Anti-Gay Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis Is Now Officially a Republican

I guess this means she wasn’t “left wing” after all
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Remember when right wing blogs and media were laughing and jeering at people who called anti-gay Kentucky Clerk Kim Davis “right wing” — because she was registered as a Democrat?

Well… uh… Kentucky Clerk in Gay Marriage Dispute Switches to Republican Party.

Clearly, she’s found her niche.

A county clerk in Kentucky who was briefly jailed for refusing to issue marriage licenses to gay couples said on Friday that she and her family have switched to the Republican Party because the Democrats no longer represented them.

Rowan County Clerk Kim Davis, 50, who has said her beliefs as an Apostolic Christian prevent her from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples, said they had changed parties last week. She was a long-time Democrat in eastern Kentucky.

“My husband and I had talked about it for quite a while and we came to the conclusion that the Democratic Party left us a long time ago, so why were we hanging on?” she told Reuters in an interview at a hotel in Washington, where she has traveled to be feted at a Family Research Council event later on Friday.

It must have felt a little like coming home for Davis to join the hate-driven anti-gay, anti-women, anti-science GOP.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:11:13am

BUT SHE’S A DEMOCRAT!

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:11:33am

OH HAI DANA LOESCH U CAN HAZ OWNS THIS NOW.

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Lidane  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:11:46am

With this picture, I’m less likely to punch my laptop screen because of Ted Cruz:

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wrenchwench  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:14:02am

She’s found her home. Now she can get married again and move in.

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lawhawk  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:15:05am

All those right wingers who were yapping away that she was a Democrat are suddenly quiet.

Hmmmm…

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:15:13am

twitter.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:17:01am

SOME BRAIN BLEACH==>

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Lidane  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:17:03am

So let’s review. In one day:

1. Kim Davis becomes a Republican
2. Boehner resigns
3. The Pope leads an interfaith prayer session at Ground Zero, including an imam
4. The Pope endorses the Iran Deal AND says man has no right to abuse the environment from the floor of the UN

If I wasn’t an atheist, I’d call it a miracle.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:20:07am

Kim Davis can now join George Zimmerman, Dennis Miller, and Dick Morris in the “Democrat Yesterday, Proud Republican Today” support group.

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lawhawk  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:20:26am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:21:01am

Of course they’ll say but but she was a Democrat when she denied the licenses. That she switched to the GOP is surely a coincidink.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:21:29am

re: #10 lawhawk

I’d actually respect Boehner more if he just came out and said “I got tired to dealing with these fucking morons”

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:21:30am

re: #10 lawhawk

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I don’t believe Cole. The timing is too odd.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:21:47am

re: #12 Kragar

I’d actually respect Boehner more if he just came out and said “I got tired to dealing with these fucking morons”

He’ll have a book I am certain of it.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:22:21am
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blueraven  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:22:24am

re: #8 Lidane

So let’s review. In one day:

1. Kim Davis becomes a Republican
2. Boehner resigns
3. The Pope leads an interfaith prayer session at Ground Zero, including an imam
4. The Pope endorses the Iran Deal AND says man has no right to abuse the environment from the floor of the UN

If I wasn’t an atheist, I’d call it a miracle.

Not all today but…

Obama to meet with Putin
China announces Cap and Trade program

Pretty much unthinkable even last week.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:22:42am

re: #10 lawhawk

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That means he was definitely forced out.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:23:05am

re: #8 Lidane

So let’s review. In one day:

1. Kim Davis becomes a Republican
2. Boehner resigns
3. The Pope leads an interfaith prayer session at Ground Zero, including an imam
4. The Pope endorses the Iran Deal AND says man has no right to abuse the environment from the floor of the UN

If I wasn’t an atheist, I’d call it a miracle.

If the Cubs win the World Series you will have your proof.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:23:12am
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jaunte  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:23:45am

re: #11 HappyWarrior

Of course they’ll say but but she was a Democrat when she denied the licenses. That she switched to the GOP is surely a coincidink.

She was a Democrat but now she is “forgiven.”

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Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:25:11am

re: #11 HappyWarrior

Of course they’ll say but but she was a Democrat when she denied the licenses. That she switched to the GOP is surely a coincidink.

LIBRUL PLANTTT!!!!!!!1111!!!!

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:25:56am

re: #12 Kragar

I’d actually respect Boehner more if he just came out and said “I got tired to dealing with these fucking morons”

He probably came as close as he could to that when he described himself as a garbage man.

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Belafon  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:26:36am

Yep, Kim, you stood still and the party moved on. But you were in luck, the other party is right there with you.

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sffilk  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:28:26am

At this, I’m not surprised. Now, all that needs to happen is that she loses her next election.

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Khal Wimpo  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:28:57am

re: #17 Charles Johnson

That means he was definitely forced out.

I wonder. Maybe Boehner is taking one for the team?

I mean - he knows that if the GOP forces a gov’t shutdown over something as popular as Planned Parenthood & breast cancer screenings, that will totally poison the GOP’s “brand” going into the election cycle. The candidates will all be forced to stand up and cheer for the shutdown, or else face vicious challenges from swivel-eyed religious loons.

This way, he gets to take all the heat for cooperating with Pelosi to get a bill avoiding the shutdown through the House, and then conveniently step off the stage, setting up an at least semi-decent chance for GOP candidates to run next year without having to own up to yet another gov’t shutdown.

It would be a strategic, long-term play that would be for the good of the party, and that would also relieve him of having to try to hammer down the clinically insane wing of his party any further.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:29:01am

Now Kim can hit the campaign trail with Matt Bevin, unless her finagling with marriage licenses lands her back in jail.

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jaunte  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:30:09am

re: #24 sffilk

At this, I’m not surprised. Now, all that needs to happen is that she loses her next election.

A competitor can run against her from the right just by being male.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:30:13am

re: #25 Khal Wimpo

I wonder. Maybe Boehner is taking one for the team?

I mean - he knows that if the GOP forces a gov’t shutdown over something as popular as Planned Parenthood & breast cancer screenings, that will totally poison the GOP’s “brand” going into the election cycle. The candidates will all be forced to stand up and cheer for the shutdown, or else face vicious challenges from swivel-eyed religious loons.

This way, he gets to take all the heat for cooperating with Pelosi to get a bill avoiding the shutdown through the House, and then conveniently step off the stage, setting up an at least semi-decent chance for GOP candidates to run next year without having to own up to yet another gov’t shutdown.

It would be a strategic, long-term play that would be for the good of the party, and that would also relieve him of having to try to hammer down the clinically insane wing of his party any further.

And his reward is a cushy K Street gig with a seven figure salary. Why wouldn’t he quit?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:33:01am

It is telling that the Obama WH who knows what a PITA Boehner can be had a more classy statement than Breitbart and the VVS hypocrites.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:33:04am

re: #7 The Vicious Babushka

That’s one good looking Rabbi.

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lawhawk  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:34:33am

re: #25 Khal Wimpo

I doubt that the GOP is playing that kind of long con. I think there’s a bit of wishful thinking going on too that Boehner would have the ability to get a deal done without rebellion by the TP on his way out the door.

Even though most of the establishment GOP types know that a shutdown would be awful for their chances, they’re also facing even more pressure from the right to fight to destroy PP and slash and burn the safety net more than they already have.

And then there’s the debt ceiling fight that is upcoming too. IMO Whoever throws their hat into ring for Speaker will undermine Boehner’s remaining term. They’ll use their position to force defunding and/or shutdown (or both) as a way to show their credentials to the faithful that they can make it happen.

It’ll be as though you’ve got a whole bunch of whips working at cross purposes - which itself could mean a shutdown since no one will be on the same page to make a deal happen.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:34:51am
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William Lewis  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:35:35am

Funny news day to wake up to. First Boner is cementing his place in history as the worst Speaker ever and now Davis stops pretending that she’s anything other than yet another Republican hatemonger.

Now, I still need to sleep some more. Wonder if it’ll be as funny when I get up then?

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It's on his hat!  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:36:37am

re: #32 Kragar

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Just saw that. What the fuck.

“Super Mario Bros., reptile murder simulator”

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Lidane  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:36:39am

Sure, that’ll work:

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Khal Wimpo  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:38:24am

Meanwhile, Eric son of Eric over at RedState channels the inner “WHAAAmbulance” nature of the supposed tough-guy conservatives who are dancing on Boehner’s political grave:

“Had Boehner and his staff just treated his Republican congressman nicely, this would not have happened. That is what you must understand.”

Please excuse this take but: what a bunch of fucking pussies.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:38:25am

re: #35 Lidane

Sure, that’ll work:

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Party and ideology of individual libeties and private right there.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:38:39am

re: #35 Lidane

Sure, that’ll work:

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What an ass.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:39:36am

re: #36 Khal Wimpo

Meanwhile, Eric son of Eric over at RedState channels the inner “WHAAAmbulance” nature of the supposed tough-guy conservatives who are dancing on Boehner’s political grave:

Please excuse this take but: what a bunch of fucking pussies.

Oh I am sure they were so pleasant to deal with. Conservatives are a bunch of babies when it comes to how they want to be treated. See Trump crying about media criticism.

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Iwouldprefernotto  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:39:54am

re: #36 Khal Wimpo

Meanwhile, Eric son of Eric over at RedState channels the inner “WHAAAmbulance” nature of the supposed tough-guy conservatives who are dancing on Boehner’s political grave:

Please excuse this take but: what a bunch of fucking pussies.

