Podcast o’ the Day: The Bubble Genius Bob and Chez Show, 8/13/15

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Bob and Chez have tings to say about Bionic Dan Bidondi and a lot of udder tings: The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show 8/13/15.

I Ain’t Got Time to Concede: Black Lives Matter vs Bernie Sanders; Will Trump Pick Jesse Ventura as His Running Mate?; Ben Carson Performed Research on Aborted Fetuses; Dan Bidondi Freaks Out Over Mandatory HPV Vaccines; Trump Goes to War Against Rand Paul; and much more.

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259 comments
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:40:27pm

Tourist goats just sight-seeing:

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Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:42:10pm
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Great White Snark  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:46:42pm

Like 9/11 angry. Gotta breath deep a few times.

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Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:51:23pm

Sanity prevails in Idaho. Though to be honest, Butch “the gay” Otter is probably still stinging from the close to one million dollar legal bill incurred by the State’s unsuccessful bid to defend Idaho’s SSM law.

Idaho will not investigate Planned Parenthood over fetal tissue videos

In a letter to state lawmakers dated August 6, Otter, a Republican, writes, “I understand and share your concerns regarding recently released video of Planned Parenthood officials in other states. Their actions are shocking and deeply troubling.” However, “there is no evidence a crime has been committed,” Otter adds

He knows those videos are bogus and isn’t going to waste the States money on this nothing burger.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:51:31pm

re: #3 Great White Snark

He will get to meet Mr. Hellfire. In one sense that’s deplorable, but we can deplore it later.

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Jebediah, RBG  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:53:19pm

re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wouldn’t sight-seeing goats be goat-seeing?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:55:07pm

re: #4 Bubblehead II

Sanity prevails in Idaho. Though to be honest, Butch “the gay” Otter is probably still stinging from the close to one million dollar legal bill incurred by the State’s unsuccessful bid to defend Idaho’s SSM law.

Idaho will not investigate Planned Parenthood over fetal tissue videos

In a letter to state lawmakers dated August 6, Otter, a Republican, writes, “I understand and share your concerns regarding recently released video of Planned Parenthood officials in other states. Their actions are shocking and deeply troubling.” However, “there is no evidence a crime has been committed,” Otter adds

He knows those videos are bogus and isn’t going to waste the States money on this nothing burger.

RINO OTTER. He still has one of the funniest political names out there. Still amazes me that Dick Armey thought he could make fun of Barney Frank’s name using a homophobic slur when the dude’s name is well Dick Armey.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:56:56pm

Conservative Columnist Says Trump Is ‘Dangerous’ And ‘Not Even A Conservative’

The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis says the enthusiasm for Trump reflects “right-wing populism” rather than true conservatism.

impure! impure!

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:58:09pm

re: #7 HappyWarrior

…

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Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2015 • 2:58:29pm

re: #7 HappyWarrior

RINO OTTER. He still has one of the funniest political names out there. Still amazes me that Dick Armey thought he could make fun of Barney Frank’s name using a homophobic slur when the dude’s name is well Dick Armey.

Well to be hones, I think I am the only person around who uses that particular phrase. But I could be wrong.

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BlueGrl21  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:01:26pm

The next time I run into one of these anti-abortion, anti-birth control, women make bad choices asshole men, I have decided to ask them three simple questions…

“So, in light of this, you’re a celibate virgin, right?”

“Oh, you’re not? Then you’re willing to be celibate until marriage, right?”

“Oh! You’re married? Then you only have sex for procreation, right?”

Answer:

“Good for you for holding true to your values!. I guess “Go fuck yourself” is appropriate in your case!”

or

“Wow. So, let me get this straight. You participate too? NO WAY! Do you have no self-discipline or self-control? You want all of the fun and no consequences! Oh, wait…just go fuck yourself.”

August has been a very long month.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:02:21pm

…

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:02:37pm

But Scott Walker uses taxpayer dollars for a spiffy new sports stadium!

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Great White Snark  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:05:03pm

re: #5 Decatur Deb

He will get to meet Mr. Hellfire. In one sense that’s deplorable, but we can deplore it later.

If there was a lottery to have the launch button in front of me at the truly correct moment I think I’d buy a ticket a day. Give the money to refugee NGO’s.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:06:11pm

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

But Scott Walker uses taxpayer dollars for a spiffy new sports stadium!

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Yeah Walker can shut his face here.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:06:47pm

re: #8 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Conservative Columnist Says Trump Is ‘Dangerous’ And ‘Not Even A Conservative’

The Daily Caller’s Matt Lewis says the enthusiasm for Trump reflects “right-wing populism” rather than true conservatism.

impure! impure!

I guess someone’s butthurt because Trump’s brand of right wing populism has always worked wonders with the GOP base.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:06:49pm

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

But Scott Walker uses taxpayer dollars for a spiffy new sports stadium!

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“My President reduced the deficit by more than $100,000,000,000 over 10 years and all I got was this affordable health insurance with coverage for preexisting conditions, no rescission, and no copays for most preventive screenings” is too big to put on a T-shirt, I suppose.

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:07:10pm

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

But Scott Walker uses taxpayer dollars for a spiffy new sports stadium!

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He’d probably use the Mitt excuse that governors have to do different things than a president. Like how RomneyCare was what spawned the ACA, but that should be done by the states (governor) not the Feds.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:07:20pm

re: #10 Bubblehead II

Well to be hones, I think I am the only person around who uses that particular phrase. But I could be wrong.

Heh I actually don’t know him that well. I have heard of him only in passing since that name is too funny.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:07:50pm

re: #9 Nyet

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Heh exactly what I was thinking of.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:09:42pm

re: #18 ObserverArt

He’d probably use the Mitt excuse that governors have to do different things than a president. Like how RomneyCare was what spawned the ACA, but that should be done by the states (governor) not the Feds.

Because the Federal Government requiring everyone to have coverage is totalitarian, but for the state to do it is just peachy.

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Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:09:45pm

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

What are we paying taxes for if not to fund programs which benefit taxpayers?

Oh right, Defense industry boondoggles and making sure billionaires get to stay rich.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:11:15pm

re: #22 Kragar

What are we paying taxes for if not to fund programs which benefit taxpayers?

Oh right, Defense industry boondoggles and making sure billionaires get to stay rich.

“Hey, if we didn’t give them millions of taxpayer dollars for an expensive boondoggle that never pays for itself, some other state would have!”

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Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:12:17pm

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

But Scott Walker uses taxpayer dollars for a spiffy new sports stadium!

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Ace-o-aces  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:12:34pm

Quick reminder, not every moron is a conservative.

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:15:39pm

re: #25 Ace-o-aces

Quick reminder, not every moron is a conservative.

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Gee, that was fast. From announcing relations with Cuba months back to taking over the country today. Damn, that Obama!

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CuriousLurker  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:16:31pm

re: #3 Great White Snark

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Like 9/11 angry. Gotta breath deep a few times.

I don’t understand why anyone would leak something like that, unless it’s intended to provoke exactly the reaction you’re feeling right now. I’m not at all surprised Baghdadi would do such a thing considering all the other atrocities committed by this group. I mean, that’s what war rape is, right? Showing your enemy that you can take their women and do as you please with them. Make them a proxy of sorts.

Also, isn’t it enough that her family had to suffer her loss, now they have to face this being publicized and relive it? As for Baghdadi et al, my policy has been & will continue to be not to Tweet anything to do with the knuckle-dragging thugs—they enjoy the attention far too much. I suspect they also enjoy the impotent rage they make Americans, especially men, feel when they hear of such things.

Again, who is leaking this info and why? Who benefits?

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:16:35pm

re: #25 Ace-o-aces

From the owner of that account:

waitwut

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:17:10pm

re: #25 Ace-o-aces

Quick reminder, not every moron is a conservative.

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No. Imperialism is when you raise your flag on their CAPITOL.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:17:20pm

re: #25 Ace-o-aces

Quick reminder, not every moron is a conservative.

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Sigh fucking moonbats. They’ve and I been in agreement with them wanting the embargo to end for years. So we put up the flag as is customary when you have diplomatic relations and an embassy with someone and they’re crying imperialism.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:17:49pm

re: #16 HappyWarrior

I guess someone’s butthurt because Trump’s brand of right wing populism has always worked wonders with the GOP base.

There’s a big mess over at RedState today on the topic of Trump, whose supporters have worn out their welcome there.

You know it’s bad when the arch-conservatives of RedState are pointing out that the backstab narrative favored by the more unhinged Trump supporters reeks of Naziism.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:18:49pm

re: #31 EPR-radar

There’s a big mess over at RedState today on the topic of Trump, whose supporters have worn out their welcome there.

You know it’s bad when the arch-conservatives of RedState are pointing out that the backstab narrative favored by the more unhinged Trump supporters reeks of Naziism.

But but but I thought the Nazis were lefties. Erick and his friends have only themselves to blame. Trump says pretty much the same nasty shit about people that Erick does.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:19:59pm

re: #31 EPR-radar

There’s a big mess over at RedState today on the topic of Trump, whose supporters have worn out their welcome there.

You know it’s bad when the arch-conservatives of RedState are pointing out that the backstab narrative favored by the more unhinged Trump supporters reeks of Naziism.

Die Donaldstosslegende!

