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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:18:41pm

OT: (obviously, I view these jams as all-skates)

NPR had a report that the fight over the defunding of PP may prevent the House R’s from passing a budget before September 30th, when the fiscal budget ends.

A government shutdown!

Over the donation of fetal tissue for research!

These people are just mouth-breathers, feebs, and defectives. The law is settled. The actions of PP are legal, and the benefits of fetal tissue research are blatant. PP isn’t profiting (the processors are, though) and the research institutions must have feedstock.

Is it uncomfortable to see fetal tissue discussed as a commodity? You bet. But the fact is that cutting-edge medical research requires stem cells as feedstock, and the best feedstock comes from women who, trying to have something good result from a gut-wrenching decision to terminate a pregnancy, volunteer their not quite yet humans as organ donors.

The opponents are vultures who have no scruples, and in the long view, no humanity. They are fanatics and political hacks. Their ultimate purpose is to do away with birth control entirely, make no mistake.

Their Utopia is The Handmaid’s Tale.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:20:53pm

Verrry good start to a new thread.

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:24:04pm
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aagcobb  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:27:07pm

re: #1 austin_blue

OT: (obviously, I view these jams as all-skates)

NPR had a report that the fight over the defunding of PP may prevent the House R’s from passing a budget before September 30th, when the fiscal budget ends.

A government shutdown!

Over the donation of fetal tissue for research!

These people are just mouth-breathers, feebs, and defectives. The law is settled. The actions of PP are legal, and the benefits of fetal tissue research are blatant. PP isn’t profiting (the processors are, though) and the research institutions must have feedstock.

Is it uncomfortable to see fetal tissue discussed as a commodity? You bet. But the fact is that cutting-edge medical research requires stem cells as feedstock, and the best feedstock comes from women who, trying to have something good result from a gut-wrenching decision to terminate a pregnancy, volunteer their not quite yet humans as organ donors.

The opponents are vultures who have no scruples, and in the long view, no humanity. They are fanatics and political hacks. Their ultimate purpose is to do away with birth control entirely, make no mistake.

Their Utopia is The Handmaid’s Tale.

I’m guessing Boehner and McConnell won’t let that happen, but I could be wrong.

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#FergusonFireside  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:31:17pm

Re-watching Rectify. Scratch that, I’m behind an ep. Girl Jesus it is!

Y’all check it out. Sundance.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:48:01pm

re: #3 teleskiguy

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Yeah, but Almaty has two hotels, only one of which has running water.

;-)

After Oslo and Stockholm bailed, it was either a Communist rock or a Communist dump.

The rock won. I’ll go ahead and predict a shitstorm of problems with logistics. The skiing venues are *way* the fuck away from Beijing, and like you say, snow is sketchy. Oh, and there is that whole global warming thing, which the Chinese are happily contributing to by burning every lump of coal they happen to find, adding to the problem.

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:52:25pm

re: #3 teleskiguy

Just a little sparse.

gearjunkie.com

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RealityBasedSteve  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:53:45pm

Well, I’ve had a PB&J sandwich (on Texas Toast Bread with Blackberry jam), a glass of milk and I’m headed to bed.

Feeling very mellow and relaxed the last couple of days… not a feeling that I’m always comfortable with, but I’m going to just enjoy it while it lasts.

Enjoy.

RBS

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:53:48pm

Looks like Golden CO in September.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:54:41pm

David Harvey was on the front lives.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 31, 2015 • 8:56:31pm

re: #6 austin_blue

It’s China, Jake. If national prestige is on the line then there will be snow, no matter what it takes.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:00:32pm

ALERT: I guess the opportunity was too good to pass up. Assholes:

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:05:42pm

Help Us Diagram This Sentence by Donald Trump!

Look, having nuclear—my uncle was a great professor and scientist and engineer, Dr. John Trump at MIT; good genes, very good genes, okay, very smart, the Wharton School of Finance, very good, very smart—you know, if you’re a conservative Republican, if I were a liberal, if, like, okay, if I ran as a liberal Democrat, they would say I’m one of the smartest people anywhere in the world—it’s true!—but when you’re a conservative Republican they try—oh, do they do a number—that’s why I always start off: Went to Wharton, was a good student, went there, went there, did this, built a fortune—you know I have to give my like credentials all the time, because we’re a little disadvantaged—but you look at the nuclear deal, the thing that really bothers me—it would have been so easy, and it’s not as important as these lives are (nuclear is powerful; my uncle explained that to me many, many years ago, the power and that was 35 years ago; he would explain the power of what’s going to happen and he was right—who would have thought?), but when you look at what’s going on with the four prisoners—now it used to be three, now it’s four—but when it was three and even now, I would have said it’s all in the messenger; fellas, and it is fellas because, you know, they don’t, they haven’t figured that the women are smarter right now than the men, so, you know, it’s gonna take them about another 150 years—but the Persians are great negotiators, the Iranians are great negotiators, so, and they, they just killed, they just killed us.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:07:26pm

re: #4 aagcobb

I’m guessing Boehner and McConnell won’t let that happen, but I could be wrong.

What Boehner and McConnell should do is to declare they aren’t going to pass another Omnibus budget bill this year, then pass the funding bills by department, or at worst by group of departments. When Obama then vetoes the Health and Human Services (HHS) Bill, the damage will be contained to that department.

There’s no good reason any functions of the Department of Transportation or Energy should be impaired because of policy differences over HHS.

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retired cynic  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:07:29pm

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

FTW!

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:10:56pm

re: #9 jaunte

Looks like Golden CO in September.

What an apt description. :)

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RealityBasedSteve  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:12:00pm

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Help Us Diagram This Sentence by Donald Trump!

It’s going to look a lot like a Kentucky Family Tree. (Sorry BWS…)

RBS

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:13:41pm

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Help Us Diagram This Sentence by Donald Trump!

My diagram: I come from a Proud Linage, Liberal Academics are fools, I come from a Proud Linage, I understand a bit about nuclear power and nuclear weapons (but not enough - DF) because My Sainted Relative taught me, the Iran deal does force Iran to return Americans being held unjustly (On that, the Donald has a valid point, though not enough by itself to warrant killing the deal), DERP!!1, ethnic stereotypes about Iranians.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:14:37pm

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Help Us Diagram This Sentence by Donald Trump!

Parse that word salad?

Umm. No. Can’t happen.

No wonder he has such a tight relationship with the Mama Grizzlquitter. They are both incomprehensible.

Popcorn!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:15:01pm

re: #14 Dark_Falcon

There’s no good reason any functions of the Department of Transportation or Energy should be impaired because of policy differences over HHS.

If it had anything to do with policy differences, you would be correct, but it doesn’t. It’s just another case of the GOP trying to hold the whole country for ransom to push through their regressive agenda. It’s the Patrick Henry doctrine: “Give me Liberty or give me death! In English: “Do things my way or I’ll kill us both!”

(Plus, it’s another opportunity to demonstrate that “Government can’t work—so put us in charge of it!”)

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:15:14pm

re: #6 austin_blue

Yeah, but Almaty has two hotels, only one of which has running water.

;-)

After Oslo and Stockholm bailed, it was either a Communist rock or a Communist dump.

The rock won. I’ll go ahead and predict a shitstorm of problems with logistics. The skiing venues are *way* the fuck away from Beijing, and like you say, snow is sketchy. Oh, and there is that whole global warming thing, which the Chinese are happily contributing to by burning every lump of coal they happen to find, adding to the problem.

