Another Fantastic NPR Tiny Desk Concert: River Whyless

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These NPR Tiny Desk concerts are almost always terrific. Here’s another great new group I’ve never heard of, from Asheville, North Carolina, with some very creative instrumentation including a vintage Royal typewriter.

January 19, 2016 by BOB BOILEN

This immensely talented band from Asheville, N.C., was my favorite discovery at this year’s Americana Music Festival. River Whyless builds its music around fiddle, guitar and harmonies, with imagination and textures that set the band apart from many of its acoustic and folk-based peers.

At the Tiny Desk, River Whyless’ members used a typewriter for rhythm, a toy piano for whimsy and a harmonium for mood, as well as a gong, multiple odd percussive accents and subtle guitar effects. There are hints of Paul Simon in their inflections and poetic phrasing, and their songs feel fresh and nicely crafted. “Life Crisis” is a song from 2015’s self-titled EP, but the others are new to me; here’s hoping we’ll have a new album in 2016.

River Whyless EP is available now:
iTunes: itunes.apple.com
Amazon: amazon.com

Set List:
“Life Crisis”
“Sailing Away”
“Baby Brother”

Credits:
Producers: Bob Boilen, Morgan Walker; Audio Engineer: Josh Rogosin; Videographers: Morgan Walker, Niki Walker, Julia Reihs; Production Assistant: Kate Drozynski; photo by Jun Tsuboike/NPR

For more Tiny Desk Concerts, subscribe to our podcast: npr.org

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 5:08:50pm

Friday Night snow flurries anyone?

free to a good home.

Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 5:10:11pm

re: #1 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Friday Night snow flurries anyone?

free to a good home.

I suppose that’s better than Friday Nite Furries.

RBS

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 5:12:05pm

I just got a little flurry of neo-Nazis on Twitter. Some popular racist somewhere apparently retweeted this to his followers:

Pro-tip: “alt-right” = white supremacist. It’s the latest attempt by racists to rebrand themselves with a deceptive name.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 22, 2016

And that set them off.

I’d like to cordially invite you to promptly go and fuck yourself. @ragged_dick

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

And another one. Please fuck right off. @princessladyz

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

And another one who needs to immediately fuck off. @MaggieMKOC

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

I’m glad to know I disgust you. Now go fuck yourself too. @TravisBickle84

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

Fuck you, Nazi cretin. @jpiper1945

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

But I have to admit it’s always revealing to see Donald Trump’s supporters in their native element - with swastikas and Nazi uniforms.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

lawhawk Jan 22, 2016 • 5:15:33pm

So, Trump pulled that idiotic video showing him supporting US troops by using footage of a bunch of Russians with Soviet era medals.

That’s some classy A number one yugeness.

As a reminder:

Trump’s honoring veterans. Soviet style

And that’s the least bad thing Trump did today. Ponder that as he has yet to take down the retweet of the neo-Nazi/white supremacist.

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 5:17:12pm

Yes, right, and fuck you too. @HVRabbit

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 5:18:01pm

The typewriter won this for me. Love Tiny Desk.

EPR-radar Jan 22, 2016 • 5:19:13pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Centrists, both-siderists and so-called GOP moderates need to really deal with the open sewer that Trump’s candidacy is exposing.

Silence about neo-Nazi shit is consent to neo-Nazi shit.

Both siderism to pretend neo-Nazi shit doesn’t matter is approval of neo-Nazi shit.

Pretending that neo-Nazi shit in your party doesn’t matter because ‘the Democrats are worse’ is a lie and gives aid and comfort to neo-Nazis.

SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 5:21:24pm

Re: the Tiny Desk music - note the B52’s were the first I ever saw to use the kid piano. :)

goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 5:22:22pm

Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump has altered a campaign ad that was posted Friday morning after it was discovered that a shot in the film featured Russian veterans instead of Americans.
…

Josh Perry, a campaign aide for GOP presidential candidate Ted Cruz, tweeted out images of the soldiers’ medals that clearly show prominent Russian symbols like the Communist hammer and sickle.

PhillyPretzel Jan 22, 2016 • 5:23:03pm

re: #1 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

No Thank you. Philly has its own problems. forecast.weather.gov

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 5:23:12pm

Ted Cruz’s campaign is handing out bottled water in Flint — but only to anti-abortion groups

To how many people can we say “fuck-you” this Friday Night?

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 22, 2016 • 5:25:48pm

Democrats and Republicans can’t agree on who’s to blame for Trump… … but we can all agree he’s EVERYBODY’S problem.

— Stonekettle (@Stonekettle) January 23, 2016

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 5:26:21pm

Finally, someone good:

Ace-o-aces Jan 22, 2016 • 5:27:38pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Yes, Yes, Fuck yes, and sadly, increasingly yes. @jpiper1945 @Green_Footballs @ragged_dick

— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 23, 2016

Not everyone in those groups, of course.

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 5:29:56pm

Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 22, 2016 • 5:30:00pm

The guy is tweeting as a fucking Waffen-SS member? Really?

Let’s see if a big media outlet has the guts to point out Trump’s fan club. Actual fucking Nazis.

b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 5:30:24pm

re: #4 lawhawk

So, Trump pulled that idiotic video showing him supporting US troops by using footage of a bunch of Russians with Soviet era medals.

That’s some classy A number one yugeness.

As a reminder:

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And that’s the least bad thing Trump did today. Ponder that as he has yet to take down the retweet of the neo-Nazi/white supremacist.

Damn! I lost the office pool on who was going to air the 1st pro commie political ad this cycle.

Dammit. Never bet against Trump, I guess.

bratwurst Jan 22, 2016 • 5:30:28pm

Just had my third customer service disaster with Comcast in just over 2 years. One thing I have learned that I would like to pass along to others unfortunate enough to be stuck with Comcast: never waste your time arguing for account credit with anyone over the phone. They will transfer you over to “billing” which is Comcast code for “the nastiest people on staff”.

Instead, go to their website here and click on the “Send Tom Feedback” link at the bottom. You enter you tale of woe in a form, get a confirmation email, then within a few hours someone responds generally giving you what you were refused on the phone.

Once again, every American who is not a Time Warner stockholder owes Senator Al Franken a debt of gratitude for literally being the only politician willing to voice serious concern over giving this horrible company more power than it already has.

The upshot is that my new generation X1 cable box/DVR is up and running. It is clearly a snazzier interface than I have been using for years and I greatly appreciate some of the new features…but in other ways it is as bad or worse than the old one.

I am praying that Google Fiber makes it to my area within the next year.

Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 22, 2016 • 5:33:08pm

re: #18 bratwurst

That’s why I buy my own cable equipment and refuse to lease anything from any cable provider. Cheaper all the way around and I get nice things like 4-channel tuning.

lawhawk Jan 22, 2016 • 5:33:34pm

So, two MI environmental workers got canned. The political idiots who made the decision to switch Flint water from the perfectly safe and long time source - Detroit water - to the well-known problematic Flint River? They’re still safe and shifting blame to everyone but Gov. Snyder.

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 5:33:40pm

Got the hubby a kindle firestick for xmas.

WE took it out of the box yesterday.

Still haven’t read the “quick-start” guide.

It’s still sitting there.

Ace-o-aces Jan 22, 2016 • 5:36:03pm

The only reason irrelevant @GlennBeck doesn’t like me is I refused to do his failing show - asked many times. Very few listeners - sad!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2016

Having destroyed the GOP establishment, the Tea Party frankenstein now turns on his creators.

Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 5:37:05pm

Coolest Tiny Desk yet. Great sound, and a poet in there somewhere.

PhillyPretzel Jan 22, 2016 • 5:37:10pm

re: #18 bratwurst

I have a HDTV antenna that is in my window and I get all of my TV for free. Unfortunately I feel guilty when watching PBS so I give the local PBS station WHYY a yearly contribution of $50.

unproven innocence Jan 22, 2016 • 5:37:17pm

re: #11 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Ted Cruz’s campaign is handing out bottled water in Flint — but only to anti-abortion groups

To how many people can we say “fuck-you” this Friday Night?

[bonobo] Fucking is just being sociable. What I can’t figure is why so many of us are being so nice to bad people. [/bonobo]

Skip Intro Jan 22, 2016 • 5:38:01pm

re: #22 Ace-o-aces

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Having destroyed the GOP establishment, the Tea Party frankenstein now turns on his creators.

Trump only has one response to every critic, doesn’t he?

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 5:38:24pm

re: #22 Ace-o-aces

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Having destroyed the GOP establishment, the Tea Party frankenstein now turns on his creators.

Trump and Beck have been at each other’s throats for a while now.

Le Lapin Tueur Jan 22, 2016 • 5:38:47pm

re: #7 EPR-radar

Centrists, both-siderists and so-called GOP moderates need to really deal with the open sewer that Trump’s candidacy is exposing.

Silence about neo-Nazi shit is consent to neo-Nazi shit.

Both siderism to pretend neo-Nazi shit doesn’t matter is approval of neo-Nazi shit.

Pretending that neo-Nazi shit in your party doesn’t matter because ‘the Democrats are worse’ is a lie and gives aid and comfort to neo-Nazis.

The fact that they are openly embracing and singing out about their nationalistic desires really make one wonder why ther is not a bigger hue and cry about the dangers of jingoism and the relationship that those ideals hold with the rise of dangerous demagogues.

PhillyPretzel Jan 22, 2016 • 5:38:48pm

re: #26 Skip Intro

He is a one trick pony. //

Ace-o-aces Jan 22, 2016 • 5:40:23pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Trump and Beck have been at each other’s throats for a while now.

True, it’s like watching two schizophrenics arguing over who has the better voices speaking in their heads.

Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 22, 2016 • 5:42:12pm

re: #30 Ace-o-aces

True, it’s like watching two schizophrenics arguing over who has the better voices speaking in their heads.

Donald wins that argument. Beck is small-time loony.

I want to see Trump tear Beck to bits. Call him a loser, make fun of him for crying, maybe call him drug-addled.

Come on, Trump, do it. DO IT. Mwahahahha

allegro Jan 22, 2016 • 5:42:25pm

re: #21 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Got the hubby a kindle firestick for xmas.

WE took it out of the box yesterday.

Still haven’t read the “quick-start” guide.

It’s still sitting there.

I have firesticks on both of my teevees. Love them.

lawhawk Jan 22, 2016 • 5:43:15pm

re: #27 Charles Johnson

Trump and Beck have been at each other’s throats for a while now.

Thunderdome. Two enter. One leave.

That’s the only way to be sure.

goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 5:43:19pm

This is expected behavior for a losing campaign but not a good tactic for supporters of the side will need all votes going into the general.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

A false narrative ginned up & sold by a media perpetually trying to create the impression of a horse race, to sell ad time and page views.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

EPR-radar Jan 22, 2016 • 5:45:24pm

re: #28 Le Lapin Tueur

The fact that they are openly embracing and singing out about their nationalistic desires really make one wonder why ther is not a bigger hue and cry about the dangers of jingoism and the relationship that those ideals hold with the rise of dangerous demagogues.

This really is a test for the mainstream media. Are they finally going to do their damn jobs and start pointing out the obvious and ever-increasing parallels between Trumpism and other fascist-type movements?

Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis Jan 22, 2016 • 5:47:03pm

re: #28 Le Lapin Tueur

why ther is not a bigger hue and cry about the dangers of jingoism and the relationship that those ideals hold with the rise of dangerous demagogues.

Two reasons (that are actually one reason):

Because we have a party that’s devoted itself to jingoism, fear, and empty bellicosity, and refuses to surrender those tools because, dammit, they work so well at stopping critical thinking while engaging panicky decisions that seem expedient.

And because the same party has been involved in a cultural project of re-writing history such that the dangerous of jingoism and demagoguery are attributable to irreligiousity and sexual impropriety, and, dammit, they’re not going to forego their favorite mythopoetic bludgeon just because there’s an actual upsurge in stupid violent fuckwittery.

Blind Frog Belly White Jan 22, 2016 • 5:47:16pm

re: #29 PhillyPretzel

He is a one trick pony. //

”_____ hates me because (s)he wanted my _____ for his/her failing _____. No _____ers. Sad!”

EPR-radar Jan 22, 2016 • 5:48:01pm

re: #34 goddamnedfrank

GOP ratfucking might be a factor in addition to the media’s desire to see a horse race. I’m sure that some of the more stupid and inflammatory stuff I’ve seen online relating to the Democratic primary is the work of RW provocateurs.

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 5:49:19pm

Yes, right, and fuck you too. @HVRabbit

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 5:49:33pm

A New York party in honor of the Rage Furby! Someone needs to crash this one with a camera. pic.twitter.com/q9TGVxSNr1

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

Shiplord Kirel Jan 22, 2016 • 5:50:37pm

re: #11 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Ted Cruz’s campaign is handing out bottled water in Flint — but only to anti-abortion groups

To how many people can we say “fuck-you” this Friday Night?

Ted’s batshit crazy old man will be a valuable asset to Democrats if Ted somehow derails the Trump train and actually wins the nomination.

Blind Frog Belly White Jan 22, 2016 • 5:50:43pm

re: #39 Charles Johnson

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“China man”? Well, at least he didn’t say “Chink” or “Coolie”.

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 22, 2016 • 5:52:47pm

Trump’s white genocide guy changed his twitter thing:

trollers gotta troll

bratwurst Jan 22, 2016 • 5:53:01pm

I have about fucking had it with Bernie AND Hillary fans on Twitter.

Yes, I am sure it is no worse than what is going on with Republicans online. However, I make a point of not following any grassroots right wing zealots.

I am mostly muting the ordinarily fun follows who have gone batshit insane lately. However, I foresee a fair bit of unfollowing/blocking coming up when the losing side throws a collective tantrum.

I have some significant issues with Hillary, but I think she is the best chance to prevent Trump or Cruz selecting 2-4 Supreme Court judges. In any case, I will immediately throw my support (financial and otherwise) behind the nominee as soon as this is clear. Anyone not able to do this for any reason is basically declaring they want the right to own the SCOTUS for the next generation and is no friend of mine.

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 5:53:35pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump’s white genocide guy changed his twitter thing:

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What a fucking scumbag. He’s enjoying the attention.

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 5:54:22pm

Just imagine the kind of people who’d show up to “honor” Chuck c. Johnson. The mind reels. @sunsentinello

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

EPR-radar Jan 22, 2016 • 5:56:32pm

re: #43 Backwoods_Sleuth

I wonder if this little fake conversion will be noticed by a both-siderist (e.g., David Brooks). After all, they are getting hard-pressed for suitable material to use in their semi-infinite stream of piping hot ‘both sides are equally bad’ bullshit.

gocart mozart Jan 22, 2016 • 5:56:36pm

re: #22 Ace-o-aces

Just watched Jeb’s ad where he desperately needed mommy to help him. Jeb —- mom can’t help you with ISIS, the Chinese or with Putin.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2016

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 5:56:53pm

The best of world literature, chosen by Guardian readers

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 22, 2016 • 5:57:38pm

This is my 17th snow emergency since I’ve been governor, so we know what we are doing, but we will keep our eye on the ball. #Jonas

— Governor Christie (@GovChristie) January 23, 2016

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 5:58:29pm

White Genocide? Really?

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 22, 2016 • 6:00:22pm

re: #51 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

White Genocide? Really?

really

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 22, 2016 • 6:00:33pm

A ‘Labyrinth’ reboot is on the way from ‘Guardians of the Galaxy’ co-writer: https://t.co/Nrx1f3qdLm pic.twitter.com/MkLeFQ7GtK

— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) January 23, 2016

Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 22, 2016 • 6:01:01pm

Milo Yiannopoulos Starts “White Men Only” Scholarship Fund #news pic.twitter.com/kg2i7RDTkE

— freshnews (@freshnews247) January 22, 2016

allegro Jan 22, 2016 • 6:01:07pm

re: #46 Charles Johnson

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His mom baked cookies and his gran made the punch.

PhillyPretzel Jan 22, 2016 • 6:01:15pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

He is actually counting them? Gee. How is he doing that? Notches on his belt? (Sorry about that one. Being overweight is no joke.)

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:02:58pm

As I deal w/ a barrage of hatred from white supremacists, I ask: how does Twitter benefit from allowing racists to run amok on their site?

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 6:04:41pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Not only is Christie using that totally made up and not scientific marketing name for the snowstorm but it almost sounds like every time it has snowed in New Jersey he has freaked out and called it an emergency.

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:06:24pm

Because it seems to me that the ill will generated by these hateful morons has to outweigh any potential benefits.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

lawhawk Jan 22, 2016 • 6:06:55pm

OMG, there’s this weather guy on WLNY Ch. 10/55 (CBS affiliate) Lonnie Quinn, and he’s channeling Sarah Palin on Red Bull and mescaline. Yeah, we get it. It’s a snowstorm, but can we please avoid word salad when describing the weather?

Thanks.

Timothy Watson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:08:50pm

re: #60 lawhawk

The local CBS affiliate here in Washington, D.C. is running local news on a subchannel right now and had a reporter interviewing a woman and her kids at some liquor store in Maryland.

FFS.

Shiplord Kirel Jan 22, 2016 • 6:09:57pm

re: #54 Eric The Fruit Bat

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Are Greeks really white though? More than Turks I guess, so yeah, they count. Long as they behave theirselfs.

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:11:07pm

Very disappointed to see Charlotte Rampling’s comments. But we never really know these people we call “stars,” do we?

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

FormerDirtDart Jan 22, 2016 • 6:11:43pm

Conspiracy nuts converging on Burns. One told me America is under Sharia law. Lugs 1,000 pages proof around w/him. pic.twitter.com/ZPdCsWBy0s

— Kieran Suckling (@KieranSuckling) January 23, 2016

b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 6:12:46pm

re: #61 Timothy Watson

The local CBS affiliate here in Washington, D.C. is running local news on a subchannel right now and had a reporter interviewing a woman and her kids at some liquor store in Maryland.

FFS.

They always show the run on bread at the grocery stores during times like these but they never seem to show the empty shelves where all the Crown Royal used to be

b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 6:14:15pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart

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1980 was the year Reagan was elected fwiw.

Shiplord Kirel Jan 22, 2016 • 6:15:57pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart

Kieran Suckling @KieranSuckling
Conspiracy nuts converging on Burns. One told me America is under Sharia law. Lugs 1,000 pages proof around w/him.
8:04 PM - 22 Jan 2016

Wonderful news! My plan is taking shape.

allegro Jan 22, 2016 • 6:16:24pm

re: #61 Timothy Watson

The local CBS affiliate here in Washington, D.C. is running local news on a subchannel right now and had a reporter interviewing a woman and her kids at some liquor store in Maryland.

FFS.

Not seeing a problem here. Liquor stores are just stores and I imagine most parents have alcoholic beverages from time to time and keep them in their homes with no worries. Now if the news report was made in a roadhouse at 2am, a whole nother thing.

Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 6:19:53pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart

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OMG!!!! It looks like GeoCities

freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 6:21:00pm

Veteran Climate Science Denialist Bob Carter Dies of Heart Attack

Bob Carter has died.

To most members of the general public, the name of that Australian geologist and paleontologist will barely register a flicker of neurons in the temporal lobe.

But to the global community of professional and amateur climate science denialists, misinformers and opponents of climate policy, Carter was an influential giant.

He died, aged 74, in hospital in his hometown of Townsville, Queensland, after suffering a heart attack.

I have written many stories featuring Bob Carter over the last decade or so and none of them have been complimentary.

[…]

Eventually all these old denial-machine folk will die off… but it will be too late to undo their damage of providing cover for our political systems’ inaction.

Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 6:21:12pm

re: #65 b.d.

They always show the run on bread at the grocery stores during times like these but they never seem to show the empty shelves where all the Crown Royal used to be

I can tell you, the frozen pizza selection was picked over pretty well when I swung by the store at noon.

RBS

CuriousLurker Jan 22, 2016 • 6:22:51pm

re: #45 Charles Johnson

What a fucking scumbag. He’s enjoying the attention.

That’s what trolls live for, right? That’s why I preemptively block & never respond.

Timothy Watson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:23:16pm

re: #68 allegro

Not seeing a problem here. Liquor stores are just stores and I imagine most parents have alcoholic beverages from time to time and keep them in their homes with no worries. Now if the news report was made in a roadhouse at 2am, a whole nother thing.

Yeah, but it was being shot live at 9:00 pm when there’s already a couple inches of snow on the ground and the woman was buying an absurd amount of stuff there.

I have a feeling the conversation with the kids when they left was something like, “Come on kids! We have to go to the liquor store so mommy doesn’t get DTs if we get snowed in.”

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:25:23pm

In my part of the world, we are so used to the snow/ice/cold —most of us aren’t wearing socks.

gocart mozart Jan 22, 2016 • 6:26:05pm

@eliasisquith Trump’s rise coincides with an explosion in the popularity of the cronut. This is not a coincidence.
— gocart mozart (@gocartmozart1) January 23, 2016

Barefoot Grin Jan 22, 2016 • 6:26:35pm

re: #68 allegro

Not seeing a problem here. Liquor stores are just stores and I imagine most parents have alcoholic beverages from time to time and keep them in their homes with no worries. Now if the news report was made in a roadhouse at 2am, a whole nother thing.

At the big state-owned rest area liquor stores in New Hampshire, booze shopping is often a family affair.

gocart mozart Jan 22, 2016 • 6:27:06pm

Trump is the DIRECT CONSEQUENCE of a culture that marries the decadence of fiat currency to the obscenity that is breastfeeding in public !!
— elias isquith (@eliasisquith) January 22, 2016

Ace-o-aces Jan 22, 2016 • 6:27:07pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart

The ham sandwich and beer I had for lunch would seem to disprove him. @KieranSuckling

— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 23, 2016

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:29:21pm

Jim Hoft has been on a serious roll of anti-immigrant incitement for several days.

allegro Jan 22, 2016 • 6:30:20pm

Anyone who thinks breastfeeding is obscene is the one with issues.

Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 6:30:36pm

re: #67 Shiplord Kirel

Wonderful news! My plan is taking shape.

If the loon migration continues, the trespassers are going to need the feds to protect them from the locals. This is a YT of Finicum pawing over the store of artifacts. It is the only time I have agreed with the majority of YT commenters.

Jan 20 NATIVE AMERICAN ARTIFACTS

freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 6:33:00pm

Outcast-from-fundamentalism Peter Enns has another take on the case of the faculty member getting the boot from Wheaton:

WHEATON COLLEGE VS. LARYCIA HAWKINS : MAYBE IT’S ABOUT EVOLUTION (IT’S ALWAYS EVOLUTION)

[…]

My reader then proceeded to explain to me something I have indeed missed completely: Hawkins tied her public “Muslims and Christians worship the same God” business to biological evolution. The following is an excerpt from Hawkins’s offending Facebook post, which was published in major news outlets like The Atlantic.

I don’t love my Muslim neighbor because s/he is American.

I love my Muslim neighbor because s/he deserves love by virtue of her/his human dignity.

I stand in human solidarity with my Muslim neighbor because we are formed of the same primordial clay, descendants of the same cradle of humankind-a cave in Sterkfontein, South Africa that I had the privilege to descend into to plumb the depths of our common humanity in 2014… .

Hawkins, it would appear, thinks biological evolution accounts for human origins. The problem is that Wheaton does not. Wheaton’s faith statement says:

[…]

As Enns notes in his title, it’s always about evolution.

With fundamentalists - always.

b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 6:33:33pm

re: #71 Reality Based Steve

I can tell you, the frozen pizza selection was picked over pretty well when I swung by the store at noon.

RBS

Hope you threw some sharp elbows and got everything you needed.

iirc the local news always shows the run on bread, water and batteries.

SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 6:34:59pm

re: #83 b.d.

Hope you threw some sharp elbows and got everything you needed.

iirc the local news always shows the run on bread, water and batteries.

ha. Threw a ‘bow! I learned that slang from Track Palin.

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:35:43pm

re: #77 gocart mozart

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arguing over fiat currency.

REALLY?

gocart mozart Jan 22, 2016 • 6:37:42pm

re: #85 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Joke. In response to this tweet.

I know Freud and ideas like projection have been out of favor for a long time now but…my god pic.twitter.com/hVLyZpa4QU

— elias isquith (@eliasisquith) January 22, 2016

Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 6:38:00pm

re: #83 b.d.

Hope you threw some sharp elbows and got everything you needed.

iirc the local news always shows the run on bread, water and batteries.

I felt a little bad when I had to hip check that old lady with the walker into the frozen waffle case, but we were both going for the last stuffed crust double pepperoni. I’m not proud of it, but I did get the pizza.

RBS

goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 6:39:04pm

I haz arrived, BoingBoing straight up stealing my shit.

