Featured on tonight’s episode of The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show:
Paper Willy: Back to the Future Day; Jim Webb Drops Out; More Reasons Why Joe Biden Shouldn’t Run; Ben Carson’s Imaginary Running Mate; Ben Carson Doesn’t Know Anything; Jesse Ventura Compares Trickle-Down to 1980s Wrestling; The Star Wars Trailer and the Boycott Star Wars Hashtag; and much more.
.@Snowden, would you be down to have a public talk re: intersections b/t surveillance & state violence w/ me if we can figure out logistics?
— deray mckesson (@deray) October 13, 2015
@Snowden @thepoettrap @deray Just book a flight to Dulles. Someone will meet you there. #YouThievingFucktard
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 21, 2015
re: #1 darthstar
Deray has a lot more courage to stand for his convictions than Snowden has ever shown.
I can understand why he thinks they should talk about this, but I won’t say I’m happy about it.
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Deray has a lot more courage to stand for his convictions than Snowden has ever shown.
I can understand why he thinks they should talk about this, but I won’t say I’m happy about it.
Snowden’s a POS thief no matter how he tries to reinvent himself.
Bibi blames the Holocaust on Palestinians…that fucker is a cancer.
This from Bibi Netanyahu is just some shameless, malignant bullshit: https://t.co/8Z2byLpH7v
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 21, 2015
I am Fartacus!
Thanks. Please keep me updated as this story develops pic.twitter.com/OpZKjWhAgM
— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) October 21, 2015
More Lyin’ for Je$u$:
Church founder guilty of $35 million fraud
The founder of a popular Singapore church has been found guilty of misappropriating about $35 million in donations to support his wife’s singing career in Asia before helping her break into the US market for evangelisation purposes.
Kong Hee, the founder and senior pastor of City Harvest Church, was found guilty Wednesday with five other church leaders of stealing 24 million Singapore dollars ($17 million) designated for building and investment-related purposes through sham bond investments. […]
City Harvest trial: All 6 accused, including founder Kong Hee, found guilty of all charges
All six City Harvest Church (CHC) leaders, including founder Kong Hee, were found guilty of all charges on Wednesday (Oct 21).
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The six defendants are Kong, 51; deputy senior pastor Tan Ye Peng, 42; former CHC fund manager Chew Eng Han, 55; former CHC finance managers Serina Wee, 38, and Sharon Tan, 40; and former CHC finance committee member John Lam, 47.
They were accused of misappropriating $24 million in church funds, funnelling them into bogus investments that funded the singing career of the pastor’s wife Ms Ho Yeow Sun. Later, a further $26 million was used to cover their tracks.
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City “harvest” indeed.
You know you’re doing it wrong when you have to spend more money covering your tracks than you spent in the initial effort.
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Deray has a lot more courage to stand for his convictions than Snowden has ever shown.
I can understand why he thinks they should talk about this, but I won’t say I’m happy about it.
I told Deray how I felt the nicest way I could.
@deray Deray, I love you, man. I know you’ve acknowledged the strong feelings people have about Snowden. Wrong wagon to hitch your horses to
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 13, 2015
It’s Carrie Fisher’s birthday.
October 21, 1956 - Carrie Fisher an American actress known for portraying Princess Leia in ‘Star Wars’ is born pic.twitter.com/rkVbsKuQCo
— OnThisDay & Facts (@NotableHistory) October 21, 2015
re: #10 teleskiguy
It’s Carrie Fisher’s birthday.
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Definitely “schwing”-worthy back in the day.
Apparently we had a slight disturbance in the LGF force.
EM interference from the Delorean perhaps?
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re: #12 Eclectic Cyborg
Apparently we had a slight disturbance in the LGF force.
EM interference from the Delorean perhaps?
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Not for another 15 minutes or so. They where on West Coast time.
Gorgeous shot.
Alaska: Known for its position on every skier’s wish list. Reggie Crist, Haines, Alaska. PHOTO: @willwissman pic.twitter.com/SwXpSUR50h
— Powder (@PowderMagazine) October 21, 2015
re: #11 TedStriker
Definitely “schwing”-worthy back in the day.
Still is. Looking great in the newest trailer.
re: #15 William Lewis
Still is. Looking great in the newest trailer.
Not my taste. I never even got a boner over her as Jabba’s slave girl…
re: #17 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Not my taste. I never even got a boner over her as Jabba’s slave girl…
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re: #18 Single-handed sailor
You’re dead to me. //
why? One less potential suitor for you to fend off…
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We were talking about philanthropists like Bill Gates a couple of days ago. Well, I just ran across this BBC report about another Microsoft dude, John Wood, who co-founded Room to Read. I had no idea this organization existed until I saw it mentioned in connection with malalafund.org on Medium.
Wood quit his M$ job to bring books and libraries to Nepal. I reckon he’s still pretty well off, with stock and all, but I admire his decision to quit a corporate job to devote himself to doing good, probably for much lower pay.
Well, UpChuck and Pammy won’t need to worry about Ahmed Mohamed building any more “clock bombs” — he’s moving to Qatar. Yay, America!!
Ahmed Mohamed, the 14-year-old Muslim boy from Texas whose teacher mistook his homemade clock for a bomb, will move to Qatar with his family.
Ahmed has accepted a scholarship from the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development, where he will study.
He’s got a free ride for both high school and college from the foundation. Probably will grow to invent some fancy shit, win a Nobel prize, or something … and he’ll do it someplace besides here.
I’m happy for him, but I would have preferred he stay here in the States, despite its occasional unfriendliness.
A solemn day in Wales, as they remember the disaster. A school was buried under all that coal slurry:
Remembering #Aberfan. 49 years ago today, 116 children and 28 adults died when a coal tip engulfed their village. pic.twitter.com/W4WvX4yTWK
— Kim Lawther (@KimLawther) October 21, 2015
Morning Lizards.
Hey look! Another fine example of responsible gun ownership. ///
Police: Drunken roommates arrested for shooting guns inside home, pickup
MERIDIAN — A pair of Meridian men were arrested early Tuesday morning after police say they sprayed their own home and pickup truck full of bulletholes.
BREAKING: F-18 crashes after taking off from USAF base in England https://t.co/Zw63kJNEBd
— NBC News (@NBCNews) October 21, 2015
Cambridgeshire police spokeswoman confirms pilot killed in plane crash near RAF Lakenheath air force base - @NBCNews https://t.co/92OFldReh7
— Breaking News (@BreakingNews) October 21, 2015
re: #23 Bubblehead II
Morning Lizards.
Hey look! Another fine example of responsible gun ownership. ///
Police: Drunken roommates arrested for shooting guns inside home, pickup
MERIDIAN — A pair of Meridian men were arrested early Tuesday morning after police say they sprayed their own home and pickup truck full of bulletholes.
More importantly, are the guns in ok condition?
re: #23 Bubblehead II
MERIDIAN — A pair of Meridian men were arrested early Tuesday morning after police say they sprayed their own home and pickup truck full of bulletholes.
Most important, their home and vehicle are still safe from tyranny.
Execution drug shortage makes “pro-life” republicans think of firing squads and hangings https://t.co/0MnewVGBqf
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 21, 2015
Shortages and legal fights over drugs and their source are occurring in several states, among them Arkansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Yet capital punishment supporters say older methods such as hanging, electrocution and the firing squad are still viable options. “We’ve got plenty of electric and plenty of rope,” said state Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican.
re: #27 Dr. Matt
I’m sure they have been put into protective custody by L.E and will soon be placed into a loving home at the next gun auction.
re: #2 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Deray has a lot more courage to stand for his convictions than Snowden has ever shown.
I can understand why he thinks they should talk about this, but I won’t say I’m happy about it.
Actually, I do not understand why McKesson thinks they should talk about this.
Regardless of his self-described intentions, Snowden has demonstrated poor judgment and inadequate planning skills, and that’s leaving aside his propensity for exculpatory whining. The damage he’s done is far out of proportion to any benefit that might have been argued for his revelations. I don’t see why a competent person would consider Snowden a reliable source of information or a reasonable voice in the discussion.
re: #28 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Most important, their home and vehicle are still safe from tyranny.
Not to mention that the holes in them can easily be patched with a bit of Bondo and Spackle.
re: #29 Dr. Matt
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Bloodthirsty assholes. Anyhow my dictionary app word of the day is kakistocracy, a form of government where the worst people hold power. People like this asshole are proof of that with the Republicans.
Open records request of #KimDavis emails shows that clerk thought she had to fax her emails, via MuckRock. https://t.co/rrbOHjPlph ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) October 21, 2015
re: #30 Bubblehead II
I’m sure they have been put into protective custody by L.E and will soon be placed into a loving home at the next gun auction.
That’s good. No gun should be without a loving owner to hold it, use it as proof of their manhood, and to accidently shoot themselves in the nads on a bet.
re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
The old ways die hard.
Clay tablets last longer than paper, if anybody really wants to preserve their emails.
re: #38 freetoken
Clay tablets last longer than paper, if anybody really wants to preserve their emails.
Stone’s better.
re: #39 Dr. Matt
She’s officially a perfect republican now.
She can be Lindsey Graham’s running mate.
re: #40 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Stone’s better.
Yeah, I was going to go there, but the chiseling part is very time consuming.
re: #44 freetoken
Yeah, I was going to go there, but the chiseling part is very time consuming.
that’s where laser burners come in…
re: #31 CleverToad
Actually, I do not understand why McKesson thinks they should talk about this.
Regardless of his self-described intentions, Snowden has demonstrated poor judgment and inadequate planning skills, and that’s leaving aside his propensity for exculpatory whining. The damage he’s done is far out of proportion to any benefit that might have been argued for his revelations. I don’t see why a competent person would consider Snowden a reliable source of information or a reasonable voice in the discussion.
It’s possible McKesson does not understand that Snowden is ultimately a Russian government mouthpiece right now. If he is allowed to participate in a public forum, it’s something he’s allowed to do because Russia is working an angle. Given McKesson’s own profile, that angle would likely be lambasting Americans as murderers.
Of course that’s just one angle, as another is trying to use people like Deray McKesson to cripple US intelligence-gathering efforts. There’s probably more angles I don’t see. Regardless, Deray McKeson needs to stay away from the Snowden Operation.
re: #4 darthstar
Bibi blames the Holocaust on Palestinians…that fucker is a cancer.
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Revisionist history is wrong, regardless of who does it. Doesn’t matter if Bibi is the one doing it or Abbas (or other Palestinians).
They’re all reaching for the revisionist history because all of their failings are showing through in the current spasm of violence. They are incapable of doing anything about it, so they’re resorting to claiming that the Grand Mufti was the one whispering in the ear of Hitler to resort to genocide - as if Hitler wasn’t already on that path before the meeting). Meanwhile, you’ve got Palestinians and the PA claiming that the Temple Mount was never the site of any Jewish Temple or history, despite 2+ millenia of proof (and the archaeological data to back it up) in their latest filings with UNESCO on the Temple Mount and its environs as World Heritage Site.
There’s just so much BS that anyone should have to listen to, and it’s at its breaking point. Israelis and Palestinians both deserve better. While the Palestinians have so far been unable to do anything other than stumble along without elections, the Israelis have voted for this continued insanity.
re: #36 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I do that but in .pdf format.
If a landslide happens and no one is present to see it, does it still happen? Yes, especially if it was one of the largest landslides in the world and it registered as an earthquake:
Early last week, around 45 megatons of ice and rock plunged down the southeast flank of Mount Steele in Canada’s Yukon Territory. The avalanche, which occurred in a remote and unpopulated area, was so large that it was initially detected by earthquake seismometers.
The Mount Steele avalanche happened on October 12 and was detected by Colin Stark and Goram Ekstrom of Columbia University using the global seismic network, a digital seismic network of over 150 stations that provides free, real-time data through the IRIS DMC. The avalanche was later confirmed by Landsat 8 satellite images, which shows a huge chunk of rock and ice displaced from the mountainside.
As reported at the AGU’s Landslide Blog, the landslide was enormous. An estimated mass of about 60 million tonnes—the equivalent of 700 aircraft carriers—careened down the mountain over the course of 110 seconds. That’s about 24 million cubic meters in terms of volume. The peak velocity of the avalanche is estimated at about 60 m/sec, which is about 220 km/h or 137 mph.
Israeli restaurant gives 50% off to Jews & Arabs who eat together https://t.co/jv54a6rZNh #tcot #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/dG4fGPfIpS
— Witches Ba-BOO!-shka (@viciousbabushka) October 21, 2015
re: #6 freetoken
Man, that trial ran *forever* (and in pieces). Glad to see that thievery prosecuted. And this is what they spent the money on, trying to make Kong Hee’s wife Sun Ho famous.
re: #49 lawhawk
I’d love to see 700 aircraft carriers careening down a mountain side.
Given all of the GUNZ AGAINST TEH NATZI!!1 DERP that has been flung around lately, Forgotten Weapons provides a good reminder of those who really did rise up against Hitler:
re: #52 Barefoot Grin
I’d love to see 700 aircraft carriers careening down a mountain side.
Senator McCain now hates you.
re: #50 The Vicious Babushka
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What if say a nice gentile like me wants to join in because that looks delicious. Seriously though, cool deal.
re: #55 Barefoot Grin
What if I said, “in Iran”?
He’d still hate you. Who wants a walkover mission, after all?
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“Back to the Future II” totally missed smartphones and The Internet
re: #58 The Vicious Babushka
“Back to the Future II” totally missed smartphones and The Internet
They did have smartphone-looking cameras
re: #47 lawhawk
Revisionist history is wrong, regardless of who does it. Doesn’t matter if Bibi is the one doing it or Abbas (or other Palestinians).
