Acoustic Maestro Tommy Emmanuel: “El Vaquero”

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Yes, its another amazing Tommy Emmanuel video that will rob aspiring finger-pickers of the will to live. (Or drive them on to achieve greatness.)

El Vaquero can be found on Tommy Emmanuel’s Newest album available now for purchase. You can get it at iTunes, CD, or Vinyl.

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431 comments
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Great White Snark  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:30:15pm

Spanish flamenco with just a hint of ragtime in there somewhere. Not what I expected. Noticing also how this was shot sepia and high key exposure. Eclectic look.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:35:45pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:36:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:37:40pm
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A Cranky One  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:41:41pm

Now I feel like apologizing to my guitars.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:41:46pm

After 11 years in the garage, my 81 Yamaha single is running, legal, and on the road. It is a shock to find how much you can lose in skills and strength in that time.

Neil Young - Long May You Run (unplugged)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:43:39pm
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Great White Snark  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:45:49pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

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If I ever meet that kid I’m gonna smile and ask “What time is it?”

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jaunte  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:46:15pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

You know who won’t be invited to the UN to meet dignitaries? The mayor and police chief of Irving.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:46:33pm

re: #8 Great White Snark

If I ever meet that kid I’m gonna smile and ask “What time is it?”

Hopefully he’ll answer “Adventure Time.” Might as well go all the way geek.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:55:22pm

re: #6 Decatur Deb

Nice. Any pics?

Since I am Mr. Risk Reducer I have to ask, are you going out on the street or just puttering around the yard? :) Returning riders are disproportionately represented in injury statistics. Rustiness is no joke and it’s a good idea to take a rider skills class if you’re coming back to it after years.

“Back up and running” is a great feeling. My old Ducati project is proceeding at the speed of paycheck and it’s going to be 2-3 months before she’s rolling again.

(I wish those big-donor idiots would take a break from dumping millions on loser Republicans to cut me a check for about $1,500 so I can get it done NOW before the late-October nice-riding-season arrives.)

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Sep 22, 2015 • 6:58:52pm

re: #8 Great White Snark

If I ever meet that kid I’m gonna smile and ask “What time is it?”

I’m rarely in Irving except for my thrice-yearly haircut but if I’m over there and I see him, I’ll shout it for you!

“HEY AHMED, WHAT TIME IS IT?” :D

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:00:59pm

I swear that Tommy met a smokey figure at a crossroads late one night. To play like that, and to obviously have that much fun doing it, something’s just not legit. :) I can barely walk a straight line, and he’s playing like a madman and clowning around while doing it.

I saw him in concert in Nashville, and it was the most fun show I’ve been to in a long time.

RBS

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:06:53pm

re: #6 Decatur Deb

After 11 years in the garage, my 81 Yamaha single is running, legal, and on the road. It is a shock to find how much you can lose in skills and strength in that time.

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Video

I sort of remember that bike, was that a 600 single? I had an old Honda CB-500T (Twin) back in the day, and the Yamaha single was also one I was looking at.

And my best advice, put your pride in your hip pocket, and take a Motorcycle riders course. They have some tailored for riders getting back in after being out a while. We love ya, and want to keep you healthy here.

RBS

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:10:21pm

re: #11 Pawn of the Oppressor

Nice. Any pics?

Since I am Mr. Risk Reducer I have to ask, are you going out on the street or just puttering around the yard? :) Returning riders are disproportionately represented in injury statistics. Rustiness is no joke and it’s a good idea to take a rider skills class if you’re coming back to it after years.

“Back up and running” is a great feeling. My old Ducati project is proceeding at the speed of paycheck and it’s going to be 2-3 months before she’s rolling again.

(I wish those big-donor idiots would take a break from dumping millions on loser Republicans to cut me a check for about $1,500 so I can get it done NOW before the late-October nice-riding-season arrives.)

Will look into uploading some cellphone pictures.

I’m super-cautious—have the Army version of MSF, the earlier MOST, and the National Safety Council motorcycle DDC. (10% insurance discount for all that.) I’ll spend a month riding around the neighbourhood before I take it up to highway speeds. That’s to check out me and the bike’s 35 year old components.

My first bike was almost a Ducati. The guy who was bringing it to me got creamed by a little old lady. Our MSF instructor in Italy ran a beautiful 906 Desmo.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:12:28pm

xkcd to make you laugh:

footprints
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:16:21pm

Newly Published UC San Diego Astrophysics Research Reveals Peak Wingnut Much Deeper Than Previously Thought

dense field of stupid yields few useful secrets

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:16:57pm

re: #14 Reality Based Steve

I sort of remember that bike, was that a 600 single? I had an old Honda CB-500T (Twin) back in the day, and the Yamaha single was also one I was looking at.

And my best advice, put your pride in your hip pocket, and take a Motorcycle riders course. They have some tailored for riders getting back in after being out a while. We love ya, and want to keep you healthy here.

RBS

It’s the SR500—they developed a 600 from it later. It’s a cult bike in Japan and Europe, never caught on here—no cupholders.

Stock photo—just about this condition:

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:22:23pm

re: #6 Decatur Deb

After 11 years in the garage, my 81 Yamaha single is running, legal, and on the road. It is a shock to find how much you can lose in skills and strength in that time.

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You survived, which is the good part.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:23:21pm

re: #15 Decatur Deb

In 1968 I was deciding between a Bultaco Metralla and a Ducati Diana. I got the USN instead.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:25:25pm

re: #20 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In 1968 I was deciding between a Bultaco Metralla and a Ducati Diana. I got the USN instead.

In ‘67 I ETS’d and was deciding on an Austin-Healey Sprite or a wife. Still got the wife, an MG Midget came and went.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:30:48pm

re: #20 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In 1968 I was deciding between a Bultaco Metralla and a Ducati Diana. I got the USN instead.

What kind of horsepower did that have?
;)

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:32:51pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:32:51pm

re: #18 Decatur Deb

It’s the SR500—they developed a 600 from it later. It’s a cult bike in Japan and Europe, never caught on here—no cupholders.

Stock photo—just about this condition:

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Nice looking bike. I’m not a rider, but my son is. To celebrate his new job, he bought a slightly used Triumph for about $7K. One of his former IT jobs was with Twisted Throttle — maybe some of you riders have heard of them. Two of his former TT colleagues also moved out to Colorado last year, to work at a dealership in Fort Collins. They set him up with this new-ish Triumph.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:34:24pm

re: #20 Higgs Boson’s Mate

In 1968 I was deciding between a Bultaco Metralla and a Ducati Diana. I got the USN instead.

Googled the Diana—very clean bike, looks like the Honda Dream twin took that look.

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Great White Snark  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:34:33pm

re: #21 Decatur Deb

Oh my gosh I rebuilt an MGB hatchback, sprocket wheels and all in 1978. Loved that crazy troublesome glorious brit car. High school project car. MG wow. Lucas electric and SU aka Skinners Union oil float carbs. Flashback.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:35:25pm

re: #24 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Nice looking bike. I’m not a rider, but my son is. To celebrate his new job, he bought a slightly used Triumph for about $7K. One of his former IT jobs was with Twisted Throttle — maybe some of you riders have heard of them. Two of his former TT colleagues also moved out to Colorado last year, to work at a dealership in Fort Collins. They set him up with this new-ish Triumph.

How old a Triumph? A buddy had the weird three-cylinder Trident.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:36:20pm

re: #27 Decatur Deb

How old a Triumph? A buddy had the weird three-cylinder Trident.

It’s only 2-3 years old. I’ll have to ask him the model.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:36:24pm

1944 film on the Memphis Belle on TCM right now.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:36:56pm

Looks like my Meinere’s is hanging around for a while. Back on a course of oral steroids for the next six days, then a recheck in 4-6 weeks. I told the ENT that a labrynthectomy was off the table as I still have hearing in that ear-at worst maybe one low-dose gentamicin injection and that’s only if the vertigo kept coming back.

As a joke. maybe I should take a short vacation to Tokyo to see if the 14-hour flight might compress my endolymphatic sac there and back. Always wanted to visti the land of anime and Akihabara.

I might look at some bone-conducting headphones as well.

Having depression is bad enough, not being able to listen to music right makes it worse.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:38:40pm

re: #28 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s only 2-3 years old. I’ll have to ask him the model.

The current ones are nice machines. I had a new Bonneville on layaway but then we got a message from an orphanage in Phan Thiet…

These days I’d rather find a nice but not too nice TR-6 for a daily driver.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:39:02pm

re: #26 Great White Snark

Oh my gosh I rebuilt an MGB hatchback, sprocket wheels and all in 1978. Loved that crazy troublesome glorious brit car. High school project car. MG wow. Lucas electric and SU aka Skinners Union oil float carbs. Flashback.

Still got a venturi balancer for twin SUs. Lucas gets a bad rap because there are a lot of 40 year old cars still running their harnesses.

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TedStriker  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:39:51pm

re: #26 Great White Snark

Oh my gosh I rebuilt an MGB hatchback, sprocket wheels and all in 1978. Loved that crazy troublesome glorious brit car. High school project car. MG wow. Lucas electric and SU aka Skinners Union oil float carbs. Flashback.

Ahh…Lucas, Prince of Darkness.

Never had a British car, but I do know that one.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:40:56pm

re: #31 William Lewis

The current ones are nice machines. I had a new Bonneville on layaway but then we got a message from an orphanage in Phan Thiet…

These days I’d rather find a nice but not too nice TR-6 for a daily driver.

For a moment this Saturday my ‘73 Rover was stopped at a light with a TR2. Not bad for a little southern town.

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:42:10pm

All this time I thought lizards spoke a language I understood. Tonight it’s like… I dunno, I understand some of the words but meaning is way beyond my snap-ability.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:43:33pm

re: #35 allegro

All this time I thought lizards spoke a language I understood. Tonight it’s like… I dunno, I understand some of the words but meaning is way beyond my snap-ability.

We could let you in, but you’d have to do something outrageous to a pig.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:44:26pm

re: #33 TedStriker

Ahh…Lucas, Prince of Darkness.

All of the parts falling off this car are of the finest British manufacturing.

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TedStriker  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:44:49pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Still got a venturi balancer for twin SUs. Lucas gets a bad rap because there are a lot of 40 year old cars still running their harnesses.

Well, to be sure, many of those 40-year-old harnesses were bewitched from the factory, amirite?

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:45:37pm

re: #36 Decatur Deb

We could let you in, but you’d have to do something outrageous to a pig.

I don’t have the part. O_o

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TedStriker  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:46:18pm

re: #39 allegro

I don’t have the part. O_o

There are…”accessories”.

///

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:47:14pm

re: #40 TedStriker

There are…”accessories”.

///

Will it need batteries?

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:49:29pm

re: #41 allegro

Will it need batteries?

If you’re looking for a galvanic response.

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:49:40pm

re: #29 Feline Fearless Leader

1944 film on the Memphis Belle on TCM right now.

The original and not the god-awful remake? That’s almost enough to want cable for.

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TedStriker  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:50:31pm

re: #41 allegro

Will it need batteries?

Maybe, maybe not, but stay away from any that are gas-powered.
/

re: #42 Decatur Deb

If you’re looking for a galvanic response.

Shocking!

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:50:32pm

re: #42 Decatur Deb

If you’re looking for a galvanic response.

Now there you go speaking that furrin talk agin.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:53:07pm

re: #31 William Lewis

The current ones are nice machines. I had a new Bonneville on layaway but then we got a message from an orphanage in Phan Thiet…

These days I’d rather find a nice but not too nice TR-6 for a daily driver.

Did you adopt a Viet kid? Cool.

I used to drive a ‘72 BMW 2002. It was a lot of fun to drive, and I’d love to have another. Or a Miata, as a second choice.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:53:23pm

re: #45 allegro

Now there you go speaking that furrin talk agin.

But with a pig…

Image: young-frankenstein-1974.jpg

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:53:52pm

re: #42 Decatur Deb

If you’re looking for a galvanic response.

Is that the G-spot I hear so much about?

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:54:35pm

re: #48 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Is that the G-spot I hear so much about?

I’m sure that’s a myth.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:55:40pm

re: #43 William Lewis

The original and not the god-awful remake? That’s almost enough to want cable for.

