Nancy Pelosi Calls for Investigation of the Groups Targeting Planned Parenthood

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Finally, Democrats are pushing back against the evil lies about Planned Parenthood being spread by right wing groups like Operation Rescue and the Orwellian “Center for Medical Progress:” Pelosi Urges DOJ Probe Into Group Targeting Planned Parenthood.

“Let’s have an investigation of those people who were trying to ensnare Planned Parenthood in a controversy that doesn’t exist,” Pelosi said Thursday in her first public remarks about Planned Parenthood since the first undercover video surfaced last week.

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“Planned Parenthood has said that they have done nothing illegal,” she said. “They do not ever charge, which would be illegal, for fetal tissue. They have only defrayed the cost of mailing that to someone, which is not breaking the law.”

She also criticized the selectively edited videos released by the Center for Medical Progress, pointing to the “disparities” between actual film and edited versions.

[…]

She said government investigators should, instead, focus on the legality of the Center for Medical Progress’s political activity, backing an effort by several House Democrats who have called for a Department of Justice probe.

Attorney General Loretta Lynch said Wednesday that she would review “all information” available before deciding to launch a full investigation.

UPDATE at 7/23/15 10:52:41 am by Charles Johnson

Meanwhile, the Republican Party’s top politicians are gladly helping promote this vile dishonest smear campaign.

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368 comments
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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:26:21am

Good. So far, the only illegal activities that have been exposed were the ones committed by the so called “pro-lifers”.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:27:19am
She said government investigators should, instead, focus on the legality of the Center for Medical Progress’s political activity, backing an effort by several House Democrats who have called for a Department of Justice probe.

Tyrannies by dictator Obama!!!!111

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:28:04am

re: #1 Kragar

Good. So far, the only illegal activities that have been exposed were the ones committed by the so called “pro-lifers”.

But PP sold baby parts for Lamborginees!!! We haz proof hear on Video!!!11

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:28:25am

Nancy just wants fetal stem cells for her rejuvenation cure…

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:28:30am

Good for Pelosi.

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:29:48am

re: #4 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This whole episode has shown me that RWNJs think fetal cells work like they do on the stem cell episode of South Park

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:30:56am

It’s almost like she enjoys being hated by the Wingnuts. You know I saw a post on my FB the other day suggesting all the employees at PP were possessed by demons.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:31:00am

HURR HURR WHY U NOT PAYING ATTENTIONS TO WEAR N TEH VIDEO SHE TALK ABOUT CRUSHING TEH TINY BABBIES!!!!! WHY U LOVE CRUSHING BABBIES!!!! U R TEH STAN!!!!!!1111

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:32:07am

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s almost like she enjoys being hated by the Wingnuts. You know I saw a post on my FB the other day suggesting all the employees at PP were possessed by demons.

Well she knows she has nothing to worry about since her seat isn’t going Republican in her or her children’s lifetimes.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:32:43am

The right wing has no end to the number of mindless memes that they are spreading across the twitters and innernuts because of these bogus claims.

For people who aren’t really paying attention to all of this, they just read headlines and skim and may actually think that PP was doing this.

They weren’t. And aren’t selling fetal tissue.

For one thing, it’s illegal. At no point in the videos are they discussing sales of fetal tissue. Rather, they’re discussing normal and customary reimbursement for transporting the preserved tissue for researchers.

What these videos show is that the anti-choice right wingers are intent to use all manner of actions - legal and illegal - to further their goal of increasing the costs of health care, reducing access to health care, and undermining reproductive rights of women across the nation.

This cannot stand.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:32:53am

re: #6 Kragar

This whole episode has shown me that RWNJs think fetal cells work like they do on the stem cell episode of South Park

Which episode was that? I want to watch it again.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:32:56am

Senators lying about the issue, who’da thought.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:34:30am

re: #12 jaunte

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Senators lying about the issue, who’da thought.

I had forgotten about that. Sheesh.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:35:28am
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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:35:32am

re: #11 The Vicious Babushka

The one with Christopher Reeves.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:35:46am

re: #13 HappyWarrior

Not just some lying nobody, but the lying Senate Minority Whip.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:36:51am

Alveda King who has built an entire career on being MLK’S BROTHER’S WINGNUT DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:37:41am

re: #16 jaunte

Not just some lying nobody, but the lying Senate Minority Whip.

Of course.

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:38:41am
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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:40:08am

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

Alveda King who has built an entire career on being MLK’S BROTHER’S WINGNUT DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!

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She’s his niece actually. I hate saying it but she really comes off desperate to use her uncle’s name ot legitimate right wing causes. When her aunt, Dr. King’s widow came out in favor of SSM, she pulled this crap too and said “Well I got his blood so blah blah.” Nevermind the fact that MLK’s surviving children also stood with their mom on said issue and the fact that their father stood up for Bayard Rustin, a gay socialist. I don’t want to beat up the woman too hard but she tries to use the fact that MLK is her uncle to try to legitimize right wing causes which he certainly never supported.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:43:56am

In which Erick the Erick refers to women seeking reproductive health care at Planned Parenthood as “female animals”

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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:44:16am

re: #14 The Vicious Babushka

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Does Cruz EVER go to, like, you know, actual work at his, uh, JOB?

Ah, here’s the answer—Rubio is even more of a slacker.

But Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, has a 70 percent attendance rate this year, meaning that for the 30 percent of the days he was out, he missed 69 votes.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, another Republican, isn’t very far behind, with 55 missed votes, or 77 percent attendance.

nytimes.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:44:43am

re: #20 HappyWarrior

She’s his niece actually..

LOL that’s what a Brother’s Daughter is.

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BlueSpotinAL  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:45:27am

Jon “Not intended to be a Factual Statement” Kyl

Comedy Central Video

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:46:04am

re: #22 BeachDem

Does Cruz EVER go to, like, you know, actual work at his, uh, JOB?

Ah, here’s the answer—Rubio is even more of a slacker.

But Senator Marco Rubio, the Florida Republican, has a 70 percent attendance rate this year, meaning that for the 30 percent of the days he was out, he missed 69 votes.

Senator Ted Cruz of Texas, another Republican, isn’t very far behind, with 55 missed votes, or 77 percent attendance.

nytimes.com

If Ted Cruz is doing a better job than you at doing your job………But yes this is exactly why I called Rubio last night. He doesn’t have solutions. He just goes on Fox and throws red meat because he wants the base to love him again after he broke their heart by actually acting like something of a decent person on immigration. This guy is no leader.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:47:33am

OT, but here’s a photogallery of the wreckage of the Czech Railways Pendolino train that was involved in the accident at Studenká yesterday.

moravskoslezsky.denik.cz

Pretty massive damage. Probably a total loss.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:47:39am

re: #14 The Vicious Babushka

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:47:42am

re: #23 The Vicious Babushka

LOL that’s what a Brother’s Daughter is.

Yeah I was just clarifying. I think you already knew that but the wingnuts love to promote her as “MLK’s conservative daughter.” She’s not his daughter and even if she was, that doesn’t mean crap. Ronald Reagan’s son is a huge liberal. You don’t see him going around claiming that Reagan would have supported SSM or ACA.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:48:09am

re: #27 No Country For Old Haters

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Ted Cruz is a criminal enterprise. It does nothing but grift.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:49:37am

Some friends of mine are working on an image capture system based on new research in quantum physics. They claim to have an image of the first Republican presidential debate:

Click to Reveal
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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:50:32am

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

Alveda King who has built an entire career on being MLK’S BROTHER’S WINGNUT DAUGHTER!!!!!!!!

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BlueGrl21  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:50:42am

You know, a lot of women in this country are just done with the bullshit. And we really don’t feel like being nice about it any more.

Notorious RBG. Nancy Pelosi. Elizabeth Warren. Wendy Davis. Jenny Anderson Horne, the Republican in South Carolina that stood up to her colleagues over the Confederate flag and said “I have heard ENOUGH about heritage!”

My great-grandmother used to say, “My husband is head of the household until I get enough of it.” I’ve been thinking of that quote a lot these past couple of years. There’s a lot of disgusted women around right now who are tired of idiots, and women in leadership positions are speaking for us. Go get ‘em, Nancy.

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withak  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:51:08am

re: #30 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Some friends of mine are working on an image capture system based on new research in quantum physics. They claim to have an image of the first Republican presidential debate:

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Here I am, between fits of stifled laughter, wondering how a pork rectum would not be boneless.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:51:14am

re: #17 The Vicious Babushka

NewsMediaWontShowYou

What about Faux?

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Drive By Commenter  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:51:29am

re: #14 The Vicious Babushka

Ted wants you to see the unedited version? Or the doctored up lying version? The Democrats have more than enough to make fools out of this pack of circus clowns every day. They just can’t seem to be able to make it clear. Just because one thing is perfectly clear in your mind does not mean it is clear in others reasoning. Just look at the inability of them to properly explain the ACA. Better get your shit together.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:52:26am

re: #32 BlueGrl21

If women would stop sleeping with Republicans, their ignorant tribe would die out. Unfortunately many women are superstitious enough to support their own oppression.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:52:48am
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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:53:15am

re: #32 BlueGrl21

You know, a lot of women in this country are just done with the bullshit. And we really don’t feel like being nice about it any more.

Goddamned right!

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:53:19am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:53:43am

re: #10 lawhawk

The right wing has no end to the number of mindless memes that they are spreading across the twitters and innernuts because of these bogus claims.

For people who aren’t really paying attention to all of this, they just read headlines and skim and may actually think that PP was doing this.

They weren’t. And aren’t selling fetal tissue.

For one thing, it’s illegal. At no point in the videos are they discussing sales of fetal tissue. Rather, they’re discussing normal and customary reimbursement for transporting the preserved tissue for researchers.

What these videos show is that the anti-choice right wingers are intent to use all manner of actions - legal and illegal - to further their goal of increasing the costs of health care, reducing access to health care, and undermining reproductive rights of women across the nation.

This cannot stand.

When you engage with them, and point to facts, documents, citations, numbers etc. that challenge their statements, their response is ‘Look at the video!!!”

They claim the ACA was passed in secret, that nobody knew what wa in it. Tell them that the text of the ACA was available on line for 3 1/2 months before it was passed, and they tell you to look at the video of Pelosi saying you need to pass it to find out what’s in it.

They claim that Barney Frank and Chris Dodd prevented the Republicans from stopping the Mortgage Crisis. You point out that both of them were in the minority and there is no record of a Republican bill that would have done anything, and they tell you to watch this video of Dodd and Frank talking about mortgages.

