Video: Donald Trump on His Plan for a Massive “Deportation Force”

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In this clip from Morning Joe, Donald Trump explains that his border wall is going to be a Trump wall, a big beautiful wall, and he’s going to have a “deportation force” that will round up millions of undocumented immigrants — men, women and children — and drop them all off in their countries of origin, just like Eisenhower did with “Operation Wetback.”

Anyone who believes this is anything but a bizarre racist pipe dream is either: 1) delusional, or 2) a fascist. This “small government conservative” is suggesting the creation of a massive new enforcement agency dedicated to arresting entire families. I usually try to avoid these kinds of metaphors, but let’s face it — he’s basically talking about turning the US into Nazi Germany. It’s absolutely insane and disgusting that the conservative movement is embracing this kind of nightmarish totalitarian bullshit.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:06:25pm

More small government conservatism I see.

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It's on his hat!  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:06:49pm

more like derportation force amirite

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:08:17pm

Anyhow yes this would be very Nazisque what he’s advocating. His whole platform and rhetoric towards immigrants is what you would see in a fascist dictatorship.

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b_sharp  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:08:41pm

He needs some brilliant wingnut inventor to go all innovative and invent a teledeportal.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:09:10pm
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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:09:58pm

Wouldn’t people have a right to use 2nd amdt. solutions against this kind of govt. tyranny?

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:10:03pm

re: #4 b_sharp

He needs some brilliant wingnut inventor to go all innovative and invent a teledeportal.

That’s proprietary Moon Prison technology, I’ve got patent pending.

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b_sharp  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:10:58pm

re: #7 goddamnedfrank

That’s proprietary Moon Prison technology, I’ve got patent pending.

Fuck, you get all the fun gadgets.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:11:37pm

re: #6 Nyet

Wouldn’t people have a right to use 2nd amdt. solutions against this kind of govt. tyranny?

Well they don’t believe illegal aliens have constitutional rights but I do wonder is say a citizen like myself did do something 2nd amedmenty to stop this.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:12:03pm

re: #5 goddamnedfrank

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I see you’re having fun with Trump’s latest just lke you did with Brick Tamland Bush, Frank.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:13:50pm

Hmmm, giant wall, deportation force, elimination of birthright citizenship (I’d pay even money odds that some will push to make it retroactive)… Yeah, I don’t see how this doesn’t end up with freedom ponies for all.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:13:51pm

Melania Trump, Botoxed to the nines, looking at the camera like she just scraped the viewer off her shoe.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:14:37pm

re: #9 HappyWarrior

Well they don’t believe illegal aliens have constitutional rights but I do wonder is say a citizen like myself did do something 2nd amedmenty to stop this.

I believe the Supreme Court had something to say about that.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:14:41pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Melania Trump, Botoxed to the nines, looking at the camera like she just scraped the viewer off her shoe.

She carried a Union Jack purse last night. Saw it on the gossip pages.

Weird.

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WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:14:51pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Melania Trump, Botoxed to the nines, looking at the camera like she just scraped the viewer off her shoe.

Both she and her husband make me sick to look at. They are such assholes. She who will bring class back to the White House with her naked ass pictures showing all over the damn place.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:15:46pm

re: #9 HappyWarrior

Well they don’t believe illegal aliens have constitutional rights but I do wonder is say a citizen like myself did do something 2nd amedmenty to stop this.

I’ve got a number of friends who would have to defend themselves from this. Some of whom have ancestors that were in northern Chihuahua long before white people showed up.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:16:55pm

re: #13 Blind Frog Belly White

I believe the Supreme Court had something to say about that.

Like they care about that. Remember they’re still saying that SSM is illegal even with the USSC’s ruling.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:17:18pm

re: #13 Blind Frog Belly White

HURR HURR, CHIEF JUSTDID ROBERTS HAS MADE HIS STUPID RULING, NOW LET THAT LOSER ENFORCE IT

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:17:27pm

re: #15 WhatEVs

Both she and her husband make me sick to look at. They are such assholes. She who will bring class back to the White House with her naked ass pictures showing all over the damn place.

I’m embarrassed she’s the most prominent Slovenian-American. We’re not all that bad I promise.

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goddamnedfrank  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:17:56pm

This is some through the looking glass bullshit, straight up saying he’s going to emulate Operation Wetback. Why doesn’t he just call them spics and beaners and get it over with, straight up vow to make America white again.

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lawhawk  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:18:03pm

Now combine this massive deportation force with his other comments about how workers are paid too much, and you get a volunteer force to deport these folks.

Yeah, that’ll work famously.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:18:21pm

re: #16 Belafon

I’ve got a number of friends who would have to defend themselves from this. Some of whom have ancestors that were in northern Chihuahua long before white people showed up.

Yeah whenever I hear many whites bitching about Spanish speakers, I just have to point out that there are many Spanish speakers whose families have been here generations.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:18:48pm

re: #20 goddamnedfrank

This is some through the looking glass bullshit, straight up saying he’s going to emulate Operation Wetback. Why doesn’t he just call them spics and beaners and get it over with, straight up vow to make America white again.

So he hasn’t promised to make it Spic and Span yet?

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:19:08pm

re: #16 Belafon

I’ve got a number of friends who would have to defend themselves from this. Some of whom have ancestors that were in northern Chihuahua long before white people showed up.

At one time, many people were divvied into ‘Americans’ and ‘Mexicans’ who were neither before, and feel like neither now.

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Lidane  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:19:14pm

11 million people deported in 2 years. That’s 628 people every hour of every day for 730 days with no interruptions. Weekends, holidays, around the clock, non-stop for 2 years.

Would someone ask Trump the logistics of deporting 628 people PER HOUR for 2 years, please? Trump rails against those saying his deportation claims are unrealistic. Explain how you deport 628 people an hour for two years. Or, to put it in an even more ludicrous light, that’s 10+ people per minute with NO mistakes or accidental deportations and with every person receiving their Constitutional due process.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:19:23pm

re: #21 lawhawk

Now combine this massive deportation force with his other comments about how workers are paid too much, and you get a volunteer force to deport these folks.

Yeah, that’ll work famously.

I am definitely stating to believe the stories about him reading Mein Kempf for inspiration have some truth to them.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:19:50pm

re: #9 HappyWarrior

Nothing about citizens in the text of the amdt…

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:20:11pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

Yeah whenever I hear many whites bitching about Spanish speakers, I just have to point out that there are many Spanish speakers whose families have been here generations.

“All those Latinos in California, living in Los Angeles, San Diego, and San Francisco, speaking Spanish!”

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Lidane  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:21:40pm

re: #22 HappyWarrior

Yeah whenever I hear many whites bitching about Spanish speakers, I just have to point out that there are many Spanish speakers whose families have been here generations.

*raises hand*

My family has been in what is now Texas since the 1700’s. The border jumped me, I didn’t jump it.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:21:44pm

re: #27 Nyet

Nothing about citizens in the text of the amdt…

The same people who will tell you that rights come from God, not from Government, will tell you that the rights guaranteed by the Constitution are limited to citizens only, as if God only gives rights to American Citizens.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:21:48pm

re: #28 Blind Frog Belly White

As someone born and raised in Southern California, you don’t even realize how much Spanish you have to speak just to give directions. I wouldn’t be surprised if half the streets in Orange County have Spanish names.

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Romantic Heretic  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:23:28pm

At least Trump won’t have to design uniforms for the ‘Deportation Force’.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:23:29pm

re: #31 KGxvi

As someone born and raised in Southern California, you don’t even realize how much Spanish you have to speak just to give directions. I wouldn’t be surprised if half the streets in Orange County have Spanish names.

You don’t gotta tell me. I live in a town called San Mateo, between Alameda de las Pulgas and El Camino Real.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:25:27pm

re: #29 Lidane

*raises hand*

My family has been in what is now Texas since the 1700’s. The border jumped me, I didn’t jump it.

One of my friends, whose family has been in Texas for so long they stopped speaking Spanish, only learned the language himself because his wife was from Colombia.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:26:06pm

re: #29 Lidane

*raises hand*

My family has been in what is now Texas since the 1700’s. The border jumped me, I didn’t jump it.

I used to work with a guy from New Mexico named Mendez. His family had been there basically forever. They got Spanish names from the Spanish when they took over, then when America took over, they suddenly became foreigners in the place they’d been since before any Europeans got here.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:26:58pm

re: #27 Nyet

Nothing about citizens in the text of the amdt…

Oh I don’t disagree but IIRC that’s their justification for denying Guatamo Bay detainees their rights.

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Amory Blaine  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:27:24pm

The 2nd amendment refers specifically to “people”, not citizens.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:28:31pm

re: #29 Lidane

*raises hand*

My family has been in what is now Texas since the 1700’s. The border jumped me, I didn’t jump it.

Yeah your family has been here a well over century longer than mine.

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:28:39pm

re: #35 Blind Frog Belly White

I used to work with a guy from New Mexico named Mendez. His family had been there basically forever. They got Spanish names from the Spanish when they took over, then when America took over, they suddenly became foreigners in the place they’d been since before any Europeans got here.

Parts of New Mexico take pride in being Spanish, not Mexican. It’s sad, and sometimes funny.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:29:01pm

re: #36 HappyWarrior

Oh I don’t disagree but IIRC that’s their justification for denying Guatamo Bay detainees their rights.

I thought it was because they were outside actual US territory.

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JoyP  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:29:40pm

It’s not Nazi Germany if it involves the Hispanics, who he loves by the way and who are going to vote for him in droves.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:30:00pm

re: #40 Blind Frog Belly White

I thought it was because they were outside actual US territory.

I tink that’s right actually.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:31:24pm

But remember that gun store owner that wanted to ban Muslims rom buying weapons too. Constituional principles and these peopel don’t get along.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:32:30pm

THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT LIVING AND BREATHING, IT’S WRITTEN IN STONE AND SHOULD BE READ LITERALLY!!!!1
@
I DON’T CARE THAT THE 2ND AMDT. DOESN’T MENTION THE WORD “CITIZEN”!!!1

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:33:11pm
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WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:37:23pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

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AWESOME! But he’ll be back like Sandford. He’s been one of those people who rag on government while being in government for far too long.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:37:48pm

re: #45 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hold the Taps. Didn’t Bevin look beat in your sate too?

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:38:28pm

Cattle cars have been used to deport people before, but only from Arizona to New Mexico, that I know of.

The Bisbee Deportation was the illegal kidnapping and deportation of about 1,300 striking mine workers, their supporters, and citizen bystanders by 2,000 members of a deputized posse on July 12, 1917. The action was orchestrated by Phelps Dodge, the major mining company in the area, which provided lists of workers and others who were to be arrested in Bisbee, Arizona. The arrested were first held at a local baseball park before being loaded onto cattle cars and deported 200 miles (320 km) to Tres Hermanas in New Mexico. The 16-hour journey was through desert without food or water. Once unloaded, the deportees, most without money or transportation, were warned against returning to Bisbee.

