Overnight Jam: Leon Bridges, NPR Music Tiny Desk Concert

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September 08, 2015 by BOB BOILEN

We probably should have shot this Tiny Desk Concert in black-and-white. Listening to Leon Bridges, I hear a sound with its heart and soul rooted in 1962. There’s purity in his voice that’s unadorned, untouched and unaffected by 21st-century pop. It’s just soul.

Still, the songs from this 26-year-old Fort Worth singer feel refreshing in the context of the day. Surely there’s touches of Sam Cooke’s spiritual sound, but Leon Bridges has a way of making the familiar feel adventurous and new. It may be because this is all new to him. He only picked up the guitar around the age of twenty and only began listening to classic soul music after friends told him he sounded like R&B musicians from long ago. What Leon Bridges has tapped into on his debut album with fellow Fort Worth musicians including Austin Jenkins from White Denim is a universal sound, an undeniably heartfelt sound which transcends age, race and musical tastes. He’s easy to love and tough to resist and his performance at the Tiny Desk with his fabulous band is a testament to what it means to sing from the heart.

Set List
“Coming Home” 00:00
“Smooth Sailin’” 04:06
“Twistin’ & Groovin’” 07:30
“River” 12:48

Credits
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Walker; Audio Engineer: Neil Tevault, Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Walker, Colin Marshall, Lani Milton; Assistant Producer: Elena Saavedra Buckley; photo by Lydia Thompson/NPR

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575 comments
1
WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:04:04pm

Colbert’s Trump bit was hysterical.

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No Depression  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:07:26pm

re: #1 WhatEVs

Colbert’s Trump bit was hysterical.

It really was. It almost feels like he never left the Report.

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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:09:38pm
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WhatEVs  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:14:41pm

re: #3 Kragar

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freetoken  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:14:54pm

In considering why we have such throwbacks trying to run for government offices, consider this: Duck Dynasty gets 4.7 million viewers a week:

tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com

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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:19:45pm

re: #5 freetoken

In considering why we have such throwbacks trying to run for government offices, consider this: Duck Dynasty gets 4.7 million viewers a week:

tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com

Of a potential audience of 300 million. My glass is more than 99% full (of Yuengling’s Black and Tan).

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Nyet  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:24:13pm

re: #3 Kragar

I think she’s had some sort of a breakdown. That, or she is drunk.

@Coralrocks50 4m4 minutes ago
@leftyjennyc good! Yes I’m mean when my rights are being stepped upon. Bitch
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@Coralrocks50 5m5 minutes ago
@leftyjennyc read and you shall learn. Stupid fuck
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@Coralrocks50 6m6 minutes ago
@kettlekat it means the end of our first amendment rights. Read my post.,,stupid
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@Coralrocks50 7m7 minutes ago
@leftyjennyc it means the end of my first amendment rights! Read what happened in Canada
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@Coralrocks50 8m8 minutes ago
@kettlekat yes look at what happened in Canada! Read my post
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@Coralrocks50 10m10 minutes ago
@Kragar_LGF it means end of my first amendment right! That’s true!
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@Coralrocks50 11m11 minutes ago
@Kragar_LGF it means the end of first amendment rights! Get it
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@Coralrocks50 11m11 minutes ago
@kettlekat it means the end of first amendment rights! That’s my point!
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@Coralrocks50 12m12 minutes ago
@leftyjennyc it’s the end of first amendment rights
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@Coralrocks50 13m13 minutes ago
@Kragar_LGF the end of first amendment right
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@Coralrocks50 13m13 minutes ago
@teleskiguy end of first amendment rights
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@Coralrocks50 14m14 minutes ago
@kettlekat it means the end of first amendment rights!
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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:25:56pm

re: #7 Nyet

“Mr Popo took a gallon of LSD!”

TFS - All These Squares Make A Circle

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:26:27pm

re: #6 Decatur Deb

Of a potential audience of 300 million. My glass is more than 99% full (of Yuengling’s Black and Tan).

Well, to hear “@Coralrocks50” tell it, we at LGF are all a bunch of Black and Tans.

Personally, I think she’s just a Maroon.

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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:29:07pm
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retired cynic  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:31:25pm

re: #10 Kragar

Ears and eyes covered: I can’t hear you!!

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Nyet  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:31:38pm

OK, guys, she’s done.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:33:31pm

re: #13 Nyet

OK, guys, she’s done.

@teleskiguy what is SC amicus beliefs?

I think I have a friend in South Carolina.

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Nyet  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:34:22pm

BTW, I don’t find where she gave the link to that text, I only see the video link.

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piratedan  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:35:50pm

re: #14 Decatur Deb

hey give her props for attempting to argue, most just rage insult and stalk off… sure she’s misinformed and woefully bigoted, but on the whole, she may have a “come to Jesus moment”, you just never know.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:36:55pm

re: #16 piratedan

hey give her props for attempting to argue, most just rage insult and stalk off… sure she’s misinformed and woefully bigoted, but on the whole, she may have a “come to Jesus moment”, you just never know.

True, that. Twitter is not the best vehicle to win the hearts and minds of men.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:37:34pm

re: #17 Decatur Deb

True, that. Twitter is not the best vehicle to win the hearts and minds of men.

‘tis a silly place

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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:38:27pm

re: #18 The Ghost of a Flea

‘tis a silly place

Can’t spell ‘Twitter’ without ‘twit’.

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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:38:55pm
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retired cynic  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:39:01pm

re: #16 piratedan

Except all she said, basically, was ‘they’re taking my first amendment rights!’

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Nyet  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:40:45pm
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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:41:07pm

re: #21 retired cynic

Except all she said, basically, was ‘they’re taking my first amendment rights!’

Maybe she’s thinking she can’t peaceably dissemble.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:43:08pm

That woman’s nuttier than a bag of pecans.

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Nyet  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:44:32pm

I think she is ashamed to say that it’s all about the cakes.

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retired cynic  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:45:33pm

re: #25 Nyet

Do I ‘get it’? No.

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piratedan  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:45:40pm

re: #21 retired cynic

I did say… attempted… for most folks that inhabit her particular bubble, this is a step up. Granted it’s mostly arglebargle, but in comparison to what we’ve seen posted by others, well… at least there’s a certain wingnutty logic being applied to a perceived interpretation of constitutional rights. At least it’s not the heritage not hate fallacy.

Do I think she’s bigoted.. yes, misinformed, yes but she’s refrained from the usual haven of these folks, personal attacks (that have been posted thus far)

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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:46:01pm
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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:46:46pm

re: #25 Nyet

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I think she is ashamed to say that it’s all about the cakes.

“Our country was made christian by the Fondant Fathers.”

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:49:57pm
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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:51:19pm

re: #30 goddamnedfrank

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Decatur Deb  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:52:46pm

Near midnight. Time to tuck in my firstborn with a nice percocet.

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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:55:59pm
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Lidane  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:57:24pm
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allegro  Sep 8, 2015 • 9:57:27pm

I would like for her to state just one single one of her rights gays are stomping on.

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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:00:15pm

Now fully 28% of every tweet ever tweeted by @Coralrocks50 is banter between various lizards. She’s drunk and/or has completely lost it and is lashing out. I think it’s funny.

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retired cynic  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:00:52pm

re: #36 teleskiguy

You know, I think it’s sad.

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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:03:06pm

re: #37 retired cynic

You know, I think it’s sad.

It’s that too, to be sure. I think it’s instructive to see this kind of lashing out, we can know how people whose whole worldview has been upended act.

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The War TARDIS  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:04:55pm

Actual Headline from Australia.

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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:08:42pm
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calochortus  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:09:03pm

Well, I must apologize for my abrupt exit this afternoon. Power outage-which is just what we needed on a very hot afternoon. 6 hours later we can turn on the A/C and hope to get the house to a tolerable temperature before we go to bed.

Also, Mr. C was trying to finish up an article he was writing for someone, and of course he couldn’t use his computer with the power out…
At least we get to leave for a long weekend with the kids tomorrow and can miss the rest of this heat wave.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:12:18pm

re: #39 The War TARDIS

Actual Headline from Australia.

Embedded Image

Australian Liberals are “classic” liberals.

AKA assholes.

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Nyet  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:15:10pm

I got it.
She doesn’t know how to block.

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Kragar  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:16:27pm

re: #43 Nyet

I got it.
She doesn’t know how to block.

I’ve been thinking that myself

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Jenner7  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:17:59pm

So, Tea Party Rally against the evil Iran deal tomorrow morning. Maybe Ted Cruz can get in front of the camera this time. Should be entertaining. Or depressing. I can’t decide which.

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retired cynic  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:17:59pm

re: #44 Kragar

Maybe you should teach her how to block! <G>

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:26:14pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:27:23pm

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:28:04pm

re: #45 Jenner7

[groan] At this point I think McConnell and Reid should just agree to a floor vote and then not to try to override once Obama vetoes the bill. That would be fair enough and would avoid wasting time.

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andres  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:29:02pm

re: #48 klys (maker of Silmarils)

{{klys}}

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:31:09pm

re: #50 andres

{{klys}}

I’m doing pretty good at this point. She’s in good spirits (at most a mild level of frantic when I talked to her at 2:30) and we’ve gotten through the storm of Informing The Parents so at this point it’s a waiting game for them to lift the evacuation orders, really.

I drop the houseguests off at the airport in the morning so I can also drive there tomorrow if needed to help out. I don’t anticipate this being needed or useful, but it at least lets me feel like I have the possibility of doing something.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:35:49pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:40:41pm

lolwut?!?

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:42:24pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

[Embedded content]

lolwut?!?

Forget it Jake, it’s WingnutTown.

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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:42:41pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:42:46pm

re: #53 teleskiguy

You got a live one there. A religious nut who doesn’t go to church, and hates gays because she thinks they hate Christians. O_o

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Jenner7  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:45:06pm
Death of Fairfax County inmate ruled an accident

“It was an is a very sad video. But the more I watched it, and I watched it dozens of times, it’s clear that these deputies were pleading with her to cooperate. It was reported early on I think that she was 120-130 pounds, why did they need all these deputies. All of the deputies, all of them, said she was tremendously strong, she had almost superhuman strength,” Morrogh said.

wusa9.com

Sigh. “Superhuman strength”. Sound familiar?

She had a mental illness and because officers can’t handle that, she is dead. Cops are no longer “To protect and serve”. They haven’t been for quite some time.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:45:12pm

re: #45 Jenner7

So, Tea Party Rally against the evil Iran deal tomorrow morning. Maybe Ted Cruz can get in front of the camera this time. Should be entertaining. Or depressing. I can’t decide which.

There were reports that some of Huckabee’s aides blocked Cruz at the fracas in Kentucky. He should have sat out this election. He was on his way to being an influence in the Senate and now he’s just another also-ran.

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William Lewis  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:45:55pm

Sigh. I was going to rant about her but to what use? I’ll say a prayer and light a candle for her and those like her instead.

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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:49:54pm

Ms. Jeanne is getting a rude Twitter lesson tonight. You say outrageous things you might get called out. Well, The avalanche came her way and now she’s like Dan Bidondi screaming SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED over and over.

It’d be hilarious if it also weren’t so sad.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:51:39pm

re: #59 William Lewis

Sigh. I was going to rant about her but to what use? I’ll say a prayer and light a candle for her and those like her instead.

By the way, have you seen this:

Those Azov Regiment assholes in the Ukraine decided try their hand at a tank-based IFV. The heck of the thing is that the IFV may actually be a good design. The story is here.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:52:46pm

re: #61 teleskiguy

Ms. Jeanne is getting a rude Twitter lesson tonight. You say outrageous things you might get called out. Well, The avalanche came her way and now she’s like Dan Bidondi screaming SHALL NOT BE INFRINGED over and over.

It’d be hilarious if it also weren’t so sad.

For what she is now receiving,
May the Lord make her truly thankful.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:58:24pm

re: #62 Dark_Falcon

By the way, have you seen this:

[Embedded content]

Those Azov Regiment assholes in the Ukraine decided try their hand at a tank-based IFV. The heck of the thing is that the IFV may actually be a good design. The story is here.

What is the deal with them? They don’t seem to be the seperatists. These guys are in Kiev.

OIC…Neo Nazi types. Hmm. Not good.

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Jenner7  Sep 8, 2015 • 10:59:33pm

I really enjoyed the Late Show with Colbert. Really looking forward to watching Trump on his show.

G’night all.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:04:08pm

re: #13 Nyet

SC amicus brief

friendly romans wearing underwear?

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:04:25pm

re: #64 Aunty Entity Dragon

What is the deal with them? They don’t seem to be the seperatists. These guys are in Kiev.

Their logo is derived from that of the 2nd SS Panzer Division (Das Reich) and their ranks include a good number of Neo-Nazis. They aren’t visible except near Maripol because the sheer weight of force arrayed against them means they work to avoid antagonizing the Ukrainian government, since they’ll need support if attacked.

So they’re high-order assholes, but unlike “Coralrocks50” their leadership can figure out basic odds and necessities.

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William Lewis  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:04:59pm

re: #62 Dark_Falcon

Hmm. Very tall. Still the same old diesel engine. TV cameras - decoy or not - are easily scrubbed off with things like claymores or sustained MG fire. Not sure if they can make the same layered fiberglass and steel armor of the 64.

You’d not get me to ride it with my squad into a fight.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:10:18pm

re: #52 goddamnedfrank

marriage is 4000 years old

probably older than that, but i wonder what these people would think if they found themselves in a bronze age marriage

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:12:52pm

re: #69 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

probably older than that, but i wonder what these people would think if they found themselves in a bronze age marriage

“marriage is between my clan and your father’s clan, woman”

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:13:21pm
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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:15:51pm

re: #70 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

“marriage is between my clan and your father’s clan, woman”

Don’t mock the sacred covenant between a man and another man with a daughter.

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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:16:42pm

Strong debut by Colbert, I must say. I enjoyed the show. I did think of it as The Colbert Report Plus, though Stephen used the talk show platform to a tee. He’ll settle quite nicely into the format methinks. Even his interview with Jeb! was good stuff. Stephen still has that quasi-confrontational interview style but he asked questions that elicited honest responses from Jeb!

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert gets my thumbs up.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:22:18pm

re: #68 William Lewis

Hmm. Very tall. Still the same old diesel engine. TV cameras - decoy or not - are easily scrubbed off with things like claymores or sustained MG fire. Not sure if they can make the same layered fiberglass and steel armor of the 64.

You’d not get me to ride it with my squad into a fight.

The diesels on all T-64s are descended from the V-2 engine that powered the BT-7M of 1938(!). “If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it”, has been a guiding principal for tank engine design in Ukraine and Russia from Soviet times till today.

The armor is mostly the same, but its designed from the first to permit ERA tiles to be placed over it, and these are supposedly advanced tiles which will effect HVAPFS-DS rounds and well as HEAT projectiles. If that’s true, the glacis would be invulnerable at long range, though the 120mm on the M1, Leclec and Leopard 2 should still be able to force a breech at 1,000 meters.

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freetoken  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:23:01pm

re: #72 The Ghost of a Flea

Don’t mock the sacred covenant between a man and another man with a daughter.

Husband stabbed after ‘finding wife naked in bed with her dad’

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freetoken  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:25:08pm

And now, an intermission from fighting the flow of global derp:

MP3 Audio

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:29:35pm

Small IT victory. I’ve successively set up sharing on my little home network, so I can stream movies and music from my PC to my TV settop box. No more sneakernet.

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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:30:54pm

I think Sergey is right, this gal don’t know how to block.

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freetoken  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:34:24pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:35:55pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:43:26pm

Hey now, I’m not a monster.