Same thing here. They say PP was selling body parts. Point out that both Nucatola and Gatter repeatedly say nobody’s making a profit, and that $30-100/sample is barely enough to cover costs, and they say to watch this video where Gatter jokes about wanting a Lamborghini.

The impression created by the video is more important to them than the verifiable facts. This is what happens when you value BELIEF over KNOWLEDGE.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:53:54am

re: #39 Ace-o-aces

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Nah Kristol will want someone experienced at threatening war with Belgium.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:54:54am
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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:55:09am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:55:13am

re: #36 No Country For Old Haters

If women would stop sleeping with Republicans, their ignorant tribe would die out. Unfortunately many women are superstitious enough to support their own oppression.

Liberals like to say that women should go all Lysistrata.

The problem is, Lysistrata was not a historical figure, but a character in a comedy written by a man performed by all male actors in a theater where women were forbidden to attend.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:55:54am

re: #36 No Country For Old Haters

If women would stop sleeping with Republicans, their ignorant tribe would die out. Unfortunately many women are superstitious enough to support their own oppression.

I would love to see women, in their own self-interest, go full Lysistrata on Republicans.

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:55:56am

re: #8 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR WHY U NOT PAYING ATTENTIONS TO WEAR N TEH VIDEO SHE TALK ABOUT CRUSHING TEH TINY BABBIES!!!!! WHY U LOVE CRUSHING BABBIES!!!! U R TEH STAN!!!!!!1111

You do wingnut dialect better than just about anybody.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:56:24am

re: #30 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Some friends of mine are working on an image capture system based on new research in quantum physics. They claim to have an image of the first Republican presidential debate:

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“You know what’s in hot dogs, don’t you? Lips and assholes, son. Lips and assholes.”

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syphonblue  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:56:27am

About time.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:56:38am
Nancy Pelosi Calls for Investigation of the Groups Targeting Planned Parenthood

Of course it takes a female for the Democrats to finally grow a pair.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:57:03am

At the Laredo airport, people are chanting “Dump Trump.”

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:57:11am
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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:57:21am

re: #40 Blind Frog Belly White

If they were more interested in facts than dogma, they wouldn’t be Republican throwbacks. In a sane country, they’d all be marginalized due to their absurd beliefs. Here they’re rewarded by a completely delusional subculture that insists on being lied to.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 10:59:39am

O’Keefe is insulted and outraged:

And he has other important things to whine about PP and the videos.
What an eejit.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:00:13am

re: #51 darthstar

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:00:17am

Dana “MuhGuns!!!!” blaming Hillary for the Birther frenzy==>

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:00:58am

John McCain goes Godwin.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:01:06am

re: #46 makeitstop

You do wingnut dialect better than just about anybody.

LOL I read the #tcot hashtag, they all sound like that.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:01:17am
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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:02:13am

re: #30 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Some friends of mine are working on an image capture system based on new research in quantum physics. They claim to have an image of the first Republican presidential debate:

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The fuck?

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:02:16am
Video is the rock. Journalists and their words are the scissors. Rock beats scissors every time!

James O’Keefe, The Sex Boat Leni Reifenstahl.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:02:41am

re: #47 Blind Frog Belly White

“You know what’s in hot dogs, don’t you? Lips and assholes, son. Lips and assholes.”

That’s tasty lips and asshole Sir. Tasty!

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Drive By Commenter  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:03:06am

re: #49 Dr. Matt

Of course it takes a female for the Democrats to finally grow a pair.

Or as I like to say; “The GOP are pricks and the Democrats have no balls.”
The GOP has the AM airwaves and a whole cable news service. Throw in the appearances on national TV of the usual GOP hacks. Maybe you get a newspaper, maybe not. If you do you probably get no two sides to any story. AP stories are mangled in small papers. Throw in no ability or willingness to seek the facts on all the dirt being throw by the right wing. No computer, or if you have one, you look for reinforcement of your mindset, not truth. So the majority of regular everyday stiffs is a cluster of late, tilted, outright false or incorrect information. And the lie is repeated until it passes for fact.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:03:54am

re: #60 jaunte

James O’Keefe, The Sex Boat Leni Reifenstahl.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:03:57am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

criminally investigate makers of videos.

This guy…

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:04:27am

re: #62 Drive By Commenter

Or as I like to say; “The GOP are pricks and the Democrats have no balls.”
The GOP has the AM airwaves and a whole cable news service. Throw in the appearances on national TV of the usual GOP hacks. Maybe you get a newspaper, maybe not. If you do you probably get no two sides to any story. AP stories are mangled in small papers. Throw in no ability or willingness to seek the facts on all the dirt being throw by the right wing. No computer, or if you have one, you look for reinforcement of your mindset, not truth. So the majority of regular everyday stiffs is a cluster of late, tilted, outright false or incorrect information. And the lie is repeated until it passes for fact.

INSERT: Classic Team America scene of “Pussies, Dicks & Assholes”

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:04:44am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

O’Keefe is insulted and outraged:

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And he has other important things to whine about PP and the videos.
What an eejit.

Mr. I made my name editing a video has no room to cry about anything here. He should shut the fuck up and find a real job that doesn’t involve ruining other people’s lives for right wing fauxrages.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:04:53am

re: #50 jaunte

At the Laredo airport, people are chanting “Dump Trump.”

haha, it’s so windy he has to wear a baseball cap!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:05:08am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

criminally investigate makers of videos

So all the calls to “investigate” PP, are those criminal, too?

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:05:34am

re: #7 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s almost like she enjoys being hated by the Wingnuts. You know I saw a post on my FB the other day suggesting all the employees at PP were possessed by demons.

Ha. But who is listening to disembodied spirits telling them what to do?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:06:04am

I forgot. Secretive organizations that file phony tax returns and state license information are automatically beyond reproach and must not be questioned.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:06:14am

re: #68 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So all the calls to “investigate” PP, are those criminal, too?

/

It’s different when Republicans prosecute and persecute people. God wants them to do it, and does not approve of Demoncrats

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:06:29am

re: #67 #FergusonFireside

If he had any sense of humor he’d wear a piñata.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:06:36am

What in the utter fuck

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:06:36am
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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:06:44am

re: #56 darthstar

John McCain goes Godwin.

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Neville Chamberlain would be a great drinking game but we’d all die. I have to say. Chamberlain is such a beated horse at this point. The guy wasn’t a saint but the portrait painted of him as going “Sure have anything what you want Herr Hitler” is painfully dishonest. Assholes like McCain don’t understand how decimated Britain was by WWI and how they needed time to prepare.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:07:10am

re: #72 jaunte

If he had any sense of humor he’d wear a piñata.

A sombrero.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:07:29am

re: #73 The Vicious Babushka

What in the utter fuck

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Sure they do Erick.I get it. You’re guilty about being a conservative white supremacist prick but don’t project your guilt on to people who aren’t.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:07:34am

re: #69 Eventual Carrion

Ha. But who is listening to disembodied spirits telling them what to do?

Both the belief that PP people are demons, and that disembodied spirits are talking to them, can be explained by schizophrenia. And they say Liberalism is a mental-disorder.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:07:37am

re: #73 The Vicious Babushka

What in the utter fuck

Doesn’t Erick son of Erick have a seminary education to pursue?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:07:44am

re: #51 darthstar

Professional wingers hate the term “cuckservative” because it perfectly describes a large segment of their cadre.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:08:01am

re: #14 The Vicious Babushka

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Go back to Canada Ted, you’re drunk.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:08:38am

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

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A lot of prominent Republicans have and a lot of prominent Republicans including even Rick Santorum were once pro-choice too but they decided to ride the wagon to outrage. Hell I was told here the other day that Planned Parenthood called George H.W Bush “Rubbers” because he was that supportive of family planning.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:08:39am

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:08:57am

re: #79 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Doesn’t Erick son of Erick have a seminary education to pursue?

He’s on summer vacation getting drunk off of hate again.

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:09:14am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:09:31am

re: #82 HappyWarrior

Hell I was told here the other day that Planned Parenthood called George H.W Bush “Rubbers” because he was that supportive of family planning.

Maybe they shouldn’t have done that. No Republican would risk being called that today.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:09:33am

re: #58 No Country For Old Haters

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:09:41am

re: #83 No Country For Old Haters

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I’d say mostly. If they had stuck with the Ford-H.W Bush(before moving ot the right) wing of the party, they wouldn’t have these assholes dominating the party. Reagan used the RR like a fiddle to get nominated and then elected.

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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:09:42am

re: #40 Blind Frog Belly White

My wingnut brother blames the entire financial crisis on Barney Frank. (Brother is also a big Trump supporter. I assume that either one of us was secretly adopted or he was dropped on his head repeatedly when young.)

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:09:44am

re: #84 HappyWarrior

He’s on summer vacation getting drunk off of hate again.

Sounds like he’s one of those “Not in the workforce” kind of people the teabaggers hate so much.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:10:05am

re: #21 The Vicious Babushka

In which Erick the Erick refers to women seeking reproductive health care at Planned Parenthood as “female animals”

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And Coca Cola sent a response stating, “Erick who?”.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:10:24am

re: #86 No Country For Old Haters

Maybe they shouldn’t have done that. No Republican would risk being called that today.

It actually is amazing. I saw the other day looking at Christie’s biography that he was pro-choice once too.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:10:28am

re: #80 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Before the right wingers started using that term in the past few days, I have not seen it used before.

No idea what it was, and thought it might be a typo, with no other meaning.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:10:39am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:11:05am

hahahahahahaaaa

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:12:06am

re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahahahaaaa

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He must be sweating like a pig inside that Osama rubber mask.

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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:12:07am

re: #51 darthstar

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I’ve not only never heard the term “cuckservative,” I have no idea what it even means.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:12:08am

re: #95 Backwoods_Sleuth

hahahahahahaaaa

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Great White Snark  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:12:17am

re: #30 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Too bad nobody sells invertebrate rectums. Spineless would add something to the description.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:12:26am

re: #52 No Country For Old Haters

If they were more interested in facts than dogma, they wouldn’t be Republican throwbacks. In a sane country, they’d all be marginalized due to their absurd beliefs. Here they’re rewarded by a completely delusional subculture that insists on being lied to.

I see it as more basic to their personality than just being a delusional subculture. I have no data to tell me where exactly it comes from, but the importance of belief over knowledge, the need for certainty even at the expense of accuracy, the extreme discomfort with nuance, the black/white view of everything, and the need for simple solutions all seems to be a deep-seated pattern.

