Senior Editor for the Federalist Mollie Hemingway Says Arrest of Clock-Building 9th Grader “Looks Orchestrated”

And now, the digital clock truthers
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Mollie Hemingway is Senior Editor for conservative journal The Federalist, and this was her reaction to the arrest of 9th grader Ahmed Mohamed for bringing a self-built digital clock to school.

When people started saying “WTF?!” Hemingway deleted her tweets and explained that she was just, you know, asking questions like any good reporter would do.

It’s comforting in a way that conservatives can always be counted on to go immediately for the conspiracy theory angle, whenever a story pops up that makes them look like idiots.

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291 comments
1
Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:06:27pm

Good freaking grief.

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stpaulbear  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:06:27pm

..because the teachers, cops and mayor of Irving, TX can’t possibly be so fucking stupid on their own.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:07:03pm

My state, y’all.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:07:41pm

“looks orchestrated” in what way?

As in the Irving PD is collaborating with the radical Muslim something to….

Or as in a super secret ISIS person wanted to scare his school…..

Help me out here, Michelle….

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:08:01pm

Wingnut starts spewing conspiracy theories?

Bane of course

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:08:11pm

That is stupid even for a wingnut. Expressing concern about the clock because a Clock Spider might be behind it would have been more rational.

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stpaulbear  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:08:16pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Good freaking grief.

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Fuck CNN.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:08:31pm

re: #5 Dr Lizardo

Wingnut starts spewing conspiracy theories

SO WAS GETTING CAUGHT PART OF YOUR PLAN???????

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:08:40pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Good freaking grief.

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Seriously CNN just merge with Fox and be done with it already.

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gwangung  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:09:54pm

Thinking about it, it’s clear that this WAS an orchestrated bullying/intimidation—by local authorities. His father debated an extremist who wanted to burn Korans. The school did not lock down the school. The school did not evacuate the students. The police did not bring out bomb detectors or sniffers. The police KNEW the family and who they brought in.

This was all meant at intimidation and revenge on the father.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:10:16pm

But seriously, folks, remember, TODAY IS CLOWN CAR DEBATE DAY!!!!

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:11:05pm

re: #4 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Orchestrated: a wingnut mayor cynically takes advantage of her ignorant constituents’ fear of “creeping Sharia” to put on a show and make a name for herself, and it later blows up in her face when her police force and the local teachers take it seriously enough to think a 9th grader with a clock is a terrorist.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:11:17pm

re: #10 gwangung

Thinking about it, it’s clear that this WAS an orchestrated bullying/intimidation—by local authorities. His father debated an extremist who wanted to burn Korans. The school did not lock down the school. The school did not evacuate the students. The police did not bring out bomb detectors or sniffers.

This was all meant at intimidation and revenge on the father.

Hadn’t heard that about his father. Sheesh. If I were them, I’d honestly consider moving but that’s easy for me to say from here.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:12:25pm

I’m clueless about Twitter, so does the last tweet in the OP indicate that Mollie Hemingway is responding somehow to someone whose screen name is ‘SirThundertwat’?

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:13:08pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Two things wrong here: he was never accused of making a bomb; and the accusation of making a hoax bomb was false, which has to be pointed out.

If I know this, why doesn’t CNN?

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:13:22pm

re: #14 EPR-radar

Yes, he asked:

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piratedan  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:13:32pm

re: #10 gwangung

my understanding is that they’ll (Ahmed’s family) be meeting with lawyers today. I really like how the geek world has embraced him and taken up his cause. Nothing wrong with giving those Texs folks that looked to intimidate a Texas teen a little unanticipated blowback imho.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:14:33pm

re: #4 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

“looks orchestrated” in what way?

As in the Irving PD is collaborating with the radical Muslim something to….

Or as in a super secret ISIS person wanted to scare his school…..

Help me out here, Michelle….

In…what….way….

Ferris Bueller - English Teacher

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:14:35pm

re: #15 Nyet

Two things wrong here: he was never accused of making a bomb; and the accusation of making a hoax bomb was false, which has to be pointed out.

If I know this, why doesn’t CNN?

Because you’re not competing with Fox for ratings from scared old people and you have a moral compass.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:14:43pm

This account is real, by the way. @AnilDash vouched for it.

@IStandWithAhmed

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stpaulbear  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:14:58pm

re: #11 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

But seriously, folks, remember, TODAY IS CLOWN CAR DEBATE DAY!!!!

And CNN is moderating this debate. Nice to know in advance where they stand on the ‘clock’ issue. Tonight’s debate is going to be such a shit show.

Excuse my language today. I’m pretty mad today.

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:15:11pm

re: #17 piratedan

I’d like the school and the police to pay dearly for this - financially - but I doubt this will happen…

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:15:12pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:15:13pm

Lizard!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:15:37pm

re: #17 piratedan

my understanding is that they’ll (Ahmed’s family) be meeting with lawyers today. I really like how the geek world has embraced him and taken up his cause. Nothing wrong with giving those Texs folks that looked to intimidate a Texas teen a little unanticipated blowback imho.

Yeah I love the outpouring of support he’s gotten. This story would have made me really cynical about humanity but it’s also showing me the best. The kid is obviously a brilliant kid.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:15:51pm
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lawhawk  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:16:08pm

re: #15 Nyet

Two things wrong here: he was never accused of making a bomb; and the accusation of making a hoax bomb was false, which has to be pointed out.

If I know this, why doesn’t CNN?

Because CNN knows the value of words - saying clock and not bomb reduces clickbait by X percent.

Yet, there’s also the fact that the word smiths at the media outlets have forgotten their dictionaries. Words have meanings.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:16:12pm

re: #23 jaunte

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I had to laugh at this being on the spectrum myself.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:17:44pm

re: #17 piratedan

my understanding is that they’ll (Ahmed’s family) be meeting with lawyers today. I really like how the geek world has embraced him and taken up his cause. Nothing wrong with giving those Texs folks that looked to intimidate a Texas teen a little unanticipated blowback imho.

Many powerful people in the tech world have likely been targeted as kids by the kind of thuggish stupidity the authorities displayed in this case.

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:17:52pm

re: #24 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wait 20 seconds more and it will turn out that those yellow leaves are another lizard and you’re basically watching lizard erotica. /

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:18:25pm

re: #1 Charles Johnson

Good freaking grief.

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Oh for fuck’s sake. CNN you suck.

Even Geller called it a bomb hoax.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:18:39pm

re: #29 EPR-radar

Many powerful people in the tech world have likely been targeted as kids by the kind of thuggish stupidity the authorities displayed in this case.

Nerds looking out for other nerds. And I mean that term lovingly even if I am a different kind of nerd or some may even say not truly a nerd but more of a geek.

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:19:51pm

re: #3 jaunte

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My state, y’all.

I know nuttiness is all over this land. But damn…it has got to be tough living with the preponderance of RWNJs in Texas.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:20:55pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:21:43pm
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Egregious Philbin  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:21:51pm

Seriously….its Oaf-a-Palooza….

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:22:08pm

re: #10 gwangung

Thinking about it, it’s clear that this WAS an orchestrated bullying/intimidation—by local authorities. His father debated an extremist who wanted to burn Korans. The school did not lock down the school. The school did not evacuate the students. The police did not bring out bomb detectors or sniffers. The police KNEW the family and who they brought in.

This was all meant at intimidation and revenge on the father.

And wasn’t there a quote from a cop at the school saying something like “that’s who I figured it was?”