They’re all reaching for the revisionist history because all of their failings are showing through in the current spasm of violence. They are incapable of doing anything about it, so they’re resorting to claiming that the Grand Mufti was the one whispering in the ear of Hitler to resort to genocide - as if Hitler wasn’t already on that path before the meeting). Meanwhile, you’ve got Palestinians and the PA claiming that the Temple Mount was never the site of any Jewish Temple or history, despite 2+ millenia of proof (and the archaeological data to back it up) in their latest filings with UNESCO on the Temple Mount and its environs as World Heritage Site.
There’s just so much BS that anyone should have to listen to, and it’s at its breaking point. Israelis and Palestinians both deserve better. While the Palestinians have so far been unable to do anything other than stumble along without elections, the Israelis have voted for this continued insanity.
What pisses me off is other groups- nationalities and religions both collaborated with the Nazis and no one uses that against them the way the Mufti is against Palestinians and Muslims in general. Bibi knows that. He’s trying to create ethnic and religious responsibility. Plus he ignores that Hitler who never even took his military commanders advice wasn’t going to take orders from a foreigner especially an Arab. Bibi isn’t helping matters at all. You’re right LH. Both the Israelis and Palestinians deserve better leaders than what they have. I firmly believe that most people in both groups want peace but both leaders make it worse.
Saw the latest polls in the GOP race and found myself marveling at how much has changed in a year. 12 months ago, everybody was sure the race was Jeb!’s to lose and anybody who suggested Donald Trump would be a serious candidate was laughed at. And six months ago, everybody was sure that Trump was in the “fall” portion of “rise and fall” and Jeb! would still win the nomination based upon his being the establishment candidate.
And now I find myself imaging, a year from now, “moderate” Republicans seriously trying to sell us on the shit sandwich that is a Trump nomination. Perhaps that’s why I’ve heard so many of them, after years of suggesting the Tea Party was past news, now trying to argue that the “shake-up” is a good thing.
re: #61 Targetpractice
Saw the latest polls in the GOP race and found myself marveling at how much has changed in a year. 12 months ago, everybody was sure the race was Jeb!’s to lose and anybody who suggested Donald Trump would be a serious candidate was laughed at. And six months ago, everybody was sure that Trump was in the “fall” portion of “rise and fall” and Jeb! would still win the nomination based upon his being the establishment candidate.
And now I find myself imaging, a year from now, “moderate” Republicans seriously trying to sell us on the shit sandwich that is a Trump nomination. Perhaps that’s why I’ve heard so many of them, after years of suggesting the Tea Party was past news, now trying to argue that the “shake-up” is a good thing.
It’s been amusing to watch for sure. Never thought Trump and Carson would be the front runners and establishment guys like Jeb would be doing so poor. I’m not totally surprised Jeb’s underperformed so far in that the GOP electorate has changed since his last run and campaigns themselves but I was not prepared for how stupid he can be.
Those establishment guys who curse Trump’s name will soon be singing his praises if this keeps up.
re: #58 The Vicious Babushka
“Back to the Future II” totally missed smartphones and The Internet
To be fair, back in 1989, cellphones were as rare as hens teeth in the US. The majority of those who owned them either were rich or worked for people who were. I remember when car phones were a big item for the well-to-do, the idea that you could make a phone call from virtually anywhere. Touchscreens were only starting to make the transition from labs to stores, computers smaller than a briefcase-sized laptop were still a pipedream, and the Internet was the realm of college students and government labs.
“Succesful businessman” “straight talker” “Wasington outsider” “Tough on terrorism and crime.”
re: #29 Dr. Matt
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“plenty of electric”. Maybe people that finish high school at least for these discussions of policy. Yeesh.
My Dad actually sold cellphones in the early years. He says there wasn’t a demand for them and eve when I got my first Cell in 2003, it was more portable phone less mini computer that is also a phone like we have now that I’m typing this from.
re: #64 Targetpractice
To be fair, back in 1989, cellphones were as rare as hens teeth in the US. The majority of those who owned them either were rich or worked for people who were. I remember when car phones were a big item for the well-to-do, the idea that you could make a phone call from virtually anywhere. Touchscreens were only starting to make the transition from labs to stores, computers smaller than a briefcase-sized laptop were still a pipedream, and the Internet was the realm of college students and government labs.
I had a “car phone” in the early ‘90’s. It was about the size & weight of a brick.
re: #68 The Vicious Babushka
I had a “car phone” in the early ‘90’s. It was about the size & weight of a brick.
I hung out one afternoon in Moscow in 1992 with our dacha settlement neighbor, a party functionary and member of the Azerbaijani mafia. He had a briefcase-sized radio telephone in his car. (Along with a pistol and ammo in the glove box).
re: #64 Targetpractice
I was in South San Francisco when the 89 quake hit. Quickly I saw a few then typical car phone antennas on cars. I was sure my wife was worried back home so I knocked on a couple doors by the cars to offer money for a call home. 3 for 3 all posers. Antenna, no phone. What a weird day that was.
re: #67 HappyWarrior
re: #68 The Vicious Babushka
My first cell phone Only cost me .01 with a one year contract.
Shit I’m far from old but I remember being a kid having to use pay phones if I needed a ride home from school (if I stayed after) or the local shopping centers. I always carried around 35 extra cents just in case.
re: #51 dholmes32
Man, that trial ran *forever* (and in pieces). Glad to see that thievery prosecuted. And this is what they spent the money on, trying to make Kong Hee’s wife Sun Ho famous.
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That church’s services must be really rad. Most places of worship I’ve been the choir doesn’t dance much at all.
re: #72 HappyWarrior
Shit I’m far from old but I remember being a kid having to use pay phones if I needed a ride home from school (if I stayed after) or the local shopping centers. I always carried around 35 extra cents just in case.
I remember when it was .25 —and I think before that it was .10.
re: #68 The Vicious Babushka
I had a “car phone” in the early ‘90’s. It was about the size & weight of a brick.
bag phone?
That’s the thing about future predictions, they generally are extrapolations of the point in time they’re made, relying upon then-existing or theorized advances in science/technology. Like how, back in the 50s and 60s, you see a lot predictions about computers still being hulking monstrosities, as the microprocessor was still years down the line.
re: #62 HappyWarrior
It’s been amusing to watch for sure. Never thought Trump and Carson would be the front runners and establishment guys like Jeb would be doing so poor. I’m not totally surprised Jeb’s underperformed so far in that the GOP electorate has changed since his last run and campaigns themselves but I was not prepared for how stupid he can be.
They are not really front runners. They are ratings drawers. Good for Advertisers. The perpetual election industry is profit motivated.
Things don’t get really serious until late in the actual election year.
re: #78 Targetpractice
That’s the thing about future predictions, they generally are extrapolations of the point in time they’re made, relying upon then-existing or theorized advances in science/technology. Like how, back in the 50s and 60s, you see a lot predictions about computers still being hulking monstrosities, as the microprocessor was still years down the line.
I do have to say that the Star Wars films have aged well, certainly compared to the Buck Rodgers space fantasies of the 30’s over a similar time span.
re: #79 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
They are not really front runners. They are ratings drawers. Good for Advertisers. The perpetual election industry is profit motivated.
Things don’t get really serious until late in the actual election year.
Disagree, they are front runners. Trump’s been consistently leading the pack since the summer and showing no signs of giving it up as we approach winter. This is different than the not Romney flavored.
re: #47 lawhawk
Revisionist history is wrong, regardless of who does it. Doesn’t matter if Bibi is the one doing it or Abbas (or other Palestinians).
They’re all reaching for the revisionist history because all of their failings are showing through in the current spasm of violence. They are incapable of doing anything about it, so they’re resorting to claiming that the Grand Mufti was the one whispering in the ear of Hitler to resort to genocide - as if Hitler wasn’t already on that path before the meeting). Meanwhile, you’ve got Palestinians and the PA claiming that the Temple Mount was never the site of any Jewish Temple or history, despite 2+ millenia of proof (and the archaeological data to back it up) in their latest filings with UNESCO on the Temple Mount and its environs as World Heritage Site.
There’s just so much BS that anyone should have to listen to, and it’s at its breaking point. Israelis and Palestinians both deserve better. While the Palestinians have so far been unable to do anything other than stumble along without elections, the Israelis have voted for this continued insanity.
It’s the Prisoner’s Dilemma with the world players calling odds and trying to perpetuate the game to maximize their winnings.
I’m serious.
re: #29 Dr. Matt
Shortages and legal fights over drugs and their source are occurring in several states, among them Arkansas, Nebraska and Oklahoma. Yet capital punishment supporters say older methods such as hanging, electrocution and the firing squad are still viable options. “We’ve got plenty of electric and plenty of rope,” said state Sen. Bill Seitz, a Cincinnati Republican.
And I bet they are all good Christian politicians that are in Church every Sunday praying to their God to help them follow all his dictates like those Ten Commandments.
Hey Govenor Kasich, you always say you are a Christian, ex-Catholic boy, etc. How about following the teachings of The Pope and eliminating the death penalty here in Ohio…’kay?
re: #78 Targetpractice
That’s the thing about future predictions, they generally are extrapolations of the point in time they’re made, relying upon then-existing or theorized advances in science/technology. Like how, back in the 50s and 60s, you see a lot predictions about computers still being hulking monstrosities, as the microprocessor was still years down the line.
One of my favorite books, Neuromancer, is mixed on it’s aging. I think the technology is actually heading in the direction Gibson describes, but the Japanese won’t be running everything.
re: #81 HappyWarrior
Disagree, they are front runners. Trump’s been consistently leading the pack since the summer and showing no signs of giving it up as we approach winter. This is different than the not Romney flavored.
It’s the circus part of “bread and circuses”
re: #23 Bubblehead II
Morning Lizards.
Hey look! Another fine example of responsible gun ownership. ///
Police: Drunken roommates arrested for shooting guns inside home, pickup
MERIDIAN — A pair of Meridian men were arrested early Tuesday morning after police say they sprayed their own home and pickup truck full of bulletholes.
What’s this world coming to when you can’t shoot up your home and car?
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re: #87 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
What’s this world coming to when you can’t shoot up your home and car?
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IDAHO!
re: #86 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
It’s the circus part of “bread and circuses”
I don’t disagree that it’s a circus. I just think it’s wrong to say that Trump isn’t the clear cut frontrunner right now. I agree we’re early in this thing but Trump has had all summer to give up his place at the top of the pack and he’s shown no signs of giving it up. It is a circus so far. I can smell the elephant crap from here.
re: #87 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
What’s this world coming to when you can’t shoot up your home and car?
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That was my first thought: what’s the point of having a gun if you can’t squeeze off a few rounds every once in awhile.
re: #87 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
What’s this world coming to when you can’t shoot up your home and car?
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“The government that does not allow one to shoot up one’s home and car is one that violates liberty.” Thomas Jefferson, The Federallist Papers
Walter Mosely’s dystopian Futureland is probably one of the more plausable of science fiction predictions, IMHO.
The guy is not only an excellent writer, he is smart as shit.
I was disappointed to see Neil deGrass Tyson write some nice tweets to Snowden awhile back.
re: #89 HappyWarrior
I don’t disagree that it’s a circus. I just think it’s wrong to say that Trump isn’t the clear cut frontrunner right now. I agree we’re early in this thing but Trump has had all summer to give up his place at the top of the pack and he’s shown no signs of giving it up. It is a circus so far. I can smell the elephant crap from here.
I don’t know. I think what people say in answer to polls and what ratings indicate are far different from what people will do in the voting booth.
The day I retire (hopefully) I’m throwing my cell phone in the river.
re: #83 ObserverArt
And I bet they are all good Christian politicians that are in Church every Sunday praying to their God to help them follow all his dictates like those Ten Commandments.
Hey Govenor Kasich, you always say you are a Christian, ex-Catholic boy, etc. How about following the teachings of The Pope and eliminating the death penalty here in Ohio…’kay?
while trying to establish a monopoly on the marijuana agricultural market.
Ohio is a state of contradictions. Not that they are somehow different in that …
re: #94 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I don’t know. I think what people say in answer to polls and what ratings indicate are far different from what people will do in the voting booth.
We will see what happens but I think we both can agree that Trump has done better than anyone expected him to do so. I think part of this is the vaccum in GOP leadership. There is no clear cut next in line for the job. One (Ryan) turned down a presidential run and the other is Rick Santorum who has scant appeal and whose appeal last time was that he was not Mitt Romney. Another part is Trump has a lot of funds. I expect Carson to fade but I think Trump will be in this for the long run.
re: #97 HappyWarrior
We will see what happens but I think we both can agree that Trump has done better than anyone expected him to do so. I think part of this is the vaccum in GOP leadership. There is no clear cut next in line for the job. One (Ryan) turned down a presidential run and the other is Rick Santorum who has scant appeal and whose appeal last time was that he was not Mitt Romney. Another part is Trump has a lot of funds. I expect Carson to fade but I think Trump will be in this for the long run.
He is the egotist —and knows how to profit from the exposure. I think if he actually get’s elected, he will see it as a bonus.
re: #76 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I remember when it was .25 —and I think before that it was .10.
It was a dime when I was a kid. My hometown had a phone booth on every corner of main street. The bars all had them. A few bars still have the booths but the payphone isn’t there anymore. People still use the booths to shut out the noise when they make cellphone calls :-). Repurposing!
re: #93 Amory Blaine
I was disappointed to see Neil deGrass Tyson write some nice tweets to Snowden awhile back.
HURR HURR SNOWDEN LOVES AMREICA!!!! LOOK HOW HE HUGS TEH FLAG!!!!!!
re: #95 Amory Blaine
The day I retire (hopefully) I’m throwing my cell phone in the river.