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teleskiguy  Sep 8, 2015 • 11:49:14pm

She ain’t budging. Oy.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 9, 2015 • 12:07:58am

re: #82 teleskiguy

She ain’t budging. Oy.

Families are not just man + woman + kids. I know a lot of advanced humans who have a variety of family situations.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 9, 2015 • 12:09:39am

@Coralrocks50 we have an old tradition in this country that perhaps you are unaware of - it’s called Mind Your Own Business

@Coralrocks50 this fine old tradition applies to people who stick their noses into other people’s marriages and child rearing. so, Butt Out!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2015 • 12:18:04am

re: #81 teleskiguy

Hey now, I’m not a monster.

[Embedded content]

Stupid woman! Every child has a biological mother and a biological father. Except Jesus. Why are you against gay rights when what you really have a problem with is parthenogenesis.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2015 • 12:18:38am

re: #82 teleskiguy

She ain’t budging. Oy.

[Embedded content]

So, if an unmarried woman gets pregnant she should abort it. Got it.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2015 • 1:35:18am

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2015 • 1:37:58am

aria-database.com

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2015 • 2:18:05am

Those google-bots are hungry little critters.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 3:13:55am

re: #64 Aunty Entity Dragon

What is the deal with them? They don’t seem to be the seperatists. These guys are in Kiev.

OIC…Neo Nazi types. Hmm. Not good.

Azov are the govt-supported neo-Nazi thugs.
I’m saying this as someone who generally takes the Ukrainian side in this conflict.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 3:19:58am
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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 3:20:50am

re: #25 Nyet

[Embedded content]

I think she is ashamed to say that it’s all about the cakes.

Totally called it.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 3:56:49am

So this

goes with this:

And she retweeted this:

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William Lewis  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:15:16am

re: #93 Nyet

Eva, honey, you really should not drink that much. You’ll die of cirrhosis before you get a chance to grow up.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:18:29am

re: #93 Nyet

So this

[Embedded content]

There are idiots on Twitter. One major reason I do not go there. Please spare me the details…

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:36:09am

Looks like I missed a bunch of Twitter fun while I was sleeping.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:45:47am

re: #95 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

There are idiots on Twitter. One major reason I do not go there. Please spare me the details…

I’ll spare you Pat Condell’s “we’re all gonna be raped by brown hordes” tweets then.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:46:19am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

Looks like I missed a bunch of Twitter fun while I was sleeping.

Lesson: never sleep.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:50:59am

re: #98 Nyet

Lesson: never sleep.

I’d much rather sleep than stay up all night pounding some idiot on Twitter.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:52:57am

Bryan is pissed that Huckabee snatched his photo op.

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Frenchy  Sep 9, 2015 • 4:59:40am

Am I wrong for being glad that Huckabee is getting fat again? Probably.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:00:13am

5am…. and it’s still 78F with 57%RH.

It’s going to be another miserable day.

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Jayleia  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:00:42am

Wow…just saying that brought up some memories. Nothing serious, just a few things that pushed some boundaries, but at the same time, it made me nervous as hell.

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freetoken  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:02:39am

If only we’d get some rain as a pay-off to all this tropical air.

Alas, the chances are remote.

Not zero though, as the clouds from hurricane Linda are drifting into northern Baja, as seen here:

weather.gov

Linda is expected to turn sharply south west so if we don’t get any rain from it this morning then we probably won’t at all.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:03:26am

re: #98 Nyet

Lesson: never sleep.

And The Mouse Police Never Sleeps (2003 Remastered Version)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:05:49am

re: #56 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You got a live one there. A religious nut who doesn’t go to church, and hates gays because she thinks they hate Christians. O_o

Checking through her TL, the poor thing is unhappy about many things in her life:

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:08:12am

re: #98 Nyet

Lesson: never sleep.

“Sleep, she is for the weak.”
“The weak are such because they sleep not.”

Morning Lizardim.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:09:16am

And Jeanne is a fan of Kim!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:09:17am

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

Checking through her TL, the poor thing is unhappy about many things in her life:

So I guess we should just close hospitals on Labor Day, and let the patients take care of themselves for a day or two.

I feel no pity for her. I have three nurses in my family, and they consider it their duty to work holidays.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:09:19am

re: #106 Backwoods_Sleuth

Checking through her TL, the poor thing is unhappy about many things in her life:

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Places that tend to have nursing unions also tend to require extra pay from employers for holidays worked.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:10:05am

Jeanne loves her some Scott Walker because Eagle Scouts and police!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:11:21am

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

Jeanne loves her some Scott Walker because Eagle Scouts and police!

I wonder if she lives in WI.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:11:34am

Jeanne follows and retweets every single RWNJ on teh twitters.
poor thing.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:12:31am

re: #110 Timothy Watson

Places that tend to have nursing unions also tend to require extra pay from employers for holidays worked.

But never you mind that, clearly she could’ve negotiated that herself. Stupid useless union can’t get her a day off, obviously she could do better.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:12:45am

re: #112 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I wonder if she lives in WI.

She lives in Nebraska.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:16:24am

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

She lives in Nebraska.

Poor thing. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:18:52am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:21:34am

Kim freed from jail, now this.
Coincidence???

(Bath County is right next to Carter County)
:D

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:24:21am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:29:20am
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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:43:35am

re: #7 Nyet

The squawk that it means the end of her 1A rights doesn’t mean what she thinks it means.

She doesn’t have a 1A right to use religion to further her bigotry through government actions - the problem with Kim Davis’ position. That is a de facto violation of the 1A.

Her right to be a bigot and show the entire world she’s a bigot by saying that gays are evil or worse is not infringed, nor is her right to carry on her religious beliefs.

She can’t - and never could - impose her religious beliefs through government action.

Oh, and her rights aren’t in the slightest infringed by what happened to Davis. That’s not how this works. That’s not how any of this works.

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b.d.  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:51:14am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I am curious as to just how many same sex couples who reside in Rowan county and are contemplating getting married there can be?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:52:23am

EU ‘not in a good state,’ Junker says in state of union speech

The European Union suffers from a lack of unity, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said in a state of the union speech. How the EU addresses today’s refugees will be a defining moment for the bloc.
The European Commission will offer better protection for refugees and improve its frontier defenses, its head, Jean-Claude Junkers, told members of European Parliament in a speech on Wednesday in Strasbourg.

“There is no reason to put things in rosy colors - we are not in a good state,” he said. “There is a lack of Europe in this union and a lack of union in this European Union. We have change that and now.”

European Union
EU ‘not in a good state,’ Junker says in state of union speech

The European Union suffers from a lack of unity, EU Commission President Jean-Claude Juncker has said in a state of the union speech. How the EU addresses today’s refugees will be a defining moment for the bloc.
EU Rede Juncker vor dem Europaparlament

The European Commission will offer better protection for refugees and improve its frontier defenses, its head, Jean-Claude Junkers, told members of European Parliament in a speech on Wednesday in Strasbourg.

“There is no reason to put things in rosy colors - we are not in a good state,” he said. “There is a lack of Europe in this union and a lack of union in this European Union. We have change that and now.”

The majority of Juncker’s speech dealt with how the bloc would respond to the ongoing refugee crisis as thousands of people flee to Europe from Syria, Africa and the Middle East.

“It is high time to act, to manage the refugee crisis because there is no alternative,” he said. “We are fighting against Islamic State, why are we not ready to accept those who are fleeing Islamic state?”

When considering their response to the refugee crisis, Europeans would do well to remember their shared history, Junker said.

“We Europeans should remember that Europe is a continent where nearly everyone at some point has been a refugee,” he said, adding that governments should not take people’s religion into account when offering a safe haven to refugees.

Refugees represent 0.11 percent of EU population

While some 500,000 refugees have come to Europe this year, including thousands from Libya and Syria, the EU is capable of accepting more, Juncker said, adding that the Commission would present plans to relocate 160,000 refugees currently in Hungary, Greece and Italy across the European Union in a compulsory way that takes into account a country’s size and economic status.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:55:15am

re: #122 b.d.

I am curious as to just how many same sex couples who reside in Rowan county and are contemplating getting married there can be?

I have no idea.
OTOH, Kim Davis has been refusing to issue any marriage licenses since June.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:57:08am
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:57:47am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Trump is trolling everyone.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 9, 2015 • 5:58:32am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

A true leader. /

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:00:56am

re: #125 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I was for Planned Parenthood before I was against it.///

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:01:16am

My nose is stuffed up. I took a Claritin & a spray of Flonase.

Now what?

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:02:42am

No person who actually believes that fetuses are persons from the beginning would support exceptions in cases of rape and incest.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:02:53am
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:05:55am

Mmmmm, nice morning. Six AM and it’s only 84°. Yesterday we peaked at 106° here in the San Gabriel foothills and today is predicted to be warmer. For elderly, retired me it’s just notable. My heart goes out to everyone who has to work in the heat.

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:06:34am

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

My nose is stuffed up. I took a Claritin & a spray of Flonase.

Now what?

Try some hot Thai or Indian food. That will open your sinuses!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:06:35am
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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:07:07am

re: #130 Nyet

No person who actually believes that fetus is a person from the beginning would support exceptions in cases of rape and incest.

Some of them don’t. If I asked some of my wingnut friends, they would make a zero-exception policy. Not even to save the life of the mother, not even in rape/incest cases. They’re not numerous, but they’re out there. I imagine they’re not numerous only because it sounds so heinous when you say it out loud.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:07:25am

re: #133 aagcobb

Try some hot Thai or Indian food. That will open your sinuses!

Horseradish always works for me.
Seriously.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:08:25am

re: #132 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Mmmmm, nice morning. Six AM and it’s only 84°. Yesterday we peaked at 106° here in the San Gabriel foothills and today is predicted to be warmer. For elderly, retired me it’s just notable. My heart goes out to everyone who has to work in the heat.

The dawn greeted my fishmobile at a soothing 56 degrees F (13.3 degrees C) this morning. Want to come visit?

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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:10:44am

re: #134 Backwoods_Sleuth

Thanks to all the Jewish Health Inspectors and Business License Clerks who allow Chinese restaurants to open (with all that wonderful pork and shellfish), BBQ joints (with all that swine), and pretty much any restaurant that isn’t a kosher restaurant.

Thanks to Muslim licensing clerks at the ATF and ABCs across the nation for allowing the sale of alcohol - the cause of, and the solution to, all of life’s problems.

Thanks to Hindu agriculture department employees for allowing cattle to be raised and slaughtered to make so much wonderful brisket, roasts, and ribs (among others).

And each would be a de facto violation of the 1A by imposing religious beliefs through government action.

ETC.

If any of them followed Davis’ example, Huckabee, Cruz, and other right wingers would be screaming bloody hell for their imposing their religious beliefs on others, but because they agree with Davis’ religious beliefs, they’re seeking to protect this blatant violation of the 1A.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:11:35am

re: #138 lawhawk

I need more updings for that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:12:43am

re: #135 thedopefishlives

Some of them don’t. If I asked some of my wingnut friends, they would make a zero-exception policy. Not even to save the life of the mother, not even in rape/incest cases. They’re not numerous, but they’re out there. I imagine they’re not numerous only because it sounds so heinous when you say it out loud.

It is impossible to grant “personhood” to a fetus without denying “personhood” to the pregnant woman.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:13:37am

re: #135 thedopefishlives

Then they are consistent, with exception of the life of the mother, where they would have to choose between two persons anyway.

Politicians who say they agree with the former two exceptions do not seriously believe all fetuses are persons, so they are throwing women under the bus not out of some principle but only because they are striving for more power, and that is even more heinous than sincerely held horrible beliefs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:14:02am
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A Mom Anon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:14:05am

re: #131 Backwoods_Sleuth

God’s Will Be Done. Hmm. So let’s just say it’s God’s Will that the law is fair and covers everyone regardless of gender….

I have yet to see a single so called “Christian” be able to actually articulate precisely WHAT rights of theirs no longer exist and what this “War on Christians” consists of. Because where I live, you cannot literally, and I mean literally, drive more than 5 miles and not see a church. None of those establishments are closed, in fact, on Sundays most of them have overflow parking with shuttle busses that pick people up from nearby school parking lots. In fact, my 5 mile estimate there is really more like 3 miles. On the road I live on, there are 3 churches in a 7 mile stretch. Two of them have private K-12 schools, one of which costs 20-30K a year to send your kid there. You cannot go anywhere in this area without seeing references to religion, one religion. And no one bats an eyelash. It never happens, if anything it’s become more religious not less. So I do not get it. Where is the War, what rights are being taken away? I want to hear it.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:15:17am

re: #143 A Mom Anon

Clearly, it’s their right to inflict their bigoted assholery on other people.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:17:33am
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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:19:25am

re: #145 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Is that Azathoth’s tentacle sucking life energy out of her?

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Teukka  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:19:55am

re: #145 Higgs Boson’s Mate

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The thing is, if G-d struck the fundies down with lightning — thrice — they would still not get it, but would go Hurr Durr! HAARP!!! Librul Conspiraceee!!! 1st Amendment!!!! Eleventy!!!1111!

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:22:24am

re: #147 Teukka

The thing is, if G-d struck the fundies down with lightning — thrice — they would still not get it, but would go Hurr Durr! HAARP!!! Librul Conspiraceee!!! 1st Amendment!!!! Eleventy!!!1111!

Paranoia is one Hell of a drug.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:22:55am

re: #145 Higgs Boson’s Mate

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SMITE!!!

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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:23:11am

G-d’s will. Yeah, about that.

Which god would that be? Because not all gods seem to think that there’s an issue here. Heck, even some denominations of the same religion don’t think there’s an issue here.

Maybe it’s just your narrow and bigoted worldview that thinks there’s a problem - and the problem isn’t with SSM, but your bigotry, hate, etc.

Yup. That’s the ticket.

Because the same exact kinds of defenses of bigotry used against SSM licenses being issued have been seen before - when courts mandated integration, when anti-miscegenation laws were struck down, etc.

Each time, the bigots sought shelter in religious edicts and each time, claimed that their 1A rights were being trampled.

Each time they were wrong, morally and legally.

And once again, they’re wrong.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:23:51am

OH LOOK A IDIOT IN MY TIME LINE==>

In response to this==>

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Belafon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:26:23am

#147: Teukka:

They would just claim God missed the liberal nearby. God’s always needing human help that way.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:26:31am

re: #147 Teukka

The Lord works in mysterious ways…that coincidentally look and sound like dumpy Yank dudes that want your cash.

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Great White Snark  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:26:53am
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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:27:13am

re: #151 The Vicious Babushka

“Thank you for proving my point, dumbass.”

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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:27:25am

AW [DELETED]

There’s a reason that Nat Geo has been one of the great enterprises for learning about the planet. That reason will now be subsumed into the Fox umbrella.

UGH

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:27:49am
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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:30:48am

FAIL==>

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:32:00am

re: #151 The Vicious Babushka

Patriot,History Enthusiast,NRA Lifetime member. Politically Conservative. Aware of current and historical events that shape this geat Nation.

What a stupid typo. How dare he write “goat” wrong?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:32:43am

Jack Conway is weaseling out of this:

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:32:56am

And speaking of Helliacious drugs, We’ve got this story this morning:

Shocking video shows man high on drugs displaying ‘superhuman strength’ as cops Taser him, use pepper spray and hit him with truncheons… all to no effect

It took a truncheon, karate kicks, pepper spray and taser for police to finally arrest a man exhibiting superhuman strength inside a crowded McDonald’s.

Workers at the Maryland restaurant had called the police after the man started throwing chairs around and arguing with himself.

But when two officers arrived, it took them seven minutes to subdue him, despite the fact they were using numerous weapons against him.

Police said the man - later identified as Marcus Anthony Moratellli, - was able to exhibit such superhuman strength because he had taken PCP, a powerful synthetic drug that can temporarily stop feelings of pain.

