Donald Trump's Campaign Fires Staffer Over Racist Facebook Posts

Donald Trump’s Campaign Fires Staffer Over Racist Facebook Posts

Why bother?

PoliticsAugust 2015 • Views: 55,336

We may need a category named “Why Bother?” for this one, because the guy who’s currently in first place in the GOP presidential field because the right wing base loves his outright xenophobia and racism has just fired a staffer for… outright xenophobia and racism.

Sam Nunberg allegedly wrote racially charged and disparaging political posts dating back to 2007, including one calling civil rights leader Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter a “N—!” and another calling President Barack Obama a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser,” Business Insider reported Friday. Nunberg is denying he wrote the posts.

Nunberg’s attempt to deny he wrote the posts is noteworthy for its sheer incoherence:

“I am not adept at social media,” he told CNN on Friday. “I have a long record of working with diverse people. And anything you are reporting on does not reflect anything on Mr. Trump or Mr. Trump’s campaign. I would also point out that all of these things were done before Mr. Trump’s campaign, if I even did them — which I deny. In any event, this is the problem with politics … Politics as usual is wrong.”

Lolwut?

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175 comments

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 11:14:28am

“I didn’t do it, it was the right thing to do, they deserved it, and I’m sorry if anyone was offended, but nobody should be offended, and it was everybody’s fault.”

Great White Snark Aug 2, 2015 • 11:15:26am

Why bother-This is why or how perhaps.

This guy plays the media like Buckethead plays guitar. Constantly, loudly, incomprehensibly as often as brilliantly.

goddamnedfrank Aug 2, 2015 • 11:16:42am

I’d take this more seriously if Trump had not previously fired and then rehired Nunberg.

As many remember - who can forget? - Trump fired Nunberg back in March after then-BuzzFeed Political Editor McKay Coppins wrote a scathing profile of Trump, essentially calling him out for being a phony candidate. Trump, to say the least, was displeased. His camp fired back at McKay through an appallingly ridiculous profile by Breitbart News’ Matthew Boyle which painted Coppins as a letch and would-be slime ball toward women.

But that’s all in the past, right?

Nunberg was “fired” for about seven and half weeks in total. By the end of April he was back with “Mr. Trump” (as he affectionately calls him to his face and behind his back.

makeitstop Aug 2, 2015 • 11:16:52am

re: #1 Decatur Deb

“I didn’t do it, it was the right thing to do, they deserved it, and I’m sorry if anyone was offended, but nobody should be offended, and it was everybody’s fault but mine.”

Added a bit there.

JadeHelmCurious Aug 2, 2015 • 11:18:27am

Led Zeppelin - Nobody’s Fault But Mine

Targetpractice Aug 2, 2015 • 11:24:27am

And the likely result of this will be…nothing. His supporters will blame the “liberal media” and “PC nanny state” or whatever convenient scapegoat they need to say that Trump is firing this guy for no good reason, the people like us who think Trump is a joke will continue to do so, and those who are on the fence about supporting him will have forgotten about this in six months (if not sooner).

A Mom Anon Aug 2, 2015 • 11:27:14am

Maybe this mess could be a lesson as to why you don’t run government like a business. And what to avoid doing if you want to be a decent human being. In case you need help with that sort of thing…

Blind Frog Belly White Aug 2, 2015 • 11:31:50am

When you’re running a campaign based on racism as thinly veiled as Trump’s, you have to have someone go the Full Racist every so often to make you look good by contrast when you ‘fire’ them.

Great White Snark Aug 2, 2015 • 11:34:26am

Well call me a misogynist maybe. I don’t like prize fighting, find myself quite put off by mens MMA. Just saw the short female MMA fight online and I’m frankly even more put off. Much more. Women may of course do as they please same as the guys. But that just looks wrong to me. So my friends, my bad? Can we maybe dial down the celebration of voluntary violence for money?

Ahh edit thought I posted this down one thread, but went ot way early. My apologies.

BongCrodny Aug 2, 2015 • 11:35:31am

August 2, 2015

The Honorable Dr. Donald Trump
New York, New York

Dear Dr. Trump:

I was going to wait until I had MORE in-depth analysis for your campaign, but sometimes you got to strike when the fire is hot.

Let me start off by saying it was brilliant how you fired that guy, and then rehired him, and then fired him again for those racist remarks. This just proves that you’re three squares ahead of everybody else playing the game. While other campaigns would have lost TWO key players in such a short time, you only lost ONE — and the great thing is, you can hire him again and then fire him again the NEXT time something happens. It feeds on itself!

I read about your campaign’s recent trademark application for the words TRUMPOCRAT and TRUMPUBLICAN. This is awesome. After 2017, there will be HUNDREDS of proud TRUMPOCRATS and TRUMPUBLICANS you can sell stuff to. In fact, when you start to sell the T-shirts, I would like two of each, please.

However, I think you should be more comprehensive - to be safe, you probably should file trademark applications for TRUMPERTARIAN and TRUMPSERVATIVE and TRUMPBERAL. Is the Know-Nothing Party still around these days? If so, you should probably register TRUMP KNOW-NOTHING PARTY as well. I’d do it myself, but I’m a little short on cash right now.

I read about Former Ex-Governor Rick Perry’s challenge to you to a pull up contest. You should take him up on this. You’re 6’4”, and he’s only 6’1”, so you’ve already got a pretty good head start.

Here’s a suggestion for you. Whenever you go on TV and people call you or your ideas crazy, you should shake your fist at them and go “CRAZY? YOU THINK THAT’S CRAZY? I’LL SHOW YOU CRAZY!” I love it when they do that in the movies, and I think even MORE people would vote for you if you did that.

One other thing I wanted to advise you on is the recent story about that lion that got shot, Clarence. If you ask me, that dentist was doing that lion a favor. It’s not like he’d be able to hunt prey being cross-eyed, right?

I know that your son, Donald Junior, is a hunter and he’s killed a few exotic animals like elephants and leopards and rhinocerussusses, so you’ve probably been asked about this already.

It’s a complete mystery to me, but for whatever reason some people get ALL bent out of shape when you shoot an elephant or lion or grazelle. Personally, I would LOVE to shoot an elephant, but I’d never get the head through the trailer door. I guess I’ll have to leave that sort of thing to you rich guys!

But at least until the campaign is over, you should take him aside and tell him “Donald Junior, don’t shoot anything else for a while, at least until I wrap up the nomination.” If he gives you the old “No way, dad, killing endangered species is in my blood” response, just ship him off to boarding school for a couple of years. Problem solved!

Respectfully,
Your #2 Fan,
Bong Crodny

P.S. - Vote Donald, and think V-D!

Blind Frog Belly White Aug 2, 2015 • 11:42:30am

re: #9 Great White Snark

Well call me a misogynist maybe. I don’t like prize fighting, find myself quite put off by mens MMA. Just saw the short female MMA fight online and I’m frankly even more put off. Much more. Women may of course do as they please same as the guys. But that just looks wrong to me. So my friends, my bad? Can we maybe dial down the celebration of voluntary violence for money?