Where does it come from? Hard to say. I used to be very much a ‘Nurture’ believer on personality traits till I realized how much of my and my wife’s traits were showing up in our children at really early stages of childhood.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:12:28am

re: #93 lawhawk

“Cuckservative,” a Definition

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:13:24am

O’Keefe sure loves to play dress up.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:14:11am

re: #100 Blind Frog Belly White

It is amazing how much personality very young children have.

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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:14:16am

re: #53 Backwoods_Sleuth

O’Keefe is insulted and outraged:

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And he has other important things to whine about PP and the videos.
What an eejit.

And paper (as in fraud lawsuit) covers rock, you ignorant twit, O’Keefe.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:14:39am

Not sure what the AFL-CIO has to do with Donald’s publicity stunt.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:15:36am

re: #101 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Ugh, white supremacist site. I added donotlink to the URL.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:15:44am

re: #104 BeachDem

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And paper (as in fraud lawsuit) covers rock, you ignorant twit, O’Keefe.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:15:57am

I still remember when every right wing media outlet in the country want O’Keefe to get a parade for his “expose” of ACORN. Ended up being a fraud. Just like the later Shirley Sherrod video. Gee fraud, seems to be a continuing trope in right wing “investigative journalism.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:16:08am

re: #76 #FergusonFireside

A sombrero.

I like it better the other way. Envisioning Trump surrounded by little blindfolded kids with sticks, beating him till the candy comes out…..

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:16:11am

Go Donald! Go Donald!

Destroy! Destroy! Destroy!

Whack That GOP Until It Can’t Run!!!

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:16:32am
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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:16:33am

re: #104 BeachDem

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:16:36am

re: #106 Charles Johnson

Ugh, white supremacist site. I added donotlink to the URL.

Glad I didn’t click from work! It’s cooler if no one posts links to hate sites without at least a warning.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:17:11am

re: #83 No Country For Old Haters

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Well, and the ACTUAL Taliban.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:18:56am

re: #89 BeachDem

My wingnut brother blames the entire financial crisis on Barney Frank. (Brother is also a big Trump supporter. I assume that either one of us was secretly adopted or he was dropped on his head repeatedly when young.)

He does know that Frank was in the MINORITY for an entire fucking DECADE before 2006, right?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:19:00am

re: #75 HappyWarrior

Europe in general and Britain in particular lost so many young men in WWI that the phrase “The Lost Generation” was coined for them. Chamberlain was also confronting a Germany that had built up the most modern air force in the world by exploiting aviation-related loopholes in the Treaty of Versailles.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:19:27am

re: #114 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, and the ACTUAL Taliban.

Actual Taliban do much less harm to America than the Christian Taliban do, and killing the Christian Taliban with drones isn’t acceptable to anyone, even if the CT believe we’re out to kill them.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:20:52am

re: #116 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Europe in general and Britain in particular lost so many young men in WWI that the phrase “The Lost Generation” was coined for them. Chamberlain was also confronting a Germany that had built up the most modern air force in the world by exploiting aviation-related loopholes in the Treaty of Versailles.

Exactly. Really, it’s easy to blame Chamberlain now but his actions given the times are understandable and I say this knowing that my own family was impacted by the German annexation of Czechoslovakia. It stank but the revisionism of Chamberlain the coward and Churchill the courageous pisses me off to no end.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:21:31am

re: #111 jaunte

WSJ reporting Incirlik is now open for business to Coalition strikes on ISIS.

I’m thinking the Da’esh bombing the other day must’ve really shook up Erdogan and the rest of Turkey’s leadership.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:21:43am

re: #89 BeachDem

My wingnut brother blames the entire financial crisis on Barney Frank. (Brother is also a big Trump supporter. I assume that either one of us was secretly adopted or he was dropped on his head repeatedly when young.)

i hear that a lot

finding a democrat to blame everything on absolves them of responsibility or any further understanding of finance and securitized mortgage instruments or anything so case closed no further analysis necessary

remember, if you can find a democrat to blame, nothing further is required of you

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:22:24am

Sandra Bland had marijuana in her system, DA reported as saying

(Reuters) - Sandra Bland, the black woman found hanging dead in a Texas jail days after a traffic stop, smoked or possibly swallowed a large amount of marijuana while in custody, her family’s attorney reported the district attorney as saying.

1. She was certainly strip-searched before she was jailed (in her booking photo, she was wearing scrubs) and yet they couldn’t find a “large amount of marijuana”?

2. Release the tox reports. The DA and LEOs have zero credibility at this point.

3. If she swallowed “large amount of marijuana”, there almost certainly would still be amounts in the stomach and its routine to remove and open the stomach during an autopsy.

The.whole.thing.fucking.stinks.

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:23:07am
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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:23:08am

re: #119 Dr Lizardo

See the red “ISID” dot at Cerablus; Incirlik is just left of the Meydan-i-Ekbez marker.

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darthstar  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:23:53am

re: #97 BeachDem

I’ve not only never heard the term “cuckservative,” I have no idea what it even means.

I had to look it up. Best guess is it refers to pro-immigration conservatives because their white women are getting fucked by colored people. So yeah, it does have a racist component.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:24:03am

re: #105 HappyWarrior

Not sure what the AFL-CIO has to do with Donald’s publicity stunt.

Border patrol agents are unionized, the National Border Patrol Council, an affiliate of the American Federation of Government Employees, which is a member of the AFL-CIO.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:24:26am

re: #120 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i hear that a lot

finding a democrat to blame everything on absolves them of responsibility or any further understanding of finance and securitized mortgage instruments or anything so case closed no further analysis necessary

remember, if you can find a democrat to blame, nothing further is required of you

They like blaming Tip O’Neill for Reagan’s fuck ups. Nevermind that Reagan actually had to sign anything that Tip would have passed and Reagan actually had a GOP senate for most of his presidency and there were plenty of conservative Dems that helped balance out the Dem majority in the House. People like that just can’t bring themselves to admit Republican fuck ups or if they do, they blame it on the Dems.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:24:49am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

Border patrol agents are unionized, the National Border Patrol Council,an affiliate of the American Federation of Government Employees, which is a member of the AFL-CIO.

Ah thanks.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:24:53am

re: #121 Dr. Matt

It’s pretty late in the game to try to demonize pot. Our sanest states would be a bloodbath from legalization if the reefer madness crowd was remotely credible.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:25:56am

re: #128 No Country For Old Haters

It’s pretty late in the game to try to demonize pot. Our sanest states would be a bloodbath from legalization if the reefer madness crowd was remotely credible.

Marijuana is notorious for making people aggressive…

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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:25:57am

re: #115 Blind Frog Belly White

He does know that Frank was in the MINORITY for an entire fucking DECADE before 2006, right?

Well, he should, as he lives in Massachusetts, but I never take anything for granted with brother dearest.

We try to avoid talking politics, but he (brother) has gone on some epic rants about Barney Frank being responsible for every bad thing that’s happened since the landing at Plymouth Rock.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:26:07am

re: #121 Dr. Matt

and this:

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:26:37am

re: #122 Kragar

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:26:44am

re: #126 HappyWarrior

They like blaming Tip O’Neill for Reagan’s fuck ups. Nevermind that Reagan actually had to sign anything that Tip would have passed and Reagan actually had a GOP senate for most of his presidency and there were plenty of conservative Dems that helped balance out the Dem majority in the House. People like that just can’t bring themselves to admit Republican fuck ups or if they do, they blame it on the Dems.

apparently reagan was a weak president who was pushed around by a democratic house

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:27:00am
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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:27:02am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:27:08am

Uccccch finally reached the point where I have to mute John Nolte. There is some Derp that even I can’t stomach.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:27:23am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Marijuana is notorious for making people aggressive…

It makes me aggressively watch TV from my recliner. Grrr, watch out!

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:28:01am
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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:28:08am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:28:09am

re: #136 The Vicious Babushka

Uccccch finally reached the point where I have to mute John Nolte. There is some Derp that even I can’t stomach.

Damn, and you have the highest derp tolerance here!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:28:21am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Marijuana is notorious for making people aggressive…

It turns me into a cereal killer.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:28:24am

re: #136 The Vicious Babushka

Uccccch finally reached the point where I have to mute John Nolte. There is some Derp that even I can’t stomach.

Nolte is a horrible person.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:28:50am

I can always tell when Zedushka’s meds have kicked in, he starts singing song like “I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty!” and “The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Music”

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:29:01am

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

and this:

So, in summary, while she was lighting up a Cheech-sized joint in jail, she was also hanging herself with a plastic bag, while simultaneously cutting herself.

Yup. Sounds plausible.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:29:41am

re: #143 The Vicious Babushka

I can always tell when Zedushka’s meds have kicked in, he starts singing song like “I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty!” and “The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Music”

What kind of meds…asking for a friend.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:30:31am

re: #145 No Country For Old Haters

What kind of meds…asking for a friend.

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Ian G.  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:30:47am

re: #37 lawhawk

El Paso and San Diego are two of the 5 safest major cities in the US, and both are a literal stone’s throw from Mexico.

But there are violent border cities….if you’re talking about the Canadian border (Detroit, Buffalo, Niagara Falls).

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:31:01am

America is getting played by Donald Trump.

Played.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:32:04am

re: #141 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It turns me into a cereal killer.

It makes me falafel.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:32:16am

It also pizzas me off.

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Varek Raith  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:32:32am

re: #149 HappyWarrior

re: #150 HappyWarrior

-_-

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:32:38am

re: #146 The Vicious Babushka

Morphine.

For some reason it is easier to prescribe than hydrocodone.

Nevermind. I’ve had a nicotine addiction, and will skip the opiate addiction until and unless I’m in severe pain. Sounds like he’s going through a lot.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:32:53am

He haz such a way with words:

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:32:53am

re: #151 Varek Raith

-_-

Hey I tried.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:33:06am

re: #148 #FergusonFireside

There is an America that buys products because they carry the Trump brand. Seems ridiculous.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:33:17am

re: #121 Dr. Matt

Sandra Bland had marijuana in her system, DA reported as saying

1. She was certainly strip-searched before she was jailed (in her booking photo, she was wearing scrubs) and yet they couldn’t find a “large amount of marijuana”?

2. Release the tox reports. The DA and LEOs have zero credibility at this point.

3. If she swallowed “large amount of marijuana”, there almost certainly would still be amounts in the stomach and its routine to remove and open the stomach during an autopsy.

The.whole.thing.fucking.stinks.

I guess I should add

4. If she was smoking a “large amount of marijuana”in jail, how come not a single person smelled it OR saw smoke?

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:33:30am

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

He haz such a way with words:

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I am sure Wisconsin regrets electing this idiot to replace an actual Senator like Russ Feingold. Go fuck yourself Ron.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:33:33am

re: #152 No Country For Old Haters

Nevermind. I’ve had a nicotine addiction, and will skip the opiate addiction until and unless I’m in severe pain. Sounds like he’s going through a lot.