The actual documentary, not the later film.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:57:23pm

re: #49 Decatur Deb

I’m sure that’s a myth.

Ben Carson knows all about myths. Let’s ask him.

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Belafon  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:57:43pm

re: #23 goddamnedfrank

She wasn’t part of it just her supporters: factcheck.org.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 7:59:22pm

re: #51 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ben Carson knows all about myths. Let’s ask him.

He’s a doctor like my doc. Wife and I had annual ‘wellness’ reviews today. He couldn’t find my last prostate screen. Was looking in my wife’s folder.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:00:20pm

re: #53 Decatur Deb

He’s a doctor like my doc. Wife and I had annual ‘wellness’ reviews today. He couldn’t find my last prostate screen. Was looking in my wife’s folder.

Wel, don’t wives always know where the man’s shit is?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:01:55pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

He’s all tough talk about “political correctness”, but when he’s a target, SUE SUE SUE!

Such a….

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:02:04pm

Off to the hotel. Perhaps a bit later then, lizards.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:04:08pm

re: #31 William Lewis

The current ones are nice machines. I had a new Bonneville on layaway but then we got a message from an orphanage in Phan Thiet…

These days I’d rather find a nice but not too nice TR-6 for a daily driver.

My brother in Colorado has restored our Dad’s ‘65 Impala hardtop. It was the first car I ever drove. Driving it again, as I do every trip to the Springs, is like meeting up with your favorite college girlfriend and finding that she is still 20 years old.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:04:37pm

re: #50 Feline Fearless Leader

The actual documentary, not the later film.

Looks like it’s followed by another WWII documentary, new to me.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:08:13pm

re: #32 Decatur Deb

Still got a venturi balancer for twin SUs. Lucas gets a bad rap because there are a lot of 40 year old cars still running their harnesses.

My robber-baron car has twin SUs, the big ones. I leave any and all tinkering to the local expert. I think he employs a leprechaun for this.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:10:34pm

re: #59 Shiplord Kirel

My robber-baron car has twin SUs, the big ones. I leave any and all tinkering to the local expert. I think he employs a leprechaun for this.

An American car? HS4s maybe.

My new 36mm motorcycle carb is marked “Not For Aircraft Use”. No shit.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:13:48pm

I’ve been outed as a G-spot denialist.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:15:32pm

re: #60 Decatur Deb

An American car? HS4s maybe.

My new 36mm motorcycle carb is marked “Not For Aircraft Use”. No shit.

‘68 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:16:07pm

re: #62 Shiplord Kirel

‘68 Rolls-Royce Silver Shadow.

Remember now. That makes great sense.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:25:45pm

re: #63 Decatur Deb

Remember now. That makes great sense.

One of several urban legends about Rolls-Royce is that the 7 liter V-8 introduced in the mid-50s was originally a GM design. This probably originates from the transmission, which is indisputably a GM design, originally the 4 speed hydramatic, with the more modern 3 speed turbo-hydromatic being introduced on the Silver Shadow. The engine itself is in fact an in house RR design and shares many minor design features with the Merlin and Griffon aircraft engines, though obviously on a much smaller scale. A Buick Riviera transmission of the same vintage is a drop-in for my car.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:26:45pm
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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:36:44pm

Taken from a 1940’s Justice Society Of America comic before “Under God” was added to the pledge.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:44:02pm

Mad tape measure skillz

Superhuman tape measure skills (original)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:45:27pm

re: #66 darthstar

Taken from a 1940’s Justice Society Of America comic before “Under God” was added to the pledge.

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Godless, heathen superheroes!!

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:47:33pm

Got Colbert on but don’t know if I will be able to stomach Trump

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:49:30pm

re: #69 allegro

Got Colbert on but don’t know if I will be able to stomach Trump

He comes in suppository form too.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:49:48pm

THAT WAS SNARK, PEOPLE!

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:51:02pm

re: #66 darthstar

I am just super confused by the Amazon superwoman from a Hellenic woman-only utopia island leading the pledge. The juxtaposition of stars on the flag and on her shorts is only making the confusion worse.

Like, half the kids in that hall are pledging allegiance to Wonder Woman’s daisy dukes.

And the other half are just completely fucking confused by Hawkman. That guy’s deal makes so little sense, they gave him to Rob Liefield and things didn’t get worse.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:52:32pm

re: #66 darthstar

Let me test my comic book knowledge. From left are: Wonder Woman, the JSA teen mascot (name??), Hawkman, Starman, Dr. Midnite, The Spectre, Johnny Thunder and the Atom.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:52:49pm

Trump about to appear on Colbert; should be interesting.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:57:06pm

re: #73 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Let me test my comic book knowledge. From left are: Wonder Woman, the JSA teen mascot (name??), Hawkman, Starman, Dr. Midnite, The Spectre, Johnny Thunder and the Atom.

Oh, those are all comic book characters? I thought I saw Wonder Woman and maybe Aquaman, but I didn’t bother zooming the pic to see who the others were.

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gwangung  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:58:56pm

re: #75 darthstar

Oh, those are all comic book characters? I thought I saw Wonder Woman and maybe Aquaman, but I didn’t bother zooming the pic to see who the others were.

Real comic geeks could have told you the roster from the year of the issue.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 8:58:58pm

re: #75 darthstar

Oh, those are all comic book characters? I thought I saw Wonder Woman and maybe Aquaman, but I didn’t bother zooming the pic to see who the others were.

Guy second from right looks like Archie.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:00:08pm

re: #75 darthstar

Oh, those are all comic book characters? I thought I saw Wonder Woman and maybe Aquaman, but I didn’t bother zooming the pic to see who the others were.

Golden Age characters, from the 1930s-40s. Aquaman’s not in that group pictured. He had to sea someone about a horse.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:01:02pm

re: #77 darthstar

Guy second from right looks like Archie.

Different publisher, and I don’t think Archie ever wore a suit.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:01:47pm

re: #78 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Golden Age characters, from the 1930s-40s. Aquaman’s not in that group pictured. He had to sea someone about a horse.

See….horse…ah…it all makes sense.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:05:21pm

I’m confused. Didn’t the Huckster say Obama snubbed the Pope? Then how do we explain these photos?

finance.yahoo.com

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Kid A  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:07:27pm

re: #74 aagcobb

Trump about to appear on Colbert; should be interesting.

A BIG BEAUTIFUL DOOR WHERE EVERYONE CAN COME IN LEGALLY!

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No Depression  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:10:31pm

A GREAT AND BEAUTIFUL WALL!

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:10:38pm

re: #82 Kid A

A BIG BEAUTIFUL DOOR WHERE EVERYONE CAN COME IN LEGALLY!

Reagan: Take down that wall!

Just saying…

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:11:40pm

re: #81 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Huckabee said Obama snubbed the Pope by including gay and trans people in the welcome retinue.

Also, Mike Huckabee would write a seven-chapter account of fucking a platypus if you convinced him it would tick his earning potential amongst the sky pilots slightly upward.

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No Depression  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:12:09pm

Trump just evaded Stephen’s question about birtherism.

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:13:26pm

re: #86 No Depression

Trump just evaded Stephen’s question about birtherism.

He knows his audience.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:14:01pm

re: #85 The Ghost of a Flea

Huckabee said Obama snubbed the Pope by including gay and trans people in the welcome retinue.

Also, Mike Huckabee would write a seven-chapter account of fucking a platypus if you convinced him it would tick his earning potential amongst the sky pilots slightly upward.

As if il Papa could tell by looking at them who was gay or trans. Besides, he probably wouldn’t care one way or another.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:14:05pm

re: #87 allegro

He knows his audience.

He knows Colbert’s audience.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:17:53pm

Just saw a commercial for the Ky Democratic AG candidate. In Kentucky, even the Dems are running against Obama.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:18:08pm

re: #88 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Mike doesn’t give two tugs of a donkey’s cock what the Pope thinks. He’s messaging to his audience, using the Pope as a bludgeon.

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:20:09pm

Well, I’m off to bed. I think the LGF cat coughed up a hairball in somebodies shoe, but it’s not mine, so no problem.

RBS

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:21:08pm

re: #91 The Ghost of a Flea

Mike doesn’t give two tugs of a donkey’s cock what the Pope thinks. He’s messaging to his audience, using the Pope as a bludgeon.

Oh, for sure. Mike probably thinks Francis is a pagan, anyway.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:23:07pm

re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh, for sure. Mike probably thinks Francis is a pagan, anyway.

I went to a baptist high school after eight years of Catholic school. Everyone believed Catholics were idol worshippers going to burn in hell. Even the pope because he hadn’t accepted Christ as his personal lord and savior. It cured me of my religious faith pretty darned fast.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:23:29pm

re: #90 aagcobb

Just saw a commercial for the Ky Democratic AG candidate. In Kentucky, even the Dems are running against Obama.

That worked so well for them before too. Not.

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darthstar  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:25:29pm

Best fb comment on abortion I’ve seen yet.

I don’t care if Planned Parenthood provides nothing BUT abortion services. I don’t care if it’s a million-story abortion superpark with abortion waterslides and an abortion electrical parade. Abortion is legal. ABORTION IS LEGAL. If I read one more “defense” of Planned Parenthood that says “it’s not JUST abortions!” or “only 5% of what they do is abortion! And abortions aren’t federally funded!” I’m going to abort myself. Abortion is legal, culturally necessary, and good for humanity. It has been and will be practiced for millennia. It is essential. It is a fact. By minimizing, denying or apologizing for this fact, you are allowing these venal anti-woman Nazis to frame this debate and continue to chip away at this essential right. Abortion is not tragic. It is not painful. It is a fact. It is a right. Demand it, fight for it, and for the sake of the women who have given their lives to defend it, stop apologizing for it.

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Jenner7  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:25:45pm
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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:26:47pm

re: #90 aagcobb

Just saw a commercial for the Ky Democratic AG candidate. In Kentucky, even the Dems are running against Obama.

The crucifixion of Obama on the cross of masked racism is, in my opinion, the ugliest turn of national American politics since McCarthy.

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:27:19pm

re: #96 darthstar

Best fb comment on abortion I’ve seen yet.

I don’t have enough updings to give.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:29:35pm

re: #96 darthstar

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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:32:37pm

You are all now free of your crime of copyright infringement:

Federal Judge Rules ‘Happy Birthday’ Song in Public Domain

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:33:50pm

re: #98 freetoken

The crucifixion of Obama on the cross of masked racism is, in my opinion, the ugliest turn of national American politics since McCarthy.

This, despite Kentucky’s remarkable success rate in implementing the ACA. Of course, they rebranded it “Kynect,” to distance it from the Evil Oppressor. Democrats in most parts of KY are really just like Republicans — very church-oriented, conservative and still not too sure about this equality among the races thing. They remain Democrats because of family tradition, I suppose. Kim Davis is a Democrat, for example.

The meme that Democrats = liberals and Republicans = conservatives does not work for KY. Doubtless, it’s true for a lot of the Southeast.

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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:35:27pm

re: #102 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Humans are religious.

Religions are based on magick.

Nothing is more magickal than words.

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allegro  Sep 22, 2015 • 9:39:01pm

I have similar issues with the defense of birth control - as if it needs one - when someone argues that hormonal BC is prescribed for other conditions as well so…. So??? Birth control alone is plenty. It’s vitally important for that reason alone and needs no further justification and certainly no explanation to anyone. It’s sickening that we buy into this sick fucking framing that makes women beg for the right to control our own bodies and reproductive destinies.

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gocart mozart  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:01:02pm

Neither Cruz nor Trump, whose campaign did not respond to our request for backup material, provides any compelling evidence that either Clinton or her campaign had anything to do with starting the so-called birther movement

factcheck.org

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:03:18pm

re: #105 gocart mozart

Neither Cruz nor Trump, whose campaign did not respond to our request for backup material, provides any compelling evidence that either Clinton or her campaign had anything to do with starting the so-called birther movement

factcheck.org

The Donald tweeted it, therefore it will be retweeted my millions and become a newsworthy fact.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:04:49pm
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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:14:53pm

Vox makes my ass tired, as my grandmother might have said.

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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:18:57pm

Jeb! throws out some hot button words on immigration: “multiculturalism”, “retarded”.

Most outlets are concentrating on the former. Apparently a TPM piece concentrated on the latter.

