Podcast o’ the Night: The Bob & Chez Show, 1/21/16

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Tonight’s program on The Bob & Chez Show is actually a few days old, but still very relevant and very funny.

Bitter Clingin’ Proud Clingers: Sarah Palin Endorses Trump with Authentic Frontier Gibberish; The Most Ridiculous Clips from Her Speech; Palin Blames Obama for Her Son’s Domestic Violence Arrest; Bernie v Hillary, Dawn of Losing the General Election; The Latest Polls from Iowa; Lindsey Graham Continues to Make Sense; BBC; Carly Fiorina Ambushes Kids with Anti-Abortion Propaganda; and much more.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:10:45pm

Hurry up, X Files!

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Great White Snark  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:13:43pm
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docproto48  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:15:21pm

Anti Trump Anthem:

Death on Two Legs by Queen:

You suck my blood like a leech
You break the law and you preach
Screw my brain till it hurts
You’ve taken all my money and you want more,

Misguided old mule
With your pigheaded rules
With your narrow-minded cronies who are fools of the first division-

Death on two legs
You’re tearing me apart,
Death on two legs
You never had a heart of your own

Kill joy, Bad guy,
Big talking, Small fry
You’re just an old barrow - boy
Have you found a new toy to replace me,
Can you face me

But now you can kiss my ass goodbye

Feel good, are you satisfied

Do you feel like suicide (I think you should)
Is your conscience all right
Does it plague you at night,
Do you feel good, feel good?

Talk like a big business tycoon,
You’re just a hot air balloon,
So no one gives you a damn,
You’re just an overgrown school boy
Let me tan your hide.

Dog with disease,
You’re the king of the ‘sleaze’
Put your money where your mouth is Mr. Know all,
Was the fin on your back part of the deal…(shark!)

Death on two legs
Tearing me apart
Death on two legs
You never had a heart of your own,
(You never did, right from the start)

Insane should be put inside,
You’re a sewer rat decaying in a cesspool of pride
Should be made unemployed
Then make yourself null and void,
Make me feel good
I feel good.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:15:44pm
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Timothy Watson  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:17:39pm

You know, in my day (say 1998), we didn’t need three hours of pre- and post-game coverage for a fucking football game.

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bratwurst  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:20:55pm

re: #5 Timothy Watson

You know, in my day (say 1998), we didn’t need three hours of pre- and post-game coverage for a fucking football game.

All in the name of selling boner pills and insurance. Nothing more, nothing less.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:22:52pm

FFS, and now they’re promoting the eight weeks of Daytona.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:24:46pm

re: #2 Great White Snark

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Leave Dick Cheney alone! Whatever ills the man has done, he’s not so far gone as to endorse Trump!

/sorta

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:28:38pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:30:50pm

re: #7 Timothy Watson

With Jeff Gordon retired, my parents and family have stopped watching NASCAR.

I haven’t watched, but I did follow it.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:34:41pm
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Jenner7  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:35:14pm

Very convincing.

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bratwurst  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:36:50pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Wow, note MGTOW in his handle…that is “Men Going Their Own Way” an especially insane branch of the generally insane MRA tree. I won’t post a link here, anyone curious will have to fire up google themselves.

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WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:45:15pm

re: #13 bratwurst

Wow, note MGTOW in his handle…that is “Men Going Their Own Way” an especially insane branch of the generally insane MRA tree. I won’t post a link here, anyone curious will have to fire up google themselves.

MGTOW=off to bed with a bottle of lotion and a box of Kleenex.

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bratwurst  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:46:15pm

re: #14 WhatEVs

MGTOW=off to bed with a bottle of lotion and a box of Kleenex.

LOL pretty much. Color me SHOCKED that a guy who identifies as a “white nationalist” is also “going his own way” so to speak.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:46:51pm

A lamb stuffed inside a pig stuffed inside a cow. Because you don’t win friends with salad.

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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:50:34pm

re: #16 darthstar

TRIGGER WARNING

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:52:26pm

re: #16 darthstar

A lamb stuffed inside a pig stuffed inside a cow. Because you don’t win friends with salad.

