Acoustic Guitar Excellence: Spencer Elliott, “First Flight”

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I have to admit I sometimes get a little tired of the two-handed acoustic guitarists who use open tunings and slap the strings rhythmically on two and four while Travis-picking, but Spencer Elliott is breaking that mold with a vengeance. This is a beautiful piece produced by fellow acoustic guitar maestro Antoine Dufour, with no sign of the aforementioned clichés.

Music & Guitar Tab available at http://www.candyrat.com/artists/SpencerElliott

Visit Spencer Elliott at:

Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100008339446684
Website: http://www.spencerelliott.net/

Video Production by Rob Poland
Audio Production by Antoine Dufour

Spencer plays:
Fan-Fret Jumbo guitar by Jedidiah Wiebe

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355 comments
1
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:11:38pm

I finally got a guitar lesson today. I’ve owned one for many years but could never get the strings to ring cleanly. Anyway the instructor started to ask me what song I wanted to say and I immediately interrupted with “Dogs”.
I think I saw his O face.
My first task is to force (heh) my hands to relax. Very optimistic that I’ll learn to make music.

2
teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:13:24pm
4
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:19:06pm

Off to get my ass kicked on the nursing board exam tomorrow.

5
Reality Based Steve  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:23:16pm

re: #3 gocart mozart

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I think he (Obama) is so at peace with what he’s accomplished, he’s going to enjoy what’s left of his term

RBS

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Feline Fearless Leader  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:23:41pm

re: #2 teleskiguy

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If it was Ozzy Ozbourne with a kitten we might have been worried.

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TedStriker  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:25:56pm

re: #6 Feline Fearless Leader

If it was Ozzy Ozbourne with a kitten we might have been worried.

Nah, that’s just bats.

/

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No Depression  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:30:16pm

re: #3 gocart mozart

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Oh God, there’s a member of the Eleventy percent in the comments ranting about Zionists protecting Obama.

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Reality Based Steve  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:41:42pm

Well, I’m off to bed. The bosses are down in Orlando at the big annual diving trade show. I’m catching up on inventories, doing some maintenance on gear, looking at some of our systems (if you can call them that) and seeing how we can make things smoother, easier and simpler to track gear.

It fits my personality well. :)

RBS

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:51:32pm

Ugh I think the time change is still messing with me a little bit.

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Kragar  Nov 3, 2015 • 8:58:55pm

re: #10 Eclectic Cyborg

Ugh I think the time change is still messing with me a little bit.

I’ve felt off for the last few days

12
Kragar  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:05:03pm

Fox Lake Lieutenant Joseph Gliniewicz’s death in September sparked a manhunt stemming from his request for backup as he pursued three “suspicious men” in the small community near the border between Illinois and Wisconsin.

The 52-year-old officer was found on Sept. 1 with fatal gunshot wounds in a remote area of the community. No arrests have been made in connection with his death, and investigators have already stated that Gliniewicz was shot twice with his own gun.

The Lake County Sheriff’s Office refused to comment on the reports on Tuesday, saying that the cause of the 30-year veteran’s death would be revealed during a press conference on Wednesday morning.

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William Lewis  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:16:04pm

Wonderful piece and playing. The Husker Du shirt doesn’t hurt either :)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:19:19pm

re: #12 Kragar

Yup. Local news “conference” sometime tomorrow. Expect a lot of the people that called me out (via other media) as a cop hater, asking why I hate the cops (I don’t) to call this a coverup by dirty cops.

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WhatEVs  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:20:54pm

re: #12 Kragar

I wonder why Lake County is involved. Fox Lake is in McHenry County.

16
Romantic Heretic  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:22:39pm

re: #4 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Good luck.

17
Jenner7  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:23:52pm

Welp, the two small tax increases I voted for didn’t pass. Not surprising. Taxes are the devil or something.

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Kragar  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:24:10pm

re: #15 WhatEVs

I wonder why Lake County is involved. Fox Lake is in McHenry County.

IIRC, wasn’t he found in a undeveloped area? Might have been an area between or on the edge of the jurisdictions?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:25:13pm

re: #18 Kragar

IIRC, wasn’t he found in a undeveloped area? Might have been an area between or on the edge of the jurisdictions?

Could also have been that another department took over the investigation at some point because of the involvement in the initial search.

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teleskiguy  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:27:50pm

re: #17 Jenner7

Colorado voted on what to do with $66 million in taxes collected on cannabis, whether to keep it in the general fund for use in government stuff, or to be refunded. Voters decided to let the state keep the money. So all is not lost. :)

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WhatEVs  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:28:31pm

re: #18 Kragar

re: #19 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Could also have been that another department took over the investigation at some point because of the involvement in the initial search.

Could very well be. They’re adjacent counties.

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Cheechako  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:51:55pm

re: #4 SteveMcGaziBolaGate

Off to get my ass kicked on the nursing board exam tomorrow.

Here’s what to expect:

Nurses in China Taking Final Exams
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retired cynic  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:54:33pm

re: #22 Cheechako

Lord, that looks like a tough NEWT exam.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:55:27pm

Way off topic, but Gotham’s second season is turning out to be as good as the first. Bruce Wayne is still pretty much a cipher, but the back stories of Riddler, Penguin and Catwoman are very interesting. I’m waiting for the turn-around point for young Bruce, which may be when he discovers his new friends are all trying to stab him in the back (figuratively speaking).

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:56:44pm

Sorry I haven’t commented much on the Gliniewicz matter. I got a note from the post office saying they had a certified letter for me and I can’t read the sender’s name. So I spent the last hour worrying about if I was getting sued, even though I can’t think of who would want to sue me. I’ve settled down now, since I can’t find out till the post office opens in the morning.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:57:54pm

re: #22 Cheechako

Fun fact. The desks are far apart to discourage cheating. The exams are tough, and require almost total recall of the study materials.

One of my Chinese friends got her nursing license in Changsha, but meanwhile got married to a Canadian and moved to Ontario. Passing the Canadian license exam was comparatively easy.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 3, 2015 • 9:59:06pm

re: #25 Dark_Falcon

Sorry I haven’t commented much on the Gliniewicz matter. I got a note from the post office saying they had a certified letter for me and I can’t read the sender’s name. So I spent the last hour worrying about if I was getting sued, even though I can’t think of who would want to sue me. I’ve settled down now, since I can’t find out till the post office opens in the morning.

Certified mail is almost always bad news. Don’t ask me how I know.

My thoughts are with you.

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Cheechako  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:00:56pm

re: #26 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

My wife sweated bullets preparing for her Nursing State Boards. Easily passed on her first attempt.

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:01:55pm

re: #22 Cheechako

Here’s what to expect:

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When they say “keep your eyes on your own papers”, they’re not kidding

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:06:03pm

re: #29 sizzzzlerz

When they say “keep your eyes on your own papers”, they’re not kidding

Cheating on exams is a major Chinese avocation and a major problem for professional exam givers. Kids sitting the college entrance exam have been caught with tiny radios concealed in their eyeglass frames, and answers for some of the national exams taken at university are commonly offered for sale online.

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:08:18pm

re: #27 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Certified mail is almost always bad news. Don’t ask me how I know.

My thoughts are with you.

Thanks. It’s going to eat at me until I know, because I can’t think of anyone who would have a reason to sue me. What else are such letters used for (its not from a government agency)?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:18:24pm

Had missed seeing that today.

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Cheechako  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:20:17pm

TONIGHT -Strong aurora expected across Alaska, Canada, parts of Lower 48

Megan Edge
Alaska Dispatch News
November 3, 2015

Northern Lights Healy AK

The northern lights are expected to dance across Alaska and the rest of the U.S. Tuesday night, according to the University of Alaska Fairbanks’ Geophysical Institute.

“Weather permitting, highly active auroral displays will be visible overhead from Inuvik, Yellowknife, Rankin and Iqaluit to Vancouver, Helena, Minneapolis, Milwaukee, Bay City, Toronto, Montpelier and Charlottetown, and visible low on the horizon from Salem, Boise, Cheyenne, Lincoln, Indianapolis and Annapolis,” the Geophysical Institute wrote.

The aurora intensity is rated on a scale of 0 to 9. On Monday, initial reports of the forecast were rated at a seven, but by Tuesday the intensity level had been downgraded to a six, which is still high — even for Alaska.

More: adn.com

It’s raining hard at my house so I’m going to miss the show….again.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:38:00pm

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

Thanks. It’s going to eat at me until I know, because I can’t think of anyone who would have a reason to sue me. What else are such letters used for (its not from a government agency)?

en.wikipedia.org

This may help?

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:47:47pm

re: #33 Cheechako

TONIGHT -Strong aurora expected across Alaska, Canada, parts of Lower 48

Megan Edge
Alaska Dispatch News
November 3, 2015

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More: adn.com

It’s raining hard at my house so I’m going to miss the show….again.

That’s no aurora…

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Cheechako  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:48:29pm

Aurora Forcast

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:53:35pm

I wished Democrats would get out and vote in off year elections.
Is that asking too much?
Sigh…

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 3, 2015 • 10:56:47pm

re: #34 Not a Sparkly Vampire

en.wikipedia.org

This may help?

It helps a little, thanks.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2015 • 11:24:15pm

re: #37 Not a Sparkly Vampire

I wished Democrats would get out and vote in off year elections.
Is that asking too much?
Sigh…

Apparently yes, it is. In most instances there is so little media attention on off year elections that few people, except those who are more politically minded (which tend to lean Republican), bother to vote.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 3, 2015 • 11:40:47pm

re: #24 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Way off topic, but Gotham’s second season is turning out to be as good as the first. Bruce Wayne is still pretty much a cipher, but the back stories of Riddler, Penguin and Catwoman are very interesting. I’m waiting for the turn-around point for young Bruce, which may be when he discovers his new friends are all trying to stab him in the back (figuratively speaking).

I was surprised when Jerome died, because he was so obviously the Joker.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 3, 2015 • 11:45:37pm

re: #40 Big Beautiful Door

I was surprised when Jerome died, because he was so obviously the Joker.

A red herring perhaps?

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Kragar  Nov 3, 2015 • 11:56:34pm

My latest works in progress…

My Chapter Master

The Company Champion

and a Tech Marine with a special weapon

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TedStriker  Nov 4, 2015 • 12:27:50am

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel

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Single-handed sailor  Nov 4, 2015 • 12:53:45am

There’s a whole lotta nothing in the universe.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 1:11:43am

re: #44 Single-handed sailor

There’s a whole lotta nothing in the universe.

we just gotta learn how to fold space

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Amory Blaine  Nov 4, 2015 • 1:40:58am

I dumped about a cup or two of hot grease on my hand today but lucky for me it fell on me just right, or I reacted just right or both but I came out virtually unscathed. Very, very lucky.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 4, 2015 • 1:44:50am

en.wikipedia.org

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 2:23:32am

re: #41 Eclectic Cyborg

A red herring perhaps?