Vox writer then calls TPM an outrage machine for doing such.

Vox writer ignores that the real problem is that Jeb! throws out that multiculturalism is wrong because Jeb! needs to pander to bigots and xenophobes.

Vox - straining on a gnat but swallowing a camel.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:20:52pm

re: #101 freetoken

You are all now free of your crime of copyright infringement:

Federal Judge Rules ‘Happy Birthday’ Song in Public Domain

Copyright laws are seriously fucked up.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:22:27pm

All works should become public domain 5-10 years after the authors’ deaths.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:27:11pm

re: #111 Nyet

All works should become public domain 5-10 years after the authors’ deaths.

I disagree. I don’t think the death of the artist should affect the ownership of the art, just like any asset. I think modeling copyright on patent protections would have merit, in the respect that there would be a specific “lifespan” on the copyright.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:29:42pm

re: #110 Nyet

A blow for freedom if I ever saw one. The best Congress money can buy will soon fall all over itself to grant perpetual copyright.

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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:32:19pm

What does it really mean to “own” something?

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:33:07pm

re: #112 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I disagree. I don’t think the death of the artist should affect the ownership of the art, just like any asset.

LOL, it already does, in case you didn’t know.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:35:09pm

re: #112 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I think modeling copyright on patent protections would have merit, in the respect that there would be a specific “lifespan” on the copyright.

That, however, is also a rational approach, as long as the lifespans are reasonably short. Might happen though that the copyrights run out during the author’s lifetime. Oh well. Information must be free ;)

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:38:03pm

re: #115 Nyet

Not sure where you’re going. The death of an inventor doesn’t affect the patent. The estate and its inheritors keep the rights to a patent.

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gwangung  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:38:08pm

re: #116 Nyet

That, however, is also a rational approach, as long as the lifespans are reasonably short. Might happen though that the copyrights run out during the author’s lifetime. Oh well. Information must be free ;)

17 years?

Um, sorry, but that’s vulnerable to corporate fuckery….

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:41:01pm

re: #117 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Not sure where you’re going. The death of an inventor doesn’t affect the patent. The estate and its inheritors keep the rights to a patent.

Gee, google “copyright 70 years” or something.

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:41:22pm

re: #118 gwangung

17 years?

Um, sorry, but that’s vulnerable to corporate fuckery….

What kind of?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:42:43pm

Why does a copyright have to run out during the artist (or the copyright owner’s) lifetime? Anybody is entitled to sing the song in the shower, but if you want to sell tickets to see somebody perform the song, the writer is entitled to a share of the income. Why should a performer get free content? The key is that the performance is a paid performance. Intellectual property rights have been taking a beating from older things like Napster, and now youtube and as always, free downloads.

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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:45:45pm

re: #121 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

In the case of the artist around which the court case was centered, the artist is long, long dead.

So here’s the question: should the dead have the same rights as the living?

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Nyet  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:46:21pm

re: #121 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Why does a copyright have to run out during the artist (or the copyright owner’s) lifetime?

From this as well as your #117 it seems you’re hopelessly confused about who is saying what. Try reading the others’ comments more carefully next time and keep the threads of the discussion untangled. I have to go now, ciao.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:51:18pm

re: #122 freetoken

In the case of the artist around which the court case was centered, the artist is long, long dead.

So here’s the question: should the dead have the same rights as the living?

We’re talking about an asset. The copyright is protecting intellectual property. It seems as if the people who want to profit from the art (song, book, whatever), want a free ride by making the copyright expire. If I want to make money by selling tickets to a concert of Cole Porter songs, why should I get the content for free? If I make money, the holders of the rights should make money.

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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:57:07pm

re: #124 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Can the dead own anything?

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freetoken  Sep 22, 2015 • 10:59:26pm

Here is Albert Vossen (long dead) with one of Jimmy Monaco’s (long dead) tunes from the good ol’ days:

MP3 Audio

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:03:59pm

re: #125 freetoken

The living and the dead are irrelevant for the purposes of this. If I invent something I can sell the patent rights, and then it doesn’t matter whether I am alive or dead. If I don’t sell the patent (or copyright), I can leave the ownership of those rights to my heirs or other designee. On that basis, it doesn’t matter whether the writer is alive or dead. The whole discussion of when copyright protections cease are about when somebody gets something they want to sell for free.

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gwangung  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:12:31pm

re: #120 Nyet

What kind of?

For one thing, for a successful writer, they make the most money for both them and their publisher in their backlist, long after initial publication—-it’s already paid for, the advance is paid for and anything that comes in is all profit. It doesn’t take much imagination to think how some accounting and publishing tomfoolery could delay prints and reprints and later editions of books so that all that money goes to the publisher.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:14:44pm

re: #128 gwangung

Songwriters and musicians were notoriously ripped off over the years.

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Jenner7  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:17:11pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:19:29pm

re: #130 Jenner7

Oh No!

I was driving through the mountains just a couple of days ago, lots of forks in the road I had to navigate. Every time I saw one, I said to myself one of my favorite Yogi Berra-isms, “If you see a fork in the road, take it.”

RIP Yogi Berra

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William Lewis  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:19:32pm

re: #127 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

As a content creator (writing, photos & now even composing original songs) I believe that only the creator of the work, unless explicitly transferred to someone else, should have those rights and only for a limited term. The first law passed under the Constitution gave a term of 14 years and allowed only one renewal. We would do very well to return to that premise.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:21:41pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:25:31pm

“You better cut the pizza into four pieces because I’m not hungry enough to eat six.”

“I never said most of the things I said.”

“Little league baseball is a very good thing because is keeps the parents off the streets.”

“Nobody goes there anymore. It’s too crowded.”

“Even Napoleon had his Watergate.”

“It ain’t over ‘til it’s over.”

-Yogi Berra

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:25:40pm

I seem to be doing my best work at night these days. Interestingly enough, I had the concept in my mind driving home from work, but it ties in somewhat to what we’ve been discussing. Enjoy.

THE MUSIC OF LIFE

Play a little tune for me, pluck those strings so sweet,
take me to another place, ensconce me with your beat.

Give me a crescendo that’s the best I’ve ever heard,
or perhaps a little solo riff, who’s got time for words?

A few brief chords of magic are all you really need,
as the sweet song comes together and the melodies run free.

So maybe it’s a ballad or some old country number,
Soft as a folded bed sheet, or rough as rolling thunder.

Don’t worry about the orchestra, it’s just a solo act.
One man and a guitar will do the job, I tell you that’s a fact.

The hall is full of people, the crowd has come to listen,
to this impresario, the guitar man on a mission.

The place it may be smoky and rather dimly lit,
but that’s just fine with the musician, he always plays with grit.

It’s just one quaint performance on one of many stages,
but you never know this may just be a show for all the ages.

And when it’s time to wrap it up, late into the night,
he’ll give ‘em one last encore and be sure to end it right.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:27:58pm

re: #134 teleskiguy

I quite like this one:

It was impossible to get a conversation going, everybody was talking too much.
- Yogi Berra

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:29:25pm

I happen to think that anybody who wants to sell something should pay all the costs incurred in the product, and that includes paying the people who own the intellectual rights to what is being sold. In a way I have reconsidered my original argument for a time limited copyright. I’m not saying you can’t sell tickets to “A Night with John Phillip Sousa” (rock on dude), I’m saying that you owe the owner of the rights something. Just because the guy kicked the bucket or wrote the music more than X number of years ago, I don’t think that entitles anybody to “free” music.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:30:04pm

Dude was old, to be sure. Though I have to say I’m rather bummed out by Yogi Berra’s passing. He was a wily one, made his mark on humans. Godspeed you fuckin’ wit!

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:30:26pm

I don’t know if he said this one, but if you don’t go to other peoples’ funerals, they won’t go to yours.

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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:44:37pm
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teleskiguy  Sep 22, 2015 • 11:49:56pm

He even had a badass name. Yogi Berra. That’s a cool fuckin’ name.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2015 • 12:13:03am

Yogi Berra, as a Yankee catcher, won 10 World Series championships.

He also said this: “You can observe a lot by just watching.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 23, 2015 • 12:14:43am

re: #141 teleskiguy

He even had a badass name. Yogi Berra. That’s a cool fuckin’ name.

Visa did a commercial a few years back playing off Yao Ming’s name. He went to a store with a sign that says “No checks accepted.” Yao asks, “Can I write check?” NY salesgirl says, “Yo!” and points to the sign. He replies, “Yao!”

It goes on like this, and Yao Ming leaves. Enter Yogi Berra. “Can I write a check?”

“Yo!” the girl says, pointing to the sign.

“Yo -gee!” Berra replies.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2015 • 12:20:06am
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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2015 • 12:29:34am

I never thought my 100th page at LGF would be a page about Yogi Berra’s passing.

littlegreenfootballs.com

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 23, 2015 • 12:41:41am

Though my favorite Yogi quote is, “Nobody goes there anymore, it’s too crowded.”

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 23, 2015 • 1:33:05am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 1:35:20am

re: #128 gwangung

For one thing, for a successful writer, they make the most money for both them and their publisher in their backlist, long after initial publication—-it’s already paid for, the advance is paid for and anything that comes in is all profit. It doesn’t take much imagination to think how some accounting and publishing tomfoolery could delay prints and reprints and later editions of books so that all that money goes to the publisher.

It also means the right to control where and how the work is used….for a political campaign, for example.

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Nojay UK  Sep 23, 2015 • 1:39:34am

re: #137 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I happen to think that anybody who wants to sell something should pay all the costs incurred in the product, and that includes paying the people who own the intellectual rights to what is being sold.

Should the copyright owner also pay all the costs of the enforcement of their copyright, including the costs of setting up and operating the court that determines infringement and enforces compensation and compliance?

The deal with patents and copyrights is that the courts and the law carry out enforcement for the holder of the intellectual property at no cost to them and in compensation the patent or copyright being defended has a limited lifespan after which it becomes public domain. Everybody benefits this way.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 23, 2015 • 1:43:04am

Oh my god!It all makes sense now.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:41:57am

He was a hero, then he went on to play baseball.

nydailynews.com

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:52:25am

re: #53 Decatur Deb

He’s a doctor like my doc. Wife and I had annual ‘wellness’ reviews today. He couldn’t find my last prostate screen. Was looking in my wife’s folder.

But your mammogram was ok?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:56:09am

Patient: What’s the diagnosis on my wife, doctor?
Doctor: Your wife has acute angina!
Patient: I knew that, doc, but what’s wrong with her?

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:47:35am

re: #66 darthstar

Taken from a 1940’s Justice Society Of America comic before “Under God” was added to the pledge.

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And once “under god” was put in, seems we became divisible.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:48:21am

If President Obama acknowledges the passing of Yogi Berra, conservatives will lose their mind because he had the audacity of mentioning it.

If he doesn’t acknowledge the passing of Yogi Berra, conservatives will lose their mind because he DIDN’T mention it,.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:51:36am

nydailynews.comre: #152 Eventual Carrion

But your mammogram was ok?

Doc to us: “Mr Deb, I’m scheduling your colonoscopy for early January. Mrs Deb, I want another bone density MRI then, too.

Mrs Deb: I win!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:00:28am

re: #155 Dr. Matt

If President Obama acknowledges the passing of Yogi Berra, conservatives will lose their mind because he had the audacity of mentioning it.

If he doesn’t acknowledge the passing of Yogi Berra, conservatives will lose their mind because he DIDN’T mention it,.

Obama only mentioned it because he thought Yogi was some heathen Eastern mystic!

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Decatur Deb  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:03:14am

The nutcase who sponsored the Phoenix “Draw Mohammed” contest is at it again:

‘Oath keepers’ organizer threatens to arrest Debbie Stabenow, lawmakers for Iran nuke deal

Link is to Washington Times, so pick your way through the cow patties.
washingtontimes.com

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:03:53am

re: #154 Eventual Carrion

And once “under god” was put in, seems we became divisible.

No, we were divisible long before that.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:04:23am

September 23rd, wasn’t the world supposed to end today?

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:04:45am

Copyrights and patents are a compromise between free knowledge and the need to pay for doing to the work. The works don’t exist in a vaccuum, though. Our society, system of government, and economy directly or indirectly contributed to the ability to produce the work. Therefore, there should be a limit.

