of Rights.

In case you don’t know who Andrew Duncomb is, you can check out his Facebook page… or at least a cached version as it doesn’t appear to be online anymore:

Andrew Duncomb Black Rebel
Yesterday at 5:43pm *
I will leave this question to an open invitation to your opinions. Being a slave was a choice?… Patrick Henry said give me liberty or give me death… When you’re living as a slave to defend your family is that an option

So what makes a black guy cozy up to racists?

One word: Je$u$

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ObserverArt  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:25:57am

Morning Green Footballers.

I seem to be on a damn Republican email list. And it is unwanted.

I mentioned a month or so back I was getting emails from Rick Santorum. That was ended after I started getting them daily.

This morning I have one from Ted Cruz.

Oh hell no.

Not only unwanted, but the unsubscribe feature does not work. And that is a big no-no in email world. I know, I used to do email blasts and found out how tough it can be.

So, Ted’s email is getting forwarded to every Can Spam reporting agency I can find. Already sent to the FCC site and Ohio Attorney general.

And the email sucks too. It’s some kind of Cruz newsletter and it has speech quotes and videos. A real spam monster.

It figures Cruz would get some kind of funky email list and that he wouldn’t be following email guidelines. Oh how I hate Ted Cruz.

And something else sad. Local NBC morning news had coverage of the Planned Parenthood video this morning. It was a short clip from the video and then the PP head apologizing. It also made mention of John Boehner looking into it and The Ohio AG Micheal DeWine checking into Ohio clinics. Of course, no mention that it all came from an altered video…because that would be doing a journalists job.

Edit…also I see another Marine died from the shootings in Tennessee. He was from Ohio, so local news is all over that. More sadness.

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:31:07am

Thunder this morning… perhaps we’ll get a shower?

Yesterday there were thunderstorms in the mountains.

We sure could use some rain.

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:31:30am

It’s raining… not much. Hopefully it will do more than just wet the concrete.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:31:52am

Poll says Cuccinelli still GOP favorite for governor’s race

Ken Cuccinelli lost the race for Virginia governor in 2013, but a poll released Friday shows he still registers strongly among Republican voters.

Public Policy Polling released a poll showing Cuccinelli was favored by 37 percent of Republican voters as the 2017 gubernatorial nominee, as compared to 16 percent for former U.S. House Majority leader Eric Cantor. Bill Bolling and Ed Gillespie tie for third at 8 percent, and Shenandoah Valley Sen. Mark Obenshain registered at 7 percent.

Please proceed, GOP.

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Bass Reeves  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:34:15am

Dark,

That’s the problem with calling everything a war. The rhetoric coming from the right (not even extreme right) is that this is an existential conflict which we must win to secure the future of our grandchildren. We are non-stop bombing them in THEIR homes and training centers, and we call that war. This person is arguing semantics (as you are also known to do) that if we are in war, and have considered recruiting and training centers fair game, why is it terrorism for the enemy to do the same thing.

Maybe if the violence happy nuts in charge would slow down and consider solutions that aren’t so quick to involve violence, we would see less of it.

And his article was nowhere near ‘Pro-ISIS’ (or DAESH or whatever semantics you need to keep the moral outrage stoked). It was pointing out OUR moral hypocrisy in condemning our enemy for doing the exact same damn things we do ourselves, to include torture and killing of civilians.

And I say all that, as someone with multiple rotations to both Iraq and Afghanistan, currently serving on active duty.

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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:34:36am

re: #155 Timothy Watson

Poll says Cuccinelli still GOP favorite for governor’s race

Please proceed, GOP.

Hahahaha.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:40:06am

re: #156 Bass Reeves

Dark,

That’s the problem with calling everything a war. The rhetoric coming from the right (not even extreme right) is that this is an existential conflict which we must win to secure the future of our grandchildren. We are non-stop bombing them in THEIR homes and training centers, and we call that war. This person is arguing semantics (as you are also known to do) that if we are in war, and have considered recruiting and training centers fair game, why is it terrorism for the enemy to do the same thing.

Maybe if the violence happy nuts in charge would slow down and consider solutions that aren’t so quick to involve violence, we would see less of it.

And his article was nowhere near ‘Pro-ISIS’ (or DAESH or whatever semantics you need to keep the moral outrage stoked). It was pointing out OUR moral hypocrisy in condemning our enemy for doing the exact same damn things we do ourselves, to include torture and killing of civilians.

And I say all that, as someone with multiple rotations to both Iraq and Afghanistan, currently serving on active duty.

Make it simpler—War is the highest, publicly-sanctioned, form of terrorism.

(Two years uniformed, 29 years DoD civilian.)

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:40:18am

re: #156 Bass Reeves

This person is arguing semantics (as you are also known to do) that if we are in war, and have considered recruiting and training centers fair game, why is it terrorism for the enemy to do the same thing.

It’s terrorism because our pilots are lawful combatants and their terrorists are unlawful ones. And because we’re good, they’re evil and we’re right, they’re wrong.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:43:00am

Terrorism
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Terrorism is commonly defined as violent acts (or the threat of violent acts) intended to create fear (terror), perpetrated for an economic,[1] religious, political, or ideological goal, and which deliberately target or disregard the safety of non-combatants (e.g., neutral military personnel or civilians).

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scottslemmons  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:45:35am

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

And because we’re good, they’re evil and we’re right, they’re wrong.

Did you neglect to add sarcasm tags there?

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:47:16am
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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:47:30am

re: #161 scottslemmons

Did you neglect to add sarcasm tags there?

When Dark can say that with a slight ironic rise of the voice, his soul will be saved.

