Anti-Choice Extremist Troy Newman Deported From Australia

High court finds he showed “consummate disregard” for Australian law
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Troy Newman, head of extreme anti-abortion group Operation Rescue and board member of the Center for Medical Progress (whose deceptively edited “sting” videos attacking Planned Parenthood have set off a firestorm of dishonest right wing outrage), has been deported from Australia after arriving in the country despite having his visa revoked.

Newman’s visa was canceled earlier this week after Australian authorities learned that he advocates executing abortion doctors. Newman is also infamous for coming to the defense of anti-choice murderer Paul Jennings Hill, saying that Hill was justified in killing Dr. John Britton and his bodyguard in 1994. His group, Operation Rescue, is notorious for its associations with violent anti-abortion extremists; their “senior policy adviser,” Cheryl Sullenger, spent two years in federal prison for conspiring to bomb an abortion clinic.

Newman filed an appeal with Australia’s High Court, trying to stop his deportation, but it was denied — and he will now have to pay the commonwealth’s legal costs as well.

In making his decision in the high court in Melbourne on Friday, Justice Geoffrey Nettle highlighted Newman’s “consummate disregard” for Australian laws, by travelling to Australia with knowledge his visa had been cancelled. “He does not come to this court with clean hands,” Nettle said.

The high court justice noted a recording Newman took of him being stopped at Denver airport because he did not have a valid visa as evidence the campaigner knew his visa had been denied.

Airline workers had urged him to contact the Australian embassy before travelling on, Nettle said.

Despite disagreeing with the visa cancellation, Newman had “no right to treat it as nought,” Nettle said. He was “determinedly and avidly” intent on travelling to Australia, the justice said. “He is the author of his own misfortune and predicament.”

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b_sharp  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:28:07am

Second paragraph, first sentence is a bit clunky.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:29:43am

re: #1 b_sharp

Second paragraph, first sentence is a bit clunky.

Agreed. Recommend remove “having”.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:30:18am

Oops, bad edit. Fixed.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:31:17am

Newman: Don’t you know who I am?

Authorities: Yes, That’s why you’re not getting in.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:34:31am

re: #4 Eventual Carrion

Newman: Don’t you know who I am?

Authorities: Yes, That’s why you’re not getting in.

Thread winner right here.

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ramex  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:39:22am

Somebody help me on this, but don’t his words and the actions he support amount to terrorism? Why is he allowed to operate freely in the United States? Australia has essentially denied him access to their country because of his terrorist-like activities and comments, and didn’t we put Charlie Manson away for approximately the same level of wrongdoing?

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allegro  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:39:37am

I’m enjoying this news quite a lot. This bottom feeding fucker should be in a prison cell somewhere to remove him from society but if we can’t have that a bit of international humiliation with a hefty financial price tag helps.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:40:53am

re: #6 ramex

Somebody help me on this, but don’t his words and the actions he support amount to terrorism? Why is he allowed to operate freely in the United States? Australia has essentially denied him access to their country because of his terrorist-like activities and comments, and didn’t we put Charlie Manson away for approximately the same level of wrongdoing?

He’s a terror-preaching Imam. But he isn’t, because he’s white.

Skin color. Is. Everything.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:40:59am

re: #6 ramex

Associating with terrorists is not, in and of itself, a crime. We don’t punish people before they do something wrong.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:47:10am

re: #6 ramex

Somebody help me on this, but don’t his words and the actions he support amount to terrorism? Why is he allowed to operate freely in the United States? Australia has essentially denied him access to their country because of his terrorist-like activities and comments, and didn’t we put Charlie Manson away for approximately the same level of wrongdoing?

Australia doesn’t even need to build a wall to keep the terrorists from sneaking across their borders. They already have a shark filled moat around the kingdom. But they really need to invest in a few million head mounted lasers for them.