In November Boehner will be out and Obama will still be president. Nice.

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Khal Wimpo  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:40:45am

re: #28 aagcobb

And his reward is a cushy K Street gig with a seven figure salary. Why wouldn’t he quit?

Yep. It’s been a while since he looked even a little like he was enjoying his stint in charge of the Star Wars Cantina.

Fox News makes money by convincing the base that America is on fire, that the End Of Days is nigh, and then those people show up at rallies when congresscritters go home in August. Yeek! OMG! The peasants are freaked out & furious.

Thus surprising no one who lives outside the cozy Beltway and who has 1/2 a brain.

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Skip Intro  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:42:03am

Charles Pierce explains how the sudden Boner departure came about.

Way I figure it is this. In their private chat yesterday, Boehner explained to the pope the problems he was having with the flying monkey caucus, and Papa Francesco who, after all, heads a bureaucracy with a long history as a seething cauldron of ambition, scandal, murder and betrayal, as well as a unique tradition of crazy institutional proceedings (See: Cadaver Synod), listened to Boehner’s plight and said, mildly, “Jesus H. Christ in a Fiat, my son, these people crazy. Get out while you can.” That’s the way I’m going to figure it, anyway.

esquire.com

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:42:46am
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Khal Wimpo  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:43:29am

re: #31 lawhawk

It’ll be as though you’ve got a whole bunch of whips working at cross purposes - which itself could mean a shutdown since no one will be on the same page to make a deal happen.

Maybe. But that would be a dangerous move. Shut down the gov’t for an extended period - and demonstrate massive infighting & dysfunction - and while the House geeks in safe districts might survive, the party as a whole will fracture even further.

It’ll also totally shaft any senators, governors or presidential candidates who want any sort of support from anybody other than the swivel-eyed loons & the billionaires who manipulate them (i.e. “the base”).

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It's on his hat!  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:43:58am

re: #32 Kragar

That comes from this site.

Listed as a scientific advisor, Lyndon LaRouche.

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Skip Intro  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:46:09am

One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

I recommend getting good and drunk before reading further.

thinkprogress.org

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:47:49am

re: #46 Skip Intro

One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

I recommend getting good and drunk before reading further.

thinkprogress.org

I think it will be McCarthy who probably is the least odious of those four but that’s damning with faint praise.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:48:04am

re: #25 Khal Wimpo

I wonder. Maybe Boehner is taking one for the team?

I mean - he knows that if the GOP forces a gov’t shutdown over something as popular as Planned Parenthood & breast cancer screenings, that will totally poison the GOP’s “brand” going into the election cycle. The candidates will all be forced to stand up and cheer for the shutdown, or else face vicious challenges from swivel-eyed religious loons.

This way, he gets to take all the heat for cooperating with Pelosi to get a bill avoiding the shutdown through the House, and then conveniently step off the stage, setting up an at least semi-decent chance for GOP candidates to run next year without having to own up to yet another gov’t shutdown.

It would be a strategic, long-term play that would be for the good of the party, and that would also relieve him of having to try to hammer down the clinically insane wing of his party any further.

I think the strategy is that they can avoid a government shutdown—which makes the GOP look bad—and pass a clean budget, which then goes to reconciliation. They add the Planned Parenthood defunding provision, forcing President Obama to veto it. They apparently think this is a winning issue for them, and they also seem to think Obama is running for a third term. Double delusion, but what do you expect?

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:48:33am
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b.d.  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:48:50am

re: #43 Kragar

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Chuck for Pooper Speaker of the House!

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:48:51am

re: #26 aagcobb

Now Kim can hit the campaign trail with Matt Bevin, unless her finagling with marriage licenses lands her back in jail.

Should that happen…she will now be just another Republican criminal!

/

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b.d.  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:49:25am

Boehner should now run for President.

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Bird in the Paw  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:49:49am

re: #15 Dr. Matt

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Cat abuse

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Mattand  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:50:03am

re: #46 Skip Intro

One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

I recommend getting good and drunk before reading further.

thinkprogress.org

“Well, it can’t be that bad…”

[clicks link]

“GAHHHH!”

[opens bottle of Jack Daniels by smashing the neck on the table and guzzles furiously, broken glass and all]

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Timothy Watson  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:50:18am

re: #32 Kragar

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Why do I have a feeling that Patricia Pulling is favorably referenced?

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:50:33am

re: #30 #CampaignZero

That’s one good looking Rabbi.

Heh. When I first saw him this morning I was thinking all the ladies are going to like this Rabbi.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:50:54am

re: #54 Mattand

“Well, it can’t be that bad…”

[clicks link]

“GAHHHH!”

[opens bottle of Jack Daniels by smashing the neck on the table and guzzles furiously, broken glass and all]

I know right? I’ll be there with ya this evening over some Schnapps.

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Mattand  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:51:21am

re: #52 b.d.

Boehner should now run for President.

Christ, can you imagine if he did and then lost? He’d drown everyone in the room with tears 10 feet deep.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:52:38am
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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:52:51am

I expect Jordan to be the TP choice by the way. I read a feature on him a couple years back and he’s their guy all the way.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:53:13am

re: #47 HappyWarrior

I think it will be McCarthy who probably is the least odious of those four but that’s damning with faint praise.

Boy, it’s been 60 years since Invasion of the Body Snatchers—McCarthy must be getting pretty old by this time!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:54:12am

re: #54 Mattand

These days, I’ll just have a bud.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:54:21am
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Lidane  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:54:30am

re: #46 Skip Intro

One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

I recommend getting good and drunk before reading further.

thinkprogress.org

They’re all awful, but I’m going with McCarthy. He’s the one who is in the strongest position for the job. Also, the teabaggers hate him, which is a bonus.

Mark Levin is calling for Jim Jordan to get the gig, which means he won’t.

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Skip Intro  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:55:02am

re: #60 HappyWarrior

I expect Jordan to be the TP choice by the way. I read a feature on him a couple years back and he’s their guy all the way.

Fortunately the baggers hate women or we could be looking at Speaker Virginia Foxx.

You can see the crazy in her eyes.

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:56:19am

I look at the future of the House and yes, there is a good chance it will get crazier.

My hope is they scare not just the liberals, centrists and independents, but they scare the remaining moderate Republicans.

Then things will change.

It is like dealing with people with bad substance abuse problems. They have to get to the bottom and see death as the result before they change.

In this case the death will be the Republican party. It has been taken over by the abusers and they are determined to get high on their hateful power…just like a powerful drug. And they listen to the loud minority of other abusers (RWNjs) and think they are just fine.

Hopefully all of America will see it for what it is and demand an intervention which is where the old GOP types and their money men need to step in and say enough is enough.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:56:25am

re: #65 Skip Intro

Fortunately the baggers hate women or we could be looking at Speaker Virginia Foxx.

You can see the crazy in her eyes.

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Two-to-one she lives in a gingerbread house.

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Skip Intro  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:56:28am

re: #64 Lidane

They’re all awful, but I’m going with McCarthy. He’s the one who is in the strongest position for the job. Also, the teabaggers hate him, which is a bonus.

Yeah, but he has to get them to vote for him. At least if he does win the outrage in the RW nutosphere may cause a few strokes.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:56:46am

re: #65 Skip Intro

Fortunately the baggers hate women or we could be looking at Speaker Virginia Foxx.

You can see the crazy in her eyes.

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Oh yes the lady who told Matt Shepherd’s mother he wasn’t murdered for being gay. Classy lady.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:57:16am

re: #67 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Two-to-one she lives in a gingerbread house.

Owns a couple I reckon.

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lawhawk  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:57:33am

re: #54 Mattand

Amateur. This is how it’s done:

Youtube Video

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:57:37am

re: #65 Skip Intro

Fortunately the baggers hate women or we could be looking at Speaker Virginia Foxx.

You can see the crazy in her eyes.

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I can’t imagine a woman affecting the name Foxx with two xs who wasn’t a porn star. Just threw up in my mouth a little….

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:57:38am

re: #59 Kragar

Dim Jim knows its a constant struggle to keep his title of Dumbest Man on the Internet

I was just thinking the only thing this day needs is a commentary from Dim Jim.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:58:24am

re: #65 Skip Intro

Fortunately the baggers hate women or we could be looking at Speaker Virginia Foxx.

You can see the crazy in her eyes.

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She’s hotter than Phyllis Shlafly.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:58:31am

re: #65 Skip Intro

Good gosh, man, trigger warning please.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:58:40am

re: #72 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

And today’s Sick Little Monkey Award goes to…

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 25, 2015 • 11:59:25am

re: #74 The Vicious Babushka

She’s hotter than Phyllis Shlafly.

They both appeal to men who love their mummy.

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Citizen Bob  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:00:16pm

I don’t know about you guys, but I think it’s cruel to force a bear to wear a hat and overalls.

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:01:49pm

Last night my little granddaughter said that she would rather bake pie with me than watch “Frozen” on the big-screen TV.

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:03:36pm

re: #66 ObserverArt

The GOP has grown its influence in the House since Obama was elected.

And the GOP simultaneously has gotten much more extremist in its rhetoric.

Say what you will, but if the people of this country won’t vote for reasonable Representatives then we deserve what we get as far as looniness.

… and don’t blame it all on gerrymandering.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:04:44pm

re: #80 freetoken

The GOP has grown its influence in the House since Obama was elected.