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Targetpractice  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:47:32am

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

It’s terrorism because our pilots are lawful combatants and their terrorists are unlawful ones. And because we’re good, they’re evil and we’re right, they’re wrong.

Semantics, if we are at “war” with ISIS, or terrorism, or even Islam, then those who march under the flag are enemy combatants. Hell, that’s the legal justification that we used to torture them at Gitmo, that they’re “enemy combatants” and not POWs.

You can’t have it both ways, insisting that our enemy observe the niceties of formal rules of war, but at the same time saying it’s totally lawful for us to blow them up with a drone while they’re taking a shit on the can.

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7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:49:28am

re: #159 Dark_Falcon

It’s terrorism because our pilots are lawful combatants and their terrorists are unlawful ones. And because we’re good, they’re evil and we’re right, they’re wrong.

I wonder if our drone operators are lawful combatants?

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:50:15am

We’re not at war, people. ISIS is a regional annoyance, like Al Qaeda. Stop diminishing the definition of war by applying equal status to small groups of zealots as you do to the United States of America. They’re not similar objects.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:51:29am

re: #165 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

I wonder if our drone operators are lawful combatants?

Using the moral logic that put my dad in a B17 over Magdeburg, the guy who sweeps the floor in the drone factory is an enemy combatant.

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Targetpractice  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:51:32am

re: #166 darthstar

We’re not at war, people. ISIS is a regional annoyance, like Al Qaeda. Stop diminishing the definition of war by applying equal status to small groups of zealots as you do to the United States of America. They’re not similar objects.

I’m doing my daily bit of playing Devil’s Advocate. Gotta justify that membership card somehow.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:51:55am

Speaking of regional crises…note the maturity in Iran’s president’s tone versus that of Bibi or any Republican on the topic of the day…

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:52:10am

You guys are not going to bring me around on this point. My mind’s made up: The Chattanooga scumbag killer was a terrorist and William Saletan is an ass for saying he wasn’t.

re: #161 scottslemmons

Did you neglect to add sarcasm tags there?

No, I meant it as I wrote it.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:52:37am

re: #168 Targetpractice

I’m doing my daily bit of playing Devil’s Advocate. Gotta justify that membership card somehow.

What kind of prophet-sharing package does the devil offer in this rising labor market?

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:54:01am

re: #169 darthstar

TAQIYYA!!!!!

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Targetpractice  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:54:04am

re: #171 Decatur Deb

What kind of prophet-sharing package does the devil offer in this rising labor market?

Two weeks paid leave a year, full dental, and a condo by the Lake of Fire upon retirement.

But the hours are an absolute pain.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:54:12am

re: #168 Targetpractice

I’m doing my daily bit of playing Devil’s Advocate. Gotta justify that membership card somehow.

It’s like debating a stuffed brontosaurus at the Xian Creation museum. Enjoy.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:56:21am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

You guys are not going to bring me around on this point. My mind’s made up: The Chattanooga scumbag killer was a terrorist and William Saletan is an ass for saying he wasn’t.

No, I meant it as I wrote it.

We can call a brick an eagle, but it will only fly so far. This is a lexicographic argument.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:56:48am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

You guys are not going to bring me around on this point. My mind’s made up: The Chattanooga scumbag killer was a terrorist and William Saletan is an ass for saying he wasn’t.

No, I meant it as I wrote it.

Chatanooga Scumbag Killer would make a great garage band name.

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Targetpractice  Jul 18, 2015 • 6:58:24am

re: #175 Decatur Deb

We can call a brick an eagle, but it will only fly so far. This is a lexicographic argument.

It also rather devalues the word when we keep changing the definition to suit our outrage.

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scottslemmons  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:01:55am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

No, I meant it as I wrote it.

Then you’re out of your fucking gourd, kid.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:03:20am

How I imagine conversations around the LGF world:
“Honey, what are you chuckling about?”
“Oh, a certain somebody’s wrong on the internet.”

In the Falcon household:
“Son, what’s the matter?”
“Everyone’s wrong on the internet.”

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:04:17am

re: #178 scottslemmons

Then you’re out of your fucking gourd, kid.

Nah. He’s a rather pure product of his upbringing and experiences, and far less crazy than half the country. Of course, I say the same thing about Angela Davis.

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William Lewis  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:04:27am

re: #158 Decatur Deb

Make it simpler—War is the highest, publicly-sanctioned, form of terrorism.

(Two years uniformed, 29 years DoD civilian.)

Amen. 16 years Armor then Infantry then MI.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:07:42am

Free earworm!

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William Lewis  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:09:14am

re: #180 Decatur Deb

Nah. He’s a rather pure product of his upbringing and experiences, and far less crazy than half the country. Of course, I say the same thing about Angela Davis.

Agree. I disagree with him quite often (gun toting socialist, wobbly & liberal christian that I am) but I’d rather have him around than many of those I’d agree with.

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freetoken  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:09:27am

In American English it appears as if “terrorism” now has become a synonym for any horrible and violent offense.

If we go that route, then I propose we talk about two categories:
(1) structured terrorism;
(2) sociopathic individual terrorism.

The first is carried out by organized groups with a goal of changing a nation, or group of nations, to end goals of the group doing the acts.

The second is an outworking of fantasy by an individual who needs to strike out at the people around him.

“War” has always been a problematic term - was the Korean conflict a police action or a war? And so on.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:10:23am

re: #177 Targetpractice

It also rather devalues the word when we keep changing the definition to suit our outrage.