Ahh edit thought I posted this down one thread, but went ot way early. My apologies.

Yeah, I can’t say that I ever found Boxing to be that interesting, and MMA is kinda like boxing with fewer restrictions. And I’ve never found ‘girl fights’ that alluring either, so putting those two together? No, thanks.

Great White Snark Aug 2, 2015 • 11:50:14am

re: #11 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, I can’t say that I ever found Boxing to be that interesting, and MMA is kinda like boxing with fewer restrictions. And I’ve never found ‘girl fights’ that alluring either, so putting those two together? No, thanks.

I hope it’s less crooked than boxing. I have huge respect for the concept of mixed martial arts. For athleticism, self defense, confidence, maybe just all around health martial arts are great for lots of good people. The hurt somebody for money part just ruins it. Even full contact training within a school or just to truly test ones skills can be just fine. Not for everyone obviously. Add money, make a big entertainment corporation? Thats blood money.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 11:53:58am

Our gradeschool had a regulation ring. Everyone was required to box a schedule in winter, pressured into volunteering in summer vacation. Probably kept down the unsanctioned mayhem.

aagcobb Aug 2, 2015 • 11:54:58am

re: #8 Blind Frog Belly White

When you’re running a campaign based on racism as thinly veiled as Trump’s, you have to have someone go the Full Racist every so often to make you look good by contrast when you ‘fire’ them.

Not that Trump is the slightest bit racist:

Donald Trump thinks the United States will not see another black president for some time because Barack Obama has “set a very poor standard,” the billionaire businessman, entertainer and Republican presidential candidate told ABC News on Sunday.

If it worked that way, the Bush Administration would have assured us of no more white male presidents in our lifetimes.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 11:55:44am

re: #14 aagcobb

Not that Trump is the slightest bit racist:

If it worked that way, the Bush Administration would have assured us of no more white male president’s in our lifetimes.

Perhaps it has, perhaps it has…

Great White Snark Aug 2, 2015 • 11:56:42am

re: #13 Decatur Deb

Unimaginable these days outside of a military private school.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 11:58:32am

re: #16 Great White Snark

Unimaginable these days outside of a military private school.

Catholic military reform school. Pittsburgh’s lawyers were otherwise engaged.

Charles Johnson Aug 2, 2015 • 12:00:44pm

re: #10 BongCrodny

Hah! You should make this into a Page. “An Open Letter to Mr. Trump.”

William Lewis Aug 2, 2015 • 12:01:38pm

re: #17 Decatur Deb

Catholic military reform school. Pittsburgh’s lawyers were otherwise engaged.

Why do I see, in my minds eye, a nun in full habit except for the addition of a campaign hat ala your friendly basic training DI?

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 12:03:51pm

re: #19 William Lewis

Why do I see, in my minds eye, a nun in full habit except for the addition of a campaign hat ala your friendly basic training DI?

We had nuns and a one-legged DI from the First Cav. They were in it together, in different styles.

“Mr Greer, if you drop that rifle again, I’m going to take off this leg and shove it up your ass.”

team_fukit Aug 2, 2015 • 12:16:53pm

I’ll laugh if firing this guy gets Trump some push-back from the wingnuts.

PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 12:18:38pm

Another episode in the story of Trump the Sump Pump. I see we are going to have a lot of these episodes in the next few months.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 2, 2015 • 12:24:58pm

Maybe now he can get a job with the Rand Paul campaign…

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 12:26:13pm

What is pleasant on Sunday afternoon? Remembering there are still 22 Klondikes in the freezer.

PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 12:28:08pm

re: #24 Decatur Deb

::: Making a bee line to Decatur’s house. ::: Stop. I have some Hagen Daz in the freezer. :)

Teukka Aug 2, 2015 • 12:30:15pm

*sigh*
Explosions shock congregants at two churches in New Mexico

allegro Aug 2, 2015 • 12:31:31pm

re: #25 PhillyPretzel

::: Making a bee line to Decatur’s house. ::: Stop. I have some Hagen Daz in the freezer. :)

I just ate the last of the mint chocolate chip for lunch. I gotta do some grocery shopping… sometime.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 12:34:00pm

Wife: “Don’t ever tell women you have forgotten you have icecream.”

Dark_Falcon Aug 2, 2015 • 12:34:47pm

re: #26 Teukka

*sigh*
Explosions shock congregants at two churches in New Mexico

One black Baptist church, but the other was Catholic and had what looks like a mixed congregation. People who place bombs in religious centers* are lower than shit.

*: “Religious Centers” means churches, mosques, synagogues, temples, monasteries, etc.

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 2, 2015 • 12:36:04pm

re: #24 Decatur Deb

What is pleasant on Sunday afternoon? Remembering there are still 22 Klondikes in the freezer.

So what did you do for them? :p

Eclectic Cyborg Aug 2, 2015 • 12:37:52pm

re: #26 Teukka

*sigh*
Explosions shock congregants at two churches in New Mexico

There are 15 comments on that story and two of them are people blaming muslims.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 12:38:13pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

So what did you do for them? :p

Leftovers from grandkid stay. Will restock as needed.

Jay C Aug 2, 2015 • 12:40:41pm

re: #30 Eclectic Cyborg

So what did you do for them? :p

Freed them from their lonely, icy crypt and allowed them to fulfill the destiny for which they were created?

Dave In Austin Aug 2, 2015 • 12:40:48pm

Well then there is this…….

latimes.com

Edit:
Old news I guess. First time I’ve seen it though.

aagcobb Aug 2, 2015 • 12:42:16pm

The latest outrageous outrage roiling the wingnutosphere is that OMG Obummer is charging the hero in Chattanooga for having a firearm he used to fight the terrorist! Except, of course, the story is completely false.

Dark_Falcon Aug 2, 2015 • 12:46:55pm

re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg

There are 15 comments on that story and two of them are people blaming muslims.

With small bombs that detonated by timer, placed outside of or on the outside of the building? That’s not how Radical Islamists attack. Whoever set these bombs wanted to be away from them when they went off, whereas Al-Qaeda and ISIS always aim to inflict maximum casualties.

No, this is more likely some more faint-hearted hater, probably white and certainly a coward.

Jay C Aug 2, 2015 • 12:49:29pm

re: #35 aagcobb

The latest outrageous outrage roiling the wingnutosphere is that OMG Obummer is charging the hero in Chattanooga for having a firearm he used to fight the terrorist! Except, of course, the story is completely false.

And - surprise! - sourced to Allen West. [/shocked face]

nines09 Aug 2, 2015 • 12:50:06pm

Trump fires staffer for being more like Trump than Trump. Film at 11.

Dark_Falcon Aug 2, 2015 • 12:51:10pm

re: #35 aagcobb

The latest outrageous outrage roiling the wingnutosphere is that OMG Obummer is charging the hero in Chattanooga for having a firearm he used to fight the terrorist! Except, of course, the story is completely false.