At 11:00 a.m., the El Paso and Southwestern Railroad brought 23 cattle cars to Bisbee. The posse deputies forced the remaining 1,286 arrestees at gunpoint to board the cars, many of which had over three inches (76 mm) of manure on the floor. Although temperatures were in the mid-90s Fahrenheit,[12] (mid-30s Celsius), no water had been provided to the men since the arrests began at dawn.[3][4][5][6]

The train stopped 10 miles (16 km) east of Douglas to take on water, some of which was provided to the deportees on the packed cars. Deputies manned two machine guns from nearby hilltops to guard the train, while another 200 armed men patrolled the tracks. The train continued to Columbus, New Mexico (about 175 miles (282 km) away), arriving at about 9:30 p.m. Initially prevented from unloading at Columbus, the train slowly traveled back west another 20 miles (32 km) to Hermanas, not stopping until 3:00 a.m.[3][4][5][6][13]

During the Bisbee Deportation, Phelps Dodge executives seized control of the telegraph and telephones to prevent news of the arrests and expulsion from being reported. Company executives refused to let Western Union send wires out of town, and stopped Associated Press reporters from filing stories.[14] News of the Bisbee Deportation was made known only after an IWW attorney, who met the train in Hermanas, issued a press release

Worth reading the whole thing, because you know Trump is reading it.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:39:01pm

re: #46 WhatEVs

AWESOME! But he’ll be back like Sandford. He’s been one of those people who rag on government while being in government for far too long.

That sounds like every likfe Republican.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:39:35pm

re: #44 Nyet

THE CONSTITUTION IS NOT LIVING AND BREATHING, IT’S WRITTEN IN STONE AND SHOULD BE READ LITERALLY!!!!1
@
I DON’T CARE THAT THE 2ND AMDT. DOESN’T MENTION THE WORD “CITIZEN”!!!1

Area Man Passionate Defender Of What He Imagines Constitution To Be

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:40:38pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Hold the Taps. Didn’t Bevin look beat in your sate too?

Yeah. And now people who voted for him are wondering whether they’ll lose their health insurance.

Dumb fucks.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:40:58pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:42:31pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. And now people who voted for him are wondering whether they’ll lose their health insurance.

Dumb fucks.

I really wish people could read the platforms of those they are voting for,. Kansans regretted giving Brownback a second chance almost immediately too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:42:47pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

Hold the Taps. Didn’t Bevin look beat in your sate too?

Not like Vitter is right now in La.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:43:25pm

re: #54 Backwoods_Sleuth

Not like Vitter is right now in La.

Okay fair enough. I’ll be hpapy when the Daiper Boy is retired don’t get me wrong.

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WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:45:13pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. And now people who voted for him are wondering whether they’ll lose their health insurance.

Dumb fucks.

Because JESUS! Who might save their souls (in their minds) but not necessarily their health insurance (in the real world now).

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Lidane  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:49:10pm
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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:49:33pm

heh

Image: stellarwarspoilers.jpg

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:50:17pm

TRUMP WALL

admire the fabulousness from a resepectful distance, please

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:52:26pm

Trump would thrive under the Dome.

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DesertDenizen  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:52:42pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

Living in Bisbee, I can tell you that the Deportation is still a hot topic here. I’ve met people whose families were deported, and others whose families did the deporting. There’s no official monument to the event, because there’s no consensus as to whether it was a terrible or fantastic thing. The only monument is on the grave of the journalist killed during the round up, and that was privately placed less than 20 years ago.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:54:07pm

re: #59 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

TRUMP WALL

admire the fabulousness from a resepectful distance, please

Is Trump now a regular on Morning Joke? Perish the thought of ever watching Squint and the Meat Puppet, but every day seems to begin with a Trump story involving that heinous show.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:55:02pm

Trump To Order Mexico To Back Away Slowly From The U.S. Border

points out that currently millions of mexicans can actually touch the united states from where they stand

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sizzzzlerz  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:56:23pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. And now people who voted for him are wondering whether they’ll lose their health insurance.

Dumb fucks.

Well of course they were gonna vote for him. Obummer was gonna take their gunz. Plus ISIS.

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:57:06pm

re: #61 DesertDenizen

Living in Bisbee, I can tell you that the Deportation is still a hot topic here. I’ve met people whose families were deported, and others whose families did the deporting. There’s no official monument to the event, because there’s no consensus as to whether it was a terrible or fantastic thing. The only monument is on the grave of the journalist killed during the round up, and that was privately placed less than 20 years ago.

A friend of mine visited and found people from both sides willing to talk about it and live in the same town; he said, ‘It’s just such a nice place to live!’

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DesertDenizen  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:58:37pm

re: #65 wrenchwench

As long as they don’t talk about it to each other, that’s generally true. Living in Bisbee is like living in high school with all the same little cliques.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:59:49pm

re: #64 sizzzzlerz

Well of course they were gonna vote for him. Obummer was gonna take their gunz. Plus ISIS.

I read a quote of one man who fully admitted that he worried Bevin had no idea about how ACA benfited people like him but he was going to vote for Bevin anyhow since he was “tired” of career politicians. I admit, I understand that impulse to remove career politicians but at the same time, the alternative is much worse.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 1:59:56pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. And now people who voted for him are wondering whether they’ll lose their health insurance.

Dumb fucks.

People like that get the government they deserve…and take a bunch of people who never asked for it with them.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:00:09pm

re: #51 Blind Frog Belly White

Yeah. And now people who voted for him are wondering whether they’ll lose their health insurance.

Dumb fucks.

It’s a small thing to give up your kids’ health care if you can prove to god that you hate the gay marriagers.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:02:20pm

re: #69 Decatur Deb

It’s a small thing to give up you kids’ health care if you can prove to god that you hate the gay marriagers.

That’s just the thing isn’t it? So many poor conservative voters would rather vote for politicians that oppose gay marriage than politicians that actually stand up for their interests. I don’t care how snobby it sounds but a lot of conservative voters repeatedly do vote against their own interests. It’s how poor states like Kentucky and West Virginia go overwhelmingly to rich snobs like Mitt Romney and would for one like Donald Trump in presidential elections even though guys like Romney and Trump would fuck them over if it made them a penny wealthier.

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:02:52pm
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Dr. Matt  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:03:19pm
#Starbucks #StarbucksRedCup
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:06:00pm

re: #72 Dr. Matt

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Heh I’ve seen that one make the rounds. Love that movie.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:06:43pm

re: #69 Decatur Deb

It’s a small thing to give up you kids’ health care if you can prove to god that you hate the gay marriagers.

THIS.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:16:06pm

re: #72 Dr. Matt

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Great series of movies….for the most part. Wasn’t impressed with the Crystal Skull. Too much CGI, and too much aliens.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:18:32pm

Heh—while flipping channels the other night, I tuned in to this exact scene.

This continues to be a campaign conducted in an alternate reality. Or, as an essential movie comedy once put it:

Otto West: Apes don’t read philosophy.

Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

​Can one of these people please, for the love of god, look something up..​.

esquire.com

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:19:05pm

re: #73 HappyWarrior

Heh I’ve seen that one make the rounds. Love that movie.

“Only the penitent man shall pass.”

Godbotherers would do well to dwell on the answer to that riddle: a humble man kneels before God. Even if one isn’t a believer, humility is a good thing to have.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:21:19pm

re: #75 Dr. Matt

Great series of movies….for the most part. Wasn’t impressed with the Crystal Skull. Too much CGI, and too much aliens.

And too much Shia LeBoeuf.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:22:14pm

re: #78 TedStriker

And too much Shia LeBoeuf.

and not enough Nazis.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:22:54pm

re: #76 BeachDem

Heh—while flipping channels the other night, I tuned in to this exact scene.

This continues to be a campaign conducted in an alternate reality. Or, as an essential movie comedy once put it:

Otto West: Apes don’t read philosophy.

Wanda: Yes they do, Otto. They just don’t understand it. Now let me correct you on a couple of things, OK? Aristotle was not Belgian. The central message of Buddhism is not “Every man for himself.” And the London Underground is not a political movement. Those are all mistakes, Otto. I looked them up.

​Can one of these people please, for the love of god, look something up..​.

esquire.com

so much for my plans for a chain of platonic waffles

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:22:58pm

Personal ratings
1A) Raiders
1B) Last Crusade

2) Temple of Doom

.

3.) Crystal Skull

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:23:23pm
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stpaulbear  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:24:01pm

re: #81 HappyWarrior

2) The Tempo of Zoom

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:24:15pm

re: #76 BeachDem

No, the London Underground is a key strategic weakness in metropolitan living.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:24:33pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:25:12pm

re: #83 stpaulbear

2) The Tempo of Zoom

Calamari!

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:25:12pm

re: #77 TedStriker

“Only the penitent man shall pass.”

Godbotherers would do well to dwell on the answer to that riddle: a humble man kneels before God. Even if one isn’t a believer, humility is a good thing to have.

I’m so humble, it would make your head spin. My humility is YOOOGE! People everywhere come up to me and compliment me on it.
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:25:31pm

re: #85 Not a Sparkly Vampire

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Nails it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:34:05pm
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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:34:14pm

re: #81 HappyWarrior

Personal ratings
1A) Raiders
1B) Last Crusade

2) Temple of Doom

.

3.) Crystal Skull

KotCS wasn’t awful, but it had a lot of hype to live up to and the huge shadow of the original trilogy to get out from under; hell, I liked the general premise of what happened to Indy in the interceding years between Last Crusade and KotCS (I teared up a bit about Henry Sr. and Brody being dead and how Indy, in the beginning of the movie, just seemed beaten and worn down) and the general plot overall (such as Indy and Marion getting back together for good and how the Red Scare’s effect on academa affected Indy). However, there was still some big ass plot holes (lead-lined fridge vs. a nuke?)…and Shia LeBoeuf.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:39:13pm
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Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:39:52pm

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:41:24pm

Highlights from the driftglass “debate” review:

John Kasich: My father carried mail down a coal mine with my grandmother on his back until he died because the wind shifted. So we should cut taxes. Which something something balanced budget. Also training. Cut Medicare. Cut Medicaid.

Maria Bartiromo: Illegal immigration. What do you think?
Trump: Could you toss me a slower pitch? Maybe just hold the softball in your mouth and let me slap it out with my yooooooge dick.

Neil Cavuto: Who does God love best, you or Donald Trump?
Ben Carson: Taxes are ridiculous. The lives of the poors will be better the more we cut programs for them because churches

Maria Bartiromo: Military stuff.
Ben Carson: It’s better to have military stuff than not have military stuff. There are many factions. And there are global jihadists. And Putin. In conclusion…Iraq is a Land of Contrasts.

Maria Bartiromo: Here is a pinata named Hillary Clinton. Have at it.
Marco Rubio: This nation is about the future. Unlike all other elections which were about the 12th Century or the Late Bronze Age. And liberal lefty commies like Hillary only want to take your money and give it to smelly brown people.
Ted Cruz: Hillary Clinton has abandoned Israel. Bitch.
Neil Cavuto: OK, bag that question. We all agree, Hillary’s a gorgon. Moving on. Capitalism?

driftglass.blogspot.com

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:41:35pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

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Apostates are always hated even more than heretics.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:42:06pm

re: #89 Backwoods_Sleuth

November tornadoes in Iowa have to be somewhat rare.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:43:48pm

Trump’s idea of a deportation force reminds me of this scene out of Terry Gilliam’s movie Brazil.

Brazil (1/10) Movie CLIP - A Receipt for Your Husband (1985) HD

I wonder if Trump’s force will be similar. Gun happy, picking up the wrong person due to a clerical error ( a fly got into the printer and made a “T” look like a “B”) and the wrong floor replacement piece due to a mix up between government agencies. But hey, you might get the proper receipt for your husband!

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:44:00pm
Yet a MUST read. DAILY. EVERY WORD.
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:44:21pm

re: #95 freetoken

November tornadoes in Iowa have to be somewhat rare.

