Utterly Deranged Breitbart “News” Post of the Day: Pope Francis Is “Condemning Millions to Unspeakable Misery”

“The devil’s playground here on Earth”
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At Breitbart “News” today, we find the following utterly deranged attack on Pope Francis: The Nuclear Option: Pope Francis Threatens Legacy of Pope John Paul II, Ronald Reagan - Breitbart.

According to this ranting loon, Pope Francis “rebukes” and “scolds” conservatives, calls free-market capitalism “the dung of the devil,” denounces America, promotes “the devil’s playground here on Earth,” denies the power of God, is “woefully out of his depth,” has a “shallow grasp of science” and a “weak grasp of public policy and moral hazard,” and is “condemning millions to unspeakable earthly misery.”

It’s almost unbelievably insane; those are all direct quotes from the post.

And of course, hundreds of even more deranged comments follow as the Breitbart audience reacts like Pavlov’s dogs and spews a deluge of hatred at Pope Francis. Some excerpts from the nauseating flood:

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This guy is nothing but a full-blown commie. Period.

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Dumb cluck wacko. At least he is driving away the remaining Catholics with good sense from an absurd religious leadership scam. Sadly, he is attracting enough from Mexico to more than make up for those who are fleeing as we speak.

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From the mouth of a life long commie who has been made the head of a powerful church….boy, you guys in Rome sure can pick em.

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I have no doubt that this pope serves Satan rather he knows it or not.

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Read the Lord’s warnings about the Antichrist and the False Prophet…..

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Thank you for this article. Thank you for Breitbart to teach and inform so cogently. If only the earnest yet naive, confused, simple-minded Pope would READ this article.

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If this guy were Pope instead of John Paul II in the 1980s he would have been reviewing the Red Army from Lenin’s Tomb on Mayday with his arm around Andropov.

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Catholicism is not Christianity.

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Catholicism starts with heresy and goes downhill from there.

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The Peep is here to feast on the Devil’s Dung.

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Reagan was a cuck who gave amnesty to 2 million mud monkeys. Stop worshiping him.

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This Pope is a jerkoff.

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This fool sounds like he might actually be the Anti-Christ…

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This “pope” is a fraud in every regard. The fear that he holds over Catholics is breathtaking. He just like any man or woman will die and go to an eternal hell, if he has not accepted Jesus as Lord. The mere fact these “priests” think they are interceding to God because we don’t have that ability is sad. Then to have a so called pope who rules over the Vatican like a dictator is both revolting and wrong. The very thing this fraud is condemning in Capitalism is the thing that allows him to live in luxury, travel in luxury. Either way, he’s just a man, and will find that out on Judgement Day.

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The old fart’s an anti-Christ. I hope his plane crashes on the way back to Rome.

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202 comments
1
Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 2:49:47pm

They seem nice.

2
nines09  Sep 23, 2015 • 2:54:23pm

More proof that alien lifeforms walk among us. And definitely not intelligent. “Shallow grasp of science?” There’s a mouthful.

3
Joe Bacon  Sep 23, 2015 • 2:56:11pm

Just look at all the crap being posted on right wing sites alleging Pope Francis is a Communist.

These people are absolutely disengaged from reality!

4
Amory Blaine  Sep 23, 2015 • 2:57:43pm

Shameless.

5
Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 2:59:02pm

The voice of the Republican base.

6
makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 2:59:21pm

So, RWNJs have proclaimed themselves…

More Catholic than the Pope,
Better-informed about AGW than scientists,
More familiar with matters of law than the Supreme Court,
Able to run the country better than a twice-elected president.

No wonder they love Trump so goddamn much.

7
Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:00:27pm

repost from downstairs:

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:00:29pm

Calling the pope the anti-Christ must be more of that freedom of religion they keep going on about.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:02:42pm

re: #6 makeitstop

So, RWNJs have proclaimed themselves…

More Catholic than the Pope,
Better-informed about AGW than scientists,
More familiar with matters of law than the Supreme Court,
Able to run the country better than a twice-elected president.

No wonder they love Trump so goddamn much.

RWNJs have made the Dunning-Kruger effect into a complete world view. In their tiny minds, their willful ignorance always trumps real knowledge.

10
iossarian  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:03:05pm

There’s a ton of pseudo-science being pumped out right now by the right to prove beyond doubt that unfettered US-style capitalism is the only thing that enables anyone in the world to have food to eat.

It’s just the next stage in the ascent of Bullshit Mountain.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:04:04pm

I have to admit I’m not much of a fan of the Catholic Church, but the guy who wrote this is out of his freaking mind.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:04:26pm

I think someone should take a shit on ol’ Andy’s grave.

It’d be fun to see how the howler monkeys would react to that.

13
Targetpractice  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:04:46pm

“I like your Christ, I do not like your Christians. Your Christians are so unlike your Christ.”’

- Mahatma Gandhi

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BlueGrl21  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:07:11pm

Yet another reason to enjoy Pope Francis.

He’s a fabulous troll. The cognitive dissonance of Conservatives over a Pope that actually acts like Jesus Dude is just too much.

* Pops popcorn in glee *

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Bubblehead II  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:08:20pm

re: #8 wrenchwench

Calling the pope the anti-Christ must be more of that freedom of religion they keep going on about.

Hell they have been calling the Pope the anit-chist for years if not decades.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:08:43pm

good freaking grief…Milo is SUCH an asshole.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:08:52pm

there should be more people speaking to huck and jindal and others like them directly while the tee vee cameras are rolling and denouncing them as un-american for their un-american ideas

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:09:58pm

It looks like the pope was referring to unbridled greed as “dung of the devil”.

Confusing unbridled greed with free-market capitalism is an easy mistake.///

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:11:41pm

Looks like the PharmBro’s latest stunt now has the US NYAG’s office digging-and when questioned, he conveniently took the Fifth.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:13:32pm
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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:13:55pm

re: #19 Eric The Fruit Bat

Looks like the PharmBro’s latest stunt now has the US NYAG’s office digging-and when questioned, he conveniently took the Fifth.

CCJ will just love him all the more. I wonder if the Hot Asian Wife pharmacist agrees?

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:14:01pm

re: #19 Eric The Fruit Bat

Looks like the PharmBro’s latest stunt now has the US NYAG’s office digging-and when questioned, he conveniently took the Fifth.

