Chuck C. Johnson Final Deadline Open Thread

“No further extensions will be granted”

LawOctober 2015 • Views: 57,963

Our cyberstalker pal Chuck C. Johnson now has less than three hours to respond to the motions filed by Gawker, and he’s been posting links to white nationalist sites and other nonsense at his Facebook page all day with no sign of being concerned that the judge in the lawsuit case he brought against Gawker has put him on notice that he’s not getting any more extensions to respond.

So here’s an open thread, as the walls close in on our boy Chuck.

UPDATE at 10/16/15 8:58:17 pm by Charles Johnson

In a curious and possibly related development, Chuck C. Johnson’s GotNews[dot]com website is apparently offline. Here’s a screenshot of what it looks like right now:

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475 comments

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 7:11:23pm

Don’t worry, I’m sure that the Second Year Law School Intern is well rested and has everything all under control. ///∞

stpaulbear Oct 16, 2015 • 7:14:17pm

re: #1 Reality Based Steve

Chuck is already planning his lawsuit against the intern.

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 7:15:38pm

re: #2 stpaulbear

Chuck is already planning his lawsuit against the intern.

I just spewed Fresca out my nose. (and it REALLY stings)

RBS

Blind Frog Belly White Oct 16, 2015 • 7:17:29pm

Yeah, if I were Twitter, I’d be shaking in my boots at the prospect of tangling with Chuckie’s crack legal team!!!
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Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 7:18:28pm

He’d have someone like-minded to hang out with if he fled to Russia.

Eclectic Cyborg Oct 16, 2015 • 7:19:23pm

The end draws near for CCJ…

Europe - The Final Countdown

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 7:19:48pm

re: #4 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah, if I were Twitter, I’d be shaking in my boots at the prospect of tangling with Chuckie’s crack legal team!!!
////

Laughing your socks off =/= shaking in your boots. :)

RBS

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 7:20:02pm

*insert toilet flushing sound*

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:20:24pm

Anyone staking out the nearest Kinkos?

chemoelectric Oct 16, 2015 • 7:21:38pm

When will Chuck start denouncing the judge?

Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 7:21:58pm

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:22:35pm

Reposted from downstairs:

Bernie Sanders is on Bill Maher:

Maher says he wants Bernie to get the nomination.

Maher says most Americans are already socialists without knowing it.

Maher lecturing Bernie on how to message his campaign.

Sanders running through (his very good & valid) stump speech talking points.

Maher telling Bernie he needs to make the word socialist acceptable, not sure what Maher has done to make that word more acceptable?

Maher is asking details on Single Payer and Sanders can’t go there.

Bernie: lift the cap on SS, tax Wall St. speculation to pay for college.

Mythical tax loophole closure will pay for lots of stuff.

Maher saying he is off the hook this year since Bernie has no SuperPac he can only donate $5,400 to him.

Glad Bernie is out there getting the left message some exposure, his campaign has already been a success

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 7:22:45pm

What’s up, chemoelectric?!? I see you a lot on Twitter. You’re a Lizard now! Welcome!

Dark_Falcon Oct 16, 2015 • 7:22:56pm

The first thing the judge should do on Monday, following UpChuck’s failure to respond, is to have the US Marshals grab Chucky’s guns, since I fear what Chuckles will do when reality finally hits home.

So before it does I’d like this delusional nutjob disarmed. ‘Mental defect’ should be the grounds, because Chuckles is clearly several bottles short of a twelve-pack.

Barefoot Grin Oct 16, 2015 • 7:23:07pm

I hope that there is redemption for Chuck, but I’m afraid that he would sue any angel appearing to show him a path.

What he really needs is for his parents to step in.

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:23:10pm

re: #10 chemoelectric

When will Chuck start denouncing the judge?

He’ll post his address and phone number within minutes of the verdict.

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:23:34pm

re: #15 Barefoot Grin

I hope that there is redemption for Chuck, but I’m afraid that he would sue any angel appearing to show him a path.

What he really needs is for his parents to step in.

Chuck should defect to North Korea

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 7:24:02pm

re: #10 chemoelectric

When will Chuck start denouncing the judge?

I bet he is just dumb enough to try and doxx a Federal Judge. ‘cuz that’s not going to leave a mark or anything.

RBS

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 7:24:43pm

re: #5 Higgs Boson’s Mate

He’d have someone like-minded to hang out with if he fled to Russia.

Congrats. You just made me feel pity for Snowden.

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 7:25:36pm

re: #15 Barefoot Grin

I hope that there is redemption for Chuck, but I’m afraid that he would sue any angel appearing to show him a path.

What he really needs is for his parents to step in.

He threw his parents under the bus a few months before he lost his Twitter account.

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:26:25pm

re: #18 Reality Based Steve

I bet he is just dumb enough to try and doxx a Federal Judge. ‘cuz that’s not going to leave a mark or anything.

RBS

What I would give for Chuck Johnson to be long term cellmates with Edward Snowden.

Dark_Falcon Oct 16, 2015 • 7:26:39pm

re: #18 Reality Based Steve

I bet he is just dumb enough to try and doxx a Federal Judge. ‘cuz that’s not going to leave a mark or anything.

RBS

If he does that then he’ll have a new song to sing:

Green Day - I Fought The Law

stpaulbear Oct 16, 2015 • 7:26:44pm

re: #15 Barefoot Grin

I hope that there is redemption for Chuck, but I’m afraid that he would sue any angel appearing to show him a path.

What he really needs is for his parents to step in.

Was it last Thanksgiving that everything went so awful between him and his family? I wonder what they all think of him now?

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 7:26:54pm

re: #17 b.d.

Chuck should defect to North Korea

Don’t you think they have enough problems already?

RBS

Blind Frog Belly White Oct 16, 2015 • 7:27:39pm

re: #24 Reality Based Steve

Don’t you think they have enough problems already?

RBS

What with that asshole Huckabee slandering them and all.

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:28:55pm

re: #24 Reality Based Steve

Don’t you think they have enough problems already?

RBS

Good point.

No Chucks allowed

Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 7:32:10pm

re: #26 b.d.

Good point.

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Would that I had the PS skills to quickly provide Kim with chuckface and red hair.

HappyWarrior Oct 16, 2015 • 7:34:44pm

Looks like Chuck fucked up again.

Feline Fearless Leader Oct 16, 2015 • 7:35:56pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Looks like Chuck fucked up again.

I think it’s been more of a continuous single fuck-up. Years long.

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 7:36:56pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Looks like Chuck fucked up again.

Bigger than Lamar Odom in a Nevada cathouse. /too_soon?

RBS

Dark_Falcon Oct 16, 2015 • 7:37:14pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Looks like Chuck fucked up again.

When has he ever not fucked up? What does he do right?

Blind Frog Belly White Oct 16, 2015 • 7:37:14pm

re: #29 Feline Fearless Leader

I think it’s been more of a continuous single fuck-up. Years long.

So, Hot Asian Wife is always on top, because all Chuckie can do is fuck up?

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:37:31pm

re: #28 HappyWarrior

Looks like Chuck fucked up again.

It’s all part of my master plan you lower end of the Bell Curve idiot.

TedStriker Oct 16, 2015 • 7:37:55pm

re: #15 Barefoot Grin

I hope that there is redemption for Chuck, but I’m afraid that he would sue any angel appearing to show him a path.

What he really needs is for his parents to step in.

re: #20 teleskiguy

He threw his parents under the bus a few months before he lost his Twitter account.

re: #23 stpaulbear

Was it last Thanksgiving that everything went so awful between him and his family? I wonder what they all think of him now?

Shit, he’d probably sue them too.

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:38:23pm

What does all of this do to the Chuck Johnson lawsuit countdown threat clock?

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 7:38:30pm

Jimmy Stewart gets stalked by Stanley Kubrick characters.

NSFW!!!

Click to Reveal

The Red Drum Getaway

Dark_Falcon Oct 16, 2015 • 7:38:43pm

re: #30 Reality Based Steve

Bigger than Lamar Odom in a Nevada cathouse. /too_soon?

RBS

Yeah, that’s too soon. Its not funny to mock someone who can’t breathe on his own right now, unless he is the kind of malefactor that Lamar Odom is not.

Eclectic Cyborg Oct 16, 2015 • 7:39:39pm

re: #32 Blind Frog Belly White

So, Hot Asian Wife is always on top, because all Chuckie can do is fuck up?

Brain Bleach, STAT!

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:41:58pm

re: #35 b.d.

What does all of this do to the Chuck Johnson lawsuit countdown threat clock?

chuckcjohnson.info

Sitting at 9 Days and 5 Hours right now.

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:43:42pm

So there are about 2 hours to go before someone at a bar somewhere demands to know if anyone there is a notary?

TedStriker Oct 16, 2015 • 7:44:10pm

re: #38 Eclectic Cyborg

Brain Bleach, STAT!

Hey, everyone’s gotta get their rocks off sometime.

For all we know, she could just treat him like a living, breathing dildo in the sack…which he is everywhere else IRL.

HappyWarrior Oct 16, 2015 • 7:45:34pm

re: #32 Blind Frog Belly White

So, Hot Asian Wife is always on top, because all Chuckie can do is fuck up?

I think it’s because she doesn’t want to get pooped on.

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 7:45:42pm

re: #41 TedStriker

Hey, everyone’s gotta get their rocks off sometime.

For all we know, she could just treat him like a living, breathing dildo in the sack…which he is everywhere else IRL.

Stop. Now. Ew.

freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 7:45:42pm

Judge: Texas can deny birth certificates for U.S.-born children of some immigrants

A federal judge ruled Friday that Texas officials can continue to deny U.S. birth certificates to the children of immigrants who cannot supply required identification because they entered the country illegally.

Though children born in the United States are entitled by law to U.S. citizenship regardless of the immigration status of their parents, Texas authorities have been placing significant barriers to immigrants who have entered the country illegally and are seeking birth certificates for their U.S.-born children.

In his ruling denying an emergency order sought by families, Judge Robert L. Pitman of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Texas in San Antonio said Texas officials can refuse to accept matricula consular cards, issued by Mexican consulates, as a form of identification to obtain birth certificates for U.S.-born children.

“While the Court is very troubled at the prospect of Texas-born children, and their parents, being denied issuance of a birth certificate,” Pitman wrote, “Texas has a clear interest in protecting access to that document.”

[…]

HappyWarrior Oct 16, 2015 • 7:45:56pm

re: #41 TedStriker

Hey, everyone’s gotta get their rocks off sometime.

For all we know, she could just treat him like a living, breathing dildo in the sack…which he is everywhere else IRL.

That’s not fair to dildos. They have some use.

HappyWarrior Oct 16, 2015 • 7:46:49pm

re: #44 freetoken

Judge: Texas can deny birth certificates for U.S.-born children of some immigrants

Seems unconstitutional to me. Law is the law isn’t it?

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 7:49:13pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

Seems unconstitutional to me. Law is the law isn’t it?

Nope, I’m sure that the Judge would also say that native born Texans can’t use matricula consular cards either ///

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 7:49:53pm

re: #44 freetoken

Judge: Texas can deny birth certificates for U.S.-born children of some immigrants

FFS. These are the same crowd of people who want to issue birth certificates to aborted fetus’ but won’t issue a birth certificate to a beautiful, innocent newborn baby because their parents don’t have their acceptable forms of ID?

freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 7:49:57pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

Seems unconstitutional to me. Law is the law isn’t it?

What the judge is saying is that the application process which requires the parents to have an identification recognizable by Texas, so that in theory a Texas county can know that the couple is indeed the rightful parties, can stand.

Now, to me the requirement that Texas has placed is something created explicitly to hamper the children from getting a b.c. Yet that is something an appeals court will have to take up, and perhaps eventually the USSC.

HappyWarrior Oct 16, 2015 • 7:50:45pm

re: #49 freetoken

What the judge is saying is that the application process which requires the parents to have an identification recognizable by Texas, so that in theory a Texas county can know that the couple is indeed the rightful parties, is can stand.

Now, to me the requirement that Texas has placed is something created explicitly to hamper the children from getting a b.c. Yet that is something an appeals court will have to take up, and perhaps eventually the USSC.

Gotcha, makes sense.

Eclectic Cyborg Oct 16, 2015 • 7:51:21pm

re: #49 freetoken

Agreed. I think they are trying to make an end run around the 14th here.

HappyWarrior Oct 16, 2015 • 7:52:27pm

re: #48 b.d.

FFS. These are the same crowd of people who want to issue birth certificates to aborted fetus’ but won’t issue a birth certificate to a beautiful, innocent newborn baby because their parents don’t have their acceptable forms of ID?

And these are the people who claim we need more “Christ” in government. I don’t think Christ would have a hang up about birth right citizenship. Maybe I’m wrong but he doesn’t seem to me that type.

freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 7:53:04pm

The idea of a “birth certificate” is a very modern invention. Most places in this country didn’t start issuing them until the 20th century.

Bear Oct 16, 2015 • 7:54:48pm

Wonder how soon after midnight CT we may know if the deadline was met?

KGxvi Oct 16, 2015 • 7:54:54pm

re: #44 freetoken

“While the Court is very troubled at the prospect of Texas-born children, and their parents, being denied issuance of a birth certificate,” Pitman wrote, “Texas has a clear interest in protecting access to that document.”