Yep.
Their peak is in June.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:48:40pm

Followup to a discussion downstairs about today’s veterans Google doodle:
2013 Minority Veterans Report is a 22 page PDF file with lots of charts with percentage breakdowns, which will answer a lot of the questions posed.
It’s a very interesting report.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:49:08pm

re: #92 Charles Johnson

To those people in question:

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:49:14pm

re: #71 wrenchwench

This is why Shaun was having to personally vet all the people for his new initiative. Too easy for people to lie online.

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Shiplord Kirel  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:49:25pm
I usually try to avoid these kinds of metaphors, but let’s face it — he’s basically talking about turning the US into Nazi Germany.

Nah, you got it wrong, Charles. He just wants to re-settle them in the East south (way south), for their own protection, you see, from the good Aryan patriotic Americans who find their presence unacceptable. Those areas are obviously under-developed and, as every good Austrian economist knows, they could therefore benefit from an influx of even more cheap labor, one that has itself benefited from at least cursory exposure to higher civilization.

On a gloomier note, I don’t know how we’ll get cattle shipped once this really gets going: This operation will require every stock trailer and railcar in the fleet and the Trump-Feds will grab them at exorbitant rates. We should see if Cheney has invested in this kind of rolling stock.

/infinity

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:49:49pm

Fox host to Marco Rubio: Plato should have ‘stopped yapping about his philosophy’ — and started welding

“Plato would have been so much more successful if he had just welded and stopped yapping about his philosophy,” Kilmeade joked.

Joked.
Riiiigggghhhhttttt.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:50:16pm

Andy White, played drums on Beatles’ first hit, dead at 85

60’s music slowly fading away…

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:51:26pm

re: #29 Lidane

*raises hand*

My family has been in what is now Texas since the 1700’s. The border jumped me, I didn’t jump it.

Can no longer resist posting the musical accompaniment.

Los Tigres del Norte con Zack de la Rocha(RATM) - Somos Más Americanos (Letra)

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:57:43pm

So my boss in back East in meetings all day. My computer blows up at 2pm once he gets to his emails. Ugh. Should’ve started at noon.

/firstworldproblems11!ty

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:58:52pm

re: #20 goddamnedfrank

This is some through the looking glass bullshit, straight up saying he’s going to emulate Operation Wetback. Why doesn’t he just call them spics and beaners and get it over with, straight up vow to make America white again.

You know, before last night I can say I never heard of this operation. But it sure does one thing. It again shows these clods do really want to go back in time. And we often cite 1950 as the time.

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Great White Snark  Nov 11, 2015 • 2:59:06pm

By the way this little intergovernmental fight might be well worth watching…
littlegreenfootballs.com

Former astronaut / NOAA head Kathryn Sullivan vs Lamar Smith climate denier.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:03:43pm

LOLOLOLOL!

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:04:30pm

re: #48 wrenchwench

Cattle cars have been used to deport people before, but only from Arizona to New Mexico, that I know of.

Worth reading the whole thing, because you know Trump is reading it.

Interesting. I wonder if some other guy read that too?

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:07:28pm

re: #109 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOLOLOLOL!

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Revisionism aside, you’re still wrong Trumpo.

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Ace-o-aces  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:07:59pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:09:10pm

re: #112 Ace-o-aces

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why is she talking?
why isn’t she in the kitchen making sammiches?

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:11:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:12:01pm
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freetoken  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:13:46pm

You knew you wanted to know the answer:

Ben Carson would not abort baby Hitler

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:16:07pm

Black Twitter is very powerful. Thank goodness, because the newspapers, broadcast news etc. have historically shown to be extremely weak on covering the issues.

I’ll post this again, cause if Chuck is reading LGF it will piss him off all over again.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:17:49pm

re: #112 Ace-o-aces

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No right wing racism there.//

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allegro  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:18:48pm

re: #117 Stanley Sea Toujours

Black Twitter is very powerful. Thank goodness, because the newspapers, broadcast news etc. have historically shown to be extremely weak on covering the issues.

I’ll post this again, cause if Chuck is reading LGF it will piss him off all over again.

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My inner cougar is grooooowwwwwling. What a pair of hot young men.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:18:56pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They should also apologize for poor grammar (obviously much less egregious than the underlying stupidity of the ad, but still…)

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:20:25pm

Making the internet rounds is this lecture from Prothero from August of this year and posted last week:

Evolution: What the Fossils Say (by Donald Prothero)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:21:28pm

None of my Facebook “friends” derping about this, calling it a great idea have an answer for this one simple question:

How will you identify illegal immigrants?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:21:39pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Says the bully who goes around berating teachers. Fuck off Chris, it’s you right wing assholes who inspire a culture of disrespect by refusing to even acknowledge our president is American and loves his country.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:21:57pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I would have liked to be in the conference room as creatives along with account reps discussed that ad and how it was gonna be a big hit.

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Shiplord Kirel  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:23:12pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Sheesh! I wonder how many fools let this get by them in the editorial process and how many of them are still employed?

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:23:57pm

re: #122 GlutenFreeJesus

None of my Facebook “friends” derping about this, calling it a great idea have an answer for this one simple question:

How will you identify illegal immigrants?

Well obviously we’ll // but yeah exactly.

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allegro  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:24:13pm

re: #124 ObserverArt

I would have liked to be in the conference room as creatives along with account reps discussed that ad and how it was gonna be a big hit.

I’m trying to figure out what it’s selling and…WTF.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:24:37pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wtf.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:25:09pm

re: #122 GlutenFreeJesus

None of my Facebook “friends” derping about this, calling it a great idea have an answer for this one simple question:

How will you identify illegal immigrants?

BY THERE TATTOOES & TEH PATCHES WE MAKE THEM WHERE ON THERE CLOTHES!!!!1!!!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:25:15pm
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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:27:07pm

Let me get this straight. You want government, the same entity that petrified you in regards to health care being in charge of finding out who’s illegal and who’s not? Okay fine but don’t fucking act like you’re a believer in small government, you’re a quasi fascist.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:27:08pm

I bet he’d stab him, or bash him with a hammer though.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:27:09pm

re: #125 Shiplord Kirel

Sheesh! I wonder how many fools let this get by them in the editorial process and how many of them are still employed?

That ad was done by an ad agency I’m pretty sure. So, it wouldn’t be editors so much. They would be part of the “creatives” in the agency. Copy writers and designers put that all together and the account reps had to sell Bloomingdale’s. And all through the process no one grew a brain.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:28:42pm

re: #127 allegro

I’m trying to figure out what it’s selling and…WTF.

Everyone’s desire. Well dressed fashionable with THE look quickie sex.

/

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:28:43pm

re: #112 Ace-o-aces

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:29:07pm

re: #130 The Vicious Babushka

That head is not too firmly attached.//

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allegro  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:29:24pm

re: #132 GlutenFreeJesus

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I bet he’d stab him, or bash him with a hammer though.

Only after he’s born.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:29:37pm

re: #119 allegro

My inner cougar is grooooowwwwwling. What a pair of hot young men.

I’m still in a Justin Trudeau fog. Can’t help it.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:29:46pm

re: #131 HappyWarrior

Let me get this straight. You want government, the same entity that petrified you in regards to health care being in charge of finding out who’s illegal and who’s not? Okay fine but don’t fucking act like you’re a believer in small government, you’re a quasi fascist.

That’s different. That would be HIS government.

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Shiplord Kirel  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:30:52pm

re: #122 GlutenFreeJesus

None of my Facebook “friends” derping about this, calling it a great idea have an answer for this one simple question:

How will you identify illegal immigrants?

They’ll have to issue brown paper bags to border control as identification aids. In the meantime, Putin will be able to slip in all the Spetznaz infiltration teams he wants while ICE agents (the ones who haven’t resigned) are busy looking elsewhere.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:31:02pm

re: #132 GlutenFreeJesus

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I bet he’d stab him, or bash him with a hammer though.

Not the Onion. Seriously why not ask him what he’d drink with Churchill because he’s got the same chance of doing that as he does getting involved with an Austrian pregnancy from 127 years ago.

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allegro  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:31:11pm

re: #138 Stanley Sea Toujours

I’m still in a Justin Trudeau fog. Can’t help it.

Oh yes. Right there with ya.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:31:21pm
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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:31:53pm

re: #112 Ace-o-aces

Allow me to show how I am totally not racist and completely objective… by making a totally and completely racist statement.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:32:08pm

re: #139 GlutenFreeJesus

That’s different. That would be HIS government.

Of course just like deficits don’t matter and executive orders and embassy deaths are acceptable under Reagan and Bush.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:32:56pm

re: #143 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

That can’t be real. I refuse to accept that reality and substitute my own. Also, I apparently need more alcohol.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:33:03pm

re: #143 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

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I’m thinking it would be easy to con these morons. But I have a moral compass unlike Carson and every Republican running.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:33:20pm

re: #141 HappyWarrior

Not the Onion. Seriously why not ask him what he’d drink with Churchill because he’s got the same chance of doing that as he does getting involved with an Austrian pregnancy from 127 years ago.

little known fact: hitler went back in time to murder the mother of his assasin

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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:33:42pm

re: #140 Shiplord Kirel

They’ll have to issue brown paper bags to border control as identification aids. In the meantime, Putin will be able to slip in all the Spetznaz infiltration teams he wants while ICE agents (the ones who haven’t resigned flunked the paper bag test) are busy looking elsewhere.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:34:20pm

re: #148 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

little known fact: hitler went back in time to murder the mother of his assasin

Hah. I want a sketch show to do the baby Hitler scenario. Too bad no more Key and Peele.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:34:47pm

re: #133 ObserverArt

That ad was done by an ad agency I’m pretty sure. So, it wouldn’t be editors so much. They would be part of the “creatives” in the agency. Copy writers and designers put that all together and the account reps had to sell Bloomingdale’s. And all through the process no one grew a brain.

Basically, privilege living in a bubble.

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funky chicken  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:34:54pm

worst thing about Trump last night—I agree with him that we shouldn’t care if Russia wants to get involved in Syria. very upset when I read that this morning

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:35:14pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

My moral compass would allow me to con them. But despite more than ten years of playing, I don’t think my poker face is good enough to keep the rouse going.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:35:25pm

re: #140 Shiplord Kirel

I mentioned something about gold stars for all suspected illegals. That didn’t illicit any kind of response.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:35:33pm

re: #143 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:37:25pm

re: #153 KGxvi

My moral compass would allow me to con them. But despite more than ten years of playing, I don’t think my poker face is good enough to keep the rouse going.

Be sure to tell them how much you love Jesus and how your opponents think Buddha is cooler than Jesus.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:38:16pm

re: #122 GlutenFreeJesus

None of my Facebook “friends” derping about this, calling it a great idea have an answer for this one simple question:

How will you identify illegal immigrants?

I’ve been hesitant to post this, but I did LOL when my friend said it….kill me.

We were talking about the felt Star of David & what Trump’s identifier would be. My friend said a felt pinto bean.

15 hail dogs & 3500 hail FSM’s are in order.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:38:19pm

re: #154 GlutenFreeJesus

I mentioned something about gold stars for all suspected illegals. That didn’t illicit any kind of response.

Nice teollinf. Suggest special areas to force them into and see if you get a bite.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:38:58pm

welp, looks like tomorrow is gonna be exciting:

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:39:41pm

re: #132 GlutenFreeJesus

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I bet he’d stab him, or bash him with a hammer though.