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Imagine that in a pit. for 24 hours. or more.

Then we the guests walk up, with our drink in hand & just pick off the meat.

Dreaming here

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calochortus  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:53:14pm

re: #13 bratwurst

Wow, note MGTOW in his handle…that is “Men Going Their Own Way” an especially insane branch of the generally insane MRA tree. I won’t post a link here, anyone curious will have to fire up google themselves.

Why do all these ‘going their own way’ guys need to keep telling people that’s what they’re doing? Just go your own way and get on with it.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:53:28pm

re: #18 Trump: Free hair gel from me. Come to the beach!

Imagine that in a pit. for 24 hours. or more.

Then we the guests walk up, with our drink in hand & just pick off the meat.

Dreaming here

I dream of being a man in a lamb in a pig in a cow and having to eat my way out.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:54:20pm

re: #16 darthstar

A lamb stuffed inside a pig stuffed inside a cow. Because you don’t win friends with salad.

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I’m not quite sure where the line that defines “Wretched Excess” lies, but that Cowpimb (hey, I can call it what I want) is so far past it that you can’t even see it from there.

RBS

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calochortus  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:55:47pm

re: #21 Reality Based Steve

Personally, I’ll be at the salad bar. A serving of meat is a fine thing, but that is so far beyond it that it is an appetite killer.

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Great White Snark  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:58:10pm

re: #16 darthstar

A lamb stuffed inside a pig stuffed inside a cow. Because you don’t win friends with salad.

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If that’s supposed to be gyros he’s doin it wrong.

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window  Jan 24, 2016 • 7:58:44pm

I’ve picked a pig that was roasted in a pit. Unfortunately i was in the young stage. But I will NEVER FORGET the beauty of that pork. Never.

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danarchy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:00:04pm

re: #16 darthstar

A lamb stuffed inside a pig stuffed inside a cow. Because you don’t win friends with salad.

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I don’t see how you could cook that properly. Either you are going to end up with overdone beef or underdone pork.

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goddamnedfrank  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:03:46pm

re: #25 danarchy

I don’t see how yo could cook that properly.

Gamma knife, from the inside out.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:04:26pm

re: #24 Trump: Free hair gel from me. Come to the beach!

I’ve picked a pig that was roasted in a pit. Unfortunately i was in the young stage. But I will NEVER FORGET the beauty of that pork. Never.

A friend of ours has a pig roasting box - an aluminum box that you build a charcoal fire on top of and it heats up so fast and hot that you can roast a 60lb pig in about three hours. I’ve had two pigs this way at his house…it’s freakin’ good.

Just google pig roaster box. I will have one of these by Summer - as soon as I get some other shit out of the garage.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:05:42pm

The X Files are back, and boy are they stupid. I wonder if Milli Vanilli will make a comeback too.

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Jenner7  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:06:15pm

re: #28 darthstar

So far, I’m not impressed.

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:06:42pm

re: #27 darthstar

A friend of ours has a pig roasting box - an aluminum box that you build a charcoal fire on top of and it heats up so fast and hot that you can roast a 60lb pig in about three hours. I’ve had two pigs this way at his house…it’s freakin’ good.

Just google pig roaster box. I will have one of these by Summer - as soon as I get some other shit out of the garage.

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Oh yeah! Do the whole pig & invite all the neighbors.

Happiness.

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SS. Trump = that splat on your window  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:08:08pm

Damn it. Talking about roasted buried pork. Ima hungry, AGAIN

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:08:17pm

re: #28 darthstar

The state of American Sci-Fi is pretty poor right now.

Doctor Who having gone mainstream is a sign of this.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:08:29pm

re: #27 darthstar

A friend of ours has a pig roasting box - an aluminum box that you build a charcoal fire on top of and it heats up so fast and hot that you can roast a 60lb pig in about three hours. I’ve had two pigs this way at his house…it’s freakin’ good.

Just google pig roaster box. I will have one of these by Summer - as soon as I get some other shit out of the garage.

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I’ve looked at those… I think they are known as “Cuban Pig Cooker”. Seems like a fantastic way to do a bunch of meat for a group.