I wondered about that, as well. Is Jerome really dead? Hmmm …

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 2:31:13am

re: #37 Not a Sparkly Vampire

I wished Democrats would get out and vote in off year elections.
Is that asking too much?
Sigh…

Because too many of us take the gains we have made in personal freedoms, as well as women’s, minority and LGBT rights, for granted. We need to be reminded over and over again that there are people actively working to turn back the clock on all of them and more.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 2:33:48am

re: #39 Eclectic Cyborg

Apparently yes, it is. In most instances there is so little media attention on off year elections that few people, except those who are more politically minded (which tend to lean Republican), bother to vote.

Because GOP voters are being constantly reminded that America, our Christian religion, our family values and our precious bodily fluids are under attack by atheist Muslims, liberal professors and militant gays.

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William Lewis  Nov 4, 2015 • 2:40:39am

re: #51 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

FOX news is a 24/7 GOP GOTV campaign…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 3:14:26am

re: #52 William Lewis

FOX news is a 24/7 GOP GOTV campaign…

And the NRA are there to remind us of the ongoing assault on the 2nd Amendment.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 3:29:19am

The trouble is that the Right has managed to commandeer the media and the public stage to appeal to a specific group of people, who fear change and The Other. Those people are willing to go out and vote, because of that fear.

There is no similar effort coming from the Left, who are probably less comfortable with sheer propaganda as a means of instilling fear. The Left, dog help us, hope to win by appealing to voters’ minds and common sense. Plus, the Dems seem reluctant to call out the BS coming from the Religious Right, because talking about religion can be counter-productive, if not self-destructive.

The Dems in KY took the even more damaging tactic of minimizing their connections to Obama, without whom Kynect would not even exist. They could have made it plain as day that 400,000 people in the Commonwealth have health coverage now because of Obama, a Democrat. Meanwhile, it has been the GOP in Congress that has repeatedly tried to kill the ACA. For Conway to win, he needed the votes from the urban areas and university towns, and it seems those people just stayed home, letting Bevins, et alia, win.

The Democrats need to get more aggressive and dog-eat-dog political. Maybe reading some books about LBJ and the city machines run by Democrats would help.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 3:35:55am

re: #54 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The Democrats need to get more aggressive and dog-eat-dog political. Maybe reading some books about LBJ and the city machines run by Democrats would help.

I do not see LBJ as any sort of role model. But they need to get more aggressive, appeal to people’s direct personal interests and not just their ideals.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 3:49:52am

re: #55 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I do not see LBJ as any sort of role model. But they need to get more aggressive, appeal to people’s direct personal interests and not just their ideals.

LBJ had many faults, but he knew how to play hardball politics. And you are right, the Dems need to deal with practical matters, day to day life: health coverage, job availability, the minimum wage, education funding. All those are in the GOP cross-hairs. The only people who should vote GOP are the fat cats pulling their strings. Anyone middle-income or lower would be shooting themselves in their foot (feet?) if they vote for a Republican candidate, even if they agree with the candidate on social issues.

I know our resident Republicans will disagree with me, but I don’t see the current Republican Party, as it exists today, as being the friend of anyone making less than $1M a year, or even $100K per year.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 4, 2015 • 4:07:22am

Woke up this morning on the couch with a slight hangover. Damn, it wasn’t a dream.

Bevin winning is just going to embolden the stupid in our state.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 4:40:57am

Who is Jenean Hampton and why are wingnuts going crazy over her?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 4:41:15am

The people of Kentucky deserve the pile of shit they are going to deal with over the next 6 years with Bevin. Fucking idiots.

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dholmes32  Nov 4, 2015 • 4:46:04am

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

re: #31 Dark_Falcon

Thanks. It’s going to eat at me until I know, because I can’t think of anyone who would have a reason to sue me. What else are such letters used for (its not from a government agency)?

There was a time in the later 1990s when I was regularly receiving certified mail from a lawyer in Los Angeles who represented (may still represent) Scientology. After a while, I just stopped going to the P.O. to pick them up. Never got sued, but I’m pretty sure she was mad at me for flying out to Salt Lake City for a deposition I had no intention of attending. (The service was invalid, as cheapo Scientology failed to pay the third-party witness fee. Plus she wanted my hard drive. Not.a.chance. And nothing came of that, either. I was lucky.)

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:00:08am

re: #58 The Vicious Babushka

Who is Jenean Hampton and why are wingnuts going crazy over her?

The KY Lt. Gov elect. Think Mia Love.

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Tigger2  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:02:50am

re: #59 Dr. Matt

The people of Kentucky deserve the pile of shit they are going to deal with over the next 6 years with Bevin. Fucking idiots.

I guess they didn’t like their healthcare they got that much /, they are sure fucked now. The people that liked it should have gotten out to vote.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:03:12am

re: #61 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

The KY Lt. Gov elect. Think Mia Love.

And they’ll throw her under the bus, like they did with Love, as soon as she does something moderate.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:04:32am

re: #63 Dr. Matt

And they’ll throw her under the bus, like they did with Love, as soon as she does something moderate.

Except this lady is pure crazy. Nothing moderate going to come from her.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:05:30am

Repost from last night. Just some info on the impact of Obamacare in KY

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:05:32am

Very interesting story out of Boston. Worth the read if you have a few minutes:

Judge Rebukes Brigham for Placing Morcellation Critic Under Guard While His Wife Was in Surgery

A Boston judge ruled Nov. 3 that Brigham & Women’s Hospital had violated the First Amendment rights of a couple who led an aggressive national campaign to stop power morcellation, a surgical procedure routinely used by gynecologists.

Earlier this week, Brigham provided care to Amy Reed, who needed urgent surgery for a cancer recurrence. However, her husband, Hooman Noorchashm, had to submit to being searched and accompanied by a security guard.

Both Reed and Noorchashm are physicians. She is an anesthesiologist who was formerly employed at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and he is a cardiothoracic surgeon who had practiced at Brigham.

The decision to subject the couple to enhanced security procedures was made by Ron Walls, executive vice president and chief operating officer at Brigham. Hospital officials declined to discuss the matter with The Cancer Letter.

On Monday, after Reed and Noorchashm were searched at the entrance to Brigham, and Noorchashm was put under surveillance, their attorney went to court seeking a restraining order against Brigham for engaging in “retaliatory action” that was brought on by the couple’s public criticism of Brigham leadership in the controversy over power morcellation.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:06:47am

re: #64 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Except this lady is pure crazy. Nothing moderate going to come from her.

I admit that I don’t know much about her. Gohmert level of crazy?

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:08:06am

re: #67 Dr. Matt

I admit that I don’t know much about her. Gohmert level of crazy?

Sleuth knows a bit more about her than I do, but I’d say she is in that realm.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:13:18am

re: #68 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Sleuth knows a bit more about her than I do, but I’d say she is in that realm.

It’s amazing. Kentucky had an excellent, reasonable, and moderate governor for the last 7+ years and now they want to throw away all that progress and common sense governing by electing radical extremists. It’s mind numbing. They get what they deserve.

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Franklin  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:19:23am

We had muni elections yesterday, great results:

Also, here is my city councilor’s results:

For those scoring at home:

6,734 total ballots
3,593 for Bill Linehan
433 write ins.

That’s 2,708 people that left the D2 Councilor selection blank (I was among them).

Here’s the kicker, he is the incumbent City Council President.

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lizardofid  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:19:53am

Good morning all

Does anyone have a feel for which way the political winds had been blowing in KY? Was this outcome predictable prior to the whole county clerk ballyhoo, or did her craziness spread and incite?

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Doofus  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:26:59am

All politics are local, including Kentucky.

Of course, Bevin was also on the receiving end of incessant negative advertising by Democrat Jack Conway and groups backing him. To Bevin’s credit, his own campaign’s ads did not descend into the gutter, even as he regularly called Conway a liar on the trail.

Bevin was the clear winner in debates against Conway, who will long be remembered for heavy sweating, nervous laughter, and bad jokes. Not only did Bevin, an undeniably good talker, beat Conway, but he bested much of the state’s media, too.

Not much information on Jenean Hampton

McConnell helped Bevin’s campaign in many ways. The consummate political pro did so despite amateurish mistakes by Bevin, such as when his running mate, Jenean Hampton, insultingly declined to comment on whether McConnell should resign as Senate majority leader.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:28:31am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:32:37am

re: #67 Dr. Matt

I admit that I don’t know much about her. Gohmert level of crazy?

She is an Air Force veteran, a huge supporter of the Tea Party and an extreme Libertarian.
She doesn’t believe in the powers of SCOTUS, that Head Start indoctrinates children, and favors defunding PP.
Hampton is a lunatic.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:33:38am

re: #64 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Except this lady is pure crazy. Nothing moderate going to come from her.

Ben Carson crazy?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:34:02am

Wait for it….

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:35:05am

re: #50 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

We need to be reminded over and over again that there are people actively working to turn back the clock on all of them and more.

And for some reason that I cannot fathom those people are called ‘conservatives’.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:40:01am

re: #75 The Vicious Babushka

Ben Carson crazy?

Yep. She is over 9000.

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lizardofid  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:43:22am

re: #72 Doofus

All politics are local, including Kentucky.

Not much information on Jenean Hampton

Thanks for the link, explains a lot.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:44:03am

Donald Trump is still butthurt over Megyn Kelly asking him mean questions in the first Debate. If he gets elected (G-D forbid) is he going to have her arrested?

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:44:45am

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

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Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:45:06am

re: #43 TedStriker

If the Moon Were Only 1 Pixel

There have been a lot of “just how big the solar system is” things out recently.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:47:10am

Dick Black got reflected here. Goes to show you can write a letter to Syria’s dictator praising his oppressive policies, degrade women saying they should expect to be raped if they join the military or that spousal rape isn’t possible, that gays deserve no rights, and that women should have no control over their reproductive system but an old prick in Richmond should.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:48:22am

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

Donald Trump is still butthurt over Megyn Kelly asking him mean questions in the first Debate. If he gets elected (G-D forbid) is he going to have her arrested?

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He probably has someone dig through her trash.Kelly is awful but Trump is a despicable asshole. The

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Franklin  Nov 4, 2015 • 5:49:29am

re: #82 Belafon

There have been a lot of “just how big the solar system is” things out recently.

Thanks, it’s interesting and entertaining!

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:00:21am
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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:08:47am

re: #82 Belafon

There have been a lot of “just how big the solar system is” things out recently.

This was the first video I ever saw on the subject.

Powers of Ten™ (1977)

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Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:08:58am

re: #86 The Vicious Babushka

Ally McBeal is a nightmare scenario for most Texan’s.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:10:18am

re: #88 Belafon

Ally McBeal is a nightmare scenario for most Texan’s.

The 21st Century is a nightmare scenario for most Texans.