He is diabetic and has severe neuropathy.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:33:46am

“Trump Home”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:34:41am

Kentucky wingnuts are losing their shit right now:

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:35:27am

re: #155 jaunte

There is an America that buys products because they carry the Trump brand. Seems ridiculous.

And they all cut up their Macy’s cards when Macy’s decided to stop selling Trump branded products.

Which reminds me to buy more Macy’s stuff, after I fill up my Ford with ExxonMobil gas and pay for it with my BofA card.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:36:08am

re: #160 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky wingnuts are losing their shit right now:

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Good riddance. Your state is the home of Abe Lincoln and it stayed in the Union. Kentucky may have given this country only one president but Abe was a great one.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:36:24am

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

He is diabetic and has severe neuropathy.

That could be in my future. It runs in my family, and my blood sugar is all over the place from 50mg/dL to about 190mg/dL, but not usually over 200mg/dL yet. I get loopy under about 60mg/dL, but at the time rarely realize I’m impaired.

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jaunte  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:37:19am
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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:37:59am

re: #164 jaunte

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Yep trying to swing public against her. Assholes.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:38:16am
Nancy Pelosi Calls for Investigation of the Groups Targeting Planned Parenthood

OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!!!! CRIMINAL INVESTIGATION!!!!!

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:38:19am

Great article on Cracked today about why the NRA are fuckstickles by the way.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:38:27am

re: #143 The Vicious Babushka

I can always tell when Zedushka’s meds have kicked in, he starts singing song like “I Feel Pretty, Oh So Pretty!” and “The Hills Are Alive With The Sound of Music”

So, if you adjust his meds, does he start doing Cabaret? Or Tradition?

And where can I get those meds? /asking for a friend.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:38:36am

re: #164 jaunte

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:38:42am

re: #167 HappyWarrior

Great article on Cracked today about why the NRA are fuckstickles by the way.

Upding for “fuckstickles”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:39:02am

re: #164 jaunte

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A lie goes halfway around the…

Aw fuck it. You all know where I was going.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:39:09am

re: #165 HappyWarrior

Yep trying to swing public against her. Assholes.

If CCJ had his twitter account, he would be doxing her past and looking for juvenile court arrest records.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:39:13am

re: #168 lawhawk

So, if you adjust his meds, does he start doing Cabaret? Or Tradition?

And where can I get those meds? /asking for a friend.

I already asked for my friend. Morphine; Your friend doesn’t want any.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:40:14am

re: #172 Dr. Matt

If CCJ had his twitter account, he would be doxing her past and looking for juvenile court arrest records.

He’d be looking at anyone is related to her. Remember his attacks on Mike Brown’s stepfather?

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:40:21am

re: #172 Dr. Matt

If CCJ had his twitter account, he would be doxing her past and looking for juvenile court arrest records.

Instead he can drink and cry over his failed attempt at becoming Breitbart.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:40:22am

re: #172 Dr. Matt

If CCJ had his twitter account, he would be doxing her past and looking for juvenile court arrest records.

It’s pleasant to imagine him in agony over being unable to do so.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:40:44am

re: #170 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Upding for “fuckstickles”

Ha! Thanks. Seriously though. Damn good read.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:41:04am

re: #175 No Country For Old Haters

Instead he can drink and cry over his failed attempt at becoming Breitbart.

You have to wager he’s jealous of Little Ben.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:41:19am

re: #176 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s pleasant to imagine him in agony over being unable to do so.

I try not to take pleasure in the suffering of others, but he is a really awful person.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:41:30am

re: #176 Blind Frog Belly White

It’s pleasant to imagine him in agony over being unable to do so.

Ah true but it’s sad knowing that there is a successor to Breitbart.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:41:40am

re: #115 Blind Frog Belly White

If Frank voted AYE on Glass-Steagal repeal, GLBA, CFMA and The Bankruptcy act bills, then yes, he had a hand in it.

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Ian G.  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:41:55am

re: #164 jaunte

So this is how the smear of Bland is going to go, huh? She had dope in her system, ergo, she deserved to die. Because we’re Saudi Arabia, or something.

Jesus, how many people do you think deserved death by rogue cop at those recent Grateful Dead shows in SF and Chicago if this is the standard? How many times would I have deserved it while in college? Oh, right. White people. Not a problem.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:42:22am

re: #179 No Country For Old Haters

I try not to take pleasure in the suffering of others, but he is a really awful person.

Nah. It’s not like we’re wishing cancer or physical harm on him. Wishing he’s not the new Breitbart is a wish for anyone who doesn’t toe the right wing bs line to be okay and live their lives free of harassment.

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Bubblehead II  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:42:50am

re: #172 Dr. Matt

If CCJ had his twitter account, he would be doxing her past and looking for juvenile court arrest records.

Isn’t he now writing for some WP rag (takimag?) I’m sure they will be more than happy to give him a voice for his ranting.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:43:15am

re: #182 Ian G.

So this is how the smear of Bland is going to go, huh? She had dope in her system, ergo, she deserved to die. Because we’re Saudi Arabia, or something.

Jesus, how many people do you think deserved death by rogue cop at those recent Grateful Dead shows in SF and Chicago if this is the standard? How many times would I have deserved it while in college? Oh, right. White people. Not a problem.

Yeah the OMG THEY HAD POT IN THEIR SYSTEM people are really getting on my nerves. It’s pot ffs.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:43:30am

re: #180 HappyWarrior

Ah true but it’s sad knowing that there is a successor to Breitbart.

Bargain Basement Breitbart.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:44:12am

re: #182 Ian G.

So this is how the smear of Bland is going to go, huh? She had dope in her system, ergo, she deserved to die. Because we’re Saudi Arabia, or something.

Jesus, how many people do you think deserved death by rogue cop at those recent Grateful Dead shows in SF and Chicago if this is the standard? How many times would I have deserved it while in college? Oh, right. White people. Not a problem.

If the race agitator had drugs in her system then she got what was coming…hey did you know Rand Paul is for legalizing drugs which is the most important issue in this election so I’m gonna vote for him.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:44:27am

re: #146 The Vicious Babushka

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:44:29am

Despite having the appearance of being an utterly cheap piece of shit, that hat is the classiest campaign apparel available today

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:45:35am

re: #181 Eric The Fruit Bat

If Frank voted AYE on Glass-Steagal repeal, GLBA, CFMA and The Bankruptcy act bills, then yes, he had a hand in it.

There’s a world of difference between ‘he had a hand in it’, and ‘he caused it’. And the folks who blame him don’t think there’s anything wrong with those bills.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:45:38am

re: #186 Blind Frog Belly White

Bargain Basement Breitbart.

True. I just would prefer to live in a world where people like Breitbart or CCJ have no political influence.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:46:26am

re: #108 HappyWarrior

I still remember when every right wing media outlet in the country want O’Keefe to get a parade for his “expose” of ACORN. Ended up being a fraud. Just like the later Shirley Sherrod video. Gee fraud, seems to be a continuing trope in right wing “investigative journalism.”

The new yellow journalism.

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b_sharp  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:46:44am

When we answer a comment that contains a ‘Private’ button, do responses automatically get restricted too?

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:47:10am

re: #144 Dr. Matt

So, in summary, while she was lighting up a Cheech-sized joint in jail, she was also hanging herself with a plastic bag, while simultaneously cutting herself.

Yup. Sounds plausible.

Which means she would have needed a bag of weed and a knife or some kind of blade at the very least.

Don’t they make inmates empty out their pockets down there in Texas?

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:49:02am

re: #192 Eventual Carrion

The new yellow journalism.

Yeah William Randolph Hearst would have some serious envy of Jimmy boy.

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:49:38am

re: #192 Eventual Carrion

The new yellow journalism.

The only way right-wing media can try to bring down something or someone they don’t like, is to create fraudulent undercover videos. If they were actual journalists and went about conducting actual journalism, they would fail miserably and they know it.

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HappyWarrior  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:49:38am

re: #194 makeitstop

Which means she would have needed a bag of weed and a knife or some kind of blade at the very least.

Don’t they make inmates empty out their pockets down there in Texas?

You’d also think that such things would have a big bulge in their pockets. But what do I know.

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Targetpractice  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:49:38am

So they suspected, if not believed, she was suicidal, but they allowed her to be put in a cell with a cutting implement, a trash can with a bag capable of supporting her weight, and drugs.

So I guess they’ve chosen the flip-side of the Reagan Defense, i.e. “We’re too incompetent to tie our shoes.”

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:51:02am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Marijuana is notorious for making people aggressive…

while pursuing a twinkie.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:52:11am

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Now we see the Rage Furby whining because (1) he’s non-white and (2) he’s making more money than he is (3) he can’t vent his spleen on this over on Twitter.

That’s gotta be a bee in his beard; stinging him like mad.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:52:23am

re: #121 Dr. Matt

Sandra Bland had marijuana in her system, DA reported as saying

1. She was certainly strip-searched before she was jailed (in her booking photo, she was wearing scrubs) and yet they couldn’t find a “large amount of marijuana”?

2. Release the tox reports. The DA and LEOs have zero credibility at this point.

3. If she swallowed “large amount of marijuana”, there almost certainly would still be amounts in the stomach and its routine to remove and open the stomach during an autopsy.

The.whole.thing.fucking.stinks.

FunnyOrDie Video

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:52:38am

re: #199 Eventual Carrion

while pursuing a twinkie.

I’m holding out for a Ho Ho, or Ding Dongs. Sillier names than even Twinkie, and they contain something like chocolate.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:53:23am

re: #189 FormerDirtDart

Despite having the appearance of being an utterly cheap piece of shit, that hat is the classiest campaign apparel available today

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It was super windy when he got off the plane.

His hair would’ve been a-flying.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:54:45am

re: #203 #FergusonFireside

It was super windy when he got off the plane.

His hair would’ve been a-flying.

I would recommend staples, lots of them

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Dave In Austin  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:56:18am

re: #188 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Isn’t that Dilaudid?

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:56:50am

re: #204 FormerDirtDart

I would recommend staples, lots of them

He should just give up on the double combover and embrace the bald, like Rudy eventually did.

But he never will. Dude’s way too vain for that.

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Dave In Austin  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:57:51am
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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:58:18am

re: #204 FormerDirtDart

I would recommend staples, lots of them

Or the kind of haircut business professionals have. Most people don’t do ridiculous combovers anymore.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:58:44am

re: #193 b_sharp

When we answer a comment that contains a ‘Private’ button, do responses automatically get restricted too?