A little credit never hurts you know. https://t.co/lqWgNeeGV4 @BoingBoing @Iacoguy

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

lockjawcanbefun Jan 22, 2016 • 6:39:30pm

UPDATE: RCMP “4 NOT 5” people are dead after shooting in La Loche high school, several more injured. No info given on age/gender of victims

— Camilla Di Giuseppe (@C_DIG) January 23, 2016

FormerDirtDart Jan 22, 2016 • 6:40:59pm

so my neighbors outside shoveling in a t-Rex costume…….. pic.twitter.com/psNLmnChDq

— Daddy (@OffDaMolly) January 23, 2016

I wonder if this is one of the T-Rex that were doing drive-byes on lawn Santa’s around Christmas?
TRex taking on Santa

b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 6:41:29pm

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

I haz arrived, BoingBoing straight up stealing my shit.

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Sue them! I know of a lawyer in St. Louis who is recently looking for some big website to sue.

goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 6:41:50pm

I feel like I’ve finally arrived, a verified account straight up ganked my shit.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

EPR-radar Jan 22, 2016 • 6:42:55pm

re: #86 gocart mozart

I don’t see why the idea of projection could reasonably be out of favor. The entire GOP runs on it after all, and I don’t think American exceptionalism applies here.

Backward magical-thinking nut jobs all over the world use it.

b_sharp Jan 22, 2016 • 6:43:10pm

re: #89 lockjawcanbefun

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Fuck.

That community has one of the highest rates of suicide in Canada because of poverty & dispair. Bloody Harper gov’t did nothing to help FN communities.

Feline Fearless Leader Jan 22, 2016 • 6:43:24pm

re: #90 FormerDirtDart

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I wonder if this is one of the T-Rex that were doing drive-byes on lawn Santa’s around Christmas?
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Well, someone posted the picture earlier about a Lizzard alert. So no surprise a few turned up.

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:43:34pm

re: #88 goddamnedfrank

I haz arrived, BoingBoing straight up stealing my shit.

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They may not know where it originated, but I retweeted to help the word get out.

Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 6:43:57pm

re: #78 Ace-o-aces

Is it wrong to hope the FBI is letting all these loons gather in one place before taking them all down at once?

I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:44:08pm

VOCABULARY WORD OF THE DAY:

gank
To steal or take something that does not belong to you.
“i didnt have money so i ganked it”

Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 6:44:09pm

Absolutely insane to see conservatives trying to blame the rise of Trump on President Obama, ignoring the years of RW hatred that fed him.

— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) January 23, 2016

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 6:45:24pm

Texas AG Ken Paxton: Federal judge’s plan to repair broken foster care system is ‘judicial takeover’ https://t.co/GhhiThmbHW

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 23, 2016

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Great White Snark Jan 22, 2016 • 6:45:40pm

re: #60 lawhawk

OMG, there’s this weather guy on WLNY Ch. 10/55 (CBS affiliate) Lonnie Quinn, and he’s channeling Sarah Palin on Red Bull and mescaline. Yeah, we get it. It’s a snowstorm, but can we please avoid word salad when describing the weather?

Thanks.

BTW heard from the Lettuce Growers assoc. They are most displeased at the unfavorable comparison with their fine product we enjoy so much.

Who wouldn’t enjoy some head like that?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:46:11pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

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THEY’ve been brainwashed by Fox News.

According to them, EVERYTHING they are against, even things they were for yesterday, are Obama’s fault.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:46:51pm

re: #101 Great White Snark

BTW heard from the Lettuce Growers assoc. They are most displeased at the unfavorable comparison with their fine product we enjoy so much.

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beautiful photo

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 6:47:30pm

NASA trying to be tricksy on the twitter search bots?

Resembling an opulent diamond tapestry, this image from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope shows a glittering star cluster that contains a collection of some of the brightest stars seen in our Milky Way galaxy. Called Trumpler 14, it is located 8,000 light-years away in the Carina Nebula, a huge star-formation region. Because the cluster is only 500,000 years old, it has one of the highest concentrations of massive, luminous stars in the entire Milky Way.

Image: hs-2016-03-a-web_print.jpg

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b_sharp Jan 22, 2016 • 6:48:31pm

re: #103 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

beautiful photo

Beautiful plumage.

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EPR-radar Jan 22, 2016 • 6:48:43pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

It’s the GOP version of the underpants gnome business model. In relation to any issue:

1) Defecate in panic, run away, then blame liberals

2) ???

3) Profit.

For the gnomes, where the profit comes from is mysterious. For the GOP, it is very clear. Idiots like Ben Domenech are well-paid parts of the right wing noise machine.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:48:44pm

Ted Cruz: ‘I’m a Christian first, American second.’ Imagine if Muslim or Jewish politician said that https://t.co/SfAnFF3gjd

— David Valenzuela (@Yecora51) January 23, 2016

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:49:38pm

If plutonium was named for Planet #9 …

I meeaan …

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goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 6:49:42pm

This aggression will NOT stand, man. Everyone please tell @twitter’s moon lawyers that I should verified immediately to prevent shit theft.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

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Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis Jan 22, 2016 • 6:51:55pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

Welcome to the sharing economy!

Enjoy the disruption!

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 6:52:38pm

Stay safe during the snow storm all our followers in the states but remember keep your sled away from this thief. pic.twitter.com/esXq69S3tp

— Car Crash TV (@Crashingtv) January 22, 2016

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 6:53:30pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

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Obama made the wingnut baggers want to elect Trump.

The guy really is a genius. It is hard to imagine that he was able to do that and raise Sarah Palin’s kids at the same time.

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goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 6:54:27pm

You dun wronged me @BoingBoing, I demand satisfaction! *gets drunk, takes shirt off, farts*

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

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Barefoot Grin Jan 22, 2016 • 6:54:40pm

re: #107 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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Actually, I’m fine with this. I hope it means what it usually means: I refuse to take part in state-sanctioned violence and am applying for CO status.

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CuriousLurker Jan 22, 2016 • 6:54:40pm

re: #92 goddamnedfrank

You should’ve marked it with your @goddamnedfrank handle. You probably would’ve picked up a few new followers (assuming you want them). Then again, it would also probably be a troll magnet.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:54:45pm

URBAN DICTIONARY:

DETROIT

1.A city that a bunch of people talk and complain about but without ever stepping inside the city limits or even coming within 50 miles of its border.

2.Contrary to popular belief, there are nice parts, but perpetuating stereotypes is better than talking about the good that resides there, huh?

3.Where everyone who’s from Michigan says they’re from when somebody asks them where they live.

4.Best water in the world.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 6:55:57pm

re: #109 goddamnedfrank

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goddamnedfrank, Twitter should give you that blue check mark that used to belong to milo. I’d wash it real good though.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 6:56:42pm

I would like you to fail to ever become President. Guess which one of us is going to end up happy in this regard. @GovMikeHuckabee

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 23, 2016

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PhillyPretzel Jan 22, 2016 • 6:56:49pm

I just looked out my front window and saw one of my neighbors shoveling his walk. I still do not understand why someone would shovel their walk in the middle of a snow storm.

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Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis Jan 22, 2016 • 6:57:23pm

re: #99 Charles Johnson

Or that, you know, absolutely nothing Donald Trump says is original, and directly emulates insane shit said by wingnuts.

Same for what passes for “policy”: it’s all wingnut culture war stuff.

And not even new wingnut stuff. Old beefs, like War on Christmas and the border wall.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 6:58:03pm

re: #118 Kragar

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Is he going to end sex?

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goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 6:58:19pm

Pretty sure this is exactly how Jesus felt when @BoingBoing stole his shit.

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 22, 2016 • 6:59:00pm

re: #2 Reality Based Steve

I suppose that’s better than Friday Nite Furries.

RBS

Snow on bronze statues at Buddy Killen Circle on Music Row in Nashville

AKA “Circle Of Naked Statues.”

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Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 7:00:18pm

re: #123 BeenHereAwhile

Snow on bronze statues at Buddy Killen Circle on Music Row in Nashville

AKA “Circle Of Naked Statues.”

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I remember all the controversy when that was first unveiled.

RBS

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 7:00:19pm

re: #121 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Is he going to end sex?

He’s going to pass a law requiring people to have to look at him naked before intercourse.

Birth rate plummets, suicide rate sky rockets

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 7:01:03pm

re: #125 Kragar

He’s going to pass a law requiring people to have to look at him naked before intercourse.

Birth rate plummets, suicide rate sky rockets

Sadly, there are those who it would encourange.

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Barefoot Grin Jan 22, 2016 • 7:01:12pm

re: #123 BeenHereAwhile

Snow on bronze statues at Buddy Killen Circle on Music Row in Nashville

AKA “Circle Of Naked Statues.”

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Bronze nipple alert!

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Belafon Jan 22, 2016 • 7:01:20pm

re: #77 gocart mozart

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Trying to blame Trump on Democrats.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood Jan 22, 2016 • 7:01:32pm

bbl

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Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 7:01:32pm

re: #125 Kragar

He’s going to pass a law requiring people to have to look at him naked before intercourse.

Birth rate plummets, suicide rate sky rockets

I’m investing heavily in hand lotion and Kleenex stock

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Feline Fearless Leader Jan 22, 2016 • 7:01:49pm

re: #119 PhillyPretzel

I just looked out my front window and saw one of my neighbors shoveling his walk. I still do not understand why someone would shovel their walk in the middle of a snow storm.

I’ve done that. But usually when there is already 4-5” on the ground since for me it was easier to shovel 4-6” of snow twice than a foot of snow once. Plus, since my house sat on the edge of a gully if I shifted some snow correctly I could get the wind to scour over half the driveway clear since it would blow the snow over into spots I had previously cleared.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 7:01:52pm

re: #130 Reality Based Steve

I’m investing heavily in hand lotion and Kleenex stock

SINNER!
///

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Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis Jan 22, 2016 • 7:02:03pm

re: #130 Reality Based Steve

I’m investing heavily in hand lotion and Kleenex stock

I’m getting out of sheep ranching.

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 7:03:31pm

re: #128 Belafon

Trying to blame Trump on Democrats.

We should be so clever.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:03:50pm

re: #125 Kragar

He’s going to pass a law requiring people to have to look at him naked before intercourse.

Birth rate plummets, suicide rate sky rockets

President Huckabee signs executive order making all beds in America have his family picture hung over it.

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 22, 2016 • 7:04:04pm

re: #118 Kragar

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Huckabee’s falling-asleep-at-night dream is to become President, liquidate the government, declare a Kingdom of Christ, and then Jesus comes back and he gets club seats to the gays and unbelievers being pitched screaming into a lake of fire. He shouldn’t be allowed within a mile of anything more dangerous than a sharp pencil, let alone nuclear weapons.

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 7:04:39pm

re: #135 b.d.

President Huckabee signs executive order making all beds in America have his family picture hung over it.

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Dog is flashing a POW duress signal.

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Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 7:05:18pm

re: #135 b.d.

President Huckabee signs executive order making all beds in America have his family picture hung over it.

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and somewhere an “All you can eat” buffet manager sees that picture and trembles in fear.

RBS

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nines09 Jan 22, 2016 • 7:06:35pm

re: #107 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

He’s the Anti Kennedy. If JFK was to have said that…….But nowadays, it’s just SOP for SOBs. Backpfeifengesicht. Face à claque. Tenyérbemászó. “Tête à claques. Cara necesidad de abofetear.

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Skip Intro Jan 22, 2016 • 7:06:40pm

re: #128 Belafon

Trying to blame Trump on Democrats.

I don’t understand how that works. Are we the ones going to his rallies and saying we’re going to vote for him?

Trump is theGOP dream candidate, and the polls back me up. Even Sarah Palin backs me up.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 7:07:36pm

So, I see there is an effort in Japan to remove Buddhist swastikas from maps because Westerners mistake them for Nazi symbols.

Now, if only Twitter could get rid of the swastikas….

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Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis Jan 22, 2016 • 7:07:41pm

re: #136 Pawn of the Oppressor

Mike Huckabee dreams of swimming in the cash he makes pretending to run for president.

And sluts. He definitely has that “you’re a bad girl and I’ll teach you” creepster fantasy vibe.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 7:08:59pm

re: #137 Decatur Deb

Dog is flashing a POW duress signal.

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jaunte Jan 22, 2016 • 7:11:30pm

Guy who’s organized GOP around slashing Medicare, Medicaid, food stamps etc.. is bragging about commitment to “life” https://t.co/EAO00JkAt1

— igorvolsky (@igorvolsky) January 22, 2016

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 7:11:36pm

re: #135 b.d.

President Huckabee signs executive order making all beds in America have his family picture hung over it.

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All I can say is, for a time the Huckabee’s dinners were off the charts.

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 22, 2016 • 7:12:51pm

re: #142 The Ghost of a Flea

*gasp* How could you say that a MAN OF GAWD has such lascivious thawts???! SHAMEFUL!!! ///

OK, he’s probably imagining “First the sluts, then Jesus”. Or, maybe Jesus will give him sluts as a reward for destroying the earth. I’m not sure how these things work. My copy of the Babble is in the other room & I’m too lazy to go check.

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 22, 2016 • 7:14:20pm

re: #145 Stanley Sea Toujours

All I can say, is for a time the Huckabee’s dinners were off the charts.

I don’t even know where I’d get three triple-X sized striped shirts like that.

148

SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 7:15:14pm

Frank!!!

@MichelleVista @goddamnedfrank wait what? did we do something wrong
— Boing Boing (@BoingBoing) January 23, 2016

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goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 7:15:14pm

.@BoingBoing Theiving hobbitses stole my precious! https://t.co/lqWgNeeGV4 @MichelleVista

— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) January 23, 2016

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Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 7:15:27pm

Chuck C. Johnson posts a link to an article by Justin Raimondo, at a far right website that features articles by Pat Buchanan. What a world.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:15:56pm

re: #147 Pawn of the Oppressor

I don’t even know where I’d get three triple-X sized striped shirts like that.

Being Governor of Arkansas gives you 1st crack at some Wal*Mart special limited engagement stuff

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 7:16:21pm

Spent this morning (my time) catching up on the threads. The comment about the crowd razzing the Native American teen prompted me to do some googling on her.

Isabella Aiukli Cornell is 14, and is an aspiring model and activist. She’s met with the US Secretary of Education, been part of the White House initiative for Native American education and hosts an Native American-centered Internet radio program. Her middle name is Choctaw for “beautiful.”

I suspect we’re going to hear more about this girl as time goes on.

Radio show link mixcloud.com

School web newspaper article about her hcpmarionette.com

OKC schools page about her: okcps.k12.ok.us

Photo is from the school district page

Isabella Aiukli Cornell

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nines09 Jan 22, 2016 • 7:17:01pm

re: #147 Pawn of the Oppressor

I don’t even know where I’d get three triple-X sized striped shirts like that.

The Optical Illusion Big Mans Striped Shirt Boutique. “You’ll wonder where the pounds went! It’s Magic!”

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Barefoot Grin Jan 22, 2016 • 7:18:04pm

re: #148 Stanley Sea Toujours

Frank!!!

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No. But now you are legally obligated to be called Goddamnedboingoboingo.

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 22, 2016 • 7:19:23pm

re: #152 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Isabella Aiukli Cornell is 14, and is an aspiring model and activist. She’s met with the US Secretary of Education, been part of the White House initiative for Native American education and hosts an Native American-centered Internet radio program. Her middle name is Choctaw for “beautiful.”

I didn’t want to say anything, because she’s 14 and I’m not her dad, but I’d say she’s aptly named and she seems like a pretty impressive young woman.

I’d get a kick out of her yelling back “Shut your honky land-stealing mouth!” at the heckler, but that would be uncivil. ;)

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 7:20:03pm

re: #147 Pawn of the Oppressor

I don’t even know where I’d get three triple-X sized striped shirts like that.

Army bunk mattress covers.

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 7:23:22pm

heh

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 7:28:25pm

i am gonna yell “Your Tauntaun will freeze before you reach the first marker!” at everyone leaving the bar until I get a goddamn response

— Walter Hickey (@WaltHickey) January 23, 2016

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No Country For Old Haters Jan 22, 2016 • 7:32:07pm

re: #118 Kragar

@GovMikeHuckabee the theocratic, forced-birth, end of freedom in America candidate.

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 23, 2016

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nines09 Jan 22, 2016 • 7:35:24pm

re: #159 No Country For Old Haters

I’d like to hit the lottery large. that’s not happening either Sparky.

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 7:35:56pm

Frank??? Want a report!

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:36:03pm

With this snow emergency I hope Obama is able to enact all of those Jade Helm takeover moves that he was thwarted from this summer.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:36:36pm

No one can see your chemtrails in a blizzard.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:37:17pm

re: #161 Stanley Sea Toujours

Frank??? Want a report!

He must be negotiating a settlement.

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e e smith Jan 22, 2016 • 7:38:12pm

Enjoyed the music. Typewriter as percussion was used by Brian Eno on “China My China”. And Erik Satie long before that .

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 7:38:29pm

re: #155 Pawn of the Oppressor

I didn’t want to say anything, because she’s 14 and I’m not her dad, but I’d say she’s aptly named and she seems like a pretty impressive young woman.

I’d get a kick out of her yelling back “Shut your honky land-stealing mouth!” at the heckler, but that would be uncivil. ;)

As a former high school teacher, I’ve had the pleasure to teach quite a few very talented teenagers, who have fanned out over the globe doing great things. One of them just shared a Facebook status, showing her meeting with Sarah Michelle Gellar about entrepreneurism.

The student in question was a ballet dancer as a teen, went to AZ for school, got married and now has three kids. Her home business is making hairbows, barettes and stuff for kids. Apparently, she makes decent money at it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 7:40:22pm

re: #165 e e smith

Enjoyed the music. Typewriter as percussion was used by Brian Eno on “China My China”. And Erik Satie long before that .

Leroy Anderson, too.
Typewriter symphony Orchestra

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prairiefire Jan 22, 2016 • 7:41:27pm

re: #166 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Wonderful.

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 7:44:39pm

re: #165 e e smith

Enjoyed the music. Typewriter as percussion was used by Brian Eno on “China My China”. And Erik Satie long before that .

And LeRoy Anderson, IIRC.

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 22, 2016 • 7:45:24pm

re: #124 Reality Based Steve

I remember all the controversy when that was first unveiled.

RBS

In the 1980s, worked for one of the partners in a joint venture label with Buddy Killen in Nashville. And had some dealings with Buddy.

When I moved back to Nashville in the oughts (closer to grandkids), and saw the statues, wondered what Buddy would have said regarding the statues.

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Tigger2 Jan 22, 2016 • 7:45:44pm

Notice of Trespass #Oregonstandoff #OregonUnderAttack #burnspaiute #USA #NativeAmerican #Rights #IdleNoMore #Native pic.twitter.com/4oraHOXryi

— WestCoastNativeNews (@WCnativenews) January 23, 2016

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Charles Johnson Jan 22, 2016 • 7:46:48pm

Man, the nuts are really coming out of the woodwork tonight on Twitter.

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Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 7:47:11pm

And lets not forget Jerry Lewis (he’s yoooge in France)

jerry lewis the typewriter

RBS

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e e smith Jan 22, 2016 • 7:47:14pm

re: #167 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I hesitate to post videos here since they take up so much of the page. But I was listening to this earlier and it still blows me away how modern it sounds:
Eno “China My China”

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Ace-o-aces Jan 22, 2016 • 7:48:08pm

You know, growing up in the midwest is was general knowledge that warmer winters tended to produce more snow. It seems this knowledge has not been passed on.

Currently 15 inches of #GlobalWarming outside my home!
— FedUp Conservatarian (@IrvinePatriot) January 22, 2016

Wow. 24-30 inches of global warming expected in Washington. https://t.co/BdrXdJESW9

— Kimberly (@SouthernKeeks) January 23, 2016

I heard there’s four inches of global warming on the ground! #blizzard2016 #FlintWaterCrisis

— CDM (@RWSurferGirl1) January 23, 2016

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 7:49:32pm

re: #172 Charles Johnson

The Trump/NRO thing is really stirring up the keyboard warriors.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 7:50:29pm

re: #172 Charles Johnson

Man, the nuts are really coming out of the woodwork tonight on Twitter.

Aliens - They’re coming outta the goddamn walls!

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 7:51:13pm

All that needs to happen is that Jerry Hall weds Murdoch, he dies trying to have sex with her, Jerry inherits the majority of Fox, and she forces Fox News to report the real science on climate change.

Some significant fraction of this country would have to be put on suicide watch.

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jaunte Jan 22, 2016 • 7:52:42pm

Cowardly #bundymilitia now using little girls as human shields. Such epic cowards. #oregonstandoff https://t.co/0tZSSA3GHW

— Charles Buchanan (@CRobertBuchanan) January 23, 2016

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:52:43pm

re: #175 Ace-o-aces

You know, growing up in the midwest is was general knowledge that warmer winters tended to produce more snow. It seems this knowledge has not been passed on.

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Those tweets denying global warming because it’s snowing seem to happen later every year.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 7:52:58pm

re: #173 Reality Based Steve

And lets not forget Jerry Lewis (he’s yoooge in France)

jerry lewis the typewriter

RBS

And Obama hater and apparent Trump supporter.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 7:53:54pm

re: #178 freetoken

Some significant fraction of this country would have to be put on suicide watch.

In the immortal words of Willy Wonka:

“Stop. Don’t. Come back.”

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:54:09pm

re: #181 freetoken

And Obama hater and apparent Trump supporter.

That makes me respect Dean Martin’s judgment even more

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bratwurst Jan 22, 2016 • 7:55:57pm

I’d be careful Donald pic.twitter.com/Y3iZmG4tt5

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) January 23, 2016

In a more just world, Jeb! would be forced to repay donors for spending $60 million to secure 4% support.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:57:57pm

And just to be clear, Michael Moore putting pressure on and being a dick to President Obama made him do the right thing.

BREAKING: CBS announces Pres Obama has increased water aid to Flint from $5 million to $80 million. Thanks to all who’ve signed my petition.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) January 22, 2016

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retired cynic Jan 22, 2016 • 7:58:04pm

re: #184 bratwurst

As much as I dislike her (my sweet, never cussed, adorable Democratic mother called her a b$%^&), I would love to see her cut loose on DT.

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Barefoot Grin Jan 22, 2016 • 7:58:11pm

To be fair, I grew up in the little ice age 1970s in central Illinois and I learned that there was snow on the ground from late November to March, we could expect an ice storm in April, and though pools opened after Memorial Day, they weren’t warm until mid June. From my experience, it is not hard to understand why people who can’t tell the difference between weather and climate don’t understand what is happening. It should be an easy matter to educate the populace.

But the religionists and FF-dependent industrialists and investors have so much power. It makes me has a sad.

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 7:58:36pm

re: #179 jaunte

Cowardly #bundymilitia now using little girls as human shields.

Rather explains the “go slow” approach.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 7:58:41pm

re: #184 bratwurst

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In a more just world, Jeb! would be forced to repay donors for spending $60 million to secure 4% support.

I’d donate to Jeb! just to be part of the class action suit to get my money back.

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 22, 2016 • 7:59:03pm

re: #186 retired cynic

As much as I dislike her (my sweet, never cussed, adorable Democratic mother called her a b$%^&), I would love to see her cut loose on DT.

I am supportive of Bush. He’s better than the rest.

New slogan.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 8:00:23pm

re: #184 bratwurst

Jeb Bush: “QUIT MAKING FUN OF ME DONNY OR MY MOM WILL BEAT YOU UP!” Yeah, this will end well https://t.co/ngqFGPt5TF

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 23, 2016

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 8:04:37pm

Koch brothers backed “American Lands Council” supporting Bundy. Says to expect more takeovers until all lands returned to local control.

@JohnLGC Know anything about this? Found it in comments on @LesZaitz’s latest article. pic.twitter.com/pZi8S16qWL

— Karin Hildebrand (@Karimala1) January 23, 2016

I reported it - it’s from this post from Jennifer Fielder https://t.co/zWIP62o9IS https://t.co/6yySGyFtVF

— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 23, 2016

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Tigger2 Jan 22, 2016 • 8:07:30pm

That figures. re: #192 ausador

Koch brothers backed “American Lands Council” supporting Bundy. Says to expect more takeovers until all lands returned to local control.

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That figures.

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goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 8:08:01pm

re: #177 Kragar

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I never understood why they had blast doors positioned under a suspended ceiling.

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goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 8:09:54pm

it’s okay for black people to call us crackers or make fun because we don’t season our food but we can’t say the N word?

— Samantha (@SammyLannone) January 23, 2016

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Jay C Jan 22, 2016 • 8:11:16pm

Well, some of the flurries that are supposed to herald 12-18” of global warming in our area (NYC) have indeed started on time: so science wins again…

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 22, 2016 • 8:12:14pm

re: #192 ausador

Goddammit. They’re funding sedition. What’s the idea? Destroy the country to save it? Motherfuckers.