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:17:22am

re: #89 Romantic Heretic

Not entirely. Many seem entirely willing to live as though Texas exists in its own time bubble of 1836-1846. They seem to neglect that the reason they joined the US was because they had massive debts that the US paid off.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:19:22am

I normally don’t like photo memes but there is a good one of terminally ill Jimmy Carter still working on houses contrasted with a certain hugge GOP front runner who complains about debate times.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:21:28am

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

[Trump]Isn’t it terrible that…[/Trump]

No, it’s not.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:24:50am

re: #65 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Repost from last night. Just some info on the impact of Obamacare in KY

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Obamacare is obviously unconstitutional and a trainwreck and against Liberty, hurts people, and it must be Repealed.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:35:43am

re: #93 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Obamacare is obviously unconstitutional and a trainwreck and against Liberty, hurts people, and it must be Repealed.

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Ironically, the right wing using “Obamacare” as a pejorative nickname for the ACA will keep Obama’s name in the public eye for many years to come. I suppose they were trying to create a new “Hoover-ville,” but the ACA is working well enough that the name will become a fond remembrance of a former president.

Quite the opposite effect from what they wanted.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:38:33am

re: #56 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

LBJ had many faults, but he knew how to play hardball politics. And you are right, the Dems need to deal with practical matters, day to day life: health coverage, job availability, the minimum wage, education funding. All those are in the GOP cross-hairs. The only people who should vote GOP are the fat cats pulling their strings. Anyone middle-income or lower would be shooting themselves in their foot (feet?) if they vote for a Republican candidate, even if they agree with the candidate on social issues.

I know our resident Republicans will disagree with me, but I don’t see the current Republican Party, as it exists today, as being the friend of anyone making less than $1M a year, or even $100K per year.

Or working women, single mothers, gays, minorities, college students, teachers, heath care workers, etc…

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:38:58am

What in the utter fuck

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Decatur Deb  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:39:39am

re: #91 HappyWarrior

I normally don’t like photo memes but there is a good one of terminally ill Jimmy Carter still working on houses contrasted with a certain hugge GOP front runner who complains about debate times.

The Prez really needs to put a sock on that saw.

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:40:03am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

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b.d.  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:40:11am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

What in the utter fuck

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Crack is Whack

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:41:02am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

I really think Ben’s got some kind of substance abuse problem.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:41:14am

Ben Shapiro’s greatest sex fantasy is getting spanked by Caitlyn Jenner and Zoey Tur.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:41:47am

re: #100 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I really think Ben’s got some kind of substance self-abuse problem.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:42:22am

oy

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:45:40am

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

oy

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Aren’t you friends with Milo, Benny?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:46:25am

re: #97 Decatur Deb

The Prez really needs to put a sock on that saw.

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Ha.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:46:36am

re: #100 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I really think Ben’s got some kind of substance abuse problem.

Ragehol.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:47:11am

re: #104 HappyWarrior

Aren’t you friends with Milo, Benny?

Milo Yeahimadumbass doesn’t wear a dress, so it’s all cool with Benjy.

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:47:14am

Hey, anyone hear from Trump about how NYC metro is experiencing record or near record heat this week? It’s November, and the temperatures are more like May. Or September.

silive.com

He was getting on about how there might be snow upstate as proof of something, even though those areas typically experience snow around this time of year. Record warmth? That’s a different story - as global temps continue their inexorable climb.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:48:39am

re: #107 The Vicious Babushka

Milo Yeahimadumbass doesn’t wear a dress, so it’s all cool with Benjy.

I meant about the anti-semitism.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:49:45am

Weather is not climate, but I’m still bringing in tomatoes, eggplant and peppers I planted in March. The old garden won’t get out of the way for winter planting.

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A Mom Anon  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:50:28am

re: #86 The Vicious Babushka

I heard mostly men whining about this, so I’m guessing the dumbasses think the ladies room is set up similarly. God help us, we’re letting idiots run everything into the ground.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:51:44am

This gets no followback from me. Take him to Detroit!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:53:45am

re: #103 The Vicious Babushka

oy

What’s the over/under on when Ben starts his post-Twitter career as a professional litigant and would-be CCJ?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:54:09am

re: #112 The Vicious Babushka

This gets no followback from me. Take him to Detroit!

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Sounds like a real charmer, that one.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:54:34am

re: #111 A Mom Anon

I heard mostly men whining about this, so I’m guessing the dumbasses think the ladies room is set up similarly. God help us, we’re letting idiots run everything into the ground.

I never thought that working summer hotel at college, and cleaning both men’s and women’s restrooms would qualify me to be an expert in the design of same.

These guys apparently think the ladies’ room has urinals.

Some do have couches, though. I thought that was rather unfair.

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:54:40am
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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:55:02am

Again with the “forced penis viewing”
Does Ben want to look at penii all day long or does he want others to stare at his? Does he provide the electron microscope?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:55:25am

I can’t find a single person the Left that believes Sarah Palin is a “biological boy”. But, I can find an overwhelmingly majority that believes she’s a fucking idiot.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:56:46am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:57:12am

Is this bad?

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In the latest poll, conducted after last week’s third GOP debate in which Bush delivered a mediocre performance, just 4 percent of Republican and independent Republican-leaning voters said they would support Bush in their state’s primary. In the September survey, Bush earned 10 percent, trailing Trump, Carson and Carly Fiorina. And in terms of favorability, no one polled lower than Bush, at a net-negative of 33 points. Just 25 percent of all registered voters surveyed said they had a positive opinion of him, while 58 percent said they had a negative one.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:57:42am

re: #117 The Vicious Babushka

Again with the “forced penis viewing”
Does Ben want to look at penii all day long or does he want others to stare at his? Does he provide the electron microscope?

Ben has issues.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:58:35am

re: #118 Dr. Matt

I can’t find a single person the Left that believes Sarah Palin is a “biological boy”. But, I can find an overwhelmingly majority that believes she’s a fucking idiot.

Maybe because Leftists don’t like Sarah Palin’s politics it means we think she’s not a woman. Or something.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:58:41am

re: #121 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Ben has issues.

Totally

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:59:05am

re: #118 Dr. Matt

I can’t find a single person the Left that believes Sarah Palin is a “biological boy”. But, I can find an overwhelmingly majority that believes she’s a fucking idiot.

Ben Shapiro knows All The Leftists.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:59:31am

re: #123 The Vicious Babushka

Totally

Ben just likes saying that word.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:59:33am

re: #124 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Ben Shapiro knows All The Leftists.

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And has seen all their penises in the shower.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 6:59:53am

re: #117 The Vicious Babushka

I really don’t get his deal. When hetero guys stand next to each other at the urinal, we generally don’t peer over the divider to check the other guy’s junk. I’m not sure even gays do it. And besides, since there are no urinals in a ladies’ restroom, how are the girls going to see the boy’s junk, unless they peek over the walls?

I don’t think the guy in question is going to wave it around for the girls to see, since he/she is identifying as a girl.

Ben must watch some interesting movies in his spare time.

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A Mom Anon  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:01:06am

re: #122 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I think, because Ben has no grammar skills, what he meant was that a) we don’t consider Palin a “real woman” for whatever reason (known only to Ben) and b) but we DO consider transitioned/transitioning men “real women”. Of course this is Ben, so perhaps I’ve given him far too much credit…..

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:01:45am

re: #96 The Vicious Babushka

What in the utter fuck

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There are a small number of feminist professors, all female, who have said stupid things over the years about right-of-center women not really being women. It’s broadly similar to calling someone a ‘RINO’, but its not something heard very often and its much less common than it was 20 years ago. Ben Shapiro is inflating what is now a fringe tactic to the mainstream of the left.

Now, someone really did fling that woman-in-name-only malarkey at Sarah Palin recently, but it hasn’t been repeated as a slur in the lefty blogosphere (it’s been reported there, but reporting isn’t repeating). So this is just Benji conflating and smearing. Or as we know it at LGF, “Wednesday”.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:01:59am

re: #120 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Is this bad?

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Although there’s this

In general election matchups, Carson beat Clinton 50 percent to 40 percent, outdrawing the former secretary of state in the share of both men (55 percent to 35 percent) and of women (45 percent to 44 percent).

Glad it’s early because that’s a little troubling.

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Franklin  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:02:55am

re: #129 Dark_Falcon

There are a small number of feminist professors, all female, who have said stupid things over the years about right-of-center women not really being women. It’s broadly similar to calling someone a ‘RINO’, but its not something heard very often and its much less common than it was 20 years ago. Ben Shapiro is inflating what is now a fringe tactic to the mainstream of the left.

Now, someone really did fling that woman-in-name-only malarkey at Sarah Palin recently, but it hasn’t been repeated as a slur in the lefty blogosphere (it’s been reported there, but reporting isn’t repeating). So this is just Benji conflating and smearing. Or as we know it at LGF, “Wednesday”.

Sarah Palin a WINO? That would explain some of her word-salad-speaches.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:03:10am

re: #123 The Vicious Babushka

Totally

Some girls might want to see them.

But I digress.

He’s imagining that a transgender is going to join a girls’ sports team, and would be showering with the girls in a locker room without dividers, thereby displaying her genitals for all to see.

There’s a lot of “what ifs” in this scenario.

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Franklin  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:04:41am

re: #130 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Although there’s this

Glad it’s early because that’s a little troubling.

It is early and his dumbassery is hidden by the fact that noone gives a shit. If Carson is the nominee then all his flaws will be exposed and hammered home by the (D) nominee.

And if when people start paying more attention he still performs and wins, then god help us.

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A Mom Anon  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:05:31am

re: #129 Dark_Falcon

I don’t think it’s even that Dark. I think what is meant by the “real woman” thing is that women like Palin and others undermine women with their policy/politics and in turn that makes them not at all on the side of their female peers. What woman would really root for unequal wages, no family leave, cuts in help for single mom families, defunding education and so on? Not someone who gives a shit about anyone but herself and her right wing political career. It’s not about biology, it’s about policy and their personal career enrichment.

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darthstar  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:06:06am
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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:06:39am

re: #132 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some girls might want to see them.

But I digress.

He’s imagining that a transgender is going to join a girls’ sports team, and would be showering with the girls in a locker room without dividers, thereby displaying her genitals for all to see.

There’s a lot of “what ifs” in this scenario.

The right-wing mishugass (Yiddish word for “insane fixation”) is that transgenders are just horny guys who will go through an elaborate charade of pretending to be female just in order to get into the women’s changing rooms and LOOKIT ALL TEH HAWT BOOBIES.

They get this notion from movies like Juwanna Mann.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:07:45am

It’s safe to “like” Carson, because the TPGOP has a fairly accurate idea of his chances. They would not nominate him even if he were a sure win.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:07:52am

re: #115 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I never thought that working summer hotel at college, and cleaning both men’s and women’s restrooms would qualify me to be an expert in the design of same.

These guys apparently think the ladies’ room has urinals.

Some do have couches, though. I thought that was rather unfair.

At least some men’s rooms have started putting changing tables in them. I was a single parent (my son was past diapers by then though), but with my grand kids it is a big help if out and they are in need of a change to have the tables in the men’s room also.