If anything sounds orchestrated it is the cops and school doing some paying back or painting.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:22:11pm

re: #33 ObserverArt

Things are marginally better in Austin and Houston, but not by a lot.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:22:23pm

That’s interesting that his father debated Terry Jones though. I assume Ahmed’s father is an intellectual of some kind because of that and these kind of smarts run in families.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:23:13pm

Where in Texas is this? I’ve seen the town called Irvine but also Irving. Isn’t Irving the Dallas suburb where the Cowboys played or play?

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:23:56pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

from Vox:

His father, Mohamed ElHassan Mohamed, is a fascinating figure in his own right. He’s a Sudanese immigrant who has twice declared himself a presidential candidate in Sudan.

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stpaulbear  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:23:57pm

re: #26 Charles Johnson

..because almost everyone else in the entire world can’t come to the immediate realization that this innocent kid was horribly mistreated.

Why do they all think this??

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:24:12pm

re: #15 Nyet

Two things wrong here: he was never accused of making a bomb; and the accusation of making a hoax bomb was false, which has to be pointed out.

If I know this, why doesn’t CNN?

Oh they know it too…but they had to do the nice big titillating red meat headline to scare up some views.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:24:29pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

It’s up between Dallas and Ft. Worth.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:24:44pm

re: #41 Nyet

from Vox:

Ah okay. Interesting stuff.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:25:06pm

re: #44 jaunte

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It’s up between Dallas and Ft. Worth.

Oh okay, so it is the same Irving I was thinking of, thanks.

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:25:40pm

re: #45 HappyWarrior

Great article about the father, read it:

northdallasgazette.com

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:25:46pm

re: #21 stpaulbear

And CNN is moderating this debate. Nice to know in advance where they stand on the ‘clock’ issue. Tonight’s debate is going to be such a shit show.

Excuse my language today. I’m pretty mad today.

I’m turning into a bit of a drunken sailor these days too.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:25:56pm

This is actually the 94th largest city in the US.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:25:56pm
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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:26:02pm
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:26:45pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

That would be “The most trusted name in news,” would it not?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:27:45pm

re: #47 Nyet

Great article about the father, read it:

northdallasgazette.com

Thanks. He sounds like a great role model for his son.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:28:18pm
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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:28:21pm

re: #51 jaunte

Anti-Sharia crusader in Texas makes as much sense as an anti-Crusader crusader in Mecca.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:28:25pm

re: #51 jaunte

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It figures.

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Lidane  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:28:41pm

re: #38 jaunte

Things are marginally better in Austin and Houston, but not by a lot.

I always love when people act like Austin is a hippie paradise with drum circles on every corner. They have NO idea. I swear, every cabbie and convenience store clerk in this town listens to Alex Jones and there are more than a few Republican venture capitalists in this town.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:29:00pm

Dallas Morning News:
“Van Duyne could spend her time more productively by reaching out the local Muslim community instead of catering to tea party voters who feed on fear about Islam and relish shots at the press.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:29:34pm

re: #58 jaunte

Dallas Morning News:
“Van Duyne could spend her time more productively by reaching out the local Muslim community instead of catering to tea party voters who feed on fear about Islam and relish shots at the press.”

She could but she won’t because she’s a bigot.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:30:09pm

No wiki article on the mayor though. I assume she rode the TP wave of idiocy to power though and considers herself a good “Christian.”

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:30:22pm

She has that hyper-alert reptilian predator look.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:30:56pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:30:58pm

re: #61 jaunte

She has that hyper-alert reptilian predator look.

She looks like a FNC bot.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:31:11pm

re: #58 jaunte

Dallas Morning News:
“Van Duyne could spend her time more productively by reaching out the local Muslim community instead of catering to tea party voters who feed on fear about Islam and relish shots at the press.”

Yeah, but that won’t get her a shot at that sweet, sweet wingnut gravy train….and who knows? She might become a regular on FNC and maybe even a book deal!

*puke*

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:31:25pm

re: #61 jaunte

She has that hyper-alert reptilian predator look.

She looks like Ann Coulter.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:32:33pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:32:34pm
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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:32:49pm

She kept Irving safe from Sharia!

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TedStriker  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:33:19pm

re: #10 gwangung

Thinking about it, it’s clear that this WAS an orchestrated bullying/intimidation—by local authorities. His father debated an extremist who wanted to burn Korans. The school did not lock down the school. The school did not evacuate the students. The police did not bring out bomb detectors or sniffers. The police KNEW the family and who they brought in.

This was all meant at intimidation and revenge on the father.

re: #37 ObserverArt

And wasn’t there a quote from a cop at the school saying something like “that’s who I figured it was?”

If anything sounds orchestrated it is the cops and school doing some paying back or painting.

The quote by the cop, in the context of his father and his history with that extremist and the police, sure makes it seem like what happened to Ahmed was no accident or overreaction.

It’s a bunch of redneck, power-tripping bullshit.

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Bird in the Paw  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:33:55pm

re: #65 EPR-radar

She looks like Ann Coulter.

Thanks, two Coulters==nightmares for a week

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:34:00pm

re: #67 Backwoods_Sleuth

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LOLOLOLOL

eejit.

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TedStriker  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:34:29pm

re: #40 HappyWarrior

Where in Texas is this? I’ve seen the town called Irvine but also Irving. Isn’t Irving the Dallas suburb where the Cowboys played or play?

It is indeed where Texas Stadium is; Irving is a major suburb of Dallas.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:34:38pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

He must have a huge pocket to carry his telephone.

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:34:57pm

re: #66 goddamnedfrank

I know for a fact that you’re not a Muslim, so how come you know so much about bombs? //

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Great White Snark  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:35:03pm

re: #10 gwangung

Thinking about it, it’s clear that this WAS an orchestrated bullying/intimidation—by local authorities. His father debated an extremist who wanted to burn Korans. The school did not lock down the school. The school did not evacuate the students. The police did not bring out bomb detectors or sniffers. The police KNEW the family and who they brought in.

This was all meant at intimidation and revenge on the father.

THIS

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gocart mozart  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:35:43pm

re: #51 jaunte

The article about the anti-sharia crusading mayor of Irving.

dallasnews.com

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Great White Snark  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:37:31pm
Chief Larry Boyd said that Ahmed should have been “forthcoming” by going beyond the description that what he made was a clock. But Boyd said that authorities determined that the teenager did not intend to alarm anyone and the device, which the chief called “a homemade experiment,” was innocuous.

Good thing it was not an alarm clock!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:37:42pm

re: #76 gocart mozart

The article about the anti-sharia crusading mayor of Irving.

dallasnews.com

My god she’s a demagogue nutjob.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:37:51pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:37:59pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:38:13pm

re: #68 jaunte

She kept Irving safe from Sharia!

Scott Walker, Jeb! may want to sound her out about the VP nod….
/

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:38:43pm

Anyone else remember back in 2007 when these were thought to be bombs?

The Greatest Generation (Their words, not mine), whom they profess to revere, would mock endlessly the mindless cowardice of today’s American Islamophobes.

ETA: Damn, missed it by that much.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:38:51pm

Well here we go. The mayor and police of Irving have just cost the taxpayers a big settlement.

Irving, Texas police violated Ahmed Mohamed’s civil rights by denying his repeated requests to speak with his parents during his detention for a purported bomb that was in fact a clock.

Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School, insists he repeatedly asked officers to call his parents while being interrogated. Mohamed was questioned at the school, then taken in handcuffs to a juvenile detention center, where he was fingerprinted and interrogated without his parents present, according to police and Mohamed.

Texas Family Code is clear this was not supposed to happen.

thedailybeast.com

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:38:53pm

I mean this isn’t some small town. Irving is a big city. Not Dallas big but big enough.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:39:06pm

re: #76 gocart mozart

The article about the anti-sharia crusading mayor of Irving.

dallasnews.com

I guess Sharia law is a real problem in Texas, especially considering the distraction provided by Jade Helm 15.