Police Detains Man On Drugs At McDonalds

This is what hard takedown by police looks like.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:33:51am

re: #159 Nyet

What a stupid typo. How dare he write “goat” wrong?

The Geat nation was in Scandinavia, long time ago.
en.wikipedia.org

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:35:40am
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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:36:13am

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

And, unsurprisingly, the end result of that “proven conservative record” is that nobody wants to live in Wisconsin and they’re all flocking across the border to this ebil librul haven.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:37:53am
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Jayleia  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:39:00am
Szabolcs Kisberk, chief editor at the TV station, told Reuters: “I believe we have done what we had to do in this situation. We don’t understand how this could happen, it is shocking and unacceptable.”

And then…

Hungary’s right-wing government has taken a hard line on the flow of migrants across its borders en route to western Europe, portraying them as a threat to European prosperity and “Christian values”.

N1TV runs a weekly chat show with Gabor Vona, leader of the far-right, anti-immigration opposition party Jobbik, according to the channel’s website.

The channel says it stands for “national issues.”

I think I can tell you EXACTLY how that could happen…your people became the stochastic terrorists, instead of merely provoking them.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:39:10am

re: #163 Backwoods_Sleuth

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One of those deputy clerks, Brian Mason, said he would continue to issue marriage licenses even if Davis orders him not to do so.

Mason — who hung a sign describing himself as the official “marriage license deputy” Friday morning, after Davis was jailed — is the deputy clerk who issued the county’s first marriage license to a same-sex couple and previously apologized to couples before turning them away on the clerk’s order.

rawstory.com

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:39:20am

re: #158 The Vicious Babushka

Here’s a real proven #Conservative record: �^š Cut taxes every year �^š Protect unborn after 5 months �^š Voter ID law �^š Took on WI unions & won
— Scott Walker

Voter ID law=conservative.

Thanks for clearing that up, Scott.

/

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:40:21am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

Protestors are now calling for the firing of deputies issuing marriage licenses. pic.twitter.com
— Victor Puente

I’d like Wrong Side of History for $700, Alex.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:40:57am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They can enjoy shouting “TYRANNY!!1” all they want but it won’t change anything. Of course, if Obama really was a tyrant those folks would be behind razor wire at a FEMA Camp. Their fake cries about how oppressed they are are simply pathetic.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:41:42am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Thinking and facts can be so complicated. Spouting backward ass shit is so much easier.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:44:06am

re: #166 Jayleia

And then…

I think I can tell you EXACTLY how that could happen…your people became the stochastic terrorists, instead of merely provoking them.

You need to know that Jobbik doesn’t confine itself to simply screaming like many wingnut ‘leaders’ in the US do. Some its leaders have gone out and actively gone out and led attacks on Roma (‘Gypsy’) communities. So that asshole is even more full of shit than Kim Davis’ supporters.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:44:06am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:46:10am
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Great White Snark  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:46:24am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

PCP? Dude is so stuck in the seventies.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:46:25am

re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rick Santorum, Invoking MLK�€TMs Time In Jail, Says He�€TMs Proud Of Kim Davis t.co
— Andrew Kaczynski

I’m seeing weird symbols in the embedded tweets again. May be my IE. Anybody else?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:47:10am

re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rick Santorum, Invoking MLK�€TMs Time In Jail, Says He�€TMs Proud Of Kim Davis t.co
— Andrew Kaczynski

Me, too!!! Me, too!!!!!

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:48:12am

re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth

For Santorum, Cruz and Huckabee, this stupid circus has been something of a gift, since it gives them the opportunity to actually get some spotlight time on an issue Donald Trump won’t be leading any charges on.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:48:32am

re: #176 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I’m seeing weird symbols in the embedded tweets again. May be my IE. Anybody else?

Looked normal (except for all the Santorum) on FF/Ubuntu.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:49:34am

re: #176 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I’m seeing weird symbols in the embedded tweets again. May be my IE. Anybody else?

I keep seeing the Euro symbol where an apostrophe should be.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:49:38am

re: #175 Great White Snark

PCP? Dude is so stuck in the seventies.

Actually, my post on the druggie is number #161. It copied over into the next comment I posted after I had to restart Firefox.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:50:55am

re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So Rick, sex outside marriage and remarriage are okay. Good to know.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:51:40am

re: #181 Dark_Falcon

Actually, my post on the druggie is number #161. It copied over into the next comment I posted after I had to restart Firefox.

I’ve been getting those ‘ghost’ re-posts occasionally. Last night an old post hung in the comment box even through power-down and later reboot.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:52:16am

I am actually amused by the fact that Huck’s staffers physically pushed Cruz aside. If that doesn’t show you that this is just a stunt show for the theocratic fascist wing of the party then I don’t know what will.

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darthstar  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:52:35am

re: #176 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I’m seeing weird symbols in the embedded tweets again. May be my IE. Anybody else?

Looks fine to me…maybe itâ€TMs just you.

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darthstar  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:53:08am

re: #185 darthstar

Looks fine to me…maybe itâ⒬TMs just you.

Damn apostrophes.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:54:03am

re: #182 HappyWarrior

So Rick, sex outside marriage and remarriage are okay. Good to know.

Using that BS level of ‘conscience’ Santorum, who is a conservative Catholic, could not issue a license to a divorced person.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:55:07am

re: #182 HappyWarrior

So Rick, sex outside marriage and remarriage are okay. Good to know.

Only up until you are saved. After that it is a no-no (if you get caught). Then you go away to re-education summer camp for indoctrination (on how not to get caught). Then all is right in the world again (until next time, then rinse and repeat).

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:55:53am

re: #188 Nyet

wheee

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:56:14am

re: #176 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I’m seeing weird symbols in the embedded tweets again. May be my IE. Anybody else?

The degree symbols (Typed ALT+ 0176) in my #132 picked up an extra character between the preview, where they appeared normally, and the posting. Typing in the character with ALT worked fine before.

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:57:11am

re: #178 Dark_Falcon

For Santorum, Cruz and Huckabee, this stupid circus has been something of a gift, since it gives them the opportunity to actually get some spotlight time on an issue Donald Trump won’t be leading any charges on.

I think you misspelled a word in your comment there Dark. Grift has an “r” in it, you spelled it gift.

/

I think this whole Kentucky thing is a sad display of a country that is becoming more and more disjointed. We should be collectively embarrassed that we are even having this be a big story.

This country needs to grow the fuck up.

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Tigger2  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:57:46am

re: #100 The Vicious Babushka

Bryan is pissed that Huckabee snatched his photo op.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:58:24am

re: #187 Decatur Deb

Using that BS level of ‘conscience’ Santorum, who is a conservative Catholic, could not issue a license to a divorced person.

Right. After all sin’s sin. // I actually thought that was why we hadn’t heard from Rick and the other Catholics yet because I was hoping deep down that maybe even they see that Kim Davis is a hypocrite.

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darthstar  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:58:46am

You can’t say you have a message of hope and optimism and call the end of the world a fact in the same sentence…unless you’re Jeb! Bush.

Asshole also apparently told Colbert that the exclamation point on Jeb! was meant to connote excitement.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 6:59:19am

re: #193 Tigger2

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Hahaha what’s the matter Bry, did Kim not want to get her photo with you because she probably has no idea who you are.

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darthstar  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:00:00am

re: #190 Nyet

wheee

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I’d be tempted to say that photo is shopped but apparently McConnell really is a thin guy.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:01:39am

re: #195 darthstar

You can’t say you have a message of hope and optimism and call the end of the world a fact in the same sentence…unless you’re Jeb! Bush.

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Asshole also apparently told Colbert that the exclamation point on Jeb! was meant to connote excitement.

Uh oh. Republican voters aren’t going to like that Jeb’s for hope. Did he say he was for change too?

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:01:41am

re: #190 Nyet

With any luck, the TPGOP convention is going to be a cannibal feast.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:01:48am

re: #184 HappyWarrior

I am actually amused by the fact that Huck’s staffers physically pushed Cruz aside. If that doesn’t show you that this is just a stunt show for the theocratic fascist wing of the party then I don’t know what will.

And the thing of it is, the theocratic fascists aren’t going to get these guys elected. Like it or not, most Americans are not going to respond well to someone who openly sides with religious suppression of freedom.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:04:15am

re: #199 Decatur Deb

The Red Inferno.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:04:43am

re: #200 thedopefishlives

And the thing of it is, the theocratic fascists aren’t going to get these guys elected. Like it or not, most Americans are not going to respond well to someone who openly sides with religious suppression of freedom.

Nationally no but what is troubling to me is how you get a person like Bachmann and that one guy from Georgia, Jody Hice into our Congress every so often. I do agree with you though.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:05:04am

re: #192 ObserverArt

I think this whole Kentucky thing is a sad display of a country that is becoming more and more disjointed. We should be collectively embarrassed that we are even having this be a big story.

This country needs to grow the fuck up.

You’re right about how embarrassing this should be. I think that this country needs a divorce. When it gets to the point that the other side is willing to fuck themselves up if it also fucks you up then it’s time to re-examine the relationship.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:07:14am

re: #199 Decatur Deb

With any luck, the TPGOP convention is going to be a cannibal feast.

I’m rooting for a Gangs of New York-style fight, complete with brickbats.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:08:09am

re: #201 Nyet

The Red Inferno.

DC Comics version? Had to look it up.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:08:27am

re: #204 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m rooting for a Gangs of New York-style fight, complete with brickbats.

I’d like to see a real “Game of Thrones” bloodbath.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:10:36am

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

My nose is stuffed up. I took a Claritin & a spray of Flonase.

Now what?

Afrin. Just don’t use it for more than a couple of days.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:11:25am

re: #205 Decatur Deb

No…

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:13:33am

re: #203 Higgs Boson’s Mate

You’re right about how embarrassing this should be. I think that this country needs a divorce. When it gets to the point that the other side is willing to fuck themselves up if it also fucks you up then it’s time to re-examine the relationship.

Can we file papers for a trial separation? Maybe ask for a full four year election cycle away from the Republican party as a trial to see how well things would go without their current style of governance.

I bet some Republicans themselves would be wary of how that would look to America.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:13:47am

re: #208 Nyet

No…

First Google return was the alternate history of the WWII endgame…

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:15:57am

re: #204 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’m rooting for a Gangs of New York-style fight, complete with brickbats.

That’s going to be reserved for the Democratic Convention, as the Government Praetorian Guard of Hillary Clinton squares off with the Secret Socialist Militia of Bernie Sanders.

///

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:16:21am

Funny thought; part of Buddhism is to understand the idea of attachment and to avoid attachment as much as possible. As a Buddhist, I could do much for people’s spiritual advancement if I worked as a store clerk and refused to sell anyone anything.

My corner of the Buddhist philosophy doesn’t work that way. We feel that it’s the work of a lifetime to get our own personal act together - let alone sorting out someone else.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:17:15am

re: #211 Dark_Falcon

That’s going to be reserved for the Democratic Convention, as the Government Praetorian Guard of Hillary Clinton squares off with the Secret Socialist Militia of Bernie Sanders.

///

We learned from ‘68. Hillary just said Biden could make a good president.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:19:21am

re: #213 Decatur Deb

We learned from ‘68. Hillary just said Biden could make a good president.

She said that, but her ego won’t allow her to simply back away. She was just trying to be magnamious, in large part because her campaign is going far less well than planned.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:19:30am

re: #209 ObserverArt

Can we file papers for a trial separation? Maybe ask for a full four year election cycle away from the Republican party as a trial to see how well things would go without their current style of governance.

I bet some Republicans themselves would be wary of how that would look to America.

It really is insane how far right they’ve gotten. Candidates and views that would have been fringe in the Bush years are now mainstream.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:19:49am

re: #211 Dark_Falcon

That’s going to be reserved for the Democratic Convention, as the Government Praetorian Guard of Hillary Clinton squares off with the Secret Socialist Militia of Bernie Sanders.

///

I’d be no good in that fight. I’d go after the first person who unshipped a guitar, no matter which side they were on.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:21:02am

re: #214 Dark_Falcon

She said that, but her ego won’t allow her to simply back away. She was just trying to be magnamious, in large part because her campaign is going far less well than planned.

Didn’t say she means it. We use the slow blade behind a heavy arras.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:22:07am

re: #216 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I’d be no good in that fight. I’d go after the first person who unshipped a guitar, no matter which side they were on.

Then you’d be fine as the Great Union Warrior, crushing hippies wherever they appear in the Democratic Party.

//

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:23:31am

re: #218 Dark_Falcon

Then you’d be fine as the Great Union Warrior, crushing hippies wherever they appear in the Democratic Party.

//

Uh..The hippies are all neocon board members now.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:24:12am

re: #219 Decatur Deb

Uh..The hippies are all neocon board members now.

Nah some are still hippies, you haven’t met my old man.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:25:01am

re: #220 HappyWarrior

Nah some are still hippies, you haven’t met my old man.

My kids call me a hippie, because they don’t know about the Beats.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:26:24am

re: #221 Decatur Deb

My kids call me a hippie, because they don’t know about the Beats.

True, people do confuse the two.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:27:11am

re: #222 HappyWarrior

True, people do confuse the two.

Skinny black tie is a dead giveaway.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:27:15am

re: #218 Dark_Falcon

Then you’d be fine as the Great Union Warrior, crushing hippies wherever they appear in the Democratic Party.

//

We called ourselves “freaks” back in the day. Hippies were the people who bought some love beads at Woolworth’s and then came to the Bay Area on weekends to try to score pot or “pick up one of those of those loose hippy chicks.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:28:22am

re: #165 Backwoods_Sleuth

Protestors are now calling for the firing of deputies issuing marriage licenses.

They are breaking God’s Law, therefore it is up to God to fire them…

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:28:23am

re: #224 Higgs Boson’s Mate

We called ourselves “freaks” back in the day. Hippies were the people who bought some love beads at Woolworth’s and then came to the Bay Area on weekends to try to score pot or “pick up one of those of those loose hippy chicks.”

Hippies were kids who took the IRT from the Bronx to the Village on weekends.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:28:36am

re: #202 HappyWarrior

Nationally no but what is troubling to me is how you get a person like Bachmann and that one guy from Georgia, Jody Hice into our Congress every so often. I do agree with you though.

That’s the magic of gerrymandering. While the wild north country is nominally liberal, it has enough rural/conservative areas to sneak in a couple of real moonbats in the “in-between” areas around which the Democrats drew their lines.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:31:09am

re: #227 thedopefishlives

That’s the magic of gerrymandering. While the wild north country is nominally liberal, it has enough rural/conservative areas to sneak in a couple of real moonbats in the “in-between” areas around which the Democrats drew their lines.

I live in a county that’s gone for Obama and every Dem candidate for governor since Warner except Creigh Deeds yet my own state senator and state rep are wingnutty as it comes. My state senator is Dick Black, who got some notoriety when he questioned the possibility of spousal rape happening because of nighties or some wacked out shit like that. I think it’s because of people like him that I am so fed up with the Republicans bullshit. They continue to push candidates like this and have the nerve to accuse the President of being the dangerous radical.

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:32:27am

Dear Dark Falcon,

Hippiedom died in San Francisco in 1967.

Everything called ‘hippie’ after that point was posing and riding the commercial marketing idea of what made a hippie.

Which means by the time America became familiar with Hippies, Hippies were already a done thing. Sure it took ten years for America to make as much money off the fashion as it could, but that shows how un-hippie all of it had become.

Then Disco, cocaine and consumption. No hippie in all that.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:36:40am

ICYMI:

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:36:42am

It about time for me to get going but before I go I wanted share this:

Child taken to first day of school in BMP-1

The piece has a link to the original Yahoo story but that one just refers to the BMP-1 as “a tank”, when in fact its an infantry fighting vehicle (IFV).