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darthstar  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:08:27am
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CuriousLurker  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:08:52am

I can’t stay, but I wanted to come by and express my condolences to Backwoods_Sleuth and anyone else living in Kentucky, whore who’re going to have Matt Beavin for a governor. Ugh.

One other thing—no matter how bad your day gets, be thankful you’re not a jelllyfish:

From the article:

Lacking brains, blood, or even hearts, jellyfish are pretty simple critters. They are composed of three layers: an outer layer, called the epidermis; a middle layer made of a thick, elastic, jelly-like substance called mesoglea; and an inner layer, called the gastrodermis. An elementary nervous system, or nerve net, allows jellyfish to smell, detect light, and respond to other stimuli. The simple digestive cavity of a jellyfish acts as both its stomach and intestine, with one opening for both the mouth and the anus. […]

oceanservice.noaa.gov

They kinda sound like wingnuts, don’t they? //

Okay, gotta run. BBL

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:09:05am

re: #134 A Mom Anon

I don’t think it’s even that Dark. I think what is meant by the “real woman” thing is that women like Palin and others undermine women with their policy/politics and in turn that makes them not at all on the side of their female peers. What woman would really root for unequal wages, no family leave, cuts in help for single mom families, defunding education and so on? Not someone who gives a shit about anyone but herself and her right wing political career. It’s not about biology, it’s about policy and their personal career enrichment.

That’s probably what it is. It’s not a literal question of her womanhood. It’s a legitimate criticism of her and other conservative women who undermine other women with their policy and politics by supporting those things. Now I admit there have been such attacks on Ann Coulter, and I’ll repeat it here, I have a problem with calling Ann Coulter “Mann Coulter” even though Coulter has far from kind to the transgendered community.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:10:25am

You know when I go to the bathroom, it’s in and out. I don’t know what bathroom Ben is going to when where we have enough time to notice each other’s respective private parts and it again bears repeating to that little shit goblin that transgendered individuals are far more likely to be attacked than attach themselves. He’s been watching too much Silence of the Lambs and Dressed to Kill.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:10:30am

re: #138 Eventual Carrion

At least some men’s rooms have started putting changing tables in them. I was a single parent (my son was past diapers by then though), but with my grand kids it is a big help if out and they are in need of a change to have the tables in the men’s room also.

In the 1960s, the couches were a requirement in workplace ladies rooms in KY. The rule was attacked and rescinded in the 70s.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:11:36am

re: #132 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some girls might want to see them.

But I digress.

He’s imagining that a transgender is going to join a girls’ sports team, and would be showering with the girls in a locker room without dividers, thereby displaying her genitals for all to see.

There’s a lot of “what ifs” in this scenario.

He really has a healthy imagination, I’ll give the little twerp that much.

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Dark_Falcon  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:16:36am

re: #134 A Mom Anon

I don’t think it’s even that Dark. I think what is meant by the “real woman” thing is that women like Palin and others undermine women with their policy/politics and in turn that makes them not at all on the side of their female peers. What woman would really root for unequal wages, no family leave, cuts in help for single mom families, defunding education and so on? Not someone who gives a shit about anyone but herself and her right wing political career. It’s not about biology, it’s about policy and their personal career enrichment.

Possible, but the line was still badly delivered and as a result handed Shapiro et al an attack line. The lesson (beyond Ben Shapiro being as ass) is that it is important to take care when you go negative, so as not to give the other side a ready avenue of counter-attack.

And now I must be going.

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CuriousLurker  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:16:56am

re: #140 CuriousLurker

Um, that first paragraph? It was supposed to be who’re not whore. *headdesk*

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:22:20am

re: #142 HappyWarrior

You know when I go to the bathroom, it’s in and out. I don’t know what bathroom Ben is going to when where we have enough time to notice each other’s respective private parts and it again bears repeating to that little shit goblin that transgendered individuals are far more likely to be attacked than attach themselves. He’s been watching too much Silence of the Lambs and Dressed to Kill.

He’s got Happy Feet? /

Frankly, even in the men’s room there are stalls and dividers between urinals.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:24:16am

re: #145 Dark_Falcon

Possible, but the line was still badly delivered and as a result handed Shapiro et al an attack line. The lesson (beyond Ben Shapiro being as ass) is that it is important to take care when you go negative, so as not to give the other side a ready avenue of counter-attack.

And now I must be going.

Can I be blunt here? Ben Shapiro was going to attack any criticism of Sarah Palin or any right wing woman as “Real liberal sexism 69! I got scissors” Could they have phrased their critique better, sure but the fact of the matter is shits like Shapiro love to do this about face bullshit when every a conservative is attacked. I see the same thing with Carson with his liberal critics being made out to be racist even though no one on the left has cited his skin color in criticizing him but rather his fanatical beliefs.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:25:30am

re: #147 lawhawk

He’s got Happy Feet? /

Frankly, even in the men’s room there are stalls and dividers between urinals.

Yeah, seriously. He’s really weird with his fantasies about bathrooms.

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:27:50am

re: #149 HappyWarrior

Ben’s got some nitwit trying to defend his nonsense about who’s Jewish and who gets to decide what re: LBGT. Except that there’s nothing in the Torah that would prohibit what the reform movement is suggesting. Equality and tolerance are central to Jewish teachings.

Shapiro’s worldview is antithetical to that.

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Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:28:01am

re: #148 HappyWarrior

I see the same thing with Carson with his liberal critics being made out to be racist even though no one on the left has cited his skin color in criticizing him but rather his fanatical beliefs.

And that will be the annoying part about criticizing him:
P1: “His policies suck.”
RW: “Hey, you’re being racist!”
P1: “Where did I attack him for his skin color?”
RW: “You attacked him because he’s black!”

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:28:51am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Yeah like a bunch of fat middle-aged teabaggers in reenactment costumes can take on the U.S. Armed Services.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:30:19am

re: #150 lawhawk

Ben’s got some nitwit trying to defend his nonsense about who’s Jewish and who gets to decide what re: LBGT. Except that there’s nothing in the Torah that would prohibit what the reform movement is suggesting. Equality and tolerance are central to Jewish teachings.

Shapiro’s worldview is antithetical to that.

Judaism has its equivalent of the wingnut I AM MOAR JESUSY THEN U!!!!!

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darthstar  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:30:28am
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darthstar  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:30:51am

Jeb! has issues.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:31:46am

re: #150 lawhawk

Ben’s got some nitwit trying to defend his nonsense about who’s Jewish and who gets to decide what re: LBGT. Except that there’s nothing in the Torah that would prohibit what the reform movement is suggesting. Equality and tolerance are central to Jewish teachings.

Shapiro’s worldview is antithetical to that.

He really seems more like a fundie than most Jews. Shit even Bibi for all my faults with him is supportive of gay rights and abortion rights.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:32:09am

Wait for it. National Geographic will walk back every Climate Science article they have ever done.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:32:26am

re: #151 Belafon

And that will be the annoying part about criticizing him:
P1: “His policies suck.”
RW: “Hey, you’re being racist!”
P1: “Where did I attack him for his skin color?”
RW: “You attacked him because he’s black!”

That’s precisely why I held my tongue when he came up at a dinner I went to the other night.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:32:58am

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

33% of the American people believe it’s time
for states crackpot individuals to openly defy
the laws passed and enacted by a legally and fairly elected government Feds

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:33:11am

re: #157 The Vicious Babushka

Wait for it. National Geographic will walk back every Climate Science article they have ever done.

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Agh. Knew he fired people but fact checkers seriously. A shame to see such a respected publication be ruined by a miserable old fucker like that.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:33:43am

re: #159 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That part is why they always fail when comparing themselves to the Founders.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:36:49am

re: #161 HappyWarrior

That part is why they always fail when comparing themselves to the Founders.

It is also why they have to promote the any and all stories, no matter how spurious or far-fetched, that support the narrative that Obama is some sort of tyrannical usurper.

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makeitstop  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:39:56am

re: #100 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I really think Ben’s got some kind of substance abuse problem.

I wouldn’t be surprised if half of these assholes (Benny, Crowder, CCJ especially) had a raging coke habit. You don’t get that fired up and borderline-incoherent just by rolling out of bed in the morning.

Where there’s money, there’s drugs.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:40:05am

Why Ben has no chance. Even the folks at Red State Blog have doubts about his qualifications:

(from a BBC article)

Leon Wolf, a diarist for the conservative RedState blog, wonders whether Mr Carson’s apparent lack of command of the issues reflects poorly on his commitment to the campaign

“I am distressed that he has spent apparently no time in study educating himself on the basic issues he would face during the course of the run for his presidency,” he writes. “I am 100% confident Carson could understand them very easily, which is precisely the reason I’m so bothered that he doesn’t. It goes to the seriousness with which he takes the job of running for president, and his personal work ethic at that job.”

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:40:33am

re: #162 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is also why they have to promote the any and all stories, no matter how spurious or far-fetched, that support the narrative that Obama is some sort of tyrannical usurper.

Of course. IF Obama is a legitimate leader, they have no legitimate gripes about policy implementation but if he’s a tyrant, then they’re the second coming of the founders.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:42:51am

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I’m dying here

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:43:56am

re: #165 HappyWarrior

Of course. IF Obama is a legitimate leader, they have no legitimate gripes about policy implementation but if he’s a tyrant, then they’re the second coming of the founders.

Born in a foreign country? Check (obviously a Kenyan, where the [real] Birth Certificate?)
Usurped power? Check (stole election by registering illegals and offering free stuff)
Taxation without representation? Check (uses IRS goons to crack down on right-wing organizations)
Out to confiscate our weapons? Check (Wayne LaPierre says so, so it must be true!)

etc.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:44:03am

re: #166 The Vicious Babushka

LOLOLOLOLOLOLOL I’m dying here

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Don’t you just hate it when Mommy and Daddy wingnut fight over the kids?

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:44:22am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Wolf seems to misunderstand the point of the campaign for Carson, Fiorina, and Trump. It’s to ultimately enhance their marketability on the talk show/speaking engagement circle, not because they have a chance at winning a general election (since none has held any elective office). That Carson or Trump is leading in polls is a sign of the weakness with all the GOP candidates - that they’ll take anyone over any of the entrenched/establishment/GOP extremist candidates because they’re seen as outsiders, but scratch the surface and you see just how awful every last one of them is.

That’s why they’ve got problems going into next year.

The problem is that the Democrats have a different set of problems - trying to rebuild a ground game and win back local and state races against extremist candidates who have won in the past because of Obamacare opposition and who are motivated to push ever more extreme candidates in their gerrymandered districts.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:44:28am

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

Born in a foreign country? Check (obviously a Kenyan, where the [real] Birth Certificate?)
Usurped power? Check (stole election by registering illegals and offering free stuff)
Taxation without representation? Check (uses IRS goons to crack down on right-wing organizations)
Out to confiscate our weapons? Check (Wayne LaPierre says so, so it must be true!)

etc.