To quote Learned Hand and Benjamin Cardozo - dafaq you say?

HappyWarrior Oct 16, 2015 • 7:55:36pm

re: #53 freetoken

The idea of a “birth certificate” is a very modern invention. Most places in this country didn’t start issuing them until the 20th century.

Yep I know that through my research. Legal and illegal immigrant is a new concept too.

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 7:55:55pm

re: #54 Bear

Wonder how soon after midnight CT we may know if the deadline was met?

@LOLY2K yup. If nothing turns up today, it may be filed on paper and we won’t know until next week.

— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 16, 2015

KGxvi Oct 16, 2015 • 7:59:25pm

re: #57 teleskiguy

highly unlikely that the court will accept a paper filing. federal courts went digital years ago with their filing systems, unless you are in pro per and can show cause, you have to e-file. no way an attorney would be able to get around that rule.

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 7:59:56pm

Cat on desk is full of purrs. pic.twitter.com/97qFliKIym

— sylk (@sylk) October 17, 2015

CleverToad Oct 16, 2015 • 8:00:26pm

re: #49 freetoken

Hope it gets to the appeals court fairly quickly, but yeah, it’ll probably have to go to the USSC to stop the end run. (Fingers crossed that it gets stopped there, given the Roberts court.)

The Ghost of the Beardsman Oct 16, 2015 • 8:00:45pm

Little do you realize, Chuck has been ingesting small quantities of lawsuit over a period of many years, until such time as he’s developed an immunity.

prairiefire Oct 16, 2015 • 8:01:35pm

re: #59 klys (maker of Silmarils)

With a seductive look,

Bear Oct 16, 2015 • 8:01:56pm

Yep. Probably late Monday so we will just have to keep tuned in.

Reality Based Steve Oct 16, 2015 • 8:02:45pm

re: #59 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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re: #62 prairiefire

With a seductive look,

Paint me like one of your French cats.

Bear Oct 16, 2015 • 8:02:59pm

re: #59 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Almost looks like my Marit.

KGxvi Oct 16, 2015 • 8:03:27pm

re: #60 CleverToad

looking at it again, this was just a ruling on a preliminary injunction, not a final judgment. still rather frustrating, given federal law and the necessity of a birth certificate to proving citizenship.

freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 8:06:06pm

We’ve all heard the story, now some of the details on how backward these groups are:

Witness Says Clash Over Witchcraft Preceded Fatal Beating at Church

On Sunday night, toward the end of a daylong church service, Tiffanie Irwin, the pastor at Word of Life Christian Church here, turned to her congregation and made a stunning accusation.

Someone among them, she said, was practicing witchcraft.

Lucas Leonard, a 19-year-old whose family was immersed in Word of Life’s secretive practices, said that he was the one, that he wanted church elders to die and that he had considered making a voodoo doll of a church leader.

[…]

The account of Mr. Irwin, 24, a Word of Life deacon whose family leads the church, provided the latest possible explanation of what had precipitated the attack. Mr. Leonard’s younger brother, Christopher, 17, was also beaten for hours but survived. He remained hospitalized on Friday and was cooperating with the authorities.

The police reiterated on Friday that the beatings had grown out of concerns that Lucas Leonard wanted to defect from the group. […]

A statement made by Mr. Irwin to the authorities that had not been made public, but was reviewed by The New York Times, suggests that church members may have been unsettled by Mr. Leonard’s open admission of practicing witchcraft. […]

It was not uncommon for church leaders to plant rumors about congregants from the pulpit, several former Word of Life members said, sometimes alleging that a parent had been unfaithful or that a young member had inappropriately touched another child. The rumors were often outlandish and false, the ex-congregants said, but that did not keep them from splitting families apart and spreading fear of the longtime pastor, Jerry Irwin, the family patriarch. Mr. Irwin died several years ago, but the memory of his reprimands remains fresh, former congregants said.

“He would verbally attack you,” said Nathan Ames, whose family belonged to the church when he was born in 1989 and who said he had been driven out by Mr. Irwin in 2001. […]

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 8:10:36pm

re: #59 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Puddy is adorbs and I’m liking that dress in the pic…

prairiefire Oct 16, 2015 • 8:12:40pm

I haven’t watched baseball for a few years, but I still remember when to yell at the right times.

klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 8:13:01pm

re: #68 allegro

Puddy is adorbs and I’m liking that dress in the pic…

There is a reason it’s been pulled out of the catalog and is sitting on the desk. >.>

gocart mozart Oct 16, 2015 • 8:13:19pm

re: #17 b.d.

Chuck should defect to North Korea

You spelled defecate wrong.

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 8:17:27pm

re: #67 freetoken

We’ve all heard the story, now some of the details on how backward these groups are:

Witness Says Clash Over Witchcraft Preceded Fatal Beating at Church

Yet those people stay. That’s about the creepiest thing I’ve heard about.

prairiefire Oct 16, 2015 • 8:19:16pm

re: #72 allegro

Cults are mad creepy. They thrive on personal weakness.

freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 8:19:43pm

re: #72 allegro

Never overestimate your fellow humans.

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 8:19:53pm

re: #30 Reality Based Steve

Bigger than Lamar Odom in a Nevada cathouse. /too_soon?

RBS

Too soon mo fo.

/Laker Fan, Odom lover.

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 8:20:03pm

re: #73 prairiefire

Cults are mad creepy. They thrive on personal weakness.

Fucking sadistic this one is.

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 8:20:45pm

re: #75 Stanley Sea Toujours

Too soon mo fo.

/Laker Fam, Odom lover.

Heard on the news he’s come out of the coma and is breathing on his own.

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 8:26:18pm

re: #73 prairiefire

Cults are mad creepy. They thrive on personal weakness.

Some classmates of mine from high school got swept up in a millennial cult and got deported from Israel. They haven’t been seen or heard from since 1999. Sad.

articles.philly.com

FormerDirtDart Oct 16, 2015 • 8:28:08pm

OT
I sit here amazed, as for at least the last 15 & 1/2 hours, the security alarm in an adjacent apartment has been wailing non-stop.
I am coming to grips with the conclusion that it is entirely likely to continue without pause through the weekend.

William Lewis Oct 16, 2015 • 8:31:12pm

re: #79 FormerDirtDart

OT
I sit here amazed, as for at least the last 15 & 1/2 hours, the security alarm in an adjacent apartment has been wailing non-stop.
I am coming to grips with the conclusion that it is entirely likely to continue without pause through the weekend.

Call the police and ask them to do a Health and Welfare visit there. They can force the owners to let them in and that should get the alarm turned off.

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 8:33:46pm

re: #46 HappyWarrior

Seems unconstitutional to me. Law is the law isn’t it?

Heading to another fucking rwnj court case.

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 8:36:35pm

re: #79 FormerDirtDart

OT
I sit here amazed, as for at least the last 15 & 1/2 hours, the security alarm in an adjacent apartment has been wailing non-stop.
I am coming to grips with the conclusion that it is entirely likely to continue without pause through the weekend.

Well that’s crazy making. Even worse than when I was in college in 1971 and my next door neighbor in the dorm left for the weekend leaving her stereo on to play the song “Brandy” over and over and… from Friday afternoon until Sunday night.

Mike Lamb Oct 16, 2015 • 8:41:03pm

re: #58 KGxvi

highly unlikely that the court will accept a paper filing. federal courts went digital years ago with their filing systems, unless you are in pro per and can show cause, you have to e-file. no way an attorney would be able to get around that rule.

Yup. I know in the District of Arizona, parties represented by attorneys can’t do paper filing—mandatory e-filing. I’d be pretty surprised if Missouri federal courts didn’t have the same rules.

gocart mozart Oct 16, 2015 • 8:42:47pm

re: #82 allegro

video.search.yahoo.com

Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 8:44:43pm

Uh oh! GotNews[dot]com is currently offline. Walls closing in on our boy.

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 8:44:46pm

re: #84 gocart mozart

video.search.yahoo.com

That’s just mean. :P

Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 8:47:06pm

A screenshot: pic.twitter.com/whL9atuZAD

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2015

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 8:52:04pm

We have a new meaning of Red October and it’s only halfway done.

Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 8:53:28pm

This is definitely shaping up to be Chuck Johnson’s worst week ever.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2015

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 8:53:34pm

re: #85 Charles Johnson

Uh oh! GotNews[dot]com is currently offline. Walls closing in on our boy.

FormerDirtDart Oct 16, 2015 • 8:57:28pm

re: #80 William Lewis

Call the police and ask them to do a Health and Welfare visit there. They can force the owners to let them in and that should get the alarm turned off.

The police are here, and I laughed when they asked about any way to contact maintenance/management..place is a condo (I rent unit), there is no on-site office…
You call the management office, who transfer you to the “community manager” voice mail, they will not provide a direct phone number…once endured 5 hours of errant fire alarm activation…local Fire Department no longer shuts off alarms

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 9:00:14pm

re: #91 FormerDirtDart

The police are here, and I laughed when they asked about any way to contact maintenance/management..place is a condo (I rent unit), there is no on-site office…
You call the management office, who transfer you to the “community manager” voice mail, they will not provide a direct phone number…once endured 5 hours of errant fire alarm activation…local Fire Department no longer shuts off alarms

No city alarm permits required there?

b.d. Oct 16, 2015 • 9:04:09pm

Jeb Bush. I’ll keep you just as safe as my brother did.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 16, 2015

Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 9:07:51pm

Facebook allowed Chuck to open a new GotNewsDotCom page, and this is the first thing he posts:

freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 9:07:51pm

re: #89 Charles Johnson

The latest google caches are about 8 hours old, that I can find anyway, so we don’t know what happened immediately prior to its disappearance.

I wonder if, in some frantic last minute attempt, some legal student convinced a drunk CCJ that he ought to eliminate any evidence that could support counter suits or reveal incriminating evidence in the current battle?

teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 9:09:31pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Dom Oct 16, 2015 • 9:10:39pm

This is a bit sad. Jack White wanted to do something to raise money and awareness for Type 1 Diabetes, which afflicts his nephew. He committed himself to a 4-day rickroll, a tortuous 75-hours locked in a hotel room with Rick Astley’s Never Gonna Give You Up on repeat. I couldn’t imagine it.

Live comments were a way both for the public and his family to communicate with Jack. They hadn’t banked on YouTube trolls not only haranguing Jack, but also his nephew. When the boy came under fire, Jack decided that his project would have to end. 3 hours in. facebook.com

Jack’s brother will be resuming the attempt, presumably sans comments and trolls, for anyone who is more interested in supporting the cause than sabotaging it. Funds raised go to the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. justgiving.com

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 9:11:41pm

re: #79 FormerDirtDart

OT
I sit here amazed, as for at least the last 15 & 1/2 hours, the security alarm in an adjacent apartment has been wailing non-stop.
I am coming to grips with the conclusion that it is entirely likely to continue without pause through the weekend.

I know I’m behind in the comments. Tolerance pls.

Call the cops. I don’t think this is a situation where they will get out of hand.

freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 9:12:02pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

He’s got 63 Likes already. Soon he’ll have his hordes back.

100

Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 9:13:09pm

re: #82 allegro

Well that’s crazy making. Even worse than when I was in college in 1971 and my next door neighbor in the dorm left for the weekend leaving her stereo on to play the song “Brandy” over and over and… from Friday afternoon until Sunday night.

But my life, my love and my lady is the sea…………

damn you

101

allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 9:15:41pm

re: #100 Stanley Sea Toujours

But my life, my love and my lady is the sea…………

damn you

Inorite? I’m reliving the trauma even now.

102

Dark_Falcon Oct 16, 2015 • 9:16:15pm

re: #99 freetoken

He’s got 63 Likes already. Soon he’ll have his hordes back.

He doesn’t have ‘hordes’ anymore. He’s become such a nothing that we wouldn’t even talk about him if it weren’t for the combination of his name and his hatred of our Charles.

103

FormerDirtDart Oct 16, 2015 • 9:17:19pm

re: #92 allegro

No city alarm permits required there?

Got me
Local FD used to come and inspect alarms annually, and reset if activated, but that changed couple of years ago. Now homeowners association/management company contracts fire alarm service. Units were built with individual security systems that owners have to find their own service company for. I disabled mine around a month after moving in. It’s wiring was screwed up, wouldn’t charge backup battery which caused a default activation. Pulling out a couple wires inside the control panel cured that.

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 9:19:22pm

re: #103 FormerDirtDart

Is it still blaring?

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allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 9:23:37pm

re: #103 FormerDirtDart

Got me
Local FD used to come and inspect alarms annually, and reset if activated, but that changed couple of years ago. Now homeowners association/management company contracts fire alarm service. Units were built with individual security systems that owners have to find their own service company for. I disabled mine around a month after moving in. It’s wiring was screwed up, wouldn’t charge backup battery which caused a default activation. Pulling out a couple wires inside the control panel cured that.

No “protected by” signs in their windows with the alarm company name?

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FormerDirtDart Oct 16, 2015 • 9:26:15pm

re: #104 Stanley Sea Toujours

Is it still blaring?

