Podcast o’ the Day: The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show, 10/27/15

In which we find once again that conservatives will fall for almost anything
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Here’s today’s (actually, last night’s) episode of our podcast affiliate, The Bubble Genius Bob & Chez Show.

Heal Inspire Revive: Ben Carson Takes the Lead Nationally; Ben Carson’s Ridiculous New Commercial; Ben Carson Pranked on Wikipedia; Donald Trump Doesn’t Like Iowans; Ben Carson is Stabby; Hannity and Trump Suckered by Fake Website; The Tea Party is Rapidly Dying; Liberalism in College; Jesse Watters Kicked Off Cornell University Campus; and much more.

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261 comments
1
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:10:41am

Blimpageddon!!!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:11:28am

re: #1 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Blimpageddon!!!

Blimpocalypse!

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jaunte  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:12:06am

“…tomorrow’s flyby will take Cassini within 30 miles of the surface, and straight through its mysterious geysers, which are fueled by a subsurface ocean that could potentially harbor life.

Speeding along at 19,000 mph, the probe will hurtle through the geyser’s plumes around 1 pm Eastern time, furiously capturing samples and images in an attempt to characterize the moon’s internal ocean.”

4
Lidane  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:12:26am

Somewhere out there, Alex Jones is reaching for his blood pressure medication and an inhaler.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:14:15am

NEVER FORGET!!!11!!!!

#Blimpghazi NEVER FORGET!11!!!!!
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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:15:18am

re: #3 jaunte

furiously capturing samples and images…

This spacecraft is pissed off.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:15:48am

Today’s blimp thing on twitter is even more fun than when the llamas were on the loose.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:16:03am

re: #5 Dr. Matt

NEVER FORGET!!!11!!!!

Why did you Colonel Blimp have your personal phone number, but not this missing blimp, Mrs. Clinton?

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jaunte  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:16:09am

re: #6 Charles Johnson

I know, right? It wanted to hang around for a while, but the bosses just keep rushing it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:16:51am

re: #9 jaunte

I know, right? It wanted to hang around for a while, but the bosses just keep rushing it.

Probably the same reason why the blimp bolted for freedom…

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Lidane  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:20:00am

Current Fox News chryon:

HEAD OF CONSERVATIVE LATINO GROUP: TRUMP CAN’T WIN LATINO VOTE

Who knew?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:20:16am

It has headed south to get some non-prescription Viagra so it does not have to b limp

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:20:19am

Do we know for sure that the blimp is not part of Jade Helm 15? Hey I’m just asking questions….

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:21:11am

re: #9 jaunte

I know, right? It wanted to hang around for a while, but the bosses just keep rushing it.

“There’s never time to do it right, but there’s always time to do it over!!”

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iossarian  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:21:16am

re: #11 Lidane

Current Fox News chryon:

HEAD OF CONSERVATIVE LATINO GROUP: TRUMP CAN’T WIN LATINO VOTE

Who knew?

For the typical Fox News viewer I’m failing to see how that’s a strike against Trump.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:22:27am

re: #11 Lidane

Current Fox News chryon:

HEAD OF CONSERVATIVE LATINO GROUP: TRUMP CAN’T WIN LATINO VOTE

Who knew?

I WILL DO ALL TEH WINS OF TEH LATINO VOTE!!! I WILL HAVE SO MUCH LATINO WINS THEY WILL NOT EVEN KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH SOALL TEH WIN!!!!!11!!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:22:36am

re: #11 Lidane

Current Fox News chryon:

HEAD OF CONSERVATIVE LATINO GROUP: TRUMP CAN’T WIN LATINO VOTE

Who knew?

Uh no shit but neither can any Republican. Not even Bush in 2004 could and he actually wasn’t a dick to the Latino community which is more than you can say about any GOPer running and yep I’m even including the Latinos Cruz and Rubio who are running in that category too especially Teddy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:22:41am

and it has a twitter account:

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:23:17am

re: #15 iossarian

For the typical Fox News viewer I’m failing to see how that’s a strike against Trump.

Crazy Grandma Phyillis and Aunty Ann Coulter think the GOP just need to get a massive amount of the white vote to offset that.

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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:23:23am

re: #11 Lidane

The sun rises in the east, water is wet, fire is hot, space is cold… These declarations are about as shocking as that one. When you’ve spent months telling a portion of the electorate that your attitude towards them and/or their family is GTFOASO, you’re probably not going to win a lot of votes with that group.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:24:05am

re: #20 KGxvi

The sun rises in the east, water is wet, fire is hot, space is cold… These declarations are about as shocking as that one. When you’ve spent months telling a portion of the electorate that your attitude towards them and/or their family is GTFOASO, you’re probably not going to win a lot of votes with that group.

Calling a big section of the community rapists probably didn’t win any favors too.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:24:36am

I’m just waiting for some Open Carry nutjob to shoot the blimp the down…

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:24:38am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:24:43am
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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:25:57am

re: #17 HappyWarrior

Bush won 44% of the Latino vote in 2004, which was up from 35% in 2000. The only one of the GOP candidates I could see even getting within 10 of that 35% number is Rubio, maybe.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:26:04am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:27:14am

It’s at 16,000 feet.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:27:28am

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

Foo Fighters - Learn To Fly

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jaunte  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:27:43am

re: #26 Backwoods_Sleuth

‘77-yard Luftballoon’

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:28:15am

The floating away blimp is obviously a Hillary-Obama plot to distract from the GOP debate tonight.

//

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:28:19am

re: #25 KGxvi

Bush won 44% of the Latino vote in 2004, which was up from 35% in 2000. The only one of the GOP candidates I could see even getting within 10 of that 35% number is Rubio, maybe.

No.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:28:33am

I know it’s early yet, but just in case anyone needs a mental health break:

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:28:50am

re: #25 KGxvi

Bush won 44% of the Latino vote in 2004, which was up from 35% in 2000. The only one of the GOP candidates I could see even getting within 10 of that 35% number is Rubio, maybe.

Yep and that would I think require the Democrats to be real mushy on the issue. They’ve done a lot to alienate the Latino community since 2004. Bush’s message on immigration and inclusion was strongly rejected and if they think Latinos don’t know how GOP rank and file perceive them then they’re clueless. FFS Obama beat Romney among Cuban-Americans. What they don’t get is even if the Latino voter is not an immigrant themselves, they probably do have someone in their family is and the famed Hispanic sense of family is genuine as opposed to what the Republicans call family values.

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Jay C  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:28:56am

re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth

and it has a twitter account:

Yeah, just another Internet gasbag….

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:29:41am

re: #31 The Vicious Babushka

No.

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Well he did say maybe. RUbio does have one small saving grace with the Latino community and that it’s he’s not a total dick on immigration but he’d have go full wingnut on the issue to get the nomination IMO.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:30:49am

re: #27 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

It’s at 16,000 feet.

That’s probably a Bad Thing. They’re designed to operate at the end of a cable a few hundred feet long.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:30:52am

yep, it’s not a brand new twitter account.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:33:24am

re: #35 HappyWarrior

Well he did say maybe. RUbio does have one small saving grace with the Latino community and that it’s he’s not a total dick on immigration but he’d have go full wingnut on the issue to get the nomination IMO.

“He says he’s still an asshole, but - and I’m quoting here - ‘not 100 percent a dick.’”

“Do you believe him?”