Though to engage your argument a bit, the president pretty has to do so, especially the current president. Any president who tried calling an attack on a military facility within the USA anything but “terrorism” would be pounced on by his political enemies, called ‘irresolute and weak’ plus ‘disrespectful to those who serve’. As we all know, in Barack Obama’s case it would even worse and nutcases would be openly calling for his murder on the grounds that his words would prove him a “Treasonous Islamocommie [N-Word]!!1”.

No, President Obama would be a fool not to call the Chattanooga Murder Spree “terrorism”. Failing to do so would gain him little and cost him much.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:10:28am

re: #180 Decatur Deb

Nah. He’s a rather pure product of his upbringing and experiences, and far less crazy than half the country. Of course, I say the same thing about Angela Davis.

But she had a head of hair, that woman.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:12:07am

re: #179 darthstar

How I imagine conversations around the LGF world:
“Honey, what are you chuckling about?”
“Oh, a certain somebody’s wrong on the internet.”

In the Falcon household:
“Son, what’s the matter?”
“Everyone’s wrong on the internet.”

I don’t live with my parents, Darth. I haven’t for over a decade, and I left their house long before I joined LGF.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:13:00am

But they were dressed like terrorists.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:14:05am

re: #187 Dark_Falcon

I don’t live with my parents, Darth. I haven’t for over a decade, and I left their house long before I joined LGF.

Then I was also wrong…on the internet. Oh, the irony.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:15:39am
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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:16:06am

OFFS, just saw this on Wonkette:

Take ISIS, for example, which Trump has a secret plan to defeat. Turns out Trump isn’t new to foreign relations at all; he’s been thinking about how to beat the bad guys since 1984!

This morning, Trump has a new idea. He wants to talk about the threat of nuclear war. He wants to talk about how the United States should negotiate with the Soviets.

He wants to be the negotiator.

He says he has never acted on his nuclear concern. But he says that his good friend Roy Cohn, the flamboyant Republican lawyer, has told him this interview is a perfect time to start.

He was “good friend[s]” with Roy Fucking Cohn? What a bunch of fucking scumbags.

wonkette.com

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:16:45am

re: #186 darthstar

But she had a head of hair, that woman.

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She made some sense. If I had been born black, a few hundred yards up the Hill District, she would have made a hell of a lot of sense. Her stuff on the school-to-prison pipeline is current and worth reading.

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wrenchwench  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:18:13am

re: #186 darthstar

But she had a head of hair, that woman.

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Good book with her as the main subject:

Jury Woman: The Story of the Trial of Angela Y. Davis

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:18:54am

Regional issue - not part of the US “War”

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:20:29am

re: #193 wrenchwench

Good book with her as the main subject:

Jury Woman: The Story of the Trial of Angela Y. Davis

Sounds like the sort of thing LGF is very interested in. Will check.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:21:32am
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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:22:19am

re: #194 darthstar

Regional issue - not part of the US “War”

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Could CL or another Arabic reader translate that flag? Looks for all the world like they have adopted “Don’t Tread On Me”.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:23:27am

re: #197 Decatur Deb

Could CL or another Arabic reader translate that flag? Looks for all the world like they have adopted “Don’t Tread On Me”.

I thought it was a bunch of dildos painted on a rock.
/

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ObserverArt  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:23:42am

re: #191 Timothy Watson

OFFS, just saw this on Wonkette:

He was “good friend[s]” with Roy Fucking Cohn? What a bunch of fucking scumbags.

And you know who played Roy Cohn in a movie?

James Woods.

Small world of politics.

I always thought Woods did a hell of a job in that part in Citizen Cohn. Little did I realize years later it would be made pretty clear as to why. Method acting? No. Total immersion. Possession. And he seems to still be in the role.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:24:15am

re: #191 Timothy Watson

Take ISIS, for example, which Trump has a secret plan to defeat.

Some of us remember remember Nixon running on his secret plan to end the Vietnam war back in 1968. Turned out he didn’t really have one either.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:25:07am

re: #188 darthstar

But they were dressed like terrorists.

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Well, from a distance it does look like an M-4, and Daesh does count female Jihadis in its ranks. The NYPD and the Coast Guard didn’t need to order a lockdown but they didn’t overreact badly. They stopped traffic, after all, and increased security. In Texas the family likely would have been shot dead and then posthumously called “Jade Helm Infiltrators”.

/I wish I was kidding about that last part.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:25:20am

re: #198 darthstar

I thought it was a bunch of dildos painted on a rock.
/

Beautiful reach back.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:25:38am

re: #200 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Some of us remember remember Nixon running on his secret plan to end the Vietnam war back in 1968. Turned out he didn’t really have one either.

John McCain knows how to find bin Laden.

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stpaulbear  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:26:00am

re: #112 austin_blue

The squall line west of the Twin Cities is weakening about ten miles west Minneapolis.

You are free to tweet around the country.

Man! That was looking nasty, but then it went pfffffttt…

and collapsed into a meh squall line. It will still have strong straight line winds, lightning, and some power outages, but that central cell looked like a killer for twenty minutes or so.

The same thing happened with a storm last sunday about the same time at night.
I had ‘CCO on while I was falling asleep, but I never heard about the tornado warnings and I shut off the radio when they said the severe stuff had passed. I’ve got a few branches down in my yard this morning but I don’t see a lot of damage here. Parts of the western metro got nailed pretty good though. 132k people without power.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:26:02am

re: #202 Decatur Deb

Beautiful reach back.

Just channeling my inner CNN.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:27:39am

The man has no more fucks to give. Sorry Republicans.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:27:48am

re: #201 Dark_Falcon

Well, from a distance it does look like an M-4, and Daesh does count female Jihadis in its ranks. The NYPD and the Coast Guard didn’t need to order a lockdown but they didn’t overreact badly. They stopped traffic, after all, and increased security. In Texas the family likely would have been shot dead and then posthumously called “Jade Helm Infiltrators”.