I told some visiting British friends last year that if Hillary won, there would be shootings and attacks/takeovers on government property. Not on the scale of the Civil War, but somebody would damned sure try. Looks like they’re warming up for the election.

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Tigger2 Jan 22, 2016 • 8:14:35pm

re: #197 Pawn of the Oppressor

Goddammit. They’re funding sedition. What’s the idea? Destroy the country to save it? Motherfuckers.

I told some visiting British friends last year that if Hillary won, there would be shootings and attacks/takeovers on government property. Not on the scale of the Civil War, but somebody would damned sure try. Looks like they’re warming up for the election.

They just want to exploit the land. Koch and their kind are driven by greed. Money first Country 2nd.

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 8:15:28pm

re: #197 Pawn of the Oppressor

Goddammit. They’re funding sedition. What’s the idea? Destroy the country to save it? Motherfuckers.

I told some visiting British friends last year that if Hillary won, there would be shootings and attacks/takeovers on government property. Not on the scale of the Civil War, but somebody would damned sure try. Looks like they’re warming up for the election.

Why assume that “country” is a concept that is of any use to the Kochs and their cohort?

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Barefoot Grin Jan 22, 2016 • 8:15:31pm

re: #195 goddamnedfrank

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“Cracker” is pretty harsh. But it wasn’t used as part of a regime to keep people as property, and thereafter to terrorize them.

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ObserverArt Jan 22, 2016 • 8:19:45pm

I had to log on just to thank Charles for posting this Tiny Desk Concert.

River Whyless is really really good. Extremely good.

I love the creativity and subtleness in the instrumentation. There is a lot going on in those songs. And their vocals are excellent. Such unforced and natural harmonies.

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Dark_Falcon Jan 22, 2016 • 8:20:40pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Anybody who uses as their Twitter nic the name of an SS war criminal whose men murdered American soldiers who had surrendered is an Anti-Patriot.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 8:21:47pm

Went to the grocery store after work today and there was an older SUV in the parking lot with this plastered across his entire back windshield.

One Big Ass Mistake America

It has been 7 years of hateful misery for this old f*ck while the country has had unprecedented economic growth, wars ended, stock market rebound, jobs created, etc. (all fought tooth and nail by the bagger resistance)

I can’t imagine these people keeping up their level of blind ignorant hatred for much longer, what a waste of a life.

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William Lewis Jan 22, 2016 • 8:23:20pm

re: #197 Pawn of the Oppressor

Goddammit. They’re funding sedition. What’s the idea? Destroy the country to save it?

No, destroy the country to take it over. You and I will be serfs and they will be the aristocracy and no one will have to worry about rights except the robber barons among themselves.

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William Lewis Jan 22, 2016 • 8:23:57pm

re: #195 goddamnedfrank

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Don’t like Cracker? Then call yourself Wonder Bread.

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Belafon Jan 22, 2016 • 8:24:25pm

re: #195 goddamnedfrank

@SammyLannone Um, yes. Blame our ancestors for enslaving them and then beating them in the 20th century.
— Lonnie Mask (@LonnieMask) January 23, 2016

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 8:25:12pm

re: #195 goddamnedfrank

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Samantha seems so oppressed.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 8:25:29pm

Donald Trump has turned dog whistles into bull horns.

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 8:26:17pm

re: #208 freetoken

Donald Trump has turned dog whistles into bull horns.

Good.

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Dark_Falcon Jan 22, 2016 • 8:26:38pm

re: #192 ausador

Koch brothers backed “American Lands Council” supporting Bundy. Says to expect more takeovers until all lands returned to local control.

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Who is OPB and does anyone have a link to the actual article in question?

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 8:26:45pm

re: #209 Decatur Deb

Good.

Well, there are very few masks left, anyway.

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William Lewis Jan 22, 2016 • 8:27:05pm

re: #202 Dark_Falcon

Anybody who uses as their twwitter nic the name of an SS war criminal whose men murdered American soldiers who had surrendered is an Anti-Patriot.

That was a rat that should have swung after the Nuremberg trials. But only 12 years for his crimes during the Bulge…

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 8:30:54pm

re: #195 goddamnedfrank

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Does African American cooking use any more spices than Cracker cooking?

Spices aren’t a highlight of most traditional American foods no matter what genre and it’s not like the African American community had a monopoly on them and didn’t share.

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Great White Snark Jan 22, 2016 • 8:31:32pm

Crunchy, rough, raggedy and just lovely.

Video

Friday night right?

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Decatur Deb Jan 22, 2016 • 8:35:31pm

re: #213 b.d.

Does African American cooking use any more spices than Cracker cooking?

Spices aren’t a highlight of most traditional American foods no matter what genre and it’s not like the African American community had a monopoly on them and didn’t share.

Our big soul food items here include mac n’ cheese and REAL banana pudding, so no.

Her mother must have been frightened by a Mississippi Delta cook.

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Cheechako Jan 22, 2016 • 8:41:56pm

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Who is OPB and does anyone have a link to the actual article in question?

OPB is Oregon Public Broadcasting. Check them out. You might learn something.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 8:42:18pm

Curious as to what happens to Bernie’s supporters when it becomes obvious that HRC gets the nomination. After Iowa & NH Bernie’s support drops off the board, I’d love for him to do good but c’mon

I think that a large number of Bernie’s supporters are old Ron Paul retreads and another large chunk of them are from the camp that Obama has sucked because he has been too conservative. I don’t know what happens to these folks?

The PUMA folks were always somewhat of a joke but the Berniacs are a horse of a different color.

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 8:42:18pm

Obama can’t even get any credit for the good he has done from Bernie. :(

icymi—and Bernie certainly missed Obama’s 7 yrs of job creation—this billboard is prominent in Des Moines now: pic.twitter.com/NMCdUjSga9

— Lee in Iowa (@Lee_in_Iowa) January 23, 2016

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dholmes32 Jan 22, 2016 • 8:42:27pm

re: #82 freetoken

Outcast-from-fundamentalism Peter Enns has another take on the case of the faculty member getting the boot from Wheaton:

WHEATON COLLEGE VS. LARYCIA HAWKINS : MAYBE IT’S ABOUT EVOLUTION (IT’S ALWAYS EVOLUTION)

Hawkins, it would appear, thinks biological evolution accounts for human origins. The problem is that Wheaton does not. Wheaton’s faith statement says:

[…]

As Enns notes in his title, it’s always about evolution.

With fundamentalists - always.

Well, this is something I’ve always wondered—is creationism racist at bottom? Because you never see Adam and Eve depicted as any other color than white. And we know from science and the fossil record that humans came out of Africa and were likely darker-skinned. I could imagine quite a few fundamentalists/evangelicals thinking that Of Course Evolution Has To Be Wrong, I Am Not Descended From Anyone With A Black Skin. You know, because racism.

Maybe I’m just wrong. But I don’t think so.

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Dark_Falcon Jan 22, 2016 • 8:43:43pm

re: #212 William Lewis

That was a rat that should have swung after the Nuremberg trials. But only 12 years for his crimes during the Bulge…

It took about two decades, but in the end Peiper finally got what was coming to him.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 8:45:12pm

re: #219 dholmes32

There is a substantial history of racists interpreting the OT to support their case about their superiority over the African or the Oriental.

Look up Curse of Ham.

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Ziggy_TARDIS Jan 22, 2016 • 8:45:32pm

re: #204 William Lewis

The Kochs are terrorist sympathizers at this point.

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 8:47:33pm

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Who is OPB and does anyone have a link to the actual article in question?

Oregon Public Broadcasting
They have had people on the story from the start, just like the Oregonian. As far as the article it won’t be out till Monday…

@Karimala1 it was new for the larger audience. we’re working on a bigger web piece for Monday

— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 23, 2016

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teleskiguy Jan 22, 2016 • 8:49:21pm

re: #149 goddamnedfrank

I tweeted this a mere four minutes after you tweeted this gem. I don’t steal shit!

The new National Review cover should actually look like this. 2/2 https://t.co/vZLVCeIXbR

— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) January 22, 2016

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Reality Based Steve Jan 22, 2016 • 8:50:36pm

Well gang, I”m off to bed. Looks like the final tally here for snow is in the 5-8 inch range. Things should be pretty much normal for most of the area in a day or so at most.

Be good, and do good things.

RBS

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 22, 2016 • 8:52:38pm

re: #84 Stanley Sea Toujours

ha. Threw a ‘bow! I learned that slang from Track Palin.

I think he got it from his mother, who got it from Glenn RIce.

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Dark_Falcon Jan 22, 2016 • 8:56:04pm

re: #224 teleskiguy

Among those who posted replied to NR’s cover was the nasty bastard whose tweet is behind the spoiler button. The button is to make sure those who don’t want to see it don’t have to:

Click to Reveal

@NRO @freedomtex @realDonaldTrump These are a group of corrupt journalist sold to estalishment and global corps pic.twitter.com/UcFlxdlIZw

— The Angry America (@FuriousAmerica) January 22, 2016

Of course I’ve now blocked this creep.

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teleskiguy Jan 22, 2016 • 9:00:09pm

I never thought I’d get into Country EDM.

Sarah Palin & Donald Trump - Country EDM Remix

Now that I think about it, Country EDM is Satan.

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Dark_Falcon Jan 22, 2016 • 9:01:32pm

re: #216 Cheechako

OPB is Oregon Public Broadcasting. Check them out. You might learn something.

I am. Haven’t found anything about Freedom Partners yet, but I did find this:

BLM Considers Reinstating Hammond Grazing Leases

The Bureau of Land Management is in discussions with the family of Dwight and Steven Hammond to restore the family’s grazing access to federal lands.

It’s unclear how far along those talks are in producing an agreement, but Bureau of Land Management spokeswoman Jody Weil said the talks have been underway since May 2015.

“Before the Hammonds were resentenced (for arson in October 2015), we started having conversations with the Hammonds,” said Weil. “We’re certainly talking to the Hammonds’ attorney still.”

Weil declined to comment on whether the negotiations have been impacted by the occupation of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

“It’s a legal process,” Weil said. “I can’t comment on that.”

Some might say that restoring the Hammonds’ graving rights before the Malheur occupation is ended would be udderly mad.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 9:02:23pm

In reversal, campaign says Ted Cruz does currently have health insurance: https://t.co/eA9fGW1PVD via @WSJpolitics

— Wall Street Journal (@WSJ) January 23, 2016

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 22, 2016 • 9:02:58pm

For some reason my local NBC affiliate has decided to predict 17-23 inches of snow in Philadelphia instead of 18-24. Whatever.

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b.d. Jan 22, 2016 • 9:03:53pm

re: #230 b.d.

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[cruz] 1,000 apologies to the folks who canceled their insurance in a show of solidarity with me [/cruz]

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 9:06:26pm

re: #219 dholmes32

“I didn’t come from some monkey” has two possible meanings, IOW.

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teleskiguy Jan 22, 2016 • 9:17:11pm

re: #229 Dark_Falcon

Some might say that restoring the Hammonds’ graving rights before the Malheur occupation is ended would be udderly mad.

Yay! I get to be a snarky pedant!

:-)

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 9:19:03pm

America, 2016:

Intelligent design should be taught alongside evolution

As students of science, do we have the facts to decide the origin of man for ourselves?

As a public school student I was taught the theory of evolution as if it were a fact supported by a process no one could possibly have observed. I remember cutting out an article from this very paper to show my teacher in science class in middle school. The article was about scientists finding two skeletons from different evolutionary levels (you know, the suitcase-carrying ape-to-man scale) at the same level of excavation, questioning the evolutionary model. The teacher never shared it with the class.

[…]

In science, “a ‘fact’ typically refers to an observation, measurement or other form of evidence that can be expected to occur the same way under similar circumstances,” according to the National Academy of Sciences website. Some people still call it the theory of evolution, but this is too generous.

Science is based on observation and since evolution has not been observed, I do not agree with the way that it is taught in schools around the world. Evolution is neither a fact, nor a theory. It is a belief.

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Dark_Falcon Jan 22, 2016 • 9:19:32pm

re: #234 teleskiguy

Yay! I get to be a snarky pedant!

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:-)

I find myself un-moo-ved by your snark.
;)

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 9:21:16pm

re: #231 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

For some reason my local NBC affiliate has decided to predict 17-23 inches of snow in Philadelphia instead of 18-24. Whatever.

Bold, really going out on a limb there.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 9:25:48pm

Trump campaign announces ‘Iowa Caucus Finder’

Donald Trump’s campaign on Friday revealed an “Iowa Caucus Finder” to make sure supporters know where to vote on February 1, part of the GOP front-runner’s effort to make sure it has the turnout needed to win the first-in-the-nation voting state. […]

I still think Trump should offer free shuttle service for anyone wishing to do to a Republican caucus. He could rent every van in the state, hire drivers with the appropriate licenses, and go for it.

Free pick up and delivery in the dead cold of a winter night. Throw in a free pizza to boot.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 9:28:22pm

One van per day, fully insured = $100.
One commercial driver fully insured for a day = $200.
A thousand vans for 99 counties = $300,000 .

Chump change for a billionaire, and considerably cheaper than buying all that TV time that Rubio and Bush and Cruz are doing.

Pizza Ranch is already endorsing the guy, so maybe they’d throw in the pizza as a contribution.

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teleskiguy Jan 22, 2016 • 9:29:45pm

Chappelle Show debuted 13 years ago today, the greatest pic.twitter.com/opoSZAiQWl

— Wu-Tang Financial (@Wu_Tang_Finance) January 23, 2016

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 9:31:06pm

re: #239 freetoken

Can’t offer inducements, pizza is illegal, van rides would be too unless offered to everyone.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 22, 2016 • 9:31:46pm

re: #235 freetoken

By David Bereck, Plumstead Christian School

FAIL

I love this one:

According to a 2014 Gallup poll, 42 percent of Americans believe in creationism, and it is no wonder. I think evolution should be reconsidered as a theory and instead called nothing but a scientific hunch.

Your move, Mr. Bereck. I think I got more documentation on my side of the fence on the history of how the Bible came into existance than you can tell me how The Bible became mutated into something that it should have never become to begin with.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 9:33:32pm

re: #241 ausador

Can’t offer inducements, pizza is illegal, van rides would be too unless offered to everyone.

Yes, there would not be a requirement that one had to be a Trump voter to get a ride. Just call ‘em up if you need a ride to your local Republican caucus.

Remember, all Trump has to do is beat Cruz. Doesn’t have to be by much. All Trump needs may be just a little bit of good will to push him over any edge Cruz may have.

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Ziggy_TARDIS Jan 22, 2016 • 9:33:52pm

re: #242 Eric The Fruit Bat

The Quran my friend gave me after I converted went into the whole history of that in an appendix.

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jaunte Jan 22, 2016 • 9:36:22pm

It’s Friday night, time for some Razzle Dazzle. pic.twitter.com/KRjgFzLzH9

— tendersociety (@tendersociety) January 23, 2016

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 9:39:30pm

re: #244 Ziggy_TARDIS

The Quran my friend gave me after I converted went into the whole history of that in an appendix.

Not surprising that they would want to point out things like the first council of Nicaea. The Bible is by no means an original document.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 22, 2016 • 9:39:53pm

re: #244 Ziggy_TARDIS

Kinda makes me wonder about the Book of Mormon, being one of the newer belief systems about the book’s historical legacies.

(And I won’t even touch that fake religion known as Scientology.)

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Belafon Jan 22, 2016 • 9:40:43pm

re: #235 freetoken

We have observed evolution: Peppered moth evolution

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 9:41:37pm

re: #248 Belafon

… sssshhhhhhhhh….

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 9:42:25pm

re: #248 Belafon

We have observed evolution: Peppered moth evolution

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 9:42:48pm

Donald Trump’s Twitter account is rapidly building a reputation for promoting the work of bigots. https://t.co/qIIT40c2Vu

— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) January 22, 2016

.@nytopinion @nytimes You make it sound like his Twitter account and he are two separate entities. Should Donald tell his account to stop?

— why ask (@ausador) January 23, 2016

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sagehen Jan 22, 2016 • 9:46:06pm

re: #192 ausador

Koch brothers backed “American Lands Council” supporting Bundy. Says to expect more takeovers until all lands returned to local control.

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The last time any of that land was under “local control”… the locals weren’t white and didn’t speak English.

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jaunte Jan 22, 2016 • 9:47:16pm

re: #250 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Antibiotic-resistant bacteria.

Obviously not macro-evolution!!!

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Belafon Jan 22, 2016 • 9:48:12pm

re: #253 jaunte

Obviously not macro-evolution!!!

If I can’t see it, it’s not evolution!

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Belafon Jan 22, 2016 • 9:49:40pm

re: #247 Eric The Fruit Bat

Kinda makes me wonder about the Book of Mormon, being one of the newer belief systems about the book’s historical legacies.

(And I won’t even touch that fake religion known as Scientology.)

Scientology is the true American religion: Robbing the rubes with fake medical advice.

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freetoken Jan 22, 2016 • 9:49:49pm

Speaking of evolution:

For a few Alaska fish, 1964 earthquake spurred rapid evolution

Species normally evolve gradually in a process that unfolds over thousands — sometimes millions — of years. But scientists say they have discovered an Alaska fish population that appears to have transformed in the last 50 years — a lightning-quick transformation, at least by evolutionary standards.

The changes happened after the 1964 earthquake, the most powerful ever recorded in the United States, rearranged terrain around Southcentral Alaska and abruptly changed the habitat of some of the region’s threespine stickleback, a small, widely distributed fish.

When the quake lifted parts of Prince William Sound and the Gulf of Alaska by as much as several meters, it created freshwater ponds on several islands.

The stickleback that found themselves in those new ponds adapted rapidly when their habitat changed from saltwater to fresh, according to a new study by scientists from the University of Alaska Anchorage, University of Oregon and other institutions. The study was published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

[…]

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jaunte Jan 22, 2016 • 9:50:08pm

re: #254 Belafon

Just show me a cat turning into a fish in real time, and I’ll be convinced!!!

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jaunte Jan 22, 2016 • 9:53:47pm

Takoma Park, MD 12:40 am #blizzard2016 pic.twitter.com/Sm7ipgTqwb

— Oliver Willis (@owillis) January 23, 2016

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 9:57:28pm

re: #254 Belafon

If I can’t see it, it’s not evolution!

If no one saw it, it didn’t happen. So there!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 10:04:29pm

re: #235 freetoken

This student is hopelessly misinformed. To get him to understand science, much less evolution, would require months of work.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 22, 2016 • 10:06:08pm

re: #260 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Doesn’t look like he’s a student anymore but a deinstructor at a Christian School.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 22, 2016 • 10:08:15pm

re: #261 Eric The Fruit Bat

Doesn’t look like he’s a student anymore but a deinstructor at a Christian School.

Oh, even worse.

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 22, 2016 • 10:12:44pm

re: #262 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It should be damn embarrassing to these so-called Christians that we know more about Christ and the Bible than they do. I don’t even call them Christians, I call them what they really are in today’s world: Neo-Phairsees.

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Belafon Jan 22, 2016 • 10:13:39pm

re: #260 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It would require a lot of evolution on his part.

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Snarknado! Jan 22, 2016 • 10:26:58pm

re: #253 jaunte

Obviously not macro-evolution!!!

It really isn’t. A moth that already had a range of color from white to mottled black, in conditions that favored one, became much blacker, then much whiter when conditions changed again. But both characteristics already existed in the population and still do.

Evolution in action can be demonstrated — this isn’t it. (Natural selection, yes.)

/pedant

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 10:31:03pm

Simple slogans for simple people, I can’t believe people pay money for this kind of thing.

I’m one of the most positive people I know, but this #ThinkPositive Guru drives me nuts. RT if you’d leave the room. pic.twitter.com/kKMXlwPkqB

— John Moffitt (@JohnRMoffitt) January 23, 2016

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Belafon Jan 22, 2016 • 10:34:57pm

re: #265 Snarknado!

Natural selection is the differential survival and reproduction of individuals due to differences in phenotype.[1] It is a key mechanism of evolution, the change in heritable traits of a population over time.[2]

en.wikipedia.org

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 10:36:11pm

“Media”

@MazieBliss @JohnLGC Really hard life here for journalists. 135 miles to Walmart, limited food, hospitality. People choose this lifestyle.

— OccupiedBurns (@occupied_burns) January 23, 2016

too expensive, not enough visuals to justify for TV. CNN pulled out, I believe, and NBC has a freelancer. https://t.co/bDcZqoGwTW

— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 23, 2016

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WhatEVs Jan 22, 2016 • 10:37:54pm

re: #131 Feline Fearless Leader

I’ve done that. But usually when there is already 4-5” on the ground since for me it was easier to shovel 4-6” of snow twice than a foot of snow once. Plus, since my house sat on the edge of a gully if I shifted some snow correctly I could get the wind to scour over half the driveway clear since it would blow the snow over into spots I had previously cleared.

We had a storm in Chicago…had to be 7 or 8 years ago that was so bad I had to shovel 4x in 24 hours. It took three hours to shovel my driveway the next day as I was mostly shoveling the drifts from the front door. Had I not shoveled the landing that many times I’d never have gotten out the front door the next day. As it was, after sleeping about 5 hours, there was a 5 foot drift against the door.

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WhatEVs Jan 22, 2016 • 10:38:52pm

re: #135 b.d.

President Huckabee signs executive order making all beds in America have his family picture hung over it.

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Poor dog.

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BeachDem Jan 22, 2016 • 10:40:35pm

re: #192 ausador

Koch brothers backed “American Lands Council” supporting Bundy. Says to expect more takeovers until all lands returned to local control.

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Speaking of those lovely brothers, Rachel had a segment on another Koch-sponsored group, Concerned Veterans for America, who are basically advocating for dismantling the whole VA in favor of “free-market healthcare for veterans.”

Concerned Veterans for America (CVA) is a 501(c)(4) non-profit which seems to be funded almost entirely by the Koch brothers donor network.[1] CVA advocates for reductions in federal spending and free market policies, focusing its campaigns on themes related to veterans.
sourcewatch.org

And all of the Republican candidates are sucking it up like a Hoover.

cv4a.org

They’re also running anti-Hillary ads in all of the early primary states.

Interestingly, the CEO, Pete Hegseth, quietly quit the group just recently.

Here’s Rachel’s segment on it—I had not heard about this anywhere else before.

(for some reason, I can’t get the specific segment to link, but it’s the segment entitled “Surprise exit at Koch group raises questions
Rachel Maddow reports on the Koch-funded group that has led the conservative effort to privatize the Veterans’ Administration, and the questioned raised by the unexpected departure of the group’s leader. Duration: 6:03
msnbc.com

One more reason to avoid Republicans like the plague they are.

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Snarknado! Jan 22, 2016 • 10:42:02pm

re: #267 Belafon

Yup. But it’s not evolution — the distribution of traits changed, but nothing was added, removed or changed (as illustrated by the fact that the moths reverted to type when the coal dust went away).

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Lancelot Link Jan 22, 2016 • 10:43:37pm

re: #235 freetoken

news.bbc.co.uk

Research at the Queen Elizabeth National Park, Uganda, showed that 15% of female elephants and 9% of males in the park were born without tusks.
In 1930 the figure for both male and female elephants was only 1%.
Experts say the reason why some elephants are tuskless is a result of a chance genetic mutation.
They say elephants are losing their tusks as a rapid and effective evolutionary response to escape slaughter by ruthless and resourceful poachers who kill elephants for their ivory trophies.

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Snarknado! Jan 22, 2016 • 10:43:44pm

Must sleep now. Night, all. Stay dry, stay warm, stay safe.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 22, 2016 • 10:47:22pm

A couple of random pictures today from the land of Philadelphia. First is a snonut. The wind blows the snow down a flight of stairs and then pushes it away from the center, leaving a patch of bare pavement exposed. It can get pretty big. This is twenty feet across.

Snonut 01232016

The next something I found in a parking lot. I call them Get Out of Jail Free Cards. I found about 50 of the darn things. I wonder if I can sell them (or save one for a rainy day:P)//

Get Out of Jail Free

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WhatEVs Jan 22, 2016 • 10:53:20pm

re: #192 ausador

Koch brothers backed “American Lands Council” supporting Bundy. Says to expect more takeovers until all lands returned to local control.

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Someone posted “sample” ALEC legislation verbiage last night in Twitter. They want it so they can get permits to suck it dry.

ALEC is a truly, epically evil organization.

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WhatEVs Jan 22, 2016 • 10:57:38pm

re: #210 Dark_Falcon

Who is OPB and does anyone have a link to the actual article in question?