Oh yes.
Police seem to have actually gotten through to some people, tenant’s a truck driver on the road, but expects to be back in an hour or so (I’ll believe it when it happens)

It’s not terribly intrusive as long as I close one window. If I run a table fan I really can’t even hear it. But, with temps finally going down at night it would be nice to open that one window to get some cross-ventilation going

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bratwurst Oct 16, 2015 • 9:27:59pm

Rick Harrison Of ‘Pawn Stars’: Being A Conservative Celebrity Is ‘Career Suicide’ http://t.co/hAblnxwibg pic.twitter.com/sxVSSZb6UW

— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 17, 2015

He parlayed owning a pawn shop to become a legit TV star in spite of being fat and bald. How much bigger & better does he imagine his career would be if WEREN’T identified as a conservative?

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allegro Oct 16, 2015 • 9:30:44pm

re: #107 bratwurst

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He parlayed a pawn shop into becoming a legit TV star in spite of being fat and bald. How much bigger & better does he imagine his career would be if WEREN’T identified as a conservative?

Like Angie Harmon whining about the same thing as she stars in a long running series.

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FormerDirtDart Oct 16, 2015 • 9:32:03pm

re: #107 bratwurst

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He parlayed owning a pawn shop to become a legit TV star in spite of being fat and bald. How much bigger & better does he imagine his career would be if WEREN’T identified as a conservative?

I was under the impression that being a vocal conservative was almost a requirement for reality tv subjects

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darthstar Oct 16, 2015 • 9:32:35pm

Yep…his site’s down. But you can surf a snapshot of his site.

May this be the last FP story about Chuck…until he does something desperate to get himself into the news. Hopefully he targets himself before others.

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darthstar Oct 16, 2015 • 9:34:29pm

re: #87 Charles Johnson

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You know what’s really going to hurt? When you mention him as frequently as you do RSM and PG.

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darthstar Oct 16, 2015 • 9:34:41pm

That is, never.

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 9:35:04pm

Vocal conservative reality tv star = I whored for my money, I want to keep every dime. And the family members & other people I stepped on to get here? Fuck em.

People with money think conservative because they are selfish.

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darthstar Oct 16, 2015 • 9:35:45pm

Boom, motherfucker.

No @JebBush, you’re pathetic for saying nothing happened during your brother’s term when the World Trade Center was attacked and came down.

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 17, 2015

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 9:36:04pm

OH and I saved this tweet. Perfect timing to post

Twitter’s CEO Giving Half His Square Equity To New Foundation Helping #Ferguson, MO http://t.co/ny8g73CBB3 #BLM pic.twitter.com/65aVgN0FbE

— The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) October 16, 2015

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sagehen Oct 16, 2015 • 9:36:24pm

re: #108 allegro

Like Angie Harmon whining about the same thing as she stars in a long running series.

Politics never kept a conservative actor from a job. Ever. But they don’t get invited to the most star-spangled fundraiser/dinner parties. George Clooney, David Geffen, Steven Spielberg, Barbra Streisand, Oprah Winfrey, Gwyneth Paltrow, etc only invite people who might love the (D) candidate enough to donate above and beyond whatever the non-trivial ticket price already was.

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freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 9:37:54pm

Bad journalism on display:

Q&A: Spokane Public Schools board candidate Rocky Treppiedi

Should evolution be taught in public schools?

Yes. How would students know what the concept means if evolution and creationism are not taught and discussed in school? It’s like comparative religion: you can learn and discuss the principles without being faithful to the religion.

Did the interviewer (who is nameless - possibly this was a questionnaire sent out) really ask if evolution should be taught?

And the answer by the candidate - Rocky Treppiedi - doesn’t really make sense, unless the question really was about creationism, in which case the answer is just wrong.

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darthstar Oct 16, 2015 • 9:38:04pm

Okay…bed time.

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The Ghost of the Beardsman Oct 16, 2015 • 9:39:16pm

When I see a reality TV person play a bowdlerized version of themselves, my first thought is not “wow, their ability to eventually sound convincing, paired with copious edits, will someday lead them to greater things. Better check their political affiliation before starting the manna-like downpour of fame and money!”

_{(My first thought is fart noises.)}

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Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 9:41:12pm

re: #110 darthstar

Yep…his site’s down. But you can surf a snapshot of his site.

The snapshot doesn’t have his last post, ranting about being “censored” by Facebook.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 9:43:09pm

My sister just sent me an awesome photo of herself with a great horned owl on a glove.

All I got to play with for a job was white-hot stuff.

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Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 9:44:37pm

Chuck’s final deadline for filing responses to Gawker’s motions is coming up in about 15 minutes.

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freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 9:47:11pm

re: #122 Charles Johnson

countingdownto.com

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gocart mozart Oct 16, 2015 • 9:55:45pm

@realDonaldTrump @JebBush Aside from 9/11, there were no terrorist attacks under the GWB presidency except for the anthrax attacks.
— gocart mozart (@attymix1) October 17, 2015

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Joe Bacon Oct 16, 2015 • 9:59:03pm

Will the “Final Jeopardy” music play during the last minute?

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freetoken Oct 16, 2015 • 10:01:10pm

Well, time is up. I assume CCJ’s legal gambit is over?

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 10:03:49pm

Ha ha HA!

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 10:09:33pm

Ya’ll my foray into you tube found something really great

“Earliest surviving performance video of Elton John”

Whatever the truth, check this video from Switzerland 1970. Amaze

Elton John - Border Song

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 10:21:58pm

Chuck Johnson responds to Gawker’s anti-SLAPP. It’s 111 pages long. Part 1: https://t.co/2uu6vnC63a; 2: https://t.co/RvPFFBT7qD

— Adam SteinBOO! (@adamsteinbaugh) October 17, 2015

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Single-handed sailor Oct 16, 2015 • 10:27:44pm

re: #128 Stanley Sea Toujours

Ya’ll my foray into you tube found something really great

“Earliest surviving performance video of Elton John”

Whatever the truth, check this video from Switzerland 1970. Amaze

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Video

Awesome. 11-17-70 was my favorite Elton John album. I like his early works.

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Single-handed sailor Oct 16, 2015 • 10:31:22pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

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LOL

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KGxvi Oct 16, 2015 • 10:35:18pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

Chuck is going to be pissed when he finds out his lawyer says he’s not a public figure.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 16, 2015 • 10:36:01pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

Oh hell. 62 pages of so called “Facts”.

It’s like a manifesto of stupid.

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Eclectic Cyborg Oct 16, 2015 • 10:37:10pm

The filing claims Chuck “became famous” because of his Ferguson coverage.

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sagehen Oct 16, 2015 • 10:37:44pm

re: #124 gocart mozart

Are we not counting the DC sniper, or the LAX attack at the ElAl counter?

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 10:41:59pm

re: #134 Eclectic Cyborg

The filing claims Chuck “became famous” because of his Ferguson coverage.

please. Is this how he’s trying to qualify for St. Louis jurisdiction?

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 10:43:10pm

Chuck is the epitome of everything is wrong with everything.

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 10:44:08pm

re: #136 Stanley Sea Toujours

please. Is this how he’s trying to qualify for St. Louis jurisdiction?

His attorney asserts that a million people in Missouri read Gawker.

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 10:44:56pm

Heh.

.@adamsteinbaugh Also the local rule limits briefs to 15 pages. He only exceeded that by 640%

— Popehat (@Popehat) October 17, 2015

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 10:48:49pm

re: #129 teleskiguy

That’s some record setting derp. It’s like a treatise on How The Fuck Does The Internet Work and Why? Comments on web pages were mean to me! Waaaaah!

I’m not a lawyer but if they don’t get laughed out of court, I’ll eat my hat b

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Joe Bacon Oct 16, 2015 • 10:50:07pm

Ok so we had to wait till we got to page 43 to read about the Gawker allegation against Ginger Snapped.

Ah the pooping allegation runs from page 43 to 62, then we get into the sheep thing.

Frankly, I think the whole brief is just a mass of…

Benny Bell - Shaving Cream (Exclusive)

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Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 10:52:03pm

re: #140 WhatEVs

That’s some record setting derp. It’s like a treatise on How The Fuck Does The Internet Work and Why? Comments on web pages were mean to me! Waaaaah!

I’m not a lawyer but if they don’t get laughed out of court, I’ll eat my hat b

Neither am I. However, my experience with the courts strongly suggests that judges take it badly if you try to baffle them with bullshit.

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 10:55:52pm

re: #141 Joe Bacon

Ok so we had to wait till we got to page 43 to read about the Gawker allegation against Ginger Snapped.

Ah the pooping allegation runs from page 43 to 62, then we get into the sheep thing.

Frankly, I think the whole brief is just a mass of…

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I’m not reading it. But following your recap. dying on the floor

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 10:56:31pm

I have read enough of the argument to conclude the lawyer has no idea how the Internet works.

No, really. He argues that because Gawker uses cookies to display local ads to readers, it is doing business in Missouri.

I’d be really fucking surprised if Gawker runs its own ads.

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ninja cat Oct 16, 2015 • 10:56:39pm

Charles Johnson and Got News Have Spent Tens of Thousands of Dollars Investigating the Michael Brown Shooting and Ferguson Riots, and Building Positive Branding and Goodwill among Missouri Readers

Yeah trying to get any juve records unsealed really made the citizens warm up to him. Tens of thousands my ass.

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 10:56:56pm

By the way, I encourage ya’ll to keep going.

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 10:57:44pm

MO jurisdiction is valid because of Michael Brown? Are you freaking kidding me?

And if you want to talk about an asshole, CCJs bullshit in Brown was horrific. I almost want to see this go to court so Gawker attorneys can enter into evidence all the hateful shit CCJ has done on each and every story he’s ever done. And he’s always wrong (oh, irony, you slay me!)

WOWZA. That filing is amusing, though I’m hard pressed to think if I’ve ever seen anything like it.

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Joe Bacon Oct 16, 2015 • 10:59:04pm

Honestly, a pair of Fruit Of The Loom shorts is a better constructed brief than this 111 page blob of corrosible bond.

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Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 10:59:19pm

Good grief, what a freaking mess this is.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:01:12pm

Seriously, they keep citing the fact that if you access Gawker from an IP in St Louis it shows you an ad for a St Louis brewery as support for “Gawker has business transactions in the state.”

All the stupids.

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Joe Bacon Oct 16, 2015 • 11:01:59pm

I’m reminded of the time I was in one of my economics classes at Pitt and we were required to write a legal brief on regulatory cases. One guy submitted over 200 pages to the professor. The look on Dr. Slessinger’s face was priceless…

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:02:00pm

Every time they mention how many readers Gawker supposedly has in Missouri, it is bolded.

Just to make sure you don’t miss it.

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Joe Bacon Oct 16, 2015 • 11:03:21pm

I got a feeling this legal eagle is going to get his wings clipped when the judge gets done with him!

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Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 11:04:14pm

re: #145 ninja cat

Charles Johnson and Got News Have Spent Tens of Thousands of Dollars Investigating the Michael Brown Shooting and Ferguson Riots, and Building Positive Branding and Goodwill among Missouri Readers

Yeah trying to get any juve records unsealed really made the citizens warm up to him. Tens of thousands my ass.

Wouldn’t he have to produce his financials as a part of discovery? It would not surprise me to find that he’d spent tens of thousands of dollars, I just don’t see him spending it on anything he couldn’t eat, drink, smoke, snort, or shove up his ass.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:04:21pm

No. Really.

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KGxvi Oct 16, 2015 • 11:04:39pm

re: #147 WhatEVs

I once argued a venue motion against an old timer. He was trying to get a quiet title case for San Diego moved to riverside. The judge rejected every argument he had, the old timer showed up with printed copies of cases he cited - with sections highlighted - to give to the judge. It was fucking surreal

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ninja cat Oct 16, 2015 • 11:05:08pm

So the last 50 or so pages covered pooping. I have now arrived at the header ‘Sex with Sheep’. I don’t know if I can continue.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:06:18pm

re: #157 ninja cat

So the last 50 or so pages covered pooping. I have now arrived at the header ‘Sex with Sheep’. I don’t know if I can continue.

I decided to skip the ‘Facts’ section and move right to the arguments.

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 11:06:28pm

This hack of an attorney is funny as hell.

Chuck is FAMOUS!!!11!! in MO!!!11!! but he’s a private figure?

How does that work?

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Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 11:06:38pm

re: #157 ninja cat

So the last 50 or so pages covered pooping. I have now arrived at the header ‘Sex with Sheep’. I don’t know if I can continue.

That would have been better left out because he’s been seen more than once with a tuft of wool caught in his fly.

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Stanley Sea Toujours Oct 16, 2015 • 11:06:55pm

re: #157 ninja cat

So the last 50 or so pages covered pooping. I have now arrived at the header ‘Sex with Sheep’. I don’t know if I can continue.

pfaw

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:06:59pm

Apparently the defendants conspired to create the rumors against him.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:07:54pm

re: #162 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 11:08:57pm

re: #162 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Apparently the defendants conspired to create the rumors against him.

Inorite? Imagine that from a gossip site. Inconceivable!