/I wish I was kidding about that last part.

For a bit more background, paintball is of interest there. A group has carried out some non-lethal (apparently hate-motivated) paintball attacks in the NJ-Staten Island area.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:28:50am

re: #199 ObserverArt

And you know who played Roy Cohn in a movie?

James Woods.

Small world of politics.

I always thought Woods did a hell of a job in that part in Citizen Cohn. Little did I realize years later it would be made pretty clear as to why. Method acting? No. Total immersion. Possession. And he seems to still be in the role.

Woods brought his kind of ‘manic’ (as in maniac) style to Citizen Cohen and it worked quite well.The problem is that an actor with that style has to walk a line close to the cliff of insanity, and eventually James Woods fell off that cliff.

BTW, DS, does Cliff of Insanity work for you as a band name? ;)

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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:31:15am

Take that, NCR bastards!
/game

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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:32:29am

re: #209 Varek Raith

Take that, NCR bastards!
/game

You didn’t go Legion, did you?

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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:35:52am

re: #210 Timothy Watson

You didn’t go Legion, did you?

More like watched them all burn.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:36:26am

Liberal rag The Hill

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Varek Raith  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:38:33am
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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:38:36am

re: #201 Dark_Falcon

You’re the only non-Middle Eastern person I know who uses ‘Daesh’ to refer to ISIS/ISIL. I know, they consider it an insult, so whenever you use it I know you’re jabbing them in the kidneys. Carry on, soldier.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:39:17am

re: #213 Varek Raith

I love the smell of fallout in the morning.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:40:49am

DD, this next one’s for you, though William may like it too:

World War Two Nose Art M1911 R1

I found the photo here.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:41:26am

re: #214 darthstar

You’re the only non-Middle Eastern person I know who uses ‘Daesh’ to refer to ISIS/ISIL. I know, they consider it an insult, so whenever you use it I know you’re jabbing them in the kidneys. Carry on, soldier.

PLL does it too.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:43:53am

Rear Gear…ha!

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:45:17am

re: #216 Dark_Falcon

Is that a glue gun?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:47:35am

re: #209 Varek Raith

Take that, NCR bastards!
/game

Funny you should mention that. Today I’m loading the Tale of Two Wastelands conversion. It binds together FO3 and FONV into one playable world. It makes the FO3 world, quests and all, accessible and playable by characters created in FONV - companions too. This could be big fun. Or, because this is an alpha release, I could wind up re-copying the factory fresh installs from a backup drive.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:48:04am
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Great White Snark  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:49:16am

Near perfect vacuum appears at RWC HQ.

Two kinds. My surprise and my sympathy.

Stars And Bars Fanatic Is Now Behind Bars
Edward Lee West’s Confederate flag collection now on its own

The North Carolina man who responded to the South Carolina church massacre by further covering his property in the rebel flag was arrested and jailed this week on a probation violation charge, records show.

According to court records, a judge issued an arrest warrant for West after he failed to show up last week for a court hearing on the probation violation charge. West, whose rap sheet is brimming with weapons-related charges, is serving two years probation for a misdemeanor conviction earlier this year for “Assault Pointing Gun.”

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:53:19am

re: #216 Dark_Falcon

DD, this next one’s for you, though William may like it too:

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I found the photo here.

Conflicted.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:53:21am

Yesterday someone posted the list of Representatives supporting the Iran Deal. I didn’t see mine on the list, so I quickly called up her web page and sent a well reasoned email urging her to support it.

Then I looked at the list again. There she was - “Speier”. Glad I saved the rhetorical fireworks!

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Great White Snark  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:54:45am

re: #218 darthstar

I thought that was just for appearances until I hit the link. Not the Onion?

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:54:53am

re: #218 darthstar

Rear Gear…ha!

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It’s all fun and games until Little Poopsie has a pressure vessel failure.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:55:01am

re: #219 darthstar

Is that a glue gun?

heh. Sure does look like it.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 7:56:24am

re: #225 Great White Snark

I thought that was just for appearances until I hit the link. Not the Onion?

I think it’s a satire site - reduce pet homosexuality by 43%…funny shit.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:01:00am

re: #228 darthstar

I think it’s a satire site - reduce pet homosexuality by 43%…funny shit.

Satire per Wiki, but they dance on either side of the Poe Line.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:08:54am
And because we’re good, they’re evil and we’re right, they’re wrong.

So what would we have to do to stop being good, and what would they have to do to stop being evil? Or is good and evil simply an immutable quality?

Our invasion of Iran is estimated to have killed 200,000 people, one way or another, and to have created ISIS. That’s a lot of bad, for the good guys.

OTOH, has ISIS killed that many?

When I look at ISIS, I see a group that has mad skillz at PR. They make the most of every killing by not only doing it in the most gruesome imaginable way, but also by videorecording it and sending it out to the world. They’ve killed a relative handful of Westerners, but they have millions of us looking under our beds for terrorists. They have half of America wanting to nuke the Islamic world, to expel Muslims, to burn mosques.

So, they excel at making others fear and hate them. And their goals are antithetical to everything we stand for. But they may well be less efficient at killing innocents than we are.

So, again - at what point in killing innocents do we stop being ‘good’?

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Chan Kobun  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:11:55am
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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:13:46am
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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:14:42am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:15:53am

re: #233 darthstar

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“Make a wish!”

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:19:19am

re: #234 Blind Frog Belly White

“Make a wish!”