“Well, Ma’am, I don’t think ANYONE is 100 percent a dick…”

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:33:39am
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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:33:44am
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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:33:50am

Woman, Jew & Self Hater Milo Yeahimadumbass is Breitbart “Tech” Editor

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:34:01am

This happened to Pink Floyd years ago when they tried to tow an inflatable pig for an album cover photo shoot, and the pig made a break for it.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:34:02am

The GOP is in short a lily white old man’s party. Nothing wrong with lily white old men. I know one very well who I know as “Dad” though he thankfully isn’t part of said party. The GOP’s growth in the Obama years has been in parts o the country that are decreasing. Their brand is not attractive to young people, Latinos, Asians, and other growing parts of the country.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:34:16am
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iossarian  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:34:46am

re: #41 The Vicious Babushka

“Gamergaters applaud…” -> credibility insta-downgrade.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:34:50am

re: #38 Blind Frog Belly White

“He says he’s still an asshole, but - and I’m quoting here - ‘not 100 percent a dick.’”

“Do you believe him?”

“Well, Ma’am, I don’t think ANYONE is 100 percent a dick…”

Hah, really I hope I did not come off defending Marco Rubio. He’s an asshole but it’s also true he hasn’t bene the outright asshole on the issue that Calgary Ted has either.

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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:35:16am

re: #31 The Vicious Babushka

To be fair, getting “within 10 of 35%” means hitting 26%… he does a couple of ads where he speaks non-broken, non-accented Spanish, that would probably pick him up some votes. You also can’t forget the Crazification Factor of 27%. Rubio has the ability to come off as fairly compassionate when he wants to, last year (or maybe earlier this year) he was on with Jon Stewart and actually sounded fairly moderate. I’m not saying he’ll win half the Latino vote, or even 40%, but I could see him somewhere around 30%.

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:35:27am

re: #44 Charles Johnson

Not so much breaking news as the clown car coming to a screeching halt to identify the driver before zooming off again at a high rate of speed.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:35:41am

re: #44 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

Well here we go. They’ll cannibalize him before Thanksgiving.

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Lidane  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:36:47am

re: #49 HappyWarrior

Well here we go. They’ll cannibalize him before Thanksgiving.

They’ll cannibalize him the moment Boehner and the Dems force through the two-year budget deal.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:37:14am

re: #40 Charles Johnson

It’s traipse’n along behind the blimp the blimp
The nose has uh crimp
The nose is limp the blimp
It blows the air the snoot isn’t fair
Look up in the sky there’s uh dirigible there!!!

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stpaulbear  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:37:28am

(Deleted as I was about 12 comments too late.)

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:37:29am

re: #3 jaunte

[Embedded content]

It’s made of brie.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:37:58am

re: #44 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

“Fred if you’re afraid, you’ll have to overlook it,
“Because you knew the job was dangerous when you took it.”

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:38:20am

re: #47 KGxvi

To be fair, getting “within 10 of 35%” means hitting 26%… he does a couple of ads where he speaks non-broken, non-accented Spanish, that would probably pick him up some votes. You also can’t forget the Crazification Factor of 27%. Rubio has the ability to come off as fairly compassionate when he wants to, last year (or maybe earlier this year) he was on with Jon Stewart and actually sounded fairly moderate. I’m not saying he’ll win half the Latino vote, or even 40%, but I could see him somewhere around 30%.

I think if he’s the nominee, the Dems need to point out how he’s flopped to appease the base and if he gets the nomination, he’s definitely going to move to the right on the issue.Romney did the stupid “self deport” quote and then acted like he was a moderate on the issue and never said it. Obama pretty much said “bull-shit Mitt” during one of the debates without saying it.

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makeitstop  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:38:21am

re: #32 CuriousLurker

I know it’s early yet, but just in case anyone needs a mental health break:

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Is that really your cat, CL?

My wife and I were cracking up over that clip last night. The cat just seems so pleased with him/herself.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:39:46am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:40:03am

re: #44 Charles Johnson

[Embedded content]

I felt a disturbance in the force…as if a thousand wingnuts suddenly cried out in terror…

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makeitstop  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:41:13am

re: #42 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

This happened to Pink Floyd years ago when they tried to tow an inflatable pig for an album cover photo shoot, and the pig made a break for it.

‘Animals.’

There are actually photos of the pig after the line broke on the album cover.

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No Depression  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:43:14am

Well this is a thing:

Walmart Israeli soldier Halloween costume for children sparks outrage

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Khal Wimpo  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:44:47am

re: #56 makeitstop

Is that really your cat, CL?

My wife and I were cracking p over that clip last night. The cat just seems so pleased with him/herself.

My kit did this recently with a big beef bone from the yard next door. He came over the wall, and pranced across the yard, clearly pleased with himself. From next door came furious barking, and then a pleading whimper.

The Yard Panther was unmoved.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:44:53am

Afternoon Lizardim.

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lizardofid  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:45:37am

re: #36 Decatur Deb

That’s probably a Bad Thing. They’re designed to operate at the end of a cable a few hundred feet long.

I expect it’ll be feeling bigger and more potent then ever, just before it strokes out and explodes. ; (

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CuriousLurker  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:46:28am

re: #56 makeitstop

Is that really your cat, CL?

My wife and I were cracking up over that clip last night. The cat just seems so pleased with him/herself.

No it’s not mine, but I kinda wish it was!

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Teukka  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:46:34am

re: #63 lizardofid

I expect it’ll be feeling bigger and more potent then ever, just before it strokes out and explodes. ; (

<tinfoil>
Has sabotage been ruled out?
</tinfoil>

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:47:00am

re: #60 No Depression

Well this is a thing:

Walmart Israeli soldier Halloween costume for children sparks outrage

That is a Purim costume, not a Halloween costume.

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Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:47:20am

re: #65 Teukka

<tinfoil>
Has sabotage been ruled out?
</tinfoil>

UFOs. It was in the Edgewood Triangle.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:47:50am

Butthurt to elevenity

#Butthurt
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b.d.  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:48:11am

re: #68 Dr. Matt

Butthurt to elevenity

[Embedded content]

How nice

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jaunte  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:48:43am
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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:49:01am

re: #68 Dr. Matt

Butthurt to elevenity

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You know it’s bad when you’re taking Rush “Pompous Windbag” Limbaugh’s word as gospel.

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b.d.  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:49:13am

Trolling Level = MASSIVE

Dem Whip says Ryan an ‘outstanding’ choice for speaker

washingtonexaminer.com

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makeitstop  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:49:20am

re: #64 CuriousLurker

No it’s not mine, but I kinda wish it was!

Dang, I was all excited to tell my wife that the plush-stealing kitteh belonged to a Lizard! Oh, well. :)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:49:46am
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Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:49:52am

Off to try to make MS Vista give me my Civ4 back. BBL

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:50:11am

re: #75 Decatur Deb

Off to try to make MS Vista give me my Civ4 back. BBL

Kick It (tm)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:50:53am

lol!

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Decatur Deb  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:50:56am

re: #76 thedopefishlives

Kick It (tm)

Gonna unplug it and count to 30.

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Dr. Matt  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:51:19am

Should we start a pool on how long Ryan lasts?

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Teukka  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:51:56am

re: #79 Dr. Matt

Should we start a pool on how long Ryan lasts?

Longer or shorter than the blimps break for freedom? *ducks*

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CuriousLurker  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:51:57am

re: #56 makeitstop

P.S. Apparently it’s a he—Timmy—and he now has a FB page. *eyeroll*

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:52:09am

re: #60 No Depression

Well this is a thing:

Walmart Israeli soldier Halloween costume for children sparks outrage

A quick glance at the listing shows it’s not Wal-Mart selling this but a 3rd party company selling through the Wal-Mart site. I expect a “we have cut ties with this seller” statement any moment now.

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makeitstop  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:52:25am

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

lol!

Several power outages reported in Bloomsburg, Pennsylvania and surrounding communities shortly after surveillance blimp spotted in area

Those mooring lines are probably messing with the power lines.

Alex Jones is probably more excited than he’s been in years.

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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:52:32am

Kind of stoked about some code I just figured out. If you use the LGF Pages bookmarklet and select some text on a web page before clicking the bookmarklet, the text you selected is automatically copied in the Pages posting form.