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Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 11:09:13pm

re: #155 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Why would a Wookiee, an 8-foot-tall Wookiee, want to live on Endor, with a bunch of 2-foot-tall Ewoks? That does not make sense! But more important, you have to ask yourself: What does this have to do with this case? Nothing…

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Joe Bacon Oct 16, 2015 • 11:09:15pm

Page 70…

PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
A. THIS COURT CAN HAS PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER DEFENDANTS…

Somebody didn’t use grammar check…

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goddamnedfrank Oct 16, 2015 • 11:10:18pm

In the article, Howard states that on December 9th, some anonymous person emailed him a letter that Charles Johnson posted to his private, invitation-only Facebook account bulletin board/wall addressed to past friends and acquaintances from college. The private account was only accessible by individuals Johnson had, at some point in his life, specifically authorized to view his private Facebook profile. Howard was not one of those persons.

This is the letter where Chuck essentially tells all his old acquaintances who are concerned about his behavior to fuck off because he’s famous now.

However, we know from the timeline above, that at 1:44 p.m. on 12/9/14 CCJ Facebook Friend published the letter in a discussion post on Trotter ‘s ” What is Chuck Johnson …” We also know that sixteen minutes later, Howard emailed Johnson about the letter. Johnson had seen the article posted by Trotter, and had watched the comments - including the comment by Cmcalumna, which initiated the rumor about public defecation. Johnson anticipated rightly that Howard, Trotter, and Gawker were circling vultures aimed at maligning him, and he attempted to defuse the defamation as quickly as possible, by affirmatively stating to Howard that the accusations were false.

Chuck knew that vultures were circling, so he brought up the rumor pre-emptively in a conversation with Howard. So that’s the end of his case, right? Because he’s the one who brought it up first, knowing that he was doing so in on the record correspondence with a reporter, therefore it’s fair game.

Howard didn’t care, he evidently thought that since he had anonymous third party content creators on Gawker raising the accusation for him, that this would inoculate him against defamation liability.

Um, no, he saw the accusation being leveled by apparent past acquaintances of Chuck on Chuck’s Facebook page, and Chuck directly addressed the rumor without being asked about. That’s what inoculates Howard.

And, given the ambiguity of Cmcalumna’s first discussion post on the first Trotter article, Howard probably thought that this was enough wiggle room to permit multiple interpretations, thereby allowing him to hide in the ambiguity of the comment. And, this is clearly in the Gawker playbook as is evidenced by their history, pattern, and practice. Incite, lure, instigate unpaid content creators to publish tips and additional material to the site. Leverage the protections of Communications Decency Act Section 230. Then enjoy free reign to republish defamatory content.

Blah blah blah. Burns desperately wants to ignore the fact that his client initiated all this shit by publishing a rant on Facebook and then choosing to make the very unwise decision to preemptively mention past floor shitting allegations that were being leveled against him on that page. All this talk of comments on Gawker’s site are irrelevant red herrings, Howard didn’t publish anything based on those comments. He published based directly on a chain of events that Chuck initiated and based on content Chuck idiotically chose to bring to his fucking attention.

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Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 16, 2015 • 11:10:38pm

re: #166 Joe Bacon

I can has schadenfreude?

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 11:11:18pm

re: #166 Joe Bacon

Page 70…

PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
A. THIS COURT CAN HAS PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER DEFENDANTS…

Somebody didn’t use grammar check…

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 11:11:36pm

re: #166 Joe Bacon

Page 70…

PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
A. THIS COURT CAN HAS PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER DEFENDANTS…

Somebody didn’t use grammar check…

Too much time on icanhas.cheezburger.com

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:11:51pm

Not taking this seriously is a sure fire way to upset a judge.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:11:56pm

re: #167 goddamnedfrank

I can’t get over the fact that CCJ apparently thinks things on Facebook are “private.”

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:12:57pm

re: #169 teleskiguy

Move zig, move zig. For great justice, take off every zig.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:13:31pm

I can’t imagine that the standard of writing in this is going to win points with the judge. This is …bad.

Like, I mean I grant you that most of the legal stuff I have read has been Supreme Court stuff and so presumably is held to a pretty high standard, but…

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 11:14:51pm

re: #172 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I can’t get over the fact that CCJ apparently thinks things on Facebook are “private.”

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That cracked me up. Even Zuckerberg says there’s no such thing as privacy. Oy.

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Joe Bacon Oct 16, 2015 • 11:14:55pm

Perry Mason can’t get Ginger Snapped out of the mess he’s in now!

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Oct 16, 2015 • 11:15:10pm

re: #167 goddamnedfrank

Leverage the protections of Communications Decency Act Section 230. Then enjoy free reign to republish defamatory content.

Shit! He’s supposed to be lawyer, been to school and everything, and he spells “free rein” with a “g”? If I were the judge, I’d slap him down for that alone. Does somebody “tow” the line later on?

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Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 11:16:05pm

I got to this and just lost it. @adamsteinbaugh pic.twitter.com/qogE3Aqul1

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) October 17, 2015

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goddamnedfrank Oct 16, 2015 • 11:16:22pm

re: #159 WhatEVs

This hack of an attorney is funny as hell.

Chuck is FAMOUS!!!11!! in MO!!!11!! but he’s a private figure?

How does that work?

LOL, I know right. This is literally what Chuck wrote in that Facebook rant that kicked this whole thing off.

Now that I have some measure of notoriety and success, I do not owe you phone calls or responses to your condescending “concern” for me. Please know that most of these emails will be deleted or archived. Some will be openly mocked. Others may be retweeted or written about in future things.

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 11:17:14pm

If there is a 15 page limit, is this hot mess going to get a fine or something?

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:17:25pm

I’m sure these sentences will convince the judge.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 16, 2015 • 11:20:42pm

re: #166 Joe Bacon

Page 70…

PLAINTIFFS’ OPPOSITION TO DEFENDANTS’ MOTION TO DISMISS
A. THIS COURT CAN HAS PERSONAL JURISDICTION OVER DEFENDANTS…

Somebody didn’t use grammar check…

No, you have to be joking … really?

Goes and looks.

NO FUCKING WAY!

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TedStriker Oct 16, 2015 • 11:20:44pm

This seems like a last-ditch attempt to throw everything against the wall to see anything sticks…Chuck and his “lawyer” is so fucked.

This sums it all up:

Youtube Video

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:25:31pm

re: #182 goddamnedfrank

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 11:25:57pm

UpChuck’s critics tonight be all like

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 11:26:20pm

A “scrappy young reporter” who’s famous in MO due to Brown but not famous and is a private person.

Suck it chuck. All the people you doxxed were real private persons.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:28:48pm

…they actually say Gawker wants to crowdsource the news.

This feels familiar, somehow…

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:28:57pm

re: #169 teleskiguy

I have to post that now.
:)

All Your Base Are Belong to Us

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Cheechako Oct 16, 2015 • 11:30:11pm

I didn’t realize lawyers were paid by the number of words or pages.

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WhatEVs Oct 16, 2015 • 11:30:28pm

re: #187 klys (maker of Silmarils)

…they actually say Gawker wants to crowdsource the news.

This feels familiar, somehow…

Right. Where have I seen that before? Oh, right…Chuck begging others to help him famous private journalize.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:34:19pm

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:35:26pm

re: #191 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Followed up by a “if the court does decide to dismiss, please let us file an amended complaint and try again.”

No, really.

Not joking.

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:36:26pm

Just reading some of this shit.
Is it for real?
Crack legal team he’s got there.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:36:49pm

I don’t think I can bring myself to look through the ‘Facts’ section.

I don’t know if the shitty formatting is what it is supposed to be or more incompetence.

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TedStriker Oct 16, 2015 • 11:36:54pm

re: #192 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Followed up by a “if the court does decide to dismiss, please let us file an amended complaint and try again.”

No, really.

Not joking.

Where in the fuck did Burns get his law degree…Sears?

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TedStriker Oct 16, 2015 • 11:37:20pm

re: #193 Varek Raith

Just reading some of this shit.
Is it for real?
Crack legal team he’s got there.

More like “legal team on crack”.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:37:39pm

re: #195 TedStriker

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:38:44pm

re: #197 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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The courts are going to just love this.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Oct 16, 2015 • 11:38:52pm

re: #191 klys (maker of Silmarils)

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Well, whose fucking fault is it that you didn’t file in New York or California in the first goddamn place?! SMGDH.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:40:20pm

re: #199 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, whose fucking fault is it that you didn’t file in New York or California in the first goddamn place?! SMGDH.

This might explain part of that.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:41:10pm

You can see what I mean about shitty formatting.

I am not a lawyer but I would be embarrassed as fuck to turn in something of this quality.

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:42:34pm

re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)

You can see what I mean about shitty formatting.

I am not a lawyer but I would be embarrassed as fuck to turn in something of this quality.

And the reasoning is, well, hilariously stupid at best.

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TedStriker Oct 16, 2015 • 11:42:56pm

re: #199 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Well, whose fucking fault is it that you didn’t file in New York or California in the first goddamn place?! SMGDH.

I’m sure that one of the real reasons why Chuck filed in MO is because his ambulance-chasing pro bono gloryhound “lawyer” isn’t licensed to practice in either CA or NY, IIRC, so that mean he’d actually have to pay for real legal representation.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Oct 16, 2015 • 11:45:33pm

re: #203 TedStriker

I’m sure that the real reason why Chuck filed in MO is because his ambulance-chasing pro bono gloryhound “lawyer” isn’t licensed to practice in either CA or NY, so that mean he’d actually have to pay for real legal representation.

Well, I know that and you know that, but surely a mere Federal Judge wouldn’t be smart enough to figure it out, right?

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Charles Johnson Oct 16, 2015 • 11:45:45pm

Absolutely fucking hilarious.

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:47:40pm

Hyper Chicken

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 11:48:55pm

Some folks have said “Charles, stop posting about UpChuck!” I say no. Horrible shit stains like UpChuck need to be exposed. UpChuck is plugged in to white supremacists, GamerGate dillholes, and a myriad of wholly unsavory white males. LGF is a great place to witness the marginalization of UpChuck (UpChuck has done great damage to the name Charles Johnson, and our Charles is up to the task of undoing that damage).

Plus, it’s fuckin’ funny as fuck watching UpChuck be a goddamned jackass in front of everybody. Call it karma.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 16, 2015 • 11:49:19pm

Plaintiffs note that it was Defendants who published defamatory statements about Plaintiffs, and that it was Defendant Howard who first reached out to Plaintiff Johnson regarding the rumors of public defecation and bestiality.

Totally false, it’s well established as part of the official record that Chuck was the first to bring up the defecation charge.

However, prior to Defendants conspiring to manufacture disgusting rumors about him, which are provably false, Johnson was never a public figure for purposes of the topical areas of public defecation and bestiality.

Burns is arguing that Chuck was a public figure for the purposes of destroying Michael Brown’s reputation, but not for this LOL.

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TedStriker Oct 16, 2015 • 11:50:06pm

re: #207 teleskiguy

Some folks have said “Charles, stop posting about UpChuck!” I say no. Horrible shit stains like UpChuck need to be exposed. UpChuck is plugged in to white supremacists, GamerGate dillholes, and a myriad of wholly unsavory white males. LGF is a great place to witness the marginalization of UpChuck (UpChuck has done great damage to the name Charles Johnson, and our Charles is up to the task of undoing that damage).

Plus, it’s fuckin’ funny as fuck watching UpChuck be a goddamned jackass in front of everybody. Call it karma.

I can’t wait for the shitstorm that’s gonna land on Chuck’s head come Monday…

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:50:45pm

Lionel Hutz
Has to be.

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Varek Raith Oct 16, 2015 • 11:51:27pm

Lionel Hutz

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:54:06pm

re: #207 teleskiguy

I admit, I hope that he will soon drift into obscurity, just like any number of other figures who pop up occasionally and then die away.

The thing that will hurt him the most is no one paying attention. I understand why Charles has to, and the lawsuit is at least worth paying attention to, but there’s so much other crazy, we have to balance the diet.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 16, 2015 • 11:54:18pm

The Brown death and the Ferguson Riots were among the top media stories in the St. Louis, Missouri media market for 2014. ⁶⁸
—-

68. See Plaintiffs Ex. 66

Um, okay.

66. See generally, Bill Cosby.

That footnote really tied the document together.

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teleskiguy Oct 16, 2015 • 11:56:42pm

re: #212 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Indeed. I cringe when I see another post about UpChuck or Pam or any of the Breitbrats. Comes with the territory. I remember when whole threads would get hijacked over Cindy Sheehan.

:-P

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goddamnedfrank Oct 16, 2015 • 11:58:36pm

The best part is Chuck is sitting at home right now reading this steaming whale carcass of an argument while nodding along, saying “Yes, this is some good shit.”

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Usually refered to as anyways Oct 16, 2015 • 11:58:46pm

Popcorn time

I know it’s late my fellow lizards, but please keep reading to me.
Otherwise I would have to stop eating!

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 16, 2015 • 11:59:13pm

re: #213 goddamnedfrank

Um, okay.

That footnote really tied the document together.

…holy shit, it’s even worse when you look at 66 in context.

There’s a distinct whiff of “Cosby didn’t deserve everything that’s happened to him” going on there.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:00:59am

For any of you younger Lizards, I must point you in the direction of our boy Targetpractice, who’s younger than me but has been a part of LGF a lot longer than me. I can’t speak for him but I know that he’s been there and done that as far as LGF is concerned and he’s good people.

