Right Wing Site IJReview Complains About Attacks on Carson’s Wife, While Commenters Spew Hatred at Michelle Obama

A complete lack of self-awareness
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Right wing “news” site Independent Journal is complaining tonight that anonymous people are being mean to Ben Carson’s wife Candy on the Internet: A Cruel ‘Joke’ About Mrs. Carson Is Making the Rounds… and Not Everyone Is Laughing.

The comments about Carson’s wife’s looks are absolutely not cool, and I will not defend them at all. People who make “memes” like this suck.

However… what these right wingers are complaining about is not even in the same galaxy as the horrendous racist garbage that right wing bloggers and commenters have been spewing at First Lady Michelle Obama for six years.

We’ve documented a lot of this stuff at LGF. But all you have to do to see this incredibly ugly mindset at work is read the comments for this very article at Independent Journal, where the racism and sexism are totally out of control and nobody is moderating any of it.

Some samples from more than 600 comments; all of these comments are referring to Michelle Obama and more than a few are openly racist:

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I also bet there are never going to be questions about whether or not Candy is actually a woman.

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Candace Weeks t would be nice to HAVE a first lady. What we have now is a first tranny.

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She still is ugly as the south end of a north bound baboon.

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you made a mistake by calling Michelle a lady it is a man name Michael.

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Michelle Obama is ugly inside and out

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Has anyone forgotten what Moochelle looked like in 2007??? She has had ALOT OF WORK DONE.

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She’s still looks like a baboon and dresses like a slut

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she looks like a dude in drag.

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I find Candy Carson to be a much more beautiful and genuinely kind and caring person than Michelle Obama! Besides, a woman who loves God has an inner beauty that is far more beautiful than an ungodly and evil woman! All the latest designer clothes, perfectly coiffed hair and professional makeup can’t hide evil, it always shows itself eventually!

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Even though I am an attractive man, I married a woman who was less physically appealing. She was the best thing to happen in my life, by far. I am sure Mrs. Carson is by far a supierior woman than Michelle. It might be because of whom they both hang with.

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Michelle is a classless American hateing cow that was so dishonest she had to give up her law licence before she was disbarred She has done everything in her power to help her illegal husband bring down this country and turn it into another Kenya and liberals have the nerve to talk about Mrs.Carsons looks an cloths good luck with that

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I still think Michelle Obama is a man!

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Me too! I always have, she is so masculine!

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WHEN did Mr.Ed o’vomit become a beautiful woman ? The First Lady looks like the First HORSE Lady !!!!!!!! I can just hear here whinning……Ohhhhhhhh Wilbur ( I mean o’vomit )!!!!

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Michelle obozo= FUGLY.

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Moochelle looks like a bag of smashed ass holes. Probably smells about the same too.

There are hundreds more comments like these. It’s a hate orgy in there. As I’ve said many times, this is the right wing business model.

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403 comments
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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:34:43pm

No self awareness at all, yep they’re Republican’s.

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freetoken  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:36:18pm

The election of 2008 really uncovered the latent racism in pockets of this country.

Every time I hear right winger complain about Obama making “race relations” worse in this country - I now ascribe that to simply being an admission on their part about the closet door being cracked open.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:37:36pm

Appearance-shaming is bad mmkay but
YOU FUCKERS WHO DISRESPECTED FLOTUS FOR 6 FREAKING YEARS CAN SHUT THE FUCK RIGHT UP

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The Ghost of the Beardsman  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:38:26pm

At least once, Dr Carson has pissed off the wingnuts by saying something that wasn’t on-message about race. It would be instructive to go look at how ugly those comments got.

Same crap as always: their bad behavior is always self defense.

My standing opinion that talking shit about a politician’s appeareance is rude and counterproductive—triply so for their spouse or kids—stands.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:38:27pm

re: #3 The Vicious Babushka

Appearance-shaming is bad mmkay but YOU FUCKERS WHO DISRESPECTED FLOTUS FOR 6 FREAKING YEARS CAN SHUT THE FUCK RIGHT UP

Exactly how I feel. If you ever said moochelle or wookie, go to the back of the line and go fuck your self.

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:40:22pm

Self-awareness is not part of the conservative lexicon. Close-mindedness is a feature, not a bug, of the right wing in the United States today.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:40:50pm

I obviously don’t condone the attacks on Mrs. Carson’s appearance either but RWers can stop it with the complaining about shit they always do.

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The Ghost of the Beardsman  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:41:34pm

On the other hand, let’s remember that talking shit about the current FLOTUS manages to get on FOX News and whole articles on wingnut blogs, and they’re getting a froth up over internet memes.

Motes versus beams, jerkwads.

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freetoken  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:41:45pm

Oh, and that site - IJReview - for some reason some news aggregators pretend it’s a news outlet like AP or Reuters or Bloomberg.

These fake news outlets have proliferated so much that I bet some large fraction of the people who use the internet - and that will be most people in America - don’t even know that something with a fancy title like “IJReview” is just another hack political machine.

Another example, The New American is a long time propaganda organ of the JBS, but some people think it’s a news magazine.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:42:26pm
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Mattand  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:42:42pm

Is there any conservative news site that doesn’t deserve to have quotes around the word ‘news’?

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:43:29pm

Remember, the right wing of the Supreme Court of the United States has declared that racism is a thing of the past.

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freetoken  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:47:45pm

re: #11 Mattand

Newspapers and magazines always had owners and editorial boards who had opinions.

The key component of journalism, though, is the idea that the facts of a story - who, what, where, when, etc. - can be objectively determined and reported.

That’s why newspapers had opinion pages, which were supposed to be different-in-kind compared to the “news” part of the papers.

However, today with the noise-machine that has grown out of the innovations of the era I now call the old world wide web - and I don’t really know what to call the current state of our electronic inter-connectedness - the idea that there exists two realms, one of “news” and the other of “opinion”, had disappeared.

I suppose I could chalk this up to some post-modernism creep into our public discourse, but that seems too easy and trite.

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Belafon  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:50:58pm

I was trying to find out what IJ Review was, and came across this line:

Like Upworthy, the site is focused on framing, not reporting.

Because that’s exactly what we need.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:53:05pm

There are a lot of these right wing propaganda sites popping up with seemingly innocuous names lately, because we’re getting close to a presidential election and there are a lot of people they need to hoodwink.

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:58:17pm

Uh…huh?

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:59:34pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

Uh…huh?

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Wife #4? Or is she already “not a 10”

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missliberties  Oct 18, 2015 • 6:59:51pm

re: #1 HappyWarrior

No self awareness at all, yep they’re Republican’s.

They are mean spirited bullies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:00:03pm

re: #16 teleskiguy

He’s sounding like he took insult lessons from Palin…

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:02:29pm

Jenna Jameson wondering aloud what kind of foreign policy The Donald™ would put forth in re: Israel, to me, is fucking disturbing and weird.

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WhatEVs  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:04:10pm

re: #20 teleskiguy

Jenna Jameson wondering aloud what kind of foreign policy The DonaldTM would put forth in re: Israel, to me, is fucking disturbing and weird.

The porn star? That Jenna Jameson?

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:05:11pm

re: #21 WhatEVs

The porn star? That Jenna Jameson?

Yup. #16

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:05:36pm

Brain Bleach

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b_sharp  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:06:23pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

Yup. #16

Her best movie was Zombie Strippers

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:06:49pm

re: #24 b_sharp

Her best movie was Zombie Strippers

You would know, eh?

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b_sharp  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:07:25pm

re: #25 teleskiguy

You would know, eh?

Ehhh…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:07:26pm

Walking Dead tonight, all I can say is…
WOW!

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:07:42pm

GET A JOB, MOOCHER!

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WhatEVs  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:08:43pm

re: #22 teleskiguy

Yup. #16

Weird, definitely.

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Jenner7  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:09:15pm

On the subject of TWD:

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Holy poop! Great TWD episode. I cursed Morgan for letting those wolves go. Yeesh, Morgan! C’mon! These people don’t want to kill, but they want to survive. So, get with it Morgan!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:10:08pm
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Jenner7  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:10:18pm

Talking Dead is great too…

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WhatEVs  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:12:29pm

re: #32 Jenner7

Talking Dead is great too…

That’s Chris Hardwick, right? I love that guy. I don’t watch TWD so I don’t watch his TD show. But he’s awesome.

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missliberties  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:12:33pm

“Wayne Simmons has been arrested after a federal grand jury indicted him on “charges of major fraud against the United States, wire fraud, and making false statements to the government,” including allegedly falsely claiming he worked for the CIA.”

Did any of the Sunday Morning Talking Heads bring up Wayne Simmons arrest? This seems like an important development to me.

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Jenner7  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:14:05pm
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b.d.  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:15:24pm

re: #35 Jenner7

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I sure as hell did

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:21:08pm
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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:26:51pm

As usual, another wingnut with utterly no self awareness==>

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majii  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:28:56pm

Someone’s been making disparaging remarks about Candy Carson? I find this very unlikely since she appears to have been in hiding for most of Ben Carson’s campaign. The pic that Charles has posted here is the first time I’ve seen her. It’s kind of hard to make comments about someone most people have never seen, isn’t it? I think IJR is making stuff up to draw attention to its site.

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gocart mozart  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:30:58pm

Not intended to be a true statement … or is it?

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:35:21pm

re: #32 Jenner7

Talking Dead is great too…

Love it!

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:36:56pm

re: #38 The Vicious Babushka

Brainwashed youth. She’s only 15. *sigh*

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:39:15pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

People keep assuming the worst of the right wing will age out/die off soon, but there are plenty of younguns to fill the void.

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freetoken  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:41:52pm

My sad commentary: People want to be hoodwinked.

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:43:03pm

re: #42 teleskiguy

Brainwashed youth. She’s only 15. *sigh*

Allegedly.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:44:39pm
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TedStriker  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:45:36pm

re: #43 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

People keep assuming the worst of the right wing will age out/die off soon, but there are plenty of younguns to fill the void.

We don’t have to look any further than the likes of CCJ for that, those younger folks that were weaned on RWNJ rotgut such as Rush and Fox News by their parents/grandparents and who have taken to the RWNJ internet outlets like fish to water.

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KGxvi  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:46:45pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

He’s really trying hard to make friends among the federal judiciary isn’t he?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:47:43pm

re: #48 KGxvi

One of these days the hammer is going to fall hard on our boy Chuck.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:48:46pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

Once again, CCJ lies. Wonder if he does post them what will happen to the trial? I can see declaring a mistrial, hauling CCJ’s ass before the judge where he got the vids from and trying the play a neo-Judith Miller, except that instead if jailing him when he fails to disclose who gave him the tapes the judge should just fine him $10,000/day until he does (and/or file charges against CCJ/GotNews for obstruction of justice.)

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BeenHereAwhile  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:50:13pm

Watching “Sherlock Holmes” (1916) on Turner Classic Movies.

Wish TCM would follow this silent movie with the “Mystery Of The Leaping Fish” short (1916).

Staring Douglas Fairbanks, to those unfamiliar, it’s a parody on Sherlock Holmes.

Watch for the Flying Monkey uniform worn by one of cast in this short.

The Mystery of the Leaping Fish.avi

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Jay C  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:55:44pm

re: #51 BeenHereAwhile

Ah yes, good old Coke Ennyday: wonder why we don’t see more like him these days…?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 18, 2015 • 7:59:09pm

There was no “leak from Congress.” If Chuck does have those videos they came from Daleiden.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:10:23pm

re: #48 KGxvi

He’s going to out-crazy Larry Klayman.

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:14:53pm

Umphrey’s McGee: “Dim Sun”

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:14:54pm

As seen over on Balloon Juice:

Strange women lying in ponds and distributing swords as a system of government is starting to sound better every minute.”

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:15:26pm

re: #43 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

People keep assuming the worst of the right wing will age out/die off soon, but there are plenty of younguns to fill the void.

Yep. The youngins may be even worse honestly.

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BeachDem  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:17:01pm

re: #13 freetoken

Newspapers and magazines always had owners and editorial boards who had opinions.

The key component of journalism, though, is the idea that the facts of a story - who, what, where, when, etc. - can be objectively determined and reported.

That’s why newspapers had opinion pages, which were supposed to be different-in-kind compared to the “news” part of the papers.

However, today with the noise-machine that has grown out of the innovations of the era I now call the old world wide web - and I don’t really know what to call the current state of our electronic inter-connectedness - the idea that there exists two realms, one of “news” and the other of “opinion”, had disappeared.

I suppose I could chalk this up to some post-modernism creep into our public discourse, but that seems too easy and trite.

And thus, Luap Dnar gets away with saying things like, “I would say the vast majority of corporations already privately have manuals or work manuals that say that they don’t discriminate in any way. I think that to be a fact.”

No, Rand, you don’t get to think it’s a fact (if you think at all). It either IS or ISN’T.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:18:32pm

re: #57 HappyWarrior

Yep. The youngins may be even worse honestly.

There aren’t as many of them I don’t think.

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:20:48pm

re: #57 HappyWarrior

Yep. The youngins may be even worse honestly.

