Sunday Night Short Film: The Trial of Barnaby Finch

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To swat or not to swat? That is the question posed to eager interviewee, Barnaby Finch in this fast-paced, metaphysical short film featured on The Sundance Channel and winner of Best Writer from The One Show.

http://www.sorrelbrae.com/blog/barnaby-finch

Director: Sorrel Brae & Sam Stephens
Writer: Sorrel Brae
DoP: Jeffrey Kim
Editor: M. Brennan
Producer: Christopher Marsh
Production Designer: Elizabeth Jones
Composer: James Morgan
Production Company: Humble
Color: The Mill
Sound Mix: Sound Lounge

Starring: Ben Roberts & Eoin O’Shea

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554 comments
1
CuriousLurker  Dec 6, 2015 • 8:54:37pm

I need to get ready for Monday, but since jaunte posted this tweet downstairs I thought I’d repost it here along with a Google Images search that’ll give you scores of photos of Muslims in America and all over the world uniting & praying against Da’esh, for next time some wingnut tells you Muslims never reject terrorism. Yes, more needs to be done besides praying (tie your camel!), but it’s B.S. that we’re silent on the matter:

Google Images search results: muslims against ISIS pray

G’nite, lizards.

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:16:18pm

re: #1 CuriousLurker

Assalamu Alaikom

السلام عليكم

3
Kid A  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:21:58pm

re: #2 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

Assalamu Alaikom

السلام عليكم

Walaikum Salam.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:35:06pm

re: #2 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

Assalamu Alaikom

السلام عليكم

Wa alaykum as-salam wa rahmatullahi wa barakatuh.
And the peace and mercy of Allah and His blessings be upon you [also].1

وعليكم السلام ورحمة الله وبركاته

1. Adab says one must answer Assalaamu Alaikum with the equivalent or (preferably) something better, so in return you get mercy & blessings on top of the peace. Extra credit for going first! ;-)

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Amory Blaine  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:35:49pm

Architectural lizard, help.

KETo1yLMZMZEOgcP0BspcFL/59FMMvKceal5KbKJXira6sCVhtAYxRjPpL2It6VM0RRj7hFcqYReGwryxd2DZA==

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:36:09pm

re: #5 Amory Blaine

Architectural lizard, help.

[private][/private]

Yay or nay?

yes

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Amory Blaine  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:37:02pm

I agree. Morning call.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:37:13pm

re: #4 CuriousLurker

I learned something. :D

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:52:58pm

Looks like the racist far right Nationalist Front is capitalizing on the Paris attacks, sigh.

France’s far-right Front National (FN) party has emerged as the leader in regional elections in the wake of brutal attacks in the capital, Paris, three weeks ago.

Capitalizing on a sense of outrage over the attacks, which left 130 dead in the worst attack on French soil since the Second World War, and anti-immigrant sentiment, party leader Marine Le Pen said that the results indicated that the FN was now “the first party of France,” according to CNN affiliate France 2.

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Amory Blaine  Dec 6, 2015 • 9:57:26pm

The Verve - The Drugs Don’t Work

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:00:30pm

re: #9 goddamnedfrank

Looks like the racist far right Nationalist Front is capitalizing on the Paris attacks, sigh.

Lots of people in France are angry and scared. Le Pen is promising them security and revenge. It a powerful combination.

And yes, I know how wrong she is. This post is analysis, not approval.

12
teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:00:59pm

From an old thread.

re: #149 Eclectic Cyborg

Hey Teleskiguy,

Have you skiied Squaw Valley or Whistler, BC?

I’ve never been to the Pacific Northwest or Western Canada and I’ve always wanted to go. If I do it I’m definitely going to make it like a three week journey and write a book about my experiences.

I’ve never skied those places.

Squaw Valley is where the Game of GNAR was invented. Squaw is known for producing some of the most brave and daring skiers in the world because of its vertical relief. Whistler is the largest ski area in North America with a mile of vertical. With that much relief, it sometimes can be snowing at the top and raining at the bottom.

Like I said, I’ve never skied at those places. But I know about them. Us skiers are a close-knit community and are always giving each other updates.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:03:01pm

re: #11 Dark_Falcon

Another thing worth noting is that regional elections mean somewhat less in France than they do in North America, because local authorities have less overall power there.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:13:00pm

re: #12 teleskiguy

And here I thought you’d skied all the great areas in North America…I guess you’ll finish off the bucket list eventually huh? :P

Thanks for replying, I thought you never would. Not that I’d take it personally if you didn’t.

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teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:16:06pm

Finally got around to watching this Trial video. It’s funny! I’m fucking sharing it with all my social media peeps.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:17:35pm

What the hell is with game devs and going completely overboard with crepuscular rays?
/rant

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:18:40pm

re: #12 teleskiguy

I just did a quick study on GNAR. That’s quite the concept. I take it you’ve played a few times?

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teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:20:06pm

re: #14 Eclectic Cyborg

And here I thought you’d skied all the great areas in North America…I guess you’ll finish off the bucket list eventually huh? :P

Thanks for replying, I thought you never would. Not that I’d take it personally if you didn’t.

Ski season is in full swing. That fact alone reduces my LGFing. I do like to skim through threads I didn’t participate in, ‘cause all y’all are interesting and have good and important things to say.

Glad I caught that comment. dragonfire1981, I’ll gladly talk skiing and ski culture!

BTW, I’ve never skied in Montana or Arizona.

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teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:26:26pm

re: #17 Eclectic Cyborg

I just did a quick study on GNAR. That’s quite the concept. I take it you’ve played a few times?

Pft. I play the game every time I go skiing!

The one. The only. Saucerboy.
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Ace-o-aces  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:30:20pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:43:57pm

re: #19 teleskiguy

I knew you wouldn’t disappoint! :P

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:44:48pm

Me, I’m something of an oddball. Never been a great skier, I’m a novice on a snowboard but I absolutely love the mountains. Go figure.

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teleskiguy  Dec 6, 2015 • 10:47:00pm

I’m what they call a Shred-I Knight (rhymes with Jedi Knight). I can alpine, snowboard, and telemark proficiently. Tele is the best, hence my permanent internet moniker.

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freetoken  Dec 6, 2015 • 11:09:44pm

Jackie Gleason loved his strings:

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Dec 6, 2015 • 11:14:37pm

Though if I had to guess… I’d say this crowd is more of a Booker T kind of gathering:

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Dec 6, 2015 • 11:19:24pm

Jackie Gleason

Booker T

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freetoken  Dec 6, 2015 • 11:29:50pm

Outside the Christmas genre per se, but sort of in the same culture, one of my favorite groups to come out of the 60’s, The New Seekers, here on a well known song this recording of which I don’t know if can be found on CD (I have not found it):

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Dec 6, 2015 • 11:32:00pm

Here’s the vinyl, for all you old timers:

amazon.com

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freetoken  Dec 7, 2015 • 2:28:17am

Quiet night… silent night.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 2:36:23am

…all is clam, all is blight

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 2:56:58am

Well my laptop stopped working. Windows 10 won’t start. I can’t restart it, it won’t do the auto repair thing, nothing. Crap. Now I have to take it somewhere to have it looked at. Sigh.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 3:06:57am

re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

…all is clam, all is blight

Around that virgin over there!

Mother and child.

It makes me think of the famous scene from Chinatown:

Jack: are you a mother?

Mary: I’m a virgin.

Jack: who is the child’s mother

Mary: I am

[slap]

Jack: are you the mother or a virgin? [slap]

Mary: virgin [slap] mother [slap] virgin [slap] mother….I’m a virgin and the mother….

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 3:11:57am

re: #31 A Mom Anon

Well my laptop stopped working. Windows 10 won’t start. I can’t restart it, it won’t do the auto repair thing, nothing. Crap. Now I have to take it somewhere to have it looked at. Sigh.

Unplug it. Take out the battery. Wait a few minutes. Reinsert the battery, and see if it will boot up. My old Lenovo laptop had this thing of locking up. When I tried to power off, it would just get stuck in this kind of limbo, not shutting off entirely but not restarting either. Removing all power was the only cure.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 3:16:36am

Also, my Win10 laptop downloads updates automatically, and will restart spontaneously. Some of the updates take a while to install, and it looks like it’s dead, but it’s just thinking real hard.

And I finished the first season of Fargo today. Damn. Didn’t see that comin’

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 3:36:25am

re: #33 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Did all that. It’s not updating, it froze while I was online. So I shut it off, when I powered it up, all I get are repair options that don’t work. Of course, lol.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 3:46:09am

re: #35 A Mom Anon

Did all that. It’s not updating, it froze while I was online. So I shut it off, when I powered it up, all I get are repair options that don’t work. Of course, lol.

You can apply the Erick Erickson solution and post the results on Twitter. //

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 3:51:09am

re: #36 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Don’t tempt me,lol.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 3:58:59am

re: #37 A Mom Anon

What brand do you have?

Computer, not firearm

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:01:53am

re: #31 A Mom Anon

Well my laptop stopped working. Windows 10 won’t start. I can’t restart it, it won’t do the auto repair thing, nothing. Crap. Now I have to take it somewhere to have it looked at. Sigh.

which is why I have not updated my computer to W10

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:08:32am

re: #31 A Mom Anon

Well my laptop stopped working. Windows 10 won’t start. I can’t restart it, it won’t do the auto repair thing, nothing. Crap. Now I have to take it somewhere to have it looked at. Sigh.

I used to sine “round young virgin mother and child”

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weave  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:15:12am

Looks like Redstate finally gets it…

redstate.com

Texas Death Panel Fights To Remove Coherent Patient From Life Support
…
Now remember, Dunn is currently uninsured. And the “patient advocate” who was helping Dunn apply for emergency Medicaid before TADA was invoked told Evelyn that getting the necessary paperwork to send in the Medicaid application should be her “number one priority- and nothing else.”

Evelyn says she argued, “My number one priority is laying down the hallway in bed number [redacted for privacy]. Why are you so on fire about this?”

The hospital employee’s response is a tell-all.

“Well, the reason I’m so concerned about this is because Methodist Hospital has to get paid, Ms. Kelly.”

So much for death panels being a ridiculous political scare tactic. The hospital’s priorities are painfully clear- their main concern is not for the patient’s life, but how they will get paid instead.

So they are upset that someone is being left to die because they have no health insurance. Hello? Do you understand now?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:19:05am

re: #41 weave

Looks like Redstate finally gets it…

redstate.com

So they are upset that someone is being left to die because they have no health insurance. Hello? Do you understand now?

Was it not the Ron Paul fans who cheered his assertion that the uninsured deserved to die?

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weave  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:23:05am

re: #42 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Was it not the Ron Paul fans who cheered his assertion that the uninsured deserved to die?

Redstate are not fans of Ron Paul, to be honest. Nor Donald Trump for that matter. So to digress, if it wasn’t for the danger of him possibly winning, I’d almost hope Trump wins the nomination just to see them change their minds overnight and become his rabid supporters over the Democratic pick.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:26:00am

re: #38 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Don’t laugh. It’s a gateway. Now it’s telling me there is no bootable device and I need a boot disk. I’m an idiot and didn’t make one when I upgraded. Can I make one from another computer running windows 10?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:26:18am

re: #43 weave

Redstate are not fans of Ron Paul, to be honest. Nor Donald Trump for that matter. So to digress, if it wasn’t for the danger of him possibly winning, I’d almost hope Trump wins the nomination just to see them change their minds overnight and become his rabid supporters over the Democratic pick.

If Trump loses the nomination, we are gonna see a lot of his take-my-ball-and-go-home supporters abandon the party, even more so than the Bernie Bros who say they refuse to vote for HIllary.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:31:31am

re: #44 A Mom Anon

Don’t laugh. It’s a gateway. Now it’s telling me there is no bootable device and I need a boot disk. I’m an idiot and didn’t make one when I upgraded. Can I make one from another computer running windows 10?

sounds like your HD went south, or somehow lost its connection. If you can find another GW running Win10, you should be able to use it to make a boot disk.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:32:35am

re: #44 A Mom Anon

Can you get to the BIOS screen? i forget which F key to press to get to GW’s BIOS. Maybe F1 or F12?

What’s the model number?

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:35:17am

re: #47 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So a boot disk has to come from the same brand? Husbands is hp and kids is Lenovo. And yes I am an idiot. …what is the BIOS screen?

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Bird in the Paw  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:35:23am

re: #44 A Mom Anon

Son #1’s computer locked when it was updating Win 10 (told him to go Linux or Mac, but, nooooo) and had to make a boot disc off son #2’s computer. The new not-his-computer’s boot disk ate the license on his computer. $40 for new license from AlienWare (Dell).

YMMV.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:38:03am

re: #48 A Mom Anon

So a boot disk has to come from the same brand? Husbands is hp and kids is Lenovo. And yes I am an idiot. …what is the BIOS screen?

BIOS is the nuts and bolts of the computer, before Windows loads. You can set which drive is the boot drive, or see if the computer sees a boot drive at all, among other things

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:38:18am

re: #49 Bird in the Paw

I have no idea wtf I am doing, so yipes.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:40:12am

re: #50 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That must be the screen that’s up now, telling me that theres a media test failure and to insert a boot disk. Black screen with white letters.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:42:09am

re: #51 A Mom Anon

I have no idea wtf I am doing, so yipes.

Start the computer up and hold down the F1 when you see the gateway logo come up.

BIOS is plain, all text and you will have to use the arrow and tab keys to move around. Look for BOOT (UP) menu and see which drive is listed first, second, etc.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:43:01am

re: #52 A Mom Anon

That must be the screen that’s up now, telling me that theres a media test failure and to insert a boot disk. Black screen with white letters.

Could be. Can you check other things on that screen, or is it just a warning screen?

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:44:51am

re: #54 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I can only see that screen theres a flashing cursor at the end of all the text. I can’t leave that page.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:44:55am

Some sites say the Gateway BIOS loads with the F2 key.

Need your model number to be sure

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:46:33am

Sample BIOS screen
Image: Change-Computer-BIOS-Settings-Step-15.jpg

YMMV

Looks like it is not Windows 10, but a hardware issue with the hard drive. If you’re still under warranty, let GW figure it out.

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Teukka  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:46:38am

re: #52 A Mom Anon

That must be the screen that’s up now, telling me that theres a media test failure and to insert a boot disk. Black screen with white letters.

Sounds like that either the hard disk died or the hard drive connector worked itself loose. During bootup, does it make a *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* *click* sound?