And the GOP simultaneously has gotten much more extremist in its rhetoric.

Say what you will, but if the people of this country won’t vote for reasonable Representatives then we deserve what we get as far as looniness.

… and don’t blame it all on gerrymandering.

Say it again.

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Kid A  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:05:53pm

She was only a registered Democrat because she couldn’t get on the ballot as a Republican.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:06:42pm

re: #46 Skip Intro

One Of These 4 People Will Probably Be The Next Speaker Of The House

I recommend getting good and drunk before reading further.

thinkprogress.org

I want a hard core Tea Partier for Speaker. Then when they fail again, the defeat will be all the more bitter.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:06:50pm

Evangelicals are such a joy to speak with

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:07:25pm

re: #84 Kragar

Evangelicals are such a joy to speak with

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Skip Intro  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:08:11pm

This has already been posted, right?

41 per cent of Americans would support a wall on the Canadian border: poll

cbc.ca

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:08:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:08:19pm

re: #84 Kragar

Evangelicals are such a joy to speak with

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Yeah they just want to watch girls pee instead of going to the bathroom. You want a pervert? Talk to Josh Duggar and all the other Christian right perverts who are heterosexual and prey on young girls.

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:08:35pm

re: #60 HappyWarrior

I expect Jordan to be the TP choice by the way. I read a feature on him a couple years back and he’s their guy all the way.

I’m not following too closely…do you mean Jim Jordan from Ohio?

Oh God NO!!!!

Having Boehner being from Ohio was bad enough for this Ohioan. Jim Jordan would be installing a knuckle-dragging caveman and Boehner would be a progressive by comparison.

Arrrrgh!!!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:08:41pm

re: #85 The Vicious Babushka

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Seriously what a clueless moron.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:08:55pm

re: #89 ObserverArt

I’m not following too closely…do you mean Jim Jordan from Ohio?

Oh God NO!!!!

Having Boehner being from Ohio was bad enough for this Ohioan. Jim Jordan would be installing a knuckle-dragging caveman and Boehner would be a progressive by comparison.

Arrrrgh!!!

The very same.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:09:48pm

re: #79 The Vicious Babushka

Last night my little granddaughter said that she would rather bake pie with me than watch “Frozen” on the big-screen TV.

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AWWWWW!

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:12:04pm

Politico runs the story of the Congressman from NY who sees the light:

Peter King: Boehner exit means ‘the crazies have taken over the party’

The first comment is the one gets to the point:

Helen Mohiam
I don’t know how many steps this particular program that Peter King is in has, but he’s done well on the first step - pubicly [sic] recognizing the disease.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:12:42pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:13:16pm

re: #89 ObserverArt

I’m not following too closely…do you mean Jim Jordan from Ohio?

Oh God NO!!!!

Having Boehner being from Ohio was bad enough for this Ohioan. Jim Jordan would be installing a knuckle-dragging caveman and Boehner would be a progressive by comparison.

Arrrrgh!!!

Yes, that is who should be Speaker! Let the morons think they are winning, watch them wreck the GOP, then laugh at them when they get crushed in the election.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:13:43pm

re: #94 Kragar

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Okay Mike, I’m going to deny you an application based on my deeply held belief that you’re a pathetic clerical fascist fuckwad who would never pass a middle school civics calss.

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Lidane  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:14:11pm

re: #89 ObserverArt

I’m not following too closely…do you mean Jim Jordan from Ohio?

Oh God NO!!!!

Having Boehner being from Ohio was bad enough for this Ohioan. Jim Jordan would be installing a knuckle-dragging caveman and Boehner would be a progressive by comparison.

Arrrrgh!!!

Mark Levin is bleating over at Breitbart (DoNotLink link, so it’s okay) about how Jim Jordan is a principled conservative that the GOP needs to elect Speaker.

Fun times.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:14:58pm

Jordan if he gets it will be beloved by them until the minute he realizes he actually has to do real work rather tan be the TP’s errand boy.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:15:44pm

Will Boehner likely offer an endorsement now that he’s stepping away?

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:15:48pm

re: #94 Kragar

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BTW, is anyone watching the insanity at the VVS so that I don’t have to?

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The Vicious Babushka  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:16:12pm
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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:16:50pm

re: #99 HappyWarrior

Will Boehner likely offer an endorsement now that he’s stepping away?

He should endorse Cruz; that would tear the Freepers to pieces.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:17:38pm

re: #89 ObserverArt

I’m not following too closely…do you mean Jim Jordan from Ohio?

Oh God NO!!!!

Having Boehner being from Ohio was bad enough for this Ohioan. Jim Jordan would be installing a knuckle-dragging caveman and Boehner would be a progressive by comparison.

Arrrrgh!!!

Two straight Speakers from Ohio? I guess that would make up for the whole Mount McKinley thing.

/

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:18:00pm

re: #102 aagcobb

He should endorse Cruz; that would tear the Freepers to pieces.

Forget the FReepers, I’d love to see Ted’s face himself since Ted has pretty much been gloating about Boehner being forced out.

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Dr. Matt  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:18:14pm

BTW, today is Native American Day 2015

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wrenchwench  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:18:14pm

‘Pro-lifers’ are sick fucks and liars.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:18:29pm

re: #103 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Two straight Speakers from Ohio? I guess that would make up for the whole Mount McKinley thing.

/

Frigging Ohioans.*
* My great grandmother was from Cleveland

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:19:19pm

re: #107 HappyWarrior

Many Americans have ancestors who were from or went through Ohio. Gateway to the west and all that jazz.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:19:45pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:20:33pm

re: #108 freetoken

Many Americans have ancestors who were from or went through Ohio. Gateway to the west and all that jazz.

I know. Mine actually went east though. Better ironworks job in Pittsburgh I guess.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:20:35pm

re: #84 Kragar

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:23:43pm

re: #109 Charles Johnson

Soundcloud embed now works? I’ve been having to use the Page applet and the video embed applet to generate the code, then paste in the posting window here.

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TedStriker  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:25:47pm

re: #95 aagcobb

Yes, that is who should be Speaker! Let the morons think they are winning, watch them wreck the GOP, then laugh at them when they get crushed in the election.

Problem is, they’re gonna do their damnedest to wreck the country in the process.

No thanks.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:26:39pm

FWIW, from Yahoo Politics:

House Speaker John Boehner’s unexpected retirement announcement Friday is being considered a victory for the tea party faction that had pushed for his ouster for years, but the immediate result may be to thwart their hopes of shutting down the government next week.

And for Boehner, whose most important legacy as speaker has been to keep the ship of state afloat (apart from a 16-day government shutdown in 2013), that may be the point.

It will take Democratic votes in the House to pass a two-month stopgap spending bill, which the Senate is expected to approve Tuesday and would need to be sent to the president Wednesday to avert a shutdown. Boehner has relied on the minority party before in fights over spending bills, as a last resort, but the anti-government conservative faction has been growing more powerful and assertive. In July, a conservative offered a motion to vacate the chair, a rare but serious move that, had it received enough votes, would have stripped Boehner of his gavel.

According to this, Boehner would cobble together a coalition of Dems and non-TP GOP members to pass a 2-month CR.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:26:58pm

re: #113 TedStriker

Problem is, they’re gonna do their damnedest to wreck the country in the process.

No thanks.

That’s the problem. Yeah you do seem grow more extreme and it’s easy to want to laugh about it but then I realize that had not it been for when my state does elections, I’d probably Governor Cuccinnelli today.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:28:02pm

I expect Boehner to have a book just in time for the fall election where he tries to come off above the fray and criticizes Washington’s culture. He’s do a lot of MBFing and be th toast of the talk shows who will ignore that he caused a lot of the problems.

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:28:55pm

re: #116 HappyWarrior

And he can go to work for the lobbyist firms on K street and make a pile of money.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:29:21pm

re: #117 freetoken

And he can go to work for the lobbyist firms on K street and make a pile of money.

Oh yeah that too. For sure. A win-win retirement for BOehner honestly.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:30:02pm

i agree with john boehner:

FUCK THIS SHIT!

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:30:13pm

re: #113 TedStriker

Problem is, they’re gonna do their damnedest to wreck the country in the process.

No thanks.

Sometimes you have to let the fever run its course before it breaks. I want the Tea Party to let its freak flag fly in Congress so the entire country understands just how crazy and dangerous they are. If that means the government has to be shut down for several weeks, so be it. We can’t afford the election of a Republican President next year.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:31:06pm

re: #117 freetoken

And he can go to work for the lobbyist firms on K street and make a pile of money.

i tend to think that he will preoccupy himself with bourbon and the antics of a tiny white ball on the greensward

he’s tired

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:35:42pm

re: #103 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Two straight Speakers from Ohio? I guess that would make up for the whole Mount McKinley thing.

/

Funny you say that. Jordan is from Urbana, a real stodgy farm community just west of Columbus and only about 20 miles from Mt. Campbell, the Ohio high point that many think should be renamed Mt. McKinley.

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:36:22pm

Fact checking the obvious:

Carson Rewrites Laws of Thermodynamics

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:36:25pm

Boehner’s been Speaker so long that don’t even know outside of establishment what wing of the GOP he is. He’s never struck me as a RR type or a Cheney war here there and everywhere type either.

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:37:02pm

re: #121 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

And just where is lobbying not done the most if not at the 19th hole?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:38:20pm

There was a nice photo yesterday of Ethlel Kennedy meeting the Pope with Obama.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:38:53pm

re: #123 freetoken

Fact checking the obvious:

Carson Rewrites Laws of Thermodynamics

Maybe he really did flunk that chemistry test and the professor just felt sorry for him.