Look who got it going:

On Saturday, conservative commentator Allen B. West wrote a blog post saying sources had told him the Navy would bring charges against Lt. Cmdr Timothy White for illegally discharging a firearm on federal property. White and a Marine are believed to have fired their personal weapons during the July 16 attacks that killed four Marines and one sailor.

My own bet is that West pulled his “sources” out of his ass.

Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Aug 2, 2015 • 12:54:48pm

re: #31 Eclectic Cyborg

There are 15 comments on that story and two of them are people blaming muslims.

Perfectly logical: Muslims hate Christians, Muslims practice Jihad, ergo Muslims kill Christians. Ergo Dylan Root was a closet Muslim…

aagcobb Aug 2, 2015 • 12:57:44pm

re: #40 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Perfectly logical: Muslims hate Christians, Muslims practice Jihad, ergo Muslims kill Christians. Ergo Dylan Root was a closet Muslim…

Undoubtably, I’m sure he had an ISIS flag, and “they” photoshopped a Confederate flag into the photo. if I had computer skills, I would photoshop the photo so that Roof would be holding the dildo flag.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 2, 2015 • 12:59:21pm

more Walking Dead marathon.

yowser.

#FergusonFireside Aug 2, 2015 • 1:01:23pm

The final Fartknocker report.

wonkette.com

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:04:54pm

Klondike Bars…yum! The Isaly Dairy Company in Ohio is who made the originals. Since licensed to much bigger companies and Isaly’s is all gone…I’m pretty sure.

And they had the best combo snack bar and ice cream fountain places around. There was one on my way back and forth to school every day. So, that was a daily stop on the way home with my cousins every day. We had ice cream, the greatest sherbet cones, Klondike bars daily in the spring and fall.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 1:13:23pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

Klondike Bars…yum! The Isaly Dairy Company in Ohio is who made the originals. Since licensed to much bigger companies and Isaly’s is all gone…I’m pretty sure.

And they had the best combo snack bar and ice cream fountain places around. There was one on my way back and forth to school every day. So, that was a daily stop on the way home with my cousins every day. We had ice cream, the greatest sherbet cones, Klondike bars daily in the spring and fall.

Yep. from Ohio, but Pittsbourgeoisie for all practical porpoises. There was one in every neighbourhood I grew up in.

#FergusonFireside Aug 2, 2015 • 1:17:21pm

So has anyone watched the whole Trump the Movie yet?

Charles Johnson Aug 2, 2015 • 1:20:14pm

…

PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 1:20:21pm

re: #46 #FergusonFireside

No. I really do not want to watch it.

A Cranky One Aug 2, 2015 • 1:23:24pm

re: #46 #FergusonFireside

So has anyone watched the whole Trump the Movie yet?

Watched about 20 minutes and reached my Trump saturation level.

May try to finish watching it later, but will have to wait until I’m feeling masochistic enough.

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:25:59pm

re: #45 Decatur Deb

Yep. from Ohio, but Pittsbourgeoisie for all practical porpoises. There was one in every neighbourhood I grew up in.

You’ll have to fight me over any practical purposes Deb. The company was home town for me! Of course, we also were a little Pittsburgh as I think we had either the largest or second largest Westinghouse factory too!

I still remember going to their factory outlet and seeing big 25 gallon containers of ice creams and sherbets. They’d hand pack pints and quarts and sell ice cream cones right there. It was heaven.

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:26:50pm

re: #46 #FergusonFireside

So has anyone watched the whole Trump the Movie yet?

I’m about half way and will finish up tonight. So far it has been pretty informative.

Jenner7 Aug 2, 2015 • 1:28:17pm

Trump movie?? Was that?

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:29:54pm

re: #52 Jenner7

Trump movie?? Was that?

Look for teleskiguy #53 or about in the overnight thread. He had the link.

EDIT #54

Trump the Movie - LINK

Jenner7 Aug 2, 2015 • 1:33:03pm

re: #53 ObserverArt

Thank you!

Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 1:33:21pm

re: #20 Decatur Deb

We had nuns and a one-legged DI from the First Cav. They were in it together, in different styles.

“Mr Greer, if you drop that rifle again, I’m going to take off this leg and shove it up your ass.”

Yeah, nuns could be mean. What would the DI say?

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 1:33:55pm

re: #50 ObserverArt

You’ll have to fight me over any practical purposes Deb. The company was home town for me! Of course, we also were a little Pittsburgh as I think we had either the largest or second largest Westinghouse factory too!

I still remember going to their factory outlet and seeing big 25 gallon containers of ice creams and sherbets. They’d hand pack pints and quarts and sell ice cream cones right there. It was heaven.

One of our houses was line-of-sight to the giant Isaly plant in the Oakland neighbourhood. Didn’t know Isaly’s was gone until we went back to visit it a few years ago. You can still get the chipped ham.

isalys.com

Jebediah, RBG Aug 2, 2015 • 1:34:54pm

re: #55 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, nuns could be mean. What would the DI say?

“Sister yes sister!”

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:37:25pm

re: #56 Decatur Deb

One of our houses was line-of-sight to the giant Isaly plant in the Oakland neighbourhood. Didn’t know Isaly’s was gone until we went back to visit it a few years ago. You can still get the chipped ham.

isalys.com

Heh. I was going to ask if you remembered the “chip-chop” ham sandwiches. I was a big fan of their hot chicken.

The ice cream was good, but I remember the sherbets the most. It was real strong in fruit flavor and that took away from it being too sweet. The orange was like biting into acid it was so dang tangy. Early childhood drugs!

Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 1:39:45pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

Klondike Bars…yum! The Isaly Dairy Company in Ohio is who made the originals. Since licensed to much bigger companies and Isaly’s is all gone…I’m pretty sure.

And they had the best combo snack bar and ice cream fountain places around. There was one on my way back and forth to school every day. So, that was a daily stop on the way home with my cousins every day. We had ice cream, the greatest sherbet cones, Klondike bars daily in the spring and fall.

We had one in town years ago also. Deli and ice cream. They are still in business last I knew. You could order their ham and BBQ sauce to make their BBQ ham sandwiches.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 1:41:57pm

re: #58 ObserverArt

Heh. I was going to ask if you remembered the “chip-chop” ham sandwiches. I was a big fan of their hot chicken.

The ice cream was good, but I remember the sherbets the most. It was real strong in fruit flavor and that took away from it being too sweet. The orange was like biting into acid it was so dang tangy. Early childhood drugs!

Friends from Ohio properly call it “chip-chop”. In our circle, however, it was only known as “chipped”. The big skycraper cones, costing a whole dime, were the threshold of a Big Treat, opposed to a normal nickel cone.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 1:43:15pm

re: #59 Eventual Carrion

We had one in town years ago also. Deli and ice cream. They are still in business last I knew. You could order their ham and BBQ sauce to make their BBQ ham sandwiches.