For Putin’s proxies, impressing the teaching staff means showing up in something more than an SUV.

The vehicle is question is actually a BMP-1P, as it has the bank of smoke grenade launchers on the rear of its turret.

BBL

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:37:37am

Martin Milner from Adam-12 died today at the age of 83. This is what Glenn Beck FB said about his death:

Actor Martin Milner who gave me my view of the police, died this weekend at 83.
Millions of Americans look at the American police officer as the wholesome clean cut characters on Adam 12.
I think any of them still are.
How sad that the man whom, to many of us, was THE ultimate cop died in the midst of all of our police killings.
Not only the EOW but also the end of an era.

Oh boy.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:37:43am

Colbert’s got some interesting guests lined up his first two weeks I see. I missed the show last night since I was exhausted after work and then a long baseball game.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:39:11am

re: #232 Jenner7

Martin Milner from Adam-12 died today at the age of 83. This is what Glenn Beck FB said about his death:

Oh boy.

Ya know, I loved Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe but I also realized that Lennie was a character and not a real guy. I hate hearing about officers being killed but I wish people would show that same empathy to unarmed people who are killed by the police instead of assuming they “were up no good” and were “thugs.” This show was before my time so I can’t really comment about Adam-12.

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sagehen  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:40:02am

Walker has no opinions on anything:
talkingpointsmemo.com

“I’m not president today and I can’t be president today,” Walker said when asked by ABC News about how he would address the refugee crisis. “Everybody wants to talk about hypotheticals; there is no such thing as a hypothetical.”

When asked again about Syrian refugees, Walker said that as president he would work to defeat the Islamic State, according to ABC News.

Walker has declined to opine on numerous issues during the early months of his presidential campaign. When asked about Kentucky clerk Kim Davis’ refusal to issue marriage licenses to same-sex couples, Walker’s campaign gave TPM a vague statement about gay marriage. The Wisconsin governor was also hesitant to take a clear position on birthright citizenship.

He also has no opinion on evolution. Or global warming.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:40:09am

It’s also easy to have a warm and fuzzy view of the police if you’ve never been harassed by them too.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:41:11am

re: #235 sagehen

Walker has no opinions on anything:
talkingpointsmemo.com

He also has no opinion on evolution. Or global warming.

I have an opinion- Walker is no leader. Walker’s a wuss. Can’t stand Huckabee, Cruz, and Santorum but at least they’re letting people know where they stand with the bigot Davis instead of trying to weasel.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:43:08am

It’s a bit late for that:

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Tigger2  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:43:49am

Video of Lawrence Wilkerson calling Dick Cheney insane.
dai.ly

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:44:10am
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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:44:31am

re: #234 HappyWarrior

Ya know, I loved Jerry Orbach as Lennie Briscoe but I also realized that Lennie was a character and not a real guy. I hate hearing about officers being killed but I wish people would show that same empathy to unarmed people who are killed by the police instead of assuming they “were up no good” and were “thugs.” This show was before my time so I can’t really comment about Adam-12.

Because our family did 2 or 3 year overseas tours during the Lawn Order era, we saw an outsider’s view of it. Despite McCoy, it was a profoundly right-wing show, rehabilitating the cops from their 60s cultural nadir and making sure Americans scared the shit out of each other.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:47:13am

re: #236 HappyWarrior

It’s also easy to have a warm and fuzzy view of the police if you’ve never been harassed by them too.

“A liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.” - Origin unknown.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:47:50am

BBT for real.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:48:00am

NO SHIT

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:48:42am

re: #242 Dark_Falcon

“A liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.” - Origin unknown.

Half of “A conservative is a liberal who’s been mugged.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:50:12am

re: #242 Dark_Falcon

“A liberal is a conservative who’s been arrested.” - Origin unknown.

Heh. Yeah until you’ve been arrested or even hassled, you just can sit on the sidelines and expect people to just listen to the cops. I know a little more about police harassment than your average white guy since it’s happened to members of my family. I don’t hate the police but I don’t see badge and automatically assume good intentions either.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:50:43am

re: #241 Decatur Deb

Because our family did 2 or 3 year overseas tours during the Lawn Order era, we saw an outsider’s view of it. Despite McCoy, it was a profoundly right-wing show, rehabilitating the cops from their 60s cultural nadir and making sure Americans scared the shit out of each other.

Never thought about it lke that.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:51:34am

re: #238 Lidane

It’s a bit late for that:

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Really? That’s just the tip of your bigoted iceberg, GOP. You built and won BUsh’s re-election using fear of gays marrying. Own it by actually treating gays like people and apologizing.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:51:58am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

NO SHIT

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It’d be shocking if there was a candidate on the Republican whose tax plan wasn’t that.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:53:07am

re: #244 The Vicious Babushka

Jeb! is a terrible candidate. He brags about the Veto Corleone name he got in Florida, but it took Colbert last night to point out that Vito isn’t a hero.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:55:04am

re: #250 Lidane

Jeb! is a terrible candidate. He brags about the Veto Corleone name he got in Florida, but it took Colbert last night to point out that Vito isn’t a hero.

Not as stupid as Romney bragging about liking to fire people but fucking tone deaf as hell of Jeb to brag about that. He doesn’t have his brother’s likability or the good fortune in being the VP of a Republican president beloved by the GOP base. He may be the “smart Bush” but W Bush was the smarter candidate without even trying.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:56:56am

re: #173 Backwoods_Sleuth

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:57:31am

re: #250 Lidane

Jeb! is a terrible candidate. He brags about the Veto Corleone name he got in Florida, but it took Colbert last night to point out that Vito isn’t a hero.

Yeah he is. He seems totally unaware of just about everything and is uncomfortable discussing topics because of it.

He really is the epitome of the silver spoon kid that never had to think about his next dollar and where it was coming from. He is that way with everything…not just dollars.

And they all tried to sell us on “he’s that smart one!” He is a complete waste.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:58:54am

What I didn’t know until now is that Jeb was the stupid one all along.

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Tigger2  Sep 9, 2015 • 7:59:31am

re: #43 Nyet

I got it.
She doesn’t know how to block.

She must have learned how to. I’m Blocked after just one tweet.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:00:23am

re: #254 HappyWarrior

What I didn’t know until now is that Jeb was the stupid one all along.

George W. made some real boneheaded mistakes, but again, he not only got elected, but RE-elected. He’s not the complete moron people make him out to be, even with his award-winning acts of stupidity.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:02:51am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:03:34am

re: #256 thedopefishlives

George W. made some real boneheaded mistakes, but again, he not only got elected, but RE-elected. He’s not the complete moron people make him out to be, even with his award-winning acts of stupidity.

Heh I was just playing on the Vito Corleone riff. I think W’s intelligence was and is underestimated. I would never call the man an intellectual like I would with Obama or Clinton but W isn’t as stupid as people thought. I think he may have a learning disability or something that causes him to say stupid crap. I believe his own younger brother Neil or Marvin is dyslexic so it might run in the family. I think while Jeb may be the more intelligent of the two on an individual basis, George is the smarter of the two when it comes to politics since I think he understands people better. I can’t see W flubbing like Jeb did on “anchor babies” and then making it worst by going “I meant Asians, guys not Hispanics.”

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:04:13am

What in the Hell?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:04:13am

re: #257 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I bet it got that guy real hard when he posted that on his hate truck.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:04:37am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:04:42am

re: #259 blueraven

What in the Hell?

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Obviously a liberal. //

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:04:44am

“Why don’t they stay in their country and tough it out?”

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:06:06am

re: #259 blueraven

Weirdo.

Day said a local doctor serving in World War II cut the portrait of Hitler from a German government building and sent it home. When the doctor died, his son donated memorabilia to the court. The Hitler portrait became part of a collage, surrounded and partially obscured by photographs, medals and the doctor’s diary entries, he said.

He hung it up to honor the veterans who defeated Hitler — not glorify the dictator, he said.

“The purpose was to show that these young Americans triumphed over fascism,” Day said.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:06:55am

A Long Road to a Place of Peace for Flight 93 Families

I was at the site of the Flight 93 crash when it was still a National Parks shack and memorials from all over the world displayed on chain link fence. I can’t imagine a more moving show of grief. It still makes me cry.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:07:20am

re: #264 Nyet

Weirdo.

Glenn Beck Disorder.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:08:10am

re: #259 blueraven

What in the Hell?

Judge who refused to perform same-sex marriages hung portrait of Hitler in courthouse

I am waiting to see if there is any bit of context that could possibly justify that portrait in that setting…

aha, Sergey just provided it

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:09:02am

re: #258 HappyWarrior

Heh I was just playing on the Vito Corleone riff. I think W’s intelligence was and is underestimated. I would never call the man an intellectual like I would with Obama or Clinton but W isn’t as stupid as people thought. I think he may have a learning disability or something that causes him to say stupid crap. I believe his own younger brother Neil or Marvin is dyslexic so it might run in the family. I think while Jeb may be the more intelligent of the two on an individual basis, George is the smarter of the two when it comes to politics since I think he understands people better. I can’t see W flubbing like Jeb did on “anchor babies” and then making it worst by going “I meant Asians, guys not Hispanics.”

George held true to his beliefs—at least. He never dissed any cultural or religious group. I didn’t agree with him on most things, but I have to respect that he seemed to regard everyone as human.

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:09:05am

re: #259 blueraven

What in the Hell?

[Embedded content]

I’m going to assume the portrait was likely confiscated by some American paratroopers during WWII

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:09:08am

re: #265 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

A Long Road to a Place of Peace for Flight 93 Families

I was at the site of the Flight 93 crash when it was still a National Parks shack and memorials from all over the world displayed on chain link fence. I can’t imagine a more moving show of grief. It still makes me cry.

I’ve never seen the movie about it in part because I know what will happen and that will be too tough to watch. I mean I know there are other movies like that but that’s just tough because unlike say Titanic, you have a film with all the real names and furthermore unlike Titanic, no survivors. So the people you grow to like and root for are people you know will die. Anyhow, Flight 93 crashed not too far from where my grandparents grew up in PA. Those people were heroes. I have no idea what I would have done in that situation.

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:10:20am

John Kasich once again says something sensible, further dimming his already slim hopes of being the GOP nominee:

Ohio governor and presidential candidate John Kasich, asked to respond to the vow by other GOP candidates to rip up the Iran deal on Day One, commits absolute heresy:
“Well, what does that mean? I don’t know what that means. You’re going to rip it up and then what? Then what are you going to do when you rip it up?…To just say that we’re going to walk away — we’ve got to remember that we do have allies and we want to call on them to work with us and a lot of them are signing up to this.”

washingtonpost.com

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Decatur Deb  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:10:34am

re: #247 HappyWarrior

Never thought about it lke that.

Think of the entire franchise, how many hours per week in network and syndication, how many rapes and murders per decade? It was a running battle to convince my wife that Dale County Alabama has a higher murder rate than NYC.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:10:45am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Whether it’s a good justification is in doubt. But, well, at least he’s not a Nazi.

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Great White Snark  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:11:04am

How do still images make a terabyte drive look hopelessly inadequate? Like this.
Canon: We’re Building a 120-Megapixel DSLR

So maybe 140-150 megabytes per shot. Yikes. And workflow… Timelapse anyone?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:11:28am

re: #272 Decatur Deb

Think of the entire franchise, how many hours per week in network and syndication, how many rapes and murders per decade? It was a running battle to convince my wife that Dale County Alabama has a higher murder rate than NYC.

I guess you’re right. It does give the conception that New York is a lot more dangerous than it actually is. I’ve never felt unsafe in New York the many times I’ve been.

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:13:06am

re: #267 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I am waiting to see if there is any bit of context that could possibly justify that portrait in that setting…

Sergey has the “context” in his #264

It is never OK to post pics of Hitler in a gov’t office.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:13:09am

re: #273 Nyet

Whether it’s a good justification is in doubt. But, well, at least he’s not a Nazi.

I didn’t expect him to be a bonafide Nazi but the Nazi hobby that so many have is weird. I get why people are fascinated by the Nazis, I really do since I am one of those fascinated by the Nazis but I can’t imagine hanging a portrait of Hitler in my office space. Then again some would probably find it a little weird if I brought in my Putin nesting doll that has a toy sized Pittsburgh Steelers helmet on his head.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:14:07am

re: #276 blueraven

Sergey has the “context” in his #264

It is never OK to post pics of Hitler in a gov’t office.

Yeah judge may not be a Nazi but Hitler in a gov’t office, the fuck. If he wants to honor the young men and women who took on the Axis powers, bully to him but but there are a lot more tasteful ways of doing so.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:14:13am

I haven’t followed this at all.
United C.E.O. Is Out Amid Inquiry at Port Authority

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:15:59am

re: #277 HappyWarrior

Careful there with ambiguous sentence structures :P

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:16:10am

Huckabee Aide Physically Blocked Cruz From Getting Into Kim Davis Money Shot

High School antics ?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:16:59am

re: #277 HappyWarrior

I didn’t expect him to be a bonafide Nazi but the Nazi hobby that so many have is weird. I get why people are fascinated by the Nazis, I really do since I am one of them but I can’t imagine hanging a portrait of Hitler in my office space. Then again some would probably find it a little weird if I brought in my Putin nesting doll that has a toy sized Pittsburgh Steelers helmet on his head.

LOL I have a Putin nesting doll that I display along with my South Park nesting dolls on my Twitter profile page.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:17:17am

re: #281 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Huckabee Aide Physically Blocked Cruz From Getting Into Kim Davis Money Shot

High School antics ?

That should make the next debate more interesting. *gag*

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:17:27am

Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

It’s our fault —big surprise. Can we just go back in history and erase the Treaty of Versailles?

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:17:34am

Cruz may not be getting the majority of the press, but he’s getting some.
So, I guess it’s “win, win” for him

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:17:39am

re: #280 Nyet

Careful there with ambiguous sentences structures :P

Hahha, thanks. You meant the part where I said I was fascinated by the Nazis right, clarified to make it clear that I am not and never have been a Nazi.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:18:55am

re: #282 The Vicious Babushka

WHAT ABOUT THE MAO PORTRAIT ON OBAMA’S CHRISTMAS TREE???!

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:19:30am

re: #281 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Huckabee Aide Physically Blocked Cruz From Getting Into Kim Davis Money Shot

High School antics ?

Desperation; these guys are fighting tooth and nail for the scraps of media attention not being hogged by Trump.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:19:39am

re: #235 sagehen

Walker has no opinions on anything:
talkingpointsmemo.com

He also has no opinion on evolution. Or global warming.

It’s hard to have an opinion when you’re as dumb as a fern. You actually have to know something to form an opinion.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:19:58am

re: #282 The Vicious Babushka

LOL I have a Putin nesting doll that I display along with my South Park nesting dolls on my Twitter profile page.

I remember you talking about that heh- It worked out perfectly. I bought the Putin nesting doll in Berlin. My brother found a vintage toy SB helmet on the bus and it fits Vlad perfectly. I also have a mini Liberty Bell, Celtic Cross(yes I realize who uses those), a Bicentennial tin plate that belonged to my grandparents, and a Talk Boy. And to top it off one hell of a shot glasses and pint glass collecton.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:20:23am

re: #289 WhatEVs

It’s hard to have an opinion when you’re as dumb as a fern. You actually have to know something to form an opinion.

What do I say Charles/David?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:21:07am

re: #238 Lidane

It’s a bit late for that:

GOP strategists increasingly worry Kim Davis story will make GOP look bigoted, a new report says:

That’s like me asking if these pants make my ass look big. No, it’s my big ass that makes my ass look big.