But now, I’ve figured out how to actually copy the underlying HTML code of the selected text — it will also copy any formatting (bold, italics, etc.), links, lists, blockquotes, etc. and automatically place those into your post. This is a very cool feature, and I don’t think any other blogging system has it.

Not ready to roll it out yet - have to test with a lot of sites to make sure there are no unforeseen gotchas.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:53:08am

re: #76 thedopefishlives

Kick It (tm)

Kick it good.

/

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:53:08am

re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg

A quick glance at the listing shows it’s not Wal-Mart selling this but a 3rd party company selling through the Wal-Mart site. I expect a “we have cut ties with this seller” statement any moment now.

The Sheikh/Fagin Nose bothers me a whole lot more.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:53:42am

re: #84 Charles Johnson

Kind of stoked about some code I just figured out. If you use the LGF Pages bookmarklet and select some text on a web page before clicking the bookmarklet, the text you selected is automatically copied in the Pages posting form.

But now, I’ve figured out how to actually copy the underlying HTML code of the selected text — it will also copy any formatting (bold, italics, etc.), links, lists, blockquotes, etc. and automatically place those into your post. This is a very cool feature, and I don’t think any other blogging system has it.

Not ready to roll it out yet - have to test with a lot of sites to make sure there are no unforeseen gotchas.

Why I love LGF. This right here. Awesome.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:54:44am
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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:55:27am

re: #78 Decatur Deb

Gonna unplug it and count to 30.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:55:32am

re: #84 Charles Johnson

Kind of stoked about some code I just figured out. If you use the LGF Pages bookmarklet and select some text on a web page before clicking the bookmarklet, the text you selected is automatically copied in the Pages posting form.

But now, I’ve figured out how to actually copy the underlying HTML code of the selected text — it will also copy any formatting (bold, italics, etc.), links, lists, blockquotes, etc. and automatically place those into your post. This is a very cool feature, and I don’t think any other blogging system has it.

Not ready to roll it out yet - have to test with a lot of sites to make sure there are no unforeseen gotchas.

Very shiny.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:55:39am

re: #70 jaunte

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:56:46am

Looks like it’s down.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:58:31am

re: #66 The Vicious Babushka

That is a Purim costume, not a Halloween costume.

Outrage is outrage. Once it starts, it is Internet wildfire

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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:58:53am

Chuck just announced he’s going to “end” Jeb Bush.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 11:58:59am

re: #82 Eclectic Cyborg

A quick glance at the listing shows it’s not Wal-Mart selling this but a 3rd party company selling through the Wal-Mart site. I expect a “we have cut ties with this seller” statement any moment now.

It’s a very popular Purim costume (Jewish holiday that occurs in March) made in Israel & sold at Judaica shops.

My son is an IDF veteran so he’ll probably get it for his kid.

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CuriousLurker  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:00:50pm

I can’t stay as I have a doctor’s appointment in about an hour, but you guys who love cats have to watch this, it’s a riot:

Catching the neighbours cat

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:01:20pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Chuck just announced he’s going to “end” Jeb Bush.

[Embedded content]

Is the yesterday’s raping, pillaging and conquering in DC finished yet?

///

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:01:55pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Odd how his choice of targets is consistently politicians whose campaigns are already under fire and circling the drain.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:02:29pm

re: #98 Kragar

Odd how his choice of targets is consistently politicians whose campaigns are already under fire and circling the drain.

The Rage Furby operates under the principle of “He who fires last gets kill credit.”

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A Mom Anon  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:03:06pm

I’m hearing now that the girl assaulted by the cop in SC had just lost her mom and been placed in foster care and in turn this was a new school for her. So there’s that…I understand the cop was fired too. I just hope this kid finds some love and compassion, because it seems like a lot of people think she had this coming. I hate humans sometimes. I also hope no one doxxes her, but I doubt anyone will give a shit about her privacy either.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:03:09pm

re: #98 Kragar

Odd how his choice of targets is consistently politicians whose campaigns are already under fire and circling the drain.

He’s not above kicking a man when he’s down in much the same way that the ocean is not above the clouds. (H/T Douglas Adams)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:03:09pm

and Snowden declares the whole thing is a lie:

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:04:29pm

re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth

and Snowden declares the whole thing is a lie:

[Embedded content]

“Een Putin’s Russia, Twitter feeds YOU!”

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:04:55pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Chuck just announced he’s going to “end” Jeb Bush.

Embedded Image

Uh huh.

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:05:35pm

re: #104 HappyWarrior

He’s ended a lot of stuff. Usually on the floor.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:06:16pm

re: #100 A Mom Anon

I’m hearing now that the girl assaulted by the cop in SC had just lost her mom and been placed in foster care and in turn this was a new school for her. So there’s that…I understand the cop was fired too. I just hope this kid finds some love and compassion, because it seems like a lot of people think she had this coming. I hate humans sometimes. I also hope no one doxxes her, but I doubt anyone will give a shit about her privacy either.

People suck sometimes. I hope for the best for her too. She does not deserve to have a bunch of srrangers telling her she’s a bad kid who deserved what she had happen to her.

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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:06:22pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

best evidence yet that Jeb will still end up as the nominee?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:06:31pm

re: #105 lawhawk

He’s ended a lot of stuff. Usually on the floor.

I seem to recall he has been gunning for Jeb! for some time now…like the chickenhawk and Foghorn Leghorn

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:06:45pm

re: #99 thedopefishlives

D&D story time:

Barbarian launched an all out attack into a dragon, doing massive damage, but its still coming at us.

My bard comes in with his long sword, swings 3 times, hits once for 2 points of damage, finally killing it.

The story: “Yes, I killed the dragon. The Barbarian helped a little.”

AND THAT IS WHY CHARISMA IS NOT A DUMP STAT!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:06:50pm

re: #105 lawhawk

He’s ended a lot of stuff. Usually on the floor.

Yeah, there is that. I was thinking about the tough words on Bush though and thinking Jeb Bush’s done a fine job of doing that already without CCJs help.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:07:17pm

re: #108 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I seem to recall he has been gunning for Jeb! for some time now…like the chickenhawk and Foghorn Leghorn

Yeah he was talking about revealing an affair or something like that.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:07:30pm

There will be blood

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:08:46pm

re: #112 De Kolta Chair

There will be blood

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No thanks, I think I’d ather drink Natty Bo and eat Oscar Meyer weiners.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:10:44pm
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Lidane  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:11:48pm

FALSE FLAG! ELEVENTY!

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:11:56pm

When the Heritage Foundation tries to appear relevant

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:12:21pm

re: #115 Lidane

FALSE FLAG! ELEVENTY!

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IT’S NOT A SECRET PLAN, YOU JACKWAGON, IT’S SO OBVIOUS TO ANYONE WHO HATES YOUR GUTS!!!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:12:31pm

re: #115 Lidane

FALSE FLAG! ELEVENTY!

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That means he does!

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:13:22pm

re: #116 De Kolta Chair

When the Heritage Foundation tries to appear relevant

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:13:36pm

re: #116 De Kolta Chair

When the Heritage Foundation tries to appear relevant

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I didn’t know DeMint was Taylor Swift fan. What’s their point anyhow? Yeah the debt sucks but your policies would make it worse not better Heritage.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:14:07pm

re: #116 De Kolta Chair

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:15:15pm

Let me guess… parasites = teh Blehs?

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A Mom Anon  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:16:03pm

re: #106 HappyWarrior

What pisses me off is that people in this day and age think that since they got hit when they were kids “and they turned out just fine” that it’s really OK for that cop to pick this girl up and throw her. THROW HER. Because she was noncompliant. Um, how many compliant teenagers are there really? The teacher who called in the cop is to blame here too. You know what you do when a kid does this? You tell them they get a fail for the day. And then you ignore the shit out of them and teach your fucking class because that is your job. You then explain how easy it is to use your phone to cheat on classwork or tests and that is your reason for the no phone in class policy. If she is still digging in her heels, then let it fucking go and fail her for the day/assignment/test/quiz or whatever.