Wiki says about 3 are surviving, detached from the original company.

en.wikipedia.org

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 1:46:10pm

re: #55 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, nuns could be mean. What would the DI say?

There was a Charlton Heston movie, The Private War of Major Benson, that was placed in a similar setting. They showed it at our school: “What’s this, a documentary?”

imdb.com

The War TARDIS Aug 2, 2015 • 1:48:00pm

So, I found out what happened with Sea Shephard in the Faroes this year.

Their idea backfired.

In 2015, Sea Shepherd launched the “Sleppið Grindini 2015” campaign in the Faroe Islands. The organization made videos and photos during a whale hunt, drive and slauhtering of 111 pilot whales in the village Bøur.[92][93] The blood of the whales coloured the sea red for several minutes, as it normally does when pilot whales are slaughtered. Sea Shepherd put the video on the Internet on the same day[94] and shared it on the social media. On the following days, medias from all over the world told the stories of the hunt,[95] several of them used Sea Shepherds own words like “horrifying scenes”,[96] “mass killing”[97] “bloody event”,[98] “horrific slaughter”[98] (rt.com) and descibing the Faroese people as “heartless”,[96]. Sea Shepherd urged people to send protest mails to all 179 members of the Danish parliament. The Danish MP’s received half a million more emails then normal the following week in the end of July 2015, and some of the politician received death threats.[99] On 30 July 2015 the Danish television DR2 with Martin Krasnik had an interview with the vice president of Sea Shepherd Denmark, Valentina Crast. Crast admitted, that the slaughtering of pilot whales in the Faroe Islands was not more brutal then other kinds of slaughtering of animals for food, and that it was not illigal. She claimed, that it would be better for the environment, if the Faroese people stop getting free meat by slaughtering pilot whales on the Faroese bays and in stead buy their food from supermarkets, she mentioned food like papaya, rice and beans, all of which does not grow in the Faroe Islands because it is too cold, but must be imported from very long distance, [100]i.e. it takes 36 hours by ferry from Denmark to the Faroe Islands.

I am usually against whaling, but the Sea Shephard organization goes too far. More over, the whales are an important source of food for the Faroes. They lack good agricultural land, and it is nasty weather wise, and the climate is brutal.

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:48:14pm

re: #59 Eventual Carrion

We had one in town years ago also. Deli and ice cream. They are still in business last I knew. You could order their ham and BBQ sauce to make their BBQ ham sandwiches.

My understanding is the original company is gone. What you see now is all licensed under another company that owns all the names, recipes, rights, etc. There may still be some small delis and ice cream places using the name and products. I haven’t seen one in Ohio though, which I said earlier was home state. Kind of sad that. They were a great places in the 50s, 60s and through the 70s and then all the fast food places really seem to hurt that kind of restaurant/ice cream shop.

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:54:01pm

Reading the Wiki entry and it brings back some memories. I forgot they (Isalys) ran milk delivery too. We used to get that daily. What a concpet…a light brown “milk truck” rolled up every day and dropped off cold milk and took the used glass bottles back with them. I think we even had Isalys milk basket/racks with I think spaces for 6 bottles.

Wiki - Isalys Dairy

Here is the bit on the company changing…

Since 1984, the Isaly’s name has enjoyed a comeback of sorts, but one not overseen by members of the Isaly family. Delicatessen Distributing Incorporated of Evans City, Pennsylvania purchased the Isaly trademark name and markets the original quality luncheon meats, cheeses and sauces under the Isaly name in western Pennsylvania and eastern Ohio. The concern also distributes Isaly brand ice cream (except Klondikes) to stores in Western Pennsylvania. The Klondike Bar product line is now owned by Unilever.

EDIT - Sorry Deb, didn’t see you had already linked it up…I was deep into nostalgia!

majii Aug 2, 2015 • 1:54:28pm

I’m 62 years old, and I’m not very adept at social media, but I know enough not to post racist, bigoted, sh*t on the internet. Dude wouldn’t be saying this if he didn’t know he’d done it. He was trying to save his job with Trump and protect his future prospect of getting a consultant’s job with another GOP campaign. Sorriest excuse I’ve ever heard. He’s a typical GOP/TPer because when the sh*t he does catches up to him, it’s always someone else’s fault, never theirs.

teleskiguy Aug 2, 2015 • 1:55:44pm

re: #46 #FergusonFireside

So has anyone watched the whole Trump the Movie yet?

Watched it last night. Lots of juicy details of how horrible The Donald™ is as a human being. I can totally understand why the man suppressed it for 24 years. I found it darky funny at times, informative and dare I say authoritative. The interviewees range from people The Donald™ tried to evict to his interior designer to his co-writer of The Art of The Deal, and many others.

It’s true, The Donald™ doesn’t want you to see this film. It’ll make you not like the man, and all he wants is all the attention.

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 1:56:29pm

re: #67 teleskiguy

Watched it last night. Lots of juicy details of how horrible The DonaldTM is as a human being. I can totally understand why the man suppressed it for 24 years. I found it darky funny at times, informative and dare I say authoritative. The interviewees range from people The DonaldTM tried to evict to his interior designer to his co-writer of The Art of The Deal, and many others.

It’s true, The DonaldTM doesn’t want you to see this film. It’ll make you not like the man, and all he wants is all the attention.

Thanks for the link!

teleskiguy Aug 2, 2015 • 1:59:07pm

re: #68 ObserverArt

You say you’re about half way through. The second half is the most entertaining. His foray into Palm Beach, his shady business deals in Atlantic City, his personal life with Ivana and the kids unraveling. The last line in the film is quite memorable.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 2, 2015 • 2:00:37pm

probably a lot of truth in this.

Good point ? pic.twitter.com/o1oRwUd0nD

— Jonah Lupton (@JonahLupton) August 2, 2015

7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course) Aug 2, 2015 • 2:02:34pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

Klondike Bars…yum! The Isaly Dairy Company in Ohio is who made the originals. Since licensed to much bigger companies and Isaly’s is all gone…I’m pretty sure.

And they had the best combo snack bar and ice cream fountain places around. There was one on my way back and forth to school every day. So, that was a daily stop on the way home with my cousins every day. We had ice cream, the greatest sherbet cones, Klondike bars daily in the spring and fall.

Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly’s

Shiplord Kirel Aug 2, 2015 • 2:04:09pm

Apollo 11 Customs Declaration for “Moon rocks and dust samples.”

Via Buzz Aldrin

(And here’s wishing a snappy punch to the jaw to all the Moon landing denialists and other conspiraliars.)

Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 2:11:33pm

re: #71 7-y (Expectation of Great Things in Due Course)

Klondikes, Chipped Ham, & Skyscraper Cones: The Story of Isaly’s

In the 60’s, on a Saturday mom would head to town to hit Woolworth’s for whatever she needed. This was an old time Woolworth with hardwood, tongue groove floors, wooden bins for products, the works. Then we would go across the street to Isaly’s for lunch. Loved those Saturday’s, snooping through the bins and then ham sandwich and ice cream.

teleskiguy Aug 2, 2015 • 2:13:26pm

The most fun job in the world right now has to be playing Trump in your candidate's debate prep. That is true freedom, living the dream.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) August 2, 2015

teleskiguy Aug 2, 2015 • 2:17:25pm

Look at all those people!