Nope.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 23, 2015 • 11:58:58am

re: #163 No Country For Old Haters

I get loopy under about 60mg/dL, but at the time rarely realize I’m

That is not good-it doesn’t take much lower to go into a full hypoglycemic shock - been there, done that.

Certain classes of other drugs are also notorious for inducing hypoglycemic episodes (mainly the atypical antipsychotics.)

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Iwouldprefernotto  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:00:01pm

re: #208 No Country For Old Haters

Or the kind of haircut business professionals have. Most people don’t do ridiculous combovers anymore.

Most casino owners don’t go bankrupt
Most don’t eat pizza with a fork
Most don’t say they find their daughter super attractive

Donald Trump does

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:00:18pm

re: #121 Dr. Matt

Bet you they forced it down her after they hung her.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:00:22pm

re: #182 Ian G.

So this is how the smear of Bland is going to go, huh? She had dope in her system, ergo, she deserved to die. Because we’re Saudi Arabia, or something.

Jesus, how many people do you think deserved death by rogue cop at those recent Grateful Dead shows in SF and Chicago if this is the standard? How many times would I have deserved it while in college? Oh, right. White people. Not a problem.

They (police spokesman) already denounced her as “not a model citizen.”

The fix was in starting the moment she died.

Not a “model citizen”? Your death is on you.
Not deferential enough to an unreasonable officer? Your death is on you.
Panicked or having a medical emergency? Your death is on you.

Here is nice summary from a law enforcement true believer:

Even though it might sound harsh and impolitic, here is the bottom line: if you don’t want to get shot, tased, pepper-sprayed, struck with a baton or thrown to the ground, just do what I tell you. Don’t argue with me, don’t call me names, don’t tell me that I can’t stop you, don’t say I’m a racist pig, don’t threaten that you’ll sue me and take away my badge. Don’t scream at me that you pay my salary, and don’t even think of aggressively walking towards me.

Because the supposed trained professional can make an unlimited number of mistakes since he is “in a stressful situation and cannot use hindsight” while you cannot make any mistakes at all without risking death.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:01:21pm

We really don’t know for sure what happened to Sandra Bland yet - but good freaking grief, these stories coming out of the police are just ridiculous. She “ate or smoked a large quantity of marijuana” while in jail? WTF!?

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:02:13pm

Waller Co DA speaking now

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:02:19pm

re: #213 Aunty Entity Dragon

They (police spokesman) already denounced her as “not a model citizen.”

The fix was in starting the moment she died.

Not a “model citizen”? Your death is on you.
Not deferential enough to an unreasonable officer? Your death is on you.
Panicked or having a medical emergency? Your death is on you.

Here is nice summary from a law enforcement true believer:

Because the supposed trained professional can make an unlimited number of mistakes since he is “in a stressful situation and cannot use hindsight” while you cannot make any mistakes at all without risking death.

Of course few cops are what you’d call a “model citizen” either if we’re going to demand that people be good zombies who follow every rule.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:02:53pm

re: #211 Iwouldprefernotto

Most don’t say they find their daughter super attractive

Donald Trump does

Never heard that one before. Super-creepy.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:02:54pm

By the way.

Private Comment

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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:03:07pm

re: #215 #FergusonFireside

Waller Co DA speaking now

Every time I read the name of that county, I cringe.

That’s my last name.

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Great White Snark  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:05:54pm

re: #121 Dr. Matt

And the character attacks continue.

re: #214 Charles Johnson

We know enough to know she was the lesser criminal in the video.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:06:18pm

re: #217 No Country For Old Haters

Never heard that one before. Super-creepy.

From Snopes. They say he was joking. Ok Still creepy to joke about your daughter even if you are making a joke about the fact that you like younger women. It’s just icky

Trump is creepy

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:07:57pm

re: #205 Dave In Austin

I believe hydromorphone is (part of what makes up?) Dilaudid.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:08:36pm

Why are they going to show photos?

This should be at a trial, not the pubic arena.

Gah

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:09:08pm

re: #184 Bubblehead II

Isn’t he now writing for some WP rag (takimag?) I’m sure they will be more than happy to give him a voice for his ranting.

If you want to credit his drivel as “writing”. I’d hate to be his editor since you’d be fighting against a huge ego attached to a large ball of lazy meat.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:09:45pm

re: #189 FormerDirtDart

Despite having the appearance of being an utterly cheap piece of shit, that hat is the classiest campaign apparel available today

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Does the hat have a “Made in Mexico” tag? The world wonders.

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Targetpractice  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:10:14pm

re: #223 #FergusonFireside

Why are they going to show photos?

This should be at a trial, not the pubic arena.

Gah

This is a trial, in the court of public opinion. That’s where most cases involving cops and questionable injuries/deaths are fought, because if a DA can win the case there, he never has to worry about taking it into a criminal court where he’s bound by the law in what he can and can’t use to slander the victim.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:10:55pm

re: #198 Targetpractice

So they suspected, if not believed, she was suicidal, but they allowed her to be put in a cell with a cutting implement, a trash can with a bag capable of supporting her weight, and drugs.

So I guess they’ve chosen the flip-side of the Reagan Defense, i.e. “We’re too incompetent to tie our shoes.”

We’re going down the “incompetent or criminal” decision tree again. Which, in either case, is not what you want a police department to be.

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Great White Snark  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:12:58pm

re: #220 Great White Snark

Oops really should have added if the Marij. possession has any truth to it at all, doubtful at this point.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:13:02pm

Donald’s already back from his border visit!! He learned so much.

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b_sharp  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:13:50pm

re: #209 Blind Frog Belly White

Nope.

Then when we respond to a comment with a Private button, shouldn’t we take care to wrap our responses in Private button code?

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Targetpractice  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:14:34pm

This is what happens in a system where the people who investigate wrongful deaths are tasked with investigating themselves and the question of whether criminal charges will be brought is left up to DAs (or their equivalents) who rely upon those same investigators to feed their office a steady stream of criminal cases to prosecute.

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blueraven  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:15:15pm

re: #229 #FergusonFireside

Donald’s already back from his border visit!! He learned so much.

Unbelievable…all cable stations broke from Sandra Bland presser to Trump.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:17:34pm
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allegro  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:17:39pm

re: #202 No Country For Old Haters

I’m holding out for a Ho Ho, or Ding Dongs. Sillier names than even Twinkie, and they contain something like chocolate.

The best is still a big bowl of peanuts, raisins, and M&Ms. And a jug of water.

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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:17:41pm

Jacob Nachumi is a documentary photographer based in Israel. As an Orthodox Jew, Nachumi has spent six years pointing his camera lens at the rituals, customs, and culture of his community.

The 32-year-old photographer was raised in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, just east of Tel Aviv, and was educated at an ultra-Orthodox yeshiva, a school for studying traditional texts of the faith.

After photographing his environment for some time, Nachumi began trying to gain a deeper view of the traditions around him by attempting to see the customs from an outsider’s point of view. He also worked to gain access to private ceremonies that are normally closed off to outsiders — he was often driven away, but some communities did let him (and his camera) in.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:18:59pm

re: #235 wrenchwench

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Or you could look at my Facebook feed!

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:19:06pm

re: #232 blueraven

Unbelievable…all cable stations broke from Sandra Blane presser to Trump.

Yep.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:19:29pm

Because they were going to show photos.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:20:09pm

UCCCH Here’s another wingnut blaming Hillary for the Birfer Frenzy

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:20:10pm

re: #213 Aunty Entity Dragon

Because the supposed trained professional can make an unlimited number of mistakes since he is “in a stressful situation and cannot use hindsight” while you cannot make any mistakes at all without risking death.

How about this, then - we’ll accept that, on the condition that if you kill someone, and it’s determined it was not justified, we execute you.

And no, I am absolutely NOT SERIOUS. It just seems to me that if you’re so worried about dying that you’ll kill someone on the suspicion that they might just possibly be going for a gun, then maybe there needs to be something you’re afraid of on the other side of the scale in case you fuck up.

Sorry, that line of argument, especially from LEOs, just makes me very angry, especially in light of all the unjustifiable killings.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:23:21pm

I hate The Donald™ The Trump®.

That is all.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:24:04pm

Appropos of the font discussion earlier:

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Iwouldprefernotto  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:24:43pm

re: #239 The Vicious Babushka

UCCCH Here’s another wingnut blaming Hillary for the Birfer Frenzy

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Starting your tweet with “weird” doesn’t make it so.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:25:48pm

re: #240 Blind Frog Belly White

How about this, then - we’ll accept that, on the condition that if you kill someone, and it’s determined it was not justified, we execute you.

And no, I am absolutely NOT SERIOUS. It just seems to me that if you’re so worried about dying that you’ll kill someone on the suspicion that they might just possibly be going for a gun, then maybe there needs to be something you’re afraid of, in case you fuck up.

Sorry, that line of argument, especially from LEOs, just makes me very angry, especially in light of all the unjustifiable killings.

That line of thinking so clearly states that their lives are worth more.

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ObserverArt  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:27:15pm

And I also hate Chuck The Toad Todd.

He seems impressed with Trump’s political nimbleness. Gag.

I think Chuck would be impressed by watching a balloon rise on a hot day. Yeah, he likes hot air.

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Targetpractice  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:28:42pm

*coubullshitgh*

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:28:57pm

Shocking news, David Barton has a sane take on something

On his “WallBuilders Live” radio program today, Barton took a question from a listener on the controversy over the Confederate flag and the idea that the Civil War was really fought over the principle of states’ rights and not the issue of slavery.

Barton outright rejected this sort of “revision of history” and spent more than ten minutes explaining that the Civil War was explicitly fought over the issue of slavery, as he declared that it appalls him to see schools named after Confederate generals like Nathan Bedford Forrest and compared the actions of Confederate soldiers to ISIS.

“It was not about states’ rights,” Barton said. “It was about slavery.”

As Barton explained, the documents written and speeches given by those who supported secession regularly cited the preservation of slavery as the primary factor. The idea that the Civil War was fought to protect states’ rights, Barton said, is absurd considering that the Confederate constitution explicitly prohibited states from abolishing slavery.

“It was not about states’ rights, it was about slavery,” Barton said. “What we’ve seen as a result of this is a lot of revision of history. And today, it literally appalls me to see that throughout the south, they still have elementary schools named after Nathan Bedford Forrest, who was one of the great Confederate generals in the Civil War. But you know, Nathan Bedford Forrest was also the founder of the Ku Klux Klan … We’ve got elementary schools named after a great murderer?”