I can assure you, had that been my kid, the school would have been hearing from my attorney that afternoon, and so would the police dept. This poor kid may or may not have a decent advocate in the foster system, but goddamnit, someone in that school had to have known her situation and knew she was grieving her whole world being shattered. GAH, this makes me so sad and angry.

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ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:16:57pm

re: #50 Lidane

They’ll cannibalize him the moment Boehner and the Dems force through the two-year budget deal.

Is it not being “reported” that Ryan is upset that Boehner is pushing this all through?

Why do I put reported in quotes? Because I am thinking the reports are just a smoke screen for Ryan. I think he knows full well what Boehner is doing…he’s giving him instant cover as Speaker of the House so that he won’t have to do a budget deal for a year or two with the hope that something changes with the Freedom Caucus/Tea Party types.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:17:10pm

re: #122 De Kolta Chair

Let me guess, teh Blehs?

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Note to Thomas Sowell, if you call any part of society parasites, you’re an asshole. And frankly if anyone’s parasites, it’s the ultra rich, they’re nothing without our labor not the other way around.

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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:17:12pm

re: #121 Kragar

No, they’re saying that one person should pay the entire national debt. Which, basically, South Park did it.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:18:01pm

re: #122 De Kolta Chair

I assume the parasites are the various bankers and fund managers who suck the economy dry turning real workers into wage slaves.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:18:30pm

re: #123 A Mom Anon

What pisses me off is that people in this day and age think that since they got hit when they were kids “and they turned out just fine” that it’s really OK for that cop to pick this girl up and throw her. THROW HER. Because she was noncompliant. Um, how many compliant teenagers are there really? The teacher who called in the cop is to blame here too. You know what you do when a kid does this? You tell them they get a fail for the day. And then you ignore the shit out of them and teach your fucking class because that is your job. You then explain how easy it is to use your phone to cheat on classwork or tests and that is your reason for the no phone in class policy. If she is still digging in her heels, then let it fucking go and fail her for the day/assignment/test/quiz or whatever.

I can assure you, had that been my kid, the school would have been hearing from my attorney that afternoon, and so would the police dept. This poor kid may or may not have a decent advocate in the foster system, but goddamnit, someone in that school had to have known her situation and knew she was grieving her whole world being shattered. GAH, this makes me so sad and angry.

Makes me angry too. The whole lack of empathy from society as a whole when stories like this break just sickens me. No one tries to imagine if this girl had been them theirselves, a sibling, or their child. They just judge. I am sick of it.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:19:41pm
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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:20:10pm

re: #122 De Kolta Chair

I don’t know, that’s a rather decent description of Antebellum South. And some will tell you that it was a society that thrived. Of course, it didn’t end well for them in 1864, or in 1964…

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:20:11pm

re: #122 De Kolta Chair

Let me guess, teh Blehs?

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HURR HURR ALL TEH LIBRULS IS JUST TEH TAKERS LIVING ON TEH GUBMIT TEAT WITH THERE SOCIAL SECURITY & THERE MEDICARES & THERE UNEMPLOYMENTS & THERE WELFARES & THERE FREE PUBLIK SKOOLZ DRIVIN ON TEH GUBMIT INTERSTATES & GETTIN FREE SHIT BUT TEH TRUE CONSERVATIVES IS ALL SELF MAID BY THERE OWN BOOT STRAPS!!!!!!!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:20:24pm

re: #123 A Mom Anon

What pisses me off is that people in this day and age think that since they got hit when they were kids “and they turned out just fine” that it’s really OK for that cop to pick this girl up and throw her.

Our policemen used to beat us with broken bottles for jaywalking and WE TURNED OUT JUST FINE!!!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:20:45pm

Funny how it’s class warfare to suggest that the very wealthy actually pay their fucking taxes but not class warfare at all to call the men and women who are the driving force of this economy “parasites.” Sowell from what I know used to be a diehard Marxist, he’s proof that when you leave one ideology for another opposing one, the only thing that changes is your ideology but your assholishness doesn’t.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:21:35pm

re: #133 HappyWarrior

Funny how it’s class warfare to suggest that the very wealthy actually pay their fucking taxes but not class warfare at all to call the men and women who are the driving force of this economy “parasites.” Sowell from what I know used to be a diehard Marxist, he’s proof that when you leave one ideology for another opposing one, the only thing that changes is your ideology but your assholishness doesn’t.

Thomas Sowell is Ayn Rand’s brother from another mother.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:21:51pm

re: #126 KGxvi

No, they’re saying that one person should pay the entire national debt. Which, basically, South Park did it.

Ok, I give. What is that sequence referencing?

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:22:37pm

re: #134 The Vicious Babushka

Thomas Sowell is Ayn Rand’s brother from another mother.

He certainly is. He’s a batshit asshole. Really motherfucker parasites? And what do you do Tom? You write books about an economic system that has never and never will work.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:23:07pm
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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:23:22pm

re: #136 HappyWarrior

He certainly is. He’s a batshit asshole. Really motherfucker parasites? And what do you do Tom? You write books about an economic system that has never and never will work.

Parasites = 47%. Just sayin’.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:23:44pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:23:52pm

re: #138 thedopefishlives

Parasites = 47%. Just sayin’.

Yeah fuck Mitt Romney’s elitist ass too.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:23:58pm

re: #122 De Kolta Chair

Let me guess… parasites = teh Blehs?

PARASITES!!!!!!!! DONT CALL ME A HATOR!!!!!

Also

Why does Obama hate America and why is Obama always dividing us?

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:24:07pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:24:32pm

re: #142 Kragar

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Call Me Caitlin too.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:24:47pm

re: #122 De Kolta Chair

Let me guess… parasites = teh Blehs?

Oh wait, this RWNJ is a Dr. PHD. We better listen.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:25:48pm

Jesus Dana HER MOTHER JUST DIED. What a horrible human being==>

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:26:03pm

re: #140 HappyWarrior

Yeah fuck Mitt Romney’s elitist ass too.

No thanks. He’s not my type, and there seems to be some sort of solid object lodged deeply inside, anyway.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:26:38pm

But really there’s something fucked up about calling people parasites. It dare I say it reminds me of someone who I’ve heard Obama compared to before. The rhetoric that is. Sowell obviously isn’t a Nazi or Hitler but it’s that kind of mindset that talks about other people as “parasites” or “subhuman” and Sowell’s far from the first conservative I’ve seen use that kind of language and rhetoric to describe the working poor too.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:26:57pm

re: #146 thedopefishlives

No thanks. He’s not my type, and there seems to be some sort of solid object lodged deeply inside, anyway.

YEah computers are to be used not screwed.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:27:43pm
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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:28:12pm

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

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His ego, on the other hand, will probably escape intact, due to being in an alternate reality.

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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:28:12pm

re: #135 Eclectic Cyborg

It was an episode about the crash in 2008. Anything bought on credit (including Randy’s Margaritaville margarita machine) was securitized, bundled and sold as a commodity. So when the economy tanked it became this whole religious parallel, “the economy is mad at us” and Kyle (the Jewish kid) decided to save everyone by assuming all their debt. The full episode is amazing if only to see the scene where they go to the Federal Reserve to see how they solve issues.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:28:15pm

re: #145 The Vicious Babushka

Jesus Dana HER MOTHER JUST DIED. What a horrible human being==>

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She’s one to talk. SHe’s the one who forced her son to write her gun propaganda as a paper for school. Really, what the fuck is it with right wing assholes and attacking other people’s parenting skills when they themselves lack it. Looking at you Huckabee especially.