Oh my. This could be entertaining, if proven in court:

The inquiry, according to court records and people with knowledge of the inquiry, involves such a vast number of suspected crimes it is difficult to know where to start. A quick summary of the government’s theory: If there was money, Shkreli took it. If there were facts to be revealed, Shkreli hid them. If there were securities laws, Shkreli broke them.

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

This caught my eye:

Reagan was a cuck who gave amnesty to 2 million mud monkeys. Stop worshiping him.

Mud monkeys?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:14:42pm

re: #19 Eric The Fruit Bat

Looks like the PharmBro’s latest stunt now has the US NYAG’s office digging-and when questioned, he conveniently took the Fifth.

He’s made his twitter account private.

coward.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:16:35pm

re: #18 EPR-radar

It looks like the pope was referring to unbridled greed as “dung of the devil”.

Confusing unbridled greed with free-market capitalism is an easy mistake.///

Pretty sure those are the same thing in Right Wing Bizarro World.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:17:00pm

re: #10 iossarian

There’s a ton of pseudo-science being pumped out right now by the right to prove beyond doubt that unfettered US-style capitalism is the only thing that enables anyone in the world to have food to eat.

It’s just the next stage in the ascent of Bullshit Mountain.

im currently reading a biography of john d rockefeller, who certainly benefited from the ‘unfettered’ period of american capitalism

far from believing that unrestricted competition would result in the greatest good, he was dead set against competition and believed that by creating a virtual monopoly, he would substitute beneficial “co-operation”. so many other industrialists in that era agreed with him and created their own ‘trusts’/monopolies

which is why we discovered that truly free market competition REQUIRES government intervention to prevent it from turning into monopoly capitalism

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Bubblehead II  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:21:10pm

re: #23 Blind Frog Belly White

This caught my eye:

Mud monkeys?

White supremacist slang for Blacks. Though iirc the original term was mud people and was used in the infamous Turner Diary. In this instance I believe it has been altered to describe those of Hispanic descent. Either way it’s a disgusting term.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:21:16pm

re: #23 Blind Frog Belly White

This caught my eye:

Mud monkeys?

well, on the positive side, the truly hateful part of the gop has finally taken the halo off of ronald reagan and started worshiping forbidden deities, much to the consternation of wall st

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:22:54pm

John Paul II criticized unregulated capitalism too dummies. And fuck Ronald Reagan’s legacy.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:24:06pm

re: #28 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

well, on the positive side, the truly hateful part of the gop has finally taken the halo off of ronald reagan and started worshiping forbidden deities, much to the consternation of wall st

That’s part of the reason I “appreciate” Beck. He’s self aware enough to realize that the actual Reagan was fake. Of course, the problem is Beck thinks the answer is a genuine nutcase.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:24:41pm

You know, I’d forgotten just how much the mainstream media seem to hate the Clintons. I was reading this article in the WashPost about how Clinton’s account of why she turned over the emails to State differed from State’s account, and what struck me was that it was complete bullshit.

Clinton has said her team reviewed and turned over emails in response to a request from State to the last 4 SoS’s.

WashPosts’s big discrepancy? a few months before they contacted her to ask for the emails, “State Department officials contacted her representatives during the summer of 2014 to learn more about her email use and the status of emails in that account.”

Not to ask for the emails. To learn more about her email use and the status of the emails.

There’s no discrepancy. State isn’t saying they asked for the emails then. The WashPost is implying it, despite their own article not supporting that claim.

I’d forgotten just how shameless they all were in shading their language, crafting their headlines, etc. to cast as dark a shadow as possible without QUITE lying. It’s gonna be a long 14 months.

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:26:58pm

re: #29 HappyWarrior

John Paul II criticized unregulated capitalism too dummies. And fuck Ronald Reagan’s legacy.

The Reagan “legacy” that today’s wingnuts worship is 90% fantasy and 10% pure bullshit.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:28:00pm

re: #22 EPR-radar

The big kicker was he was a CEO of a publicly-traded firm. And if the Feds even get a 10% conviction rate of the literally dozens of charges they can nail him with, he’s not only going to go Club Fed, but in all probability be barred from life from the financial markets.

And that’s not counting the dozens of civil suits he’s already dealing with. This dudebro’s in a heap of shit, yet he’s a CCJ hero.

‘nuff said.

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William of Orange  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:28:02pm
The Pope’s henchmen!
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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:28:19pm

re: #32 Skip Intro

The Reagan “legacy” that today’s wingnuts worship is 90% fantasy and 10% pure bullshit.

Or, using Yogi math - 90% is fantasy, the other half is bullshit.

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Targetpractice  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:28:40pm

re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White

The Dead Tree Media is still nursing a major grudge from the 90s, when their years long campaign to see Bill marched out of the White House in cuffs failed to bear fruit, even after they went whole-hog in the “Great Penis Hunt.” If they bring down Hillary, they will consider their years of BS reporting vindicated and boast about how their “vigilance” finally bore fruit.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:28:41pm

re: #26 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

im currently reading a biography of john d rockefeller, who certainly benefited from the ‘unfettered’ period of american capitalism

far from believing that unrestricted competition would result in the greatest good, he was dead set against competition and believed that by creating a virtual monopoly, he would substitute beneficial “co-operation”. so many other industrialists in that era agreed with him and created their own ‘trusts’/monopolies

which is why we discovered that truly free market competition REQUIRES government intervention to prevent it from turning into monopoly capitalism

That ‘beneficial cooperation’ is just gilded age propaganda bullshit. Big business seeks monopoly power as naturally and inevitably as water flowing downhill. It is profitable to run a monopoly, after all.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:28:50pm

re: #32 Skip Intro

The Reagan “legacy” that today’s wingnuts worship is 90% fantasy and 10% pure bullshit.

Indeed.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:29:02pm

Oh look, Jews & Muslims don’t have to kill each other. I’m sure the RWNJ extremists on both sides will be gagging on the Kumbaya vibe. //

Singing Kumbaya- A Confession

That is all.

Later, lizards.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:29:36pm

re: #39 CuriousLurker

Oh look, Jews & Muslims don’t have to kill each other. I’m sure the RWNJ extremists on both sides will be gagging on the Kumbaya vibe. //

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That is all.

Later, lizards.

Commented on your page CL. This is lovely.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:30:26pm

re: #23 Blind Frog Belly White

This caught my eye:

Mud monkeys?