Packed house this afternoon for a coffee and conversation town hall meeting in Jefferson, Iowa #iacaucus pic.twitter.com/X9Hgar7YIw

— Rick Santorum (@RickSantorum) August 2, 2015

PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 2:19:04pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

I see a few empty seats in the front and off to the left.

Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 2, 2015 • 2:19:29pm

re: #76 PhillyPretzel

I see a few empty seats in the front and off to the left.

I see a couple people who are taking up more than one seat.

Great White Snark Aug 2, 2015 • 2:20:07pm

re: #63 The War TARDIS

So, I found out what happened with Sea Shephard in the Faroes this year.

Their idea backfired.

I am usually against whaling, but the Sea Shephard organization goes too far. More over, the whales are an important source of food for the Faroes. They lack good agricultural land, and it is nasty weather wise, and the climate is brutal.

Could not agree more. Terrifying example of “advocates disease”

Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 2:20:08pm

re: #76 PhillyPretzel

I see a few empty seats in the front and off to the left.

They had to run into the bathroom to laugh.

PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 2:21:44pm

re: #79 Eventual Carrion

Let me guess: they could not hold it in anymore. /half

Jenner7 Aug 2, 2015 • 2:24:03pm

re: #58 ObserverArt

Ha. Whenever I visit Ohio, we have “chipped” ham sandwiches. I’ve never heard of it, because I grew up in Utah and I asked hubby (who’s from Warren, OH) what the hell chipped ham was. lol

ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 2:25:30pm

re: #81 Jenner7

Ha. Whenever I visit Ohio, we have “chipped” ham sandwiches. I’ve never heard of it, because I grew up in Utah and I asked hubby (who’s from Warren, OH) what the hell chipped ham was. lol

He would know, Warren and Youngstown were probably some of the earliest places they opened.

Dark_Falcon Aug 2, 2015 • 2:26:39pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

Look at all those people!

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Santorum must be the 2nd youngest person in the room. Only the guy with the baseball cap seems younger than him.

JadeHelmCurious Aug 2, 2015 • 2:33:01pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

A packed house!

Lidane Aug 2, 2015 • 2:33:09pm

re: #74 teleskiguy

Just imagine the guy playing Trump in Christie’s debate prep. Or Rick Perry’s.

ROFL

allegro Aug 2, 2015 • 2:33:52pm

re: #84 JadeHelmCurious

A packed house!

With a maximum capacity of 23!

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 2:33:56pm

re: #84 JadeHelmCurious

A packed house!

The world record for phone booth packing is a couple times larger.

en.wikipedia.org

Jenner7 Aug 2, 2015 • 2:34:23pm

WATCH: Kansas Cop Threatens Man With Jail For Asking A Question http://t.co/HQfVms2K03

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) August 2, 2015

The War TARDIS Aug 2, 2015 • 2:34:38pm

re: #78 Great White Snark

Next year, Denmark should deploy an Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate to protect the people doing the whaling from the Sea Shephard Society.

FormerDirtDart Aug 2, 2015 • 2:35:34pm

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

probably a lot of truth in this.

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I used to keep my boxer from accompanying me by standing an empty toilet paper tube in the doorway. For some reason she was scared of them.
Unfortunately, my old beagle had no such concerns. And, eventually her fears dissipated.
So, I haven’t gone to the bathroom alone in over nine years.

Dark_Falcon Aug 2, 2015 • 2:36:23pm

re: #87 Decatur Deb

The world record for phone booth packing is a few times larger.

Yes, but some of those folks are big enough to count as two or three people in terms of space but they still have only one vote.

PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 2:36:54pm

re: #88 Jenner7

Oy Vey. No one needs that.

Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 2:37:57pm

Post-Millenial: “What’s a phone booth?”

Dark_Falcon Aug 2, 2015 • 2:38:09pm

re: #89 The War TARDIS

Next year, Denmark should deploy an Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate to protect the people doing the whaling from the Sea Shephard Society.

Better coast guard or other law enforcement. Using the navy is escalating things a bit too much, IMO.

BBT

Cheechako Aug 2, 2015 • 2:38:11pm

re: #79 Eventual Carrion

They had to run into the bathroom to ~~laugh~~ barf.

FIFY

FormerDirtDart Aug 2, 2015 • 2:38:15pm

re: #75 teleskiguy

Look at all those people!

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I count twelve, including the camera operator in the background, so Trump math estimates a crown of 7,000

JadeHelmCurious Aug 2, 2015 • 2:38:34pm

re: #86 allegro

With a maximum capacity of 23!

23 men and women entah. One man leave. Who run Nuttertown?

CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 2:40:54pm

re: #88 Jenner7

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Who in the HELL do these guys think they are? They’re supposed to protect & serve, not strut around like thuggish assholes with chips on their shoulders.

William Lewis Aug 2, 2015 • 2:41:18pm

re: #93 Decatur Deb

Post-Millenial: “What’s a phone booth?”

They just recently put one outside our local library. Why? I have no clue but it’s a real phone booth. I need to take my son over to see it - at 13 it’s probably the last time he’ll ever have a chance to see a real one in the wild.

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Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 2:42:11pm

re: #99 William Lewis

They just recently put one outside our local library. Why? I have no clue but it’s a real phone booth. I need to take my son over to see it - at 13 it’s probably the last time he’ll ever have a chance to see a real one in the wild.

Careful. Could be a regionally-adapted tardis.

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ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 2:45:11pm

re: #99 William Lewis

They just recently put one outside our local library. Why? I have no clue but it’s a real phone booth. I need to take my son over to see it - at 13 it’s probably the last time he’ll ever have a chance to see a real one in the wild.

Maybe it has ATT offering free wi-fi and a quiet space for you to check your eCommunications.

A comeback.

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Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 2:46:10pm

re: #101 ObserverArt

Maybe it has ATT offering free wi-fi and a quiet space for you to check your eCommunications.

A comeback.

Phoneless booth.

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A Cranky One Aug 2, 2015 • 2:51:50pm

re: #99 William Lewis

They just recently put one outside our local library. Why? I have no clue but it’s a real phone booth. I need to take my son over to see it - at 13 it’s probably the last time he’ll ever have a chance to see a real one in the wild.

They installed it at Superman’s request.

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PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 2:52:04pm

re: #102 Decatur Deb

A phoneless booth to use your cell phone?

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The War TARDIS Aug 2, 2015 • 2:55:18pm

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

I disagree.

They are interfering with the ability of these people being able to get food, which has been said by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the American Cetacean Society to be sustainable.

The Sea Shephard Society should be shown that there are risks for trying to do their stupidity.

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Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 2:55:41pm

re: #104 PhillyPretzel

A phoneless booth to use your cell phone?