/

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:39:38pm

Another note for ‘moderate’ Republicans:

Incidents like this are what happens when bigotry and xenophobia are allowed to spread like kudzu throughout the party base. This time nobody was killed, but what about the next time?

Republicans that are still capable of reason (if any are left) have a duty to try to clean up their party before it is too late.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:39:52pm

re: #83 jaunte

Well here we go. The mayor and police of Irving have just cost the taxpayers a big settlement.
Irving, Texas police violated Ahmed Mohamed’s civil rights by denying his repeated requests to speak with his parents during his detention for a purported bomb that was in fact a clock.

Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School, insists he repeatedly asked officers to call his parents while being interrogated. Mohamed was questioned at the school, then taken in handcuffs to a juvenile detention center, where he was fingerprinted and interrogated without his parents present, according to police and Mohamed.

Texas Family Code is clear this was not supposed to happen.
thedailybeast.com

So the bastards violated his due process rights too. Agh. Sue the bastards.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:40:01pm

Irving police aren’t even following Texas law.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:40:09pm

re: #77 Great White Snark

Good thing it was not an alarm clock!

But it beeped! That’s when Ahmed got in trouble in the English teacher.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:41:05pm

re: #86 EPR-radar

Another note for ‘moderate’ Republicans:

Incidents like this are what happens when bigotry and xenophobia are allowed to spread like kudzu throughout the party base. This time nobody was killed, but what about the next time?

Republicans that are still capable of reason (if any are left) have a duty to try to clean up their party before it is too late.

The so called moderates are the problem if you ask me. They lie to themselves and everyone else by trying to say “Both sides are just as bad” or “I may disagree with how hateful my party’s gotten but I am still going to support them.”

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TedStriker  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:41:36pm

re: #83 jaunte

Well here we go. The mayor and police of Irving have just cost the taxpayers a big settlement.
Irving, Texas police violated Ahmed Mohamed’s civil rights by denying his repeated requests to speak with his parents during his detention for a purported bomb that was in fact a clock.

Mohamed, a freshman at MacArthur High School, insists he repeatedly asked officers to call his parents while being interrogated. Mohamed was questioned at the school, then taken in handcuffs to a juvenile detention center, where he was fingerprinted and interrogated without his parents present, according to police and Mohamed.

Texas Family Code is clear this was not supposed to happen.
thedailybeast.com

re: #87 HappyWarrior

So the bastards violated his due process rights too. Agh. Sue the bastards.

I’m sure there are some geek lawyers lining up to go at this pro bono.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:42:21pm

re: #91 TedStriker

I’m sure there are some geek lawyers lining up to go at this pro bono.

These are exactly the kind of cases I want to do paralegal work on.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:42:28pm

re: #90 HappyWarrior

The so called moderates are the problem if you ask me. They lie to themselves and everyone else by trying to say “Both sides are just as bad” or “I may disagree with how hateful my party’s gotten but I am still going to support them.”

Precisely. To oversimplify a bit, wingnuts can consider the insanity defense, but that is not available for their ‘moderate’ enablers.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:42:32pm

re: #82 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Anyone else remember back in 2007 when these were thought to be bombs?
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The Greatest Generation (Their words, not mine), whom they profess to revere, would mock endlessly the mindless cowardice of today’s American Islamophobes.

HAHAHAHA I beat you by 44 seconds. IN YOUR FACE!

/sorry, GOP debate traffic has put me in total dick mode.

I SAID IN YOUR FACE!!!

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:42:37pm

re: #57 Lidane

I always love when people act like Austin is a hippie paradise with drum circles on every corner. They have NO idea. I swear, every cabbie and convenience store clerk in this town listens to Alex Jones and there are more than a few Republican venture capitalists in this town.

Sounds similar to Columbus and it’s relationship with Ohio State University and being the state capital. Although, Columbus is overall about 50/50 conservative/liberal, there are plenty big mouth RWNJs running around. One reason why it is always hard to call this state in an election. It can go either way.

And we have Kasich.

Okay back to work…see you all later for the big show. Now I am hating it is on CNN.
Which reminds me, gotta get the channel guide out. I never watch CNN and don’t even know the channel number.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:43:50pm

re: #95 ObserverArt

Sounds similar to Columbus and it’s relationship with Ohio State University and being the state capital. Although, Columbus is overall about 50/50 conservative/liberal, there are plenty big mouth RWNJs running around. One reason why it is always hard to call this state in an election. It can go either way.

And we have Kasich.

Okay back to work…see you all later for the big show. Now I am hating it is on CNN.
Which reminds me, gotta get the channel guide out. I never watch CNN and don’t even know the channel number.

I guess NOVA is similiar. We are liberal I guess compared to the rest of the state but really the only reason why I think NOVA is more liberal and thus Democratic than the rest of VA is that we’re much more diverse.

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:44:13pm

re: #94 goddamnedfrank

Stop being a dick, or be clocked!

/

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:44:54pm

re: #93 EPR-radar

Precisely. To oversimplify a bit, wingnuts can consider the insanity defense, but that is not available for their ‘moderate’ enablers.

Right. The moderates know better which is why I think I am more likely to get frustrated with a so called moderate Republican than wingnut.A wingnut can’t be resonated with. The moderate knows the problem but keeps on enabling it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:45:15pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:45:30pm

re: #83 jaunte

Perhaps the cops will try to get out of this by denying that Ahmed made any requests for his parents to be present.

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:46:04pm

re: #100 EPR-radar

“It’s our word against his!”

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wrenchwench  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:46:33pm

re: #100 EPR-radar

Perhaps the cops will try to get out of this by denying that Ahmed made any requests for his parents to be present.

It’s all on tape, or they’re in worse trouble.

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#CampaignZero  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:46:43pm

re: #101 jaunte

“It’s our word against his!”

Trust the men in blue!

hahahahaha

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:46:43pm

re: #100 EPR-radar

Perhaps the cops will try to get out of this by denying that Ahmed made any requests for his parents to be present.

Which makes the mayor’s idiotic claims that the police acted properly al the more shit.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:46:44pm

Madera Road is completely clogged up with d-bags right now trying to get to the debate. Last I checked they were backed up at least a mile from the Library.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:46:51pm

re: #101 jaunte

“It’s our word against his!”

The sick part is that flat denial might actually work.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:47:24pm
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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:48:24pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

Imagine if it were a white fundie Christian boy.
[Like that would ever happen to him.]

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:48:35pm

re: #105 goddamnedfrank

“almost at least”

Whatever.

Fuck everything man.

Goddamned vampire infestation.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:48:53pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

#KimDavis files another motion at 6th Circuit appeals court asking to block judge’s order on issuing licenses. So far, batting 0.000. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics

Orly Taitz says Kim Davis files too many frivolous lawsuits.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:49:21pm

re: #105 goddamnedfrank

Madera Road is completely clogged up with d-bags right now trying to get to the debate. Last I checked they were backed up almost at least a mile from the Library.

Hey! I think it’s pretty cool that so many of them can find it by scent alone.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:49:26pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

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They are *removes shades* like clockwork, Charles

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jaunte  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:49:36pm

Dangerous (stealthed) terror suspect.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:50:25pm

re: #105 goddamnedfrank

Madera Road is completely clogged up with d-bags right now trying to get to the debate. Last I checked they were backed up almost at least a mile from the Library.

What an opportunity for a bit of divine smiting. It doesn’t even have to be fatal. Massive nose boils for all would more than suffice.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:51:11pm

CNN deleted that tweet.