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:46:41am

re: #56 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

NV59C

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:48:05am

re: #58 Teukka

No clicks. (I LOVE LGF, you all are awesome)

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:52:33am

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:53:06am

re: #59 A Mom Anon

System Utilities
BIOS Setup Utility
The BIOS Setup Utility is a hardware configuration program built into your computer’s BIOS (Basic Input/
Output System).
Your computer is already properly configured and optimized, and you do not need to run this utility. However, if you encounter configuration problems, you may need to run Setup. Please also refer to Chapter 4 Troubleshooting when problem arises.
To activate the BIOS Utility, press F2 during POST (when “Press <F2> to enter Setup” message is prompted on the bottom of screen).
The default parameter of F12 Boot Menu is set to “disabled”. If you want to change boot device without entering BIOS Setup Utility, please set the parameter to “enabled”.
Press <F12> during POST to enter multi-boot menu. In this menu, user can change boot device without entering BIOS SETUP Utility.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:56:41am

re: #59 A Mom Anon

Can you get to this screen? Yours might look slightly different.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:57:57am

re: #62 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ok, did f2 and it beeped really loud at me and then repeated thr same text. Pushing f12 does nothing

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:59:18am

re: #64 A Mom Anon

Ok, did f2 and it beeped really loud at me and then repeated thr same text. Pushing f12 does nothing

You have to shut it down, then restart. Hold down the F2 key after powering up

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:00:43am

I am checking GW’s website for a downloadable bootdisk

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:03:50am

Ok i have a boot screen up with 6 boot priority choices listed.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:05:14am

re: #67 A Mom Anon

Ok i have a boot screen up with 6 boot priority choices listed.

Which is first? Is there any error message?

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Timothy Watson  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:06:11am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

[Embedded content]

Because everyone knows that the Chinese, Koreans, Indians, and Thais were involved in the Pearl Harbor attack.

///

Do I get in trouble for asking if Erickson inherited his stupidity from his parents?

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:07:29am

IDEO: ST9500420AS is the first one. No error message yet.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:08:32am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

Funny thing is, my parents lived through WWII as well, and they loved Chinese food. I guess they were traitors or something.

Erickson’s tweet may be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. Today. So far.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:10:56am

re: #69 Timothy Watson

Bah, early morning typo, had “Chinese” twice instead of “Indians” in one spot. Rule #2 of commenting on LGF: Don’t comment until you’ve been awake for 30 minutes. :)

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:11:27am

This thing i have up is called Insyde H20 utility. God I feel way over my head right now
Eeek.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:16:30am

re: #71 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I think he’s full of it. So every year on dec 7 Mom and Dad reminded them it’s No Chinese Food Day? Bullshit.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:17:36am

re: #63 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yep that’s where i am only different, lol.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:18:23am

re: #74 A Mom Anon

I think he’s full of it. So every year on dec 7 Mom and Dad reminded them it’s No Chinese Food Day? Bullshit.

Yeah, it’s BS. Like calling French fries “Freedom fries”

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:19:31am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have Asian food on December 7th. They were children of WWII.

That’s Ok. I don’t eat Hamas on 9/11.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:19:49am

re: #73 A Mom Anon

This thing i have up is called Insyde H20 utility. God I feel way over my head right now
Eeek.

That’s BIOS manufacturer’s configuration utility. And the Gateway model you have is manufactured by Acer. Welcome to the jigsaw puzzle land of Windows computing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:23:50am
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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:25:34am

re: #78 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Yeah this is probably better left to the pros. How can I tell if the hard drive is screwed? This is the second one for this laptop. The first died about 4 months after I got it. I can’t remember how old this laptop is.

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Kent Dorfman  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:30:41am

re: #80 A Mom Anon

Take your time, you can do this. It is actually pretty simple to replace hard drives. When in doubt just take pictures of everything as you disassemble. Everything is pretty much plugged and one plug can’t plug into something else. You got this!!!

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:33:20am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

[Embedded content]

Eric? There are a lot more people in Asia than the Japanese, and most of them were our allies in WWII.

So it looks like we can now determine that your foaming idiocy is as much genetics as upbringing.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:39:33am

re: #71 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Funny thing is, my parents lived through WWII as well, and they loved Chinese food. I guess they were traitors or something.

Erickson’s tweet may be one of the dumbest things I’ve ever read. Today. So far.

Layer upon layer of bullshit. We warbabies grew up knowing we had heroes fighting for the Chinese before Dec 7 ‘41. Except perhaps on the West Coast, almost all Asian food was Americanized Chinese food, served from restaurants named things like “Free China”. If there was a political bent to the food, it was to emphasise it was MSG- and Chicom-free.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:40:46am

re: #80 A Mom Anon

Yeah this is probably better left to the pros. How can I tell if the hard drive is screwed? This is the second one for this laptop. The first died about 4 months after I got it. I can’t remember how old this laptop is.

If the BIOS displays an error, it could be a connection problem (the drive can’t get power or there’s a data connection lost) or the file structure is hosed. The first can maybe be fixed if you can remove the drive and reseat it. If the file structure is hosed, then you’ll need a Win10 boot disk to try to repair it

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:43:35am

re: #71 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Funny thing is, my parents lived through WWII as well, and they loved Chinese food….

And look how you turned out.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:43:57am

re: #80 A Mom Anon

If it’s under warranty, then it’s Gateway’s problem. If it’s more than a year old, then you can either try the repair yourself, and find a computer shop (or computer geek) to do it.

Failing hard drives are either shoddy drives or some other issue with the laptop itself.

Acers used to be pretty good.

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A Mom Anon  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:44:39am

re: #81 Kent Dorfman

Lol. I’m not there yet. Don’t even know how to open the thing let alone replace something. But thanks for the vote of confidence.

The kid has dental surgery and i have to get his meds before hand, so i must run. Thanks wheat-dogghazi-mailgate for your help. I just don’t think I am able to do this. Not when I don’t understand what i am doing.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:45:57am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

[Embedded content]

Asian food? China attacked the US on December 7? What kind of misinformed asshat is Erickson to believe that claptrap? Who does he think he is? Blutarsky?

Wait, I just answered my own question. Erickson is Blutarsky.

Japan attacks the US on December 7, 1941, so his family’s response is to not eat any Asian food on the day. Except that for most Americans, the only Asian food they’d come into contact for decades wasn’t Japanese food, but Chinese food.

And China’s one of those countries that Japan invaded (and committed war crimes against for that matter). It’s only in the last few years that someone could find all manner of Asian food - from Japanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Malaysian, etc., to say nothing of regional Chinese.

Leave it to Erickson to conflate all Asian food for purposes of being a slack-jawed yokel.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:46:02am

JUICE LOVE ME BECAUSE I AM JUST LIKE THEM!!!1!!!!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:48:18am

re: #87 A Mom Anon

Lol. I’m not there yet. Don’t even know how to open the thing let alone replace something. But thanks for the vote of confidence.

The kid has dental surgery and i have to get his meds before hand, so i must run. Thanks wheat-dogghazi-mailgate for your help. I just don’t think I am able to do this. Not when I don’t understand what i am doing.

OK. When you have a chance, find a young’un who’s good with computers, or a repair shop in town. Most places have a locally owned shop that can probably fix it way faster than a chain store (BestBuy GeekSquad) or with our remote help. If you’ve got a local college or other school with a computer science department, you can ask around for a handy student.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:49:27am

re: #88 lawhawk

Asian food? China attacked the US on December 7? What kind of misinformed asshat is Erickson to believe that claptrap? Who does he think he is? Blutarsky?

Wait, I just answered my own question. Erickson is Blutarsky.

Japan attacks the US on December 7, 1941, so his family’s response is to not eat any Asian food on the day. Except that for most Americans, the only Asian food they’d come into contact for decades wasn’t Japanese food, but Chinese food.

And China’s one of those countries that Japan invaded (and committed war crimes against for that matter). It’s only in the last few years that someone could find all manner of Asian food - from Japanese, Thai, Korean, Vietnamese, Malaysian, etc., to say nothing of regional Chinese.

Leave it to Erickson to conflate all Asian food for purposes of being a slack-jawed yokel.

Well, they all look alike. //

Funny thing is, that’s what Chinese say about Westerners. We all look alike. haha.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:49:42am

re: #89 The Vicious Babushka

JUICE LOVE ME BECAUSE I AM JUST LIKE THEM!!!1!!!!!

I spoke with other candidates to a Jewish group, many friends, in D.C. I said “I’m a negotiator like you” Got standing O-rated best of day!

But can he get it for them wholesale?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:51:01am

re: #89 The Vicious Babushka

Did he really get a standing ovation for that remark? I call BS.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:52:00am

re: #91 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Well, they all look alike. //

Funny thing is, that’s what Chinese say about Westerners. We all look alike. haha.

There was a scene in “All in the Family” in which Archie insist there is no way to tell the difference between Japanese and Chinese. The liberal son-in-law says that he would talk to them and find out about them.
To which Archie replies. “Yeah, I’d talk to them, I’d ask, which one of you is a Nip and which one of you is a Chink?”

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:52:01am

re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Did he really get a standing ovation for that remark? I call BS.

In a room full of Ben Shapiros, could actually be true.

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Bird in the Paw  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:52:19am

re: #89 The Vicious Babushka

JUICE LOVE ME BECAUSE I AM JUST LIKE THEM!!!1!!!!!]

He’s really so thick-headed to state stereotypes and then think that it makes him endearing? Yeah, yeah, rhetorical question. Gah.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:52:42am

re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Did he really get a standing ovation for that remark? I call BS.

He did not.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:53:30am

re: #93 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Did he really get a standing ovation for that remark? I call BS.

But he felt the love.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:55:18am

re: #95 The Vicious Babushka

In a room full of Ben Shapiros, could actually be true.

That would be a nightmare.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:56:41am

You recall how Trump was busy claiming that Curtis Sliwa proved that Trump was right about seeing Muslims celebrating on 9/11 when Sliwa was reporting on rumors of those kinds of events.

Well, hate to break it to Trump, but Sliwa’s calling BS:

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Sionainn  Dec 7, 2015 • 5:57:30am

re: #41 weave

Looks like Redstate finally gets it…

redstate.com

So they are upset that someone is being left to die because they have no health insurance. Hello? Do you understand now?

Did you notice the name of the ethicist…Richard Cheney?

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:01:40am
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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:06:15am

And here in NYC metro, there’s a spate of arson attacks across part of Queens, and investigators think it’s the work of a single arsonist targeting homes of Bukharians Jews (Jews from Central Asian Republics).

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:08:20am

re: #103 lawhawk

And here in NYC metro, there’s a spate of arson attacks across part of Queens, and investigators think it’s the work of a single arsonist targeting homes of Bukharians Jews (Jews from Central Asian Republics).

That’s a finely-tuned bigotry. What’s next, attacks on Presbyterians from County Mayo?

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Bird in the Paw  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:10:13am

re: #41 weave

Looks like Redstate finally gets it…

redstate.com

So they are upset that someone is being left to die because they have no health insurance. Hello? Do you understand now?

There is lots that is very wrong with this story. And, the fact that it is being pushed on redstate makes me more suspicious that there is lots not being told.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:10:18am

Magical thinking. Forget magical fairies. I’m sure President Nixon or Johnson thought they could direct the Defense Department to bomb North Vietnam out of existence, and that didn’t exactly work out as planned. Bombing Daesh out of existence isn’t going to work either.

We didn’t bomb al Qaeda out of existence either.

And it’s not like the US isn’t bombing Daesh regularly. We are. Targeting leaders and underlings wherever they are. UAV strikes.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:11:42am

re: #104 Decatur Deb

It might be because that Jewish community is very monied, and they’re building big homes on small properties, changing the look/feel of the homes there. The newer homes are far more ostentatious than the ones that were there previously (and those that were there were along the lines of stately homes - Tudors and Colonials).

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:12:37am

re: #107 lawhawk

It might be because that Jewish community is very monied, and they’re building big homes on small properties, changing the look/feel of the homes there. The newer homes are far more ostentatious than the ones that were there previously (and those that were there were along the lines of stately homes - Tudors and Colonials).

Ah. So it’s a rogue HOA struggle.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:12:44am

re: #106 lawhawk

If I am elected President, I will direct the Department of Defense to destroy ISIS.

Anyone gullible enough to believe that is possible deserves a President that awful.

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Franklin  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:14:50am

re: #106 lawhawk

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Magical thinking. Forget magical fairies. I’m sure President Nixon or Johnson thought they could direct the Defense Department to bomb North Vietnam out of existence, and that didn’t exactly work out as planned. Bombing Daesh out of existence isn’t going to work either.

We didn’t bomb al Qaeda out of existence either.

And it’s not like the US isn’t bombing Daesh regularly. We are. Targeting leaders and underlings wherever they are. UAV strikes.

Is this akin to a Genie in the Lamp type wish? Because everyone knows the first thing you wish for is more wishes, Ted.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:16:19am

re: #106 lawhawk

Magical thinking. Forget magical fairies. I’m sure President Nixon or Johnson thought they could direct the Defense Department to bomb North Vietnam out of existence, and that didn’t exactly work out as planned. Bombing Daesh out of existence isn’t going to work either.

We didn’t bomb al Qaeda out of existence either.

And it’s not like the US isn’t bombing Daesh regularly. We are. Targeting leaders and underlings wherever they are. UAV strikes.

Yes but the DOD can destroy ISIS without ground troops by destroying them. Then they’re destroyed.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:16:20am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

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WTF. God no wonder why Erick’s a fuck up.

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:17:05am

re: #110 Franklin

Is this akin to a Genie in the Lamp type wish? Because everyone knows the first thing you wish for is more wishes, Ted.

Buffy and her friends know you *never* use the W-word. Ever.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:17:15am

re: #82 Romantic Heretic

Eric? There are a lot more people in Asia than the Japanese, and most of them were our allies in WWII.

So it looks like we can now determine that your foaming idiocy is as much genetics as upbringing.

In fact a lot of people say WWII actually began when Japan invaded Manchuria.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:17:34am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have Asian food on December 7th. They were children of WWII.
— Erick Erickson

LOLwhut?

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Franklin  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:19:01am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

—-
Erick Erickson ✔ @EWErickson
Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us have Asian food on December 7th. They were children of WWII.
7:45 AM - 7 Dec 2015

To be honest, this tweet sums up the GOP very nicely. Broad strokes and bigotry all in one tweet.

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Teukka  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:19:36am

re: #113 sagehen

Buffy and her friends know you *never* use the W-word. Ever.

“There is no hell like an answered prayer.” comes to mind.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:20:00am

re: #116 Franklin

To be honest, this tweet sums up the GOP very nicely. Broad strokes and bigotry all in one tweet.

And complete cluelessness about history, geography and ethnicity.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:20:23am

Did anyone else see that it came out that the shooter’s brother was a Navy vet who served from 03-07?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:21:02am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And complete cluelessness about history, geography and ethnicity.

And bad diet advice.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:21:05am

re: #118 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And complete cluelessness about history, geography and ethnicity.