They’re @opb on Twitter. They post all their articles there.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 10:58:45pm

Eldar sighted in Anchorage.

adn.com

I’ll get the promethium.

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 11:00:41pm

Worth a read…
Those Native artifacts the idiots were going through aren’t being stored by the government for one thing.

Lone field station worker flees militia in dark, driving without headlights, avoiding brakes to elude detection. https://t.co/5xdBPtVUlG

— Les Zaitz (@LesZaitz) January 23, 2016

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WhatEVs Jan 22, 2016 • 11:01:28pm

re: #227 Dark_Falcon

Among those who posted replied to NR’s cover was the nasty bastard whose tweet is behind the spoiler button. The button is to make sure those who don’t want to see it don’t have to:

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Of course I’ve now blocked this creep.

There’s a certain glory at watching the monster destroy not just the doctors that created it but the entire infrastructure. In that, I fully support Trumpenstein.

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goddamnedfrank Jan 22, 2016 • 11:09:12pm

HAHAHAHAHA!

.@airbnb we got a problem with the people taking care of the place. Turned out to be completely unreliable assholes. pic.twitter.com/cWw5D3zUcb

— Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt) January 23, 2016

@claytoncubitt Oh no, we’re here for you, Clayton. Could you DM us in details regarding the issue?

— Airbnb Help (@AirbnbHelp) January 23, 2016

.@AirbnbHelp Does it matter to you at all that the owners have placed their complete confidence and “trust” in me? pic.twitter.com/sps4zUkbVm

— Clayton Cubitt (@claytoncubitt) January 23, 2016

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Blind Frog Belly White Jan 22, 2016 • 11:31:06pm

re: #272 Snarknado!

Yup. But it’s not evolution — the distribution of traits changed, but nothing was added, removed or changed (as illustrated by the fact that the moths reverted to type when the coal dust went away).

Of course that’s evolution - a change in the genetic composition of a population over generations caused by selective pressure acting on genetic diversity. Evolution doesn’t imply something added in every case.

The genetic composition of the moth population changed, as the environment changed imposing a different selective pressure. That’s evolution.

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Kragar Jan 22, 2016 • 11:41:18pm

There are many instances in history where apparent losers suddenly turn out to be winners unexpectedly. We will win. #Oregonstandoff

— Ammon Bundy (@Ammon_Bundy) January 23, 2016

And then there is the other 99.99% of the time where a bunch of assholes find out they got in over their heads https://t.co/iyeaXZnjrO

— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 23, 2016

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ausador Jan 22, 2016 • 11:59:01pm

Damn bloodthirsty people, just had a guy go off on me and accuse me of supporting the Bundy wackos. Just because I wouldn’t go along with his “call in the military and gun them all down now” fantasy. Just doesn’t pay to try to reason with some people. :(

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Kragar Jan 23, 2016 • 12:05:32am

Deer frolicking in the street in Cleveland Park. @capitalweather #Snowzilla pic.twitter.com/UaQ5ZLCj4h

— Laurie Trayers (@ltrayers) January 23, 2016

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ausador Jan 23, 2016 • 12:10:07am

But who else is in the picture? Gee, could that be Charleton Heston before he became a RWNJ? Yep.

#PSA Good on @BernieSanders that he marched for Civil Rights 50+ yrs ago. What he prioritizes & does TODAY matters. pic.twitter.com/E59qxW0FdF

— Only4RM (@Only4RM) January 23, 2016

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Dr Lizardo Jan 23, 2016 • 12:26:24am

re: #263 Eric The Fruit Bat

It should be damn embarrassing to these so-called Christians that we know more about Christ and the Bible than they do. I don’t even call them Christians, I call them what they really are in today’s world: Neo-Phairsees.

Not to be pedantic, but I think you might have meant to type “neo-Pharisees”.

Unless you meant fans of Liz Phair, which is totally cool.

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ausador Jan 23, 2016 • 12:33:36am

🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾 pic.twitter.com/T9KW7RDqcp

— The Cult Cat (@Elverojaguar) January 23, 2016

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William Lewis Jan 23, 2016 • 12:40:22am

re: #263 Eric The Fruit Bat

It should be damn embarrassing to these so-called Christians that we know more about Christ and the Bible than they do. I don’t even call them Christians, I call them what they really are in today’s world: Neo-Phairsees.

I’ll just gently suggest that beyond the typo in the name, that you might want to find a different label. Hypocrite would be better.

The pharise movement of that era was highly educated in their religious beliefs and obligations. After the destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans, the pharises would be the basis of modern rabbinical Judaism. While they are denigrated in much of the new testament it is in the context of the fact that the writers were the ones booted out of the synagogues and tended all to often to an anger that is the basis of most modern antisemitism.

A better view exists in Matthew’s gospel where Jesus says to be even more holy than the already very holy pharises.

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ausador Jan 23, 2016 • 12:50:43am

Dammit…

Four dead in worst Canada school shooting in decade, suspect caught https://t.co/6hZ6O0gIuU pic.twitter.com/F9OtCSZ1td

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) January 23, 2016

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ausador Jan 23, 2016 • 1:22:10am

#5Things Five Rules to Remember in Life mostly does not apply to me. But they make me laugh & likely apply to some. pic.twitter.com/WBLmj0CwZl

— John Moffitt (@JohnRMoffitt) January 23, 2016

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goddamnedfrank Jan 23, 2016 • 1:40:50am

What I like most about @SarahPalinUSA: she transferred 5 times for a communications degree and still struggles with public speaking.

— Andi (@andrea_lynne88) January 23, 2016

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ausador Jan 23, 2016 • 1:43:29am

Oh please be false…

Uh, Ruppert Murdoch… buy Twitter? SHOOT ME NOW. https://t.co/ZuC5Jz1iy0 pic.twitter.com/ftGfdvhWaM

— Shoq (@Shoq) January 23, 2016

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 1:48:01am

lol

Today’s cover: How an ex-KGB spy was killed with tea after accusing Putin of pedophilia https://t.co/B0aL6WyAft pic.twitter.com/nrtU5TBflK

— New York Post (@nypost) January 22, 2016

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 1:51:01am

re: #263 Eric The Fruit Bat

It should be damn embarrassing to these so-called Christians that we know more about Christ and the Bible than they do. I don’t even call them Christians, I call them what they really are in today’s world: Neo-Phairsees.

Pharisees were just a Jewish sect, the spiritual ancestors of today’s rabbinic Judaism. What do you have against them?

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thecommodore Jan 23, 2016 • 1:53:24am

Video

David Bowie Impersonates…..

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Lancelot Link Jan 23, 2016 • 1:55:09am

re: #280 WhatEVs

There’s a certain glory at watching the monster destroy not just the doctors that created it but the entire infrastructure. In that, I fully support Trumpenstein.

“Get away from that lever! You’ll blow us all to atoms!”

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Alephnaught Jan 23, 2016 • 3:35:59am

re: #8 Stanley Sea Toujours

Re: the Tiny Desk music - note the B52’s were the first I ever saw to use the kid piano. :)

The first time I saw someone using a toy keyboard was Trio playing a Casio VL-Tone on Top of the Pops. (And I got one shortly afterwards, as they were far cheaper than any synths at the time. )

TRIO - DA DA DA LIVE ON TOTP AGY

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 3:40:28am

drugs are baaad, mkay

This kid on some next shit😂 pic.twitter.com/fUP7QGfCIT

— WORLD STAR FANS (@WorldStarFunny) January 21, 2016

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 3:52:32am

re: #235 freetoken

America, 2016:

Evolution is neither a fact, nor a theory. It is a belief.

One of things that seems to be missing in schools is the teaching of the basic principles of science.

I recall learning as early as the fourth or fifth grade about how one starts with a hypothesis, if the hypothesis can be objectively and independently confirmed by multiple observations (facts), then it becomes a theory.

These goombahs do not understand that ID cannot be confirmed by any independent, objective observations.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 23, 2016 • 4:00:35am

re: #300 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

One of things that seems to be missing in schools is the teaching of the basic principles of science.

I recall learning as early as the fourth or fifth grade about one starts with a hypothesis, if the hypothesis can be objectively and independently confirmed by multiple observations (facts), then it becomes a theory.

These goombahs do not understand that ID cannot be confirmed by any independent, objective observations.

This kid and he is one, because his name is not among the faculty of that school) goes to a Christian school, whose approach to science is even worse than the typical public school.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 4:24:49am

Good Morning. Welcome to high winds and blowing snow. :(

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 4:26:09am

Germany got socked with Blitzeis last night, roads and streets turned into skating rinks and cars were slipping and sliding everywhere. Things have warmed up and thawed out as of this morning.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 4:31:21am

The only good news is that this storm will end on Sunday in the morning. forecast.weather.gov

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Dr Lizardo Jan 23, 2016 • 4:34:24am

re: #303 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Germany got socked with Blitzeis last night, roads and streets turned into skating rinks and cars were slipping and sliding everywhere. Things have warmed up and thawed out as of this morning.

Looks like it’s gonna start warming up here in the eastern part of the Czech Republic. Today’s high is 29 F, tomorrow is forecast for 37 F.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 4:43:00am

Some people consider Thomas Sowell an intellectual.

The actual track record of crowd pleasers, whether Juan Perón in Argentina, Obama in America, or Hitler in Germany, is very sobering, if not painfully depressing.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 4:46:32am

re: #306 Nyet

And the fact that he is parroting the same lines as the majority of the GOP makes him one of that crowd. I cannot see anything that is remotely close to functioning grey matter.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 4:48:53am

This freeper is right:

Glenn Beck a conservative?? LOL. La Raza stooge Russell Moore? Cuckservative doofus Erickson? Neocon assclown Kristol? McCain lackey Mark Helprin?
What a ridiculous joke. How far this rag has sunk since Bill Buckley made it great. Rich Lowry is a complete laughingstock. This will only HELP Trump.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 4:52:31am

re: #308 Nyet

True. But the voting majority of Americans have voted for Obama twice and I believe that they will probably pick Clinton as the next POTUS.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 4:53:48am

re: #309 PhillyPretzel

True. But the voting majority of Americans have voted for Obama twice and I believe that they will probably pick Clinton as the next POTUS.

I do not believe that Trump will ever command a majority even within his party, much less among the general electorate.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 4:59:27am

re: #310 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The GOP is only making news by being so outrageous that is it insane. And anyone who did have common sense has either shut up or is falling lock step with the rest of the party. Very, very sad.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 4:59:46am

re: #309 PhillyPretzel

True. But the voting majority of Americans have voted for Obama twice and I believe that they will probably pick Clinton as the next POTUS.

They also voted for Bush twice.
Plus, any massive act of terror will likely put Trump on top.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 5:01:13am

re: #312 Nyet

That could happen but I am trying to remain positive.

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Dr Lizardo Jan 23, 2016 • 5:01:50am

re: #312 Nyet

They also voted for Bush twice.
Plus, any massive act of terror will likely put Trump on top.

To be honest, I don’t even think it would take a massive act of terrorism to put Trump on top; even a small-scale act could do it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 5:02:58am

re: #312 Nyet

They also voted for Bush twice.
Plus, any massive act of terror will likely put Trump on top.

That is the worst case scenario.

Any sort of natural and/or man-made disaster that calls for the government to declare martial law and use extraordinary force to restore order and basic services will have people howling from coast to coast.

Or a right-wing militia occupation/hostage situation that escalates and gets out of hand would also hand it right to DT

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 5:05:02am

re: #315 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

DT? Could you please tell me what this means? okay I got it.
That Trump person

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 5:06:51am

re: #316 PhillyPretzel

DT? Could you please tell me what this means?

If the government is compelled to use any extraordinary force, for any reason, however justifiable, it will be spun and held up as proof that the government is staging its takeover and is out to round us all up into FEMA camps.

Especially if the reason has anything to do with Islamist terror.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 5:08:30am

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

Thanks. Yes you are correct. I was referring to a particular loud mouth. That and it is still early in the morning here in Philly. :)

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 5:11:27am

Greets and saluts from the snowy wonderland that is the NYC metro area snowpocalypse.

Global warming denialists think that a winter storm somehow disproves climate change or global warming, when global warning can actually explain why storms like this are more powerful than usual (and may get more frequent). It’s basic science, but these folks don’t know or care about science.

Just like the GOP.

Anti-science. Anti-rational. And their top candidates are pushing extremist positions that are unsupported by science or logic. The more idiotic the statement, the more their polls soar. The more extreme statements made, the higher the support among self-identifying Republicans.

That goes for Trump. Cruz. And all the rest down the line.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 5:12:45am

re: #319 lawhawk

Just like the GOP.

Anti-science. Anti-rational. And their top candidates are pushing extremist positions that are unsupported by science or logic. The more idiotic the statement, the more their polls soar. The more extreme statements made, the higher the support among self-identifying Republicans.

That goes for Trump. Cruz. And all the rest down the line.

If your religion/political ideology forces you to choose between faith and science, you are in the wrong religion/ideology.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 5:31:41am

“Ad exposing how Trump has used eminent domain to bulldoze an elderly woman’s home to create a limo parking lot” https://t.co/zK7wI1QQUC

— Ted Cruz (@tedcruz) January 22, 2016

Wait, Ted, didn’t you call him terrific? What happened?

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 5:44:05am

re: #295 Nyet

Pharisees were just a Jewish sect, the spiritual ancestors of today’s rabbinic Judaism. What do you have against them?

I’m not sure that the label “Pharisees” applies in a discussion of evolution. IIRC the Pharisees emphasized the role of tradition in addition to the Scriptures in interpreting the law. While denying the reality of evolution is a long running thing with reactionaries, the acceptance or denial of evolution really doesn’t apply to interpreting the law of God.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 5:45:59am

Glenn Beck and the other GOPers say Trump is for big government.

That’s true, but are Beck or the other right wingers who attacked Trump in the NR piece this week actually for small government?

The answer is no. They’re not.

You can’t be for small government and then demand that a huge wall be built on the Southern border that is patrolled by security forces, plus deportation of millions of people who are here. You need a massive infrastructure to handle all that. It would make the DHS look like kid’s play.

Then you’ve got their position on abortion, where they are pushing government so small that it fits up in the lady bits - with government intruding into decisions made between a doctor and their patient (the polar opposite of small government).

These people aren’t about small government. They’re about government beholden to theocrats and religious beliefs that are antithetical to the 1A.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 5:46:33am

I’m catching up on a couple of days of Oregon videos. Someone needs to put that shofar out of its misery.

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) January 23, 2016

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 5:47:32am

I think it’s snowing like mad in Philadelphia, but is it really snowing if the snow isn’t hitting the ground?

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Romantic Heretic Jan 23, 2016 • 6:00:59am

re: #290 ausador

Yeah. Sigh.

Our First Nations communities suffer from the same problems that they do in the States.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 6:04:10am

Thousands of drivers are #stranded on #Interstate75 in #Kentucky. It started Friday night thanks to heavy #snow. pic.twitter.com/cjUcM3bvQy

— WeatherNation (@WeatherNation) January 23, 2016

still snowing this morning here in the backwoods, but still the very tiny snowflakes. I went outside to take measurements for NWS and we’ve got about 5-6 inches here, so didn’t do too bad. County has declared a state of emergency, but that is no surprise since we have only two plows here and the roads are pretty much crap anyway.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate Jan 23, 2016 • 6:10:04am

re: #327 Backwoods_Sleuth

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still snowing this morning here in the backwoods, but still the very tiny snowflakes. I went outside to take measurements for NWS and we’ve got about 5-6 inches here, so didn’t do too bad. County has declared a state of emergency, but that is no surprise since we have only two plows here and the roads are pretty much crap anyway.

I hope KY responds better than it did the last time the Ohio Valley had a big storm. State shut down for a week.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 6:13:57am

@Hesiod2k11 Because she doesn’t have a dick? That’s simplistic thinking. I don’t doubt her feminism, but @SenSanders record is clear.

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 23, 2016

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 6:15:37am

Morning everyone. Sorry…political tweet beat my salutation to the board.

Seriously, though. Hillary supporters act like she won’t compromise away shit for the sake of making it look like she’s getting shit done. Have they not watched her the last 10 years?

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 6:16:20am

@paulapoundstone A sea of white … I doubt Trump can tell the difference between the storm and one of his rallies.

— The Angry Liberal (@angryandliberal) January 23, 2016

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 6:17:02am

re: #329 darthstar

The differences between Hillary and Bernie are present, but slight especially when compared to any of the GOPers.

So, Democrats have to set aside whatever gripes about who the eventual Democrat nominee will be and realize that the greatest threat to the nation is if a GOPer wins the presidency in November - any of them.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 6:19:02am

re: #332 lawhawk

The differences between Hillary and Bernie are present, but slight especially when compared to any of the GOPers.

So, Democrats have to set aside whatever gripes about who the eventual Democrat nominee will be and realize that the greatest threat to the nation is if a GOPer wins the presidency in November - any of them.

True. Though preferably the candidate that will be able to pull off 2 terms.

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Kent Dorfman Jan 23, 2016 • 6:22:21am

A ventriloquist cowboy walks into town. He sees a farmer and his hound dog sitting sitting out on the front porch of a rusted old shack, and he figures he’ll have a little fun.

Cowboy: “Hey, cool dog. Mind if I speak to him?”
Farmer: “Dogs caint talk!”
Cowboy: “Hey dog, how’s it going?”
Dog: “Great, thanks for asking.”
(Farmer stares in stupefied amazement )
Cowboy: “How does your owner treat you?”
Dog: “Really well. He walks me twice a day, feeds me Alpo, and takes me to the lake once a week to play.”

Cowboy: “Mind if I talk to your horse?”
Farmer: “Horses caint talk!”
Cowboy: “Hey horse, how’s it going?”
Horse: “Cool.”
(Farmer falls off his chair)
Cowboy: “How’s your owner treat you?”
Horse: “Pretty good. He rides me regularly, brushes me down often, and keeps me in the barn to protect me from the elements.”

Cowboy: “Mind if I talk to your sheep?”
The farmer stands up and says, “Them sheep ain’t nothing but a bunch of damned liars!”

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 6:25:09am

re: #290 ausador

Dammit…

Suspect killed his two brothers at home and then went to the school. It’s a very poor area too. Many native Indians. :-/

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 6:27:30am

re: #332 lawhawk

I just don’t see many Sanders supporters voting for Hillary. They are going to sit the election out. To them, Bernie is anti-establishment, being an Independent. Hillary is just as bad as anyone else in the GOP.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 6:28:39am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

I just don’t see many Sanders supporters voting for Hillary. They are going to sit the election out. To them, Beenie is anti-establishment, being an Independent. Hillary is just as bad as anyone else in the GOP.

Lots of man-children among them, true.

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 6:28:52am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

I just don’t see many Sanders supporters voting for Hillary. They are going to sit the election out. To them, Bernie is anti-establishment, being an Independent. Hillary is just as bad as anyone else in the GOP.

If they do that then they are stupid as hell.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 6:30:00am

re: #337 Nyet

Lots of man-children among them, true.

They will cite all these polls where Bernie is apparently 30+ points ahead of Hilary. When she eventually gets the nod, they’ll lash out, saying the whole political system is rigged yadda yadda yadda.

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Kent Dorfman Jan 23, 2016 • 6:30:13am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

I see it as the exact opposite. I think if Bernie gets the nomination, Hillary supporters will be too butthurt to vote.

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 6:31:21am

re: #340 Kent Dorfman

I see it as the exact opposite. I think if Bernie gets the nomination, Hillary supporters will be too butthurt to vote.

Did they sit out when Obama got the nomination, No the didn’t.

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Belafon Jan 23, 2016 • 6:32:23am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

I just don’t see many Sanders supporters voting for Hillary. They are going to sit the election out. To them, Bernie is anti-establishment, being an Independent. Hillary is just as bad as anyone else in the GOP.

I’m not worried about that. Most people know what they have to do.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 6:34:14am

re: #340 Kent Dorfman

I see it as the exact opposite. I think if Bernie gets the nomination, Hillary supporters will be too butthurt to vote.

Didn’t happen before. Won’t happen this time either.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 6:39:38am

re: #339 GlutenFreeJesus

I don’t know if it’s a done deal, probably no more than in 2008, but I don’t see a critical mass of Hillary supporters throwing a hissy fit if Bernie does win.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 6:45:16am

re: #344 Nyet

Me neither. They’ll be disappointed. But they’ll also know what’s at stake.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 6:48:11am

re: #344 Nyet

I don’t know if it’s a done deal, probably no more than in 2008, but I don’t seen a critical mass of Hillary supporters throwing a hissy fit if Bernie does win.

No, it’s not as bad as 2008 yet. Just on Twitter…there are a couple of dozen Hillary supporters who will not accept anything positive about Bernie.

His body temperature is 97.8 degrees.
NO IT’S NOT!

I’ve got one woman who follows me who has gone off on a couple of multi-tweet racist rants over Bernie. Completely conflating Hillary and Obama into some kind of mixed-race/mixed-gender martyr to THE SOCIALIST.

It’s quite entertaining, really. I stopped using profanity as a way of addressing her and now just do so very gently. If Bernie wins and she supports him I plan to storify it and DM her so she can put it in a box with her other collectibles.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 6:48:36am

re: #345 GlutenFreeJesus

Me neither. They’ll be disappointed. But they’ll also know what’s at stake.

What’s at stake?

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 6:49:57am

re: #347 darthstar

What’s at stake?

SCOTUS picks more then likely will be 2 of them.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 6:51:08am

re: #323 lawhawk

Someone was saying that Trump supporters want smaller government and that he’s the right man for the job. A business man. Not a career politician. He will run this country like a business.

Well. The point of a business is to make it bigger and to gain more revenue.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 6:52:14am

re: #347 darthstar

What’s at stake?

For starters, no more vetoing Obamacare repeals, no more adults in the security council.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 6:52:44am

re: #347 darthstar

What’s at stake?

A GOP presidency.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 6:55:03am

re: #349 GlutenFreeJesus

Yeah, and Trump’s track record as a businessman is spotty. Multiple bankruptcies and shuttered businesses outside the core real estate enterprise.

And Trump’s big thing is to build a wall. That’ll cost billions, and require a huge infrastructure to man and maintain. Yeah, that’s small government.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 6:55:52am

Trump will probably ruin America.

That’s why he’s all the rage among Putinists in Russia.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 6:56:15am

re: #348 Tigger2

SCOTUS picks more then likely.

re: #350 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

For starters, no more vetoing Obamacare repeals, no more adults in the security council.

re: #351 GlutenFreeJesus

A GOP presidency.

That’s it, bra? And here I thought it was something important like trying to get the fucking DH rule into the National League.

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Kent Dorfman Jan 23, 2016 • 6:58:50am

re: #349 GlutenFreeJesus

It depends on the company’s mission statement.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 6:58:58am

Oh joy, another billionaire is now weighing a run. Former NYC mayor Mike Bloomberg.

Bloomberg, former NYC mayor, is weighing a White House run, frustrated by a race gone haywire, associates say https://t.co/aOuBUiDzOu

— The New York Times (@nytimes) January 23, 2016

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 6:59:40am

re: #353 Nyet

Trump will probably ruin America.

That’s why he’s all the rage among Putinists in Russia.

We survived Bush. We’ll survive Trump.

Actually, Trump would be a lot like Reagan - he’d be conservative, sure…for the cameras. But he’d protect Obamacare (because it works and the numbers make sense and he’s a businessman). He’d invest in infrastructure (because he knows how investments work). He’d probably suck at international relations the same as Bush, but he’d actually be less boisterous about it after the first few months. And the GOP would be fucking livid as they watched the tea party embrace progressive policies wrapped in Tea Party rhetoric simply because white guy.

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sagehen Jan 23, 2016 • 7:01:39am

re: #333 Nyet

True. Though preferably the candidate that will be able to pull off 2 terms.

Which is exactly why I’m reluctant to vote for a 75-year-old.

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sagehen Jan 23, 2016 • 7:03:54am

re: #346 darthstar

No, it’s not as bad as 2008 yet. Just on Twitter…there are a couple of dozen Hillary supporters who will not accept anything positive about Bernie.

His body temperature is 97.8 degrees.
NO IT’S NOT!

psst. 98.6 degrees.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:05:25am

re: #358 sagehen

Which is exactly why I’m reluctant to vote for a 75-year-old.

One term of Bernie with Elizabeth Warren to follow for two more. Fuckin’ progressive dynasty. Though looking that far ahead doesn’t make sense as anything can happen with any of these people. Warren could turn out to have a hobby of insider trading and stomping on baby seals.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:05:43am

re: #359 sagehen

psst. 98.6 degrees.

People cool as they age.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 7:06:06am

re: #361 darthstar

Some much faster than others…

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Kent Dorfman Jan 23, 2016 • 7:08:32am

re: #360 darthstar

Stomping on the baby seals for the tears, they fix wrinkles!