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:28:57pm
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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:29:35pm

re: #212 GlutenFreeJesus

Bet you they forced it down her after they hung her.

Or she could have smoked a joint 3 weeks ago.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:30:01pm

re: #247 Kragar

Shocking news, David Barton has a sane take on something

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He’ll say is was because they were all TEH DEMOCRATZ!!!!!!!

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:32:34pm

re: #250 The Vicious Babushka

He was really quite strong in his condemnations, never mentioning political parties.

Barton went on to liken Confederate prisoner of war camps for Union soldiers to Nazi death camps as he revealed that of all the official prayer proclamations that he collects for this library, he will not accept any Confederate proclamations from the likes of Jefferson Davis “because what they were praying for to God is like ISIS praying.”

“Look at the pictures, read the accounts,” Barton said. “Read what happened to blacks, read the hearings in Congress on the various things that were done to blacks. It’s not human. It’s what Germans did to Jews, saying ‘Well, they aren’t human, we can do this to them.’”

Barton said that he realizes that lots of Confederate leaders and soldiers were strong Christians “but that doesn’t mean what they fought for was right … The bottom line is you judge a tree by its fruits and the states’ right they fought to preserve was that of keeping blacks as non-people, as non-humans and they treated blacks and they treated Union soldiers in that manner and that’s just unacceptable.”

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:33:53pm

re: #214 Charles Johnson

We really don’t know for sure what happened to Sandra Bland yet - but good freaking grief, these stories coming out of the police are just ridiculous. She “ate or smoked a large quantity of marijuana” while in jail? WTF!?

Maybe their defense is that they didn’t murder her on purpose. They are just really, really incompetent.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:33:57pm

Somebody should check Barton’s garage for giant pods…

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:35:42pm

re: #247 Kragar

Shocking news, David Barton has a sane take on something

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If this neo-confederate stuff is too stupid for David Barton, then you know it’s got to be really stupid.

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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:35:42pm

re: #253 Backwoods_Sleuth

Somebody should check Barton’s garage for giant pods…

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:36:56pm

re: #251 Kragar

Maybe Barton doesn’t know that he’s a wingnut pseudo-historian/propagandist, and is unwittingly making up a false history based on his extremist beliefs, which unlike so many of his tribe, surprisingly don’t include racism.

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:37:34pm

Can’t wait to see the mouth breathing crowd attack David Barton.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:38:07pm

re: #246 Targetpractice

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*coubullshitgh*

This person live tweeted the whole presser. All the info in her timeline.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:38:07pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:38:36pm

re: #257 Kragar

Can’t wait to see the mouth breathing crowd attack David Barton.

He’s definitely not pure wingnut enough for them. 99% wingnuts can’t be tolerated.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:39:36pm
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Reno Cowgirl  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:41:28pm

Just watched Maddow’s interview with Santorum in its entirety— start to finish. It was a real eye-opener for me because of the stark contrast to last week’s Trump interview on Morning Joe. I couldn’t finish that Trump interview, it was so awful I had to turn it off. Listening to Trump is just torture— nails on a chalkboard. Santorum is 100% wrong on absolutely everything, but he’s (mostly) civil. Trump is also 100% wrong on absolutely everything, but there’s nothing civil about Trump.

When I think about all those other candidates (Jeb, Christie, Perry, Huckabee, Jindahl, Rubio, Walker, Rand, Graham, Carson, Kasich) sure all of them are totally smug and totally stupid. But NONE of them are as dreadfully nauseating as Trump. He’s truly in a class of his own.

I don’t think I’m alone on this. If he’s the nominee, the party is doomed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:42:21pm
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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:42:36pm

re: #189 FormerDirtDart

Despite having the appearance of being an utterly cheap piece of shit, that hat is the classiest campaign apparel available today

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And why is c-span even covering his idiocy?

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:42:38pm
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Franklin  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:43:20pm
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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:43:37pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:43:55pm

re: #12 jaunte

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Senators lying about the issue, who’da thought.

Kyl’s illustrious Republican predecessor, Senator Barry Goldwater, was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood of Arizona. His wife was president of the organization and the senator himself served on the board for many years.
The Goldwater Award

Each year, Planned Parenthood Federation of America (PPFA) presents The Barry Goldwater Award to an outstanding public official who has supported Planned Parenthood and reproductive health issues.

This prestigious award is presented each year to an outstanding elected official who has acted as a leader within the Republican Party to protect women’s reproductive rights across the United States.

The award honors the late Arizona Senator Barry Goldwater, an outspoken leader in the Republican Party for decades. Senator Goldwater was a freethinking individual, who voted his conscience and was a leading voice in the Republican Party to ensure the rights granted to women following the Roe v. Wade decision.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:45:14pm

re: #267 Kragar

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“Nobody could have predicted…”

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Ace-o-aces  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:45:20pm

re: #239 The Vicious Babushka

UCCCH Here’s another wingnut blaming Hillary for the Birfer Frenzy

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And, of course, the comments section is nothing but birtherism and related conspiracy theories.

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:45:28pm

re: #263 Backwoods_Sleuth

I own about 2 dozen baseball caps - and none of them are as ill fitting as the one Trump conjured up. Could it be any cheaper looking? It’s as though he rummaged through the bargain bin for a white one for someone to then iron on the logo.

Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.

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Franklin  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:45:32pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:46:50pm

re: #270 Ace-o-aces

And, of course, the comments section is nothing but birtherism and related conspiracy theories.

How dare the supporters of that foreign-born usurper accuse us of being birthers!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:47:34pm

re: #271 lawhawk

I own about 2 dozen baseball caps - and none of them are as ill fitting as the one Trump conjured up. Could it be any cheaper looking? It’s as though he rummaged through the bargain bin for a white one for someone to then iron on the logo.

Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.

It looks like one of Justin Bieber’s oversized mushroom-looking ballcaps.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:47:54pm

re: #271 lawhawk

I own about 2 dozen baseball caps - and none of them are as ill fitting as the one Trump conjured up. Could it be any cheaper looking? It’s as though he rummaged through the bargain bin for a white one for someone to then iron on the logo.

Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.

It’s YOOOGE!!

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:49:06pm

re: #267 Kragar

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And really, is anyone surprised?

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Dave In Austin  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:49:37pm

Take the time to watch this…..

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:50:29pm

re: #267 Kragar

He was pointing it at the ground. It seems he understood at least part of gun safety, while he wasn’t smart enough to unload his own gun w/o firing it.

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Targetpractice  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:51:02pm

re: #276 Eventual Carrion

And really, is anyone surprised?

Personally, I’m amused by how that post came just a short while after Kragar’s one about the Army warning recruitment stations that the civilian “guards” might be a threat. “Threat” seems a stretch, more like “danger to themselves and others.”

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:51:53pm

The town/jail/police dept of Waller is going down.

They are going to be sued to kingdom come. The photo of the huge trash can with a new bag in it means they left additional bags lying around?

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allegro  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:52:23pm

re: #268 Shiplord Kirel

Kyl’s illustrious Republican predecessor, Senator Barry Goldwater, was one of the founders of Planned Parenthood of Arizona. His wife was president of the organization and the senator himself served on the board for many years.
The Goldwater Award

Do they still give that award out? What Republican today would accept it if offered?

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Franklin  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:54:41pm

FROM THE DESK OF MARTIN O’MALLEY

7/23/2015

Campaign To Do List

1. Read this explainer of ‘All Lives Matter’ vs ‘Black Lives Matter’

2. Blast Jeb! for saying that I should not have apologized

3. Confirm my belief in and support of #blacklivesmatter

4. Profit?

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:56:23pm

re: #277 Dave In Austin

Take the time to watch this…..

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The music made it even better.

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FormerDirtDart  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:58:29pm
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makeitstop  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:59:46pm

re: #271 lawhawk

I own about 2 dozen baseball caps - and none of them are as ill fitting as the one Trump conjured up. Could it be any cheaper looking? It’s as though he rummaged through the bargain bin for a white one for someone to then iron on the logo.

Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.

But it has that rope thing on the brim. That’s classy.
///

Also, Trump’s head is YOOOOOOGE.

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blueraven  Jul 23, 2015 • 12:59:56pm

re: #280 #FergusonFireside

The town/jail/police dept of Waller is going down.

They are going to be sued to kingdom come. The photo of the huge trash can with a new bag in it means they left additional bags lying around?

Even if Sandra Bland’s death was a suicide, they are complicit. She should have never been in jail in the first place.

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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:00:21pm

re: #281 allegro

Do they still give that award out? What Republican today would accept it if offered?

They still award it. Republican Lisa Murkowski was the 2014 winner.

Of course, Murkowski is rejected as a RINO by the dominant nut brigade, as Goldwater undoubtedly would be if he were still alive. Goldwater was widely regarded as the founder of the conservative movement. This is a useful, if appalling, measure of just how far the GOP has devolved and how far to the right the spectrum has shifted.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:02:51pm

re: #285 makeitstop

But it has that rope thing on the brim. That’s classy.
///

Also, Trump’s head is YOOOOOOGE.

Also, the hat needs to be YOOOOOGE and carefully placed on his head so he doesn’t suffer hat hair later.

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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:03:10pm

re: #286 blueraven

Even if Sandra Bland’s death was a suicide, they are complicit. She should have never been in jail in the first place.

That’s my view on it. I live with clinical depression, so understand that it absolutely could have been a suicide, but awful policing led to her being miserable in that cell.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:03:27pm

re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also, the hat needs to be YOOOOOGE and carefully placed on his head so he doesn’t suffer hat hair later.

Because with hair like his, hat hair could be fatal!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:04:49pm

This could very well be my favorite twitter photo of the day:

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:04:58pm

re: #271 lawhawk

I own about 2 dozen baseball caps - and none of them are as ill fitting as the one Trump conjured up. Could it be any cheaper looking? It’s as though he rummaged through the bargain bin for a white one for someone to then iron on the logo.

Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.

I guess the brain slug wanted an extra-puffy hat in order to have extra breathing room. (And I suspect that the hat is over sized that way in order to not disturb the comb over.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:05:48pm

re: #292 Feline Fearless Leader

I guess the brain slug wanted an extra-puffy hat in order to have extra breathing room. (And I suspect that the hat is over sized that way in order to not disturb the comb over.)

Breathing room for that sentient being living on his head…

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:06:09pm
#Asshat #DonaldTrump #DonaldTrumpHat
295
Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:07:07pm

re: #292 Feline Fearless Leader

I guess the brain slug wanted an extra-puffy hat in order to have extra breathing room. (And I suspect that the hat is over sized that way in order to not disturb the comb over.)