///

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:41:55pm

re: #126 HappyWarrior

There was a nice photo yesterday of Ethlel Kennedy meeting the Pope with Obama.

RFK’s wife is still alive?

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freetoken  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:42:19pm

Local NWS posts a video about how abnormal the weather has been this summer:

What is up with the weather? Summer 2015 - NWS San Diego

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:43:46pm

re: #125 freetoken

And just where is lobbying not done the most if not at the 19th hole?

true dat

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:45:47pm

re: #128 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

RFK’s wife is still alive?

Yeah, she’s actually younger than my own grandmother. Poor lady’s been a widow for nearly a half century now though.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:46:00pm

re: #112 freetoken

Soundcloud embed now works? I’ve been having to use the Page applet and the video embed applet to generate the code, then paste in the posting window here.

No, for that I used their embed code. But I’m looking into this now. They changed some stuff that broke my old code.

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Eventual Carrion  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:46:31pm

re: #35 Lidane

Sure, that’ll work:

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I want elected officials to take random drug tests.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:46:53pm

re: #133 Eventual Carrion

I want elected officials to take random drug tests.

This.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:48:30pm

Latest Pluto photos show a cryptic, scaly planet

sadly neglected and socially isolated heavenly body unable to find help dealing with loneliness trauma

[link fixed]

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KGxvi  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:49:01pm

re: #86 Skip Intro

in fairness, the 41% that said they would support it were polled right after watching the latest episode of South Park and were probably still a bit high.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:49:47pm

Its going to be fun watching the impotent rightwing rage when the next Speaker doesn’t defund PP, repeal Obamacare, balance the budget, impeach Obama or do anything else they are fantasizing a troooo conservative Speaker will accomplish.

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Timothy Watson  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:50:22pm

Asshole GOPer gets a taste of his own medicine.

Oklahama Rep. questions whether women ‘deserved to pass’ Fort Benning’s Ranger School

An Oklahoma Republican is learning firsthand the art of the boomerang effect.

It started when Rep. Steve Russell, an Oklahoma GOPer and a retired U.S. Army officer, demanded paperwork outlining the performance of two women who recently graduated from the vaunted Army Ranger School at Georgia’s Fort Benning.

Russell’s spokesman said he wanted to “make sure that all of the people who passed the course deserved to pass it” - about a month after Capt. Kristen Griest and 1st Lt. Shaye Haver became the first women to graduate from the rigorous program.

Now the congressman is about to face his own scrutiny. Several women who graduated from West Point have filed a Freedom of Information Act request seeking the Ranger School file for Russell, who earned the Ranger designation in November 1987.

politics.blog.ajc.com

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:51:14pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:52:15pm

re: #138 Timothy Watson

Asshole GOPer gets a taste of his own medicine.

politics.blog.ajc.com

You know, I was discussing this with my brother but there are a lot of vets including even some women ones who seem adamantly opposed to the idea of women in combat. Now I obviously respect their service even if I think them wrong but I just don’t get this. You want the best possible person and if that person happens to be female, so what. I shouldn’t get more preference over a qualified woman for military service simply because I’m a guy.

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Mentis Fugit  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:54:46pm

re: #72 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I can’t imagine a woman affecting the name Foxx with two xs who wasn’t a porn star. Just threw up in my mouth a little….

Foxx with two x’s and not in porn.
John Foxx - He’s a Liquid
On the other hand, not a woman and not his real name so your point may still stand.

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:54:54pm

re: #107 HappyWarrior

Frigging Ohioans.*
* My great grandmother was from Cleveland

Don’t hate on me brother!

There are good people here. Remember, the state did help get Obama in the White House.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:56:22pm

re: #142 ObserverArt

Don’t hate on me brother!

There are good people here. Remember, the state did help get Obama in the White House.

I know. All out of Western Pa based love I assure you.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:56:49pm

re: #123 freetoken

Fact checking the obvious:

Carson Rewrites Laws of Thermodynamics

i think the rebuttal is even simpler than that:

who ever said that the solar system is “perfectly organized”?

compared to what? according to who’s standards?

the solar system is merely in a particular state as it transitions over the millenia from one state to another state

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:57:32pm

I hope I don’t come off ignorant or insulting our Lizard vets here but I think you see hostility to women in the service is because I think there’s a macho subculture within the military very threatened by women who can do things as well if not better than guys.Hope I did not offend because obviously it’s not everyone.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:57:56pm

re: #137 aagcobb

Its going to be fun watching the impotent rightwing rage when the next Speaker doesn’t defund PP, repeal Obamacare, balance the budget, impeach Obama or do anything else they are fantasizing a troooo conservative Speaker will accomplish.

we will know that a true conservative is in charge when, finally, gravity is repealed

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 12:59:43pm

re: #146 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

we will know that a true conservative is in charge when, finally, gravity is repealed

I don’t take laws from Englishmen in wigs.

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:02:03pm

re: #132 Charles Johnson

No, for that I used their embed code. But I’m looking into this now. They changed some stuff that broke my old code.

Good. I’ve been thinking about uploading some songs from the CD my buddies and I finished off a couple months ago. I’ve been looking where to put the song files so I could link them here. I will probably use Soundcloud.

I just haven’t been real motivated, sadly. Trying to fight to keep the wolves at bay.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:02:26pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

I don’t take laws from Englishmen in wigs.

OUR NEXT SPEAKER!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:03:06pm

re: #138 Timothy Watson

Political Correctedness Run Amuck!!!!1

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KGxvi  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:03:08pm

re: #144 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

in fairness, those who say the solar system is “perfectly organized”are the same people who think humans were intelligently designed… despite all evidence to the contrary.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:04:05pm

The human body is an amazing piece of natural engineering but most definitely not without its flaws.

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wrenchwench  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:04:24pm

re: #145 HappyWarrior

I hope I don’t come off ignorant or insulting our Lizard vets here but I think you see hostility to women in the service is because I think there’s a macho subculture within the military very threatened by women who can do things as well if not better than guys.Hope I did not offend because obviously it’s not everyone.

I think the macho culture in the military is not relay any worse than the culture in general. I think the military integrates better than some institutions because it is pretty much a merit-based culture, rather than money-based or status-based. It worked better with race than it has with gender.

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:04:32pm

Damn, the Pope loves him some kids!

He’s in Harlem at a school and he is going down a line of giddy students.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:04:43pm

re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg

The human body is an amazing piece of natural engineering but most definitely not without its flaws.

Right.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:05:26pm

re: #153 wrenchwench

I think the macho culture in the military is not relay any worse than the culture in general. I think the military integrates better than some institutions because it is pretty much a merit-based culture, rather than money-based or status-based. It worked better with race than it has with gender.

I think you are right about that.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:05:36pm

re: #154 ObserverArt

Damn, the Pope loves him some kids!

He’s in Harlem at a school and he is going down a line of giddy students.

He’s like, what’s with all these shiny rectangular devices in my face!

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:06:17pm

re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg

The human body is an amazing piece of natural engineering but most definitely not without its flaws.

Seriously. Who puts the buffet so close to the shithole?

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:07:12pm

re: #141 Mentis Fugit

Foxx with two x’s and not in porn.
[Embedded content]

On the other hand, not a woman and not his real name so your point may still stand.

Is that the dude that was in Ultravox?

Damn, I haven’t thought about them and him in years…

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:07:17pm

re: #154 ObserverArt

Damn, the Pope loves him some kids!

He’s in Harlem at a school and he is going down a line of giddy students.

I was thinking the other day that I never saw a Pope so beloved. John Paul II was admired but Francis is beloved.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:12:41pm

re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg

The human body is an amazing piece of natural engineering but most definitely not without its flaws.

I disagree. most of a decade of studying cancer has taught me that the human body is one of the most cobbled-together, jury-rigged, running-on-the-knife-edge-of-catastrophic-failure systems you could imagine.

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ObserverArt  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:12:54pm

Cool. Now he is in a classroom of young African American and Hispanic kiddies, and they are signing a song for him.

He asked them to sing a little louder for him.

And that is a good place for me to log out and get to doing a little music making myself. It’s Friday night Jams!

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:13:18pm

re: #162 ObserverArt

Cool. Now he is in a classroom of young African American and Hispanic kiddies, and they are signing a song for him.

He asked them to sing a little louder for him.

And that is a good place for me to log out and get to doing a little music making myself. It’s Friday night Jams!

I’ve got tears watching.

Hey, it’s Friday.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:14:45pm

So the aptly named DIck Black dismissed his Democratic opponent as “only” a doctor and mother. IF you don’t remember the name, this is the Virginia state senator who denied that spousal rape was possible and who wrote a letter to Al-Assad thanking him. Yeah my state senator’s a swell guy.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:14:55pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I disagree. most of a decade of studying cancer has taught me that the human body is one of the most cobbled-together, jury-rigged, running-on-the-knife-edge-of-catastrophic-failure systems you could imagine.

Interesting assessment.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:17:52pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I disagree. most of a decade of studying cancer has taught me that the human body is one of the most cobbled-together, jury-rigged, running-on-the-knife-edge-of-catastrophic-failure systems you could imagine.

That is all part of why its amazing; that billions of years of blind evolution could cobble together beings capable of comprehending their own improbable existence.

