Hilarious Sunday Short: “The Talk”

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WARNING: Not for young children unless you want an awkward talk with them.

There comes a time in every parent’s life when the harsh reality hits — their child is growing up. And with that realization comes an event, a moment, faced with fear and trepidation, when said parent takes time from their busy day to have a special chat with their child, a talk if you will. And as with all parenting moments when dads are in charge, it goes horribly, horribly wrong.

The comedic slice-of-life short THE TALK is about such a parenting moment mishap. Starring the immensely talented JOHN HOOGENAKKER (Public Enemies, Empire) and lovable rising star ISABELLA CROVETTI-CRAMP (Joy, Colony) it is a cautionary tale of the pitfalls of parenting — of epic proportions — and reminds us that life is not always as it seems.

MAKE SURE TO WATCH IN 1080p.
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STARRING
John Hoogenakker
Isabella Crovetti-Cramp

Directed by: Joe Otting
Written by: David I. Jenkins
Produced by: Joe Otting & Aaron Cooley
Music by: Nathan Furst
Cinematography by: Jeff Stonehouse
Production Design by: Merje Veske & Ermanno Di Febi-Orsini
Casting by: Mickie Paskal & Adrienne Stern

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321 comments
1
Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 27, 2015 • 12:26:38pm

I initially thought it said “Hillary Sunday Short: The Talk” and thought it was some sort of campaign commercial.

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Teukka  Dec 27, 2015 • 12:27:52pm

Shameless plug for an article I was made aware of. Comments for improvement etc in the comments section of the page:
This Is How Fox News Brainwashes Its Viewers: An In-Depth Investigation of the Propaganda Cycle

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 12:38:05pm

WHO COULD HAVE GUESSED!!!!

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gocart mozart  Dec 27, 2015 • 12:39:04pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2015 • 12:41:34pm
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ObserverArt  Dec 27, 2015 • 12:44:46pm

Fun video Charles. Nice turn in the dialogue. The little girl is a great actress and the dad isn’t bad either.

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gocart mozart  Dec 27, 2015 • 12:55:02pm
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ausador  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:00:33pm
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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:08:19pm

Slow day… the pagan capitalism orgy pretending to be an ancient Near-East religious festival must have really exhausted everyone.

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:08:58pm

Going OT: The Patriots just made the worst mistake I’ve ever seen in pro football, electing to kick instead of receive in OT. Jets win. Holy crap.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:10:20pm

re: #7 gocart mozart

“I’m not a racist but…”

…never led to anything good

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:11:08pm

re: #8 ausador

From Kristin’s Facebook post: “This has ruined his belief in Santa.”

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gocart mozart  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:17:34pm

re: #11 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Where is this country “Islam” she speaks of?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:18:36pm

re: #13 gocart mozart

Where is this country “Islam” she speaks of?

Like I said, nothing good ever follows that phrase…

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ausador  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:24:49pm
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:30:20pm

re: #15 ausador

What Stonekettle said and muzzle that Trump person.

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ausador  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:35:53pm

So emo…lol

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:36:56pm

re: #13 gocart mozart

Where is this country “Islam” she speaks of?

We need to Freedom it where ever it is.

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nines09  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:40:13pm

re: #13 gocart mozart

Where is this country “Islam” she speaks of?

And what dessert? Pie? Cake? Ice cream?

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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:40:30pm
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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:43:35pm

The war or on whites is LULZ

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b_sharp  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:44:13pm

re: #20 Charles Johnson

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Faster than a stairway to heaven.

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Teukka  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:55:50pm

So this got passed to me…
Warning, you may crawl on the floor laughing….
i100.independent.co.uk

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:56:24pm

re: #10 makeitstop

Going OT: The Patriots just made the worst mistake I’ve ever seen in pro football, electing to kick instead of receive in OT. Jets win. Holy crap.

It’s a mistake just because of the result. The strategy was sound.

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:57:36pm

re: #24 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

It’s a mistake just because of the result. The strategy was sound.

I fail to see what the strategy was. They pretty much gave that one away.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 27, 2015 • 1:59:33pm

re: #19 nines09

And what dessert? Pie? Cake? Ice cream?

Desserts of Justice!!!

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:00:28pm

re: #13 gocart mozart

Where is this country “Islam” she speaks of?

It’s right next to Agrabah.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:01:47pm

re: #25 makeitstop

I fail to see what the strategy was.

Both offenses had performed not well for a quarter and a half. Patriots defense had momentum. Because it is not Sudden Death OT anymore, and Bellichek trusts his defense, he made a field position gamble. Forcing the Jets to go 80 to beat you is a calculated risk, with a high reward value. Got the best kicker in the league. Jets start at their own 20. Likely he thinks, they can force a punt and give Brady and the offense the ball at about their own 35. Do that, get 30 yards for a make-able FG by Gotskowski.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:03:25pm

What Trump has done is not only sucked all the air out of the campaign for Republican nomination but it appears to me that he has also created an exhaustion of such breadth that other hot button topics can barely get any attention.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:06:02pm
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lizardofid  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:08:36pm

re: #28 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Both offenses had performed not well for a quarter and a half. Patriots defense had momentum. Because it is not Sudden Death OT anymore, and Bellichek trusts his defense, he made a field position gamble. Forcing the Jets to go 80 to beat you is a calculated risk, with a high reward value. Got the best kicker in the league. Jets start at their own 20. Likely he thinks, they can force a punt and give Brady and the offense the ball at about their own 35. Do that, get 30 yards for a make-able FG by Gotskowski.

Is it possible the Pats actually wanted Slater to “defer” and if the Jets took the ball, they would then select the wind? By selecting to “kick” they got neither the ball, or wind.

(I could easily be wrong)

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:09:29pm

re: #28 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Both offenses had performed not well for a quarter and a half. Patriots defense had momentum. Because it is not Sudden Death OT anymore, and Bellichek trusts his defense, he made a field position gamble. Forcing the Jets to go 80 to beat you is a calculated risk, with a high reward value. Got the best kicker in the league. Jets start at their own 20. Likely he thinks, they can force a punt and give Brady and the offense the ball at about their own 35. Do that, get 30 yards for a make-able FG by Gotskowski.

Well explained, thanks.

But if it’s not Sudden Death any more, why was the game over when the Jets scored the TD?

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:11:18pm

re: #31 lizardofid

Is it possible the Pats actually wanted Slater to “defer” and if the Jets took the ball, they would then select the wind? By selecting to “kick” they got neither the ball, or wind.

(I could easily be wrong)

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danarchy  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:11:58pm

re: #32 makeitstop

Well explained, thanks.

But if it’s not Sudden Death any more, why was the game over when the Jets scored the TD?

If the first team gets a field goal the other team gets the opportunity to either get a field goal to tie or a TD to win. Still sudden death on a TD.

The leagues attempt to limit the effect a coin toss can have on the game.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:12:04pm

re: #30 FormerDirtDart

MERRY CHRISTMAS! Jesus was gender fluid!

Remind Christians again that 90% of our image of Jesus is filled in to fit our preconceived notions. The Evangelists were intentionally vague about many key details of his birth, death or appearance, focusing only on those stories that supported their claim that he was The Messiah.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:12:34pm

re: #32 makeitstop

Well explained, thanks.

But if it’s not Sudden Death any more, why was the game over when the Jets scored the TD?

Quick clarification. It is not sudden death on first points scored unless the first score is a Touchdown. A Field Goal cannot end overtime on the first possession. New rule starting last year I believe.

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lizardofid  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:12:49pm

re: #32 makeitstop

Well explained, thanks.

But if it’s not Sudden Death any more, why was the game over when the Jets scored the TD?