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:20:40pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

But but but I thought the Nazis were lefties. Erick and his friends have only themselves to blame. Trump says pretty much the same nasty shit about people that Erick does.

Indeed. That’s what is going to make it so difficult for the GOP to deal with Trump and his rabid supporters. After all, they are just somewhat more vocal and obnoxious Republicans than normal.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:21:31pm

re: #33 Blind Frog Belly White

Die Donaldstosslegende!

That’s what we get if the GOP establishment does find a way to end Trump’s candidacy.

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Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:22:42pm

re: #27 CuriousLurker

First reported in the London Independent, a left leaning tabloid rag.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:23:20pm

re: #34 EPR-radar

Indeed. That’s what is going to make it so difficult for the GOP to deal with Trump and his rabid supporters. After all, they are just somewhat more vocal and obnoxious Republicans than normal.

And honestly Trump ideologically on some things isn’t as insane as many of them are. I think I read he gave a somewhat reasonable take on PP. For all the calling of Jeb Bush a moderate, he’s not acted like one. For Republicans a “moderate” is just someone who doesn’t act like a complete aes.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:23:32pm

Yeah, well, Wikileaks isn’t releasing the NK secrets… or any dictatorships’ secrets. Why would that be.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:23:36pm

re: #31 EPR-radar

There’s a big mess over at RedState today on the topic of Trump, whose supporters have worn out their welcome there.

You know it’s bad when the arch-conservatives of RedState are pointing out that the backstab narrative favored by the more unhinged Trump supporters reeks of Naziism.

BTW, it’s also worth noting that there were Bernie Sanders fanatics accusing Hillary et al. of conspiring with BLM to go after Bernie, so it seems to be something the True Believer is prone to thinking, no matter what their political stripe.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:24:25pm

re: #38 Nyet

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Yeah, well, Wikileaks isn’t releasing the NK secrets… or any dictatorships’ secrets. Why would that be.

That should be ‘If Wikileaks WERE Releasing NK Secrets…” Idiots.

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Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:26:10pm

re: #38 Nyet

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:27:31pm

re: #40 Blind Frog Belly White

IIRC the Brits don’t use subjunctive as often.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:28:14pm

re: #38 Nyet

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Yeah, well, Wikileaks isn’t releasing the NK secrets… or any dictatorships’ secrets. Why would that be.

Assange is not “being held” he’s camping out there.

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:28:35pm

re: #27 CuriousLurker

I don’t understand why anyone would leak something like that, unless it’s intended to provoke exactly the reaction you’re feeling right now. I’m not at all surprised Baghdadi would do such a thing considering all the other atrocities committed by this group. I mean, that’s what war rape is, right? Showing your enemy that you can take their women and do as you please with them. Make them a proxy of sorts.

Also, isn’t it enough that her family had to suffer her loss, now they have to face this being publicized and relive it? As for Baghdadi et al, my policy has been & will continue to be not to Tweet anything to do with the knuckle-dragging thugs—they enjoy the attention far too much. I suspect they also enjoy the impotent rage they make Americans, especially men, feel when they hear of such things.

Again, who is leaking this info and why? Who benefits?

There would be political benefit in a mud slinging way. It fits in with Obama and Clinton foreign policy being attacked currently by the whole GOP contingent one way or another. So, that could be released by anyone, not even a politician, just for general political titillation.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:30:12pm

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

Assange is not “being held” he’s camping out there.

If he had been arrested by us or the Swedes, he’d probably be out by now.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:30:43pm

re: #36 Kragar

First reported in the London Independent, a left leaning tabloid rag.

Odd place for it to come from, no? And why dredge it up now, when it’s clearly been known for some time? Maybe it’s just clickbait—get those page views no matter how low you have to sink?

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:31:19pm

re: #37 HappyWarrior

And honestly Trump ideologically on some things isn’t as insane as many of them are. I think I read he gave a somewhat reasonable take on PP. For all the calling of Jeb Bush a moderate, he’s not acted like one. For Republicans a “moderate” is just someone who doesn’t act like a complete aes.

Trump is an opportunist, not an ideologue. Thus on domestic policy he would not be nearly as bad as any of the other GOP candidates, if elected POTUS. The Jacobin-level ideological intensity of any real GOP POTUS would be worse than anything Trump would end up doing, even if we assume Trump would basically be incompetent and corrupt as POTUS.

The real problem with Trump as POTUS is in foreign policy, where his blustering could get us into a truly pointless World War III.

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Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:31:59pm

re: #46 CuriousLurker

Odd place for it to come from, no? And why dredge it up now when it’s clearly been known for some time. Maybe it’s just clickbait—get those page views no matter how low you have to sink?

Definitely clickbait.

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darthstar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:33:28pm
#bernie
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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:34:25pm

re: #48 Kragar

Definitely clickbait.

How soon will Hoft do a breaking story “Clinton and Obama allow ISIS to Rape Hostages!!!?

It’s all mud raking in the hits, as you said.

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CuriousLurker  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:35:39pm

re: #48 Kragar

Definitely clickbait.

Disgusting. That’s why I won’t tweet about them and rarely click on any links to stories about them. Ditto for the grenade-lobbing attention whores like Trump, Limbaugh, Palin, Beck, Coulter, etc.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:36:18pm

OUTRAGE!!!!1!!!!
They also have the POW/MIA flag which some dudebro said was “racist” but Kristinn doesn’t mention that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:38:26pm

Here’s the photo so you don’t have to click over to Kristinn’s garbage site==>

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:38:42pm

A Free Republican say “no” to Dr. Ben, The time just isn’t right for another one of “them”.

Most I know woulnd’t vote for another negro….. if Jesus himself came back as one..

Sad but true.. Ben Carson is a stand up guy…
Way to early for another brotha in the White House..

Maybe after things are “FIXED” IF they ever are fixed..
then a good conservative no matter the race would be good..
Jindal has the same problem.. good man but nope.. not this time..

Even, If Sowell or Alan West ran I would demur..
UNless they were the ONLY Candidates…. them maybe..
The politically wise ones KNOW it isn’t time for them..

14 posted on 𠃨‎/𠃡3‎/𠃢015‎ 𠃡0‎:𠃠4‎:𠃡7‎ ‎PM by hosepipe

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:39:40pm

Uh Scott I would not brag about what I have done to higher education if I were you.
But then again, I am not you.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:41:40pm

re: #52 The Vicious Babushka

The first time I learned about that flag was in context of certain hate groups (that used it to refer to white supremacists/neo-Nazis in “ZOG” prisons). Appropriation and all that.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:41:53pm

re: #47 EPR-radar

Trump is an opportunist, not an ideologue. Thus on domestic policy he would not be nearly as bad as any of the other GOP candidates, if elected POTUS. The Jacobin-level ideological intensity of any real GOP POTUS would be worse than anything Trump would end up doing, even if we assume Trump would basically be incompetent and corrupt as POTUS.

The real problem with Trump as POTUS is in foreign policy, where his blustering could get us into a truly pointless World War III.

Oh totally agree. Of all the Republicans running, he’s the last guy I’d want since he’s a total bonehead when it comes to dealing with people.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:42:35pm

re: #55 The Vicious Babushka

Uh Scott I would not brag about what I have done to higher education if I were you.
But then again, I am not you.

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“And now, with the help of the GOP-led Legislature, I’m poised to destroy UW’s position as a leader in Biological research, and kill the Biotech industry in Wisconsin, too!

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:42:57pm

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

But Scott Walker uses taxpayer dollars for a spiffy new sports stadium!

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wrenchwench  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:43:23pm

re: #55 The Vicious Babushka

Uh Scott I would not brag about what I have done to higher education if I were you.
But then again, I am not you.

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Scott doesn’t need a college diploma, why should any other Wisconsonian?

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:44:26pm

re: #60 wrenchwench

Scott doesn’t need a college diploma, why should any other Wisconsonian?

I think that’s his slogan.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:44:37pm

re: #59 No Country For Old Haters

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Booyah.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:45:25pm

I am getting tweets from liberals to retweet the photo of a guy wearing women’s underwear, giving a nazi salute, which is allegedly of Scott Walker. I think it is bogus and this dude was complaining HURR HURR BUT TEH REPUBS TWEET ALL THAT BIRTHER SHIT ABOUT OBAMA!!!!! and I’m like yeah but we’re better than that.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:45:30pm

re: #25 Ace-o-aces

Quick reminder, not every moron is a conservative.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:46:42pm

re: #54 Skip Intro

Weird to see other freepers object to this commenter from a “color-blind” perspective.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:47:03pm

re: #64 No Country For Old Haters

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Is it covert imperialism when Cuba raises their flag over their embassy in Washington?

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Mike Lamb  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:47:06pm

re: #54 Skip Intro

A Free Republican say “no” to Dr. Ben, The time just isn’t right for another one of “them”.

The irony of comment regarding Jesus is soooooooo delicious.

[EDIT] I understand that Jesus was not of any African descent, but I can virtually guarantee that the commenter was implying that he wouldn’t vote for a minority even if lily white Jesus changed the color of his skin to come back as one…

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ObserverArt  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:47:44pm

re: #60 wrenchwench

Scott doesn’t need a college diploma, why should any other Wisconsonian?