Yep, nailed it.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:46:34am

re: #164 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Why Ben has no chance. Even the folks at Red State Blog have doubts about his qualifications:

(from a BBC article)

Leon Wolf, a diarist for the conservative RedState blog, wonders whether Mr Carson’s apparent lack of command of the issues reflects poorly on his commitment to the campaign

“I am distressed that he has spent apparently no time in study educating himself on the basic issues he would face during the course of the run for his presidency,” he writes. “I am 100% confident Carson could understand them very easily, which is precisely the reason I’m so bothered that he doesn’t. It goes to the seriousness with which he takes the job of running for president, and his personal work ethic at that job.”

What’s with these folks at RedState questioning Carson’s command of the issues? I’m sure their commenters will set them straight.
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:48:18am

re: #152 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Yeah like a bunch of fat middle-aged teabaggers in reenactment costumes can take on the U.S. Armed Services.

Rule of Law!!!!!! Except when we don’t like the Laws!!!!

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:48:44am

Wolf from what I recall as oxymoronic as it sounds one of the more reasonable voices at Red State.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:50:02am

Look at who Ben lauds as a “Prophet of Our Times”
Granny Ragehilde

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:52:03am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:52:58am

re: #175 The Vicious Babushka

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Ben’s never been in a bathroom stall before, you have to excuse him, he’s too busy pissing or shitting himself.

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:56:56am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Look at who Ben lauds as a “Prophet of Our Times”
Granny Ragehilde

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That would totally be the end of civilization, if we no longer had trench urinals.

Next you’ll be telling me that the left wants to ban outdoor open-pit privies.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:58:55am

I mean it’s going to the bathroom. I barely notice the other people when I go to the bathroom. Ben really thinks that people would pretend to be the other sex to sexually harass the other sex and it’s just not like that. Ben’s too busy being filled with ragehol to actually realize how utterly idiotic he sounds.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 7:59:16am

re: #174 The Vicious Babushka

Look at who Ben lauds as a “Prophet of Our Times”
Granny Ragehilde

It’s true. Male/female bathrooms are dead. Absolutely dead. Everywhere. They don’t exist anymore.
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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:00:11am

DIdn’t Ben’s side “win” in Houston yesterday anyhow? So why he’s so snappy? Oh wait, he’s an everlasting sphere of right wing rage because right wingers like him are never satisified unless they’re bitching about the left.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:03:26am

re: #178 HappyWarrior

I mean it’s going to the bathroom. I barely notice the other people when I go to the bathroom. Ben really thinks that people would pretend to be the other sex to sexually harass the other sex and it’s just not like that. Ben’s too busy being filled with ragehol to actually realize how utterly idiotic he sounds.

Children, adolescents and other immature and developmentally stunted individuals are totally obsessed with bodily orifices and what goes in and out of them. Most of us really don’t care beyond tending to the immediate necessities

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:03:52am

It’s like the endless Tsunami of Derp
Isn’t “Freedom of Association” what they used to say in favor of racial segregation?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:04:09am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:04:18am

re: #180 HappyWarrior

DIdn’t Ben’s side “win” in Houston yesterday anyhow? So why he’s so snappy? Oh wait, he’s an everlasting sphere of right wing rage because right wingers like him are never satisified unless they’re bitching about the left.

Ben is ABC—Always Be Complaining.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:06:02am

They just keep repeating this stupid shit over and over.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:07:03am

And now he can’t fap to his favorite “Star Wars” action figure any more.
It must suck to be Ben Shapiro.

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:07:06am

re: #13 William Lewis

Yes! That was the first thing I noticed when I saw the pic. It brought back some great memories.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:07:45am

re: #185 The Vicious Babushka

They just keep repeating this stupid shit over and over.

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Must have come from the top. This is stupid as hell. I can tell you this much as a man. I hardly ever see other men’s penises in the bathrooms. And as you’ve correctly pointed out, women’s bathrooms are even more enclosed since there are no urinals.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:08:30am

Ben takes a break from pronouncing who is & is not A Real Juice by retweeting his BFF the Jew-hater

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:09:31am

re: #91 HappyWarrior

I normally don’t like photo memes but there is a good one of terminally ill Jimmy Carter still working on houses contrasted with a certain hugge GOP front runner who complains about debate times.

I saw that on a friend’s Facebook page.

Aaaand a troll showed up to call Jimmy Carter a traitor. Something to do with the Panama Canal.

I’m currently trolling the troll explaining that as I’m Canadian I don’t understand his statement and could he please explain. So far his response can be reduced to, “I shouldn’t have to explain it to you.”

He should start frothing any minute.

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Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:09:54am

re: #188 HappyWarrior

Must have come from the top. This is stupid as hell. I can tell you this much as a man. I hardly ever see other men’s penises in the bathrooms. And as you’ve correctly pointed out, women’s bathrooms are even more enclosed since there are no urinals.

Do these people go waving their dicks around in the men’s restrooms?

If I could tweet I would point out that I would be fairly disgusted as a man if some man went waving his around in the men’s room.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:10:42am

God it must suck being Ben Shapiro. I don’t think the guy has had one positive tweet ever.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:10:46am

I realize that an entire generation of red-blooded American boys grew up fapping to the Princess Leia Brass Bikini doll.

I can also understand that Muslims may not be “enchanted” with Disney’s Muslim Princess Jasmine.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:11:23am

re: #191 Belafon

Do these people go waving their dicks around in the men’s restrooms?

Nope. Maybe in Ben’s bathroom though.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:11:38am
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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:11:59am

re: #190 Romantic Heretic

I saw that on a friend’s Facebook page.

Aaaand a troll showed up to call Jimmy Carter a traitor. Something to do with the Panama Canal.

I’m currently trolling the troll explaining that as I’m Canadian I don’t understand his statement and could he please explain. So far his response can be reduced to, “I shouldn’t have to explain it to you.”

He should start frothing any minute.

Brilliant.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:16:04am

re: #125 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Ben just likes saying that word.

Probably because he believes every time he uses the word his own penis gets bigger.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:16:04am

re: #190 Romantic Heretic

I saw that on a friend’s Facebook page.

Aaaand a troll showed up to call Jimmy Carter a traitor. Something to do with the Panama Canal.

I’m currently trolling the troll explaining that as I’m Canadian I don’t understand his statement and could he please explain. So far his response can be reduced to, “I shouldn’t have to explain it to you.”

He should start frothing any minute.

You are my hero.

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calochortus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:16:05am

re: #127 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I really don’t get his deal. When hetero guys stand next to each other at the urinal, we generally don’t peer over the divider to check the other guy’s junk. I’m not sure even gays do it. And besides, since there are no urinals in a ladies’ restroom, how are the girls going to see the boy’s junk, unless they peek over the walls?

I don’t think the guy in question is going to wave it around for the girls to see, since he/she is identifying as a girl.

Ben must watch some interesting movies in his spare time.

Actually, I was once in a ladies’ room that did have urinals. It required a quick check back to the label on the door. Yup. Ladies’ room.
IIRC it was in the engineering building at U. of Louisiana in the late ’70s and it had apparently never occurred to the designers that there would ever be a need for a women’s restroom in the engineering building, so one of the men’s restrooms had a quick but incomplete sex change. Presumably the transition was completed eventually.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:17:10am

re: #195 The Vicious Babushka

“STOP THE DEMON-GENDER MAN-LADIES FROM PLAYING POKEY-POKEY ON YOUR DAUGHTER’S HOO-HA IN THE POTTY YEE HAW JESUS!”

This is why I crunch numbers for a living instead of write. No way could I come up with headlines like this.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:18:55am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

And now he can’t fap to his favorite “Star Wars” action figure any more.
It must suck to be Ben Shapiro.

Ben’s a bit jealous of feminist-women-hating “comedian” Steven Crowder for cornering the market on feminist-women-hating.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:21:29am

Who builds the roads in Texas?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:22:08am

Oregon voters pass right-wing measure forcing sheriff to act like an Oath Keeper militia member

Voters in one Oregon county approved a measure that would basically require the sheriff to act like an Oath Keeper militia member.

Coos County voters approved a “Second Amendment Preservation Measure” Tuesday that would grant the sheriff authority to decide which state and federal gun laws are unconstitutional — and then keep authorities from enforcing those regulations, reported The Oregonian.

Translation: Backward-ass, gun-humping losers vote for an unconstitutional law.

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bratwurst  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:22:52am

I have deep empathy for troubled people, and he had a reputation as a fine man and a fine police officer (although we are now learning otherwise).

Having said that, what a terrible thing to leave behind: fear of a roving band of killers, life disrupted for an entire community, and this:

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:23:06am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

“Build more roads without tolls”? That’s socialism!!!!!!

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:24:04am

Fox Lake cop staged the scene (pepper spray/baton etc laid out deliberately). First shot, non-fatal through phone/vest caused 4” bruise. 2nd shot downward below collarbone was the fatal shot.

No signs of physical struggle.

He had been embezzling $ and assets from the department for at least 7 years.

There are 2 other suspects that may have been involved with him and the embezzling.

Some “hero”.

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:24:16am

Things of importance to conservatives:

1) public restroom layouts
2) freedom to discriminate in cake sales

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It's on his hat!  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:24:23am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

I’m really having a tough time translating from Wingnut here. How is Texas lowering taxes and building more toll-less roads? What is missing from this equation?

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:24:51am

Well, that’s a headline you don’t see everyday:

Lake County Major Crimes Task Force commander George Filenko said in a news conference Gliniewicz’ suicide on Sept. 1 came after “extensive criminal acts” by the officer.

“This staged suicide was the end result of extensive criminal acts that Gliniewicz had been committing,” Filenko said.

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blueraven  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:24:54am

re: #204 bratwurst

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Not really such a fine man. He was embezzling from an outreach training program for more than 7 years.

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Skip Intro  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:25:06am

re: #208 It’s on his hat!

I’m really having a tough time translating from Wingnut here. How is Texas lowering taxes and building more toll-less roads? What is missing from this equation?

Prayer and Jesus.

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Jenner7  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:25:35am

re: #204 bratwurst

Wasn’t he stealing money??

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:25:48am

re: #199 calochortus

Actually, I was once in a ladies’ room that did have urinals. It required a quick check back to the label on the door. Yup. Ladies’ room.
IIRC it was in the engineering building at U. of Louisiana in the late ’70s and it had apparently never occurred to the designers that there would ever be a need for a women’s restroom in the engineering building, so one of the men’s restrooms had a quick but incomplete sex change. Presumably the transition was completed eventually.

Ha, reminds me of my first day at a major hospital in Pittsburgh. I went to the correct floor and decided I would hit the bathroom before reporting and being shown around. I knew I looked at the plate by the door before going in, but then the door shut and there was a female supply coin operated machine behind the door and no urinals. I did a quick 2 second panic, turned around and went back out to check the sign. Sure enough it said “Men” beside the door. So I took care of business and went on my way. I brought it up to one of the guys when I got settles in and he told me it used to be female but had changed a year before to men’s. He laughed that I freaked out for a second when I first entered.