Deleted for redundancy.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:13:34pm

re: #33 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:14:38pm

re: #32 makeitstop

That was the rule change made for sudden death-only a TD score would end the game and not a field goal unless the other team fails to score when they get the ball after a three-point conversion by the other team.

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:15:08pm

re: #36 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Quick clarification. It is not sudden death on first points scored unless the first score is a Touchdown. A Field Goal cannot end overtime on the first possession. New rule starting last year I believe.

Yeah, Cowher referred to the ‘new rules’ in the post-games, and I wasn’t sure what he meant. Thanks.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:15:28pm

re: #36 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Quick clarification. It is not sudden death on first points scored unless the first score is a Touchdown. A Field Goal cannot end overtime on the first possession. New rule starting last year I believe.

re: #37 lizardofid

I believe it’s game over if your score a touchdown, but a field goal allows the other team to possess the ball.

Also, game ends if team with initial possession gives up a Safety (2 pts)

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:16:12pm

I say this as no fan of New England: Bellichick has some of the biggest coaching stones in the world. He has made call after call that are considered to be “outside of the box” Some have come back to haunt him(this one, the 4th and 2 pass at the Colts on Monday Night several years ago) but he has won 4 Super Bowls as a Head Coach, and one(or two) more as a Defensive Coordinator. Got plenty of respect for someone who can do something against the norm like that.

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lizardofid  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:17:08pm

re: #41 FormerDirtDart

Also, game end if team with initial possession gives up a Safety (2 pts)

Good point! (2 actually)

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lizardofid  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:21:00pm

re: #33 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

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Well, I guess it’s just a case of Bill being Bill then. Sometimes you eat the bear, and sometimes the bear scores on ya,

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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:22:15pm

Oh hai Rage Furby!

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:28:42pm

TV just won’t stop showing that damn Benghazi movie trailer.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:39:17pm

forbes.com is blocking people who use ad blockers from viewing their site.

OK then fuck Forbes.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:42:22pm

re: #15 ausador

RNC chairman: It will be “tough” for GOP to hold onto Senate

Just a ploy. Hillary isn’t enough—we need HRC and the Senate.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:43:52pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

Good enough for a year-end hatemail tipjar hit.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:46:30pm

You know who’s playing Columbus tonight?

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:46:44pm

Yeah, you know who.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:48:05pm

I’ll see if I can find a live stream…

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:50:29pm

The next live stream I can find is for NH the following day.. then Council Bluffs the next day…

He sure gets around.

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b_sharp  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:51:29pm

So. Footy ball is the topic?

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:53:11pm

re: #54 b_sharp

For some folks, yes. I am getting ready to watch Season 5 finale of Downton Abbey. Next week Season 6 starts.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2015 • 2:59:29pm

It would be cheaper to subscribe, but my sex life revolves about click-bait ads.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:00:22pm

Here’s the event listing:

columbus.eventful.com

Maybe it is a mistake? The location is a small venue.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:00:35pm

How is it now?

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:02:48pm

re: #57 freetoken

Here’s the event listing:

columbus.eventful.com

Maybe it is a mistake? The location is a small venue.

EVENT DETAILS
DONALD TRUMP

Categories: Business & Networking

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:03:37pm

re: #59 Stanley Sea Toujours

PERFORMERS:

Donald Trump

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gocart mozart  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:03:53pm

I updated my post with a new title and an appropriate photo from which my title was stolen borrowed from. “daddy, what did you do during the Great Christmas War?” littlegreenfootballs.com

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:04:02pm

The location address is an industrial park by the airport.

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:04:55pm

re: #62 freetoken

The location address is an industrial park by the airport.

Maybe he plans to let them all huddle under the wing of Trump 1.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:06:54pm

re: #62 freetoken

The location address is an industrial park by the airport.

Airport hangar.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:08:26pm

“Sorry Arabs”

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:09:26pm

re: #65 freetoken

“Sorry Arabs”

Not For Sale

Might discuss an 8-year lease.

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:10:08pm

Researchers Come Closer Than Ever to Defining Our Place in Space
The biggest structure in the universe has been mapped, offering a whole new way to think about “you are here.”

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:13:11pm
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Timothy Watson  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:14:47pm

re: #68 goddamnedfrank

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Coming from the guy who couldn’t handle standing up for three hours for a debate.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:16:51pm

re: #68 goddamnedfrank

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Women have no strength and stamina. And yet they can carry to term and give birth to children, nurse each of those children for a year or more, endure monthly periods for 30-40 years, and still outlive men by an average of 5 years.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:19:06pm

re: #70 Blind Frog Belly White

We have it where it counts. :)

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goddamnedfrank  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:20:10pm
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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:21:11pm

re: #67 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

Researchers Come Closer Than Ever to Defining Our Place in Space
The biggest structure in the universe has been mapped, offering a whole new way to think about “you are here.”

Very cool. Here’s an idea—let’s let self-appointed representatives of ancient religions stop us from building telescopes.

nytimes.com

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:31:39pm

guess ill feed the dogs

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:32:21pm

re: #73 Decatur Deb

Very cool. Here’s an idea—let’s let self-appointed representatives of ancient religions stop us from building telescopes.

nytimes.com

Yah, that’s a big deal here.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:34:44pm

re: #35 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Remind Christians again that 90% of our image of Jesus is filled in to fit our preconceived notions. The Evangelists were intentionally vague about many key details of his birth, death or appearance, focusing only on those stories that supported their claim that he was The Messiah.

The Evangelists (whose real names we don’t even know - all the gospels are anonymous, with the traditional names arbitrarily attached much later) freely invented the key details as they went along in order to fit Jesus’ life to the OT prophecies, which they then duly cited. Which makes the gospels extremely unreliable, if at all useful, as historical sources.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:37:02pm

re: #76 Nyet

The Evangelists (whose real names we don’t even know - all the gospels are anonymous, with the traditional names arbitrarily attached much later) freely invented the key details as they went along in order to fit Jesus’ life to the OT prophecies, which they then duly cited. Which makes the gospels extremely unreliable, if at all useful, as historical sources.

BLASPHEMY!!! BURN, HERETIC!!!!!

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:38:59pm

re: #76 Nyet

PS: Not to mention the blatant plagiarism of most of the text of “Mark” by “Luke” and “Matthew”.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:39:30pm

I see Jerry Lewis is lending his support to Trump.

How can Trump lose?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:41:24pm

WHUT

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:41:50pm

re: #78 Nyet

PS: Not to mention the blatant plagiarism of most of the text of “Mark” by “Luke” and “Matthew”.

Nah… Matthew came first, then Mark and Luke…

,:~)

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:41:57pm

re: #78 Nyet

PS: Not to mention the blatant plagiarism of most of the text of “Mark” by “Luke” and “Matthew”.

I still prefer to blame Q before he went to harass Picard…

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:42:10pm

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

It’s the hot topic among race realists today.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:43:19pm

re: #83 freetoken

It’s the hot topic among race realists today.

They must be white kids, otherwise they would be “rioting thugs”

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VegasGolfer  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:43:50pm

trumpthemovie.com
Has anybody watched this?
And if any of its remotely true why aren’t media reporting this or at least investigating this.
This man is a piece of shit and nobody is exposing him as easy as it should be.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:44:08pm

re: #79 freetoken

I see Jerry Lewis is lending his support to Trump.

How can Trump lose?

We had a French high school student stay with us for about 6 months. She didn’t help as much with the infant Older Boy as we hoped. Mrs. FBW called her our ‘No Pair’.

Anyway, we were discussing stereotypes with her, like that the French love Jerry Lewis, and she said, “Oh, yez! ‘Ee eez a ZHENIUS!!”

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:44:45pm

re: #79 freetoken

“What I’m watching in him (President Obama), is uncertainty. You don’t have uncertainty in a leader; a leader doesn’t give sh*t what he does, but he gets it done,” said the legend.