The fact that this is a “thing” the media feel is worthy of coverage makes me weep.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:39:45pm

re: #157 Stanley Sea Toujours

Hey, Cartman is your friend, how cool is that!
//

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:41:27pm

re: #160 BeachDem

The fact that this is a “thing” the media feel is worthy of coverage makes me weep.

No kidding. Let’s ask the candidates next how they would kill Baby Hitler.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:42:17pm

re: #143 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

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Proving that likely GOP caucusgoers in Iowa are too stupid to tie their own shoes.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:42:23pm

re: #160 BeachDem

We’ve evolved from “I did not inhale” into “I would not abort Baby Hitler”.

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funky chicken  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:45:00pm

re: #143 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

That’s from a parody site, right? Please tell me that’s a parody site.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:45:17pm

re: #164 GlutenFreeJesus

We’ve evolved from “I did not inhale” into “I would not abort Baby Hitler”.

Yep.

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HappyWarrior  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:46:57pm

“You’ve said you would kill Baby Hitler. What do you bring to kill him and how do you avoid getting caught and being executed for killing an infant?@

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:49:46pm

Another had to do it ‘shop.

We are going to come and take the Mexicans back home and Make America Great Again.
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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:51:37pm

Youtube Video

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:53:47pm

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

welp, looks like tomorrow is gonna be exciting:

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They’ve been warning Columbus all day about the winds.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:54:58pm

re: #170 ObserverArt

They’ve been warning Columbus all day about the winds.

I knew it when I saw the mackerel cloud formations this afternoon.

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unproven innocence  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:55:06pm

I’m so glad those 80-character IBM punchcards technologies are no longer so widely available. As semi-automatic/semi-manual searchable databases, they were so useful for tracking and rounding up millions of European Jews in the 1030s and 40s. It is so comforting to know that nothing quite like that could ever happen again.

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WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:55:20pm

Trump’s idea is no different than Carly. Big government bad but she wants to create an accounting branch that might fit in the Pentagon to do her bullshit zero based budgeting.

So Trump wants a new YOOOUGE agency to manage illegals and Carley wants a YOOOUGE agency to do accounting like no other country does.

Business people. Give me a fucking break.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:56:24pm

So we’re ok with jackbooted thugs now? Cool!

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:57:45pm

re: #171 Backwoods_Sleuth

I knew it when I saw the mackerel cloud formations this afternoon.

Did you get the fog in your area this morning? I saw you posted a satellite view of it. That knocked Columbus morning visibility down to less than a 1/4 mile and it didn’t finally clear off until after noon. And we did get some sun, but it was kinda a white sky all day.

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WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:58:23pm

re: #174 Eclectic Cyborg

So we’re ok with jackbooted thugs now? Cool!

As long as they’re the right shade. If your skin is darker than Tilda Swinton’s you need not apply.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 3:58:41pm
Yet an administrator repeatedly tried to block a student journalist, Tim Tai, from taking pictures on assignment for ESPN. “You need to back off,” she told him, flanked by student protesters. “You are infringing on their right to be alone.” She helped lead a group of students who essentially steamrolled Tai away, even as he calmly asserted his First Amendment rights to be there.

That administrator, Janna Basler, is the university’s assistant director of Greek life and leadership in the student life division.

A faculty member, later caught on that same video, repeatedly sought to banish a videographer who lingered behind a wall of students and finally called out for backup. “Hey, who wants to help me get this reporter out of here? I need some muscle over here!”

npr.org

Has that staff ever heard of the Constitution?

Thankfully, a measure of sanity:

npr.org

A University of Missouri professor who is seen in a video requesting “muscle” to kick out a journalist from the scene of a protest has given up her journalism appointment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:00:08pm

re: #175 ObserverArt

Did you get the fog in your area this morning? I saw you posted a satellite view of it. That knocked Columbus morning visibility down to less than a 1/4 mile and it didn’t finally clear off until after noon. And we did get some sun, but it was kinda a white sky all day.

yep. Fog didn’t completely lift here in the backwoods until after 11 am, not sure how much longer it took over by the river.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:02:12pm

re: #177 Nyet

npr.org

Has that staff ever heard of the Constitution?

Thankfully, a measure of sanity:

npr.org

and Janna Basler has been “put on leave”.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:02:13pm

re: #143 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

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I love the first one.

Acceptable qualities:

“Inexperienced
Ignorant
Possibly Crazy
Not Too Dark”

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darthstar  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:02:59pm
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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:03:27pm

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good. If your behavior gives Jonah Goldberg a woody, you’re not needed.

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darthstar  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:03:40pm

I never thought about recaptioning Family Circus. Brilliant.

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Lidane  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:07:08pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:08:18pm

re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus

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Video

Very very cool.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:08:39pm

twitter translation: “Let me find the right note. :)”

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:10:24pm

re: #184 Lidane

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Heh. I already mocked that photo in a ‘shop earlier this year.

Trump Making America Great Again One Anchor Baby and Parent at a Time
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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:20:25pm

This thread needs more goat.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:21:19pm
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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:22:51pm
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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:23:01pm

We’ll foil Trump’s plans one way or another:

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:23:33pm
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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:24:33pm

re: #165 funky chicken

That’s from a parody site, right? Please tell me that’s a parody site.

in truth? not sure

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:25:35pm
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wrenchwench  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:27:23pm
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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:31:50pm

re: #195 wrenchwench

Sassy imams.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:33:32pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:35:22pm
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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:35:46pm

I went to check my e-mail and I tried to get back in here several times. Is anyone else having problems?

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:36:35pm

Just a reminder for those of you keeping score at home:

Il Duce and Il Douche
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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:38:12pm

re: #197 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So the first two Yik-Yak messages I’ve ever heard of are both death threats. (Pining for the innocent days of social-media porn.)

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:38:25pm

re: #198 Backwoods_Sleuth

Why, 2015. BC.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:39:23pm

re: #202 Nyet

Why, 2015. BC.

Back when they really knew how to build a granary.

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piratedan  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:40:41pm

Beat Farmers…Gun Sale At The Church.wmv

seems to sum up our political situation these days…..

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:41:02pm

re: #203 Decatur Deb

Back when they really knew how to build a granary.

When men were men and women were property.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:41:43pm
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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:42:30pm

re: #206 Backwoods_Sleuth

Do not taunt little furry ball.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:45:21pm
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gwangung  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:46:25pm

re: #201 Decatur Deb

So the first two Yik-Yak messages I’ve ever heard of are both death threats. (Pining for the innocent days of social-media porn.)

I half believe that these were yahoos who were trying to troll black folks and didn’t quite realize that Shit Got Real.

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:47:43pm

iPhone is working but MacBook is having internet loading problems

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UrbanAchiever  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:48:27pm

Looking past the total stupidity and racist pandering, I really would like to know the nitty gritty mechanics of how Trump thinks his plan would work. How would the government be determining, on an individual basis, who is “illegal”? Obviously, undocumented people are not going to voluntarily give themselves up when they know they are going to be deported. Trump and others make it seem like we know who these people are already, we don’t. We’d have to find out and that’s not exactly easy. The only way I can think to find out is to undertake an aggressive bizarro census-like operation to determine if people have their “papers.” Essentially this special government force knocking on doors demanding papers, or even performing sweeps of neighborhoods. God help these folks if they have misplaced their documents, don’t speak English, or even worse, dare to talk back to one of the officers.

Will this special government force be in every neighborhood? Will they be raiding Trump Tower for potential “illegal” foreign millionaires in penthouses? Yea, that’s what I thought.

The thought of this is beyond disturbing and I hope I am not being naive when I tell myself someone like Trump could never win a presidential election.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:50:09pm
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:50:17pm

re: #167 HappyWarrior

Did it ever occur to anybody to educate baby Hitler and teach him values? Also, I wouldn’t want to be around when naked Jeb? comes out of that time machine.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:50:30pm

re: #187 ObserverArt

If Rubio were smart (ok… ok… you can stop laughing now… no, really… you done?) he would make something like this the center of his campaign when we get to the Florida primary. And if Trump is on board with ending wet foot/dry foot, it could definitely swing Florida. We Cubans have long memories.

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majii  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:50:42pm

re: #209 gwangung

They were probably feeling very brave when they posted the threats, and they probably also thought they were standing up for their race, too, but they probably didn’t think doing so would lead to them being arrested and embarrassed. I saw the look on Connor B. Stottlemyre’s face, and it didn’t seem as if he felt very brave after he was arrested. I hope these kids have learned something from posting these threats—-that it’s not a good idea to let one’s emotions trump one’s commonsense.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:50:48pm

re: #211 UrbanAchiever

Looking past the total stupidity and racist pandering, I really would like to know the nitty gritty mechanics of how Trump thinks his plan would work. How would the government be determining, on an individual basis, who is “illegal”? Obviously, undocumented people are not going to voluntarily give themselves up when they know they are going to be deported. Trump and others make it seem like we know who these people are already, we don’t. We’d have to find out and that’s not exactly easy. The only way I can think to find out is to undertake an aggressive bizarro census-like operation to determine if people have their “papers.” Essentially this special government force knocking on doors demanding papers, or even performing sweeps of neighborhoods. God help these folks if they have misplaced their documents, don’t speak English, or even worse, dare to talk back to one of the officers.

Will this special government force be in every neighborhood? Will they be raiding Trump Tower for potential “illegal” foreign millionaires in penthouses? Yea, that’s what I thought.

The thought of this is beyond disturbing and I hope I am not being naive when I tell myself someone like Trump could never win a presidential election.

Embrace your naivete. If the American people could possibly elect Trump, we were never worth the effort.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:51:31pm

re: #200 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Just a reminder for those of you keeping score at home:

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Make Italy America Great Again!

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:52:11pm

re: #215 majii

They were probably feeling very brave when they posted the threats, and they probably also thought they were standing up for their race, too, but they probably didn’t think doing so would lead to them being arrested and embarrassed. I saw the look on Connor B. Stottlemyre’s face, and it didn’t seem as if he felt very brave after he was arrested. I hope these kids have learned something from posting these threats—-that it’s not a good idea to let one’s emotions trump one’s commonsense.

I hope they do time for trying to get a bunch of people killed.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:53:34pm

re: #200 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Just a reminder for those of you keeping score at home:

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Amazing how much alike they look…

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:54:30pm

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

Seems to me the GOP has done a lot more to enable a culture of disrespect for the past 7 years, beginning with a refusal to show respect for the freely elected President of the United States (that they claim to love so dearly), not to mention POTUS’ family. Agree with his politics or not, the man hasn’t done anything (aside from being born with black skin, apparently) to warrant the level of vitriol that’s been directed at him.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:54:36pm

re: #219 TedStriker

Amazing how much alike they look…

Except il Duce was smart enough to cop to the burr cut.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:54:52pm
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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:55:02pm

re: #211 UrbanAchiever

The only way Trump’s plan can work is to offer bountys. Since the Consitution requires due process and justifiable cause for searches (yeah I know that sounds funny, but bear with me), his goons will need some sort of grounds to barge in on or detain suspected illegal aliens. To do that he’ll need informants.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:55:34pm

re: #221 Decatur Deb

Except il Duce was smart enough to cop to the burr cut.