Anyone browner than the author.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:31:57pm

re: #36 Targetpractice

The Dead Tree Media is still nursing a major grudge from the 90s, when their years long campaign to see Bill marched out of the White House in cuffs failed to bear fruit, even after they went whole-hog in the “Great Penis Hunt.” If they bring down Hillary, they will consider their years of BS reporting vindicated and boast about how their “vigilance” finally bore fruit.

Yeah. I believe that it was during that era that the phrase ‘Even the liberal New York Times…’ was invented.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:33:29pm

re: #16 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Jenner7  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:34:51pm

NRA Contributor: People On Food Stamps Will Be “Eating Each Other In The Streets” Following EMP Attack By North Korea

mediamatters.org

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majii  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:37:06pm

The major purpose of writing articles that denounce the Pope’s positions on important issues is to protect the wealth of the one and two percent. Many of one and two percenters feel so threatened by his concern for the less fortunate that they’re finally letting their real feelings about the less fortunate show. I look at this as a very good thing. It’s past the time that they were exposed as the greed b*st*rds they are beneath the charming fronts they present to the public.

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:37:46pm

re: #44 Jenner7

NRA Contributor: People On Food Stamps Will Be “Eating Each Other In The Streets” Following EMP Attack By North Korea

mediamatters.org

Sounds kinky.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:38:01pm

re: #39 CuriousLurker

Yes indeed, the start of the Hajj has already occurred/will occur as we navigate the globe in the next 24 hours. One of my co-workers is taking a day off to celebrate, he made his pilgrimage in 2011.

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William of Orange  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:38:17pm


More great examples.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:46:44pm

“Thank you for this article. Thank you for Breitbart to teach and inform so cogently. If only the earnest yet naive, confused, simple-minded Pope would READ this article.”

I want to believe this is sarcasm. I really do.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:48:49pm

More from Eichwald’s article on Pharambro’s troubles:

Under Shkreli, Retrophin was highly dysfunctional; in fact, it was informed by its accountants, Marcum LLP, that it had not established appropriate procedures for ensuring its filings to the S.E.C. were accurate, a fact that could easily lead to misreporting of the company’s true financial dealings with its own executives. In a government filing on November 2013, Retrophin reported, “our independent auditors advised management that a material weakness existed in internal control over financial reporting and our disclosure controls.”

That only grew worse. On March 31, 2014, Retrophin reported in a government filing that its controls were not enough to ensure that information required to be disclosed was properly reported and had experienced difficulty in following generally accepted accounting principles (GAAP). Moreover, it reported, its controls were weakened by the fact that there was not sufficient segregation of duties among its senior officers.

Throughout the time that the data obtained by the government suggests Shkreli was engaging in significant and undisclosed self-dealing, he was aggressively selling Retrophin stock. For example, on May 29, 2014, Shkreli posted extremely bullish messages on the Internet, which he called “non-non-non-GAAP guidance,” and proclaimed on Twitter, without explanation, “this is one of the best days of my life.” The next day, he unloaded 292,400 shares of Retrophin, earning about $4.5 million in profits. Then, the day after, Retrophin revealed the magnitude of its problem with its internal controls and accounting, a fact that, as an insider and the top executive, Shkreli would almost certainly have known when he sold his stock 24-hours before. Around that time, Retrophin terminated its accounting firm that kept delivering the bad news about the company’s controls.

Even Turing is wrapped up in the case. While working as Retrophin’s CEO, Shkreli had a legal duty to act solely in the interest of the company shareholders, but he raised money from investors for Turing. Shkreli was tossed out of Retrophin in September 2014 amid allegations of a variety of wrongdoings. The next month, he was running Turing—the company he had financed while running Retrophin—and began raiding his former company for employees.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:49:28pm

re: #34 William of Orange

The Pope’s henchmen!

why dont i ever get to hench?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:51:07pm

Shkreli believes he is untouchable. He probably expects to be able to buy his way out of whatever trouble he gets into.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:51:46pm

[…]

In recent years brain oscillations have become an intense focus of research by Voytek and others seeking to discover any functional roles they might play. Emerging evidence suggests that oscillations might prime nerve circuits to respond more efficiently to stimuli.

“Imagine that individual neurons are like surfers,” Voytek said. “Nearby surfers experience the same waves, which are like the oscillations linking neurons in the brain. But like noise, additional interfering factors often disrupt the perfect wave at different times and different spots along the beach.”

[…]

So it’s high tide in my head and I’m just trying to catch a wave.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:51:57pm

Freaky coincidence, “Dung of the Devil” was the planned name for the marijuana strain I was going to develop when I moved back to Washington State and opened up a grow operation.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:52:41pm

re: #50 Eric The Fruit Bat

Shkreli is probably going to be obliterated by a Federal prosecutor eager to get favorable publicity by going after the most hated man in America.

This works for me.

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sizzzzlerz  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:53:10pm

re: #6 makeitstop

So, RWNJs have proclaimed themselves…

More Catholic than the Pope,
Better-informed about AGW than scientists,
More familiar with matters of law than the Supreme Court,
Able to run the country better than a twice-elected president.

No wonder they love Trump so goddamn much.

Don’t forget they’re also Constitutional scholars, interpreters of what the founding fathers actually meant, and experts on the bible with innate abilities to determine the religion to which a person actually follows irrespective of what they say.

57
Jenner7  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:53:31pm

Clinton went up in the polls, so it’s time to put a stop to that. Here is Chuck Todd, hell bent on ruining MSNBC.

He and Mark Murray wrote this today:

Since she apologized for having a personal email system, Hillary Clinton has had a pretty good last two weeks. She’s talked policy on health care; she’s racked up key endorsements; she’s had a long, serious conversation with the Des Moines Register’s editorial board; and she’s had fun on “Ellen” and Jimmy Fallon. So it looked like she was turning the corner - until new stories surfaced about her email system.

Here’s The Washington Post, calling into question her initial explanation why she turned over her emails: “Throughout the controversy over her use of a private e-mail system while she was secretary of state, Hillary Rodham Clinton has described her decision last year to turn over thousands of work-related e-mails as a response to a routine-sounding records request… They said the request was not simply about general record-keeping but was prompted entirely by the discovery that Clinton had exclusively used a private e-mail system.” And here’s Bloomberg: “The FBI has recovered personal and work-related e-mails from the private computer server used by Hillary Clinton during her time as secretary of state, according to a person familiar with the investigation.”

msnbc.com

They cite this Washington Post article from yesterday:

washingtonpost.com

Turns out it’s all recycled news that’s already been discovered and made to look bad for Clinton.

mediamatters.org

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:54:06pm

re: #52 Eclectic Cyborg

Shkreli believes he is untouchable. He probably expects to be able to buy his way out of whatever trouble he gets into.