Well then, Jerry, I guess you appreciate such strong leaders as Adi and Joe.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:45:31pm

re: #81 freetoken

Nah… Matthew came first, then Mark and Luke…

,:~)

No, he didn’t shoot first.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:46:21pm

re: #86 Blind Frog Belly White

We had a French high school student stay with us for about 6 months. She didn’t help as much with the infant Older Boy as we hoped. Mrs. FBW called her our ‘No Pair’.

Anyway, we were discussing stereotypes with her, like that the French love Jerry Lewis, and she said, “Oh, yez! ‘Ee eez a ZHENIUS!!”

weird al poodle hat Genius in France

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:48:56pm

What you need to know about America:

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Decatur Deb  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:49:03pm

re: #80 The Vicious Babushka

WHUT

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St Mathhews is an upscale suburb. No inuries, no arrests. The police were “restrained”.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 3:51:12pm

re: #85 VegasGolfer

trumpthemovie.com
Has anybody watched this?
And if any of its remotely true why aren’t media reporting this or at least investigating this.
This man is a piece of shit and nobody is exposing him as easy as it should be.

“The film struck so close to home for the arrogant billionaire that, at a party some time after successfully squashing its release, he even got in a shoving match with the 65-year-old Al Levin, the mild-mannered producer who worked on it.”

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:03:41pm

I guess this is what is passing as an intelligent conversation among thinking “conservatives” these days:

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:04:39pm

Here was the one I was going for:

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:05:21pm

Upding where updings are due!

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:06:43pm

re: #94 freetoken

I dunno about that, Mr. Bates.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:08:25pm

Wow such Presidential very leadership

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:09:31pm

Meanwhile, over at the creation of Erick son of Erick, they’re still trying to blame Obama for the rise of Trump.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:10:29pm

11 Surprising Words You’re Probably Mispronouncing

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:10:37pm

re: #97 The Vicious Babushka

Well, back then he wasn’t running. Not that it still doesn’t show his childish nature.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:11:11pm
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goddamnedfrank  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:11:23pm

re: #97 The Vicious Babushka

Wow such Presidential very leadership

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From last year, only supporting my thesis that whatever terrible disease is eating away at Trump’s brain has been at work for some time.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:11:59pm
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FormerDirtDart  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:12:36pm

OK…

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:13:11pm

re: #101 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

“globull worming is fakkke! hurr hurr”

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:13:34pm

re: #104 FormerDirtDart

Nightmare fuel.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:14:05pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:14:26pm

Yay us! I’ve already gotten over five inches rain in less than a week (including one inch in the last 24 hours)…

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:14:48pm
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Skip Intro  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:16:32pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

An inch of rain in an hour seems like science fiction to me. It’s taken three months for us to get a little over an inch total.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:17:36pm

re: #110 Skip Intro

An inch of rain in an hour seems like science fiction to me. It’s taken three months for us to get a little over an inch total.

There is very little in this world better than Science Fiction.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:17:46pm

re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yay us! I’ve already gotten over five inches rain in less than a week (including one inch in the last 24 hours)…

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Tired of the rain.

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FormerDirtDart  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:19:09pm

re: #106 Nyet

Nightmare fuel.

Deep down, I want that video to be fake…

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:19:10pm

re: #110 Skip Intro

An inch of rain in an hour seems like science fiction to me. It’s taken three months for us to get a little over an inch total.

Last summer, my little town got 13 inches of rain…overnight. The next day was a trip.

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:19:34pm

“…A new group inspired by Ted Cruz’s plan to tie the U.S dollar to a unit of solid gold is planning to spend up to $1 million to back his hopes in New Hampshire, a well-financed push meant to elevate him to first-tier status there on the appeal of an offbeat issue.

The Lone Star Committee, a new organization filed under section 527 of the tax code, is planning to flood the Granite State airwaves with radio ads highlighting Cruz’s plans for a sound dollar.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:20:49pm
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darthstar  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:21:15pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:21:16pm

re: #112 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Tired of the rain.

I just keep reminding myself…it could be snow.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:21:20pm

re: #115 jaunte

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Even I understand why that is a bad idea —geez!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:22:00pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

I just keep reminding myself…it could be snow.

Snow is better. I can’t handle the damp cold that comes from rain this time of year. AND, he dogs bring in dirt on their feet!

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:22:32pm

re: #119 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

planning to spend up to $1 million

Some people have way too much money and time on their hands.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:22:45pm

re: #115 jaunte

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I can see it now—The Solid Gold Dancers pushing for a Solid Gold dollar…

Best of Solid Gold- the golden age, all the girls

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:22:51pm
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Dr. Matt  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:24:48pm
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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:25:04pm

Greetings from frozen Lubbock. The bad part of the storm is not the cold and the snow, both of which are fairly moderate, but the howling wind, which has averaged over 40 mph for almost 24 hours now. This piles the snow into hard packed drifts that are hard to see but that will trap almost any car and most 4wds that don’t have chains. City crews are doing their best but they could not conceivably have the equipment for this kind of once- in-50- years event. There have also been a couple of power outages, but the utility crews have the lights up and running again. My front drive Dodge minivan will handle it well enough for me to get to the store a couple of blocks away, but I am not going anywhere else till it clears. My hosts have been wonderful and I made beef stew for everyone tonight. Should be just the thing. It’s ready now so I will be back later.

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Skip Intro  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:26:51pm

re: #123 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

So Santa’s a dope who doesn’t even know what sex his reindeers are?

I don’t think so, Mr. Smarty Pants scientist.

Obviously we’ve made a mistake. Santa doesn’t live at the North Pole, he lives at the South Pole.

Problem solved.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:27:21pm

re: #112 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Tired of the rain.

I am continually checking the weather here in Orlando to determine the extent of my suffering. It shows that it will be raining at the Citrus Bowl - Florida v. Michigan New Years Day. I CANT WAIT. 72 high, 54 low.

This means I will live. Today in the sun was mid 80’s. Not good.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:27:35pm
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Timothy Watson  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:28:06pm

Managed to clean up almost 200 lines of code using a function or two, but I used variable variables in them, does that mean I’m going to hell?

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:28:08pm

re: #126 Skip Intro

So Santa’s a dope who doesn’t even know what sex his reindeers are?

I don’t think so, Mr. Smarty Pants scientist.

Obviously we’ve made a mistake. Santa doesn’t live at the North Pole, he lives at the South Pole.

Problem solved.

Santa had to move to the South Pole after global warming sunk his old workshop. He’s not alone, since Superman had to move his Fortress of Solitude as well…

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bratwurst  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:28:42pm

Most awesome thing I have read in a while:

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:29:10pm

re: #128 Dr. Matt

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what?

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:29:26pm

re: #115 jaunte

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Why returning to the “Gold Standard” is fucked up==>

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Dr. Matt  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:29:52pm

re: #132 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

what?

Wingnut “logic” exemplified.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:30:29pm

I see the assassination meme on Trump is rising again on Twitter.

Trump’s ugliness has all sorts of side-effects.

At its heart, Trump;s anti-humanism, pro-self world view is the adult (term used loosely) form of infantilism.

The willingness to kill another is deeply rooted in our basic animal instincts of survival. To tap into these instincts one has to really work at pushing the most primal of buttons.

And Trump is good at that.

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:30:58pm

re: #115 jaunte

“…A new group inspired by Ted Cruz’s plan to tie the U.S dollar to a unit of solid gold is planning to spend up to $1 million to back his hopes in New Hampshire, a well-financed push meant to elevate him to first-tier status there on the appeal of an offbeat issue.

The Lone Star Committee, a new organization filed under section 527 of the tax code, is planning to flood the Granite State airwaves with radio ads highlighting Cruz’s plans for a sound dollar.