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 10:58:04am

re: #8 Pawn of the Oppressor

It’s not just because of skin color (though that probably gives him more room to operate). It’s because abortion is, somehow after all these years, still a central issue in American politics. Depending on how you read the polls, Americans are either 50-50 on abortion rights or 30-40-30 (the 40 being somewhere between completely pro-life and completely pro-choice). And the conservative movement has taken a “no enemies to my right” approach to politics (with the “no true Scotsman” out clause). It becomes the old “one man’s terrorist is another man’s freedom fighter”. Basically, we’re more fucked on this issue than we are on anything else (including guns).

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:05:04am

re: #9 thedopefishlives

Associating with terrorists is not, in and of itself, a crime. We don’t punish people before they do something wrong.

Newman and Operation Rescue were / are prime for a RICO prosecution following the murder of George Tiller.

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ObserverArt  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:14:27am

The image of him in the topic photo certainly does not make him look uh, friendly.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:17:53am

This is all well and good, but it’s not going to set him back financially. Donations to his sick and twisted cause will pay for it. He’s not inconvenienced really in any form except being held for a bit in limbo before Australia boots him out and puts him on a plane. It’s good publicity for his martyrdom and another means of fundraising for Operation Rescue. It sucks, but this is win for them in the long term.

I had a run in with these creepy assholes in Atlanta many years ago. It was during the time of the Democratic convention in 1988. I was headed to a PP office for my exam and birth control pills with my then not quite 5 yr old daughter in tow. I had to run a gauntlet of these assholes screaming at me to not abort my baby and if I did I was going to hell. They terrified my daughter, they also made sure I knew they wrote down my car’s license plate number. I finally made it to where an escort met me and got inside. When I left the same shit started again and I held up my pills and screamed back at them that I was there to avoid a fucking abortion. And these assholes still persisted, saying the pills were abortions and against God’s law too. It never stops with these people. Ever. I’m just pissed this shit hasn’t been shut down by now, and we’re still fighting over something that’s been legal and held up as legal for decades now. And they are STILL terrorizing people and burning down clinics. Another one in California just a few days ago (Thousand Oaks, I think). I just literally can’t even with these fucking people anymore.

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ObserverArt  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:21:15am

re: #10 Eventual Carrion

Australia doesn’t even need to build a wall to keep the terrorists from sneaking across their borders. They already have a shark filled moat around the kingdom. But they really need to invest in a few million head mounted lasers for them.

“What the hell good is a country without sharks with head-mounted lasers???

No good I say! Losers!! When I am president, we will have the greatest head-mounted lasers on all our sharks. They will be beautiful too. Good looking sharks.”

- Donald Trump upon hearing of the lack of USA sharks with head-mounted lasers under the Obama administration.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:23:24am
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ObserverArt  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:26:24am

re: #16 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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PhillyPretzel  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:29:40am

re: #16 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Philly is soggy too. weather.gov

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CuriousLurker  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:32:28am

Drive-by SQUEEEEEE:

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:33:27am

re: #16 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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My sister lives on Tybee Island GA and works in Savannah. I texted her to see if there was any flooding there. She said the worst was up north above Hilton Head, but she took cloths to work in case she couldn’t get back home on the island and had to stay overnight.

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allegro  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:42:09am

re: #19 CuriousLurker

Drive-by SQUEEEEEE:

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Heh, that vision reminds me of a pair of little raccoon orphans I had for a couple of days before I could take them to my rehab farm lady where they would be cared for and reintroduced to the wild when they were ready. I’d secured them, or so I thought, in a critter crate in my bedroom. When I walked in my front door after work, I heard a crash from the bedroom. Oh shit. The little fuckers had opened the critter crate and had a blast during my absence. Found one of them in my closet, most of the clothes on the floor, hanging from the rod almost exactly like that guy in the pic. In spite of the horrific mess they’d made, how can ya get mad at that much cute? Couldn’t even scold them I was laughing so hard.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:49:28am

re: #19 CuriousLurker

Drive-by SQUEEEEEE:

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I named him Bandit!