‘cause you wouldn’t like it if it’s disturbed!

296
FormerDirtDart  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:08:27pm

re: #294 Dr. Matt

[Embedded content]

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lawhawk  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:09:57pm

re: #296 FormerDirtDart

That’s some bad hat Harry.

298
Franklin  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:10:54pm

Looks good on you though!

…

299
Shiplord Kirel  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:11:32pm

Another tattered relic of your dad’s Republican Party:
The Ripon Society
This was founded by, and for, liberal Republicans in the early 60s. It was primarily a response to the growing influence of the conservative Goldwater faction, who were regarded as dangerous fringe dwellers at the time but would be lib-leaning RINOs today.

With the extinction of Republican liberals, the society has become a sleepy auxiliary of the Republican establishment. They have given their Republican of the Year award to GW Bush and John Boehner, for example.

300
#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:12:24pm

re: #286 blueraven

Even if Sandra Bland’s death was a suicide, they are complicit. She should have never been in jail in the first place.

The photo of the trash bag/noose is pretty harsh to look at. I just don’t know.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:13:05pm

re: #299 Shiplord Kirel

Another tattered relic of your dad’s Republican Party:
The Ripon Society
This was founded by, and for, liberal Republicans in the early 60s. It was primarily a response to the growing influence of the conservative Goldwater faction, who were regarded as dangerous fringe dwellers at the time but would be lib-leaning RINOs today.

With the extinction of Republican liberals, the society has become a sleepy auxiliary of the Republican establishment. They have given their Republican of the Year award to GW Bush and John Boehner, for example.

They have zombie Roosevelt lying hidden in a crypt though in reserve for a special occasion.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:13:50pm

re: #292 Feline Fearless Leader

I guess the brain slug wanted an extra-puffy hat in order to have extra breathing room. (And I suspect that the hat is over sized that way in order to not disturb the comb over.)

Oh, I think once he put the hat on, his hair is toast. He’s wearing that thing all day. Unless he can do that whack style to his hair himself.

303
Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:14:38pm

Ugh, there is a conspiracy theory that in Sandra Bland’s mugshot she was actually laying on the floor and the shot was taken above. Even worse, there is, what appears to be, a photoshopped pic with her eyes half closed, i.e., she was actually dead in the mugshot.

304
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:16:07pm

re: #303 Dr. Matt

I saw that nonsense.

305
Jenner7  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:16:39pm

So, I heard CNN broke from the Sandra Bland news conference to cover Trump’s border stunt. Wow.

You suck, CNN. Really.

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Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:17:44pm
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Franklin  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:20:41pm
308
Targetpractice  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:21:31pm

re: #306 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Jeb! once again demonstrating that he’s this year’s Willard Romney, the rich asshole who has absolutely no idea how to talk to anybody who wasn’t born with a trust fund wrapped around the silver spoon in their mouth.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:23:02pm

re: #303 Dr. Matt

I just saw this tweet from Sandra Bland’s cousin about that photoshopped mugshot:

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:24:49pm

re: #308 Targetpractice

Jeb! once again demonstrating that he’s this year’s Willard Romney, the rich asshole who has absolutely no idea how to talk to anybody who wasn’t born with a trust fund wrapped around the silver spoon in their mouth.

Remember Lincoln’s saying about how it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

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blueraven  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:24:57pm

re: #305 Jenner7

So, I heard CNN broke from the Sandra Bland news conference to cover Trump’s border stunt. Wow.

You suck, CNN. Really.

So did MSNBC. They all suck.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:25:38pm

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just saw this tweet from Sandra Bland’s cousin about that photoshopped mugshot:

[Embedded content]

??

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:25:50pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:27:42pm

Oh no. Buzz Aldrin’s sister Maddie and his first wife Joan both died yesterday, within a few hours of each other.

I lost two very important women in my life yesterday. My sister Maddy & my first wife Joan - the mother of my three children. They both passed on opposite sides of the country within hours of each other. They were two classy respectable ladies who were both the family glue holding our clans together with love. I will miss them dearly.

My deepest sympathy to the Aldrin family.

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Charles Johnson  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:27:53pm
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Targetpractice  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:28:00pm

re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Remember Lincoln’s saying about how it is better to remain silent and be thought an idiot than to open one’s mouth and remove all doubt.

Yeah, I’m still getting giggles over how anybody thought Jeb! was “The smart one.”

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KGxvi  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:33:12pm

re: #306 Kragar

I’m at the tail end of Gen-X, so I’ve been hearing since high school that Social Security, Medicare, and pretty much anything resembling a functioning government will be bankrupt by the time I’m old enough to retire. Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that talk of “reform” (which always involves phasing out benefits after the reformer would get them) is more FYIGMism than anything else.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:35:02pm

re: #317 KGxvi

I’m at the tail end of Gen-X, so I’ve been hearing since high school that Social Security, Medicare, and pretty much anything resembling a functioning government will be bankrupt by the time I’m old enough to retire. Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that talk of “reform” (which always involves phasing out benefits after the reformer would get them) is more FYIGMism than anything else.

I’m older than you and I’ve been hearing the same nonsense since 1970 (give or take a few years either direction).

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Dr. Matt  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:36:51pm

re: #315 Charles Johnson

In this lizard’s humble opinion, I think this would make for great page here. This needs to be circulated and recirculated.

320
Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:37:22pm

re: #317 KGxvi

I’m at the tail end of Gen-X, so I’ve been hearing since high school that Social Security, Medicare, and pretty much anything resembling a functioning government will be bankrupt by the time I’m old enough to retire. Over the years, I’ve come to the conclusion that talk of “reform” (which always involves phasing out benefits after the reformer would get them) is more FYIGMism than anything else.

I was born in ‘61 and have been hearing the same thing all through my life. It is nothing new, probably been around since the New Deal came about.

321
#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:37:47pm
322
Kragar  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:37:59pm
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Dr Lizardo  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:38:09pm

re: #319 Dr. Matt

In this lizard’s humble opinion, I think this would make for great page here. This needs to be circulated and recirculated.

I second that motion.

Let’s shine a little sunlight on the Freepers. I’m thinking they won’t enjoy the attention too much. :D

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:38:29pm

re: #271 lawhawk

I own about 2 dozen baseball caps - and none of them are as ill fitting as the one Trump conjured up. Could it be any cheaper looking? It’s as though he rummaged through the bargain bin for a white one for someone to then iron on the logo.

Awful doesn’t begin to describe it.

Now you know why Jerry Seinfeld specified fitted caps when he called in his terrorist threat to Yankee Stadium. Steinbrenner put George in charge: “Now I gotta keep track of the hat sizes of 90,000 different people! What if a pinhead shows up? I gotta be on top of that!!”

Looks like one did.

325
#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:39:17pm

Gérard AraudVerified account
@GerardAraud FOLLOWS YOU
Compte personnel de l’Ambassadeur de France aux Etats-Unis / Personal account of the French ambassador to the U.S. / RTs are not endorsements

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:41:06pm

re: #325 #FergusonFireside

Gérard AraudVerified account
@GerardAraud FOLLOWS YOU
Compte personnel de l’Ambassadeur de France aux Etats-Unis / Personal account of the French ambassador to the U.S. / RTs are not endorsements

Oh mon

327
EPR-radar  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:46:47pm

re: #262 Reno Cowgirl

Just watched Maddow’s interview with Santorum in its entirety— start to finish. It was a real eye-opener for me because of the stark contrast to last week’s Trump interview on Morning Joe. I couldn’t finish that Trump interview, it was so awful I had to turn it off. Listening to Trump is just torture— nails on a chalkboard. Santorum is 100% wrong on absolutely everything, but he’s (mostly) civil. Trump is also 100% wrong on absolutely everything, but there’s nothing civil about Trump.

When I think about all those other candidates (Jeb, Christie, Perry, Huckabee, Jindahl, Rubio, Walker, Rand, Graham, Carson, Kasich) sure all of them are totally smug and totally stupid. But NONE of them are as dreadfully nauseating as Trump. He’s truly in a class of his own.

I don’t think I’m alone on this. If he’s the nominee, the party is doomed.

That is precisely why I’d like to see Trump get the GOP nomination. It would take something like that to finally force the GOP enablers to decide whether to stand with the wingnuts or against them.

Even if Trump were to become POTUS, random mayhem coming from the White House would likely be less destructive than what we’d get from ideologues like Cruz or Walker.

328
TedStriker  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:46:54pm

re: #314 Shiplord Kirel

Oh no. Buzz Aldrin’s sister Maddie and his first wife Joan both died yesterday, within a few hours of each other.

My deepest sympathy to the Aldrin family.

Growing old sucks.

329
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:49:24pm

heh

330
BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:51:05pm

re: #267 Kragar

[Embedded content]

“I’m nobody special,” Reed said. “I’m just a guy doing my job because my own government wouldn’t do it.”

Reed said he is not a military veteran. He described himself as an active gun enthusiast who makes a living working side jobs.

Can’t even use the “you had one job” meme, as this wasn’t the fucking guy’s job to begin with. (And what exactly are “side jobs?” Is that like off-the-books, non-tax-paying jobs?)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:51:06pm

re: #327 EPR-radar

That is precisely why I’d like to see Trump get the GOP nomination. It would take something like that to finally force the GOP enablers to decide whether to stand with the wingnuts or against them.

Even if Trump were to become POTUS, random mayhem coming from the White House would likely be less destructive than what we’d get from ideologues like Cruz or Walker.

And I still say, Trump actually being President would be less of a disaster than almost any of the others (I don’t know much about Pataki.) A lot of this crap he spews is just noise—he’s not going to try to implement the Religious Right’s agenda for example. They’re idiots if they think he will.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:51:26pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

[Embedded content]

Well, to be fair, there have been postmenopausal women who were surrogate mothers, so, there’s that.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:52:44pm

re: #329 Backwoods_Sleuth

heh

[Embedded content]

I like the braille on the ATM buttons at the drive-through….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:53:18pm

re: #332 Blind Frog Belly White

Well, to be fair, there have been postmenopausal women who were surrogate mothers, so, there’s that.

They wouldn’t need menopause drugs since they’d already be getting a hormone that would allow them to be surrogates.

335
Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:54:31pm

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

They wouldn’t need menopause drugs since they’d already be getting a hormone that would allow them to be surrogates.

True. And there are very, very, very few of them.

ETA: but hey, if one can’t be pedantic among friends, where CAN one be pedantic?

//

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:56:21pm

re: #327 EPR-radar

That is precisely why I’d like to see Trump get the GOP nomination. It would take something like that to finally force the GOP enablers to decide whether to stand with the wingnuts or against them.