The true evil of homeschooling rears it’s ugly head.

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The Ghost of the Beardsman  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:22:41pm

re: #13 freetoken

I suppose I could chalk this up to some post-modernism creep into our public discourse, but that seems too easy and trite.

Post-modernism actually provides a framework for describing what you’re talking about, but it didn’t “invent” it. In spite of its boogeyman status as the hippy “nothing means anything, man” philosophy, po-mo actually does a great job of breaking down the gulf between the object and the perception of the object.

Basically, people perceive A to be A because it performs A-ness. Thus something can be sort-of A, or “A, but a crappy version of A“—and furthermore, the criterion of A is A has a subjective component. My understanding of “chair-ness”—what is a chair, what is a “good” chair, what kind of chair I want—might not be exactly the same as yours. That subjectivity creates things like aesthetic distinctions, personal “style,” and—when stretched out to the level of culture—of cultural misunderstandings and biases.

This does not result in nihilism or intellectual Floyd holes. It just means that human communication is filled with nuanced details. Sometimes the listener won’t get the full meaning of the speaker…and most of the time that’s okay, and when it’s not okay, it’s just extra work.

What you see on FOX News and wingnut sites is basically the inverse of the po-mo “A is sort of A” subjectivity: there’s a denial of subjectivity that is intentional and often cynical…A is A, and can only be A exactly as declared by (pick an asshole). The dissolution of the distinction between fact and opinion is intentional. FNC and “news” websites exploit flawed human heuristics: if something looks about like A, we assume it’s actually A. The po-mo framework is just the kid pointing out the Emperor’s New Clothes.

Look at FNC shows: the layout of the set, the wardrobes, the makeup, the camera angles, the reading and the “casual” talk of the announcers, the various tickers and scrolling text…there is a conscious attempt to echo the design pioneered by CNN and HN. It looks like a news show, as an American of a certain age would assess such things (because of culture.) Fox News does “news” like Brian Williams does “truth”: the exterior performance does not guarantee a deeper level of veracity…but the exterior triggers the heuristic “X looks like A, it should be A.”

Yellow Journalism was working the same corner before the Electronic age. FOX News arguably is an alloy of the TV news format and the tabloid rhetoric shit-raking. In your statement, you placed at the center of the concept “news” the premises that it was emotionless and reported events factually: what you’re up against is a conscious construction of news as opinion-that-is-fact.

Earlier I said that subjectivity is normal, and there’s just a communication gap that people can bridge with extra effort…but what if the gap was being widened on purpose? Because that’s what we’re looking at these days. Much like when I try and talk about epistemology, I’m a bit out of my depth, but the rolling transformation of meaning on the US reactionary right is fascinating and spooky. Colbert’s invention of “truthiness” was supposed to be satirical, but it’s actually pretty chilling when you realize it amounts to gouging out the core of the concept of veracity (as understood by everyone except Thulsa Doom and perhaps some really intense Maoists) and replacing it with self-serving subjective impressions while denying that very subjectivism.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:22:54pm

re: #59 Eclectic Cyborg

There aren’t as many of them I don’t think.

True that’s a small saving grace.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:23:35pm

re: #60 William Lewis

The true evil of homeschooling rears it’s ugly head.

Yep expose them to only one kind of thought and that happens.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:24:58pm

A lot of young cons aren’t diehard socons but a lot do buy the crap spread by Ron Paul which is just as dangerous:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:31:24pm

re: #20 teleskiguy

Jenna Jameson wondering aloud what kind of foreign policy The DonaldTM would put forth in re: Israel, to me, is fucking disturbing and weird.

From what I’ve read, Jameson is a savvy businesswoman who realized that her career as a pornstar had an expiry date, and so diversified into being a content provider for others.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:32:23pm

re: #53 Charles Johnson

There was no “leak from Congress.” If Chuck does have those videos they came from Daleiden.

Considering they are best buddies, I’m sure he got the vids from Daleiden. Chuck’s trying to convince his followers that he’s got connections in Congress.

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:34:09pm
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gwangung  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:36:52pm

re: #65 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

From what I’ve read, Jameson is a savvy businesswoman who realized that her career as a pornstar had an expiry date, and so diversified into being a content provider for others.

from what i gather, a number of her fellow co-workers were, as well (and a few decidedly not….but that just means they were typical human beings. No surprise in that).

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Jenner7  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:39:22pm

Our media sucks donkey balls. Here’s another example:

More fiction from the “liberal media”.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:39:29pm

re: #67 teleskiguy

Fun Fact: The Church of Christ, Scientist is a real denomination and in fact the founding group behind The Christian Science Monitor.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:44:06pm

My twitter was hacked AGAIN

WTF

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:44:09pm

More on the Christian Science Church, courtesy of Wikipedia:

Christian Scientists may take an intensive two-week “Primary” class from an authorized Christian Science teacher.[5] Those who wish to become “Journal-listed” (accredited) practitioners, devoting themselves full-time to the practice of healing, must first have Primary class instruction. When they have what the church regards as a record of healing, they may submit their names for publication in the directory of practitioners and teachers in the Christian Science Journal. A practitioner who has been listed for at least three years’ may apply for “Normal” class instruction, given just once every three years.[6][7] Those who receive a certificate are authorized to teach.[8] Both Primary and Normal classes are based on the Bible and the writings of Mary Baker Eddy. The Primary class focuses on the chapter, “Recapitulation” in Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures. This chapter uses the Socratic method of teaching and contains the “Scientific Statement of Being”.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:44:37pm

re: #70 Eclectic Cyborg

Fun Fact: The Church of Christ, Scientist is a real denomination and in fact the founding group behind The Christian Science Monitor.

And the CSM is well respected for the quality of its journalism, quite unlike the Moonie-funded Washington Times.

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:46:13pm

dragonfire1981, I post a tweet from the drummer of The New Mastersounds (I swear that’s all I did!) and I learn things.

This website sucks.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:46:58pm

re: #45 William Lewis

Allegedly.

Indeed. I wouldn’t be surprised if this “young conservative” was really someone from law enforcement trying to reel in a right-of-center pervert or three.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:48:28pm

re: #68 gwangung

from what i gather, a number of her fellow co-workers were, as well (and a few decidedly not….but that just means they were typical human beings. No surprise in that).

Porn is a business. Some aspects and participants are unsavory and unscrupulous. The same could be said for real estate, banking or casino gambling.

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gwangung  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:50:30pm

re: #76 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Porn is a business. Some aspects and participants are unsavory and unscrupulous. The same could be said for real estate, banking or casino gambling.

Actually, some could say the rate of unsavoriness is higher in investment banking….

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:53:17pm

re: #77 gwangung

Actually, some could say the rate of unsavoriness is higher in investment banking….

One is an industry that has fucking people for money, the other is pornography.

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:54:28pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

One is an industry that has fucking people for money, the other is pornography.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 18, 2015 • 8:59:06pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

One is an industry that has fucking people for money, the other is pornography.

Updinged for Truth.

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BeachDem  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:00:46pm

And, to the dismay of the vast Patriot-hating network, the Pats remain undefeated, 5-0.

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:01:06pm

re: #78 HappyWarrior

One is an industry that has fucking people for money, the other is pornography.

Ah yep. One is an honorable job, the other is just banking.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:01:20pm

Just like I’d prefer a marijuana dealer over a tobacco executive. The former knows he’s no saint, the latter will tell you he is. Dunno about you all there’s something to be said about honesty.

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teleskiguy  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:01:35pm

Pirate cat! Pirates of the Caribbean costume

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:01:46pm

re: #81 BeachDem

And, to the dismay of the vast Patriot-hating network, the Pats remain undefeated, 5-0.

Pity. Belacheat must be pleased.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:02:20pm

re: #81 BeachDem

And, to the dismay of the vast Patriot-hating network, the Pats remain undefeated, 5-0.

Hiss.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:03:51pm

re: #85 William Lewis

Pity. Belacheat must be pleased.

How pathetic was it that Brady’s old man was talking trash? I’m sorry but I do not like Tom Brady at all. I had that validated big time when I saw he likes Trump. All that needs to happen now is for Belichick to endorse puppy kicking.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:07:00pm

Just like that Cubs are behind Mets 2-0. Not over yet but they needed to win one in Shea as did Toronto in Kauffman.

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:08:37pm

Not sure why, but this song rather fits my mood tonight. That Leonard Nimoy was drafted into by his daughter was good friends with Suzannah Hoffs is merely a major plus for me right now.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:11:02pm

Night guys. Take it easy and enjoy the rest of the weekend.

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freetoken  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:12:52pm

re: #61 The Ghost of a Flea

Post-modernism actually provides a framework for describing what you’re talking about, but it didn’t “invent” it. In spite of its boogeyman status as the hippy “nothing means anything, man” philosophy, po-mo actually does a great job of breaking down the gulf between the object and the perception of the object.

No True Post-Modernism addresses hippies.

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:13:09pm

re: #89 William Lewis

The link helps…
The Bangles - Going Down To Liverpool

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:15:48pm
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Dark_Falcon  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:23:57pm

re: #93 goddamnedfrank

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WhatEVs  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:31:29pm

re: #71 Stanley Sea Toujours

My twitter was hacked AGAIN

WTF

Do you have any authorizations like this? You may want to end them. I never create a login to Twitter if they want permission to do all this stuff.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:35:43pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:37:41pm

re: #96 WhatEVs

Do you have any authorizations like this? You may want to end them. I never create a login to Twitter if they want permission to do all this stuff.

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Trying to disable those - looking on the twitter settings now.

I reset my chromebook & cleaned up the extentions. bleah. Too late for this shit.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:41:10pm

re: #97 goddamnedfrank

The floor is stained.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:41:33pm

Done. Now we wait another 24 hours to see if it is fer real.

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:46:11pm

re: #71 Stanley Sea Toujours

My twitter was hacked AGAIN

WTF

One small part of the reason I nuked my Twitter account a while ago.

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BeachDem  Oct 18, 2015 • 9:49:07pm

A rather good review of the zombie-eyed granny starver here:

dailykos.com

While Paul Ryan is in Wisconsin mulling over his future, the voices back in Washington tell us that he is young, fresh-faced, charismatic, a serious man, an ideas man, a policy guy, a budget expert, and just plain brilliant. But you don’t need a Mack truck to drive through that façade. Ryan’s words, numbers, and history reveal a fraud and a charlatan. His politics and policies are immaculate deception, a gleaming, shiny veneer concealing the rot underneath.

And that’s the nice part…

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William Lewis  Oct 18, 2015 • 10:06:19pm

re: #102 BeachDem

Paul Ryan is a perfect disciple of Ronald Reagan and almost as evil. He’s young enough yet that I pray he has his Lee Atwater moment and truly repents long before it’s too late to matter as it was with Atwater. I doubt it, knowing humans but as someone who tries to be a Christian, I’ll still pray for his soul.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Oct 18, 2015 • 10:43:27pm

re: #97 goddamnedfrank

You mean. The floor has stains…

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Ace-o-aces  Oct 18, 2015 • 11:10:17pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 18, 2015 • 11:19:05pm

re: #105 Ace-o-aces

Mutual admiration society = DD and CCJ.

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freetoken  Oct 19, 2015 • 12:08:01am

MP3 Audio

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teleskiguy  Oct 19, 2015 • 12:51:12am

Almost looks like player piano paper.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 12:55:04am

re: #108 teleskiguy

Almost looks like player piano paper.

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Missing socks.

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teleskiguy  Oct 19, 2015 • 12:56:20am

Super Mario Bros Medley - Player Piano (Sonya Belousova)

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Decatur Deb  Oct 19, 2015 • 1:34:22am

Morning, All. It’s 0432 where I am, 0332 where my head is. CCJ and the TPGOP is no smarter than when I started for Florida, it seems. Florida Man is real.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 19, 2015 • 2:13:03am

Y’know, technically Chuck is committing perjury in this part of his affidavit:

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 19, 2015 • 2:34:13am

Also, Chuck is still wanted in Mississippi for failure to appear / ignoring a grand jury subpoena into the Attorney General’s investigation about whether he paid Stevie Fielder to lie.

He’d better hope this thing never actually makes it to trial, because if it does between deposing Chuck direct on his past stories, putting Fielder on the stand, and subpoenaing copies of the Mississippi DA’s investigation, Gawker will have quite a bit of ammunition to throw at him court. Chuck may well have exposed himself to criminal perjury charges here.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 2:39:58am

re: #112 goddamnedfrank

It’s a pattern shared by other RWNJs bloggers, such as Dim Jim Hoft. They never retract errors or falsehoods, nor delete articles that have been proved to be factually wrong.

Chuck reported more than a week ago that Reps. Renee Elmers and Kevin McCarthy would both resign their posts. Neither one has.

He still insists that Michael Brown was a murderer, despite the complete lack of evidence.

Quite honestly, if this case does go to court, he and his lawyer have opened up so many lines of attack by defendants that he’ll be sorry he ever filed the complaint in the first place.

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goddamnedfrank  Oct 19, 2015 • 2:46:45am

re: #114 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s a pattern shared by other RWNJs bloggers, such as Dim Jim Hoft. They never retract errors or falsehoods, nor delete articles that have been proved to be factually wrong.