I assume they will not be paying in gold. It is certainly curious that gold bugs will accept all kinds of presumably worthless fiat money, paper, electronic credits, etc. in return for the precious metal.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:31:00pm

re: #135 freetoken

I see the assassination meme on Trump is rising again on Twitter.

Trump’s ugliness has all sorts of side-effects.

At its heart, Trump;s anti-humanism, pro-self world view is the adult (term used loosely) form of infantilism.

The willingness to kill another is deeply rooted in our basic animal instincts of survival. To tap into these instincts one has to really work at pushing the most primal of buttons.

And Trump is good at that.

The hair! Really?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:32:07pm
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darthstar  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:32:31pm

re: #123 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:32:52pm

I want one!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:33:08pm

re: #139 darthstar

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excellent!

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:34:01pm

This is why Trump can bash “Arabs” - his supporters love it:

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:34:05pm

re: #140 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Now that is a one of a kind gift. That is really cool.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:34:12pm

One of these too!
“Star Trek” U.S.S. Enterprise spatula

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:34:26pm

re: #135 freetoken

He really knows how to talk up America.

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Dr. Matt  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:35:55pm

re: #145 jaunte

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He really knows how to talk up America.

Sadly, when Trump says “wages are too high”, his pathetic and myopic cult followers all nod (and drool) in unison.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:38:13pm

The scarf is $310—UK

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darthstar  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:39:04pm

Fuck this piece of shit.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:39:41pm

hmm that is a bit pricey. That scarf is nice but I cannot see spending that much.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:40:53pm

re: #148 darthstar

Fuck this piece of shit.

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Who the fuck is David Spade and why should anyone give a fuck what he says?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:41:06pm
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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:44:14pm

re: #148 darthstar

Fuck this piece of shit.

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He’s just another Republican here in Hollywood. No matter what the liars on the Right say, Hollywood is a Center-Right town.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:45:17pm
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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:45:23pm

re: #148 darthstar

Fuck this piece of shit.

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Unfunny Has-Been says what?

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Dr. Matt  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:48:10pm
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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:49:03pm

re: #155 Dr. Matt

You don’t want your ass soiled by that.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:50:11pm

re: #156 Nyet

You don’t want your ass soiled by that.

I agree, ewww!

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Skip Intro  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:56:44pm

re: #150 The Vicious Babushka

Who the fuck is David Spade and why should anyone give a fuck what he says?

He’s an incredibly unfunny comedian who has stunk up everything I’ve ever seen him in, which tells you right away that he’s a Republican.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:58:01pm

I need a break from all Trump all the time…

Here is my diversion:

1.4 東京ドーム大会に 有安杏果(ももいろクローバーZ)参戦決定!!

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 4:59:38pm

re: #155 Dr. Matt

re: #156 Nyet

These are much better. They actually do the job. amazon.com

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:01:19pm

If you’re already missing Christmas…

The Cheeky Girls - “Have A Cheeky Christmas” - OFFICIAL Music Video from 2003 (UK)

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:01:24pm

ももいろクローバーZ are a mixed act:

en.wikipedia.org

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:02:23pm

A bit about the Jewish counterpart of Muslim radicals, from a former head of Shin Bet, no less:

Anyone who thinks we’re talking about no more than a few dozen wild-eyed youths is bitterly mistaken. In the State of Judea there are hundreds of young people (some no longer that young) who adhere to messianic and/or anarchic and anti-authoritarian ideologies. Among those hundreds are dozens who each day apply some level of violence or terrorism against the persons or possessions of Palestinians. Among them are dozens who would be willing, without hesitation, to apply violence and terrorism against their Jewish brethren should their idea of the sanctity of the land ever be put to the test. According to some scenarios, the ranks of these extremists might mushroom.
[…]
Religious Zionism still isn’t the majority in Israel, but as a very significant elite it has succeeded in making an ugly contribution toward the de facto establishment of the State of Judea, and it’s on its way to try and take over (democratically) the State of Israel. This, without a doubt, is a triumph for the ideology of religious Zionism, but it’s a Pyrrhic and tragic victory.

This is because religious Zionism has, unknowingly, sown the seeds of its own destruction. It gave birth to extreme religious nationalism, which in turn gave birth to its own right-wing competitor of extreme Jewish messianism, which itself gave birth to the Hilltop Youth, who are anti-authoritarian, violent, and extreme and who support the “revolutionary” values of Jewish supremacy (yes, Jewish supremacy) as well as a halakhic state, terrorism, hatred toward the other, and racism. Today, even the rabbis who delivered these wild-eyed ideologies are considered too soft and moderate for many of their followers.

tabletmag.com

A halakhic state would be as nightmarish as any sharia state.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:02:49pm

re: #161 Joe Bacon

If you’re really really missing Christmas, you’ve got ももいろクローバーZ :

サンタさん - ももいろクローバーZ

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bratwurst  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:03:34pm

re: #138 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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Please enjoy my pages on the Adelson situation:

Why Did Sheldon Adelson Attempt to Keep Purchase of Nevada’s Largest Newspaper a Secret?

Sheldon Adelson Has Already Used Control of Nevada’s Largest Newspaper for a Nefarious Purpose

Since I wrote that last one it has come out that Adelson got his straw purchaser to write an article critical of his judicial nemesis (under an assumed name) and publish it in an obscure New England newspaper so it could be picked up by the Review-Journal in Las Vegas.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:07:10pm

There should be a special award for mixing the genres of (1) retro-1970’s TV Christmas Specials with (2) Japanese semi-erotic cos-play aerobics.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:08:23pm

re: #164 freetoken

Sorry, I couldn’t handle more than 5 seconds.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:09:26pm

re: #166 freetoken

There should be a special award for mixing the genres of (1) retro-1970’s TV Christmas Specials with (2) Japanese semi-erotic cos-play aerobics.

There already was!

The Best of PINK LADY & JEFF by Video Pirates

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:09:31pm

I’m guessing MrBWS might not be coming home for a while…

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Shiplord Kirel  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:10:30pm

Lubbock blizzard. View out the back door a few minutes ago. Streetlights reflected by low clouds and falling snow. This is looking due north, straight into a 35mph wind.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:11:53pm

re: #167 Nyet

Remember, these are the people of whom Trump keeps warning us.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:12:08pm

re: #169 Backwoods_Sleuth

The winds are picking up here in Philly. No mention on NWS yet.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:14:31pm

A succinct statement.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:14:35pm

The Japanese loved this old Soviet animated film for some reason (because kawaii!):

Чебурашка 1 (Cheburashka 1 w/ English Subtitles)

So they both remade it:

CHEBURASHKA MADE IN JAPAN

and redubbed it:

Gena’s Birthday Song Japanese/English

Weird.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:20:54pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:21:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:23:14pm
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A Cranky One  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:24:31pm

So, got a very cool present for Christmas from my brother:

Book about guitar tube amps

Guess it’s time to break out some of the old amps and get them running.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:24:55pm

re: #174 Nyet

And it turns out that last year they shot a sequel - in Russian!

imdb.com

YkyO48pOg8vTOadi/zCoRm61b2k/N2OSOh8SkijeGntNvkizXwqLawJxTngqaVBsGisb+yfm/3ELUo0P2wCXjwKE/52alGQUq7eRS7v3+Ye3xShaF5CreuIBKNzAMs5Tcwl80rSQRubaV4NdLmoNRg==

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:25:44pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

A rabid goat.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:27:11pm

A nest of black widow spiders.

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:28:19pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

A bucket of remoras.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:28:33pm

Snakes?

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:28:42pm

A paraplegic skunk.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:29:00pm
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jeffreyw  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:29:18pm

Demon sheep, yo.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:29:51pm

Pinky and the Brain.