Even if Trump were to become POTUS, random mayhem coming from the White House would likely be less destructive than what we’d get from ideologues like Cruz or Walker.

Random mayhem!

337
Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:56:39pm

oh good freaking grief. My twitter TL is filling up with more and more “Sandra Bland was already dead and laying on the floor for her mugshot and here’s the photographic PROOF!!!” nonsense.
And then that gawdawful photoshop to make her look more dead when the first photo wasn’t convincing enough.

jeebus. There’s more than enough hinky things about the case without making up more conspiracy theory stuff.

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Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:56:41pm

re: #334 Backwoods_Sleuth

They wouldn’t need menopause drugs since they’d already be getting a hormone that would allow them to be surrogates.

My wife is pretty happy that she hasn’t had a period in 3 years.

339
The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:56:44pm

In Which Erick The Erick shows what a horrible douchebasket he is==>

340
Iwouldprefernotto  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:57:04pm

re: #336 #FergusonFireside

Random mayhem!

That was so fun under Bush.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:57:30pm

re: #335 Blind Frog Belly White

True. And there are very, very, very few of them.

ETA: but hey, if one can’t be pedantic among friends, where CAN one be pedantic?

//

:D
Band name for a folk music group: “Pedantic Friends”.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jul 23, 2015 • 1:58:09pm

re: #338 Eventual Carrion

My wife is pretty happy that she hasn’t had a period in 3 years.

The BEST part of menopause!

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:00:54pm

re: #331 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And I still say, Trump actually being President would be less of a disaster than almost any of the others (I don’t know much about Pataki.) A lot of this crap he spews is just noise—he’s not going to try to implement the Religious Right’s agenda for example. They’re idiots if they think he will.

for one thing, trump is not backing down on his support of universal health insurance

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:01:19pm

re: #339 The Vicious Babushka

In Which Erick The Erick shows what a horrible douchebasket he is==>

[Embedded content]

I’m hearing a lot of the Right calling people who disagree with nonscientific statements ‘anti-science’. Most recently it revolved around the idea that to refer to a trans person by their own gender identification, rather than their karyotype is ‘unscientific’.

What nonsense! It’s the same old binary thinking. They want things to be EITHER/OR, so that one is completely male or completely female, and they think Nature works that way. Bullshit. Nature gives us spectra. Nature gives us probability distributions. Nature gives us outliers.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:02:16pm

re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth

The BEST part of menopause!

Mrs. FBW has even stopped opening the back door in the middle of winter and standing in the howling breeze that blows through it.

346
makeitstop  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:02:41pm

re: #327 EPR-radar

Even if Trump were to become POTUS, random mayhem coming from the White House would likely be less destructive than what we’d get from ideologues like Cruz or Walker.

I wouldn’t be too sure about that. What if something happened that caused Trump to call another world leader a dummy or a loser?

They’re grade-school insults for sure, but Trump mouthing off like that could cause a lot of trouble with friend and foe alike.

I’d just rahter he get nowhere near the White House, thanks.

347
The Vicious Babushka  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:02:49pm

re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m hearing a lot of the Right calling people who disagree with nonscientific statements ‘anti-science’. Most recently it revolved around the idea that to refer to a trans person by their own gender identification, rather than their karyotype is ‘unscientific’.

What nonsense! It’s the same old binary thinking. They want things to be EITHER/OR, so that one is completely male or completely female, and they think Nature works that way. Bullshit. Nature gives us spectra. Nature gives us probability distributions. Nature gives us outliers.

But they become totes Anti-Science again on the subjects of evolution and climate, so they are really not that into Science.

348
Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:04:15pm

re: #341 Backwoods_Sleuth

:D
Band name for a folk music group: “Pedantic Friends”.

Pedantic Friends Network. Not as profitable as, and considerably more tedious than, the Psychic Friends Network.

BTW, I bet with the latter, the usual telephone greeting is “I knew you were going to call!”

349
Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:05:24pm

re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m hearing a lot of the Right calling people who disagree with nonscientific statements ‘anti-science’. Most recently it revolved around the idea that to refer to a trans person by their own gender identification, rather than their karyotype is ‘unscientific’.

What nonsense! It’s the same old binary thinking. They want things to be EITHER/OR, so that one is completely male or completely female, and they think Nature works that way. Bullshit. Nature gives us spectra. Nature gives us probability distributions. Nature gives us outliers.

Nature gives us She-males

350
Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:05:39pm

re: #347 The Vicious Babushka

But they become totes Anti-Science again on the subjects of evolution and climate, so they are really not that into Science.

Oh, but Evolution isn’t REAL science, because even though the theory makes predictions that all turn out to be true, nobody saw dogs turning into cats.

And Climate Scientists just want to destroy Capitalism, for some unspecified reason.

351
Eventual Carrion  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:06:31pm

re: #345 Blind Frog Belly White

Mrs. FBW has even stopped opening the back door in the middle of winter and standing in the howling breeze that blows through it.

Mine still sometimes goes through that “Is is hot in here to you?” moments. But they are a lot less often than they were a few years back.

352
Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:06:39pm

re: #344 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m hearing a lot of the Right calling people who disagree with nonscientific statements ‘anti-science’. Most recently it revolved around the idea that to refer to a trans person by their own gender identification, rather than their karyotype is ‘unscientific’.

What nonsense! It’s the same old binary thinking. They want things to be EITHER/OR, so that one is completely male or completely female, and they think Nature works that way. Bullshit. Nature gives us spectra. Nature gives us probability distributions. Nature gives us outliers.

The GOP gives up outright Liars.

353
Feline Fearless Leader  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:07:39pm

re: #348 Blind Frog Belly White

Pedantic Friends Network. Not as profitable as, and considerably more tedious than, the Psychic Friends Network.

BTW, I bet with the latter, the usual telephone greeting is “I knew you were going to call!”

After they ask your for your credit card number. Of course.

354
BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:09:21pm

re: #331 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And I still say, Trump actually being President would be less of a disaster than almost any of the others (I don’t know much about Pataki.) A lot of this crap he spews is just noise—he’s not going to try to implement the Religious Right’s agenda for example. They’re idiots if they think he will.

I can’t even wrap my head around even a remote possibility of Trump being President. It would be “Beyond Idiocracy.” (Trumpdow—plants crave it ‘cause it has electrolytes!)

Kinda glad I’m old and don’t have kids.

355
Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:09:22pm

re: #353 Feline Fearless Leader

After they ask your for your credit card number. Of course.

“I’m holding the number in my mind, so you should have no trouble figuring it out.”

356
No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:10:41pm

re: #322 Kragar

357
whitebeach  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:10:56pm

re: #33 withak

Here I am, between fits of stifled laughter, wondering how a pork rectum would not be boneless.

Um, remember “Deliverance”?

358
Blind Frog Belly White  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:11:25pm

re: #351 Eventual Carrion

Mine still sometimes goes through that “Is is hot in here to you?” moments. But they are a lot less often than they were a few years back.

Mrs. FBW has difficulty with the whole concept of objective ambient temperature. She invariably says, “It’s hot in here “, rather than “I’M hot”.

359
EPR-radar  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:12:21pm

re: #354 BeachDem

I can’t even wrap my head around even a remote possibility of Trump being President. It would be “Beyond Idiocracy.” (Trumpdow—plants crave it ‘cause it has electrolytes!)

Kinda glad I’m old and don’t have kids.

I’m willing to pay almost any price to see the supposedly sane Republicans forced to vote for or against a GOP Base Id-Monster like Trump in a general election.

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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:13:53pm

re: #358 Blind Frog Belly White

Mrs. FBW has difficulty with the whole concept of objective ambient temperature. She invariably says, “It’s hot in here “, rather than “I’M hot”.

We got a thermometer.

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BeachDem  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:15:30pm

re: #359 EPR-radar

I’m willing to pay almost any price to see the supposedly sane Republicans forced to vote for or against a GOP Base Id-Monster like Trump in a general election.

Having seen up close and personal how mind-numbingly stupid some of these supposed “sane Republicans” are, I’m not willing to take that chance with our country’s future.

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EPR-radar  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:23:07pm

re: #361 BeachDem

Having seen up close and personal how mind-numbingly stupid some of these supposed “sane Republicans” are, I’m not willing to take that chance with our country’s future.

Realistically, the only possibility for significant political reform in the US is if the GOP is destroyed or forced to radically change in order to remain competitive.

The only driver I can see for something like that is at least one massive GOP loss in a presidential election (preferably several in a row). The only chance for such massive losses is for the GOP candidates to be loons (e.g., Trump) that not even the MSM can pretend are reasonable choices.

However, the risk that the loon becomes president is real. IMO, the US is doomed anyway if Trump could win a general election, so I don’t see a value added in keeping the GOP nomination away from him.

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wrenchwench  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:29:20pm
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No Country For Old Haters  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:31:28pm

re: #339 The Vicious Babushka

In Which Erick The Erick shows what a horrible douchebasket he is==>

[Embedded content]

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CarolJ  Jul 23, 2015 • 2:50:54pm

re: #182 Ian G.
People, she’s not going to have any weed anywhere near her, especially driving cross-country going to her dream job at a school. A pot charge would pretty much eliminate her job, especially in Texas.

She’s also not going to give the cops any reason to stop her and keep her-which is what would happen if they even stopped her and found any.

If she had weed enough to impair-where’s the charge for possession? It would be easy enough to do so at once and justify her detention and an increase in her bail.

The cops are doing two things at once: scrambling to justify what has happened, and poisoning a potential jury pool of elderly white people who still believe in “reefer madness”. Folks who know better and don’t always believe the cops have already moved out of town towards the city-any city-because of jobs and repression.

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Khal Wimpo  Jul 23, 2015 • 4:06:10pm

As a Gen-Xer who absolutely loved the arcade games of the early 80s, who fed countless quarters into Robotron, Spy Hunter, Zaxxon, Centipede, et al., I have to agree with the scathing review of “Pixels.”

It is a giant gorilla turd. It is a cynical exploitation that is so Adam Sandler-bad that it makes you hate everything you once loved.

…

Extra credit: copy down the verbiage dumped down upon this movie. Save & re-use later to describe the GOP debate on Fox.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jul 23, 2015 • 4:45:46pm

Damn that Obama. Being so supportive of ISIS that he got Turkey to agree to let us use the air base in Incirlik for strikes against them… With just a phone call.

bbc.com

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zerosumgame0005  Jul 24, 2015 • 7:04:55am

re: #11 The Vicious Babushka

tv.com


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