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Mentis Fugit  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:18:35pm

re: #159 ObserverArt

Is that the dude that was in Ultravox?

Damn, I haven’t thought about them and him in years…

Yep. Their first three albums.

I have those on vinyl, and his first solo album, Metamatic, on cassette … somewhere.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:18:44pm

re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg

The human body is an amazing piece of natural engineering but most definitely not without its flaws.

i would particularly cite the fact that the testicles are located where they are because they won’t function properly if subjected to the level of heat inside the body. the design here leads to… problems… and if it was submitted to me i would find it kloogy and ask the engineer to try again

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:21:08pm

re: #165 Eclectic Cyborg

Interesting assessment.

For example: blood clotting. Fantastically complex system of proproteins and proteases to activate them, but not activate them randomly, or all our blood would clot. A single point mutation in a single gene, and your blood doesn’t clot. That gene is on the X Chromosome, so there’s only ONE copy per genome in males, so there’s no backup.

Our bodies are barely good enough to get us to the age of 80 without falling apart or dying of cancer. It’s basically a race to pop out some offspring and raise them before something kills you.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:22:41pm

The key line from this song:
“So remember when you’re feeling very small and insecure
How amazingly unlikely is your birth
And pray that there’s intelligent life somewhere up in space
Cause it’s bugger all down herre on Earth.

Galaxy Song - Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:23:51pm

re: #168 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i would particularly cite the fact that the testicles are located where they are because they won’t function properly if subjected to the level of heat inside the body. the design here leads to… problems… and if it was submitted to me i would find it kloogy and ask the engineer to try again

And why are they located in a place where any upward kick will be directed right into them, and then that leaves you incapacitated?

“Intelligent design”, my ass!

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:24:12pm
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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:25:03pm

All right now! SoundCloud embedding works again - all you have to do is paste in the URL of a page containing a single SoundCloud file.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:25:09pm

re: #169 Blind Frog Belly White

For example: blood clotting. Fantastically complex system of proproteins and proteases to activate them, but not activate them randomly, or all our blood would clot. A single point mutation in a single gene, and your blood doesn’t clot. That gene is on the X Chromosome, so there’s only ONE copy per genome in males, so there’s no backup.

Our bodies are barely good enough to get us to the age of 80 without falling apart or dying of cancer. It’s basically a race to pop out some offspring and raise them before something kills you.

And yet evolution produced Shakespeare, Einstein and many other amazing minds who have opened our eyes to the wonders of the Universe. Dare I say, amazing!

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:25:15pm

Dante de Blasio’s fro ROCKS.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:25:35pm

re: #171 Blind Frog Belly White

And why are they located in a place where any upward kick will be directed right into them, and then that leaves you incapacitated?

“Intelligent design”, my ass!

You say that like it’s a problem.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:25:44pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I disagree. most of a decade of studying cancer has taught me that the human body is one of the most cobbled-together, jury-rigged, running-on-the-knife-edge-of-catastrophic-failure systems you could imagine.

i have read where darwin collected examples of less than optimal adaptations specifically as evidence of evolution since they were obviously so un-designed

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Nojay UK  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:25:56pm

re: #66 ObserverArt

My hope is they scare not just the liberals, centrists and independents, but they scare the remaining moderate Republicans.

Then things will change.

Hello, 2000 called and wants its Naderite voters back. You guys tried that “let the Republicans win and everyone will see just how bad they are” and yes, things did change. You got 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush’s second term, Katrina and the Bush Depression like one punch to the gut after another.

The result, eight years later? Republicans hold the House with an unshakeable majority and the Senate with a near filibuster-proof and veto-proof majority. Only the fact that you had a Presidential candidate who was head-and-shoulders above anyone on either side of the divide who ran for the office kept them from making a clean sweep. And none of the current barrel of monkeys are as competent and level-headed as the Republicans of 2000…

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allegro  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:27:50pm

re: #145 HappyWarrior

I hope I don’t come off ignorant or insulting our Lizard vets here but I think you see hostility to women in the service is because I think there’s a macho subculture within the military very threatened by women who can do things as well if not better than guys.Hope I did not offend because obviously it’s not everyone.

It’s the proverbial Good Ol’ Boys club and it’s reach extends far beyond the military.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:29:29pm

re: #176 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

You say that like it’s a problem.

All depends on whose ox is being gored.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:30:55pm

re: #179 allegro

It’s the proverbial Good Ol’ Boys club and it’s reach extends far beyond the military.

No doubt about it. We can only see the treatment female political candidates get. See my post about my jerkwad of a state senator dismissing his woman opponent as only a doctor and mother.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:31:38pm

re: #154 ObserverArt

Damn, the Pope loves him some kids!

He’s in Harlem at a school and he is going down a line of giddy students.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:32:42pm

re: #178 Nojay UK

My hope is they scare not just the liberals, centrists and independents, but they scare the remaining moderate Republicans.

Then things will change.

Hello, 2000 called and wants its Naderite voters back. You guys tried that “let the Republicans win and everyone will see just how bad they are” and yes, things did change. You got 9/11, Iraq, Afghanistan, Bush’s second term, Katrina and the Bush Depression like one punch to the gut after another.

The result, eight years later? Republicans hold the House with an unshakeable majority and the Senate with a near filibuster-proof and veto-proof majority. Only the fact that you had a Presidential candidate who was head-and-shoulders above anyone on either side of the divide who ran for the office kept them from making a clean sweep. And none of the current barrel of monkeys are as competent and level-headed as the Republicans of 2000…

I see your point but 2000 wasn’t so much of “Let Bush win and prove how crazy the Republicans are”, it was a combination of Gore running a bad campaign and a bunch of inconsiderate purer than thou dicks who couldn’t stand the fact that Gore wasn’t going to meet them on all the issues so they voted for Nader in key states.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:33:31pm

re: #174 aagcobb

And yet evolution produced Shakespeare, Einstein and many other amazing minds who have opened our eyes to the wonders of the Universe. Dare I say, amazing!

The wonders of evolutionary stategies. The ability to reason abstractly allows us to grasp the wonders of the universe, and also makes us aware of our own mortality. The complexity of our brains and thought processes makes us vulnerable to depression, bipolar disorder, autism, etc, while also allowing us to comprehend that others do not think, feel, or see things as we do.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:33:52pm

re: #182 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

See if they had guys like this when I was in CCD, I may not have quit. Well not really, a lot of Catholic teachings I thought were really out there even for a six year old. But a lot of the transcendent themes that Francis discusses are ones that I think we all religious and not can appreciate.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:34:27pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:34:43pm

Evolution is amazing. A few different tracks in the road and we’re eating bugs with the real lizards.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:35:12pm

re: #186 #CampaignZero

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Can’t wait to hear the police union’s defense of this.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:35:59pm

FYI for those who like to keep score:

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:37:25pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:38:01pm

oh, Donald…they all laughed at you.
When they weren’t booing…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:38:06pm

re: #187 HappyWarrior

Evolution is amazing. A few different tracks in the road and we’re eating bugs with the real lizards.

One day you and your kind rule the Earth for tens of millions of years. 65 million years later, the decendants of shrews are carving your kind up for Thanksgiving.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:42:00pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:42:07pm

re: #191 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh, Donald…they all laughed at you.
When they weren’t booing…

“And WTH do I do with this damn Bible I used in there?”

/

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Amory Blaine  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:43:02pm

Don’t hold your breathe. It took the collapse of the western economy to bring in a slim dem majority for a couple of weeks. These fucks are rolling.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:43:22pm

re: #189 Backwoods_Sleuth

FYI for those who like to keep score:

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Went for Obama the first time but Romney second. Hmmm a good Dem candidate could put Km out of work.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:44:39pm

re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth

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ha! that’s nothing!

on my first day as president i will waterboard the commie pope and repeal economics!!

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allegro  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:45:13pm

re: #196 HappyWarrior

Went for Obama the first time but Romney second. Hmmm a good Dem candidate could put Km out of work.

Should be the guy who’s doing her job for her now. He deserves the salary as well.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:45:53pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:46:35pm

re: #195 Amory Blaine

Don’t hold your breathe. It took the collapse of the western economy to bring in a slim dem majority for a couple of weeks. These fucks are rolling.

apparently under some circumstances to get rid of reactionaries required utter defeat in a major world wide conflict

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Tigger2  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:48:33pm

re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:50:50pm

Cool - the new SoundCloud code also handles user pages. You get a playlist with the three most recent songs they posted.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:52:03pm

re: #198 allegro

Should be the guy who’s doing her job for her now. He deserves the salary as well.

Brian? Don’t know his party affillation but in any case he’d be my first choice since he actually cares about doing his job.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:52:40pm

Ted Cruz will drink a sorority’s goldfish.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:53:20pm

re: #203 HappyWarrior

Brian? Don’t know his party affillation but in any case he’d be my first choice since he actually cares about doing his job.

Brian Mason has every bit as much (if not more) generations-long family name recognition than Kim has in this area.

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Lidane  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:54:04pm

OUTRAGE!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:54:30pm

re: #205 Backwoods_Sleuth

Brian Mason has every bit as much (if not more) generations-long family name recognition than Kim has in this area.

I hope he considers running.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:56:20pm

re: #207 HappyWarrior

I hope he considers running.

A vast majority of Rowan County voters are in the heavily Dem and liberal university city of Morehead.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:57:08pm

re: #206 Lidane

OUTRAGE!