Copyrights have gotten way out of hand, mainly to keep a few high profile things out of the public domain. Since there are very few mind-blowing original works, but lots of derivatives, long copyrights are actually hurting innovation. 1984 ought to be subject to the same treatment that Pride and Prejudice received from Pride and Prejudice and Zombies .

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:06:33am

re: #149 Nojay UK

Should the copyright owner also pay all the costs of the enforcement of their copyright, including the costs of setting up and operating the court that determines infringement and enforces compensation and compliance?

The deal with patents and copyrights is that the courts and the law carry out enforcement for the holder of the intellectual property at no cost to them and in compensation the patent or copyright being defended has a limited lifespan after which it becomes public domain. Everybody benefits this way.

The copyright owner already pays those costs. We call these payments “taxes”.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:08:05am

#162 SteveMcGaziBolaGate: They don’t pay ALL the costs. I’ve paid for some of those, on a work I didn’t create.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:09:58am

re: #156 Decatur Deb

nydailynews.com

Doc to us: “Mr Deb, I’m scheduling your colonoscopy for early January. Mrs Deb, I want another bone density MRI then, too.

Mrs Deb: I win!!

He would have fit in nicely in German 1939 and the so-called “master race”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:11:25am

re: #164 Dr. Matt

He would have fit in nicely in German 1939 and the so-called “master race”.

He would insist that he is merely a Master Racial Realist

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:13:48am

re: #158 Decatur Deb

‘Oath keepers’ organizer threatens to arrest Debbie Stabenow, lawmakers for Iran nuke deal

This should go well.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:14:54am

re: #166 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

This should go well.

It is about provoking the government to intervene so they can scream bloody murder about being oppressed.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:17:04am

re: #163 Belafon

#162 SteveMcGaziBolaGate: They don’t pay ALL the costs. I’ve paid for some of those, on a work I didn’t create.

Not sure what you mean there. I keep seeing somebody arguing that they want to sell somebody else’s intellectual property without paying for it. When I had my little rubber factory, we have to pay for the stuff we sold. You know, I just thought of a guy who wants to sell stuff without paying the costs to produce it. His name is Cliven Bundy. He wanted to use the land for free, and so far, he seems to be getting his way.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:19:07am

re: #166 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

This should go well.

Most likely its just grifting. He’s soliciting for donations for “travel and expenses” so its probably just an appeal for Wingnut Welfare. If this turkey and his Brothers in DERP ever actually detained any member of Congress, they would be very, very sorry. That would bring the FBI down on their heads, followed by either a Very DERPy Last Stand or a long stay in ADX Florence. Supermax ain’t fun, and that’s where anybody who tries what he is proposing will end up if they’re still breathing after the FBI moves on them.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:20:01am

re: #158 Decatur Deb

The nutcase who sponsored the Phoenix “Draw Mohammed” contest is at it again:

‘Oath keepers’ organizer threatens to arrest Debbie Stabenow, lawmakers for Iran nuke deal

Link is to Washington Times, so pick your way through the cow patties.
washingtontimes.com

DIng Cookoo! Ding Cookoo!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:21:27am

The Chinese government is trying to replace Windows with a home-grown (modified) version of Red Hat Fedora Linux.

qz.com

I predict China’s computer users will reject this ham-handed attempt of the government to “harmonize” their computers.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:23:02am

re: #171 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I don’t think I’ll be downloading that. (Could you imagine the anti-virus software for that thing?)

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Great White Snark  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:24:43am

And the Pope arrives in little Fiat 500. Interesting, quite a sight.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:25:40am

re: #164 Dr. Matt

Wrong link in that.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:26:57am

re: #171 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Chinese government is trying to replace Windows with a home-grown (modified) version of Red Hat Fedora Linux.

qz.com

I predict China’s computer users will reject this ham-handed attempt of the government to “harmonize” their computers.

Hopefully China’s president is being told this while he’s visiting tech people in Seattle and Tacoma. He needs to be warned about the limits of central decision making, not because we want to crow about “We’re better!”, but instead because this sort of plan is unwise, impractical, and unlikely to work.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:31:39am

re: #175 Dark_Falcon

Hopefully China’s president is being told this while he’s visiting tech people in Seattle and Tacoma. He needs to be warned about the limits of central decision making, not because we want to crow about “We’re better!”, but instead because this sort of plan is unwise, impractical, and unlikely to work.

According to the article, the government hopes to lure Windows XP users away from MS products, because XP is the most common OS in China and MS no longer supports it. However, my suspicious nature leads me to think the government wants to use the Linux OS to monitor users and restrict their access to the Net.

Anyway, most users will probably just install a pirated version of Windows anyway.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:36:45am

Bruh

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:39:45am

I think there is only one nudie bar in the Philadelphia exclusion zone. I wonder how business will be with all these family (cough) guys in town.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:39:55am

re: #177 goddamnedfrank

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Bruh

Death to Obama and the Pope!!!

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:44:42am

re: #139 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Not even the best of friends can attend each other’s funeral.

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Teukka  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:46:46am

re: #177 goddamnedfrank

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Bruh

Freudian slip?

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Teukka  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:48:02am

re: #180 Eric The Fruit Bat

Not even the best of friends can attend each other’s funeral.

They can if their place of death becomes their grave.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:50:10am

re: #178 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I think there is only one nudie bar in the Philadelphia exclusion zone. I wonder how business will be with all these family (cough) guys in town.

It has probably been ordered to stay closed while the pope is in town to keep the Secret Service from getting another PR black eye.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:50:31am

Oh piss the Pope just said Climate Change is a problem. the Republicans are probably in full rage mode right now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:53:29am

re: #184 Tigger2

Oh piss the Pope just said Climate Change is a problem. the Republicans are probably in full rage mode right now.

wait till he gets going on social justice…

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Mattand  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:53:54am

re: #183 Dark_Falcon

It has probably been ordered to stay closed while the pope is in town to keep the Secret Service from getting another PR black eye.

LOL, given the lockdown Center City is going to be on, a lot bars are going to be shuttered whether they want to or not.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:54:07am

He’s done that was fast.

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Mattand  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:55:27am

re: #184 Tigger2

Oh piss the Pope just said Climate Change is a problem. the Republicans are probably in full rage mode right now.

Should have copied it, but someone on Twitter pointed out that Frank went from being a GOP hero to their second biggest enemy by simply caring about poor people and the environment.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:57:27am

Then they would sure hate Jesus, the person they say they love.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:57:27am
Concussions are the most common type of brain injury, and about 85 percent of people who suffer one will more or less fully recover within a year. But for those who do not, lingering symptoms, such as headaches or increased irritability, can get in the way of everyday functioning.

Yesterday while I was walking home, I approached an intersection at which 9 out of ten drivers run the stop sign (and crosswalk) without stopping. This is next to an elementary school. As one of those 9-out-of-ten pulled through, I called the driver an asshole. She stopped and put her big, shiny SUV in reverse, and we started yelling at each other until a cop came around the corner with his flashers on. I holstered my (unused) pepper spray and continued my journey, listening to the woman yelling at the cop. A few blocks later, the cop approached me to ask what happened and see if I was OK. He laughed when I told him it’s a good thing I no longer walk with a stick because I would have left marks on that SUV.

I have to strategize dealing with my temper.

About 8.5 percent of U.S. non-incarcerated adults have a history of TBI, and about 2 percent of the greater population is currently suffering from some sort of disability because of their injury.

In prisons, however, approximately 60 percent of adults have had at least one TBI—and even higher prevalence has been reported in some systems.

Makes sense to me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:57:59am

re: #188 Mattand

Should have copied it, but someone on Twitter pointed out that Frank went from being a GOP hero to their second biggest enemy by simply caring about poor people and the environment.

they have a very strict ideological litmus test, and one that does not just apply to candidates for office: being anti abortion and anti birth control does not cut it unless you are for full-on unregulated Free Enterprise, military intervention and unlimited access to firearms.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:59:14am

re: #188 Mattand

They’ll ride this one out and look the other way. He’ll be gone and out of the news in a couple days.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:00:26am

re: #190 wrenchwench

TBI?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:01:02am

re: #147 Ace-o-aces

I think Elton John is on tour right now. He’s busy!

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:01:13am

Still there are far worse assholes in the world:

The unwilling suicide bomber: Teenager weeps as he is ordered to drive armoured vehicle filled with explosives - moments before he is obliterated in mushroom cloud in attack on Syrian village

ISIS rigged a BMP hull with explosives then made the kid drive it into their target. Bastards.

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Dark_Falcon  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:01:38am

re: #193 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

TBI?

Traumatic Brain Injury.

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Mattand  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:02:13am

re: #192 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

They’ll ride this one out and look the other way. He’ll be gone and out of the news in a couple days.

I hope so. I genuinely hope this is a financial success for Philly, but as I’ve mentioned before, the security restrictions are placing a huge burden on low-wage workers and businesses that employ them.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:02:27am

re: #193 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

TBI?

Traumatic brain injury. Mine dates from last October 27.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:03:24am

re: #198 wrenchwench

Traumatic brain injury. Mine dates from last October 27.

Thanks, sorry to hear. I think I remember you posting about this.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:03:26am

re: #197 Mattand

I hope so. I genuinely hope this is a financial success for Philly, but as I’ve mentioned before, the security restrictions are placing a huge burden on low-wage workers and businesses that employ them.

The Pope is visiting a Wal-Mart?

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:03:52am

re: #130 Jenner7

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RIP Yogi, When you come to a fork in the road, take it.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:04:51am

re: #199 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Thanks, sorry to hear. I think I remember you posting about this.

Thanks. I think I remember posting about it, too!

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Mattand  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:05:00am

re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The Pope is visiting a Wal-Mart?

He’s going to spend an hour acting as a greeter at the Columbus Blvd. Walmart.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:06:25am

BBL.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:06:39am

#168 SteveMcGaziBolaGate:

Patents and copyrights aren’t restricting access to an item, they are restricting access to an idea. Selling rubber balls means you have to compensate for the cost of production. If I wanted to sell rubber balls, then I would also have to compensate for the cost of production.

If there were no such thing as copyrights, you could print copies of a book I wrote, and only have to cover production costs. But that doesn’t give me much of an incentive to spend the effort to write the book, so copyrights restrict the ability for others to access my works until the copyright goes out. (I’m sure you know this, but you seem to be confusing cost of production with the product).

I’m not, and I don’t think others are, arguing that we should be able to just take someones idea right after they create it. But ideas are that, and an idea does not cost anything to replicate. We should be encouraging the sharing of ideas, and innovation from those ideas. Copyrights and patents are meant to be a compromise between the efforst to create ideas (everyone needs to eat) and the need to have them be available to everyone to build on. So there needs to be a limit, and right now, copyrights are too long.

I love ideas, but the term “intellectual property” is a red herring. You can’t own an idea. The best you can do is restrict access for a while, and that’s only with the right laws and enforcement set up.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:08:05am

re: #203 Mattand

He’s going to spend an hour acting as a greeter at the Columbus Blvd. Walmart.

But then he won’t be allowed back in the exclusion zone unless he’s walking

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:12:14am

#189 Tigger2:

Then they would sure hate Jesus, the person they say they love.

The same way they feel about MLK Jr.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:23:21am

Ok, I like t he squirrel or chipmunk varmit in today’s Google logo.

you?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:23:32am

re: #205 Belafon

What the heck? “Patents and copyrights aren’t restricting access to an item, they are restricting access to an idea”
They make sure the inventor/creator gets paid to use the idea she/he developed.

“so copyrights restrict the ability for others to access my works until the copyright goes out. (I’m sure you know this, but you seem to be confusing cost of production with the product)”
No, people can access your work. They just have to compensate you if they’re doing it to make money. Example, my daughter’s school has to reimburse Disney around 3500 bucks one year when they did “Alice in Wonderland”. Seems like a dickish thing for DIsney to do, but:1. They would have had to pay for the rights to just about any play they did, 2. They sold tickets and raised money for the school by doing this, IOW, they made money off of the play. They had no problems “accessing” it.