BYOP

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Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 2:57:22pm

re: #105 The War TARDIS

I disagree.

They are interfering with the ability of these people being able to get food, which has been said by the International Union for Conservation of Nature and the American Cetacean Society to be sustainable.

The Sea Shephard Society should be shown that there are risks for trying to do their stupidity.

Just give the whales cute names.

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Joe Bacon Aug 2, 2015 • 2:58:47pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

Klondike Bars…yum! The Isaly Dairy Company in Ohio is who made the originals. Since licensed to much bigger companies and Isaly’s is all gone…I’m pretty sure.

And they had the best combo snack bar and ice cream fountain places around. There was one on my way back and forth to school every day. So, that was a daily stop on the way home with my cousins every day. We had ice cream, the greatest sherbet cones, Klondike bars daily in the spring and fall.

I remember Isaly’s! There were two Isaly stores in my hometown of Ambridge, PA. Loved their chocolate marshmallow ice cream! Their deli counters were also great with their chip chopped ham and turkey. They also made great pies—the coconut custard was scrumptious! And then there was their BBQ sauce which was so good heated with the chip chopped ham!

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Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 3:00:23pm

re: #108 Joe Bacon

I remember Isaly’s! There were two Isaly stores in my hometown of Ambridge, PA. Loved their chocolate marshmallow ice cream! Their deli counters were also great with their chip chopped ham and turkey. They also made great pies—the coconut custard was scrumptious! And then there was their BBQ sauce which was so good heated with the chip chopped ham!

There’s a liberal PAC named American Bridge. Always blows me away.

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Nyet Aug 2, 2015 • 3:00:56pm

oh hai

some photos

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Khal Wimpo Aug 2, 2015 • 3:01:41pm

re: #19 William Lewis

Why do I see, in my minds eye, a nun in full habit except for the addition of a campaign hat ala your friendly basic training DI?

The nuns in the Catholic school I went to were hard as coffin nails. Wiry, pinch-faced and sadistic beyond measure. They made a sport out of choosing a few students to verbally castrate every term. The school was best described as an open-air torture chamber, where the nuns delighted in finding the weak points in the boys (always the boys, with them), and then mocking them.

The less said about the priest, the better. I heard he eventually got jail time for what he did to us.

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Nyet Aug 2, 2015 • 3:02:36pm

more later

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goddamnedfrank Aug 2, 2015 • 3:02:36pm

re: #89 The War TARDIS

Next year, Denmark should deploy an Iver Huitfeldt-class frigate to protect the people doing the whaling from the Sea Shephard Society.

All Sea Shepherd did was document the hunt in the Faroes. By all accounts they didn’t actively interfere with it or endanger anybody. You don’t have to agree with their message or the way they tend to frame their arguments to see that what they did in this instance was completely legal and harmless free speech. A military response is the kind of ridiculously gross overreaction I’ve come to expect from you.

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Joe Bacon Aug 2, 2015 • 3:04:39pm

re: #109 Decatur Deb

There’s a liberal PAC named American Bridge. Always blows me away.

Well, my home town was named after the American Bridge company which was the largest steel fabrication factory in the US before it was shut down in 1984 when the steel industry died in Western PA…

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Great White Snark Aug 2, 2015 • 3:06:51pm

fwiw

seashepherdlies.com

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Decatur Deb Aug 2, 2015 • 3:07:01pm

re: #114 Joe Bacon

Well, my home town was named after the American Bridge company which was the largest steel fabrication factory in the US before it was shut down in 1984 when the steel industry died in Western PA…

Yup. IIRC you were shipping I-beams to the Empire State Building, arriving there still warm. Did our Pittsburgh Railways streetcars reach as far as Ambridge?

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Nyet Aug 2, 2015 • 3:08:22pm

BTW, It follows is a good scary flick.

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teleskiguy Aug 2, 2015 • 3:10:57pm

I wish good luck to all of the Republican candidates that traveled to California to beg for money etc. from the Koch Brothers. Puppets?

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 2, 2015

Popcorn Time!

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The War TARDIS Aug 2, 2015 • 3:14:18pm

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

In years before, I have seen stories about their boats interfering with those doing the Grind.

Although, yes, I have tendency to over-react.

So, then as a better idea, get the coast guard involved. The next time it happens, arrest those on the boat, and scuttle it.

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Nyet Aug 2, 2015 • 3:14:35pm

re: #117 Nyet

…

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BeenHereAwhile Aug 2, 2015 • 3:19:30pm

re: #44 ObserverArt

Klondike Bars…yum! The Isaly Dairy Company in Ohio is who made the originals. Since licensed to much bigger companies and Isaly’s is all gone…I’m pretty sure.

And they had the best combo snack bar and ice cream fountain places around. There was one on my way back and forth to school every day. So, that was a daily stop on the way home with my cousins every day. We had ice cream, the greatest sherbet cones, Klondike bars daily in the spring and fall.

Blue Bell started production back up today ?? RT if you cried. pic.twitter.com/tcUi5l4XV7

— TEXAS (@UTProbs) August 2, 2015

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Snarknado! Aug 2, 2015 • 3:20:08pm

re: #119 The War TARDIS

In years before, I have seen stories about their boats interfering with those doing the Grind.

Although, yes, I have tendency to over-react.

So, then as a better idea, get the coast guard involved. The next time it happens, arrest those on the boat, and scuttle it.

For performing lawful acts in a place that was legal for them to be sailing?

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PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 3:30:57pm

All of this ice cream talk made me find the old Philly favorite. Bassetts Ice Cream and guess what they are still around and still making ice cream. bassettsicecream.com

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 3:31:42pm

If you saw this and liked it…

Oh, to have a chance to capture something like this… pic.twitter.com/jeZKdbzLIx

— Blues Hunter (@streetSinger9) August 2, 2015

Then you need to see this:

Wow, additional shots. story, and video of that humpback whale here: http://t.co/LXi74D5PVc https://t.co/Dgi052GvUa

— CuriousLurker (@CuriousLurker) August 2, 2015

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The War TARDIS Aug 2, 2015 • 3:33:59pm

re: #122 Snarknado!

They have not been peaceful in the past, and in regards to the Japanese Hunts, they have often cut off boats, having lost one ship this way.

Also, they have a history of sinking vessel, not withstanding the crooks on the Thunder, who scuttled their own vessel.

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PhillyPretzel Aug 2, 2015 • 3:34:13pm

re: #124 CuriousLurker

Wow. That is a great shot.

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 2, 2015 • 3:34:48pm

re: #117 Nyet

BTW, It follows is a good scary flick.

They made a movie about Twitter?

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Nyet Aug 2, 2015 • 3:35:51pm

re: #127 The Vicious Babushka

They made a movie about Twitter?

Then about twitter stalkers :D

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The War TARDIS Aug 2, 2015 • 3:37:09pm

re: #124 CuriousLurker

Just don’t be these guys.