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The Vicious Babushka  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:28:57pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

But really there’s something fucked up about calling people parasites. It dare I say it reminds me of someone who I’ve heard Obama compared to before. The rhetoric that is. Sowell obviously isn’t a Nazi or Hitler but it’s that kind of mindset that talks about other people as “parasites” or “subhuman” and Sowell’s far from the first conservative I’ve seen use that kind of language and rhetoric to describe the working poor too.

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WhatEVs  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:29:29pm

re: #32 CuriousLurker

I know it’s early yet, but just in case anyone needs a mental health break:

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Ok. That was AWESOME!!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:29:51pm

re: #153 The Vicious Babushka

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Yeah that about covers it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:30:06pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

But really there’s something fucked up about calling people parasites. It dare I say it reminds me of someone who I’ve heard Obama compared to before. The rhetoric that is. Sowell obviously isn’t a Nazi or Hitler but it’s that kind of mindset that talks about other people as “parasites” or “subhuman” and Sowell’s far from the first conservative I’ve seen use that kind of language and rhetoric to describe the working poor too.

Doesn’t Limbaugh like to call certain groups “human excrement” or something like that?

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A Mom Anon  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:31:13pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

In Rwanda, as the genocide was happening, radio hosts were calling the Tutsis cockroaches that needed to be exterminated. That’s what gives me chills about using parasite as a term to describe human beings….

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:31:22pm

re: #156 Eclectic Cyborg

Doesn’t Limbaugh like to call certain groups “human excrement” or something like that?

Dunno honest, it does sound like something he would say though.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:31:25pm

re: #151 KGxvi

It was an episode about the crash in 2008. Anything bought on credit (including Randy’s Margaritaville margarita machine) was securitized, bundled and sold as a commodity. So when the economy tanked it became this whole religious parallel, “the economy is mad at us” and Kyle (the Jewish kid) decided to save everyone by assuming all their debt. The full episode is amazing if only to see the scene where they go to the Federal Reserve to see how they solve issues.

So the joke is making a Jewish kid a sort of “Messiah” who decided to pay all our debts?

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Lidane  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:31:49pm

Hahaha:

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:32:20pm

re: #157 A Mom Anon

In Rwanda, as the genocide was happening, radio hosts were calling the Tutsis cockroaches that needed to be exterminated. That’s what gives me chills about using parasite as a term to describe human beings….

Yeah, I remember seeing that in Hotel Rwanda. Dehumanization isn’t good for anyone. I may not like RWNJs but like hell am I going to deny them their humanity which is why even though they may oppose relief when my area may be hit by a natural disaster, I’ll suppot it for them.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:33:09pm

re: #161 HappyWarrior

Yeah, I remember seeing that in Hotel Rwanda. Dehumanization isn’t good for anyone. I may not like RWNJs but like hell am I going to deny them their humanity which is why even though they may oppose relief when my area may be hit by a natural disaster, I’ll suppot it for them.

Seriously underrated movie. Cheadle gave an incredible performance. Proud to have it in my DVD collection.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:35:09pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:36:10pm

re: #162 Eclectic Cyborg

Seriously underrated movie. Cheadle gave an incredible performance. Proud to have it in my DVD collection.

Yeah me too. I have heard the real guy wasn’t quite what porraed as unfortunately but who knows, he’s a staunch opponent of Rwanda’s current president. Great movie in any case. Don Cheadlle is always a good bet IMO. I’ve been a fan of his since Traffic.

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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:37:13pm

re: #159 Eclectic Cyborg

Partly, yes - it was really about people not understanding the economy and thinking it was some strange magical being that had suddenly become mad at us for overspending; Kyle decided to take on everyone’s debt because (as usual on the show) everything got completely out of hand.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:37:34pm

re: #163 Kragar

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As I said, I worry about our collective humanity and posts like that are why. She did not deserve it. You can argue she was being disrespectful fine. I’ve felt disrespected before too but I didn’t do that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:39:11pm

re: #166 HappyWarrior

As I said, I worry about our collective humanity and posts like that are why. She did not deserve it. You can argue she was being disrespectful fine. I’ve felt disrespected before too but I didn’t do that.

Certain people have to learn their place in society…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:39:31pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:39:39pm

She’s also a 16 year old kid. All these people who talk about respect. You think you were always polite to authority figures at that age? No one likely manhandled you like that and if they had, they would have been wrong to do so. Really, there’s a lot of great people in this country but this one part that seems to get their jollies from seeing other people brutalized, I feel ashamed to share a country with them.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:40:55pm

re: #167 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Certain people have to learn their place in society…

Then they should do us a favor and stop insisting they’re not racists.

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Mike Lamb  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:42:36pm

re: #145 The Vicious Babushka

Jesus Dana HER MOTHER JUST DIED. What a horrible human being==>

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It’s still shocking to me that people think the officer behaved appropriately. Why would you want to hitch your train to that shit wagon?

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:43:05pm

Maybe ask that of GWB and his Administration. There’s an entire war complete with casualties that ought to be examined based on statements made by that Administration.

If you think Hillary lied to the Committee, prove it. Problem is that the GOP can’t get proof. They just believe it, which in their addled minds makes it true.

So they go along concocting these notions that become entrenched in the narrative and picked up by lazy media types who don’t want to do any work more than necessary and recite it without critical analysis.

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:43:33pm

re: #169 HappyWarrior

She’s also a 16 year old kid. All these people who talk about respect. You think you were always polite to authority figures at that age? No one likely manhandled you like that and if they had, they would have been wrong to do so. Really, there’s a lot of great people in this country but this one part that seems to get their jollies from seeing other people brutalized, I feel ashamed to share a country with them.

Even if you were always polite to authority figures as a teenager, that doesn’t give you the right to essentially make a, DAMN KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN argument.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:43:56pm

I’ll add another thing and this isn’t to anyone here in particular since you all don’t crap on my generation but I am tired of people bitching about Millennials. Oh your generation was so fine and never came off spoiled and entitled to older generations. Give me a frigging break. Millenials are fine and in act they deserve props for their cultural tolerance whether that’s of people of different cultures or sexuality.

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:44:19pm

re: #171 Mike Lamb

It’s still shocking to me that people think the officer behaved appropriately. Why would you want to hitch your train to that shit wagon?

Respect muy authoritay!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:44:23pm

re: #173 thedopefishlives

Even if you were always polite to authority figures as a teenager, that doesn’t give you the right to essentially make a, DAMN KIDS, GET OFF MY LAWN argument.

For sure.

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ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:44:27pm

Has anyone seen any person of color Tweet anything about the young girl deserving being thrown to the floor and then tossed a few feet across the floor?

I know I have seen several tweets and some people on TV saying all she had to do was follow the teacher’s orders and when the police came to follow their instructions. All White folk and the majority of them women.

That is how all white teenagers act isn’t it? Aren’t they all little goody two-shoes types?

/// This country…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:44:50pm

re: #116 De Kolta Chair

When the Heritage Foundation tries to appear relevant

How far would these guys go towards paying it off?

Top 100 US CEOs sitting on retirement nest egg of nearly $5bn

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thedopefishlives  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:45:11pm

re: #177 ObserverArt

Because we haven’t seen any incidents at all in this country of people of color being harassed, abused, or even murdered even when they were following instructions.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:45:20pm

re: #172 lawhawk

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Maybe ask that of GWB and his Administration. There’s an entire war complete with casualties that ought to be examined based on statements made by that Administration.

If you think Hillary lied to the Committee, prove it. Problem is that the GOP can’t get proof. They just believe it, which in their addled minds makes it true.

So they go along concocting these notions that become entrenched in the narrative and picked up by lazy media types who don’t want to do any work more than necessary and recite it without critical analysis.