Chuck reported more than a week ago that Reps. Renee Elmers and Kevin McCarthy would both resign their posts. Neither one has.

He still insists that Michael Brown was a murderer, despite the complete lack of evidence.

Quite honestly, if this case does go to court, he and his lawyer have opened up so many lines of attack by defendants that he’ll be sorry he ever filed the complaint in the first place.

That affidavit was just insane on so many levels. I so wish I could be there to see the Judge’s reaction when he reads it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 2:50:03am

re: #115 goddamnedfrank

That affidavit was just insane on so many levels. I so wish I could be there to see the Judge’s reaction when he reads it.

He’ll have to review the other 90 exhibits that precede it first, assuming he even bothers reading stuff that was submitted after the deadline.

Here’s the list: pacermonitor.com

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:04:25am

Deer Judje,

I promis I did not steel the cookies from the cooky jar.

I have never dun bad stuff with animalz.

When that kid at skool said I pooped on the floor, he wuz lyin’.

I alwayz tell the truf.

When I maik mistaks, I alwayz coreks them with a big pink erasr.

Your buddi,
Chucky

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:21:56am

nope…

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Dave In Austin  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:34:35am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:35:05am
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Shiplord Kirel  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:42:22am

Maybe Candace should run for President and hide Ben in the attic.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:47:25am

re: #95 William Lewis

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Someone once told me that Frame heard the Van Halen song and decided to sing it like he was talking to someone standing on the ledge of a tall building.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:54:07am

re: #78 HappyWarrior

One is an industry that has fucking people for money, the other is pornography.

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 19, 2015 • 3:55:51am

re: #99 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Jacques has a long moustache.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 4:33:40am

Oh look a butthurt wingnut==>

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 4:35:36am

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

I am amused by their hashtag RedNationRising, which could just as easily refer to Native Americans or Communists as Republicans.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 4:39:24am

re: #126 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I am amused by their hashtag RedNationRising, which could just as easily refer to Native Americans or Communists as Republicans.

There are plenty of “Moochelle” and other horrible FLOTUS memes at RedNationRising and other wingnut hashtags like tcot, tgdn, lnyhbt, WakeUpAmerica

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Decatur Deb  Oct 19, 2015 • 4:45:19am

Happy Asexual Awareness Week!!

democraticunderground.com

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freetoken  Oct 19, 2015 • 4:49:41am

Red tide rising probably will happen first, at least around here.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 19, 2015 • 4:51:37am

re: #129 freetoken

Red tide rising probably will happen first, at least around here.

We have to deal with red tide and Crimson Tide.

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Jay C  Oct 19, 2015 • 4:53:01am

re: #108 teleskiguy

Almost looks like player piano paper.

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Weird, indeed. Not knowing this was a photo from Pluto, I would have guessed it was a field of snow, with the linear pits resulting from melt subsidence, maybe from windblow (?). Though, it being Pluto after all, I can’t imagine that the surface texture would be at all similar: at least I’m apparently in good company being baffled…

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Joe Bacon  Oct 19, 2015 • 5:27:01am

re: #103 William Lewis

Paul Ryan is a perfect disciple of Ronald Reagan and almost as evil. He’s young enough yet that I pray he has his Lee Atwater moment and truly repents long before it’s too late to matter as it was with Atwater. I doubt it, knowing humans but as someone who tries to be a Christian, I’ll still pray for his soul.

Anyone who forces everyone on his staff to read Atlas Shrugged isn’t worth praying for.

I refuse to pray for a Republican who preys on the poor, the needy and the disadvantaged.

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Joe Bacon  Oct 19, 2015 • 5:29:39am

re: #126 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I am amused by their hashtag RedNationRising, which could just as easily refer to Native Americans or Communists as Republicans.

I remember my Grandparents talking about the Socialist Party when it was headed by Debs and Thomas. Active Socialist Party organizations were all over the country before World War 1. One of their papers was called, “Red Nation Rising”!

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 5:32:58am

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

Oh look a butthurt wingnut==>

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I don’t see how someone is being butthurt if they reply that they were not part of the out-of-bounds attacks on Michelle Obama. Some of the zingers aimed at Candy Carson have crossed the line into fat shaming, and it is not being butthurt to say so.

By the same token, VB, you are not to be blamed for the attacks on Mrs. Carson as you have not voiced them nor aided them.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 5:38:42am

re: #134 Dark_Falcon

I don’t see how someone is being butthurt if they reply that they were not part of the out-of-bounds attacks on Michelle Obama. Some of the zingers aimed at Candy Carson have crossed the line into fat shaming, and it is not being butthurt to say so.

By the same token, VB, you are not to be blamed for the attacks on Mrs. Carson as you have not voiced them nor aided them.

Just wait until wingnuts get hold of some pictures of Jane Sanders.

That is one reason I would like to see Hillary become POTUS, the fun of Bill being “First Gent”

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 5:47:28am

re: #112 goddamnedfrank

Y’know, technically Chuck is committing perjury in this part of his affidavit:

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Actual perjury. Not just technically. There’s numerous documented cases of him making assertions as fact, only to be proven wrong. Michael Brown case comes to mind. Ebola “coverage” as well. Come to think of it, it’s pretty much anything he’s ever posted online that skirts the line from lie to smear.

Yet he kept repeating the same nonsensical ravings as fact.

No retractions.

No corrections.

Nothing.

So yeah, that’s perjury. Lying under oath to a court of law.

It’s there for the taking.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 5:48:50am

re: #136 lawhawk

Actual perjury. Not just technically. There’s numerous documented cases of him making assertions as fact, only to be proven wrong. Michael Brown case comes to mind. Ebola “coverage” as well. Come to think of it, it’s pretty much anything he’s ever posted online that skirts the line from lie to smear.

Yet he kept repeating the same nonsensical ravings as fact.

No retractions.

No corrections.

Nothing.

So yeah, that’s perjury. Lying under oath to a court of law.

It’s there for the taking.

If he lies under oath, but believes he is telling the truth (because he’s psychotic) is it legally perjury?

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:02:31am

re: #137 The Vicious Babushka

Good question. In this kind of instance, he’ll likely rely on “good faith belief” that what he was told was factually accurate, even though it was voices in his head or white supremacists or other groups who have a track record of lying/smearing.

While there’s federal law on perjury - submitting certain documents require an affirmation that includes a penalty of perjury, 28 USC 1746 (18 USC 1621 identifies the penalty), the issue would likely come up as a FRCP Rule 11(b) violation, relating to filings and motion practice in federal courts.

(b) Representations to the Court. By presenting to the court a pleading, written motion, or other paper—whether by signing, filing, submitting, or later advocating it—an attorney or unrepresented party certifies that to the best of the person’s knowledge, information, and belief, formed after an inquiry reasonable under the circumstances:

(1) it is not being presented for any improper purpose, such as to harass, cause unnecessary delay, or needlessly increase the cost of litigation;

(2) the claims, defenses, and other legal contentions are warranted by existing law or by a nonfrivolous argument for extending, modifying, or reversing existing law or for establishing new law;

(3) the factual contentions have evidentiary support or, if specifically so identified, will likely have evidentiary support after a reasonable opportunity for further investigation or discovery; and

(4) the denials of factual contentions are warranted on the evidence or, if specifically so identified, are reasonably based on belief or a lack of information.

If any of the aforementioned are not met, sanctions could be imposed against the law firm and lawyer.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:08:43am

I don’t know if any of you have been watching the TV Minority Report, but here’s something amusing from the latest episode.

Obama dollars!
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:13:58am

re: #136 lawhawk

Actual perjury. Not just technically. There’s numerous documented cases of him making assertions as fact, only to be proven wrong. Michael Brown case comes to mind. Ebola “coverage” as well. Come to think of it, it’s pretty much anything he’s ever posted online that skirts the line from lie to smear.

Yet he kept repeating the same nonsensical ravings as fact.

No retractions.

No corrections.

Nothing.

So yeah, that’s perjury. Lying under oath to a court of law.

It’s there for the taking.

I have not done an exhaustive search of his website, but I can’t recall any retraction or correction for any story whatsoever.

Incidentally, a text version of this affidavit is at GotNwes now.

ADDENDUM: I just remembered. He did correct the ethnic background of the wife of the addictinginfo.org guy.

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makeitstop  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:14:32am

re: #139 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I don’t know if any of you have been watching the TV Minority Report, but here’s something amusing from the latest episode.

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I’ll bet you could get Dim Jim to bite on a bogus story involving those….

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:16:07am

re: #141 makeitstop

I’ll bet you could get Dim Jim to bite on a bogus story involving those….

Mwuhahahaha!

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Doofus  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:16:34am

Why is there a clinic dedicated to Mayonnaise?

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:27:01am

re: #143 Doofus

Why is there a clinic dedicated to Mayonnaise?

Because the surgeons at that clinic aren’t into Miracles?

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:28:45am

re: #136 lawhawk

To clarify - it’s not just that he posted stuff that was wrong. He posted stuff knowing that it was wrong, or had reason to know it was wrong, or once that it was identified as wrong, he refused to correct or retract.

That’s the crux of the matter. He knew or had reason to know his statements were factually incorrect, and did nothing to correct them.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:32:34am

re: #141 makeitstop

I’ll bet you could get Dim Jim to bite on a bogus story involving those….

It would be very easy, since extant $500 dollar bills feature a portrait of President William McKinley. So replacing an image of a Republican with that of a Democrat = “OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!!1”.

It wouldn’t trigger a full-on meltdown because Hoft would have one consolation: Depicting Barack Obama as being on currency at that future date means in that fiction universe he has died by that time, since US law does not allow the depiction of living persons on the currency.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:40:36am

Let’s see if anyone bites.

BREAKING, EXCLUSIVE: Our sources at the Treasury Dept. reveal proposed “Obama dollars”

GotNwes’ sources at the Treasury Department have shared an exclusive image of the proposed “Obama dollars” planned to be unveiled after the 2016 presidential elections.
No other presidents will be pictured on the proposed bills. Only Obama’s image will appear. Additionally, each denomination will be a different color.

In that, the proposed bills resemble those of the People’s Republic of China, which only depict the Communist leader Mao Zedong and are also printed in different colors for each denomination.

More at GotNwes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:41:13am

I think this has to do with New Hampshire Right to Life v HHS.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:42:14am

re: #147 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Let’s see if anyone bites.

More at GotNwes.

Haha.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:42:43am

You should try also Obama to rename Reagan National Airport after himself.

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andres  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:43:04am

re: #146 Dark_Falcon

It would be very easy, since extant $500 dollar bills feature a portrait of President William McKinley. So replacing an image of a Republican with that of a Democrat = “OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!!1”.

It wouldn’t trigger a full-on meltdown because Hoft would have one consolation: Depicting Barack Obama as being on currency at that future date means in that fiction universe he has died by that time, since US law does not allow the depiction of living persons on the currency.

You know how sneaky Obama is. He might change the law to put his face on all dollar bills while he’s dictator for life!!!!111

/-Half

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:43:50am

If only there was a good young’un with a gun to stop the bad one with a gun. Boy, 6, kills his brother, 3, while playing with guns in a Chicago area home.

Moments earlier, a judge ordered Michael Santiago, 25, held on $75,000 bail on child endangerment charges stemming from the shooting Saturday night in the family’s home in Humboldt Park.

The boys had been playing in the home in the 1000 block of North Francisco Avenue around 9 p.m. when the 6-year-old saw the handgun atop a refrigerator, took it and fired it in the direction of his brother, Eian Santiago, hitting him in the head, police said.

Santiago, a manager at a Papa Ray’s Pizza restaurant, was at work and his girlfriend, the victim’s mother, was with her 1-year-old child getting milk from a store. Hector Salgado was at the home and heard the gunshot, authorities said.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:44:06am

Everyone knows that Obama will name himself dictator for life and Bill Ayers as his heir.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:44:52am

re: #152 lawhawk

If only there was a good young’un with a gun to stop the bad one with a gun. Boy, 6, kills his brother, 3, while playing with guns in a Chicago area home.

Tragic. Heard about this one. Gun on top of the fridge. What the fuck was he thinking?

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:51:16am

re: #154 HappyWarrior

Tragic. Heard about this one. Gun on top of the fridge. What the fuck was he thinking?

From the article:

Michael Santiago told police he was a former member of the Spanish Cobras gang and that he had bought the gun from another gang member for protection after Santiago was a witness in a murder trial.

“The gun was purchased off the street. It was kept loaded, and it was wrapped in pajama pants on top of the refrigerator,” Assistant State’s Attorney Joseph DiBella said. “The defendant previously showed the 6-year-old where the gun was kept, and in a videotape statement the defendant said he kept the gun for protection because he was a former gang member who snitched on a gang member in a murder trial.

“About a week prior to the shooting, he showed his older son where he kept the gun. … (Santiago) took the gun from on top of the refrigerator, unwrapped the pajama pants and explained to the 6-year-old that the gun was only to be used by adults,” DiBella said.