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:21:31am

re: #284 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Now the truth emerges: how the US fuelled the rise of Isis in Syria and Iraq

It’s our fault —big surprise. Can we just go back in history and erase the Treaty of Versailles?

In reality, there is a lot of truth to the notion that US invasion of Iraq fueled ISIS.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:21:48am

re: #281 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Huckabee Aide Physically Blocked Cruz From Getting Into Kim Davis Money Shot

High School antics ?

That was my favorite part of the rally religious revival.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:22:33am

re: #284 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Key fact:

But there was no al-Qaida in Iraq until the US and Britain invaded.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:23:46am

re: #294 Backwoods_Sleuth

That was my favorite part of the rally religious revival.

Yeah I was very amused when I saw that. This is just a political game to these guys. I don’t feel bad for Cruz at all or Huckabee if he gets bad publicity over this. These guys want to stand by a bigot, let them get into fights over her, and I’ll just enjoy living in a country that has legal same sex marriage much to their everlasting rage.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:24:34am

Meanwhile at the courthouse:

;)

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:24:47am

re: #255 Tigger2

She must have learned how to. I’m Blocked after just one tweet.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:25:43am

re: #293 blueraven

In reality, there is a lot of truth to the notion that US invasion of Iraq fueled ISIS.

It was what a lot of critics of the invasion pointed out that taking out Hussein would just create a new enemy. The Bush administration had no plan for how to handle Iraq after the invasion. The invasion itself was fairly easy part. Easy in relative terms since we still did lose men but the occupation and the resulting strife caused much more deaths. There’s a reason why many Republicans even run away from W Bush.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:27:13am

re: #299 HappyWarrior

It was what a lot of critics of the invasion pointed out that taking out Hussein would just create a new enemy. The Bush administration had no plan for how to handle Iraq after the invasion. The invasion itself was fairly easy part. Easy in relative terms since we still did lose men but the occupation and the resulting strife caused much more deaths. There’s a reason why many Republicans even run away from W Bush.

There was also no Al Qaeda in Iraq until it stepped into the power vacuum we created…

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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:28:21am

re: #279 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Short story is that a former bigwig at the Port Authority (David Samson, now former Chairman) may have used his influence to get a flight to an airport near his vacation home. United was the airline in question - flying between Newark and SC. He would fly back and forth regularly and the flight was practically empty.

The moment he was ousted under the Bridgegate cloud, United shut down the route entirely.

It raised questions over why United started the flight in the first place - where there was little to no demand for a flight, and which appears to have been a personal favor from United to Samson.

Samson was integral in the PA’s negotiations with United on its operation at NYC metro area airports (EWR, JFK, and LGA) so the appearance of impropriety looks like the real deal.

The Record has much more on this.

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:29:22am

re: #274 Great White Snark

How do still images make a terabyte drive look hopelessly inadequate? Like this.
Canon: We’re Building a 120-Megapixel DSLR

So maybe 140-150 megabytes per shot. Yikes. And workflow… Timelapse anyone?

Wasn’t there a debate about the limits of megapixels at one time?

I mean, how much detail is enough - and how much detail can the human eye even process?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:29:51am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

There was also no Al Qaeda in Iraq until it stepped into the power vacuum we created…

Precisely. Hussein’s Iraq I think can best be likened to Tito’s Yugoslavia. A multi-ethnic and religious nation held by a strong dictator. Did I like Saddam being in power, nope but I think we made things worse and not better by invading.

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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:30:08am

re: #285 FormerDirtDart

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:31:32am

re: #291 HappyWarrior

What do I say Charles/David?

Bingo! And they bitch about teleprompters. I don’t think Walker could do much of anything without a lot of preparation. He really is a Sarah Palin with the only bonus of being able to string a cohesive sentence together - barely.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:31:50am

re: #304 lawhawk

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:31:54am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:32:08am

re: #305 WhatEVs

Bingo! And they bitch about teleprompters. I don’t think Walker could do much of anything without a lot of preparation. He really is a Sarah Palin with the only bonus of being able to string a cohesive sentence together - barely.

He’s nothing but a puppet.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:32:30am

re: #259 blueraven

What in the Hell?

False flag. Fascists are liberals. Leftists are fascists—Jonah Goldberg says so because National Socialism. Hitler was gay. etc.

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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:32:34am

re: #302 makeitstop

There are indeed limits to what the eye perceives, but that kind of size allows for blowing up photos to ridiculous sizes without loss of detail. It’s the kind of thing that would benefit those in advertising, though that runs into the limitations on reproduction (the LEDs on display screens, printing techniques, etc.).

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:32:35am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is freaking awesome!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:33:36am

re: #307 Lidane

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Catholic teachings? You mean like no divorce and children out of wedlock? Bunning is a Catholic but he’s also a servant of the American people. Not all of whom are Catholic. Goddamn Todd, just two generations you were saying that we’d put Catholicism before our country’s laws and now you want us to do. Calling myself Catholic since I am still technically a baptized Catholic here for levity.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:35:29am

re: #301 lawhawk

Short story is that a former bigwig at the Port Authority (David Samson, now former Chairman) may have used his influence to get a flight to an airport near his vacation home. United was the airline in question - flying between Newark and SC. He would fly back and forth regularly and the flight was practically empty.

The moment he was ousted under the Bridgegate cloud, United shut down the route entirely.

It raised questions over why United started the flight in the first place - where there was little to no demand for a flight, and which appears to have been a personal favor from United to Samson.

Samson was integral in the PA’s negotiations with United on its operation at NYC metro area airports (EWR, JFK, and LGA) so the appearance of impropriety looks like the real deal.

The Record has much more on this.

I thought it was quid pro quo. United wanted to gain something from the airports that the PA controlled (runway or gate access??). Sampson was selling out to the highest bidder.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:36:50am

If Judge Bunning were the strict Catholic, Starnes would want him to be, he’d throw Davis out of her job for being a divorcee who had children out of wedlock. Love hearing about how Kim Davis “stands for Christian values.” Her cuckolded husbands may disagree.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:39:10am

re: #314 HappyWarrior

If Judge Bunning were the strict Catholic, Starnes would want him to be, he’d throw Davis out of her job for being a divorcee who had children out of wedlock. Love hearing about how Kim Davis “stands for Christian values.” Her cuckolded husbands may disagree.

This is the perverted Fundie logic to get out of that headlock:

God has forgiven KD for all her serial sins and transgressions, but by sanctioning a gay marriage, she would be condoning a permanent, ongoing, unforgivable state of sin.

Again, this is why our Founding Fathers had the foresight to separate Church and State, namely to prevent this sort of “reasoning” to find reflection in our civil law.

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:39:31am

re: #310 lawhawk

There are indeed limits to what the eye perceives, but that kind of size allows for blowing up photos to ridiculous sizes without loss of detail. It’s the kind of thing that would benefit those in advertising, though that runs into the limitations on reproduction (the LEDs on display screens, printing techniques, etc.).

Understood. Hell, I set my Nikon on the JPG ‘Fine’ setting, and those images weigh a ton. I guess if you’re in it for printing billboards and the like it makes sense, but a schmoe like me who builds web sites woldn’t have much use for that much detail.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:39:39am

re: #310 lawhawk

High resolution is also a big help for guys like me who take pics of small, intricate things like watch movements, and don’t want to have to mess around with macro lenses. If you can take a pic from a foot or so away, but zoom and crop without getting grainy, it makes it a lot easier.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:39:51am

re: #314 HappyWarrior

If Judge Bunning were the strict Catholic, Starnes would want him to be, he’d throw Davis out of her job for being a divorcee who had children out of wedlock. Love hearing about how Kim Davis “stands for Christian values.” Her cuckolded husbands may disagree.

The argument from my wingnut friends is that all those events happened pre-conversion. Which is a fair point; if she really has changed her life, I won’t make her answer for her prior sins, any more than I should answer for mine. But she should still be called out for her hypocrisy in refusing to uphold her sworn oath.

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lawhawk  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:40:58am

re: #313 WhatEVs

That too.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:41:28am

re: #293 blueraven

In reality, there is a lot of truth to the notion that US invasion of Iraq fueled ISIS.

We removed the only check on sectarian violence in Iraq and replaced it with a Potemkin Village of hand selected grifters who immediately fired en masse the only people who knew how to run a functioning society. Just to make certain that things went south as quickly as possible we failed to secure the tons of weapons and ammunition that had been stockpiled by Saddam. You didn’t have to be Cassandra to predict the outcome.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:41:45am

Probably just a panel of men explaining lady parts.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:42:38am

re: #318 thedopefishlives

The argument from my wingnut friends is that all those events happened pre-conversion. Which is a fair point; if she really has changed her life, I won’t make her answer for her prior sins, any more than I should answer for mine. But she should still be called out for her hypocrisy in refusing to uphold her sworn oath.

I won’t either but I am tired of fundies like her who have no doubt sinned in their lives acting all high and mighty over the rest of us. But yes absolutely, she should still be called out as a hypocrite for refusing to uphold her own oath and furthermore that a hypothetical devout Catholic clerk could have easily refused her own marriage certificate.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:43:18am

re: #321 Jenner7

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Probably just a panel of men explaining lady parts.

The Congressional Circus must go on. Sigh fucking Republican pricks.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:43:42am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

I won’t either but I am tired of fundies like her who have no doubt sinned in their lives acting all high and mighty over the rest of us. But yes absolutely, she should still be called out as a hypocrite for refusing to uphold her own oath and furthermore that a hypothetical devout Catholic clerk could have easily refused her own marriage certificate.

Yeah, I’ve never been a big fan of the holier-than-thou approach. We’re all fucking sinners, whether it’s in the past or not is irrelevant. Jesus doesn’t make anyone better than anybody else.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:44:09am

re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This is the perverted Fundie logic to get out of that headlock:

God has forgiven KD for all her serial sins and transgressions, but by sanctioning a gay marriage, she would be condoning a permanent, ongoing, unforgivable state of sin.

Again, this is why our Founding Fathers had the foresight to separate Church and State, namely to prevent this sort of “reasoning” to find reflection in our civil law.

Yeah true. And you’re right, that’s why we have separation of church and state. That line of reasoning has no basis in our civil law.

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:44:24am

re: #317 Blind Frog Belly White

High resolution is also a big help for guys like me who take pics of small, intricate things like watch movements, and don’t want to have to mess around with macro lenses. If you can take a pic from a foot or so away, but zoom and crop without getting grainy, it makes it a lot easier.

Hadn’t thought of that. Good point.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:44:47am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

I won’t either but I am tired of fundies like her who have no doubt sinned in their lives acting all high and mighty over the rest of us. But yes absolutely, she should still be called out as a hypocrite for refusing to uphold her own oath and furthermore that a hypothetical devout Catholic clerk could have easily refused her own marriage certificate.

Yeah, don’t really care about her divorces, past life, etc, but she still has no right to violate the law and refuse to grant marriage licenses to eligible couples under cover of her religious beliefs.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:45:04am

re: #324 thedopefishlives

Yeah, I’ve never been a big fan of the holier-than-thou approach. We’re all fucking sinners, whether it’s in the past or not is irrelevant. Jesus doesn’t make anyone better than anybody else.

Right, everyone fucks up. Just because you claim to be born again and absolved of your past sins doesn’t mean you never sinned before. I just hate the holier than thou approach and it’s why I ultimately hope Fundamentalist Christianity goes in the toilet.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:45:37am

re: #325 HappyWarrior

Yeah true. And you’re right, that’s why we have separation of church and state. That line of reasoning has no basis in our civil law.

We have also come to separate the Sacrament of Holy Matrimony from the civil status of marriage. But there is no point in trying to explain that to the fundies.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:45:45am

re: #320 Higgs Boson’s Mate

The same people are now selling what is effectively a war with Iran.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:46:32am

re: #327 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Yeah, don’t really care about her divorces, past life, etc, but she still has no right to violate the law and refuse to grant marriage licenses to eligible couples under cover of her religious beliefs.

Exactly. Don’t use your religious beliefs as a crutch when you got your own sins to “atone” for. As I said when the story broke, would Kim be okay with a hypothetical devout Catholic seeing her past divorces and children out of marriage and using that to refuse her a marriage cert. I suspect definitely not and that gets at the whole hypocrisy.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:48:03am

re: #327 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Yeah, don’t really care about her divorces, past life, etc, but she still has no right to violate the law and refuse to grant marriage licenses to eligible couples under cover of her religious beliefs.

The option to resign her position is still fully available to her if her beliefs conflict with her responsibilities as a public official. She’s not a soldier refusing an order from a Nazi overlord to murder someone, etc.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:48:15am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

I won’t either but I am tired of fundies like her who have no doubt sinned in their lives acting all high and mighty over the rest of us. But yes absolutely, she should still be called out as a hypocrite for refusing to uphold her own oath and furthermore that a hypothetical devout Catholic clerk could have easily refused her own marriage certificate.

I don’t know how Christians handle this, but in Judaism the only sins that are forgiven on Yom Kippur are sins against G-D (not eating kosher food, working on Sabbath, wearing mixed fibers, etc.)

Sins against other human beings like robbery, murder, adultery, or saying mean things about somebody on the Internet, are not forgiven until forgiveness is granted by the victim and restitution (prison, fines, etc.) is made.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:49:16am

re: #333 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t know how Christians handle this, but in Judaism the only sins that are forgiven on Yom Kippur are sins against G-D (not eating kosher food, working on Sabbath)

Sins against other human beings like robbery, murder, adultery, and saying mean things about somebody on the Internet, are not forgiven until forgiveness is granted by the victim and restitution (prison, fines, etc.) is made.

I am not so sure myself. I know in Catholicism, you repent to a priest and he tells you to do something like a certain amount of prayers and that absolves you but I don’t know Kim’s brand of Protestantism handles this. In fact, I don’t even know what her specific denomination is.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:50:05am

re: #333 The Vicious Babushka

I don’t know how Christians handle this, but in Judaism the only sins that are forgiven on Yom Kippur are sins against G-D (not eating kosher food, working on Sabbath)

Sins against other human beings like robbery, murder, adultery, and saying mean things about somebody on the Internet, are not forgiven until forgiveness is granted by the victim and restitution (prison, fines, etc.) is made.

Christianity is the “blank slate” sort, where forgiveness is granted by God and covers everything. However, what it notably does not do is absolve you from earthly consequences of your sinful actions. If you fuck up and you go to jail, you can repent to God and be forgiven spiritually, but you still have to do your time and pay your penance in whatever fashion is deemed reasonable in earthly terms.

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:50:44am

re: #318 thedopefishlives

The argument from my wingnut friends is that all those events happened pre-conversion. Which is a fair point; if she really has changed her life, I won’t make her answer for her prior sins, any more than I should answer for mine. But she should still be called out for her hypocrisy in refusing to uphold her sworn oath.

Except she is currently living in an adulterous relationship with her second/fourth husband. She can’t be in a state of grace while she is flouting God’s law by living in a state of sin. She must separate from her husband and remain celibate for the rest of her life.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:51:17am

I’m sorry, whose rhetoric is getting people beaten and shot?? Not the BLM. Asshole.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:51:23am

To me though it’s a simple issue in the end. She’s a secular official who happens to be religious. If SSM bothers her so, that’s her right but she can’t continue to keep her positon and also deny people something that is legal. If we allowed any clerk to do that, we’d open up an ugly can of worms. Saw an article by Ca’s Lt Governor and former SF mayor, Gavin Newsome who wondered how they’d feel about a Quaker clerk or any other pacifist religion who denied a gun permit based on that religion’s pacifism and opposition to violence.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:52:36am

re: #337 Jenner7

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I’m sorry, whose rhetoric is getting people beaten and shot?? Not the BLM. Asshole.