Yep, yep. Seriously is he trying to come off as a stereotype of a conservative with that moronic tweet?

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Teukka  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:21:44am

re: #121 HappyWarrior

Yep, yep. Seriously is he trying to come off as a stereotype of a conservative with that moronic tweet?

Or did Poe’s law just get scientifically proven?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:23:04am

re: #122 Teukka

Or did Poe’s law just get scientifically proven?

This is seriously up there for sure. I mean it would be stupid if he ahd said Japanese food too but all Asian food? China was fighting Japan when people like Erick’s ideological ancestors saw the nations of the Axis as a balance to communism.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:23:06am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:23:08am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:24:08am

The usual suspects will soon begin predicting the end of Germany as we know it, and the creation of an EU caliphate
.bbc.com

Migrant crisis: Germany heads for 1m asylum-seekers in 2015

Germany has registered 964,574 new asylum-seekers in the first 11 months of the year, putting it on course for more than a million in 2015.

The number of migrants arriving has not slowed despite the winter cold, with a record high of 206,101 in November.

German Chancellor Angela Merkel said in August that the country expected 800,000 asylum-seekers over the year.

Documents leaked in October suggested the government was privately anticipating the arrival of up to 1.5m.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:25:13am

re: #124 darthstar

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God, who would want English food in the first place?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:26:40am

Does he refuse to eat European food the next day too because of the German and Italian declarations?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:27:09am

re: #124 darthstar

Growing up, I remember my parents never letting us speak English on the 4th of July.

I read that Vicksburg, Mississippi, did not celebrate the 4th of July (the day it surrendered to General US Grant in 1863) until WWII.

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Teukka  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:27:24am

re: #126 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The usual suspects will soon begin predicting the end of Germany as we know it, and the creation of an EU caliphate
.bbc.com

Sweden is at 112,000 so far this year.

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b.d.  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:27:49am

And couldn’t eat Italian food on Easter either.

//

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:28:04am

I have no idea how old his parents are but he’s only 40. All my first cousins are older than he is and my oldest aunt was seven when WWII ended.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:29:36am

re: #129 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I read that Vicksburg, Mississippi, did not celebrate the 4th of July (the day it surrendered to General US Grant in 1863) until WWII.

I can believe that.

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Bird in the Paw  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:29:58am

re: #127 Timothy Watson

God, who would want English food in the first place?

///

Sarc tags does no compute.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:30:10am

re: #126 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The usual suspects will soon begin predicting the end of Germany as we know it, and the creation of an EU caliphate
.bbc.com

What astounds me is the very low level of backlash against the refugees themselves. People are pissed off at the government and politicians for railing to foresee the extent of the crisis, but have been generally welcoming to the people who have arrived.

On the other hand, a friend of ours who puts on a Christmas Eve dinner for the homeless in Frankfurt is having trouble raising funds for it because the aid agencies that used to help are overwhelmed with refugees.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:30:46am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

And that’s why Erick’s world view is so fucked up: All Asians attacked us on Dec 7, all Muslims attacked us on 9/11, and all Europeans are Soviets.

I bet it takes Erick a while to process tweets. 140 characters must be way too much.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:31:36am
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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:32:03am

re: #133 HappyWarrior

I can believe that.

It was a very traumatizing siege, and Vicksburg is also the site of a very large Confederate cemetery/memorial temple.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:32:26am

re: #138 Decatur Deb

It was a very traumatizing siege, and Vicksburg is also the site of a very large Confederate cemetery/memorial temple.

Right.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:33:32am

re: #131 b.d.

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And couldn’t eat Italian food on Easter either.

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No Gefilte on Good Friday.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:34:39am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:34:42am

re: #135 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

What astounds me is the very low level of backlash against the refugees themselves. People are pissed off at the government and politicians for railing to foresee the extent of the crisis, but have been generally welcoming to the people who have arrived.

On the other hand, a friend of ours who puts on a Christmas Eve dinner for the homeless in Frankfurt is having trouble raising funds for it because the aid agencies that used to help are overwhelmed by refugees.

Only the reactionaries are putting up a (verbal) fight. Most Europeans seem pretty compassionate and welcoming toward the refugees. Accepting 1.5 million refugees is a tall order for Germany, but I think it will manage.

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:35:32am

re: #127 Timothy Watson

God, who would want English food in the first place?

///

(except breakfast. they know breakfast.)

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:36:13am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:36:16am

re: #143 sagehen

(except breakfast. they know breakfast.)

That’s for sure.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:36:40am

re: #144 darthstar

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:38:12am

Well frankly that’s because there’s one element that is automatically against anything Obama does. If Obama said the Nazis were a problem, they’d accuse him of ignoring the Soviets. Could go on and on but the right’s response to Obama’s policies is not out of principle at all.

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Bird in the Paw  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:38:25am

re: #143 sagehen

(except breakfast. they know breakfast.)

Mmmmm, kippered herring.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:38:27am

re: #143 sagehen

(except breakfast. they know breakfast.)

Beg to differ. The quality of food there has improved considerably and I love British supermarkets for their variety of every sort of Asian and Indian food.
And restaurants are also better. It is just overpriced compared to where I live (Germany) but not as dismal as when I first visited there in the 1980’s

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:38:54am

re: #144 darthstar

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So much for a third term.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:40:12am

re: #148 Bird in the Paw

Mmmmm, kippered herring.

…surely they have ‘em in Texas, ‘cause everyone’s a millionaire…

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:42:09am
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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:42:30am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

…surely they have ‘em in Texas, ‘cause everyone’s a millionaire…

We are all millionaires, but a loaf of bread costs $736,000.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:42:34am

re: #150 Barefoot Grin

So much for a third term.

Exactly.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:44:14am

re: #152 darthstar

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He should be shooting his computer soon, no?

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:44:25am

re: #152 darthstar

I’m assuming the Hyundai reference is an extra-layer of sarcasm considering it’s a South Korean company…..Do I need moar coffee?

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b.d.  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:45:32am

We were never allowed to put ice in our drinks on April 15th (the day the Titanic sank)
:(

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:46:29am

re: #69 Timothy Watson

Because everyone knows that the Chinese, Koreans, Indians, and Thais were involved in the Pearl Harbor attack.

///

Do I get in trouble for asking if Erickson inherited his stupidity from his parents?

And in fact India fought as part of the British Empire and beat back a Japanese invasion in 1994, while China had been fighting Japan continuously since 1937.

Mr. Erickson’s attempt to depict himself as being from an “Old School Patriotic Family” ends with his wearing his asshat and putting other asshats upon his parents.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:46:49am

Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:46:59am
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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:47:07am

We never listened to the radio on February 3 because of Buddy Holly.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:47:19am

re: #156 Dr. Matt

I’m assuming the Hyundai reference is an extra-layer of sarcasm considering it’s a South Korean company…..Do I need moar coffee?

I wonder if Erick Son of Erick has checked the product labels of everything he owns. I’ll bet most are made in China and other Asian places. Even department store suits are made in China now. Not to mention his computer, his cellphone …

If he wants to avoid things Asian, he’s SOL.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:47:29am

re: #157 b.d.

We were never allowed to put ice in our drinks on April 15th (the day the Titanic sank)
:(

//

Reminds me of a Russian joke about how a fellow who claims that Jews sank the Titanic:

“But I thought it was an iceberg,” protests another.

“Iceberg, Goldberg, Greenberg, what’s the difference?” he replies…

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William Lewis  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:49:07am

re: #158 Dark_Falcon

And in fact India fought as part of the British Empire and beat back a Japanese invasion in 1994, while China had been fighting Japan continuously since 1937.

Mr. Erickson’s attempt to depict himself as being from an “Old School Patriotic Family” ends with his wearing his asshat and putting other asshats upon his parents.

Hey, DF, answered you at the bottom of the last thread.

As EE, the word of the day is Derision.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:49:52am

Internment camps are all the rage… again (courtesy of Trump supporters):

Many Trump supporters are also enthusiastic about his immigration reform plan, which would include deporting millions of undocumented immigrants.

“We gathered in World War II all the Japanese and put them in camps. … It’s appropriate today to do to the Muslims, same way,” said David Brooks, 67, a former owner of a paving company. “And anybody that don’t like it, liberals can get the hell out. I’d close every mosque in this country.”

But even on Trump’s central policy issue, there are some deep-seated doubts among some of his backers.

“I think his policy on immigration might be a little bit misguided in some instances,” said Shane Jampole, 17, who said he plans to support Trump. “There’s a lot of people who have migrated to America and live in this general area. My grandpa, his parents were immigrants. It’s just the way it is. We need immigrants to keep America the melting pot that it is.”

Jampole pointed to a friend, Mohammed, as he walked by on his way into the rally. “His parents emigrated from Pakistan, and I don’t know why he’s here. I think he’s a little bit offended. But I think he’s hoping to learn.”

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:50:47am

re: #157 b.d.

We were never allowed to put ice in our drinks on April 15th (the day the Titanic sank)
:(

//

On Good Friday, my parents forbade us from crucifying anyone on a cross.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:51:06am

re: #138 Decatur Deb

It was a very traumatizing siege, and Vicksburg is also the site of a very large Confederate cemetery/memorial temple.

And its worth remembering that up through the 1930’s the Civil War was still within living memory. So there remained in Vicksburg people who had had to live through that horrible siege.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:51:44am

re: #165 lawhawk

Internment camps are all the rage… again (courtesy of Trump supporters):

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Is that the same David Brooks? Seems like an odd way to describe him.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:52:28am

re: #158 Dark_Falcon

And in fact India fought as part of the British Empire and beat back a Japanese invasion in 1994, while China had been fighting Japan continuously since 1937.

Mr. Erickson’s attempt to depict himself as being from an “Old School Patriotic Family” ends with his wearing his asshat and putting other asshats upon his parents.

Geez, I was living in Japan in 1994 and totally missed this ;)

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:53:06am

re: #166 Dr. Matt

On Good Friday, my parents forbade us from crucifying anyone on a cross.

My dad wouldn’t use any Latin words during Holy Week.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:53:30am
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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:53:31am

re: #168 Decatur Deb

Different Brooks. Or maybe it’s the Erickson treatment of Asians = Japanese.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:53:50am

HURR HURR THEY ALL LOOKS ALIKES!!!!! HOW CAN U TELL WHICH ONES IS TEH TERRISTS!!!!

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Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:53:55am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:54:31am

re: #170 Dark_Falcon

My dad wouldn’t use any Latin words during Holy Week.

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That’s a tall order. Most of the vocabulary in English comes from Latin and Norman French.

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:55:38am

Morning. So, looks like America’s media is all upset that Obama was Obama and they didn’t get that magical transformation to Obomba The War President.

Especially Morning Joke.

5 minutes of that jerk was all I could take. But, it was 5 minutes enough to again give me the feel for the whole Republican stand on the President’s address last night.

“He doesn’t get it.” “We’ve heard all this before, we need something more.”

Here is what I think. America doesn’t get it. We heard all this before. This is a world problem created by much of the politics of that world. If all the world politicians can get together and agree the world fucked up the MIddle East part of that world and start to put plans together with the input of the Middle East nothing is going to change.

It is not Obama’s problem. It is everyone’s problem. And Obama is not going to fix this himself. Too bad everyone is blaming it all on his lack of a “new” fix. There isn’t one. We have too many old problems.

But if Joke Scarborough would like to at least know who is winning, I would suggest ISIS. And all with the help of the Republican candidates, Joke Scarborough and all those like him, Trump, etc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:55:43am

re: #174 Dave In Austin

Obama has a real problem with his approval rate on dealing with the Islamic State. This speech did little to help it.

I assume they are aware, I think they want to make the point that Obama is ignoring the Will of the People and is therefore a Tyrant justifying a Second Amendment Solution.

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darthstar  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:56:15am

Mavericks will be putting on a show today.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 6:59:59am

So, this allegedly happened:

A man was thrown off a National Express coach in Bristol after a passenger said they felt “uncomfortable” - because he was a Muslim

And now National Express customer service on twitter is flailing in response.
twitter.com

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:00:08am

re: #164 William Lewis

Hey, DF, answered you at the bottom of the last thread.

As EE, the word of the day is Derision.

Thanks for the answer.

And Erik Erickson has proven himself as DERPy as CCJ today.

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Scout  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:00:08am

I think it’s great it’s OK to hate Japanese people and love Chinese people every Dec. 7.

I’m curious, though. Is it OK to hate Chinese every Nov. 1? (Hint: Google “Korean War.”)

///HEAVY sacrcasm

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Dave In Austin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:01:13am

re: #178 darthstar

Mavericks will be putting on a show today.

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Feel the grind…..

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:01:30am

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, this allegedly happened:

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And now National Express customer service on twitter is flailing in response.
twitter.com

But enough about Sarah Palin’s daughter…

/heh

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:02:28am

re: #178 darthstar

And there’s even a livecam:

surfline.com

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:03:25am

re: #176 ObserverArt

It is not Obama’s problem. It is everyone’s problem. And Obama is not going to fix this himself. Too bad everyone is blaming it all on his lack of a “new” fix. There isn’t one. We have too many old problems.

And yet again, nobody on the show points out that the worst thing Isis can do to us… is to inspire an muslim-American couple to do the exact same thing non-Muslim Americans do on a pretty regular basis (which the right wing greets with shrugs when non-muslims do it).

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:04:57am

re: #185 sagehen

And yet again, nobody on the show points out that the worst thing Isis can do to us… is to inspire an muslim-American couple to do the exact same thing non-Muslim Americans do on a pretty regular basis (which the right wing greets with shrugs when non-muslims do it).

If they want to really ruin America, they will hold or sponsor attacks on the eve of every GOP primary until Trump wins the nomination and then just before the general election. Trump becomes President, America’s decline as a leading nation commences…

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:05:22am

re: #173 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR THEY ALL LOOKS ALIKES!!!!! HOW CAN U TELL WHICH ONES IS TEH TERRISTS!!!!

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That one seems to be a specimen of the rare Ardent Atheist Lefty.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:05:38am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

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I can just see Erick’s mom opening a can of Chun King…

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Joe Bacon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:07:57am

re: #89 The Vicious Babushka

JUICE LOVE ME BECAUSE I AM JUST LIKE THEM!!!1!!!!!

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Dear Trumpy:

Roses are Red,
Violets are Blue,
And this is one Jew,
Who doesn’t like YOU!

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:08:26am

re: #181 Scout

I think it’s great it’s OK to hate Japanese people and love Chinese people every Dec. 7.

I’m curious, though. Is it OK to hate Chinese every Nov. 1? (Hint: Google “Korean War.”)