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Nyet  Oct 3, 2015 • 11:56:12am

The shit these people - whether anti-choice or anti-gay - spout has real effect outside of the Western “liberal democratic” sphere - in Russia, African countries and elsewhere. They are more than just evil clowns.

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Mattand  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:02:50pm

Jesus, I need to get off of Facebook. That fucking National Review “Obama hates the Oregon hero shooting because he didn’t invite the guy immediately to the White House” meme has been picking up steam all day.

Unfucking believable. It kills me how goddamn stupid conservative Americans can be at times.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:04:39pm
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Timothy Watson  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:05:38pm

re: #24 Mattand

Jesus, I need to get off of Facebook. That fucking National Review “Obama hates the Oregon hero shooting because he didn’t invite the guy immediately to the White House” meme has been picking up steam all day.

Unfucking believable. It kills me how goddamn stupid conservative Americans can be at times.

Yes, Obama should put the guy who’s been shot at least five times on a plane today!!1!

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Timothy Watson  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:06:04pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

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Suspended Ostrich?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:06:24pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:06:54pm

re: #6 ramex

The UK banned Michael Savage from entering the UK due to his broadcasts.

Remember, just because the US allows such filth to be broadcasted, that other countries are just as accommodating.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:07:40pm
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Mattand  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:10:05pm
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Mattand  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:11:31pm

re: #21 allegro

Heh, that vision reminds me of a pair of little raccoon orphans I had for a couple of days before I could take them to my rehab farm lady where they would be cared for and reintroduced to the wild when they were ready. I’d secured them, or so I thought, in a critter crate in my bedroom. When I walked in my front door after work, I heard a crash from the bedroom. Oh shit. The little fuckers had opened the critter crate and had a blast during my absence. Found one of them in my closet, most of the clothes on the floor, hanging from the rod almost exactly like that guy in the pic. In spite of the horrific mess they’d made, how can ya get mad at that much cute? Couldn’t even scold them I was laughing so hard.

We just had five (FIVE) of the little bastards in our apple tree a few weeks ago. I by “little”, I mean “approaching dog size.”

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:12:29pm

[…]

Even with some of the tone-deaf and sensational things said by Kubiak (“head of a gang” is especially cringe-worthy), his perspective is valuable. As school officials like MacArthur High School principal Dan Cummings are prevented by a legal injunction from speaking on the matter publically, Kubiak’s outsider perspective (and others like him) are the only ones that offer additional insight into what the schooling environment was like for children like Mohamed.

[…]

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Mattand  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:13:00pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

It’s amazing how an irrelevant person such as yourself commands so much of their attention.

It’s witchcraft, I tells ya.

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:17:36pm

re: #34 Mattand

The worst thing you can do to a wingnut is ignore them. Yet another way in which they are like a child having a tantrum

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:27:17pm

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Evil Spock.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:31:17pm

Got a ‘Suggested Post’ on FB from ancestry.com:

The Story Behind Your Last Name Might Surprise You

Hmmmm. “Smith”. I’m thinking probably not.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:40:16pm

A comment on Wonkette referred to Bristol Palin as Bristol the Bastard factory. In spite of myself I giggled.

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A Cranky One  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:45:19pm

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

My evil side wants to send the idiot Sandy Hook truther sheriff an article claiming the UCC shooting is a hoax (like he believes Sandy Hook was) and claiming he’s part of the conspiracy. He’s secretly part of the plot to grab all the guns!

My good side responds that he’s too much of an idiot to understand the point.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:49:51pm

re: #33 wrenchwench

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“Isis Boy? Fucking Christ.

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A Cranky One  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:49:53pm

re: #30 Backwoods_Sleuth

This is a little late, but sorry to hear about your arm. Positive thoughts your way.

Cats. Trying to remind you that they can kill you at any time, so you better behave.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:50:01pm

Alice is having an interesting day:

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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 12:50:37pm

re: #31 Mattand

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They were started by a lifelong McCarthy apologist who never met a right wing dictatorship he didn’t like.

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:09:14pm

Once in a while a human is as cute as a kitteh or a goat.