He’ll turn them all into tech schools for job training programs.

Who needs a college when you can be a total duff like Scotty and become governor and even be thought of as presidential material?

And with that Friday night jams…later.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:47:52pm

re: #3 Great White Snark

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Like 9/11 angry. Gotta breath deep a few times.

How about the black woman who was raped in public by cops in Texas?

A Texas women says police held her down in a gas station parking lot, pulled off her pants and subjected her to an illegal and humiliating body cavity search in plain view of passing pedestrians and motorists.

Charnesia Corley, 21, said she was running an errand for her sick mother when a male Harris County sheriff’s deputy pulled her over near a Texaco station on June 21 and accused her of running a stop sign. The deputy said he smelled marijuana coming from the car, which in Texas is probable cause to search a vehicle.

After a fruitless look inside the car, the lawman summoned a female deputy and events spiraled out of control, Corley said.

“They sexually assaulted, raped me and molested me,” Corley told The Huffington Post on Monday.

I mean, I’m not trying to minimize what ISIS is doing or saying you shouldn’t be upset by this, but it isn’t exactly surprising either given their monstrous reputation. I guess I’m just more outraged by the near constant drumbeat of cops in this country abusing black women under the color of our own laws, and getting away with it. Because that’s something we nominally have control over, and should be able to end immediately without having to form a military coalition, yet for some reason we continue to tolerate it.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:48:02pm

re: #54 Skip Intro

A Free Republican say “no” to Dr. Ben,

Yeah but libs are the real racists huh.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:48:37pm

re: #63 The Vicious Babushka

Of course it’s bogus.

snopes.com

The left has its share of favorite fakes.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:49:08pm

Walker’s message to the college students of Wisconsin. You too can be a dropout and become like me, a puppet to two billionaires.

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:49:46pm

re: #67 Mike Lamb

He’s been told to “Keep your moronic and blasphemous claptrap to yourself.”

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:50:23pm

re: #73 Nyet

He’s been told to “Keep your moronic and blasphemous claptrap to yourself.”

Stop saying what we’re all thinking!

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:50:40pm

re: #71 Nyet

Of course it’s bogus.

snopes.com

The left has its share of favorite fakes.

Yeah quite unfortunate. I prefer to go after him on his own record that he likes to brag about.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:51:48pm

I don’t begrudge Walker being a dropout. I begrudge him being a dropout that shits on teachers.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:52:16pm

re: #71 Nyet

Of course it’s bogus.

snopes.com

The left has its share of favorite fakes.

Jesus. Look at the ACTUAL pic of Walker as a young man. He looks retarded feeble-minded real stupid!

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:52:27pm

re: #64 No Country For Old Haters

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So the US government takes control of a piece of Cuban land today, claims it for the USA and the wingnuts are in a tizzy?

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Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:54:17pm

re: #63 The Vicious Babushka

Probably False

snopes.com

First of all, this image did not “mysteriously surface”: It has been on the web since at least 2008 when it was posted to several Russian-language internet forums along with messages equating homosexuality with fascism. The photograph has also been used in “Demotivational Posters” and in a meme mocking grammar Nazis. It wasn’t until April 2015 that Scott Walker’s name became attached to the photograph.

It should also be noted that the image originated on Russian websites. While it is not impossible for a college photo of Scott Walker to make its way overseas before hitting the American web, that circumstance is highly unlikely.

Furthermore, there is no evidence that the man pictured in the photo is Scott Walker other than his bearing a passing resemblance to the Wisconsin Governor:

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:55:14pm

re: #70 HappyWarrior

Yeah but libs are the real racists huh.

Yeah, because we post what they say.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:55:21pm

re: #77 Blind Frog Belly White

Jesus. Look at the ACTUAL pic of Walker as a young man. He looks retarded feeble-minded real stupid!

He always comes across as dopey, but there’s no way he’s as stupid as he looks. He’s gone very far for someone with a face like that.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:56:35pm
Although this photo does show a man posing in lingerie on a Nazi rug, that man is likely not Scott Walker.

Yep, it’s fake, he doesn’t have flounder face. I can tell by the pixels and having seen many flounders in my time.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:56:48pm

For those who want to squeeze in one last vacation, there’s this: (cached copy)

webcache.googleusercontent.com

There will be cosplay.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:57:01pm

re: #80 Skip Intro

Yeah, because we post what they say.

Yep.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:57:28pm

re: #83 Decatur Deb

For those who want to squeeze in one last vacation, there’s this: (cached copy)

webcache.googleusercontent.com

There will be cosplay.

Embedded Image

George Washington teams up with a Highland pirate?

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Nyet  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:57:33pm

re: #71 Nyet

First of all, this image did not “mysteriously surface”: It has been on the web since at least 2008 when it was posted to several Russian-language internet forums along with messages equating homosexuality with fascism.

Even earlier, really. Here’s a version that dates to 2004:

web.archive.org

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:57:47pm

re: #83 Decatur Deb

For those who want to squeeze in one last vacation, there’s this: (cached copy)

webcache.googleusercontent.com

There will be cosplay.

Embedded Image

Worst.porno.ever.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 3:58:30pm

re: #3 Great White Snark

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Like 9/11 angry. Gotta breath deep a few times.

I’m generally stridently anti-violence, but I’ve been at the kill them all point with daesh for some time. These maniacs think that rape brings them closer to god. What do you do with people like that?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:00:24pm

re: #81 No Country For Old Haters

He always comes across as dopey, but there’s no way he’s as stupid as he looks. He’s gone very far for someone with a face like that.

Nobody could be as stupid as he looks. Not and still remember to exhale.

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HappyWarrior  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:06:32pm

I think I want to go to Portland, Oregon even more now knowing that Glenn Beck told his masses to avoid it like the plague.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:07:51pm

re: #88 No Country For Old Haters

I’m generally stridently anti-violence, but I’ve been at the kill them all point with daesh for some time. These maniacs think that rape brings them closer to god. What do you do with people like that?

Kill them. Dealing with terrorism really does have two parts. Some terrorists just need to be killed. The other part of the deal is to address the root causes for terrorism that are under our control (e.g., our support of violently repressive regimes).

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:08:20pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

How about the black woman who was raped in public by cops in Texas?

I mean, I’m not trying to minimize what ISIS is doing or saying you shouldn’t be upset by this, but it isn’t exactly surprising either given their monstrous reputation. I guess I’m just more outraged by the near constant drumbeat of cops in this country abusing black women under the color of our own laws, and getting away with it. Because that’s something we nominally have control over, and should be able to end immediately without having to form a military coalition, yet for some reason we continue to tolerate it.

The other thing is, we’re already at war with ISIS, and that guy is already on the ‘Hellfire missile up the ass’ list. I don’t find myself hating him any more because of this because he’s ALREADY pretty much maxed that out. What I DO feel is really, really bad for her.

WRT anger at the too-frequent ill-treatment of black women by cops - You won’t find any threads on any Right or Left wing forums talking about what Kayla Meuller must have done to deserve it, or how she should have just complied and she’d be fine, or stupid Willy Wonka memes saying she should try not breaking the law. That’s the kind of shit that makes me want to spit tacks.

But ISIS? I’m all out of room on the hate spectrum for them. They’re already at 11.

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:08:56pm

MSNBC, FoxNews ad CNN are carrying Trump’s stream of consciousness BS press conference live. They don’t even do that for the current POTUS.

This clown isn’t stupid, he’ll go down in history right next to PT Barnum.

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:09:12pm

“We will bury you!” — Nikita Khrushchev, 1956

“I can buy you!” — Donald Trump, 2015

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Kragar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:10:27pm

re: #92 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m already on board with “We need to destroy ISIS.”

I learned the lesson of “Lets not run in like a bunch of fucking idiots because we’re pissed off” after Iraq.

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No Country For Old Haters  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:10:28pm

re: #93 b.d.

This clown isn’t stupid, he’ll go down in history right next to PT Barnum.

…

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:14:12pm

re: #96 No Country For Old Haters

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He is pulling back the curtain on campaign finance and he is doing a good job of it. The fact that he admits to buying politicians in the past (which is BS) has to be a twist of the knife.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:14:31pm

re: #95 Kragar

I’m already on board with “We need to destroy ISIS.”

I learned the lesson of “Lets not run in like a bunch of fucking idiots because we’re pissed off” after Iraq.

Every time ISIS releases another outrageous PR video of yet another horrific killing, and people start advocating all kinds of crazy shit, I remember the Far Side cartoon of the bickering husband and wife ameobas - “Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don’t you ever THINK!!!!”

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:16:16pm

re: #93 b.d.

This clown isn’t stupid, he’ll go down in history right next to PT Barnum.

P.T. Barnum’s Feejee Mermaid, 1842

“It’s a living”
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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:16:59pm

Well fuck, a wildfire just kicked off a mile from my house.

Multiple brush fires were burning in the Simi Valley and Moorpark area on Friday afternoon, and some residents were being asked to shelter in place.

One blaze was in 500 block of Rustic Hills Drive, near homes in the Wood Ranch area Simi Valley, the Ventura County Fire Department stated on Twitter about 3:45 p.m.

Simi Valley police called the fire a “dangerous situation” for residents, and warned people to stay away. Residents were told to shelter in place.