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:51:15pm

re: #107 Charles Johnson

Charles Johnson @Green_Footballs

As soon as I heard about Ahmed Mohamed, I knew the right would fly into Raging Stupid mode. They never disappoint.

4:40 PM - 16 Sep 2015

Like clockwork!

(Couldn’t resist…I’ll see myself out now.)

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:51:17pm

This is worse than that time Zombie Werewolf Reagan got into the fucking aquarium.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:51:38pm

So that’s what the wingnuts are going with, that this is some sort of false flag op, a giant conspiracy involving POTUS, Clinton, a Muslim family, several staff members of an Irving HS, and the Irving PD? Because, yeah, everyone knows that part of the state leans way to the left, correct? *headdesk*

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:51:50pm

re: #117 goddamnedfrank

This is worse than that time Zombie Werewolf Reagan got into the fucking aquarium.

He didn’t try to merge with the piranhas did he?

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ObserverArt  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:51:51pm

re: #116 ObserverArt

Like clockwork!

(Couldn’t resist…I’ll see myself out now.)

Damn…figures…Happy was already on that joke.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:52:49pm

re: #120 ObserverArt

Edit…figures…Happy was already on that joke.

I’ve watched that youtube clip of Caruso’s lame one liners so many times with my brothers that whenever a lame pun opportunity comes up, I cannot resist.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:52:57pm

re: #118 CuriousLurker

So that’s what the wingnuts are going with, that this is some sort of false flag op, a giant conspiracy involving POTUS, Clinton, a Muslim family, several staff members of an Irving HS, and the Irving PD? Because, yeah, everyone knows that part of the state leans way to the left, correct? *headdesk*

[real Dr. Ben Carson]This was a politically correct conspiracy to make war on the police by making them arrest this hoodlum and troublemaker.[/real Dr. Ben Carson]

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:53:18pm

re: #118 CuriousLurker

So that’s what the wingnuts are going with, that this is some sort of false flag op, a giant conspiracy involving POTUS, Clinton, a Muslim family, several staff members of an Irving HS, and the Irving PD? Because, yeah, everyone knows that part of the state leans way to the left, correct? *headdesk*

Why not? Sandy Hook was a false flag to take Alex Jones’ guns. Why not the harassment of a Muslim high schooler.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:53:50pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:53:52pm

re: #122 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

[real Dr. Ben Carson]This was a politically correct conspiracy to make war on the police by making them arrest this hoodlum and troublemaker.[/real Dr. Ben Carson]

Yeah I expect whining about how criticizing conduct in this case is “why political correctness is ruining America.”

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:53:58pm

re: #57 Lidane

I always love when people act like Austin is a hippie paradise with drum circles on every corner. They have NO idea. I swear, every cabbie and convenience store clerk in this town listens to Alex Jones and there are more than a few Republican venture capitalists in this town.

same thing here in the east bay for berkeley, sometimes known as the people’s republic of berkeley - people have actually asked me “doesn’t it have a communist government?” - when in fact it is a prestigious address with many overpriced luxurious properties and even some veritable mansions

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Lidane  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:54:37pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

Didn’t the last motion get denied yesterday?

At some point the 6th is going to have to sanction her lawyers for wasting their time.

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TedStriker  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:54:37pm

re: #112 HappyWarrior

They are *removes shades* like clockwork, Charles

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:54:45pm

re: #86 EPR-radar

Another note for ‘moderate’ Republicans:

Incidents like this are what happens when bigotry and xenophobia are allowed to spread like kudzu throughout the party base. This time nobody was killed, but what about the next time?

Republicans that are still capable of reason (if any are left) have a duty to try to clean up their party before it is too late.

Like I noted downstairs, mass hysteria in the form of Islamophoba is even here in the Czech Republic.

praguepost.com

The panic has also spread online. A hoax appeared on Facebook, claiming that Islamization has reached the Czech Republic.

Referring to the “reliable sources from the Education Ministry,” it said that Czech first graders would have to learn compulsorily Arabic numerals as of this year.

The seemingly innocent joke was widely misunderstood and provoked a stormy reaction. Some Internet users only hours later grasped that Europe has been using Arabic numerals for centuries, Právo writes.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:54:46pm

Did I miss the Oath Keepers’ declaring that they would stand at Ahmed’s side to protect him from religious persecution?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:55:06pm

re: #126 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

same thing here in the east bay for berkeley, sometimes known as the people’s republic of berkeley - people have actually asked me “doesn’t it have a communist government?” - when in fact it is a prestigious address with many overpriced luxurious properties and even some veritable mansions

I think a lot of areas are like that. John McCain’s idiot brother Joe called Northern Virginia “Commie county” but we’re really a centrist area at heart. The Dem Congressmen here aren’t blue dogs but they aren’t liberals either.

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Jenner7  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:55:18pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:55:22pm

re: #118 CuriousLurker

So that’s what the wingnuts are going with, that this is some sort of false flag op, a giant conspiracy involving POTUS, Clinton, a Muslim family, several staff members of an Irving HS, and the Irving PD? Because, yeah, everyone knows that part of the state leans way to the left, correct? *headdesk*

That’s ever so much more plausible than teachers and cops being irritated that they don’t know what the hell the widget is, and taking it out on the too-smart kid of a ‘known troublemaker’ in a town whose RWNJ mayor is trying to cash in on scapegoating and fear-mongering.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:55:34pm

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

Like I noted downstairs, mass hysteria in the form of Islamophoba is even here in the Czech Republic.

praguepost.com

I need a Pilsner Urquell.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:57:03pm

Has CCJ and his “team of high priced lawyers” filed a motion demanding Ahmed’s juvy records?

/

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:57:06pm

re: #129 Dr Lizardo

Rush Limbaugh could have 10% of the US rioting over arabic numerals if he decided to go there.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:57:59pm

re: #136 EPR-radar

Rush Limbaugh could have 10% of the US rioting over arabic numerals if he decided to go there.

I hope asshole doesn’t get any ideas or the fact that Algebra is taught in schools.

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Kryptik  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:58:06pm

re: #136 EPR-radar

I fear you might be lowballing there.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:58:29pm

re: #27 lawhawk

Because CNN knows the value of words - saying clock and not bomb reduces clickbait by X percent.

Yet, there’s also the fact that the word smiths at the media outlets have forgotten their dictionaries. Words have meanings.

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NYPD Benevolent assoc head and dependable blithering idiot Patrick Lynch has gone full metal fascist today with an open letter to the press that Americans are not equipped and do not deserve to judge the actions of police officers under any circumstances.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:58:56pm

re: #136 EPR-radar

Rush Limbaugh could have 10% of the US rioting over arabic numerals if he decided to go there.

I’m surprised Geller’s never brought it up. That, or algebra.

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:59:20pm

re: #132 Jenner7

OK, at least they corrected it. Fox never does.

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TedStriker  Sep 16, 2015 • 1:59:54pm

re: #137 HappyWarrior

I hope asshole doesn’t get any ideas or the fact that Algebra is taught in schools.

Al-Gebra is scary Mooslim voodoo, dontchaknow?

///

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:00:00pm

re: #139 Aunty Entity Dragon

NYPD Benevolent assoc head and dependable blithering idiot Patrick Lynch has gone full metal fascist today with an open letter to the press that Americans are not equipped and do not deserve to judge the actions of police officers under any circumstances.

Someone should tell Pat that he and his fellow officers are public servants. I swear guys like this are doing everything possible to inspire mistrust and hate of the police through their own actions.

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EPR-radar  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:00:09pm

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

I’m surprised Geller’s never brought it up. That, or algebra.

I’m not. Something like that can be conclusively debunked, and that is not helpful for fear-mongering.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:00:24pm

re: #127 Lidane

Didn’t the last motion get denied yesterday?