I’ve been meaning to do this for a bit. Targetpractice (Worst of Both Worlds)

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 12:02:02am

The Judge, reading this:

Nope.
HAHA.
LOLWUT?
No.
NO.
NO!
FUCK NO.
Jesus Christ WTF?
Wait, I’m only on page 4?
Honey, pack a bowl for me won’tcha?

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:02:27am

goddamnedfrank, you’re so good at filthy metaphors. I wish I had your talent.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Oct 17, 2015 • 12:06:44am

re: #219 goddamnedfrank

The Judge, reading this:

Nope.
HAHA.
LOLWUT?
No.
NO.
NO!
FUCK NO.
Jesus Christ WTF?
Wait, I’m only on page 4?
Honey, pack a bowl for me won’tcha?

Tragically, I’m very much afraid that if the limit on briefs (ha!) is 15 pages, the judge won’t even attempt to read a 111-page one.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:07:13am

I didn’t study comparative literature. I studied literature written in English at a small state college 30 miles away from a rad burly ski area. Basic stuff. 300 level courses I was reading Portrait of Dorian Gray and writing about it.

goddamnedfrank, you get one of these tonight too, because

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 17, 2015 • 12:09:13am

The numbers on the footnotes don’t make any sense.

Multiple times he’s referencing one that in theory somehow relates to his investigations/reporting in St. Louis …but the footnote (63) reads:

63 “Defamer” is a subsidiary blog within the Gawker family of sites. The content theme is self-explanatory.

I dropped the web address.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 17, 2015 • 12:11:17am

re: #223 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Seriously, BOTH OF THESE FOOTNOTES say see 66, essentially.

Number 66 being the Bill Crosby comment.

WTF.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Oct 17, 2015 • 12:12:51am

re: #217 klys (maker of Silmarils)

…holy shit, it’s even worse when you look at 66 in context.

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There’s a distinct whiff of “Cosby didn’t deserve everything that’s happened to him” going on there.

“Career destruction…on the basis of weak, unsubstantiated tips.” “See Bill Cosby.” It’s not a whiff, it’s an explicit statement that Cosby is an innocent victim. Just like Chuck.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 12:13:04am

It’s really telling how much effort Burns is making to re-attribute the allegation of floor shitting as first occurring on Gawker, when the record clearly shows that the first mentions of that allegation were on Chuck’s Facebook page.

Between 2:00 p.m. and 2:14 p.m., Greg Howard emailed Charles Johnson and asked asked various questions:109 “Chuck, we just got a tip that you wrote up a Facebook post for your past classmates. Just checking to see it actually happened and is accurate. [The email goes on to quote a portion of the letter posted by CCJ Facebook Friend to the First Trotter article initiated/instigated at 11:25 am.] This is your writing, correct? Thanks, Greg.”

At 2:06 p.m.,111 Johnson responded: “Run it in its entirety. Don’t do me like you did Cory Gardner, though.”

At 2:09 p.m.,112 Howard responded: “Did you play football?”

See Plaintiffs Ex. 87. Note that time appears as 11am because it was received by Charles Johnson in California at 11am (2 p.m. Eastern Time).

At 2:11 p.m.,113 Johnson responded again to Howard: “Oh, and do please tell Nick Denton that I say hi.”

At 2:14 pm,114 Howard replied: “I’m working from home.”

Also at 2:14 pm.,115 Johnson immediately responded, “Oh, and the comments about me shitting on the floor were made up,” - referencing the Cmcalumna discussion post earlier at 12:30 pm and 1:05p.m. on the Trotter article.

Burns is flat out lying to the court here, and I hope he gets sanctioned for it. Chuck’s discussion with Howard was explicitly about the Facebook rant and the responses to it, Trotter’s article isn’t mentioned by either Chuck or Howard AT ALL during their correspondence. Burn’s is trying to get away with a blatant fabrication.

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Usually refered to as anyways Oct 17, 2015 • 12:14:34am

Got Newted Down

The link doesn’t seem to suggest that that is true.
And I have no issue getting to www . media temple . com

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:15:44am

I think we’re all sort of waiting for the goddamned other shoe to drop with our pal UpChuck. He’s achieved a multitude of absolute depravity on the internet on every side of the political spectrum. How low can he go?

I fear actual violence. Others have espoused as such around here at LGF.

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TedStriker Oct 17, 2015 • 12:19:13am

re: #228 teleskiguy

I think we’re all sort of waiting for the goddamned other shoe to drop with our pal UpChuck. He’s achieved a multitude of absolute depravity on the internet on every side of the political spectrum. How low can he go?

I fear actual violence. Others have espoused as such around here at LGF.

Think he’ll go all Charles Whitman somewhere?

For others’ sake, I hope not.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 12:20:15am

Two roads diverged in a shitty wood …

Chuck’s entire approach to the initial floor shitting allegation and every step he’s taken since has basically turned the Streisand Effect into a thermonuclear bomb. At every juncture where he could have stepped back and not made things worse he took the road less traveled.

… and that has made all the difference.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:22:07am

re: #229 TedStriker

For others’ sake, I hope not.

Me too.

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Cheechako Oct 17, 2015 • 12:22:20am

Everyone here is doing a terrific job analyzing this (not so) brief. Someone should consolidate these comments and forward to Gawker’s attorneys. Maybe they would make a nice donation to Charles for all this pro bono work.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:28:04am

My name is Charles. And the vile spew that Charles C. Johnson keeps violently vomiting all over the fucking place, well, it does damage to the very name Charles. #StandWithTheGoodCharles

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Higgs Boson's Mate Oct 17, 2015 • 12:32:26am

re: #228 teleskiguy

I think we’re all sort of waiting for the goddamned other shoe to drop with our pal UpChuck. He’s achieved a multitude of absolute depravity on the internet on every side of the political spectrum. How low can he go?

I fear actual violence. Others have espoused as such around here at LGF.

Doubtful, because there’s no such thing as fatal whining.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 12:33:04am

Yanno, for a lawyer who less than a week ago acknowledged the extreme consequences of losing an anti-SLAPP motion, Burns only spends about 6 very thin pages opposing it.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 17, 2015 • 12:33:44am

re: #235 goddamnedfrank

Yanno, for a lawyer who less than a week ago acknowledged the extreme consequences of losing an anti-SLAPP motion, Burns only spends about 6 very thin pages opposing it.

I think we know what tomorrow was going to be spent on.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 17, 2015 • 12:33:58am

re: #236 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think we know what tomorrow was going to be spent on.

AND YES, it’s tomorrow until I go to bed.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:37:03am

Really though, my name is Charles. People call me Charlie.

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klys (maker of Silmarils) Oct 17, 2015 • 12:38:37am

Speaking of bed, I think it’s about that time.

Some progress, despite spending a lot of hockey scanning papers. pic.twitter.com/f1qKdMfEUc

— sylk (@sylk) October 17, 2015

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:41:16am

MP3 Audio

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge Oct 17, 2015 • 12:42:51am

re: #238 teleskiguy

Really though, my name is Charles. People call me Charlie.

“You can call me Ray. Or you can call me Jay….”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 12:47:54am

Greetings, all. I just came back from a 10K hike and a big lunch with my colleagues, and I see that Chuck and his lawyer managed to squeeze out a long one for Judge Shaw to examine.

I appreciate the pithy summaries of the not-very-brief brief here.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 12:52:05am

Page 21:

And there were additional ethics in journalism questions.

Drink.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 12:54:06am

re: #241 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

I can be your bodyguard. You can be my long lost pal!

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 1:00:15am

Abruptly, after laying out supposed evidence for Johnson the public defecator, Trotter issues a non sequitur: “Verdict: There is no evidence that Chuck Johnson took a shit on the floor in college. Chuck Johnson was, however, so thoroughly disliked in college that his classmates chose to blame an unattributed shit on him.”
The problem here is two-fold. First, after building up what was really just a rumor that emerged on Gawker’s own blog as a raging controversy that seemingly everyone was talking about, Trotter abruptly and without any explanation concludes that the rumor is false. The audience perceives this as mere posturing to avoid liability. It’s mysterious and suggests to the reader that the rumor may actually be true.

Burns, just straight up lying to the court again.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 1:02:05am

re: #245 goddamnedfrank

Burns, just straight up lying to the court again.

The rumor emerged on Chuck’s own blog, the Claremont Conservative.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 1:03:18am

There is a very very subtle level of satire in the bestiality section.

Very very subtle satire is the best kind of satire.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 1:05:50am

re: #247 goddamnedfrank

Very very subtle satire is the best kind of satire.

Good people/Bad people filter. The finest satire.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 1:09:38am

re: #246 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The rumor emerged on Chuck’s own blog, the Claremont Conservative.

Exactly , it was first published on his site, in comments that he allowed to remain.

But on the day in question the mentions of the rumor started on Chuck’s Facebook page in response to his rant, and then drifted from there to comments on a Gawker article by Trotter. However it’s very unlikely that Chuck knew about the Gawker comments. All he knew was that Howard was contacting him about the Facebook rant, and that the floor shitting allegations were there. Howard used Chuck’s preemptive denial to address the issue and attributed their origins (as far as he could reasonably tell at the time) correctly.

Point being, Burns is spending a lot of time in his brief trying to rewrite the history of the day, and in doing so he is attempting to perpetrate a fraud upon the Court. The pattern is clear enough now that I think he could reasonably be sanctioned for this conduct.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 1:14:33am

re: #249 goddamnedfrank

We can only hope. The judge is going to be peeved already at the 111-page tome he (or his clerks) will need to read.

251

Scout Oct 17, 2015 • 1:15:42am

Has anyone verified whether there really is a 15-page limit?

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 1:19:29am

re: #250 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

We can only hope. The judge is going to be peeved already at the 111-page tome he (or his clerks) will need to read.

Oh for sure. Asking for two extensions, missing the filing deadline on the second, lying to the Court in the request for a third extension, and then dropping a brief that exceeds the allowed length by 639% is definitely going to antagonize the shit out of the Judge and his staff.

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 1:21:34am

re: #251 Scout

Has anyone verified whether there really is a 15-page limit?

Yep.

(D) No party shall file any motion, memorandum or brief which exceeds fifteen (15) numbered pages, exclusive of the signature page and attachments, without leave of Court. Statements of material fact filed pursuant to paragraph (E) of this rule shall be deemed attachments not part of any party’s memorandum or brief.

That’s pretty damned clear.

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Scout Oct 17, 2015 • 1:22:27am

re: #253 goddamnedfrank

Thank you!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 1:25:09am

re: #253 goddamnedfrank

Yep.

That’s pretty damned clear.

So, does that mean Burns should have included those 50 pages of floor shitting facts as an attachment?

256

wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 1:25:57am

perhaps printed on a roll of triple-ply paper?

257

teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 1:27:01am

re: #256 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

perhaps printed on a roll of triple-ply paper?

POOP

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 1:32:48am

re: #255 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, does that mean Burns should have included those 50 pages of floor shitting facts as an attachment?

Yes, and then either severely edited his argument or sought leave in the beginning to file overlength. As it stands now he’s metaphorically (do I even need to say it?)

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goddamnedfrank Oct 17, 2015 • 1:34:26am

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 1:35:01am

re: #258 goddamnedfrank

Yes, and then either severely edited his argument or sought leave in the beginning to file overlength. As it stands now he’s metaphorically (do I even need to say it?)

a ewe?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 1:35:52am

re: #259 goddamnedfrank

He said, while stroking the fluffy cat in his lap.

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teleskiguy Oct 17, 2015 • 2:29:39am

“@HistoricalPics: North Korea at night pic.twitter.com/mGmoELsx1B” Perfect for stargazing.

— Emo Philips (@EmoPhilips) October 17, 2015

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freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 3:02:02am

MP3 Audio

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 3:24:22am

OK Ahmed, you’re still a kid, so I won’t write down what I’m thinking right now. Except to say that under no circumstances should Obama meet with you now.

The American boy arrested for making a clock meets Sudan’s president, an accused war criminal

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freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 3:49:22am

re: #264 Nyet

Children are easily manipulated.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 3:52:01am

re: #265 freetoken

Children are easily manipulated.

If he can cobble together a digital clock, he can also google. Which I’m sure he had.

267

freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 3:52:42am

Meanwhile, elsewhere, it’s gun vs. knives:

ISRAELIS KILL 3 ALLEGED PALESTINIAN ATTACKERS

Israelis shot dead three Palestinians they said had attacked them with knives on Saturday in Jerusalem and the West Bank city of Hebron, the latest in a month of violent confrontations.

[#1] Police spokeswoman Luba Samri said a 16-year-old Palestinian drew a knife on officers in Jerusalem when they stopped him to ask for identification after a bystander said he was behaving suspiciously. She said the officers shot and killed the teenager after he tried to stab them.

[…]

[#2] Elsewhere on Saturday, Israel’s military said an Israeli pedestrian shot and killed a Palestinian who tried to stab him in the West Bank city of Hebron, a frequent flashpoint where a few hundred Jewish settlers live in close proximity to tens of thousands of Palestinians. The military said the Palestinian was shot dead before he could harm the man.