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:13:16pm

Good thing it isn’t full-sized.

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gocart mozart  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:14:46pm

re: #37 Blind Frog Belly White

Are you related to Morrissey?

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:20:05pm

I love RATM, but wow, that’s embarrassing.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:20:57pm

re: #47 Ace-o-aces

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I love RATM, but wow, that’s embarrassing.

Sheesh.

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BishopX  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:24:51pm

re: #47 Ace-o-aces

He’s a bassist what do you expect?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:26:22pm

re: #8 Pawn of the Oppressor

He’s a terror-preaching Imam. But he isn’t, because he’s white.

Skin color. Is. Everything.

It’s situational. I remember seeing this guy’s full name yesterday—apparently he’s Italian. Italians haven’t been “white” all that long. You could show the right-wingers that picture up top and tell them he’s an Ill Eagle Messican and they’d scream to have him deported—but he’s a forced-birth terrorist, that makes him a hero. Same face.

Shaun King’s not black enough to be against killing black people. This UCC shooter is swarthy enough he’s gotta be a Mooslin. They’ll fit the face to whatever narrative they want. It’s what they do.

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:26:37pm

re: #49 BishopX

He’s a bassist what do you expect?

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Metalocalypse - bass players sucks

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:32:03pm
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Kid A  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:42:26pm

WTFITS?

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:45:29pm

OT, but I just got back from seeing The Martian (in 3-D to boot!) and I must say, a damned good film with a great performance by Matt Damon and solid direction from Ridley Scott. Impressive; hard sci-fi is a rarity, and it’s always welcome when it’s done as well as this was.

BTW, the 3-D works quite nicely in The Martian…..it added to the film, IMHO. Usually, 3-D doesn’t work so well.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:46:07pm
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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:47:05pm

re: #53 Kid A

IIRC it is a wingnut talking point from the hearing this week, reminding people (paying attention) that conservatives don’t understand how capitalism and money works. Abortions are costly and federal funds can’t be used to offset costs, and some insurance companies won’t cover them. Nor, to the shock of conservatives, are abortions free. Also, pretty sure the 87% number represents what people pay out of pocket rather than overall revenue

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:47:07pm

re: #54 Dr Lizardo

OT, but I just got back from seeing The Martian (in 3-D to boot!) and I must say, a damned good film with a great performance by Matt Damon and solid direction from Ridley Scott. Impressive; hard sci-fi is a rarity, and it’s always welcome when it’s done as well as this was.

BTW, the 3-D works quite nicely in The Martian…..it added to the film, IMHO. Usually, 3-D doesn’t work so well.

Thanks. I was just looking at what was showing locally and was thinking of seeing that one. Will see what the wife says.

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allegro  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:47:26pm

My friend just sent me this from this morning’s breakfast on my patio. That’s me under my Buddy on my lap and my furry godson wanting in on the lovey time. Do we know how to have fun or what.

Doggie play date at casa allegro
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Dr Lizardo  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:51:10pm

re: #57 Eventual Carrion

Thanks. I was just looking at what was showing locally and was thinking of seeing that one. Will see what the wife says.

It’s worth checking out. It is one of those films that needs to be seen on the big screen; the cinematography is outstanding. The “Mars” exterior shots were done in Wadi Rum, Jordan.

Wadi Rum, Jordan - close enough to Mars for audiences
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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:52:30pm

re: #56 KGxvi

IIRC it is a wingnut talking point from the hearing this week, reminding people (paying attention) that conservatives don’t understand how capitalism and money works. Abortions are costly and federal funds can’t be used to offset costs, and some insurance companies won’t cover them. Nor, to the shock of conservatives, are abortions free. Also, pretty sure the 87% number represents what people pay out of pocket rather than overall revenue

People buying out of their own wallet for a legal medial procedure, how outrageous.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:54:47pm

So, I finally get to the front of the line in the local breakfast restaurant ladies room. A mom and a little boy of potty training age come in and stand at the back of the line.