///HEAVY sacrcasm

We never used Calgon on Nov. 1

Calgon Detergent’s Ancient Chinese Secret

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:08:39am

re: #175 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That’s a tall order. Most of the vocabulary in English comes from Latin and Norman French.

I have maintained long monologues using only Anglo-Saxon roots, usually while changing brakes or stringing Christmas lights.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:10:41am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

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My mother was a child during WW2. Apart from her lifelong desire to buy solely American cars because she didn’t want to drive anything that was Japanese or German, I don’t remember some big jihad against any kind of food on December 7th.

Erick sounds like he had a miserable childhood.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:11:32am

re: #192 Lidane

My mother was a child during WW2. Apart from her lifelong desire to buy solely American cars because she didn’t want to drive anything that was Japanese or German, I don’t remember some big jihad against any kind of food on December 7th.

Erick sounds like he had a miserable childhood.

I think he’s just making shit up.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:11:38am

re: #191 Decatur Deb

I have maintained long monologues using only Anglo-Saxon roots, usually while changing brakes or stringing Christmas lights.

I’ve been known to mix Spanish/Mex terms and slang in there at those moments too.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:12:10am

re: #192 Lidane

My mother was a child during WW2. Apart from her lifelong desire to buy solely American cars because she didn’t want to drive anything that was Japanese or German, I don’t remember some big jihad against any kind of food on December 7th.

Erick sounds like he had a miserable childhood.

My dad was a WWII vet (Pacific Theater) and his dream car was a Mercedes-Benz, and later in life, he owned a Toyota Camry. Said it was the best damn car he ever owned.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:12:25am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

I think he’s just making shit up.

I actually think so too given his age.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:12:27am

re: #190 Barefoot Grin

We never used Calgon on Nov. 1

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I was watching a documentary called “Searching for General Tso” (after whom the chicken dish is named) and it pointed out that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made it illegal for Chinese to take on most wage-paying jobs, so many of them opened laundries and restaurants.

Resulting in the No Tickee No Shirtee Act of 1886.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:12:38am

re: #191 Decatur Deb

I have maintained long monologues using only Anglo-Saxon roots, usually while changing brakes or stringing Christmas lights.

My dad was good at Anglo-Saxon on occasion, too.

LINGUISTIC NOTE: Most monosyllabic words for everyday things and actions are A-S. Polysyllabic and more technical words come from other sources.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:12:39am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

I think he’s just making shit up.

Ta-da.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:13:45am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:13:55am

Now the thing I don’t get is why make something up so stupid. But then again I remember, we’re talking about a man who apparently shot a newspaper in angry over its contents.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:14:43am
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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:14:56am

re: #192 Lidane

My mother was a child during WW2. Apart from her lifelong desire to buy solely American cars because she didn’t want to drive anything that was Japanese or German, I don’t remember some big jihad against any kind of food on December 7th.

Erick sounds like he had a miserable childhood.

My dad, too, bought American. We had a Zenith TV of ok quality and owned vehicles from Detroit. But by the ’80s you couldn’t get an American-made TV for the most part, and my fiscally conservative father wasn’t going to support the crap that Detroit was turning out.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:16:06am

Ayup. And stunningly ignorant. Asinine.

The adjectives you can associate with Erickson continue to grow.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:16:08am

re: #198 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

My dad was good at Anglo-Saxon on occasion, too.

LINGUISTIC NOTE: Most monosyllabic words for everyday things and actions are A-S. Polysyllabic and more technical words come from other sources.

Fuck you say!

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:16:36am

re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was watching a documentary called “Searching for General Tso” (after whom the chicken dish is named) and it pointed out that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made it illegal for Chinese to take on most wage-paying jobs, so many of them opened laundries and restaurants.

Resulting in the No Tickee No Shirtee Act of 1886.

For a while, my mother and I rented a room behind a Chinese laundry. While we had a rear entrance, I usually cut straight through the counter and tubs. Missed a great opportunity to learn a language from the guys.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:16:43am

re: #200 Dr. Matt

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Maybe L’il Erick will post a picture of a can of La Choy riddled with bullet holes…

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b.d.  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:16:43am

My parents would never take us to Long John Silver’s on Talk Like A Pirate Day.

:(

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:17:32am

re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was watching a documentary called “Searching for General Tso” (after whom the chicken dish is named) and it pointed out that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made it illegal for Chinese to take on most wage-paying jobs, so many of them opened laundries and restaurants.

Resulting in the No Tickee No Shirtee Act of 1886.

Yes, and it was a challenge to the 1882 act by an American-born Chinese man that gave us our interpretation of citizenship clause of the 14th amendment.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:17:54am

re: #192 Lidane

My mother was a child during WW2. Apart from her lifelong desire to buy solely American cars because she didn’t want to drive anything that was Japanese or German, I don’t remember some big jihad against any kind of food on December 7th.

Erick sounds like he had a miserable childhood.

It would explain a lot.

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Franklin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:18:30am

re: #202 FormerDirtDart

This is a great tweet.

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

re: #205 Eventual Carrion

Fuck you say!

No shit

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:20:17am

re: #203 Barefoot Grin

My dad, too, bought American. We had a Zenith TV of ok quality and owned vehicles from Detroit. But by the ’80s you couldn’t get an American-made TV for the most part, and my fiscally conservative father wasn’t going to support the crap that Detroit was turning out.

I remember Zenith, Kenmore, and GE products in the house. And mom always drove either a Cadillac or an Oldsmobile when I was a kid.

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b.d.  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:20:39am

Mom would never feed us Groundhog on Feb. 2nd.

:(

//

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Franklin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:21:06am

File this under, “JUST DOESN’T GET IT”

Of course that is who comes to mind first. Since he has actual met Muhammed Ali, on several occasions.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:21:14am

re: #208 b.d.

My parents would never take us to Long John Silver’s on Talk Like A Pirate Day.

:(

This needs to become a twitter thing.

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:21:17am

That stupid Tweet from The Donald on who are the Muslim sports stars should be an automatic disqualifier for any high office. Too stupid to be considered. And if he knows better and is just playing to the densest of the dense RWNJ voter…even more so.

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Franklin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:22:40am

re: #216 Decatur Deb

This needs to become a twitter thing.

#ericksonsrules ??

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:23:22am

re: #208 b.d.

My parents would never take us to Long John Silver’s on Talk Like A Pirate Day.

:(

Arggggggh!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:23:46am

re: #213 Lidane

I remember Zenith, Kenmore, and GE products in the house. And mom always drove either a Cadillac or an Oldsmobile when I was a kid.

Heh. My dad’s main mode of transport was a VW microbus. I don’t recall my folks making any extra effort to buy American. I had a Toshiba transistor radio when I was grade school, for example. And Dad was a Blaupunkt (?? or another German brand — I’ve forgotten now) auto radio dealer.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:24:14am

LOLWHUT

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:24:46am

re: #218 Franklin

#ericksonsrules ??

#RedStupid? (I don’t do twitter.)

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:26:18am

And no sushi from those Burmese people at Kroger!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:26:23am

re: #221 The Vicious Babushka

This is like saying if white people were holding slaves, no one would have fought slavery. Except they did.

This is like saying completely stupid shit to make a point that is not even clear in my addled mind. Except it makes sense to me.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:27:14am

re: #221 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWHUT

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I guess today is Stunningly Stupid Tweet Day.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:27:18am

The GOP’s leading candidate:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:28:08am

re: #221 The Vicious Babushka

That’s a paradoxical statement that Kirk could have used to shut down Nomad.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:28:23am

re: #221 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWHUT

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You’re right, Ben, you would totally be cool with being told by a stranger that you have to carty your rapist’s child.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:28:35am

re: #226 Dr. Matt

The GOP’s leading candidate:

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Donald, the CCJ of presidential candidates.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:28:39am

re: #225 Dark_Falcon

I guess today is Stunningly Stupid Tweet Day.

In other words another day on TCOT.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:28:39am

re: #226 Dr. Matt

The GOP’s leading candidate:

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Trump is what CCJ would become, if born into money.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:28:41am

re: #215 Franklin

File this under, “JUST DOESN’T GET IT”

Of course that is who comes to mind first. Since he has actual met Muhammed Ali, on several occasions.

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So NOW blacks are better than another group.

I wonder where Yusuf Islam (Cat Stevens) fits in her hierarchy?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:29:15am

re: #226 Dr. Matt

The GOP’s leading candidate:

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He is the perennial 12 year old. Ha ha teacehr says I’m smart and you’re stupid.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:29:28am

re: #231 Decatur Deb

Trump is what CCJ would become, if born into money.

Brilliant.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:29:28am

re: #226 Dr. Matt

The GOP’s leading candidate:

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He is smart, but he’s using his brainpower for bad purposes.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:29:46am

re: #226 Dr. Matt

One of the highest, somewhere between 101 and whatever the top number is. I’m guessing closer to 101.

{100 is average, and the middle of the “bell curve.”}

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:30:08am

re: #229 Eventual Carrion

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:30:31am

re: #231 Decatur Deb

Trump is what CCJ would become, if born into money.

Not sure about that. CCJ would still lack the social skills to expand his wealth.

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gwangung  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:30:41am

re: #235 Dark_Falcon

He is smart, but he’s using his brainpower for bad purposes.

well, that’s a loose use of term “brainpower”, but OK…

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:31:13am

re: #237 lawhawk

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For me to poop on!

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:31:45am

re: #229 Eventual Carrion

Donald, the CCJ of presidential candidates.

Amazing how many traits they share. And that alone scares the hell out of me how Trump has gotten this far.

ISIS is a problem. Dumbass Americans like CCJ, Trump, Erickson, Shapiro, Scarborough…they are the real problem and ISIS counts on their stupidity.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:31:45am

re: #234 HappyWarrior

Brilliant.

CCJ would blow all his wealth on hiring “private eyes” to do meaningless oppo research and filing lawsuits against everyone who criticizes him.

In the end, he’d still be blogging from his in-laws basement.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:32:05am

re: #238 Dark_Falcon

Not sure about that. CCJ would still lack the social skills to expand his wealth.

He would have other people do that for him. (And there is question about Trump actually expanding his inheritance through skill and effort.)

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:32:32am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

I think he’s just making shit up.

Somebody already added it to his wiki page. Heh. (It’s on the Internet, so it MUST be true.)

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:33:33am

Ben is being Extra Speshul Stupid today. It must be a Day!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:34:30am

re: #245 The Vicious Babushka

Ben is being Extra Speshul Stupid today. It must be a Day!

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He’s pathetic. He really is. I really wish someone would smack some sense in to him so he would only be half demented and not totally.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:35:17am

re: #245 The Vicious Babushka

Ben is being Extra Speshul Stupid today. It must be a Day!

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Someone needs to tweet that Children of the Corn photo alongside Ben’s mug and ask which one is more dangerous.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:35:35am

re: #245 The Vicious Babushka

Ben is being Extra Speshul Stupid today. It must be a Day!

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Good thing Ben is a twit instead of a gate guard.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:36:05am

re: #202 FormerDirtDart

Muhammad Ali
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Hakeem Olajuwan
Mesut Ozil (soccer player — he’s on the German national team and with Arsenal)

And that’s just off the top of my head. I know there are more.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:36:13am

re: #238 Dark_Falcon

Not sure about that. CCJ would still lack the social skills to expand his wealth.

Trump would have made more money if he’d taken his dad’s money and just invested it in the markets.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:36:38am

re: #247 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Someone needs to tweet that Children of the Corn photo alongside Ben’s mug and ask which one is more dangerous.

I was actually reading today taht the shooter’s brother was in the Navy from 03-07. When did Ben serve? Oh wait, he’s a chickenshit weasel.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:37:28am

re: #250 Belafon

Trump would have made more money if he’d taken his dad’s money and just invested it in the markets.

But then he would have had to finance his own Presidential campaign. Right now, his fame and notoriety precede him and the press gives him millions of dollars worth of free publicity.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:37:52am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

I was actually reading today taht the shooter’s brother was in the Navy from 03-07. When did Ben serve? Oh wait, he’s a chickenshit weasel.

101st Chairborne Division, but washed out after his first tour

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:38:58am

re: #249 Lidane

Muhammad Ali
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Hakeem Olajuwan
Mesut Ozil (soccer player — he’s on the German national team and with Arsenal)

And that’s just off the top of my head. I know there are more.

Ahmed Rashad (I know nothing of his sportsball achievements, but Phylicia Rashad thought he was marriage material)

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:39:41am

OH NOES!!!!! TEH SHARIAS!!!!1!!1!!11

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b.d.  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:39:51am

re: #249 Lidane

Muhammad Ali
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Hakeem Olajuwan
Mesut Ozil (soccer player — he’s on the German national team and with Arsenal)

And that’s just off the top of my head. I know there are more.

Ahmad Rashad
Shaq
Mike Tyson
Larry Johnson

etc. etc.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:41:16am

re: #254 sagehen

Quite a few in fact. Especially in basketball, boxing, and football.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:41:44am
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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:41:46am

re: #250 Belafon

Trump would have made more money if he’d taken his dad’s money and just invested it in the markets.

Paris Hilton inherited less than 1/20 as much as Trump did; her current net worth is more than ten times almost as much as his. Guess the ditzy airhead thing really is just an act.

ETA: Oops. Misplaced a decimal point.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:42:21am

re: #257 lawhawk

Quite a few in fact. Especially in basketball, boxing, and football.

Thousands of em! And we have proof ON VIDEO!!!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:43:24am

re: #259 sagehen

Paris Hilton inherited less than 1/20 as much as Trump did; her current net worth is more than ten times his. Guess the ditzy airhead thing really is just an act.

She’s either very clever or has a crackerjack finance manager. Or both.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:43:30am

re: #259 sagehen

Paris Hilton inherited less than 1/20 as much as Trump did; her current net worth is more than ten times his. Guess the ditzy airhead thing really is just an act.

No, he’s really a ditzy airhead.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:44:03am

re: #262 Decatur Deb

No, he’s really a ditzy airhead.

badabing!

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:44:28am

*facepalm*

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Franklin  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:44:58am

re: #262 Decatur Deb

No, he’s really a ditzy airhead.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:45:07am

See everyone later. It sleepytime here in the Middle Kingdom.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:45:36am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:46:18am

re: #267 The Vicious Babushka

Leftists upset my parents wanted us to avoid Asian food on Pearl Harbor Day when we were growing up. Didn’t realize it was that big a deal

we are amused, not upset.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:46:23am

re: #261 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

She’s either very clever or has a crackerjack finance manager. Or both.

Both. She’s not nearly as dumb as she lets on and she’s spent her life surrounded by people who know how to maximize their investments.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:47:38am

re: #267 The Vicious Babushka

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I think he’s confusing the word upset with amusement with that his parents apparently are just as stupid as he is. Go ahead ERick and enjoy your Asian elss December 7th but let em remind you of something, China also in Asia was at war with Japan for years before we were.