[#3] Later, police said a Palestinian woman stabbed a female officer at a border police base in Hebron before the officer shot her dead. The officer’s hand was lightly wounded.

[…]

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freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 3:53:45am

re: #266 Nyet

It’s not usually a matter of technical skills, but of emotional maturity and wisdom which children lack.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 3:55:28am

re: #268 freetoken

It’s not usually a matter of technical skills, but of emotional maturity and wisdom which children lack.

At 14 one does many stupid things but one already knows basic rights from basic wrongs.

There isn’t any defense of this that will look remotely credible.

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freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 3:57:33am

re: #269 Nyet

There’s a reason why the US Constitution requires Senators and Presidents to be at least 35.

How many 14 year olds have you hung out with?

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 3:58:52am

re: #270 freetoken

I don’t have anything to add to #269.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 4:16:47am

Reading Chuck’s response.

When bad actors like Chuck and Gawker suck juices out of each other, it’s a win-win for everybody else. The best-case scenario is if Gawker crushes Chuck like a bug and then itself goes under as a result of other suits,

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jonhendry Oct 17, 2015 • 4:37:34am

re: #264 Nyet

“Except to say that under no circumstances should Obama meet with you now.”

Well, sure, if the boy ought to avoid war criminals then he should probably avoid the guy whose military bombed a hospital.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 4:39:31am

re: #273 jonhendry

“Except to say that under no circumstances should Obama meet with you now.”

Well, sure, if the boy ought to avoid war criminals then he should probably avoid the guy whose military bombed a hospital.

How clever!

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thedopefishlives Oct 17, 2015 • 4:45:02am

Morning Lizardim.

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freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 4:50:12am

Speaking of which:

US tank enters Kunduz’s MSF hospital, ‘destroys evidence’

A US military vehicle has allegedly forced its way into the hospital in Afghanistan which was devastated by US airstrikes two weeks ago. The move was an unwelcome surprise for Medicines Sans Frontiers (Doctors Without Borders) which operates the site.

Members of a joint investigation team from the US, NATO and Afghan government were aboard the heavy military vehicle, Reuters reported citing a Medicines Sans Frontiers (MSF) statement on Thursday.

“Their unannounced and forced entry damaged property, destroyed potential evidence and caused stress and fear for the MSF team,” the group said, adding that the investigators had previously promised they would notify the organization of any actions involving MSF personnel or assets.

NATO’s spokesperson in Afghanistan said the incident was being “reviewed.”

[…]

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 4:50:38am

So, Canada’s Harper may be out? Would be good news indeed.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 4:52:46am

re: #276 freetoken

Bull, china shop. /
That said, the official reasoning was probably “the visit should be unexpected to minimize tampering with evidence ahead of it” or something in this vein.

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freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 4:54:05am

Too docile in the face of Republican misuse of their offices, I think:

c-span.org

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 4:54:18am

My head hurts AND it’s morning

you?.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 4:55:57am

re: #273 jonhendry

Upon stewing about this for a couple of minutes I decided to ding after all for calling Obama a war criminal by employing a logical fallacy of non sequitur (a war crime committed by the American military does not automatically make Obama himself a war criminal).

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thedopefishlives Oct 17, 2015 • 4:56:40am

re: #280 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Embedded ImageMy head hurts AND it’s morning

you?.

Exhausted because I was out late with Mrs. Fish and had a rough sleep due to my back problems. It feels better right now, but of course, too late for my sleep schedule.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 4:58:48am

I am halfway through the Johnson opus, and will from now on refer to myself as a LGF unpaid content creator (LGF-UCC).

Also, I note that Johnson is the pot and Gawker is the kettle, in re: journalistic practices.

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freetoken Oct 17, 2015 • 5:00:32am

In the not very distant future you will be able to grow replacement kidneys:

Converting skin cells to stem cells creates ‘kidney structures’

This follows the news last week that scientists had finally figured out how to take pig-grown heart valves and remove the living pig cells (thus just keeping the collagen structure), which will probably lead to more and better valves being avialable.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 5:02:18am

re: #283 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I am halfway through the Johnson opus, and will from now on refer to myself as a LGF unpaid content creator (LGF-UCC).

Also, I note that Johnson is the pot and Gawker is the kettle, in re: journalistic practices.

They all should delete their accounts, the sooner - the better.

I didn’t even know about Gawker’s stuff about Franco, but now I can say: they’re as bad as Chuck.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 5:05:46am

In Illinois, our governor is trying to solve the state’s cash flow problems by cutting or freezing funding (among other areas) the local not-for-profit Domestic Violence Shelter and Sexual Assault Agency.

He earned $1M a week in 2014.

Something tells me he has no idea how his actions as governor affect people in the state.

287

Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 5:06:05am

Gawker’s Homophobic, Years-Long Crusade to Out James Franco

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thedopefishlives Oct 17, 2015 • 5:08:13am

re: #286 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Isn’t that pretty much business as usual for Illinois? I hate to say it, but having lived in or near there for the majority of my life, I’ve kinda picked up on a few vibes from the great plains state.

289

Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 5:11:59am

If Jeb were smart, he would have written: “Mr. Trump is obviously delusional, everybody knows 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch!”.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 5:15:50am

Pro-Choice Voter Guide for Washington

elections November 3rd

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 17, 2015 • 5:17:10am

This brief is a long, very sad answer to the question: What kind of lawyer would represent Chuck C. Johnson in a defamation case?

— action at a distance (@danielnazer) October 17, 2015

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 5:17:30am

re: #288 thedopefishlives

Isn’t that pretty much business as usual for Illinois? I hate to say it, but having lived in or near there for the majority of my life, I’ve kinda picked up on a few vibes from the great plains state.

eh —I think the disparity between the average voter and THIS governor’s life-time financial experience is greater than usual.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 17, 2015 • 5:18:14am

If this is a heading in a legal brief, there’s a good chance you already lost #CCJbrief pic.twitter.com/ODzv5sLOyP

— Ghost-en Hell-tle (@esten) October 17, 2015

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thedopefishlives Oct 17, 2015 • 5:20:51am

re: #291 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The short answer is: A complete and utter dumbass.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 5:22:37am

Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back (5/12) Movie CLIP - Dirty Sheep F***er (2001) HD

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 5:24:47am

re: #284 freetoken

In the not very distant future you will be able to grow replacement kidneys:

Can I get some that don’t make stones?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 5:33:41am

re: #293 Backwoods_Sleuth

i’m not even to that part yet.

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 5:33:50am

It seems that a guy with delusions of grandeur hired a lawyer with delusions of competence.

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Targetpractice Oct 17, 2015 • 5:39:20am

re: #218 teleskiguy

For any of you younger Lizards, I must point you in the direction of our boy Targetpractice, who’s younger than me but has been a part of LGF a lot longer than me. I can’t speak for him but I know that he’s been there and done that as far as LGF is concerned and he’s good people.

I’ve been meaning to do this for a bit. Targetpractice (Worst of Both Worlds)

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I thank you, my fellow lizard.

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Targetpractice Oct 17, 2015 • 5:45:40am

I gotta say, the funniest part about this whole affair is that Chucky really, truly believes he’s gonna show up to court on Monday to a judge who will give him what he wants. I really would pay money right now to be in the courtroom when this federal judge guts him like a fish.

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thedopefishlives Oct 17, 2015 • 5:53:54am

re: #300 Targetpractice

I gotta say, the funniest part about this whole affair is that Chucky really, truly believes he’s gonna show up to court on Monday to a judge who will give him what he wants. I really would pay money right now to be in the courtroom when this federal judge guts him like a fish.

“So let me get this straight, son: You knew the local rules limited briefs to 15 pages. You never once filed a request for an over-length brief. Then, at almost midnight on a Friday night, you dropped this” *thuds the ponderous tome on his desk* “steaming turd of a document into my case, expecting me to read it and comprehend it by today… And you think I’m going to be happy with you? Get out. Now. Just get the fuck out and I’ll decide what to do with you after my temples stop throbbing.”

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b.d. Oct 17, 2015 • 6:03:06am

re: #289 Nyet

If Jeb were smart, he would have written: “Mr. Trump is obviously delusional, everybody knows 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch!”.

//

GOP: We could have prevented the Holocaust but, boy, that 9/11 was inevitable.
— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) October 16, 2015

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Amory Blaine Oct 17, 2015 • 6:08:02am

This is the first I heard of rage furby banging sheep. Shitting on the floor is maybe kinda funny. Chalk it up to being an asshole growing up. But that is disturbing.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:12:17am

re: #303 Amory Blaine

I was in Scotland, when I walk into a pub with only one man in it. I pull up a chair as he slides me a beer and I ask him why he’s all alone. He answers,
“You see that barn out the window? I built that barn all by myself with me bare hands! But do they call me McGregor: The Barn Builder? FUCK NO!” He slams his pint on the bar loudly, and points out the other window.
“Y’see that bridge out there? I built that all by myself, stone by stone with me bare hands! But do they call me McGregor: The Bridge Builder? FUCK NO!” He slams his pint again.
“This very bar, I built it timber by timber with me bare hands but do they call me McGregor: The Bar Builder? FUCK NO!” He slams his pint one last time and cradles his head in his hands.

“But ya fuck one goat…”

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thedopefishlives Oct 17, 2015 • 6:17:12am

re: #304 Nyet

The Australians claim that the New Zealanders are sheep-fuckers. The Kiwis say, no, obviously the damn Aussies are fucking the sheep. Myself, I think it’s the sheep that are the sluts.

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b.d. Oct 17, 2015 • 6:18:34am

re: #305 thedopefishlives

Well the problem is obvious that some of those sheep are just too darn pretty.

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PeterWolf Oct 17, 2015 • 6:19:19am

re: #306 b.d.

Well the problem is obvious that some of those sheep are just too darn pretty.

Velcro gloves and Gumboot material.

Oh, and if you’re in New Zealand, you’ll find that they do allege those in the deep south of the country indulge in sexual relations with sheep. In Australia, you’ll find the common opinion that it’s only the Tasmanians who love their sheep. But, in both countries, all agree that the aforementioned sheep fanciers, marry their cousins.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:19:41am

re: #306 b.d.

Well the problem is obvious that some of those sheep are just too darn pretty.

//

You asked for it.

Thanks, Smokey!

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Doofus Oct 17, 2015 • 6:20:31am

With Vice President Biden’s impending decision on whether or not he will run for President, I can’t help be reminded of the late, great Governor Mario Cuomo.

Cuomo couldn’t come to an agreement with Republicans in the Legislature and on deadline day, he was required to hand in a ballot application in person, so he kept an airplane waiting on the tarmac as he decided whether to fly to New Hampshire to enter the race.

Even though I am an evil conservative, I say great because he was a true leader and a great orator and made me feel good about my state. His son, not so much.

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b.d. Oct 17, 2015 • 6:23:36am

re: #308 Nyet

You asked for it.

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Video

Ha, ok then.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 6:24:40am

re: #303 Amory Blaine

This is the first I heard of rage furby banging sheep. Shitting on the floor is maybe kinda funny. Chalk it up to being an asshole growing up. But that is disturbing.

The thing is, The more he denies it, the more the story sticks in people’s minds.

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 6:26:27am

re: #308 Nyet

I wonder if this was where Carly Fiorina’s Demon Sheep ad was heading…

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thedopefishlives Oct 17, 2015 • 6:26:54am

re: #312 Blind Frog Belly White

I wonder if this was where Carly Fiorina’s Demon Sheep ad was heading…

Oh my God, I forgot all about demon sheep! YES!

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:26:56am

I don’t see Biden as a President. At all.

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PeterWolf Oct 17, 2015 • 6:27:22am

re: #311 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The thing is, The more he denies it, the more the story sticks in people’s minds.

Like shit to a ~~blanket~~ floor?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:27:45am

re: #218 teleskiguy

For any of you younger Lizards, I must point you in the direction of our boy Targetpractice, who’s younger than me but has been a part of LGF a lot longer than me. I can’t speak for him but I know that he’s been there and done that as far as LGF is concerned and he’s good people.

I’ve been meaning to do this for a bit. Targetpractice (Worst of Both Worlds)

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Yes, he is a goodie!

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:30:11am

re: #196 TedStriker

More like “legal team on crack”.

You’re not kidding. This mega-DERP is so bad Kim Davis’s lawyers will laugh at it.

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Amory Blaine Oct 17, 2015 • 6:30:50am

Super Duper Party Troopers (Ants in Their Pants) for 10 minutes

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Doofus Oct 17, 2015 • 6:30:51am

re: #316 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Targetpractice is a goodie, but every time I have him over I have to hide the valuables.
//

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:32:21am

re: #310 b.d.

Ha, ok then.

ewwwwwwwwwaaaaahhhhhhhhh!!!

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:32:49am

re: #314 Nyet

I don’t see Biden as a President. At all.

You’d be surprised. Joe Biden comes across as goofy in public, but in debate he strikes like a cobra.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:34:24am

re: #321 Dark_Falcon

You’d be surprised. Joe Biden comes across as goofy in public, but in debate he strikes like a cobra.

I agree there is a lot more there than meets the public eye. He is the author of VAWA —among other credits.