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Bubblehead II  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:30:06pm

re: #170 Shiplord Kirel

Lubbock blizzard. View out the back door a few minutes ago. Streetlights reflected by low clouds and falling snow. This is looking due north, straight into a 35mph wind.

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Light pillars from this morning.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:31:53pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson
This one seems fitting…

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A Cranky One  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:32:11pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

The skunk ass party
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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:33:47pm

Never reached 60F today.

So much for global warming!

It might sprinkle in a few days.

So much for El Nino!

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:34:43pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:35:21pm

They must be getting a lot of rain, there in Walmart headquarters:

radar.weather.gov

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:36:13pm

re: #192 The Vicious Babushka

That’s the Trump party.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:36:42pm
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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:37:50pm

A poo-flinging monkey.

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:38:08pm

Looks about right.

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PT Barnum  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:38:10pm

re: #177 Charles Johnson

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If Kristols in charge, a snake would probably be appropriate.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:38:24pm

Flood of record in several counties:

Image: image_full1.gif

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:38:45pm

re: #191 freetoken

Never reached 60F today.

So much for global warming!

It might sprinkle in a few days.

So much for El Nino!

I am missing home. ish

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:39:19pm

Chameleon is too cute for them tho.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:39:34pm

Brain-eating amoeba

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:40:01pm

Remora mug shot.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:40:34pm

Image: ugly-fish.jpg

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Bubblehead II  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:40:47pm

re: #191 freetoken

Never reached 60F today.

So much for global warming!

It might sprinkle in a few days.

So much for El Nino!

Tell me about it.

forecast.weather.gov

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:40:53pm

re: #204 Nyet

Image: ugly-fish.jpg

Looks like Kristol, too.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:43:07pm
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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:45:09pm
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Brian J.  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:45:54pm

re: #207 Joe Bacon

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No, I say remember the etymology of the word politics: Poly meaning “many,” and ticks meaning “blood-sucking parasites.” So I’d say the tick makes a good mascot. (Not The Tick, of course, that’s far too good for him.)

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:47:53pm

re: #209 Brian J.

The Tick is awesome.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:48:18pm

re: #209 Brian J.

Special upding for a post about etymology and entomology at the same time.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:50:26pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:51:09pm
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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:52:08pm

re: #213 Stanley Sea Toujours

Image: Goposaur_xlg.gif

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:52:17pm

re: #190 A Cranky One

Actually, the skunk party has been taken by Yves Smith over at Naked Capitalism-domain names and all.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 5:55:53pm
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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:00:04pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:00:24pm

re: #216 freetoken

I retweeted & the poll didn’t show up. I have no idea.

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b.d.  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:00:28pm

re: #216 freetoken

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What about that brain slug thingie from Star Trek: The Wrath of Khan?

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ausador  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:08:29pm

re: #133 The Vicious Babushka

Why returning to the “Gold Standard is fucked up.

I have a better reason, the U.S.A. currently has $1.39 Trillion in currency in circulation. That is the bare minimum amount of gold the Treasury would have to have on hand in order to back all dollars with gold.

Wiith gold at its current price of $1078.80 per Troy ounce the math goes like this…
1.39 Trillion divided by 1078.8 equals
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces of gold.
(The Treasury only has 261,498,926)

How about if we try volume, how much gold is that?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces at 0.098 cubic inches each gives you 126,269,929.55 cubic inches of gold. Converted into cubic feet this is approximately 73,073 cubic feet of gold!

How about by weight the normal person can understand?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces each of which are 0.0686 of a pound equals a whopping 88,352,137 pounds of gold!

Anyway the whole thing is a pipedream to start with unless they can explain how the Treasury is going to suddenly come up with 5 times the gold it currently has. ;)

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:10:55pm

re: #220 ausador

pipedream to start with unless they can explain how the Treasury is going to suddenly come up with 5 times the gold it currently has. ;)

1. Lower taxes on the 1%
2. Raise taxes on the 99%
3. Defund Planned Parenthood
4. Profit!

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:11:28pm

re: #220 ausador

You went all imperial on me! //

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:12:34pm

re: #220 ausador

They bought gold from Glenn Beck, so they need the price to rise 10x.

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I Would Prefer Not To  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:12:45pm

re: #221 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

1. Lower taxes on the 1%
2. Raise taxes on the 99%

re: #221 Camacho DeezNuts 2016

1. Lower taxes on the 1%
2. Raise taxes on the 99%
3. Defund Planned Parenthood
4. Profit!

5. More Benghazi

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Brian J.  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:13:45pm

re: #220 ausador

I have a better reason, the U.S.A. currently has $1.39 Trillion in currency in circulation. That is the bare minimum amount of gold the Treasury would have to have on hand in order to back all dollars with gold.

Wiith gold at its current price of $1078.80 per Troy ounce the math goes like this…
1.39 Trillion divided by 1078.8 equals
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces of gold.
(The Treasury only has 261,498,926)

How about if we try volume, how much gold is that?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces at 0.098 cubic inches each gives you 126,269,929.55 cubic inches of gold. Converted into cubic feet this is approximately 73,073 cubic feet of gold!

How about by weight the normal person can understand?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces each of which are 0.0686 of a pound equals a whopping 88,352,137 pounds of gold!

Anyway the whole thing is a pipedream to start with unless they can explain how the Treasury is going to suddenly come up with 5 times the gold it currently has. ;)

Of course, the problem is that you’re only considering currency. You’re not including demand deposits, checking accounts, and other MZM (money at zero maturity). According to the St. Louis Federal Reserve, there is $13,730.7 billion in MZM in the US right now. So for the current gold supply of 261.5 million troy ounces of gold to cover all of that, you’d need gold to be priced at $52,500 per ounce. And that’s not considering CDs and other time deposits and commercial paper in M1, M2, and M3.

So there’s another argument about why the gold standard makes no damn sense for America now.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:13:48pm

OK, that’s 44176 tons of gold.
BBC:

Their latest figure for all the gold in the world is 171,300 tonnes

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:14:26pm

re: #178 A Cranky One

So, got a very cool present for Christmas from my brother:

Book about guitar tube amps

Guess it’s time to break out some of the old amps and get them running.

Be happy to … help… test them, yeah, that’s the word, test them for you ;)

Looks like a good book. I’ve got a fun one like that called “The Guitar Amp Handbook” by Dave Hunter.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:16:55pm

re: #226 Nyet

OK, that’s 44176 tons of gold.
BBC:

That however is all the gold that’s ever been mined.

The gold actually in circulation? Some sites say ca. 20000 ton.

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ausador  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:18:02pm

re: #223 jaunte

They bought gold from Glenn Beck, so they need the price to rise 10x.

Actually by law the Treasury is forced to value its gold at only $42.2222 per Troy ounce when it values the gold reserves. (A very old statute apparently)

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Brian J.  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:20:13pm

re: #229 ausador

Actually by law the Treasury is forced to value its gold at only $42.2222 per Troy ounce when it values the gold reserves. (A very old statute apparently)

That’s from the Nixon administration in 1971, as part of the last-ditch effort to save the Bretton Woods system. For most of American history, the value of gold was $20.67 per troy ounce, rising to $35 after the 1933 Roosevelt executive order and enshrined by Bretton Woods at its inception in 1944.

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:20:18pm

re: #220 ausador

I have a better reason, the U.S.A. currently has $1.39 Trillion in currency in circulation. That is the bare minimum amount of gold the Treasury would have to have on hand in order to back all dollars with gold.

Wiith gold at its current price of $1078.80 per Troy ounce the math goes like this…
1.39 Trillion divided by 1078.8 equals
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces of gold.
(The Treasury only has 261,498,926)

How about if we try volume, how much gold is that?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces at 0.098 cubic inches each gives you 126,269,929.55 cubic inches of gold. Converted into cubic feet this is approximately 73,073 cubic feet of gold!