At some point the 6th is going to have to sanction her lawyers for wasting their time.

yep

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Nojay UK  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:00:34pm

re: #138 Kryptik

I’d go with XXVII percent myself.

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Kryptik  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:00:57pm

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

I’m somewhat amazed no one’s started a protest over a coffee shop using Arabica beans.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:00:59pm

re: #140 Dr Lizardo

I’m surprised Geller’s never brought it up. That, or algebra.

Believe me, I would have been happy to get out of Algebra too but I don’t believe inspiring a panic over Arabic is worth it. For one, I like Middle Eastern food stuffs too much!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:01:53pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:01:53pm

re: #147 Kryptik

I’m somewhat amazed no one’s started a protest over a coffee shop using Arabica beans.

I do wonder though had the film Aladdin came out now, would the nuts protest over the fact that the protagonists are Arab and presumably Muslims?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:02:33pm

re: #149 Charles Johnson

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Obviously Nolte knows as much about clocks as he does everything else which is to say shit little.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:02:39pm

re: #147 Kryptik

I’m somewhat amazed no one’s started a protest over a coffee shop using Arabica beans.

ONE CUP OF ARABICA AND YOU’LL BE SHOUTING “ALLAHU AKBAR” AND RECITING THE SHAHADA!!

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Jenner7  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:02:56pm

See that? That’s some kind of signal they are giving to the terrorists!!!

//

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:03:34pm

re: #153 Jenner7

See that? That’s some kind of signal they are giving to the terrorists!!!

//

ONLY REAL AMERICANS CAN HAVE LAWYERS AND RIGHTS!!!!!

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Bird in the Paw  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:03:38pm

re: #139 Aunty Entity Dragon

I know I’ll regret this, linky?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:03:49pm

re: #153 Jenner7

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See that? That’s some kind of signal they are giving to the terrorists!!!

//

Are those his sisters? I think he’s got a solid case.

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Kryptik  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:04:16pm

re: #150 HappyWarrior

The Sultan supposedly even uses the word “Allah” in the movie, it’s clearly Islamist propaganda.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:04:19pm

re: #154 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

ONLY REAL AMERICANS CAN HAVE LAWYERS AND RIGHTS!!!!!

Huckabee and Carson probably do believe that only Christians can.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:04:20pm

re: #151 HappyWarrior

Obviously Nolte knows as much about clocks as he does everything else which is to say shit little.

John Nolte can always be counted on to say something informative and thoughtful at a time like this.

/

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:04:30pm

Like I said last night, there are almost certainly several white kids walking around right now with legit fake bombs in their cars / backpacks that they made from this linked set of instructions. They use them in games of Airsoft. Nobody is calling the police on them because they’re white.

Fuck, I guarantee you there’s at least one high school class and several freshman college classes full of mostly priviliged white kids playing Assassin, running around and pretending to kill each other for course credit, because their teachers never got the memo that society is full of goddamned reactionary idiots.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:04:32pm

re: #150 HappyWarrior

I do wonder though had the film Aladdin came out now, would the nuts protest over the fact that the protagonists are Arab and presumably Muslims?

Let’s even not talk about an old British version of Sinbad, where the titular character used Muslim-y expressions.

Or hell……….Dune. If that were published today, the wingnuts would be screaming for Frank Herbert’s head on a platter.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:04:33pm

re: #157 Kryptik

The Sultan supposedly even uses the word “Allah” in the movie, it’s clearly Islamist propaganda.

Of course.

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No Country For Old Haters  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:06:12pm

re: #149 Charles Johnson

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Kryptik  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:06:57pm

re: #162 HappyWarrior

Re-reading this exchange, it depresses me knowing that most of the posts on this line could be mistaken for being earnest, rather than sarcastic, and it depresses me more that someone could read this, mistake it for a genuine post, and agree wholeheartedly with it.

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TedStriker  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:07:00pm

re: #152 Dr Lizardo

ONE CUP OF ARABICA AND YOU’LL BE SHOUTING “ALLAHU AKBAR” AND RECITING THE SHAHADA!!

“The best part of waking up is Jihad in your cup!”

///

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:07:22pm

re: #132 Jenner7

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And Ahmed, technically, was not arrested.
At least according to the police…he was only “taken into custody”.

ETA to add the “not”…I was attempting to multitask when writing that comment…

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Teukka  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:07:57pm

I’m just gonna leave this here, k?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:08:20pm

re: #164 Kryptik

Re-reading this exchange, it depresses me knowing that most of the posts on this line could be mistaken for being earnest, rather than sarcastic, and it depresses me more that someone could read this, mistake it for a genuine post, and agree wholeheartedly with it.

I know. Depresses the hell out of me knowing how loony peopl are about “secret messages” in film. Hell the ight was bitching about the Lego movie.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:09:19pm

re: #168 HappyWarrior

I know. Depresses the hell out of me knowing how loony peopl are about “secret messages” in film. Hell the ight was bitching about the Lego movie.

I remember all that backmasking BS back in the 1980s. They’ve been at it for a long, long time.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:09:30pm

re: #155 Bird in the Paw

I know I’ll regret this, linky?

businessinsider.com

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whitebeach  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:10:09pm

re: #151 HappyWarrior

Obviously he doesn’t know much about suitcases either, if that’s what he thinks that teensy box is.

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Nyet  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:10:16pm

re: #167 Teukka

Is fruit dangerous for the reasons I suspect?

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b.d.  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:10:20pm

Good or Evil? A wingnut dilemma

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:10:21pm

re: #169 Dr Lizardo

I remember all that backmasking BS back in the 1980s. They’ve been at it for a long, long time.

Oh okay. I guess I don’t remember it in the 90’s. I do remember the Harry Potter scares though.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:10:53pm

LGF loads much better now via mobile safari in iOS 9 now that they are allowing content blockers. I am currently using Crystal (search “Crystal block ads” in the App Store. Free for a limited time). Sorry, Sir Charles!

Wonder if AJ will be a question for those GOP goons tonight.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:10:56pm

re: #173 b.d.

Good or Evil? A wingnut dilemma

[Embedded content]

I wonder if they have any of those in the 1/21/2013 edition?

/

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:11:06pm

re: #173 b.d.

Good or Evil? A wingnut dilemma

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See if Obama was a real dictator, that device wouldn’t be available.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:11:33pm

re: #176 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I wonder if they have any of those in the 1/21/2013 edition?

/

Mitt Romney and Bain sold them.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:12:28pm
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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:13:23pm

re: #179 Charles Johnson

Tactical wrist nukes!

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Slap  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:14:11pm

re: #112 HappyWarrior

They are *removes shades* like clockwork, Charles

Oh, nice use of the Caruso Pause!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:14:17pm

re: #175 GlutenFreeJesus

Um, OK. But be aware that when you block ads at LGF you’re literally taking money away from the site that I need to keep things running.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:14:43pm

re: #142 TedStriker

Al-Gebra is scary Mooslim voodoo, dontchaknow?

///

Math Invented By Muslims!!! - Another Reason Not To Believe Global Warming!!!

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:15:24pm

Part of the conspiracy is that it took almost no time to set up a Twitter account. I used to use dial up AOL as my internet access.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:15:25pm

See here’s what tells me all about their hypocrisy. If it had been a white kid who brought a gun and was so much as just suspended, they’d be crying about gun laws and rules. Muslim kid builds a clock and he’s a terrorist. There’s something wrong with conservatism and we have seen so many examples of why over the Obama years.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:16:00pm

re: #174 HappyWarrior

Oh okay. I guess I don’t remember it in the 90’s. I do remember the Harry Potter scares though.