The river that I live by, in my van.
DOWN BY THE RIVER!
re: #101 Amory Blaine
The river that I live by, in my van.
DOWN BY THE RIVER!
eatin’ a steady diet of government cheese!
re: #76 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I remember when it was .25 —and I think before that it was .10.
I remember .05 when I was in grade school. And that is when they still had the full phone booths with the folding door that closed.
Those were the days…or so I am told. : )
re: #98 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
He is the egotist —and knows how to profit from the exposure. I think if he actually get’s elected, he will see it as a bonus.
I don’t know if he’ll get nominated but I think he will have a big impact at the convention which is frankly more than anything I expected going into the summer. I know what you’re saying but I can’t underestimate the role of right wing populism combined with money and I think that’s made a Trump nomination more possible than I would have thought about three months ago.
re: #99 Eventual Carrion
It was a dime when I was a kid. My hometown had a phone booth on every corner of main street. The bars all had them. A few bars still have the booths but the payphone isn’t there anymore. People still use the booths to shut out the noise when they make cellphone calls :-). Repurposing!
When our local Walgreens was built about 12 years ago, it had a a pay phone on the outside of the building. They took it out about 7 years ago —it seemed to attract loiterers.
go figure.
re: #62 HappyWarrior
It’s been amusing to watch for sure. Never thought Trump and Carson would be the front runners and establishment guys like Jeb would be doing so poor. I’m not totally surprised Jeb’s underperformed so far in that the GOP electorate has changed since his last run and campaigns themselves but I was not prepared for how stupid he can be.
I’ll admit the Trump lead has gone on longer than I expected. I still don’t think he’ll be the nominee. I am a bit surprised that the GOP electorate is not as of yet turning to more “conventional” conservatives like Paul and Cruz. And of course I thought Walker would be the main Jeb! challenger. I thought Perry would be a strong candidate in 2012, but his flame-out then made his campaign this year much less viable. Not really surprised Huckabee isn’t doing particularly well—he’s been out of office for a long time, has run before, the energy seems to be towards fresh faces.
I think Carson could win the nomination. I don’t think he will.
If the GOP nominates Carson or Trump (or Carly or Paul or Cruz for that matter) it would be a pretty radical break with their history of usually nominating the next man up. Yes, they can nominate crazy for VP. But usually the head of the ticket is well established presence (HW Bush, Dole, McCain, Romney, even W Bush had the name). Even Reagan, by 1980, was far from some fringe candidate. He’d been governor of California for two terms, been a prominent political activist and spokesman for decades. He made a surprisingly strong race for the nomination in 1976, etc.
But we may be in a new world.
re: #95 Amory Blaine
The day I retire (hopefully) I’m throwing my cell phone in the river.
I was born 25 years too early (45 right now). I tell my kids that when I die, I want my grave marker to be a Wi-Fi hotspot.
re: #96 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
while trying to establish a monopoly on the marijuana agricultural market.
Ohio is a state of contradictions. Not that they are somehow different in that …
I would have no problem with a government monopoly on weed if it were legalized, taxed and regulated. I do not really think that our version of the Free Market is the best vehicle for distributing mind-altering substances.
re: #107 Belafon
I was born 25 years too early (45 right now). I tell my kids that when I die, I want my grave marker to be a Wi-Fi hotspot.
I’m going to have my cremains planted under a tree. That way, when the tree grows, my relatives can come talk to me.
re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I would have no problem with a government monopoly on weed if it were legalized, taxed and regulated. I do not really think that our version of the Free Market is the best vehicle for distributing mind-altering substances.
like alcohol?
re: #14 teleskiguy
Gorgeous shot.
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I love Haines…gorgeous little fishing town - where the inland ferry from Seattle makes its turn. Would love to ski there.
Srsly wingnuts truly believe that public displays for flag-fucking shows how much someone LUVS AMERCIA!!!!!! and not participating in a bullshit flag-fucking photo-op (like Obama did that one time in 2007) means HE HATES ARE COUNTRIE!!!!11!!!
re: #106 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
I’ll admit the Trump lead has gone on longer than I expected. I still don’t think he’ll be the nominee. I am a bit surprised that the GOP electorate is not as of yet turning to more “conventional” conservatives like Paul and Cruz. And of course I thought Walker would be the main Jeb! challenger. I thought Perry would be a strong candidate in 2012, but his flame-out then made his campaign this year much less viable. Not really surprised Huckabee isn’t doing particularly well—he’s been out of office for a long time, has run before, the energy seems to be towards fresh faces.
I think Carson could win the nomination. I don’t think he will.
If the GOP nominates Carson or Trump (or Carly or Paul or Cruz for that matter) it would be a pretty radical break with their history of usually nominating the next man up. Yes, they can nominate crazy for VP. But usually the head of the ticket is well established presence (HW Bush, Dole, McCain, Romney, even W Bush had the name). Even Reagan, by 1980, was far from some fringe candidate. He’d been governor of California for two terms, been a prominent political activist and spokesman for decades. He made a surprisingly strong race for the nomination in 1976, etc.
But we may be in a new world.
Yeah I thought the biggest alternative to Jeb would be Walker who is fairly young, has a record on al ot of issues that the base will love, and has won in a Democratic state (and yes Wisconsin Lizards I know he had weak Dem opponents but he is on the record as a staunch conservative who has won twice in a Obama state).
I think I’d rather see the pharmaceutical and OTC type companies take over the weed market. I’d like profits to be returned (in some way) to serious research.
re: #105 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
When our local Walgreens was built about 12 years ago, it had a a pay phone on the outside of the building. They took it out about 7 years ago —it seemed to attract loiterers.
go figure.
When I picked up my wife from LaGuardia last night, I was standing at the doors by the Jet Blue gates, and I noticed a wall of stainless steel with three indentations, and a plate of stainless over each indentation.
It took me a minute to realize that they were once pay phone housings. It’s crazy to think that they were once ubiquitous in NYC and now you can barely find one.
re: #110 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
like alcohol?
I would have no problem with a government monopoly on that as well…
re: #78 Targetpractice
That’s the thing about future predictions, they generally are extrapolations of the point in time they’re made, relying upon then-existing or theorized advances in science/technology. Like how, back in the 50s and 60s, you see a lot predictions about computers still being hulking monstrosities, as the microprocessor was still years down the line.
Well, the American scientists were still reverse engineering all that great stuff we got out of the crashed space ships at Roswell.
(I have a friend that still believe that is where micro-electronics came from…after all, before there were micro-electronics, there wasn’t any micro-electronics. Proof!)
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
Srsly wingnuts truly believe that public displays for flag-fucking shows how much someone LUVS AMERCIA!!!!!! and not participating in a bullshit flag-fucking photo-op (like Obama did that one time in 2007) means HE HATES ARE COUNTRIE!!!!11!!!
Also here is my vary patriotic and American Confederate battle flag which is very heritage!!!
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
Srsly wingnuts truly believe that public displays for flag-fucking shows how much someone LUVS AMERCIA!!!!!! and not participating in a bullshit flag-fucking photo-op (like Obama did that one time in 2007) means HE HATES ARE COUNTRIE!!!!11!!!
All style, no substance.
re: #114 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I think I’d rather see the pharmaceutical and OTC type companies take over the weed market. I’d like profits to be returned (in some way) to serious research.
What we really want, then, is for colleges to do it.
re: #118 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Also here is my vary patriotic and American Confederate battle flag which is very heritage!!!
That one always gets me. Motherfucker, how can you tell me you’re a patriot when you venerate the CSA flag. It’d be like a Sinn Feiner saying he loved the British empire.
re: #120 Belafon
What we really want, then, is for colleges to do it.
Hey, great ideas do come from stoned grad students.
re: #120 Belafon
What we really want, then, is for colleges to do it.
they could cover both the medicinal and recreational aspects of it…
re: #112 The Vicious Babushka
Srsly wingnuts truly believe that public displays for flag-fucking shows how much someone LUVS AMERCIA!!!!!! and not participating in a bullshit flag-fucking photo-op (like Obama did that one time in 2007) means HE HATES ARE COUNTRIE!!!!11!!!
Because people who do not understand the idea that underlies concepts like patriotism, religion or manhood, they cling to external symbols and stereotypical expressions.
In last 4 yrs, states passed 231 #abortion restrictions. These are must-know statistics about abortion in the US. https://t.co/ud3HEnVnae
— Planned Parenthood (@PPact) October 21, 2015
Women don’t need permission slips from men to control their own bodies. - @ninaturner #OHstandswithPP
— Planned Parenthood (@PPAOhio) October 20, 2015
re: #117 ObserverArt
Well, the American scientists were still reverse engineering all that great stuff we got out of the crashed space ships at Roswell.
(I have a friend that still believe that is where micro-electronics came from…after all, before there were micro-electronics, there wasn’t any micro-electronics. Proof!)
You might tell your friend that the first transistor wasn’t micro: Image: File:1st-Transistor.jpg. First came the transistor, then the first integrated circuit: earthsky.org, then shrinking.
When I hear people say that a corporation cannot afford to pay a living wage, or afford health care benefits, my new response is going to be: “I guess their business model isn’t working, is it?”
Interesting, and somewhat alarming….
The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
Dystopian truth is stranger than dystopian fiction.
In New York City, the police now maintain an unknown number of military-grade vans outfitted with X-ray radiation, enabling cops to look through the walls of buildings or the sides of trucks. The technology was used in Afghanistan before being loosed on U.S. streets. Each X-ray van costs an estimated $729,000 to $825,000.
The NYPD will not reveal when, where, or how often they are used.
“I will not talk about anything at all about this,” New York Police Commissioner Bill Bratton told a journalist for the New York Post who pressed for details on the vans. “It falls into the range of security and counter-terrorism activity that we engage in.”
He added that “they’re not used to scan people for weapons.”
While Bratton says they’re not used to scan for weapons, he doesn’t say what they are used for - or where, or how often, or on whom.
re: #131 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
When I hear people say that a corporation cannot afford to pay a living wage, or afford health care benefits, my new response is going to be: “I guess their business model isn’t working, is it?”
What they mean is that they cannot afford to pay their managers multi-million -dollar bonuses if they pay their workers a living wage.
re: #70 Great White Snark
I was in South San Francisco when the 89 quake hit. Quickly I saw a few then typical car phone antennas on cars. I was sure my wife was worried back home so I knocked on a couple doors by the cars to offer money for a call home. 3 for 3 all posers. Antenna, no phone. What a weird day that was.
Small World.
My Father in Law was there as well on business in 89. He actually did find someone with a Cell phone and was able to call home in the brief time after the quake.
re: #133 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
What they mean is that they cannot afford to pay their managers multi-million -dollar bonuses if they pay their workers a living wage.
or pay lobbyists to try to game the system in their favor
re: #76 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I remember when it was .25 —and I think before that it was .10.
It was definitely .10 — this is the origin of the phrase “drop a dime on him.”
(in my parents’ youth it was .05 — “hipsters” of dad’s era would answer the phone “go ahead, it’s your nickel”)
re: #137 sagehen
It was definitely .10 — this is the origin of the phrase “drop a dime on him.”
(in my parents’ youth it was .05 — “hipsters” of dad’s era would answer the phone “go ahead, it’s your nickel”)
remember “the five and dime”?
re: #62 HappyWarrior
It’s been amusing to watch for sure. Never thought Trump and Carson would be the front runners and establishment guys like Jeb would be doing so poor. I’m not totally surprised Jeb’s underperformed so far in that the GOP electorate has changed since his last run and campaigns themselves but I was not prepared for how stupid he can be.
We all bought into Jeb! being the smart brother. I have seen nothing at all that supports that supposition. Nothing.
re: #135 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
The anti-Hillary Clinton ad that’s angering some family members of Benghazi victims
They should be furious. It’s disugsting what they’re doing and it bugs me that they can’t sue the PAC.
re: #64 Targetpractice
I remember back in 1986 calling emergency from my dad’s car phone to report a car fire in the roadway and the operator asking me quizzically, “Where ARE you calling from?” My dad sold huge PBX systems for a living and he had the latest telephone gadgets on hand to impress his clients…that phone was about the size and weight of two bricks. I think my mother still has it somewhere.
re: #72 HappyWarrior
Hey I can remember when phone calls only cost 5¢ when I was a kid in the 50s. There was a big ruckus when Bell upped the price to 10¢!
re: #74 HappyWarrior
Yeesh.
Watch it, you whippersnapper. ;-) That was my first phone, too. That $.01 was nothing to a freaking $1000 bill. That stuff was VERY expensive back then. Especially if you used it for business use.
I thought this was interesting: W Bush on Cruz:
Since leaving the White House, George W. Bush has taken pains not to insert himself into the events of the day. Not to weigh in. Not to utter statements bound to become headlines.
When he breaks that habit, you perk up and wonder why.
He broke it in regard to Ted Cruz.
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He described Cruz as cynically opportunistic and self-serving. And this assessment was so starkly at odds with Bush’s anodyne, even warm, remarks about other Republican presidential candidates that listeners were stunned, wrote Politico’s Eli Stokols.
Bush reportedly summed up his sentiments about Cruz, who worked as a policy adviser on Bush’s 2000 presidential campaign, with this blunt declaration: “I just don’t like the guy.”
re: #140 HappyWarrior
They should be furious. It’s disugsting what they’re doing and it bugs me that they can’t sue the PAC.
These fuckers had no idea of where Behgahzi or Lybia were until the hearings commenced…
re: #96 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
while trying to establish a monopoly on the marijuana agricultural market.