How about Nixon. How about Reagan.Or shit how about the GOP canidates especially their last nominee who ran gainst himself pretty much.

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Tigger2  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:45:44pm

re: #172 lawhawk

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Maybe ask that of GWB and his Administration. There’s an entire war complete with casualties that ought to be examined based on statements made by that Administration.

If you think Hillary lied to the Committee, prove it. Problem is that the GOP can’t get proof. They just believe it, which in their addled minds makes it true.

So they go along concocting these notions that become entrenched in the narrative and picked up by lazy media types who don’t want to do any work more than necessary and recite it without critical analysis.

Ask all the Republicans running they seem very skilled at lying.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:45:45pm

re: #179 thedopefishlives

Because we haven’t seen any incidents at all in this country of people of color being harassed, abused, or even murdered even when they were following instructions.

Not without good reason!

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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:45:57pm
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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:46:21pm
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Dr. Matt  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:46:35pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:48:06pm

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

How far would these guys go towards paying it off?

Top 100 US CEOs sitting on retirement nest egg of nearly $5bn

And that in short is why I consider myself a moderate socialist. That’s easily more money than anyone in my family line going back a millennia has seen. And the wingnut response is “Oh they worked hard for it.” Shit and guys like my great grandfathers didn’t in the coal mines over 40 years? Your work ethic is NOT directly correlated to your wealth, anyone who believes that needs to be smacked.

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stpaulbear  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:48:55pm

re: #160 Lidane

“What the signers meant, it seemed to me, was that when it comes to some theological matters Mr. Douthat has no idea what he’s talking about. And that’s true…” he said. “This does not mean [Douthat is] a bad person or a bad Catholic. Or a ‘heretic,’ to use a phrase from his lexicon. It just means that he’s not a professional theologian and on many matters, particularly church history and ecclesiology, he is out of his depth.”

“I wholeheartedly support fully anyone’s right to write whatever he or she wants, including Ross Douthat,” Martin wrote. “But be sure that whenever you’re reading ad hominem comments, thinly veiled attacks on people’s fidelity to the faith, snide insinuations and malicious twisting of words, you are not reading theology. You are reading hate.”

I hope that leaves a mark. Douthat is such a sanctimonious prude.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:52:20pm

re: #184 Charles Johnson

Almost all of the JLENS program costs were R&D, according to ‘Defense Industry Daily.’ Only about $40m in military construction.

How much of that do you wanna bet was in the form of no-bid, cost-plus contracts?

That is another word for “welfare for defense contractors”.

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ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:53:13pm

re: #180 HappyWarrior

How about Nixon. How about Reagan.Or shit how about the GOP canidates especially their last nominee who ran gainst himself pretty much.

Reagan never lied!!!

In his mind he was just disappointed in his underlings and his heart and his best intentions told him he never lied. Even when he lied.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:54:57pm

i am patiently awaiting the deflation of the carson bubble so we can get to where the race really becomes interesting boring

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Charles Johnson  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:55:39pm

It’s long past time for the US to do some serious soul-searching about our insanely out of control military spending.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:56:55pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

It’s long past time for the US to do some serious soul-searching about our insanely out of control military spending.

It really is. Unfortunately, I think it will take a Nixon goes to China moment to do anything about it. That is to say, an ultra hawk will have to do it.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 12:58:40pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

It’s long past time for the US to do some serious soul-searching about our insanely out of control military spending.

Commie.
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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:00:05pm

You can’t call the size of the federal government a problem and then not only refuse to cut defense spending but want to raise spending on it. More vooddoo economics (thanks HW Bush) from the Republican right.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:00:10pm

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Barefoot Grin  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:02:37pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

It’s long past time for the US to do some serious soul-searching about our insanely out of control military spending.

Come on in for the big win!

Full Metal Jacket Born to Kill/Peace Button Duality of Man

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:03:40pm

re: #185 Dr. Matt

If Trump were President, rogue blimps wouldn’t be roaming America’s airspace

Trump Issues Official Denial That He Is Either Rogue, Blimp, Or Roaming

also denies that he is holy, roman, or an empire

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:03:52pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

The F-35 program is projected to have a lifetime cost of $1.4 trillion.

A single Ford class aircraft carrier is expected to run $10 billion per copy (not counting operational costs, upgrades over time, manpower, etc., nor the aircraft that are on board).

Arguably the aircraft carriers serve a good purpose - they have life cycles measured in 40-50 years, are able to provide not only military power projection, but can assist with disaster recovery (see SE Asian tsunami/quake, Katrina, etc.)

The F-35 program is an example of the military seeking a jack of all trades, master of none monstrosity that costs several times as much as the planes its supposed to replace, and can’t do any of the replacement jobs nearly as well - the USAF has an A-10 that can do air to ground for a fraction of the price, while the F-35 can’t even use its guns in any role for a couple more years til they get the bugs out.

The F-22, which is another major plane program, is a hanger queen.

The B-2? Hanger queen program that was cut from a 132 plane run to 20+ planes, because of costs. The B-52 may outlast both the B-1 and B-2 projects.

The USAF is now looking at a long range bomber replacement to the B-2 (LRS-B), and that contract is also going to be in the $80 billion dollar range. My guess is that they’ll find a way to keep the B-52 aloft even as they deploy and then retire the LRS-B project.

Military acquisitions in the US is a completely FUBAR process. But when you have contractors spreading out subcontracts to pretty much every single congressional district, you get projects that no one wants (like forcing the US Army to rebuild/rehab tanks it didn’t want or need).

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A Mom Anon  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:03:58pm

re: #191 Charles Johnson

This is just my opinion mind you, but I get really fucking pissed when I see pleas for money to take care of veterans coming from charities, charities that should never have to exist in the first damned place. That should be built into the DOD budget, period, full stop. It’s not, and the VA system is separate, mismanaged and grossly underfunded. If we took 25 percent out of the DOD and spent it on veterans, none would be homeless, all would be cared for and there would be plenty of money left for a comprehensive GI Bill program for vets and their families.

Of course the reason it’s so hard to cut the defense budget is by design. Projects are scattered all over the States so any cuts are correlated with jobs and then people freak out about layoffs. This is in addition to the whole “we have to be tough on terror” bullshit we’ve been sold over the last 14 years. There’s no real oversight and the waste is astounding. We once retooled every factory we could toward the war effort, why can’t we reverse that and create new jobs that aren’t defense related? I know the answer, but it still needs to be asked, often.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:05:21pm

re: #199 A Mom Anon

This is just my opinion mind you, but I get really fucking pissed when I see pleas for money to take care of veterans coming from charities, charities that should never have to exist in the first damned place. That should be built into the DOD budget, period, full stop. It’s not, and the VA system is separate, mismanaged and grossly underfunded. If we took 25 percent out of the DOD and spent it on veterans, none would be homeless, all would be cared for and there would be plenty of money left for a comprehensive GI Bill program for vets and their families.

Of course the reason it’s so hard to cut the defense budget is by design. Projects are scattered all over the States so any cuts are correlated with jobs and then people freak out about layoffs. This is in addition to the whole “we have to be tough on terror” bullshit we’ve been sold over the last 14 years. There’s no real oversight and the waste is astounding. We once retooled every factory we could toward the war effort, why can’t we reverse that and create new jobs that aren’t defense related? I know the answer, but it still needs to be asked, often.

i wish they would scatter some projects on me

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:06:45pm

re: #199 A Mom Anon

And the military gear that the DoD didn’t want/need (and didn’t want to pay for in storage) was disposed of to local law enforcement.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:07:39pm
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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:08:42pm
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Joe Bacon  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:09:41pm

re: #94 Charles Johnson

Chuck just announced he’s going to “end” Jeb Bush.