The guy who called a whole group of people rapists has no room at all to talk about hate. BLM isn’t hating at all. They’re mad because unarmed black people killed by cops are instantly scapegoated and made out to be vicious criminals and the cops who kill them get a vicious defense and not even indictments exempting Freddie Gray.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:52:52am

re: #338 HappyWarrior

To me though it’s a simple issue in the end. She’s a secular official who happens to be religious. If SSM bothers her so, that’s her right but she can’t continue to keep her positon and also deny people something that is legal. If we allowed any clerk to do that, we’d open up an ugly can of worms. Saw an article by Ca’s Lt Governor and former SF mayor, Gavin Newsome who wondered how they’d feel about a Quaker clerk or any other pacifist religion who denied a gun permit based on that religion’s pacifism and opposition to violence.

And this whole lot about “obeying the laws of God rather than the laws of men” is taken way out of context. The Bible never says that going against secular law is a consequence-free choice. The Bible also indicates clearly and in rather strong terms that we are to obey the secular authorities because God allows them to exist.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:53:33am

So Dr. Real Ben Carson didn’t fly out to Rowan County to stand beside Kim Davis?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:53:51am

re: #321 Jenner7

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Probably just a panel of men explaining lady parts.

It’s on CSPAN.
I just can’t bring myself to turn on the teevee…

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:54:12am

re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

This is the perverted Fundie logic to get out of that headlock:

God has forgiven KD for all her serial sins and transgressions, but by sanctioning a gay marriage, she would be condoning a permanent, ongoing, unforgivable state of sin.

Again, this is why our Founding Fathers had the foresight to separate Church and State, namely to prevent this sort of “reasoning” to find reflection in our civil law.

The Founders were classically educated so they actually were aware of what happened historically when religion set its hooks in government. The parade of tyrants, grifters, and madmen who goaded Europe into four debilitating Crusades would have been informative enough.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:54:22am

LOLWHUT==>

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:54:30am

re: #341 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So Dr. Real Ben Carson didn’t fly out to Rowan County to stand beside Kim Davis?

/

I’m surprised Rand Paul (Davis’ own Senator!), Jindal and Santorum weren’t there either.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:54:40am

re: #340 thedopefishlives

And this whole lot about “obeying the laws of God rather than the laws of men” is taken way out of context. The Bible never says that going against secular law is a consequence-free choice. The Bible also indicates clearly and in rather strong terms that we are to obey the secular authorities because God allows them to exist.

Right. Just exhausted by people using their religion to discriminate against people. If Christians want to know why secularism is growing, this is why and despite what they tell themselves, this is discriminating and I am aware and give props to those Christian churches that stand up against bigotry.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:55:16am

re: #344 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWHUT==>

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This is a presidential candidate…………

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:56:06am

What is in the Pacific Northwest air that produces all these “anarchists”?
Do all the big trees just drive people mad?

The officer, described as a pilot at Joint Base Lewis-McChord, was stopped in traffic due to the protest when he was singled out by a “local hate group,” which calls itself the “anarchists,” according to a police news release.

“The protesters saw two confederate flags attached to the back of the victim’s motorcycle and surrounded him, rocking the bike in an attempt to knock it over,” the news release said. “They sprayed the victim in the face with mace, and struck him in the back with a baseball bat and a glass bottle filled with red paint.”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:56:34am

re: #342 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s on CSPAN.
I just can’t bring myself to turn on the teevee…

It’s not like the end of the fiscal year is three weeks away and congress hasn’t approved any appropriations bills yet. So sure, go ahead with your urgent Planned Parenthood “hearings”.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:56:51am

re: #345 aagcobb

I’m surprised Rand Paul (Davis’ own Senator!), Jindal and Santorum weren’t there either.

BWS said that Paul sent one of his Congressional lackeys. I suspect Rand didn’t want to meet with Davis directly since he still thinks he can lie to millenials and convince us that he’s on our side of issues important to us. Jindal and Santorum’s absences though did shock me.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:57:58am

re: #350 HappyWarrior

BWS said that Paul sent one of his Congressional lackeys.

But Davis is G-d himself/herself, Huck said so.
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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:58:04am

re: #346 HappyWarrior

Right. Just exhausted by people using their religion to discriminate against people. If Christians want to know why secularism is growing, this is why and despite what they tell themselves, this is discriminating and I am aware and give props to those Christian churches that stand up against bigotry.

Ayup. There is some growing awareness of the fact that Christians’ general holier-than-thou attitude, rampant hypocrisy, and antiquated hyper-conservative “die on every hill” beliefs are actively driving away people who might otherwise be believers.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:58:09am
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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:58:17am

re: #347 HappyWarrior

This is a presidential candidate…………

Huckabee understands that in the age of Trump that statements have to be outrageous to gain any media attention and the corresponding poll bumps. Probably the only taboo words left are n-clang, and any version of the f-word.

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FormerDirtDart  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:58:37am
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:59:05am

re: #332 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

The option to resign her position is still fully available to her if her beliefs conflict with her responsibilities as a public official. She’s not a soldier refusing an order from a Nazi overlord to murder someone, etc.

In the good’l days, Christians were lauded for making personal sacrifices for their faith. The Kim Davises of this nation are being lauded for trying to compel everyone else to make sacrifices for their faith.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:59:07am

re: #341 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So Dr. Real Ben Carson didn’t fly out to Rowan County to stand beside Kim Davis?

/

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:59:39am

re: #350 HappyWarrior

BWS said that Paul sent one of his Congressional lackeys. I suspect Rand didn’t want to meet with Davis directly since he still thinks he can lie to millenials and convince us that he’s on our side of issues important to us. Jindal and Santorum’s absences though did shock me.

Their campaigns may be so threadbare they couldn’t afford the airfare!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 8:59:47am

re: #352 thedopefishlives

Ayup. There is some growing awareness of the fact that Christians’ general holier-than-thou attitude, rampant hypocrisy, and antiquated hyper-conservative “die on every hill” beliefs are actively driving away people who might otherwise be believers.

It’s part of the reason for me. Other part is just not knowing what’s out there. I’m more of an agnostic than out right atheist but I really do think yeah that drives a lot of people away. I think a lot of religions offer good messages and I think a lot of people do follow them but what drives me away is that, my scientific approach, and seeing the horrors done in the name of religion but I don’t automatically assume the worst about someone because they’re religious either.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:00:10am

re: #355 FormerDirtDart

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Hahahha.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:00:46am

re: #358 aagcobb

Their campaigns may be so threadbare they couldn’t afford the airfare!

Can’t be that much for a Greyhound from Pittsburgh. // (I think that’s Santorum’s home tuf anyhow.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:01:30am

re: #350 HappyWarrior

BWS said that Paul sent one of his Congressional lackeys. I suspect Rand didn’t want to meet with Davis directly since he still thinks he can lie to millenials and convince us that he’s on our side of issues important to us. Jindal and Santorum’s absences though did shock me.

Yep. Rep. Thomas Massie was there in the morning, but left before Huckabee got there.
Massie’s pronouncement of KD’s jailing was “excessive government overreach”.
Of course.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:01:53am

re: #353 De Kolta Chair

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Ironic that Queen Elizabeth II spent more time in military service than all of the Republican candidates, excepting Lindsey Graham, combined.

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:02:00am

re: #361 HappyWarrior

Can’t be that much for a Greyhound from Pittsburgh. // (I think that’s Santorum’s home tuf anyhow.)

I suspect Santorum is currently living in Iowa, desperate to recreate the magic of 2012, which is his only hope of gaining any traction in this race.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:02:04am

re: #353 De Kolta Chair

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I’ve always been indifferent to the royal family but it’s quite amazing how long she’s been there. The world won’t feel the same when she’s gone. It also amuses me that her husband is a 90+ year old plus prince.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:02:09am

re: #354 aagcobb

Huckabee understands that in the age of Trump that statements have to be outrageous to gain any media attention and the corresponding poll bumps. Probably the only taboo words left are n-clang, and any version of the f-word.

I could have sworn I heard Donald drop an F bomb. Maybe I am wrong. Anyone?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:02:17am

re: #353 De Kolta Chair

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And Charles now holds the record as longest heir in waiting…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:02:52am

re: #362 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yep. Rep. Thomas Massie was there in the morning, but left before Huckabee got there.
Massie’s pronouncement of KD’s jailing was “excessive government overreach”.
Of course.

Yeah the excessive government overreach sounds like something Rand would say. I think he’s avoiding her directly since if the issue backfires on those embracing her, he’l have some wiggle room.

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:03:29am

re: #367 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Charles now holds the record as longest heir in waiting…

He may yet have a long wait ahead of him. His grandmother lived to be 101.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:04:00am

re: #366 WhatEVs

I could have sworn I heard Donald drop an F bomb. Maybe I am wrong. Anyone?

Why yes, Donald did drop an F bomb - during a campaign rally.

Trump Drops F Bombs in Vegas

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:04:07am

re: #265 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:04:08am

re: #367 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Charles now holds the record as longest heir in waiting…

Always another side to the same story. I think I read the shortest reign of any leader ever wasn’t even a full 24 hours.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:05:14am

re: #369 aagcobb

He may yet have a long wait ahead of him. His grandmother lived to be 101.

I think that is part of the Royal Plan…to pass the dynasty along to his son(s).

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:06:15am

re: #373 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I think that is part of the Royal Plan…to pass the dynasty along to his son(s).

I had heard that too. But yeah her mother died live to be 101. She could easily do it. She’s in good health from what I know.

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:06:16am

re: #344 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWHUT==>

Mike Huckabee says that God took the form of Kim Davis and that her release was a holy miracle

Man, they’ve really downgraded what qualifies as a miracle nowadays.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:06:43am

You meet a lot of women like Kim Davis down home. In Eastern Kentucky, the born-again Christian—with her denim skirts and disdain for the federal government—is as ubiquitous as the hills themselves. They go to church on Sundays to pray their sons won’t do meth on Mondays. They vote Republican, then go spend their food stamps at the Save-a-Lot. They oppose LGBT rights while embracing their own queer kin (because “you do for family”).

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:06:51am

re: #375 makeitstop

Man, they’ve really downgraded what qualifies as a miracle nowadays.

Huck obviously never went to the St. Patrick’s bar crawl I went to. 1 dollar pints yo.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:08:30am

re: #373 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I think that is part of the Royal Plan…to pass the dynasty along to his son(s).

Did they change the rules? Edward VIII abdicated because he wanted to marry a divorcee. Being divorced oneself would seem to put the monarchy out of reach.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:08:56am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:09:25am

re: #379 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Oh good grief, what’s the reason? Fucking attention whore pig.

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:09:34am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Did they change the rules? Edward VIII abdicated because he wanted to marry a divorcee. Being divorced oneself would seem to put the monarchy out of reach.

Yes, they changed the rules. Why, now they’ll even let a female ascend the throne ahead of a younger brother!

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:09:42am

re: #359 HappyWarrior

It’s part of the reason for me. Other part is just not knowing what’s out there. I’m more of an agnostic than out right atheist but I really do think yeah that drives a lot of people away. I think a lot of religions offer good messages and I think a lot of people do follow them but what drives me away is that, my scientific approach, and seeing the horrors done in the name of religion but I don’t automatically assume the worst about someone because they’re religious either.

Obviously, otherwise you and I would have some problems. ;)

Honestly, I’m not super pushy about my religion. Most Christians I know would see that as a bad thing, but to me, it’s more about, if someone is seeking, they’ll ask me. If not, I don’t want to be a prick about it.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:10:02am

re: #379 Backwoods_Sleuth

Of course he does.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:10:21am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Did they change the rules? Edward VIII abdicated because he wanted to marry a divorcee. Being divorced oneself would seem to put the monarchy out of reach.

They changed the rules recently, to make Princess Charlotte 4th in line ahead of Harry.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:11:34am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The author of that piece is a budding Charles Pierce.

Say what you will about Megyn Kelly, … she can genuinely surprise her guests with questions that cause them to blather incoherently, and she’s more than happy to stand silently by as they struggle to unburden themselves of the weight of their own palaver.

…

Case in point, on “The Kelly File” last night she spoke to GOP co-front-runner Dr. Ben Carson about U.S. District Judge David Bunning’s decision to catch-and-release Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis.

…

Carson paused, adopted a look that his handlers have no doubt told him communicates “thoughtfulness,” then proceeded to ramble around the question. “But, but,” this is a very basic right.” (As any English professor, including this former one, will tell you, using “this” without a clear referent is a clear indication that you’re speaking before you know exactly what your subject is — literally.)

…

“This is a, a Judeo-Christian nation, in the sense that a lot of our values are based on a Judeo-Christian faith.” Having aired that tautology, he resorted to arguing that “there are a substantial number of people who support traditional marriage, and I’m one of them.”

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:11:34am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Did they change the rules? Edward VIII abdicated because he wanted to marry a divorcee. Being divorced oneself would seem to put the monarchy out of reach.

As far as I know, it was never a hard-and-fast “rule” about divorce, more of a, “You will be an incredibly unpopular king and it will look bad, so we’d rather you abdicate if you want to marry this woman.” That being said, yes, times (and rules) have changed.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:12:40am

My latest screed. I may have to learn more html codeing.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:13:18am

re: #289 WhatEVs

It’s hard to have an opinion when you’re as dumb as a fern. You actually have to know something to form an opinion.

oooh no, opinions are based on emotion.

/

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:13:47am

re: #386 thedopefishlives

As far as I know, it was never a hard-and-fast “rule” about divorce, more of a, “You will be an incredibly unpopular king and it will look bad, so we’d rather you abdicate if you want to marry this woman.” That being said, yes, times (and rules) have changed.

not only a divorcee, IIRC, but an AMERICAN!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:14:27am

re: #378 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Did they change the rules? Edward VIII abdicated because he wanted to marry a divorcee. Being divorced oneself would seem to put the monarchy out of reach.

I think the problem with Wallis Simpson is that not only was she divorced (more than once), she was also American and not a member of the Church of England.

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aagcobb  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:15:57am

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think the problem with Wallis Simpson is that not only was she divorced (more than once), she was also American and not a member of the Church of England.

Goods thing he abdicated, as it turned out, since he was a Nazi sympathizer.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:16:42am

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

palaver
[puh-lav-er, ‐lah-ver]
Spell Syllables
Examples Word Origin
noun
1. a conference or discussion.
2. a long parley, especially one between primitive natives and European traders, explorers, colonial officials, etc.
3. profuse and idle talk; chatter.
4. persuasive talk; flattery; cajolery.
verb (used without object), palavered, palavering.
5. to talk profusely and idly.
6. to parley or confer.
verb (used with object), palavered, palavering.
7. to cajole or persuade.

Portueguese/Late Latin in origin.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:17:25am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

They changed the rules recently, to make Princess Charlotte 4th in line ahead of Harry.

This is another reason to abolish monarchy: internal family feuds have no place in state politics.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:17:31am

re: #386 thedopefishlives

As far as I know, it was never a hard-and-fast “rule” about divorce, more of a, “You will be an incredibly unpopular king and it will look bad, so we’d rather you abdicate if you want to marry this woman.” That being said, yes, times (and rules) have changed.

Ah. Not much of a reader of English history past the Spanish Armada so I didn’t know. I did read a bit about Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson. I believe that one of the objections at the time (This was in the mid-1930s) was that it would be inappropriate for Edward, as the head of the C of E, to be married to a woman twice divorced. My late father was 16 years old when Edward abdicated so the how-it-was of that era is nearly as remote as the how-it-was of ancient Rome to me.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:17:47am

re: #390 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think the problem with Wallis Simpson is that not only was she divorced (more than once), she was also American and not a member of the Church of England.