How about by weight the normal person can understand?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces each of which are 0.0686 of a pound equals a whopping 88,352,137 pounds of gold!

Anyway the whole thing is a pipedream to start with unless they can explain how the Treasury is going to suddenly come up with 5 times the gold it currently has. ;)

I haven’t been able to find where I first read it, but I read that the total amount of gold mined since the beginning of gold mining would not be enough to get the US back on the Gold Standard

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:23:40pm

re: #218 Stanley Sea Toujours

I retweeted & the poll didn’t show up. I have no idea.

Thanks. Twitter is actually beyond my understanding. I was born before social media so I don’t even try anymore.

In fact, the entire internet seems more broken now than it has ever been. I get more slow connections, more links that have gone bad, and overall I am beginning to doubt whether we’ll be able to keep our information infrastructure in any sense sound.

In this era of all electronic and now all-“cloud” based lives, our collective memories - what the future humans can use to write their history of our times - will so easily be erased.

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:23:44pm

re: #227 William Lewis

Be happy to … help… test them, yeah, that’s the word, test them for you ;)

Looks like a good book. I’ve got a fun one like that called “The Guitar Amp Handbook” by Dave Hunter.

Hey, speaking of amps - I got one o these in the mail yesterday.

Crate Power Block

It’s a crate Power Block - a solid state amp, but a Class D solid state - which emulates a lot of the characteristics of a tube amp pretty well. 150 watts mono, which will power my new down-sized guitar rig.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:24:44pm

re: #166 freetoken

There should be a special award for mixing the genres of (1) retro-1970’s TV Christmas Specials with (2) Japanese semi-erotic cos-play aerobics.

J-pop girl groups generally seem geared toward two demographic groups: young teenagers and older men with Lolita fetishes.

As for costuming, there’s a variety show here in China, called Happy Family (or Happy Camp) 快乐大本营. The five hosts (3 men, 2 women) change outfits several times during the show, and the costumes range from childish to weird to trendy.

That said, the five are actually quite talented, and one is a university professor!
en.wikipedia.org

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Brian J.  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:25:23pm

re: #231 makeitstop

I haven’t been able to find where I first read it, but I read that the total amount of gold mined since the beginning of gold mining would not be enough to get the US back on the Gold Standard

Using the numbers in this thread, if you backed only American MZM ($13,730 billion) with all the gold ever mined (171,300 tons or 5,507 million troy ounces), you’d need the price of gold to more than double to $2,500 per troy ounce. That’s not counting the rest of America’s money and “near money” or what the rest of the world would use, or the billions of Indians and Chinese you’ve pissed off by taking their gold.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:25:27pm

For the average schmo, the Gold Standard is a really, really bad idea. The folks who push it talk about inflation, as if it were 1) just around the corner! and 2) an unalloyed evil.

Well, it IS an evil if your income comes from interest. Your revenue stream gets smaller. OTOH, if a lot of your income goes to servicing debt, and your income rises with everything else, your debt becomes less onerous, and your payments smaller in real terms.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:26:12pm

re: #220 ausador

I have a better reason, the U.S.A. currently has $1.39 Trillion in currency in circulation. That is the bare minimum amount of gold the Treasury would have to have on hand in order to back all dollars with gold.

Wiith gold at its current price of $1078.80 per Troy ounce the math goes like this…
1.39 Trillion divided by 1078.8 equals
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces of gold.
(The Treasury only has 261,498,926)

How about if we try volume, how much gold is that?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces at 0.098 cubic inches each gives you 126,269,929.55 cubic inches of gold. Converted into cubic feet this is approximately 73,073 cubic feet of gold!

How about by weight the normal person can understand?
1,288,468,668.9 Troy ounces each of which are 0.0686 of a pound equals a whopping 88,352,137 pounds of gold!

Anyway the whole thing is a pipedream to start with unless they can explain how the Treasury is going to suddenly come up with 5 times the gold it currently has. ;)

Oh, they just throw away all the “fiat” money (forget for the moment that gold only has value because we agree it does which means it’s just as much a fiat) and reprint back at $20 an ounce like in 1900 for $5,229,978,520. The economic innumerancy of not understanding what the deflation of the money supply from 1.5 trillion to 5 billion would do to the global economy is more staggering than the stupidity of actually doing it.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:26:58pm

re: #232 freetoken

Already erased, Wayback Machine notwithstanding.

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Belafon  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:27:01pm

re: #220 ausador

If you were to use all of the gold Nyet mentioned, 44176 tons, each ounce would represent $983 of currency.

Now all we have to do is go to war with every country on the planet.

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Brian J.  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:27:47pm

re: #236 Blind Frog Belly White

For the average schmo, the Gold Standard is a really, really bad idea. The folks who push it talk about inflation, as if it were 1) just around the corner! and 2) an unalloyed evil.

Well, it IS an evil if your income comes from interest. Your revenue stream gets smaller. OTOH, if a lot of your income goes to servicing debt, and your income rises with everything else, your debt becomes less onerous, and your payments smaller in real terms.

They count on people not knowing their economic history, about not knowing about the devastating bank runs that occurred every 10-15 years and took away the life savings of millions and left people with no money at all with which to buy life’s necessities, or the grinding effects of deflation eating away at incomes year after year (at a time when a far greater proportion of the population were primary producers such as farmers and miners than is true today). Most of the goldbugs have no experience with that kind of work.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:30:18pm

re: #236 Blind Frog Belly White

You forgot (3) a Paulain registered investment adviser perma-bear.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:30:33pm

re: #233 makeitstop

Hey, speaking of amps - I got one o these in the mail yesterday.

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It’s a crate Power Block - a solid state amp, but a Class D solid state - which emulates a lot of the characteristics of a tube amp pretty well. 150 watts mono, which will power my new down-sized guitar rig.

Oh, that looks neat. I’ll look forward to a bit of a review once you’ve had a chance to exercise it.

I’ve just been playing with my effects pedals a lot lately. Added a few and trying to decide the best order.

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dholmes32  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:32:50pm

re: #212 Nyet

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Alpaca is wonderful to knit with, but you have to use it with the right garment because it doesn’t have the elasticity of wool.

I crocheted this alpaca scarf for a coworker for Christmas. It was a joy to make.

Alpaca scarf
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:33:19pm

re: #233 makeitstop

I have a six-channel Home-theater amp: a Dared DV-6C. Uses 3 Mullard 12AX7’s for pre-amps and NXP Class D amps for power amplification. Small little beast, too.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:33:48pm

re: #243 dholmes32

Neat!

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:34:22pm

re: #243 dholmes32

That is very pretty. I hope your co-worker liked it.

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:35:07pm

All this Troy Math makes me want wine.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:36:23pm

Putting the USA back on the gold standard would essentially kill the USA as an economic power in the world. China would take the number one place, with the EU and the Asian Tigers bringing up the rear.

Gold bugs live in a fantasy world. There is no way the financiers and multinationals would agree to a gold standard. It would hamstring their wheeling and dealing.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:36:24pm
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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:36:44pm

re: #243 dholmes32

Alpaca is wonderful to knit with, but you have to use it with the right garment because it doesn’t have the elasticity of wool.

I crocheted this alpaca scarf for a coworker for Christmas. It was a joy to make.

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Beautiful.

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dholmes32  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:37:22pm

re: #246 PhillyPretzel

That is very pretty. I hope your co-worker liked it.

I sent it by interoffice mail. She’s in another state and she doesn’t work at a site, so she’ll get it when the mail department at her end sends her regular package. So I haven’t heard yet, but the other people who got scarves (black wool crocheted keyhole scarves) really liked them.

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Bubblehead II  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:37:56pm

Night Lizards. I came, I saw,I commented. I leave you with this.