DiBella said Santiago put the firearm back on top of the refrigerator. Court records show the gun was a .32-caliber Smith & Wesson revolver. Authorities said Santiago does not have a firearm owner’s identification card or concealed carry license.

Critical points: The gun in question was not legally owned and Michael Santiago had not had any training on it, which would have explained to him what “safe storage” means.

Result: Another fucked up gang-related death in a city that has seen too many of them.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:53:52am
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:56:21am

re: #155 Dark_Falcon

From the article:

Critical points: The gun in question was not legally owned and Michael Santiago had not had any training on it, which would have explained to him what “safe storage” means.

Result: Another fucked up gang-related death in a city that has seen too many of them.

Doesn’t answer why he thought it was a good idea to put it on top of the fridge. I also don’t’ give a shit about the legality of the gun.Makes no difference with the little boy being dead. There’s too many damn cases like these regardless of the gun’s legality.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:56:34am

re: #156 Charles Johnson

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Jared Taylor’s outfit right?

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:57:25am

Math is hard. Facts are harder.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:59:10am

re: #157 HappyWarrior

Doesn’t answer why he thought it was a good idea to put it on top of the fridge. I also don’t’ give a shit about the legality of the gun.Makes no difference with the little boy being dead. There’s too many damn cases like these regardless of the gun’s legality.

The legality of the gun and the method by which it was acquired do matter, because a death like this one causes some people to push for new laws regarding guns. And to find out if a proposed new law is viable or wise, one needs to examine the sort of incident it is designed to prevent and then see if it would have prevented said incident.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 6:59:51am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

Math is hard. Facts are harder.

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It was closer to 50%.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:00:20am

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

The legality of the gun and the method by which it was acquired do matter, because a death like this one causes some people to push for new laws regarding guns. And to find out if a proposed new law is viable or wise, one needs to examine the sort of incident it is designed to prevent and then see if it would have prevented said incident.

[DanaLoesch]HURR HURR TEH GUN WAS ALREADY ILLEAGLE!!!!![/DanaLoesch]

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:00:53am

re: #161 HappyWarrior

It was closer to 50%.

MATH FACT: Cutting taxes does not increase tax revenue.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:01:19am

The gun probably started out as a legal purchase from some place like Don’s Guns in Indy.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:01:59am

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

The legality of the gun and the method by which it was acquired do matter, because a death like this one causes some people to push for new laws regarding guns. And to find out if a proposed new law is viable or wise, one needs to examine the sort of incident it is designed to prevent and then see if it would have prevented said incident.

And what of the many incidents like this that do involve a legal gun? Goddamnit man, try to imagine this case as victim’s family member rather than someone who has vested interest in opposing gun regulations. Its’ snot my fault that so many gun owners are morons.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:02:28am

re: #163 The Vicious Babushka

MATH FACT: Cutting taxes does not increase tax revenue.

Obviously.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:04:16am

re: #164 Barefoot Grin

The gun probably started out as a legal purchase from some place like Don’s Guns in Indy.

I’m sure it did. My point is these incidents happen way too often in this country regardless of legality and it’s too bad that teh gun being illegal will allow the gun lobby to just go “Well it was illegal, so it doesn’t matter.” Think that matters to the dead kid’s family?

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Charles Johnson  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:05:05am

re: #158 HappyWarrior

Jared Taylor’s outfit right?

splcenter.org

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:06:17am

re: #168 Charles Johnson

splcenter.org

Thanks. Their HQ isn’t too far from here. I know Oakton fairly well. Really fucked up to think that this organization exists in a part of the country so culturally diverse.

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Timothy Watson  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:06:23am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

Math is hard. Facts are harder.

And the federal debt tripled under Ronnie Raygun.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:07:01am

re: #170 Timothy Watson

And the federal debt tripled under Ronnie Raygun.

That’s because Tip O’Neill got Ronnie drunk one night on whiskey and double dog dared him to do it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:07:29am

re: #170 Timothy Watson

And the federal debt tripled under Ronnie Raygun.

But deficits don’t matter to a GOPOTUS

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:07:38am

re: #167 HappyWarrior

I’m sure it did. My point is these incidents happen way too often in this country regardless of legality and it’s too bad that teh gun being illegal will allow the gun lobby to just go “Well it was illegal, so it doesn’t matter.” Think that matters to the dead kid’s family?

Yes, that’s kind of my point, too. The way the illegal/legal issue is framed by guns-rights folks makes it seem as if there are underground workshops turning weapons out for gangsters and other criminals. It’s a dodge meant to stop efforts to truly make guns hard to obtain.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:08:07am

re: #170 Timothy Watson

And the federal debt tripled under Ronnie Raygun.

And he raised the debt ceiling 11 times

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:09:32am

Ronnie raised the debt ceiling 18 times, my bad.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:09:39am

re: #173 Barefoot Grin

Yes, that’s kind of my point, too. The way the illegal/legal issue is framed by guns-rights folks makes it seem as if there are underground workshops turning weapons out for gangsters and other criminals. It’s a dodge meant to stop efforts to truly make guns hard to obtain.

Yep. They also love to point out that gun crime is prevalent in states like New York and Illinois that have stricter gun laws than say my state of Virginia but it ignores that those criminals are buying the guns legally in a state like Virginia. And that’s not mentioning that the deep South which has lax gun laws has some of the highest rates of gun related violence in the country. You’re right. It ain’t nothing btu a dodge. Plus it’s not like our states are so massive where you can’t go from one to another. I could get in a car and be in New York for a late lunch if I left right now.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:09:59am

re: #175 The Vicious Babushka

Ronnie raised the debt ceiling 18 times, my bad.

What’s seven more times between friends? //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:11:26am
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:12:05am

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Whoops.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:12:39am

re: #178 Backwoods_Sleuth

OK. That sounds like a plot from some TV murder mystery.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:13:46am

re: #180 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

OK. That sounds like a plot from some TV murder mystery.

There’s actually an assassination a little like that in the game Hitman: Blood Money. The target is an opera singer. His character gets shot by a firing squad so you can switch out the prop pistol for a real one.

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Timothy Watson  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:14:12am

re: #180 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

OK. That sounds like a plot from some TV murder mystery.

Or the production of the film The Crow.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:14:41am

re: #176 HappyWarrior

On a per capita basis (crimes per 100k or fatalities per 100k), it’s clearly safer to live in NY than in VA (or most of the Southern or West Coast states).

If you drill down by county, you’d see something similar, but the state rates show that state-level firearms laws do play a role. Gun running between states with lax laws and those with stronger laws affects outcomes as well. So, while IL and Chicago have stronger laws, neighboring states and those down into the Deep South have lax laws, which means guns are run up to Chicago. Similarly, NYC metro sees lots of guns sourced from VA, the Carolinas, and Alabama.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:15:32am

re: #183 lawhawk

On a per capita basis (crimes per 100k or fatalities per 100k), it’s clearly safer to live in NY than in VA (or most of the Southern or West Coast states).

If you drill down by county, you’d see something similar, but the state rates show that state-level firearms laws do play a role. Gun running between states with lax laws and those with stronger laws affects outcomes as well. So, while IL and Chicago have stronger laws, neighboring states and those down into the Deep South have lax laws, which means guns are run up to Chicago. Similarly, NYC metro sees lots of guns sourced from VA, the Carolinas, and Alabama.

Yeah NYC’s danger is far overblown. I’ve never felt unsafe there honestly.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:18:24am

re: #184 HappyWarrior

I lived in NYC for most of my life - including the ragged 1970s and 1980s. We had our Summer of Sam, Bronx is Burning, and years where murders approached 2,000 or more. Now? 350 homicides is seen as a spike. Crime overall is down.

NYC is far safer than most other places in the country, though there are pockets where crime is far higher than state or even city averages.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:18:27am

When Trump gets done destroying Jeb! I am looking forward to watching him Hulk smash Ted Cruz.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:19:48am

re: #185 lawhawk

I lived in NYC for most of my life - including the ragged 1970s and 1980s. We had our Summer of Sam, Bronx is Burning, and years where murders approached 2,000 or more. Now? 350 homicides is seen as a spike. Crime overall is down.

NYC is far safer than most other places in the country, though there are pockets where crime is far higher than state or even city averages.

Well with a city so large, there’s bound to be extreme points one way or another. But to go from 2000 homicides to 350 in a bad year is quite impressive especially considering the city’s growth in that time.

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Timothy Watson  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:19:55am

re: #185 lawhawk

I lived in NYC for most of my life - including the ragged 1970s and 1980s. We had our Summer of Sam, Bronx is Burning, and years where murders approached 2,000 or more. Now? 350 homicides is seen as a spike. Crime overall is down.

NYC is far safer than most other places in the country, though there are pockets where crime is far higher than state or even city averages.

Republicans have no understanding of statistics and the different between gross numbers and percentages and rates.

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iossarian  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:20:31am

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

The legality of the gun and the method by which it was acquired do matter, because a death like this one causes some people to push for new laws regarding guns. And to find out if a proposed new law is viable or wise, one needs to examine the sort of incident it is designed to prevent and then see if it would have prevented said incident.

OK, then let’s look at gun laws in different countries and see whether they prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Oh, look, they do.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:20:35am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

When Trump gets done destroying Jeb! I am looking forward to watching him Hulk smash Ted Cruz.

That’s going to be fun. Wonder what he goes after Cruz for. They’ve been pretty buddy bud so far but that will change.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:20:48am

re: #185 lawhawk

I lived in NYC for most of my life - including the ragged 1970s and 1980s. We had our Summer of Sam, Bronx is Burning, and years where murders approached 2,000 or more. Now? 350 homicides is seen as a spike. Crime overall is down.

NYC is far safer than most other places in the country, though there are pockets where crime is far higher than state or even city averages.

HURR HURR CITIES RUNNED BY TEH DEMOCRATS IS ALL TEH FAIL!!!!!

Oh wait…

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:21:27am

re: #189 iossarian

OK, then let’s look at gun laws in different countries and see whether they prevent this kind of thing from happening.

Oh, look, they do.

No kidding. These kind of things are very very rare in the UK where my cousins live. And that’s with creeping Shariah. //

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:22:18am

re: #181 HappyWarrior

There’s actually an assassination a little like that in the game Hitman: Blood Money. The target is an opera singer. His character gets shot by a firing squad so you can switch out the prop pistol for a real one.

In the game the pistol is an C96 Mauser pistol, which we will see again on the big screen in VISMOD form in December.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:22:48am

proof!!11!! here is file foto!!11!!

But Shkreli’s “broken wrist” is probably just one petulant cry for attention. As noted by Twitter user Mike Leeman, who used the power of reverse image search to expose yet another layer of pharma sliminess, it’s looking highly likely that the x-ray posted by Shkreli is actually a stock image photo of a fractured wrist.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:23:10am

re: #193 Dark_Falcon

In the game the pistol is an C96 Mauser pistol, which we will see again on the big screen in VISMOD form in December.

Nerd.//

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:24:22am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

proof!!11!! here is file foto!!11!!

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Might want to check the University of Iowa too. // But man this guy just looks and acts like a world class jerk. Kids, this is why you don’t read Atlas Shrugged, drink, and beg a candidate to take your money.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:25:21am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

When Trump gets done destroying Jeb! I am looking forward to watching him Hulk smash Ted Cruz.

That assumes Trump can do that, which I don’t think he’ll be able to do.

His attempt make George W. the “monkey” on Jeb’s back hasn’t proved the haymaker Trump thought it would, thanks in large part to Jeb’s “He ain’t heavy, sir, he’s my brother.” reply.

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iossarian  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:26:11am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think Shkreli has serious issues. He seems to be pretty shaken up by the fact that everyone thinks he’s a dick, which you would not typically expect from someone who’s acted the way he has.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:26:22am

So easy when you have a broken wrist

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:27:50am

re: #198 iossarian

I think Shkreli has serious issues. He seems to be pretty shaken up by the fact that everyone thinks he’s a dick, which you would not typically expect from someone who’s acted the way he has.

He reminds me of a saying about there being a lot of egomaniacs out there with low self esteem.

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Whack-A-Mole  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:27:53am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

I doubt he will. I think he’s planning on Cruz as a running mate to shore up his connection to the evangelical voters.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:28:24am

Friendly reminder:

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:28:32am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

proof!!11!! here is file foto!!11!!

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Whether is it true or not that Martin Shkreli broke his wrist punching a wall, my only reply is “Play stupid games, win stupid prizes.”

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It's on his hat!  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:30:05am

So we can add “compulsive liar” to the list of Shkreli’s personality defects.

That doesn’t really change my opinion of him.

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iossarian  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:30:08am

re: #200 HappyWarrior

He reminds me of a saying about there being a lot of egomaniacs out there with low self esteem.

It makes sense from an armchair psychologist standpoint. He’s desperate to make a ton of money because he thinks it will lead to love and admiration (hence the “look-at-me” excessive consumption tweets). Now disconsolate because the effect has been the opposite.

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Dark_Falcon  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:30:10am

Martin Shkreli is the Chucky C. Johnson of patent trolls.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:30:17am

re: #202 lawhawk

Friendly reminder:

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LOL!