364

Kent Dorfman Jan 23, 2016 • 7:08:58am

A foursome of male golfers, all in their 40’s, discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Hooters because the waitresses were young, good looking, had big breasts and wore short-shorts.

Ten years later, at age 50, the golfing buddies once again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Hooters because the food and service was good, they had many televisions to watch the games on, and the beer selection was excellent.

Ten years later, at age 60, the foursome again discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Hooters because there was plenty of parking, they could dine in peace, and it was good value for the money.

Ten years later, at age 70, they discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Hooters because the restaurant was wheelchair accessible and had a toilet for the disabled.

Ten years later, at age 80, the friends discussed where they should meet for lunch. Finally it was agreed that they would meet at Hooters because they had never been there before.

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BeenHereAwhile Jan 23, 2016 • 7:10:07am

re: #319 lawhawk

Greets and saluts from the snowy wonderland that is the NYC metro area snowpocalypse.

Global warming denialists think that a winter storm somehow disproves climate change or global warming, when global warning can actually explain why storms like this are more powerful than usual (and may get more frequent). It’s basic science, but these folks don’t know or care about science.

-snip-

It also rains (less than 10 inches annually) in the Chihuahuan Desert, the Sonoran Desert, and the Mojave Desert, but they are still classified as deserts.

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b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 7:11:25am

re: #361 darthstar

People cool as they age.

I was cool long before it was cool to be cool.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 7:11:49am

re: #358 sagehen

Which is exactly why I’m reluctant to vote for a 75-year-old.

Actuarial tables are an ageist conspiracy!

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:14:32am

re: #366 b_sharp

I was cool long before it was cool to be cool.

Yeah, but you’re a fuckin’ Canuk. That doesn’t count.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 7:19:01am

re: #361 darthstar

People cool as they age.

We just get better at chilling…

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:19:15am

Need some help bud?
Sure.
Damn…looks like you’re stuck…Sorry, guess I couldn’t help.

Good Samaritan shot and killed by driver stuck in snow, police say: https://t.co/U6fZsE9J8F

— ABC News (@ABC) January 23, 2016

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Barefoot Grin Jan 23, 2016 • 7:20:12am

Oh great. This just popped into my brain unbidden:

“Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend,
do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end….”

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:21:33am

re: #371 Barefoot Grin

Oh great. This just popped into my brain unbidden:

“Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend,
do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end….”

One Tin Soldier - The Legend of Billy Jack

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 7:22:24am

HillaryIs44 creep has finally removed all the Hillary pics.

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Barefoot Grin Jan 23, 2016 • 7:23:23am

re: #372 darthstar

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Oh, man. I had forgotten that connection. I wanted to be Billy Jack. Couldn’t be bothered to take martial arts classes, though.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:24:57am

re: #371 Barefoot Grin

Oh great. This just popped into my brain unbidden:

“Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend,
do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end….”

Love that song.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs Jan 23, 2016 • 7:24:58am

re: #370 darthstar

Need some help bud?
Sure.
Damn…looks like you’re stuck…Sorry, guess I couldn’t help.

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yeah, America doesn’t have a problem with guns

shit

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:25:27am

re: #374 Barefoot Grin

Oh, man. I had forgotten that connection. I wanted to be Billy Jack. Couldn’t be bothered to take martial arts classes, though.

Yeah…loved that movie when I was a kid. May have to stream it today if it’s available.

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Belafon Jan 23, 2016 • 7:25:29am

re: #344 Nyet

I don’t know if it’s a done deal, probably no more than in 2008, but I don’t see a critical mass of Hillary supporters throwing a hissy fit if Bernie does win.

A super majority of Democrats know that any Democrat is better than none. There’ll be some venting early, and probably some PUMAs, but it’ll turn out like 2008.

379

lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 7:27:19am

Trump supporters this morning keep saying nation has never been this bad.

They’re delusional and ahistorical.

“Our country has never been this bad” Trump supporters. Umm, great depression? War of 1812? Civil War? Like I said, these ppl are delusional

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 23, 2016

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 7:27:21am

Hearing from some friends in New Jersey that places near the shore are flooding.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 7:30:09am

re: #275 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

That snonut from last night is now too big for me to get a picture. It’s now about 40 feet across and about a foot and a half deep.

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 7:30:17am

re: #379 lawhawk

Trump supporters this morning keep saying nation has never been this bad.

They’re delusional and ahistorical.

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If they want to see the country in worse shape all they have to do is look back at the Bush years.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 7:30:29am

re: #367 Nyet

Actuarial tables are an ageist conspiracy!

Our Presidents live a long time, if we don’t shoot them.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 7:30:53am

re: #380 Backwoods_Sleuth

Long Island had minor flooding during high tide this morning. Same with Jersey Shore.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:30:59am

re: #381 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

That snonut from last night is now too big for me to get a picture. It’s now about 40 feet across and about a foot and a half deep.

Does it have sprinkles on it?

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:31:39am

re: #384 lawhawk

Long Island had minor flooding during high tide this morning. Same with Jersey Shore.

Is Snooki okay?

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 7:32:16am

Cape May NJ now past their high tide. Here is latest graph. pic.twitter.com/PFMIjjBeWa

— Gary Szatkowski (@GarySzatkowski) January 23, 2016

That being said, looks like Cape May NJ set a new all-time coastal flooding record. Gage hit 8.98’ MLLW. #Sandy hit 8.9’

— Gary Szatkowski (@GarySzatkowski) January 23, 2016

“@Zeke_O: #Jonas #StoneHarborNJ @GarySzatkowski tide overachieving! pic.twitter.com/8p3BK7Xvbn” @GeriKrotow

— A Sammie Griffith (@GriffithSammie) January 23, 2016

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 7:32:31am

Snooki has no problem floating.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:33:16am

re: #386 darthstar

Is Snooki okay?

BTW, I think it’s honorable that @GovChristie went home to monitor The Situation and Snooki. So few people care about them. #blizzard2016

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 23, 2016

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b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 7:35:15am

5 minutes, read and post LGF.
5 minutes, play with dog.
5 minutes, read and tweet on Twitter.
5 minutes, play with dog.

I never get anything done.

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b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 7:35:59am

BTW, it’s above zero here. In January.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:35:59am

I’d be careful Donald pic.twitter.com/Y3iZmG4tt5

— Jeb Bush (@JebBush) January 23, 2016

@JebBush Throwing pads and eye-black on an old lady to use her as a prop. That’s pathetic. At least Barbara has the balls you don’t.

— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) January 23, 2016

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 7:38:57am

Ocean City New Jersey, 53rd and Haven, higher water now with some wave action! Thanks Ritti #oceancity #newjersey pic.twitter.com/6oQJrHCikN

— Dan Leppold (@dolostone) January 23, 2016

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makeitstop Jan 23, 2016 • 7:40:04am

re: #371 Barefoot Grin

Oh great. This just popped into my brain unbidden:

“Go ahead and hate your neighbor, go ahead and cheat a friend,
do it in the name of heaven, you can justify it in the end….”

Great, I walk in the door just as they’re handing out earworms.

Maybe I’ll just crank up the Telecaster and drive it out by force.

Oh, yeah, It snowed out here overnight. Didn’t see that coming.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 7:40:45am

re: #384 lawhawk

Long Island had minor flooding during high tide this morning. Same with Jersey Shore.

Minor being relative. As more reports come in about flooding along the coast.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 7:40:53am

re: #358 sagehen

Which is exactly why I’m reluctant to vote for a 75-year-old.

I’d be happy to see an aging HRC hand off her 4 year administration to a Franken/Warren/Castro ticket.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:41:24am

The alarm on my wife’s side of the bed just went off…radio static. Hasn’t gone off in god knows how long. Cat must have hit the switch going up to the window sill. Speaking of which, I have a sleeping dog and sleeping cat between me and said alarm. Guess I’ll listen to static.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 7:41:56am

re: #396 Decatur Deb

I’d be happy to see an aging HRC hand off her 4 year administration to a Franken/Warren/Castro ticket.

Not sure Fidel will survive for that long.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:42:07am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s salt water, right? It’s good for the lawns and plants I hear.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 7:43:06am

re: #398 Nyet

Not sure Fidel will survive for that long.

If he was going to die, he’d be dead by now. Keith Richards, too.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 7:45:11am

re: #399 darthstar

That’s salt water, right? It’s good for the lawns and plants I hear.

Yeah, a whole lot of people saw their lawns and landscaping destroyed after Sandy flooded their landscaping and homes. And what wasn’t damaged by the salt water was harmed by all the sand and muck.

Already close to 2 feet down around Jackson NJ (Six Flags Great Adventure).

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 7:45:12am

re: #330 darthstar

Morning everyone. Sorry…political tweet beat my salutation to the board.

Seriously, though. Hillary supporters act like she won’t compromise away shit for the sake of making it look like she’s getting shit done. Have they not watched her the last 10 years?

Can you explain what shit she compromised away in the last ten years? That time period only covers her last 2 years or so in the senate. The rest of that time she was Secretary of State or out of government.

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Feline Fearless Leader Jan 23, 2016 • 7:46:42am

re: #312 Nyet

They also voted for Bush twice.
Plus, any massive act of terror will likely put Trump on top.

The GOP-leaners I know are shaking their head over Trump, not talking at all about Cruz, and apparently putting their hopes in Rubio. A lot of Hillary-hate out there as well. And the ones that live in NJ have nothing nice to say about Christie.

(And the amount of political talk I do with co-workers is limited.)

404

makeitstop Jan 23, 2016 • 7:47:24am

re: #386 darthstar

Is Snooki okay?

I thought he was out in Iowa.

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Ace-o-aces Jan 23, 2016 • 7:47:43am

Ted Cruz poll numbers are down big. Because he was born in Canada and was, until recently, a Canadian citizen, many believe he cannot run!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2016

Birther gonna birth-er. https://t.co/hURrcv2RsP

— aceoaces (@aceoaces) January 23, 2016

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:48:19am

re: #397 darthstar

The alarm on my wife’s side of the bed just went off…radio static. Hasn’t gone off in god knows how long. Cat must have hit the switch going up to the window sill. Speaking of which, I have a sleeping dog and sleeping cat between me and said alarm. Guess I’ll listen to static.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 7:48:48am

re: #402 ObserverArt

I think he makes a very truthy argument. However, if I were to use a word to describe the Clinton modus operandi, it would be expedience. Part of that I blame on some of Bill Clinton’s decisions, but part of it is my impression of her from the 2008 campaign. Having said that, compromise shouldn’t be a bad word.

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darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 7:49:35am

re: #404 makeitstop

I thought he was out in Iowa.

He was in New Hampshire. He doesn’t want to quit the race until he finishes fifth or better in a state.

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 7:49:40am

re: #330 darthstar

Morning everyone. Sorry…political tweet beat my salutation to the board.

Seriously, though. Hillary supporters act like she won’t compromise away shit for the sake of making it look like she’s getting shit done. Have they not watched her the last 10 years?

And Bernie supporters don’t think Bernie would have to compromise his butt off to get anything done?

410

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 7:51:58am

The latest Fox popularity poll shows little change for the Republicans:

foxnews.com

We’re just waiting for next week for the voting to start… and the following week… and then SC and NV.

A month from now either we’ll be looking for Bloomberg to save us from a Trumpocalypse, or something surprising might happen such as Rubio surge ahead. I suspect the latter is highly unlikely.

411

Schroedinger's Dog Jan 23, 2016 • 7:52:47am

Morning Lizards. I thought my puppy was fat but he just turned out to to be a little husky.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 7:53:35am

Tian Tian, giant panda at our @nationalzoo, does #snowzilla better than all of us #blizzard2016 pic.twitter.com/6lXHXQF9QX

— Smithsonian (@smithsonian) January 23, 2016

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 7:53:56am

re: #357 darthstar

We survived Bush. We’ll survive Trump.

Actually, Trump would be a lot like Reagan - he’d be conservative, sure…for the cameras. But he’d protect Obamacare (because it works and the numbers make sense and he’s a businessman). He’d invest in infrastructure (because he knows how investments work). He’d probably suck at international relations the same as Bush, but he’d actually be less boisterous about it after the first few months. And the GOP would be fucking livid as they watched the tea party embrace progressive policies wrapped in Tea Party rhetoric simply because white guy.

Is this a post of you admitting that if the election came down to Trump versus Clinton your distaste in Clinton would allow you to vote for Trump?

414

b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 7:55:33am

Who’s the most ideological?

Cruz?
Carson?
Clinton?
Sanders?

Is being extremely ideological something you want in a politician? A president?

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Schroedinger's Dog Jan 23, 2016 • 7:56:05am

re: #410 freetoken

The latest Fox popularity poll shows little change for the Republicans:

foxnews.com

We’re just waiting for next week for the voting to start… and the following week… and then SC and NV.

A month from now either we’ll be looking for Bloomberg to save us from a Trumpocalypse, or something surprising might happen such as Rubio surge ahead. I suspect the latter is highly unlikely.

After the Palin endorsement, I’m still not convinced this isn’t a scheme of some kind to expose the dark underbelly of the GOP before lancing it, like the pus filled abscess that it is, by losing one big election to the GOP most hated enemy.

416

Belafon Jan 23, 2016 • 7:56:34am

re: #414 b_sharp

Who’s the most ideological?

Cruz?
Carson?
Clinton?
Sanders?

Is being extremely ideological something you want in a politician? A president?

Only if the person is president of part of the country.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 7:57:54am

re: #413 ObserverArt

I must have missed that #357. First of all, a lot of people didn’t survive Bush. Second, we spent the better part of the last eight years fixing the damage that Bush caused. Trump can only be worse. For starters, who on Earth will he take advice from? That was one of Bush’s problems: he couldn’t tell good advice from bad advice. Trump seems bent on rejecting any position that isn’t his own.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 7:58:26am

re: #414 b_sharp

Who’s the most ideological?

Cruz?
Carson?
Clinton?
Sanders?

Is being extremely ideological something you want in a politician? A president?

This is the basic difference between HRC supporters and the Sanders backers:

“One’s evaluation of incrementalism will hinge on underlying assumptions about human nature and what it is possible to achieve through politics. Utopians of both the right and the left reject its slow operation and apparent incoherence. More-pragmatic policy makers find incrementalism a realistic and practical way to pursue needed reforms gradually, through a pluralistic process of trial and error.”

britannica.com

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Eventual Carrion Jan 23, 2016 • 7:59:57am

re: #195 goddamnedfrank

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“don’t season our food”, is that a euphemism for something?

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b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 8:00:14am

re: #418 Decatur Deb

This is the basic difference between HRC supporters and the Sanders backers:

“One’s evaluation of incrementalism will hinge on underlying assumptions about human nature and what it is possible to achieve through politics. Utopians of both the right and the left reject its slow operation and apparent incoherence. More-pragmatic policy makers find incrementalism a realistic and practical way to pursue needed reforms gradually, through a pluralistic process of trial and error.”

britannica.com

Sounds about right.

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Schroedinger's Dog Jan 23, 2016 • 8:00:31am

re: #418 Decatur Deb

Pragmatism is what identifies the grownups in the room

422

Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 8:01:15am

Bush looks like a dignified elder statesman compared to Trump. But you’ll survive alright, keep telling yourselves that. /

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 8:01:31am

re: #421 Schroedinger’s Dog

Pragmatism is what identifies the grownups in the room

But if I were a young black man, I’d be a lot less incrementalist.

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Feline Fearless Leader Jan 23, 2016 • 8:01:35am

re: #393 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I blame the moon. Trump should come out now and advocate breaking it up with nukes.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 8:02:20am

re: #422 Nyet

Bush looks like a dignified elder statesman compared to Trump. But you’ll survive alright, keep telling yourselves that. /

The choice isn’t between Bush and Trump.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 8:02:45am

Here is your viewing schedule for today:

From Sioux Center:

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Rally in Sioux Center, IA at Dordt College (1-23-16)

Donald Trump LIVE Rally in Sioux Center, IA at Dordt College (1-23-2016)

From Pella:

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump holds campaign rally in Pella, IOWA Jan 23rd 2016

Donald Trump LIVE Rally in Pella, IA (1-23-16)

Now I wonder how Trump gets around in his big jet, as those communities don’t have airports that can handle large jets. Pella is only about 40 miles away from Des Moines so that is doable, but I don’t know of a decent size airport near Sioux Center.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 8:02:52am

Some more pix:

Snonut this morning

Hard to do it justice with a phonecam, but it’s about 40 feet across compared with 20 last night.

The end of the pier

Wind os blowing everything allover the place. It also makes the amount of snow look smaller that it actually is.

Weird snowdrift #1

Weird snowdrift #2

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 8:03:43am

re: #425 Decatur Deb

The choice isn’t between Bush and Trump.

GWB is not a part of any choice anymore.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 8:05:04am

re: #428 Nyet

I think it is in a way because W was just the front man. The same zealots are still at work.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 8:05:24am

re: #428 Nyet

GWB is not a part of any choice anymore.

We were cheering for the Tea Party to gut the GOP. This is what it looks like when you make elephant sausage.

431

ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 8:05:57am

re: #407 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

I think he makes a very truthy argument. However, if I were to use a word to describe the Clinton modus operandi, it would be expedience. Part of that I blame on some of Bill Clinton’s decisions, but part of it is my impression of her from the 2008 campaign. Having said that, compromise shouldn’t be a bad word.

I was just wondering what she compromised away. Darth made the statement, so he probably has examples.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 8:07:55am

Dordt college, who are hosting Trump, are part of the CRC and will fit right in with Trump’s appeal to the religious right. I assume Trump is flying into Sioux Falls, as that will be the largest airport but that’s still 50 miles away.

The auditorium holds 1500:

en.wikipedia.org

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 8:08:08am

@jjmacnab @JohnLGC Brandon Curtiss, leader of IdahoIII% says counted 200 @FBI vehicles https://t.co/SYd8eUMoHj pic.twitter.com/Hlb2mV2prH

— Gargoyle (@Patztense) January 23, 2016

@jorja I wouldn’t trust anything they say. They may be saying 200 to scare up more support.

— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) January 23, 2016

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 8:10:05am

‘Solid sheet of ice’: Hundreds stranded on I-75 in Kentucky overnight https://t.co/vvDj7WSCJH

— Jamie Lucke (@JamieLucke) January 23, 2016

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 8:10:43am

re: #427 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Some more pix:

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Snow drifts make fine sculptures!

Nice pics. Looks like you are enjoying the snow. Might as well, can’t do anything about it.

436

Teukka Jan 23, 2016 • 8:13:57am

In local news:
Nazi demonstrators taken into custody

Around 40 members of the neo-Nazi Svenska motståndsrörelsen have been detained by police at the Medborgarplatsen square in central Stockholm.

The group’s demonstration started at Karlaplan, not far from Broadcasting House, and police had roped off the area in front of Radio Sweden’s location.

One person has reportedly been taken to the hospital by ambulance.

“The demonstrators refused to follow police instructions,” Stockholm police spokesperson Eva Nilsson told the newspaper Aftonbladet. “Now they’ll be taken away, and we’ll see who is charged with a crime. Right now everything is calm.”

*SMH*

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 8:14:03am

re: #435 ObserverArt

I’m a 51 year old child! BTW drift #2 is actually leaning into the wind.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 8:15:04am

In Pella, Trump will speak at Central College, also associated with a Reformed Church denomination:

en.wikipedia.org

I assume the rally will be in the gymnasium, which looks like a typical basketball gym:

central.edu

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b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 8:15:29am

Down to 0C here. Looks like something is blowing in and dropping the temps.

Still, not having the -25C January temps we normally get is good. I haven’t had to shovel much snow this winter either - good for me, bad for farmers.

440

b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 8:18:28am

I’m sitting on a recliner, where my feet are supposed to be up and comfortable. Max (my dog) decided he wanted the leg rest all to himself so he pushed my legs off.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 8:19:18am

Whoops, I was wrong. Pella event is in the Central Hall / Douwstra Auditorium:

central.edu

Holds 636 for dinner seating, I presume more can be held for a rally.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 8:19:25am

re: #440 b_sharp

I’m sitting on a recliner, where my feet are supposed to be up and comfortable. Max (my dog) decided he wanted the leg rest all to himself so he pushed my legs off.

Good boy.

443

SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 8:19:29am

NBC10 has increased the forecast snow amount from 23 inches to 2 feet.

444

PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 8:21:07am

re: #443 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Nat’l Weather Service: forecast.weather.gov

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 8:24:56am

Snow plows are a little different @YellowstoneNPS in #Wyoming #bison pic.twitter.com/Oa4qCmlwry

— US Dept of Interior (@Interior) January 23, 2016

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 8:24:58am

Why cheap oil could be bad for Democrats https://t.co/R6tYFW8Uqk | AP Photo pic.twitter.com/TFxmuInLbN

— POLITICO (@politico) January 23, 2016

High oil prices are bad for Democrats.
Low oil prices are bad for Democrats.

Let’s just say oil is bad for Democrats and be done with it?

Wall Street reaction to oil prices is different than Main Street. High oil prices suggest high demand, so that’s a signal of economic strength in global marketplace. Except that oil producers are running a glut of oil, while demand is down in China and improved efficiencies means we can do more with less. Oil producing countries need to pump more oil to get same revenue, pushing a spiral down on prices. That benefits oil consumers (everyone else) since it costs less to make/transport/consume oil products or transportation. That’s money spent elsewhere in economy (the good for Main Street bit).

Where it’s bad? States with high reliance on oil products like Alaska, the Dakotas, Wyoming, Oklahoma, Louisiana, and Texas. They’re already running into economic distress due to glut.

But that’s what happens when a boom in oil goes bust.

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makeitstop Jan 23, 2016 • 8:25:24am

While everyone was talking about Bernie’s ‘America’ spot yesterday, I was searching for this video. Bowie might have displaced Yes’ version as my favorite cover of this song.

I think the thing I loved most about Bowie’s voice was the way that working-class accent worked its way in, no matter what he was singing.

Vimeo

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Eric The Fruit Bat Jan 23, 2016 • 8:26:10am

re: #293 ausador

Don’t forget that NewsCorp bought MySpace. They tend to buy digital properties on their downfall trajectories.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 8:26:51am

re: #442 Nyet

Good boy.

Sounds like Max has done a good job training b-sharp and was just reminding him “we don’t put our feet up there. That is reserved for me”

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b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 8:29:11am

re: #449 ObserverArt

Sounds like Max has done a good job training b-sharp and was just reminding him “we don’t put our feet up there. That is reserved for me”

He’s a spoiled little poop.

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b_sharp Jan 23, 2016 • 8:29:58am

Crap. I’ve been informed it’s time to go grocery shopping.

I hate the crowds.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 8:30:01am

The neighbor who shoveled last night is at it again. The winds are blowing and he is still trying to clear a path to his “reserved” space.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 8:30:57am

re: #452 PhillyPretzel

Almost time for me to try and shovel snow for round 1 - just so the amount does not get completely out of hand and overwhelm the snowblower.

Yeah, it’s that bad here.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 8:32:11am

re: #447 makeitstop

While everyone was talking about Bernie’s ‘America’ spot yesterday, I was searching for this video. Bowie might have displaced Yes’ version as my favorite cover of this song.

I think the thing I loved most about Bowie’s voice was the way that working-class accent worked its way in, no matter what he was singing.

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Video

That song is sacred music. Spent a lot of time on Greyhounds from Pittsburgh, counting cars on the NJ turnpike. The first girl I ever encountered was a seatmate, we shared a Mad magazine.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 8:32:31am

re: #449 ObserverArt

The master should know his place!

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stpaulbear Jan 23, 2016 • 8:34:33am

So I wonder how many snowbound people are surfing around on Amazon today and choosing one or two day delivery for their orders?

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 8:35:03am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

I just don’t see many Sanders supporters voting for Hillary. They are going to sit the election out. To them, Bernie is anti-establishment, being an Independent. Hillary is just as bad as anyone else in the GOP.

If Hillary gets the nod, Bernie will do everything he can to campaign for her.

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FormerDirtDart Jan 23, 2016 • 8:38:59am

re: #446 lawhawk

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High oil prices are bad for Democrats.
Low oil prices are bad for Democrats.

Let’s just say oil is bad for Democrats and be done with it?

…

But that’s what happens when a boom in oil goes bust.

Hey, but it’s a great time for the feds to buy oil for the Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
Not to mention that the lower cost for home heating oil (nearing a 10 year low) could provide financial relief for many, many people this winter

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 8:40:16am

re: #457 WhatEVs

If Hillary gets the nod, Bernie will do everything he can to campaign for her.

But will that change the minds of the Bernie followers?