“You can’t own an idea. “
I don’t argue that anybody owns an idea. I’ve been pretty specific about that. Don’t put words in my mouth that I didn’t say. The copyright holder owns the commercial rights to that idea. If you want to use it to make money, pay her/him for it. If you don’t want to pay, write your own play.
** A quick story that I think is funny: In 1975 I wrote a song that sounds EXACTLY like Coldplay’s “Clocks”. I was in 5th grade and I was fooling around with my mother’s piano (which I didn’t know how to play) and tried to come up with a song that didn’t already sound like something I heard on the radio all the time (I can’t imagine how hard it is today to write a song that doesn’t walk on another song that was already written). Anyway, my version of clock was about how mean Miss Condron was when I had her in 4th grade and how hot Mrs. Boyle (my 5th grade teacher) was. Never went any farther than that because I figured any song I wrote was probably junk.
I could have been a one hit wonder!!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:27:48am

re: #195 Dark_Falcon

Still there are far worse assholes in the world:

The unwilling suicide bomber: Teenager weeps as he is ordered to drive armoured vehicle filled with explosives - moments before he is obliterated in mushroom cloud in attack on Syrian village

ISIS rigged a BMP hull with explosives then made the kid drive it into their target. Bastards.

Assholes are Assholes. One is very much like the other. There are just some that are made for Porn movies and some that are not.

Please don’t get blinded by this horrible atrocity. They want their hate to be visible. That is the definition of Terrorism. Their goal is shock you and, therefore, control your emotions. This is how bullys do their work.

Personally, the slavers who profit by child rape in this and other countries are no different.

It’s just that one atrocity is visible, the other is hidden.

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:32:24am

The tide continues to come in:

THE LATEST: TUSK SAYS VITAL TO STOP SQUABBLING WITHIN THE EU

[…]

Serbia has given Croatia an ultimatum to reopen its border for all cargo transport by midnight, or face unspecified countermeasures.

Croatia shut all but one of its crossings with Serbia last week to block the migrant surge, which has reached 44,000 in a week. Croatia is angry that Serbia is busing migrants to its border, rather than sending them north to Hungary.

Croatia’s action has crippled the economy in Serbia, a conduit for cargo across Croatia to western and central Europe.

[…]

Turkey has begun enforcing long-dormant rules on Syrians’ travel within the country, in part over concerns about how the flow is affecting the country’s image.

According to a government document obtained by The Associated Press and interviews with officials and migrants, the moves so far appear to be ad hoc and aimed only at preventing migrants from reaching the Turkish frontier city of Edirne, where hundreds are staging a sit-in near the Greek border.

[…]

Slovakia’s prime minister says his country is challenging a European Union decision to redistribute 120,000 asylum seekers.

Besides the legal complaint at an EU court in Luxembourg, Robert Fico says his country is not ready to accept the plan to share the burden of migrants across the EU.

[…]

And much more I did not quote.

I have no idea how the current Syria crisis will end. The pessimist part of me says “not well.”

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:33:44am

First full day of autumn… and I needed to put a blanket over me to sleep.

Much better than the tropical weather the last few weeks.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:34:15am

re: #195 Dark_Falcon

Still there are far worse assholes in the world:

The unwilling suicide bomber: Teenager weeps as he is ordered to drive armoured vehicle filled with explosives - moments before he is obliterated in mushroom cloud in attack on Syrian village

ISIS rigged a BMP hull with explosives then made the kid drive it into their target. Bastards.

DF, I want to add: This feeling of outrage you have right now. That is how I feel every day.

That is how bad human rights atrocities are, right here in our own back yard.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:34:31am

re: #198 wrenchwench

Traumatic brain injury. Mine dates from last October 27.

{{{{ww}}}}}

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:34:43am

re: #209 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

** A quick story that I think is funny: In 1975 I wrote a song that sounds EXACTLY like Coldplay’s “Clocks”. I was in 5th grade and I was fooling around with my mother’s piano (which I didn’t know how to play) and tried to come up with a song that didn’t already sound like something I heard on the radio all the time (I can’t imagine how hard it is today to write a song that doesn’t walk on another song that was already written).

If you’d written it today, you might have had a better shot at a hit.

This Atlantic story tells how it’s not only not a bad thing to have a song that sounds like something else on the radio - but some guys make a shit-ton of money doing just that.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:38:00am

re: #215 makeitstop

Try not stepping on both domestic and international songs as well. Imagine writing a song and finding out you stomped on some J or K-Pop song.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:39:12am

re: #215 makeitstop

If you’d written it today, you might have had a better shot at a hit.

This Atlantic story tells how it’s not only not a bad thing to have a song that sounds like something else on the radio - but some guys make a shit-ton of money doing just that.

my sweet Lord…

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:39:42am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

my sweet Lord…

He’s so fine… :)

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:43:58am

Na Na Hey Hey Kiss Her Hello
Louis Louis

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:48:22am
Ten-point program

The Black Panther Party first publicized its original Ten-Point program on May 15, 1967, following the Sacramento action, in the second issue of the Black Panther newspaper.[41] The original ten points of “What We Want Now!” follow:
We want freedom. We want power to determine the destiny of our Black Community.
We want full employment for our people.
We want an end to the robbery by the Capitalists of our Black Community.
We want decent housing, fit for shelter of human beings.
We want education for our people that exposes the true nature of this decadent American society. We want education that teaches us our true history and our role in the present day society.
We want all Black men to be exempt from military service.
We want an immediate end to POLICE BRUTALITY and MURDER of Black people.
We want freedom for all Black men held in federal, state, county and city prisons and jails.
We want all Black people when brought to trial to be tried in court by a jury of their peer group or people from their Black Communities, as defined by the Constitution of the United States.
We want land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice and peace.
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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:48:37am

Looks like The Pope is having a terrible time at the White House.

Pope at WH

The good news is that Huck will never get to the WH unless he takes the tour.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:49:30am

re: #217 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

my sweet Lord…

Upding for the GH reference.

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:51:08am

Upstream I raised the latest Jeb! attempt to garner some sympathy from the bigot-base, with his labeling “multiculturalism” as bad.

Anyway, story from two days ago, from Harvard:

Measuring assimilation

Immigrants today are integrating into U.S. society as fast or faster than those of previous generations, according to a study released Monday, with male immigrants holding down jobs at higher rates and committing fewer crimes than native-born Americans.

The study, by an expert committee led by Harvard sociologist Mary Waters for the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine, provides a counterpoint to some claims in the national debate on immigration. It illuminates how immigrants fare after arriving in the United States, which is important, Waters said, given that one in four Americans today is either an immigrant or a child of one.

[…]

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:51:55am

re: #216 Eric The Fruit Bat

Try not stepping on both domestic and international songs as well. Imagine writing a song and finding out you stomped on some J or K-Pop song.

I still write stuff for my band to play, but I don’t think anyone would confuse my stuff with the pops of either K or J. :)

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:53:57am

off to accomplish something.

have a great day all!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:57:08am

re: #222 Iwouldprefernotto

Looks like The Pope is having a terrible time at the White House.

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The good news is that Huck will never get to the WH unless he takes the tour.

He needs to book a place to join a tour. Takes planning.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:57:16am

re: #222 Iwouldprefernotto

Looks like The Pope is having a terrible time at the White House.

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The good news is that Huck will never get to the WH unless he takes the tour.

“Obama is the most anti-Christian president ever and the pope is the most anti-Christian pope ever and how come Obama doesn’t respect the Pope?”

/

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:59:40am

Not for the Trumpiots:

Report Finds Immigrants Come to Resemble Native-Born Americans Over Time, But Integration Not Always Linked to Greater Well-Being for Immigrants

As immigrants and their descendants become integrated into U.S. society, many aspects of their lives improve, including measurable outcomes such as educational attainment, occupational distribution, income, and language ability, but their well-being declines in the areas of health, crime, and family patterns, says a new report from the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. At the same time, several factors impede immigrants’ integration into society, such as their legal status, racial disparities in socio-economic outcomes, and low naturalization rates.

“Integration is a twofold process that depends on the participation of immigrants and their descendants in major social institutions such as schools and the labor market, as well as their social acceptance by other Americans,” said Mary Waters, M.E. Zukerman Professor of Sociology at Harvard University and chair of the committee that conducted the study and wrote the report. “The U.S. has a long history of accepting people from across the globe, and successful integration of immigrants and their children contributes to our economic vitality and a vibrant, ever-changing culture.” There are 41 million immigrants and 37.1 million U.S.-born children of immigrants in the United States today. Together, the first and second generations account for one-quarter of the U.S. population.

In comparison with native-born Americans, the report says, immigrants are less likely to die from cardiovascular disease and all cancers, and they experience fewer chronic health conditions, have lower infant mortality and obesity rates, and have a longer life expectancy. However, over time and generations, these advantages decline as their health status converges with that of the native-born population.

Other measures of individual and community well-being show the same pattern, the committee found. Neighborhoods with greater concentrations of immigrants have much lower rates of crime and violence than comparable nonimmigrant neighborhoods. Foreign-born men age 18-39 are incarcerated at one-fourth the rate of native-born American men of the same age. However, in the second and third generations, crime rates increase and resemble that of the general population of native-born Americans.

Similarly, immigrant divorce rates and out-of-wedlock birth rates start off much lower than native-born Americans, but over time and generations, they rise toward those for native-born families. This indicates that immigrant and second-generation children across all major ethnic and racial groups are more likely to live in families with two parents than are third-generation children. Because single-parent families are more likely to be impoverished, this is a disadvantage going forward, the report says.

[…]

Download the report here.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:02:35am

re: #225 makeitstop

I still write stuff for my band to play, but I don’t think anyone would confuse my stuff with the pops of either K or J. :)

Asian pop requires either a horde of cute teenage or 20-something girls dancing stock moves and singing some forgettable tune, or androgynous boy bands doing the same thing. That’s where the money is.

There are solo acts that are musically pretty good, aimed at older consumers. So, the music is generally MOR soft pop. Jay Chou (Canto-pop star) has worked in some R&B into his music, though.

Chou played Kato in that Seth Rogan travesty of a movie, BTW.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:05:32am

re: #229 freetoken

Not for the Trumpiots:

Report Finds Immigrants Come to Resemble Native-Born Americans Over Time, But Integration Not Always Linked to Greater Well-Being for Immigrants

Download the report here.

In other words, a lot of our preconceived notions and prejudices are totally unfounded.

In other other words, ALL LEFTIST LIES AND PROPAGANDA!!!

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:06:56am

re: #230 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Asian pop requires either a horde of cute teenage or 20-something girls dancing stock moves and singing some forgettable tune, or androgynous boy bands doing the same thing. That’s where the money is.

And that’s the reason for the complete lack of confusion. I’m neither cute, 20-something, or androgynous. :)

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:07:17am

This is the fuel for Carson, Huckabee, and their ilk (esp. the first paragrah):

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:08:00am

Out for the night. Later, all.

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freetoken  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:12:27am

Here’s a section on Muslim immigrants:

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:13:41am

re: #232 makeitstop

And that’s the reason for the complete lack of confusion. I’m neither cute, 20-something, or androgynous. :)

Lady Baby might have a spot someday.

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:15:42am

re: #236 #CampaignZero

Lady Baby might have a spot someday.

Not with my knees, they won’t. ;)

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bratwurst  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:16:37am

What. The. Fuck?

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:17:39am

re: #238 bratwurst

What. The. Fuck?

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Total fail.

Where is VB when you really need her?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:18:58am

re: #229 freetoken

It’s all lies! I know because I saw some what I presume to be Mexican people at the store, speaking what I presume to be Spanish, and paying for crab legs with what I presume to be an EBT card! Plus there was a story the other night about an illegal immigrant killing somebody! Statistics don’t matter! Data don’t matter! Only anecdotes matter!

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:19:23am

re: #238 bratwurst

re: #239 Iwouldprefernotto

You have me and I am pissed as hell.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:21:13am

re: #241 PhillyPretzel

You have me and I am pissed as hell.

You should be. Has anyone who works in media ever taken a history class?

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:21:50am

re: #242 Iwouldprefernotto

You should be. Has anyone who works in media ever taken a history class?

No.

Nor have they taken a statistics class.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:22:02am

re: #242 Iwouldprefernotto

No. They are busy taking their “journalism” classes. Or their communications classes. History is booorrrring.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:22:50am

re: #244 PhillyPretzel

No. They are busy taking their “journalism” classes.