That won’t work with a ticked off or opportunistic Federal prosecutor.

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Great White Snark  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:55:56pm

re: #54 goddamnedfrank

Freaky coincidence, “Dung of the Devil” was the planned name for the marijuana strain I was going to develop when I moved back to Washington State and opened up a grow operation.

I thought it was another microbrew from Arrogant Bastard brewing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:56:59pm

re: #57 Jenner7

According to what I’m seeing on teh twitterz, Hillary will be on all of the “news” programs this weekend.

Should be fun.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:57:07pm

re: #6 makeitstop

So, RWNJs have proclaimed themselves…

More Catholic than the Pope,
Better-informed about AGW than scientists,
More familiar with matters of law than the Supreme Court,
Able to run the country better than a twice-elected president.

No wonder they love Trump so goddamn much.

faster than a lowdown motive!
more powerful than a speeding bullshit!
able to buy tall buildings with a single bond!
it’s

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 3:58:27pm

trolling, trolling, trolling!

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makeitstop  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:00:39pm

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

trolling, trolling, trolling!

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If that’s not a honey trap, I don’t know what is.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:01:01pm

re: #61 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

faster than a lowdown motive!
more powerful than a speeding bullshit!
able to buy tall buildings with a single bond!
it’s

h.t. national lampoon

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:01:07pm

Cat Steals Singing Card

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:02:22pm

re: #58 EPR-radar

That won’t work with a ticked off or opportunistic Federal prosecutor.

And Preet Bhara isn’t one to be taken lightly.

His actions at Retrophin are probably is what will put him in the hoosegow-his Twitter behavior just amplified and focused the FBI and SEC as to what they need to do.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:02:46pm

Evening Lizardim.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:03:44pm

re: #63 makeitstop

If that’s not a honey trap, I don’t know what is.

No one might have been blocked, but I’m sure a lot of accounts got forwarded to the SS and FBI.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:04:59pm

re: #59 Great White Snark

Arrogant Bastard is actually brewed by Stone Brewery.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:05:44pm

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

No one might have been blocked, but I’m sure a lot of accounts got forwarded to the SS and FBI.

The NSA, SS and the FBI have no right to read the tweets I sent to the POTUS!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:06:55pm
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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:07:46pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, dogs aren’t just man’s best friend.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:09:26pm
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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:10:07pm

re: #73 Charles Johnson

Photo copyrighted to the Ministry of Magic.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:13:06pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

Don’t let Rick Santorum see that. Man-on-dog is bad enough, but bear-on-dog?

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Amory Blaine  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:15:01pm

The Hungry For Power Games: Walkingjay

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:15:14pm

re: #75 Blind Frog Belly White

Don’t let Rick Santorum see that. Man-on-dog is bad enough, but bear-on-dog?

Santorum?

Why are you not concerned for Bryan Fischer? He’s gotta be having a panic attack.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:15:16pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

All I need is the bear of the dog that bit me.

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calochortus  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:17:30pm

re: #69 Eric The Fruit Bat

Arrogant Bastard is actually brewed by Stone Brewery.

I lack the taste and sophistication to appreciate it.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:17:35pm

re: #77 ObserverArt

Santorum?

Why are you not concerned for Bryan Fischer? He’s gotta be having a panic attack.

That sound you hear is the world’s tiniest violin playing “My Heart Bleeds for You”.

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:18:17pm
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:19:22pm

re: #51 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

why dont i ever get to hench?

Hell, I’m still waiting for my check from Soros.

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Varek Raith  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:29:05pm

EMP ATTACKS!

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Patricia Kayden  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:30:03pm

re: #31 Blind Frog Belly White

I’m patiently waiting for the scandal part of the “Clinton email scandal”. So far, nada. This is just as scandalous as White Water turned out to be.

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EPR-radar  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:31:33pm

re: #84 Patricia Kayden

I’m patiently waiting for the scandal part of the “Clinton email scandal”. So far, nada. This is just as scandalous as White Water turned out to be.

Whitewater was a scandal. A scandalous waste of everyone’s time, that is.

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Targetpractice  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:31:48pm

re: #84 Patricia Kayden

I’m patiently waiting for the scandal part of the “Clinton email scandal”. So far, nada. This is just as scandalous as White Water turned out to be.

It doesn’t matter how many times you remind these morons that the FBI has stated she’s not the subject of a criminal investigation, they keep hoping they’ll wake up to news that she’s been arrested for “violating our national security” or some such BS.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:41:16pm
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b.d.  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:42:33pm

re: #88 Backwoods_Sleuth

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THE POPE IS BOWING TO OBAMA’S DOGS!!!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:42:55pm
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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:44:14pm

re: #89 b.d.

THE POPE IS BOWING TO OBAMA’S DOGS!!!!!

Obama let dogs in the Oval Office.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:44:44pm

re: #91 Iwouldprefernotto

Obama let dogs in the Oval Office.

and then he ate them!!!!

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:45:11pm

Dear rest of the nation’s media,

Today Donald Trump came out and said that FoxNews is tougher on him that you are.

Thank you,

The whole world.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:46:15pm

re: #93 b.d.

Dear rest of the nation’s media,

Today Donald Trump came out and said that FoxNews is tougher on him that you are.

Thank you,

The whole world.

CNN is going to be doing Trump 24/7.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:46:46pm

re: #94 Iwouldprefernotto

CNN is going to be doing Trump 24/7.

Going to be?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:47:05pm

omg! Those EARS!!!
Almost makes me want to jump into the pickup truck and head to Georgia…

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:47:24pm

re: #95 b.d.

Going to be?

Even more than 100%

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:48:18pm

re: #91 Iwouldprefernotto

Obama let dogs in the Oval Office.

OBAMA’S MUSLIM HELL HOUNDS PROBABLY WANTED TO ATTACK THE POPE AND WOULD HAVE IF FRANCIS WASN’T A COMMIE

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:49:35pm

re: #90 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lazy f***ing crow. That’s the regular trash.
///

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:52:30pm

just saw this, but it’s great:

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2015 • 4:53:49pm
After apologizing for making a penis joke about Auschwitz, a Hamilton NDP candidate says she didn’t know what the notorious Holocaust death camp was until the controversy erupted.