Backfires set, the sky is filled with snorkel choppers ferrying back and forth from Lake Ward.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:18:02pm

re: #95 Kragar

I’m already on board with “We need to destroy ISIS.”

I learned the lesson of “Lets not run in like a bunch of fucking idiots because we’re pissed off” after Iraq.

If we don’t find out who specifically provided their seed money, and who nurtured these sentiments in them we’ll be playing whack-a-mole until the sun goes cold.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:18:18pm

re: #98 Blind Frog Belly White

Every time ISIS releases another outrageous PR video of yet another horrific killing, and people start advocating all kinds of crazy shit, I remember the Far Side cartoon of the bickering husband and wife ameobas - “Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don’t you ever THINK!!!!”

This is a big reason the whole “War on Terror” idea is brain-dead. The correct anti-terrorism model really is one of law enforcement+, where there is a persistent and long term effort to neutralize the worst terrorists without crazy over-reaction.

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:18:41pm

re: #99 De Kolta Chair

P.T. Barnum’s Fiji Mermaid, 1842

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6 Foot Man Eating Chicken!!

sideshowworld.com

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:18:53pm

re: #98 Blind Frog Belly White

Every time ISIS releases another outrageous PR video of yet another horrific killing, and people start advocating all kinds of crazy shit, I remember the Far Side cartoon of the bickering husband and wife ameobas - “Stimulus, response! Stimulus, response! Don’t you ever THINK!!!!”

imho isis clearly wants us to come in big with troops and is taunting us trying to get this to happen

what happens if we do im not really sure but im guessing they have something really ugly planned

when we finally do something i think it behooves us to watch out for traps

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:19:28pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Well fuck, a wildfire just kicked off a mile from my house.

Backfires set, the sky is filled with snorkel choppers ferrying back and forth from Lake Ward.

Good luck!

I’m corralling the Younger Boy to help me get rid of excess fuel in the yard this weekend. We’re in the middle of town, but it can’t hurt.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:19:51pm

re: #99 De Kolta Chair

The “This way to see the rare and wonderful Egress” scam really should be run at a GOP convention. The success rate might be 80% or more.

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retired cynic  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:20:04pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Well fuck, a wildfire just kicked off a mile from my house.

Backfires set, the sky is filled with snorkel choppers ferrying back and forth from Lake Ward.

Oh, no! Keep safe!

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:20:53pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Well fuck, a wildfire just kicked off a mile from my house.

Backfires set, the sky is filled with snorkel choppers ferrying back and forth from Lake Ward.

Be careful and do what they say.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:21:16pm

re: #43 The Vicious Babushka

Assange is not “being held” he’s camping out there.

And not cooperating with the investigation, so statute of limitations ran out.
Which does NOT mean the same thing as “Assange has been cleared of charges” as the wingnuts are crowing.

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:22:55pm

re: #103 b.d.

6 Foot Man Eating Chicken!!

sideshowworld.com

I love that sort of American historical/surreal ephemera, and live just up the street from where Barnum’s American Museum once stood.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:22:56pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Hope you don’t get high wind in addition to the heat wave down there.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:25:39pm

For there is a plot afoot in the Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin.

“A political party has a right to … secure its borders,” asserts the Post’s George Will, “a duty to exclude interlopers.” Will wants The Donald “excommunicated” and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee.

“Marginalizing Trump” carries no risk of “alienating a substantial Republican cohort,” Will assures us, for these “Trumpites” are neither Republicans nor conservatives. Better off without such trash.

The Post’s Michael Gerson says “establishment Republicans” must “make clear that [Trump] has moved beyond the boundaries of serious and civil discourse.” He loathes the Trumpites as much as Will.

“trumpites”??

how about “trumpets”?

they’re loud enough

seriously, a decent name should be concocted for convenience purposes at least…

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:25:59pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Well fuck, a wildfire just kicked off a mile from my house.

Backfires set, the sky is filled with snorkel choppers ferrying back and forth from Lake Ward.

GDfrank, do you give any credence to the stories/hype about a possibly devastating El Nino hitting the West Coast?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:26:05pm

re: #102 EPR-radar

This is a big reason the whole “War on Terror” idea is brain-dead. The correct anti-terrorism model really is one of law enforcement+, where there is a persistent and long term effort to neutralize the worst terrorists without crazy over-reaction.

See, now, that’s why I actually liked Bush’s initial response to 9/11. We didn’t go bomb a bunch of places the next day. We took a few days to make sure we knew what happened, and who did it. Then we went to the country sheltering them and told them to turn them over or face the consequences. Then we sent in the consequences. Resolute and inexorable, not wild screams for vengeance and killing everyone.

Then we went off the rails with the stupid belief that all you have to do is topple a dictator and Western Style Pluralistic Democracy springs up like mushrooms after a rain storm.

And, ferchrissakes, we knew better! We’d spent a lot of the 90s dealing with the aftermath of the collapse of Yugoslavia. It seems like the first thing an oppressed people think when no longer oppressed is “We never liked THOSE PEOPLE!!!”

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:26:07pm

Good news is it looks like it’s burning away from me at the moment. Bad news, others don’t look so lucky.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:27:22pm

re: #103 b.d.

6 Foot Man Eating Chicken!!

That was me, last night. A 6-foot man, eating chicken.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:27:29pm

re: #90 HappyWarrior

I think I want to go to Portland, Oregon even more now knowing that Glenn Beck told his masses to avoid it like the plague.

I had such a good time there. Love it.

Since you opened the door, I’ll chat about it a little….

Everyone there has tattoos. No problem, but your individuality is moot. As said before, we went to the Bernie rally before our dinner reservations.

The people I encountered were so friendly and nice. I’m kind of a chatty person & Portland’s people did not disappoint. I dropped into a hair salon just for the fuck of it and got a great cut & insight to where to go next. Had a pina colada at Trader Vic’s. (I have never seen/been to one, so it was a must) The waitress did not know Warren Zevon. We were distraught.

We were sitting at a really nice bar in the Pearl District & I could NOT stop staring at the tattoo (among many others) on this girls arm of a CHAIR. Seriously it was a cane chair all alone. I was staring because I was trying to find adjacent ink that signified the meaning. Couldn’t. We are still laughing at that.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:28:03pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Well fuck, a wildfire just kicked off a mile from my house.

Backfires set, the sky is filled with snorkel choppers ferrying back and forth from Lake Ward.

I feel your discomfort. The Cabin Fire started earlier this afternoon and it’s burned over a hundred acres up behind us in the San Gabriels. No danger to us, thank goodness. There are firefighters and water droppers on scene. My heart goes out to the crews fighting this because it’s 102° in this neck of the woods right now.

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:30:01pm

BB in a bit. Gotta walk our houseguest, Mimi the kooky cocker spaniel from Queens.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:30:35pm

Apostolic Millenial Donaldarians?

church of the evangelical reform seventh day donaldists?

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:31:50pm

re: #100 goddamnedfrank

Well fuck, a wildfire just kicked off a mile from my house.

Backfires set, the sky is filled with snorkel choppers ferrying back and forth from Lake Ward.

Dude, it is fire hot in this area. I’m expecting to be following a couple by weekend’s end.

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Chan Kobun  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:32:31pm

re: #112 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

seriously, a decent name should be concocted for convenience purposes at least…

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:33:53pm

re: #120 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Apostolic Millenial Donaldarians?

church of the evangelical reform seventh day donaldists?

The First Presleyterian Church of the The

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:34:28pm

re: #113 De Kolta Chair

GDfrank, do you give any credence to the stories/hype about a possibly devastating El Nino hitting the West Coast?

I am not Frank, but El Nino is shaping up to potentially be the strongest on record.

What that means for the West Coast, specifically southern CA, is that statistics say the winter is likely to be wet. It does not say the winter is likely to be cold.

Godzilla is not coming out of the Pacific.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:34:34pm

re: #90 HappyWarrior

I think I want to go to Portland, Oregon even more now knowing that Glenn Beck told his masses to avoid it like the plague.

Portland is a great town, provided you aren’t allergic to grass seed or pollen.

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Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:34:54pm

re: #83 Decatur Deb

For those who want to squeeze in one last vacation, there’s this: (cached copy)

webcache.googleusercontent.com

There will be cosplay.

[Embedded image]

The insanity returns.
sigh

But on the other hand, my left to specific Removed the bandage from my latest hand meets power tool (this time a drill) incident and things are looking good. No infection, no redness and no pain. Mobility is great. Don’t click if squeamish.

kPcFfczI35NVtI4ACzHroJTTau7Wb3zNmtxcw79Lk9UCEQF3vmsfhEOqH1F+0AQbyFLANrYnsSmClUIHDo3hQOCBN2fisHcwdTTzyHlsZwTn+upsB7UCUq9YeU+2wAddi++Rug1NIBaSXsqiQltdjxQjB+nDOG2gnNijpSHBr8tzNa6t3FwWZ4SNxb8A9SNPvdoN6x8LbqMN0+aGuaXoI/knC0nZseBe

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:35:09pm

re: #122 Chan Kobun

Trumpiles.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:36:35pm

re: #112 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

For there is a plot afoot in the Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin.

“A political party has a right to … secure its borders,” asserts the Post’s George Will, “a duty to exclude interlopers.” Will wants The Donald “excommunicated” and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee.