I like him a lot more than I ever thought I would.

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William of Orange Oct 17, 2015 • 6:34:42am

I will be a bit sad if Chuck second amends himself.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 6:34:47am

re: #321 Dark_Falcon

You’d be surprised. Joe Biden comes across as goofy in public, but in debate he strikes like a cobra.

Biden is a political ninja.

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Joe Bacon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:35:16am

Oh, something just tells me that this brief is going to bring out the Judge’s inner Jim Webb on Monday!

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:35:49am

re: #321 Dark_Falcon

You’d be surprised. Joe Biden comes across as goofy in public, but in debate he strikes like a cobra.

On a rational level I understand he’d do the job. But I can’t see it.

Also, I think it’s time for a female President.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:35:57am

I love it! When Feral Girl (part GSD) start “talking to me” and won’t shut-up, I tell her: “If you are going to talk like that you can go to your room” in a normal voice. SHE DOES!!!!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:36:17am

re: #326 Nyet

On a rational level I understand he’d do the job. But I can’t see it.

Also, I think it’s time for a female President.

DING! DING! DING! We have a winner here!!!!!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:37:51am

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Joe Bacon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:38:26am

re: #326 Nyet

On a rational level I understand he’d do the job. But I can’t see it.

Also, I think it’s time for a female President.

I just want to see Karl Rove go into meltdown mode again when Hillary carries Ohio in a landslide. And then Kelly butt bongoes him live on Fox News.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:40:20am

Is Ohio About to Create America’s First ‘Marijuana Monopoly’

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:40:48am

re: #326 Nyet

On a rational level I understand he’d do the job. But I can’t see it.

Also, I think it’s time for a female President.

I’d rather Biden as the nominee as I think he’s a better person than Hillary Clinton. No matter what she does she comes across to me as insincere, overly calculating, and vindictive. That’s just my read, but its sincere.

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Targetpractice Oct 17, 2015 • 6:41:33am

re: #332 Dark_Falcon

I’d rather Biden as the nominee as I think he’s a better person than Hillary Clinton. No matter what she does she comes across to me as insincere, overly calculating, and vindictive. That’s just my read, but its sincere.

So, in other words, she’s a politician.

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 6:41:53am

re: #289 Nyet

If Jeb were smart, he would have written: “Mr. Trump is obviously delusional, everybody knows 9/11 happened on Obama’s watch!”.

//

If Jeb! were smart…

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:42:21am

re: #332 Dark_Falcon

I’d rather Biden as the nominee as I think he’s a better person than Hillary Clinton. No matter what she does she comes across to me as insincere, overly calculating, and vindictive. That’s just my read, but its sincere.

Have you researched her on your own —or are you getting that vibe from what the media presents and your own memories of the Clinton Administration and any personal bias?

Remember that what you described above is a common mis-perception of powerful women.

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:42:29am

re: #330 Joe Bacon

I just want to see Karl Rove go into meltdown mode again when Hillary carries Ohio in a landslide. And then Kelly butt bongoes him live on Fox News.

A. I believe you’re thinking of Dick Morris.

B. That’s not going to happen.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:43:18am

re: #332 Dark_Falcon

I’d rather Biden as the nominee as I think he’s a better person than Hillary Clinton. No matter what she does she comes across to me as insincere, overly calculating, and vindictive. That just my read, but its sincere.

I guess we’ll have the mental images we’ll have. Fair is fair.

The Wire: Tautology Supercut

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:43:32am

re: #336 Dark_Falcon

A. I believe you’re thinking of Dick Morris.

B. That’s not going to happen.

Yes, you are correct. I have a hard time believing that Fox is still using him after his total humiliation after the last election. Then again, his PAC is big bucks for him and probably others.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:45:32am

re: #336 Dark_Falcon

A. I believe you’re thinking of Dick Morris.

B. That’s not going to happen.

Wait, you’ve never seen that Rove meltdown? Google now!

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b.d. Oct 17, 2015 • 6:46:01am

re: #336 Dark_Falcon

A. I believe you’re thinking of Dick Morris.

B. That’s not going to happen.

Rove did have a FoxNews meltdown over Ohio

Fox News, Karl Rove Argue Over The Outcome In Ohio

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:46:37am

99 years strong! #StandWithPP pic.twitter.com/oZC1Sailu2

— Planned Parenthood (@PPIAction) October 17, 2015

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 6:47:29am

re: #336 Dark_Falcon

A. I believe you’re thinking of Dick Morris.

B. That’s not going to happen.

It was Karl Rove who, in 2012 threw a tantrum on live TV when Fox News called Ohio for Obama, and Megyn Kelly who shot him down, IIRC going to the number crunching room and having their experts crush his dreams. On live TV.

It was beautiful.

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:47:54am

re: #338 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Yes, you are correct. I have a hard time believing that Fox is still using him after his total humiliation after the last election. Then again, his PAC is big bucks for him and probably others.

Fox News values Morris’ willingness to beclown himself in order to drive up FNC’s ratings.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:48:12am

Federal Report Calls For End To ‘Conversion Therapy’ For #LGBT Youth http://t.co/UCidLYjDd9 #trans pic.twitter.com/OEgmG7ry8e

— Trans Equality (@TransEquality) October 16, 2015

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b.d. Oct 17, 2015 • 6:49:06am

I had forgotten about the inevitable Romney landslide, thanks for the unskewed memories.

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:49:30am

re: #339 Nyet

re: #340 b.d.

re: #342 Blind Frog Belly White

Oh, I saw it. I just couldn’t locate it in my memory storage until b.d. posted it.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:52:42am

Bush’s brain was a pathetic evil clown. No wonder the Bush presidency was such a failure.

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 6:52:46am

re: #345 b.d.

The best part was that Romney apparently believed it. All the polling aggregators were saying Obama would win comfortably, but the Romney camp had convinced itself that the polls were wrong. The Unskewed Polls guy was just the most visible, and laughable, face of it.

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lawhawk Oct 17, 2015 • 6:55:26am

111 pages for this motion? The judge will have a field day with this. First for the massive waste of time in bringing the suit in the wrong jurisdiction so as to avoid possible anti-SLAPPing. Second because there’s no reason the case should have been brought in the first place (the amount of BS is truly baffling). And third - awful lawyering.

There’s a reason there are page limits in motions such as this. It’s for expediency and efficiency. If you can’t follow the rule?

Let’s take a random page from the nonsensical ravings of his crackerjack legal team:

Finally, the allegation that Johnson, “has been caught lying several times before,” is a verifiable fact, is false, is harmful to Plaintiffs’ business, and was published with “actual malice.” See statement A, Plaintiffs’ ex. 99. Defendant Howard made that statement in his article entitled, “Wait, Did Clowntroll Blogger Chuck Johnson Shit on the Floor One Time?” Howard cannot claim that this fact was “reported” neutrally, since he does not flesh out the allegation, cite to evidence, or link to other articles so that the reader can determine for herself whether the charge was true. Johnson has never lied in his reporting, nor has he been “caught lying.” See Plaintiffs’ Ex. 91. Indeed, a reasonable reader of that statement would have no reason from reading the statement to assume anything other than that it was true. Thus, Defendant Howard acted with actual malice as to that particular false statement. These facts must be taken as true and construed favorably toward the plaintiff in a Motion to Dismiss. Therefore, the Court should deny Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss, as Plaintiffs’ have properly stated a claim for defamation under Missouri Law.

Except that there are verifiable instances where Chucky lied. Indisputable proof of that. It was published as a fact - verifiable. A question is not a statement of fact. It is an assertion, a hypothesis. The story is an examination of the hypothesis.

And there’s 111 pages of this??

What’s particularly rich is that Chucky has used the very methods to write stories he accused Gawker - unsourced assertions and statements made with actual malice - to doxx private individuals.

111 pages of this.

Let this be a lesson to all those budding lawyers out there. This is how not to do a legal filing. Rule 1 - follow the rules on page length. They’re there for your protection as much as it is to force you to get to the damn point. It isn’t meant to recite the facts/circumstances of your case in full so as to piss off the judge and/or clerk who’s got to read this bilge.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 6:55:40am

What first case of sexually transmitted Ebola means for public health http://t.co/DVOIT7XIpz pic.twitter.com/hxp5cPiXgH

— Nature News&Comment (@NatureNews) October 17, 2015

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:56:51am

re: #347 Nyet

Bush’s brain was a pathetic evil clown. No wonder the Bush presidency was such a failure.

Karl Rove notched some big wins last year and he’s doing better now than he did last cycle. He’s gonna give the Democratic nominee a pounding, make no mistake.

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 6:56:51am

re: #335 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Have you researched her on your own —or are you getting that vibe from what the media presents and your own memories of the Clinton Administration and any personal bias?

Remember that what you described above is a common mis-perception of powerful women.

That’s a very important point. The characteristics we prize in a male leader we re-brand as negatives when a woman displays them. “Passionate” becomes “Shrill”. “Forceful” becomes “Bitchy”. “Clever” becomes “Calculating”.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 6:57:43am

Finished reading the John C. Burns tome of a motion. It occurred to me while reading it that they’ve opened themselves up to Gawker examining every clickbait story that has ever appeared on GotNewsDotCom, as well as showing that CCJ uses the same “crowdsourcing the news” model that he says Gawker uses.

IOW, not a good strategy.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 6:58:55am

re: #351 Dark_Falcon

Karl Rove notched some big wins last year and he’s doing better now than he did last cycle. He’s gonna give the Democratic nominee a pounding, make no mistake.

Rotfl.

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 6:59:43am

re: #350 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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It means that the woman in the case is a slut if she got Ebola from anyone other than her husband.

/Huckabee + Santorum (not really kidding)

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 7:00:19am

Neither Served, Nor Protected

Dover Deputy Marshall Steven Payton testified that he detained the Robinsons and their dog in the back of his patrol car, with the intent to take them to jail solely to identify them. When co-defendant Pope County Sheriff’s Department Sergeant Kristopher Stevens arrived on the scene, he ordered Matthew to get out of the car. When Matthew was not able to get out quickly enough, the Pope County sergeant tased him twice inside the car.

Counsel for the officers claim that the incident would have been avoided if Matthew had said who he was or if he had gotten out of the patrol car when they said, maintaining that officers had “no choice” to use the taser.

We disagree. De-escalation is always an option

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 7:00:55am

re: #355 Dark_Falcon

It means that the woman in the case is a slut if she got Ebola from anyone other than her husband.

/Huckabee + Santorum (not really kidding)

I think you are learning!!!

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 7:01:06am

re: #351 Dark_Falcon

Karl Rove notched some big wins last year and he’s doing better now than he did last cycle. He’s gonna give the Democratic nominee a pounding, make no mistake.

I think Karl Rove is yesterday’s news in the GOP. The base HATES him as a RINO and the tool of the ‘EGOP’.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Oct 17, 2015 • 7:01:25am

bbl

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 7:01:53am

re: #349 lawhawk

The reasoning leaves much to be desired.

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Brian J. Oct 17, 2015 • 7:02:48am

re: #358 Blind Frog Belly White

Rove’s candidates are going to struggle to make it to the starting line for statewide races next year. Honestly, who knows which voters will report for Republican primaries this year?

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Amory Blaine Oct 17, 2015 • 7:05:29am

NASA | Jupiter in 4k Ultra HD

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lawhawk Oct 17, 2015 • 7:09:09am

re: #360 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The reasoning leaves much to be desired.

Which could have been done with 111 fewer pages. This just goes to show just how awful that legal team is. That motion is truly a piece of work.

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 7:09:24am

re: #356 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

We disagree. De-escalation is always an option.

That isn’t entirely true. Deescalation does not work if the other party to the dispute wants to escalates it.

To be clear, that other party could be a cop.

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 7:11:45am

re: #346 Dark_Falcon

Oh, I saw it. I just couldn’t locate it in my memory storage until b.d. posted it.

Are you still backing up your memories on tape?

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William of Orange Oct 17, 2015 • 7:15:07am

Howard Kurtz, in a rare moment of sanity, points out the role of Chucky in the eventual pulling out of the Speakers race by Kevin McCarthy and the current state of jounalism. The Genesis of the rumors about an extra - marital affair came from Gotnews. com. Then Erick Erickson ran with it and he didn’t care if the rumors were true, to the amazement of Kurtz.

Not much wrong with the article itself, apart from this line.

And McCarthy admits he hurt himself with his tone-deaf comments about how the Benghazi committee had knocked down Hillary’s poll numbers, making the whole enterprise look political.

Which is not entirely true. It should have been:

And McCarthy admits he hurt himself with his tone-deaf comments about how the Benghazi committee had knocked down Hillary’s poll numbers, ~~making~~ exposing the whole enterprise ~~look~~ to be political.

donotlink.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 7:15:47am

re: #363 lawhawk

Which could have been done with 111 fewer pages. This just goes to show just how awful that legal team is. That motion is truly a piece of work.

I ploughed through it this evening. The logic is seriously lacking, and the arguments against Gawker’s business model will allow defendants to raise the same arguments against GotNewsDotCom’s model. Plus, we’ve got all the clickbait, we’re just asking questions stories CCJ has published. It’s really a poor strategy, IMO.

His case for filing in Missouri also makes no damn sense.