“Well, I didn’t know what Auschwitz was, or I didn’t up until today,” Alex Johnstone said in an interview following a candidates’ debate Tuesday night.

OK first off, let me just say:

Second, stick around because it get’s weirder. Lady wrote her MSW thesis partly on the subject of racism, yet has never heard of Auschwitz.

Beyond Professional Affiliation: Race, Class & Gender Dynamics in Interdisciplinary Teams (.pdf)

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wrenchwench  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:01:35pm

Last paragraph:

But as a political figure, his stature is diminished as he reveals himself to be intolerant, bordering on soft bigotry, and also reckless and needlessly inflammatory. No one can discount what Carson accomplished professionally, but those accomplishments must now stand shoulder to shoulder with this new persona: whisper-soft purveyor of hyperbolic hucksterism.

I’d remove this:

bordering on soft bigotry

Then it’s a nice opinion piece.

We can’t know what’s in Carson’s heart, but what’s coming from his mouth is ‘hard’ bigotry

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b_sharp  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:05:24pm

Damn, a race realist goes uber-stupid.

BTW, he’s talking about skin colour.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:05:42pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

“I could never support a candidate for President of the United States that was Muslim and had not renounced the central tenant of Islam: Sharia Law.”

Ignorant of both the Constitution and written English.

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Varek Raith  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:05:58pm

re: #103 b_sharp

Damn, a race realist goes uber-stupid.

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Whut.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:08:08pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:12:18pm

re: #102 wrenchwench

Last paragraph:

I’d remove this:

Then it’s a nice opinion piece.

We can’t know what’s in Carson’s heart, but what’s coming from his mouth is ‘hard’ bigotry

“go to college, my son, learn how to speak confidently in well formed sentences, and people will believe any kind of bullshit that comes out of your mouth”

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steve_davis  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:13:11pm

re: #23 Blind Frog Belly White

This caught my eye:

Mud monkeys?

Means people whose parents weren’t both natural magicians. Like Hermione.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:16:45pm

T -15

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:18:32pm
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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:19:05pm

re: #108 steve_davis

Means people whose parents weren’t both natural magicians. Like Hermione.

It’s really telling that Breitbart welcomes over-the-top racist articles and comments that actually would get those same individuals banned from Stormfront.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:21:09pm

Sean Penn is threatening to sue people who say he repeatedly beat the shit of Madonna and sexually assaulted her.

Fucking scumbag.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:21:55pm

The guy who wrote this hateful piece of garbage for Breitbart is also a writer for the New York Post and the Washington Times. Of course. Right wing media loves ranting loons who can churn out copy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:23:31pm
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Bubblehead II  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:26:36pm

T -6

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:28:18pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:29:18pm
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Amory Blaine  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:32:21pm

Walker commits to finishing term, passing on cabinet post

Something tells me Hillary won’t be calling him.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:37:34pm

T -0 Time to start dinner. Back in a few. Spaghetti (Italian sausage type) with lots of olives, garlic & shrooms) Read volume 2 of the LGF cookbook to get an idea. Oh! add Texas toast as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:39:31pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:40:42pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:48:02pm

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sure does.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:48:08pm

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

And yet back in 1979 when John Paul II came to Philly he was greeted by teens who were chanting, “John Paul 2 We Love You.” If something like that happens this weekend I will be pleasantly surprised.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:48:33pm

re: #118 Amory Blaine

Walker commits to finishing term, passing on cabinet post

Something tells me Hillary won’t be calling him.

There’s a spot available for court jester but Trump will be considered first for that.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:50:21pm

re: #121 Backwoods_Sleuth

Pretty sure someone was looking up how to say “you lie!!” in Latin.

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PhillyPretzel  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:51:44pm

re: #125 jaunte

Hmm. Don’t they think Latin is dead? //

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:51:51pm

Wingers seem to want a Pope that will confirm their belief that government should control people but also do nothing to help the less well off. They basically want Pope Prospertus Gospelus.

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:52:19pm

re: #125 jaunte

Pretty sure someone was looking up how to say “you lie!!” in Latin.

It should probably be in Spanish.

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Romantic Heretic  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:52:45pm

re: #7 Backwoods_Sleuth

repost from downstairs:

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I suspect a Venn diagram of both groups would have high overlap.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:53:01pm

re: #125 jaunte

Pretty sure someone was looking up how to say “you lie!!” in Latin.

pig Latin, maybe…

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Skip Intro  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:53:27pm

re: #127 HappyWarrior

If the Pope would just handle snakes and talk in tongues he’d fit right in. Might even get invited to Sarah Palin’s church.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:56:12pm

re: #131 Skip Intro

If the Pope would just handle snakes and talk in tongues he’d fit right in. Might even get invited to Sarah Palin’s church.

I like how Sarah Palin who is about as knowledgabel about Catholciism as she is everything else calling the Pope a Marxist. REally even conservative popes like Benedict are against the wingers idea of the economy.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:57:46pm

re: #132 HappyWarrior

I like how Sarah Palin who is about as knowledgabel about Catholciism as she is everything else calling the Pope a Marxist. REally even conservative popes like Benedict are against the wingers idea of the economy.

Her knowledge of Catholicism is every bit as deep as her knowledge of economics.

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gocart mozart  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:57:57pm

I would vote for a Christian so long as they reject conservative fundamentalism. Christian-lite is OK but people with views like Carson are incompatible with the constitution.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:59:26pm

re: #127 HappyWarrior

Wingers seem to want a Pope that will confirm their belief that government should control people but also do nothing to help the less well off. They basically want Pope Prospertus Gospelus.

Don’t you know - poor people exist to allow rich Christians the opportunity to be charitable. That’s why government intervention is so bad, because it robs those Christians of that opportunity.

Mind you, in this view, poor people aren’t so much people as NPCs.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:59:34pm

Seen just now on FB, courtesy of the hard-right Cato Institute:

With the caption, “With respect, Pope Francis, capitalism works, corporatism does not.”

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CuriousLurker  Sep 23, 2015 • 5:59:53pm
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b_sharp  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:01:05pm

re: #136 thedopefishlives

Seen just now on FB, courtesy of the hard-right Cato Institute:

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With the caption, “With respect, Pope Francis, capitalism works, corporatism does not.”