“Shhh, we have to wait our turn” Says mom to little one.

… .

Yeah, I gave up my spot.

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Stuff Happens  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:55:53pm

Stuff happens.

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Lidane  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:56:24pm

re: #19 CuriousLurker

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:56:51pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:57:49pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 1:59:29pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:01:39pm

re: #64 Charles Johnson

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He’s lucky she didn’t do more. SExist pig.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:01:40pm
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:03:49pm
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:05:12pm

I really, really support HIllary.

I’m not sure anyone can get this done in this political climate.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:06:16pm
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:07:48pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:09:14pm
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:10:22pm
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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:10:43pm

re: #60 HappyWarrior

Sadly, I think much of the wingularity wants (other) people paying for health care out of pocket. You know, because RESPONZABILLATEEE!!! I mean that’s where the “paying with chickens” thing came from (because it’s 1715, not 2015)

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:11:56pm
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allegro  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:13:39pm

re: #70 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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I really, really support HIllary.

I’m not sure anyone can get this done in this political climate.

I’m not sure at all that it can’t be done. No one has been willing to try since the Brady Act. I don’t believe we’re the only ones sick of the outa control bloodletting and just because the ammosexuals are the loudest doesn’t make them a majority. We need to seriously shame the “stuff happens” legislators until they finally get the word.

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:15:33pm

re: #74 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

The waiting period isn’t a bad idea at all. But then, I’m of the view that if you really need a gun right this second, then you really don’t need a gun. I also think strict liability for gun owners when their guns are used in crimes and (large) insurance requirements for gun ownership are places to start.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:15:35pm
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:15:55pm

Alice Dreger went to the Charles Johnson School of Making Friends on Twitter: :)

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:18:53pm
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:19:05pm

re: #77 allegro

I’m not sure at all that it can’t be done. No one has been willing to try since the Brady Act. I don’t believe we’re the only ones sick of the outa control bloodletting and just because the ammosexuals are the loudest doesn’t make them a majority. We need to seriously shame the “stuff happens” legislators until they finally get the word.

Perhaps have the majority of those who are voting age are not white.

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:19:46pm

re: #78 KGxvi

Another idea would be requiring safety training every few years, with the caveat that failure to complete the training means licenses can be revoked and weapons can be seized.

The problem with mass shootings is these guys tend to be “law abiding citizens” right up to the point they walk into a school/store/movie theater and open fire

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:19:53pm

re: #20 Eventual Carrion

My sister lives on Tybee Island GA and works in Savannah. I texted her to see if there was any flooding there. She said the worst was up north above Hilton Head, but she took cloths to work in case she couldn’t get back home on the island and had to stay overnight.

!!! Tybee :D

I visit Tybee every year and I have friends on the island… It’s America’s best-kept secret. I’m actually saving up to leave Texas and move to Savannah by springtime (if everything goes well), for no other reason than I hate it here and I love it there.

I was just checking Savannah weather too. I figured the rain would be more northerly but I had a bit of concern for my friends.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:21:31pm
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:23:04pm

re: #83 KGxvi

Another idea would be requiring safety training every few years, with the caveat that failure to complete the training means licenses can be revoked and weapons can be seized.

The problem with mass shootings is these guys tend to be “law abiding citizens” right up to the point they walk into a school/store/movie theater and open fire

Well, how do you get the local tyrants Sheriffs to be fair in that. History has shown that those who get to carry are usually not brown.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:28:36pm
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Amory Blaine  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:30:13pm

The potholes of Colorado Springs draw the attention of Koch brothers’ group

This much everyone can agree on: The streets of this large city on the Rocky Mountain Front Range are a wreck. Sixty percent are in disrepair, cracked and rutted; driving on them is often a game of vehicular Minesweeper. One local TV news channel runs a segment called “Pothole Patrol.”

But when this city’s newly elected conservative mayor urged voters to approve an increase in the sales to pay to improve the roads, he drew fire from an unexpected source: a branch of Americans for Prosperity, a powerful conservative advocacy group backed by the billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch.