“Marginalizing Trump” carries no risk of “alienating a substantial Republican cohort,” Will assures us, for these “Trumpites” are neither Republicans nor conservatives. Better off without such trash.

The Post’s Michael Gerson says “establishment Republicans” must “make clear that [Trump] has moved beyond the boundaries of serious and civil discourse.” He loathes the Trumpites as much as Will.

“trumpites”??

how about “trumpets”?

they’re loud enough

seriously, a decent name should be concocted for convenience purposes at least…

Trumpweeds.
Trumptards.
Trumpbags.
Trumpwads.
Trumpholes.

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:37:02pm

T-rumps.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:37:35pm

re: #124 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am not Frank, but El Nino is shaping up to potentially be the strongest on record.

What that means for the West Coast, specifically southern CA, is that statistics say the winter is likely to be wet. It does not say the winter is likely to be cold.

Godzilla is not coming out of the Pacific.

It wasn’t from an El Nino, but the Great Flood of 1862 makes for interesting reading.en.wikipedia.org

A repeat of that would be most unpleasant.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:37:44pm

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

T-rumps.

trump roast?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:37:59pm

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

T-rumps.

Loved “Bang a Gong Get it On.”

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TedStriker  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:38:03pm

re: #126 Bubblehead II

The insanity returns.
sigh

But on the other hand, my left to specific Removed the bandage from my latest hand meets power tool (this time a drill) incident and things are looking good. No infection, no redness and no pain. Mobility is great. Don’t click if squeamish.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:38:42pm

re: #123 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Presleyterian

heh

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The Vicious Babushka  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:39:27pm

How do you get a bunch of Liberals to Tweet a picture of the Flag?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:39:32pm

re: #134 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

High five! I was hoping someone would catch that.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:40:52pm

re: #126 Bubblehead II

The insanity returns.
sigh

But on the other hand, my left to specific Removed the bandage from my latest hand meets power tool (this time a drill) incident and things are looking good. No infection, no redness and no pain. Mobility is great. Don’t click if squeamish.

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Oh Bubblehead, so glad you are OK. That is a close call eh?

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calochortus  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:42:12pm

I’ve been kind of busy today so I may have missed it if mentioned earlier, but today is World Lizard Day. Enjoy!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:43:54pm

re: #128 The Vicious Babushka

Trumpweeds.
Trumptards.
Trumpbags.
Trumpwads.
Trumpholes.

sTrumpets

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:45:42pm

Trumpchumps
Trumplumps
Trumpdroppings

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:46:15pm

re: #128 The Vicious Babushka

Trumpigs.

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Snarknado!  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:49:13pm

re: #124 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am not Frank, but El Nino is shaping up to potentially be the strongest on record.

What that means for the West Coast, specifically southern CA, is that statistics say the winter is likely to be wet. It does not say the winter is likely to be cold.

Godzilla is not coming out of the Pacific.

Unless it isn’t. It’s being analysed to death up here in northern CA. Short summary: it’s complicated.

Two more dead trees chopped down and removed from the Berkeley campus. I hope we get plenty of rain — and soon.

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goddamnedfrank  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:53:31pm

It is officially point the fan directly at your balls hot out right now.

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RadicalModerate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:54:24pm

re: #52 The Vicious Babushka

OUTRAGE!!!!1!!!!
They also have the POW/MIA flag which some dudebro said was “racist” but Kristinn doesn’t mention that.

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Once again, Hoft is proving why he is the SMOTI.

The flag next to the LBGT “Rainbow” flag isn’t the Mexican national flag.

Mexico is Green/White/Red tricolor with the national coat of arms (profile of eagle holding a serpent in talons). The flag they have there is the state flag of Iowa.

Looks like this.

Not Mexico.
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#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:54:29pm

re: #143 goddamnedfrank

It is officially point the fan directly at your balls hot out right now.

My AC is causing the So Cal Edison alert. Fuck this.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:54:42pm

re: #142 Snarknado!

Unless it isn’t. It’s being analysed to death up here in northern CA. Short summary: it’s complicated.

Two more dead trees chopped down and removed from the Berkeley campus. I hope we get plenty of rain — and soon.

That’s where statistics is not a guarantee.

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plansbandc  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:55:22pm

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

I like Trumpsters because it sounds like dumpsters.

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Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:55:34pm

re: #137 #FergusonFireside

Oh Bubblehead, so glad you are OK. That is a close call eh?

Got lucky. A few mm either way would have required an ER visit v a Doc in the Box visit.

Old maxim. Ignorance is curable. Stupidity can be fatal. I was stupid and paid the (small, this time) price for it.

Protip. If you need to drill/saw/whatever something. Secure it in a vise or clamp. Don’t hold the damn things in your hand. Bad things happen.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 4:56:14pm

re: #143 goddamnedfrank

It is officially point the fan directly at your balls hot out right now.

This is when I miss those big-ass Seventies American cars. Every one of them had air conditioning that could cool Hell itself and every one of them had an aimable A/C outlet under the steering column.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:00:29pm
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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:03:57pm

re: #148 Bubblehead II

Got lucky. A few mm either way would have required an ER visit v a Doc in the Box visit.

Old maxim. Ignorance is curable. Stupidity can be fatal. I was stupid and paid the (small, this time) price for it.

Protip. If you need to drill/saw/whatever something. Secure it in a vise or clamp. Don’t hold the damn things in your hand. Bad things happen.

If you do enough work to justify the cost, this thing is very handy. You can find them on steep sale.

rockwelltools.com

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Great White Snark  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:10:12pm

re: #27 CuriousLurker

To me so far it’s about first, true or not? If true, I can dismiss the motives as irrelevant if only in terms of what if anything should be done differently in what I am starting to call the simmer war. Not a hot war, not a cold war. That’s a little cynical shorthand I guess.
What Pres. Obama and the coalition might to to exact a proper price for that atrocity. Now by proper I mean that in a literal proportional level headed sense.

If false, finding out the who and why gets very important of course.

I don’t want us in a major war again. The scary part is am I being careful enough in that wish? If these guys are going to ethnic cleanse their regions I don’t know what to think. I’m in a logical policy halting program. Don’t want a war, can’t justify ignoring an ethnic cleanse & such deliberate atrocities.

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TedStriker  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:10:37pm

re: #149 Higgs Boson’s Mate

This is when I miss those big-ass Seventies American cars. Every one of them had air conditioning that could cool Hell itself and every one of them had an aimable A/C outlet under the steering column.

Well, they did use oodles of ozone-depleting Freon (the real stuff, R-12)…

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:13:27pm

re: #124 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I am not Frank, but El Nino is shaping up to potentially be the strongest on record.

What that means for the West Coast, specifically southern CA, is that statistics say the winter is likely to be wet. It does not say the winter is likely to be cold.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:14:00pm

re: #147 plansbandc

I like Trumpsters because it sounds like dumpsters.

hmm i think this fits nicely into a universe of gansters, banksters, hucksters, trumpsters, and huckabites

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:16:10pm

re: #152 Great White Snark

U.S. F-16s launch airstrikes on ISIS from Turkey

militarytimes.com

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Great White Snark  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:17:06pm

re: #69 goddamnedfrank

How about the black woman who was raped in public by cops in Texas?

I mean, I’m not trying to minimize what ISIS is doing or saying you shouldn’t be upset by this, but it isn’t exactly surprising either given their monstrous reputation. I guess I’m just more outraged by the near constant drumbeat of cops in this country abusing black women under the color of our own laws, and getting away with it. Because that’s something we nominally have control over, and should be able to end immediately without having to form a military coalition, yet for some reason we continue to tolerate it.

I get it, I trust you mean that in general. I do make an effort to post about the police and that violence as well. There can and are simultaneous wrongs to be corrected, and each terribly important. In the sense that there is an effort such as it is on both issues I fully agree. The efforts must ramp up in both cases. Just to be clear I don’t call for a knee jerk work up the base rush to bombing or sending troops. I do think progress is unforgivably slow in both cases.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:19:15pm

re: #156 Decatur Deb

U.S. F-16s launch airstrikes on ISIS from Turkey

militarytimes.com

Turkey must be concerned. They were dead set against the US basing out of Incirlik for some time.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:19:25pm

Megyn Kelly abruptly announces unplanned two-week vacation, effective immediately

salon.com

Fox viewers won’t stand for a woman questioning any man, even though in all other things she’s a far right wingnut just like them.

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Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:22:37pm

Time to start dinner.

On the menu.

Beef tenderloin steak.
Sauteed Portabella mushroom, onion & shrimp.
and two 4 oz lobster tails.

Tomorrows lunch will be vegan. A Portabella mushroom burger w/pickles and onion.
I got two large caps @ the local Freddie’s for $2.00. Normally sell for $5.00

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:23:15pm

Watching Trump on CSPAN talking from NH and boy does he know what buttons to push.

This guy isn’t going away.

He was taking questions from the audience and one of them was “What do you like about NH?”

Answer that caused a guffaw: “The people, they are so smart and hard working they are an inspiration”

The rubes ate it up.

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PhillyPretzel  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:24:16pm

re: #160 Bubblehead II

That sounds yummy.