Do they show any causal links?

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:01:15pm

John Nolte: Can Cowardly Pope Say One Thing “That Doesn’t Suck Up To Communists?”
Jim Hoft: Pope Francis Is “Praising Freedom But Promotes Socialism.”
Ann Coulter: “This Is Why Our Founders Distrusted Catholics.”
mediamatters.org

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:02:51pm

re: #138 b_sharp

Do they show any causal links?

Of course not, because that would be, you know, real research. All they’ve got is sensational graphs and 100% Grade-A Bullshit.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:03:00pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:03:16pm

re: #139 jaunte

John Nolte: Can Cowardly Pope Say One Thing “That Doesn’t Suck Up To Communists?”
Jim Hoft: Pope Francis Is “Praising Freedom But Promotes Socialism.”
Ann Coulter: “This Is Why Our Founders Distrusted Catholics.”
mediamatters.org

But hey, Mike Huckabee wants to apologize to the Pope for how Obama is treating him.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:03:18pm

re: #136 thedopefishlives

Seen just now on FB, courtesy of the hard-right Cato Institute:

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With the caption, “With respect, Pope Francis, capitalism works, corporatism does not.”

lolwhut, didn’t these people love the Argentinian military dictatorship?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:04:39pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

“How dare that Muslim Communist be so disrespectful of that Catholic Communist!”

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:05:03pm

re: #138 b_sharp

Do they show any causal links?

Actually, it links to humanprogress.org, which, I imagine, is another right-wing social media outlet.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:05:03pm

re: #139 jaunte

John Nolte: Can Cowardly Pope Say One Thing “That Doesn’t Suck Up To Communists?”
Jim Hoft: Pope Francis Is “Praising Freedom But Promotes Socialism.”
Ann Coulter: “This Is Why Our Founders Distrusted Catholics.”
mediamatters.org

The wingnuts must feel like they’re getting tag team trolled by POTUS & the Pope. Serves them (and the hard, desiccated little nubs that are their hearts) right.

G’nite, lizards—gonna rest up for the Pope’s address of Congress tomorrow. Talk about payback for inviting Netanyahu… //

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Belafon  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:06:00pm

re: #137 CuriousLurker

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(Stated without ignoring the stuff the church is still doing) This is freakin’ cool.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:06:35pm

re: #136 thedopefishlives

Seen just now on FB, courtesy of the hard-right Cato Institute:

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With the caption, “With respect, Pope Francis, capitalism works, corporatism does not.”

‘corporatism’ is a peculiar choice - i first ran across the term in a biography of mussolini, where it unexpectedly referred to an economic system where all elements of an industry, that is from the workers on up to the top management, are encouraged to work ‘together’ and feel part of a big happy family

in other words, the workers are told to shut up and do what management tells them to do - a really fascist view of how worker/management relations are supposed to work

given, that, i’d take ‘capitalism’ over ‘corporatism’ any day…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:08:02pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

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That’s the wingnut way. Claim liberals are teh real racists about black people and then post shit that sounds like Stormfront.

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jaunte  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:09:15pm

re: #148 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

the workers are told to shut up and do what management tells them to do

That sounds familiar.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:10:28pm

re: #142 Blind Frog Belly White

But hey, Mike Huckabee wants to apologize to the Pope for how Obama is treating him.

Obama should apologize for their words. ///

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:11:21pm

Ya know, I never liked Benedict that much as Pope, ohwever I did appreciate that he stood up for the poor and I did stand up against the idiots who called him a Nazi.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:11:22pm

re: #148 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

‘corporatism’ is a peculiar choice - i first ran across the term in a biography of mussolini, where it unexpectedly referred to an economic system where all elements of an industry, that is from the workers on up to the top management, are encouraged to work ‘together’ and feel part of a big happy family

in other words, the workers are told to shut up and do what management tells them to do - a really fascist view of how worker/management relations are supposed to work

given, that, i’d take ‘capitalism’ over ‘corporatism’ any day…

I recall similar quotations from Hitler in The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:11:25pm

re: #149 HappyWarrior

That’s the wingnut way. Claim liberals are teh real racists about black people and then post shit that sounds like Stormfront.

doublethink in action

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BlueSpotinAL  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:12:27pm

re: #119 Bubblehead II

T -0 Time to start dinner. Back in a few. Spaghetti (Italian sausage type) with lots of olives, garlic & shrooms) Read volume 2 of the LGF cookbook to get an idea. Oh! add Texas toast as well.

All I could find in the LGF cookbook was a recipe for gamey buttocks.

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:12:53pm

re: #103 b_sharp

Damn, a race realist goes uber-stupid.

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BTW, he’s talking about skin colour.

Everybody knows that… for example when I got my car repainted a new color, they had to put a totally different wiring harness in.

oh wait… that would be freaking stupid.

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:13:28pm

The Pope like many people has a problem with the idea of capitalism being a save all system. Incidentally, he feels the same way about communism. It’s ironic but a lot of modern ultra capitalists are like the old communists who see theri economic system in almost holy terms.

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b_sharp  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:14:26pm

re: #156 Reality Based Steve

Everybody knows that… for example when I got my car repainted a new color, they had to put a totally different wiring harness in.

oh wait… that would be freaking stupid.

RBS

The list of things they don’t know but assume is yoooge!

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A Cranky One  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:14:50pm

re: #155 BlueSpotinAL

All I could find in the LGF cookbook was a recipe for gamey buttocks.

Must have clicked the wrong link. Sounds like you got “To Serve Troll”.

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:15:51pm

re: #146 CuriousLurker

The wingnuts must feel like they’re getting tag team trolled by POTUS & the Pope. Serves them (and the hard, desiccated little nubs that are their hearts) right.

G’nite, lizards—gonna rest up for the Pope’s address of Congress tomorrow. Talk about payback for inviting Netanyahu… //

What’s the Over-Under on somebody shouting “You Lie!!!”?

RBS

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:21:34pm

You MIGHT be a RWNJ if you go on and on about the “War on Christians”, and then say that the Pope has no place to talk about social issues.

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:22:16pm

re: #160 Reality Based Steve

What’s the Over-Under on somebody shouting “You Lie!!!”?