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:30:21am

re: #201 Whack-A-Mole

I doubt he will. I think he’s planning on Cruz as a running mate to shore up his connection to the evangelical voters.

Not Dr. Carson?

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:31:06am

re: #201 Whack-A-Mole

I doubt he will. I think he’s planning on Cruz as a running mate to shore up his connection to the evangelical voters.

That does seem a good point and I think Cruz knows that too which is why Cruz hasn’t condemned any of Donald’s fucked up attacks. Honestly, I think Donald’s one on W has been the most mild. I get that Jeb is defending his brother and having two brothers myself, I understand fraternal dynamics quite well- I one time pulled off a kid that shoved my younger brother on a waterslide and I always defended him when he got called a troublemaker in school but this was a terrorist attack and Jeb knows full well that he himself would not be so charitable if the attacks had happened on a Democrat or even another Republican’s watch. Going “my brother kept us safe” when Trump can point to 3000 dead Americans just makes him look like a hack. It will win him points though at the next Bush family reunion I guess but with voters, I don’t know. As I got at, I don’t blame W for 9/11 but I find Jeb’s just saying “My brother kept us safe” to be a really lame ass defense.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:31:08am

I was listening to NPR this morning on my way to work when the news turned to the Prestonwood Forum in Texas yesterday. Cruz with his “if my father hadn’t found god I might have been raised by a single mother” line clearly meant to do double duty as a dig at Obama. I wanted to drive into a tree.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:32:14am

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

Not Dr. Carson?

Cruz I tink is more likely. I don’t see anyway the GOP goes with a ticket hat has no elected experience at all but then again these two are both the frontrunners which I never would have gusesed.

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Whack-A-Mole  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:32:33am

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

No, I think he’s counting on Carson flaming out without any help from him. All things considered, it’s a pretty good bet.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:33:58am

Steve Crowder is such a racist POS

Click to Reveal
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:33:59am

re: #210 Barefoot Grin

I was listening to NPR this morning on my way to work when the news turned to the Prestonwood Forum in Texas yesterday. Cruz with his “if my father hadn’t found god I might have been raised by a single mother” line clearly meant to do double duty as a dig at Obama. I wanted to drive into a tree.

He really is a pathetic troll. Rafael Cruz would have been better off staying a Marxist but then again considering how he is as an evangelical, he probably was that obnxious Marxist type that yo uall meet in college.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:35:57am

re: #214 HappyWarrior

He really is a pathetic troll. Rafael Cruz would have been better off staying a Marxist but then again considering how he is as an evangelical, he probably was that obnxious Marxist type that yo uall meet in college.

It was disconcerting to hear how many people there saw him as some kind of political savior, but then I remembered the location of the event.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:36:14am

re: #213 The Vicious Babushka

I’m not looking, but how would he even know? I doubt he speaks any other language besides American™.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:36:33am
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:37:12am

I think one of the best moments I’ve seen from Obama the man was when Bristol Palin’s pregnancy became news. Obama pointed out that he himself was the son of a teenager mother and offered Bristol all the support. I think that’s why Bristol Palin especially attacking Obama pisses me of so much. Obama did not have to do that. And we know if Sasha or Malia were that age and became pregnant, the parenting skills of President and Mrs. Obama would certainly have been attacked.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:37:18am

Wingnuts actually believe the 18 Trillion debt was caused by Michelle’s vacations.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:37:51am

re: #215 Barefoot Grin

It was disconcerting to hear how many people there saw him as some kind of political savior, but then I remembered the location of the event.

That does scare me but yeah you do have to remember the event. Cruz is a power hungry asshole, nothing more, nothing less.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:38:34am

re: #219 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts actually believe the 18 Trillion debt was caused by Michelle’s vacations.

and the garden!

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:38:38am

re: #219 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts actually believe the 18 Trillion debt was caused by Michelle’s vacations.

And did you hear how here mother treated the Chinese staff in the Chinese hotel in China!?

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b.d.  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:38:42am

re: #219 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts actually believe the 18 Trillion debt was caused by Michelle’s vacations.

THAT ONE TRIP TO INDIA ALONE COST OVER $200 MILLION A DAY!!

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:39:22am

Newly licensed concealed carrier shoots own leg in Kansas theater

Police in Salina, Kansas are investigating an accidental shooting in a movie theater that took place when a newly licensed gun carrier shot himself in the leg.

According to KWCH Channel 12, the gun went off about 45 minutes into a Friday night feature at Salina’s Central Mall theater.

[…]

Kansas’ concealed carry laws changed July 1, making it legal for citizens with permits to carry guns anywhere they like.

Once again the NRA cultists/ammosexuals are debunked: More armed people is not a safer society. It’s a society where untrained people who have no business carrying around firearms are a danger to themselves and others.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:42:27am
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:42:27am

re: #224 Dr. Matt

Newly licensed concealed carrier shoots own leg in Kansas theater

Once again the NRA cultists/ammosexuals are debunked: More armed people is not a safer society. It’s a society where untrained people who have no business carrying around firearms are a danger to themselves and others.

That’s what I was getting at earlier. These incidents- thankfully this guy wasn’t killed often than not involve “responsible gun owners” who are not breaking any law. I really don’t get why you feel the need for a concealed weapon in a movie theater of all places. A movie theater is already cramped as is. That’s why even without the pressure why I oppose guns on planes. I know how big a pain in the neck it is to get my kindle or my iPod out of my carry on so why a gun would be better astounds me.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:42:52am

re: #224 Dr. Matt

Newly licensed concealed carrier shoots own leg in Kansas theater

I Just F*cking Shot Myself - The Musical (Language NSFW):

I Just Fucking Shot Myself - The Musical

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:43:10am

re: #217 The Vicious Babushka

This is mesmerizing - the debt clock. It incorporates not only the national debt, but annual deficits (which you’ll notice are actually declining - running backwards).

But those who think deficits matter hold Obama responsible for all debts, even those that existed before he took office. The first budget for which he was responsible was the 2009-2010 budget year (Oct 1 - September 30). That happened to coincide with trying to get out of the recession.

treasurydirect.gov

Facts and statistics and logic don’t matter to these people. And they don’t care about debts if accumulated under a GOPer.

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Whack-A-Mole  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:43:31am

re: #209 HappyWarrior

He really doesn’t have a choice but to defend his brother. Jeb has benefited immensely politically based on the family name but it’s a double edged sword. That name has 12 years of presidential legacy connected to it, 8 of them under his brother that were (let’s be kind here) not very good years.

If he doesn’t defend his brother, he runs the risk of alienating all those people who have supported and worked with the family throughout the decades of the family’s political careers, across many states and every level of government (plus, of course, making Christmas get-togethers really uncomfortable).

If he does defend his brother, well, the attacks write themselves.

This was actually a pretty shrewd move by Trump. I wonder if it was an accident…

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:46:05am

re: #229 Whack-A-Mole

He really doesn’t have a choice but to defend his brother. Jeb has benefited immensely politically based on the family name but ti’s a double edged sword. That name gives 12 has 12 years of presidential legacy connected to it, 8 of them under his brother that were (let’s be kind here) not very good years.

If he doesn’t defend his brother, he runs the risk of alienating all those people who have supported and worked with the family throughout the decades of the family’s political careers, across many states and every level of government (plus, of course, making Christmas get-togethers really uncomfortable).

If he does defend his brother, well, the attacks write themselves.

This was actually a pretty shrewd move by Trump. I wonder if it was an accident…

Good points all around.

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Joe Bacon  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:51:36am

re: #227 Dr. Matt

I Just F*cking Shot Myself - The Musical (Language NSFW):

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A Darwin Awards musical number. Whodathunkit?????

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 7:55:32am

I think Jeb is totally disorientated though. Twice I’ve seen him go on about how the Redskins name isn’t offensive. I think he is astounded about how difficult htis has been.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:00:16am

Steve Crowder advertises for a dwarf. He must think they are for rent or something.

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Whack-A-Mole  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:01:30am

re: #232 HappyWarrior

Someone should ask him if his wife would find the name brownskin offensive (which of course it would be, because it would be a vile thing to say).

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:02:17am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

Steve Crowder advertises for a dwarf. He must think they are for rent or something.

Crowder should know how to find actors. Isn’t he in the business?

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:02:40am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

Steve Crowder advertises for a dwarf. He must think they are for rent or something.

James O’Keefe isn’t available?

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:02:50am

re: #235 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Crowder should know how to find actors. Isn’t he in the business?

He’s a wannabee.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:03:20am

re: #236 Dr. Matt

James O’Keefe isn’t available?

I think he wants a physical dwarf (like Peter Dinklage) not a mental midget.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:04:51am

IIRC there was some grumbling against Peter Jackson for casting “normal sized” actors in LOTR and The Hobbit when it’s very hard for dwarf actors to find work.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:05:34am
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:05:46am

re: #234 Whack-A-Mole

Someone should ask him if his wife would find the name brownskin offensive (which of course it would be, because it would be a vile thing to say).

That Native American group had it right. when they created fake logos with ofensive slurs.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:06:17am

re: #240 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Abboot being an ass again I see.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:06:29am

SHOCK.
A wingnut has admitted to being wrong!

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Whack-A-Mole  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:06:44am

re: #242 HappyWarrior

Abboot being an ass again I see.

IOW, a day ending in y.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:08:31am

re: #242 HappyWarrior

Abboot being an ass again I see.

Priorities, priorities. Political points are more important than addressing real issues:

11 shot, 2 killed in overnight Houston violence

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SteelPH  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:09:30am

We just can’t go a single day without several people getting shot, can we?

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:10:47am

re: #246 SteelPH

We just can’t go a single day without several people getting shot, can we?

Can’t go an hour without a shooting. Three people die every hour of every day in the US due to firearms. Two are killed in suicides, and one person dies in a homicide. Every hour of every day.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:11:13am

re: #246 SteelPH

We just can’t go a single day without several people getting shot, can we?

It’s only going to get worse as more and more states pass “guns everywhere” laws.

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It's on his hat!  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:12:09am

re: #243 The Vicious Babushka

SHOCK.
A wingnut has admitted to being wrong!

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…and if said wingnut could translate that quote (in its entirety) into modern English and explain what it means, I’d eat my hat.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:12:55am

re: #249 It’s on his hat!

…and if said wingnut could translate that quote (in its entirety) into modern English and explain what it means, I’d eat my hat.

It makes a really lame meme.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:13:39am

re: #249 It’s on his hat!

…and if said wingnut could translate that quote (in its entirety) into modern English and explain what it means, I’d eat my hat.

WASHINGTON SAID: Outsourcing is bad mmkay

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:13:42am

re: #243 The Vicious Babushka

SHOCK.
A wingnut has admitted to being wrong!

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I don’t know if Federalist Papers is just the website name or that site is claiming it’s from the Federalist Papers but there’s no way Washington said that if they’re using the FP as a citation. Washington didn’t write the FPs. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison did. Furthermore Washington was writing in a time before assault rifles and a time with a much more agrarian based population. And I highly doubt he wanted people to hoard guns and would oppose any regulation like background checks. We regulate free speech in the sense that I can’t go around the office swearing, we can and should regulate guns in the same sense that if my place of business doesn’t want guns, I can tell you and your gun to get the fuck out of my store.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:15:03am

The fact of the matter is ultimately we live in a different country than the Founders lived in. We realy need to take that into account when considering the 2nd amendment and its application.

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It's on his hat!  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:15:57am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

I don’t know if Federalist Papers is just the website name or that site is claiming it’s from the Federalist Papers but there’s no way Washington said that if they’re using the FP as a citation. Washington didn’t write the FPs. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison did. Furthermore Washington was writing in a time before assault rifles and a time with a much more agrarian based population. And I highly doubt he wanted people to hoard guns and would oppose any regulation like background checks. We regulate free speech in the sense that I can’t go around the office swearing, we can and should regulate guns in the same sense that if my place of business doesn’t want guns, I can tell you and your gun to get the fuck out of my store.

I don’t think the tweet or meme imply that the quote is from the actual Federalist Papers, but I doubt the wingnut in question would understand the distinction or why it matters.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:16:04am

re: #252 HappyWarrior

I don’t know if Federalist Papers is just the website name or that site is claiming it’s from the Federalist Papers but there’s no way Washington said that if they’re using the FP as a citation. Washington didn’t write the FPs. Alexander Hamilton, John Jay, and James Madison did. Furthermore Washington was writing in a time before assault rifles and a time with a much more agrarian based population. And I highly doubt he wanted people to hoard guns and would oppose any regulation like background checks. We regulate free speech in the sense that I can’t go around the office swearing, we can and should regulate guns in the same sense that if my place of business doesn’t want guns, I can tell you and your gun to get the fuck out of my store.

It’s from Washington’s first SOTU address.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:16:31am

re: #255 The Vicious Babushka

It’s from Washington’s first SOTU address.

Ah okay. See, that’s why I asked. The site’s url confused me.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:17:43am

That’s in the aftermath of another shooting/stabbing attack in Southern Israel.