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#FergusonFireside Aug 2, 2015 • 3:37:31pm

re: #124 CuriousLurker

If you saw this and liked it…

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You may have missed my raving, but I watched Life Of Pi yesterday and it just hit me. The phosphorescent ocean and the breaching whale was dreamy.

This is just so on point with my lovely memory!

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 3:38:38pm

Also, today the web taught me how to tell the difference between leopards and jaguars (and also cheetahs, but I never got them confused with the others because they look so different).

It’s all in the spots: Leopards have rosettes that have an empty lighter color in the middle; jaguars have rosettes with spots in the middle and thicker outlines; cheetahs have solid spots.

There are other differences, of course, but I found the spot thing interesting. It’s not like I thought I’m likely to run into any of those critters here in Jersey, but I see people tweet pics and I get… VERY CURIOUS when they don’t label the thing/place/whatever. Finding the answer then becomes an itch that I just have to scratch.

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William Lewis Aug 2, 2015 • 3:39:51pm

re: #129 The War TARDIS

Just don’t be these guys.

Embedded Image

Looks like a photoshop to me - the scales of whale vs sailboat don’t seem to match.

Edit: there are news stories so maybe a young whale.

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 3:39:57pm

re: #126 PhillyPretzel

Wow. That is one heck of a shot.

There are several great shots at the Daily Fail article. Talk about King of the Belly Flop!

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b_sharp Aug 2, 2015 • 3:40:22pm

re: #131 CuriousLurker

Also, today the web taught me how to tel the difference between leopards and jaguars (and also cheetahs, but I never got them confused with the others because they look so different).

It’s all in the spots: Leopards have rosettes that have an empty lighter color in the middle; jaguars have rosettes with spots in the middle and thicker outlines; cheetahs have solid spots.

There are other differences, of course, but I found the spot thing interesting. It’s not like I thought I’m likely to run into any of those critters here in Jersey, but I see people tweet pics and I get… VERY CURIOUS when they don’t label the thing/place/whatever. Finding the answer then becomes an itch that I just have to scratch.

I hear curiosity killed the cat.

Good thing you’re not a cat.

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FormerDirtDart Aug 2, 2015 • 3:43:31pm

re: #132 William Lewis

Looks like a photoshop to me - the scales of whale vs sailboat don’t seem to match.

The aftermath doesn’t look like photoshop

Link

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The Vicious Babushka Aug 2, 2015 • 3:46:04pm

Oh shit

Severe T storm Watch issued until 2 AM for all counties in Southeast Michigan, EXCEPT for Monroe and Lenawee.

— WDIV Local4Casters (@Local4Casters) August 2, 2015

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William Lewis Aug 2, 2015 • 3:47:02pm

re: #135 FormerDirtDart

Yeah, I clicked search google for image after commenting. I edited my previous post. I now wonder if it was a fairly young whale to account for the sizes?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate Aug 2, 2015 • 3:48:45pm

re: #123 PhillyPretzel

All of this ice cream talk made me find the old Philly favorite. Bassetts Ice Cream and guess what they are still around and still making ice cream. bassettsicecream.com

I was at Reading Terminal Friday and loaded up with a half gallon. It’s already gone.

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William Lewis Aug 2, 2015 • 3:48:57pm

re: #136 The Vicious Babushka

That line of storms passed through Hayward at about 9:00 AM this morning. I have two golf ball sized hailstones in my freezer now as mementos. Fortunately, no damage to my beast of a van or the trailer I live in.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Aug 2, 2015 • 3:50:11pm

re: #136 The Vicious Babushka

Oh shit

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dammit.

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 3:50:20pm

re: #137 William Lewis

Yeah, I clicked search google for image after commenting. I edited my previous post. I now wonder if it was a fairly young whale to account for the sizes?

I dunno, but if 40 tons constitutes a youngster, then I wouldn’t wanna meet mama or papa: abcnews.go.com

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FormerDirtDart Aug 2, 2015 • 3:50:47pm

re: #137 William Lewis

Yeah, I clicked search google for image after commenting. I edited my previous post. I now wonder if it was a fairly young whale to account for the sizes?

I added a link to a Daily Mail story on the incident, says it was a Southern right whale, apparently they’re kind of small for whales

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#FergusonFireside Aug 2, 2015 • 3:50:53pm

re: #135 FormerDirtDart

The aftermath doesn’t look like photoshop

Embedded Image

Link

Damn, hope the whale is ok.

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GlutenFreeJesus Aug 2, 2015 • 3:51:30pm

Here’s the other asshole. And yes. Another American. This time, a gyne.

dailymail.co.uk

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William Lewis Aug 2, 2015 • 3:53:54pm

re: #142 FormerDirtDart

I added a link to a Daily Mail story on the incident, says it was a Southern right whale, apparently they’re kind of small for whales

Ah! From the underbelly, I thought a Humpback like up thread. They’re a wee bit larger.

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#FergusonFireside Aug 2, 2015 • 3:55:33pm

Beautiful

Life Of Pi Whale

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ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 3:56:11pm

Can you imagine the amount of energy expended by the whale to get the speed up to get its mass out of the water in a jump like the cool photo in CL’s #124?

Just from a physics standpoint that would be a cool study.

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FormerDirtDart Aug 2, 2015 • 4:01:04pm

Video of the whale broaching onto the sailboat
Video

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 4:01:15pm

re: #146 #FergusonFireside

Beautiful

Life Of Pi Whale

re: #147 ObserverArt

Can you imagine the amount of energy expended by the whale to get the speed up to get its mass out of the water in a jump like the cool photo in CL’s #124?

Just from a physics standpoint that would be a cool study.

Heh, yeah, I was just thinking: “Damn—I would NOT want to be in a boat within 100 yards of that belly flop hitting the water!”

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ObserverArt Aug 2, 2015 • 4:02:55pm

re: #136 The Vicious Babushka

Oh shit

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Wow, That looks like a very well formed and large line of storms and the future predictions is it is to increase in size. Also looks like we could see some of it in the morning.

Be safe! And I hope your power stays on.

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Shiplord Kirel Aug 2, 2015 • 4:03:21pm

re: #144 GlutenFreeJesus

Here’s the other asshole. And yes. Another American. This time, a gyne.

dailymail.co.uk

Enough of this pay-to-play “great white hunter” bullshit adventure crap. This isn’t even in the same universe as Col. Patterson going after the Tsavo Man-Eaters (the Ghost and the Darkness) in 1898. It was them or us for Patterson, but just a cruel indulgence for these barbarous doctors.

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blueraven Aug 2, 2015 • 4:03:58pm

No words for this

http://t.co/9vZodYJMcT pic.twitter.com/IgoWeN6Obw

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 2, 2015

Charles Koch compares work of his political network to civil rights movement

Charles Koch on Sunday compared the efforts of his political network to the fight for civil rights and other “freedom movements,” urging his fellow conservative donors to follow the lead of figures such as Frederick Douglass, Susan B. Anthony and Martin Luther King Jr.