I wish I had a BrontoBurger.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:24:05am
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Lancelot Link  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:25:09am

re: #193 wrenchwench

I met Angela Davis once when i was in college; she was quite pleasant.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:26:33am

re: #235 Eventual Carrion

I wish I had a BrontoBurger.

Pretty much have to be Bronto Tartare.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:28:20am

re: #238 Decatur Deb

Pretty much have to be Bronto Tartare.

They could always have the humans that were around cook it for them. And Jesus could deliver it riding a triceratops.

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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:29:01am
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darthstar  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:31:25am

re: #239 Eventual Carrion

They could always have the humans that were around cook it for them. And Jesus could deliver it riding a triceratops.

I never understood why he rode a triceratops. They were large, slow, and a bitch to parallel park.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:31:51am
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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:32:55am

re: #241 darthstar

I never understood why he rode a triceratops. They were large, slow, and a bitch to parallel park.

Same reason first-time riders go for a western saddle—lots to hold on to.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:37:13am

Inside the Pluto ‘Truther’ Movement, Which Claims Flyby Was Faked

A man who goes by Crow Trippleseven questioned the initial Pluto images in a YouTube video last week that has garnered more than 50,000 views. “This is silliness and games and they are literally robbing the American people and then lying to them,” he says of NASA in the video, which Gizmodo picked up. His argument: How is it that NASA’s images of Pluto, supposedly taken from a only few million miles away, are of a poorer quality than those he took of Jupiter with his telescopic camera from 484 million miles away?

Referring to a photo of the New Horizons spacecraft, Crow says in the video it’s “probably sitting in a Burbank, Hollywood soundstage somewhere.” He adds: “If you want to see the real Pluto, I’m sorry to say, you’ve got to go to Disneyland.”

good grief.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:41:32am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

And I will bet this person does not know things like Velcro were inspired by our many trips to the Moon.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:46:31am

re: #241 darthstar

I never understood why he rode a triceratops. They were large, slow, and a bitch to parallel park.

They did have those cool ape-hanger handle bar horns. Looked cool going down the trail.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:48:22am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:48:36am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, if he’s so smart, why doesn’t he take some photos of Pluto with his “telescopic camera”?

I bet his resolution of Jupiter is nowhere near New Horizons’ of Pluto.

This is the same kind of idiot who believes aliens helped humans build Stonehenge and the Pyramids.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:48:42am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Inside the Pluto ‘Truther’ Movement, Which Claims Flyby Was Faked

good grief.

We can leave that one behind when we have to abandon this planet.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:50:21am

See you all later. Bedtime here.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:52:09am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Inside the Pluto ‘Truther’ Movement, Which Claims Flyby Was Faked

good grief.

Why the hell not??? Every day must be filled with wonders and surprises for him.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:53:28am

re: #251 Decatur Deb

He must be totally captivated by a Fisher Space Pen. /half

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EmmaAnne  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:56:20am

re: #90 Dark_Falcon

This still is terrorism in my eyes and Daesh does not get to claim its attacks in the US as lawful acts of war because the attackers were unlawful combatants. Now I grant that if they’d tried to follow the rules for lawful combatants they’d have been gunned down a long way short of their targets, but that’s how the rules are written: They are slanted to favor established regular forces.

And no, the unfairness of that doesn’t bother me.

In a war, we call unlawful combatants spies. They tend to get hung if caught. But using spies doesn’t make it not a war.

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:56:35am

The national Dems are beginning to stir. This rouges’ gallery is much better than the stuff they’ve been sending for the last year.

democrats.org

“Ya’ can’t handicap the field without a program.”

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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 8:57:54am

re: #252 PhillyPretzel

He must be totally captivated by a Fisher Space Pen. /half

Or a yo-yo.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:00:53am

re: #251 Decatur Deb

Why the hell not??? Every day must be filled with wonders and surprises for him.

These folks are what’s known going forward as “Plutters”……

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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:01:01am

re: #255 Decatur Deb

Or a yo-yo.

Imagine his reaction when he finds out that “walking the dog” doesn’t involve an actual dog.

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PhillyPretzel  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:02:01am

re: #257 Timothy Watson

He would flip. lol

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:06:17am

re: #258 PhillyPretzel

He would flip. lol

And leave him spinning at the end of his line.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:10:46am
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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:11:29am

re: #249 Eventual Carrion

We can leave that one behind when we have to abandon this planet.

I think a private operator could probably finance a Moon landing with the defamation settlements they could extract later from people who will claim it didn’t happen. Simply have an army of lawyers and internet sleuths standing by to identify and put the squeeze on as many conspira-liars as they can as soon as soon as the landing happens. It depends on how many of these morons know that they have gotten away with it in the past only because government can’t sue for libel, but private citizens can.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:13:47am

Or should that be “nasty ass-clown?”

Works either way.

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Archangelus  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:13:59am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Inside the Pluto ‘Truther’ Movement, Which Claims Flyby Was Faked

good grief.

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CleverToad  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:16:02am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

Want!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:17:05am

welp…

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wrenchwench  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:20:22am

re: #237 Lancelot Link

I met Angela Davis once when i was in college; she was quite pleasant.

I’m jealous. My having met Barry Commoner just doesn’t quite measure up. Sorry, Barry.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:20:44am

re: #265 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh, that makes total sense. Very many sensibles.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:21:32am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:22:35am
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wrenchwench  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:23:19am

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s how Trump and his ilk avoid capture: Don’t go.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:28:19am
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CleverToad  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:28:54am

re: #254 Decatur Deb

They need to up their game considerably. Will have to keep a closer eye on the beg-mails I get from the various Dem groups each day to see if there’s noticeable improvement — had gotten to the point where I delete without reading most of ‘em.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:31:16am
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Decatur Deb  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:31:57am

re: #272 CleverToad

They need to up their game considerably. Will have to keep a closer eye on the beg-mails I get from the various Dem groups each day to see if there’s noticeable improvement — had gotten to the point where I delete without reading most of ‘em.