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iossarian  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:18:02am

re: #253 HappyWarrior

The fact of the matter is ultimately we live in a different country than the Founders lived in. We realy need to take that into account when considering the 2nd amendment and its application.

I’m not a constitutional expert by any means but I always assumed the original purpose of the 2nd amendment was to prevent loyalists from getting control of government and passing laws that would prevent the USA from defending itself against foreign aggression, thus enabling the UK to bring it back into the Empire.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:18:14am

re: #254 It’s on his hat!

I don’t think the tweet or meme imply that the quote is from the actual Federalist Papers, but I doubt the wingnut in question would understand the distinction or why it matters.

Yeah the url confused me. I see now that it’s from GW’s first inaugural address. Shrug, in any case, I really think it’s a mistake to view guns from a 1789 perspective rather than a 2015 when looking at the law. That’s not to say I want to abolish the 2nd but I do think just because you have the right to own a weapon doesn’t mean that things like background checks, the forbidding of certain arms, etc isn’t legal.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:19:14am

re: #258 iossarian

I’m not a constitutional expert by any means but I always assumed the original purpose of the 2nd amendment was to prevent loyalists from getting control of government and passing laws that would prevent the USA from defending itself against foreign aggression, thus enabling the UK to bring it back into the Empire.

That’s certainly a plausible explanation. We know that the founders were definitely worried about such a thing happening and that it wouldn’t have been unheard of since the British didn’t exactly give up.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:21:06am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

proof!!11!! here is file foto!!11!!

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Sounds like he has anger issues.

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SteelPH  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:21:34am

At this current point in time, the Second Amendment remains an archaic death pact.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:22:12am

I should also add that the Founders were wrong about some big things. Slavery for one. I am not suggesting that we need to abolish the 2nd again but I am suggesting that just because the Founders believed something doesn’t mean it necessarily was right. I admit that’s a radical position though.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:22:15am

re: #261 Eventual Carrion

Sounds like he has anger issues.

Let’s just say that it must suck to be his girlfriend (or his boyfriend, if he is gay)

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:22:44am

On January 25, 1787, Daniel Shays and his insurrectionists confronted a Massachusetts state militia force outside the Springfield armory. Shays’ Rebellion had begun in the summer of 1786, when Shays, a former Continental Army captain, and other western Massachusetts veterans and farmers formed an insurrection against the government for failing to address their economic grievances. Upon the confrontation at the Springfield armory, the state militia forced Shays and his followers to retreat to Worcester County, where they would be dispersed on February 4, leading to the end of the rebellion.

On February 3, George Washington wrote to Henry Knox, conveying his thoughts on both the recent rebellion in Massachusetts and the Philadelphia Convention. Of Shays’ Rebellion, Washington wrote, “if three years ago any person had told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws & constitutions of our own making as now appears I should have thought him a bedlamite - a fit subject for a mad house.” He wrote that if the government “shrinks, or is unable to enforce its laws … anarchy & confusion must prevail.”

gilderlehrman.org

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iossarian  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:23:35am

re: #259 HappyWarrior

That’s not to say I want to abolish the 2nd …

See, I differ on this - I definitely think the 2nd amendment should be abolished, rewritten, clarified, whatever you want to call it. It’s just a bad law. Apart from anything else it’s incredibly ambiguously written.

Things aren’t good because they’re in the constitution. They’re in the constitution (in theory) because they’re good.

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taserian  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:23:49am

If you say anything about gun control, you’ll be deafened from all the yelling about “IT’S IN THE CONSTITUTION!!!” from 2nd Amendment defenders in Texas.
If you deny birth certificates to babies born in the US, all you’ll hear from those same defenders is crickets, even though the 14th Amendment is in the very same Constitution.

Texas can refuse to issue birth certificates to illegals’ parents: court
washingtontimes.com

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:24:19am

re: #265 Barefoot Grin

On January 25, 1787, Daniel Shays and his insurrectionists confronted a Massachusetts state militia force outside the Springfield armory. Shays’ Rebellion had begun in the summer of 1786, when Shays, a former Continental Army captain, and other western Massachusetts veterans and farmers formed an insurrection against the government for failing to address their economic grievances. Upon the confrontation at the Springfield armory, the state militia forced Shays and his followers to retreat to Worcester County, where they would be dispersed on February 4, leading to the end of the rebellion.

On February 3, George Washington wrote to Henry Knox, conveying his thoughts on both the recent rebellion in Massachusetts and the Philadelphia Convention. Of Shays’ Rebellion, Washington wrote, “if three years ago any person had told me that at this day, I should see such a formidable rebellion against the laws & constitutions of our own making as now appears I should have thought him a bedlamite - a fit subject for a mad house.” He wrote that if the government “shrinks, or is unable to enforce its laws … anarchy & confusion must prevail.”

gilderlehrman.org

Shay’s Rebellion and the later Whiskey one turned “small government” Sam Adams into an ardent federalist. Patrick Henry too in the case of the Whiskey one since when Shays happened, he was still an anti-federalist.

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It's on his hat!  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:24:55am

re: #266 iossarian

Things aren’t good because they’re in the constitution. They’re in the constitution (in theory) because they’re good.

Very, very well said. I will be stealing this for future arguments.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:25:37am

re: #266 iossarian

See, I differ on this - I definitely think the 2nd amendment should be abolished, rewritten, clarified, whatever you want to call it. It’s just a bad law. Apart from anything else it’s incredibly ambiguously written.

Things aren’t good because they’re in the constitution. They’re in the constitution (in theory) because they’re good.

True, I do think it should be rewritten but good luck getting that done. And you’re right about that regarding good things and the Constitution. The reason why I oppose outright abolishment is I think it would lead to violence and generations of fear propaganda.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:26:19am

re: #267 taserian

If you say anything about gun control, you’ll be deafened from all the yelling about “IT’S IN THE CONSTITUTION!!!” from 2nd Amendment defenders in Texas.
If you deny birth certificates to babies born in the US, all you’ll hear from those same defenders is crickets.

washingtontimes.com

A great point too.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:28:23am

Honestly we fuck ourselves when we place the Constitution on almost holy terms. That’s not to say it shouldn’t be valued but it should be seen as a tool for governance not a guidebook that you must follow word for word. Again that’s radical in some circles I admit but I don’t like Constiution or Founding Fathers worship. Call me someone who appreciates the Founding Fathers) but doesn’t see them as being the total guide. This country is a lot better now than it was when it was founded.

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iossarian  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:29:40am

re: #270 HappyWarrior

True, I do think it should be rewritten but good luck getting that done. And you’re right about that regarding good things and the Constitution. The reason why I oppose outright abolishment is I think it would lead to violence and generations of fear propaganda.

Oh, sure, there’s pragmatism to consider. But I think there’s value in people (who don’t need to get elected) saying they would support constitutional change.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:30:17am

re: #272 HappyWarrior

Honestly we fuck ourselves when we place the Constitution on almost holy terms. That’s not to say it shouldn’t be valued but it should be seen as a tool for governance not a guidebook that you must follow word for word. Again that’s radical in some circles I admit but I don’t like Constitution or Founding Fathers worship. Call me someone who appreciates the Founding Fathers) but doesn’t see them as being the total guide. This country is a lot better now than it was when it was founded.

Just a subtle reminder: Many of the Founding Fathers were slave owners and on a whole they didn’t give Blacks or Women the same rights as White men.

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sagehen  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:30:50am

re: #255 The Vicious Babushka

It’s from Washington’s first SOTU address.

Reading Comprehension. “A Free People”, in such a context, doesn’t mean each individual. It means a country. That’s who he means by “we” or “they”. “Others” means other countries, not each household thinking of their own state and federal government as “others”.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:31:28am

re: #273 iossarian

Oh, sure, there’s pragmatism to consider. But I think there’s value in people (who don’t need to get elected) saying they would support constitutional change.

Yeah you’re right. I just don’t know if I personally could go that bridge but you do illustrate one of my problems with it, the language and ambiguity of the amendment itself. Where we agree most though is we don’t see the Constitution as a holy document and anything written in it is unable to be altered.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:31:39am
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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:32:51am

re: #277 The Vicious Babushka


Breaking News: It can get cold in late October

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:32:51am

re: #274 Dr. Matt

Just a subtle reminder: Many of the Founding Fathers were slave owners and on a whole they didn’t give Blacks or Women the same rights as White men.

A lot of them didn’t see Catholics or non-landowning whites as equals either. To be honest, they were elitists. I appreciate what they did in founding our country but the US of its early years while more progressive in governance compared to the rest of the world was an oligarchy more than outright representative government.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:33:20am

re: #277 The Vicious Babushka

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I say this as a joke, Trump says it as a policy statement.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:33:46am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

Breaking News: It can get cold in late October

In New York? No way.

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It's on his hat!  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:33:51am

re: #277 The Vicious Babushka

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What a moron. We’re having record highs here in Minnesota for this time of year.

Weather is not climate!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:34:39am

re: #275 sagehen

Reading Comprehension. “A Free People”, in such a context, doesn’t mean each individual. It means a country. That’s who he means by “we” or “they”. “Others” means other countries, not each household thinking of their own state and federal government as “others”.

Ah good point. A free people is definitely plural and meaning a nation state not an individual.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:35:36am

re: #282 It’s on his hat!

What a moron. We’re having record highs here in Minnesota for this time of year.

Weather is not climate!

Too often, I see these idiots go “Well it’s not cold whre I am so suck it Al Gore” and it’s like “Dude, do you know anything about what the phrase global warming actually means?”

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ObserverArt  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:37:04am

Hey all.

What to do about Joe Biden?

I don’t know about others, but I am growing a bit tired of all the will he or won’t he run crap. Truthfully, I thought Joe was above all this and would be very concise about it. Yes. No.

Is he getting off on all the attention, or is he really having a hard time figuring out what he wants to do? Does it appear to be waffling which is never a good trait for a politician?

You’re bumming me out Joe. I do not get it. I like you a lot, but if you can’t be more positive of a real run by this time, it shows you may not be up to it, and we really do not need it to be this dramatic. I think it hurts the whole process for the Dems as it puts everything into a question and the news media makes more of it than it should and the Republicans can treat it like the Dems are confused and waiting for a reluctant hero.

How about a nice firm no this week? It may be best. If you have a yes, you have some explaining to do in my opinion.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:39:19am

re: #285 ObserverArt

Hey all.

What to do about Joe Biden?

I don’t know about others, but I am growing a bit tired of all the will he or won’t he run crap. Truthfully, I thought Joe was above all this and would be very concise about it. Yes. No.

Is he getting off on all the attention, or is he really having a hard time figuring out what he wants to do? Does it appear to be waffling which is never a good trait for a politician?

You’re bumming me out Joe. I do not get it. I like you a lot, but if you can’t be more positive of a real run by this time, it shows you may not be up to it, and we really do not need it to be this dramatic. I think it hurts the whole process for the Dems as it puts everything into a question and the news media makes more of it than it should and the Republicans can treat it like the Dems are confused and waiting for a reluctant hero.

How about a nice firm no this week? It may be best. If you have a yes, you have some explaining to do in my opinion.

I hear he’s going to declare or not declare this week. I really don’t blame him for taking his time on this. Normally, I’d be crap or get off the pot but Joe’s situation is pretty unique. If he did run though, I’d support him immediately though. I like him more than I do Clinton and I think he would be a better legislator-in chief than Sanders and no one in the Democratic Party that has presidential potential has as much FP knowledge. Beore Obama made him VP, I wanted Biden to be SoS.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:41:01am

Have to say after seeing Larry David as Sanders, I think like Tina Fey and Sarah Palin, this is the part he was born to play. They don’t look quite as much like each other as Tina and Sarah but they are both Brooklyn natives. So SNL consider it.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:41:04am

re: #278 Dr. Matt

Breaking news. Global warming involves global temps, not just the bit of land outside your door in NYC metro area. Clearly ignorant about basic definitions and grammar.

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Lidane  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:41:27am

*sigh*

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:42:07am

Israeli lynch mob murders the wrong man. I have no words.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:42:23am

re: #289 Lidane

*sigh*

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Where’s ggt with that great Madeline Albright quote?

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:45:06am

If it wasn’t so sad, it’d be funny.

Flounder Gets Even - Animal House (4/10) Movie CLIP (1978) HD

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BlueSpotinAL  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:49:05am

re: #146 Dark_Falcon

It would be very easy, since extant $500 dollar bills feature a portrait of President William McKinley. So replacing an image of a Republican with that of a Democrat = “OUTRAGEOUS OUTRAGE!!1”.

It wouldn’t trigger a full-on meltdown because Hoft would have one consolation: Depicting Barack Obama as being on currency at that future date means in that fiction universe he has died by that time, since US law does not allow the depiction of living persons on the currency.

That is a lie! Obama replaced McKinley with a picture of a mountain. //

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Great White Snark  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:49:08am

Fox Outrage at Captain America
littlegreenfootballs.com

Loose, meet screw.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:50:57am

re: #294 Great White Snark

Fox Outrage at Captain America
littlegreenfootballs.com

Loose, meet screw.