Ohio is a state of contradictions. Not that they are somehow different in that …
ggt, did you see the articles I linked on Saturday when you first made mention of the monopoly in Ohio Issue 3?
It is not as clear as some articles state that it is a monopoly. The politicians are pushing the word monopoly. The backers of the issue state in their mailings:
“10 grow sites that compete with one another is only the beginning. If growing facilities are not meeting consumption and market demands after 3 years, the independent state Control Commision can add additional licenses until demand is met.”
The word monopoly allows another group that wants to kill the whole idea to put up Ohio Issue 2…which prevents the initiative process from being used for personal economic benefit. Issue 2 if passed will attempt to kill Issue 3 if passed.
All I can say is it is more politics. Many say if they can get Issue 3 through it can be tuned up as far as the language about how the growers are licensed, etc.
re: #139 WhatEVs
We all bought into Jeb! being the smart brother. I have seen nothing at all that supports that supposition. Nothing.
I’ve actually come to the opposite conclusion hat George was the smarter brother all along. I mean neither are smart like their Dad is but I think Dubya is smarter than Jeb at least political IQ wise. I’ve seen Jeb appear on Hugh Hewitt and whine about people who have a problem with the Washington Redskins name? Because that’s leadership ya know and then how Jeb tried to get out of his “anchor baby” comment by acting like no one could call him a bigot for saying because his wife is a Mexican immigrant and then he really stepped in it by insulting Asians. Jeb’s intelligence I think was greatly overestimated. His defenses of his brother over 9/11 are pretty weak too. He comes off as someone defending a brother accused of stealing cookies not having been President during 9/11. I mean I get Jeb is between a rock and a hard spot when Trump outright blames his brother for the attacks but insisting “My brother kept us safe” when it’s easy as hell to point to the dead people on 9/11 just makes him foolish looking.
re: #143 WhatEVs
Watch it, you whippersnapper. ;-) That was my first phone, too. That $.01 was nothing to a freaking $1000 bill. That stuff was VERY expensive back then. Especially if you used it for business use.
Nah I didn’t mean any offense, I was just thinking that thing certainly did not put the mobile in mobile phone.
re: #132 makeitstop
Interesting, and somewhat alarming….
The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
While Bratton says they’re not used to scan for weapons, he doesn’t say what they are used for - or where, or how often, or on whom.
Often the public can’t be told for critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tech is used, because the public knew then gangs and terrorists would change how they operate in order to make the tech less effective.
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
These fuckers had no idea of where Behgahzi or Lybia were until the hearings commenced…
Benghazi has one purpose to them and McCarthy was stupid/honest enough to admit it, to bring down Clinton. They don’t care about these families. Hell if they did, they’d know that Clinton and Obama actually knew the victims at least Ambassador Stevens himself. If Ambassador Stevens was still alive, they’d be calling him an appeaser.
Germany responds to Netanyahu: “We are responsible for the Holocaust” https://t.co/odBGQjQFjA #Ynet
— Ynetnews (@ynetnews) October 21, 2015
The other thing the Benghazi lie wants to create is this notion that Obama is one of the only presidents to have an embassy or consulate attacked in his prreidency. There were more attacks on them in the Bush years but you’d never know it if you asked the Republicans. Oh and the fact that the R’s budget cut embassy and consulate security funds but yeah it’s all Clinton and Obama’s fault!
re: #152 darthstar
Germany responds to Netanyahu: “We are responsible for the Holocaust” http://
There are people who will tell us that it was African slave traders or British cotton mills who were responsible for slavery in America…
re: #152 darthstar
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Bibi just got served shit for breaksfast, good, maybe he’ll stop spewing crap now that he’s eating it.
Of course, that won’t stop Bibi from using it as an excuse…talk about a country in need of regime change.
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
There are people who will tell us that it was African slave traders or British cotton mills who were responsible for slavery in America…
You’re right but Bibi is a national leader not some internet yahoo spouting off stupid crap.
re: #99 Eventual Carrion
It was a dime when I was a kid. My hometown had a phone booth on every corner of main street. The bars all had them. A few bars still have the booths but the payphone isn’t there anymore. People still use the booths to shut out the noise when they make cellphone calls :-). Repurposing!
New York has very few phone booths — but a lot of the ones they have are WiFi hotspots.
re: #156 darthstar
Of course, that won’t stop Bibi from using it as an excuse…talk about a country in need of regime change.
I was really hoping htat would happen but alas nope.
re: #129 Belafon
You might tell your friend that the first transistor wasn’t micro: Image: File:1st-Transistor.jpg. First came the transistor, then the first integrated circuit: earthsky.org, then shrinking.
You tell him! He doesn’t listen to me.
: )
re: #150 Dark_Falcon
Often the public can’t be told for critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tech is used, because the public knew then gangs and terrorists would change how they operate in order to make the tech less effective.
That’s one reason to avoid giving out certain details about how the equipment works, but there’s a serious health component since it’s using radiation to scan vehicles/equipment and potentially people as it goes through the City. There’s a further issue of privacy and unreasonable searches, and a backscatter x-ray on a public street without the person’s knowledge may be an unreasonable search.
The vehicles might also be able to scan buildings, which would increase the likelihood of violations of civil rights.
I get using a vehicle like that to scan a car that may already be suspected of having weapons, explosives, or drugs - but doing so to a line of cars just because the NYPD has the tech? That seems to be testing the bounds of civil rights/protections of the public and an infringement on the public.
Why bother? Many 2016 candidates polling at 1 percent or below — but refuse to bow out https://t.co/Y5dDZYUtVi pic.twitter.com/fcIHYk3Bkd
— Raw Story (@RawStory) October 21, 2015
Why bother? Because they’re still convinced Trump will flame out, and there will be a mad scramble to find somebody that makes everybody happy.
re: #162 Targetpractice
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Why bother? Because they’re still convinced Trump will flame out, and there will be a mad scramble to find somebody that makes everybody happy.
If Trump does flame out, I expect it will be in a spectacular fashion that really exposes the racism and classism that defines the modern GOP.
As he boarded plane to Germany Netanyahu responded to storm over Hitler remarks https://t.co/3S9xunhiPQ pic.twitter.com/7797fIQDUT
— William Booth (@BoothWilliam) October 21, 2015
As he boarded a plane to Germany on Wednesday, Netanyahu responded to the storm about his comments on Hitler and the Mufti: “I did not intend to absolve Hitler of responsibility for his diabolical destruction of European Jewry. Hitler was responsible for the Final Solution extermination of six million Jews, he made the decision.”
He continued, however, to press his point: “The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews. We must not ignore the importance of his role. The Mufti repeatedly suggested that the Jews should be exterminated. He considered it an appropriate solution to the Palestinian question.”
Stop digging.
Harry’s still trolling the Republicans:
Senate Dems Want The RNC To Pay For The Benghazi Committee
Due to the political nature of the committee, we believe it is inappropriate that a reported 4.7 million taxpayer dollars were used to finance its operations and that the RNC subsequently orchestrated numerous fundraising opportunities in its wake,” Democrats wrote in the letter obtained by Roll Call.
heh
re: #161 lawhawk
That’s one reason to avoid giving out certain details about how the equipment works, but there’s a serious health component since it’s using radiation to scan vehicles/equipment and potentially people as it goes through the City. There’s a further issue of privacy and unreasonable searches, and a backscatter x-ray on a public street without the person’s knowledge may be an unreasonable search.
The vehicles might also be able to scan buildings, which would increase the likelihood of violations of civil rights.
I get using a vehicle like that to scan a car that may already be suspected of having weapons, explosives, or drugs - but doing so to a line of cars just because the NYPD has the tech? That seems to be testing the bounds of civil rights/protections of the public and an infringement on the public.
Good point. That would go against the constitutional ban on unreasonable searches IMO.
re: #164 wrenchwench
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As he boarded a plane to Germany on Wednesday, Netanyahu responded to the storm about his comments on Hitler and the Mufti: “I did not intend to absolve Hitler of responsibility for his diabolical destruction of European Jewry. Hitler was responsible for the Final Solution extermination of six million Jews, he made the decision.”
He continued, however, to press his point: “The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews. We must not ignore the importance of his role. The Mufti repeatedly suggested that the Jews should be exterminated. He considered it an appropriate solution to the Palestinian question.”
Stop digging.
He won’t because he has no reason to. His domestic politics favors mangling the history and digging in. Admitting an error gives his foes an opening.
re: #165 BeachDem
Harry’s still trolling the Republicans:
Senate Dems Want The RNC To Pay For The Benghazi Committee
Due to the political nature of the committee, we believe it is inappropriate that a reported 4.7 million taxpayer dollars were used to finance its operations and that the RNC subsequently orchestrated numerous fundraising opportunities in its wake,” Democrats wrote in the letter obtained by Roll Call.
heh
“Harry Reid’s pathetic attempt to inject politics into the final, definitive account of the 9/11 terrorist attack in Benghazi that killed four Americans dishonors their memory and has no basis in reality,” RNC National Press Secretary Allison Moore said in the statement. “This cheap political stunt from disgruntled members of the minority party is nothing more than an in-kind contribution to the Clinton campaign paid for with taxpayer dollars.”
Projecting like an IMAX.
re: #162 Targetpractice
I would not discount that some of people still in the running are doing so because (1) it feeds money to a PAC that can then be routed to them, (2) because its free advertising for whatever MLM-like crap they peddle directly, (3) “Presidential Candidate” has knock-on value when negotiating speaking fees, book contracts, etc.
Since there are some people here interested in genealogy, perhaps you’ll be interested in this two day genealogy presentation starting this morning from the National Archives, livestreamed on youtube:
First presentation is underway.
re: #164 wrenchwench
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As he boarded a plane to Germany on Wednesday, Netanyahu responded to the storm about his comments on Hitler and the Mufti: “I did not intend to absolve Hitler of responsibility for his diabolical destruction of European Jewry. Hitler was responsible for the Final Solution extermination of six million Jews, he made the decision.”
He continued, however, to press his point: “The Mufti was instrumental in the decision to exterminate the Jews. We must not ignore the importance of his role. The Mufti repeatedly suggested that the Jews should be exterminated. He considered it an appropriate solution to the Palestinian question.”
Stop digging.
And he wasn’t the only national and religious leader to do so Bibi but yet you insist on holding his countrymen and co-religionists responsible for that, just shut up already and stop fanning the flames of hate just to make a bunch of Christian fundamentalists who think you’re hellbent anyhow happy. We don’t treat Germans like crap because of the Holocaust and we certainly shouldn’t Palestinians either.
re: #170 freetoken
Since there are some people here interested in genealogy, perhaps you’ll be interested in this two day genealogy presentation starting this morning from the National Archives, livestreamed on youtube:
First presentation is underway.
Thanks, I would but I gotta work. Hopefully they pun intended archive the video.
Vdkun Quisling wanted to kill Jews too. No one says let’s blame all Norwegians and Lutherans for that.
re: #140 HappyWarrior
They should be furious. It’s disugsting what they’re doing and it bugs me that they can’t sue the PAC.
gaming the system in their favor, did they?
I’m still pissed the Republicans invited Bibi to come to America and use a speech before our Congress as a campaign stop. In a way they condone his politics and his whole handling of the Palestinian issues with Israel.
I haven’t heard much out of them on the problems going on now.
And with that…gotta get busy…later on.
re: #144 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
If W, who seems to get along with everyone (I mean, Cheney — jeez), says something negative about Ted Cruz, then that’s noteworthy. If Havana Ted has lost George W. Bush, then he’s got to be really bad.
Not that I am surprised. Cruz just seems so oily as a politician, the kind of guy who, after you shake hands with him, you pat your pockets and check your wrist to make sure nothing’s missing.
re: #143 WhatEVs
Watch it, you whippersnapper. ;-) That was my first phone, too. That $.01 was nothing to a freaking $1000 bill. That stuff was VERY expensive back then. Especially if you used it for business use.
THOSE ROAMING CHARGES! Hubby used to be in places like Iowa and Nebraska and making business calls. Whew!!!
re: #174 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
gaming the system in their favor, did they?
I dunno. Not really familiar with this part of the law. I’ve never heard about a PAC being sued.
re: #145 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
These fuckers had no idea of where Behgahzi or Lybia were until the hearings commenced…
many of them still don’t know …
re: #150 Dark_Falcon
Often the public can’t be told for critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tech is used, because the public knew then gangs and terrorists would change how they operate in order to make the tech less effective.
They’re already under court order to provide that information. There are real privacy and health concerns here, because X-rays can hurt you.
This is not the CIA we’re talking about here, it’s a city police force. Just because they’re using military-grade equipment does not make them subject to the same shield of law.
Just another reason why the militarization of police forces was a bad decision to begin with.
re: #161 lawhawk
That’s one reason to avoid giving out certain details about how the equipment works, but there’s a serious health component since it’s using radiation to scan vehicles/equipment and potentially people as it goes through the City. There’s a further issue of privacy and unreasonable searches, and a backscatter x-ray on a public street without the person’s knowledge may be an unreasonable search.
The vehicles might also be able to scan buildings, which would increase the likelihood of violations of civil rights.
I get using a vehicle like that to scan a car that may already be suspected of having weapons, explosives, or drugs - but doing so to a line of cars just because the NYPD has the tech? That seems to be testing the bounds of civil rights/protections of the public and an infringement on the public.
I would think that Kyllo vs. U.S. would cover the use of this technology. Would I be wrong?
The Supreme Court today, in Kyllo vs. U.S., ruled that authorities scanning a home with an infrared camera without a warrant constituted an unreasonable search barred by the Fourth Amendment.