You know what I don’t quite understand is why Bernie has gone a bit negative. If he has Hillary on the run as many think he does, then why not maintain what you are doing as it works for you.

I’m thinking that Bernie is not buying into all the poll numbers, so he needs to answer Hillary at all turns.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 8:44:15am

Satellites captured the massive #Blizzard2016 storm continuing to pummel the US East Coast: https://t.co/uRky0fEtkV pic.twitter.com/4BKInRkS24

— NASA (@NASA) January 23, 2016

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Dr. Matt Jan 23, 2016 • 8:44:45am

re: #336 GlutenFreeJesus

I just don’t see many Sanders supporters voting for Hillary. They are going to sit the election out. To them, Bernie is anti-establishment, being an Independent. Hillary is just as bad as anyone else in the GOP.

A lot people said the same thing about Hillary supporters back in 2008. I know some sat out, but ultimately many came to the realization that a McCain-Palin presidency would be far worse than a bruised ego. Hopefully Sanders’ fans come to the same realization if Hillary gets the nod.

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Le Lapin Tueur Jan 23, 2016 • 8:46:30am

16+ Inches outside my house (just outside DC in MD) and it’s still snowing hard. News says there are morons out on the road and Fire and Rescue are being overwhelmed. Let natural selection take care of them a and we can cleanse th gene pool a touch.

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 8:48:03am

re: #396 Decatur Deb

I’d be happy to see an aging HRC hand off her 4 year administration to a Franken/Warren/Castro ticket.

Hillary’s only 1-1/2 years older than Warren. I could go with Franken/Castro or how about Castro/Castro—that would be historical!

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Le Lapin Tueur Jan 23, 2016 • 8:49:54am

I’ve been corrected. More like 20+ inches

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 8:50:11am

re: #463 BeachDem

Hillary’s only 1-1/2 years older than Warren. I could go with Franken/Castro or how about Castro/Castro—that would be ~~historical~~ hysterical!

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 8:50:31am

re: #462 Le Lapin Tueur

16+ Inches outside my house (just outside DcC in MD) and it’s still snowing hard. News says there are morons out on the road and Fire and Rescue are being overwhelmed. Let natural selection take care of them a and we can cleanse th gene pool a touch.

I hate to agree with you but honestly…why are people on I-75 stranded for hours? Why did they go out? They’ve been talking about Snowmagedden for days now. Worse, they’ve bollixed up the whole thing for rescuers who might have to actually have to go help someone who wasn’t stupid.

I am a really empathetic person but seriously, they’re hurting others by being stupid.

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Bubblehead II Jan 23, 2016 • 8:50:36am

Ok I haven’t seen this scenario discussed yet. What’s to keep either Clinton or Sanders from selecting the runner up for the Veep spot? Wouldn’t a Clinton/Sanders or Sanders/Clinton ticket more or less eliminate the sour grapes that would sit out the election?

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Bill and Opus for 2016! Jan 23, 2016 • 8:51:14am

Trump’s at it again, retweeting white nationalists.

“@TheSouthwasRite: @NRO cancelling my subscription- you people are idiots. @realDonaldTrump WILL be our next President. #Trump2016 #RNC”

— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) January 23, 2016

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 8:51:47am

re: #467 Bubblehead II

Ok I haven’t seen this scenario discussed yet. What’s to keep either Clinton or Sanders from selecting the runner up for the Veep spot? Wouldn’t a Clinton/Sanders or Sanders/Clinton ticket more or less eliminate the sour grapes that would sit out the election?

I doubt Hillary would want a VP spot, somehow.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 8:53:08am

re: #467 Bubblehead II

Ok I haven’t seen this scenario discussed yet. What’s to keep either Clinton or Sanders from selecting the runner up for the Veep spot? Wouldn’t a Clinton/Sanders or Sanders/Clinton ticket more or less eliminate the sour grapes that would sit out the election?

Would solidify the Dems, but also the opposition. HRC/Young Westerner-to-be-named works better.

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retired cynic Jan 23, 2016 • 8:53:15am

re: #392 darthstar

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I bet it was her idea! Too original for JEB!

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 8:53:37am

re: #467 Bubblehead II

Ok I haven’t seen this scenario discussed yet. What’s to keep either Clinton or Sanders from selecting the runner up for the Veep spot? Wouldn’t a Clinton/Sanders or Sanders/Clinton ticket more or less eliminate the sour grapes that would sit out the election?

That same scenario was mentioned in 2004. It didn’t happen then and I don’t think it’s going to happen now.

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Le Lapin Tueur Jan 23, 2016 • 8:53:52am

re: #466 WhatEVs

I am a really empathetic person but seriously, they’re hurting others by being stupid.

This is the issue. There are responses to real emergencies that are being dealeyed because of people that are thinking ‘I’m special and can deal with it’

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 8:54:09am

re: #467 Bubblehead II

Ok I haven’t seen this scenario discussed yet. What’s to keep either Clinton or Sanders from selecting the runner up for the Veep spot? Wouldn’t a Clinton/Sanders or Sanders/Clinton ticket more or less eliminate the sour grapes that would sit out the election?

I want to see Hillary if she gets the nod to take one of the Castro’s for the VP pick, with the growing Latino population in the country the Castro’s will be a big part in the future of the party.

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Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 8:54:12am

re: #409 Tigger2

Obama compromised way too much, IMO. And he’s been a great President. What we need besides a Democrat in the WH, are more Democrats in Congress. Or less extremist/obstructionist Republicans.

If we were talking about Republicans of a decade ago, I wouldn’t worry if this country elected one. But we’re not. The Republican Party is too extreme now. They have every intention, and have already done so in WI, MI, IN, and OH (not to mention voting rights in the southern states), of winding back women’s rights and civil rights. And although the SC upheld the ACA and gay marriage, we have Citizens United and the chipping away of the Civil Right’s Act. So, for me, this election is even more important than 2008 because of all the good things Obama and Dems have done.

Good morning, Lizards. Hope everyone in the snowpocalypse is safe and warm.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 8:55:01am

re: #473 Le Lapin Tueur

This is the issue. There are responses to real emergencies that are being dealeyed because of people that are thinking ‘I’m special and can deal with it’

Everyone who is not an exceptional driver, please raise your hand.

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 8:56:20am

re: #441 freetoken

Whoops, I was wrong. Pella event is in the Central Hall / Douwstra Auditorium:

central.edu

Holds 636 for dinner seating, I presume more can be held for a rally.

So Trump will claim a crowd of 10,000 and berate the pool cameraman for not panning the YUUGE crowd.

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Dr. Matt Jan 23, 2016 • 8:57:00am

re: #468 Bill and Opus for 2016!

@realDonaldTrump @TheSouthwasRite @NRO pic.twitter.com/XcSkGUiUDx

— Nick Joseph (@camefromempires) January 23, 2016

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 8:57:02am

re: #474 Tigger2

I want to see Hillary if she gets the nod to take one of the Castro’s for the VP pick, with the growing Latino population in the country the Castro’s will be the future of the party.

Yup. That’s what I would like to see, too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 8:57:24am

re: #476 Decatur Deb

Everyone who is not an exceptional driver, please raise your hand.

I got home Thursday afternoon before the storm arrived and haven’t even considered going anywhere anytime soon.

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 23, 2016 • 8:58:37am

I slept in today! Going to check thread on status of our storm lizards.

Here’s Petty the Beach Cat in Jersey.

Petty Meets Jonas https://t.co/uP5Tg5KgMH via @YouTube

— One-Legged Sandpiper (@OneLegSandpiper) January 23, 2016

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Bubblehead II Jan 23, 2016 • 9:00:59am

re: #469 Nyet

re: #470 Decatur Deb

re: #472 WhatEVs

re: #474 Tigger2

Well it was just an idea.

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Snarknado! Jan 23, 2016 • 9:02:07am

re: #282 Blind Frog Belly White

Of course that’s evolution - a change in the genetic composition of a population over generations caused by selective pressure acting on genetic diversity. Evolution doesn’t imply something added in every case.

The genetic composition of the moth population changed, as the environment changed imposing a different selective pressure. That’s evolution.

I’m not arguing with you — your field, not mine — but) it seems to me that calling this evolution (the kind of “churn” that’s taking place everywhere, all the time) without qualifications muddles the issue. I’ve had the pleasure (she said, meaning the opposite) of hearing anti-evolutionists on the subject, and this would draw the response “You see?! Nothing has changed! You can’t add anything! You’ve proved Creationism!!11y” Ad endless nauseam…

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:02:11am

re: #482 Bubblehead II

Well it was just an idea.

The sort of thing it used to be safe to talk about in the barber’s chair.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 9:04:31am

re: #476 Decatur Deb

Everyone who is not an exceptional driver, please raise your hand.

I am an exceptional driver…but I am also smart enough to not go out in a massive well predicted and announced snow storm.

I almost got stuck on the highway just as it closed for three days due to a flash snow storm. Snow wasn’t even predicted that day but not only did it snow like mad but the squalls were insane.

The only reason I got off the highway was that the truckers were driving too fast for my comfort and I was worried they would hit me because it was snowing like mad and they were driving like it was a spring day. I hit the back-roads and what would normally have been a 30 minute drive back home took 2.5 hours…with cars being off the road every 100’. If I had stayed on the highway I would have been stuck…they didn’t get all the cars off for days.

That was a scary day. Lots of people died in that storm.

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No Country For Old Haters Jan 23, 2016 • 9:05:52am

re: #468 Bill and Opus for 2016!

Trump’s at it again, retweeting white nationalists.

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@realDonaldTrump Retweeting your racist supporters reveals that you’re not just a fool with a huge ego, you’re a racist dead-ender like them

— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) January 23, 2016

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:08:13am

The new data, coupled with the weight of previously existing data convincingly show that ‘industrial melanism in the peppered moth is still one of the clearest and most easily understood examples of Darwinian evolution in action’ [21].

rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org

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retired cynic Jan 23, 2016 • 9:08:30am

re: #466 WhatEVs

It looks like a lot of those are truckers, and their managers don’t recognize things like blizzards. They just tell them to go.

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 9:09:36am

re: #461 Dr. Matt

A lot people said the same thing about Hillary supporters back in 2008. I know some sat out, but ultimately many came to the realization that a McCain-Palin presidency would be far worse than a bruised ego. Hopefully Sanders’ fans come to the same realization if Hillary gets the nod.

I think the Bernie supporters who will sit out will be:
1. The “yoots” who haven’t voted in the past anyway (either too young before or unengaged) who have been swept up in the “movement” and
2. A small number of butthurt “olds” who claim they have waiting their whole lives for the Democratic Party to recognize that they are the base and they WILL NOT BE IGNORED. They’re the same ones who voted for Jill Stein in 2012 (0.36% of the popular vote) because Obama failed to give them a pony.

Just my opinion—YMMV

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 9:09:47am

re: #488 retired cynic

It looks like a lot of those are truckers, and their managers don’t recognize things like blizzards. They just tell them to go.

We do not have the sense to adjust our deadlines, hunker down and just wait things out, we try to force things through by hook or by crook.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:09:49am

Waiting for Trump:

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump LIVE Campaign Rally in Sioux City, IA at Dordt College Jan. 23rd 2016

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 9:10:40am

re: #482 Bubblehead II

Well it was just an idea.

Ideas always welcome!

I am sure this will be unpopular but, normally, I would say that if Hillary gets the nod she could give Bernie a cabinet appointment…unfortunately, I don’t think Bernie is smart enough. Everything I am seeing from him is populist but not real. His ideas are simplistic at best, unrealistic and not doable at worst. And that worst sets up a lot of people for disillusion and disappointment in government.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:11:08am

re: #489 BeachDem

Worse are the folks who will vote for Trump if Bernie doesn’t win.

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FormerDirtDart Jan 23, 2016 • 9:13:03am

Someone has been snorting real snow, lots of it

Could be stir-craziness due to snow, but I’m beginning to wonder if there isn’t an outside chance of a Jeb comeback. https://t.co/HwQWCB4c3D

— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) January 23, 2016

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:13:11am

Youtube chat comment on that Trump stream:

Jessica Heard the Huffington post encouraged all their ultra leftist fans to plant themselves at trump events and spread racist references. They were also told to try to get on camera so it can be reported.

LIBRUL PLANTS!!

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin Jan 23, 2016 • 9:13:23am

re: #465 Decatur Deb

saw that one coming… from 8 away.

Husker Du - Eight Miles High

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jaunte Jan 23, 2016 • 9:14:11am

re: #493 Nyet

Worse are the folks who will vote for Trump if Bernie doesn’t win.

Have you seen people saying they would do that? It seems like an extreme switch to make.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:14:31am

re: #492 WhatEVs

Ideas always welcome!

I am sure this will be unpopular but, normally, I would say that if Hillary gets the nod she could give Bernie a cabinet appointment…unfortunately, I don’t think Bernie is smart enough. Everything I am seeing from him is populist but not real. His ideas are simplistic at best, unrealistic and not doable at worst. And that worst sets up a lot of people for disillusion and disappointment in government.

He’s really more valuable as a Senator. Love to see Robert Reich back at Labor.

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 9:14:45am

re: #474 Tigger2

I want to see Hillary if she gets the nod to take one of the Castro’s for the VP pick, with the growing Latino population in the country the Castro’s will be a big part in the future of the party.

Julian with Stephen Colbert.

Julian Castro Can Neither Confirm Nor Deny He’s In VP Training

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 9:14:52am

re: #494 FormerDirtDart

Someone has been snorting real snow, lots of it

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I had been thinking that might happen, as Bush hadd made some modest moves up in some polls (2nd in one NH poll, 3rd in one SC poll). Oh well. Another hypothesis down the tubes.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:15:18am

re: #500 Brian J.

Jeb! is surging.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:15:40am

re: #497 jaunte

Have you seen people saying they would do that? It seems like an extreme switch to make.

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jaunte Jan 23, 2016 • 9:16:42am

re: #502 Nyet

I hope they reconsider before it comes to that.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:16:45am

re: #502 Nyet

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No pie for him.

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Tigger2 Jan 23, 2016 • 9:16:53am

re: #499 BeachDem

Julian with Stephen Colbert.

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I saw him when he was on.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:17:08am

Well, Trump is late.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 9:17:33am

re: #497 jaunte

Have you seen people saying they would do that? It seems like an extreme switch to make.

I wonder about that too.

(Whistles a little tune…wondering about questions asked earlier in this thread.)

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:17:40am

The logic is: if we don’t get Bernie, we don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 9:17:50am

#OregonStandoff #OregonUnderAttack #BundyMilitia @JohnLGC @TallyAnnaE By Jack Ohman of the Sacramento Bee: pic.twitter.com/nsSlOuJ22G

— J. D. Prouty (@JDProuty) January 23, 2016

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 9:18:41am

re: #506 freetoken

Well, Trump is late.

Fashionably?

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 9:18:51am

re: #498 Decatur Deb

He’s really more valuable as a Senator. Love to see Robert Reich back at Labor.

While I like Warren in the Senate, she would be a great head of Consumer Protection.

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FormerDirtDart Jan 23, 2016 • 9:19:45am

Just watched Christie on the Weather channel, talking weather/flooding, going heavy on the hundreds of houses bought out in flood areas after Sandy, Doesn’t mention that it was with Fed/FEMA money.

Hell, I live in Jacksonville FL, and just down the road over a dozen of homes have been bought out in the last two years, at least another half dozen or so due to be razed this year.

513

lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 9:20:27am

Imagine that - @realDonaldTrump quotes in full yet another white supremacist. Fancy that. #GOP you own this! pic.twitter.com/npr9RHpxRK

— lawhawk (@lawhawk) January 23, 2016

Trump again seeks out and quotes white supremacists approvingly.

Media? Hello? Still stuck under the snow? Burying your heads in it is more like it.

That’s the GOP frontrunner. And the rest of the GOP isn’t any better.

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EmmaAnne Jan 23, 2016 • 9:21:12am

re: #357 darthstar

We survived Bush. We’ll survive Trump.

Actually, Trump would be a lot like Reagan - he’d be conservative, sure…for the cameras. But he’d protect Obamacare (because it works and the numbers make sense and he’s a businessman). He’d invest in infrastructure (because he knows how investments work). He’d probably suck at international relations the same as Bush, but he’d actually be less boisterous about it after the first few months. And the GOP would be fucking livid as they watched the tea party embrace progressive policies wrapped in Tea Party rhetoric simply because white guy.

Sorry. Had to downding this. Way too many people didn’t survive Bush, most obviously everyone who died in his pointless war in Iraq.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:21:40am

Why I, a Liberal Democrat, Would Rather Vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton

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Feline Fearless Leader Jan 23, 2016 • 9:21:52am

re: #481 Stanley Sea Toujours

I slept in today! Going to check thread on status of our storm lizards.

Here’s Petty the Beach Cat in Jersey.

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I think every cat owner with an outdoor going cat has experienced that.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 9:22:46am

re: #508 Nyet

The logic is: if we don’t get Bernie, we don’t need no water, let the motherfucker burn.

Well, both parties are the same and Bernie is not a member of a party. So…

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:22:56am

re: #515 Nyet

I take those types of rants as cries for attention.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:23:26am

re: #515 Nyet

Why I, a Liberal Democrat, Would Rather Vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton

Armand Wolf
A senior in high school with a devout interest in global affairs

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jaunte Jan 23, 2016 • 9:23:29am

re: #515 Nyet

Why I, a Liberal Democrat, Would Rather Vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton

“…while it is no secret that Donald Trump will destroy the country, Hillary Clinton will destroy the foundation of the country. Hillary Clinton is an embodiment of the Democratic establishment in its purest form. If Hillary Clinton becomes president, it will signify that the American people have no voice.”

Well, this is just ridiculous.

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wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 9:24:14am

re: #499 BeachDem

Julian with Stephen Colbert.

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Gosh I love Julián Castro. This is us in February when he gave the speech at @USDOT’s Black History Month reception pic.twitter.com/vtfSo0Ijj0

— Broderick Greer (@BroderickGreer) January 22, 2016

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:26:08am

VIPs are being seated…

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 9:26:24am

re: #505 Tigger2

I saw him when he was on.

I did too. Really like him. And who wouldn’t love to see his daughter do her convention hair flip for 4+ years? ;)

Daddy’s Girl! Julian Castro’s Daughter, Carina Victoria, Flipping Her Hair During DNC Keynote Speech

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:27:19am

re: #519 Decatur Deb

The logic mirrors that of quite a few older Bernie fans.

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Jay C Jan 23, 2016 • 9:27:29am

re: #520 jaunte

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, it will signify that the American people have no voice.”

Well, this is just ridiculous.

SRSLY. How does young Mr. Wolf imagine that American Presidents get into office? If he is indeed a “senior in high school”, maybe he should try to work in a few Civics classes before graduating?

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:27:47am

Off to reset the garden hoophouse. It handled 20 mph winds from the wet part of this storm better than expected—flexed like mad rather than coming apart, but I have to reposition the anchor ties. BBL

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 9:28:07am

re: #405 Ace-o-aces

@realDonaldTrump I’d like to see you run too. Like… even if it’s 10 feet. You’d be gasping for air before you even made it halfway.

— efuseakay (@efuseakay) January 23, 2016

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 9:28:26am

re: #514 EmmaAnne

Sorry. Had to downding this. Way too many people didn’t survive Bush, most obviously everyone who died in his pointless war in Iraq.

I wouldn’t down ding Darth for that comment myself, but I did ask if this was him admitting he would vote for Trump if Hillary was the Democrat candidate.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:28:43am

re: #524 Nyet

The logic mirrors that of quite a few older Bernie fans.

The Dems have never been fool-proof.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 9:28:49am

WTF:

Just saw a commercial from Catholic Church stating that Catholic Church was started by Jesus. I bet they believe that too. #sad

— Katrina Pierson (@KatrinaPierson) December 18, 2011

That’s Trump’s nutbar spokeshack.

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 9:30:05am

re: #525 Jay C

SRSLY. How does young Mr. Wolf imagine that American Presidents get into office? If he is indeed a “senior in high school”, maybe he should try to work in a few Civics classes before graduating?

The fact that people vote for Hillary Clinton is the strongest evidence that people hate Hillary Clinton! Duh. Ask anyone in Washington!

532

ausador Jan 23, 2016 • 9:30:14am

Well, grifters gotta grift, Donald’s offer must have been higher…

Trump spokeswoman @KatrinaPierson repeatedly expressed support for Cruz’s campaign — last year. pic.twitter.com/HCD4JSZ8tB

— Oliver Darcy (@oliverdarcy) January 23, 2016

Takes $$$$ to buy those bullet necklaces you know.

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 9:31:03am

re: #515 Nyet

Why I, a Liberal Democrat, Would Rather Vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton

My name is Armand Wolf, and I am currently a senior in High school. Since a young age, I’ve had an interest in current affairs, politics, and activism. I have been very active in my extracurricular pursuits in high school, and I am currently in the midst of applying to college. These are my thoughts.

Remember the CPAC wunderkind a couple of years ago? Good times.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:31:19am

re: #530 lawhawk

WTF:

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That’s Trump’s nutbar spokeshack.

That’s just fucking suicidal. If she survives the day, his whole campaign is a put-on.

Edit—Didn’t catch the 2011 date. Still lethal if it’s publicized.

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 9:31:43am

3 to 6 to 4 to 8 to GOOD MORNING.

Quarter to February….

536

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:32:20am

… cameras zooming in to the stage… maybe He is near?

537

Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:32:29am

Rand Paul please save us from trump and Bernie

— DJ Pearson (@DJmcPearson) January 23, 2016

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jaunte Jan 23, 2016 • 9:32:29am

JUST IN: Trump: Abortion rights “nowhere to be found” in Constitution https://t.co/TdBoBwtJ6E pic.twitter.com/8lUUXRO09n

— The Hill (@thehill) January 23, 2016

If GOP elected we will lose Roe https://t.co/g5wKj3rmSS

— Jennifer Gunter (@DrJenGunter) January 23, 2016

High school boys don’t care.

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 9:33:40am

re: #538 jaunte

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High school boys don’t care.

They’ll start caring when high-school girls explain why they won’t get past first base.

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Targetpractice Jan 23, 2016 • 9:33:47am

re: #535 nines09

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Quarter to February….

Is that snow or the surface of Krypton?

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 9:34:09am

Going from bad to worse in NYC metro area - Long Island highways to close at 2:30pm to all traffic. Travel ban extends to NYC.

Forecasters now suggesting close to 30 inches, according to Cuomo’s presser.

NJ is almost as bad.

Looks like the storm is bombing out. This is the kind of scenario that last winter’s storm that fizzled could have been.

542

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:34:30am

The weather in NW Iowa today is windy, blowing snow here and there, foggy in spots not with wind.

543

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:34:59am

Now the theocratic prayer…

544

jaunte Jan 23, 2016 • 9:35:13am

“I did not always hold this position, but I had a significant personal experience* that brought the precious gift of life into perspective for me,” he added.

*I need the socon vote

545

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:35:31am

thanking for Trump willing to selflessly offer himself…

546

ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 9:36:00am

re: #515 Nyet

Why I, a Liberal Democrat, Would Rather Vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton

Yikes!

Then I saw that blog was written by a kid that is a senior in high school. I then thought of how I was just getting out of high school. It was 1972. That year was my first election. I voted for Richard Nixon.

Since that time I grew up and started to look at all sides of things. I learned a lot by learning I made a mistake. I learned to analyze that mistake and why I made it. Been very suspect since.

547

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:36:41am

preacher now skirting the law about not being able to officially endorse a candidate… and sneaks in an endorsement of sorts…

548

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 9:37:21am

re: #547 freetoken

preacher now skirting the law about not being able to officially endorse a candidate… and sneaks in an endorsement of sorts…

TAX HIM!

549

Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:38:18am

Fine, give the GOP four years: Why the Democratic Party should be Bernie or bust right now https://t.co/u6iZNRq3cY

— salon.com (@Salon) January 20, 2016

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 9:38:33am

Ground stops for all NYC metro airports until further notice.

Port Authority update on airports: No flights going in or out at LaGuardia, JFK, Newark, Atlantic City, Teterboro pic.twitter.com/Gu80LZth6p

— Michael van Poppel (@mpoppel) January 23, 2016

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Alephnaught Jan 23, 2016 • 9:38:44am

re: #520 jaunte

If Hillary Clinton becomes president, it will signify that the American people have no voice.

Well, this is just ridiculous.

I know. “the American people have no voice if Clinton gets elected- well, apart from the American people who voted in the Presidential Election that elected Clinton, but who’s counting that?”

552

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:40:11am

“CHristianity is under siege…”

553

Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:40:27am

re: #549 Nyet

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Pundits gotta pound.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 9:40:28am

re: #530 lawhawk

WTF:

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That’s Trump’s nutbar spokeshack.