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Life sucks. Some times you even wonder if it was worth it.

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Brian J.  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:38:49pm

re: #248 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Putting the USA back on the gold standard would essentially kill the USA as an economic power in the world. China would take the number one place, with the EU and the Asian Tigers bringing up the rear.

Gold bugs live in a fantasy world. There is no way the financiers and multinationals would agree to a gold standard. It would hamstring their wheeling and dealing.

The wheelers and dealers were able to deal with the original gold standard- this is when the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan, etc. became billionaires. Their heirs would agree to such a system after making sure their interests were protected, no matter what happened to the USA’s 320 million peons.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:41:38pm

re: #251 dholmes32

I sent it by interoffice mail. She’s in another state and she doesn’t work at a site, so she’ll get it when the mail department at her end sends her regular package. So I haven’t heard yet, but the other people who got scarves (black wool crocheted keyhole scarves) really liked them.

Do you ever make to sell?

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:42:14pm

re: #252 Bubblehead II

What up BH?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:43:02pm

re: #126 Skip Intro

I don’t remember the part where Santa refers to the reindeer as male (or female). I guess Rudolph is the only male reindeer name. One last thing. If the antlers fall off in the winter, it stands to reason that Christmas Eve (being only the 4th day of winter) comes before the antlers fall off.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:45:56pm

The symbol for Bill Kristol’s party should be an elephant wearing a very unconvincing glue-on handlebar moustache.

Sort of like when there was a rash of self-declared “Independents” that scurried away from W.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:46:29pm

re: #253 Brian J.

The wheelers and dealers were able to deal with the original gold standard- this is when the Rockefellers, J.P. Morgan, etc. became billionaires. Their heirs would agree to such a system after making sure their interests were protected, no matter what happened to the USA’s 320 million peons.

Well, sure, they did. But times have changed, and the financial world now offers so many new ways to make money (and rip off the peons) that I doubt they’d be willing to return to the old days.

The only people pushing the gold standard are middle-class wannabes. You’ll note that no one in the 1% is pushing for it.

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:46:50pm

A Rabid Skunk it is:

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freetoken  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:47:37pm

Spoke too soon… the demon sheep are now tied.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:47:47pm

re: #257 The Ghost of a Flea

Groucho glasses.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:48:57pm

re: #258 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Well, sure, they did. But times have changed, and the financial world now offers so many new ways to make money (and rip off the peons) that I doubt they’d be willing to return to the old days.

The only people pushing the gold standard are middle-class wannabes. You’ll note that no one in the 1% is pushing for it.

Ayn Rand loved the Gold Standard

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:50:50pm

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dholmes32  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:51:06pm

re: #254 Stanley Sea Toujours

Do you ever make to sell?

No. Because I couldn’t recoup my cost per hour. I’ve done things for people and taken money for the supplies, but they were friends of mine. I made one person a purse for her daughter and for another friend I made her a Death Star pillow. The pillow was a lot of work. Not so much the crocheting, but adding the contrasting stitching—OMG. My friend has a toddler grandson and all I could imagine was him yanking out my stitches, so those things are truly anchored down to avoid that problem.

Crocheted Death Star pillow

ETA: Of course, my brother, the Star Wars geek, asked me if I had made the laser disk indented, like in the movie. I looked at him like he was absolutely NUTS.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:52:12pm

re: #252 Bubblehead II

Night Lizards. I came, I saw,I commented. I leave you with this.

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Life sucks. Some times you even wonder if it was worth it.

No matter how fucked your life is, someone else has it worse. Suck it up & carry on, sailor.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:52:45pm

re: #264 dholmes32

No. Because I couldn’t recoup my cost per hour. I’ve done things for people and taken money for the supplies, but they were friends of mine. I made one person a purse for her daughter and for another friend I made her a Death Star pillow. The pillow was a lot of work. Not so much the crocheting, but adding the contrasting stitching—OMG. My friend has a toddler grandson all I could imagine was him yanking out my stitches, so those things are truly anchored down to avoid that problem.

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That’s no pillow…
;P

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:53:14pm

re: #262 The Vicious Babushka

Ayn Rand loved the Gold Standard

Remember how someone said that Newt Gingrich was how a stupid person imagined smart people sounded?

Ayn Rand got there first.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:53:45pm

re: #264 dholmes32

awwww

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:53:58pm

re: #263 Joe Bacon

I stop most pollsters with “my number is on the governmental do not call list.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:55:07pm

re: #262 The Vicious Babushka

Ayn Rand loved the Gold Standard

Was she in the 1%?

Really, I don’t get this worship of gold as a “standard” for monetary systems. Why not diamonds? Or a barrel of oil? They are all commodities, freely traded across the world, but some are more necessary than others.

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Belafon  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:55:17pm

re: #264 dholmes32

No. Because I couldn’t recoup my cost per hour. I’ve done things for people and taken money for the supplies, but they were friends of mine. I made one person a purse for her daughter and for another friend I made her a Death Star pillow. The pillow was a lot of work. Not so much the crocheting, but adding the contrasting stitching—OMG. My friend has a toddler grandson and all I could imagine was him yanking out my stitches, so those things are truly anchored down to avoid that problem.

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ETA: Of course, my brother, the Star Wars geek, asked me if I had made the laser disk indented, like in the movie. I looked at him like he was absolutely NUTS.

Considering there’s a shop called Nothing Bunt Cakes, and they do make up the cost of labor, I bet you could charge for it and people would buy it.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:56:45pm

re: #263 Joe Bacon

Last one I had I asked “Should I tell the truth or shall I lie through my teeth? Which do you think is more fun for me?”

“Uhh….”

“And could you ever know the difference?”

Click.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:57:40pm

My college gave me a Christmas present, a bread maker, which just arrived today. All the instructions and recipes are in Chinese, but fortunately it’s enough like the one I had in the States that I think I’ll manage OK.

Hoping the yeast I have is still viable.

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The Ghost of a Flea  Dec 27, 2015 • 6:57:41pm

re: #270 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Was she in the 1%?

Really, I don’t get this worship of gold as a “standard” for monetary systems. Why not diamonds? Or a barrel of oil? They are all commodities, freely traded across the world, but some are more necessary than others.

If something’s a fiat currency long enough, it becomes objectively valuable, right?

Also, shininess.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:00:29pm

re: #274 The Ghost of a Flea

If something’s a fiat currency long enough, it becomes objectively valuable, right?

Also, shininess.

There ya go. It’s the emotional appeal of gold. It’s pretty. It doesn’t tarnish. It’s been valued for thousands of years. So it must TEH BESTEST monetary standard.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:00:37pm

re: #264 dholmes32

No. Because I couldn’t recoup my cost per hour. I’ve done things for people and taken money for the supplies, but they were friends of mine. I made one person a purse for her daughter and for another friend I made her a Death Star pillow. The pillow was a lot of work. Not so much the crocheting, but adding the contrasting stitching—OMG. My friend has a toddler grandson and all I could imagine was him yanking out my stitches, so those things are truly anchored down to avoid that problem.

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ETA: Of course, my brother, the Star Wars geek, asked me if I had made the laser disk indented, like in the movie. I looked at him like he was absolutely NUTS.

You have beautiful talent. I can see you enjoy it!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:01:18pm

re: #267 The Ghost of a Flea

Remember how someone said that Newt Gingrich was how a stupid person imagined smart people sounded?

Ayn Rand got there first.

This is a chapter-by-chapter takedown of Atlas Shrugged, it’s been ongoing for 2 and a half years.

I started reading it in 9th grade but was bored out of my mind after the first two chapters, put it away and read LOTR instead.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:02:01pm

Meanwhile, I’m wondering why my paycheck hasn’t hit my bank account yet, as we are supposed to be paid by the 28th of each month.