It did so, the court said, because the device is not in general use by the public, so Kyllo had an expectation of privacy, and because the imaging provided by the camera revealed details about Kyllo’s home “that would previously have been unknowable without physical intrusion.”
re: #172 HappyWarrior
Thanks, I would but I gotta work. Hopefully they pun intended archive the video.
I expect the videos will be archived on youtube.
re: #147 ObserverArt
ggt, did you see the articles I linked on Saturday when you first made mention of the monopoly in Ohio Issue 3?
It is not as clear as some articles state that it is a monopoly. The politicians are pushing the word monopoly. The backers of the issue state in their mailings:
The word monopoly allows another group that wants to kill the whole idea to put up Ohio Issue 2…which prevents the initiative process from being used for personal economic benefit. Issue 2 if passed will attempt to kill Issue 3 if passed.
All I can say is it is more politics. Many say if they can get Issue 3 through it can be tuned up as far as the language about how the growers are licensed, etc.
Thanks! I think those articles are the ones that started me on it. But that was a long time ago …
re: #150 Dark_Falcon
Often the public can’t be told for critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tech is used, because the public knew then gangs and terrorists would change how they operate in order to make the tech less effective.
just hope they have to get a warrant … .
re: #179 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
many of them still don’t know …
I still recall Michelle Bachmann’s quote on Obama: “First he got us into Libya, now he’s getting us into Africa!”
re: #176 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
If W, who seems to get along with everyone (I mean, Cheney — jeez), says something negative about Ted Cruz, then that’s noteworthy. If Havana Ted has lost George W. Bush, then he’s got to be really bad.
Not that I am surprised. Cruz just seems so oily as a politician, the kind of guy who, after you shake hands with him, you pat your pockets and check your wrist to make sure nothing’s missing.
It is something. I hadn’t seen that W had kind words for all the others except Ted which is interesting given Ted’s early career work for the Bush campaign and administration. Ted’s response was pretty heh PC- I met my wife on his campaign so I’m grateful to him for that.
re: #150 Dark_Falcon
Often the public can’t be told for critical intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) tech is used, because the public knew then gangs and terrorists would change how they operate in order to make the tech less effective.
There is another basic right here, one that goes beyond search and seizure, namely the Right to Petition for the Redress of Grievances.
How can one petition if one is unaware of nature of the grievance or how and where it was committed?
re: #182 freetoken
I expect the videos will be archived on youtube.
Excellent, I’ll definitely look for it. I’ve hit some road blocks in my research though I’m hoping my recent joining of a Slovenian Genealogical Society will help there. It’s a funny paradox but the country I’ve had the most easy time resaerching is Germany- by far the biggest after the USA and the hardest little Slovenia. My eventual goal of goals is to visit where I know my family came from and maybe find some distant cousins.
re: #186 HappyWarrior
It is something. I hadn’t seen that W had kind words for all the others except Ted which is interesting given Ted’s early career work for the Bush campaign and administration. Ted’s response was pretty heh PC- I met my wife on his campaign so I’m grateful to him for that.
Cruz frankly scares me as a would-be theocrat, and I’m glad he’s not had the kind of success his wacko daddy prophesied he’d have.
re: #169 The Ghost of the Beardsman
I would not discount that some of people still in the running are doing so because (1) it feeds money to a PAC that can then be routed to them, (2) because its free advertising for whatever MLM-like crap they peddle directly, (3) “Presidential Candidate” has knock-on value when negotiating speaking fees, book contracts, etc.
yes, many people derive income from their PAC/S.
DICK MORRIS?????
re: #21 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Well, UpChuck and Pammy won’t need to worry about Ahmed Mohamed building any more “clock bombs” — he’s moving to Qatar. Yay, America!!
He’s got a free ride for both high school and college from the foundation. Probably will grow to invent some fancy shit, win a Nobel prize, or something … and he’ll do it someplace besides here.
I’m happy for him, but I would have preferred he stay here in the States, despite its occasional unfriendliness.
I wonder how his sister feels about the family moving there…
re: #183 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Thanks! I think those articles are the ones that started me on it. But that was a long time ago …
I was just looking at the big mailer I got a little over a week ago from the Issue 3 group.
At the top, the big old headline goes right to the problem with the ballot language (set up by one Ohio Secretary of State John Husted who many will already have heard of) using the word monopoly.
Yes on Issue 3 Starts with 10 Competing and Regulated Grows, and if Those 10 Don’t Meet the Needs of the State or Consumers, the State Adds Licensing Until the Demand is Met. That is Not a Monopoly, That’s a Regulated Industry.
Okay…later…
And on the 8th day, the Devil said, “lets create Math.”
re: #190 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Cruz frankly scares me as a would-be theocrat, and I’m glad he’s not had the kind of success his wacko daddy prophesied he’d have.
I think he honestly scares me more than Huckabee. But yeah I am glad that Rafael’s vision for his son has been wrong. Hopefully the DSCC finds a quality canidate to run against him in 2018 and the RSCC who probably can’t stand Ted much anyhow won’t push much money in to the race leaving Ted to fade away in to the world of wingnut welfare. That man is a disgrace to the Senate. He doesn’t serve the people of his state, he serves a small group of evangelical theocratic fascists.
‘If the history of science shows us anything, it is that we get nowhere by labelling our ignorance “God”.’ - Jerry Coyne
— FloridaLine (@Floridaline) October 21, 2015
Watch: Illegally parked cop gets a taste of police extortion https://t.co/fSM66zQXb5
— JoeInWV (@wvjoe911) October 21, 2015
re: #192 sagehen
I wonder how his sister feels about the family moving there…
Interesting question. Qatar is very conservative, like Saudi Arabia, so I wonder if girls are educated past primary school. Wikipedia is not helping me.
@darthstar99 Okay, okay…I looked. Siskel & Ebert gave it two thumbs up. It was charming and Michael J Fox was adorbs. Whatever.
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) October 21, 2015
Sunscreen contributing to decline of coral reefs, study shows
seems it’s the newer sunscreens that have the chemicals. The “gentle” or “baby” versions only have traditional titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. Those chemicals aren’t mentioned.
re: #199 darthstar
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I always enjoyed Bill and Ted more as a time travel movie personally and that was before I knew George Carlin was more than just Rufus. I do like the movie though but Bill and Ted is the movie that sparked one of my first ASD obsessions- time travel.
re: #199 darthstar
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I totally ignored it when it came out, only watched it when my kids borrowed a copy from the neighbors a few years back.
re: #200 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Sunscreen contributing to decline of coral reefs, study shows
seems it’s the newer sunscreens that have the chemicals. The “gentle” or “baby” versions only have traditional titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. Those chemicals aren’t mentioned.
Yeah I have heard about this. A shame. I usually use the spray, not sure if that’s any ecologically speaking better.
re: #203 HappyWarrior
Yeah I have heard about this. A shame. I usually use the spray, not sure if that’s any ecologically speaking better.
I’ve been leery of the new chemicals. Technically, they really don’t work any better and still have to be reapplied as often. I’ve stuck with the baby/gentle version every year.
Kentucky prosecutor under fire for saying being Hispanic is “probable cause” for traffic stop https://t.co/TUVrWyLGdC via @LatinoVoices
— scottMontgomery (@scottMontgomery) October 21, 2015
re: #154 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
There are people who will tell us that it was African slave traders or British cotton mills who were responsible for slavery in America…
Yes the same liars that said we’d be greeted as liberators and trickle down is good for everyone.
re: #204 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I’ve been leery of the new chemicals. Technically, they really don’t work any better and still have to be reapplied as often. I’ve stuck with the baby/gentle version every year.
I haven’t noticed much difference. I don’t like using too much anyhow. If I get burned, I get burned.
re: #181 Bubblehead II
It would, but they’d probably argue that it doesn’t apply to cars parked on a public street (and they’d probably test that all the way through the courts). Oh and if they manage to get a hit on a building, shed, or other structure nearby, then so be it.
re: #205 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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re: #205 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Kentucky prosecutor under fire for saying being Hispanic is “probable cause” for traffic stop
According to President-to-be Donald Trump, it certainly is!!!
And when you thought the @NRA could not get more paranoid and mentally challenged this happens: #gunfail https://t.co/GPRMozGPjo
— WonderMom (@vivigold197) October 21, 2015
re: #200 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Sunscreen contributing to decline of coral reefs, study shows
seems it’s the newer sunscreens that have the chemicals. The “gentle” or “baby” versions only have traditional titanium dioxide and zinc oxide. Those chemicals aren’t mentioned.
Speaking of sunscreen, another whacko conspiracy theory came to my attention last week. Where I was working, they had “health briefs” on the stall doors in the bathrooms. One was advising using sunscreen and somebody had gotten out the Sharpee to write over it that government/big pharma puts cancer-causing agents in all sunscreen, so you should never use it.
(probably a residual/side effect of chemtrails!)
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re: #207 HappyWarrior
I haven’t noticed much difference. I don’t like using too much anyhow. If I get burned, I get burned.
skin cancer can kill you. use on your face and top of your ears (and head if sparse on hair) at least.
re: #212 BeachDem
Speaking of sunscreen, another whacko conspiracy theory came to my attention last week. Where I was working, they had “health briefs” on the stall doors in the bathrooms. One was advising using sunscreen and somebody had gotten out the Sharpee to write over it that government/big pharma puts cancer-causing agents in all sunscreen, so you should never use it.
(probably a residual/side effect of chemtrails!)
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barrier method is the best!!! clothing, hat, umbrella, zinc oxide -or be like me, just stay inside and be a mole. :)
re: #211 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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Someone needs to actually take WAyne LaPierre’s guns and make him watch as they’re destroyed. Sadly though, this rhetoric isn’t new for the NRA. They have compared federal agents to the Gestapo and SS before too. They’re an organization filled with little cowards who can’t handle anyone who doesn’t think guns are awesome.
re: #213 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
skin cancer can kill you. use on your face and top of your ears (and head if sparse on hair) at least.
Germany has been experiencing very mild and sunny springtime weather, and that is the time that I have to be the most careful that I am well screened until I start to develop a base tan.
I have an aunt that had skin cancer on her leg. She has a 3 inch square divet in the front of her skin. This happened while I was in high school and being the vain girly I was am, it horrified(s) me.
re: #214 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
barrier method is the best!!! clothing, hat, umbrella, zinc oxide -or be like me, just stay inside and be a mole. :)
I have a broadbrimmed hat that’s supposed to be UV-resistant. I got it from Amazon.
re: #213 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
skin cancer can kill you. use on your face and top of your ears (and head if sparse on hair) at least.
OF course. I don’t go out unlotioned but I am not over saturated with the stuff iether.
re: #148 HappyWarrior
I’ve actually come to the opposite conclusion hat George was the smarter brother all along. I mean neither are smart like their Dad is but I think Dubya is smarter than Jeb at least political IQ wise. I’ve seen Jeb appear on Hugh Hewitt and whine about people who have a problem with the Washington Redskins name? Because that’s leadership ya know and then how Jeb tried to get out of his “anchor baby” comment by acting like no one could call him a bigot for saying because his wife is a Mexican immigrant and then he really stepped in it by insulting Asians. Jeb’s intelligence I think was greatly overestimated. His defenses of his brother over 9/11 are pretty weak too. He comes off as someone defending a brother accused of stealing cookies not having been President during 9/11. I mean I get Jeb is between a rock and a hard spot when Trump outright blames his brother for the attacks but insisting “My brother kept us safe” when it’s easy as hell to point to the dead people on 9/11 just makes him foolish looking.
Exactly what I meant. Jeb! is not politically smart in any way (as evidenced by what you said above). Nor is Jeb! smart in an intellectual way. I am starting to think he is more rock like than rock-star like. I am shocked at how dumb he is…in pretty much all respects, Katie. :-)
Assad is in Moscow, meeting with his BFF Putin. bbc.com
Probably thanking Putin for bombing the wrong people.
I was exaggerating with the comment about LaPierre’s guns but I really would like someone to tell the NRA off for the hateful fucks they are.
I got an official white house email, signed by Michael J. Fox!
We’ve come a long way since 1985.
When Marty McFly and Doc Brown traveled 30 years into the future, we could only imagine the innovations we take for granted today — new ideas and technologies that have completely changed the way we live, learn, and work.
Back then, if you’d have told me that I’d go from talking on a cell phone to talking cell biology, I would never have believed you. But today, The Michael J. Fox Foundation is helping to spearhead research collaborations to speed a future in which we can treat, cure, and even prevent brain diseases like Parkinson’s.
So what’s possible in another 30 years? Call me an optimist, but I believe that by 2045 we’ll find the cures we seek — especially because of all the smart, passionate people working to make it happen. Doctors and researchers around the world are developing new tools to improve the diagnosis and treatment of brain diseases, to tailor treatments — for all illnesses — through precision medicine, and to make life better for millions of people. This truly is the stuff of the future.
…
re: #222 HappyWarrior
I was exaggerating with the comment about LaPierre’s guns but I really would like someone to tell the NRA off for the hateful fucks they are.
George Bush senior did.
re: #223 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I got an official white house email, signed by Michael J. Fox!
I still remember when that pig Limbaugh mocked him.
re: #224 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
George Bush senior did.
He did but he wasn’t in office at that time. I do appreciate HW doing that though.
re: #205 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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Wow! “Driving while Mexican” formalized. Texas highway brigands small town cops will be delighted to hear this. It still can’t match the ultimate in redneck probable cause, “black while driving van,” but it’s close.
re: #135 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
The anti-Hillary Clinton ad that’s angering some family members of Benghazi victims
Sharyl Attkisson was on Washington Journal this morning, floggin her book and “just asking questions” about why nobody tried to ‘buzz” the scene with a jet.
re: #220 WhatEVs
Exactly what I meant. Jeb! is not politically smart in any way (as evidenced by what you said above). Nor is Jeb! smart in an intellectual way. I am starting to think he is more rock like than rock-star like. I am shocked at how dumb he is…in pretty much all respects, Katie. :-)
Yeah I am just amazed how dumb he comes off. I used to think he’d be a formidable candidate but I think Clinton and Sanders would both show him for the empty suit he is.