This should be a huge scandal going forward. The Olympics are being held in authoritarian regimes (Russia, China), places with horrible human life indices and water that’ll get athletes sick (Brazil) and every first-world country runs away like their ass is on fire at the mere prospect of the Games being held in their country.

Oh, can anybody tell me what the second-world is? And I don’t even want to imagine what’s going on in the fourth-world. Yeesh!

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jaunte  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:15:16pm

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Fragments surrounding the central thesis: “I would have done it better” with no detail or specificity.

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:19:45pm
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Amory Blaine  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:19:57pm

re: #11 Higgs Boson’s Mate

It’s China, Jake. If national prestige is on the line then there will be snow, no matter what it takes.

Interesting article, kind of related to this sentiment.

What China Has Been Building in the South China Sea

China has been feverishly piling sand onto reefs in the South China Sea for the past year, creating seven new islets in the region. It is straining geopolitical tensions that were already taut.

The speed and scale of China’s island-building spree have alarmed other countries with interests in the region. China announced in June that the creation of islands — moving sediment from the seafloor to a reef — would soon be completed. “The announcement marks a change in diplomatic tone, and indicates that China has reached its scheduled completion on several land reclamation projects and is now moving into the construction phase,” said Mira Rapp-Hooper, director of the Asia Maritime Transparency Initiative at the Center for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington research group.

So far China has built port facilities, military buildings and an airstrip on the islands. The installations bolster China’s foothold in the Spratly Islands, a disputed scattering of reefs and islands in the South China Sea more than 500 miles from the Chinese mainland.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:23:16pm

re: #14 Dark_Falcon

What Boehner and McConnell should do is to declare they aren’t going to pass another Omnibus budget bill this year, then pass the funding bills by department, or at worst by group of departments. When Obama then vetoes the Health and Human Services (HHS) Bill, the damage will be contained to that department.

There’s no good reason any functions of the Department of Transportation or Energy should be impaired because of policy differences over HHS.

Umm.. you don’t understand the gut-stabbing level of disagreement that is in the R’s House Caucus right now, do you? There’s a reason they left for four weeks without doing squat.

It’s war.

Right now, they couldn’t pass a resolution that kittens and puppies are cute.

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sizzzzlerz  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:23:51pm

re: #3 teleskiguy

2 inches? I hope the athletes bring their rock skis.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:25:21pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

This should be a huge scandal going forward. The Olympics are being held in authoritarian regimes (Russia, China), places with horrible human life indices and water that’ll get athletes sick (Brazil) and every first-world country runs away like their ass is on fire at the mere prospect of the Games being held in their country.

Oh, can anybody tell me what the second-world is? And I don’t even want to imagine what’s going on in the fourth-world. Yeesh!

Originally, The First and Second Worlds were what we laughingly called “The Free World” on the one hand, and the Soviet Union and their client states on the other. This was just understood, because those terms were never actually used. The Third World was everything outside that Two-Superpowers-and-their-allies dichotomy.

Now, since the Second World doesn’t exist any more, “First World” has come to mean the industrialized world, and “Third World” is used to mean the economically undeveloped world.

The “Fourth World” is actually better—it covers countries like China and Brazil who are at least perceived as starting to lift themselves out of Third World status.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:26:21pm

re: #21 teleskiguy

This should be a huge scandal going forward. The Olympics are being held in authoritarian regimes (Russia, China), places with horrible human life indices and water that’ll get athletes sick (Brazil) and every first-world country runs away like their ass is on fire at the mere prospect of the Games being held in their country.

Oh, can anybody tell me what the second-world is? And I don’t even want to imagine what’s going on in the fourth-world. Yeesh!

This. QFT. Absolutely spot on.

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:29:05pm

re: #26 sizzzzlerz

2 inches? I hope the athletes bring their rock skis.

I really wish I could upding this more! ZING!

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Amory Blaine  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:29:59pm

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Help Us Diagram This Sentence by Donald Trump!

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:38:12pm

re: #28 austin_blue

lawhawk actually got me to thinking about it, here and on Twitter.

I’m not going to search for the comment, but he said that the Summer Games should be in Athens, Greece every time (which would be a great economic boon to the economically starved peninsula/archipelago that birthed Western pedagogy) and the Winter Games be held, uh, in Europe somewhere, where they have ski slopes and sleigh runs and huge arenas for the skating competitions. lawhawk definitely said something like this. (right, lawhawk?)

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:39:32pm
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Dark_Falcon  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:40:06pm

re: #25 austin_blue

Umm.. you don’t understand the gut-stabbing level of disagreement that is in the R’s House Caucus right now, do you? There’s a reason they left for four weeks without doing squat.

It’s war.

Right now, they couldn’t pass a resolution that kittens and puppies are cute.

I admit I wasn’t paying very close attention. Trying to make the job I was working at had been consuming much of my time. To no avail, I ended up realizing, so I’m making a job change for August. Still in sales, but products with more demand and a larger market.

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Dark_Falcon  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:42:49pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

lawhawk actually got me to thinking about it, here and on Twitter.

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I’m not going to search for the comment, but he said that the Summer Games should be in Athens, Greece every time (which would be a great economic boon to the economically starved archipelago that birthed Western pedagogy) and the Winter Games be held, uh, in Europe somewhere, where they have ski slopes and sleigh runs and huge arenas for the skating competitions. lawhawk definitely said something like this. (right, lawhawk?)

My own thought is if that the US should just make LA its official Summer Olympics city, since its done two such games well and likely could handle another. But cities like Boston and Chicago shouldn’t be Olympic cities, since the games would cause massive costs and congestion for few benefits.

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:49:37pm

re: #27 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The “Fourth World” is actually better—it covers countries like China and Brazil who are at least perceived as starting to lift themselves out of Third World status.

I pictured more of an Escape From N.Y./L.A. situation, or a grown-up version of Lord of the Flies.

BTW, I think Escape From L.A. is way better than Escape From N.Y.

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William Lewis  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:49:39pm

First thing that needs to happen to fix the Olympics is to jail the IOC. Then make Athens the permanent summer venue and a Scandinavian city the winter venue. Last, remove all professional team players from all sports. It is a failed experiment that has poisoned the competitions in those sports, especially basketball.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:50:47pm

I don’t like the incredible waste the Olympics brings. Giant complexes of abandoned buildings that cost a fortune. There should be one facility in Greece for the summer Olympics period. Let the Nordics battle for the winter site.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:51:17pm

re: #36 William Lewis

Ha!

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:52:41pm

I always confuse tenses when I make edits in my writing, online and IRL. This is why editing are is! good.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:52:43pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

Keeping the Summer Games in Athens would make any records set more meaningful to me because over time they’d all have been set in the same place under approximately the same conditions.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 31, 2015 • 9:56:30pm

You could just rotate the countries that will “MC” in Greece.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:01:35pm

re: #31 teleskiguy

lawhawk actually got me to thinking about it, here and on Twitter.

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I’m not going to search for the comment, but he said that the Summer Games should be in Athens, Greece every time (which would be a great economic boon to the economically starved peninsula/archipelago that birthed Western pedagogy) and the Winter Games be held, uh, in Europe somewhere, where they have ski slopes and sleigh runs and huge arenas for the skating competitions. lawhawk definitely said something like this. (right, lawhawk?)

Yeah, but what does one do with the facilities that lie fallow for four years?

Take a look at what happened in Athens after their games:

theguardian.com

Pitiful. And they lost mega-millions. No wonder Oslo and Stockholm bailed on the Winter bid. They just couldn’t make the numbers work. It was a lose-lose deal. They would never recover their costs. And the IOC made beaucoup bucks off of the Greek’s’ losses because they had no financial skin in the game for the facilities.