Must be a slow news day if they’re oturaged at a cartoonist using his cartoon to push his views. Idiots the whole bloody network.

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ObserverArt  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:52:34am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

Israeli lynch mob murders the wrong man. I have no words.

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Wow. That is tragic. The hate is getting out of hand worldwide. Sometimes it seems humans haven’t progressed all that much.

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WhatEVs  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:55:07am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

When Trump gets done destroying Jeb! I am looking forward to watching him Hulk smash Ted Cruz.

Cruz is practically blowing Trump every time he speaks. He probably sees Veep potential in himself since he is nowhere near where he would need to be to get the nod for POTUS.

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WhatEVs  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:56:51am

re: #194 Backwoods_Sleuth

proof!!11!! here is file foto!!11!!

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Too bad he didn’t bash his head into the wall. Concussions are more pitiable than wrists.

MRI’s would show there was nothing in there, also, too.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 8:56:57am
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:00:04am

re: #299 The Vicious Babushka

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Heh the good professor brought up Jackie like I did and nominating Goldwater. He’s correct about Nixon and Thrmond too obviously. which how Nixon got the support in the South. And yes that’s why Agnew as chosen. He was a “tough on crime” conservative.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:01:24am

He really should ashed Williamson what his employer’s founder thought about civil rights and black people though. Buckley was a huggeee segregationist.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:02:57am

And if wingntus get to judge LBJ on hearsay comments about black people, we can judge RMN on things he actually said on tape about black people. And I haven’t even touched on Ronald Reagan’s wink and nudge racism.

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WhatEVs  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:08:25am

re: #239 The Vicious Babushka

IIRC there was some grumbling against Peter Jackson for casting “normal sized” actors in LOTR and The Hobbit when it’s very hard for dwarf actors to find work.

Snow White and the Huntsman, too. Lots of unhappiness surrounding the casting of the Seven Dwarfs.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:09:44am

re: #290 The Vicious Babushka

Israeli lynch mob murders the wrong man. I have no words.

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No one, regardless of guilt or innocence, should be the victim of a lynch mob.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:13:49am

re: #299 The Vicious Babushka

They never simply admit they were wrong. Never.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:14:04am

re: #304 CuriousLurker

No one, regardless of guilt or innocence, should be the victim of a lynch mob.

Agreed.

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:16:38am

re: #289 Lidane

*sigh*

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Wonder if I can go around taping church leaders using their pulpit for politics if I can get their tax exempt status taken away as easily as a false report got PP unfunded? I wouldn’t even have to falsely edit it at all to make the point.

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Amory Blaine  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:16:48am

One minute they’re Federalists, the next they’re anti Federalists.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:25:03am

ASSHOLES
Remember, abortion is ALREADY barred from receiving federal money by the Hyde Amendment. This is just to be extra special assholes.

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William Lewis  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:26:26am

Picked up fresh bread flour & fast rising yeast in my groceries the other day. Put together what I’ve been told is a Vienna style recipe in my pan and in about 3 & 1/2 hours I’ll see if it works :D

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wrenchwench  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:33:26am

re: #292 lawhawk

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If it wasn’t so sad, it’d be funny.

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Oh, Arizona.

The incident happened toward the end of the town’s annual “Helldorado Days” weekend.

Officials say this is an isolated incident and that visitors should be assured that safety protocol will be enforced before any more gunfight skits on Allen Street.

I ain’t goin’.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:40:27am
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Skip Intro  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:40:44am

Ben Carson Confuses Iraq, Afghanistan, Past, Future, Space, Time, Whatever

There are a lot of unknown unknowns.

Go read it yourself, and weep.

esquire.com

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:42:30am

re: #311 wrenchwench

Oh, Arizona.

I ain’t goin’.

I hope somebody at least said “I’m your Huckleberry.”

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Jebediah, RBG  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:47:02am

re: #112 goddamnedfrank

Maybe it’s time for a goddamnedfrank amicus goddamnedcuriae brief. But, for gods sake, be frank about it.

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Timothy Watson  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:47:18am

re: #294 Great White Snark

Fox Outrage at Captain America
littlegreenfootballs.com

Loose, meet screw.

God, just wait for Civil War to be released next year.

I foresee heads exploding.

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Jebediah, RBG  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:51:02am

re: #125 The Vicious Babushka

And I’m sure he never retweeted any, either.

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Bird in the Paw  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:51:12am

re: #313 Skip Intro

… is what Gene Chandler would have come up with, had he recorded “Derp of Earl.”

Beautiful.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:56:53am

re: #313 Skip Intro

Ben Carson Confuses Iraq, Afghanistan, Past, Future, Space, Time, Whatever

Go read it yourself, and weep.

esquire.com

He’ll blame the PC librul media in 5…4….3……

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 9:58:58am

Carson is probably proud of the fact taht he doesn’t knwo the difference btween Shia and Sunni assuming he doesn’t which given his other statements wouldn’t shock me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:00:40am

re: #320 HappyWarrior

Carson is probably proud of the fact taht he doesn’t knwo the difference btween Shia and Sunni assuming he doesn’t which given his other statements wouldn’t shock me.

He does not seem to know the difference between Shi’ite and Shinol’ite when it comes to the Middle East.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:02:11am

re: #321 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He does not seem to know the difference between Shi’ite and Shnol’ite when it comes to the Middle East.

Wouldn’t shock me, he’s the kind of guy though if confronted with this fact would see it as a badge of honor.

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Bird in the Paw  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:04:20am
What if the day Ben Carson retired from surgery and was walking out of the hospital for the last time, a patient escaped from the psychiatric ward and junped him, taking his place in the world. Then he started running for president. We’ll probably never know but we are getting suspicious.
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would it be irresponsible to speculate?

I think it would be quite reasonable to ask such an important question. Many quotes are pointing to this as a reasonable explanation for the words exuding from Carson’s mouth hole.

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sagehen  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:04:24am

re: #313 Skip Intro

Ben Carson Confuses Iraq, Afghanistan, Past, Future, Space, Time, Whatever

Go read it yourself, and weep.

esquire.com

“At this point, the Clinton Guy looked as though he were conversing with a llama from Mars. Dr. Carson did not appear to notice.”

I love charlie pierce.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:06:22am

re: #323 Bird in the Paw

I think it would be quite reasonable to ask such an important question. Many quotes are pointing to this as a reasonable explanation for the words exuding from Carson’s mouth hole.

The standard fallback is that he would hire intelligent people to fill him in on the name of the Prime Minister of Ubki-beki-bekiland

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:06:34am
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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:08:00am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

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Maybe someone should harvest Abbott a brain since it’s obvious that he’s not using his. This is totally irresponsible leadership. He’s also proof of devoluton. Texas has gone from first Ann Richards then to W Bush then to Perry and now to Abbott whose Lt Governor is considered even more nuts than he is.

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Timothy Watson  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:11:23am

re: #313 Skip Intro

Ben Carson Confuses Iraq, Afghanistan, Past, Future, Space, Time, Whatever

Go read it yourself, and weep.

esquire.com

Was it Esquire that had the story a couple months where Carson couldn’t imagine a country having anything other than a Presidential system of government with a bicameral legislature?

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:12:22am
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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:12:37am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

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And neither will vampires, which have as much basis in reality as all that “harvesting”.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:12:59am

re: #309 The Vicious Babushka

Thank you @GovAbbott for your commitment to protect innocent human life t.co
— Senator Ted Cruz

“Now, when can we bomb Iran and persecute the heretics here at home?”

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:14:33am

re: #329 De Kolta Chair

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HISPANICS UNITED TO MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN

Or rape your womenfolk I guess. One or the other I’m sure.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:15:46am

re: #327 HappyWarrior

Maybe someone should harvest Abbott a brain since it’s obvious that he’s not using his. This is totally irresponsible leadership. He’s also proof of devoluton. Texas has gone from first Ann Richards then to W Bush then to Perry and now to Abbott whose Lt Governor is considered even more nuts than he is.

How many people have been executed in Texas since Abbot was elected?

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:15:58am

re: #188 Timothy Watson

Republicans have no understanding of statistics and the different between gross numbers and percentages and rates. but they have lots of belief, which they think is the same thing.

FTFY.

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Jenner7  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:16:19am
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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:17:40am

re: #335 Jenner7

GOP congressman is already discussing impeaching president Hillary Clinton, t.co via @aterkel
— Sam Stein (@samsteinhp) October 19, 2015

Some staffer at The Onion got fired for not coming up with this headline.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:18:26am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

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Oh, did they conduct an “investigation” to find that out?

/

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Belafon  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:22:14am

re: #337 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh, did they conduct an “investigation” to find that out?

/

It wouldn’t matter. When Abbott was AG, he did an investigation into voter fraud and found nothing. Texas still passes laws that he accepts.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:22:25am

re: #337 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh, did they conduct an “investigation” to find that out?

/

a fair and balanced on showing nothing but unedited videos

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WhatEVs  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:22:27am

re: #337 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh, did they conduct an “investigation” to find that out?

/

Investigations? Who needs investigations? We don’t need no stinkin’ investigations!

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KGxvi  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:23:09am

re: #314 Barefoot Grin

“Why Johnny Ringo… You look like someone just stepped over your grave”

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Romantic Heretic  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:23:21am

re: #247 lawhawk

Can’t go an hour without a shooting. Three people die every hour of every day in the US due to firearms. Two are killed in suicides, and one person dies in a homicide. Every hour of every day.

It’s the blood required to water the Tree of Liberty!

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:24:42am

Shroud Of Turin DNA Indicates Global Origins

There’s a surprising new wrinkle in the story of the celebrated Shroud of Turin.

A group of Italian researchers have found that the 14-foot-long garment — believed by some to be the burial cloth of Jesus Christ, even though science has proven that’s not the case — contains DNA from plants found all over Earth.

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KGxvi  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:24:58am

re: #336 Dr. Matt

Nah, someone came up with it and an editor said “we did that one already in 2007”

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:24:58am

re: #329 De Kolta Chair

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He must think Hispanics are morons. To the Latinos, I know he’s akin to what the Jim Crow segregationists were to the African-American community.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:25:10am

re: #333 The Vicious Babushka

How many people have been executed in Texas since Abbot was elected?

One too many.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:26:18am

re: #335 Jenner7

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You cannot impeach that does not exist. Glad that Mo “Don’t call him Mel” Brooks is confident in the GOP’s chances that he’s already talking about impeaching someone who hasn’t even been nominated yet let alone elected. Such confidence in his party!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:27:12am

re: #338 Belafon

It wouldn’t matter. When Abbott was AG, he did an investigation into voter fraud and found nothing. Texas still passes laws that he accepts.

“Our investigation found nothing but that just proves how extensive and insidious voting fraud is.”

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:27:32am

re: #347 HappyWarrior

You cannot impeach that does not exist. Glad that Mo “Don’t call him Mel” Brooks is confident in the GOP’s chances that he’s already talking about impeaching someone who hasn’t even been nominated yet let alone elected. Such confidence in his party!

He has just summed up their entire legislative agenda for 2017-2021

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Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:28:01am

So, any idea when we’ll know if Chucky’s ass has been roasted or not?

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Dr Lizardo  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:29:37am

re: #350 Targetpractice

So, any idea when we’ll know if Chucky’s ass has been roasted or not?

Yes, I’m looking forward to finding out what’s up as well.

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WhatEVs  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:31:03am

re: #345 HappyWarrior

He must think Hispanics are morons. To the Latinos, I know he’s akin to what the Jim Crow segregationists were to the African-American community.

Trump believes everything he says. Say it enough and it will be so.

Uh huh. That’s the ticket!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:31:13am

re: #349 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He has just summed up their entire legislative agenda for 2017-2021

Yep sigh. It’s never going to be easy with these fuckwads.

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Jenner7  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:31:43am
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Romantic Heretic  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:32:40am

re: #296 ObserverArt

Wow. That is tragic. The hate is getting out of hand worldwide. Sometimes it seems humans haven’t progressed all that much.

I’ll just link to this article one again.

It explained so much to me.

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KGxvi  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:33:22am

re: #345 HappyWarrior

$20 says Trump can’t explain the difference between Hispanic and Latino.

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Amory Blaine  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:33:35am

re: #353 HappyWarrior

They have shit-tons of money.

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Lidane  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:34:39am

ROFL:

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Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:35:25am

re: #358 Lidane

ROFL:

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Rofl indeed!

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Targetpractice  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:36:14am

re: #358 Lidane

ROFL:

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Well he doesn’t want much, does he?

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:36:50am

re: #356 KGxvi

$20 says Trump can’t explain the difference between Hispanic and Latino.

HURR HURR!! ONE SPEAK SPANISH & TEH OTHER SPEAK LATIN!!!!!

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Great White Snark  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:36:50am

Hilary for President? Well in the meantime I think we miss her sorely over at State.
China Tried to Hack American Companies Since Agreeing to Cyber Pact, Security Firm Says

Who/how can we can better motivate the Chinese to keep to a deal?

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Eventual Carrion  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:36:58am

re: #354 Jenner7

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Libby out and working for them now?