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BongCrodny  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:25:24pm

re: #112 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

seriously, a decent name should be concocted for convenience purposes at least…

Berke Breathed called ‘em “Stormtrumpers.”

Which I like.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:25:47pm

re: #161 b.d.

Watching Trump on CSPAN talking from NH and boy does he know what buttons to push.

This guy isn’t going away.

He was taking questions from the audience and one of them was “What do you like about NH?”

Answer that caused a guffaw: “The people, they are so smart and hard working they are an inspiration”

The rubes ate it up.

he’s gonna kill the rest of the gop field

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thedopefishlives  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:27:16pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:28:36pm

re: #158 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Turkey must be concerned. They were dead set against the US basing out of Incirlik for some time.

We had NATO air there forever, but they really didn’t want us messing up their Kurdish problem. We’ll find a way to screw them, we always do.

You can see the logistics footprint here:

merhaba-usmilitary.com

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:28:50pm

re: #164 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

he’s gonna kill the rest of the gop field

Agreed. I think the GOP nomination is Trump’s for the taking, unless he makes some kind of wingnut PR blunder (which seems unlikely).

That is going to cause all kinds of interesting reactions from the GOP establishment and the so-con evangelicals.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:29:36pm

re: #68 ObserverArt

He’ll turn them all into tech schools for job training programs.

Who needs a college when you can be a total duff like Scotty and become governor and even be thought of as presidential material?

And with that Friday night jams…later.

And Carly will offshore their jobs.
And Trump will move them around the country where labor is cheaper.

spit

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:33:53pm

Dogwalk. BBL

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:35:15pm

re: #166 Decatur Deb

Sad but true. We’ll bring things to chaos and then leave the Turks and the Kurds holding the bag.

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BeachDem  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:35:48pm

re: #103 b.d.

6 Foot Man Eating Chicken!!

sideshowworld.com

Apparently PT was as much of a grammar pedant as I am!)

Eats shoots and leaves

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BeachDem  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:39:48pm

re: #112 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

For there is a plot afoot in the Washington Post Conservative Club to purge Trump from the Republican Party before the primaries begin.

“A political party has a right to … secure its borders,” asserts the Post’s George Will, “a duty to exclude interlopers.” Will wants The Donald “excommunicated” and locked out of all GOP debates until he kneels and takes a loyalty oath to the nominee.

“Marginalizing Trump” carries no risk of “alienating a substantial Republican cohort,” Will assures us, for these “Trumpites” are neither Republicans nor conservatives. Better off without such trash.

The Post’s Michael Gerson says “establishment Republicans” must “make clear that [Trump] has moved beyond the boundaries of serious and civil discourse.” He loathes the Trumpites as much as Will.

“trumpites”??

how about “trumpets”?

they’re loud enough

seriously, a decent name should be concocted for convenience purposes at least…

Damn, if Trump shows up somewhere wearing blue jeans, Will will need resuscitation.

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stpaulbear  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:41:27pm

re: #167 EPR-radar

Agreed. I think the GOP nomination is Trump’s for the taking, unless he makes some kind of wingnut PR blunder (which seems unlikely).

That is going to cause all kinds of interesting reactions from the GOP establishment and the so-con evangelicals.

What if the GOP establishment/evangelicals wind up running Scott Walker as a third party candidate? :)

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Bubblehead II  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:44:40pm

Lizard, I am calling it night. To Mr. Lewis Brannete May you enjoy this instead

May the God’s above forbid I post a music link ink William disapproves of. After all Roxette should be banerd

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:45:19pm

Oh, Baby, George Will and Michael Gerson want the party to excommunicate Trump, do they? On their fainting couches and clutching for their smelling salts are they? Where the fuck were they for the past ten or twelve years?

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:47:18pm

re: #167 EPR-radar

Agreed. I think the GOP nomination is Trump’s for the taking, unless he makes some kind of wingnut PR blunder (which seems unlikely).

That is going to cause all kinds of interesting reactions from the GOP establishment and the so-con evangelicals.

Trump is the GOP.

The GOP spent many years cultivating the simplistic, non-thought caveman style of politics and Trump just waited until their was a prime opening.

Hey GOP! You built that!

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:47:38pm

re: #173 stpaulbear

What if the GOP establishment/evangelicals wind up running Scott Walker as a third party candidate? :)

That would be priceless entertainment. After all, the GOP is doomed without large scale support from Trump’s herd of squealing Trumpigs.

We might just be seeing the moment when the GOP establishment definitively loses control of the monster it has created in the form of the GOP base.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:47:53pm

re: #175 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Trump is now the Fox News candidate. He isn’t going anywhere.

I’m almost tempted to watch the next “debate” of Fox just to see the moderators trying to outdo each other in sucking up to him.

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BeachDem  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:48:11pm

re: #175 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Oh, Baby, George Will and Michael Gerson want the party to excommunicate Trump, do they? On their fainting couches and clutching for their smelling salts are they? Where the fuck were they for the past ten or twelve years?

In Will’s case, standing in a corner, being wrong about everything, and bitching about moral decline because of blue jeans.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:49:34pm

re: #175 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Oh, Baby, George Will and Michael Gerson want the party to excommunicate Trump, do they? On their fainting couches and clutching for their smelling salts are they? Where the fuck were they for the past ten or twelve years?

The GOP establishment has been building this monster for over 50 years. The losers in the Goldwater debacle decided to play the long game, and this is the inevitable result of their brand of reactionary conservatism.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:50:07pm

re: #178 Skip Intro

Trump is now the Fox News candidate. He isn’t going anywhere.

I’m almost tempted to watch the next “debate” of Fox just to see the moderators trying to outdo each other in sucking up to him.

Golf balls. Through garden hoses.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:51:56pm

Trump can put the nomination in the bag right now with a call to the Koch brothers promising to make their tool Scott VP.

Game, set, and match right there.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:52:15pm

re: #178 Skip Intro

Trump is now the Fox News candidate. He isn’t going anywhere.

I’m almost tempted to watch the next “debate” of Fox just to see the moderators trying to outdo each other in sucking up to him.

Roger Ailes has to be a finalist for this year’s Paper Asshole award for ham-handedly trying to shiv Trump and then caving when Trump and his band barked at him.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:53:25pm

re: #181 EPR-radar

Golf balls. Through garden hoses.

The dream moderator team: the three idiots who host Fox and Friends.

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:54:38pm

re: #182 Skip Intro

Trump can put the nomination in the bag right now with a call to the Koch brothers promising to make their tool Scott VP.

Game, set, and match right there.

If Trump quietly promises the GOP Washington media/lobbyist machines that their seats will still be at the trough in a Trump administration then it is ballgame.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:54:49pm

re: #180 EPR-radar

The GOP establishment has been building this monster for over 50 years. The losers in the Goldwater debacle decided to play the long game, and this is the inevitable result of their brand of reactionary conservatism.

The Gallows Humor aspect of this is that they spent those 50 years building that monster only to have a huckster like Trump steal it while they were all patting themselves on the back.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:56:47pm

re: #183 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Roger Ailes has to be a finalist for this year’s Paper Asshole award for ham-handedly trying to shiv Trump and then caving when Trump and his band barked at him.

Poor Roger was just following instructions from the RNC, like he always does.

I imagine the burn marks Trump put on his ass make it impossible for him to sit down.

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Ace-o-aces  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:57:44pm
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CuriousLurker  Aug 14, 2015 • 5:57:52pm

re: #152 Great White Snark

Ethnic cleanse? Only if that means use terror & murder to cleanse the region of anyone who dares to resist them, up to and including fellow Muslims, because that’s essentially what they’ve been doing. In addition to countless Sunni & Shia Arab Muslims, they’ve also killed Kurds, Yazidis, Arab Christians, and any foreigners they can get their hands on, regardless of said foreigner’s nationality or religion.

I don’t know if there are any hard numbers, but it seems to me they’re equal opportunity killers of anyone who tries to thwart them, and the brutal way they kill is designed to instill terror in others in advance—it reminds me of some of the stuff the Mongols did when they were invading ever westward.

Is that something we need to get in another war over? Would it be a “winnable” war and what, exactly, would constitute victory? Any time we go in with guns blazing we seem to be resented, so it’s not something we can do unilaterally and I think POTUS has done well to ensure that local countries are directly involved.

I’m not saying I think YOU want to rush off to war, but I admit I am a bit puzzled by your very strong reaction to the news of the rape of Kayla Mueller, given all the other atrocities Da’esh has committed. “9/11 angry” isn’t regular anger, at least not in my book—it’s blood red rage. It seems disproportionate to me in light of all the beheadings, burning people alive, stonings, mass killings, etc., that’s all.

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Csarneson  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:00:45pm

While I love a good trailer park fire as much as the next guy it would be a tragedy to see the Donald get the nomination. He’d end up suffering a McGovern Rout. The shame is that the GOP would just blame Trump instead of actually being introspective. They desperately need a “real” republican to lose and lose badly. My money is on Cruz.

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allegro  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:01:10pm

re: #185 b.d.

If Trump quietly promises the GOP Washington media/lobbyist machines that their seats will still be at the trough in a Trump administration then it is ballgame.

Even they aren’t stupid enough to believe anything he says or promises.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:01:50pm

Little Republicans Presidential Debate Highlights.

thehill.com

Be sure to stick around for Scott Walker.