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:47:39am

re: #264 Lidane

*facepalm*

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Pretty sure a Friday night or Saturday address… Orthodox Jews couldn’t have watched. (this is also why Jews don’t play football — high school games are Friday night, College game are Saturday afternoon.)

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:47:46am

re: #258 lawhawk

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Question: Would this article prompt cries of Conspiratorial Jew Abortionists!!1 from Erik and Dim Jim, or would they be fine with abortion as long as the fetus being aborted was conceived by Muslims?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:48:21am

re: #268 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

we are amused, not upset.

That so much. He thinks he’s pusetting the PC left when he’s actually exposing how stupid he is and that that sort of ignorance appears to be environmental.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:48:34am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:49:16am

re: #274 The Vicious Babushka

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Nah that’s what you and Rick Santorum do together dreaming about Christian theocracy.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:49:41am

re: #272 Dark_Falcon

Cognitive dissocation 101:

If it relates to Israel, it’s good as long as you ignore that Israel does many things antithetical to the right wing/social conservative agenda, including on health care, treatment of women and minorities, and abortion.

And yes, they’d probably have no problem with abortions carried out by Muslims, even if it’s done in Israel.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:49:49am

re: #269 Lidane

Both. She’s not nearly as dumb as she lets on and she’s spent her life surrounded by people who know how to maximize their investments.

The best thing a person can know is that there are other people better than you at most things. I count someone as smart who knows to follow that knowledge.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:49:56am

re: #274 The Vicious Babushka

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He seems to have attracted notice.

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Kryptik  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:50:15am

re: #267 The Vicious Babushka

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I’m baffled, mostly because he doesn’t see how blindingly prejudicial it is, not just what his parents did, but how he seems to be looking back fondly on it as an example.

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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:50:55am

re: #269 Lidane

Both. She’s not nearly as dumb as she lets on and she’s spent her life surrounded by people who know how to maximize their investments.

Paris Hilton generated the business plan Kim Kardashian later copied.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:51:35am
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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:51:58am

LOL. “upset”? No, the entire internet is pointing and laughing at Erick son of Erick.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:52:34am

re: #281 Lidane

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MODERATE.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:52:47am

re: #281 Lidane

Marco Rubio pledges to appoint justices who will reverse Roe v. Wade and Obergefell

As long as they uphold Dred Scott…

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:53:10am

He upset me like he did with the NYT ed being shot at. I wasn’t upset. I just realized again that Mr. Red State acts like a toddler.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:53:17am
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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:53:26am

re: #249 Lidane

Muhammad Ali
Kareem Abdul Jabbar
Hakeem Olajuwan
Mesut Ozil (soccer player — he’s on the German national team and with Arsenal)

And that’s just off the top of my head. I know there are more.

Shaq
Mike Tyson
Eddie Mustafa Muhammed
Sharif Abdur-Rahim (NBA player who long ago caught shit for not standing during the National Anthem)
Rasheed Wallace
Dion Waiters

Those are off the top of my head. Here’s a Wiki page with a bunch more.

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:53:34am

re: #267 The Vicious Babushka

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Upset? No way, Erick son of Erick. I actually enjoy a good laugh first thing in the morning.

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Kryptik  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:53:46am

re: #285 HappyWarrior

He upset me like he did with the NYT ed being shot at. I wasn’t upset. I just realized again that Mr. Red State acts like a toddler.

I’m upset, but not by what he does. I’m upset at the rest of the media for treating this toddler like a very serious person.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:54:36am

re: #289 Kryptik

I’m upset, but not by what he does. I’m upset at the rest of the media for treating this toddler like a very serious person.

Indeed.

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danarchy  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:56:40am

re: #158 Dark_Falcon

And in fact India fought as part of the British Empire and beat back a Japanese invasion in 1994, while China had been fighting Japan continuously since 1937.

Mr. Erickson’s attempt to depict himself as being from an “Old School Patriotic Family” ends with his wearing his asshat and putting other asshats upon his parents.

Holy crap, Japan tried to invade India in 1994, how did I miss that!

//

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:57:39am

re: #280 sagehen

Paris Hilton generated the business plan Kim Kardashian later copied.

Which works for siblings to some degree, unless they’re males named after their fathers, grandfathers, uncles or great-uncles. Nicky Hilton and Kim Kardashian’s sisters do very well, while the younger Hilton brothers Barron and Conrad and Rob Kardashian Jr. are all disasters cases.

The reason for the name specificity is that Caitlyn Jenner’s sons Brandon and Brody have also done quite well by their Kardashian association.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:58:22am

re: #291 danarchy

Holy crap, Japan tried to invade India in 1994, how did I miss that!

//

They did it during the Baseball strike.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:58:42am

re: #291 danarchy

And in fact India fought as part of the British Empire and beat back a Japanese invasion in 1944, while China had been fighting Japan continuously since 1937.

Mr. Erickson’s attempt to depict himself as being from an “Old School Patriotic Family” ends with his wearing his asshat and putting other asshats upon his parents.

PIMF

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:58:50am

A Japanese guy I used to work with would put a “Remember Pearl Bailey” sign on his desk on December 7.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 7, 2015 • 7:59:03am

Might be a Muslim Physician speaking on behalf of Arrowhead Regional Med Center on how they handled the shooting right now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:01:01am

re: #287 makeitstop

Shaq
Mike Tyson
Eddie Mustafa Muhammed
Sharif Abdur-Rahim (NBA player who long ago caught shit for not standing during the National Anthem)
Rasheed Wallace
Dion Waiters

Those are off the top of my head. Here’s a Wiki page with a bunch more.

Not to mention Billie Thomas, who played Buckwheat in the “Our Gang” series. He converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem of Wheat.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:01:18am

re: #296 Stanley Sea Toujours

Might be a Muslim Physician speaking on behalf of Arrowhead Regional Med Center on how they handled the shooting right now.

He should locked before he kills those victims of terrorism as they try to recover form the onslaught of his fellow Muslims

I think that’s over-the-top enough to still be satire, but you just can’t tell these days.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:01:44am
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sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:01:53am

re: #297 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Not to mention Billie Thomas, who played Buckwheat in the “Our Gang” series. He converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem of Wheat.

not sure if that deserves a groan, slap or rimshot. Maybe all of the above.

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:02:00am

re: #297 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Not to mention Billie Thomas, who played Buckwheat in the “Our Gang” series. He converted to Islam and changed his name to Kareem of Wheat.

SMACK!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:02:58am

re: #299 I Would Prefer Not To

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No sausages on September 1st!

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:03:49am

I am amused he thinks this upsets people. Nah, I’d love to ehar more goings about childhood in Casa Erickson. Is Southern food forbidden on the anniversary of Booth killing Lincoln?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:05:37am

re: #303 HappyWarrior

I am amused he thinks this upsets people. Nah, I’d love to ehar more goings about childhood in Casa Erickson. Is Southern food forbidden on the anniversary of Booth killing Lincoln?

On that day, they celebrate!

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:06:21am

Not only “leftists” think Erick is a dipshit

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Dark_Falcon  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:06:54am

re: #303 HappyWarrior

I am amused he thinks this upsets people. Nah, I’d love to ehar more goings about childhood in Casa Erickson. Is Southern food forbidden on the anniversary of Booth killing Lincoln?

I was going to make a joke about neo-Confederates in reply to this one but it doesn’t work since Mr. Erickson has denounced anti-Lincoln sentiments on a couple of occasions. So on that he gets a pass.

And now I’m off to work. BBL

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:07:26am

re: #305 The Vicious Babushka

Not only “leftists” think Erick is a dipshit

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I’m not surprised. It was an ignorant tweet even for Erick’s standards.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:08:10am

re: #306 Dark_Falcon

I was going to make a joke about neo-Confederates in reply to this one but it doesn’t work since Mr. Erickson has denounced anti-Lincoln sentiments on a couple of occasions. So on that he gets a pass.

And now I’m off to work. BBL

All the more reason for them to refuse to eat Southern food on the anniversary of the assassination., right?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:09:06am

I mean shit being a Euro mutt, there’s a possibility that some distant German relatives were stationed where some distant Slovak or Slovene relatives lived during the war.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:09:47am

re: #304 The Vicious Babushka

On that day, they celebrate!

Seems Erick ot his credit is not an anti Lincoln bot.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:09:49am

Here is what Erick wrote about POTUS last night==>

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:10:30am
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Timothy Watson  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:11:53am

re: #305 The Vicious Babushka

Not only “leftists” think Erick is a dipshit

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You know, if I had parents that stupid, ignorant, or racist, I wouldn’t go around advertising it on Twitter.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:12:02am

He made a teleprompter gag really? Shit Erick were you listening to the Black Eyed PEas when you wrote that?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:13:03am

We are pacifists, eating neither leeks nor onion soup on St. Crispin’s Day.

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:13:15am

re: #309 HappyWarrior

I mean shit being a Euro mutt, there’s a possibility that some distant German relatives were stationed where some distant Slovak or Slovene relatives lived during the war.

That has been the vector for spreading DNA for a long time.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:15:49am

re: #316 Eventual Carrion

That has been the vector for spreading DNA for a long time.

Of course. I don’t know though for certain since there may have been Hungarians, Italians, or Croatians where my Eastern European relations lived though. The Nazis divided up Eastern Europe like they did France too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:17:14am

re: #317 HappyWarrior

Of course. I don’t know though for certain since there may have been Hungarians, Italians, or Croatians where my Eastern European relations lived though. The Nazis divided up Eastern Europe like they did France too.

Sounds like my family background: Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Bohemia.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:17:15am

re: #311 The Vicious Babushka

Here is what Erick wrote about POTUS last night==>

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and yet somehow this guy makes a living on the internet and can still shoot holes through a newspaper.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:17:23am

Dr. Neeki is Iranian.

This right here should calm people the fuck down.

But it wont.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:17:38am

They asked him of course.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:18:54am

re: #318 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Sounds like my family background: Croatia, Hungary, Slovakia, Bohemia.

Yeah Slovenia and Slovakia. I have my old atlas of Eastern and Central Europe from a class I took on the region in college. I am going to give it a look.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:20:27am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:20:56am

re: #322 Happy Warrior

Then I can highly recommend this enlightening and entertaining read: Danubia by Simon Winder

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:24:35am

re: #245 The Vicious Babushka

Ben is being Extra Speshul Stupid today. It must be a Day!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:25:00am

such grownup words…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:26:16am

re: #312 The Vicious Babushka

How much have Christian groups raised for the Planned Parenthood attack victims?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:26:38am

re: #324 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Then I can highly recommend this enlightening and entertaining read: Danubia by Simon Winder

Thanks. Looks like an interesting read.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:27:29am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

such grownup words…

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Coming from the network that scares its viewers shitless all the time for ratings.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:29:13am

Calling the President a pussy, fine but saying you’re ashamed to be from the same staet as teh president, OMG BAN THE DIXIE CHICKS!

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Eventual Carrion  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:30:38am

re: #327 GlutenFreeJesus

How much have Christian groups raised for the Planned Parenthood attack victims?

Prob not as much as has been raised for Dear.

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Jenner7  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:31:07am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

The President wants to avoid our soldiers coming home in body bags. Yeah, what a pussy.

War porn from the right….just gross.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:32:58am

re: #325 GlutenFreeJesus

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That was the image that finally led to a lot of places banning the display of the Confederate Flag from public places.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:36:45am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:37:53am

re: #332 Jenner7

The President wants to avoid our soldiers coming home in body bags. Yeah, what a pussy.

War porn from the right….just gross.

What a pussy for wanting to avoid war. A real man would get involved in a war without a plan!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:38:09am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

such grownup words…

FAIR AND BALANCED!!!1

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b.d.  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:38:55am

re: #336 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

FAIR AND BALANCED!!!1

For balance we called him a dick too!

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:40:18am

Erickson comments about not eating Asian food, and thinks that all the tweets by those pointing out his ignorance, stupidity, are somehow in the wrong.

Considering that he lived in the Middle East (per his wiki) for a number of years, does he realize that not eating Asian food would extend to Indian, Middle Eastern, and even pasta/noodles? Or is he that dense to equate Asian = Japanese? Even though he probably was exposed to mostly Americanized Chinese food if he was growing up in Georgia.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:40:38am

re: #337 b.d.

For balance we called him a dick too!

dicks, pussies and assholes

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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:42:07am

re: #326 Backwoods_Sleuth

such grownup words…

All in favor of washing said analyst’s mouth out with soap, say aye.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:42:23am

re: #335 HappyWarrior

What a pussy for wanting to avoid war. A real man would get involved in a war without a plan!

I don’t know that RWNJ want an actual ground troops war in the ME, but an internal war against Muslims, mosques, etc.

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:42:55am

re: #281 Lidane

Right Wing Watch @RightWingWatch

Marco Rubio pledges to appoint justices who will reverse Roe v. Wade and Obergefell bit.ly

10:50 AM - 7 Dec 2015

Yeah. Great American thinking there. Let’s take away rights that should never have not been rights in the first place.

You know, I am to the point thinking Rubio really has nothing to offer. He just seems to spout crap he thinks people want to hear. I don’t think anyone is home in that head of his.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:42:57am

re: #338 lawhawk

Erickson comments about not eating Asian food, and thinks that all the tweets by those pointing out his ignorance, stupidity, are somehow in the wrong.

Considering that he lived in the Middle East (per his wiki) for a number of years, does he realize that not eating Asian food would extend to Indian, Middle Eastern, and even pasta/noodles? Or is he that dense to equate Asian = Japanese? Even though he probably was exposed to mostly Americanized Chinese food if he was growing up in Georgia.

I honestly have no idea. I think he thinks he seriously pissed off liberals but eh actually like his gun tantrum showed that he’s got the debating capability of a toddler.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:43:24am

The Zumwalt heads to sea for sea trials.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:43:27am

For years, libtards kept talking about a Dick and a Bush in the White House. Now you’re complaining about us calling Obama a pussy?!!!

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:43:32am
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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:43:42am

re: #342 ObserverArt

Yeah. Great American thinking there. Let’s take away rights that should never have not been rights in the first place.

You know, I am to the point thinking Rubio really has nothing to offer. He just seems to spout crap he thinks people want to hear. I don’t think anyone is home in that head of his.

Rubio wants to be the Republican’s version of Obama without actually having to work for it.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:43:54am

re: #346 Lidane

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WTF.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:44:17am

So much violent fantasies on the right but the left are the violent ones.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:45:15am

re: #344 lawhawk

The Zumwalt heads to sea for sea trials.

Looks like a CIvil War ironclad

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:45:23am

re: #288 BeachDem

Upset? No way, Erick son of Erick. I actually enjoy a good laugh first thing in the morning.