And hair/makeup/style classes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:25:00am
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:26:28am

On the bright side the Pope is on the National Mall. :)

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A Cranky One  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:27:24am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

I had a co-worker who I wish had resigned because of his scandalous emissions.

/

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:29:45am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My surprise, etc.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:29:48am

VW CEO Martin Winterkorn has resigned.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:29:58am

re: #238 bratwurst

What. The. Fuck?

WGN-TV Uses Holocaust ‘Juden’ Image for Yom Kippur Report

unpaid interns?

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:30:48am

re: #246 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So, when is Interpol going to pick him up?

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:31:05am

re: #251 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Ignorant unpaid interns.

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:33:21am

re: #252 Shiplord Kirel

So, when is Interpol going to pick him up?

Seriously. That guy is fu-ucked.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:33:43am

re: #253 PhillyPretzel

Ignorant unpaid interns.

Homeschooled perhaps?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:34:07am

re: #253 PhillyPretzel

Ignorant unpaid interns.

Ignorant unpaid interns who are not going to get a paying job in journalism anywhere, ever…

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:35:04am

re: #255 Iwouldprefernotto

Possibly. Fundie homeschooled. My dear late parents taught me to read and write so that I would actually learn it.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:35:20am

re: #256 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Ignorant unpaid interns who are not going to get a paying job in journalism anywhere, ever…

Please. within ten years they will be running Fox news

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:36:15am

re: #258 Iwouldprefernotto

That is most likely to happen. :(

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:36:25am

YIKES!!
Pope Francis calls for urgent action on climate change in White House speech

Pope Francis enlisted the spirit of Martin Luther King Jr to help bolster his call for urgent action on climate change on Wednesday in a welcoming ceremony at the White House that Barack Obama said would “shake our conscience from slumber”.

How will ReKochlicans react?

“We have derpsign the like of which even God has never seen.”

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:37:22am

Welp, this tweet:

Hey, isn’t CCJ Catholic? He’ll be heartbroken.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:37:55am

I apologize for linking to Gawker, but this is fucking obnoxious to eleventy:

White Jogger to White Stroller-Pusher: People Like You Live in Brooklyn Because I “Settled” It

In a video purportedly filmed earlier this week in downtown Brooklyn, a white jogger—who may or may not fight for a living and may or may not be able to kill you with one punch—can be seen screaming at a white man pushing a stroller: “The only reason white people like you live here is because I settled this fucking neighborhood for you!”

[…]

“Don’t fucking come at me,” the jogger warns the stroller-pusher near the video’s start. “I’ll kill you with one punch. You’re messing with the wrong guy. I fight for a living.”

Nothing says “white privilege” by berating and physically assaulting another white person, in front of a black police officer, and nothing happens to the asshole.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:38:07am

re: #261 Ace-o-aces

Welp, this tweet:

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Hey, isn’t CCJ Catholic? He’ll be heartbroken.

As I recall, UpChuck hates Francis.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:38:11am

Considering his importance, it’s nice to finally have a Pope who is hated and reviled by right wing assholes the world over.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:39:21am

re: #264 Shiplord Kirel

Considering his importance, it’s nice to finally have a Pope who is hated and reviled by right wing assholes the world over.

disagree with = hate and revile

amazing

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:40:49am

re: #261 Ace-o-aces

I’m an American and this is why our founders (not “immigrants”!) distrusted Catholics & wouldn’t make them citizens. t.co
— Ann Coulter (@AnnCoulter) September 23, 2015

Ann von Coulter continues to sink lower in her ever growing irrelevancy.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:42:20am

re: #265 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

disagree with = hate and revile

amazing

He is the white Obama as far as they are concerned.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:42:20am

re: #266 Dr. Matt

Her blond hair is weighing her down. And her cigarettes are destroying her grey matter.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:43:19am

re: #261 Ace-o-aces

Welp, this tweet:

Hey, isn’t CCJ Catholic? He’ll be heartbroken.

Good grief Ann is really going off the rails.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:43:36am
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:43:39am

re: #266 Dr. Matt

Ann von Coulter continues to sink lower in her ever growing irrelevancy.

To be fair, her first language is Billingsgate.

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:44:50am

I don’t think Ann realizes that a big part of what Jesus was on about in the gospels is that worldly success isn’t what people should actually be aiming for.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:46:24am

re: #268 PhillyPretzel

Her blond hair is weighing her down. And her cigarettes are destroying her grey matter.

The Snake Lady appears to weigh about a pound per inch (6 feet, 72 pounds) so that is entirely plausible.

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Ace-o-aces  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:47:04am
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:48:51am

re: #272 iossarian

I don’t think Ann realizes that a big part of what Jesus was on about in the gospels is that worldly success isn’t what people should actually be aiming for.

Given time, the RW will convince itself that the gospels are a fabrication inspired by Satan. Jesus has already been transformed into a white boy, transforming him into a bigot will be easy for the wingers.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:48:52am
Ann Coulter
✔
@AnnCoulter

THIS Pope’s philosophy of worshiping the poor, blaming the rich leads to Latin American poverty. American Catholicism leads to success.

That is inexcusable ignorance. Latin America was poor, a good deal poorer in fact, back when the Catholic Church did nothing but uphold the established order of plutocrats and dictators.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:52:00am

re: #276 Shiplord Kirel

That is inexcusable ignorance. Latin America was poor, a good deal poorer in fact, back when the Catholic Church did nothing but uphold the established order of plutocrats and dictators.

Wasn’t Jesus poor?

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:52:39am

re: #277 Iwouldprefernotto

That is what I always thought.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:53:15am

re: #277 Iwouldprefernotto

Wasn’t Jesus poor?

I think he was from what passed for middle class for the day. At least when he grew up, once he set out from home I think he was broke.

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:54:00am

re: #277 Iwouldprefernotto

Wasn’t Jesus poor?

Some dillweed on Redstate was referring to Jesus as a “capitalist carpenter” earlier.

He probably fleeced widows for shoddy work that wasn’t up to code and declared a couple of building outfits bankrupt to avoid paying his creditors. Where do you think he got the cash for the loaves and fishes?

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:55:13am

Gah, some people. “Capitalist Carpenter” my arse.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:56:49am

#277 Iwouldprefernotto: There’s a fairly good argument that Jesus was middle class, especially if he was given the gifts at his birth. But even without those, the fact that he was able to run around, teaching and prophesying mean he had some money. Think of the movement leaders now, like, for instance, bin Laden. Not exactly poor. I don’t think Jesus was too worried about eating.

And if he can turn water to wine and make food on demand, he really doesn’t qualify as poor.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:56:50am

Drive-by comment - I know Backwoods_Sleuth will like this one:

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:57:47am

re: #280 iossarian

A “capitalist carpenter”? Even though I’m not a Christian I know that’s bullshit. It’s “Jesus saves,” not “Jesus invests.”

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Jenner7  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:58:02am

re: #222 Iwouldprefernotto

Just look at him, he’s being treated just awful. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 8:58:12am

re: #283 CuriousLurker

:D

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:00:48am
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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:02:22am

re: #287 Backwoods_Sleuth

The “uber” driver knows where he is going.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:06:58am

re: #277 Iwouldprefernotto

Wasn’t Jesus poor?

Well Prosperity Gospel quack heretics adherents point to His seamless robe as evidence that He supported the accretion of wealth. For real, an expensive but functional garment. That’s it.
They have nothing to say about his lack of palaces, herds of camels, fancy jewelry, and other analogs to the accoutrements of the modern Evangelical ministry.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:07:19am

Hey all. Damn it has been a freaking nightmare to get into this site today and stay very long. I’ve used all three major Windows browsers and have had trouble with all three.

As far as I can tell they are all having problem with the outside ad scripts. IE threw up a message that the scripts were running long and timing out. Firefox says plug-in container stops and crashes. Chrome continues with Flash crashes.

So, if you don’t see me around…I am over there in the corner frustrated that I can’t use one of my favorite sites any longer.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:07:34am

re: #289 Shiplord Kirel

Well Prosperity Gospel quack heretics adherents point to His seamless robe as evidence that He supported the accretion of wealth. For real, an expensive but functional garment. That’s it.
They have nothing to say about his lack of palaces, herds of camels, fancy jewelry, and other analogs to the accoutrements of the modern Evangelical ministry.

Just shut up and help me grease this camel’s hips…

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Jenner7  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:09:59am

re: #290 ObserverArt

Have you tried disabling your flash player? That worked for me.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:10:06am

sigh…

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:12:37am

re: #168 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Cliven Bundy is in no way comparable to artists remixing, re-imagining and otherwise making derivative works.
Excessively long copyright hurts innovation. If twenty-five years isn’t enough time to earn enough to make your original work worth the effort, tough noogies.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:14:12am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

Graham “If I’m President We’re Going To Rally The People Within The Faith…We’re Going To Destroy Radical Islam.” Via

I am also for eradicating radical Islam, but it is not a religious struggle but a political and social one.

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Teukka  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:14:17am

re: #294 Jebediah, RBG

Cliven Bundy is in no way comparable to artists remixing, re-imagining and otherwise making derivative works.
Excessively long copyright hurts innovation. If twenty-five years isn’t enough time to earn enough to make your original work worth the effort, tough noogies.

I would like a system that the more permissive a license, e.g. GPL or CC, the more free legal protection it should have.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:16:02am

hissy fit:

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:17:37am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

He will do that with every network until he is “forced to buy” his own. Then he figures he can say and do whatever he wants. lol

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:19:09am

re: #275 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Given time, the RW will convince itself that the gospels are a fabrication inspired by Satan. Jesus has already been transformed into a white boy, transforming him into a bigot will be easy for the wingers.

And Jesus said to his disciples, “Yea I say, Keep those smarmy, swarthy folks from me. I hear they carry disease and have cantaloupe calves. And as for them running out of fish, fuck them they should have had a better job so they could buy enough. Also, go ahead and stone that harlot, she probably just wants free birth control anyway.”

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:20:19am

re: #292 Jenner7

Have you tried disabling your flash player? That worked for me.

I’ve tried just about everything. Right now it is stable. Not sure why. I get times when everything is ok and I can use the site, like right now, then it will slow way down.

And really, why should I have to disable Flash for here, when I do not have these issues at other sites just as intense in content?

I just hope that something Charles is doing is a bit ahead of the browsers and that it will all catch up.

I wish I could afford to turn off the ads, but truthfully I can’t at this time. So…we trudge on. Or not.

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nines09  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:20:26am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

hissy fit:

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Buck up Pimpster. They treat everyone who is not of them badly. I really don’t know why they would treat you unfairly though. You hate just as well if not better than all their poster boys.

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:20:57am

re: #298 PhillyPretzel

He will do that with every network until he is “forced to buy” his own. Then he figures he can say and do whatever he wants. lol

Worked for Berlusconi.

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Jenner7  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:21:07am

Trump, our soon to be baby in chief.

//

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:21:32am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won’t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2015

And conservatives will applaud him for “taking a stand”. Yet, when President Obama criticized fox “news”, these same conservatives called him “Hitler”, “Stalin”, etc., etc., etc.,

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:23:11am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

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We’re Going To Destroy Radical Islam

With radical Catholicism.

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allegro  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:23:54am

re: #295 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I am also for eradicating radical Islam, but it is not a religious struggle but a political and social one.

And a real good start towards that goal would be to stop declaring violence and war on the Muslim people every time they get in front of a mic.

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Lidane  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:24:23am

If only the ACTUAL debates were this short:

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:25:33am

Expect conservatives to be “outraged” because the POTUS was “bowing” to the Pope.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:27:53am

re: #309 Dr. Matt

Ironically he uses the word “atone” on this day Yom Kippur. And similar was said back in 1979 when then Philly Mayor Frank Rizzo bowed to John Paul II.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:28:21am

#309 Dr. Matt:

Yep. Time to look for “Bush bows to Pope” pictures.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:29:50am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

hissy fit:

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He should run 3rd party if he doesn’t get the nomination the Establishment Republicans are clearly not treating him fairly. lol

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Lidane  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:30:37am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

Please let this be the first step towards Trump running a third party campaign.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:31:46am

CNN just mentioned that Pope Francis just gave the Jews a Yom Kippur greeting. I hate to tell them this but this has been going on for a little while.