The group’s involvement in a municipal infrastructure issue spotlights how AFP is seizing on local issues around the country as it works to build a permanent grass-roots army.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:34:00pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:40:01pm

So, apparently you can make anodes for lithium-ion batteries out of portobello mushrooms instead of synthetic graphite, and not only will they be cheaper and more environmentally-friendly to manufacture, but fresh pores are opened up on reuse so capacity actually increases with cycle number:

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:40:34pm

re: #90 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So, apparently you can make anodes for lithium-ion batteries out of portobello mushrooms instead of synthetic graphite, and not only will they be cheaper and more environmentally-friendly to manufacture, but fresh pores are opened up on reuse so capacity actually increases with cycle number:

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Good to know!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:41:12pm

bbl

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:41:15pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

They came all that way to make obnoxious asses of themselves and they were ejected. They sure showed, um, someone something.

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b_sharp  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:42:16pm

re: #90 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

So, apparently you can make anodes for lithium-ion batteries out of portobello mushrooms instead of synthetic graphite, and not only will they be cheaper and more environmentally-friendly to manufacture, but fresh pores are opened up on reuse so capacity actually increases with cycle number:

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And you can put them on your sandwich when they die.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:42:32pm

re: #93 Higgs Boson’s Mate

They came all that way to make obnoxious asses of themselves and they were ejected. They sure showed, um, someone something.

Troy Newman in little.

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:43:32pm

re: #86 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

That’s a very good question. And I have no real answer. One of the things that caused my shift from center right libertarian to center left libertarian was the realization/understanding that in our history, it’s been local governments that have been the most abusive of rights (and often the most corrupt).

Maybe something similar to DOJ oversight like when civil rights violations have been found?

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:44:39pm

re: #90 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Finally a good use for mushrooms

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b_sharp  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:44:44pm

re: #96 KGxvi

That’s a very good question. And I have no real answer. One of the things that caused my shift from center right libertarian to center left libertarian was the realization/understanding that in our history, it’s been local governments that have been the most abusive of rights (and often the most corrupt).

Maybe something similar to DOJ oversight like when civil rights violations have been found?

Local governments & corporations.

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b_sharp  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:44:55pm

re: #97 KGxvi

Finally a good use for mushrooms

Hey!

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:45:22pm
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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:46:06pm

re: #98 b_sharp

Local governments, corporations, religion. As a general rule, I don’t trust institutions.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:47:12pm

re: #100 wrenchwench

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Jeez, I would have thought that was a painting! I’d love to see Machu Picchu, but I start gasping for breath at about 5000 ft.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:48:15pm

re: #101 KGxvi

Local governments, corporations, religion. As a general rule, I don’t trust institutions.

A World Government couldn’t be arsed micromanaging your love life. That’s why the RW hates the idea.

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:49:39pm

re: #102 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Jeez, I would have thought that was a painting! I’d love to see Machu Picchu, but I start gasping for breath at about 5000 ft.

I live at 6,000. That’s plenty.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:50:50pm

re: #25 Charles Johnson

That looks like an emu to me.

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:51:40pm

re: #103 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, that and having to admit they’re equals with the unclean non-Christians that inhabit the rest of the world

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b_sharp  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:52:56pm

re: #101 KGxvi

Local governments, corporations, religion. As a general rule, I don’t trust institutions.

We could be doing a Monty Python skit.

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 2:59:19pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:13:10pm
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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:14:07pm

Doctors Without Borders says U.S. airstrike hit hospital in Afghanistan; at least 19 dead

KABUL - U.S. forces may have mistakenly bombed a hospital in northern Afghanistan on Saturday, killing at least 19 people, including three children, in an incident that will likely raise new questions about the scope of American involvement in the country’s 14-year war.

In a statement, Doctors Without Borders said an airstrike “partially destroyed” its trauma hospital in Kunduz, where the Afghan military has been trying to drive Taliban fighters from the city.