RBS

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gwangung  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:11:25pm

re: #32 Ziggy_TARDIS

The state of American Sci-Fi is pretty poor right now..

The Expanse. Counter-argument.

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Single-handed sailor  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:13:02pm

re: #16 darthstar

A lamb stuffed inside a pig stuffed inside a cow. Because you don’t win friends with salad.

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Take that, Turducken.

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Mattand  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:13:07pm

Currently watching the X-Files. Apparently Alex Jones had a major hand in the script.

Jesus Christ, does Chris Carter really believe this shit?

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Kafitrar  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:13:28pm

re: #33 Reality Based Steve

I’ve looked at those… I think they are known as “Cuban Pig Cooker”. Seems like a fantastic way to do a bunch of meat for a group.

RBS

Also known as a La Caja China.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:14:06pm

re: #28 darthstar

That’d be quite a trick to bring back Milli Vanilli, since half of them has been pushing up daisies for the last 20-odd years.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:14:21pm

Signing back in for a moment. Really icy outside so I took the spousal unit to work. Came back and looked at my email feed and saw something weird from twitter I hadn’t seen before: #altright

Holy shit.

This crazy bitch is all over that hashtag

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:15:40pm

re: #32 Ziggy_TARDIS

I’m surprised no one talked about the Heroes mini-series unless it was that bad.

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gwangung  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:16:02pm

re: #40 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’m surprised no one talked about the Heroes mini-series unless it was that bad.

Apparently, it was.

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andres  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:16:28pm

re: #13 bratwurst

Wow, note MGTOW in his handle…that is “Men Going Their Own Way” an especially insane branch of the generally insane MRA tree. I won’t post a link here, anyone curious will have to fire up google themselves.

Here’s one definition from Urban Dictionary.

Quite an illuminating movement. If you need to illuminate something several stories below the basement.

// Just in case.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:17:12pm

re: #34 gwangung

I will have to look at it.

Still, Doctor Who got better reviews for Series 9 than Game of Thrones did for Season 5.

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Single-handed sailor  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:17:51pm

re: #27 darthstar

A friend of ours has a pig roasting box - an aluminum box that you build a charcoal fire on top of and it heats up so fast and hot that you can roast a 60lb pig in about three hours. I’ve had two pigs this way at his house…it’s freakin’ good.

Just google pig roaster box. I will have one of these by Summer - as soon as I get some other shit out of the garage.

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Tom Waits - Filipino Box Spring Hog

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Tigger2  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:18:01pm

LOL

Its a weekend…… Its chilling time …. !!! :) :) :) :)

Posted by Meaww on Sunday, January 24, 2016
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:22:01pm

I remember the episode of Anthony Bourdain’s “No Reservations” when he had roasted pig in Bali (I think) that was slow-cooked over a fire pit and the outside of the pig was dosed with some kind of sweet juice until, when finished cooking, the meat looked like golden pork candy.

Just the sound of him breaking off a piece to eat was enough to make me get on a plane. Along with real Szechuan Hot Pot, that’s one of those food tourism things that I’d have on the top of my list if I had won those millions last month.

re: #16 darthstar

That’s one of those bizarre achievements that raises as many questions as it answers.

1. Why?
2. How to cook it?
3. Who the hell could afford that?
4. Why?
5. Why?

And also, #6. Why?

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:22:23pm

Wait, they mentioned Jeff Gordon during the X-Files episode?!?!

This seems to be a hilarious level train wreck.

Edit: Nevermind, misunderstood the tweet.

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danarchy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:26:59pm

re: #43 Ziggy_TARDIS

I will have to look at it.

Still, Doctor Who got better reviews for Series 9 than Game of Thrones did for Season 5.

Better reviews from who? I like the Doctor Who, but given the choice between GoT or Doctor Who I would watch GoT every time.

rottentomatoes.com

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:27:31pm

re: #48 danarchy

Doctor Who Series 9 got 100% on the same site.

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darthstar  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:28:00pm

re: #35 Single-handed sailor

Take that, Turducken.