The Church of England bit was big, because one of the royal titles is “Defender of the Faith”.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:17:50am

re: #371 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:18:15am

re: #394 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Ah. Not much of a reader of English history past the Spanish Armada so I didn’t know. I did read a bit about Edward VIII and Wallace Simpson. I believe that one of the objections at the time (This was in the mid-1930s) was that it would be inappropriate for Edward, as the head of the C of E, to be married to a woman twice divorced. My late father was 16 years old when Edward abdicated so the how-it-was of that era is nearly as remote as the how-it-was of ancient Rome to me.

I’ve never heard of any other woman with the name of “wallace”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:19:06am

huzzah!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:19:56am

re: #302 makeitstop

This is sounding like the great audio sampling wars.

Hey Neil Young-care to show us your last hearing test?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:20:30am

re: #293 blueraven

In reality, there is a lot of truth to the notion that US invasion of Iraq fueled ISIS.

I have no doubt.

I’m really tired of us mucking up the ME. It started almost a century ago and we just can’t seem to let it go.

Oil —yes, I know.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:21:06am

re: #397 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

I’ve never heard of any other woman with the name of “wallace”

Edward wouldn’t be the first Brit to emerge from a Public School education with some odd proclivities.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:21:45am

re: #400 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

I have no doubt.

I’m really tired of us mucking up the ME. It started almost a century ago and we just can’t seem to let it go.

Oil —yes, I know.

To be perfectly fair, we seem to have a penchant for mucking up everything, and the ME is also perfectly capable of mucking itself up just fine without us.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:22:00am

US Surgeon General launches campaign with National Call to Action on Walking

I liked Joycelynn Elders suggestion better.

:)

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:23:11am

re: #402 thedopefishlives

To be perfectly fair, we seem to have a penchant for mucking up everything, and the ME is also perfectly capable of mucking itself up just fine without us.

And did the ME bother us so much before oil?

It’s a vipers nest to be sure. And the West is one of the vipers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:23:27am
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:25:35am

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

Does this jet ski make me look horny?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:25:52am

re: #321 Jenner7

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Probably just a panel of men explaining lady parts.

Yeah, I’m not going to ruin another week by turning on CSPAN.

I can watch it on youtube later.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:26:18am

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I thought they were all turned into the foam and suds of waves … .

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:26:39am

re: #406 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Does this jet ski make me look horny?

ugh! that was baaaaad.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:27:18am

re: #334 HappyWarrior

I am not so sure myself. I know in Catholicism, you repent to a priest and he tells you to do something like a certain amount of prayers and that absolves you but I don’t know Kim’s brand of Protestantism handles this. In fact, I don’t even know what her specific denomination is.

EXCEPT ABORTION —it seems, sort of.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:28:12am

re: #406 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Does this jet ski make me look horny?

*WHACK!*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:28:27am

re: #334 HappyWarrior

I am not so sure myself. I know in Catholicism, you repent to a priest and he tells you to do something like a certain amount of prayers and that absolves you but I don’t know Kim’s brand of Protestantism handles this. In fact, I don’t even know what her specific denomination is.

Kim is Apostolic Christian — one of the Pentecostal churches.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:29:06am

re: #409 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

ugh! that was baaaaad.

I blame my nautical upbringing.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:29:27am

Geez. I passed 18,000 comments earlier this morning and didn’t even notice. Where’s the celebratory cake? I demand cake.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:33:03am

re: #414 thedopefishlives

Geez. I passed 18,000 comments earlier this morning and didn’t even notice. Where’s the celebratory cake? I demand cake.

With or without a gay couple atop it?

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:34:08am

re: #357 Backwoods_Sleuth

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ENOUGH WITH THE GOTCHA QUESTIONS MEGYN!!11!!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:34:14am

You may have heard me praise Plantronics Technology. Not only has it been to the moon and back, two of their bluetooth headsets survived my Washer and Dryer.

Well, being left on a gravel driveway for a week was a challenge. The battery charged, but there was no sound.

I sent it to the CEO of Plantronics and just got a very nice phone call from his office person. Not only are they sending me another, the CEO rep sent me a email with instructions for updating the firm ware if this ever happens again and urged me to email her for help if it does.

You know, I’ve been without a bluetooth for my audiobooks for a two weeks now …

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:34:35am

re: #414 thedopefishlives

Geez. I passed 18,000 comments earlier this morning and didn’t even notice. Where’s the celebratory cake? I demand cake.

Baba will send you a pie (pic) maybe, if you are good.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:36:43am

re: #352 thedopefishlives

Ayup. There is some growing awareness of the fact that Christians’ general holier-than-thou attitude, rampant hypocrisy, and antiquated hyper-conservative “die on every hill” beliefs are actively driving away people who might otherwise be believers.

Religion is used as justification for feeling powerful and being on the RIGHT!!! dammit!!!

Is it immaturity or illness?

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wrenchwench  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:37:13am

re: #414 thedopefishlives

Geez. I passed 18,000 comments earlier this morning and didn’t even notice. Where’s the celebratory cake? I demand cake.

Here ya go:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:37:19am

heh

“Look, I invited him in to come and meet with Kim Davis. It was our event. We were kind of surprised that he showed up, but you know once he was there we invited him to come and meet with her so I’m not sure what the controversy is. The program of course was already settled and I am happy that he was able to come and show his support for her, even if it was at the last minute.”

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:37:26am

re: #415 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

With or without a gay couple atop it?

I suppose that depends on the religious affiliation of the baker.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:37:55am

Someone haz a sad:

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:38:06am

re: #419 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Religion is used as justification for feeling powerful and being on the RIGHT!!! dammit!!!

Is it immaturity or illness?

Yes.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:38:42am

re: #418 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Baba will send you a pie (pic) maybe, if you are good.

*snort* Look who you’re talking to. I guess I will have to do without pie.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:40:11am
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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:41:59am

The ironic thing about my 18,000th comment is that my 9-year LGFversary is also coming up (this Friday, in fact). 2,000 comments per year is far more than I’ve generated on any other site. Thanks to Charles for an awesome place to hang out and talk to people who aren’t complete assholes.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:43:06am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:43:54am

re: #427 thedopefishlives

The ironic thing about my 18,000th comment is that my 9-year LGFversary is also coming up (this Friday, in fact). 2,000 comments per year is far more than I’ve generated on any other site. Thanks to Charles for an awesome place to hang out and talk to people who aren’t complete assholes.

QFT

I even pay Charles and annual fee for the ability to do this.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:45:52am

re: #425 thedopefishlives

*snort* Look who you’re talking to. I guess I will have to do without pie.

howboutacuppa?

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:46:59am

re: #414 thedopefishlives

Geez. I passed 18,000 comments earlier this morning and didn’t even notice. Where’s the celebratory cake? I demand cake.

The only flavor I had on hand was vanilla pc. ;-)

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:47:16am

re: #423 Lidane

This would be a tragic mistake by Senate GOP, and would call into question why they are even in office in the first place.

It would be great to force a debate and vote especially now since we have 3 weeks till the end of the fiscal year and no appropriations bills have passed.

//

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:47:17am

That sound you hear is the RNC mainlining Tums and whiskey:

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:48:01am

re: #431 De Kolta Chair

The only flavor I had on hand was vanilla pc. ;-)

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Microsoft? It’s like you don’t even KNOW me.///

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:48:11am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:48:48am

re: #427 thedopefishlives

The ironic thing about my 18,000th comment is that my 9-year LGFversary is also coming up (this Friday, in fact). 2,000 comments per year is far more than I’ve generated on any other site. Thanks to Charles for an awesome place to hang out and talk to people who aren’t complete assholes.

I’m at like 18,901 comments and just approaching my fifth year on board here. What a blabbermouth I is.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:49:02am
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De Kolta Chair  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:49:42am

re: #434 thedopefishlives

Microsoft? It’s like you don’t even KNOW me.///

Peace?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:50:10am

re: #421 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Look, I invited him in to come and meet with Kim Davis. It was our event. We were kind of surprised that he showed up

Hurr hurr this event was all about ME this was OUR event and Cruz should just butt out!!!1

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:50:50am

QFT!

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:51:04am

re: #438 De Kolta Chair

Peace?

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And now I’m hungry. Good thing lunch is on its way.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:52:57am

re: #385 WhatEVs

Carson paused, adopted a look that his handlers have no doubt told him communicates “thoughtfulness,” then proceeded to ramble around the question. “But, but,” this is a very basic right.” (As any English professor, including this former one, will tell you, using “this” without a clear referent is a clear indication that you’re speaking before you know exactly what your subject is — literally.)

Oh, so you mean the tea party base will love him all the more then?

/

Also, every pic I see of Carson these days makes it look like he just woke up. Or that he might still be sleeping.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:54:15am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:54:43am

re: #423 Lidane

I hear Senate Republicans may not ever force a vote on the Iran deal, now that it appears Obama has the 41 votes to filibuster.
— Gov. Bobby Jindal

Life was great when your party was in the minority and could filibuster everything, huh, Bobby?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:56:04am

This is circling my house right now.

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:56:42am

re: #445 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is circling my house right now.

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Run!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:57:00am

re: #443 Lidane

Defiant Kentucky clerk’s backers want aides fired over marriage licenses to same-sex couples

But they don’t harbor any ill will towards anyone especially the fornicators and sodomites and anyone who says they’re just haters are lying like the hateful libtards they are!

//

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:57:42am

Helen Mirren winning an Oscar® for “The Queen”

I loved this acceptance speech by Helen Mirren —what she says about the Queen begins at about 1:51

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:58:43am

re: #423 Lidane

Someone haz a sad:

Gov. Bobby Jindal
✔
@BobbyJindal

This would be a tragic mistake by Senate GOP, and would call into question why they are even in office in the first place.

12:37 PM - 9 Sep 2015

I question why the GOP senators are in office all the damn time.

And since the GOP Congress is at a 10% favorability rating these days it seems everyone is questioning why they are in office.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 9:59:18am

*facepalm*

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:01:28am

re: #443 Lidane

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lol they want people fired for promising to uphold the law. Good luck with that one guys. You can’t cry about how Kim Davis is being persecuted for violating her conscience and then try to fire people over promising to do something that is legal and that their boss is refusing to do. What a bunch of failures. Conservatism is such a failed ideology and this is yet another reason why.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:02:16am

re: #450 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Obstructionist assholes just want war. Sigh. They need to be voted out of power for this reason alone.

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allegro  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:03:19am

re: #449 ObserverArt

I question why the GOP senators are in office all the damn time.

And since the GOP Congress is at a 10% favorability rating these days it seems everyone is questioning why they are in office.

My eyeballs about rolled outa my head listening to Jeb! last night on Colbert. He started his spiel with how the gov isn’t working, can’t even get a budget passed, etc. Yeah, why is that, Jeb!? Sheesh.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:04:25am

I have to get on with my day —

I’ll leave you with something beautiful.
P!nk - Glitter In The Air (GRAMMYs on CBS)

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:05:31am

c-span.org

Tea Party protest….

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:07:19am

re: #455 Jenner7

c-span.org

Tea Party protest….

Almost forgot about these people.

Against expanding health care; against the Iran deal, which they no doubt know nothing about.

It’s almost as if these tea partiers are just angry Republicans. /

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:07:23am
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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:08:10am
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iossarian  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:09:37am

re: #457 Charles Johnson

It’s because Americans in general have a belief (in my view incorrect) that it is generally a good idea to let people air all kinds of speech without restriction.

It’s a hard attitude to shift.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:09:46am

re: #456 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Almost forgot about these people.

Against expanding health care; against the Iran deal, which they no doubt know nothing about.

It’s almost as if these tea partiers are just angry Republicans. /

WE’RE AGAINST INCREASED SPENDING.
*Points out how much spending went up under Bush and all Republican presidents.*
STOP BLAMING BUSH LIBTARD.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:10:01am

re: #452 HappyWarrior

Obstructionist assholes just want war. Sigh. They need to be voted out of power for this reason alone.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:10:22am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:10:48am

re: #459 iossarian

It’s because Americans in general have a belief (in my view incorrect) that it is generally a good idea to let people air all kinds of speech without restriction.

It’s a hard attitude to shift.

I found that out the hard way the other day sigh. I mean I consider myself a supporter of free speech but some things cross the fucking line from free speech into something else.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:11:10am

re: #461 Lidane

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Yep sigh.

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:11:19am

Good Lord…this rally against the Iran deal on the National Mall is unbelievable.
Calling Obama a friend of “Islamists” and an enemy of Israel.

Tea party nutjobs, mostly.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:11:25am

re: #445 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is circling my house right now.

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No one can see the ones circling my house, but they’re there, I know they’re there and they’re watching me.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:12:02am

re: #465 blueraven

Good Lord…this rally against the Iran deal on the National Mall is unbelievable.
Calling Obama a friend of “Islamists” and an enemy of Israel.

Tea party nutjobs, mostly.

I am not surprised at all. Fuckers.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:13:06am

re: #445 Backwoods_Sleuth

I live by Camp Williams, so we get these circling our house regularly.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:13:10am

re: #467 Nyet

Woman who ‘discovered boyfriend was female during sex’ is accused of lying

That did seem too weird to be true.

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:13:35am

re: #467 Nyet

Woman who ‘discovered boyfriend was female during sex’ is accused of lying

Haven’t read this article yet, but I have a real hard time with that original story.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:13:43am

re: #470 HappyWarrior

It will get weirder before it gets better./

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:13:51am

re: #469 Jenner7

I live by Camp Williams, so we get these circling our house regularly.

Looks to me like an EC145. Was weird that it was with no identifying markings.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:14:18am

re: #472 Nyet

It will get weirder before it gets better./

Always does.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:15:56am

re: #465 blueraven

Good Lord…this rally against the Iran deal on the National Mall is unbelievable.
Calling Obama a friend of “Islamists” and an enemy of Israel.

Tea party nutjobs, mostly.

Gaffney & Geller are throwing this necktie party, so, totally not surprised.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:16:09am

Gotta test something. Please excuse the duplicates.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:16:16am

re: #475 The Vicious Babushka

Gaffney & Geller are throwing this necktie party, so, totally not surprised.

Of course. Knew they’d be involved somehow.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:16:28am

Yes, list a Democrat, who is under criminal investigation, as support for your opposition.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:16:49am

Must be marijuana harvest season again.
Seems like the guys in the chopper were more interested in checking out the underground house construction.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:17:01am

re: #478 Jenner7

Yes, list a Democrat, who is under criminal investigation, as support for your opposition.

Bwahahha, seriously?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:18:21am

Jade Helm comes to eastern Kentucky….

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Kragar  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:18:53am

re: #461 Lidane

That guy blocked me and I still can’t think of a reason why.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:19:20am
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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:19:28am

re: #479 Backwoods_Sleuth

Must be marijuana harvest season again.
Seems like the guys in the chopper were more interested in checking out the underground house construction.

Underground house or underground mary-juwanna growing factory???

You got their interest!

: )

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:19:37am

Angry old white people yelling at clouds.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:19:58am

Obama committed treason because he sent a cable to Iran and said to negotiate with him and not Bush and that he is Iran’s friend.

Oh brother.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:20:08am

re: #485 blueraven

Angry old white people yelling at clouds.

Ah yes the GOP base in their favorite afternoon activity.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:20:54am

re: #486 Jenner7

Obama committed treason because he sent a cable to Iran and said to negotiate with him and not Bush and that he is Iran’s friend.

Oh brother.

Isn’t that pretty much what Cotton actually did? Outside claiming to be Iran’s friend but the part about telling the Iranians not to listen to our president.

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ObserverArt  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:21:56am

re: #488 HappyWarrior

Isn’t that pretty much what Cotton actually did?