Again, it’s a mug’s game, and Stockholm and Oslo said “Fuck that”.

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Amory Blaine  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:03:42pm

Working tonight then a straight 6 hour drive up to Woodruff. Long day tomorrow.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:04:01pm

re: #36 William Lewis

First thing that needs to happen to fix the Olympics is to jail the IOC. Then make Athens the permanent summer venue and a Scandinavian city the winter venue. Last, remove all professional team players from all sports. It is a failed experiment that has poisoned the competitions in those sports, especially basketball.

Athens would probably be a poor choice, but it’s the only one that nobody could really object to, as being the site of the first Modern Games, and at least in the same country as the site of the Ancient Games.

For the Winter Games, I really liked Lillehammer. Innsbruck was where they went back to when Denver dropped out at the last minute, so it seems like kind of a default site, but you could probably depend on snow in Lillehammer for longer as global warming continues.

Sarajevo would be nice, just because it would irritate the Serbs—and that’s always a good thing.

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CuriousLurker  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:08:31pm

Gonna leave this here for anyone who needs a chuckle:

G’nite, lizards. ;-)

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:11:02pm

re: #44 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Sarajevo would be nice, just because it would irritate the Serbs—and that’s always a good thing.

Sarajevo could make the Winter Games into a multi-nation collaboration! Slovenia has great ski slopes, and is home to skiing superstar Tina Maze (pronounced Mah-Zey).

Tina Maze, alpine ski racer
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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:11:02pm

re: #45 CuriousLurker

Gonna leave this here for anyone who needs a chuckle:

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G’nite, lizards. ;-)

Oh shit, oh dear.

Heads will explode.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:17:59pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

Sarajevo could make the Winter Games into a multi-nation collaboration! Slovenia has great ski slopes, and is home to skiing superstar Tina Maze (pronounced Mah-Zey).

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I can’t believe that you used soft ski pron to make a completely irrelevant point on this board!

And thank you very much!

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:25:07pm

re: #48 austin_blue

I can’t believe that you used soft ski pron to make a completely irrelevant point on this board!

And thank you very much!

What can I say, I know my audience!

:-D

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:34:40pm

The Guns of August happened exactly 101 years ago.

Our own Shiplord Kirel reminisced about one of the battles of what became of the Guns of August.

I have hope. I think the human species is learning, albeit slowly.

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teleskiguy  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:51:52pm

From an aboriginal singer in Australia, in 1988.

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austin_blue  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:53:01pm

Well, it’s well after midnight, and my coach has turned into a pumpkin, so it’s time for the rack.

Good night all, and sweet scaly dreams.

The collective clown car of the Republican candidates will be fighting it out this weekend to get to 2.5% support, which will get them into the Fox debates, which is just fucking pitiful, when you think about it.

Sadly, I don’t have cable, being a Luddite, but also a fiscally sane human. I’ll follow the debate on various live live feeds and laugh until I shit my britches at the bullshit being spewed.

Night all, be safe and be well.

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Joe Bacon  Jul 31, 2015 • 10:56:10pm

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Help Us Diagram This Sentence by Donald Trump!

No way.

If my 12th grade English teacher heard him utter this in her classroom she’d dress him down like a Marine DI!

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ozharas  Jul 31, 2015 • 11:42:31pm

re: #51 teleskiguy

One of our unofficial national anthems… Beautiful song…

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Jayleia  Jul 31, 2015 • 11:56:55pm

re: #46 teleskiguy

Those are some very nice slopes.

And I’m sure the skiing is nice too, I know nothing about skiing…

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2015 • 3:10:57am

re: #1 austin_blue

I quite agree.

I’ve said before, that for most sane people, The Handmaid’s Tale is a masterful work of dystopian fiction.

For wingnuts, it’s an instruction manual, their dream in written form. They see nothing wrong with it whatsoever. In my more cynical moments, I’m convinced the reason wingnuts so often try to get that book banned is that they’re worried it’ll give away the game.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Aug 1, 2015 • 5:54:37am

re: #13 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

“Now I don’t have any fancy degrees from Yale, like Mr. Kerry. But, I did get all A’s at business school, and I know a bad deal when I see one!”

You’re welcome, Mr. Trump. You may pay me in certified funds.

Edit: better second line

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:11:49am

Random Saturday Morning post
For goddamnedfrank:

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:24:33am

hmmm?

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:24:41am

re: #14 Dark_Falcon

Except the wingnuts believe government is bad and government by ‘liberals’ is the worst of all. The latter is Stalin reincarnated.

So for them shutting the whole government down is a feature, not a bug.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:28:22am

re: #25 austin_blue

Right now, they couldn’t pass a resolution that kittens and puppies are cute.

The wingnuts would amend that to ‘Kittens and puppies are tasty.’ /I hope

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:34:02am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:36:10am

re: #62 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Just WTF???

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:42:38am

Got back to Austin last nite from my interviews at FB. Those went well and we see what the future brings. That campus is something else….

The real point I’m making here as I sit in Dahlia Cafe in Liberty Hill, TX. Is the after 2 days with REAL intelligent people is that I feel like I have regressed in time be 50 yrs…. Shit!

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:50:05am

re: #36 William Lewis

First thing that needs to happen to fix the Olympics is to jail the IOC. Then make Athens the permanent summer venue and a Scandinavian city the winter venue. Last, remove all professional team players from all sports. It is a failed experiment that has poisoned the competitions in those sports, especially basketball.

As my favourite writer puts it.

OLYMPIC IDEAL The Greek games began in 776 BC as a competition among amateur athletes from differing city-states. The purpose was to bring the citizens of the rival cities together in an apolitical gathering, which would reduce squabbling and develop a larger sense of community.

The rising merchant class in those cities subsequently inverted their purpose by introducing the idea of city rivalry into the games. The city-states then began subsidizing their athletes indirectly and often invisibly. The amateur athletes were soon living a parody of amateurism. They had careers and future income riding on the competition. Winners became heroes, that is political heroes. They were fed at the cost of the state for the rest of their lives.

Subtle corruption turned into rank dishonesty. Athletes were eventually bribed to lose. In AD 394 the games were abolished because they had become a parody of the amateur ideal, a focus of corruption and a source of political rivalry.

The Olympic Games were re-established in 1896 as a competition among amateur athletes. One of the purposes was to bring citizens of rival countries together in an apolitical gathering. What the Greeks manage to do in 1,170 years we have done in less than 100.

From: The Doubter’s Companion: A Dictionary of Aggressive Common Sense

Note: the book was written in the early 90s which is why the final sentence read the way it does.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:53:17am

re: #42 austin_blue

Here in Toronto our city council is making loud noises about hosting a future Summer Games.

When I heard that I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:56:05am

re: #63 Dave In Austin

Just WTF???

I really don’t understand the logic.

If she were married, the cops wouldn’t have messed with her because then they’d have to deal with a man?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:56:33am
When a reporter asked if he might involve federal troops or the FBI in his effort to curb abortions, Huckabee responded, “We’ll see, if I get to be president.”

In his wet dreams.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 7:58:46am

re: #62 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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WTF? Buddy? Owning women does not make you a man.

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Timothy Watson  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:00:38am

re: #66 Romantic Heretic

Here in Toronto our city council is making loud noises about hosting a future Summer Games.

When I heard that I rolled my eyes so hard I saw my brain.