True dat.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:55:38pm

re: #211 UrbanAchiever

There’s so many interesting aspects to this. The DREAMERs are the most high profile, obviously. But what about someone who married a citizen? Or someone who has minors that are citizens (are we, as a society, seriously going to be ok with effectively deporting citizens)? And what happens if someone overstays a visa that should have been renewed? Or the first time a natural born citizen gets deported because the system is just completely overwhelmed?

And by the way, I’ve friends who practice immigration law, the system is already overwhelmed, what Trump is proposing would essentially break the federal administrative process.

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UrbanAchiever  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:55:56pm

re: #216 Decatur Deb

Very true. My biggest fear is some kind of attack that sends this country into a right-wing tizzy. I really fear how people would react to another 9-11 type event.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:56:30pm

re: #222 The Vicious Babushka

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dammit.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:57:14pm

re: #226 UrbanAchiever

Very true. My biggest fear is some kind of attack that sends this country into a right-wing tizzy. I really fear how people would react to another 9-11 type event.

Anything north of 25% unemployment might do it.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:57:35pm

Tailgunner Ted Cruz, the man with no friends, was talking about undocumented immigrants and he found a way to turn even that issue into some press-bashing.​

“But I can tell you, for millions of Americans at home, watching this, it is a very personal economic issue, and I will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande, or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press, then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation.”

so let me get this straight: millions of americans are concerned that illegal immigrants are depressing american wages, yet you also say that american wages are too high

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:58:15pm

re: #213 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Did it ever occur to anybody to educate baby Hitler and teach him values?

No. Must. Kill. A. Baby.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:58:59pm

Killing baby Hitler doesn’t make you a hero. It makes if you a baby-killer. Thatisall.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:59:09pm

re: #229 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Tailgunner Ted Cruz, the man with no friends, was talking about undocumented immigrants and he found a way to turn even that issue into some press-bashing.​

“But I can tell you, for millions of Americans at home, watching this, it is a very personal economic issue, and I will say the politics of it would be very, very different if a bunch of lawyers or bankers were crossing the Rio Grande, or if a bunch of people with journalism degrees were coming over and driving down the wages in the press, then we would see stories about the economic calamity that is befalling our nation.”

so let me get this straight: millions of americans are concerned that illegal immigrants are depressing american wages, yet you also say that american wages are too high

In President Trump’s America anyone named ‘Cruz’ had better keep his fucking papers on him at all times.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:59:15pm

re: #229 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

The only words that are important, and thus true, are the words that I am saying right now. The words I said before are not important, the words I say later are also not important. Only these words right now. It does not matter if the words I say now are different from those I just said because those words are no longer important.

It’s simple really.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 4:59:19pm

re: #213 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Did it ever occur to anybody to educate baby Hitler and teach him values?

Kind of the reverse of the “Boys From Brazil” approach?

Also, I wouldn’t want to be around when naked Jeb? comes out of that time machine.

*knock,knock,knock*

“Ja?”

“Sarah Conner Klara Hitler?”

“Ja.”

*BLAM BLAM!! BLAM BLAM BLAM!!!*

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:00:04pm

re: #219 TedStriker

MUSSOLINI SPEECH TARANTO

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PhillyPretzel  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:00:05pm

I rebooted my modem and that seems to have worked. It might be all of that bad weather headed east.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:00:35pm

re: #225 KGxvi

Yes, we will deport citizens because too many here don’t consider them to be Americans. Look at Texas, where they are not issuing birth certificates to children of illegal immigrants, and a court agreed with them.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:00:37pm

re: #226 UrbanAchiever

Very true. My biggest fear is some kind of attack that sends this country into a right-wing tizzy. I really fear how people would react to another 9-11 type event.

You can expect it with a Republican President. I think ISIS used the same logic when bombing that airliner. All Putin’s inevitable overreaction will do is boost ISIS’ importance in the region. Just like George W. Bush gave Osama bin Laden all he could have hoped for and more in the wake of 9/11.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:00:43pm

re: #225 KGxvi

There’s so many interesting aspects to this. The DREAMERs are the most high profile, obviously. But what about someone who married a citizen? Or someone who has minors that are citizens (are we, as a society, seriously going to be ok with effectively deporting citizens)? And what happens if someone overstays a visa that should have been renewed? Or the first time a natural born citizen gets deported because the system is just completely overwhelmed?

Well, you know that, to make an omelet, ya hafta break a few eggs!!!11ty

And by the way, I’ve friends who practice immigration law, the system is already overwhelmed, what Trump is proposing would essentially break the federal administrative process.

A feature, not a bug, I’m sure.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:00:53pm

re: #233 KGxvi

The only words that are important, and thus true, are the words that I am saying right now. The words I said before are not important, the words I say later are also not important. Only these words right now. It does not matter if the words I say now are different from those I just said because those words are no longer important.

It’s simple really.

“i think it’s very sad that the press is always trying to corner me with these ‘gotcha’ questions asking me to explain things i said”

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:01:14pm

re: #232 Decatur Deb

In President Trump’s America anyone named ‘Cruz’ had better keep his fucking papers on him at all times.

And tattoed on their asses.

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majii  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:01:58pm

re: #229 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Where is the economic calamity that Cruz is talking about? Recent economic data shows we’re in a period of economic recovery and the unemployment rate has fallen to 5%. Cruz lies for his own benefit and expects everyone to be taken in by his BS. Wages can’t be too high and too low at the same time, but according to Liar Cruz, they are.

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:02:03pm

re: #115 Backwoods_Sleuth

*facepalm*

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:03:22pm

re: #242 majii

Where is the economic calamity that Cruz is talking about?

1600 Pennsylvania Ave NW, Washington, DC 20500.

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UrbanAchiever  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:03:28pm

re: #231 Nyet

Could we go back and kidnap baby Hitler and have a Jewish family adopt him? Like, Raising Arizona style.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:03:48pm

re: #208 Backwoods_Sleuth

It just hit here about 15 minutes ago. Front door blew open, front porch swing is wild. All animals in and hiding.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:04:40pm

re: #235 Nyet

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Video

His grand-daughter has recently moved from the Italian Senate to a seat on the European Parliament.

en.wikipedia.org

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:05:58pm

re: #195 wrenchwench

Imams more enlightened than Texas legislature.

Scary when Afghani imams are more liberal than some of our states’ politicians, innit?

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:05:59pm

re: #245 UrbanAchiever

If the goal is preventing WWII and/or the Holocaust, you’d probably be best off trying to stop the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand.

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nines09  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:06:28pm

It’s nearing the end of Veterans Day. People died so the GOP could have a Beauty Pageant of stupid last night. Freedom to be as ignorant and vile and petty as you can be. To applause. Fuck them all. Luang Prabang

NSFW

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:07:32pm

re: #248 CuriousLurker

MOAR PRUF THAT LIEBRULS AND ISLAMIST MOOSLIMS ARE REALLY ON THE SAME SIDE!!!11! CHECKMATE LIBTARDS!11!

sigh, I’m sure that’s more or less a direct quote from a freeper comment section.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:07:34pm

re: #235 Nyet

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Video

(sings) “hail, hail, freedonia, land of the strong…”

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:07:49pm

re: #245 UrbanAchiever

Could we go back and kidnap baby Hitler and have a Jewish family adopt him? Like, Raising Arizona style.

If someone is intent on changing history, then that would be one way. There’s like an infinity of solutions to the Hitler-becoming-a-monster problem that do not involve any direct murder. Including slightly changing the course of his life (butterfly effect), changing it strongly (e.g. kidnapping), preventing the said life altogether (e.g. inducing a miscarriage at an early state of pregnancy), etc.

But changing history, if it were possible (which it is not for anyone living inside the spacetime), would also mean erasure of untold billions of people, thus making the hapless time traveler worse than any Hitler.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:09:08pm

re: #233 KGxvi

The only words that are important, and thus true, are the words that I am saying right now. The words I said before are not important, the words I say later are also not important. Only these words right now. It does not matter if the words I say now are different from those I just said because those words are no longer important.

It’s simple really.

“When I use a word,’ Humpty Dumpty said in rather a scornful tone, ‘it means just what I choose it to mean — neither more nor less.’

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:09:53pm

All this “kill baby Hitler” stuff is finally taking some heat off of Daladier and Chamberlain. Or maybe somebody should shoot those babies too, while they’re at it.

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KGxvi  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:11:11pm

re: #253 Nyet

But changing history, if it were possible (which it is not for anyone living inside the spacetime), would also mean erasure of untold billions of people, thus making the hapless time traveler worse than any Hitler.

Additionally, many of those erased people would be replaced with someone else. Instead of all those GIs getting busy dying, they’d just be getting busy. One of those replacement people could have ended up being worse. Also, too, parallel timelines makes this a billion times more complicated.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:11:16pm

re: #213 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Did it ever occur to anybody to educate baby Hitler and teach him values? Also, I wouldn’t want to be around when naked Jeb? comes out of that time machine.

or maybe just send him to some art classes learning how to draw naked wimmens properly so’s he woulda done better getting into art school and having sex and suchlike

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:11:52pm

re: #187 ObserverArt

Heh. I already mocked that photo in a ‘shop earlier this year.

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Eliannnnnnnnnnnnn! Dog I remember that live.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:14:08pm

…and while we’re at it, we better get baby Goebbels and baby Himmler. Don’t forget baby Heydrich and baby Mengele. Better just waste a shitload of babies, because millions of them are going to take up arms to support the Nazis.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:15:43pm
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UrbanAchiever  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:15:50pm

re: #259 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Sadly this discussion is about as reality-based as most of the discussion on the debate stage last night.

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:15:58pm

re: #235 Nyet

I’d never seen him on film before. The swagger—ugh—definitely very Trump-like.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:17:08pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

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America, America, God shed his grace on theeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:17:34pm

re: #262 CuriousLurker

I’d never seen him on film before. The swagger—ugh—definitely very Trump-like.

apparently there is something very important about thrusting out your lower lip

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:18:42pm

re: #251 KGxvi

MOAR PRUF THAT LIEBRULS AND ISLAMIST MOOSLIMS ARE REALLY ON THE SAME SIDE!!!11! CHECKMATE LIBTARDS!11!

sigh, I’m sure that’s more or less a direct quote from a freeper comment section.

LOL—yeah, any time anything disturbing happens that’s their first response.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:19:21pm

re: #248 CuriousLurker

Scary when Afghani imams are more liberal than some of our states’ politicians, innit?

And it also speaks to the fact there is not a lot of separation between some fundie Christians and the Taliban. As we have long speculated.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:20:27pm

re: #253 Nyet

It also depends on who’s right about how history works - is it driven by individuals or by larger movements? If there were no Hitler, would something like the Nazi Party have arisen anyway, perhaps led by someone better at strategy, so he wouldn’t attack Russia without adequate preparation? Or who might take over Britain first, THEN turn around and attack Russia?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:20:48pm

re: #261 UrbanAchiever

Sadly this discussion is about as reality-based as most of the discussion on the debate stage last night.

What this discussion dances around is the fact that WW2’s causes were extremely complex, and far deeper than the appeasement in Munich in 1938.
Germany and the Soviet Union would have gone to war eventually anyway, and who knows how that would have turned out. You never know, without Hitler Germany may have had western allies.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:22:33pm

Who the hell started this whole ‘kill baby Hitler’ thing?

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:22:49pm

re: #242 majii

Where is the economic calamity that Cruz is talking about?

Look at nearly any Red state and you’ll find them.