But, he has interrupted plenty of our witnesses. No anti-PP witnesses were cut off last week. #OHStandsWithPP https://t.co/9yb0dXdpxi
— Planned Parenthood (@PPAOhio) October 21, 2015
re: #203 HappyWarrior
Yeah I have heard about this. A shame. I usually use the spray, not sure if that’s any ecologically speaking better.
More and more dive resorts are specifying the use of “Reef Safe” sunscreen. I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of just how toxic some of them were. I know that I’m going to be checking what I use, and doing my part to help educate the divers I know.
FWIW, sunburn is the most common injury among divers.
RBS
re: #233 Reality Based Steve
More and more dive resorts are specifying the use of “Reef Safe” sunscreen. I have to admit that I wasn’t aware of just how toxic some of them were. I know that I’m going to be checking what I use, and doing my part to help educate the divers I know.
FWIW, sunburn is the most common injury among divers.
RBS
I’ve never really been in an area with too many reefs. HAd no idea about sunburn being that common among divers but then again I do hear about skiers and snowboarders getting burned a lot. For the long time, I had the misconception that sunburns were realted to how hot it was outside.
re: #233 Reality Based Steve
FWIW, sunburn is the most common injury among divers.
RBS
Went to Rocky Point a long time ago…was warned about how strong the sun was down there and took precautions. Went snorkelling a lot, and did not think about the exposed flesh poking up beneath my swimsuit when I hung my head underwater…
I had trouble sitting the whole way home…ow!!!
re: #231 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
7 Ways Police Will Break the Law, Threaten, or Lie to You to Get What they Want
Just do as teh cop sez!!!!!
We needz gunz to prutect areselvz from copz!!!!!!
Back and knee burns always annoy me the most.
Wheee!
Conservative voters think Donald Trump will win the 2016 election: poll https://t.co/vs0VokA35k
— Eric W. Dolan (@EWDolan) October 21, 2015
re: #238 Lidane
Wheee!
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Good let them think that because it will make their loss that much painful.
re: #240 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Science Determines Men Don’t Like Women Who Are Smarter Than They Are
Explains why Hillary isn’t going to win any superlatives with conservative males.
re: #238 Lidane
Wheee!
Conservative voters think Donald Trump will win the 2016 election:
He does not have a single GOP convention delegate yet…still waiting to see what the party can do to prevent that.
re: #239 HappyWarrior
Good let them think that because it will make their lsoe that much painful.
The full poll is scary. The GOP base has gone full retard:
Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)
re: #240 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Science Determines Men Don’t Like Women Who Are Smarter Than They Are
I’ll say I’m the exception to the rule - my wife is a brilliant woman, way smarter than me, and I love her like the day is long.
— Bloom County 2015 (@bloomcounty) October 21, 2015
Cop Off the Job After Pleading Guilty to Attacking a Man and Biting His Testicles
I love some of these headlines!
re: #243 Lidane
The full poll is scary. The GOP base has gone full retard:
Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)
It really is. Right wing populism is a dangerous ideology.
1/2 I am starting a Super PAC with my initial commitment of $150 million to help end the crippling dysfunction in Congress
— Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) October 21, 2015
2/2 I have therefore sent the following letter to the relevant committees and leaders of Congress: https://t.co/EGcuHvzou4
— Carl Icahn (@Carl_C_Icahn) October 21, 2015
re: #244 makeitstop
I’ll say I’m the exception to the rule - my wife is a brilliant woman, way smarter than me, and I love her like the day is long.
I’d think a challenge would be a turn-on, but that’s just me.
Senate Democrats demand Benghazi committee reimburse taxpayers $5.4 million for ‘investigation’ https://t.co/Z3KwxRmh0Y via @dailykos
— Comella Donaldson (@starfirst) October 21, 2015
Icahn proposes changing the law to impose a 5-10% incremental tax on corporate money held offshore.
re: #250 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
How does that even work? The government is going to reimburse the government?
After Netanyahu comments, Germany says responsibility for Holocaust is ours https://t.co/QCATAbzeV7
— Dan Williams (@DanWilliams) October 21, 2015
The German government said on Wednesday that responsibility for the Holocaust lay with the Germans, after Israel’s prime minister sparked controversy before a visit to Berlin by saying a Muslim elder had convinced Adolf Hitler to exterminate Jews.
“All Germans know the history of the murderous race mania of the Nazis that led to the break with civilization that was the Holocaust,” Chancellor Angela Merkel’s spokesman Steffen Seibert said when asked about Benjamin Netanyahu’s remarks.
“This is taught in German schools for good reason, it must never be forgotten. And I see no reason to change our view of history in any way. We know that responsibility for this crime against humanity is German and very much our own.”
<blockquote>Earlier this year, Home Depot charged an Oregon customer a $28 late fee for allegedly missing a payment on his store line of credit. The subsequent dispute over that fee resulted in more fees, a 100-point drop in the customer’s credit score and now a $250,000 lawsuit against the retailer.
According to the complaint [PDF] filed earlier this month in Multnomah County, OR, the customer claims that until April 2015, he’d regularly paid his Home Depot bill in full each month.
Then, after making a purchase of $115, the customer says he scheduled an online payment through his bank to pay the full balance on his card on April 26.
IIRC, a payment has to be considered paid on the post mark date if mailed thru the USPS. (at least that is how it used to be).
re: #205 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Kentucky prosecutor under fire for saying being Hispanic is “probable cause” for traffic stop
And the immediate death penalty for being black.
re: #243 Lidane
The full poll is scary. The GOP base has gone full retard:
Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)
While 19 percent say Trump has the best personality and temperament to serve effectively as president, that compares with a similar 24 percent for Carson.
Just think about that for a minute—then run screaming from the room country.
re: #257 BeachDem
While 19 percent say Trump has the best personality and temperament to serve effectively as president, that compares with a similar 24 percent for Carson.
Just think about that for a minute—then run screaming from the
roomcountry.
One of these guys is going to have a big impact on the primary, maybe both. Carson doesn’t have the warchest that Trump does though.
The Dark Side of Drug-Free Zones the Government Doesn’t Want You to Know
According to the investigation, nearly 75% of the entire state of Alabama is now designated a drug-free zone, with the six cities of Montgomery, Decatur, Tuscaloosa, Mobile, Birmingham and Huntsville each having 75% or more of the city limits in such a zone. In Montgomery and Decatur roughly 95% of the city is covered.
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Alabama has the farthest-reaching drug-free zones, setting a three-mile radius around schools, colleges, and public housing. This has resulted in 73% of the state being covered by these zones. Pick a random location in Alabama, and about three times out of four, you could be subject to a five-year mandatory-minimum prison term - with no possibility of parole - for selling illicit drugs in that area. Because drug-free zone-related charges often carry such a heavy sentence, they can easily be used as a threat by prosecutors who coerce defendants to plead guilty to lesser charges.
re: #243 Lidane
The full poll is scary. The GOP base has gone full retard:
Donald Trump Leads in Expectations, Shows Strength on Attributes (POLL)
On the other hand, my brother, who is following what the betting sites are showing, says most of the money is currently on Rubio being the nominee, with Trump and Carson way down the list.
When people are actually putting up money, it tends to be more accurate than what they tell pollsters.
re: #246 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Cop Off the Job After Pleading Guilty to Attacking a Man and Biting His Testicles
I love some of these headlines!
Going for his wallet no doubt; asset forfeiture, all that.
re: #249 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I’d think a challenge would be a turn-on, but that’s just me.
Theoretically, yes. But what if the guy loses? To a woman? Could be hard on the ego if you are unsure of your masculinity.
re: #260 calochortus
On the other hand, my brother, who is following what the betting sites are showing, says most of the money is currently on Rubio being the nominee, with Trump and Carson way down the list.
When people are actually putting up money, it tends to be more accurate than what they tell pollsters.
I have heard that I guess I am not seeing what will propel Rubio ahead. Trump and Carson have gotten to the front of the pack by saying outlandish sfuff. Rubin outside his declaration that he opposes al abortion has taken a petty cautious route so far and his views on immigration but I definitely do feel he’s the establishment guy if Jeb fades.
re: #260 calochortus
On the other hand, my brother, who is following what the betting sites are showing, says most of the money is currently on Rubio being the nominee, with Trump and Carson way down the list.
When people are actually putting up money, it tends to be more accurate than what they tell pollsters.
And Jenna Jameson gave Rubio a fluff. So there’s that.
re: #244 makeitstop
I’ll say I’m the exception to the rule - my wife is a brilliant woman, way smarter than me, and I love her like the day is long.
my challenge in life has always been in finding a woman who is smart enough for me to like…it is not all about smarts, it is about depth of character and resonance, but that also requires a degree of intelligence and interest beyond the transient and superficial.
re: #262 calochortus
Theoretically, yes. But what if the guy loses? To a woman? Could be hard on the ego if you are unsure of your masculinity.
Hey, lay back and enjoy it!
:)
re: #259 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
In a related notion, the idea of gun-free zones around schools and other designated institutions is also meant to impose enhanced penalties. That too is used to get defendants to plead out to lesser includeds, or impose harsher sentencing if the person has been found guilty.
re: #263 HappyWarrior
I’d guess Rubio will move to the front by attrition. Even many conservatives don’t really think Trump, or Carson are presidential material. Especially not Carson. The position of Establishment GOP nominee was Bush’s unless he chose to lose it, and apparently that’s what he is choosing to do. His campaign has been lackluster to say the least. That leaves Rubio.
re: #269 calochortus
I’d guess Rubio will move to the front by attrition. Even many conservatives don’t really think Trump, or Carson are presidential material. Especially not Carson. The position of Establishment GOP nominee was Bush’s unless he chose to lose it, and apparently that’s what he is choosing to do. His campaign has been lackluster to say the least. That leaves Rubio.
I guess so. IF that’s the case, I see a base that is pretty unexcited.
re: #267 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Hey, lay back and enjoy it!
:)
I guess we have the intelligent woman’s take on this down pat. :)
In the old Nick show The Fairly Odd Parents, the husband fairy (the comic dunce in the show) used to say “I married the smart one.” when his wife would get them out of a jam. My husband loved that line.
re: #270 HappyWarrior
I guess so. IF that’s the case, I see a base that is pretty unexcited.
And you know what? I’d be totally fine with that. Let them stay home and lose at least the Senate while they’re at it.
re: #268 lawhawk
In a related notion, the idea of gun-free zones around schools and other designated institutions is also meant to impose enhanced penalties. That too is used to get defendants to plead out to lesser includeds, or impose harsher sentencing if the person has been found guilty.
gun-free/drug-free zones sound like a good idea. Don’t think they’ve worked too well.
re: #272 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
In the old Nick show The Fairly Odd Parents, the husband fairy (the comic dunce in the show) used to say “I married the smart one.” when his wife would get them out of a jam. My husband loved that line.
That was a fun show. I was way too old for nicktoons by then but FOP was entertaining.
re: #275 HappyWarrior
That was a fun show. I was way too old for nicktoons by then but FOP was entertaining.
I loved the Arnold bad ass fairy.
re: #273 calochortus
And you know what? I’d be totally fine with that. Let them stay home and lose at least the Senate while they’re at it.
ME too. No complaints at all if they want Rubio to tbe the nominee, he doesn’t worry me.
re: #276 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I loved the Arnold bad ass fairy.
Jorgen. It was a clever show.
re: #274 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
gun-free/drug-free zones sound like a good idea. Don’t think they’ve worked too well.
Yes, when there is a case of mass drug abuse in a public place, only a good guy with drugs can prevent it…
re: #269 calochortus
I’d guess Rubio will move to the front by attrition. Even many conservatives don’t really think Trump, or Carson are presidential material. Especially not Carson. The position of Establishment GOP nominee was Bush’s unless he chose to lose it, and apparently that’s what he is choosing to do. His campaign has been lackluster to say the least. That leaves Rubio.
Rubio’s chances are much greater than I first thought they would be. He seems kind of a lightweight to me, but he might be their best compromise, i.e. default, candidate.
re: #132 makeitstop
Interesting, and somewhat alarming….
The NYPD Is Using Mobile X-Ray Vans to Spy on Unknown Targets
While Bratton says they’re not used to scan for weapons, he doesn’t say what they are used for - or where, or how often, or on whom.
So what about pregnant women that me be in the path of this thing (and not visibly pregnant)? So sorry, too bad? Some of our PDs are really out of control.
See, I thought it would be Walker because I thought Walker would be someone who would have sway with the both the establishment and TP types.
re: #219 HappyWarrior
OF course. I don’t go out unlotioned but I am not over saturated with the stuff iether.
Use sunscreen Dude!re: #282 HappyWarrior
See, I thought it would be Walker because I thought Walker would be someone who would have sway with the both the establishment and TP types.
I also saw him as the potential front runner, but then again, I thought that Rick Perry was gonna walk away with it in 2012.
re: #280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Rubio’s chances are much greater than I first thought they would be. He seems kind of a lightweight to me, but he might be their best compromise, i.e. default, candidate.
And we all know how much enthusiasm a default candidate will whip up!
re: #284 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I also saw him as the potential front runner, but then again, I thought that Rick Perry was gonna walk away with it in 2012.