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:03:23pm

re: #190 Csarneson

There’s always just one reason why Republican candidates lose: THEY JUST WEREN’T CONSERVATIVE ENOUGH!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:04:47pm

re: #192 Skip Intro

Little Republicans Presidential Debate Highlights.

thehill.com

Be sure to stick around for Scott Walker.

Rand Paul had me rolling.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:05:06pm

re: #186 Higgs Boson’s Mate

The Gallows Humor aspect of this is that they spent those 50 years building that monster only to have a huckster like Trump steal it while they were all patting themselves on the back.

In the inimitable words of Driftglass, the GOP establishment plan depends on Roger Ailes having clear title to the Pig People, and Trump is fucking with that.

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Charles Johnson  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:06:38pm

I don’t care which Republican candidate loses, as long as they lose. A Republican president would be an absolute disaster for the country at this point. He’d have the full support of both houses of Congress and could do incalculable damage.

This upcoming election is a really important one for the US. If we swing to the right again we’re going to be in really deep shit.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:07:12pm

re: #190 Csarneson

While I love a good trailer park fire as much as the next guy it would be a tragedy to see the Donald get the nomination. He’d end up suffering a McGovern Rout. The shame is that the GOP would just blame Trump instead of actually being introspective. They desperately need a “real” republican to lose and lose badly. My money is on Cruz.

Even Trump would not lose in a rout. No ‘normal’ Republican can do much worse than Romney, at least near-term.

Edited to add: It’s really difficult to see how the GOP can get out of its death spiral. Losses are always because the candidates weren’t conservative enough, and they can’t suffer the kind of 45+ state blowout in the electoral college that might discredit that rationalization.

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:09:05pm

re: #196 Charles Johnson

I don’t care which Republican candidate loses, as long as they lose. A Republican president would be an absolute disaster for this country at this point. He’d have the full support of both houses of Congress and could do incalculable damage.

This upcoming election is a really important one for the US. If we swing to the right again we’re going to be in really deep shit.

The thing that bothers me most about 2016 is that millions of morons out there are going to vote GOP because ‘it’s their turn’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:11:01pm
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Csarneson  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:12:04pm

re: #197 EPR-radar

This a pretty fascinating article from a great site. Chris lays out a great case why any republican will lose. I’d personally prefer the winner not be Hillary ( I like Liz) but this is why I have hope and some measure of confidence. Just don’t blow it Hillary…

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:12:07pm

Hmm… “Pasta Roni” Fettuccine Alfredo in a box and a can of minced crab meat. Food Pantry supper strikes again!

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:13:39pm

re: #174 Bubblehead II

Lizard, I am calling it night. To Mr. Lewis Brannete May you enjoy this instead

May the God’s above forbid I post a music link ink William disapproves of. After all Roxette should be banerd

Wasn’t it Steve the disapprover?

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teleskiguy  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:14:04pm

UpChuck dropped a turd at his crummy website today, his second in so many days about Bryce Dixon at USC. There’s a glaring problem with the byline.

Today is 14 August. Question: Is UpChuck a time traveler?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:14:26pm

re: #174 Bubblehead II

Lizard, I am calling it night. To Mr. Lewis Brannete May you enjoy this instead

May the God’s above forbid I post a music link ink William Steve disapproves of. After all Roxette should be banerd

fify

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Csarneson  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:16:05pm

re: #201 William Lewis

You mentioned earlier that Fiorini destroyed Digital. Lucent is clear but I’d assumed DEC was a walking corpse before compaq got a hold on it. Why do you say that? I’m not disputing just curious.

<stupid autocorrect changed compaq to company>

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:16:49pm

re: #202 #FergusonFireside

Wasn’t it Steve the disapprover?

I believe so. I certainly like Roxette.

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bratwurst  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:17:00pm

This is the kind of deep political insight that has me sleeping late on Sunday mornings:

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Skip Intro  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:19:09pm

re: #207 bratwurst

Banal as ChuckTodd’s Tweet is, doesn’t he have it wrong ways round in his second sentence?

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b.d.  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:19:37pm

re: #207 bratwurst

This is the kind of deep political insight that has me sleeping late on Sunday mornings:

[Embedded content]

That’s why Chuck makes the big bucks right there

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EPR-radar  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:20:19pm

re: #207 bratwurst

This is the kind of deep political insight that has me sleeping late on Sunday mornings:

[Embedded content]

Even assuming these idiotic generalizations are true, isn’t it bass-ackward to (implicitly) have Clinton as the idealist and Sanders as the pragmatist?

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teleskiguy  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:21:16pm

GET GUBMINT OUT OF BISNISS, WE NEED LESS REGULASHUNS!!!

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Jenner7  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:23:50pm

Woah, no touchie! What is this thing to the left of my screen?? :)

<——————————————-

Did this happen today or has it been there awhile?

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jaunte  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:24:14pm

re: #211 teleskiguy

Last weekend we had a leak of 180 tons of butadiene, vinylacetylene, and whatnot.
But no smoke or explosion, so whatever.
houstonpublicmedia.org

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:25:05pm

re: #206 William Lewis

I believe so. I certainly like Roxette.

ha, you’ve been libeled.

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stpaulbear  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:26:36pm

re: #211 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

GET GUBMINT OUT OF BISNISS, WE NEED LESS REGULASHUNS!!!

Part of their proprietary formula?

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Decatur Deb  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:26:40pm

re: #212 Jenner7

Woah, no touchie! What is this thing to the left of my screen?? :)

<——————————————-

Did this happen today or has it been there awhile?

It’s my garden window. It’s been there for years.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:27:25pm

re: #205 Csarneson

You mentioned earlier that Fiorini destroyed Digital. Lucent is clear but I’d assumed DEC was a walking corpse before company got a hold on it. Why do you say that? I’m not disputing just curious.

Compaq absorbed DEC. That caused Compaq to stumble. Compaq was then absorbed by HP under Fiorina who shredded both divisions in her inimitable way and this lead to her 2005 golden parachute. By the time she left there was essentially nothing left but overpriced tech support for people who made the mistake of buying Titanicum servers and a couple of model names on cheap PC’s to remind people of either corporation.

Had Compaq not been bought out they would have probably emerged with the biggest chunk of the server market but wall street is too impatient for real results.

Carly had the chance to use the DEC IP to reinvigorate HP and make a world class company. She preferred to outsource it instead.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:31:10pm

re: #212 Jenner7

Woah, no touchie! What is this thing to the left of my screen?? :)

<——————————————-

Did this happen today or has it been there awhile?

all the social medias that im too old and cranky to use

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Csarneson  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:31:32pm

re: #217 William Lewis

Thanks.

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Jenner7  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:32:35pm
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jaunte  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:35:22pm
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bratwurst  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:36:48pm

re: #208 Skip Intro

Banal as ChuckTodd’s Tweet is, doesn’t he have it wrong ways round in his second sentence?

re: #210 EPR-radar

Even assuming these idiotic generalizations are true, isn’t it bass-ackward to (implicitly) have Clinton as the idealist and Sanders as the pragmatist?

You are exactly right. Maybe it is a function of literally losing my mind that I totally didn’t catch that. If I run into Chuck at my next neurologist appointment it would explain quite a bit.

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:38:42pm

re: #154 De Kolta Chair

That’s why she’s flying in the TARDIS this year.

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Jenner7  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:43:20pm

My Governor did this today….

Herbert blocks funds to Planned Parenthood through local organizations

Gov. Gary Herbert announced he is blocking local organizations from helping send funds to Planned Parenthood.

This follows allegations againsts Planned Parenthood accusing it of selling organs from aborted fetuses for profit. Current state law prohibits the use of state funds to provide abortions but the federal government provides grants to Planned Parenthood, distributed by the Utah Department of Health.

kutv.com

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Belafon  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:45:56pm

re: #208 Skip Intro

Banal as ChuckTodd’s Tweet is, doesn’t he have it wrong ways round in his second sentence?

That kind of alignment is probably too advanced for Chuck. It’s up to you to align them correctly.

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:47:41pm

Me old drinking buddy, Trudy from County Armagh, just informed me that their version of “burnt out” (re a night of drinking) is “browned off.”

You learn something new every day.

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psddluva4evah  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:52:10pm

If ya’ll decide to read any article published on NOLA, 10 years after Katrina…please read Charlie Pierce’s Esquire colum.

My reaction:

Wow…just wow.

Beautifully written, beautifully done. As a NOLA native and Katrina survivor, I just had to say thank you. After reading a few articles so far that seem to almost revel in the changes that have occurred in NOLA since Katrina without acknowledging how much pain and hurt and sacrifice happened and are still happening these 10 years since, I have to say your article made me both emotional and satisfied that someone seem to finally get it.

Beautifully written, beautifully done. I’ll be sharing this far an wide to my NOLA peeps.

Thank you Charlie Pierce

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teleskiguy  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:53:54pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 6:59:15pm

re: #227 psddluva4evah

As most of you know, I spent last weekend in New Orleans. Driving in to the city, you can still see homes and buildings boarded up for Katrina though there has been considerable recovery. It’s definitely not the same place though. There has, I believe, been an irrevocable change in the city and its people.