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:26:11am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

I realize that an entire generation of red-blooded American boys grew up fapping to the Princess Leia Brass Bikini doll.

I can also understand that Muslims may not be “enchanted” with Disney’s Muslim Princess Jasmine.

I can tell you that as the parent of a 9-year-old girl who loves Star Wars, the Leia bikini scenes fucking suck.

“Well, honey, it’s because middle-aged film executives need to get hard-ons too.”

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:26:25am

re: #172 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rule of Law!!!!!! Except when we don’t like the Laws!!!!

Tom Tomorrow had a great cartoon on the subject yesterday.

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bratwurst  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:26:30am

re: #210 blueraven

Not really such a fine man. He was embezzling from an outreach training program for more than 7 years.

Yes, just edited to note this revelation. What an awful story and an awful way to fuck over the community you had supposedly devoted your career to protecting.

Oh, and also this:

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:26:57am

re: #210 blueraven

Not really such a fine man. He was embezzling from an outreach training program for more than 7 years.

He was an Obama-loving libtard!

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ObserverArt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:27:20am

Well, not all the crazy people won elections yesterday.

Toledo Ohio was spared from this nut…who by the way has run 4 times before.

She speaks in tongues too. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Opal Covey a Prophetess.

The videos are not the best quality, but when dealing with total nutjobs you take what you get,

Mayoral Candidate Speaking In Tongues

OPAL says GOD will DESTROY TOLEDO!!!

She didn’t win. I wonder when Toledo will be destroyed?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:27:47am

re: #202 The Vicious Babushka

TEXANS: Go vote today to lower your taxes and build more roads without tolls. Keep Texas great. #tcot #txlege @TexasGOP @TexasYRs
— Greg Abbott

Does Greg Abbott ever consider he represents all Texans, not just the TexasGOP, the TexasYRs and especially not the TCOTs.

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calochortus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:29:01am

re: #219 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Does Greg Abbott ever consider he represents all Texans, not just the TexasGOP, the TexasYRs and especially not the TCOTs.

Don’t be silly-of course he knows that it’s not just the conservatives. He represents God’s will as well.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:29:49am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

I realize that an entire generation of red-blooded American boys grew up fapping to the Princess Leia Brass Bikini doll.

I never found Carrie Fischer particularly sexy in her slave girl costume, but there are lotsa other women I have seen in who did get me engorged.

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:30:08am

I would love to see the right-wing reaction to a Star Wars plot development in which Han Solo becomes a eunuch to Jabba the Hutt’s descendant and turns out to like it a little bit.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:31:04am

re: #191 Belafon

Do these people go waving their dicks around in the men’s restrooms?

That depends on whether it is an Open Carry state or not.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:31:16am

re: #219 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Does Greg Abbott ever consider he represents all Texans, not just the TexasGOP, the TexasYRs and especially not the TCOTs.

That’s what I wonder about Ted Cruz too.

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lizardofid  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:31:20am

re: #208 It’s on his hat!

I’m really having a tough time translating from Wingnut here. How is Texas lowering taxes and building more toll-less roads? What is missing from this equation?

Mexico will pay for it!

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:31:41am

I remember 20 years ago watching Aladdin with my kids and my daughter saying “A Muslim girl would not dress like that!”

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:33:03am

re: #221 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

+1 “engorged” - now there’s a mental image to carry me through the rest of this spreadsheet!

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wrenchwench  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:34:39am

re: #218 ObserverArt

The videos are not the best quality, but when dealing with total nutjobs you take what you get,

Or—decline to click. The still shots are enough, especially in combination with your description.

The mayor of Las Cruces, NM, won an unprecedented third term, and all I know is that Republican Congressman Steve Pearce was against him, so I’m glad he won. Pearce is a jerk.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:36:37am

Benn is butthurt about the “Women Get The Right To Vote” movie

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gwangung  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:37:04am

re: #209 lawhawk

Well, that’s a headline you don’t see everyday:

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I believe some folks were blaming Black Lives Matter for his death…

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It's on his hat!  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:37:20am

re: #226 The Vicious Babushka

I remember 20 years ago watching Aladdin with my kids and my daughter saying “A Muslim girl would not dress like that!”

If you subscribe to the fan theory that Aladdin takes place in the far future, it doesn’t really matter.

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calochortus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:37:35am

Oh well, time to go do something constructive.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:37:46am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

Benn is butthurt about the “Women Get The Right To Vote” movie

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Note to Benny boy, feminists were criticizing the Taliban when Republicans were praising it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:39:08am

re: #230 gwangung

I believe some folks were blaming Black Lives Matter for his death…

Because anyone who calls out police brutality is encouraging cop killers, yes…

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ObserverArt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:39:25am

re: #228 wrenchwench

Or—decline to click. The still shots are enough, especially in combination with your description.

The mayor of Las Cruces, NM, won an unprecedented third term, and all I know is that Republican Congressman Steve Pearce was against him, so I’m glad he won. Pearce is a jerk.

You better watch or Opal will be putting God’s curse on you!

Mawaanana Grephadaa Isluammaabadaaboo! (No air in your bike tires for a week!)

/

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Jenner7  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:39:30am

Didn’t the Sheriff come out and mention BLM after this happened? I’m trying to find it, but can’t find anything.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:40:42am

re: #231 It’s on his hat!

If you subscribe to the fan theory that Aladdin takes place in the far future, it doesn’t really matter.

It is a story out of the “Arabian Nights” so it takes place in a Medieval-period, Islamic country like Persia.

The “far future” would explain how the Genie knows all about 1990’s pop culture, but he would also know that if he’s a time-traveling Genie.

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Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:41:20am

re: #208 It’s on his hat!

I’m really having a tough time translating from Wingnut here. How is Texas lowering taxes and building more toll-less roads? What is missing from this equation?

We have different taxes for different things. One of the things we voted on yesterday was an increase in the homestead exemption. This lowered our property taxes.

Then we voted on an amendment that would shift some money to road building:

Beginning in 2018, the department will get an additional $2.5 billion a year in general sales tax revenue once that statewide account receives $28 billion. Starting in 2020, it will get 35 percent of motor vehicle sales tax revenue that exceeds $5 billion. There are expiration dates for both components, but the Legislature can vote to extend each.

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It's on his hat!  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:42:55am

re: #237 The Vicious Babushka

It is a story out of the “Arabian Nights” so it takes place in a Medieval-period, Islamic country like Persia.

The “far future” would explain how the Genie knows all about 1990’s pop culture, but he would also know that if he’s a time-traveling Genie.

I meant that as rather tongue-in-cheek, but after doing some Googling, it seems that the tale of Aladdin is rather multifaceted in terms of culture.

Who knew the original Aladdin was Chinese?!

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:43:39am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

According to Shapiro, not signing on to annihilating Muslims everywhere means you’re “ignoring FGM”.

@_@

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:43:49am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

Benn is butthurt about the “Women Get The Right To Vote” movie

Ben has rage-shifted from transgender issues to women’s suffrage. What GOP war on women?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:44:58am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:44:58am

re: #229 The Vicious Babushka

“Suffragette” blathers about evil Western men, lies about violence achieving the vote. Meanwhile, feminists ignore FGM in Muslim countries.
— Ben Shapiro

Please, proceed, wingnuts

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:45:20am

re: #240 iossarian

According to Shapiro, not signing on to annihilating Muslims everywhere means you’re “ignoring FGM”.

@_@

What is FGM?

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:46:02am

re: #219 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Does Greg Abbott ever consider he represents all Texans, not just the TexasGOP, the TexasYRs and especially not the TCOTs.

In his mind he represents ‘the people’.

Those who aren’t TexasGOP, TexasYRs or TCOTs are not people.

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Bubblehead II  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:46:26am

Thermonuclear Art. 30.24 min long. Courtesy of Nasa and the SDO.

NASA | Thermonuclear Art – The Sun In Ultra-HD (4K)

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:46:26am

re: #244 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What is FGM?

Female Genital Mutilation

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:46:50am

re: #244 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What is FGM?

Flying Gelatin Monster?

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:47:21am

re: #244 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What is FGM?

Female Genital Mutilation. It’s a fairly standard trope among the nutbars that if you don’t hate Muslims with every fiber of your being, it means you’re OK with everything every Muslim person does or says, including FGM and opposition to homosexuality among conservative Muslims.

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sagehen  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:47:30am

re: #226 The Vicious Babushka

I remember 20 years ago watching Aladdin with my kids and my daughter saying “A Muslim girl would not dress like that!”

um… I’ve taken belly-dance classes. Pretty sure that art form, the culture it comes from, the people who practice it, the spectators, are mostly Muslim.

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:47:52am

re: #247 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Female Genital Mutilation

Oh, that shit.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:47:52am

re: #242 Dr. Matt

We are going to see President Carson next year. He’s Trump without the blowhard personality.

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Bubblehead II  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:48:26am

re: #244 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What is FGM?

FGM or Female genital mutilation.

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:48:38am

re: #250 sagehen

um… I’ve taken belly-dance classes. Pretty sure that art form, the culture it comes from, the people who practice it, the spectators, are mostly Muslim.

There are also plenty of cheerleaders in the US who would describe themselves unironically as conservative Christians.

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:48:47am

re: #252 GlutenFreeJesus

We are going to see President Carson next year. He’s Trump without the blowhard personality.

FTFY

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:48:59am

re: #249 iossarian

“If you don’t hate all. Christians, then you approve of child molestation!”

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:49:36am

re: #255 lawhawk

FTFY

I don’t call what Trump has a “personality”.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:50:37am

re: #254 iossarian

And unwed, abstinence-teaching mothers.

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:50:54am

re: #256 GlutenFreeJesus

“If you don’t hate all. Christians, then you approve of child molestation!”

Yes. But in the endless game of bullshit wingnut chess, that move is immediately followed by some specious appeal to how the Koran actually requires Muslims to be evil.

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ObserverArt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:51:08am

I would like to take a moment and thank the founders of Twitter for helping to lower the overall IQ of the world 140 characters at a time.

And with that…time to get some more done outside while the 70 degree weather is still about. The last couple of days encouraged me to redo some windows that are in my stairwell that I put in to replace the long gone cut-beveled-glass that was lifted from the house a long time ago. Time for a better weather sealing so that I can finished off the woodwork around them this winter and not have to worry about little leaks that could ruin my new finishes when a hasty wind-driven rain comes from the Northeast to East.

Back this evening…Toledo is spared…but I am worried about wrenchwench for having refused to watch Opal Covey for Mayor of Toledo videos.

: )

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:51:42am

The House GOP wants to outsource IRS tax debt collection to private debt collectors (a provision added to the House transportation bill). What could possibly go wrong.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:52:01am

UNTIL FEMINISTS DESTROY MUSLIM COUNTRIES AND GET RID OF FGM THEN ALL THARE ARGUMENTS = UNVALIDATED!!11

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:52:17am

re: #261 lawhawk

The House GOP wants to outsource IRS tax debt collection to private debt collectors (a provision added to the House transportation bill). What could possibly go wrong.