Yeah, the dipshits in D.C. are in the running for a Summer’s game and pretty much everybody is wondering what they’ve been smoking.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:01:19am

re: #62 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Yep…….see my #56.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:13:36am

re: #50 teleskiguy

The Guns of August happened exactly 101 years ago.

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Our own Shiplord Kirel reminisced about one of the battles of what became of the Guns of August.

I have hope. I think the human species is learning, albeit slowly.

Yesterday evening I see this, and then later the Boys and I are watching the final episode of Season 1 of “Rick and Morty”, where Morty’s Mom and Dad are gone for a romantic evening to the ‘Titanic Experience’.

So this morning I wake up thinking “Wow. 1912, Titanic sinks. Huge disaster. 1500 killed. The world is shocked at such wholesale loss of life. 4 years later, 20,000 die in the first morning of the Battle of the Somme.”

The further thought is that America hasn’t had a war fought here in 150 years, whereas for Europe, it’s less than half that. No wonder Americans are so willing to go to war. It doesn’t mean anything to us.

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Bird in the Paw  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:15:17am

re: #70 Timothy Watson

Yeah, the dipshits in D.C. are in the running for a Summer’s game and pretty much everybody is wondering what they’ve been smoking.

As long as my commute isn’t hosed. All the venues are going to end up being in MD and VA if they win it. But, yeah, this is Barry level ‘the bitch set me up’ crack/PCP smoking.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:17:41am
What rape culture?
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:18:41am

re: #59 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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hmmm?

regarding the video I posted. I do believe this is how things work —but I wonder of the source of the video. Any comments?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:20:13am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:21:05am

re: #75 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

regarding the video I posted. I do believe this is how things work —but I wonder of the source of the video. Any comments?

I’ve seen it elsewhere. I gotta say I’m completely unsurprised by the content. My only comment is, ‘Wow, that black guy is really brave to be willing to risk that, given what we know about what happens to often to UNARMED black men.’

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:21:14am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:21:29am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:21:44am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:21:59am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:22:21am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:22:48am

re: #76 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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But, gunz…

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:29:09am

We’ve had Feral Girl a year today! She was so unsure about humans she would shut-down if introduced to someone new. Now she runs up to people and wants to jump on them swinging her tail in circles! She had every parasite and bacteria known to man except heartworm and was 26 lbs. Now she is 52 lbs. I call her my pocket GSD.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:31:33am

Hanging Slave Doll With Plastic Noose In Adam’s Mark Hotel Gets Supervisor Fired

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:34:30am
Since Obama was elected Zero guns have been removed, there are now more Guns! This in spite of ever mounting school shootings (1700% more likely than in European schools) rising incidents of fatal ,obscene and racist police shooting fatalities, rising gun fatalities (France has 98% less - adjusted for population) - nothing has been done and most disturbingly of all—nothing will be done. It is as simple that. It is so simple that Stupidparty disciples simply remain totally clueless - and we know this because Wayne La Pierre gets roaring approval when he states the following:

More recently La Pierre said “At the National Rifle Association’s annual convention, the group’s vice president, Wayne LaPierre, told Americans not to vote for someone like President Obama or Hillary Clinton - and not because of the content of their character. In a surprising turn of events, LaPierre managed to out-racist Ted Nugent and out-crazy Sarah Palin, both speakers who work hard for those distinctions during their own talks during each year’s convention.

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Dark_Falcon  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:37:53am

re: #63 Dave In Austin

Just WTF???

It’s anti-feminist trolling. The object is to rile liberals up and be amused by their outrage.

Don’t feed that troll, instead spellbind it with your GAZE.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:42:22am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:43:19am

re: #88 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Texas man shoots armadillo, bullet ricochets back into his face

that guy is an armadildo.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:44:49am

re: #59 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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Video

hmmm?

Hmmm is right. I wonder what became of that whole deal. And while it was really sort of dangerous to do this video I am glad it was done so there is some proof of what many have been speculating about open carry and skin color.

I hope gun nuts really sit and consider all this, but if they are white, they probably are not all that concerned that “others” wouldn’t have the same right as them

You know…gives them another white advantage and all that.

Oh…and Feral Girl is looking good! Kudos to you for rescuing and working with her. She appears to be all happy and healthy. Pat her head for me…and give a little scratch to the the crown of her head. I always like to do that to my friends doggies. They all seem to love it.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:46:17am
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Dark_Falcon  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:48:59am

re: #88 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Texas man shoots armadillo, bullet ricochets back into his face

That was the fault of liberals, because that wouldn’t let that True Texas Patriot have armor-piercing rounds for his gun!

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:49:10am

re: #68 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

In his wet dreams.

We need to just start referring to him as Mullah Huck…

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:50:05am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:50:20am

re: #93 Dave In Austin

We need to just start referring to him as Mullah Huck…

Damn! You got it.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:51:41am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Aug 1, 2015 • 8:52:07am

You may now return to your regularly schedule LGF.

Have a great afternoon all!

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:00:59am

re: #31 teleskiguy

lawhawk actually got me to thinking about it, here and on Twitter.

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I’m not going to search for the comment, but he said that the Summer Games should be in Athens, Greece every time (which would be a great economic boon to the economically starved peninsula/archipelago that birthed Western pedagogy) and the Winter Games be held, uh, in Europe somewhere, where they have ski slopes and sleigh runs and huge arenas for the skating competitions. lawhawk definitely said something like this. (right, lawhawk?)

Yes, I was thinking that all this BS about how the IOC gets all manner of graft and we’re seeing autocratic regimes pushing all kinds of insane plans to get the games - like Beijing’s crazy winter games bid that they just won despite Beijing usually never seeing any snow, and a concern that the venues will be snow-free.

I think Athens is the perfect home for the summer games for the reasons above and because the venues are already there. It wouldn’t require new venues and would allow for upkeep and maintenance of those facilities.

Considering that the home country gets an advantage and people into sports for which they usually don’t qualify for, let that be spread around by lottery.

As for the Winter Games, let it go to Switzerland, which is a neutral country that has a history of snow, and of putting on games.

This way, there’s also consistency on where/when the games, and eliminates all these grandiose plans for venues that cost more than double what the sponsors say they would, saddle localities with crazy costs and never recoup because whatever economic activity is derived from the games ends up being offset by locals who stay away.

It also avoids the situation where the host claims that they’ll get full venues of spectators and then have to bus them in because no one can afford them.

Oh, and I think the same thing should go for the World Cup - except that there, you could alternate between say France, Germany, Brazil and Argentina, each of which have a long history of WC success. This eliminates the need for building single purpose venues in places that will never see them used again, or in places where temperatures are so insane that thousands are dying just building them - yes Qatar, I’m talking about you.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:04:22am

Vermin Repellant….

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lawhawk  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:07:58am

re: #42 austin_blue

If you know that the games will be repeating in the venue, you get consistency and you’ll be able to hold test events and other official tournaments on those same venues. It’s not a perfect situation, but it would greatly reduce the corruption and need to build new single use stadiums that will lie fallow for generations to come.

BTW, with Boston bowing out, there’s a move for LA to pick up the US bid and repurpose all the existing venues from the 1984 games. The only new construction would be a new Olympic village, which would enable new housing once the games come to an end.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:23:02am

Even white supremacists think Chuck Johnson is an idiot. Warning: hate site. Chuck shows up in the comments section to argue with white supremacist Richard Spencer. It’s a real sewer.

donotlink.com

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:29:42am
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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:32:36am

re: #101 Charles Johnson

Are they arguing over which racists are more pure in their racism?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:34:14am

re: #102 darthstar

Worth a page, IMHO.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:34:44am

re: #103 darthstar

Are they arguing over which racists are more pure in their racism?