I can’t laugh at something so stupid. I cringe every time. I pity the fool.

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:45:45am

re: #330 HappyWarrior

Calling the President a pussy, fine but saying you’re ashamed to be from the same staet as teh president, OMG BAN THE DIXIE CHICKS!

And remember, according to the Chicks, the whole uproar was started by, you guessed it—FREEPERS!!

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:46:23am

re: #342 ObserverArt

You know, I am to the point thinking Rubio really has nothing to offer. He just seems to spout crap he thinks people want to hear. I don’t think anyone is home in that head of his.

Rubio = the bought and paid for spokesman for PNAC. For fuck’s sake, his campaign slogan is A New American Century.

He’s beholden to the same incompetent neocon hacks that lied us into invading Iraq. Those hacks are trying to turn Rubio into Obama 2.0, and given the shitty lineup in the GOP primary, they could very well make him the nominee.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:46:55am

re: #352 BeachDem

And remember, according to the Chicks, the whole uproar was started by, you guessed it—FREEPERS!!

I actually did not knwo FR was responsible for that shit.

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No Country For Old Haters  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:47:29am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

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Jenner7  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:48:35am

re: #335 HappyWarrior

I heard a new talking point today. Bill Clinton signed a bill for “regime change” in Iraq, so I guess it’s Clinton’s fault we have ISIS. Or something.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:49:16am

re: #356 Jenner7

I heard a new talking point today. Bill Clinton signed a bill for “regime change” in Iraq, so I guess it’s Clinton’s fault we have ISIS. Or something.

Reminds me of those who try to blame Kennedy and even Truman for Vietnam.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:49:57am

re: #355 No Country For Old Haters

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You know, I can see Jews, especially those who lived through WWII, or had relatives die in the Holocaust, not wanting to buy Volkswagens. But not going out for Chinese because of Pearl Harbor? That’s just stupid. REALLY stupid. Like, shooting holes in a newspaper stupid.

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Whack-A-Mole  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:50:55am

re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It’s an ugly ship. I know that is is designed the way it is because of stealth technology and all that but I just can’t help but think fugly when I look at it.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:52:48am

re: #358 Blind Frog Belly White

You know, I can see Jews, especially those who lived through WWII, or had relatives die in the Holocaust, not wanting to buy Volkswagens. But not going out for Chinese because of Pearl Harbor? That’s just stupid. REALLY stupid. Like, shooting holes in a newspaper stupid.

Right.

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Timothy Watson  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:54:27am

re: #346 Lidane

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Why hasn’t she been added to the No-Fly List? She just stated she would use air travel to commit an act of international terrorism.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:56:05am

re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Yup - the hull design dropped out of favor after the Russian-Japanese war of 1905 due to being unstable in heavy sea states. They’ve incorporated new tech to address that (though it’ll be put to the test in real world conditions).

They’ve also incorporated the angular structures for stealth purposes, including enclosing the guns to minimize radar cross sections.

Oh, and since the costs spiraled out of control, the US only gets 3 of them - at nearly $4 billion a pop (figuring development costs spread across class) - the class was originally supposed to include 32 ships, then 10, and now 3.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:56:09am

re: #339 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Which is a better monologue, that speech or Hamlet’s To Be or Not To Be?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:56:22am

re: #361 Timothy Watson

Why hasn’t she been added to the No-Fly List? She just stated she would use air travel to commit an act of international terrorism.

That’s Fiore the same one who posed with guns for her CHristmas photo right? She sounds like a sane individual.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:56:52am

re: #346 Lidane

well, that should get her on a French (and/or EU) no fly list pretty quickly.

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b_sharp  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:59:02am

re: #362 lawhawk

Yup - the hull design dropped out of favor after the Russian-Japanese war of 1905 due to being unstable in heavy sea states. They’ve incorporated new tech to address that (though it’ll be put to the test in real world conditions).

They’ve also incorporated the angular structures for stealth purposes, including enclosing the guns to minimize radar cross sections.

Oh, and since the costs spiraled out of control, the US only gets 3 of them - at nearly $4 billion a pop (figuring development costs spread across class) - the class was originally supposed to include 32 ships, then 10, and now 3.

I wish I could quote low then get to the jobsite and run the costs up.

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:59:04am

re: #364 HappyWarrior

That’s Fiore the same one who posed with guns for her CHristmas photo right? She sounds like a sane individual.

Yeah, that’s her, in all her ugly glory. I try to imagine the type of people that vote for her. I get scared when I do that.

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:59:15am

re: #354 HappyWarrior

I actually did not knwo FR was responsible for that shit.

Watch “Shut Up and Sing” if you have a chance. Really good.

imdb.com

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 8:59:20am

re: #358 Blind Frog Belly White

there are, in my very humble opinion, only three valid reasons to not go out for Chinese food:

1. the Chinese place delivers
2. there is sushi available somewhere else near by
3. there is Indian food available somewhere else near by

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:00:37am

re: #367 ObserverArt

Yeah, that’s her, in all her ugly glory. I try to imagine the type of people that vote for her. I get scared when I do that.

She’s in Nevada. Wonder what part. Hopefully she’s not my brother’s assemblywoman.

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calochortus  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:00:49am

re: #179 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, this allegedly happened:

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And now National Express customer service on twitter is flailing in response.
twitter.com

Just kind of a drive by, but when people get kicked off of transportation of one sort and another because they make someone “uncomfortable.” has anyone ever followed it up with “That person (the one complaining) seems to be a bigot. I’m really uncomfortable traveling with someone like that.” Maybe we could get bigots thrown off busses and planes too?

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ipsos  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:01:00am

re: #358 Blind Frog Belly White

You know, I can see Jews, especially those who lived through WWII, or had relatives die in the Holocaust, not wanting to buy Volkswagens. But not going out for Chinese because of Pearl Harbor? That’s just stupid. REALLY stupid. Like, shooting holes in a newspaper stupid.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:01:02am

re: #369 KGxvi

there are, in my very humble opinion, only three valid reasons to not go out for Chinese food:

1. the Chinese place delivers
2. there is sushi available somewhere else near by
3. there is Indian food available somewhere else near by

No love for Thai?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:02:27am

re: #363 KGxvi

Which is a better monologue, that speech or Hamlet’s To Be or Not To Be?

no contest, dp&a wins hands down!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:03:43am

Trump, still beating that dead horse:

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:04:02am

re: #373 HappyWarrior

Haven’t had much Thai, and when I have, it’s been with mixed results. I’ve also been on a bit of a Chinese take out kick lately having recently tried a place I’ve been driving past for 3+ years.

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:04:23am

re: #364 HappyWarrior

That’s Fiore the same one who posed with guns for her CHristmas photo right? She sounds like a sane individual.

Yeah. If she gets any further in her bid for the US House, it will be stunt o’day for Michele. I am officially sick of her. (But I would like to hire her airbrush artist for all future photos.)

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plansbandc  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:05:01am

re: #221 The Vicious Babushka

Read it several times thinking maybe I would be able to decipher what it meant. Nope.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:06:05am

re: #376 KGxvi

Haven’t had much Thai, and when I have, it’s been with mixed results. I’ve also been on a bit of a Chinese take out kick lately having recently tried a place I’ve been driving past for 3+ years.

Really? I find Thai consistently strong. Chinese is a little more hit and miss in my experiences.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:07:01am

re: #377 BeachDem

Yeah. If she gets any further in her bid for the US House, it will be stunt o’day for Michele. I am officially sick of her. (But I would like to hire her airbrush artist for all future photos.)

From what I recall, Nevada’s got one bright blue district, one bright red, and two that could go either way but are presently held by Republicans.

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:09:08am

re: #373 HappyWarrior

No love for Thai?

I was going to mention Thai also.

I used to go to a little Thai place for lunch where I used to work. They had many of the same “Chinese” lunch entries everyone is familiar with, but they made all of them a bit different from the typical Chinese. Seemed to be a little more heat and a little more earthy in spices. I loved it.

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Skip Intro  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:09:39am

re: #319 Barefoot Grin

and yet somehow this guy makes a living on the internet and can still shoot holes through a newspaper.

And fills in for Rush Limbaugh. Well, no surprise there.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:10:33am

re: #370 HappyWarrior

Northwest Clark County, from what I can tell. North of Summerlin, west of North Las Vegas. Not a part of the Vegas metro area that I know well.

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:10:35am

re: #377 BeachDem

Yeah. If she gets any further in her bid for the US House, it will be stunt o’day for Michele. I am officially sick of her. (But I would like to hire her airbrush artist for all future photos.)

I’m available!

And it is all photoshop now. But I still have my airbrushes!

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:10:49am

re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump, still beating that dead horse:

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tell the lie often enough….

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:11:37am

re: #61 The Vicious Babushka

Erick wasn’t allowed to eat Chinese food on 12/7 because SLANT EYED YELLOW PEOPLE

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Erick remembers when the entire continent of ASIA attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

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KGxvi  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:11:51am

re: #379 HappyWarrior

Might be a sample size issue, like I said, only had it a couple of times. And I can be something of a picky eater, so that probably doesn’t help.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:12:05am

re: #375 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump, still beating that dead horse:

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Shifting the goalposts again. Remember his original claim was THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN NEW JERSEY CELEBRATING IN THE STREETS AND IT WAS ON TV!!!1!!!! I SAW THE WHOLE THING ON TV!!!1!!!!!

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:12:19am

re: #381 ObserverArt

I was going to mention Thai also.

I used to go to a little Thai place for lunch where I used to work. They had many of the same “Chinese” lunch entries everyone is familiar with, but they made all of them a bit different from the typical Chinese. Seemed to be a little more heat and a little more earthy in spices. I loved it.

The Thai place in town is about 25% more expensive than the Chinese place. One of the fundraising things the schools around here do is a card that offers discounts at various businesses, and the Thai restaurant takes 15% off. So we’ll be going a bit more often than before.

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Romantic Heretic  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:12:58am

re: #346 Lidane

I dunno about that. France doesn’t look kindly on terrorists these days.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:13:13am

re: #386 jaunte

Erick remembers when the entire continent of ASIA attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

It was the Heat of the Moment, I guess…

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:14:13am

re: #386 jaunte

Erick remembers when the entire continent of ASIA attacked us at Pearl Harbor.

They were being controlled by Japan, so obviously they agreed with the bombing.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:16:49am

re: #390 Romantic Heretic

I dunno about that. France doesn’t look kindly on terrorists these days.

THOSE CHEESE EATING SURRENDER MONKEYS WILL LOVE AMERICAN REPUBLICANS KILLING ALL THE SYRIANS!

/////

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:17:02am

I love it. It’s in Erickson’s wiki now (was it before? doubt it):

Erickson was born in Jackson in East Feliciana Parish, Louisiana, moved to Dubai, United Arab Emirates when he was five, and returned to Jackson when he was fifteen.[2][3][4][5] Erickson’s parents refused to let his family eat Asian food on December 7th, the anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy.[6] Erickson attended the American School of Dubai, previously known as the Jumeirah American School.[7] His father worked for Conoco Oil[8] as an oil company production foreman.[9] Erickson received a bachelor’s degree from Mercer University in Macon, Georgia, and a law degree from Mercer’s Walter F. George School of Law and is an inactive member in good standing of the State Bar of Georgia.[10]

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:17:58am

re: #383 KGxvi

Northwest Clark County, from what I can tell. North of Summerlin, west of North Las Vegas. Not a part of the Vegas metro area that I know well.

Okay, my brother lives far away from there then.

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Mike Lamb  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:18:32am

re: #274 The Vicious Babushka

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I don’t need to “froth” to recognize and call out idiocy.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:19:41am

re: #394 Barefoot Grin

New edit.

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Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:20:52am

re: #397 lawhawk

New edit.

Ha!

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:21:33am

re: #396 Mike Lamb

I don’t need to “froth” to recognize and call out idiocy.

Man who shoots newspaper to express disagreement concerned about “frothing.”

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:22:37am

Ouch.

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:23:23am

ARGH.

So we’re building a new intranet for a client. I’m the account manager on it. Part of the process involved getting their current database backed up and moved from one server to another. The backup took place last week, but it hasn’t been moved yet. Now said client is on the phone because they need to make changes to things and the devs on my end still haven’t uploaded the backup to the new server yet.

I am not happy. And now I have to placate my client and find a way not to piss him off.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:23:25am

He’s the oldest 40 year old I’ve ever seen. Well after Alex Jones anyhow.

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:29:11am

re: #197 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was watching a documentary called “Searching for General Tso” (after whom the chicken dish is named) and it pointed out that the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882 made it illegal for Chinese to take on most wage-paying jobs, so many of them opened laundries and restaurants.

Resulting in the No Tickee No Shirtee Act of 1886.

I recommend that documentary to anybody who likes General Tso’s chicken, or interested in a bit of history.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:29:22am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:29:42am

sigh…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:29:56am

re: #403 BlueSpotinAL

I recommend that documentary to anybody who likes General Tso’s chicken, or interested in a bit of history.

I have never run across it at a Chinese restaurant here in Europe, but the film says it’s an American creation

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:31:37am

re: #405 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gov-elect Bevin on Facebook: “The Next Generation Science Standards will be rescinded via executive order.”

I agree, they should go back to original series Star Trek for science standards

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:33:28am

My grandkids celebrate Hanukkah==>

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:35:32am

re: #404 wrenchwench

Hell, the French still don’t like talking about that one.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:38:34am

re: #409 Dr Lizardo

Hell, the French still don’t like talking about that one.

With the possible exception of those Le Pens.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:40:13am

re: #409 Dr Lizardo

Hell, the French still don’t like talking about that one.

heck, they were bombing Gooks in Vietnam long before we stepped in

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:40:22am

re: #404 wrenchwench

“…Officers who participated in the courtyard killings took the precaution of removing identification numbers from their uniforms, while senior officers ignored pleas by other policemen who were shocked when witnessing the brutality. Silence about the events within the police headquarters was further enforced by threats of reprisals from participating officers.”
en.wikipedia.org

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:41:44am

re: #394 Barefoot Grin

Screen cap!

#ErickErickson parents refused to let his family eat Asian food on December 7th, the anniversary of the Attack on Pearl Harbor by the Japanese Navy.
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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:43:39am

re: #412 jaunte

What coverup?

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:44:13am

re: #358 Blind Frog Belly White

You know, I can see Jews, especially those who lived through WWII, or had relatives die in the Holocaust, not wanting to buy Volkswagens. But not going out for Chinese because of Pearl Harbor? That’s just stupid. REALLY stupid. Like, shooting holes in a newspaper stupid.