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:22:52pm

re: #212 Backwoods_Sleuth

re: #263 Stanley Sea Toujours

You know what I really hate? That whenever I hear about another shooting, instead of feeling upset I just feel like rolling my eyes and sighing, “Again?” We’re becoming inured to violent deaths. It’s scary and I don’t know how to stop it.

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The War TARDIS  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:23:08pm

re: #269 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Jeb, I think?

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:23:52pm

re: #269 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Who the hell started this whole ‘kill baby Hitler’ thing?

I bet you would like to go back and kill ‘em.

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:24:28pm

re: #269 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Who the hell started this whole ‘kill baby Hitler’ thing?

Good question. I have no idea.

re: #272 The War TARDIS

Jeb, I think?

No.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:24:40pm

re: #273 ObserverArt

I bet you would like to go back and kill ‘em.

Nah, just smack them upside the head.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:25:34pm

OTTTT My oven just broke. In the middle of cooking dinner.

Wen’t to F1 - full 500 plus broil. Smoke alarm went off, dinner crisp.

wow. It’s only Wednesday.

I shut off the circuit breaker, thank you internet.

Going to get much reward take out Thai. Fuck this.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:25:39pm

re: #271 CuriousLurker

You know what I really hate? That whenever I hear about another shooting, instead of feeling upset I just feel like rolling my eyes and sighing, “Again?” We’re becoming inured to violent deaths. It’s scary and I don’t know how to stop it.

Don’t Panic. If someone in 1950 San Francisco had shot up a street corner, without hitting a movie star, no one in 1950 Pittsburgh would have been aware of it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:26:00pm

re: #269 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Who the hell started this whole ‘kill baby Hitler’ thing?

The New York Times started it last month by conducting a poll of its readers.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:27:08pm

re: #276 Stanley Sea Toujours

OTTTT My oven just broke. In the middle of cooking dinner.

Wen’t to F1 - full 500 plus broil. Smoke alarm went off, dinner crisp.

wow. It’s only Wednesday.

I shut off the circuit breaker, thank you internet.

Going to get much reward take out Thai. Fuck this.

Sounds like the thermostat that controls the temps busted. It might be an easy fix.

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UrbanAchiever  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:27:24pm

re: #271 CuriousLurker

I do it too, and I hate it also because I question my own sense of empathy. But our brains are good at protecting us from trauma and letting us get on with our lives, even when we know in our hearts things are messed up.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:27:28pm

I wonder if we’ll be able to see the Trump Wall from space?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:27:52pm

re: #278 Backwoods_Sleuth

The New York Times started it last month by conducting a poll of its readers.

So we need to go back in time and kill Arthur Sulzberger?

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:28:17pm

re: #269 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Who the hell started this whole ‘kill baby Hitler’ thing?

Well that was easy enough. According to nymag.com, it was the NY Times Magazine:

Baby Hitler meme was born on October 23, 2015, at 2:04 p.m., when the august New York Times Magazine asked: “If you could go back and kill Hitler as a baby, would you do it?”


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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:28:54pm

re: #279 ObserverArt

Sounds like the thermostat that controls the temps busted. It might be an easy fix.

Not likely. If the display shows an error code it’s going to be the control board.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:30:24pm

re: #279 ObserverArt

Sounds like the thermostat that controls the temps busted. It might be an easy fix.

By someone else.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:30:42pm

re: #284 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Not likely. If the display shows an error code it’s going to be the control board.

Excessive complexity makes me long for the O’Keefe And Merritt stove we had in our flat in SF.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:31:12pm

re: #276 Stanley Sea Toujours

OTTTT My oven just broke. In the middle of cooking dinner.

Wen’t to F1 - full 500 plus broil. Smoke alarm went off, dinner crisp.

wow. It’s only Wednesday.

I shut off the circuit breaker, thank you internet.

Going to get much reward take out Thai. Fuck this.

Mine died a few months ago. Stovetop worked but oven wouldn’t heat at all. Getting it repaired would have involved cleaning it, so I just bought a new one.
(it was pretty old and cheap anyway.)

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:31:34pm

The hell with this baby Hitler crap. If you’re going to go through the trouble of traveling back in time, just keep that damned Archduke Ferdinand home on the day he’s assassinated and no WWI and no Hitler.

Sheesh! Do it my way and you don’t even have to kill anybody.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:31:59pm

re: #286 Blind Frog Belly White

Excessive complexity makes me long for the O’Keefe And Merritt stove we had in our flat in SF.

I don’t know why ovens need an electronic controller.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:32:38pm

re: #284 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Not likely. If the display shows an error code it’s going to be the control board.

Does not an error code sometimes display when there is a system failure? In some cases the error code will indicate the problem and you can cross reference the code to the likely causes?

I’m just of the thinking if it is still a good appliance and it can be a part…fix it. Others may not agree.

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Jenner7  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:33:39pm

It really is amazing how far the GOP have fallen. I’ll say it again: I’m so glad I’m not a Republican.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:34:45pm

re: #288 Skip Intro

The hell with this baby Hitler crap. If you’re going to go through the trouble of traveling back in time, just keep that damned Archduke Ferdinand home on the day he’s assassinated and no WWI and no Hitler.

Sheesh! Do it my way and you don’t even have to kill anybody.

I say we go back in time to the night Hitler was conceived, keep his Dad late at work, and seduce his Mom. That way he’d still be born, but he’d be a different person.

Mind you, maybe that’s how he got that way in the first place. Hmmmmmmm…..

Never mind.

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Shiplord Kirel  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:35:06pm

Why am I not surprised?

Lubbock County Adding In God We Trust To Law Enforcement Patrol Units

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:35:40pm

re: #289 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

I don’t know why ovens need an electronic controller.

So you can sell a new one.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:35:50pm

re: #290 ObserverArt

Repairman is just going to say the board is bad. $450 please. I also think a thermostat would fail incrementally instead of totally. By that I mean it would work erratically and it would be hard to keep the desired temp.

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Great White Snark  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:36:33pm

re: #288 Skip Intro

The hell with this baby Hitler crap. If you’re going to go through the trouble of traveling back in time, just keep that damned Archduke Ferdinand home on the day he’s assassinated and no WWI and no Hitler.

Sheesh! Do it my way and you don’t even have to kill anybody.

How about we go back in time and give birth control to Trumps mother. Nobody gets hurt.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:37:21pm

re: #293 Shiplord Kirel

Why am I not surprised?

Lubbock County Adding In God We Trust To Law Enforcement Patrol Units

Ours were just forced to remove “Blessed are the peacemakers.” which didn’t bother me except for the small-print Bible chapter and verse attached.

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Timothy Watson  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:38:06pm

WTF is this “Rosewood” show? I just watched a scene and it came across as medical dictionary Mad Libs.

“I had my DNA sequenced and found out that I have a gene that passed down an infection to you that caused you to be born premature.”

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:38:35pm

re: #288 Skip Intro

The hell with this baby Hitler crap. If you’re going to go through the trouble of traveling back in time, just keep that damned Archduke Ferdinand home on the day he’s assassinated and no WWI and no Hitler.

Sheesh! Do it my way and you don’t even have to kill anybody.

no WWI => no russian revolution

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:38:37pm

re: #297 Decatur Deb

Ours were just forced to remove “Blessed are the peacemakers.” which didn’t bother me except for the small-print Bible chapter and verse attached.

“Well, obviously it’s not meant to be taken literally; it refers to any manufacturers of dairy products.”

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CuriousLurker  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:39:04pm

re: #293 Shiplord Kirel

Why am I not surprised?

Lubbock County Adding In God We Trust To Law Enforcement Patrol Units

WTF? Texas is like out-wingnutting the wingnuts. To hell with this nonsense, I’m going to go read a book. Later, lizards.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:39:16pm

re: #298 Timothy Watson

Wait - what?

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:40:39pm

what’s all this i hear about a major storm bringing lizard conditions to the rockies

are you guys having a party i didnt hear about??

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:41:49pm

The usual problem with the sci-fi time travel scenarios is that the “now” - that ever—present instant of temporal becoming - somehow time-travels with this one guy or gal back and forth in time. How so? What makes this clump of atoms special? What happens to those left behind? Makes no sense.

I suppose one could respond in two ways. First is that every instant is a “now” of sorts, so when Farty FcFly travels in time, he doesn’t “take” the “now” with him but rather finds himself in a similar “now” with a different t-coordinate. The problem is that this view of reality leads to some pretty weird logical outcomes. If at each instant of the past - and we *are* living in the past relative to the future instants - there is a “now” in which the future (as seen from that “now”) can be changed, then not only the “present” we are constantly changing the future, the “past” we (relative to “our” “now”) are also constantly changing the “future” - including our “present”. Thus the whole reality is not fixed and it’s hard to say what is real at all.

Another way to see it would be to deny the reality of “now” - temporal becoming - altogether. But then the whole spacetime continuum is static and there can be no time-changing travel to speak of, maximum - static time loops. Only someone from the outside of our spacetime, with their own time stream, would be able to change history, sort of like we can change a miniature city model.

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Timothy Watson  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:42:57pm

re: #302 Blind Frog Belly White

Wait - what?

A family member heard the same thing, so I think we heard the dialogue correctly.

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Dr. Matt  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:44:44pm
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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:44:50pm

re: #295 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Repairman is just going to say the board is bad. $450 please. I also think a thermostat would fail incrementally instead of totally. By that I mean it would work erratically and it would be hard to keep the desired temp.

That used to be more true of the old analog temp sensors. They actually used metal to sense the temps so they had progressive failure. The newer digital type are so damn small and are many times a little ceramic tip on the end of some wires. They just break or refuse to send a signal.

And yes, I agree about the repairman. That is why I always try to see if there is simple and inexpensive fix I can do. Might as well try before buying new. If it is a funky old stove and no longer wanted then recycle it and buy new.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:45:14pm

re: #290 ObserverArt

Does not an error code sometimes display when there is a system failure? In some cases the error code will indicate the problem and you can cross reference the code to the likely causes?

I’m just of the thinking if it is still a good appliance and it can be a part…fix it. Others may not agree.

I want a new oven. We will see.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:46:28pm

NYT.
e_e

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:46:56pm

re: #306 Dr. Matt

Go on…

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b.d.  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:47:44pm

Looks like Pierre has given up on Greenwald’s BS rose garden promised and hired a marketing guy to run The Intercept

Adam Pincus Joins First Look Media as Head of Programming, Content


First Look Media, the multiplatform media company founded by eBay billionaire Pierre Omidyar, has hired advertising and TV veteran Adam Pincus as executive VP of programming and content.

In the new role, Pincus will manage First Look’s overall programming strategy and development and production of content including feature films, TV and digital programming. In addition, he will oversee content on First Look’s digital properties.

variety.com

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:47:44pm

re: #295 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Repairman is just going to say the board is bad. $450 please. I also think a thermostat would fail incrementally instead of totally. By that I mean it would work erratically and it would be hard to keep the desired temp.

My house stinks. I deserve a new. Will report back what the property manager decides.

I’ll try to schmooze the repair guy with beer. /oldschool

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:48:36pm

re: #299 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

no WWI => no russian revolution

The Tsar’s jewels survive! And no Anastasia BS

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:50:08pm

re: #313 Stanley Sea Toujours

And the Amber Room would have survived.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:51:23pm

re: #306 Dr. Matt

Embedded Image

8 likes.