I need that cash so I can go out and buy GOLD!!! //

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:02:22pm

re: #273 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

My college gave me a Christmas present, a bread maker, which just arrived today. All the instructions and recipes are in Chinese, but fortunately it’s enough like the one I had in the States that I think I’ll manage OK.

Hoping the yeast I have is still viable.

Well, a good exercise for your Mandarin, too.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:03:37pm

re: #277 The Vicious Babushka

This is a chapter-by-chapter takedown of Atlas Shrugged, it’s been ongoing for 2 and a half years.

I started reading it in 9th grade but was bored out of my mind after the first two chapters, put it away and read LOTR instead.

I never read AS. No one in my circle was reading it, and I had never heard of it until I was old enough to understand what utter horseshit it was.

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William Lewis  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:04:17pm

re: #277 The Vicious Babushka

This is a chapter-by-chapter takedown of Atlas Shrugged, it’s been ongoing for 2 and a half years.

I started reading it in 9th grade but was bored out of my mind after the first two chapters, put it away and read LOTR instead.

Proof you are a very wise woman.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:05:02pm

re: #279 Nyet

Well, a good exercise for your Mandarin, too.

You got it. It’ll be fun, because I can eat the results of the mandarin lesson.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:05:30pm

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:06:27pm

re: #282 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

You got it. It’ll be fun, because I can eat the results of the mandarin lesson.

And you have the motivation to get it right!

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Eclectic Cyborg  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:07:18pm

re: #278 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Meanwhile, I’m wondering why my paycheck hasn’t hit my bank account yet, as we are supposed to be paid by the 28th of each month.

I need that cash so I can go out and buy GOLD!!! //

Holiday related delays?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:08:13pm

re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg

Holiday related delays?

Christmas is not a holiday in China. So, they have no excuse.

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bratwurst  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:10:37pm

re: #269 PhillyPretzel

I stop most pollsters with “my number is on the governmental do not call list.”

The “do not call” list covers most (but not all) commercial telemarketers and not much else. It has and will never cover pollsters & market research.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:11:58pm

Wingnut challenge: name some Republicans who are racist

It would be easier to name Republicans who are not racist.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:12:10pm

re: #287 bratwurst

I know that but it usually it makes them stop for a few seconds so I can hang up and block their number.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:12:21pm
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CuriousLurker  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:12:48pm

I had a bit of a hard time with the accent at first, but I’m just gonna leave this here so y’all can see Aussies being every bit as bigoted & hateful as Americans.

Muslim Mean Tweets

Published on Dec 13, 2015

Prominent Australian Muslims reading Islamophobic tweets and statements made about them or their community.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:14:45pm

re: #280 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I never read AS. No one in my circle was reading it, and I had never heard of it until I was old enough to understand what utter horseshit it was.

ditto

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:16:59pm

re: #291 CuriousLurker

Lol at the Vegemite love.

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:17:11pm

re: #283 The Vicious Babushka

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:17:25pm

HAHAHA

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:18:10pm

You The People.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:19:33pm

re: #293 jaunte

Lol at the Vegemite love.

Yeah, that one cracked me up too. Can’t eat the Vegemite if it’s certified halal—might get Muslim cooties. *eyeroll*

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:21:28pm

re: #288 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnut challenge: name some Republicans who are racist

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Anyone who utters the words “plantation” or “slavery” in any reference to Democrats.

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The Vicious Babushka  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:22:32pm

I just put that fucker on mute. He can Tweet at me all night.

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:36:21pm

From the Rude Pundit: Hillary Clinton Responds to Donald Trump: A Christmas Fantasia

“Losing to Barack Obama? That wasn’t getting schlonged. Being forced to respond to every stupid thing vomited out of Donald Trump’s mouth, the really disgusting thing in this whole bullshit uproar? That is not just me getting schlonged, but the entire country. Vote for me and I’ll cut off his schlong and toss into the garbage disposal, where it belongs.

“Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year.”

That’s the finale. The buildup is also pretty good.

But - extremely NSFW, because it’s the Rude One.

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Charles Johnson  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:37:11pm
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Timothy Watson  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:39:19pm

re: #301 Charles Johnson

The Rage Furby is not beating anyone except himself.

I really didn’t need that visual.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:39:35pm

re: #301 Charles Johnson

His Summer of Justice is going to turn into the Winter of WHA?!?!?!

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jaunte  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:40:01pm
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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:41:38pm

re: #304 jaunte

Interesting twist. I still prefer the original.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:44:18pm

Mass post-Christmas brawl shuts down Kentucky mall: Thousands of unruly youths cause havoc as shoppers flee

As many as 2,000 children were involved in mass brawl at a mall in Kentucky last night, as a wave of violence at shopping centers spread across America.

Shocking video showed shoppers charging out of Mall St Matthews in Louisville after a huge number of teenagers sparked mayhem, with dozens of reports of fights.

Youths harassed store employees and tried to prevent businesses from closing as police attempted to shut down the mall.

The chaos came just a day after another brawl at a mall in Florida saw scores of teenagers - including dozens of girls - lash out at each other in the street.

There were also minor disturbances on Saturday at shopping centers in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, and Long Island, New York.

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PhillyPretzel  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:46:43pm

re: #306 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

There were no disturbances at The Court and the Plaza at King of Prussia when I was there yesterday.

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CuriousLurker  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:51:29pm

Before I disappear for the night, here’s one more from the U.S. from earlier this year. It gets funny as hell around 3:45. Note: Keep in mind it was the daycare at the mosque that burnt down.

Muslims Read Hate Comments *Original*

Published on May 20, 2015

The daycare at our local mosque burnt down. Local media covered it and posted video online. The reaction will blow you away.

Later, lizards.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:56:59pm

trump says hillary clinton bullied bill’s victims into silence

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makeitstop  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:57:05pm

It’s been a long day. Off to bed. G’Night, Lizards, and thank you all for your kind thoughts.

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Camacho DeezNuts 2016  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:58:59pm

Rage Furby is extra ragey griftey on every day ending in -day.

I’m noticing a pattern.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 7:59:04pm

re: #269 PhillyPretzel

I stop most pollsters with “my number is on the governmental do not call list.”

I can’t. I enjoy lying to them too much. Still remembered 2012, when they kept calling me daily and I lied to them that I was voting for Romney…

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:03:38pm

When I get a pollster (or a telemarketer) I sometimes let the call go on and on. I keep saying “Whaat?” or misunderstand the question and at some point I just silently disconnect the call. I figure hanging up right away does them a favor.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:05:36pm

re: #277 The Vicious Babushka

I had to read that fucking literary litterbox in high school because an English teacher was obsessed with Objectivism bullshit. I quoted Galbraith in a rebuttal essay and got an F, which I considered a very high honor!

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:07:02pm

takoi horosha kot!

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:07:28pm

re: #283 The Vicious Babushka

Gosh, they’re probably waiting for a couple Republican presidential candidates to fill those seats…

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:13:14pm

re: #309 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

trump says hillary clinton bullied bill’s victims into silence

He’s going to pay some of them off and they will come around a week or two before the election telling us how they support him.

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Nyet  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:13:25pm

re: #315 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

takoi horosha kot!

* horoshii

Not sure what you are referring to.

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Joe Bacon  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:17:00pm

re: #317 GlutenFreeJesus

He’s going to pay some of them off and they will come around a week or two before the election telling us how they support him.

Of course that will happen. We’ll get reacquainted with Gennifer Flowers, Paula Jones, Monica Lewinsky and the whole gang…

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Stanley Sea Toujours  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:18:20pm

re: #310 makeitstop

It’s been a long day. Off to bed. G’Night, Lizards, and thank you all for your kind thoughts.

It will possibly get better. (MIS)

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GlutenFreeJesus  Dec 27, 2015 • 8:37:13pm

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