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Pft what does a Navy SEAL commander know? I want to know what a manly man like Bryan Fischer thinks.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:57:38pm

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

A vast majority of Rowan County voters are in the heavily Dem and liberal university city of Morehead.

Yeah I saw that the county went for Obama in 2008. One of the few that did.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:58:42pm

Starbucks update: There’s a very well dressed man here in his 50s who has brought and set up his entire home iMac system on a table. He’s using it to something something his fantasy football something, via some website or program called GRIDIRON (white lettering, green field logo). This is the first time I’ve ever seen fantasy football in action, and the shit is intense, there’s a separate physical paper ledger involved, he’s checking things out on his iPad. He’s got what looks like a t-shirt on his lap with the GRIDIRON logo.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:59:01pm

re: #210 HappyWarrior

Yeah I saw that the county went for Obama in 2008. One of the few that did.

Also, the residents of Morehead (as well as other county officials) are sick and tired of Kim’s drama.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 1:59:59pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also, the residents of Morehead (as well as other county officials) are sick and tired of Kim’s drama.

Yep hopefully this isn’t forgotten when Kim’s up for re-election and se can be bid farwell.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:00:25pm

oh good freaking grief…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:01:40pm
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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:01:49pm

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh good freaking grief…

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Wolf Blitzer wants to know if the rainbow had an accent.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:02:13pm

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

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allegro  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:02:36pm

re: #214 Backwoods_Sleuth

oh good freaking grief…

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I think it has something to do with light refraction.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:02:46pm

re: #217 Kragar

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Couldn’t be.//

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:03:06pm

today just keeps getting better and better:

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Lidane  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:03:07pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

Starbucks update: There’s a very well dressed man here in his 50s who has brought and set up his entire home iMac system on a table. He’s using it to something something his fantasy football something, via some website or program called GRIDIRON (white lettering, green field logo). This is the first time I’ve ever seen fantasy football in action, and the shit is intense, there’s a separate physical paper ledger involved, he’s checking things out on his iPad. He’s got what looks like a t-shirt on his lap with the GRIDIRON logo.

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No Depression  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:03:42pm

re: #193 Backwoods_Sleuth

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wut u libruls can’t taek a joke???????

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Nyet  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:04:04pm

Just finished the last pages of Joe Hill’s NOS4A2. What a ride! Not without some bumps, mind you, but IMHO it’s a must-read for horror aficionados.

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allegro  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:04:17pm

23 seconds! Damn I’m always late.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:04:34pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:04:50pm

If I actually played fantasy football I’d probably be super impressed by this guy. As it stands however I’m left meditating on the nature of the modern midlife crisis.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:04:56pm

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth

today just keeps getting better and better:

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Only real drawback there is he’ll have more time to focus on is re-election. Any interesting possible candidates?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:05:43pm

Good afternoon Lizards from the ghost town of Center City Philadelphia - at least compared to a normal Friday. Major roads around the Art Museum and Ben Franklin Parkway are blocked off with concrete barriers, checkpoints are established, and there are groups of policemen and what I think might be PA National Guard all over as well.

Work was pretty quiet today. *TWO* people, including myself, in the office while everyone else worked from home. No line at the falafel place as I was their third customer of the day at about 11:45am.

There are tourists and other visitors about, but simply not the foot traffic of a usual business day. And add to that very little train or vehicle traffic.

And the constant sound of helicopters about as well.

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allegro  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:06:50pm

re: #226 goddamnedfrank

If I actually played fantasy football I’d probably be super impressed by this guy. As it stands however I’m left meditating on the nature of the modern midlife crisis.

It must be big business now judging from all the ads during Sunday football. This is the first time I’ve seen those.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:07:48pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

Starbucks update: There’s a very well dressed man here in his 50s who has brought and set up his entire home iMac system on a table. He’s using it to something something his fantasy football something, via some website or program called GRIDIRON (white lettering, green field logo). This is the first time I’ve ever seen fantasy football in action, and the shit is intense, there’s a separate physical paper ledger involved, he’s checking things out on his iPad. He’s got what looks like a t-shirt on his lap with the GRIDIRON logo.

NERD!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:10:11pm

re: #227 HappyWarrior

Only real drawback there is he’ll have more time to focus on is re-election. Any interesting possible candidates?

When Bevin loses the governor’s race, he’ll try again.
Maybe Trey Grayson will as well.
On the Dem side, I have no idea who may be interested.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:10:14pm

I’ve seen people do this before, bring their iMac and set it up in a coffee shop. They’re usually students though, this guy either blew his entire wad on quality businessman attire or he can clearly afford to get a laptop. Instead he’s got a fancy dedicated case to carry the iMac around in, which he took back to his car, broadcasting his clear intention to be here awhile.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:10:26pm

re: #65 Skip Intro

Fortunately the baggers hate women or we could be looking at Speaker Virginia Foxx.

You can see the crazy in her eyes.

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She is the backwoods Appalachian NC representative and the white folks up in the mountains let their freak flags fucking fly.

Also, I am finding it nearly impossible to type anything on LGF and several other blogs. The type rate is insanely slow and every other letter goes missing. Any fix ideas?

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:11:09pm

re: #223 Nyet

Shhh, don’t say anything else! I just bought it the other day because you & Stanley were talking about it. All I’ve had time for so far is the prologue and a few pages of the first chapter.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:12:23pm

re: #216 HappyWarrior

Wolf Blitzer wants to know if the rainbow had an accent.

Next he will tell us it is unbelievable to see this in an American city in this day and age.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:13:54pm

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

When Bevin loses the governor’s race, he’ll try again.
Maybe Trey Grayson will as well.
On the Dem side, I have no idea who may be interested.

Well hpoefully someone good or perhaps Grimes learned a lesson last time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:14:25pm

jeebus…it’s downright chilly here in the backwoods!
65F with a light rain that threatens to turn into a downpour at any moment.
We never got anywhere near the forecast high of 74F.

(BWS putting on her fleece hoodie in an attempt to stay warm…)

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:15:12pm

One of the employees wanted to take his extra chair but he said he’s waiting for someone, which was kind of obvious because he’s been checking the parking lot every few seconds over the last twenty minutes. Periodically he gets up and paces, walks out, back in, then checks the ledger and the menagerie of Apple devices arrayed on the table. Dude’s a pro.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:16:03pm

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…it’s downright chilly here in the backwoods!
65F with a light rain that threatens to turn into a downpour at any moment.
We never got anywhere near the forecast high of 74F.

(BWS putting on her fleece hoodie in an attempt to stay warm…)

Cold and wet as hell here in NC. Glad we didn’t go down to Eutaw Springs for the reenactment.

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:16:17pm

re: #238 goddamnedfrank

How many drinks has he bought?

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:17:09pm

re: #240 Jebediah, RBG

How many drinks has he bought?

Zero. Good call.

Don’t worry, I’ve got the exits mapped out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:17:42pm

re: #227 HappyWarrior

Only real drawback there is he’ll have more time to focus on is re-election. Any interesting possible candidates?

gotta say, though, that I am completely pissed that the state GOP committee sold out my primary vote to Rand Paul.
There is NO WAY I’m walking into a locked caucus room where I would not have a private vote.

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De Kolta Chair  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:18:08pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:18:11pm

re: #221 Lidane

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And it’s yoooooge $$

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:18:43pm

re: #239 Aunty Entity Dragon

Cold and wet as hell here in NC. Glad we didn’t go down to Eutaw Springs for the reenactment.

I’ll try to remind myself how much I’m whining right now when temps drop to sub-zero come January-February.

:D

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:19:17pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:21:18pm

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…it’s downright chilly here in the backwoods!
65F with a light rain that threatens to turn into a downpour at any moment.
We never got anywhere near the forecast high of 74F.

(BWS putting on her fleece hoodie in an attempt to stay warm…)

Lucky. We’re going to have another 100’s weekend. So over it.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:21:38pm

re: #238 goddamnedfrank

One of the employees wanted to take his extra chair but he said he’s waiting for someone, which was kind of obvious because he’s been checking the parking lot every few seconds over the last twenty minutes. Periodically he gets up and paces, walks out, back in, then checks the ledger and the menagerie of Apple devices arrayed on the table. Dude’s a pro.

Serious Dungeon Master is serious.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:21:59pm

re: #246 Aunty Entity Dragon

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Preach it.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:22:27pm

re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth

gotta say, though, that I am completely pissed that the state GOP committee sold out my primary vote to Rand Paul.
There is NO WAY I’m walking into a locked caucus room where I would not have a private vote.

Yea I don’t like caucuses.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:23:00pm

Another long and hard fought work week drawing closer to an end.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:23:04pm

false flag….of course…

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:23:36pm

re: #248 Kragar

Serious Dungeon Master is serious.

8th level cleric getting ready to take on the undead hoards. Preparations must be made. Prayers stockpiled. Holy water bottled. Hot pockets put in the microwave.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:23:49pm

Central Park right now = insane

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:24:38pm

re: #246 Aunty Entity Dragon

So according to her, the government has no right to ban abortions or same sex marriage

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:24:53pm

re: #241 goddamnedfrank

I know that at my local Starbucks, their very favoritest people are the ones who come hang round all day using the wi-fi and buy zero drinks. Taking up all or most of a table with a desk-top computer is just a big bonus, I guess!
That people come to Starbucks to very visibly write (because what good is being a writer if no-one sees you doing it?) is by now an old joke - making such a giant show of being a football fantasist is a new one for me.