RBS

I wouldn’t be surprised to hear an anti-Catholic remark from a fundie rep.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:22:43pm

re: #137 CuriousLurker

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She has an interesting Twitter Bio. Maybe she’s a bit disillusioned and searching.

Patricia Negron
@panegron

Strategist, Activist, Mother & Friend. Old-School Republican disgusted by today’s #GOP. I’m for #gunsense, #uniteblue #BlackLivesMatter & #GOPforSanders

MA, USA
Joined April 2013

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:22:49pm

re: #136 thedopefishlives

Conveniently, CATO doesn’t bother to mention that the political system in Argentina was hardly anything that resembled the United States, so their comaprison is invalid right out of the gate just on that basis alone.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:23:21pm

OBAMA IS BEING DISRESPECTFUL TO THAT AMERICA HATING, MARXIST POPE

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CuriousLurker  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:24:04pm

re: #160 Reality Based Steve

What’s the Over-Under on somebody shouting “You Lie!!!”?

RBS

An atheist or agnostic might attempt it, but most others would probably be leery of a bolt of lightning coming out of the sky & taking them out on the spot. //

(Actually, once, when I was a teen—this was after my parents had divorced—my dad was picking me up form my mom’s and she was carrying on about religious things as was her wont. Must’ve been something about St. Anthony because my dad flipped the bird at the sky and yelled, “F*** St. Anthony and f*** your church!!” I kinda sidled away from him, just in case. LOL)

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CuriousLurker  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:24:57pm

re: #163 ObserverArt

She has an interesting Twitter Bio. Maybe she’s a bit disillusioned and searching.

Yeah, I saw that. And not a lot of followers yet, but her tweets are interesting.

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b.d.  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:24:59pm

re: #160 Reality Based Steve

What’s the Over-Under on somebody shouting “You Lie!!!”?

RBS

They should shout it in Latin for bonus points.

//

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:26:13pm

re: #164 Eric The Fruit Bat

Conveniently, CATO doesn’t bother to mention that the political system in Argentina was hardly anything that resembled the United States, so their comaprison is invalid right out of the gate just on that basis alone.

Argentina and especially neighboring Chile prove that “free markets” = “free people” is a lie. CATO also lives under the lie that we’ve been a truly capitalist economy too.

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thedopefishlives  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:29:57pm

re: #164 Eric The Fruit Bat

Conveniently, CATO doesn’t bother to mention that the political system in Argentina was hardly anything that resembled the United States, so their comaprison is invalid right out of the gate just on that basis alone.

There’s a million variables in play besides just the economic system. But of course, that’s inconvenient to their point.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:29:58pm

How Musicians Get Screwed, Example 3,214:

A Tuesday copyright roundtable discussion, hosted by Nashville’s Belmont University and led by the House Judiciary Committee, opened with one of the past year’s most successful songwriters announcing just how little money he’d made from over 178 million streams of a song he co-wrote: $5,679.

That means Nashville songwriter Kevin Kadine, the co-writer of the hit 2014 Megan Trainor song “All About That Bass,” made close to $31.90 for every million streams. According to a report by The Tenneseean, Kadine didn’t clarify to the roundtable’s five members of the House of Representatives exactly how the songwriting proceeds were split between himself and Trainor (who shared songwriting credits on “Bass”), but he did allege that the average streaming-service payout for a song’s songwriting team is roughly $90 per million streams.

“That’s as big a song as a songwriter can have in their career, and number one in 78 countries,” Kadine said. “But you’re making $5,600. How do you feed your family?”

The reason Kadine and other songwriters were complaining to members of Congress, as opposed to representatives from either music labels or streaming services, is because American songwriters are paid per play through what’s known as a “mechanical license”—a term derived from all the way back in 1911, when songwriters’ works were distributed in the United States via piano rolls. The funny thing about a mechanical license is streaming music services do not have to negotiate with songwriters over what that per-play fee should be. That rate, according to American copyright law, is chosen by the US Government. (This is a different issue than the kinds of negotiations performing artists

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CuriousLurker  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:30:19pm

re: #166 CuriousLurker

Um, lightning—definitely not lightening.

See? Long day; synapses misfiring… laters.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:33:19pm

Mike Huckabee, of all people, is saying that Presidebt Obama is pretending to be a Christian. Well, I got news for you pal. He’s more of a Christian than you ever will be, even if he were faking it.

cnn.com

God damn. What a prick.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:33:27pm

It is interesting that Netanyahu addresses Congress and wants to hold off on the Iran deal and deal tough with Iran and the rest of the M.E. Then the Pope comes and addresses Congress and there is a decent chance he mentions he supports the Iran deal along with upsetting them with climate and economic disparity.

Seems a bit unprecedented for Congress in the same year. That much global politics on focused on the same topic. It’s good stuff.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:34:19pm

re: #170 thedopefishlives

I have a love-hate relationship with CATO. The work they do on behalf on individuals with amicus briefs when the government clearly oversteps the bounds is good stuff, but some of their stuff when it comes to business is so over-the-top bass-ackwards its nuts. When you have a so-called CATO banking ‘expert’ who never worked one day in his life in a bank but was an aide to a House/Senate Banking member criticize banking legislation? That’s laughable.

As far as the CATO banking experts go, there’s an old Sufi saying: “He who tastes, knows.”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:34:31pm

re: #173 GlutenFreeJesus

Mike Huckabee, of all people, is saying that Presidebt Obama is pretending to be a Christian. Well, I got news for you pal. He’s more of a Christian than you ever will be, even if he were faking it.

cnn.com

God damn. What a prick.

HE’s also insulting the pope’s intelligence as well.

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TedStriker  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:37:45pm

re: #176 HappyWarrior

HE’s also insulting the pope’s intelligence as well.

A feature, not a bug, I’m sure.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:39:56pm

re: #177 TedStriker

A feature, not a bug, I’m sure.

Of course, this is the guy who clearly doesn’t understand anything eyet doesn’t want “stupid” people voting. If stupid people didn’t vote, Huckabee would be picking up dog shti for a living.

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ObserverArt  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:44:00pm

re: #178 HappyWarrior

Of course, this is the guy who clearly doesn’t understand anything eyet doesn’t want “stupid” people voting. If stupid people didn’t vote, Huckabee would be picking up dog shti for a living.

I’m not sure he isn’t picking up dog shit now. That seems to be where he is searching for votes.

He is a despicable human.