Many of the cars and trucks in Israel are Mercedes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:44:20am
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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:45:29am

When Erick’s son was in his hometown, it had about 4,000 people. The big industry in the area is incarceration. The sushi probably wasn’t that good.

en.wikipedia.org

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:46:27am

Majority support a ground war against Daesh.

Unanswered questions of those who polled in favor of this ground war.

Do you know where this ground war would occur?
1) yes,
2) no,
3) Rand Paul
4) ground war? BAH! Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
5) actual countries in ME and rest of world where Daesh is known to operate, including Syria, Iran, Jordan, Turkey, France, Germany, Libya, Egypt, Belgium, etc.

And speaking of Libya:

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BlueSpotinAL  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:48:12am

re: #406 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I have never run across it at a Chinese restaurant here in Europe, but the film says it’s an American creation

Actually at the end, traced to Chang Kai-shek’s chef in Taiwan. From there to New York.

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:48:37am

re: #411 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I’m working on reconciling the fact that Nina Simone felt much more comfortable in France than the US. And your comment could use a slash or a font modification or change of words, there.

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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:49:38am

re: #421 wrenchwench

I’m working on reconciling the fact that Nina Simone felt much more comfortable in France than the US.

Josephine Baker, too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:50:02am

re: #421 wrenchwench

I’m working on reconciling the fact that Nina Simone felt much more comfortable in France than the US. And your comment could use a slash or a font modification or change of words, there.

Poor wording. The French probably had a term for them that was equivalent to the US term.

In general, the French kept their racism confined to their own colonial subjects and had no trouble with US blacks.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:50:58am

re: #420 BlueSpotinAL

Actually at the end, traced to Chang Kai-shek’s chef in Taiwan. From there to New York.

How come I can’t get a chimichanga at a Mexican restaurant in Mexico?

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jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:51:05am

re: #418 lawhawk

“The CNN/ORC Poll was conducted by telephone between November 27-December 1 among a random national sample of 1,020 adults. For results among all adults, the margin of sampling error is plus or minus 3 percentage points. It is larger for subgroups.”

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Jenner7  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:52:15am
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Romantic Heretic  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:52:45am

re: #421 wrenchwench

re: #422 makeitstop

Eugene Bullard

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Bird in the Paw  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:54:09am

re: #418 lawhawk

What is that adage about ground wars in the middle east?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:55:13am

re: #428 Bird in the Paw

What is that adage about ground wars in the middle east?

And what has been the outcome for outside powers in nearly every ground war in that region?

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:56:25am

re: #381 ObserverArt

I was going to mention Thai also.

I used to go to a little Thai place for lunch where I used to work. They had many of the same “Chinese” lunch entries everyone is familiar with, but they made all of them a bit different from the typical Chinese. Seemed to be a little more heat and a little more earthy in spices. I loved it.

Was trying to remember the restaurant that used to be at Olentangy Plaza (it was Siam) and came across this Yelp “remember when” post. It illustrated to me that I used to go out to eat a LOT back in the day, as I remember going to just about every restaurant mentioned. Thought you’d get a kick out of it.

yelp.com

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:56:38am

re: #428 Bird in the Paw

Never fight a ground war in Asia. Second, it’s never go in against a Sicilian when death is on the line.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:56:47am

IN AUSTRALIA==>

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Brian J.  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:56:51am

re: #428 Bird in the Paw

What is that adage about ground wars in the middle east?

“Never get involved in a land war in Asia.” Douglas MacArthur and Vizzini.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 9:59:54am

re: #433 Brian J.

“Never get involved in a land war in Asia.” Douglas MacArthur and Vizzini.

Funny, it sounded like Leonard Nimoy.

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Jenner7  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:00:44am

Delusional.

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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:00:44am

re: #432 The Vicious Babushka

IN AUSTRALIA==>

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How long before shit like that starts happening here?

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wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:02:23am
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Mentis Fugit  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:04:17am

re: #159 Decatur Deb

Strange thing is they make such bloody good cameras.

That deserved more love. The crowd here is usually pretty good at spotting these references. Updung.

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Jenner7  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:04:20am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:04:41am

re: #346 Lidane

Nevada GOPer on Syrian refugees: “I’ll fly to Paris and shoot ‘em” myself t.co pic.twitter.com
— Talking Points Memo

Yeah how come are Kenyan President won’t do that?!?!?!

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:05:50am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:06:53am

re: #418 lawhawk

actual countries in ME and rest of world where Daesh is known to operate, including Syria, Iran, Jordan, Turkey, France, Germany, Libya, Egypt, Belgium, etc.

Sure, no problem.

//

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:06:56am

re: #441 Kragar

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Is that a horse or a jackass?

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Targetpractice  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:07:07am

re: #435 Jenner7

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Delusional.

Which is why the last Republican president made a campaign promise of new nation-building and then kept to it, right Ted?

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Lidane  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:07:18am

re: #441 Kragar

All that bleach in her hair has rotted her brain.

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b_sharp  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:07:38am

re: #443 Decatur Deb

Is that a horse or a jackass?

A horse standing next to a jackass.

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gwangung  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:07:40am

re: #443 Decatur Deb

Is that a horse or a jackass?

One of each.

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makeitstop  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:08:14am

re: #443 Decatur Deb

Is that a horse or a jackass?

The horse is the one on the left.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:09:21am

re: #446 b_sharp

re: #448 makeitstop

re: #447 gwangung

I feel so cheap and easy.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:09:24am

Ben’s on his transphobic hobby horse again

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:10:46am

re: #443 Decatur Deb

Is that a horse or a jackass?

Its a horse next to a jackass.

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b_sharp  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:12:12am

re: #451 Kragar

Its a horse next to a jackass.

So slow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:14:12am
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:14:55am

So today CMP/Daliden has to cough up the names in the emails. Let’s hope the Rage Furby is among them.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:15:19am

re: #450 The Vicious Babushka

Ben’s on his transphobic hobby horse again

So Ben’s starting this week at rock bottom.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:15:47am

Guess who’s getting an alien anal probe for Christmas? Just started the pills and potions.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:15:59am

re: #450 The Vicious Babushka

Ben’s on his transphobic hobby horse again

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He really needs to get over his obsession with Republican Caitlyn Jenner, sorry Ben, she’s not going out with you, I know that breaks your heart.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:16:15am

re: #455 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So Ben’s starting this week at rock bottom.

For some reason I thought it was midnight Friday?

Trusting you peeps to keep me updated!

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Brian J.  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:16:41am

re: #455 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So Ben’s starting this week at rock bottom.

And breaking out a jackhammer, no doubt.

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:16:55am

re: #452 b_sharp

So slow.

Shush

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:17:01am

I also don’t think Obama denied they were Muslims but merely said like President Bush did after 9/11 that tehy did not represent all Muslims in this world. But I know subtlety is often lost on morons like Ben and his readers.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:17:25am

Well, a passing of note for you fans of Britcoms.

Nicholas Smith, the actor who played store manager Mr Rumbold in the BBC sitcom Are You Being Served?, has died aged 81.

He had been the last surviving member of the original cast.

bbc.com

RIP. And thanks for the laughs.

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:18:39am

re: #426 Jenner7

Coming from a Democratic administration, it’ll probably look a lot like the NOAA’s system for dangerous weather. It’ll have multiple components, and while it won’t say outright that a particular place is in danger, it’ll give probabilities for chances, and the type of danger probable. And then Republicans will complain because it also contains domestic terrorism probabilities.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:20:18am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:21:23am

re: #464 The Vicious Babushka

The fall of Saigon is Sean’s winning argument?

O_o

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:21:52am

The President Seemed to Be Talking to Some Other Country Last Night
One that is wiser, more rational, and would not buy the snake oil being peddled by Donald Trump.

He seemed to be talking to a country that would never fall for the snake-oil being peddled across the landscape by Donald Trump, to a country where the architects of the current disaster would be in jail, and not unveiling statues of themselves in the nation’s Capitol, and to a country that knows something about history and the way the world actually operates. I would like to live in that country some day.

esquire.com

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:22:11am

re: #464 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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Makes sense if you see the threepers as Russian proxies…

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:22:50am

A ragtag insurgency competed against the American government ON AMERICAN SOIL.
How’d that work out for y’all the last time you tried it?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:23:10am

re: #466 BeachDem

The President Seemed to Be Talking to Some Other Country Last Night
One that is wiser, more rational, and would not buy the snake oil being peddled by Donald Trump.

esquire.com

We are that country, and every four years we have to go out and prove it.

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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:23:24am

re: #464 The Vicious Babushka

The US withdrew troops in 73, Saigon fell in 75. What is his point?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:24:13am

re: #464 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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What’s he trying to argue?

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:24:43am

re: #468 The Vicious Babushka

A ragtag insurgency competed against the American government ON AMERICAN SOIL.
How’d that work out for y’all the last time you tried it?

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Not to mention the South’s economy was destroyed for generations.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:25:05am

re: #470 Kragar

The US withdrew troops in 73, Saigon fell in 75. What is his point?

We came in second place and I refuse to eat Vietnamese Spring Rolls.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:25:35am

re: #470 Kragar

Good question. I don’t think we could have carpet bombed them much more than we already did, or put many more boots on the ground than were there. Isn’t that the way they want to fight this next war, in the same way we lost that one?

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:25:44am

re: #471 HappyWarrior

What’s he trying to argue?

That the three percent with their tacticool AR-15 knockoffs are up to the RevWar III task.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:25:48am

re: #473 I Would Prefer Not To

We came in second place and I refuse to eat Vietnamese Spring Rolls.

Fine more pho for me.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:25:51am

Interesting comment from the Ginger Avenger:

Facebook Post

Did his lawyer in the Gawker case bail on him? It looks like John Burns missed the Dec. 4 deadline to file the amended complaint - still nothing filed at Pacer.

Or did David Daleiden roll on him? He’s clearly upset about being “betrayed” by somebody close to him.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:26:18am

re: #475 Decatur Deb

That the three percent with their tacticool AR-15 knockoffs are up to the RevWar III task.

YEah except we’d actually be familiar with the terrain.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:27:15am

re: #439 Jenner7

Watched the press conference on WGN. This shooting is way different than the Laquan McDonald case.

But I do find it a bit odd that the CPD has had a press conference like this, showing all of their evidence, one day after the DOJ decided to investigate them.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:27:17am

re: #476 HappyWarrior

Fine more pho for me.

Fine, but we are taking away your Hamas.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:27:24am
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:28:27am
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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:28:30am

re: #472 HappyWarrior

Not to mention the South’s economy was destroyed for generations.

Someone should take a picture showing the states that get more money from the Federal government than they pay in taxes, circle the South, and say “Still continuing the tradition of having other people do their work.”

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BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:28:52am

re: #469 Decatur Deb

We are that country, and every four years we have to go out and prove it.

Lettuce pray it is so in 2016.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:28:55am

re: #478 HappyWarrior

YEah except we’d actually be familiar with the terrain.

And the VC, the threeper analogue, was completely supplanted by NVA supplied by the Soviets.

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Dr Lizardo  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:29:17am

re: #477 Charles Johnson

Sounds like someone threw Chuckles under the bus.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:29:26am

re: #474 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Almost forgot the emphasis on body counts and the phrase “The only good gook is a dead gook.”

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Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:29:34am

re: #482 The Vicious Babushka

I can’t get on twitter, but I bet he brings up the American Revolution.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:29:37am

re: #477 Charles Johnson

Interesting comment from the Ginger Avenger:

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Did his lawyer in the Gawker case bail on him? It looks like John Burns missed the Dec. 4 deadline to file the amended complaint - still nothing filed at Pacer.

Or did David Daleiden roll on him? He’s clearly upset about being “betrayed” by somebody close to him.

My first thought was that he sounds like the cliche’ angry young man, but on 2nd reading, it’s more like a teenager who isn’t getting a PS4 for Christmas.

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Targetpractice  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:29:37am

re: #464 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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Sure, when that “ragtag insurgency” has a major nation bankrolling its fighting, from arms and munitions to funding to buy more, it can defeat another major nation.

That’s why we call them “proxy wars,” because we weren’t fighting just the North Vietnamese and what they could produce, we were fighting the Warsaw Pact.

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ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:29:52am

re: #474 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Good question. I don
t think we could have carpet bombed them much more than we already did, or put many more boots on the ground than were there. Isn’t that the way they want to fight this next war, in the same way we lost that one?

I think this is what many are crying about when they say the president “should do something!”

That’s American for you. All things can be accomplished with brute force. Except where it can’t but we should fucking try anyway.

And don’t forget. All of this needs to be done with no new taxes and further lowering of taxes on the rich.

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HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:30:17am

re: #480 I Would Prefer Not To

Fine, but we are taking away your Hamas.

Noooooooooooooo

493
HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:30:57am

re: #485 Decatur Deb

And the VC, the threeper analogue, was completely supplanted by NVA supplied by the Soviets.

Yep that too.

494
Targetpractice  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:32:02am

re: #477 Charles Johnson

Interesting comment from the Ginger Avenger:

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Did his lawyer in the Gawker case bail on him? It looks like John Burns missed the Dec. 4 deadline to file the amended complaint - still nothing filed at Pacer.

Or did David Daleiden roll on him? He’s clearly upset about being “betrayed” by somebody close to him.

It could invariably be both, Burns deciding he wanted to get out from under the judge’s hammer, while David decided his ass was more valuable than Chucky’s.

495
Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:32:08am
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Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:33:06am
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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:33:55am

No Syrian ever called me ‘wigger’.

498
sagehen  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:33:55am

re: #475 Decatur Deb

That the three percent with their tacticool AR-15 knockoffs are up to the RevWar III task.

And by calling themselves the 3%, aren’t they admitting flat out that they’re not even close to a majority?

Why do they hate Democracy??

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:34:25am
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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:34:55am
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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:35:15am

re: #499 The Vicious Babushka

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It was always ragtag. Look up “butternut”.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:37:54am

LOL getting a bunch of Johnny Reb sore losers in my mentions.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:38:37am

re: #499 The Vicious Babushka

The Confederate army was ragtag? Since when?

They had no laundry services, only minimal commissary and support services and an economy that could not keep up with their needs. They her reliant on raiding Union depots or foraging for basic supplies, one of the main reasons they invaded MD and PA.

504
lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:38:48am

re: #477 Charles Johnson

It’s likely both.

And it couldn’t happen to a nicer twit.

505
HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:40:49am

re: #503 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They had no laundry services, only minimal commissary and support services and they her reliant on foraging for supplies, one of the main reasons they invaded MD and PA.

General Heth’s men were reportedly looking for shoes the day the battle started.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:41:08am

re: #503 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They had no laundry services, only minimal commissary and support services and they her reliant on foraging for supplies, one of the main reasons they invaded MD and PA.

Bedeviled by internal contractor corruption and the particularism of the states that prevented focused logistical effort. RE Lee’s real genius was in keeping an army in the field at all.