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Kragar  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:32:31am
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nines09  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:33:12am

re: #309 Dr. Matt

Respect and congeniality is foreign to the Cult Of Nothing.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:33:46am

Regarding Ann Coulter and her Catholic rage. I do believe there were a couple Catholics that were part of the delegation at the Constitutional Convention.

And she should also look into how “christian” the main group of forefathers were really not. Most of them were thinkers and as such were more deists than any formal religion.

Fundies have distorted the history of Christianity, the world and the U.S. What good are they? They seem sometimes to be what will really bring this country down. Imagine that…do-gooders doing bad.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:34:25am

re: #314 PhillyPretzel

CNN just mentioned that Pope Francis just gave the Jews a Yom Kippur greeting. I hate to tell them this but this has been going on for a little while.

CNN is most of the time is a day late and a dollar short.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:34:49am

re: #238 bratwurst

What. The. Fuck?

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That particular image is one of the top Google Image hits when you search “Star of David”. Apparently someone didn’t know their history.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:35:34am

re: #318 Tigger2

i realize that but today I am at Wegman’s and that is what they have on their TV.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:36:49am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

hissy fit:

Donald J. Trump ✔ @realDonaldTrump

.@FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won’t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future.

12:02 PM - 23 Sep 2015

Hey The Donald™ they are trying to tell you something. They are sending early signs that you are not the guy.

But it is fun watching the current leader fighting with what has been considered the king-maker in the media for the GOP.

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stpaulbear  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:36:53am

re: #309 Dr. Matt

Expect conservatives to be “outrage” because the POTUS was “bowing” to the Pope.

Embedded Image

He’s just checking to see if the pope is wearing Gucci slippers.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:37:40am

re: #322 stpaulbear

lol

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:37:48am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:38:55am

re: #314 PhillyPretzel

CNN just mentioned that Pope Francis just gave the Jews a Yom Kippur greeting. I hate to tell them this but this has been going on for a little while.

CNN: We don’t know what this Yom Kippur thing is, but whatevs.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:39:09am

I haven’t checked on Free Republic in a while. Even with my service in Vietnam, Somalia, and Iraq, and raising two girls, and living in Lubbock for years, I was still just not tough enough to deal with it every day.
I am back in shape though and have re-entered that hive of scum and villainy as a public service, so the human race may know what they are up to without having to wade in themselves.

Some choice droppings from the megatons of newly posted derp:

Refugee Armageddon in Europe:

A word of caution to the European Nations considering taking in millions of “refugees.” Many of these people are keenly aware of how and why ISIS was successful.

One day in the not too distant future, hundreds of thousands of “refugees” will catch the militarys of Europe flat footed and overrun many of their bases. They will seize the weapons, and quickly gain control of large regions of Europe, and the militaries will be hard pressed to regain control. Meanwhile all police officers and political and civil service people will be slaughtered, and the slaughter of non Muslims will be something akin to what the Nazis did to the Jews. Even worse, if that is possible, the Muslims might seize control of nuclear weapons, and then katy bar the door.

Advice for Catholics:

I’m not catholic but your pope needs to be impeached or whatever you do to get rid of him, I think it’s usually murder. He needs to stay out of politics and do his catholic thing.

A Kochhead weighs in too:

The Pope is pushing the Global Warming Hoax.

This means:

1) The Pope is abusing his office, because the temperature of the earth is not part of the Catholic Faith;

2) The Pope is a LIAR, because Global Warming is not happening. (The Pope has a DUTY not to believe hoaxes, so he has no right to plead [sometime in the future] that he was deceived.)

Catholics, for the good of the Church, have the duty to do all they can to make everyone aware that this Pope is an abuser of his office and his fame, and is a liar.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:39:46am

re: #313 Lidane

Please let this be the first step towards Trump running a third party campaign.

But, but he signed a PLEDGE!!!!111

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:40:46am
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nines09  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:41:19am

re: #326 Shiplord Kirel

Good luck. That’s a burning dumpster fire.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:41:49am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

That is very cool. Wow. The fundies will not be happy.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:42:17am

re: #326 Shiplord Kirel

One day in the not too distant future, hundreds of thousands of “refugees” will catch the militarys of Europe flat footed and overrun many of their bases. They will seize the weapons, and quickly gain control of large regions of Europe, and the militaries will be hard pressed to regain control. Meanwhile all police officers and political and civil service people will be slaughtered, and the slaughter of non Muslims will be something akin to what the Nazis did to the Jews. Even worse, if that is possible, the Muslims might seize control of nuclear weapons, and then katy bar the door.

Somewhere in the world on the interwebs there is a paragraph containing more paranoid derp than this one, but it wouldn’t be easy to find.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:42:54am

re: #326 Shiplord Kirel

I haven’t checked on Free Republic in a while. Even with my service in Vietnam, Somalia, and Iraq, and raising two girls, and living in Lubbock for years, I was still just not tough enough to deal with it every day.
I am back in shape though and have re-entered that hive of scum and villainy as a public service, so the human race may know what they are up to without having to wade in themselves.

Some choice droppings from the megatons of newly posted derp:

Refugee Armageddon in Europe:

Advice for Catholics:

A Kochhead weighs in too:

Didn’t God say something about taking care of his creation ( earth ) how is the Pope talking about the effects of climate change not a religious thing to talk about..

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:42:59am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

Donald J. Trump: FoxNews has been treating me very unfairly & I have therefore decided that I won’t be doing any more Fox shows for the foreseeable future

Fox News has decided to cast its lot with the GOP establishment, which it sees as a more reliable and long-term proposal than DRT.

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Archangelus  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:43:51am

re: #238 bratwurst

What. The. Fuck?

I’d bet good money that it’s probably the result of someone mistaking Yom Kippur for a Holocaust remembrance day…

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allegro  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:44:03am

re: #332 Tigger2

Didn’t God say something about taking care of his creation ( earth ) how is the Pope talking about the effects of climate change not religious.

It hurts the Koch bros fee-fees.

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TedStriker  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:44:05am

re: #331 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Somewhere in the world on the interwebs there is a paragraph containing more paranoid derp than this one, but it wouldn’t be easy to find.

How in the hell can anyone like that function on a day-to-day basis in the real world, with a fevered paranoia like that?

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:44:48am

re: #334 Archangelus

That will be their excuse. And most will accept it.

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:45:16am

re: #296 Teukka

That’s a good idea.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:48:16am

re: #319 Eclectic Cyborg

That particular image is one of the top Google Image hits when you search “Star of David”. Apparently someone didn’t know their history.

When I saw that image up thread that is what I was thinking. But is that not troubling? CNN is supposed to be a professional* media company. What, can’t they afford people that have degrees in college and have some feel for history? Or, is it another indictment of our education systems? Most likely a bit of both.

*Professional as in how professional anything is these days when it comes to media.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:49:54am

re: #325 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

CNN: We don’t know what this Yom Kippur thing is, but whatevs.

I don’t know, but it sounds like it has something to do with the Middle East, so it might be bad!

/

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:50:10am

re: #300 ObserverArt

I’ve tried just about everything. Right now it is stable. Not sure why. I get times when everything is ok and I can use the site, like right now, then it will slow way down.

And really, why should I have to disable Flash for here, when I do not have these issues at other sites just as intense in content?

I just hope that something Charles is doing is a bit ahead of the browsers and that it will all catch up.

I wish I could afford to turn off the ads, but truthfully I can’t at this time. So…we trudge on. Or not.

I feel your pain. I just installed the adblock extension on my Chrome browser and noticed an immediate improvement. I hesitated to do this but eventually chose to for several reasons:

1) I, like you, want my favourite site to be usable on this PC
2) I frequently visit on my ipad and smartphones which have no problem handling the ads
3) I’m planning to donate to the LGF gofundme in the not too distant future
4) I can turn off the block if I want to

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:50:30am

re: #339 ObserverArt

When I saw that image up thread that is what I was thinking. But is that not troubling? CNN is supposed to be a professional* media company. What, can’t they afford people that have degrees in college and have some feel for history? Or, is it another indictment of our education systems? Most likely a bit of both.

*Professional as in how professional anything is these days when it comes to media.

I stick with the unpaid intern theory because they are a commercial news agency and have a bottom line to look after

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:51:43am

re: #341 Eclectic Cyborg

And that is why a have a subscription. And Charles I will be paying for my subscription in a few days.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:51:48am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:52:07am

My education was Canadian, but in order to graduate high school, I only needed to take one history class (I chose to take more) and to qualify to study journalism in College you needed only a high school diploma.

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Jenner7  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:54:26am

Tank Abbott: I’ll Beat Ronda Rousey, Then She’ll Make Me A Sandwich

“She’s a girl. It’s all about this emotional stuff,” he said.

huffingtonpost.com

That’s just one of his offensive comments. But the comments about the article are just as bad. Defending this man because she basically asked for it. Yikes.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:55:28am

Well today’s been an Interesting day. First time ivere: #346 Jenner7

Tank Abbott: I’ll Beat Ronda Rousey, Then She’ll Make Me A Sandwich

huffingtonpost.com

That’s just one of his offensive comments. But the comments about the article are just as bad. Defending this man because she basically asked for it. Yikes.

We still have ways to go in gender relations.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 9:56:56am

Sad to hear about Yogi too. I always liked him and his Yogisms were brilliant but he was a great ball player too and man. A veteran of D Day.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:00:42am

For those with Chrome…I came upon this Google page the other day trying to figure out what is going on.

Plugin-based content doesn’t work on Chrome

Why NPAPI plugins don’t work now

In the past, many plugins were developed using an old system called NPAPI. Today fewer sites are using NPAPI plugins and they have often caused security risks on websites.

To make browsing with Chrome safer, faster, and more stable, we stopped allowing NPAPI plugins on September 1, 2015.

Plugins that use NPAPI, including Silverlight, Java, and Unity, won’t work. If you want to use a website that uses an NPAPI plugin, you’ll need to use a different web browser.
PPAPI plugins still work

Plugins that use a newer, more secure system called Pepper API (PPAPI) still work. That includes plugins that come with Chrome, like Adobe Flash. PPAPI plugins that come with Chrome update when Chrome does, so there’s no need to install anything extra.

I note too, this morning when I launched Firefox there was a new upgrade loaded. I wonder if they too are going the same direction as Google with Chrome and that is why Firefox was being such a pain this morning.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:05:14am

O_o

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:05:42am
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:05:43am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Trump probably tried to buy it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:06:27am

re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth

15 of the 19 people who participated in the 9/11 attacks were Saudis…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:08:24am

re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

15 of the 19 people who participated in the 9/11 attacks were Saudis…

Saudis…Swedes…

They both begin with an “S”.

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Archangelus  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:09:21am

re: #350 Backwoods_Sleuth

O_o

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:09:24am

re: #354 Backwoods_Sleuth

Saudis…Swedes…

They both begin with an “S”.

and talk funny

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:09:39am

#353 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light): They didn’t fly back to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan either.

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Lidane  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:10:24am

re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

15 of the 19 people who participated in the 9/11 attacks were Saudis…

And none of the 19 hijackers flew back anywhere.

Trump’s an ass.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:10:27am

re: #357 Belafon

#353 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light): They didn’t fly back to Saudi Arabia or Afghanistan either.

that was not part of the plan, no…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:10:39am

it begins…

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:12:35am

Hey TRUMP®? Your character is morally bankrupt.

And when your run is done…all you will have achieved is a demonstration to all of America how big a jerk you really are. It’s gonna be a lot harder for you business-wise after this too.

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Lidane  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:12:51am

re: #360 Backwoods_Sleuth

You’d think Rand would be the first one to pay that fee. You know, since it’s his home state.

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Lidane  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:13:11am

*facepalm*

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bmoak  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:14:54am

A bit late to the game, but the Justice Society of America members standing behind Wonder Woman, from left to right, are: Hawkman, Starman, Dr. Mid-Nite, Spectre, Johnny Thunder, and the Atom.

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:15:07am

Just noticed something on Yogi Berra’s wikipedia bio. He died on the 69th anniversary of his major league debut. (First game September 22, 1946).

RIP, Yogi.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:19:54am

re: #363 Lidane

*facepalm*

[Embedded content]

I want to see that.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:20:17am

Baby moose?