They are arguing words v concepts.
It’s very cerebral.
In a white supremacist sort of way.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:37:00am
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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:37:31am

re: #105 Backwoods_Sleuth

They are arguing words v concepts.
It’s very cerebral.
In a white supremacist sort of way.

Cerebral white supremacist: Someone who spends a lot of time thinking about hair texture.

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:39:07am

re: #104 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Worth a page, IMHO.

There’s a whole diary about it at dKos. But it’s an interesting idea - that Christians like Huckabee use the Holocaust because they don’t have any examples of Christian persecution to compare…even their favorite story about the Romans throwing them to the lions is a lie. If only Hitler had hated Christians, think about what it would do for church membership.

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:40:02am

re: #107 wrenchwench

Cerebral white supremacist: Someone who spends a lot of time thinking about hair texture.

I’m more of an eggshell supremacist.
/

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:42:38am

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I knew a couple who were like that with money. They spent every cent that he made - including some ill-gotten that got him fired later - plus everything they could borrow on eating out, night clubbing, vacations, etc. The wife confessed to Mrs. FBW that they were in desperate straits.

Mrs. FBW, who suffered from a severe Rescuer Complex, helped them arrange an appointment with one of those places that works with you and your lenders to consolidate your loans, reduce your rates, put together a budget, etc.

Having gone there, they felt they deserved a treat of a night out at a fancy restaurant and night clubbing afterwards.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:42:54am

re: #109 darthstar

I’m more of an eggshell supremacist.
/

Ecru?

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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:44:09am

re: #109 darthstar

I’m more of an eggshell supremacist.
/

I’m a pasty w/ tan lines supremacist.

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:44:24am

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

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When I asked for my Black Bottom Cupcake this morning, I added, ‘I can quit any time. I don’t have a problem. When I start getting two at a time, then you can wonder…’ She said, ‘Oh, you’re not alone. We have one woman who buys them everyday, three at a time. If we don’t have them, she’s sad. But then when we do, she’s so happy.’

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:45:11am

re: #111 Blind Frog Belly White

Ecru?

I thought it was “Ecru, Brutus?”

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:45:49am

re: #101 Charles Johnson

Even white supremacists think Chuck Johnson is an idiot. Warning: hate site. Chuck shows up in the comments section to argue with white supremacist Richard Spencer. It’s a real sewer.

donotlink.com

They are all idiots. And after reading some of that, it appears they are all into trying to be more “conservative” then the other guy.

And then you dig a little further and they can’t even seem to agree what a conservative is. It is mass confusion of a group of fools that really have no direction but they are going to change the world somehow. Outrageous to be outrageous.

Which makes them dangerous, because without any foundation in their thinking they are capable of doing anything just to get some attention and they have no concern how much damage they do as they go along.

I don’t think you can even call them ideologues as they don’t have a real ideology. At least nothing that makes any sense.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:47:37am

re: #114 darthstar

I thought it was “Ecru, Brutus?”

“Et tu, Brutus?”

“Tu? You bastard! You et all of them!”

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:47:43am

re: #115 ObserverArt

I thought they were arguing over who was more secure in their superiority.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:49:36am

After hearing me read some of this white supremacist stuff out loud, MrBWS just commented that one of the guys at work is a Nazi.
The guy’s cellphone ringtone is one of Hitler’s speeches.

O_o

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Ace-o-aces  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:51:59am

This is why it’s pointless to argue with truthers.

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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:53:26am

re: #101 Charles Johnson

Holy wowsers, lots of icky in that place.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:53:41am

oh…

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:55:30am

Finally…not just a candidate but a prophecy.

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:57:04am

re: #122 darthstar

Finally…not just a candidate but a prophecy.

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Hoo-boy! Someone’s been sniffing generic glue…

In a bid to “expose darkness and perversion,” self-proclaimed prophet Jeremiah Johnson claims that the voice of the Holy Spirit came to him blessing Trump’s 2016 run. “I was in a time of prayer several weeks ago when God began to speak to me concerning the destiny of Donald Trump in America. The Holy Spirit spoke to me and said, ‘Trump shall become My trumpet to the American people…. I am going to use him to expose darkness and perversion in America like never before. Just as I raised up Cyrus to fulfill My purposes and plans, so have I raised up Trump to fulfill my purposes and plans prior to the 2016 election,’”

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:57:46am

I think god was talking about Miley Cyrus.

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ObserverArt  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:59:06am

re: #117 darthstar

I thought they were arguing over who was more secure in their superiority.

If they are arguing over who is secure in their superiority then they are not secure with themselves. If you really believe in something, there is no argument…you just go about doing it.

And in a way this may be a good thing. They can’t really band together and become really dangerous as a group. Too individualistic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:59:15am

re: #123 darthstar

Just as I raised up Cyrus to fulfill My purposes and plans, so have I raised up Trump to fulfill my purposes and plans prior to the 2016 election,’”

Guess that explains Miley and her wrecking ball…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 9:59:56am

re: #124 darthstar

I think god was talking about Miley Cyrus.

lol, great minds, etc.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:00:27am

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh…
Planned Parenthood may be involved in infanticide: delivering babies and then killing them. christianpost.com

Psalm 50:16

But to the wicked God says:
“What right have you to recite my statutes
or take my covenant on your lips?

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allegro  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:00:37am

re: #117 darthstar

I thought they were arguing over who was more secure in their superiority.

I’m clearly not smart enuf to decipher all that intellectualizing. Made mah eyeballs cross so I closed it and got another cup of coffee. Happy now.

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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:02:27am

I’m not racist, but America should be 75% white, ideally 90%.

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:02:29am

Had dinner last night with some of my wife’s childhood friends who moved to Atlanta for work two years ago…they said it’s really bizarre - how many people fly big confederate flags. She’s an OB-GYN and sits on the board of Planned Parenthood for Georgia, Alabama and Mississippi…you can imagine how difficult that is. Can’t even discuss her work with her neighbors.

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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:03:11am

re: #123 darthstar

Audio or it didn’t happen.

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allegro  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:04:03am

re: #122 darthstar

Finally…not just a candidate but a prophecy.

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He’s actually right. Trump is exposing his and the GOP’s darkness and corruption. Also their hypocrisy, lunacy, and greed.

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Ace-o-aces  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:05:37am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:05:38am

re: #130 JadeHelmCurious

I’m not racist, but America should be 75% white, ideally 90%.

Really stunning that UpChuck said that.
Should he ever manage to produce offspring with his HotAsianWife, they will not be white … ideally or otherwise.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:07:34am

re: #134 Ace-o-aces

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The one sitting on the cooler…omg…poor oppressed cooler.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:08:54am

re: #86 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

One of the cartoonists at Daily Kos must hang here and has noted my observation that to some America is a religion, firearms are that religion’s holy icons and firearm deaths are the human sacrifices required to keep America strong and pure.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:11:22am

re: #88 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

I’m betting his wife is relieved that his jaw is wired shut.

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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:12:42am
It’s about the fake, phony conservatives who enjoy watching the real fighters on the right get sodomized while they gleefully gawk.

Always about the butt seks. Sounds like prison.