Seriously?

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:52:43am

re: #261 lawhawk

The House GOP wants to outsource IRS tax debt collection to private debt collectors (a provision added to the House transportation bill). What could possibly go wrong.

Presumably they’ll simultaneously defund the people who go after high-wealth tax evaders.

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Jenner7  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:52:44am

DNC needs to get their shit in gear. Debbie’s on FB celebrating our wins. But what about our losses?? I’m even more convinced we need a new leader of the DNC. She’s doing a horrible job of getting Democrats to go out and vote.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:53:24am

I don’t see Trump or Carson getting elected president. However, we will see more radical types like this from the GOP. Bevin got in Kentucky. As long as Democratic voters continue to be apathetic, we will continue to send wingnuts to high places.

267
Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:53:39am

I wonder if Ben is worried about women waving their vaginas around in men’s restrooms?

268
WhatEVs  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:55:25am

re: #189 The Vicious Babushka

Ben takes a break from pronouncing who is & is not A Real Juice by retweeting his BFF the Jew-hater

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Yeah, I can’t imagine that people hate this guy because he is a flaming douchebag. No, that can’t be it. Just can’t be. /

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:55:47am

re: #265 Jenner7

DNC needs to get their shit in gear. Debbie’s on FB celebrating our wins. But what about our losses?? I’m even more convinced we need a new leader of the DNC. She’s doing a horrible job of getting Democrats to go out and vote.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz is a pretty terrible DNC chair. Howard Dean should maintain that position for life.

270
HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 8:56:30am

re: #268 WhatEVs

Yeah, I can’t imagine that people hate this guy because he is a flaming douchebag. No, that can’t be it. Just can’t be. /

Really wingnut punditry seems to be a breeding ground for douchebaggery.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:12:17am

re: #270 HappyWarrior

Really wingnut punditry seems to be a breeding ground for douchebaggery.

As long as you are criticizing Obama - or even other Republicans whom you see as being too far to the left of you, then everything is forgiven.

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Jenner7  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:16:10am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:16:33am

re: #265 Jenner7

Debbie’s on FB celebrating our wins.

Oh? Which wins were those?

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Charles Johnson  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:16:42am

Always, inevitably, the grift.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:18:51am

re: #274 Charles Johnson

Always, inevitably, the grift.

[Embedded content]

A legal defense slush fund for UpChuck. Yes, that’s very high on my list of spending priorities.

///

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:23:48am

re: #274 Charles Johnson

Always, inevitably, the grift.

Embedded Image

The little bastard seriously has 9 lives. He purposely stirs up so much shit and continuously gets away with it. Eventually his lousy behavior will HAVE to catch up with him.

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b.d.  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:24:25am

re: #275 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

A legal defense slush fund for UpChuck. Yes, that’s very high on my list of spending priorities.

///

Yep, I’d rather send money to NAMBLA

//

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Joe Bacon  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:25:34am

re: #274 Charles Johnson

Always, inevitably, the grift.

Embedded Image

He’ll throw tantrums about “takers” while he himself lives off of wing nut welfare…

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Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:27:02am

re: #273 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh? Which wins were those?

I’m not watching her, but it sounds like Democrats swept the PA Supreme Court.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:28:58am

re: #274 Charles Johnson

So he admits he got access to leaked videos. What a moron.

281
Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:33:54am

re: #280 GlutenFreeJesus

So he admits he got access to leaked videos. What a moron.

Chuck in Court: You can’t take what I say on the internet as truth.
Chuck on Facebook: You can’t take what I say in court as the truth.

And he’ll still wonder why he’s in jail.

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Snarknado!  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:51:16am

re: #213 Eventual Carrion

Ha, reminds me of my first day at a major hospital in Pittsburgh. I went to the correct floor and decided I would hit the bathroom before reporting and being shown around. I knew I looked at the plate by the door before going in, but then the door shut and there was a female supply coin operated machine behind the door and no urinals. I did a quick 2 second panic, turned around and went back out to check the sign. Sure enough it said “Men” beside the door. So I took care of business and went on my way. I brought it up to one of the guys when I got settles in and he told me it used to be female but had changed a year before to men’s. He laughed that I freaked out for a second when I first entered.

One of the biggest buildings on the UC campus is laid out like a square, with men’s and women’s rooms on two corners on each floor. They alternate, so that the women’s room on floor one is a men’s room on floor to, and so on. This no doubt explains why, one day when I was in the front (sink) area washing my hands and chatting with a co-worker, we were interrupted by a scarlet streak zipping from the toilet area to the door, and saying “sorry, sorry, sorry,” in a baritone voice.

The campus engineering building also didn’t contemplate the need for women’s restrooms (except the one on the top floor for the Engineering department staff, and a on-stall job next to the entrance for visitors, and they had to give one of the men’s rooms a sex change too.

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BeachDem  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:57:44am

re: #274 Charles Johnson

Always, inevitably, the grift.

Embedded Image

I thought it was the NAF he was going to war with. So many wars. So little time. So much grift.

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Kid A  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:57:45am

re: #283 Dr. Matt

5 stabbed on UC Merced campus; suspect killed by police
Classes canceled after stabbing in front of building on campus

Where is Ben Carson when he is actually needed?

Getting held up at a Baltimore Popeye’s.
/

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Timothy Watson  Nov 4, 2015 • 9:58:51am

re: #282 Snarknado!

One of the biggest buildings on the UC campus is laid out like a square, with men’s and women’s rooms on two corners on each floor. They alternate, so that the women’s room on floor one is a men’s room on floor to, and so on. This no doubt explains why, one day when I was in the front (sink) area washing my hands and chatting with a co-worker, we were interrupted by a scarlet streak zipping from the toilet area to the door, and saying “sorry, sorry, sorry,” in a baritone voice.

The campus engineering building also didn’t contemplate the need for women’s restrooms (except the one on the top floor for the Engineering department staff, and a on-stall job next to the entrance for visitors, and they had to give one of the men’s rooms a sex change too.

Several years ago, I remember seeing a segment on the D.C. local news were Congresswomen and female staffers were annoyed there weren’t enough female restrooms in the Congressional buildings (both office buildings and the Capitol) because of when they were built/last remodeled, they never planned on having that many female staffers (above secretaries, at least) or Congresswomen.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:02:23am

re: #213 Eventual Carrion

Ha, reminds me of my first day at a major hospital in Pittsburgh. I went to the correct floor and decided I would hit the bathroom before reporting and being shown around. I knew I looked at the plate by the door before going in, but then the door shut and there was a female supply coin operated machine behind the door and no urinals. I did a quick 2 second panic, turned around and went back out to check the sign. Sure enough it said “Men” beside the door. So I took care of business and went on my way. I brought it up to one of the guys when I got settles in and he told me it used to be female but had changed a year before to men’s. He laughed that I freaked out for a second when I first entered.

It used to be a sign of a totally hip club or bar that the signs indicating the men’s and women’s room were intentionally unclear or confusing.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:04:11am

LOL WHO WAS IN IT?
Also: if wingnuts do the same thing is it just an “innocent Halloween prank”?

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BeachDem  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:05:36am

Remember those two “devout Christian” teabagger legislators from Michigan who were having an affair and tried to cover it up with some gay outing blackmail bullshit?

With 80 percent of the votes counted in Allegan County, Gamrat had logged just 10 percent of the vote, trailing winner Mary Whiteford, state election results showed.

Courser was also headed for defeat. With 68 percent of precincts reporting, the politician was in seventh place, with candidate Gary Howell leading the primary pack.

Both won seats in 2014 as Tea Party conservatives and devout Christians.
rawstory.com

Heh.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:06:18am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It used to be a sign of a totally hip club or bar that the signs indicating the men’s and women’s room were intentionally unclear or confusing.

McGuire’s Irish Pub in Pensacola, FL has a set up like this. The bathroom door says MEN in giant letters, but with an arrow underneath pointing to the next door that says WOMEN in giant letters with an arrow going the other way, indicating the Men’s room is in fact the door that says WOMEN on it and vice versa.

To their credit, whenever you walk into one there’s a huge: “STOP! Are you sure you’re in the right place?” sign on the wall.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:07:12am

re: #290 BeachDem

Remember those two “devout Christian” teabagger legislators from Michigan who were having an affair and tried to cover it up with some gay outing blackmail bullshit?

With 80 percent of the votes counted in Allegan County, Gamrat had logged just 10 percent of the vote, trailing winner Mary Whiteford, state election results showed.

Courser was also headed for defeat. With 68 percent of precincts reporting, the politician was in seventh place, with candidate Gary Howell leading the primary pack.

Both won seats in 2014 as Tea Party conservatives and devout Christians.
rawstory.com

Heh.

Divine justice?

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Timothy Watson  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:08:29am

re: #288 The Vicious Babushka

LOL WHO WAS IN IT?
Also: if wingnuts do the same thing is it just an “innocent Halloween prank”?

[Embedded content]

But, but, but, Obama is in cahoots with Iran I thought?

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:09:16am

re: #292 Eclectic Cyborg

Divine justice?

ACORN stole the election!?!

//

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:12:02am

re: #292 Eclectic Cyborg

Divine justice?

War on Christianity!!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:12:10am

re: #288 The Vicious Babushka

LOL WHO WAS IN IT?
Also: if wingnuts do the same thing is it just an “innocent Halloween prank”?

[Embedded content]

waiting for our drive-by propagandists to dump a page about that…

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:13:01am

re: #287 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Buca di Beppo (a chain) runs recordings of women chatting in Italian in mens’ restrooms, while men are chatting in Italian in the women’s restrooms.

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Bubblehead II  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:13:36am

re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg

McGuire’s Irish Pub in Pensacola, FL has a set up like this. The bathroom door says MEN in giant letters, but with an arrow underneath pointing to the next door that says WOMEN in giant letters with an arrow going the other way, indicating the Men’s room is in fact the door that says WOMEN on it and vice versa.

To their credit, whenever you walk into one there’s a huge: “STOP! Are you sure you’re in the right place?” sign on the wall.

Yeah, but after having three or four Emory Chenowith’s those arrows weren’t all that noticeable. And yes I still have a couple of the I Survived An Emory Chenowth T-Shirst and my mug # is 1185.

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Targetpractice  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:13:38am

*sigh*

Thanksgiving hasn’t even happened, yet one of the local radio stations has already switched over to 24/7 Christmas music.

*muttermuttergrumble*

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lizardofid  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:15:00am

re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg

McGuire’s Irish Pub in Pensacola, FL has a set up like this. The bathroom door says MEN in giant letters, but with an arrow underneath pointing to the next door that says WOMEN in giant letters with an arrow going the other way, indicating the Men’s room is in fact the door that says WOMEN on it and vice versa.

To their credit, whenever you walk into one there’s a huge: “STOP! Are you sure you’re in the right place?” sign on the wall.