The backmasking scare was during the heyday of the LP. Once LP’s started getting replaced by CD’s, it sorta died off and the wingnuts changed tack.

Then there was of course the whole moral panic over D&D and let’s not forget the whole day care sex-abuse hysteria, another of the well-known moral panics of the 1980s.

These days, it’s Islamophobia. The new and improved moral panic of the 21st Century; a kissing cousin of anti-Semitism, albeit with a different ‘folk devil’ this time around.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:16:09pm

re: #181 Slap

Oh, nice use of the Caruso Pause!

Thanks. I was on it like a clock *Yeaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah*

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:16:37pm

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

The backmasking scare was during the heyday of the LP. Once LP’s started getting replaced by CD’s, it sorta died off and the wingnuts changed tack.

Then there was of course the whole moral panic over D&D and let’s not forget the whole day care sex-abuse hysteria, another of the well-known moral panics of the 1980s.

These days, it’s Islamophobia. The new and improved moral panic of the 21st Century; a kissing cousin of anti-Semitism, albeit with a different ‘folk devil’ this time around.

Oh yeah then before my time.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:20:12pm

re: #173 b.d.

Good or Evil? A wingnut dilemma

[Embedded content]

I wonder if they know that Obama can’t run for a third term.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:21:22pm

re: #149 Charles Johnson

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It’s a very small suitcase to fit inside a backpack full of textbooks and other school supplies.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:21:52pm

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s a very small suitcase to fit inside a backpack full of textbooks and other school supplies.

and that would fit in a locker.

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Belafon  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:23:57pm

re: #191 HappyWarrior

and that would fit in a locker.

The new schools here in Texas do not have lockers. The kids carry everything around all day.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:24:12pm
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Decatur Deb  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:24:14pm

re: #191 HappyWarrior

and that would fit in a locker.

It’s just the timing device and firetrain for the infernal ‘jockstrap bomb’. PE instructors have been alerted.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:24:36pm

re: #192 Belafon

The new schools here in Texas do not have lockers. The kids carry everything around all day.

Oh man really? That sucks.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:24:40pm

Like all of the vast array of DFW affiliated suburbs, Irving has an active plan to induce high tech firms to relocate there.
I hope these firms know what to do with such blandishments in the future.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:24:51pm
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thedopefishlives  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:24:55pm

re: #192 Belafon

The new schools here in Texas do not have lockers. The kids carry everything around all day.

There’s future back problems waiting to happen.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:25:11pm

re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth

A Muslim kid can’t have a clock, a black kid can’t have Skittles but a white kid can have a gun.

And fly and fire it remotely on an RC drone.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:26:00pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:26:01pm

Pretty much.

The only time I can recall a PD apologizing to a minority for blatant profiling was the recent James Blake case, and that only happened because he was famous and they were eating a raft of crap on social media over the incident.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:26:04pm

Fifth Element, “Every 5 minutes, there’s a bomb. Or something. “
Video

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:26:26pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:26:40pm

re: #198 thedopefishlives

There’s future back problems waiting to happen.

Yeah. I don’t know if Texas does block scheduling or not but even if so, having to lug around textbooks all day is a killer. Hell though in middle school, we weren’t even allowed to wear our backpacks as I recall. I forget why.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:26:41pm

re: #196 Shiplord Kirel

Like all of the vast array of DFW affiliated suburbs, Irving has an active plan to induce high tech firms to relocate there.
I hope these firms know what to do with such blandishments in the future.

I’d be interested to know how they plan to get high-tech firms to relocate there when they’re actively discouraging people from being interested in tech.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:26:50pm

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

The backmasking scare was during the heyday of the LP. Once LP’s started getting replaced by CD’s, it sorta died off and the wingnuts changed tack.

Then there was of course the whole moral panic over D&D and let’s not forget the whole day care sex-abuse hysteria, another of the well-known moral panics of the 1980s.

These days, it’s Islamophobia. The new and improved moral panic of the 21st Century; a kissing cousin of anti-Semitism, albeit with a different ‘folk devil’ this time around.

if you go back far enough you’ll find similar warnings about the dangers of waltzing

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:27:01pm

Picking up on various statements from last night:

Limbaugh Insists Syrian Refugees Will “Impose Their Islamic Will” Upon European Traditions

“Their will” no doubt will include clocks.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:27:26pm

re: #186 Dr Lizardo

The backmasking scare was during the heyday of the LP. Once LP’s started getting replaced by CD’s, it sorta died off and the wingnuts changed tack.

Then there was of course the whole moral panic over D&D and let’s not forget the whole day care sex-abuse hysteria, another of the well-known moral panics of the 1980s.

These days, it’s Islamophobia. The new and improved moral panic of the 21st Century; a kissing cousin of anti-Semitism, albeit with a different ‘folk devil’ this time around.

The Bakersfield DA Ed Jaegels built his whole career on the daycare Satan worshipping meme in the 80’s, and railroaded a number of people on false charges. 2 of them died in prison before their names could be cleared, and Jaegels remained in office until 2009. There was a saying at the time for visitors from LA :Come for weekend, stay for 5 to 10.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:29:21pm

re: #203 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Looks like Ahmed is considering Miguel Solis’s invitation to check out the Science and Engineering Magnet School in Dallas.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:29:23pm

re: #201 goddamnedfrank

Pretty much.

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The only time I can recall a PD apologizing to a minority for blatant profiling was the recent James Blake case, and that only happened because he was famous and they were eating a raft of crap on social media over the incident.

Patrick Lynch sure as fuck isn’t apologizing about Blake. He thinks it was a good bit of work.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:29:32pm

re: #207 freetoken

Picking up on various statements from last night:

Limbaugh Insists Syrian Refugees Will “Impose Their Islamic Will” Upon European Traditions

“Their will” no doubt will include clocks.

Well of course. Gotta lie and get people scared even though these are the victims of Islamic theocracy.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:29:37pm

You know what they say about broken clocks, right?

Right??

IS THIS THING ON?!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:29:55pm

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like Ahmed is considering Miguel Solis’s invitation to check out the Science and Engineering Magnet School in Dallas.

More closer to home and his friends, probably a good fit for him.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:30:05pm

re: #205 thedopefishlives

I’d be interested to know how they plan to get high-tech firms to relocate there when they’re actively discouraging people from being interested in tech.

I want to know if Irving has enough cops to arrest all of those firms for “making something that we don’t understand.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:30:27pm

re: #212 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

You know what they say about broken clocks, right?

Right??

IS THIS THING ON!

But he’ll still shill for Rand Paul.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:31:27pm

re: #205 thedopefishlives

I’d be interested to know how they plan to get high-tech firms to relocate there when they’re actively discouraging people from being interested in tech.

Irving Chamber of Commerce Economic Development page:
The jokes write themselves:

Anyone looking for a great place to live, work, play and raise a family will find what they are looking for in Irving, Texas! With a diverse population of more than 216,000 residents, Irving is an international city strategically located in the center of the Dallas - Fort Worth metroplex, and it provides an outstanding quality of life.
Receiving national recognition, Irving was recently ranked number three for tech startups per capita in the United States by American Express through research conducted by sizeup.com. In addition, the City of Irving is the first city in Texas and the second in the nation to earn the Malcom Baldrige Quality Award.

“Irving is a richly diverse city that offers global access, a thriving business community, world-class entertainment and various cultural events. You will not find a more exciting and vibrant place to live or do business than right here in the heart of the Metroplex.” - Mayor Beth Van Duyne

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HappyWarrior  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:31:27pm

I’m out. I’ll be in for hte clown car discussion tomorrow and hopefully a bad lip reading video.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:31:58pm

re: #214 Higgs Boson’s Mate

I want to know if Irving has enough cops to arrest all of those firms for “making something that we don’t understand.”

Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Dopefish’s Corollary: Any excessively deficient intelligence is incapable of understanding both technology and magic.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:32:02pm

The important thing is that I crack myself up.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:32:30pm

re: #216 Shiplord Kirel

* Just don’t build clocks while not white

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:32:50pm

re: #218 thedopefishlives

Arthur C. Clarke: Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic.

Dopefish’s Corollary: Any excessively deficient intelligence is incapable of understanding both technology and magic.

Chock full of win.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:32:53pm

Random thought: The kid should change his name to Mclovin and go back to the same school.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:34:07pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:34:17pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:34:33pm

I live along the fringe of the DFW Megalopolex, but so far out it might be called the “xenoburbs.” This is one step above “howling wilderness.”

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Lidane  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:34:56pm

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

Looks like Ahmed is considering Miguel Solis’s invitation to check out the Science and Engineering Magnet School in Dallas.

Good for him. He’ll be surrounded by people who will be able to recognize a clock when they see one.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:35:27pm

re: #225 Shiplord Kirel

How do you like them chiggers?

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thedopefishlives  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:35:42pm

re: #221 Aunty Entity Dragon

Chock full of win.

Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:36:53pm

re: #228 thedopefishlives

Thank you, thank you. I’ll be here all week.

Push the buffet: we’re running low on shrimp.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:37:39pm

re: #208 Aunty Entity Dragon

The Bakersfield DA Ed Jaegels built his whole career on the daycare Satan worshipping meme in the 80’s, and railroaded a number of people on false charges. 2 of them died in prison before their names could be cleared, and Jaegels remained in office until 2009. There was a saying at the time for visitors from LA :Come for weekend, stay for 5 to 10.

There’s a damn good documentary about that; Witch Hunt.

Narrated (and executive produced) by Sean Penn.

Note: May be NSFW due to strong language.

KQED Truly CA - WITCH HUNT - Episode 902

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WhatEVs  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:37:53pm

re: #219 goddamnedfrank

You crack us all up, dear, intentionally or otherwise. (sweet smile, batting eyelashes)

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:38:32pm

crystal block ads

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dholmes32  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:39:00pm

You know I went to Texas schools (and today is one of those days when I want to ship my diploma, BA and JD back out of sheer embarrassment). When I was in high school in 1975, there was a number of bomb threats phoned in to the high school. Every time, we had to go out and stand in a field, while a search was conducted. The first time, teachers checked lockers. The second time, the teachers were like, AW HELL NO, so the bomb dog from the city of Houston had to come out. There were a couple of other times as well. I remember one time just coming to school and being herded into the field and standing there until the school district got its money for having us that day. Then we got back on the buses and went home.

Then the bomb threats stopped and there was a period of peace for a while. Until that one day at lunch when a pipe bomb went off. Luckily, the bomb maker was not very competent and only one person received minor injuries. Luckily for me I had just walked behind a brick wall when it went off not very far from me.

But my point is, when bomb threats were received at Klein High School back in 1975, we were marched out into a field. That’s not what happened here.

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Kilroy01  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:39:09pm

US Army tests new clock bomb

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WhatEVs  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:39:24pm

I can’t imagine why companies would want to move to TX these days. Don’t tax cuts and corporate welfare only go so far if you don’t have a qualified talent pool?

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Bubblehead II  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:39:50pm

re: #160 goddamnedfrank

Like I said last night, there are almost certainly several white kids walking around right now with legit fake bombs in their cars / backpacks that they made from this linked set of instructions. They use them in games of Airsoft. Nobody is calling the police on them because they’re white.

[Embedded content]

Fuck, I guarantee you there’s at least one high school class and several freshman college classes full of mostly priviliged white kids playing Assassin, running around and pretending to kill each other for course credit, because their teachers never got the memo that society is full of goddamned reactionary idiots.

When I was on the HMJ (SSBN 730B) we used to do bomb drills. The “bomb” they used for it was a joke. 4 paper towel tubes painted red with 4 D cells in a battery holder and a mechanical timer. The first and only time I was asked to plant this “bomb” by the X.O. and Weps Officer, I took one look at it and laughed. When I was asked what was so funny, I told them their “bomb” was a joke. It was to big to carry through the boat without being noticed. It couldn’t be placed were it could do the most damage without being seen and the “old timers” on the boat knew just what it looked like and where it could be reasonably placed to “avoid” detection. I offered to build them a couple of realistic training devices and earned myself an interview with the C.O. He wasn’t amused to say the least at my answers or my “bomb” designs. To realistic was the mildest terms I heard.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:39:58pm

Listen. All I’m saying is that with sattv gone there’s a distinct void forming here in the department of really horrible jokes, and the rest of you aren’t pulling your goddamned weight.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:40:51pm

re: #237 goddamnedfrank

Listen. All I’m saying is that with sattv gone there’s a distinct void forming here in the department of really horrible jokes, and the rest of you aren’t pulling your goddamned weight.

I’m givin’ ‘er all she’s got, cap’n!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:41:15pm
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thedopefishlives  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:41:26pm

re: #237 goddamnedfrank

And for that matter, what happened to sat?

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WhatEVs  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:41:47pm

re: #237 goddamnedfrank

Listen. All I’m saying is that with sattv gone there’s a distinct void forming here in the department of really horrible jokes, and the rest of you aren’t pulling your goddamned weight.

Got a spare wheelbarrow? I could use some help pulling that weight around.

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steve_davis  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:41:53pm

re: #98 HappyWarrior

Right. The moderates know better which is why I think I am more likely to get frustrated with a so called moderate Republican than wingnut.A wingnut can’t be resonated with. The moderate knows the problem but keeps on enabling it.

“a wingnut can’t be resonated with.” In my experience, wingnuts are as dumb as blocks of wood, so your statement may not be entirely accurate!

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:42:12pm

re: #239 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

It’s baaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaack………

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Decatur Deb  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:42:43pm

re: #223 goddamnedfrank

[Embedded content]

It should be useful and quite do-able to create a webcrawling program that captures each police-abuse settlement in dollars. Feeding aggregate cost numbers to local taxpayer groups, journalists and activists would further the goals of BLM and others.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:42:50pm

re: #242 steve_davis

“a wingnut can’t be resonated with.” In my experience, wingnuts are as dumb as blocks of wood, so your statement may not be entirely accurate!

Density somewhat greater than plutonium.

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:44:05pm

Headline writer strikes again:

EU Refugee Crisis: Black Sea, Arctic Routes To Europe Are More Dangerous And Longer Than Traditional Ways

No, there is no “arctic” route for the refugees. The route in question is a Russian route to Finland. Even the map included in the article says “Russia”.

Here’s two sentences from the first paragraph:

[…] Known as the Arctic and Black Sea routes, refugees heading to western and northern Europe to claim asylum could soon begin undertaking dangerous crossings of the Black Sea in greater numbers. Another possibility, known as the Arctic route, is significantly more arduous.

Besides the poor writing (note the redundancy), whoever is doing the “knowing” is mixing up geographic terms.

Finland is a “Nordic” country. The refugees want to get to Finland because if they do they can get to Sweden, who say they will take in a bunch of migrants (note that Finland also will take a few.)

But the route goes through one country - Russia. It’s the Russian Route.

I have no doubt the Russians are less hospitable than the Swedes. Why do the ibtimes headline writers try to avoid what is the truth - the reason that one particular route is dangerous is not because it is “arctic” but because it is Russian.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:44:07pm

People forget so quickly. For instance, my own great-great grandfather fought Dix with only a revolver and a muzzle loading alarm clock.