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psddluva4evah  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:05:31pm

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

there has def been change. On the outside looking in, you have folk saying bs like it’s been “change for the better” (like that crappy NYT foodie article an that Chicago-Trib shitstorm piece) but living and breathing in the city, you know that yes there is “better”, but damn if there isn’t a feeling of it being worse or NO better at all. it depends on which residents you ask. Mr Pierce’s article is the first, so far, from an outside looking in writer, who discussed both the good and the bad in NOLA after Katrina.

I really appreciated it, and I really did get kicked in the emotions when I read it.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:06:01pm

re: #202 #FergusonFireside

Wasn’t it Steve the disapprover?

I swear Roxette must have been up three times in the last week or so. I’ve been known to wear out an album, but Roxette? How about this forgotten classic?

…

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Ace-o-aces  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:07:48pm

re: #229 Eclectic Cyborg

As most of you know, I spent last weekend in New Orleans. Driving in to the city, you can still see homes and buildings boarded up for Katrina though there has been considerable recovery. It’s definitely not the same place though. There has, I believe, been an irrevocable change in the city and its people.

I was just there myself. This isn’t the first time New Orleans has been through big change. The scars are still there, but the city’s still standing. Right after Katrina, it wasn’t clear if even that much was possible.

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:07:53pm

re: #223 Belafon

That’s why she’s flying in the TARDIS this year.

Some things are too good to be true, and yet they often turn out to be so. What an interesting world we inhabit. ;-)

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:07:59pm

re: #228 teleskiguy

As it so happens I was born in 1981 and today I’m celebrating my 34th year upon this earth. I was thinking earlier about all the technological change I’ve seen in my time.

I’ve gone from:

Rotary phones
Encyclopedias
Paper maps
Paper phone books
Computers without hard drives
5 inch floppy disks
VHS tapes
Walkmans
UHF/VHF Television
Briefcase cell phones

To:
3.5 Inch Floppy disks
Discmans
DVDs
the early days of the internet (AOL/Altavista/Webcrawler)
CD-ROMs
Nokia “brick” phones
Sony Playstation
Computers with (progressively larger) hard drives
Premium Cable TV

To:

Ipods
Smartphones
Roku/Chromecast
Laptops as thin as a magazine
Cloud storage
Xbox One
Streaming media/music
Youtube
DSLRs
Smartwatches
60+ inch HDTVs

Who knows what this list will look like 10, 20 years from now? I’m not that old, but I’m plenty old enough to have seen my share of change.

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teleskiguy  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:10:09pm

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

I was born in ‘82. I feel ya brother!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:10:33pm

re: #230 psddluva4evah

There really is no place quite like New Orleans. It’s got a truly unique blend of culture and history, music and food. I think their biggest struggle, as we saw bared in front of us after Katrina, was that the majority of the population is black and not overly wealthy.

But the makeup of the city has changed forever. A good number of those who fled after Katrina did NOT come back. And of course, there’s the constant worry of whether the newly reinforced levees will do their job when the next Katrina comes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:11:06pm

re: #235 teleskiguy

I was born in ‘82. I feel ya brother!

LOL, when you see your 6 year old nephew learning how to text it sure makes you think.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:11:36pm

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Once upon a time I toured the Egyptian antiquities museum in Cairo. Lots of fascinating stuff, but the dates were mindboggling. Furniture from 2500 BC (4500 years ago). But near the end of the tour it hit me that the stuff from 500 BC was pretty much the same as the stuff from 2500 BC. Thousands of years went by with virtually no development of technology.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:15:11pm

re: #238 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I remember someone showing my something awhile back indicating the collective knowledge of mankind has grown more in the past 25 years than it had in the prior 5000. I wish I could recall where the info came from.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:16:39pm

re: #227 psddluva4evah

Man, this guys writing style is excellent:

Hurricane Katrina, and all of the myriad events surrounding it, both good and bad, is that vast, sweeping layer within the lives of the people of New Orleans. Almost fifteen hundred people died. There was $100 billion in damage. The levees failed. The city flooded. The city, state, and federal governments failed even worse than the levees did.

I mean…BAM!

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:17:07pm

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

I’ve heard that as well, but I don’t really know how that’s quantified. Some things sound so profound when you’re wasted, and then suddenly you remember them the next morning when you’re sober.

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#FergusonFireside  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:17:27pm

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

A very very happy birthday to you.

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:18:26pm

De Kolta’s Book of the Month Club pick:

Very original.

‘Night all.

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psddluva4evah  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:18:49pm

re: #236 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh…I know. As I said before, I’m both a NOLA native (born and raised in the 9th ward and except for the 7 years after Katrina where I lived in DFW) and a Katrina survivor. I’ve always lived there and will probably die here or at least be buried here (not anytime soon hopefully).

It took me 8 years to finally get back to Louisiana and another year before I moved back into the city (but NOT the lower 9th ward). My entire family, other than my youngest sister (who’s married now and lives in DFW) and a cousin or 2, are ALL back in NOLA, the majority in and out of the 9th ward. I live on the edge of Jefferson parish and Orleans, but nowhere near levees.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:19:39pm

And on the Katrina thing. I was watching a documentary not long ago where a man was trying to get help for seniors at an apartment building in New Orleans after the flooding. He was black. He waved at every helicopter who came by and none stopped.

Then he wheeled some white patients on to the roof and started waving again.

Suddenly, the helicopters started coming.

Now tell me how fucked up that is.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:20:19pm

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

…and then there’s the negative knowledge like when Roxette makes not just an album, but a greatest hits album! I mean we had to take a hit for that one.

ducks behind chair, grabs water balloons

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Eclectic Cyborg  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:21:13pm

re: #244 psddluva4evah

I live on the MS Gulf Coast. I actually met my wife when she became one of the Katrina disapora from this area so there were at least a few good things that came out of the storm. Tenth anniversary celebrations are in full swing here too.

I really enjoyed my time in NOLA this past weekend. It’s a heck of a city.

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psddluva4evah  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:30:07pm

re: #245 Eclectic Cyborg

I rarely talk about details, but my grandmother was evacuated from NOLA East after being stuck in an Senior living apartment complex in the east. She and other family members made it out to a shelter in Thibodaux on August 31st. She died on September 1 after a massive heart attack brought on by stress, of course. Without getting into it, due to the failure of communications during that hectic week, my mom and I didn’t find out about my grandmother’s death until two days later.

10 years later, I really don’t even like to tell the story or even think about it without getting emotional. I would say it took at least 5 years to stop crying instantly when I tell the story, but even 10 years now…eventually teas will fall.

So I’m not looking forward to this 10 year “celebrations” , because I want to celebrate the good, I just can’t deal with the good without remembering the bad…

Anyway…my god-daughter Maddie looks just like my granny (Madie’s middle name is my grandmother’s first name)…so I find myself staring at her and smiling, just because…

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TedStriker  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:31:05pm

re: #232 Ace-o-aces

I was just there myself. This isn’t the first time New Orleans has been through big change. The scars are still there, but the city’s still standing. Right after Katrina, it wasn’t clear if even that much was possible.

Especially since they were those, such as former House Speaker (and, as we have now come to find out, likely pederast) Denny Hastert, that wanted to completely shitcan the entire city, just write it off like a bad loan.

Pierce did a good job with this article, because I alternately want to cry and want to punch some people’s lights out, starting with Jindal.

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Dave In Austin  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:34:21pm

Sick Burn going down on Mahar right now.

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De Kolta Chair  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:36:54pm

Had to reboot to relate the tale of my opining, “Fuck Twitter, let’s go back to sending telegrams!” to which my wife loudly replied “Fuck Wells Fargo and their goddamn bank and telegrams!”

She’s right, of course, and now we’re dancing to Marianne Faithfull singing “The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan,” like any sane people would.

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William Lewis  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:41:53pm

re: #231 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Not bad but if I’m going classic power pop, I’ll go this way of late…

…

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 14, 2015 • 7:50:39pm

re: #252 William Lewis

Here’s one I grabbed the audio for my Ipod:
…

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makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:11:47pm

re: #231 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I swear Roxette must have been up three times in the last week or so. I’ve been known to wear out an album, but Roxette? How about this forgotten classic?

[Embedded content]

I could never get over the fact that the guitarist in that video is using a Marshall half-stack while playing such a wimpy song.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:28:44pm

re: #254 makeitstop

It’s a lovely song. For all we know, maybe that’s as close he got to ever being a rock star.

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makeitstop  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:44:42pm

re: #255 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

It’s a lovely song. For all we know, maybe that’s as close he got to ever being a rock star.

And closer than most of us ever got. I still smile when I see that monster Marshall sitting there.

It’s a classic, just not my cup of tea. I liked the stuff with a bit more of an edge.

…

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Tigger2  Aug 14, 2015 • 8:55:53pm

re: #122 Chan Kobun

[Embedded content]

Trumpets. because he likes to blow his own horn.

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BeenHereAwhile  Aug 15, 2015 • 2:00:24am

re: #158 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Turkey must be concerned. They were dead set against the US basing out of Incirlik for some time.

It gives Turkey cover to more agressively attack YPG positions.

“We’ll let you use our airbase to attack ISIL, as long as you tolerate our attacks on Kurdish separatists.”

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darthstar  Aug 15, 2015 • 8:37:28am

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