Yes—-and it’s offensive when they use POTUS and FLOTUS in the routine 5-10 dollar begs. I know what I’m going to give them, and how much work I plan to do.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:33:52am

Regarding Chuck C Johnson is getting banned yet again….how the hell did twitter figure out it was CCJ tweeting from that account?

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:34:58am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Inside the Pluto ‘Truther’ Movement, Which Claims Flyby Was Faked

good grief.

Crow Tripleseven… is it this guy?

Crow
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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:36:30am

re: #275 Dr. Matt

Regarding Chuck C Johnson is getting banned yet again….how the hell did twitter figure out it was CCJ tweeting from that account?

IP addresses, cookies, user agent data, etc.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:37:00am

re: #277 Timothy Watson

IP addresses, cookies, user agent data, etc.

And the faint smell of feces….

///

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danarchy  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:38:57am

re: #225 Great White Snark

I thought that was just for appearances until I hit the link. Not the Onion?

Looks like there is someone selling them on Etsy

etsy.com

with this Note at the end of the listing:

REAR GEAR IS A NOVELTY PRODUCT NOT INTENDED FOR EVERYDAY USE

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Dave In Austin  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:40:59am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

And the faint smell of feces….

///

That got a “chuckle…. “

Whoops!! Made a funny and didn’t see it coming!

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blueraven  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:43:45am

re: #197 Decatur Deb

Could CL or another Arabic reader translate that flag? Looks for all the world like they have adopted “Don’t Tread On Me”.

Cant translate, but the flag photo is a Getty Image

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Charles Johnson  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:50:37am

re: #275 Dr. Matt

Regarding Chuck C Johnson is getting banned yet again….how the hell did twitter figure out it was CCJ tweeting from that account?

They probably got a lot of reports on it, because Deray McKesson retweeted me about it. From there it probably wasn’t hard to verify that it was Chuck, because he’s an idiot and probably didn’t even bother to try to disguise his IP address.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:51:24am

re: #269 Backwoods_Sleuth

Donald Trump can go fuck himself by rolling up one of his older hairpieces. He’s not worthy to tie the shoes of either John, Kerry or McCain.

Let’s imagine if Donald Trump was ordered to perform the same tasks that both of those men, then naval officers performed:

Flying an A-4 Skyhawk on bombing missions opposed by large amounts of Anti-Aircraft Artillery (done by John McCain): Trump would’ve thought the task unworthy of his massive talent, lobbed his bombs in the direction of the enemy from a safe distance, and then called his father for help when his superiors torn him a new asshole for failing to obey his orders.

Commanding a PBR boat in the face of hostile enemy recoiless rifle fire, one hit of which could sink your vessel (done by John Kerry): Trump would “done a Charles C. Johnson” and given new meaning to the term “poop deck”.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:51:50am

re: #282 Charles Johnson

And his ego. His ginormous ego.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:53:03am

re: #282 Charles Johnson

They probably got a lot of reports on it, because Deray McKesson retweeted me about it. From there it probably wasn’t hard to verify that it was Chuck, because he’s an idiot and probably didn’t even bother to try to disguise his IP address.

I wonder if the thought will ever cross Chucky’s tiny little brain that maybe threatening Mr. McKesson wasn’t such a good idea.

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Chan Kobun  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:53:19am

re: #262 Charles Johnson

oh goddamn it I just posted that

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Chan Kobun  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:53:51am

re: #283 Dark_Falcon

Donald Trump can go fuck himself by rolling up one of his older hairpieces.

Quoting this for posterity.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:54:08am

re: #282 Charles Johnson

Shoot… I reported him the first tweet he put out referencing Deray…
Just a matter of time then.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:54:24am

re: #281 blueraven

Cant translate, but the flag photo is a Getty Image

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Getty caption says it’s the flag of Hezbollah.

The logo itself is a stylized representation of the Arabic words حزب الله (ḥizbu-llāh) or “Party of God” in Kufic script. The first letter of “Allah” reaches up to grasp a stylized assault rifle. The logo also incorporates several other objects, namely a globe, a book, a sword, and a seven-leafed branch. The text above the logo reads فإن حزب الله هم الغالبون (fāʾinna ḥizbu llāh hum al-ġālibūn) and means “Then surely the party of Allah are they that shall be triumphant” (Quran 5:56). Underneath the logo are the words المقاومة الإسلامية في لبنان (al-muqāwamah al-islāmīyah fī lubnān) or “The Islamic Resistance in Lebanon”.

en.wikipedia.org

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Dr. Matt  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:54:34am
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Dr. Matt  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:56:53am

re: #282 Charles Johnson

They probably got a lot of reports on it, because Deray McKesson retweeted me about it. From there it probably wasn’t hard to verify that it was Chuck, because he’s an idiot and probably didn’t even bother to try to disguise his IP address.

Let’s see if future twitter conservatives think twice about giving CCJ access to their accounts. Losing an account with 22K followers….wow. Seriously, wow

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 18, 2015 • 9:58:16am

You’d think that Trump’s ludicrously over the top comments about ISIS and El Chapo, and his denigration of McCain’s service and his captivity by NVN would lead to a plummet in the polls, given his won record of avoiding any military service by any means possible. It’s almost like he’s trying to see what he can get away with and still be popular with the rage-driven base.