The airstrike killed at least 12 Doctors Without Borders staff members, the group said. Three children were also reportedly killed. At least 37 other people were seriously injured, including 19 staff members and 18 patients and caretakers. Officials warned the death toll could rise as dozens of people remain unaccounted for….

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:15:45pm

re: #110 Higgs Boson’s Mate

Doctors Without Borders says U.S. airstrike hit hospital in Afghanistan; at least 19 dead

Accuracy doesn’t help if you’re aiming at the wrong thing.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:18:48pm

re: #111 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Accuracy doesn’t help if you’re aiming at the wrong thing.

A highly successful fuckup.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:26:04pm

re: #111 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Accuracy doesn’t help if you’re aiming at the wrong thing.

What kind of half-assed intel missed the fact that hospital was at those co-ordinates? I can understand not knowing were the Taliban is, I cannot understand not knowing where a hospital is. Wonder how many hundreds of billions General Dynamics will charge them to develop not-blowing-up hospital gear. Not-blowing-up orphanage gear will cost another few hundred billion. Each project will delay the F35 being combat effective by at least another two years.

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The War TARDIS  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:27:19pm

re: #88 Amory Blaine

Colorado Springs is dying.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:27:35pm

re: #111 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Now I know I’m insulting everybody’s intelligence with such an obvious statement, but it’s a fact that seems to escape a lot of the rah-rah military types. Sure GPS helps you send a missile right in the window of the building you wanted, but how do you know that’s the building you wanted? Intelligence? Pfft! Intelligence is for weenies!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:30:12pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:33:14pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

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Right wing journalism at its finest!

That’s journamalism—not to be confused, etc.

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Jenner7  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:33:48pm

Yes!

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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:34:28pm

re: #114 The War TARDIS

Colorado Springs is dying.

It’s the fundy infestation.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:39:04pm

re: #116 Charles Johnson

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BIG Whine will ruin them.

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:39:58pm

re: #115 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Some three letter agencies got together back in the Eighties and decided that spy sats were better than HUMINT. At the time, the Russians were still enemy number one and their infrastructure made it easy to listen in on their phone lines from space. The satellites were placed among known pieces of space junk and they passively recorded over the USSR then went dark until they were over a station where they could download the data. That worked well for years. It just doesn’t work well everywhere and for gathering other kinds of intel - like where a hospital is located.
These are the same agencies that were caught flatfooted by ISIS in part because they’ve sussed out our SIGINT strategies and they just went around them. If ISIS can do it then so can others. For all the paranoia about Muslim hordes I’ve yet to see any accountability from the intelligence agencies for a string of blunders leading all the way back to that Nigerian yellowcake uranium.

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wrenchwench  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:40:27pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:46:32pm

Milo gets his feewees hurt about being called trash h but his pal Chucky uses the the c-word more than a Britihsh film gangster.

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KGxvi  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:50:29pm

re: #121 Higgs Boson’s Mate

But fighting the last war is always the best way to win the current war!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 3:53:40pm

re: #124 KGxvi

But fighting the last war is always the best way to win the current war!

Gulf War I was the last war—forever. The flyboys softened them up from the air, the tanks rolled over them, we declared victory, and all our problems were solved. That’s the way it’s always going to go from now on, and if it doesn’t? Well…IT DID, COMMIE LIBTARD!!11!!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:03:27pm

CHUCKY NEVER FORGETS

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Joe Bacon  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:06:32pm

re: #88 Amory Blaine

The potholes of Colorado Springs draw the attention of Koch brothers’ group

That town is full of relgious fanatics who are deluded enough to believe that “the Lord will provide”. So why aren’t they praying those potholes away?

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HappyWarrior  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:07:38pm

re: #126 Charles Johnson

CHUCKY NEVER FORGETS

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He thinks he sounds like a sinister villain when acutality he just sounds like a childish jackass.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:08:21pm

Reading Chuck’s Facebook posts, it’s clear he’s just stewing in his own resentment and anger, trying to come up with ways to get revenge against people who’ve slighted him. What a miserable piece of shit he is.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:11:49pm

re: #129 Charles Johnson

The Gawker hearing ought to be a sight to behold. I think a vet ought to be nearby with a dart gun just to be on the safe side because a Taser probably won’t stop him.