Embedded Image

Oh, really? I hate to break it to Ginger Snapped but Jeb Bush is doing the Fearless Fosdick shtick all by himself!

And this is Fearless Fosjeb BEFORE tonight’s debate!

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:10:44pm

re: #202 Kragar

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Fuck this.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:11:28pm

re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

How far would these guys go towards paying it off?

Top 100 US CEOs sitting on retirement nest egg of nearly $5bn

The national debt is a big reason why I’m in favor of the estate tax. The deficit doesn’t care whether you spent too much or didn’t collect enough in taxes. BUT, one way or another, we aren’t paying enough taxes to pay the bill. And that estate was built with money that wasn’t taxed at a high enough rate to pay the bills. I realize that there are philosophical issues about trying to prevent aristocracy (or something to that effect), but the deficit is my main concern about the estate tax.

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ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:11:28pm

re: #199 A Mom Anon

This is just my opinion mind you, but I get really fucking pissed when I see pleas for money to take care of veterans coming from charities, charities that should never have to exist in the first damned place. That should be built into the DOD budget, period, full stop. It’s not, and the VA system is separate, mismanaged and grossly underfunded. If we took 25 percent out of the DOD and spent it on veterans, none would be homeless, all would be cared for and there would be plenty of money left for a comprehensive GI Bill program for vets and their families.

Of course the reason it’s so hard to cut the defense budget is by design. Projects are scattered all over the States so any cuts are correlated with jobs and then people freak out about layoffs. This is in addition to the whole “we have to be tough on terror” bullshit we’ve been sold over the last 14 years. There’s no real oversight and the waste is astounding. We once retooled every factory we could toward the war effort, why can’t we reverse that and create new jobs that aren’t defense related? I know the answer, but it still needs to be asked, often.

The Republicans are always on about balancing the budget. And they always want a new Constitution amendment to make it the law.

Well, how about an amendment that says if you have a military budget part of it goes to paying off ALL costs of that military like healthcare and education programs for all veterans, especially any veteran that suffers any injury (yes, mental too).

They want fiscal responsibility. How about a little human responsibility to the fiscal needs of the veterans.

Yes, I am looking at you Senator Bomb Bomb McCain. And all the others like you.

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Jenner7  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:12:01pm

re: #195 Backwoods_Sleuth

yTZvzDIBsy76GGfMH0pszjjhbUTwh41RJ5u68kdsUdK1cVok4qxLHw==

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:12:31pm

re: #207 ObserverArt

The Republicans are always on about balancing the budget. And they always want a new Constitution amendment to make it the law.

Well, how about an amendment that says if you have a military budget part of it goes to paying off ALL costs of that military like healthcare and education programs for all veterans, especially any veteran that suffers any injury (yes, mental too).

They want fiscal responsibility. How about a little human responsibility to the fiscal needs of the veterans.

Yes, I am looking at you Senator Bomb Bomb McCain. And all the others like you.

Amen to that. Guys like McCain always talk about boots on the ground this and boots that but they never want to actually pay the uman cost of war.

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Jenner7  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:16:53pm

The Blimp is down. The Blimp is down.

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lawhawk  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:18:17pm

re: #210 Jenner7

Wednesday. Black Wednesday.

/just doesn’t have the same ring as Black Sunday (or Sunday, Bloody Sunday).

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Skip Intro  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:18:57pm

re: #210 Jenner7

The Blimp is down. The Blimp is down.

I prefer blimps who don’t get captured - Donald Trump

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:19:46pm

re: #172 lawhawk

Has Being A Skilled Liar Become A Qualification For High Office? .

So their argument is that not that they failed to find anything because there’s nothing to find, but rather that they failed to find anything because Hillary is so much smarter than they are?

Noted.

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A Mom Anon  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:20:20pm

OK lizards, I have to go get some stuff done before I gotta go pick up the kid from work. See you later.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:22:49pm

re: #185 Dr. Matt

If Trump were President, rogue blimps wouldn’t be Trump would be the only rogue gasbag roaming America’s airspace.

FTFY

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sagehen  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:26:25pm

re: #199 A Mom Anon

Of course the reason it’s so hard to cut the defense budget is by design. Projects are scattered all over the States so any cuts are correlated with jobs and then people freak out about layoffs. This is in addition to the whole “we have to be tough on terror” bullshit we’ve been sold over the last 14 years. There’s no real oversight and the waste is astounding. We once retooled every factory we could toward the war effort, why can’t we reverse that and create new jobs that aren’t defense related? I know the answer, but it still needs to be asked, often.

Government spending on weapons creates jobs.

Government spending on transportation, or health care, or education, or anything else non-military, never created a job, government doesn’t create jobs, what kinda goddamm commie are you to suggest such a thing.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:26:47pm

My experience with defense spending was with little rubber rollers that were used to roll missile propellant logs. We made them a couple of times in the 60s and we saved the mold all through the 70 and 80 and into the 90s. Short story long, The navy was using the little bastards all along and was having a devil of a time getting good ones. So up and coming supply officer went and actually looked at the blueprint and saw my company’s name and called us. We gave them a price (and for once they didn’t have to pay for the mold, which they had to over and over again), and everything was all set to go… except the price was over $2500 and it had to go for bid. We didn’t get the job. Some guy from a Philadelphia suburb got the job, (and it turned out he got the job over and over all these years). Short story longer, his rollers only lasted about a shift and a half, so the navy sent us used rollers to reclaim because the repair didn’t have to go through bidding. All we did was use the rubber formula on the blueprint and our rollers lasted about a month. Problem was, we couldn’t get the new roller bid. Instead, the navy would send us the brand new rollers, still in their packaging, for us to strip and remold with the proper rubber compound.

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Jenner7  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:26:51pm
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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:28:11pm

re: #219 Jenner7

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I hope this doesn’t sound wrong but I am skeptical of what they say.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:30:58pm
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goddamnedfrank  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:31:16pm

Seriously, that’s obscene.

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sagehen  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:35:49pm

re: #206 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The national debt is a big reason why I’m in favor of the estate tax. The deficit doesn’t care whether you spent too much or didn’t collect enough in taxes. BUT, one way or another, we aren’t paying enough taxes to pay the bill. And that estate was built with money that wasn’t taxed at a high enough rate to pay the bills. I realize that there are philosophical issues about trying to prevent aristocracy (or something to that effect), but the deficit is my main concern about the estate tax.

Most of that estate was built with money that wasn’t *ever* taxed, at *any* rate.

When we say Mark Zuckerberg is worth $XB, that doesn’t mean he has $XB. It means he owns stock that if he were to sell it, if he were to convert that stock into money, it would then be $XB. But what it is today, is unrealized capital gains. It’s never been taxed, and it won’t be until it changes hands. Dying/leaving it to an heir = changing hands, at which time it should of course be taxed.

If you don’t want the government getting their greedy little paws on money you think they’ll spend stupidly… spend it before you die. Andrew Carnegie was once the richest man in America, and he left no estate. Bill Gates and Warren Buffet are today the two richest men in America, and neither of them intends to leave an estate. The wealth is getting back out into the economy, being spent usefully, and the taxman never touched it.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:36:01pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:36:28pm
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goddamnedfrank  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:36:32pm
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WhatEVs  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:36:39pm

re: #199 A Mom Anon

This is just my opinion mind you, but I get really fucking pissed when I see pleas for money to take care of veterans coming from charities, charities that should never have to exist in the first damned place. That should be built into the DOD budget, period, full stop. It’s not, and the VA system is separate, mismanaged and grossly underfunded. If we took 25 percent out of the DOD and spent it on veterans, none would be homeless, all would be cared for and there would be plenty of money left for a comprehensive GI Bill program for vets and their families.