That woman is certified. Not sure what…but I suspect the list is long.

Ms. Tortured Logic.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 9:41:12am

Spotted a short time ago otside the door. I think we’ve got some big problems…

Are you not entertained?

Winter isn’t coming. It’s already here…

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 9:41:37am

re: #540 Targetpractice

Is that snow or the surface of Krypton?

South and east of here it is a circus of immense proportions with higher totals. I’m betting it’s just about 12-14” out there right now, and it’s still snowing good.

557

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 9:41:38am

APD Officers Powers & Lopez have teamed up today. Stay off the roads (that’s Ofc Powers’ nice face). #SnotoriousBIG pic.twitter.com/8O7hUuEsgL

— Alexandria Police (@AlexandriaVAPD) January 23, 2016

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FormerDirtDart Jan 23, 2016 • 9:41:56am

News release from Harney County regarding community meeting for January 25. https://t.co/BcaAacRO98

— Harney Cty. Sheriff (@HarneyCoSheriff) January 23, 2016

Out of Towners need not apply

Harney County Community Meeting Change in Venue and Format for January 25

Burns - Harney County Judge Steve Grasty announced a change in venue and format for the weekly Harney County community meeting scheduled for Monday, January 25. “We started the weekly community meeting so that Harney County residents would have an opportunity to ask questions and voice their concerns in a safe and civil manner,” said Judge Grasty. “The meeting last week did not fulfill that purpose.” Harney County has been notified by the school district that school facilities will no longer be available for these community meetings due to the number of firearms that were present, in violation of school district policy.

The meeting on January 25 will be held at the Harney County Senior Center at 5:00 p.m. Doors will open at 4:30. The Senior Center also has a “no firearm” policy that will be strictly enforced. Please arrive early in order to get through security in a timely manner.

The format for this meeting will also be special. “Residents of Harney County have been given a unique opportunity to be heard statewide,” said Judge Grasty, explaining that Oregon Public Broadcasting’s Think Out Loud public affairs program will moderate and record the meeting on Monday. The host of Think Out Loud, Dave Miller, will ask questions of those in attendance. This episode of Think Out Loud will air on Tuesday, January 26. “I can’t think of a better way to give Oregon a taste of the real Harney County,” continued Grasty.

Due to space limitations at the Senior Center and the unique format, entrance to this meeting will be limited only to those Harney County residents who have a ticket. Tickets will be available starting at 10 a.m. Monday morning. Here is what you need to know:
• Pick up tickets at the Harney County Courthouse, Clerk’s Office, on Monday starting at 10 a.m. or by calling XXX-XXX-XXXX starting at 10 a.m.
• Tickets will be released on a first-come, first-served basis.
• Everyone who gets a ticket will need to show picture I.D. and residency will be verified.
• Picture I.D. will also be required to enter the Senior Center with your ticket.
• Each person may pick up only two tickets.
• There will be 150 tickets available. Thirty tickets have been set aside for invited guests. Any of those tickets that are unused will be available for others to use.
• Anyone who is not able to get a ticket for this meeting, will be wait-listed for this meeting and put at the front of the list for future meetings, should it be necessary to continue with this ticketing format.

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Great White Snark Jan 23, 2016 • 9:42:30am

re: #515 Nyet

Why I, a Liberal Democrat, Would Rather Vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton

The Democratic stage is a bit more mirky

So is this guys thinking.

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lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 9:43:17am

re: #556 nines09

NYC metro forecast just went from bad to worse -

erh.noaa.gov

That’s 18-30 inches for entire NYC metro area. With a foot here, it looks we’re right on target for 2+ feet of snow.

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 9:43:24am

re: #553 Decatur Deb

Pundits gotta pound.

Here’s a dissection of the various idiocies of that column.

lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 9:44:00am

re: #559 Great White Snark

So is this guys thinking.

I don’t know; I don’t see much mirk out there. I see murk from the various Sandbaggers, but no mirk.

563

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:44:30am

“… the power of our group of people together…” - speaking of Christians.

564

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:45:22am

“I never hear about a Christian lobby.” - yes he said that.

565

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 9:46:23am

still doing the “Merry Christmas” bit

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 9:46:51am

re: #560 lawhawk

NYC metro forecast just went from bad to worse -

erh.noaa.gov

That’s 18-30 inches for entire NYC metro area. With a foot here, it looks we’re right on target for 2+ feet of snow.

Oh I know. If you are in Philly, Baltimore or NYC it’s going to be a long 3 or more days ahead of you. I’m supposed to drive to Philly tomorrow. I really hope not. The PATP is a mess, and all the secondary roads are looking real shaky.

567

Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 9:48:03am

re: #565 freetoken

still doing the “Merry Christmas” bit

Only 337 shopping days left, donchaknow!

568

Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 9:48:16am

Tuning Trump out, haven’t heard anything new. Waiting for something new. Might be waiting awhile….

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makeitstop Jan 23, 2016 • 9:48:37am

re: #560 lawhawk

NYC metro forecast just went from bad to worse -

erh.noaa.gov

That’s 18-30 inches for entire NYC metro area. With a foot here, it looks we’re right on target for 2+ feet of snow.

weather.com has us in for sustained blizzard conditions until at least 1AM. No bueno, man. No bueno.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:48:58am

Песнь настоящего патриота России: pic.twitter.com/Yxq35uEu4s

— Мuд Роисси (@Fake_MIDRF) January 23, 2016

“If you don’t understand what it means to be a Russian Patriot, I’ll explain. I don’t care how I’ll live. Maybe I won’t have your fucking human rights and idiotic shitocracies and your Gayropean values for which you khokhly [pej. for Ukrainians] have sold yourselves! But at least I won’t have faggot neighbors and Negroes who will devour my taxes.”

Unfortunately, if you read the Russian internet, that’s your average comment.

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 9:50:00am

re: #570 Nyet

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“If you don’t understand what it means to be a Russian Patriot, I’ll explain. I don’t care how I’ll live. Maybe I won’t have your fucking human rights and idiotic shitocracies and your Gayropean values for which you khokhly [pej. for Ukrainians] have sold yourselves! But at least I won’t have faggot neighbors and Negroes who will devour my taxes.”

Unfortunately, if you read the Russian internet, that’s your average comment.

So pretty much like here, then.

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 9:50:17am

re: #570 Nyet

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“If you don’t understand what it means to be a Russian Patriot, I’ll explain. I don’t care how I’ll live. Maybe I won’t have your fucking human rights and idiotic shitocracies and your Gayropean values for which you khokhly [pej. for Ukrainians] have sold yourselves! But at least I won’t have faggot neighbors and Negroes who will devour my taxes.”

Unfortunately, if you read the Russian internet, that’s your average comment.

They should build a yoooge wall.

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 9:50:31am

re: #546 ObserverArt

Yikes!

Then I saw that blog was written by a kid that is a senior in high school. I then thought of how I was just getting out of high school. It was 1972. That year was my first election. I voted for Richard Nixon.

Since that time I grew up and started to look at all sides of things. I learned a lot by learning I made a mistake. I learned to analyze that mistake and why I made it. Been very suspect since.

OK, I read his whole thing now and all I can say is that the kid is not only naive, but totally illogical.

Three times he says “Trump will destroy the country” (once, unequivocally!) But hey, no biggie, right? And
Hillary Clinton pry’s on the ambiguous voter (WTF does that even mean?)
and then his conclusion:
And in four years, when Bernie Sanders runs again, he will win. Then, the United States will truly see progress and change and Hillary Clinton will feel the Bern!

Hey, you’re a nice kid, but get off my lawn! (And study up on some grammar.)

Seriously though, we sponsor a political essay contest for high school seniors every year, and I’d put up any of our kids’ essays against this swill for both writing skill and content.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 9:51:37am

re: #573 BeachDem

And how old will Bernie be in 4 more years… ugh.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 9:51:42am

re: #563 freetoken

“… the power of our group of people together…” - speaking of Christians.

re: #564 freetoken

“I never hear about a Christian lobby.” - yes he said that.

I know there isn’t a lot of snow in Iowa that would be Trump’s responsibility, but he sure is shoveling…something.

I guess he figures that what he has heard about being able to run hard right for the nomination can then be changed up in a run from the middle in a general election is true. But, damn he is overselling the hard right. He must think his yoooooge powers of negotiation (bullshitting) can overcome any hole he has dug. Even if that hole goes all the way to CHY-na!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 9:51:46am

re: #570 Nyet

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“If you don’t understand what it means to be a Russian Patriot, I’ll explain. I don’t care how I’ll live. Maybe I won’t have your fucking human rights and idiotic shitocracies and your Gayropean values for which you khokhly [pej. for Ukrainians] have sold yourselves! But at least I won’t have faggot neighbors and Negroes who will devour my taxes.”

Unfortunately, if you read the Russian internet, that’s your average comment.

Do I gather correctly that the level of grammar and spelling is on a level with most Tea Party signs and posts?

577

WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 9:53:35am

re: #515 Nyet

Why I, a Liberal Democrat, Would Rather Vote for Donald Trump than Hillary Clinton

My response…

“It is no secret that Donald Trump will destroy this country.” So I will vote for him! If this is what schools are turning out as logical thought we are, indeed, doomed.

In four years, Bernie will be 78 years old. On top of your failure in logical thought, you may want to consider actuarial tables on human longevity and the level of stress put on an American president.

Good for you for giving it thought. Not so good on you for completely failing any kind of logical thought.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:53:40am

re: #571 Brian J.

So pretty much like here, then.

It wasn’t always so. But the state propaganda works.
You don’t have that yet. It’s important not to let that happen.

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Alephnaught Jan 23, 2016 • 9:53:42am

re: #560 lawhawk

NYC metro forecast just went from bad to worse -

erh.noaa.gov

That’s 18-30 inches for entire NYC metro area. With a foot here, it looks we’re right on target for 2+ feet of snow.

Blimey, if that’s NYC, does that mean Boston’s going to get it worse than expected? I’ve got a friend that’s going to be going out there, and I heard it was going to miss the worst of the storm.

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 9:56:13am

re: #576 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Do I gather correctly that the level of grammar and spelling is on a level with most Tea Party signs and posts?

Yes, esp. in the part where he defends Russian language: “My Motherland is where I can hear RUSSIAN LANGUAGE!! WHERE PEOPLE SPEAK RUSSIAN!!!!”

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Belafon Jan 23, 2016 • 9:56:43am

re: #538 jaunte

Being rich isn’t found in the constitution either.

582

Blind Frog Belly White Jan 23, 2016 • 9:59:57am

re: #483 Snarknado!

I’m not arguing with you — your field, not mine — but) it seems to me that calling this evolution (the kind of “churn” that’s taking place everywhere, all the time) without qualifications muddles the issue. I’ve had the pleasure (she said, meaning the opposite) of hearing anti-evolutionists on the subject, and this would draw the response “You see?! Nothing has changed! You can’t add anything! You’ve proved Creationism!!11y” Ad endless nauseam…

What Creationists think doesn’t change reality. And by drawing a line dividing what Creationists can’t deny from what they don’t want to believe, you provide them with a safe have for denial - “I believe in Microevolution, but not Macroevolution!’ But there’s really no division there. I’ve had good results by working from what they HAVE TO accept towards what they WON’T, because what it does is to expose how indefensible their position is.

WRT ‘you can’t add anything’, bullshit! Our genomes are chock full of evidence of adding new stuff. Duplication and divergence. The proteins that make up our cells and do the work are comprised of a rearrangements and revisions of a relatively small number of domain types, reused and revised by mutation and selection.

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sagehen Jan 23, 2016 • 10:00:21am

Tian Tian woke up this morning to a lot of snow, and he was pretty excited about it. 🐼🌨 #blizzard2016 pic.twitter.com/GrhI9t1u7j

— National Zoo (@NationalZoo) January 23, 2016

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:00:43am

re: #579 Alephnaught

But they could be wrong….

585

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:01:17am

bragging about Palin endorsement

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Alephnaught Jan 23, 2016 • 10:01:28am

re: #570 Nyet

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“If you don’t understand what it means to be a Russian Patriot, I’ll explain. I don’t care how I’ll live. Maybe I won’t have your fucking human rights and idiotic shitocracies and your Gayropean values for which you khokhly [pej. for Ukrainians] have sold yourselves! But at least I won’t have faggot neighbors and Negroes who will devour my taxes.”

Unfortunately, if you read the Russian internet, that’s your average comment.

The funny thing is that it doesn’t in any way explain what it means to be a Russian patriot. There’s nothing in his views that are uniquely Russian. It’s just your average batshit bigoted bell-end on the internet, and for that, you don’t need to be Russian, never mind patriotic. You just need to be idiotic, which is a value independent of any nation.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:01:46am

claiming that if Palin endorses someone, they win

588

Targetpractice Jan 23, 2016 • 10:02:08am

re: #587 freetoken

claiming that if Palin endorses someone, they win

President McCain agrees.

/////

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 10:02:33am

re: #586 Alephnaught

Well, there’s more, the message is longer. But he chose to mention “faggots” and “Negroes” first.

590

Jay C Jan 23, 2016 • 10:02:48am

re: #579 Alephnaught

Blimey, if that’s NYC, does that mean Boston’s going to get it worse than expected? I’ve got a friend that’s going to be going out there, and I heard it was going to miss the worst of the storm.

Snowfall forecast for Boston/all of MA from NOAA HERE Looks like they WILL miss the worst, but still look to be on track to pick up about 6” (?)

591

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:04:13am

“Roger Ailes, a great, great man…”

592

Great White Snark Jan 23, 2016 • 10:04:18am

A one million dollar photo. *facepalm* I mean this is kinda discouraging. Just a little. Caption is mine.

Hold the sour cream

petapixel.com

I have done a lot of images with the black b/g. Jewelry, flowers, opals, fire of course. But that relates to subject. But one never knows what will be a trend in tech titan portrait photography.

593

nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:05:49am

re: #592 Great White Snark

Finally! A photo of Planet 9! Uh….

594

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:06:35am

misrepresenting Lawrence Tribe’s claim again…

595

GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:07:08am

re: #593 nines09

No. Trump’s Brain.

596

lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 10:08:43am

re: #579 Alephnaught

Blimey, if that’s NYC, does that mean Boston’s going to get it worse than expected? I’ve got a friend that’s going to be going out there, and I heard it was going to miss the worst of the storm.

Don’t think so. The storm track still doesn’t dump the kind of snow we’re seeing in NYC metro, but I think they’ll see more than they were originally forecast to get.

597

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:08:46am

… really going on w/ birtherism…

598

nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:09:17am

re: #595 GlutenFreeJesus

No. Trump’s Brain.

What brain?

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Nyet Jan 23, 2016 • 10:09:37am

re: #594 freetoken

Tribe seems to have changed his claim about the original meaning of NBC since 2008, btw.

600

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:09:43am

How many Trump brains are there in an infinite universe?

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Barefoot Grin Jan 23, 2016 • 10:11:16am

re: #596 lawhawk

Don’t think so. The storm track still doesn’t dump the kind of snow we’re seeing in NYC metro, but I think they’ll see more than they were originally forecast to get.

I’m fifty miles north of Boston and not a flake has fallen and none in the forecast. And yet I think Boston will get 4-6” by tomorrow. But that’s routine winter weather for them.

602

nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:12:25am

re: #592 Great White Snark

Did a quick lookup and……Holy Toleedee

A million bucks just doesn’t seem to go that far anymore…

603

GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:14:31am

re: #598 nines09

The potatoe. (channeling Dan Quayle)

604

PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 10:14:49am

Nat’l Weather Service forecast. forecast.weather.gov

And some of my neighbors are shoveling their walks. As soon as they finished it is covered again by wind whipped snow.

605

Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:15:10am

Trump says ISIS has all our nice military equipment, leaving our soldiers with old stuff.

This guy is a moron.

606

Barefoot Grin Jan 23, 2016 • 10:15:35am

re: #602 nines09

Did a quick lookup and……Holy Toleedee

A million bucks just doesn’t seem to go that far anymore…

No longer a lowly potato, now it’s a po-tah-to.

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Barefoot Grin Jan 23, 2016 • 10:16:07am

re: #605 Jenner7

Trump says ISIS has all our nice military equipment, leaving the soldiers with old stuff.

This guy is a moron.

He shoots for the id.

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:16:50am

re: #604 PhillyPretzel

Nat’l Weather Service forecast. forecast.weather.gov

And some of my neighbors are shoveling their walks. As soon as they finished it is covered again by wind whipped snow.

Have to keep clearing it or it’ll be impossible to do anything about it after the storm is gone.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 10:17:49am

re: #608 GlutenFreeJesus

It is impossible that is why I do not try. Silly neighbors. I understand doing it in small steps but it is blowing very hard outside.

610

Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 10:18:26am

re: #607 Barefoot Grin

He shoots for the id.

And scores, and gets the i, o, and t for good measure!

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:18:29am

re: #603 GlutenFreeJesus

The potatoe. (channeling Dan Quayle)

“A large object, seemingly shaped like a potato has been detected headed for earth. Scientists believe if they can somehow bake it, the damages from impact will be lessened. NASA is scrambling to launch a large quantity of aluminum foil into orbit as we speak.”

612

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:18:53am

Trump has never ever stated that the “Iran deal” is not a bilateral treaty but an international agreement.

He’s going on and on about the “Iran deal”…

613

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:20:13am

… just got to NRO…

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:20:27am

re: #609 PhillyPretzel

Once every hour. Maybe 2… Trust me. Waking up tomorrow and being buried will suck even more. lol

615

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:21:07am

… attacks Beck for crying…

616

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:21:24am

“I cried when I was one year old…”

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wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 10:21:40am

I’m afraid New Mexico just can’t handle those West Coast felons:

State police investigating how suspect stole patrol car https://t.co/HWa77w1tYb

— KOB 4 (@KOB4) January 23, 2016

New Mexico State Police say an officer was at the Phillips 66 truck stop in Lemitar, NM where he observed a man subject, in possession of a stolen vehicle.

According to NMSP, the officer detained Paul Richard Foster (35) of Washington State in the rear seat of his patrol vehicle and began an investigation into the stolen vehicle. During the course of time Foster was detained he escaped from the rear seat, entered the driver’s seat, unlawfully stole the police vehicle, and fled

Unlawfully stole the police vehicle, none of that legal theft of police vehicles here.

The pursuit ended when Foster crashed the cruiser into a drainage canal.

[…]

At the time of Foster’s capture, officers learned he was a fugitive from justice out of the state of California and had an outstanding felony warrant for burglary charges and for being a felon in possession of a firearm. He also had an outstanding felony warrant out of the state of Washington.

Foster is being charged with aggravated assault with deadly weapon upon a peace officer, aggravated fleeing and eluding a police officer, felon in possession of a firearm, tampering with evidence, unlawful taking of a motor vehicle (NMSP CVE unit), possession of a stolen motor vehicle, and possession of stolen property over $2500 (two firearms).

NMSP say Foster has at least one prior felony conviction out of Washington as a felon in possession of a firearm.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 10:22:07am

re: #614 GlutenFreeJesus

I tried that a few years ago. It did not work. I will wait for the storm to end.

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Snarknado! Jan 23, 2016 • 10:22:24am

re: #580 Nyet

Yes, esp. in the part where he defends Russian language: “My Motherland is where I can hear RUSSIAN LANGUAGE!! WHERE PEOPLE SPEAK RUSSIAN!!!!”

Hey, his spelling is better! Nothing to do with the fact that Russian is easier to spell…

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:22:30am

re: #606 Barefoot Grin

No longer a lowly potato, now it’s a po-tah-to.

I don’t care how many bottles of fine wine you consume. Or how fabulously ornate your digs are. Or just how insanely wealthy your are. It’s a picture of a potato on a black background. Maybe one morning reality will creep in with the sunlight and that bolt of realization will course through the buyer…..I bought a picture of….a….pota…to…for….a mill….eeeee…… More wine?

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:22:30am

“Glenn’s a loser…”

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 10:22:34am

re: #586 Alephnaught

The funny thing is that it doesn’t in any way explain what it means to be a Russian patriot. There’s nothing in his views that are uniquely Russian. It’s just your average batshit bigoted bell-end on the internet, and for that, you don’t need to be Russian, never mind patriotic. You just need to be idiotic, which is a value independent of any nation.

It’s always good to find in humans what joins them rather than divides.

Hmm. I’m thinking all worldly political negotiations should open with the understanding that everyone gathered agree that at the base of these negotiations is the acceptance that we can all be idiots. Understanding that…let us all try to use these talks to shoot a little higher.

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Barefoot Grin Jan 23, 2016 • 10:25:35am

re: #610 Brian J.

And scores, and gets the i, o, and t for good measure!

Nicely done. Here’s why it gets eaten up:

Trending now on my FB timeline are a couple of different riffs saying: “in a democracy, the majority rules; if the majority wants to take your bike (shows kids stealing a bike), they can take your bike. In a Republic your bike is your property and you do not owe it to anyone. It cannot be taken against your will, by law. America is a constitutional republic.”

So many likes and comments saying “we are a republic, not a democracy!”

smh

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GlutenFreeJesus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:25:48am

re: #618 PhillyPretzel

Good luck!

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 10:27:13am

re: #623 Barefoot Grin

Nicely done. Here’s why it gets eaten up:

Trending now on my FB timeline are a couple of different riffs saying: “in a democracy, the majority rules; if the majority wants to take your bike (shows kids stealing a bike), they can take your bike. In a Republic your bike is your property and you do not owe it to anyone. It cannot be taken against your will, by law. America is a constitutional republic.”

So many likes and comments saying “we are a republic, not a democracy!”

smh

Of course, what actually happens in a republic is that the people agree on rules to elect representatives who wield the power of the people as a group. Then they agree on how to steal your bike.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 10:28:04am

re: #624 GlutenFreeJesus

Thanks. I am also going to have to remove the ice from where silly neighbor shoveled. It is now ice. It is a good thing I have some kosher salt.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 10:28:20am

re: #591 freetoken

“Roger Ailes, a great, great man…”

I don’t know how you can do this to yourself, but I want to let you know I appreciate you following The Donald as you do. My thanks for a thankless job.

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Snarknado! Jan 23, 2016 • 10:28:38am

re: #582 Blind Frog Belly White

WRT ‘you can’t add anything’, bullshit! Our genomes are chock full of evidence of adding new stuff. Duplication and divergence. The proteins that make up our cells and do the work are comprised of a rearrangements and revisions of a relatively small number of domain types, reused and revised by mutation and selection.

There’s a reason I used wingnut font for “you can’t add anything.”

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Great White Snark Jan 23, 2016 • 10:28:57am

re: #620 nines09

I don’t care how many bottles of fine wine you consume. Or how fabulously ornate your digs are. Or just how insanely wealthy your are. It’s a picture of a potato on a black background. Maybe one morning reality will creep in with the sunlight and that bolt of realization will course through the buyer…..I bought a picture of….a….pota…to…for….a mill….eeeee…… More wine?

Just imagine what some entrepreneur will want for the fries!

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calochortus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:30:02am

re: #478 Dr. Matt

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Whenever I see all these wonderful (if questionable) stats on Our Future from white supremacists I ask myself the question: So What? Or occasionally: And your point is?

Surely they could find a more productive hobby. If we’re all that superior, we needn’t fear competition.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:30:03am

re: #627 ObserverArt

It’s my cross to carry, as I twice voted for a Republican (GHWB).

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:30:49am

“MacArthur”
“Patton”

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 10:31:35am

re: #596 lawhawk

Don’t think so. The storm track still doesn’t dump the kind of snow we’re seeing in NYC metro, but I think they’ll see more than they were originally forecast to get.

I heard good ol’ Al Roker on the Today show say the whole storm moved more north than first expected and New York would pay for it. I think he had Boston for 3-5” by the end of the storm.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 10:34:39am

re: #605 Jenner7

Trump says ISIS has all our nice military equipment, leaving the soldiers with old stuff.

This guy is a moron.

Well…he seems to talk for the morons. The Donald™ doesn’t seem to have a high opinion of the American voter. I suppose that is not a surprise for an arrogant asshole.

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Great White Snark Jan 23, 2016 • 10:35:44am

re: #626 PhillyPretzel

Was it kosher ice? ;-)

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:36:34am

Beck is a “stone cold loser”

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calochortus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:38:31am

I’m experiencing “project creep.” We had new garage doors put in (overhead replacing slide-by), so I trimmed out the sides where they had to put a couple 2x4s to attach the new tracks, and primed the wood. While doing this I noticed how bad the paint was on one side of the pre-existing molding (sun really blasts it during the summer and it hasn’t been properly scraped and redone in a few years.) So now I’ll have to fix that too. When we aren’t getting rain showers like today, but soon.