Sure as hell beats a pimento stuffed in an olive rolled up in a lettuce leaf.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:29:45pm

re: #50 darthstar

Sure as hell beats a pimento stuffed in an olive rolled up in a lettuce leaf.

which isn’t as good as a thin dill pickle spear wrapped up with thin roast beef that has a layer of cream cheese on it. (I did make those once, and they were a huge hit at a party)

RBS

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Great White Snark  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:31:08pm

re: #44 Single-handed sailor

That’s one odd duck.

Video

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:32:29pm
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Joe Bacon  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:33:22pm

Tom Waits is in a class by himself!

Tom Waits - “Bad As Me”

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:33:25pm

Hey, Teleskiguy? You around?

Never been much into skiing, as you’ve doubtless noted. Do love the pics you post though especially of the wilder places. The Army, a set of cross country skis & a blown knee go a long way to making me prefer snow shoes.

That said, I saw the news of Bill Johnson today. RIP to him and to a toast to his sport and his medal.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:33:25pm

re: #49 Ziggy_TARDIS

Here.

It was also one of 4 shows to return to air that had a perfect score.

The other three were Fargo, The Americans, and the Knick.

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Kragar  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:34:29pm

re: #39 Aunty Entity Dragon

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danarchy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:35:19pm

re: #49 Ziggy_TARDIS

Doctor Who Series 9 got 100% on the same site.

Sure, but if you look at average rating GoT it is 8.8/10 and Doctor Who was 8.1/10.

They were both very well rated, I think it is kind of silly to compare the two. GoT isn’t even SciFi it is fantasy. If you are going to put GoT in the SciFi category, then certainly all of the comic book based stuff would qualify as well and there is a bit of renaissance in that area what with all of the Marvel stuff on Netflix and ABC and all of the DC stuff on the CW.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:35:43pm

re: #56 Ziggy_TARDIS

All of the other three are on Seasons 2 or 3.

Doctor Who was on Season 35.

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Kragar  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:37:06pm

I think I’ve made a new friend

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:37:15pm

re: #58 danarchy

I am going by the Freshness rating it was given. And in that, Doctor Who knocked down Game of Thrones.

Which considering the Sansa storyline, I can agree with how they judged it.

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:37:52pm

re: #32 Ziggy_TARDIS

The state of American Sci-Fi is pretty poor right now.

Doctor Who having gone mainstream is a sign of this.

The Expanse and a couple of other space operas & alt histories are giving hope for a renaissance.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:39:03pm

re: #55 William Lewis

I saw the news of Bill Johnson today. RIP to him and to a toast to his sport and his medal.

Facebook Post

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:41:32pm

re: #62 William Lewis

Protip, if Doctor Who can pull more gravitas and seriousness than your Sci-Fi show, maybe you should stop.

Doctor Who has always had cheese, but apparently, X-Files is a cheese tsunami.

One thing I adore with Moffat is how he has mocked conspiracy theories on the show. He has no time for that sort of stupid horseshit.

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danarchy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:41:41pm

re: #61 Ziggy_TARDIS

I am going by the Freshness rating it was given. And in that, Doctor Who knocked down Game of Thrones.

Which considering the Sansa storyline, I can agree with how they judged it.

Apples and oranges. There were 22 reviews for doctor who and 55 for GoT of which 54 were fresh and 1 was rotten. You can look at the statistics any way you want, but in the end the only one that really counts is total viewers.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:43:09pm

Caption Contest!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:43:28pm

re: #65 danarchy

It is still the one with the award.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:43:39pm

re: #66 teleskiguy

I got nothin.

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Belafon  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:43:39pm

re: #32 Ziggy_TARDIS

The state of American Sci-Fi is pretty poor right now.

Doctor Who having gone mainstream is a sign of this.

All those people who watched Doctor Who as kids are middle aged scientists, engineers, and parents. The same group that made comic conventions a normal thing were easily going to make a reboot mainstream.

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:43:42pm

re: #59 Ziggy_TARDIS

All of the other three are on Seasons 2 or 3.

Doctor Who was on Season 35.

With occasional glorious seasons like the ninth doctor.

But also seasons like most of the seventh doctor (I like McCoy, but the episodes were meh.).