I also thought PErry would end up beating Mitt but I underestimated his stupidity and Mitt’s abilities to outwingnut his rivals. Remember Perry actually sounded reasonable on immigration for a GOPer until Mitt outwingnutted him.
re: #114 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I think I’d rather see the pharmaceutical and OTC type companies take over the weed market. I’d like profits to be returned (in some way) to serious research.
If serious = potentially highly profitable, sure.
I think Trump and Carson are at their ceilings. One would pick up the other’s votes if he dropped out, but I also think that some of their supporters will tire of the act and go back into the mainstream GOP cesspool. Rubio/Jeb?/Cruz have to hang on long enough for the fringe candidates to start dropping out before their numbers will finally start to climb. My guess is it will come down to Rubio/Jeb?, and Rubio will eventually get the nomination. Ugh.
re: #285 calochortus
Don’t knock default. As Homer Simpson tells us, they’re the two sweetest words in the English language!
re: #161 lawhawk
That’s one reason to avoid giving out certain details about how the equipment works, but there’s a serious health component since it’s using radiation to scan vehicles/equipment and potentially people as it goes through the City. There’s a further issue of privacy and unreasonable searches, and a backscatter x-ray on a public street without the person’s knowledge may be an unreasonable search.
The vehicles might also be able to scan buildings, which would increase the likelihood of violations of civil rights.
I get using a vehicle like that to scan a car that may already be suspected of having weapons, explosives, or drugs - but doing so to a line of cars just because the NYPD has the tech? That seems to be testing the bounds of civil rights/protections of the public and an infringement on the public.
re: #281 CuriousLurker
So what about pregnant women that me be in the path of this thing (and not visibly pregnant)? So sorry, too bad? Some of our PDs are really out of control.
That’s the salient point, right there. Dark’s protestations to the contrary, it’s really not acceptable for a city PD to be driving around, shooting X-rays at the (presumably) guilty and innocent alike and refusing to let anyone know where it’s happening.
The military should just buy back all those toys they clearance saled to police departments. That’s a can of worms that never should have been opened.
Justin Trudeau to appoint new cabinet with equal gender balance. https://t.co/nnIfVuJTVx pic.twitter.com/qmlRotINSN
— CBC Politics (@CBCPolitics) October 21, 2015
re: #281 CuriousLurker
So what about pregnant women that me be in the path of this thing (and not visibly pregnant)? So sorry, too bad? Some of our PDs are really out of control.
yeah, I was thinking along those lines as well.
re: #292 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Justin Trudeau to appoint new cabinet with equal gender balance.
Who do those damn Canadians get Justin Trudeau while all we get stuck with is Justin Bieber?
re: #291 makeitstop
That’s the salient point, right there. Dark’s protestations to the contrary, it’s really not acceptable for a city PD to be driving around, shooting X-rays at the (presumably) guilty and innocent alike and refusing to let anyone know where it’s happening.
The military should just buy back all those toys they clearance saled to police departments. That’s a can of worms that never should have been opened.
what if they started looking for pregnant women having abortions and the fetus got cancer from all the exposure???
so many bad outcomes possible from this practice.
re: #292 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Dumb idea to announce it. He should have just nominated a cabinet without saying that up front. It will make people wonder which member are the tokens.
one more
Mo. Suspect spotted carrying nearly 20 guns in police custody, said he was deer hunting https://t.co/x0uhHsxaJI
— Cyborg Gens v23∞ (@comgenKDT) October 21, 2015
re: #223 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
I got an official white house email, signed by Michael J. Fox!
I got that too. A good face to have out front on that battle.
re: #298 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
Mo. Suspect spotted carrying nearly 20 guns in police custody, said he was deer hunting
don’t forget, those deer outnumber him…
I plan on pointing to Justin the next time an older relative copmlains about my tattoos.
Flat tire. I ran over a nail. Free patch, but I have to sit here for an hour :(
re: #234 HappyWarrior
I’ve never really been in an area with too many reefs. HAd no idea about sunburn being that common among divers but then again I do hear about skiers and snowboarders getting burned a lot. For the long time, I had the misconception that sunburns were realted to how hot it was outside.
With a snow cover you can get sun burnt under your chin from the reflected sunlight.
Things may get a lot more interesting in a few minutes:
BREAKING: Biden to make statement with Obama at 12:10 pm ET.
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) October 21, 2015
Or they may not.
re: #248 jaunte
This is an interesting debate. We let corporations get away with virtually no taxes. Then we want to tax profits made outside the country (which apparently no other country does). I get his point and in a lot of respects, he’s correct.
We need to fix the tax system so corporate welfare stops and they actually pay original taxes (and the whole “we have the highest taxes in the world is bullshit. After all their deductions we pay some of these freaking corporations). Taxing funds coming back into the country is not how to do it.
re: #303 Eventual Carrion
With a snow cover you can get sun burnt under your chin from the reflected sunlight.
And the underside of your nose. Makes using a tissue anywhere near it very, very painful.
re: #305 WhatEVs
This is an interesting debate. We let corporations get away with virtually no taxes. Then we want to tax profits made outside the country (which apparently no other country does). I get his point and in a lot of respects, he’s correct.
We need to fix the tax system so corporate welfare stops and they actually pay original taxes (and the whole “we have the highest taxes in the world is bullshit. After all their deductions we pay some of these freaking corporations). Taxing funds coming back into the country is not how to do it.
Is it any coincidence that General Electric has the largest legal department in the world and pays almost no taxes? Because for them it is more profitable to hire another lawyer than to hire another engineer or salesperson…
re: #304 It’s on his hat!
Things may get a lot more interesting in a few minutes:
Or they may not.
Would Obama stand by Biden’s side as he announced he was running?
I don’t think so.
Either he’s announcing he’s not running or the announcement is about something else.
Get ready for your hot takes. Obama will be at the speech as well.
re: #303 Eventual Carrion
With a snow cover you can get sun burnt under your chin from the reflected sunlight.
Yea never thought about that before.
re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Interesting question. Qatar is very conservative, like Saudi Arabia, so I wonder if girls are educated past primary school. Wikipedia is not helping me.
The World Factbook says:
Literacy:
definition: age 15 and over can read and write
total population: 97.3%
male: 97.4%
female: 96.8% (2015 est.)
Okay, I give up—I hate trying to catch up on threads.
Good guy with a gun gets killed by a bad guy without one.
Aitkin deputy slain in St. Cloud hospital; shooter also dead
I’m sure Wayne LaPierre can explain this to us.
re: #279 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Yes, when there is a case of mass drug abuse in a public place, only a good guy with drugs can prevent it…
Stuporman to the rescue.
re: #315 Skip Intro
Good guy with a gun gets killed by a bad guy without one.
Aitkin deputy slain in St. Cloud hospital; shooter also dead
I’m sure Wayne LaPierre can explain this to us.
Obviously nurses and security guards should be required to be armed at all times
Biden will not run for president in 2016, @CBSNews reports. Watch his statement LIVE: https://t.co/j5RUyJCYpp pic.twitter.com/UeyuMVRr01
— Reuters Politics (@ReutersPolitics) October 21, 2015
Has Biden made whatever announcement it is that he was going to make yet?
EDIT: Just saw the Reuters tweet. Never mind…
OK PEOPLE, WE’RE BACK AT CODE GREEN. pic.twitter.com/p4UzwYXf4r
— Charles Gaba (@charles_gaba) October 21, 2015
re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Interesting question. Qatar is very conservative, like Saudi Arabia, so I wonder if girls are educated past primary school. Wikipedia is not helping me.
VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) has a campus in Qatar and the Emir’s second wife (he has three) has done a lot of promotion for the campus and did a commencement speech for the Monroe Park (Richmond, Virginia) campus several years ago. She’s also involved in a lot education-related stuff according to her Wikipedia article:
Sheikha Mozah has been chairperson of the Qatar Foundation for Education, Science and Community Development since 1995, chairperson of Silatech since 2008, chairperson of the Arab Democracy Foundation, and president of the Supreme Council for Family Affairs since 1998.[4] She has been vice-president of the Supreme Education Council since 2002 and was UNESCO’s Special Envoy for Basic and Higher Education in 2003.[5] Currently, she serves as a member of the Board of Overseers for Weill Cornell Medical College. Besides this, she is chair of Sidra Medical and Research Center in Doha and the organisation “Your Link”.
Unlike many other monarchical wives in the Middle East, Sheikha Mozah has been a high-profile figure in her nation’s politics and society, actively involved in Qatar’s government. She was a driving force behind Education City and Al Jazeera Children’s Channel. She is the owner of Le Tanneur, a French leather-goods manufacturer.[6] Additionally, she has been named as one of Forbes’ 100 Most Powerful Women at #75.[7][8]
As the public consort of the emir, she has represented Qatar alongside her husband and on her own at many international events, including state visits and royal weddings.[9] She has become known for her personal style, customising haute couture designs to fit Qatari modesty rules.[10]
First time he’s ever been wrong… https://t.co/7SFOYADH2M
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) October 21, 2015
Heh.
re: #322 Targetpractice
Good call.
I have to agree. I really like Biden, and I think we all would have enjoyed his performances at upcoming debates, etc. But this seems like the right decision.
Time to start a “draft Biden” movement…
re: #325 lawhawk
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Heh.
Haha. But anyhow I respect his decision. He would be my guy if he declared.
re: #325 lawhawk
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Heh.
I think it’s safe to say that, if Bill Kristol says it will happen, you should bet the exact opposite.
re: #298 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
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Never know when a herd is going to go all medieval on ya.
re: #326 It’s on his hat!
Agreed. This pseudo-campaign was a media creation meant to get at Hillary. I’m glad the Vice President has finally spoken up to put a stop to it. Now, let’s let the dude abide.
(It had to be said. Sorry.)
re: #329 Targetpractice
I think it’s safe to say that, if Bill Kristol says it will happen, you should bet the exact opposite.
Good I know who to look at for SB bets.
re: #213 I Stand With Planned Parenthood
skin cancer can kill you. use on your face and top of your ears (and head if sparse on hair) at least.
As someone who recently had a very close call with mid-stage invasive melanoma, I heartily concur.
I would add that if you live in an area with strong sun and wear t-shirts most of the time, don’t assume that your shoulders and back are totally safe, and also put sunscreen on the back of your neck.
re: #312 CuriousLurker
FWIW, Saudi Arabia has a similarly high literacy rate. It’s fairly high in Iran as well. Religious conservatism doesn’t necessarily mean girls get limited or no education, though it can (in places like Afghanistan, for example).
Heh:
Three sources close to @VP telling me he’s expected to announce he is running but the sources are all urging caution on 48-hr timeline
— Ed Henry (@edhenry) October 19, 2015
Joe Biden is a good man. I’m sorry I won’t get to vote for him.
Bill Kristol is GOP Wishful Thinking, personified.
re: #336 ipsos
Joe Biden is a good man. I’m sorry I won’t get to vote for him.
Me too. He’s one of the people I admire most in politics.
So will Biden support Clinton or Sanders now?
Ben of the Corn got into the corn squeezin’s
FREE SHIT FOR EVERYBODY!!!!!!!11!!!!
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 21, 2015
Biden: We need a moonshot to cure cancer. And a body shot to cure unhappiness.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 21, 2015
Biden: We can make unicorns real.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 21, 2015
Biden: If I could be anything, I would have wanted to be the president who ended cancer. And war. And farts.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 21, 2015
re: #339 HappyWarrior
Me too. He’s one of the people I admire most in politics.
I think he’s a rare example of the intersection of “people I’d vote for for POTUS” and “dudes I’d like to have a few beers with”.
re: #340 Eclectic Cyborg
So will Biden support Clinton or Sanders now?
If he supports anyone, it will be Clinton but I expect him to be quiet.
re: #342 The Vicious Babushka
Did Ben forget to take his meds this morning?
re: #342 The Vicious Babushka
Ben of the Corn got into the con squeezin’s
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Go away Ben, an adult is speaking.
re: #342 The Vicious Babushka
Ben of the Corn got into the con squeezin’s
Ben’s got some potty-mouth there.
re: #345 Eclectic Cyborg
Did Ben forget to take his meds this morning?
He’s always like this because it gets lonely in Munster coffin bed.
re: #348 HappyWarrior
He’s always like this because it gets lonely in Munster coffin bed.
He has a sad because Salon said his short story collection sucked.
re: #344 HappyWarrior
If he supports anyone, it will be Clinton but I expect him to be quiet.
I don’t expect Biden to endorse anybody, which is perfectly fine. I just think it would have been a major mistake to jump in this late in the game, especially when he really doesn’t bring much to the table that isn’t already there.
GONNA BE SO 🔥🔥🔥 🐐🐐🐐 pic.twitter.com/eaXTp7JC9u
— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) October 21, 2015
re: #343 It’s on his hat!
I think he’s the lone example of the intersection of “people I’d vote for for POTUS” and “dudes I’d like to have a few beers with”.
He to my surprise doesn’t drink (alcoholism in his family) but he reminds me of my uncles and funnily enough the uncle who he reminds me of most said he admires Biden too and that he reminds him of my grandfather who I never knew.
Biden: “I have decided… to order tacos for lunch.”
— Ben Casselman (@bencasselman) October 21, 2015
Joe Biden is a kick-ass debater but I don’t think (it’s been a while) he was a great campaigner in the past. I’m kind of relieved that he’s (in my words) getting out of the way.
re: #350 Targetpractice
I don’t expect Biden to endorse anybody, which is perfectly fine. I just think it would have been a major mistake to jump in this late in the game, especially when he really doesn’t bring much to the table that isn’t already there.
More I think about it, the more I think you are right. I think he made the right decision for country, family, and party.
re: #319 It’s on his hat!
Welp. That settles my vote for the primaries. I’d hoped for Biden, but he’s not in the race. I understand his reasons and wish him the best.