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:22:43am

re: #363 Lidane
Saw this posted there and thought it was funny.

*facepalm*

[Embedded content]

Citizens Arrest

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:31:45am

Hey, isn’t it Sept. 23? We aren’t supposed to be here any more.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:33:56am

re: #369 Skip Intro

Hey, isn’t it Sept. 23? We aren’t supposed to be here any more.

That happened over in time line 666.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:34:03am

re: #369 Skip Intro

Hey, isn’t it Sept. 23? We aren’t supposed to be here any more.

Perhaps only the good guys/gals have been raptured? It’s pretty quiet around here today and we haven’t heard from Charles today. Just sayn…..

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stpaulbear  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:35:07am

re: #353 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

15 of the 19 people who participated in the 9/11 attacks were Saudis…

Everytime I hear about the 19 hijackers I think of the 20th hijacker who was arrested in MN for overstaying his visa while paying cash to a flight school to learn how to fly a large aircraft, but not caring to learn how to land it. His instructors and the local FBI agents had him nailed a month before 9/11, but they couldn’t get permission from HQ to search his computer, which had a ton of info about the hijacking plans. What a horrid SNAFU.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:35:15am

“More Catholic than the Pope! More patriotic than any combat vet! Look, up in the sky, it’s Wingerman!”

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:35:25am

re: #371 Dr. Matt

Perhaps only the good guys/gals have been raptured? It’s pretty quiet around here today and we haven’t heard from Charles today. Just sayn…..

Naw I’m still here. lol

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:36:12am

re: #369 Skip Intro

Hey, isn’t it Sept. 23? We aren’t supposed to be here any more.

You’re the only one left. The rest is a simulation.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:36:26am

#371 Dr. Matt:

The Rapture occurred. Only Yogi Berra was taken.

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:36:42am

re: #374 Tigger2

Naw I’m still here. lol

Me too, but where are Mike Hucksterbee, Bryan Fischer, and Pat Robertson?

378
freetoken  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:38:08am

Masses huddled on Greek islands:

Migrants and Refugees Leave Lesvos Island As Thousands More Arrive

[…]

In the past day, the port of Piraeus has been the scene of yet another major wave of migrant and refugee arrivals. Five thousand people who were transported from the Greek islands, disembarked at Greece’s biggest port between Tuesday and Wednesday.

The “Eleftherios Venizelos” passenger ship had transported 2,477 of those from Lesvos on Wednesday morning. Two other ferries transported the remaining migrants and refugees, also from Lesvos, with 1,300 arriving with the “Ariadne” ship on Wednesday and 1,922 with the Blue Star Ferry Patmos on Tuesday, according to the Athens-Macedonian News Agency.

Despite this seemingly large exodus from the island, Lesvos had another massive influx on Wednesday morning with approximately 2,500 migrants and refugees arriving at the island, according to Greek media reports.

Last week around 30,000 migrants and refugees had been transported from Lesvos to mainland Greece.

[…]

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:38:11am

re: #377 Skip Intro

Me too, but where are Mike Hucksterbee, Bryan Fischer, and Pat Robertson?

replaced by androids

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:38:33am

re: #377 Skip Intro

Me too, but where are Mike Hucksterbee, Bryan Fischer, and Pat Robertson?

Probably still in their rooms with the covers over their head crying because the Pope doesn’t think the way they do. //

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:40:53am

re: #375 Shiplord Kirel

You’re the only one left. The rest is a simulation.

I’m a bot

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:45:29am

From huffingtonpost.com :

“In short, such remarks — or the lack of a countering remark by one particular candidate, Donald Trump, when Muslim integrity and citizenship were questioned in his presence — left most of these warriors (Muslim members of the armed forces) questioning the Republican Party’s credentials, indeed its character, for leading this country from the White House or the Congress.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:46:10am
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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:47:15am

Feel free to help AP out with a “non-hurtful” term for the deniers.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:47:21am

re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth

That means that Hillary is a viable candidate. And they are running scared.

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:48:16am

re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth

And when she doesn’t will Monica resign for being an idiot?

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:48:47am

re: #381 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

I’m a bot

Why is it you say: “I’m a bot”?

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nines09  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:49:59am

re: #369 Skip Intro

Hey, isn’t it Sept. 23? We aren’t supposed to be here any more.

Define “here”.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:51:11am

re: #387 iossarian

Why is it you say: “I’m a bot”?

His programming made him say it.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:51:31am

re: #387 iossarian

The real Steve got raptured. He left a pile of posts programmed to autopost over the next couple of years.

Booger

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Archangelus  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:52:01am

re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth

Youtube Video

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:52:14am

re: #387 iossarian

Why is it you say: “I’m a bot”?

Because he’s… seen things… you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion; he watched c-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate… All those… moments… will be lost, in time, like tears… in… the rain

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Shiplord Kirel  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:52:52am

re: #387 iossarian

Why is it you say: “I’m a bot”?

You should know, since you are also a bot.

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nines09  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:52:56am

re: #376 Belafon

#371 Dr. Matt:

The Rapture occurred. Only Yogi Berra was taken.

Now just envision all those families staring down eating freeze dried food for the next few months because pop wanted to prepare for the end of the world by purchasing food……

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:53:15am

re: #390 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The real Steve got raptured. He left a pile of posts programmed to autopost over the next couple of years.

Booger

Earlier you said you are a bot?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:54:32am

“Booger” is one of the most historically significant LGF posts ever.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:55:09am

re: #395 iossarian

Earlier you said you are a bot?

He know you would say that.

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iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 10:55:14am

re: #393 Shiplord Kirel

You should know, since you are also a bot.

emacswiki.org

Not going to keep playing that game as it gets dumb/old real fast.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:00:48am

#398 iossarian:

Back in college, I did ELIZA to ELIZA. It was pretty much also in my head, but some of the questions it was generating at the end came pretty close to sounding like frustration.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:04:30am

Foreign Pope Taking Jobs Away From Ordinary Americans

criminal record of pontifex not documented for public

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:06:59am

I heard somewhere today was supposed to be The Rupture, so I’ve been careful not to lift anything heavy all day.

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Tigger2  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:07:10am

re: #383 Backwoods_Sleuth
Lets give them something to think about.

[Embedded content]

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:07:23am

And now for something completely different. This is Warner Brothers’ official montage of Looney Tunes cartoons that used Raymond Scott’s 1937 song “Powerhouse.”
Video

404
Romantic Heretic  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:10:04am

re: #328 Backwoods_Sleuth

Even though I’m an agnostic I like this Pope more and more all the time.

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nines09  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:10:13am

I’M BOTACUS!!!!!!re: #400 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

One more furriner telling us what to do…… re: #401 Blind Frog Belly White

I heard somewhere today was supposed to be The Rupture, so I’ve been careful not to lift anything heavy all day.

When I had my double hernia surgery (Whoo Hoo!) I was told by my Doc not to lift anything over 15 pounds. I asked him how I was supposed to urinate. He laughed. That’s why he’s my doctor.

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Dave In Austin  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:10:46am

re: #396 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

“Booger” is one of the most historically significant LGF posts ever.

Is there linkages??

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Nyet  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:10:49am

How is economics not the Pope’s domain? By whose standards? LOL.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:11:27am

re: #407 Nyet

How is economics not the Pope’s domain? By whose standards? LOL.

By the standards of those who disagree with him

409
Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:11:29am

re: #388 nines09

Define “here”.

Not there.

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Nyet  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:12:35am

re: #408 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

By the standards of those who disagree with him

I disagree with the Pope on a huge number of things, but he has no less “domains” than I have. We are both free to speak our minds on anything.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:13:41am

re: #410 Nyet

I disagree with the Pope on a huge number of things, but he has no less “domains” than I have. We are both free to speak our minds on anything.

there are some who insist that women belong in the kitchen and Popes belong in the church (and nowhere else)

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:13:46am

re: #405 nines09

When I had my double hernia surgery (Whoo Hoo!) I was told by my Doc not to lift anything over 15 pounds. I asked him how I was supposed to urinate. He laughed. That’s why he’s my doctor.

When my Dad had his hernia surgery years ago, he wrote a note and had hte nurse who prepped him for surgery place it on his abdomen so the surgeon would see it:

A fellow named Smith with a hernia
Said to his doctor, “Goldurn ya,
“While fixing my middle
“Please do not fiddle
“With matters that do not concern ya!”

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:14:14am
414
goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:15:14am

re: #407 Nyet

How is economics not the Pope’s domain? By whose standards? LOL.

Mammon’s, probably.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:15:17am

re: #410 Nyet

I disagree with the Pope on a huge number of things, but he has no less “domains” than I have. We are both free to speak our minds on anything.

“In my Father’s domain there are many domains: if it were not so, I would have told you.”

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:15:36am

re: #407 Nyet

How is economics not the Pope’s domain? By whose standards? LOL.

Economics isn’t sexytimes or related to lady parts, so it has nothing to do with morality. Apparently.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:15:37am
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Nyet  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:16:17am

If what is meant by his “domain” is that he can speak with authority… Well, that’s different, but doesn’t change my point.

The Pope can speak with authority on what his version of Christianity thinks of anything, including economics.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:16:23am

re: #317 ObserverArt

Regarding Ann Coulter and her Catholic rage. I do believe there were a couple Catholics that were part of the delegation at the Constitutional Convention.

And she should also look into how “christian” the main group of forefathers were really not. Most of them were thinkers and as such were more deists than any formal religion.

Fundies have distorted the history of Christianity, the world and the U.S. What good are they? They seem sometimes to be what will really bring this country down. Imagine that…do-gooders doing bad.

Maryland was founded as a Catholic refuge by lord Baltimore. They dominated until well into the history of the country.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:16:30am

re: #407 Nyet

How is economics not the Pope’s domain? By whose standards? LOL.

When it comes to discussing conservative talking heads the word standards cannot be used. They have none. Actually that explains their candidates too. Standards are for wussy liberals and progressives.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:17:06am

re: #414 goddamnedfrank

Mammon’s, probably.

It most likely won’t happen, but it would be wonderful if the Pope’s upcoming speech to Congress would include a serious dig or two at the prosperity gospel in it.

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Nyet  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:18:03am

re: #416 Blind Frog Belly White

Economics isn’t sexytimes or related to lady parts, so it has nothing to do with morality. Apparently.

They’re whining that he “breaks” the barriers that they thought up. Pathetic.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:19:38am

re: #417 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Hey, it’s just luck he didn’t say, “What’s his name, Juan Valdez?”

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:20:22am

Commie Pope Preaches Religion Opiate Of The People

says “get some today - first one’s free!”

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:20:27am

re: #423 Blind Frog Belly White

Hey, it’s just luck he didn’t say, “What’s his name, Juan Valdez?”

Trump would have said “Speedy Gonzalez”.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:22:46am

re: #421 EPR-radar

It most likely won’t happen, but it would be wonderful if the Pope’s upcoming speech to Congress would include a serious dig or two at the prosperity gospel in it.

I could see him dropping Matthew 6:24 like a verbal hammer.

“You cannot serve both God and Money.”

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Decatur Deb  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:26:28am

re: #418 Nyet

If what is meant by his “domain” is that he can speak with authority… Well, that’s different, but doesn’t change my point.

The Pope can speak with authority on what his version of Christianity thinks of anything, including economics.

You can speak of two kinds of authority. One is the notional authority that is tied to his position among believers. A more crude definition is the degree to which his statements induce behavior in his listeners. In that sense he has fairly little authority when preaching on things like contraception to American Catholics.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:26:40am

re: #426 goddamnedfrank

I could see him dropping Matthew 6:24 like a verbal hammer.

“You cannot serve both God and Money.”

i thought mammon was some furriner

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:29:44am

re: #284 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Jesus Saves
Mohammed Invests
But only Buddah pays dividends.

(back in the past, the old joke used to be “Jesus saves at (insert your local bank)”-usually written over urinals.)

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Nyet  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:32:39am

re: #427 Decatur Deb

As a rule, a Pope is an authority on Catholicism. An expert. In that sense.

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Decatur Deb  Sep 23, 2015 • 11:33:49am

re: #430 Nyet

As a rule, a Pope is an authority on Catholicism. An expert. In that sense.

Ah, “academic” authority, yet a third kind.


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