We tend to forget the stinkers and remember the good bits as with every other show. In the case of the Doctor, there’s more than the usual of both.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:44:52pm

Kill two birds with one stone! Do the load test and get the beer to the lodge!

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Single-handed sailor  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:47:31pm

re: #66 teleskiguy

Caption Contest!

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We’re going to need more ski patrol.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:47:44pm

re: #70 William Lewis

For me, I have gotten to the last of the 4th on Netflix.

Right now, my ranking for one I have watched is thus:

12th
3rd
11th
4th
2nd
9th
10th
1st

The writing for the 10th was bad at times. Really bad.

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Reality Based Steve  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:48:40pm

re: #66 teleskiguy

Caption Contest!

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Stock Up… it’s the Teleski Convention this weekend.

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danarchy  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:49:04pm

re: #67 Ziggy_TARDIS

It is still the one with the award.

Fairly sure GoT will take the 8 million viewers over the rotten tomatoes Winner icon.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:49:57pm

re: #75 danarchy

True, but I am not a fan of rape on TV.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:51:42pm

Reviews for X-Files are in.

It is not good. 51%

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:54:00pm

re: #77 Ziggy_TARDIS

Reviews for X-Files are in.

It is not good. 51%

Willing to see how this plays out. :)

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:54:46pm

re: #73 Ziggy_TARDIS

For me, I have gotten to the last of the 4th on Netflix.

Right now, my ranking for one I have watched is thus:

12th
3rd
11th
4th
2nd
9th
10th
1st

The writing for the 10th was bad at times. Really bad.

Probably has to do with our ages…
4th (the first one I ever saw on PBS at midnight had him with that hat and scarf. I’m imprinted like a duckling).
9th/12th (near tie, but slightly for 9. But Capaldi is the best doctor since 4 if not of all.)
3rd
2nd
11th/10th (I prefer the 10th for actor, 11th for stories)
5th
6th
7th
8th

I haven’t ever seen a whole series of the first Doctor.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 8:58:38pm

re: #79 William Lewis

Truth be told, it is very hard for me to choose a favourite among the 1st four.

I chose 12 because of his utter loyalty and devotion to Clara, then 3 for the Slighty Romantic Action Hero, the 11th because he was my first Doctor to watch outside of DVDs.

Otherwise, it would be a 4-way tie between 3,4,11 and 12.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:01:00pm

re: #78 GlutenFreeJesus

No matter which you think is better between Doctor Who and Game of Thrones, I think it can be agreed both are better than X-Files.

Edit: I am tired.

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Kragar  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:04:48pm
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Charles Johnson  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:07:46pm
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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:08:07pm

re: #54 Joe Bacon

Clicking through all those videos, I realize I’m not nearly as familiar as I should be with his catalogue. I’m going to fix that.

Once you get used to the voice everything pops into relief. He’s like an Alley Cat Bowie.

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Kragar  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:08:47pm
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WhatEVs  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:13:27pm

re: #77 Ziggy_TARDIS

Reviews for X-Files are in.

It is not good. 51%

Audience score 95%.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:30:41pm

It’s official! I will be inundated with sportsball and even more sportsball for the next two weeks. There will be a lot of chatter about sports and points and point-spreads and the strength of the “D” and how much sports action will be needed for ultimate sports victory in the biggest sportsball game in all of sports.

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allegro  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:31:58pm

Oh damn. I hadn’t realized x-files started tonight and missed it. Was it all UFO?

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:32:11pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

It’s official! I will be inundated with sportsball and even more sportsball for the next two weeks. There will be a lot of chatter about sports and points and point-spreads and the strength of the “D” and how much sports action will be needed for ultimate sports victory in the biggest sportsball game in all of sports.

Shrug. I can handle it since Belacheat is out of it.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:32:52pm

re: #88 allegro

Nope, Alex Jones stuff.

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allegro  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:34:50pm

re: #90 Ziggy_TARDIS

Nope, Alex Jones stuff.