This makes it hard to see his campaign as anything but a performance piece, with him now pushing the envelope of ridiculousness. I mean, seriously - these are the people who post ‘Like if you think military service should be a requirement for the Presidency!’, the people who post ‘There are no pictures of Obama like this. NONE!’.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:00:48am

The rest of the conservatives will dog pile on Trump now. Because it’s safe. Hitting him on his immigration comments was too delicate.

Anybody want another beer or more popcorn? This weekend should be good, deferments and baby parts is on the menu.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:06:13am

re: #289 Timothy Watson

Getty caption says it’s the flag of Hezbollah.

en.wikipedia.org

I thought it was that. The person who is holding the flag is a member of Hezbollah, fighting the so-called “Islamic State” in Syria. Note also that the Daesh symbol has been crossed out in green, a color Hezbollah often uses.

Of course, Hezbollah has found fighting in Syria to be no fun. To reverse an Idris Elba line from Pacific Rim, Hezbollah’s not ‘the resistance’ anymore, they’re a standing army.

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Romantic Heretic  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:06:18am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

Boy, do I wish it was that easy.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:09:55am

Chuck C Johnson Lawsuit Clock has been recently reset.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:17:36am

re: #296 JadeHelmCurious

I just noticed the little Chrome tab has a pile of poo on it. Wins one Internetz.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:20:53am

re: #297 JadeHelmCurious

I just noticed the little Chrome tab has a pile of poo on it. Wins one Internetz.

I love that site, it reminds me of the good bad ol’ days of WYSIWYG website development and sites on Tripod and Geocities.

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JadeHelmCurious  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:21:47am
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Archangelus  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:26:23am

re: #289 Timothy Watson

Getty caption says it’s the flag of Hezbollah.

en.wikipedia.org

It is.

Source: too much personal familiarity.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:29:06am

Calling Mexican immigrants a bunch of rapists wasn’t bad enough.
Now we know the level of the right wing outage bar.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:29:38am
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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:30:57am

It’s so damn funny watching GOP candidates attack Trump for stuff the base was saying back in 2008 when they opposed McCain’s nomination. Heck, I am pretty sure that Ann Coulter said pretty much the exact same thing.

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Timothy Watson  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:31:29am

re: #302 Dr. Matt

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Perry’s doing the same thing IIRC.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:31:57am

Fort Worth guns and shooting superstore Cheaper than Dirt (aka “Cheating the Dupes”) has gone full bore Jade Helm paranoid on their blog.

Jade Helm 15—What if Martial Law Was a Reality?

They know their customer base.

Texas gun stores in lockstep with official Russian propaganda? Whodathunkit?

For the family values crowd, they have this charming story: Getting Your Kids Off the Internet and Out to the Range!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:33:59am

re: #301 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:34:26am
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Dr. Matt  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:36:00am

Frankly, I hope Trump stays at the top of the polls for month. He’s brilliantly sinking the GOP brand.

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:36:44am

You think maybe Bill Kristol is regretting this mornings Tweet?

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CuriousLurker  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:37:47am

re: #197 Decatur Deb

Could CL or another Arabic reader translate that flag? Looks for all the world like they have adopted “Don’t Tread On Me”.

Heh, it does look like the Gadsden flag from a distance. The writing is a very stylized Kufic script, which I find pretty much impossible to decipher. (I love looking at Arabic & Persian calligraphy, but can’t read 99% of it.)

That said, the yellow flag has me very confused. The photo originates from Getty Images and according to the photographer:

IRAQ-CONFLICT-IS

YOUNIS AL-BAYATI

A flag of the Shiite Hezbollah militant group flutters over a mural depicting the emblem of the Islamic State (IS) group in Al-Alam village, northeast of the multi-ethnic Iraqi city of Tikrit, on March 9, 2015, during a military operation by Iraqi government forces and tribal fighters to regain control of the Tikrit region from jihadists. After being forced out of the province of Diyala earlier this year, the IS jihadists are now fighting off a huge assault on the city of Tikrit as government and allied forces continue to work their way north towards the main IS stronghold of Mosul. AFP PHOTO / YOUNIS AL-BAYATI

gettyimages.com

Here’s a ginormous version if you want to see it better.

Here’s my attempt to isolate the flag and remove the distortions caused by the angle/wind. It’s not great, but it’s better (it’s not something I want to spend too much of my Saturday working on).

The weird part(s) is that the Hezbollah flag is yellow & green (not yellow & black), yet that’s still not the standard version in the photo—that version of the arm with the gun, while similar to Hezbollah, is actually the seal of the Revolutionary Guards (at least in part). Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the two flags from the IDF blog—it matches neither. But wait, it gets better! //

There’s also a new group in Gaza called Hesn:

There is unrest fomenting in the south and north of the Strip, with rise of new factions other than Islamic Jihad and its ilk. In Rafah in the south, salafists supporting al-Qaeda are helping terrorists cross from Sinai via tunnels. In the north, a group call “Hezbollah in Gaza” has reappeared. The group, Harakat as-Sabeereen Natzran Le-Palastin (“The Patient Ones’ Movement for the Liberation of Palestine”), which sometimes goes by the acronym of Hesn (“fortification”). Their flag is almost a mirror image of the Hezbollah banner, with the small addition of a map of greater Palestine. […]

ynetnews.com

Here’s the Hezbollah flag next to the Hesn flag. In some photos, like this one, the Hesn flag is yellow instead of orange.

Here are all four flags/logos next to each other. As you can see, the one from the (Getty) photo, while similar, doesn’t actually match any of them. You guess is as good as mine regarding who it might belong to.