Circling the drain.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:53:19pm

re: #313 Stanley Sea Toujours

The Tsar’s jewels survive! And no Anastasia BS

How fucking perverse Anastasia the movie is? Basically they took the tragic story of an innocent girl murdered by the Bolsheviks, pretended she had never been shot, and exploited the resulting BS story for all it was worth. So basically in that animated film she was really an animated corpse all the fucking time.

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Great White Snark  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:54:05pm

Well now.

WASHINGTON — Billionaire industrialist Charles Koch said Wednesday he’s unlikely to back a candidate in the crowded Republican presidential primary, the latest sign that one of the most influential figures in conservative politics seems less than enthusiastic about his choices.

“I have no plans to support anybody in the primary now,” Koch told USA TODAY during a wide-ranging interview that touched on politics, his management theories and what he views as increasing threats to free speech at universities.

usatoday.com

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The War TARDIS  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:56:30pm

re: #313 Stanley Sea Toujours

And the Ottomans survive.

Though, not in a good form.

For that, you would need to give medicine and care to Abdulmecid I to insure he doesn’t die of Tuberculosis at the age of 38.

No Armenian Genocide, no Saudi State, no revival of Wahhabism, and no 9/11. Among other things.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:57:12pm

.re: #317 Great White Snark

Well now.

“I have no plans to support anybody in the primary now,” Koch told USA TODAY

usatoday.com

Tiny little word, that ‘now’.

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Belafon  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:57:43pm

re: #317 Great White Snark

Walker’s gone. Who does he have left? Trump can’t be controlled. Carson’s controlled by Gawd. Jeb isn’t going anywhere in the polls.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:58:10pm

re: #314 Skip Intro

And the Amber Room would have survived.

Looked that up.

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WhatEVs  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:59:20pm

re: #317 Great White Snark

Well now.

usatoday.com

He’s saving his near billion dollars for the eventual nominee. Why waste it in the mostly kiddie table crowd. Wait for the victor and invest heavily in that person.

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BeachDem  Nov 11, 2015 • 5:59:33pm

re: #316 Nyet

How fucking perverse Anastasia the movie is? Basically they took the tragic story of an innocent girl murdered by the Bolsheviks, pretended she had never been shot, and exploited the resulting BS story for all it was worth. So basically in that animated film she was really an animated corpse all the fucking time.

Well, first there was the Ingrid Bergman version, and then there was my grandmother, who, although she was Jewish and from Kiev, I believe was convinced that she was the missing Anastasia. (My family is a strange collection of characters.)

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:00:40pm

re: #318 The War TARDIS

And the Ottomans survive.

Though, not in a good form.

For that, you would need to give medicine and care to Abdulmecid I to insure he doesn’t die of Tuberculosis at the age of 38.

No Armenian Genocide, no Saudi State, no revival of Wahhabism, and no 9/11. Among other things.

You and I would be killed in the crash of the second hot-hydrogen dirigible.

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CleverToad  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:01:25pm

re: #317 Great White Snark

Well now.

usatoday.com

Hmm. So he’s going to spend all his money at the Congressional and state levels for awhile, till he knows who he has to buy for the presidential race. He’s got plenty to keep him busy in the quest to influence universities and muzzle PBS. Who knows, we might not notice that he’s pulling strings in the background if he says he’s staying out of it.

////out the wazoo

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:02:02pm

re: #320 Belafon

Walker’s gone. Who does he have left? Trump can’t be controlled. Carson’s controlled by Gawd. Jeb isn’t going anywhere in the polls.

The Kochs are stuck between supporting Jack and shit…and Jack left town.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:02:30pm

re: #317 Great White Snark

Meh, which of the upstanding Republican candidates would take money of a guy who backed a magazine that published apologia for Holocaust denial and who himself sponsored a Holocaust denier “historian”? Surely not a single one!!1

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:04:04pm

re: #316 Nyet

How fucking perverse Anastasia the movie is? Basically they took the tragic story of an innocent girl murdered by the Bolsheviks, pretended she had never been shot, and exploited the resulting BS story for all it was worth. So basically in that animated film she was really an animated corpse all the fucking time.

I saw the traveling museum of the Tsar’s Jewels in San Diego years ago. The Dancing bumble bee tiara was exquisite. EXQUISITE. Regardless of its heritage.

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Nyet  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:06:57pm

re: #323 BeachDem

Well, first there was the Ingrid Bergman version, and then there was my grandmother, who, although she was Jewish and from Kiev, I believe was convinced that she was the missing Anastasia. (My family is a strange collection of characters.)

Anyone prior to the 1990s and the DNA test at least has an excuse of uncertainty.

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Great White Snark  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:08:05pm

re: #327 Nyet
Fair point.
I’m just sayin’ too crazy for Koch? Who woulda thought it possible?

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:08:42pm

How long until TRUMP® takes credit for forcing Koch out of throwing his bucks around buying a candidate?

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bratwurst  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:09:35pm

It’s about time we got into the SERIOUS issues.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:11:23pm

Fuck. I never saw the Columbine surveillance footage. Ugh.

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whitebeach  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:12:10pm

re: #293 Shiplord Kirel

Why am I not surprised?

Lubbock County Adding In God We Trust To Law Enforcement Patrol Units

I always want to ask these folks, If you really trust in God, what do you need all these cops and cop cars for in the first place?

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:12:24pm

Off for take out. I had to re-think the no oven lifestyle. Soup. Anything microwavable.

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b_sharp  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:12:26pm

re: #308 Stanley Sea Toujours

I want a new oven. We will see.

Have you rebooted it?

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Reality Based Steve  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:13:43pm

re: #333 GlutenFreeJesus

Fuck. I never saw the Columbine surveillance footage. Ugh.

Embedded Image

At one time, the NRA was actually in favor of common sense gun laws, and was mainly concerned with promoting the shooting sports and safety. At one time I was also a member.

Now neither statement is true, and the worst part, for some RWNJs the NRA isn’t ‘Pro-Gun’ enough. /smh

RBS

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:17:49pm

It turns out the Internet works much better when the router isn’t frying itself.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:20:13pm

re: #289 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

These days we only have one white goods manufacturer that’s US owned: Whirlpool (Including Maytag.)

Electrolux (which includes Frigidaire and now GE) is Based in Sweden.

Let’s hear it for globalization.

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teleskiguy  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:20:48pm

How about something weird?

Alvin and The Chipmunks slowed down to 16 RPM sounds sludgy goth as hell!

Video

Here’s the original for reference.

The Chipmunks-Refugee

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:22:14pm

re: #338 klys (maker of Silmarils)

It turns out the Internet works much better when the router isn’t frying itself.

After the tech came and replaced the router, mr. klys asked me what tests he ran to make sure it was the router, or if he’d just replaced it to see if that was the problem.

I pointed out that when he unplugged the signal cable and the light saying it had signal stayed on, that was a pretty good indication that the problem was with the router.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:23:21pm

re: #337 Reality Based Steve

Yup. After the Kennedy assassinations, and the riots in the 60s, the political wing of the NRA managed to take over in a coup. What we have now is a result of that day.

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Reality Based Steve  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:24:12pm

re: #341 klys (maker of Silmarils)

After the tech came and replaced the router, mr. klys asked me what tests he ran to make sure it was the router, or if he’d just replaced it to see if that was the problem.

I pointed out that when he unplugged the signal cable and the light saying it had signal stayed on, that was a pretty good indication that the problem was with the router.

Nah… it’s just wireless that’s all. /////

RBS

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:24:43pm

re: #339 Eric The Fruit Bat

These days we only have one white goods manufacturer that’s US owned: Whirlpool (Including Maytag.)

Electrolux (which includes Frigidaire and now GE) is Based in Sweden.

Let’s hear it for globalization.

The Electrolux/GE Appliances deal isn’t done yet and may not be if the DoJ gets its way.

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:24:54pm

War on Christmas Commander in Chief O’Reilly opines on the Starbucks red cup outrage.

“Red is one of the colors of Christmas. Santa’s outfit is red. Rudolph’s nose is red. The cup’s okay with me.”

Because everybody knows that Santa’s outfit and Rudolph’s nose define the true meaning of Christmas. And don’t forget, Santa is white, just like Jesus.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:25:24pm

re: #339 Eric The Fruit Bat

These days we only have one white goods manufacturer that’s US owned: Whirlpool (Including Maytag.)

Electrolux (which includes Frigidaire and now GE) is Based in Sweden.

Let’s hear it for globalization.

It’s all one big Monopoly game. Who knows, some time everything may just be one big company.

ACME.

347
Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:26:02pm

Man, having to buy a car unexpectedly kind of sucks.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:26:31pm

re: #347 Charles Johnson

Man, having to buy a car unexpectedly kind of sucks.

Better than no car, especially in a place like Southern California (or, here where I am in Nashville) where transit options suck and you have to drive to get anywhere.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:26:54pm

re: #347 Charles Johnson

Man, having to buy a car unexpectedly kind of sucks.

I’m trying to keep my eye on what my potential options might be, because I know that if I’m in any kind of anything chances are good my car is done.

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freetoken  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:27:58pm

So, we assume the Deportation Fo卐ce will use the FEMA camps as transit points. But to get the invaders back to the point of origin will require more than land routes, as Mexico will for sure no allow transport through their country to Central America.

Does this mean FEMA has cargo ships too? Are there any FEMA ports about which I am not aware? Is the Naval base at Corpus going to convert to a Deportation Fo卐ce port?

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:28:02pm

re: #216 Decatur Deb

Embrace your naivete. If the American people could possibly elect Trump Reagan, we were never worth the effort.

Fixxed.

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sagehen  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:29:44pm

re: #107 ObserverArt

You know, before last night I can say I never heard of this operation. But it sure does one thing. It again shows these clods do really want to go back in time. And we often cite 1950 as the time.

Something not often mentioned when describing this event — they were *really* careless about who they picked up. They just sort of drove around a particular part of town, grabbed up whoever was easily accessible and looked the part. More than 1/3, maybe as many as 1/2, were native-born American citizens. Whoops!!

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Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:31:08pm

The insurance company of the guy who hit me is graciously providing me with a rental car.

For three days. Which means I have to return the car before I get the payment from them.

This has turned into a huge headache. And the really frustrating part of it is that I could probably have gotten another 100K miles out of my car - it was in very good shape, old and with a lot of miles, but well maintained.

Your humble narrator is a frustrated stressed out puppy tonight.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:33:52pm

re: #353 Charles Johnson

The insurance company of the guy who hit me is graciously providing me with a rental car.

For three days. Which means I have to return the car before I get the payment from them.

This has turned into a huge headache. And the really frustrating part of it is that I could probably have gotten another 100K miles out of my car - it was in very good shape, old and with a lot of miles, but well maintained.

Your humble narrator is a frustrated stressed out puppy tonight.

I’d ask who the other person’s insurance company is, so I can avoid them like the plague, but I’d be afraid the stalkers might try to pull some bullshit to hurt you.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:34:50pm

re: #333 GlutenFreeJesus

Sandy Hook now. Sigh.

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:35:20pm

re: #316 Nyet

How fucking perverse Anastasia the movie is? Basically they took the tragic story of an innocent girl murdered by the Bolsheviks, pretended she had never been shot, and exploited the resulting BS story for all it was worth. So basically in that animated film she was really an animated corpse all the fucking time.

A film made by Don Bluth, NOT Disney, and which Disney bought the rights to and buried next to “Song of the South” when it was definitely proven that Anastasia was killed with the rest of her family.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:36:23pm

re: #336 b_sharp

Have you rebooted it?