And with that…later. Tuckered out tonight…

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:45:04pm

And in the “Probably didn’t sound nearly as bad in the original German” Category. Pat “Too Evil to Die” Buchanan says that Kim Davis is right, just like he was right when he advised Nixon to defy the ‘71 Supreme Court decision implementing school bussing….

Buchanan added that he himself had advocated civil disobedience when he urged President Nixon to defy a 1971 Supreme Court decision that “called for district-wide desegregation and allowed for the use of busing to achieve integration.”

“I think that [Davis] did the right thing,” Buchanan said, “she defied the law and went to jail and paid the price, that’s the price of civil disobedience of an unjust law. But I do believe this. When I was in the Nixon White House, I urged the president to defy court orders mandating court-ordered busing from counties into cities, which were tearing apart cities and towns, defy the court and work with the Congress of the United States to really circumscribe the jurisdiction of the court under … Article III, Section II of the Constitution. In

- See more at: rightwingwatch.org

Of course, nobody would ever question the quality of Pat’s Christianity. (I don’t see how one could even see a need to question it)

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:45:20pm

re: #179 ObserverArt

I’m not sure he isn’t picking up dog shit now. That seems to be where he is searching for votes.

He is a despicable human.

And with that…later. Tuckered out tonight…

He really is. Up there with Cruz, Santorum, and Trump for genuinely worst person running.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:45:34pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:46:12pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

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Spoken like a true fascist, Donald. Lowry is pathetic too but so are you for not being albe to handle any criticism, loser.

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Reality Based Steve  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:46:47pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

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Yes Charles, I do believe that’s exactly what he’s saying.

RBS

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:49:53pm

re: #182 Charles Johnson

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I guess I shouldn’t bother to point out that the FCC has no content control over cable television?

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:54:34pm

re: #169 HappyWarrior

Let’s not forget that Chile was also a US “experiment”, that CATO continually crows about.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:58:09pm

republic party election plan:

something will happen to kill off trump and then something else will happen

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2015 • 6:59:27pm

You know, for a guy who said he’s done with Fox News, he sure obsesses a lot about what’s on Fox News.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:00:01pm

re: #186 Eric The Fruit Bat

Let’s not forget that Chile was also a US “experiment”, that CATO continually crows about.

That’s precisely why I pointed that out.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:00:11pm

re: #148 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

‘corporatism’ is a peculiar choice - i first ran across the term in a biography of mussolini, where it unexpectedly referred to an economic system where all elements of an industry, that is from the workers on up to the top management, are encouraged to work ‘together’ and feel part of a big happy family

in other words, the workers are told to shut up and do what management tells them to do - a really fascist view of how worker/management relations are supposed to work

given, that, i’d take ‘capitalism’ over ‘corporatism’ any day…

The “Corporate State” is another term for Fascism. The heads of the most important corporations are officers of the government. As opposed to Communism, where officers of the government head the most important corporations.

This is why they say the political scale is a wrap-around deal.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:00:59pm

re: #189 HappyWarrior

That’s precisely why I pointed that out.

They’re living rent-free in his head.

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teleskiguy  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:03:06pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:04:37pm

re: #190 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The “Corporate State” is another term for Fascism. The heads of the most important corporations are officers of the government. As opposed to Communism, where officers of the government head the most important corporations.

This is why they say the political scale is a wrap-around deal.

unlike our system where the officers of the government practice free enterprise by selling themselves to the highest bidder?

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:08:15pm

re: #173 GlutenFreeJesus

Mike Huckabee, of all people, is saying that Presidebt Obama is pretending to be a Christian. Well, I got news for you pal. He’s more of a Christian than you ever will be, even if he were faking it.

cnn.com

God damn. What a prick.

I found the reasoning he gave to be rather interesting:

“I’m disappointed if someone says, ‘I’m a Christian,’ but you invite the pope into your home and then you invite a whole bunch of people who are at odds with the Catholic Church policy. I think there’s something very unseemly about that,” he added.

Unseemly to act like an actual leader of a free nation?

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TedStriker  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:10:35pm

re: #193 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

unlike our system where the officers of the government practice free enterprise by selling themselves to the highest bidder?

That’s just whoring…all that’s in dispute is the price.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:14:15pm

re: #194 Bill and Opus for 2016!

I found the reasoning he gave to be rather interesting:

Unseemly to act like an actual leader of a free nation?

Coming from a guy who probably believes that ‘papists’ are going to hell.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:17:55pm

re: #166 CuriousLurker

Actually, a cool memory CL.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:20:28pm

re: #169 HappyWarrior

Argentina and especially neighboring Chile prove that “free markets” = “free people” is a lie. CATO also lives under the lie that we’ve been a truly capitalist economy too.

Neither country’s economy has ever really even come close to qualifying as free market either, as Chile has nationalized ownership of almost all mines and mining activity, and Argentina has re-nationalized control of it’s largest oil company YPF after a failed bid at privatization.

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Bubblehead II  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:21:05pm

re: #155 BlueSpotinAL

All I could find in the LGF cookbook was a recipe for gamey buttocks.

Vol II, Lasagna. Mix is the same minus the cheese.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:21:44pm

re: #174 ObserverArt

It is interesting that Netanyahu addresses Congress and wants to hold off on the Iran deal and deal tough with Iran and the rest of the M.E. Then the Pope comes and addresses Congress and there is a decent chance he mentions he supports the Iran deal along with upsetting them with climate and economic disparity.

Seems a bit unprecedented for Congress in the same year. That much global politics on focused on the same topic. It’s good stuff.

Too much religion for my taste.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:24:08pm

re: #190 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

The “Corporate State” is another term for Fascism. The heads of the most important corporations are officers of the government. As opposed to Communism, where officers of the government head the most important corporations.

This is why they say the political scale is a wrap-around deal.

seriously, though, in historical fascist states like italy and germany, corporations were left intact and mollified with huge government contracts. mussolini was somewhat different than hitler in that he actively carried out the will of corporate magnates

in stalinist, maoist and cuban socialist style fascism, the corporations were taken from their private owners and run by the government

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 23, 2015 • 7:29:35pm

re: #194 Bill and Opus for 2016!

I found the reasoning he gave to be rather interesting:

Unseemly to act like an actual leader of a free nation?

Or like, er, Jesus?

Huckabee is a fake Christian if there ever was one. Strike him down oh dog above!


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