Oh. OK then. Not so sorry I missed it.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:35:35pm

I loved the original Twilight Zone.
I didn’t feel the same way about each succeeding remake.
I loved the original Outer Limits.
Once again, I didn’t feel the same way about the revival.
I loved the original Star Trek
Each succeeding iteration of Trek is less appealing to me
Feel the same way about the original X Files.
But this comes off as a uncapped bottle of soda where the fizz is gone…

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allegro  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:39:52pm

What I most enjoyed about x-files was the wierd and creepy thingie of the week. The UFO stuff left me pretty cold. CT, nope.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:40:11pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

It’s official! I will be inundated with sportsball and even more sportsball for the next two weeks. There will be a lot of chatter about sports and points and point-spreads and the strength of the “D” and how much sports action will be needed for ultimate sports victory in the biggest sportsball game in all of sports.

The “D” is stronger than the “C” or the “G” since it doesn’t have an open flank. Why it’s better than the “O” is open to debate.

“The Story of O”, however, is a totally different kettle of fish.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:41:42pm

The thing about the X-files is you have to understand where it started. Back in 1993 Alex Jones level conspiracy theories were restricted to a mostly lunatic fringe of paranoid people who circulated weekly newsletters about who really killed JFK. This was of course, pre-internet.

Now we are post 9/11, post Katrina, post Iraq War, Post Obama and Post tons of other shit that has impacted Americans view of their country and their government.

I’m thinking the Alex Jones wannabe guy on this show is a kind of a false flag. That most of his conspiracy theories will turn out to be bullshit despite what this premiere would have you believe.

I wasn’t huge a fan of the lengthy exposition interspersed with real world events as I’m sure the conspiracy nuts are going to grab that and run with it, but the central difference with the X-files is that Aliens are the true forces behind the illuminati and working on a grand scheme to colonize earth. I’m not sure even Alex Jones has ventured into such insane territory.

Mulder has always been portrayed as someone who will easily believe elaborate conspiracy theories so it makes sense he’d be an easy target for an RWNJ nutball pundit.

I think once the entire story arc is completed it will seem a lot smarter than this premiere was.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:44:22pm

re: #95 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s good to point out every now and again that Internet is a very new thing in the human experience.

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allegro  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:48:32pm

Aliens and illuminati? Not sorry I missed it now. Won’t be sorry next week neither.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:50:36pm

re: #97 allegro

Aliens and illuminati? Not sorry I missed it now. Won’t be sorry next week neither.

Next week they reveal that Trump and Hillary are two slimy aliens named Kang and Kodos with a long-term plan to make massive profit selling cookbooks.

99
allegro  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:50:57pm

Plus that right after Downton Abbey would be a painful mental whiplash.

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teleskiguy  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:54:12pm

@Broncos has more followers on Twitter than @Panthers. This has to be factored into the outcome of the big sportsball game in two weeks in the local sportsball club’s favor.

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Single-handed sailor  Jan 24, 2016 • 9:58:48pm

re: #99 allegro

Plus that right after Downton Abbey would be a painful mental whiplash.

The show moves to a Monday time slot.

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allegro  Jan 24, 2016 • 10:01:17pm

re: #101 Single-handed sailor

The show moves to a Monday time slot.

Well that makes all the difference. LOL

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2016 • 10:01:50pm

I’m just gonna leave this here for now…

” car wheels on a gravel road” by lucinda williams.

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Sophist: Make America Grate Again  Jan 24, 2016 • 10:03:31pm

re: #19 calochortus

Why do all these ‘going their own way’ guys need to keep telling people that’s what they’re doing? Just go your own way and get on with it.

For the same reason a five year old stands there for half an hour bawling and promising that this time, this time, he’s really going to run away, instead of just walking out the door.

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ausador  Jan 24, 2016 • 10:38:12pm
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ausador  Jan 24, 2016 • 10:53:49pm

The truth is out there on Twitter…

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Nyet  Jan 24, 2016 • 10:56:23pm

re: #39 Aunty Entity Dragon

And once again something Greco-Roman in avi. Seems almost like a good predictor.

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William Lewis  Jan 24, 2016 • 11:16:09pm

re: #107 Nyet

And once again something Greco-Roman in avi. Seems almost like a good predictor.