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makeitstop  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:46:09pm

Charles,

Dunno if you’ve got any control over it, but I’ve been getting Shockwave Flash crash messages all day.

Chrome, Win 10.

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Dr Lizardo  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:47:18pm

Well, goodnight, Lizards.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:49:01pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

Um, OK. But be aware that when you block ads at LGF you’re literally taking money away from the site that I need to keep things running.

Which is why I subscribed as well as donated to the Go Fund Me drive. Question though. Doesn’t a Lizards have to actually click on those ads before you get revenue from them?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:49:14pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:49:29pm

re: #242 steve_davis

“a wingnut can’t be resonated with.” In my experience, wingnuts are as dumb as blocks of wood, so your statement may not be entirely accurate!

if they are rigid enough they tend to have a resonant frequency somewhere in the range of racism

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:52:32pm

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Achievement Unlocked: Deity Level Trolling.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:54:14pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:55:16pm

jeebus, and I though I had a problem with cats sleeping on the keyboard…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:55:57pm

re: #88 jaunte

Irving police aren’t even following Texas law.

They are following God’s Law to protect his people against murderous infidels.

/

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:56:35pm

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

Well, that’s one way to keep ants away from your electronics.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:57:03pm

re: #227 Higgs Boson’s Mate

How do you like them chiggers?

They’re actually pretty rare out here on the dry side of the anthill. Either that or they have all been drawn inward in search of more plentiful prey.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:57:37pm
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KGxvi  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:57:54pm

re: #255 Backwoods_Sleuth

UC Irvine dorms?

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:58:28pm

re: #258 Shiplord Kirel

That’s a blessing indeed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:58:56pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 2:59:44pm
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Decatur Deb  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:00:18pm

re: #254 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Look into that veterans’ group. It is reportedly total astroturf and never should have had an exemption.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:00:50pm

re: #250 Bubblehead II

Which is why I subscribed as well as donated to the Go Fund Me drive. Question though. Doesn’t a Lizards have to actually click on those ads before you get revenue from them?

No, some ads pay for impressions or views, even if you don’t click.

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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:01:15pm

Latest WaPo article goes into the history of Irving’s mayor wrt Muslims:

The history of anti-Islam controversy in Ahmed Mohamed’s Texas city

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:01:33pm

Tonight’s debate has me seriously reconsidering my drink almost none of the time lifestyle.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:02:26pm

re: #264 Decatur Deb

Look into that veterans’ group. It is reportedly total astroturf and never should have had an exemption.

I know all about that veterans group.
One guy.

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unproven innocence  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:02:34pm

re: #118 CuriousLurker

So that’s what the wingnuts are going with, that this is some sort of false flag op, a giant conspiracy involving POTUS, Clinton, a Muslim family, several staff members of an Irving HS, and the Irving PD? Because, yeah, everyone knows that part of the state leans way to the left, correct? *headdesk*

If *headdesk* is less than 100% metaphor, you definitely need a helmet.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:02:41pm
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freetoken  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:02:58pm

The truthers are already coming out in the comments to the WaPo article.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:03:19pm

re: #268 Backwoods_Sleuth

I know all about that veterans group.
One guy.

Who does stupid dirty political tricks for hire.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:03:41pm

re: #245 Aunty Entity Dragon

Density somewhat greater than plutonium.

Put a few wingnuts together, and you get a hypocritical mass!

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Decatur Deb  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:04:13pm

re: #273 Blind Frog Belly White

Put a few wingnuts together, and you get a hypocritical mass!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:05:25pm

I realized that according to wingnuts current definition of what looks like a bomb, with my nearly 200 watches, if I weren’t white, I’d be in deep shit!

Many of them have ARABIC NUMERALS!!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:05:57pm

re: #272 Decatur Deb

Who does stupid dirty political tricks for hire.

And is a friend of Sarah Palin…

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WhatEVs  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:06:24pm

Debate at 6:00 pm eastern? It’s like they want to make sure no one watches it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:06:32pm

re: #274 Decatur Deb

Single wingnut = Hypocritical Ass.

>2 wingnuts = Hypocritical Mass

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:06:46pm

Jade Helm was staged to distract us from the government takeover of Irving, Texas. It was like Invasion of the Body Snatchers only with crappy music.

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unproven innocence  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:08:03pm

re: #130 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Did I miss the Oath Keepers’ declaring that they would stand at Ahmed’s side to protect him from religious persecution?

Of course you did. Everyone did.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:11:33pm

re: #265 Charles Johnson

No, some ads pay for impressions or views, even if you don’t click.

Thanks. You get paid just for hosting the ads then if I am understanding you. Or do you get paid if the ads are only delivered to those who visit your site? If it is the latter, how do they know if their ads were blocked at the receivers end? This clicks = money thing has always confused me.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:17:35pm

I just bought this toy for my grandson.

He’s in kindergarten. But he is a genius.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:20:05pm

re: #282 The Vicious Babushka

I just bought this toy for my grandson.

He’s in kindergarten. But he is a genius.

Jesus! You trying to get him arrested?!?
///////

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Weet  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:20:31pm

re: #61 jaunte

She has that hyper-alert reptilian predator look.

I laughed so hard at this. I guess it comes from being a female. Anyway, with Dallas so bonnie blue, you’d think maybe Irving would be okay. But no, that district is pretty red. My area votes 80% Democratic, and that area is only about 10 miles away, but that district voted 65% Republican. It’s an odd gerrymadered district that includes parts of 3 counties.

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Tigger2  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:21:04pm

re: #239 Charles Johnson

Embedded Image

Do the asshole wingnuts all share the same brain.

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Tigger2  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:25:37pm

re: #264 Decatur Deb

Look into that veterans’ group. It is reportedly total astroturf and never should have had an exemption.

I saw on Rachel Maddow last night that the group was only one member.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:29:43pm

re: #153 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

See that? That’s some kind of signal they are giving to the terrorists!!!

//

They’re flashing the “V” for Victory of Shariah!!11!

I wish I was kidding. Not too long after I moved to the NYC area I had a caricature of myself (and one of my son) done by a guy in Central Park. It was very well done—he had me in my hijab with a cigarette in one hand and making the peace sign with the other. The WTC towers were in the background—I’m not sure why as you couldn’t see them form there, so I guess maybe it was just because they were so iconic.

Anyway, I had digitized it and had a small version on my computer, and some months after 9/11 I posted it to a forum, thinking nothing of it. One woman got really upset and said that some people (meaning her) might think it was me flashing a (Muslim) victory sign over the towers having been attacked. True story. *SIGH*

I just thought of something: If Ahmed is 14, then that means he was born the same year of the 9/11 attacks and has never known an America that wasn’t fearful or suspicious of Muslims. That’s kinda sad. It seems he was well-adjusted though—at least until now. I hope the outpouring of support is helping him feel better.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 16, 2015 • 3:31:30pm

Gah, looks like I’m late to the party again.

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Teukka  Sep 16, 2015 • 4:39:27pm

re: #230 Dr Lizardo

There’s a damn good documentary about that; Witch Hunt.

Narrated (and executive produced) by Sean Penn.

Note: May be NSFW due to strong language.

[Embedded content]

Video

I’m at a loss for words… And this is far from the only case of this kind in the World :(

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Swift2991  Sep 16, 2015 • 8:51:01pm

So the fact that a sizable number of them think that our Christian president is a Muslim— that must be a conspiracy too. A right-wing conspiracy?

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vgranucci  Sep 16, 2015 • 10:33:32pm

re: #100 EPR-radar

IANAL, but I’m pretty sure a minor isn’t supposed to be questioned by police without his parents and/or legal counsel present whether or not he asks for them.


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