I don’t know…but it sure is what St. Ronald Reagan did to Carter!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:22:21am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:22:42am

re: #489 ObserverArt

I don’t know…but it sure is what St. Ronald Reagan did to Carter!

I was thinking also what Nixon’s people did in Vietnam too.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:23:27am
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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:23:49am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:24:07am

re: #492 Jenner7

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I don’t blame him. You speak Spanish in front of some of these guys and they go ballistic.

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:24:30am

re: #476 Charles Johnson

Gotta test something. Please excuse the duplicates.

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I like that Vine a lot.

My wife saw it, and now wants an owl. No updates to report on what the cats and dog would think about that.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:24:43am

Patriots! //

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:24:53am

Continue sanctions because they work?? So, why do they keep saying Iran is 2 years away from a weapon??

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:25:50am

And the grifter is up.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:27:32am

re: #497 Jenner7

Continue sanctions because they work?? So, why do they keep saying Iran is 2 years away from a weapon??

Iran has been two years away from a weapon for the past twenty years.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:27:54am

re: #497 Jenner7

Continue sanctions because they work?? So, why do they keep saying Iran is 2 years away from a weapon??

Indeed they were saying this in the Bush years. It’s hard to see them as credible when they’re using the same speech from 2005.

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Kragar  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:28:05am
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Eventual Carrion  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:28:17am

re: #465 blueraven

Good Lord…this rally against the Iran deal on the National Mall is unbelievable.
Calling Obama a friend of “Islamists” and an enemy of Israel.

Tea party nutjobs, mostly.

Someone tell them to get a job.

//

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:28:19am

re: #499 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Iran has been two years away from a weapon for the past twenty years.

Uh oh Iran being two years from a weapon can turn 21 next year.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:28:41am

Cue the MRA butthurt:

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:29:00am

re: #501 Kragar

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Yeah no downside at all. Please do quit Louie though I am sure your idiot constituents probably have someone even worse than you in mind to replace you.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:30:02am

re: #504 Lidane

Cue the MRA butthurt:

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Ronda Rousey? Ruh roh!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:30:21am

re: #504 Lidane

Cue the MRA butthurt:

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Yeah I expect them to freak out. I am tired of remakes though. The only movie coming out soon that I am genuinely excited about is Black Mass. Lots of good TV shows though so that’s a small consolation prize but too many Superhero movies and too many remakes.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:30:45am

re: #465 blueraven

Tea party nutjobs, mostly.

“I’m bored. Our anti-Obamacare efforts have bombed. And then Black Lives Matter came along. And then SSM gets approved. Everybody’s forgotten us.”

“Maybe we can get in on this Iran deal thing.”

“What’s our position on Iran?”

“Don’t know. Let’s see what side Obama’s on…..Obama’s for it.”

“Ok, so we’re against it then, right?”

“Right.”

“G-d I love principles.”

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:30:53am

Ted says US abandoned the prisoners in Iran.

BULL. SHIT.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:31:30am

re: #469 Jenner7

I live by Camp Williams, so we get these circling our house regularly.

I live in quite a rural area. And this time of year (harvest season) they fly around pretty regularly. Smart farmers know how to hide their crops pretty well.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:31:38am

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:31:39am

re: #504 Lidane

Cue the MRA butthurt:

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Probably, but seriously what is with all these 80’s remakes casting women in previous men’s roles. Cant they come up with something new for women without recycling old movies?

Meh…

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:31:40am

re: #504 Lidane

Cue the MRA butthurt:

Let’s see what CCJ has to say about this, what’s his Twitter handle again?

/

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Kragar  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:31:46am

re: #507 HappyWarrior

Yeah I expect them to freak out. I am tired of remakes though. The only movie coming out soon that I am genuinely excited about is Black Mass. Lots of good TV shows though so that’s a small consolation prize but too many Superhero movies and too many remakes.

My youngest is reading “The Martian” right now and can’t wait for it to come out in theaters.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:32:07am

re: #509 Jenner7

Ted says US abandoned the prisoners in Iran.

BULL. SHIT.

How can you tell Ted Cruz is lying? His lips are moving. The guy just makes up one lie from the other. He really has no shame at all. A modern day Joseph McCarthy without the alcoholic excuse.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:32:20am

re: #511 Jenner7

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!

Ted’s a bundle of joy.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:32:22am

re: #509 Jenner7

Ted says US abandoned the prisoners in Iran.

BULL. SHIT.

Ted prefers to abandon the troops after they return to CONUS.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:33:10am

re: #514 Kragar

My youngest is reading “The Martian” right now and can’t wait for it to come out in theaters.

Cool. I need to do more reading.

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:33:55am

re: #514 Kragar

My youngest is reading “The Martian” right now and can’t wait for it to come out in theaters.

I legit tried to read The Martian and gave up halfway through the book. Hard science sci-fi is not my cuppa.

The movie looks good though.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:34:09am

If anyone is into Apple, their live event is going on. The live updates at The Verge are hysterical.

live.theverge.com

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:34:46am

Speaking of reading, has anyone read The Devil in the White City? I just checked it out of the library because Scorsese is adapting it. Sounds interesting.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:34:57am

re: #511 Jenner7

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!

Scientists look to re-animate ancient, giant ‘Frankenvirus’ found in Siberia

It’s alive! Or that’s what scientists might say when they reanimate the so-called “frankenvirus,” a 30,000-year-old giant virus that was discovered in Siberia. The French researchers behind the find - published this week in PNAS, the journal from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences - warn that climate change could reawaken dangerous microscopic pathogens, reports Agence France-Presse.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:36:27am

re: #521 Lidane

I have. Highly recommended; real life murder mystery combined with a interesting history of the Chicago World’s Fair.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:36:30am

re: #521 Lidane

Speaking of reading, has anyone read The Devil in the White City? I just checked it out of the library because Scorsese is adapting it. Sounds interesting.

Nope but I heard it’s great. I read another work- Garden of the Beasts by the same author and thought it also deserves a movie adaption. That makes me excited though since I am familiar with the murder case that TDinWC is about and I love Scorsese.

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:37:53am

Trump!

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:38:11am

Trump is on the scene at the Iran deal protest:

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:38:39am

re: #526 jaunte

Trump is on the scene at the Iran deal protest:

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Your GOP frontrunner ladies and gents.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:38:41am

re: #521 Lidane

I, too, have read it. Highly recommended. The author does an excellent job of evoking the tone of the times.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:38:48am

re: #526 jaunte

Trump is on the scene at the Iran deal protest:

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Those damned gotcha questions…

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:38:58am

Oh my god. Idiots.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:40:38am

oh, lordie…

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:40:43am

re: #522 Bubblehead II

Scientists look to re-animate ancient, giant ‘Frankenvirus’ found in Siberia

It’s alive! Or that’s what scientists might say when they reanimate the so-called “frankenvirus,” a 30,000-year-old giant virus that was discovered in Siberia. The French researchers behind the find - published this week in PNAS, the journal from the U.S. National Academy of Sciences - warn that climate change could reawaken dangerous microscopic pathogens, reports Agence France-Presse.

Not with a bang…

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:41:22am

OMG…Trump took to the stage with R.E.M.’s - It’s The End Of The World playing.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:41:25am

Those prisoners would be back before he took office because they know better. lololol

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:42:08am

re: #514 Kragar

My youngest is reading “The Martian” right now and can’t wait for it to come out in theaters.

I heard that they are doing a series based on Phillip K Dick’s classic “Man in the High Castle”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:42:14am

re: #533 blueraven

OMG…Trump took to the stage with R.E.M.’s - It’s The End Of The World playing.

Look ma lawsuits.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:42:32am

re: #536 HappyWarrior

Look ma lawsuits.

My thoughts exactly.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:42:47am

re: #534 Jenner7

Those prisoners would be back before he took office because they know better. lololol

And I bet the crowd ate that shit for breakfast.

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:43:08am

Trump making his same stump speech.

Our leaders are stupid.
We will win so much.

blah, blah, blah

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:43:22am

re: #511 Jenner7

WE ARE ALL GOING TO DIE!!

Spoiler tag, please

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:43:31am

re: #537 thedopefishlives

My thoughts exactly.

You hear about Survivor being pissed that they used Eye of the Tiger when Kim the Martyr got out yesterday? I used to think that musicians were being whiny about this sort of thing but I totally get it now.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:43:40am

re: #531 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, lordie…

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“Apple Pencil, a special digital stylus exclusively for iPad Pro.”

Well, isn’t that just the most special thing ever? I’m not buying one because it doesn’t match my digital escargot forks.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:43:50am

re: #541 HappyWarrior

You hear about Survivor being pissed that they used Eye of the Tiger when Kim the Martyr got out yesterday? I used to think that musicians were being whiny about this sort of thing but I totally get it now.

I think I saw a vague allusion to this fact earlier today.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:44:33am

re: #539 blueraven

Trump making his same stump speech.

Our leaders are stupid.
We will win so much.

blah, blah, blah

What’s really sad is that message works with the GOP base. They really think that this guy would actually be able to set foreign policy by acting like a complete asshole and not have us face any negative repercussions.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:45:45am

re: #544 HappyWarrior

What’s really sad is that message works with the GOP base. They really think that this guy would actually be able to set foreign policy by acting like a complete asshole and not have us face any negative repercussions.

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:45:55am

Oh Mark Levin. Must turn sound off. His voice, I just cant..

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:46:23am

My feed went out, did he really say this?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:46:51am

re: #545 jaunte

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arrows pointing at his boobs, I kinda wish Obama would ban them…

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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:46:51am

re: #547 Jenner7

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My feed went out, did he really say this?

Yes, he really did.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:12am

re: #547 Jenner7

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My feed went out, did he really say this?

OFFS.

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danarchy  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:18am

re: #535 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I heard that they are doing a series based on Phillip K Dick’s classic “Man in the High Castle”

Yeah, it is an Amazon Prime series. The Pilot is available now, and the season is officially being released on november 20th. The pilot was pretty good, looking forward to it.

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Jenner7  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:28am

re: #549 blueraven

Oh wow. I can’t even….

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Lidane  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:37am

re: #547 Jenner7

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:40am

re: #548 Backwoods_Sleuth

arrows pointing at his boobs, I kinda wish Obama would ban them…

ban moobs. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:41am
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allegro  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:56am

re: #495 makeitstop

I like that Vine a lot.

My wife saw it, and now wants an owl. No updates to report on what the cats and dog would think about that.

Tell her that she will need to provide live or fresh kill rodents for it to eat. That will likely change her mind.

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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:47:57am

re: #537 thedopefishlives

My thoughts exactly.

I doubt Mr. Stipe would be the least bit cool with their use of his song. C&D letter in 3…2…1…

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thedopefishlives  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:48:02am

re: #554 HappyWarrior

ban moobs. //

Obamacare addendum: Free breast reduction surgery for males.///

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:49:03am

re: #551 danarchy

Yeah, it is an Amazon Prime series. The Pilot is available now, and the season is officially being released on november 20th. The pilot was pretty good, looking forward to it.

Oh mini series? Cool. I’m going to check it out. I wonder though- Should I read the book first or after. I really liked Larson’s book about the first American ambassador to Nazi Germany. I think he’s also got a new one about the Luistiana. He’s a good historian. He like any good historian understands he’s telling stories about people and not just raw figures and statistics.

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jaunte  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:49:44am
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Great White Snark  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:50:18am

re: #302 makeitstop

Wasn’t there a debate about the limits of megapixels at one time?

I mean, how much detail is enough - and how much detail can the human eye even process?

Well we know the eye can see far more detail than any medium known so far. More than 70mm film for instance. Which IIRC is said to be 50 or 80 megapixel equivalent. Look at how much better a 4k video looks than 1080.

Once again everything else will play catch up. My first digital was 3 megapixels I think. Now I’m at 23 megapixels per snap. So much had to be upgraded. Memory cards, hard drives , 4 or 6 processors instead of 2, 64 bit instead of 32.

If someone gave me that camera it would cost hundreds just to use it by way of storage.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:50:25am

re: #531 Backwoods_Sleuth

People are snarking over this Apple event but me, I am salivating. I want. Big time. I have no use for the watch, but this other stuff is kinda freaking awesome.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:50:33am
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makeitstop  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:50:45am

re: #556 allegro

Tell her that she will need to provide live or fresh kill rodents for it to eat. That will likely change her mind.

That would definitely do it. My wife gets upset when any of our animals chews on a bug.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:50:53am

re: #533 blueraven

OMG…Trump took to the stage with R.E.M.’s - It’s The End Of The World playing.

Well, if he manages to get elected, I would say closer to the truth. :-)

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HappyWarrior  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:51:14am

re: #563 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If by we you mean your party and by stupid people you mean the people who made you the front runner, Donald, I agree 110%.

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Joe Bacon  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:53:02am

re: #414 thedopefishlives

Geez. I passed 18,000 comments earlier this morning and didn’t even notice. Where’s the celebratory cake? I demand cake.

Cake…or Death?????

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Charles Johnson  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:53:43am
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danarchy  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:55:22am

re: #562 WhatEVs

People are snarking over this Apple event but me, I am salivating. I want. Big time. I have no use for the watch, but this other stuff is kinda freaking awesome.

Eh, it is all just more incremental stuff. A lot of it is stuff they are playing catch up on. Granted you could say they were just waiting until the technologies were mature, but then Apple has long been more about good implementation than innovation. I mean they are just implementing side by side multitasking really? It is 2015 right?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:55:23am
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blueraven  Sep 9, 2015 • 10:57:55am

re: #565 WhatEVs

Well, if he manages to get elected, I would say closer to the truth. :-)

Of course for their purpose the end of the world is about the Iran deal.

These people are not that much different than the hardliners in Iran.

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WhatEVs  Sep 9, 2015 • 11:01:31am

re: #569 danarchy

Eh, it is all just more incremental stuff. A lot of it is stuff they are playing catch up on. Granted you could say they were just waiting until the technologies were mature, but then Apple has long been more about good implementation than innovation. I mean they are just implementing side by side multitasking really? It is 2015 right?

It is 2015…but who is doing this?

I have been considering a Surface for work stuff because my beloved iPad does not have sufficient input that I need. I need precision that a mouse gives me that is lacking in Apple. All my non-work stuff is Apple (from long time iTunes and apps) so going to a new infrastructure would mean multiple devices. I would love to replace my laptop, and thus far, there is nothing to do that.

I don’t know if this iPad Pro would do it but I am really liking what I am seeing thus far.

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Nyet  Sep 9, 2015 • 11:01:54am

re: #501 Kragar

OK, the rest of the Dems have no excuse now.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 9, 2015 • 11:12:06am

re: #547 Jenner7

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My feed went out, did he really say this?

They sell us the president
the same way
they sell us our cloths and our cars
they sell us everything from youth to religion
the same time they sell us our wars
- Live in the Balance Jackson Browne

Note: Saw Jackson last night in Cleveland. Great show. Even the freighter horn got applause (stage is right on the waterway). The impossibly prolonged Sam Laud freighter (634 ‘) navigated a bend within the Cuyahoga River (behind the diploma), tooting its horn as a result of the band dusted off “These days”. I happened to be filming with my camera as it was going along behind the stage and got the horn blow reaction. Haven’t downloaded it off my camera yet.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 9, 2015 • 2:51:39pm

re: #417 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Too bad Plantronics doesn’t have anything that I could find for bone conduction. Right now I’m fighting a nasty bout of Meniere’s (My second go round) And I’m afriad I may be stuck having to resort to bone conduction in order to listen to music again-especially if I keep having more vertigo attacks. I was actually surprised to see Ortofon make a bone transducer, but I’d have to do a wire transfer into their Danish bank to secure one of them for testing.


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