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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:14:47am

Okay…live bear cam…there’s one in the water right now catching salmon.

explore.org

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:16:41am

re: #122 darthstar

Trump is intimately familiar with both of them.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:17:12am

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:17:43am

re: #142 No Country For Old Haters

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It would be irresponsible not to speculate…

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jaunte  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:21:31am
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darthstar  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:22:34am

Fuck…someone just tried to use my BofA card number in North Carolina. So now I have to get a new card, contact all the people who charge automatically from that card, etc, etc…Fuck.

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allegro  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:23:15am

re: #141 Romantic Heretic

Trump is intimately familiar with both of them.

Haha. I know it’s not what you were responding to but your post right after the two previous to it made me LOL. Butt sex and bear cam.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:23:29am

I went on a complete ranting vent on Facebook last night about the wingnut bullshit about Planned Parenthood.
I really expected to get the Jesus!Prayers!Flag!Eagle!Troops!WarOnChristmas!FBisDeleting ThesePixSoRepost!!11!!! folks on my friends list to push back, but really didn’t give a rat’s ass if any of them were offended.

Woke up this morning, check my FB.
Total silence from the wingnut contingent. OTOH, my post got shared and shared again.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:24:14am

This provoked a passive aggressive comment from a writer for the RWNJ site The Federalist.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:26:42am

The front page now has a “tags” popup that shows the tags for each post, if it has some.

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Great White Snark  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:29:44am

re: #145 darthstar

Fuck…someone just tried to use my BofA card number in North Carolina. So now I have to get a new card, contact all the people who charge automatically from that card, etc, etc…Fuck.

PITA. I seem to get that about once a year, often with the corporate card.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:32:11am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:37:25am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:38:31am

re: #134 Ace-o-aces

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Well, ya see…

That’s the thing about demonstrations (left/right, black/white)—if you marshal the demo poorly, you bought the message your dumbest buddy lets out.

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:41:37am
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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:42:48am

re: #154 wrenchwench

Privatize the landscape !1!

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:43:53am

re: #155 Decatur Deb

Privative the landscape !1!

Western wars are on hold for a bit until they decide how to handy Cliven.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:49:23am
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Dark_Falcon  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:51:09am

I don’t favor this idea for civilian use, but it would seem to have legitimate law enforcement uses, especially in the USA:

Italian military police forces to test Beretta i-Protect guns in field (VIDEO)

Beretta’s new i-Protect system, capable of tracking the gun’s movement and operation, is to be tested by the Italian Carabinieri corps.

The system, designed by Fabbrica d’Armi Beretta as part of a research project with the University of Brescia, is billed as “a step ahead in public security.”

The system includes the modified Beretta PX4 Storm-i 9mm pistol, a special double retention safety holster with magnetic actuators and a smartphone with a software app called “ODINO 5”that integrates the firearm into the network.

Through sensors on the gun, relayed to the smartphone via Bluetooth and then from there back to the network, its possible for the gun’s use to be monitored from afar and track who has the gun, when, and where.

Unlike most “smart guns” that have been proposed, the i-Protect system does not interfere with the mechanics, function or safety of the gun.

The software looks like it has lots of applications beyond the firearm to include tracking suspects, streaming video and performing checks in the field.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:53:22am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:54:10am

re: #154 wrenchwench

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:54:33am

re: #157 Charles Johnson

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My dreams have been answered.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:57:21am
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Great White Snark  Aug 1, 2015 • 10:58:27am

re: #151 Charles Johnson

Mini rant-
Not only is it a lie, but the damages done by the restrictions actually deserve a look. Real push back might mean not only are we not going to defund PP but in fact will push to fund PP for all kinds of services rendered, dump the Hyde act.

That’s how you push back. Don’t beg for the status quo.

Paged. I think NARAL will forgive me for clipping a few facts from their PDF.
littlegreenfootballs.com

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:00:47am

re: #131 darthstar

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:01:50am

re: #159 Charles Johnson

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He is definitely confused about just about everything.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:01:53am

re: #163 Great White Snark

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:02:29am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

Strange, even with the sunglasses you can still identify assholes.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:03:10am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

Right - “legitimate arguments.” Like calling your opponent “evil.” These assholes are hopeless.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:03:28am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

He is definitely confused about just about everything.

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Jenner7  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:03:39am
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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:05:36am

re: #159 Charles Johnson

They’re a freakish cult.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:06:25am

For those who don’t know: Fancy Farm is the biggest deal political event of the year in Kentucky.

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Eventual Carrion  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:08:07am

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wonder why he picked that groups logo to put the treason flag over? Because that flag is not about race or anything.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:10:56am

Woman called the office last week demanding to speak to a Manager to protest our company donations to PP. Apparently we had shown up on a list that was going around.

Sigh…

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Dark_Falcon  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:10:58am

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

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For those who don’t know: Fancy Farm is the biggest deal political event of the year in Kentucky.

Well, better a tricone hat than a Stars-and-Bars hat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:11:27am

heh

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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:12:23am

How bout some techno woo?

The Best Way to Point Your Wi-Fi Router Antennas: Perpendicularly

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:13:39am

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

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For those who don’t know: Fancy Farm is the biggest deal political event of the year in Kentucky.

Mmmm…burgoo.

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Great White Snark  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:15:49am

re: #166 Charles Johnson

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:16:48am
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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:18:25am

Look at this:

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:19:01am

It’s past time to end Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, the Indian Health Service and the VA medical mission. All should be subsumed into a rational fully-funded single-payer system.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:21:19am
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Dark_Falcon  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:23:49am

re: #181 JadeHelmCurious

Look at this:

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I know I’m nit-picking, it’s what I do. I’m not happy to see those guys, though, since frankly they remind me of Putin’s proxies Ukraine.

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Dark_Falcon  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:24:57am

BBL

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:25:55am

re: #181 JadeHelmCurious

Look at this:

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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:29:31am

THIS IS AN ANNOUNCEMENT OF EPIC PROPORTIONS FROM FACECHUCK:

The conservative movement has failed to achieve any of its objectives but if you point that out you are a [insert PC word du jour]. And if you take risks & actually win they will hate you for it because you will have shown their weakness.

END ANNOUNCEMENT OF EPIC PROPORTIONS FROM FACECHUCK

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:31:04am

re: #131 darthstar

It’s bad here. I wish it were different but it’s getting worse. I get scared sometimes, and I’m fairly sure I’m socially ostracized because I’m pretty much a treehugging hippie compared to 99 percent of the population. This whole confederate flag thing has really crawled up people’s asses here, and they’ve become more obnoxious than usual.

I keep hearing “it’s just a flag, what’s the big deal? A flag never enslaved anyone…snert,florg,flaven,fart”….Ok, if it’s not such a big deal then why in the ever loving fuck are you assholes covering everything you can with it and having your racist ass rallies over it?

(and it looks like our latest chance to move the hell out of here has fallen through…damn it)

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:34:37am

Massive fun to be had here. #Stonemountain

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JadeHelmCurious  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:38:17am

Did they use red sharpies to color white Tshirts? OMG. Doesn’t seem very fashion forward.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:38:26am

re: #189 Dave In Austin

Massive fun to be had here. #Stonemountain

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Perfect examples of the superior race, y’know…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:39:34am

re: #182 Decatur Deb

It’s past time to end Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, the Indian Health Service and the VA medical mission. All should be subsumed into a rational fully-funded single-payer system.

I respectfully disagree—but only with your last three words. Single-payer healthcare is still insurance-based, just government-subsidized. It’s essentially Medicare for All, like Canada.

I personally think the only system that’s ethically defensible is single-provider, like The UK’s National Health Service, or the the VA and TriCare in the US. We should avoid the loopholes that allow Harley Street doctors to siphon money from the rich rubes, though….