Of course the reason it’s so hard to cut the defense budget is by design. Projects are scattered all over the States so any cuts are correlated with jobs and then people freak out about layoffs. This is in addition to the whole “we have to be tough on terror” bullshit we’ve been sold over the last 14 years. There’s no real oversight and the waste is astounding. We once retooled every factory we could toward the war effort, why can’t we reverse that and create new jobs that aren’t defense related? I know the answer, but it still needs to be asked, often.

Absolutely. That we won’t take care of returning vets is an abomination. We’ll throw more and more $$ at new programs but apparently need to prove government doesn’t work by short funding the VA.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:37:07pm

re: #172 lawhawk

“Hey were just asking questions…”

——

The SHE LIED!!!! complaint is basically evidence that they don’t have anything else.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:37:34pm
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Skip Intro  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:37:49pm

Here’s Dr. Ben explaining why the Big Bang theory is wrong, I think.

You know, you’ve got this mass bending and then it explodes. In physics, we have something we call “angular momentum,” and it is preserved, so it should be preserved in any orbit of anything that is affected by gravity around a planet, which means everything has to traverse in the same direction. Well, it doesn’t! There are many planets that have satellites and moons that go in opposite directions. So that doesn’t work with angular momentum!

I hope he gets asked to expand on this during the “debate” tonight.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:38:31pm

re: #224 Kragar

Before long, Black Lies Matter will join forces with ISIS to being down our legal constituted republic. You heard it first here
— David A. Clarke, Jr.

I thought Obama already ended our Constitutional Republic.

////

Also, “Black Lies Matter”. Derp.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:39:15pm

re: #224 Kragar

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Because that makes total sense. Go home Sheriff Clarke, you’re drunk and filled with hate.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:40:00pm

re: #231 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I thought Obama already ended our Constitutional Republic.

////

Also, “Black Lies Matter”. Derp.

Cannot believe this guy is a sheriff with all this derp. I’m seriously thinking about writing in someone really silly for Sheriff this election.

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iossarian  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:40:59pm

re: #230 Skip Intro

Here’s Dr. Ben explaining why the Big Bang theory is wrong, I think.

You know, you’ve got this mass bending and then it explodes. In physics, we have something we call “angular momentum,” and it is preserved, so it should be preserved in any orbit of anything that is affected by gravity around a planet, which means everything has to traverse in the same direction. Well, it doesn’t! There are many planets that have satellites and moons that go in opposite directions. So that doesn’t work with angular momentum!

I hope he gets asked to expand on this during the “debate” tonight.

I hope that’s a real quote. “Many planets” FTW.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:41:30pm

re: #219 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

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b.d.  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:44:49pm
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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:45:03pm

Interesting article in the first link

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nines09  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:47:00pm

Blimp update. Not far from me as the blimp flies…

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Lidane  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:49:39pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:49:41pm

re: #236 b.d.

shut down the government to end blimp tyranny!!!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:50:11pm

re: #239 Lidane

re: #240 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

shut down the government to end blimp tyranny!!!

Uh oh, Dim Jim won’t like that

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:51:21pm

The blimp story is just a lot of hot helium.

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WhatEVs  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:51:45pm

re: #220 HappyWarrior

I hope this doesn’t sound wrong but I am skeptical of what they say.

You and me both.

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Kragar  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:51:50pm
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b.d.  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:52:45pm

re: #241 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Uh oh, Dim Jim won’t like that

THAT BLIMP VOTED DEMOCRAT IN THE LAST ELECTION!

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Slap  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:53:56pm

OK, so this is OT.

As a bit of an aircraft nut since I was but a wee lad, I have a geek’s complaint to make with Mr. Spielberg’s latest (which I fully intend to see once it’s available at home — don’t like going out to the movies anymore), Bridge of Spies.

I read Operation Overflight when it came out in hardcover (having a father who is a military history geek left its mark on me….). It’s Francis Gary Powers’ autobiography, a very interesting read. Years later, I encountered a book called May Day by Michael Beschloss. The U2 incident was seismic in its reach, and both of these are fascinating reads that I HIGHLY recommend.

I’m pretty certain that Bridge is accurate in terms of the machinations and implications of the incident; HOWEVER….I can’t help but be annoyed at one rather glaring problem: the U2 used in the airborne sequences appears to be a later variation of the aircraft than the one that was shot down. Aircraft geeks, take a look:

Powers and the U2 that he piloted:

A screenshot from the movie:

Look at the nose. The film version features the modern upgrades, not the original design.

Nit-picky, I know. But since it’s all CGI, couldn’t they have taken the time to use a period-correct version of the plane, fer chissakes?????

/rant off

You may now return to your regularly-scheduled programming.

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Jack Burton  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:56:06pm

re: #218 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

The flip side of that is, if they could have just went with your company and skipped the bidding process, there would be someone/group screaming about “NO BID CONTRACTS!!!11!” and comparing you to Dick Cheney/Harliburton or something.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 1:58:54pm

re: #239 Lidane

[Embedded content]

I agree Glenn but just because you’re on a sixth grade debating level doesn’t make you much better.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:04:14pm

Raytheon’s got some ‘splaining to do!

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WhatEVs  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:04:54pm

re: #239 Lidane

Pot. Meet kettle.

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:08:36pm

re: #233 HappyWarrior

Cannot believe this guy is a sheriff with all this derp. I’m seriously thinking about writing in someone really silly for Sheriff this election.

Back when we New York City Slickers used to vote for sheriff (the mayor appoints them now), I always wrote in Richard M. Nixon, even after he croaked. Couldn’t imagine anyone better qualified for evicting the poor and the elderly.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:10:47pm

re: #252 De Kolta Chair

Back when we New York City Slickers used to vote for sheriff (the mayor appoints them now), I always wrote in Richard M. Nixon. Couldn’t imagine anyone better qualified for evicting the poor and the elderly.

We vote in my county. There’s an idea.

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HappyWarrior  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:11:49pm

I apologize if I asked this before but is the county that Clarke is sheriff of a suburban county? It’s called Milwaukee but Maryland has Baltimore county which is different from the city of Baltimore itself and much more conservative.

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dholmes32  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:14:22pm

Ben Carson’s sekrit super PAC The 2016 Committee has been busted as a sponsor of the 9th World Congress on Families now going on in Salt Lake City.

thedailybeast.com

It should be noted that the SPLC has identified the WCF as a hate group. It’s certain the WCF had some virulently anti-GLBT speakers ar the conference.

Busted, I say! BUSSSSTED!

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KGxvi  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:15:32pm

re: #255 dholmes32

are they really busted when we should have expected to find them there?

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ObserverArt  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:16:18pm

Reince Priebus is telling Chuck Todd there is no split in the party, and if there was one beginning to form, Paul Ryan will be the unifier and get everyone back together.

Anyone buying? I’m not. Reince is not facing the truth, but when has he.

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WhatEVs  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:19:02pm

re: #257 ObserverArt

Reince Priebus is telling Chuck Todd there is no split in the party, and if there was one beginning to form, Paul Ryan will be the unifier and get everyone back together.

Anyone buying? I’m not. Reince is not facing the truth, but when has he.

And they got rid of Michael Steele for him.

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Lidane  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:33:53pm

No one could have predicted:

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De Kolta Chair  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:41:03pm

re: #253 HappyWarrior

We vote in my county. There’s an idea.

;-)

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Amory Blaine  Oct 28, 2015 • 2:56:35pm

re: #233 HappyWarrior

Cannot believe this guy is a sheriff with all this derp. I’m seriously thinking about writing in someone really silly for Sheriff this election.

Milwaukee. A filthy pit of racist scum. He’s the darling of RWNJ here, because hey, they have a black friend they can point to. Also he promises to “crush ” the thugs (wink wink). All his department does is patrol the lakefront, freeway and courthouse. All could be done with Pinkerton’s. He’s one of the worthless losers he’s always crying about.


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