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plansbandc  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:25:43pm

Updings for Ultravox!

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:25:49pm

re: #255 Kragar

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So according to her, the government has no right to ban abortions or same sex marriage

Good because my conscience says she’s a bigoted old witch who I would never allow in my hypothetical bar.

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Nyet  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:26:34pm

re: #234 CuriousLurker

Shhh, Don’t say anything else! I just bought it the other day because you & Stanley were talking about it. All I’ve had time for so far is the prologue and a few pages of the first chapter.

I will say 2 things: the further into the book, the more it feels like a “King” book.

And [not a spoiler as such, since it’s not about the plot; maybe a meta-spoiler] it is clear from the text that the action takes place in

King’s “shared” universe.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:26:35pm

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

false flag….of course…

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Of course.

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:27:34pm

I think alot of people don’t know that this pope is a child of immigrants himself. I have to say I knew his parents were Italian immigrants but I did not know that they fled Mussolini to come to Argentina.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:27:40pm

re: #256 Jebediah, RBG

I know that at my local Starbucks, their very favoritest people are the ones who come hang round all day using the wi-fi and buy zero drinks. Taking up all or most of a table with a desk-top computer is just a big bonus, I guess!
That people come to Starbucks to very visibly write (because what good is being a writer if no-one sees you doing it?) is by now an old joke - making such a giant show of being a football fantasist is a new one for me.

I’ve gone into coffee shops before to sit and read/write for a bit. Usually before meeting people. But I also make sure to buy stuff as well since if I am going to use their chairs, tables, and internet access I should also be contributing to their business as well.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:27:46pm

re: #255 Kragar

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So according to her, the government has no right to ban abortions or same sex marriage

Did you see my answer?

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:28:17pm

re: #262 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve gone into coffee shops before to sit and read/write for a bit. Usually before meeting people. But I also make sure to buy stuff as well since if I am going to use their chairs, tables, and internet access I should also be contributing to their business as well.

I couldn’t fathom not buying something. Shit, and tipping well.

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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:28:59pm

re: #253 Aunty Entity Dragon

8th level cleric getting ready to take on the undead hoards. Preparations must be made. Prayers stockpiled. Holy water bottled. Hot pockets put in the microwave.

Jack Chick warned us about 8th level clerics…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:29:16pm

re: #261 HappyWarrior

I think alot of people don’t know that this pope is a child of immigrants himself. I have to say I knew his parents were Italian immigrants but I did not know that they fled Mussolini to come to Argentina.

And that little girl’s parents are migrant farm workers.
They aren’t citizens but they aren’t here illegally.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:29:39pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:29:41pm

re: #255 Kragar

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So according to her, the government has no right to ban abortions or same sex marriage

Then don’t you wish you hadn’t had your conscience surgically removed and replaced with religion?

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HappyWarrior  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:29:52pm

re: #266 Backwoods_Sleuth

And that little girl’s parents are migrant farm workers.
They aren’t citizens but they aren’t here illegally.

Exactly.

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Tigger2  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:29:58pm

re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth

false flag….of course…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:30:07pm

re: #257 plansbandc

How appropriate a song for Today’s Boehner GOP upheaval, courtesy Ultravox:

Ultravox - Reap the Wild Wind (Live)

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allegro  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:30:29pm

re: #262 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve gone into coffee shops before to sit and read/write for a bit. Usually before meeting people. But I also make sure to buy stuff as well since if I am going to use their chairs, tables, and internet access I should also be contributing to their business as well.

No kidding. I can’t even imagine how much of an asshole one must be to use the premisis and services without buying anything.

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goddamnedfrank  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:30:49pm

I may have been wrong. I now think this guy is a salesman, trying to sell his company’s home brewed football scheduling management software to UCLA or something. Whoever he’s supposed to be meeting here is clearly making his ass wait tho’.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:31:06pm

For additional hilarity…Rod Dreher (who also dabbled with #Istandwithahmed trooferism) is now delving into the pro-gay/pro-liberal Catholic conspiracy that brought down nobody’s favorite Pope Benedict.

*giggle*

Today is unusually entertaining.

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Big Beautiful Door  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:31:24pm

re: #220 Backwoods_Sleuth

today just keeps getting better and better:

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That just means he’ll focus on his senate campaign. Ugh.

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Great White Snark  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:31:55pm

May this please be another empty bomb threat. LA right now… No boom.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:32:15pm

re: #275 aagcobb

That just means he’ll focus on his senate campaign. Ugh.

I can only speak to the Republicans I know here.
Everyone is sick and tired of Rand Paul.

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William Lewis  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:33:50pm

Up for the day. Anymore insane news other than Boner trying to hit the silk and escape from the burning plane that is the B-GOP?

All I know is I got my Boss DS-1 distortion pedal today and making loud joyful noise seems rather appropriate right now :D

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:33:56pm

re: #265 Kragar

Jack Chick warned us about 8th level clerics…

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DAMN YOU CHICK!!!!!!!! YOUR CLEVER TRACTS WITH THEIR AMAZING WRITING AND COMPELLING ART HAVE DOOOOOOOOMED WARGAMES AND RPG’S TO THE OUTER ABYSS OF…oh, I dunno, having more fun?

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:34:50pm

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…it’s downright chilly here in the backwoods!
65F with a light rain that threatens to turn into a downpour at any moment.
We never got anywhere near the forecast high of 74F.

(BWS putting on her fleece hoodie in an attempt to stay warm…)

72° and gloomy here in Jersey. I have the AC on. Since leaving Texas I’ve become a total wimp where the heat is concerned—70° to 80° is hot enough for the AC, 80° to the low 90’s is HOT, above 90° is miserable and requires both window unit air conditioners on full blast + a fan.

My favorite temps now are about 50° to 65° and even the 40’s only warrant a light jacket. Anything under that is COLD.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:34:53pm
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EPR-radar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:35:06pm

re: #226 goddamnedfrank

If I actually played fantasy football I’d probably be super impressed by this guy. As it stands however I’m left meditating on the nature of the modern midlife crisis.

My own hobbies and interests are sufficiently esoteric that I’m not going to diss anyone else’s hobbies, provided they are harmless.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:35:26pm
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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:36:03pm

re: #262 Feline Fearless Leader

Agree 100% - coffee shops can be very convenient and useful that way - but I too would feel weird not buying something.

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EPR-radar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:36:44pm

re: #241 goddamnedfrank

Zero. Good call.

Don’t worry, I’ve got the exits mapped out.

Almost as bad as chess players. ///

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:36:46pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:37:57pm
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Kragar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:37:59pm
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goddamnedfrank  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:38:23pm
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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:39:10pm

re: #259 Nyet

I will say 2 things: the further into the book, the more it feels like a “King” book.

And [not a spoiler as such, since it’s not about the plot; maybe a meta-spoiler] it is clear from the text that the action takes place in

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Hmm, interesting. I’ll have to try to make time to sit down and seriously dig into it this weekend.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:40:14pm

for allegro and her little guy. (Hope he’s doing better today)

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:40:20pm

So another murdering cop has been acquitted.

They are going to re-try.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:43:04pm
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Skip Intro  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:44:25pm

re: #152 Eclectic Cyborg

The human body is an amazing piece of natural engineering but most definitely not without its flaws.

For example, the #%$@x*&ed prostate.

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Charles Johnson  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:44:35pm

re: #293 Aunty Entity Dragon

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You’ve attracted the attention of truly horrible human being.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:45:06pm

re: #293 Aunty Entity Dragon

and the March on Selma was pre-planned.

good freaking grief…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:46:34pm

hey VB! Just saw this pie on teh twitterz!

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Great White Snark  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:46:36pm

re: #202 Charles Johnson

So that’s two that seem to work. Spotify and Soundcloud.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:47:23pm
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TedStriker  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:49:21pm

re: #161 Blind Frog Belly White

I disagree. most of a decade of studying cancer has taught me that the human body is one of the most cobbled-together, jury-rigged, running-on-the-knife-edge-of-catastrophic-failure systems you could imagine.

The Creator is a hot rodder…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:50:03pm

come at me bro!

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Skip Intro  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:51:23pm

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…it’s downright chilly here in the backwoods!
65F with a light rain that threatens to turn into a downpour at any moment.
We never got anywhere near the forecast high of 74F.

(BWS putting on her fleece hoodie in an attempt to stay warm…)

It seems like this is like the 300th day in a row above 80 degrees here. Could be worse; ten miles north it’s over 90. Again.

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EPR-radar  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:52:12pm

re: #294 Skip Intro

For example, the #%$@x*&ed prostate.

Men of a certain age who still believe in intelligent design as applied to the human body have truly impressive powers of self-delusion.

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TedStriker  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:52:52pm

re: #213 HappyWarrior

Yep hopefully this isn’t forgotten when Kim’s up for re-election and se can be bid farwell.

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also, the residents of Morehead (as well as other county officials) are sick and tired of Kim’s drama.

Too bad that, barring action from the KY legislature to unseat her (which, INO, is highly unlikely), they (and, by extension, we) are stuck with dealing with her for a shade under four more years.

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EmmaAnne  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:54:16pm

re: #168 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

i would particularly cite the fact that the testicles are located where they are because they won’t function properly if subjected to the level of heat inside the body. the design here leads to… problems… and if it was submitted to me i would find it kloogy and ask the engineer to try again

I’d like to bring up allergies at this time.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:55:53pm

re: #294 Skip Intro

For example, the #%$@x*&ed prostate.