Looks like I’ll be Feelin’ the Bern in the primary.
re: #356 Lidane
Welp. That settles my vote for the primaries. I’d hoped for Biden, but he’s not in the race. I understand his reasons and wish him the best.
Looks like I’ll be Feelin’ the Bern in the primary.
Me too. I’m officially in Bernie’s boat now.
re: #335 lawhawk
Heh:
Three sources close to @VP telling me he’s expected to announce he is running but the sources are all urging caution on 48-hr timeline
Biden probably gave his people specific instructions to go forth and fuck with media weasels like Ed Henry.
Here’s a hanky, Ed. You got some egg on your face.
I’ll just leave this here for safe keeping. Lol. pic.twitter.com/8nGhxpbehK
— Dr. Matt (@DrMatthew) October 21, 2015
The Most Representative @BillKristol Tweet ever: https://t.co/wfHK0t0NBo
— Michael Cohen (@speechboy71) October 21, 2015
*FAIL*
Who says Halloween treats have to be for the kids? Try Rice Krispie Treats with bourbon caramel glaze and candy corn https://t.co/jYzfnveGqo
— Detroit Free Press (@freep) October 21, 2015
re: #349 The Vicious Babushka
He has a sad because Salon said his short story collection sucked.
Is there such a thing as good right wing fiction? I’m genuinely asking.
Somebody has been getting into the Candy-Corn Rice Krispies Bourbon Treats
Biden: We’d have won the war on cancer if only the rich hadn’t been hiding their cancer cure from the rest of us. Or something.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 21, 2015
re: #362 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there such a thing as good right wing fiction? I’m genuinely asking.
Brad Thor and the late Vince Flynn have written some good tales.
re: #350 Targetpractice
I don’t expect Biden to endorse anybody, which is perfectly fine. I just think it would have been a major mistake to jump in this late in the game, especially when he really doesn’t bring much to the table that isn’t already there.
I think the days when a candidate could declare in January of the election year are probably over.
re: #363 The Vicious Babushka
Somebody has been getting into the Candy-Corn Rice Krispies Bourbon Treats
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Where the frak is that even coming from?
One of these days I’m going to lose my shit at Ben Shapiro on Twitter. The guy is 10x worse than claws on a chalkboard. Maybe 100 times…
re: #324 Timothy Watson
VCU (Virginia Commonwealth University) has a campus in Qatar and the Emir’s second wife (he has three) has done a lot of promotion for the campus and did a commencement speech for the Monroe Park (Richmond, Virginia) campus several years ago. She’s also involved in a lot education-related stuff according to her Wikipedia article:
Interesting article on her at the Christian Science Monitor:
Backstory: Qatar reformed by a modern marriage
Interesting lady. Here’s the English version of her website.
I’m still amazed that Bill Kristol still gets a paycheck considering he is wrong about everything.
Ben is totes shitfaced
Drunk Hillary = Joe Biden = Bernie Sanders on valium
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) October 21, 2015
I wish the Constitution allowed for more flexibility in election scheduling. I’d love to see how different Federal politics would be in this country if we weren’t pinned down to the every 4 years/every 2 years timetable for voting.
I mean, can we all not agree that a Presidential campaign that ran for only four months would be a LOT more tolerable? (and a LOT less expensive!!)
re: #368 Eclectic Cyborg
One of these days I’m going to lose my shit at Ben Shapiro on Twitter. The guy is 10x worse than claws on a chalkboard. Maybe 100 times…
He wants the Twitter Asshole Throne vacated by Chucky, but so far hasn’t offered money to “take down” Deray.
re: #370 Dr. Matt
I’m still amazed that Bill Kristol still gets a paycheck considering he is wrong about everything.
The same can be said for Trey Gowdy, Louie Gohmert, Greg Abbott, etc, etc.
re: #368 Eclectic Cyborg
One of these days I’m going to lose my shit at Ben Shapiro on Twitter. The guy is 10x worse than claws on a chalkboard. Maybe 100 times…
I always want to yell out “OBNOXIOUS TWIT!”, but sometimes I wonder if it’s some kind of performance art. Everything he says is a series of non sequiturs.
re: #373 The Vicious Babushka
He wants the Twitter Asshole Throne vacated by Chucky, but so far hasn’t offered money to “take down” Deray.
I would dance in the streets if Ben got kicked off Twitter.
re: #371 The Vicious Babushka
Drunk Hillary = Joe Biden = Bernie Sanders on valium
— Ben Shapiro
I wonder where Ben learned such sharp political analysis skills.
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re: #373 The Vicious Babushka
He’s a spiteful, mean-spirited little prick.
re: #375 Timothy Watson
I always want to yell out “OBNOXIOUS TWIT!”, but sometimes I wonder if it’s some kind of performance art. Everything he says is a series of non sequiturs.
I’d have more respect for him if that was the case, but I think it’s just a honest to goodness douchebag.
Biden has declared he is not running for president, making him officially the biggest presidential tease since Marilyn Monroe.
— George Takei (@GeorgeTakei) October 21, 2015
Joe Biden: ‘I Don’t Think We Should Look At Republicans As The Enemy’ [VIDEO] https://t.co/fXPkEreUoS pic.twitter.com/vbqPFZZjhI
— The Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 21, 2015
Subtext - no, we should see them as invaders from another planet whose ideas of compassion and providing for the general welfare consists entirely of shifting tax burdens from the rich to everyone else. Or, put more succinctly GOP in 2015/2016 = Fuck the Poor.
re: #253 SteveMcGaziBolaGate
I think they mean RNC/GOP should reimburse since the whole thing has been a campaign anti-Hillary operation.
I understand what Biden is saying by not seeing Republicans as the enemy, but when they see YOU as the enemy, what choice do you have but to fight back?
Republicans have proved time and again they aren’t rational. I’d even go as far as to say the state of things in Congress is more adversarial now than its ever been before.
re: #384 Eclectic Cyborg
I’d even go as far as to say the state of things in Congress is more adversarial now than its ever been before.
I’d say the run up to the Civil War was far worse.
re: #72 HappyWarrior
Shit I’m far from old but I remember being a kid having to use pay phones if I needed a ride home from school (if I stayed after) or the local shopping centers. I always carried around 35 extra cents just in case.
If the cellphone had a coin release button, you could spin a penny down the nickel slot while hitting the coin release button, and it would register as a nickel.
Do that twice, and make a payphone call for 2 cents.
re: #374 Eclectic Cyborg
The same can be said for Trey Gowdy, Louie Gohmert, Greg Abbott, etc, etc.
I blame ignorant asshole voters for allowing those three to get paychecks. Bloody Billy Krystal on the other hand….SMH
I paged Ben Shapiro’s derpsplosion.
So much for small government.
Ben Carson: Dept. of Education Should Police ‘Extreme’ Political Bias in Colleges https://t.co/uGgIh3OyoN pic.twitter.com/u8mGOMfAlN
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) October 21, 2015
There is nobody on earth more wrong more times in more different ways than Bill Kristol. Please let him know this. https://t.co/Gr7iEx86hN
— God (@TheTweetOfGod) October 21, 2015
re: #392 teleskiguy
So much for small government.
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So he wants the DOE to deal with Liberty U and GMU’s economics department? Oh wait, he only means professors who don’t subscribe to his Skousen based view of the world.
re: #392 teleskiguy
I thought the GOP talking point was that the Department of Education shouldn’t exist.
WTF.
re: #368 Eclectic Cyborg
I can’t for the life of me figure out what he thinks he’s accomplishing, other than devaluing Harvard’s reputation.
re: #393 Lidane
#BillKristoled - to get something so completely wrong as to become an Internet meme. See https://t.co/LBBWMhAT72
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) October 21, 2015
re: #392 teleskiguy
Ben Carson: Dept. of Education Should Police
political opinions‘Extreme’ Political Bias in Colleges t.co pic.twitter.com
— The Daily Beast
“Also, we should cut government and stop politicizing everything because people won’t speak up because PC police.”
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re: #396 Lidane
I thought the GOP talking point was that the Department of Education shouldn’t exist.
WTF.
I can’t wait until he doubles down and calls for arming the DoE.
Better to nip that ‘extreme’ bias in the bud.
/
re: #384 Eclectic Cyborg
I understand what Biden is saying by not seeing Republicans as the enemy, but when they see YOU as the enemy, what choice do you have but to fight back?
Republicans have proved time and again they aren’t rational. I’d even go as far as to say the state of things in Congress is more adversarial now than its ever been before.
I think this is honestly part of Biden’s personality. He doesn’t view those he disagrees with in those terms. I dunno if you saw his Yale commencement speech this spring but the Veep even had kind words for Jesse Helms and pointed out that he got so furious at him over an issue but Ted Kennedy took him aside and pointed out that Helms and his wife adopted a disabled boy. And I have to say as much as I dislike the Republican party, I do see what Biden is saying, we all have Republican friends, family, and cowokers who we get along with. Now that said, I also understand completely how Hillary Clinton feels about the GOP too.
re: #395 HappyWarrior
They keep talking about the billions that will be saved by eliminating this federal department or that, but in the next breath demand expanding government intrusion into lives in such a fashion that would make the current government seem to be engaging in kids play.
The GOP is so into small government that they want to fit up into lady bits (current GOP orthodoxy, see TV ultrasounds, abortion/birth control restrictions, personhood amendments, etc.).
The GOP is so into small government that they want a political/religious officer in every classroom (the Carson version).
re: #386 BeenHereAwhile
If the cellphone had a coin release button, you could spin a penny down the nickel slot while hitting the coin release button, and it would register as a nickel.
Do that twice, and make a payphone call for 2 cents.
Another fun old trick obviated by new technology - back when I was a courier and had to park at meters a lot, you could shave a penny against the sidewalk or curb and if you did it right, the meter would give you whatever its maximum time was.
I imagine a Democratic candidate wantng to use the government to “correct bias” in education would go over just fine with FNC and the right wing pundtiry and twittersphere. //
re: #403 lawhawk
They keep talking about the billions that will be saved by eliminating this federal department or that, but in the next breath demand expanding government intrusion into lives in such a fashion that would make the current government seem to be engaging in kids play.
The GOP is so into small government that they want to fit up into lady bits (current GOP orthodoxy, see TV ultrasounds, abortion/birth control restrictions, personhood amendments, etc.).
The GOP is so into small government that they want a political/religious officer in every classroom (the Carson version).
The GOP simply put are hypocritical bastards.
re: #402 HappyWarrior
Biden belongs to the more genteel political era where politics was a sport and at the end of the day you could disagree about the politics and still be friend(ly) with your opponents.
The current GOP is not about politics or compromise or the art of the deal (hey, Trump!), but about slash/burn and zero tolerance for dissent. Anyone who even breathes word of compromise is labeled an outside by the current GOP twits - especially in the House, but increasingly in the Senate too - as Cruz all too frequently points out.
re: #394 Jebediah, RBG
That was awesome.
Yes, it was. I remember Sleater-Kinney from the mid to late-1990s as part of the riot grrrl/independent rock scene up in the Pacific Northwest. Nice to see them back.
re: #398 lawhawk
“This was supposed to be a powder day! There’s no fresh snow at all, the sun’s out! We totally got #BillKristoled by that weather lady.”
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 21, 2015
I’ll leave this here, even though we’re moving on: if “liberal” professors are engaged in brainwashing, they’re doing a shitty job of it.
re: #405 HappyWarrior
I imagine a Democratic candidate wantng to use the government to “correct bias” in education would go over just fine with FNC and the right wing pundtiry and twittersphere. //
Yeah, imagine if Obama sent a “protocol team” to Liberty University or BYU.
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
I’ve got one or two of their old records and think they were (are!) fantastic, and I love Bob’s Burgers and its animation, so that was like having the world’s most perfect root beer float for breakfast. Thanks for posting it!
re: #411 Eclectic Cyborg
Yeah, imagine if Obama sent a “protocol team” to Liberty University or BYU.
Yeah and Liberty actually does censor disisdents. They banned a College Dems chapter simply because the administration didn’t like the Dems pro choice and pro LGBT rights stand. Now why any self-described Dem would attend a shit hole like that is is beyond me but that is actually censorship not a lefty professor who has a view on an issue that challenges wingnut thinking on the suject. The professors who challenged me the most on my beliefs were liberal ones.
re: #281 CuriousLurker
So what about pregnant women that me be in the path of this thing (and not visibly pregnant)? So sorry, too bad? Some of our PDs are really out of control.
And can’t you picture some perv watching people get it on through the walls.
re: #325 lawhawk
At least his record remains unvarnished…Kristol is always wrong. Great record, Bill.
re: #408 Dr Lizardo
Yes, it was. I remember Sleater-Kinney from the mid to late-1990s as part of the riot grrrl/independent rock scene up in the Pacific Northwest. Nice to see them back.
I was just in Olympia driving on Sleater-Kinney Road every day.
re: #362 Eclectic Cyborg
Is there such a thing as good right wing fiction? I’m genuinely asking.
Tom Clancy.
Once Praised, the Settlement to Help Sickened BP Oil Spill Workers Leaves Most With Nearly Nothing When a deadly explosion destroyed BP’s Deepwater Horizon drilling rig in the Gulf of Mexico, 134 million gallons of crude erupted into the sea over the next three months — and tens of thousands of ordinary people were hired ...
Cheechako
Alone in a Bathroom: The Fear and Uncertainty of a Post-Roe Medication Abortion Angel tucked two white pills into each side of her mouth, bracing herself as they began to dissolve. Her deepest fears and anxieties took over. Angel had wanted to talk to a doctor before she took the pills to ... Cheechako
They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