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:39:37am

When the moon is bright in the southern summer, a species of dimwit feels a primordial urge to return to its spawning ground. The second-wave klans were re-established on Stone Mountain, with two veterans of the first klan as honoured guests.

en.wikipedia.org

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Shiplord Kirel  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:40:13am

I’ve mentioned feral hogs several times recently. For those of you not familiar with these beasts, here is a good video of feral hogs in action.
“Sport hunters” regularly find them all too sporting.
Note the kitted-out, camo-clad bowman at about :28. His fancy gear might as well be a child’s toy when the enraged hog gets too close.
There are a lot of these animals on my property near Mineral Wells. There’s a reason I prefer to use a .45/70 “buffalo gun” or 12 gauge slugs if I have to confront them.

**GRAPHIC**

MP4 Video

Update: I would wonder how those militia racists would fare if a few hundred of these invaded Stone Mountain today.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:40:14am

re: #190 JadeHelmCurious

Thx for the follow…

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allegro  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:42:08am

Last night at dinner my friend talked about how Superman brought down the KKK. Never heard this story before - very cool stuff.

birthmoviesdeath.com

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Decatur Deb  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:43:45am

re: #192 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I respectfully disagree—but only with your last three words. Single-payer healthcare is still insurance-based, just government-subsidized. It’s essentially Medicare for All, like Canada.

I personally think the only system that’s ethically defensible is single-provider, like The UK’s National Health Service, or the the VA and TriCare in the US. We should avoid the loopholes that allow Harley Street doctors to siphon money from the rich rubes, though….

Details. I like the Italian model— a direct public health service providing a critical shopping basket for those who need a Ford, and cash/insurance medical entrepreneurs for those who like to pay for Ferraris. It would have cost my family of 5 about $700 per year to buy into the Health Service.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:44:10am

re: #194 Shiplord Kirel

I’m with you Friend.. An invasive non-native species that breeds uncontrollably and wrecks havoc on the landscape.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:46:02am

goddammit…

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:47:11am

re: #198 Dave In Austin

I’m with you Friend.. An invasive non-native species that breeds uncontrollably and wrecks havoc on the landscape.

Maybe Walter Palmer should be sentenced to cleaning out the feral pig population with a bow and arrow….

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:47:28am
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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:47:42am
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:48:16am

re: #199 Backwoods_Sleuth

goddammit…

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Shit! And now this just while I was typing!

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Dave In Austin  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:48:55am

re: #200 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Maybe Walter Palmer should be sentenced to cleaning out the feral pig population with a bow and arrow….

No…. His dance card is now full. #NoMoreDanceforYou

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allegro  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:50:54am

re: #201 wrenchwench

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I know that feeling. It usually involves chocolate.

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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:55:54am

I have not written nor tweeted to her, but I have heard her on the radio. She does excellent work, but her name still makes me giggle. I’m not proud of that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 11:58:31am
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Dr Lizardo  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:01:16pm

re: #207 Backwoods_Sleuth

BOOM!

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Dr. Matt  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:03:01pm
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wrenchwench  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:05:06pm
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Dr. Matt  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:05:30pm
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allegro  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:07:51pm

I just ordered a hammock for Mo the fish.

amazon.com

I know. I’ve bonded with a fish. Teaching him tricks. Pathetic life statement innit?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:08:05pm

re: #184 Dark_Falcon

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I know I’m nit-picking, it’s what I do. I’m not happy to see those guys, though, since frankly they remind me of Putin’s proxies Ukraine.

Jesus, Dark! Give it a rest!

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freetoken  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:09:39pm

Not sure if any of you saw this yesterday, but Nye is having a lot of fun:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:11:48pm

Good news story from Kentucky; we don’t see enough of these.
Hillview police officer’s compassion goes viral

LOUISVILLE, KY (WAVE) - A Hillview police officer’s compassion quickly spread on social media after he responded to a frantic woman on Interstate 65.

Barbie Henderson said it was one of the weakest moments in her life. She was driving on I-65 southbound and received a call that her sister had passed away.

“I couldn’t concentrate or anything. I was so upset, screaming and hollering,” said Henderson. The first thing that came to her mind was to call 911.

Dispatch communicated with a nearby Hillview Police Officer, who arrived behind Henderson’s car within minutes. “The officer came in my car and sat and talked to me,” said Henderson. “He wiped the tears from my face. He gave me some water. He made sure my air conditioning was up high.”

Office John Nissen made sure Henderson knew she was not alone and communicated that he would get her family there as soon as possible.

“I wanted her to feel treated the way I would want my family treated,” he said.

Henderson’s sister, Sondra Barlow, arrived moments later. When she pulled behind their cars, she said she was shocked at what she saw.

“He was sitting there in the car right next to her. He was holding her hand, wiping her tears and talking to her,” said Barlow. She said Officer John Nissen described what had taken place and shared with her how Henderson was feeling and what she was going through.

At that moment in time, Barlow said Officer Nissen was more than an officer to her.

“He was family,” said Barlow. “I mean, he was the one who sat there with her when she was crying about losing our sister.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:12:28pm

re: #200 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Maybe Walter Palmer should be sentenced to cleaning out the feral pig population with a bow and arrow….

Lots of folks do indeed hunt feral hogs with bow and arrow, with great success. It’s a growing business in a number of states.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:16:03pm

Via Wonkette’s Snake Oil Bulletin:

Hal E. Fucking Looyah! Kevin Trudeau is going to have to pay back 800,000 people who bought his bullshit weight-loss book one check at a time—while sitting in jail!

Nearly a decade after TV pitchman Kevin Trudeau began hawking the controversial weight-loss book that ultimately landed him in prison, a federal judge tentatively approved a plan Tuesday to send refund checks to hundreds of thousands of people who bought into Trudeau’s false promises of shedding pounds while eating steak and ice cream.

The plan greenlighted by U.S. District Judge Robert Gettleman calls for the Federal Trade Commission to send several rounds of checks to purchasers of the hit book, “The Weight Loss Cure ‘They’ Don’t Want You to Know About,” using an address list turned over after the government sued Trudeau for lying about the contents of the book in his infomercials.

More than 800,000 people bought the book that the smooth-talking Trudeau claimed was filled with “easy” weight-loss techniques when it actually called for prescription injections of a hormone found only in pregnant women, a month of colon hydrotherapy and a 500-calorie-per-day diet.

Under the FTC’s plan, consumers would receive about $11 each in the first round of checks — and more in another round for those who cash the initial checks, according to a court filing earlier this month.

Gettleman gave attorneys for Trudeau until October to file any objections to the plan, which he said isn’t perfect but is likely “as good as we are going to see.”

The money will come from the approximately $8 million in Trudeau assets recovered so far by a court-appointed receiver after the so-called infomercial king failed to pay a penny of a whopping $37.6 million civil penalty levied by Gettleman in 2007.

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freetoken  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:23:14pm

This should see more light. It got a tiny bit of attention 3 weeks ago when the Harris poll was released, but it was quickly forgotten:

Harris Poll Shows Growing Support for Book Banning, Ratings

A recent Harris poll on attitudes about book banning and school libraries revealed that out of the 2,244 U.S. adults surveyed in March 2015, the percentage who felt that certain books should be banned increased by more than half since the last similar study conducted in 2011. In addition, more believe that some books deserve to be banned than movies, television shows, or video games.