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A Cranky One  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:14:32pm

re: #129 Charles Johnson

Reading Chuck’s Facebook posts, it’s clear he’s just stewing in his own resentment and anger, trying to come up with ways to get revenge against people who’ve slighted him. What a miserable piece of shit he is.

But, but…it’s the SUMMER OF JUSTICE! Aren’t all Chuck’s enemies supposed to be reduced to quivering masses of jelly by now?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:18:28pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:18:53pm

That picture is just begging to be photoshopped.

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The War TARDIS  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:19:48pm
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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:20:52pm

re: #132 Charles Johnson

Ya know, when it comes to how women feel about the way society treats them, I always trust the opinion of a foreign gay guy.

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Stuff Happens  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:21:01pm

re: #131 A Cranky One

But, but…it’s the SUMMER OF JUSTICE! Aren’t all Chuck’s enemies supposed to be reduced to quivering masses of jelly by now?

The summer of justice has turned into the fall of justice.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:21:54pm

re: #136 Stuff Happens

The summer of justice has turned into the fall of justice.

And soon, the Autumn of his Discontent.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:22:14pm

re: #133 Charles Johnson

That picture is just begging to be photoshopped.

The sign should read, “Soul for sale. Hardly used!”

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DesertDenizen  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:25:40pm

re: #132 Charles Johnson

The only way that guy could look even douchier is if he was wearing a trilby. He practically screams “I’m a date rapist”.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:26:59pm

re: #114 The War TARDIS

Colorado Springs is dying.

They should pray the potholes away.

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gocart mozart  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:27:19pm

re: #132 Charles Johnson

So, he’s not a natural blonde. Do chicks find it manly when guys dye their hair blonde?

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Decatur Deb  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:28:44pm

re: #127 Joe Bacon

That town is full of relgious fanatics who are deluded enough to believe that “the Lord will provide”. So why aren’t they praying those potholes away?

That, kiddies is why you read to the end of the thread before commenting.

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gocart mozart  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:30:50pm
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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:43:53pm

re: #141 gocart mozart

So, he’s not a natural blonde. Do chicks find it manly when guys dye their hair blonde?

How about Jheri Curl like Rand?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:47:11pm

Make your own Milo Yiannopoulos sign!

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Higgs Boson's Mate  Oct 3, 2015 • 4:48:33pm

re: #141 gocart mozart

So, he’s not a natural blonde. Do chicks find it manly when guys dye their hair blonde?

His fave band:

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 3, 2015 • 5:06:51pm
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gocart mozart  Oct 3, 2015 • 5:14:27pm

I have terrible photoshop skills. If anyone wants to give it a shot … I suggest this 1950’s Clairol slogan for the Milo caption.

“Does he … or doesn’t he? Only his hairdresser knows for sure.”

or maybe just, “Do chicks find it manly when I dye my hair blonde?

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gocart mozart  Oct 3, 2015 • 5:20:13pm

re: #132 Charles Johnson

Leaving aside the douchebagginess of the sentiment, the line, “Rape Culture and Harry Potter: Both Fantasy” is hackish, lame, unfunny un-clever and stupid. He even fails at being a good douche-bag.

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William Lewis  Oct 3, 2015 • 5:20:58pm

How about a sign that says

“My blond hair

And

Harry Potter

Both Fantasy”

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Jenner7  Oct 3, 2015 • 5:26:29pm

For some reason, Milo reminds me of another douche bag.

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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Oct 4, 2015 • 4:49:07am

The one constant amongst our Libertarian Evangelical Utopianists are their overwhelming and all-defining sense of Entitlement.

In their worldview, countries should bow to them, as a natural order of things. They really are clueless and reject any notion of actual reality and actual world history.


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