I fell for a set up like that in a Sacramento bar back in the day. The bartender was very good at reading the body language of first timers, upon their return from their first trip, to determine who bit.

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iossarian  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:15:51am

re: #283 Dr. Matt

5 stabbed on UC Merced campus; suspect killed by police
Classes canceled after stabbing in front of building on campus

Where is Ben Carson when he is actually needed?

That report suggests the victims are all in stable conditions. Imagine if the guy had had a gun.

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:16:06am

Because harassing a woman who is black who might be jogging in the street is something no cop has ever done. Cops in some communities do go out of their way to go after minorities, so yes, it would be racism.

The question is whether this cop would have stopped a white woman in the same circumstances. Raise your hands if you think that’d have happened? Me neither.

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blueraven  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:17:05am

UK intelligence now claiming Egypt plane crash “may well” have been brought down by explosive device.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:18:48am

re: #302 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Because harassing a woman who is black who might be jogging in the street is something no cop has ever done. Cops in some communities do go out of their way to go after minorities, so yes, it would be racism.

The question is whether this cop would have stopped a white woman in the same circumstances. Raise your hands if you think that’d have happened? Me neither.

There does not appear to be any significant traffic on that street.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:19:43am
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blueraven  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:20:44am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Whoa!

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Decatur Deb  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:20:49am

re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg

I forgive them. They have a pipe band.

McGuire’s Irish Pub Pipe Band and Rich McDuff

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:20:54am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

More Librul nutjobs!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:20:55am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:20:56am

re: #288 The Vicious Babushka

LOL WHO WAS IN IT?
Also: if wingnuts do the same thing is it just an “innocent Halloween prank”?

So Dim Jim is…upset by this development? Cheering it on?

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Mike Lamb  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:21:28am

re: #291 Eclectic Cyborg

McGuire’s Irish Pub in Pensacola, FL has a set up like this. The bathroom door says MEN in giant letters, but with an arrow underneath pointing to the next door that says WOMEN in giant letters with an arrow going the other way, indicating the Men’s room is in fact the door that says WOMEN on it and vice versa.

To their credit, whenever you walk into one there’s a huge: “STOP! Are you sure you’re in the right place?” sign on the wall.

The Dark Horse in Boulder does the same thing, although I don’t recall that they had a second sign inside either bathroom. I do recall some late nights where it took several deep breaths in an effort to create a moment of clarity before deciding which bathroom was correct.

312
lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:22:04am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

313
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:22:56am

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

There does not appear to be any significant traffic on that street.

Give the police some credit: they did not wrestle the woman to the ground, choke-hold and cuff her for resisting arrest.

(Probably only because of the camera trained on them)

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Mike Lamb  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:23:24am

Reset the clock.

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Targetpractice  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:23:46am

re: #312 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

No doubt a crazed liberal.

/////

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lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:23:54am

rt.com is reporting that there are casualties (bodies on the ground). I sure as heck hope not.

rt.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:23:56am

re: #310 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So Dim Jim is…upset by this development? Cheering it on?

He is outraged by it.

Not sure at what or why, but OUTRAGE and OBAMA and IRAN all go so nicely together…

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:24:01am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

I used to live right there.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:24:40am

re: #316 lawhawk

rt.com is reporting that there are casualties (bodies on the ground). I sure as heck hope not.

rt.com

Russia Today does not count as an actual news source. I trust them about as much as NationalReport.

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Kragar  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:25:07am

re: #305 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Thats right across the Bay from me.

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Belafon  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:25:27am

re: #314 Mike Lamb

Reset the clock.

There’s a clock?!

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Alephnaught  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:25:59am

re: #282 Snarknado!

One of the biggest buildings on the UC campus is laid out like a square, with men’s and women’s rooms on two corners on each floor. They alternate, so that the women’s room on floor one is a men’s room on floor to, and so on. This no doubt explains why, one day when I was in the front (sink) area washing my hands and chatting with a co-worker, we were interrupted by a scarlet streak zipping from the toilet area to the door, and saying “sorry, sorry, sorry,” in a baritone voice.

The campus engineering building also didn’t contemplate the need for women’s restrooms (except the one on the top floor for the Engineering department staff, and a on-stall job next to the entrance for visitors, and they had to give one of the men’s rooms a sex change too.

There’s a building in a technical college where I did a few courses, where there was only one toilets per floor, and they alternated between gents and ladies each floor. So, depending on your gender, and where you were, you often had to go up or down a floor to go to the toilet.

I remember everyone thinking “Why?! Didn’t anyone think this might be a problem?” Then we eventually realised it was pretty much the same reason as you described above: the building was originally built with only male students in mind, including the toilets, and the only way to make it work otherwise was to refit toilets on alternate floors.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:26:06am

Police said the gunman was described as black, 32, 5 feet 11 inches, about 290 pounds with black hair. From: sandiegouniontribune.com

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makeitstop  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:26:11am

re: #318 Stanley Sea Toujours

I used to live right there.

I saw SD and first thought of you.

Hoping you’re a safe distance away!

325
Timothy Watson  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:26:19am

re: #321 Belafon

There’s a clock?!

Yeah, it only goes up to 72 hours, never been a reason to upgrade it.

326
Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:28:06am

re: #324 makeitstop

I saw SD and first thought of you.

Hoping you’re a safe distance away!

I don’t live there any more!!

327
wrenchwench  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:28:46am

re: #325 Timothy Watson

Yeah, it only goes up to 72 hours, never been a reason to upgrade it.

I have a cheap stopwatch.

328
Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:28:47am

re: #323 Dr. Matt

Police said the gunman was described as black, 32, 5 feet 11 inches, about 290 pounds with black hair. From: sandiegouniontribune.com

329
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:29:22am

re: #317 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He is outraged by it.

Not sure at what or why, but OUTRAGE and OBAMA and IRAN all go so nicely together…

But doesn’t Dim Jim also hate Ob—-

Oh wait, it’s Dim Jim, sorry. The outrage doesn’t need to make sense.

330
lawhawk  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:29:57am

Suspect may have been involved in a domestic disturbance complaint who then shot at a police dog.

A San Diego police SWAT team was sent Wednesday to an apartment complex in the Bankers Hill neighborhood, where a domestic violence suspect was believed to be holed up.

Officers were initially sent to the building on Brant Street near Kalmia Street after a domestic violence incident was reported around 9:15 a.m., according to San Diego police. Emergency radio reports indicated the suspect may have fired a gun at a police dog.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:31:23am

So Dim Jim is trying to argue that there are people who wish Obama bad in Iran? Shouldn’t by that same logic mean Obama should refuse to deal with the GOP since the also wish him bad? DimJim needs to find out his narrative and stick with it. I’m sure a lot of Soviets hated Reagan but that didn’t stop Reagan from doing a deal with them either.

332
Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:33:50am

re: #331 HappyWarrior

So Dim Jim is trying to argue that there are people who wish Obama bad in Iran? Shouldn’t by that same logic mean Obama should refuse to deal with the GOP since the also wish him bad? DimJim needs to find out his narrative and stick with it. I’m sure a lot of Soviets hated Reagan but that didn’t stop Reagan from doing a deal with them either.

THAT’S DIFFERENT BECAUSE REAGAN!!!

333
Alephnaught  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:34:26am

re: #303 blueraven

UK intelligence now claiming Egypt plane crash “may well” have been brought down by explosive device.

[Embedded content]

Looks ominous- shades of Lockerbie.

334
makeitstop  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:34:34am

re: #326 Stanley Sea Toujours

I don’t live there any more!!

Good! I worry about my fellow Lizards.

335
Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:34:40am

In case you missed it:

Ex-Wal-Mart CEO crash-lands plane with help of parachute

edit: Video of the crash

Video

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Eventual Carrion  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:36:15am

re: #288 The Vicious Babushka

LOL WHO WAS IN IT?
Also: if wingnuts do the same thing is it just an “innocent Halloween prank”?

[Embedded content]

But isn’t he friends and comrades with the Iranians and all Muslims? Why would they do something like that?

337
Kragar  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:37:35am
338
Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:38:22am
339
Dr. Matt  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:39:36am

“High-powered rifle”.

You know, as opposed to those wimpy low-powered and regular-powered rifles.

340
TedStriker  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:40:10am

re: #335 Dr. Matt

In case you missed it:

Ex-Wal-Mart CEO crash-lands plane with help of parachute

The system on those Cirrus light planes is pretty neat.

341
Eventual Carrion  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:40:31am

re: #300 lizardofid

I fell for a set up like that in a Sacramento bar back in the day. The bartender was very good at reading the body language of first timers, upon their return from their first trip, to determine who bit.

In Pittsburgh, Jerome Bettis has a restaurant. In the men’s room at the urinals, the top half of the wall is a two-way mirror. While you are standing there peeing in the urinal you are looking at all the people in the restaurant eating and paying at the cash register.

342
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:41:09am

re: #335 Dr. Matt

In case you missed it:

Ex-Wal-Mart CEO crash-lands plane with help of parachute

These guys know all about golden parachutes…

343
Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:41:10am
344
wrenchwench  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:43:37am
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A Mom Anon  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:44:00am

never mind….sigh

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:46:06am

StejAVIM7JajWP8yczQoojs5L3fyMK6vwduf74eXJsR9sbi8nrE9Dg==

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No Country For Old Haters  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:47:06am

re: #321 Belafon

There’s a clock?!

There was, but I swapped in a cardboard box with a sign saying “0 days since a mass-shooting,” and sold the clock.

348
A Mom Anon  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:47:40am

re: #346 The Vicious Babushka

Where do I put it? inside the second set of brackets? I am so much of a doofus.

349
Kragar  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:47:49am

re: #344 wrenchwench

To be filed under: WTF Japan?

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:48:41am

re: #348 A Mom Anon

Where do I put it? inside the second set of brackets? I am so much of a doofus.

[*private*] Your message here [*/private*]

Remove the *

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:50:25am

Roll your mouse over the Big Green ? underneath the “Not subscribed” dropdown box.

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lizardofid  Nov 4, 2015 • 10:58:29am

re: #341 Eventual Carrion

In Pittsburgh, Jerome Bettis has a restaurant. In the men’s room at the urinals, the top half of the wall is a two-way mirror. While you are standing there peeing in the urinal you are looking at all the people in the restaurant eating and paying at the cash register.

Not for the shy bladder! ; )

353
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Nov 4, 2015 • 11:02:42am

re: #341 Eventual Carrion

In Pittsburgh, Jerome Bettis has a restaurant. In the men’s room at the urinals, the top half of the wall is a two-way mirror. While you are standing there peeing in the urinal you are looking at all the people in the restaurant eating and paying at the cash register.

Um, whut?

354
A Mom Anon  Nov 4, 2015 • 11:31:31am

Late, but thanks VB, I see what I did wrong now. Sheesh.

355
Jebediah, RBG  Nov 4, 2015 • 12:16:36pm

re: #302 lawhawk

Lookit all them cars! So much dangerous traffic on that street!


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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 ...
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