In 2011, 18 percent of adults surveyed answered yes to the question “Do you think that there are any books which should be banned completely?” In the most current study, published July 8, 28 percent answered the same question in the affirmative—a ten point increase—with 24 percent of those surveyed unsure. This means nearly half of those surveyed are still convinced that no books should ever be banned, but the implications of the findings still deserve attention. “While it’s still a minority perception…I felt that from 18 to 28 percent in just four years was rather surprising growth,” said Larry Shannon-Missal, managing editor at the Harris Poll.

[…]

A third of respondents did not believe children should not be able to access the Koran at school libraries, and another 29 percent would disallow the Torah or Talmud—and 13 percent of those surveyed would exclude the Bible. Some 26 percent thought that school libraries should not contain books that question the existence of a divine being, while 19 percent said the same of books discussing creationism. It was not noted whether any of these sets of responses overlapped, […]

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freetoken  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:24:30pm

It’s August already.

Where did 2015 go?

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Shiplord Kirel  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:26:13pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

Lots of folks do indeed hunt feral hogs with bow and arrow, with great success. It’s a growing business in a number of states.

Pre-industrial people seemed to do pretty well at it. It’s all in being prepared and knowing what you are doing.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:32:02pm

re: #216 Blind Frog Belly White

Lots of folks do indeed hunt feral hogs with bow and arrow, with great success. It’s a growing business in a number of states.

I’d feel safer using a boar spear.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:32:19pm

hmmm

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Jay C  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:32:30pm

re: #158 Dark_Falcon

I don’t favor this idea for civilian use, but it would seem to have legitimate law enforcement uses, especially in the USA:

Italian military police forces to test Beretta i-Protect guns in field (VIDEO)

Gives the term “killer app” a whole new meaning…..

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A Mom Anon  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:34:39pm

re: #194 Shiplord Kirel

This is sore spot for me, my husband has dropped a fortune with his idiot friends on hunting these things. And bringing home the meat, which I refuse to touch. For what he’s spent, we could have had Kobe freaking beef. It costs a small fortune to process them and the meat is just impossible to cook to be edible. It’s gross. I tried to give it away to Hunters for the Hungry and they won’t take it. (there’s a whole backstory with how assholes and my husband seem to find each other- yeah, it would help if he wasn’t halfway there himself-, but I’ll spare you)

That said, they do need to be culled.They’re super destructive. But it’s super expensive to go hunt them because you have to have a guide ,etc. At least it’s that way in GA and FL, or so I’ve been told. Last time they went he dropped 400 for the hunt, 200 in gas and food expenses, 500 to process the hog. For two days. For meat only he is eating. Gack.

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rhuarc  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:36:29pm

re: #58 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Tupac every day of the week.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:42:14pm

heh

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:44:50pm

re: #224 A Mom Anon

This is sore spot for me, my husband has dropped a fortune with his idiot friends on hunting these things. And bringing home the meat, which I refuse to touch. For what he’s spent, we could have had Kobe freaking beef. It costs a small fortune to process them and the meat is just impossible to cook to be edible. It’s gross. I tried to give it away to Hunters for the Hungry and they won’t take it. (there’s a whole backstory with how assholes and my husband seem to find each other- yeah, it would help if he wasn’t halfway there himself-, but I’ll spare you)

That said, they do need to be culled.They’re super destructive. But it’s super expensive to go hunt them because you have to have a guide ,etc. At least it’s that way in GA and FL, or so I’ve been told. Last time they went he dropped 400 for the hunt, 200 in gas and food expenses, 500 to process the hog. For two days. For meat only he is eating. Gack.

Boars have a definite, unpleasant flavor that some people are more sensitive to than others. Sows, OTOH, are pretty tasty, though the meat is definitely denser, leaner, and darker than domestic pork. Definitely can’t cook it like storebought!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:46:43pm

re: #221 goddamnedfrank

I’d feel safer using a boar spear.

Not me. I prefer to stand at a distance. Getting to within a yard of one? Nuh-uh.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:47:27pm

re: #224 A Mom Anon

This is sore spot for me, my husband has dropped a fortune with his idiot friends on hunting these things. And bringing home the meat, which I refuse to touch. For what he’s spent, we could have had Kobe freaking beef. It costs a small fortune to process them and the meat is just impossible to cook to be edible. It’s gross. I tried to give it away to Hunters for the Hungry and they won’t take it. (there’s a whole backstory with how assholes and my husband seem to find each other- yeah, it would help if he wasn’t halfway there himself-, but I’ll spare you)

That said, they do need to be culled.They’re super destructive. But it’s super expensive to go hunt them because you have to have a guide ,etc. At least it’s that way in GA and FL, or so I’ve been told. Last time they went he dropped 400 for the hunt, 200 in gas and food expenses, 500 to process the hog. For two days. For meat only he is eating. Gack.

This is why the gunhumpers’ continual riposte of “Waddabout people who need to hunt to feed there famblys, huh, huh? Checkmaet, LIE-brul!” gripes my liver so bad. There is no place in the developed world at least where it isn’t enormously more expensive to hunt than to just buy the same weight of meat in a grocery store—and there’s a fair chance that the grocery store meat will be edible, too!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:48:10pm

re: #224 A Mom Anon

It’s like any game meat.
You can’t cook it like store-bought domestic meat.
And, as BFBW says, many times it’s just a matter of individual taste.

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sizzzzlerz  Aug 1, 2015 • 12:53:39pm

re: #189 Dave In Austin

It’s true! Wearing the stars and bars does make one look like they’ve lost 150 pounds.

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sagehen  Aug 1, 2015 • 1:16:26pm

re: #227 Blind Frog Belly White

Boars have a definite, unpleasant flavor that some people are more sensitive to than others. Sows, OTOH, are pretty tasty, though the meat is definitely denser, leaner, and darker than domestic pork. Definitely can’t cook it like storebought!

If you marinade for many hours, slice it and marinade it some more, pound on it with a tenderizer and then marinade it some more….

It’s very good.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 1:55:57pm

re: #164 Backwoods_Sleuth

Judging from his beard he’s prohibited from using sharp objects.

Pity.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 2:00:22pm

re: #181 JadeHelmCurious

Look at this:

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To the guy in that video:

Piss off, Jedediah! You’re hoping for an excuse to use those weapons on people you don’t like or have rights you no longer have the legal power to remove.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 2:01:06pm

re: #182 Decatur Deb

It’s past time to end Planned Parenthood, Obamacare, Medicare, Medicaid, the Indian Health Service and the VA medical mission. All should be subsumed into a rational fully-funded single-payer system.

COMMUNISM!!1!1!!11!

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 2:07:37pm

re: #196 allegro

Last night at dinner my friend talked about how Superman brought down the KKK. Never heard this story before - very cool stuff.

birthmoviesdeath.com

Cool story.

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Romantic Heretic  Aug 1, 2015 • 2:10:07pm

re: #202 Dave In Austin

Of course it is.

Now, show me on the doll where the liberals touched you.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 1, 2015 • 4:31:03pm

re: #229 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

This is why the gunhumpers’ continual riposte of “Waddabout people who need to hunt to feed there famblys, huh, huh? Checkmaet, LIE-brul!” gripes my liver so bad. There is no place in the developed world at least where it isn’t enormously more expensive to hunt than to just buy the same weight of meat in a grocery store—and there’s a fair chance that the grocery store meat will be edible, too!

Sorry, but that’s not true. In a number of states in the East, doe tags can be had for pretty cheap, and hunting land is easily accessible and free. I know a number of folks for whom the venison they kill is their primary meat source, because even with the combined cost of license, tags, and hunting equipment, it’s cheaper - and healthier - than store-bought meat


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