507
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:41:10am

re: #495 Kragar

Bill Kristol is a parody of himself.

508
Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:41:11am

re: #500 The Vicious Babushka

The beginning of Battle Cry of Freedom talks about the Mexican American war to show how many of the leaders on both sides of the Civil War had served together. The Southern army wasn’t really an insurgency.

On the other hand, I expect them to bring up the American Revolution. They think the insurgency won, but the colonies weren’t winning until the fighters became an actual army.

509
The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:41:18am

re: #503 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They had no laundry services, only minimal commissary and support services and they her reliant on foraging for supplies, one of the main reasons they invaded MD and PA.

And then all their support services [N-you know what] ran away.

510
ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:41:43am

re: #481 The Vicious Babushka

Sean Davis @seanmdav

@viciousbabushka @EWErickson Um, the Civil War wasn’t an insurgency. It was a battle between two conventional armies. Are you illiterate?

1:27 PM - 7 Dec 2015

Someone by that man a dictionary.

And this boob worked on a presidential campaign??? Was it someone like Herman Cain?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:42:07am

re: #502 The Vicious Babushka

LOL getting a bunch of Johnny Reb sore losers in my mentions.

Ah, the true American lovers who really love America more than any of us.

//

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:42:27am

re: #508 Belafon

The beginning of Battle Cry of Freedom talks about the Mexican American war to show how many of the leaders on both sides of the Civil War had served together. The Southern army wasn’t really an insurgency.

On the other hand, I expect them to bring up the American Revolution. They think the insurgency won, but the colonies weren’t winning until the fighters became an actual army.

With help from the French (which cost Louis XVI his head) and military training from a Prussian Gay man

513
HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:43:52am

re: #512 The Vicious Babushka

With help from the French (which cost Louis XVI his head) and military training from a Prussian Gay man

Spanish too.

514
Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:44:02am

re: #510 ObserverArt

Someone by that man a dictionary.

And this boob worked on a presidential campaign??? Was it someone like Herman Cain?

And I stand corrected as well: en.wikipedia.org.

After reading that, insurgency has nothing to do with the quality of the opposition. Instead, it’s a political distinction.

515
wrenchwench  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:44:26am
516
Shiplord Kirel  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:44:33am

re: #418 lawhawk

Majority support a ground war against Daesh.

Unanswered questions of those who polled in favor of this ground war.

Do you know where this ground war would occur?
1) yes,
2) no,
3) Rand Paul
4) ground war? BAH! Nuke it from orbit, just to be sure.
5) actual countries in ME and rest of world where Daesh is known to operate, including Syria, Iran, Jordan, Turkey, France, Germany, Libya, Egypt, Belgium, etc.

And speaking of Libya:

I favor an armored thrust into Belgium. We could attack through the Ardennes to outflank their defenses. Hey, it’s been done before, twice in fact.

Bastrop County Texas would also be a good venue for this type of operation, close to Fort Hood and all.

What?

You mean only SOME crazed, violent, anti-American, conspiracy-spouting medievalist religious fanatics can be included?

517
Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:47:47am
518
Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:48:18am

It’s time we named a new Main Battle Tank the “Sherman II”.

519
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:48:52am

re: #518 Decatur Deb

It’s time we named a new Main Battle Tank the “Sherman II”.

I thought it was an affront enough to name one the Sheridan…

520
Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:48:52am

re: #514 Belafon

And I stand corrected as well: en.wikipedia.org.

After reading that, insurgency has nothing to do with the quality of the opposition. Instead, it’s a political distinction.

Here’s what that article said when referring to the Civil War:

Where a revolt takes the form of armed rebellion, it may not be viewed as an insurgency if a state of belligerency exists between one or more sovereign states and rebel forces. For example, during the American Civil War, the Confederate States of America was not recognized as a sovereign state, but it was recognized as a belligerent power, and thus Confederate warships were given the same rights as United States warships in foreign ports.

521
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:49:49am

re: #520 Belafon

Here’s what that article when referring to the Civil War:

It was a War Between the States, dammit!!!

/

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Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:49:50am

China’s Airpocalypse Is So Bad, It’s Banning Half the Cars in Beijing

Beijing issued its first-ever red alert on Monday. The radical measure means that half the cars in the capital must stay off the streets, outdoor construction must stop, and schools must close. The pollution is simply too dangerous.

While it should surprise no one that China’s still struggling with its smog problems, the red alert in Beijing means that not even the highest-ranking government officials can escape the stench. Red alerts are supposed to be issued when the air-quality levels rise above 300 for three consecutive days. That puts it in the “Hazardous” range on a scale that tops out at 500, and the government warns that “everyone should avoid all outdoor exertion.” So it’s very bad.

Let us not forget, that many conservatives want to get rid of the EPA. Just look at China today….if we didn’t have an EPA, this is what America would look like.

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lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:50:27am

re: #521 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It was a War Between the States, dammit!!!

/

The War of Southern Insurrection (which they lost).

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:51:02am

re: #523 lawhawk

The War of Southern Insurrection (which they lost).

The War of Northern Aggression (which they only won because they stole all the slaves)

525
ObserverArt  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:51:26am

re: #508 Belafon

The beginning of Battle Cry of Freedom talks about the Mexican American war to show how many of the leaders on both sides of the Civil War had served together. The Southern army wasn’t really an insurgency.

On the other hand, I expect them to bring up the American Revolution. They think the insurgency won, but the colonies weren’t winning until the fighters became an actual army.

It wasn’t???

From dictionary.com

insurgent
[in-sur-juh nt]

noun
1.
a person who rises in forcible opposition to lawful authority, especially a person who engages in armed resistance to a government or to the execution of its laws; rebel.

How can it not be considered an insurgency? I don’t understand.

EDIT: I see Belafon has had a change of thought in #514.

526
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:51:32am

re: #523 lawhawk

The War of Southern Insurrection (which they lost).

Or as the elderly Southern Belles still refer to it: “That Recent Unpleasantness.”

527
The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:51:39am

re: #521 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It was a War Between the States, dammit!!!

/

IT WUS TEH WAR OF NORTHERN AGGRESSIONS!!!!1!!! THEY COME & STOLED ARE [N-WORD]S & KICKED WHITE MANS ASS WITH A BUNCH OF [N-WORD]S & IRISH & GERMANS REFUGEES!!!!!!1!!!!!

528
lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:51:44am

re: #522 Dr. Matt

Note too that the Chinese response - to ban cars - would also be an affront to conservatives, so they’d have no solution except wishful thinking for wind directions/weather pattern to change to clear out the air.

And in the meantime, enjoy your smog.

529
Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:52:09am

re: #522 Dr. Matt

China’s Airpocalypse Is So Bad, It’s Banning Half the Cars in Beijing

Let us not forget, that many conservatives want to get rid of the EPA. Just look at China today….if we didn’t have an EPA, this is what America would look like.

And once did. Have you ever seen pictures of Pittsburgh in the glory days of steel?

530
Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:52:28am

re: #522 Dr. Matt

China’s Airpocalypse Is So Bad, It’s Banning Half the Cars in Beijing

Let us not forget, that many conservatives want to get rid of the EPA. Just look at China today….if we didn’t have an EPA, this is what America would look like.

Dee-troit Perfume.

531
Shiplord Kirel  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:52:28am

re: #502 The Vicious Babushka

LOL getting a bunch of Johnny Reb sore losers in my mentions.

The Confederate government was paralyzed by its built-in fetish for states rights. The various secesh state governments were loathe to support any troops but their own, which was impractical given the sometimes great distances to theaters of operation. When Sherman’s men swarmed into Atlanta they found warehouses bursting with food, ammunition, uniforms, and other supplies that Georgia was hoarding even while Lee’s troops in Virginia were starving and barefoot. The food and ammo was put to good use while the uniforms were consigned to the flames.

532
lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:52:52am

re: #524 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The War of Northern Aggression (which they only won because they stole all the slaves)

And they still refer to it that way (or the recent unpleasantness).

533
Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:53:47am
534
Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:54:08am

re: #529 Barefoot Grin

And once did. Have you ever seen pictures of Pittsburgh in the glory days of steel?

Pictures? I breathed it. Streetlights at noon.

535
HappyWarrior  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:54:21am

re: #531 Shiplord Kirel

The Confederate government was paralyzed by its built-in fetish for states rights. The various secesh state governments were loathe to support any troops but their own, which was impractical given the sometimes great distances to theaters of operation. When Sherman’s men swarmed into Atlanta they found warehouses bursting with food, ammunition, uniforms, and other supplies that Georgia was hoarding even while Lee’s troops in Virginia were starving and barefoot. The food and ammo was put to good use while the uniforms were consigned to the flames.

Their own selfishness did them in. Served them right.

536
lawhawk  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:55:11am

So, that’s a good guy with a gun… we should not report such individuals because (see something/say something)…

And the only reason that we wouldn’t be calling cops is that they’ve got the right complexion.

Meanwhile, out of the past bunch of mass shootings, that’s the demographic - white male.

537
Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:55:22am

re: #534 Decatur Deb

Pictures? I breathed it. Streetlights at noon.

538
Belafon  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:58:06am

re: #525 ObserverArt

After I made my comment, I did some reading. See my #520.

539
Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Dec 7, 2015 • 10:58:39am

re: #537 Dr. Matt

Wow. That is just crazy.

540
Kragar  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:00:47am

re: #536 lawhawk

There is no legitimate reason to walk the streets with a rifle. Anyone doing so should be stopped by law enforcement.

541
Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:02:02am

1948 Donora Smog

Folks in Pittsburgh, Johnstown, Connellsville and the other steel and mining towns of western Pennsylvania were used to smog. Smog meant that the mills were running and the coke ovens burning. Smog meant men were working and families fed. Sure, it could be a nuisance. It stunted the growth of crops and trees, soiled curtains and caused asthma and hacking coughs, but that was the price of progress and prosperity.

No one was prepared for the black cloud that swallowed Donora, a Monongahela mill town, just a short drive south from markerPittsburgh, on Tuesday, October 26, 1948. By Friday, folks were crowding into local hospitals, but that didn’t stop the Halloween parade that same evening, when costumed children appeared “like shadows moving through the gloom,” or the high school football game the next day, when no passes were thrown because no one could see the ball. Seventeen people died on Saturday, and thousands were gasping for air. But the zinc works and steel mill stayed open, their stacks pouring an acrid gray smoke into the suffocating sky.

On Sunday morning the bosses at American Steel and Wire finally closed the plant. By the time fresh winds finally swept through the valley and blew away the smog on Monday, 7,000 people had become ill - nearly half the town’s population. In all, twenty would die from acute fluoride poisoning and asphyxiation. In the days that followed, state and federal investigators descended on Donora to find out what - or who - was to blame. Donora became a national “scientific test tube” for the study of air pollution.

542
Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:03:12am

re: #537 Dr. Matt

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I have a half-sister who lives on the bank of the Allegheny well inside the city limits. When we were kids it was a dead toxic sewer, bright copper green in contrast to the iron-red of the Monongehela. After decades of EPA cleanup she still has an environmental problem—the damn beavers come up the bank and girdle her birches. Bass fishing contests are run from her place down to The Point.

543
BeachDem  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:03:31am

re: #536 lawhawk

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So, that’s a good guy with a gun… we should not report such individuals because (see something/say something)…

And the only reason that we wouldn’t be calling cops is that they’ve got the right complexion.

Meanwhile, out of the past bunch of mass shootings, that’s the demographic - white male.

A few of my other favorite ammosexuals:

Shopping Kroger with both of his “babies”
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:07:21am

I read a historical account of the Donora Smog incident.
Some people headed to their basements in an attempt to escape the smog. Unfortunately, that’s where the worst of the bad stuff settled.

545
Romantic Heretic  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:07:27am

re: #487 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Now thinking go the probably apocryphal story of when an American officer met an NVA officer after the war.

American officer: You know, you never defeated us in the field.

NVA officer: That is true. It is also irrelevant.

546
Dr. Matt  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:07:57am

re: #540 Kragar

There is no legitimate reason to walk the streets with a rifle. Anyone doing so should be stopped by law enforcement.

And hence the reason why open-carry is completely stupid and completely dangerous. If someone decides to exercise their FREEDUMB and walks down the street or on to a schoolyard with an assault-style rifle, no one knows if he’s a “good guy” or “bad guy”. Open-carry only causes more problem for Law Enforcement and for the public at-large. Every time a “law-abiding” ammosexual walks on to a schoolyard, it forces a school to go on lockdown. Hell, most sheriffs in the state of Florida do not want open-carry. They know it causes more headaches than it’s worth.

547
jaunte  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:09:00am
548
The Vicious Babushka  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:10:49am

re: #543 BeachDem

A few of my other favorite ammosexuals:

Embedded Image

Image: Shopping Kroger with both of his “babies”

I want to punch that guy wearing the “infant bulletproof vest”

549
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:11:29am

re: #540 Kragar

There is no legitimate reason to walk the streets with a rifle. Anyone doing so should be stopped by law enforcement.

WHY ARE YOU TRYING TO TAKE AWAY ALL OUR GUNZ AND WHY DO YOU HATE THE CONSTITUTION!!!11

550
BeenHereAwhile  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:12:24am

re: #522 Dr. Matt

China’s Airpocalypse Is So Bad, It’s Banning Half the Cars in Beijing

Let us not forget, that many conservatives want to get rid of the EPA. Just look at China today….if we didn’t have an EPA, this is what America would look like.

I remember visiting our office on Sunset Blvd in Los Angles in the late 1970s, and the windows looked like someone flew by in a helicopter and threw mud at the windows.

551
Bird in the Paw  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:16:15am

re: #531 Shiplord Kirel

The Confederate government was paralyzed by its built-in fetish for states rights.

And, with that in mind:

If the south had won, how long would it have managed to stay as the CSA? Secession would have been legitimized, individual states would have seceded from the CSA, and then the states would most likely have fragmented into a plethora of fiefdoms that would make 16th century Europe look consolidated.

552
Decatur Deb  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:18:24am

re: #551 Bird in the Paw

And, with that in mind:

If the south had won, how long would it have managed to stay as the CSA? Secession would have been legitimized, individual states would have seceded from the CSA, and then the states would most likely have fragmented into a plethora of fiefdoms that would make 16th century Europe look consolidated.

The anti-secessionist language of the CSA constitution is a bit stronger than that of the US. Is it irony yet?

553
Barefoot Grin  Dec 7, 2015 • 11:28:28am

re: #534 Decatur Deb

Pictures? I breathed it. Streetlights at noon.

Ack!

554
retired cynic  Dec 7, 2015 • 4:04:40pm

re: #441 Kragar

What a grotesque piece of bit and bridle to put on that poor horse!!


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