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Dr. Matt  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:37:21am

re: #358 Lidane

ROFL:

Just a few short years ago he was placating the voters that put the “Freedom Caucus” into office.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:38:13am

re: #358 Lidane

ROFL:

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Yeah good luck with that Paully.

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Jenner7  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:38:46am

This spepcial committee, if done by Democrats to go after a Republican candidate for 2016, would be breaking news on every gd news channel.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:39:52am

re: #357 Amory Blaine

They have shit-tons of money.

Thanks Citizens United.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:40:17am

re: #358 Lidane

Report: Ryan will only run for speaker if he doesn’t have to cater to Freedom Caucus’ demands t.co pic.twitter.com
— Talking Points Memo

Why does Ryan hate Freedom?

/

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KGxvi  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:41:07am

I’ve mentioned before, I have a Facebook friend that is someone I knew in college that is a complete and utter wingnut. She’s been regularly posting shit from the conservative tribune. The latest one is about how Obama could learn something from China because they just executed a bunch of Islamist terrorists. It takes a great deal of self control for me to point out how, um, ironic it is that the people who claim to be for good righteous Christian liberty and freedom to want to be more like the athestist communist government of China. I’m beginning to wonder how they manage to breathe and blink at the same time

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:41:11am

re: #356 KGxvi

$20 says Trump can’t explain the difference between Hispanic and Latino.

I bet you he can’t explain why there are Latinos who are from the same region as wifey. Lot of Yugoslavs-Croats, Serbs, Slovenes, etc went to South America. In fact my sister in law’s grandmother’s parents emigrated to Peru from Croatia.

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Varek Raith  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:42:27am

LET FREEDUMB RIIIIIIIINNNNNNNNNGGGGGGGGGGG!!!!!!!!!!

/sorry

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:42:37am

re: #369 KGxvi

I’ve mentioned before, I have a Facebook friend that is someone I knew in college that is a complete and utter wingnut. She’s been regularly posting shit from the conservative tribune. The latest one is about how Obama could learn something from China because they just executed a bunch of Islamist terrorists. It takes a great deal of self control for me to point out how, um, ironic it is that the people who claim to be for good righteous Christian liberty and freedom to want to be more like the athestist communist government of China. I’m beginning to wonder how they manage to breathe and blink at the same time

You can mute people on FB.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:42:59am

re: #369 KGxvi

I’ve mentioned before, I have a Facebook friend that is someone I knew in college that is a complete and utter wingnut. She’s been regularly posting shit from the conservative tribune. The latest one is about how Obama could learn something from China because they just executed a bunch of Islamist terrorists. It takes a great deal of self control for me to point out how, um, ironic it is that the people who claim to be for good righteous Christian liberty and freedom to want to be more like the athestist communist government of China. I’m beginning to wonder how they manage to breathe and blink at the same time

Man I’d be tempted but with those types I don’t even attempt to bother. Some people though man.

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KGxvi  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:43:25am

re: #370 HappyWarrior

On my moms side of the family, I think we have someone who immigrated to Cuba from Syria. I feel like I should get into politics just for that fact of my family history… That’d have to freak out enough wingnuts to actually cause head explosions

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:43:30am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

You can mute people on FB.

Yeah there’s a way to block people’s statuses from showing up in your timeline. I haven’t done it yet.

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Jenner7  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:43:42am

Pompeo claiming on CNN that they’ve had 7 investigations because they haven’t been able to get ALL the information they are asking for. He claims they just recently got Amb. Stevens emails. He also said her server was a secret.

Wolf didn’t question ANY of those claims.

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Lidane  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:44:00am

re: #360 Targetpractice

Well he doesn’t want much, does he?

Hah, true. “I’ll take the job as long as I don’t have to talk to you assholes!” is not a statement by a guy who wants to be Speaker.

Freepers are unamused:

Yup, willing to deal with Dhimmicrats, but not Conservatives.

That alone tells everyone whom he views as the true enemy.
—

As far as I know the conservatives are just asking him to run congress the way congress ought to be run.
What’s wrong with that? Unless he’s being directed by the lobbyists to continue to run it the way Boehner did.
—

This is going well…McConnell is still in power, Ryan may be the next speaker but doesn’t want to deal with conservatives, and Hilary is the odds-on favorite to be the next president.

I don’t want any more solicitations from the Heritage Foundation. Their effectiveness is underwhelming.
—

Ryan would be a disaster as speaker. Like Jeb and Rubio, he has no love or loyalty for this country.
—

All the attacks on Conservative purists meanwhile GOPe are colluding with leftists.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:44:38am

re: #374 KGxvi

On my moms side of the family, I think we have someone who immigrated to Cuba from Syria. I feel like I should get into politics just for that fact of my family history… That’d have to freak out enough wingnuts to actually cause head explosions

Yeah I bet. I’d also point out to the friend assuming they’re also in the Vlad is awesome fanclub that they’re applauding a former KGB man who uses violence on his opponents.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:45:41am

re: #377 Lidane

Hah, true. “I’ll take the job as long as I don’t have to talk to you assholes!” is not a statement by a guy who wants to be Speaker.

Freepers are unamused:

I just can’t believe we’re in a world where the guy who forced his staffers to read Ayn Rand’s garbage isn’t right wing enough. Gose to show you.

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KGxvi  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:46:02am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

I tried commenting once, when she posted one of those fake Islamic center signs saying how they were going to destroy America and her response was “well it’s probably what they were thinking anyway.” (Which just shocked me because she grew up in Orange County which means at the very least she had to have known some Persians in her youth) So I stopped commenting, but I like to keep a few of them on my feed so I know what the latest memes and talking points are

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:46:19am

re: #375 HappyWarrior

Yeah there’s a way to block people’s statuses from showing up in your timeline. I haven’t done it yet.

I have blocked everyone out of my feed except for immediate family members but I haven’t figured out how to block stuff that they “like”

Pictures of my grandbabies or GTFO.

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Amory Blaine  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:46:48am

re: #376 Jenner7

Wolf doesn’t have the brains or integrity to ask relevant follow ups. That is why he has the job.

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:47:42am

re: #375 HappyWarrior

Yeah there’s a way to block people’s statuses from showing up in your timeline. I haven’t done it yet.

I’ve blocked a couple of people for things like constant anti-PP posts, but honestly most of the people I block just post endless streams of inspirational posters. I hate inspirational posters.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:48:29am

re: #381 The Vicious Babushka

I have blocked everyone out of my feed except for immediate family members but I haven’t figured out how to block stuff that they “like”

Pictures of my grandbabies or GTFO.

I don’t think you can block those. But yeah grandkids or get out heh though I do enjoy my brother’s philosophical wavings in between photos of my niece.

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Amory Blaine  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:49:32am

re: #383 Barefoot Grin

Glittery angel gifs with soaring hyperbole and folksy wisdom?

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:49:48am

re: #383 Barefoot Grin

I’ve blocked a couple of people for things like constant anti-PP posts, but honestly most of the people I block just post endless streams of inspirational posters. I hate inspirational posters.

Most of my facebook friends and this includes family too thankfully aren’t right wing thankfully. I do sometimes see some old high school friends post some right wing crap but I don’t even bother. It’s too bad though. I like them as people but politically they are just so wrong.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:51:06am

re: #384 HappyWarrior

I don’t think you can block those. But yeah grandkids or get out heh though I do enjoy my brother’s philosophical wavings in between photos of my niece.

You know how Facebook will randomly popup stuff like YOU POSTED THIS EXACTLY 3 YEARS AGO TODAY, DO YOU WANT TO SHARE IT AGAIN! and I realize that I have been using FB to post pictures of pie & other baked goods.

388
HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:52:17am

My facebook is about as apolitical as it gets though. I had a post following the SSM decision but I was more subtle about it and I didn’t do the rainbow profile photo that some people did which there’s nothing wrong, I am just not a trendy guy. I also condemned that one woman on Fox a few years ago saying women in the military who get raped should know what they’re getting to because that particularly disgusted me. But usually I just post music, random rants, or photos.

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Lidane  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:52:38am

re: #372 The Vicious Babushka

You can mute people on FB.

I typically mute whatever source they’re sharing unless they say something incredibly offensive and stupid. I had a friend from high school share something from that Steven Crowder douche. I blocked anything from Crowder’s feed and voila! Now I see photos of her kids in pee wee football and whatever else is going on in her life.

OTOH, I’m thisclose to blocking a holy roller guy I know who’s constantly posting the dumbest, most uninformed, religious fundie nonsense. Plus he’s a Cruz supporter. I should block him on principle.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:52:49am

re: #387 The Vicious Babushka

You know how Facebook will randomly popup stuff like YOU POSTED THIS EXACTLY 3 YEARS AGO TODAY, DO YOU WANT TO SHARE IT AGAIN! and I realize that I have been using FB to post pictures of pie & other baked goods.

You could be posting a lot worse things. Man though pie sounds good right now.

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KGxvi  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:53:36am

I have only had to block one person, and that was probably close to 10 years ago now. We went to law school together and she ended up in the conservative movement being an activist type. She was post two or three things and hour and I was just like “nope, not dealing with that” and I was at least slightly sympathetic to her point of view back then

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:54:46am

re: #385 Amory Blaine

Glittery angel gifs with soaring hyperbole and folksy wisdom?

Yes, those from at least three people. The worst offender constantly posted the sayings of Joel Osteen. Untethered from any Christian principles, it comes off as cynical legitimizing of self-absorption.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:55:21am

re: #391 KGxvi

I have only had to block one person, and that was probably close to 10 years ago now. We went to law school together and she ended up in the conservative movement being an activist type. She was post two or three things and hour and I was just like “nope, not dealing with that” and I was at least slightly sympathetic to her point of view back then

The constant political posters are the worst and most of the ones I see are from people I agree with. I also and it’s a small pet peeve but I really wish people would look at the date of the article they’re posting. I don’t school people on it. I did point it out once though and my friend was thankful for me doing so maybe I should do it more but I don’t want to be a pedantic jerk.

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lawhawk  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:55:31am

re: #388 HappyWarrior

I post nothing political on my facebook. I skip the political stuff posted there. Most of my family and friends don’t do the political thing on FB, but a few do, and there are ways to mute/block some of the stuff coming through - if they’re sharing stuff from certain sites for example (or games, like Zynga, Words w/Friends, etc.).

Much less stressful that way.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:56:41am

re: #394 lawhawk

I post nothing political on my facebook. I skip the political stuff posted there. Most of my family and friends don’t do the political thing on FB, but a few do, and there are ways to mute/block some of the stuff coming through - if they’re sharing stuff from certain sites for example (or games, like Zynga, Words w/Friends, etc.).

Much less stressful that way.

God the games. Mafia Wars. People kept on trying to get me to join their “Mafia” when that was new.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 19, 2015 • 10:57:33am

I mostly enjoy FB for the photos and to see how my relatives’ children are growing though. Man that makes me sound like an old man. I just know I am going ot be watching my niece grow up on FB and Instagram since she and her parents moved across the country.

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BeachDem  Oct 19, 2015 • 11:06:53am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

Steve Crowder advertises for a dwarf. He must think they are for rent or something.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 19, 2015 • 11:12:46am

re: #369 KGxvi

The latest one is about how Obama could learn something from China because they just executed a bunch of Islamist terrorists.

Say this to the man who took out Osama Bin Laden…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 19, 2015 • 11:13:55am

re: #387 The Vicious Babushka

You know how Facebook will randomly popup stuff like YOU POSTED THIS EXACTLY 3 YEARS AGO TODAY, DO YOU WANT TO SHARE IT AGAIN! and I realize that I have been using FB to post pictures of pie & other baked goods.

That is what FB is good for. I tend to unfriend people who get too political.

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BeachDem  Oct 19, 2015 • 11:16:17am

re: #298 WhatEVs

Too bad he didn’t bash his head into the wall. Concussions are more pitiable than wrists.

MRI’s would show there was nothing in there, also, too.

And if he’d claimed a blown eye socket, SMOTI had the file photo all ready to go!
/

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Jebediah, RBG  Oct 19, 2015 • 11:18:05am

re: #265 Barefoot Grin

He wrote that if the government “shrinks, or is unable to enforce its laws … anarchy & confusion must prevail.”

So, Founding Father Numero Uno was opposed to shrinking the government. I expect all RWNJ’s will now change their tune once this is pointed out to them.

Why yes, I am interested in hearing about a bridge you have for sale!

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Lidane  Oct 19, 2015 • 11:20:53am

re: #395 HappyWarrior

God the games. Mafia Wars. People kept on trying to get me to join their “Mafia” when that was new.

I play one of the Candy Crush games on my phone, but I take great pains not to send game invites or anything unless the person I’m sending them to also plays the same game and they send me things first.

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BeachDem  Oct 19, 2015 • 11:23:47am

re: #320 HappyWarrior

Carson is probably proud of the fact taht he doesn’t knwo the difference btween Shia and Sunni assuming he doesn’t which given his other statements wouldn’t shock me.

At this point, the Clinton Guy looked as though he were conversing with a llama from Mars. Dr. Carson did not appear to notice.


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