Charles should be posting a fresh thread in 5… 4… 3… //

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:39:34am

re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth

Inside the Pluto ‘Truther’ Movement, Which Claims Flyby Was Faked

good grief.

Got to say, I was wondering when the Pluto truths were going to appear.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:40:32am
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Dark_Falcon  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:41:39am

To be fair, B_S, both Graham and Perry did go after Trump for those things he said about Mexicans, though Perry only did so after Jeb Bush had attacked Trump over the issue.

But I do hope this latest spewing holes Trump’s campaign below the waterline.

BBL

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austin_blue  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:41:44am

re: #310 CuriousLurker

Heh, it does look like the Gadsden flag from a distance. The writing is a very stylized Kufic script, which I find pretty much impossible to decipher. (I love looking at Arabic & Persian calligraphy, but can’t read 99% of it.)

That said, the yellow flag has me very confused. The photo originates from Getty Images and according to the photographer:

Here’s a ginormous version if you want to see it better.

Here’s my attempt to isolate the flag and remove the distortions caused by the angle/wind. It’s not great, but it’s better (and it’s not something I want to spend too much of my Saturday working on).

The weird part(s) is that the Hezbollah is yellow & green, but that’s not the standard version—that version of the arm with the gun, while similar to Hezbollah, is actually the seal of the Revolutionary Guards (at least in part). Here’s a side-by-side comparison of the two flags from the IDF blog. But wait, it gets better! //

There’s also a new group in Gaza called Hesn:

Here’s the Hezbollah flag next to the Hesn flag. In some photos, like this one, the Hesn flag is yellow instead of orange.

Here are all four flags/logos next to each other. As you can see, the one from the (Getty) photo, while similar, doesn’t actually match any of them. You guess is as good as mine regarding who it might belong to.

Charles should be posting a fresh thread in 5… 4… 3… //

Happy Eid, CL! Hope you happily chowing down…

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CuriousLurker  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:42:13am

re: #314 austin_blue

Happy Eid, CL! Hope you happily chowing down…

I am, thanks!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:44:06am

re: #245 PhillyPretzel

No, Velcro was invented by T’Pol in the ST:ENT episode “Carbon Creek”.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:44:48am

re: #310 CuriousLurker

Charles should be posting a fresh thread in 5… 4… 3… //

See—what was that, 5-6 minutes at the most?

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ObserverArt  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:46:31am

Gotta give it to Trump.

He has more than put the ‘clown’ in the “clown car.”

Before Trump that was just a fun phrase. Trump has elevated it the true Bozo level. Totally different clown suit and makeup too. He doesn’t need white face or a big red nose. In a way he has that naturally and no one has clown hair like Trump. Very creative costuming as captured by the New Yorker cover image.

But the real clowning is these statements harpooning everyone standing. And of course so many ready to buy into it, while others say he has got to be joking. Unprecedented levels of new political humor. Almost black comedy performance art. Brilliant…Bozo!

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ObserverArt  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:50:53am

re: #308 Dr. Matt

Frankly, I hope Trump stays at the top of the polls for month. He’s brilliantly sinking the GOP brand.

A month?

That might not be enough to totally wreck the party. I’m thinking to make suitable and permanent change he needs to get through to sometime next year. Clowning it the whole way.

And besides…since the GOP National Convention is going to be in Cleveland and me being an Ohioan, I want to see Cleveland get as much out of this as possible media wise and a Trump still causing trouble right up to a convention would be a key to the best controversy and messiness.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 18, 2015 • 10:57:25am

re: #318 ObserverArt

Hey man. What do you have against Bozo?!?!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 18, 2015 • 11:12:06am

re: #320 GlutenFreeJesus

Hey man. What do you have against Bozo?!?!

Say what you will about Bozoism—at least it’s an ethos!

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BeenHereAwhile  Jul 18, 2015 • 11:37:56am

re: #133 Feline Fearless Leader

From traveling and being in a few art museums with my brother I have noted we have somewhat similar tastes in paintings and art. We’re both “meh” on a lot of the modern art movement, enjoy portrait work to a degree (and with a preference for older art before photography appeared to allow portrait art to go much more impressionist. And Sargent by time period bucked this trend to a certain degree.) And both like landscapes/seascapes from the period where the artists were going past clear and pin-point into being a bit more impressionist.

Though I also took a few pictures of seascapes by 17th century Dutch masters yesterday since they seemed to blend the two really well. Might simply be that the style is “right” as compared to the work being done by New England artists in the early 1800s.

There was an in-joke while going through a museum in Gloucester on whether we’d be willing to hang a given portrait in our living room. Since we’d both seen Sargent’s “Gassed” in London I mentioned it and said that one would need a bigger living room in order to display that one.

en.wikipedia.org
(For those who want to skip the link the painting is roughly 20’ x 8’ in size. And depicts a bunch of WW1 soldiers who have been blinded by a gas attack being led back to a dressing stations. NOT a subject one normally displays in one’s living room.)

Picasso’s early art, up until approx 1917 is not always what one would expect from Picasso.

pablo-ruiz-picasso.net

pablopicasso.org

Re size of paintings, the first thing that struck me when I saw Guernica was its size (approx 11’ X 26’).

Then the emotion hit.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 18, 2015 • 12:06:58pm

re: #319 ObserverArt

A month?

That might not be enough to totally wreck the party. I’m thinking to make suitable and permanent change he needs to get through to sometime next year. Clowning it the whole way.
s.

Typo. I meant to say “months”, i.e., the longer Trump and his poisonous views are front-and-center, the more he sinks that GOP.


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