I hate really noticing that sort of thing, as opposed to being vaguely aware of it ‘cause then it has to go on the to-do list.

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Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:41:55am

This is an insult to every person of color in the Democratic Party. What the fuck. pic.twitter.com/w00zFogATr

— Grabthar’s Hammer (@eclecticbrotha) January 23, 2016

No one can duplicate what Obama did in 2008. If this article is true, I don’t get what Bernie is trying to do.

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:42:01am

Ok. Which one of you….

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Brian J. Jan 23, 2016 • 10:43:58am

re: #638 Jenner7

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No one can duplicate what Obama did in 2008. If this article is true, I don’t get what Bernie is trying to do.

It should also be remembered that Obama won the 2008 primaries on the final day, with his win in Montana. Any strategy that starts with Obama’s coalition and subtracts any significant number of people ends in inevitable defeat.

Me, I think Hillary will make it easy by winning IA by double digits, then the bump from that wins NH for her, and after that, the rest is silence.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:44:20am

berating the Iowa Republicans for picking loses… warns about picking Cruz…

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Kragar Jan 23, 2016 • 10:44:36am

Just as suspected, gun a-hole went armed to movie, fearing theater shooter, but ended up BEING the theater shooter. https://t.co/1Acre64GnX

— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 23, 2016

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 10:44:38am

re: #637 calochortus

I’m experiencing “project creep.” We had new garage doors put in (overhead replacing slide-by), so I trimmed out the sides where they had to put a couple 2x4s to attach the new tracks, and primed the wood. While doing this I noticed how bad the paint was on one side of the pre-existing molding (sun really blasts it during the summer and it hasn’t been properly scraped and redone in a few years.) So now I’ll have to fix that too. When we aren’t getting rain showers like today, but soon.

I hate really noticing that sort of thing, as opposed to being vaguely aware of it ‘cause then it has to go on the to-do list.

In the classic car hobby, that’s referred to as “shipwright’s disease.” It usually starts with replacing a Lucas headlight.

mgexp.com

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 10:44:48am

Just heard this while listening to ESPN radio in my kitchen doing some cleaning of pots and pans.

ESPN - Duquesne basketball, Temple gymnastics teams stuck in blizzard

The Duquesne men’s basketball team and the Temple women’s gymastics team are still looking to get home after being stranded in traffic on the Pennsylvania Turnpike overnight because of the blizzard affecting the eastern United States.

The Dukes were traveling home to Pittsburgh from Fairfax, Virginia, after their 86-75 victory against George Mason on Friday. The team, which departed Fairfax at 4:30 p.m., is stuck on a stretch between Bedford and Somerset, Pennsylvania.

Duquesne coach Jim Ferry, who won his 300th game Friday, told SportsCenter on Saturday morning that the bus is about 80 miles from Pittsburgh and that “everybody is safe” and “we’re going to be OK.”

Temple gymnastics coach Umme Salim-Beasley said the Owls’ bus, which left Philadelphia at about 2 p.m. Friday, is also stuck on the PA Turnpike about 80 miles from Pittsburgh.

Ferry told SportsCenter on Saturday morning that the bus came to a stop at about 9:15 p.m. ET.

“It’s been a heck of an experience,” he said. “We were making good time, kept track of the storm and we’re doing well. Then about 9:15 last night, it was a dead stop and we haven’t moved since.”

- - CUT - -

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wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 10:45:53am

re: #639 nines09

[Ok. Which one of you….]

It was me.

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:46:44am

re: #645 wrenchwench

Day late. Dollar short.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 10:47:11am

re: #642 Kragar

Just as suspected, gun a-hole went armed to movie, fearing theater shooter, but ended up BEING the theater shooter.

Alanis Morissette - Ironic (Video)

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:47:34am

Well, that was an hour long speech.

And this afternoon he’ll be down in Pella to repeat what he just said.

Pella might be a bit warmer, being farther south… but I expect no change in Trump’s temperament.

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wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 10:48:23am

re: #646 nines09

Day late. ~~Dollar~~ Upding short.

Still worthy.

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Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:48:24am

re: #642 Kragar

I’m watching The West Wing…..again….and this reminded me of an episode where this guy walked into a church where his estranged wife was and shot up the place. A guy with a concealed carry pulled his gun out thinking he could save the day and ended up shooting a little girl, who died.

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goddamnedfrank Jan 23, 2016 • 10:49:31am

alarming.as.fuck!

“I could stand in the middle of 5th Avenue and shoot people and I wouldn’t lose voters.” — Donald J. Trump

— Jeff Simon (@jjsimonCNN) January 23, 2016

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Skip Intro Jan 23, 2016 • 10:49:53am

re: #648 freetoken

Well, that was an hour long speech.

And this afternoon he’ll be down in Pella to repeat what he just said.

Pella might be a bit warmer, being farther south… but I expect no change in Trump’s temperament.

Was Princess Dumbass of the Northwoods with him? Is she anywhere today?

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 10:49:58am

re: #644 ObserverArt

“stuck on a stretch between Bedford and Somerset, Pennsylvania.”
That is a black hole area where the sky comes down and eats things.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 10:50:05am

re: #650 Jenner7

Space (SyFy in Canada) is doing an X-Files marathon today. Hubby never saw it. We’re bingeing.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:50:31am

This speech seemed slightly different to me. Trump spent a lot of time on the NRO gang of 22. It was clear he felt he needed to hit back and he did so. He basically told the Iowa Republicans that they ought to finally pick a winner.

It was pretty clear that while Trump used the word “conservative” a couple of times to describe himself he really doesn’t like many conservative pundits.

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wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 10:51:12am

When sheep know they are in the wrong field. #badsheep #Sheep365 #farming365 #cleversheep #farm365 pic.twitter.com/lKvZ680u7w

— Llŷr Derwydd (@LlyrDerwydd) January 23, 2016

Needs the sound.

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Barefoot Grin Jan 23, 2016 • 10:51:32am

re: #651 goddamnedfrank

alarming.as.fuck!

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Probably, with some qualifications on “people.”

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calochortus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:51:40am

re: #643 Decatur Deb

That would be it-I also have to watch out for Yak Shaving

Yak Shaving is the last step of a series of steps that occurs when you find something you need to do. “I want to wax the car today.”
“Oops, the hose is still broken from the winter. I’ll need to buy a new one at Home Depot.”
“But Home Depot is on the other side of the Tappan Zee bridge and getting there without my EZPass is miserable because of the tolls.”
“But, wait! I could borrow my neighbor’s EZPass…”
“Bob won’t lend me his EZPass until I return the mooshi pillow my son borrowed, though.”
“And we haven’t returned it because some of the stuffing fell out and we need to get some yak hair to restuff it.”
And the next thing you know, you’re at the zoo, shaving a yak, all so you can wax your car.

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ObserverArt Jan 23, 2016 • 10:53:36am

re: #638 Jenner7

Grabthar’s Hammer @eclecticbrotha

This is an insult to every person of color in the Democratic Party. What the fuck.

1:23 PM - 23 Jan 2016

No one can duplicate what Obama did in 2008. If this article is true, I don’t get what Bernie is trying to do.

Well, if info like this keeps getting out one of the things Bernie will be doing is killing his campaign.

I am really wondering more and more about Bernie. I’ll keep further comment to myself and just keep watching.

And with that…getting over the cold…means I gotta get busy and do something…going to lurk mode…

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Decatur Deb Jan 23, 2016 • 10:54:02am

re: #657 Barefoot Grin

Probably, with some qualifications on “people.”

In the timeline, the reporter corrected it, very slightly.

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calochortus Jan 23, 2016 • 10:54:42am

re: #653 nines09

“stuck on a stretch between Bedford and Somerset, Pennsylvania.”
That is a black hole area where the sky comes down and eats things.

Also an area featuring many members of Mr. C’s family members back to the 18th century. It is kinda pretty out there if you’re not stuck in a blizzard.

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makeitstop Jan 23, 2016 • 10:56:32am

re: #651 goddamnedfrank

alarming.as.fuck!

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He really said that?

Between him and Gun Necklace Lady, they’re really pushing it today.

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Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 23, 2016 • 10:58:06am

re: #570 Nyet

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“If you don’t understand what it means to be a Russian Patriot, I’ll explain. I don’t care how I’ll live. Maybe I won’t have your fucking human rights and idiotic shitocracies and your Gayropean values for which you khokhly [pej. for Ukrainians] have sold yourselves! But at least I won’t have faggot neighbors and Negroes who will devour my taxes.”

Unfortunately, if you read the Russian internet, that’s your average comment.

The Eurasian version of the Confederacy, right down to the inability to achieve anything without some whip-cracking asshole at the top breaking millions of eggs to make one lousy omelette.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 10:58:48am

One and a half hours to the Pella event:

Donald Trump LIVE Rally in Pella, IA (1-23-16)

Pella is quite a ways away. I assume he’s not taking his big jet down there, but must have a fleet of smaller jets that are able to use the smaller runways.

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retired cynic Jan 23, 2016 • 10:58:56am

re: #656 wrenchwench

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Needs the sound.

That got my old dog going!! Woof!

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 11:00:20am

re: #644 ObserverArt

Just heard this while listening to ESPN radio in my kitchen doing some cleaning of pots and pans.

ESPN - Duquesne basketball, Temple gymnastics teams stuck in blizzard

I read an article this morning that also mentioned that there was a busload of eighth grade students stranded as well. The Duquesne basketball players visited their bus and a good time was had by all.

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Kragar Jan 23, 2016 • 11:01:13am

while you’re snowed in, create your own Sarah Palin endorsing Trump esque speech with this tool from @cafedotcom: https://t.co/C6b87MuMAK

— Matt Binder (@MattBinder) January 23, 2016

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 11:03:35am

NW Iowa, where Trump is at right now, is a land with many fundamentalist protestants - reformed type - and that is where Vander Plaats is based and where Cruz probably has lots of support. Trump didn’t speak too much about traditional fundamentalist issues, but played the “confirmation” card (in his Presbyterian church) and the “Merry Christmas” card. I think the fundamentalists aren’t so impressed with those.

Trump even complained about rich WS traders not paying enough taxes, about Amazon using WaPo as a lobbying arm to keep down taxes, etc.

Clearly Trump isn’t running as a no-tax, no-abortion Republican. If so he would have done it in front of this crowd.

Trumps message to NW Iowa was this: you keep losing Presidential elections because you keep picking losers. Pick me because I am a winner.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 11:04:02am

Despite state of emergency, Gov. Matt Bevin goes to New Hampshire for political event https://t.co/93iiJEJ0Xo pic.twitter.com/TfKDYa6c4e

— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 23, 2016

asshole…

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BeachDem Jan 23, 2016 • 11:04:19am

re: #638 Jenner7

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No one can duplicate what Obama did in 2008. If this article is true, I don’t get what Bernie is trying to do.

It also assumes that Hillary learned nothing since 2008, which is not the case. She has solid ground games in caucus states now that were not there in 2008.

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Alephnaught Jan 23, 2016 • 11:04:52am

I see the thread has gone to 666 comments! I hope that’s not an omen, as I’m about to go into a concert at the O2 ABC in Glasgow, to see the Peatbog Faeries.:)

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Jay C Jan 23, 2016 • 11:04:53am

Ummm, maybe the Great Blizzard Of ‘16 will actually live up to its hype: just heard that NY’s Gov and Mayor have ordered ALL roads (presumably all of them in all of Downstate) CLOSED at 14:30 ET (about half-an-hour from now), with all rail transit shutting down at 16:00 as well.
THAT’S a Major Blizzard! (can’t recall any road closings for years)

Now predicting 20+ in for the City - not expected to wind down til after midnite

Hope all of y’all/us in the Blizzard Band stay safe!

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 11:05:27am

re: #669 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump mentioned the NH event, which has attracted several of the candidates.

Trump said he didn’t go because he didn’t want to inflate their attendance figures.

It was a good line.

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:05:55am

re: #661 calochortus

Summer sets quick in Somerset Pa.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 11:06:02am

re: #667 Kragar

I can see it.

“America’s gonna remind those camel-kissing buttkissers that we will not be blinded by the light, and no blinged out government bookbinder is gonna burn our buns on the hot white chimes of freedom. This is America, and we never take our good names for granted without a fight!”

Yup, totally can see it.

“We’re gonna show those DC daisy doolittles that we’re poking fires and we’re raising torches, and no secretary of red tape and glue and God knows how many emails is gonna break the backs and spirits of our better angels in the outfield. This is America, and we never take our good names for granted without a fight!”

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Kragar Jan 23, 2016 • 11:07:18am

re: #675 WhatEVs

“How about we tell those lamestream hooters and tooters that we’re going rogue 24/7 days a week nowadays, and no dopey, slopey community-organizing gumby is gonna put lipstick on a pig when you’ve got Madame Pantsuit coming down the aisle. This is America, and we never take our good names for granted without a fight!”

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SoundGuy 2016 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:08:15am

There’s no snow out here. None.

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:12:30am

re: #661 calochortus

Also an area featuring many members of Mr. C’s family members back to the 18th century. It is kinda pretty out there if you’re not stuck in a blizzard.

Doorway to Somerset Pa
Now picture it with a foot or more of snow…

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Blind Frog Belly White Jan 23, 2016 • 11:13:06am

re: #628 Snarknado!

There’s a reason I used wingnut font for “you can’t add anything.”

I know. I’m providing you with the response to Creationists when they say that.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 11:14:01am

re: #676 Kragar

I kinda like Madame Pantsuit, myself. :-)

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calochortus Jan 23, 2016 • 11:16:21am

re: #678 nines09

Ummm, no. I’ve driven that when we lived back east, but only in nice weather.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 11:16:45am

I’ve been looking at the radar/snow blob on weather.com and it looks like it hasn’t budged all day.
weather.com

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 11:17:21am

Republican rules and Democratic rules are different for these caucuses and even for some of the primaries.

Trump mentioned that at first he was angry about the RNC’s machinations, but then realized they would work in his favor in the end. And the winner-take-all approach in Florida will probably help Trump tremendously. And the guaranteed proportionality in the Iowa caucuses will not work against Trump.

On the Democratic side, though, the rules are probably going to work hard against Bernie, as they apportionment of delegates to the Democratic national convention appear to be more under the control of the inner power structure.

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makeitstop Jan 23, 2016 • 11:20:37am

re: #682 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

I’ve been looking at the radar/snow blob on weather.com and it looks like it hasn’t budged all day.
weather.com

Yes, my wife mentioned this morning that there was a high probability of the storm stalling.

So here we are. Gonna be a long night.

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SoundGuy 2016 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:20:54am

They tyranny of citizens having to petition the government to arrest criminals for breaking the law. Seriously, WTF? https://t.co/2x6a8bHjxC

— SoundGuy2016 (@BigPapa1849) January 23, 2016

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danarchy Jan 23, 2016 • 11:25:20am

re: #685 SoundGuy 2016

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almost 17000 to arrest the Bundys, almost 15000 to commute the Hammonds sentence, and almost 300000 to urge Obama to appear on Real Time with Bill Maher. Yay America.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 11:29:17am

@aguywithnolife I just saw this on Facebook 😂😂 pic.twitter.com/8Mrx4fJog2

— •AMMA• (@ObsessiveFand0m) January 23, 2016

The book? Trump Temptation: The Billionaire & The Bellboy

amazon.com

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 11:29:43am

TheHill, not a neutral outlet, already running a story on Trump in Iowa:

Trump floats lawsuit over Cruz’s birthplace

TheHill trying to make this sound as if it is new, but Trump has been playing this angle for several weeks.

And the commenters in their stories for some reason remind me very much of the RedState commenters.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 11:30:19am

re: #688 freetoken

TheHill, not a neutral outlet, already running a story on Trump in Iowa:

Trump floats lawsuit over Cruz’s birthplace

TheHill trying to make this sound as if it is new, but Trump has been playing this angle for several weeks.

And the commenters in their stories for some reason remind me very much of the RedState commenters.

They likely are.

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Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:30:42am

Rare #thundersnow visible from @Space_Station in #blizzard2016! #Snowzilla #snowmaggedon2016 #YearInSpace pic.twitter.com/l3p6hjnJOq

— Scott Kelly (@StationCDRKelly) January 23, 2016

Cool.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light) Jan 23, 2016 • 11:32:22am

re: #690 Jenner7

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Cool.

Super cool. Where is it supposed to be snowthundering in that photo?

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 11:33:07am

Cloudy and about 25F in Pella for Trump’s arrival. Probably easy travel weather.

Looking at the extended forecast, it looks like parts of Iowa will be unseasonably warm the day of the caucus. Pleasant weather could lead to record turnout. Probably will help Trump.

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Great White Snark Jan 23, 2016 • 11:33:08am

re: #691 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

where is supposed to be snowthundering in that photo?

The lightning flash in the cloud methinks

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calochortus Jan 23, 2016 • 11:34:56am

BBL

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makeitstop Jan 23, 2016 • 11:37:00am

re: #691 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Super cool. Where is it supposed to be snowthundering in that photo?

A friend down in Philly said she was getting thundersnow earlier.

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nines09 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:37:02am

re: #685 SoundGuy 2016

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Send in some shields from pick a city, any city, and tell them that Ammo Bundy and his posse stole some cigarillos, soda pop, and ran away and are holding toy guns and won’t listen to anyone. Then you’ll get some movement.

Back to work.

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PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 11:38:22am

re: #695 makeitstop

I did not hear any but the neighbors are using snowblowers and the wind is loud too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 11:38:50am

.@realDonaldTrump used a photo taken by our photog @corylumphoto in one of his campaign videos without permission. pic.twitter.com/NDDhPmgKRF

— Honolulu Civil Beat (@CivilBeat) January 23, 2016

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Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:39:01am

re: #651 goddamnedfrank

Holy shit, he really said that.

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 11:40:18am

Wunderground predicting snow for 1 Feb in Iowa, for example in Pella, where Trump is today:

wunderground.com

NWS is saying the storm track should stay north of Iowa…

Weather is too variable this far out to predict. I still think that in bad weather conditions that only the true believers will turn out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 11:40:53am

Rick Snyder skipped a Michigan infrastructure debate to attend a Bloomberg fundraiser https://t.co/outUSrvqBC pic.twitter.com/J6hFQzSo7A

— Josh Nelson (@josh_nelson) January 23, 2016

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Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:43:23am

I think we need a new thread…

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freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 11:44:13am

For 1 Feb, Wunderground has snow in Iowa from Sioux City (on the Missouri river) to Clinton (on the Mississippi river.) So if it is snowing statewide, I wonder how that will affect turnout.

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WhatEVs Jan 23, 2016 • 11:45:41am

re: #698 Backwoods_Sleuth

.@CivilBeat @realDonaldTrump @corylumphoto That’s *after* he used a photo of Russians first. Trump is an idiot. pic.twitter.com/fPfMv1wbiK

— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) January 23, 2016

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 11:46:46am

If Gov Bevin is at Republican Prez event in New Hampshire today, when did he shoot this salt truck selfie? ^JC https://t.co/0WFPjLFyu1

— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) January 23, 2016

Still icy conditions out on many of our roadways…KY DOT and NG working hard all last night…be careful out there pic.twitter.com/3sznTecuyM

— Matt Bevin (@MattBevin) January 23, 2016

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Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 11:48:27am

re: #705 Backwoods_Sleuth

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People were still stranded on the interstate when he tweeted that.

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danarchy Jan 23, 2016 • 11:49:37am

re: #700 freetoken

Wunderground predicting snow for 1 Feb in Iowa, for example in Pella, where Trump is today:

wunderground.com

NWS is saying the storm track should stay north of Iowa…

Weather is too variable this far out to predict. I still think that in bad weather conditions that only the true believers will turn out.

I always wondered why a weather company would name themselves after a terrorist organization.

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dholmes32 Jan 23, 2016 • 11:51:27am

re: #701 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Well gosh, Bloomberg held a fundraiser for Snyder? And Bloomberg is talking about a 3rd party candidacy for president? Has Bloomberg looked at the news? Does “Flint, Michigan” mean anything to him?????

709

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 12:02:17pm

I was thinking about checking my privilege, but then I thought, that really is the sort of thing my manservant should be doing.

— Robin Ince (@robinince) January 23, 2016

710

Backwoods_Sleuth Jan 23, 2016 • 12:05:04pm

oh good freaking grief…

Clipping. pic.twitter.com/YFfraHWsbI

— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) January 23, 2016

711

jaunte Jan 23, 2016 • 12:06:17pm

This is happening right now in Ocean City, New Jersey #blizzard2016 pic.twitter.com/7gISbgonYe

— Cecily Tynan (@CecilyTynan) January 23, 2016

712

SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 23, 2016 • 12:11:48pm

Welp, I just saw a video of a definite fatality on a snowy road.

Did not need to see that. Did not.

713

PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 12:14:01pm

re: #712 Stanley Sea Toujours

I just looked out my front window and my neighbor shoveled and salted the front walk. I am happy it is done but it may have to be redone tomorrow because of the wind.

714

Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 23, 2016 • 12:18:59pm

re: #712 Stanley Sea Toujours

Welp, I just saw a video of a definite fatality on a snowy road.

Did not need to see that. Did not.

Local news?

I thought traffic was paralyzed..

715

SS. Trump = that splat on your window Jan 23, 2016 • 12:20:50pm

re: #714 Pawn of the Oppressor

Local news?

I thought traffic was paralyzed..

It was on twitter. No idea of it’s origin. It was fucking horrible. (SUV skids into opposite lane & gets obliterated by semi)

716

wrenchwench Jan 23, 2016 • 12:21:44pm

BTW, I think River Whyless added a typewriter to their repertoire as an ‘in’ on their Tiny Desk Concert application.

717

Jenner7 Jan 23, 2016 • 12:22:17pm

Chuck Grassley is at this Donald Trump rally in Pella

— Ben Jacobs (@Bencjacobs) January 23, 2016

718

PhillyPretzel Jan 23, 2016 • 12:22:49pm

re: #715 Stanley Sea Toujours

Even the Nat’l Weather Service is saying, “… travel is extremely dangerous.”

719

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 12:24:34pm

re: #717 Jenner7

Nobody really likes Ted Cruz, especially his colleagues.

720

lawhawk Jan 23, 2016 • 12:30:34pm

Donald Trump says he could shoot people on 5th Avenue, and not lose votes.

I don’t think he’s wrong - and for any of the reasons (because those he shoots aren’t going to vote for him anyways, and those who he’s pandering to don’t mind that either).

If anything, Trump seems to take a page out of History of the World:

Drifting to the Left! (History of the World Part 1)

And I guess he’s over that New York values thing too.

721

SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 12:31:19pm

I’m mounting a rescue mission. Who’s with me??

mobile.philly.com

Temple University women’s gymnastics team is stranded.

722

freetoken Jan 23, 2016 • 12:33:37pm

Trump live stream from Pella is tardy.

723

Pawn of the Oppressor Jan 23, 2016 • 12:34:57pm

re: #715 Stanley Sea Toujours

Probably the video from Russia in 2012. The twitter hashtag for the blizzard is full of adorable animal videos and snow pictures.

724

No Country For Old Haters Jan 23, 2016 • 12:36:46pm

re: #721 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

I’m mounting a rescue mission. Who’s with me??

mobile.philly.com

Temple University women’s gymnastics team is stranded.

They look like children to me, and this line did not dispel that impression

“Disney movies to the rescue,” the team tweeted.

725

SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN Jan 23, 2016 • 12:47:15pm

re: #724 No Country For Old Haters

They’re college students. Do you really believe college students would be playing Uno and watching Disney movies? That’s for their parents to see. They’re probably doing shots and watching dirty movies. Notice nobody said anything about studying.

726

Feline Fearless Leader Jan 23, 2016 • 12:57:00pm

re: #658 calochortus

That would be it-I also have to watch out for Yak Shaving

Hole in the Bucket

And to this famous folksong.

727

sagehen Jan 23, 2016 • 1:10:15pm

re: #708 dholmes32

Well gosh, Bloomberg held a fundraiser for Snyder? And Bloomberg is talking about a 3rd party candidacy for president? Has Bloomberg looked at the news? Does “Flint, Michigan” mean anything to him?????

The fundraiser was last June.

728

TedStriker Jan 23, 2016 • 1:16:01pm

re: #540 Targetpractice

Is that snow or the surface of Krypton?

The planet Hoth.

729

darthstar Jan 23, 2016 • 1:59:21pm

re: #592 Great White Snark

A one million dollar photo. *facepalm* I mean this is kinda discouraging. Just a little. Caption is mine.

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petapixel.com

I have done a lot of images with the black b/g. Jewelry, flowers, opals, fire of course. But that relates to subject. But one never knows what will be a trend in tech titan portrait photography.

It is a nice spud.

Spy Auto

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