Well, if you think your urethra going right through the middle of your prostate is bad, what if your esophagus went right through the middle of your brain, like an octopus?

On the other hand the light-sensing cells in their eyes point towards the light instead of away from it like ours, so six of one….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:56:47pm
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makeitstop  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:57:26pm

Geez, I go out for a few hours and the world goes crazy…

K and I went into Nassau County’s Gold Coast today, looking for the ruins of an estate once owned by King Zog of Albania. Took my camera, natch.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:57:28pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:57:53pm

awww…Matt Bevin haz a cranky…

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 2:58:16pm

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Actually, that’s Republican crazy on contaminated crack cocaine.

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EPR-radar  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:00:42pm

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

So Bobby Jindal apparently wants to replace the likes of Louie Gohmert with even MOAR STUPID Republican knuckle draggers and oxygen thieves.

Whatever happened to this business of “no longer being the stupid party”, Mr. Jindal?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:00:46pm

Is it me or does poor Mr. Davis look like Super Dave Osborne in overalls?

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KGxvi  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:01:19pm

re: #211 goddamnedfrank

there’s two kinds of fantasy sports… the first kind is the traditional group of friends who get together and talk shit and do it mostly for a good time (mostly done online). these may or may not include money (usually not big amounts - I did a baseball league and a basketball league for a few years where it was like $50 a season with like 10 players). the second kind is the newer online varieties that are basically quasi-legalized gambling. that’s probably what the guy at starbucks was doing.

Lebatard actually had an interesting conversation about the new fantasy sports websites. They claim they’re not gambling sites - even though people pay money to be in leagues (some which are designed to be one day/one week) and win money. The NCAA has told it’s employeesstudent athletes they can’t play because it’s gambling (granted, when I played JC water polo in the late 90s, they told us no gambling “not even a March Madness pool”). There’s an interesting bit of disconnect between reality, legality, and what is being sold. Though my guess is that nobody is going to slip a rider on a port security bill to kill the online fantasy leagues like Kyl did with poker (asshole)

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:02:01pm

re: #308 makeitstop

Geez, I go out for a few hours and the world goes crazy…

K and I went into Nassau County’s Gold Coast today, looking for the ruins of an estate once owned by King Zog of Albania. Took my camera, natch.

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I was going to make a joke about “KNEEL BEFORE…” and I gave up, since the f#%$#ing stalkers would try to smear me as saying something about “Zionist Occupation whatthefuckever” instead of accepting a damned joke from Superman 2.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:02:28pm

re: #307 Backwoods_Sleuth

They get fired every two years. Ijits keep rehiring them.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:04:42pm
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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:07:33pm

re: #308 makeitstop

The berries are gorgeous. What are they, do you know?

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:10:19pm

re: #293 Aunty Entity Dragon

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Oh look. Another “gamergate” MRA jackass who just so happens to be a white nationalist as well. That venn diagram is about as close to concentric circles as you’re going to get.

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makeitstop  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:11:14pm

re: #314 KGxvi

Lebatard actually had an interesting conversation about the new fantasy sports websites. They claim they’re not gambling sites - even though people pay money to be in leagues (some which are designed to be one day/one week) and win money.

They’re spending an insane amount of money on advertising. They’re on every news and sports outlet in NYC (ESPN New York ran at least one of their ads in every single break for the two hours I listened today), and I saw three TV spots each for Fanduel and Draft Kings during the Giants game last night and at least two spots during the Mets game.

That translates to crazy money in a major media market. People on a sports community I belong to are speculating that the pro leagues themselves are somehow bankrolling these sites. Me, I’m sick of hearing about ‘em.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:11:19pm

Man, Alex Jones must be doing something to his writers he has working for him:

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makeitstop  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:11:53pm

re: #315 Aunty Entity Dragon

I was going to make a joke about “KNEEL BEFORE…” and I gave up, since the f#%$#ing stalkers would try to smear me as saying something about “Zionist Occupation whatthefuckever” instead of accepting a damned joke from Superman 2.

We used that one couple of times for you. :)

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makeitstop  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:13:33pm

re: #318 CuriousLurker

The berries are gorgeous. What are they, do you know?

Not sure. Those weren’t ripe - the ripe ones looked like wild blueberries.

I like that shot. I alwys try to do something macro when I’m out in the woods, and that one came out nice.

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Tigger2  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:15:06pm

re: #317 CuriousLurker

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That’s cute.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:15:19pm

re: #323 makeitstop

Not sure. Those weren’t ripe - the ripe ones looked like wild blueberries.

I like that shot. I alwys try to do something macro when I’m out in the woods, and that one came out nice.

Indeed it did—very nice!

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makeitstop  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:16:00pm

re: #325 CuriousLurker

Indeed it did—very nice!

Thank you! I know you like your macro shots as well. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:18:41pm

re: #318 CuriousLurker

The berries are gorgeous. What are they, do you know?

The leaves are grapes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:19:35pm

re: #319 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Oh look. Another “gamergate” MRA jackass who just so happens to be a white nationalist as well. That venn diagram is about as close to concentric circles as you’re going to get.

gamergate is all frothing over the UN cyber-whatever thing today.

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jayjaybear  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:24:46pm

re: #318 CuriousLurker

Looks like porcelain berry to me.

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jayjaybear  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:25:00pm

Duplicate…sorry!

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:36:10pm

re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #329 jayjaybear

Looks like you’re both right:

Ampelopsis brevipedunculata (syn. Vitis heterophylla Thunb.), with common names creeper, porcelain berry, Amur peppervine, and wild grape,[1] is an ornamental plant, native to temperate areas of Asia.[2] It is generally similar to, and potentially confused with, grape species (genus Vitis) and other Ampelopsis species.[3]

en.wikipedia.org

I’m completely captivated by the range of colors of the berries. Nature never get’s it wrong, y’know? No need to study color theory, just pay attention to nature’s palette.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:41:39pm

re: #332 CuriousLurker

Looks like you’re both right:

I’m completely captivated by the range of colors of the berries. Nature never get’s it wrong, y’know? No need to study color theory, just pay attention to nature’s palette.

I was gonna be more specific and say a wild muscadine grape because they are all over my farm. But the ones in the photo didn’t look quite the same, but very very close.
The wild muscadines make the best jelly of all. Very tart but loads of flavor.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:46:30pm

re: #284 Jebediah, RBG

If you were to ever use a coffeeshop, at least vary your MAC address for fuck’s sake.

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:52:37pm

re: #334 Eric The Fruit Bat

I thought MAC addresses were permanent and unique for each piece of hardware that has one?

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:54:19pm

re: #333 Backwoods_Sleuth

I was gonna be more specific and say a wild muscadine grape because they are all over my farm. But the ones in the photo didn’t look quite the same, but very very close.
The wild muscadines make the best jelly of all. Very tart but loads of flavor.

Sounds yummy. I love berries & berry preserves, jellies, and jams (as long as they’re not too sweet—I like the stuff like Polaner’s “spreadable fruit” made only with fruit juices).

What’s that? I think I hear my raspberry fruit spread calling to me from the fridge… I’m seriously tempted to make a batch of buttermilk biscuits now, but… must… resist… (because if I make them I’ll eat all of them).

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lawhawk  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:54:25pm

re: #331 Eric The Fruit Bat

BREAKING: Breitbart Estate Settles Lawsuit with Shirley Sherrod over deceptively edited video

That’s the classic Friday night news dump.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:54:38pm

re: #335 Jebediah, RBG

Nothing stops me from shoehorning a shim to alter the stack.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:56:33pm

re: #336 CuriousLurker

jeebus…I have one little tiny patch of wild black raspberries. They are the best!
Wild blackberries, OTOH, my place is filthy with those things. Not as tasty as the raspberries and too many seeds.

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Jebediah, RBG  Sep 25, 2015 • 3:56:52pm

re: #338 Eric The Fruit Bat

I wish I knew what that means.

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 4:00:21pm

re: #340 Jebediah, RBG

I wish I knew what that means.

Just guessing, but it sounds like maybe altering packets (on a network) or something.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Sep 25, 2015 • 4:02:04pm

re: #339 Backwoods_Sleuth

jeebus…I have one little tiny patch of wild black raspberries. They are the best!
Wild blackberries, OTOH, my place is filthy with those things. Not as tasty as the raspberries and too many seeds.

God, I spent my whole childhood battling blackberries. They strangled our raspberries, our rhubarb—everything. And you can’t get the 2,4 D and 2,4,5 T we slathered on them any more….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Sep 25, 2015 • 4:03:00pm

re: #342 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

God, I spent my whole childhood battling blackberries. They strangled our raspberries, our rhubarb—everything. And you can’t get the 2,4 D and 2,4,5 T we slathered on them any more….

wild blackberries are evil…

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CuriousLurker  Sep 25, 2015 • 4:06:52pm

re: #342 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

re: #343 Backwoods_Sleuth

Learn something new every day here. Who knew berries could be evil? ;-)

Oops, there goes my imagination again: Now picturing the dark lord of wild blackberries sprouting horns and summoning his hordes (I was gonna say minions, but they’re forever associated with cuteness now).

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A Cranky One  Sep 25, 2015 • 5:05:11pm

re: #310 Backwoods_Sleuth

awww…Matt Bevin haz a cranky…

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It’s not me! Must be some other cranky. ;)


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