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 7:16:05am

re: #365 darthstar

Are you still backing up your memories on tape?

Remember, every so often you need to rewind and fast forward the tape to insure they’re properly wound onto the reels.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 7:17:42am

re: #368 Blind Frog Belly White

Remember, every so often you need to rewind and fast forward the tape to insure they’re properly wound onto the reels.

This makes me wonder if there even machines around that can read those old data tapes still.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 7:18:28am

re: #367 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I really hope the suit is not dismissed.

Think about the discovery process.

It would be a Chuckmas!

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lawhawk Oct 17, 2015 • 7:19:00am

re: #367 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

To wit:

For the foregoing reasons, Plaintiffs request that the Court deny Defendants’ Motion to Dismiss and Motion to Strike or Dismiss Pursuant to the California Anti-SLAPP Law. Alternatively, should the Court find in favor of Defendants, Plaintiffs pray that this Court grant them leave to file an amended complaint, that the court stay its determination as to Defendants’ Anti-SLAPP motion pending discovery, and that the Court, should it find jurisdiction lacking, transfer the case to a Federal District Court in California, and any other relief this Court deems just and proper.

His crackerjack team at work - offering up the only realistic bit of information in the whole thing. If it’s not dismissed with prejudice outright, transfer it to CA, where Chucky is likely to be anti-SLAPPed out of existence.

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The Ghost of the Beardsman Oct 17, 2015 • 7:21:51am

re: #351 Dark_Falcon

Karl Rove notched some big wins last year and he’s doing better now than he did last cycle. He’s gonna give the Democratic nominee a pounding, make no mistake.

And yet later you will be totally confused as to how your party lost its principles, elects crooks and nuts, and is simmering in a mole of revanchism, bullshitting, and paranoia.

It’s like the parable of the frog and the scorpion, but the frog decided that since it had a scorpion stinging its head, its should find equilibrium by getting a different scorpion to sting its asshole.

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 7:22:56am

re: #372 The Ghost of a Flea

And yet later you will be totally confused as to how your party lost its principles, elects crooks and nuts, and is simmering in a mole of revanchism, bullshitting, and paranoia.

It’s like the parable of the frog and the scorpion, but the frog deciding that since it had a scorpion stinging its head, its should find equilibrium by getting a different scorpion to sting its asshole.

The frog is dead and we are all scorpions now.

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The Ghost of the Beardsman Oct 17, 2015 • 7:26:01am

re: #373 Dark_Falcon

The frog is dead and we are all scorpions now.

…said the double-penetrated frog.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 7:28:19am

For the public record:

Anonymous said…
no, you’re right Charlie, you wouldn’t be arrested for punching someone while drunk. Instead, you’d just poop on 7th floor Stark and run around naked.

MARCH 9, 2011 1:40 PM

claremontconservative.com

Let’s be real… said…
We all know Charles’ favorite bathroom is 7th floor Stark on the floor

APRIL 2, 2011 3:12 AM

claremontconservative.com

The floor shitting rumor (or whatever you want to call it) began on CCJ’s own blog, and were never redacted or removed.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 7:29:23am

re: #373 Dark_Falcon

The frog is dead and we are all scorpions now.

This doesn’t work as a true statement about others, but it does work as an admission. ;)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 7:30:00am

re: #371 lawhawk

To wit:

His crackerjack team at work - offering up the only realistic bit of information in the whole thing. If it’s not dismissed with prejudice outright, transfer it to CA, where Chucky is likely to be anti-SLAPPed out of existence.

Burns is resting on the floor pooping and sheep bonking rumors as falling outside the anti-SLAPP rules.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 7:31:08am

re: #375 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Incidentally, I captured those pages last year, in case they go bye-bye.

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Targetpractice Oct 17, 2015 • 7:35:07am

re: #371 lawhawk

To wit:

His crackerjack team at work - offering up the only realistic bit of information in the whole thing. If it’s not dismissed with prejudice outright, transfer it to CA, where Chucky is likely to be anti-SLAPPed out of existence.

The pain this judge is about to visit upon not just Chucky, but his pro bono bonehead of a lawyer, is gonna legendary even in Hell.

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stpaulbear Oct 17, 2015 • 7:36:04am

re: #141 Joe Bacon

Ok so we had to wait till we got to page 43 to read about the Gawker allegation against Ginger Snapped.

Ah the pooping allegation runs from page 43 to 62, then we get into the sheep thing.

Frankly, I think the whole brief is just a mass of…

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LOL! I remembered that song as soon as I saw the title. I heard it as a little kid, but I can’t remember for the life of me how I first heard it.

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lawhawk Oct 17, 2015 • 7:36:17am

re: #379 Targetpractice

And I can’t wait for GotNews to run that story.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 7:36:52am

re: #380 stpaulbear

LOL. I remembered that song as soon as I saw the title. I heard it as a little kid, but I can’t remember for the life of me how I first heard it.

I heard on our local radio station, when I was a kid.

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 7:39:44am

re: #374 The Ghost of a Flea

…said the double-penetrated frog.

Ooh…double-penetration. Haven’t seen that in a movie in years…wait…a frog? That’s sick!

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Eric The Fruit Bat Oct 17, 2015 • 7:40:42am

re: #129 teleskiguy

It’s amazing-his sole argument for keeping the case in MO is the fact that all of his ‘reporting’ was done for the Ferguson MO riots.

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Targetpractice Oct 17, 2015 • 7:43:22am

You have to take malicious glee in realizing that Chucky has no real grasp of just how fucked he is. The opportunity to bow out with dignity came and went miles back down the road, now he just has to hope he manages to get out of this without getting cornholed by Gawker for his hubris.

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lawhawk Oct 17, 2015 • 7:44:56am

A selection of tweets:

Holy. Fucking. Shit. I officially retire from the legal profession. pic.twitter.com/VvdHedI85T

— Sharia Lawyer (@2dAmMuslim) October 17, 2015

ellllll ohhhhh ellllll pic.twitter.com/f63eIxh1nn

— Adam Weinstein (@AdamWeinstein) October 17, 2015

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lawhawk Oct 17, 2015 • 7:52:49am

The court can has personal jurisdiction.

I move that the plaintiff’s lawyer attended I Can Has Cheezburger skool.

Motion to dismiss because lawyer is a dumbass.
Motion to leave to file papers to send lawyer back to school for remedial English 101.
Motion to amend to fix negligent use of can has.
Motion to dismiss with prejudice: res ipsa loquitur - the papers speak for themselves; Chucky picked a moronic legal team.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Oct 17, 2015 • 7:53:49am

re: #166 Joe Bacon

I saw that and was thinking was he programming this in LOLCAT.

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 7:55:04am

re: #387 lawhawk

I think Chuckie’s reasoning went like this:

1. Sue Gawker for $66,000,000

2. ?

3. PROFIT!!

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Targetpractice Oct 17, 2015 • 7:56:52am

re: #387 lawhawk

The court can has personal jurisdiction.

I move that the plaintiff’s lawyer attended I Can Has Cheezburger skool.

Motion to dismiss because lawyer is a dumbass.
Motion to leave to file papers to send lawyer back to school for remedial English 101.
Motion to amend to fix negligent use of can has.
Motion to dismiss with prejudice: res ipsa loquitur - the papers speak for themselves; Chucky picked a moronic legal team.

I think the judge is gonna spend equal time chewing out Chucky and his lawyer, the former for bringing such a pathetic and frivolous suit out some deluded belief that it would ever be ruled to have merit, and the latter for not only wasting the court’s time but also making an absolute mockery of his profession. If the latter manages to slink away without being sanctioned, I will be deeply surprised.

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 7:58:38am

Something Indiana Jones And Darth Vader Have Kept Secret This Whole Time. http://t.co/mcVs7WbIMu via @tickld

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 17, 2015

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Targetpractice Oct 17, 2015 • 7:59:48am

re: #389 Blind Frog Belly White

I think Chuckie’s reasoning went like this:

Chucky’s “reasoning” is pretty obvious: File suit and name an absolutely ridiculous amount, figuring that Gawker would view it as cheaper just to pay him off. But what he didn’t figure out was that, for a tiny fraction of the asking price, Gawker could rip him a new asshole and slap him with the bill for their defense.

393

Backwoods_Sleuth Oct 17, 2015 • 8:03:56am

LOL!

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Eventual Carrion Oct 17, 2015 • 8:06:18am

re: #46 HappyWarrior

Seems unconstitutional to me. Law is the law isn’t it?

That is my thinking. Activist judge? Guess not since it is what the RWNJ’s want.

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 8:07:35am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL!

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Selling stolen information? Doesn’t he have enough legal troubles?

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WhatEVs Oct 17, 2015 • 8:10:32am

re: #336 Dark_Falcon

A. I believe you’re thinking of Dick Morris.

B. That’s not going to happen.

Nope, it was Rove.

Karl Rove Loses It On Fox News Election Night

Karl Rove’s election night melt-down over Ohio results on Fox News

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WhatEVs Oct 17, 2015 • 8:11:10am

re: #340 b.d.

Shudda kept reading. :-)

398

Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 8:17:38am

Wow. My wingnut cousin has been busy liking crazy-ass Right Wing posts this morning. My FB feed is like a firehose of bullshit.

399

Great White Snark Oct 17, 2015 • 8:17:47am

For those with an interest in the Syrian war and the extremely propagandized media storm from the Russians about their air campaign. New Page. Don’t let the wingnuts or Putin fan boyz strange interpretations of events make you look away. A Better source in ON. littlegreenfootballs.com

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The Ghost of the Beardsman Oct 17, 2015 • 8:17:58am

re: #383 darthstar

Ooh…double-penetration. Haven’t seen that in a movie in years…wait…a frog? That’s sick!

I feel that I write in the spirit of Rabelais, if he’d had an internet connection.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 8:19:16am

Nope! It was the Pope!
Sweeney Todd (3/8) Movie CLIP - Shaving Contest (2007) HD

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Blind Frog Belly White Oct 17, 2015 • 8:19:40am

re: #400 The Ghost of a Flea

I feel that I write in the spirit of Rabelais, if he’d had an internet connection.

Chaucer!

Rabelais!

BALzac!

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 8:22:31am

@thehill @Atrios Well, Trump does have a point…Jeb! really is pretty pathetic. And you’re reporting on a twitter fight. #TodaysGOP

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 17, 2015

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 8:24:36am

re: #400 The Ghost of a Flea

I feel that I write in the spirit of Rabelais, if he’d had an internet connection.

Then not enough scatology. //

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Lidane Oct 17, 2015 • 8:26:12am

No one could have predicted:

Concerned Republicans push Rand Paul to abandon uphill presidential bid http://t.co/yODEDMvWkF pic.twitter.com/bQfylxxvDe

— Talking Points Memo (@TPM) October 17, 2015

Honestly, it’s no surprise that Rand ended up being just as pathetic as his father at being a national candidate. He’ll be gone by the end of the year.

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Joe Bacon Oct 17, 2015 • 8:27:35am

re: #405 Lidane

No one could have predicted:

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Honestly, it’s no surprise that Rand ended up being just as pathetic as his father at being a national candidate. He’ll be gone by the end of the year.

And hopefully he loses his Senate seat as well.

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 8:28:38am

@KagroX Jeb!’s “us” was a reference to Columba and himself and the security detail W. sent to Florida. pic.twitter.com/vJ00hdobcw

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 17, 2015

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Dark_Falcon Oct 17, 2015 • 8:28:54am

re: #406 Joe Bacon

And hopefully he loses his Senate seat as well.

Not likely in a Presidential election year.

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darthstar Oct 17, 2015 • 8:29:58am

re: #408 Dark_Falcon

Not likely in a Presidential election year.

Grimes could beat him if she ran. She came close with McConnell.

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Brian J. Oct 17, 2015 • 8:30:10am

re: #408 Dark_Falcon

Only if ego keeps him in the Presidential race long enough for him to blow the state filing deadline. And he’s already put up $250,000 to move the Kentucky caucuses try to make that happen. It depends on whether her understands the concept of a sunk cost.

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Nyet Oct 17, 2015 • 8:30:55am

re: #407 darthstar

“It depends on what the definition of “us” is.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Oct 17, 2015 • 8:31:17am

GotNwes summation:

BREAKING, ANALYSIS: Chuck Johnson’s lawyer files 111-page response to Gawker dismissal motion

With no further extensions at their disposal, blogger Chuck C. Johnson and ace lawyer John C. “Jonathon” Burns filed a 111-page response in federal court late Friday to Gawker’s motions to dismiss Johnson’s libel/defamation suit.

Should you want to read this groundbreaking tome, it’s available at scribd.com. Fair warning: Make sure you don’t accidentally spray your drink onto your computer. Swallow before reading.

For those less interested in reading it in its entirety, we now present the copyrighted IANAL GotNwes summary of the not-very-brief brief. Comments in square brackets [] are commentary and are not to be taken as legal advice, or even seriously.

FACTS (pp 2-64)

Gawker is a business.

It makes money by selling ads.
It has 64 million readers each month, about 1 million live in Missouri.

It covered events in Missouri.

As did plaintiff.

It was critical of plaintiff’s coverage.

Also the Cardinals.

Chuck C. Johnson Final Deadline Open Thread

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