“History demonstrates that when the American people get motivated by an issue of justice that they believe is just, extraordinary things can be accomplished,” Koch told 450 wealthy conservatives assembled in the ballroom of a lavish oceanfront resort here.

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#FergusonFireside Aug 2, 2015 • 4:06:49pm

re: #152 blueraven

No words for this

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Charles Koch compares work of his political network to civil rights movement

So breathtakingly out of touch.

Just full of greed.

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 4:08:53pm

re: #143 #FergusonFireside

Damn, hope the whale is ok.

…

“…. a South African newspaper reports the couple on the yacht is being investigated for possibly harassing the whale by getting too close it it.”

I don’t usually read comments, especially on YouTube, but some of the ones for this story were pretty funny.

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Ace-o-aces Aug 2, 2015 • 4:09:39pm

re: #152 blueraven

It's not his fault. Charles Koch was born without a sense of irony. Hopefully, with continued research, one can be implanted @daveweigel

— aceoaces (@aceoaces) August 2, 2015

Maybe with continued research using fetal tissue….oh yeah, right…

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Cheechako Aug 2, 2015 • 4:10:00pm

Another whale photo and this is not a photo-shop.

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 4:11:26pm

re: #156 Cheechako

Another whale photo and this is not a photo-shop.

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Dammit! Don’t make me go looking for the story to go with it…

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The War TARDIS Aug 2, 2015 • 4:11:38pm

re: #156 Cheechako

That looks like a problem in progress.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 4:11:49pm

re: #152 blueraven

No words for this

[Embedded content]

Charles Koch compares work of his political network to civil rights movement

I feel sorry for those downtrodden, rich individuals. Bless their hearts.

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Ace-o-aces Aug 2, 2015 • 4:12:38pm

Fun fact: In 1960s, Charles Koch was in John Birch Society, which thought the Civil Rights Movement was communist https://t.co/pEetECWLsk

— Jeet Heer (@HeerJeet) August 2, 2015

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Cheechako Aug 2, 2015 • 4:13:31pm

re: #157 CuriousLurker

Dammit! Don’t make me go looking for the story to go with it…

I believe this occurred in Sitka, Alaska.

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sizzzzlerz Aug 2, 2015 • 4:17:16pm

re: #99 William Lewis

They just recently put one outside our local library. Why? I have no clue but it’s a real phone booth. I need to take my son over to see it - at 13 it’s probably the last time he’ll ever have a chance to see a real one in the wild.

Show him a rotary dial phone and have him try and guess how to use it. Hours of mirth and hilarity ensue.

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Blind Frog Belly White Aug 2, 2015 • 4:18:47pm

re: #129 The War TARDIS

Just don’t be these guys.

Embedded Image

“We’re gonna need ~~a bigger~~ another boat!”

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 4:19:58pm

re: #161 Cheechako

I believe this occurred in Sitka, Alaska.

Looks like it’s a composite, according to the photographer.

Below is the story of my composite image and of a couple of the times that it has been used.

These are from the original images of mine that I used for the composite. The first image (cropped in the final version) was captured during a spectacular afternoon of watching some humpback whales bubblenetting near Sitka, Alaska.

You can read about that experience here: http://shobestudios.com/blog/15

[whale photos]

The kayaker image I used for the composite is this one of my friend, Richard Kraft while he was paddling his kayak on February 1st, 2010.

[kayaker photo]

It wasn’t long after I emailed the image to my friends when it all started to create a stir in the internet world and gained attention that I could have never imagined nor did I ever intend. NEVER did I ever claim that this composite image was from an actual event. Since my original email was written, many others have put their own ‘spin’ on the story of the image. Mr. Kraft is NOT a ‘dentist’ as it is now claimed in recent versions of the viral email. […]

shobestudios.com

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CuriousLurker Aug 2, 2015 • 4:21:06pm

Ah, new thread—I’m out.

Later, lizards.

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William Lewis Aug 2, 2015 • 4:21:44pm

re: #162 sizzzzlerz

Show him a rotary dial phone and have him try and guess how to use it. Hours of mirth and hilarity ensue.

Ah, but his grandmother still has one. It works so why replace it? The other extensions are modern, she has a cell phone but in the den is an old AT&T desk phone with rotary dial. I did mess with him by telling him to call the other Grandma at SHerman 2-6826 (the first way I learned the farm’s phone number in 1969 for Kindergarten).

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Blind Frog Belly White Aug 2, 2015 • 4:24:57pm

re: #166 William Lewis

Ah, but his grandmother still has one. It works so why replace it? The other extensions are modern, she has a cell phone but in the den is an old AT&T desk phone with rotary dial. I did mess with him by telling him to call the other Grandma at SHerman 2-6826 (the first way I learned the farm’s phone number in 1969 for Kindergarten).

Dial 15 for Long Distance.

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teleskiguy Aug 2, 2015 • 4:30:10pm

Well well well, one of my senators was at the Koch Sucker Seminar in SoCal this weekend.

Speaking on a low stage in front of an elaborately manicured lawn at the St. Regis, [Charles] Koch warned donors and a slew of Republican elected officials — including Sens. Cory Gardner, Mike Lee, Ben Sasse and Dan Sullivan — of a “life or death struggle for our country.”

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teleskiguy Aug 2, 2015 • 4:35:51pm

.@CoryGardner I'll bet it was fun at the St. Regis this weekend. Must be something else being in the presence of REAL money men.

— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) August 2, 2015

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#FergusonFireside Aug 2, 2015 • 4:50:46pm

re: #156 Cheechako

Another whale photo and this is not a photo-shop.

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Dude, you are in their territory. Get out!

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Feline Fearless Leader Aug 2, 2015 • 5:15:50pm

re: #151 Shiplord Kirel

Enough of this pay-to-play “great white hunter” bullshit adventure crap. This isn’t even in the same universe as Col. Patterson going after the Tsavo Man-Eaters (the Ghost and the Darkness) in 1898. It was them or us for Patterson, but just a cruel indulgence for these barbarous doctors.

Those two are in the Field Museum in Chicago.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 5:45:04pm

re: #102 Decatur Deb

Phoneless booth.

I used to have a phoneless cord.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 5:55:05pm

re: #116 Decatur Deb

Yup. IIRC you were shipping I-beams to the Empire State Building, arriving there still warm. Did our Pittsburgh Railways streetcars reach as far as Ambridge?

All you southerners.

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Eventual Carrion Aug 2, 2015 • 5:59:06pm

re: #167 Blind Frog Belly White

Dial 15 for Long Distance.

As long as no one is already on the party line.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Aug 2, 2015 • 6:03:31pm

re: #174 Eventual Carrion

As long as no one is already on the party line.

We had a one-party line during the period when they were trying to get more and more people on to each one. We were one of the last holdouts—I know because single-party lines were in heavier type in the phone book, and we’d be the only one for page after page.

You had to agree to give up your single-party line, and my mom never would, but they’d try to sneak other people on there all the time till my mom would call and chew them a new one. “We don’t care. We don’t have to. We’re the Phone Company!”

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