No.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:36:52pm

re: #357 Stanley Sea Toujours

No.

Did you check your TCP/IP?

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:37:36pm

re: #358 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Did you check your TCP/IP?

I think the best troubleshooting she can do is a glass of wine.

Maybe two.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:38:10pm

Whoa, I just noticed this post is approaching a thousand Twitter shares. Somebody with a lot of followers must have RTed it. (Been dealing with car stuff so I haven’t been keeping up with Twitter.)

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:38:19pm

re: #357 Stanley Sea Toujours

I suggest that you format your hard disk and reinstall the OS.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:38:30pm

re: #359 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think the best troubleshooting she can do is a glass of wine.

Maybe two.

Ovens don’t run on wine, silly.

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Cheechako  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:38:36pm

re: #340 teleskiguy

This video is for you!!!

Mike Campbell
Alaska Dispatch News
November 10, 2015

<Video: Skier survives 1,600-foot fall in Southwest Alaska mountain range/a>

Few of today’s adventure sports fans probably remember the “agony of defeat” video that opened ABC’s “Wide World of Sports” decades ago, showing Slovenian ski jumper Vinko Bogataj’s spectacular crash in 1970.

It’s been upstaged. Right here in Alaska.
Canadian professional skier Ian McIntosh somehow survived a 1,600-foot head-over-heels-over-head-over-heels tumble lasting nearly a minute in Alaska’s Neacola Range about 120 miles southwest of Anchorage, an area pockmarked with numerous 3,000-foot couloirs. The video, with audio of his gasps, is frightening.

“While filming for “Paradise Waits” (a skiing and snowboarding film), Mac dropped into a line he thought he had studied thoroughly enough, only to fall into an unseen 5-foot-deep trench on one of his first turns,” Todd Jones, a co-founder of Teton Gravity Research, the action sports entertainment company based in Jackson, Wyoming, said in a press release.

McIntosh, who’s also a BASE jumper, immediately yells “No” when he realizes what is happening.

“From there,” McIntosh said afterwards, my slough took over and there was no way to stop. I pulled my airbag to help prevent against any possible trauma injuries as I tumbled to the bottom.”

It “was the most terrifying crash I’ve ever seen,” Jones said.

The fall happened April 10, but the video was only uploaded to YouTube last week — probably because “Paradise Waits” opens in theaters this week.

And McIntosh on Tuesday alerted fans on his Facebook page: “Make sure you check out “Good Morning America” tomorrow morning for yours truly. Talking big mountain skiing and crashing huge. Haha!”

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:38:47pm

re: #362 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Ovens don’t run on wine, silly.

But she might. ;)

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The Vicious Babushka  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:39:12pm

re: #308 Stanley Sea Toujours

I want a new oven. We will see.

DO NOT get an Amana. They suck.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:39:25pm

re: #347 Charles Johnson

Man, having to buy a car unexpectedly kind of sucks.

Hopefully its one you will really like. New models are great.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:39:34pm

re: #364 klys (maker of Silmarils)

But she might. ;)

You organics are weird.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:41:56pm

re: #359 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I think the best troubleshooting she can do is a glass of wine.

Maybe two.

Then take a hammer to it.

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ObserverArt  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:42:17pm

Good evening folks. Gonna go play some guitar. Maybe bang on my drums all day.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:42:26pm

re: #365 The Vicious Babushka

Amana is part of the Whirlpool conglomerate.

Hey Stanley: Is your oven gas or electric?

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:42:37pm

re: #365 The Vicious Babushka

DO NOT get an Amana. They suck.

I remember when they didn’t.

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:43:16pm

re: #370 Eric The Fruit Bat

Amana is part of the Whirlpool conglomerate.

Hey Stanley: Is your oven gas or electric?

I’m guessing electric.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:45:39pm

re: #358 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Did you check your TCP/IP?

Shut the fuck up. I’m at Thai restaurant deciding what’s microwaveable.

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Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:48:12pm
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teleskiguy  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:49:06pm

re: #363 Cheechako

I’ve seen that. Terrifying! Walked away uninjured and didn’t start a massive avalanche. You can thank that heavy maritime snow of Alaska for that, some of the most stable snowpack in the world, unlike where I live where we are already dealing with a weak basal layer which could lead to deep persistent slabs later this winter.

Here, a little snow science for the uninitiated.

Vail Pass 2015 11 08

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Blizard  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:49:38pm

re: #303 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

Got a foot of light fluffy last night in the woods near Steamboat. Denver and east towards the plains had blizzard-like conditions, much of that wind is what the midwest is experiencing now. But the snow totals weren’t that high overall. It was a fast moving storm. Clear now, 11 degrees F. Brr.

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Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:49:53pm

re: #12 goddamnedfrank

Melania Trump, Botoxed to the nines, looking at the camera like she just scraped the viewer off her shoe.

You just described my every fetish./////

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:50:59pm

re: #370 Eric The Fruit Bat

Amana is part of the Whirlpool conglomerate.

Hey Stanley: Is your oven gas or electric?

Elec. Up to the owner. I’m a renter. Trying to keep up w thread. No success. Leaving Thai restaurant w my food.!!¡!!!

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:53:41pm

re: #378 Stanley Sea Toujours

Elec. Up to the owner. I’m a renter. Trying to keep up w thread. No success. Leaving Thai restaurant w my food.!!¡!!!

¿Qué?

///

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teleskiguy  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:53:55pm

re: #374 Charles Johnson

Presidential material, obviously.

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Big Beautiful Door  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:54:15pm

re: #363 Cheechako

This video is for you!!!

OK, let me just say, I’m 52, not 102, and I remember the “agony of defeat” start to Wild World of Sports well. Now get off my lawn!

382
Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:54:20pm

Tomorrow’s the day when Gawker’s lawyers are going to do their best to put a major hurt on our boy Chuck.

383
Barefoot Grin  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:54:25pm

re: #374 Charles Johnson

He really is Charles Murray’s red-headed step-child, isn’t he?

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Reality Based Steve  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:56:20pm

re: #382 Charles Johnson

Tomorrow’s the day when Gawker’s lawyers are going to do their best to put a major hurt on our boy Chuck.

There will be much wailing and knashing of teeth. Along with rending of garments and wearing of ashes.

RBS

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:57:34pm

re: #381 Big Beautiful Door

Whoa, I just watched that, and even knowing what was going to happen, I still couldn’t breathe!

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TedStriker  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:58:57pm

re: #384 Reality Based Steve

There will be much wailing and knashing of teeth. Along with rending of garments and wearing of ashes.

RBS

I fear it’ll be more dire than that when all’s said and done; either he’ll take a swan dive from the nearest tall building (or use said building to go all Charles Whitman) or he’ll leave Hot Asian Wife and her folks holding the bag, fleeing to Eastern Europe to join up with weev.

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Reality Based Steve  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:59:02pm

...

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BlueSpotinAL  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:59:19pm

re: #255 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

All this “kill baby Hitler” stuff is finally taking some heat off of Daladier and Chamberlain. Or maybe somebody should shoot those babies too, while they’re at it.

Didn’t Daleiden film somone saying, “Another baby Hitler!”

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 6:59:45pm

re: #344 TedStriker

The Electrolux/GE Appliances deal isn’t done yet and may not be if the DoJ gets its way.

The assembly line that paid my way through UofL was GE’s Appliance Park. Our line made 1,500 refrigerators per night. There were 3 lines, sometimes running 3 shifts. At the time we had almost 20,000 employees. When I last heard of it, there were 6,000.

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Reality Based Steve  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:01:25pm

This time lets try it with the actual picture embedded.

Somebody posted this up to my FB page. I’m afraid that my beard only measures up to “Sea Captainly”. I have much work to do. (and no, the pic isn’t me)

No, it’s not me.

RBS

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Ian G.  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:02:41pm

There are any number of rock songs about the experience of war, but for my money, on Veterans/Remembrance/Armistice Day, none tops Alice in Chains’ “Rooster”:

Alice In Chains - Rooster

The clips of the guitar player’s father (a Vietnam vet, the song is about him) saying “I hope nobody ever has to go through it again” is more than enough. And then you have the song, plus the harrowing video that’s like something out of “Platoon”.

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teleskiguy  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:03:03pm

re: #385 retired cynic

Whoa, I just watched that, and even knowing what was going to happen, I still couldn’t breathe!

This is the most terrifying ski video out there. Caught on a POV camera, dude got buried in an avalanche and is rescued, but not for more than five minutes. You can hear the man start to panic. CAUTION: This video is a seriously frightening watch, not for the squeamish.

Avalanche Skier POV Helmet Cam Burial & Rescue in Haines, Alaska

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BlueSpotinAL  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:03:38pm

re: #288 Skip Intro

The hell with this baby Hitler crap. If you’re going to go through the trouble of traveling back in time, just keep that damned Archduke Ferdinand home on the day he’s assassinated and no WWI and no Hitler.

Sheesh! Do it my way and you don’t even have to kill anybody.

I would go back to Eve and tell her not to eat that fruit. We would be in paradise!

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:04:33pm

re: #393 BlueSpotinAL

I would go back to Eve and tell her not to eat that fruit. We would be in paradise!

Boooorrring!

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Skip Intro  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:08:51pm

re: #393 BlueSpotinAL

I would go back to Eve and tell her not to eat that fruit. We would be in paradise!

Be careful you don’t get fooled by Lilith instead.

And with all this talk of killing baby Hitler I’m surprised no one has posted his picture. Up until now, that is.

This is who you’re looking for. Too bad he hasn’t grown the mustache yet to make it easier.

Maybe during the next GOP “debate” they can show the contestants this picture and ask them if they’d be willing to kill the kid.

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Decatur Deb  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:11:36pm

re: #395 Skip Intro

Be careful you don’t get fooled by Lilith instead.

And with all this talk of killing baby Hitler I’m surprised no one has posted his picture. Up until now, that is.

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This is who you’re looking for. Too bad he hasn’t grown the mustache yet to make it easier.

Maybe during the next GOP “debate” they can show the contestants this picture and ask them if they’d be willing to kill the kid.

Do you mean “kill” kill, or just let it starve or die of preventable disease?

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Bubblehead II  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:16:58pm

Night Lizards. See you in the morning.

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retired cynic  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:19:49pm

re: #392 teleskiguy

EEK!

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Charles Johnson  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:20:37pm

It’s now been nine days since Chuck C. Johnson posted any BREAKING EXCLUSIVE news at gotnews​.com.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:31:11pm

re: #392 teleskiguy

This is the most terrifying ski video out there. Caught on a POV camera, dude got buried in an avalanche and is rescued, but not for more than five minutes. You can hear the man start to panic. CAUTION: This video is a seriously frightening watch, not for the squeamish.

[Embedded content]

Video

His dramatic death is most likely in the future. GoPro.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:47:00pm

re: #347 Charles Johnson

Man, having to buy a car unexpectedly kind of sucks.

Tell me about it. Just found out today from my mechanic that my engine is completely shot due to a timing belt break and the repair estimate is higher than the value of the car itself. If I’m lucky I’ll get a few hundred in salvage value.

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teleskiguy  Nov 11, 2015 • 7:59:38pm

re: #400 Stanley Sea Toujours

His dramatic death is most likely in the future. GoPro.

He survived, thankfully.

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Mich-again  Nov 11, 2015 • 9:19:00pm
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