PO’s me that we did such a piss poor job on the de-nazification due to our fear of Commies when the Fascists were always the far greater threat to American freedom. Ah, well, yesterday’s children, that’s all any of us are…

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Jan 24, 2016 • 11:28:30pm

re: #87 teleskiguy

It’s official! I will be inundated with sportsball and even more sportsball for the next two weeks. There will be a lot of chatter about sports and points and point-spreads and the strength of the “D” and how much sports action will be needed for ultimate sports victory in the biggest sportsball game in all of sports.

“There will be lots of scoring with these manly men who we will describe in detail! We shall place much D in their Tight Ends! Back to you for more anal-ysis, Jim! Wait, why is everybody laughing??”

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 24, 2016 • 11:33:31pm

re: #109 Pawn of the Oppressor

“There will be lots of scoring with these manly men who we will describe in detail! We shall place much D in their Tight Ends! Back to you for more anal-ysis, Jim! Wait, why is everybody laughing??”

It is a game of four quarters, each consisting of fifteen minutes. Which seem like an eternity with all the breaks and time-outs interspersed with ads targeted at the sort of manly men who watch sportsball events!

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jan 24, 2016 • 11:44:20pm

Video

ALEX CASTELLANOS, CHAIR, PURPLE STRATEGIES: Well, I think as much as I love “National Review” and thank you for making me the conservative I am today, I think they’ve shown up at the war long after the last shot’s been fired here. They — they’re telling the Republican Party to pull its rip cord long after we’ve hit the ground and gone splat.

Boom.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:16:12am

re: #111 Not a Sparkly Vampire

“Principled” or “intellectual” conservatives are a dying breed who have long since lost control of the GOP to a breed of virulent populism. DT is the candidate of the latter faction.

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ausador  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:24:37am

So I’m looking at the accounts of people Trump has quoted in his tweets and came upon this. Donald Trump comic book style avenging hero? WTF?

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:25:45am

Making a Murderer is a fine piece of propaganda.

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ausador  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:43:41am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:45:43am

re: #113 ausador

POLL: If Donald Trump shot a Muslim who was raping a woman in a dark ally would you support his judgement to shoot?

a window into the fevered soul of a Trump supporter…

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fern01  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:47:19am

re: #12 Jenner7

“As he entered the church, Trump was asked about what his faith meant to him and he replied, ‘A lot”

Learning from Sarah Palin “all of them Katie”

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:50:20am

re: #115 ausador

Cute…

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I iz badass kitteh!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 1:54:56am

re: #117 fern01

“As he entered the church, Trump was asked about what his faith meant to him and he replied, ‘A lot”

Learning from Sarah Palin “all of them Katie”

Two Corinthians walk into a bar…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:36:05am

re: #119 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Two Corinthians walk into a bar…

dressed in the finest leather …

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:39:42am

re: #120 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

dressed in the finest leather …

Soft Corinthian leather, a marketer’s fantasy brand, made in New Jersey

122
PhillyPretzel  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:44:05am

I am off today. Yippee!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:05:58am

2nd panel of gas fireplace glass (say that 3 times fast!) shattered this weekend

really not happy.

you?

124
I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:09:36am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:10:17am

Malaysian security police have arrested several suspected ISIS agents, and Daesh is not happy at all.

In a strongly defiant video posted in Bahasa Malaysia, the Malaysian-Indonesian unit of IS, called the Katibah Nusantara, threatened revenge for the arrests of its members.

Titled “Mesej Awam Kepada Malaysia” (Public Message for Malaysia), the video warned: “If you catch us, we will only increase in number but if you let us be, we will be closer to our goal of bringing back the rule of the Khalifah (caliph).

“Those who brand us as khawarij (dissenters), Daesh (another name for IS) and even as Mossad agents are in fact Syiah and its allies.

“We will never bow down to the democratic system of governance as we will only follow Allah’s rules.”

Another video called on Katibah’s “brothers” from Somalia’s Al-Shab­aab to join the group in the “real front line in Syria”.

thestar.com.my

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:14:42am

re: #125 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Malaysian security police have arrested several suspected ISIS agents, and Daesh is not happy at all.
[snip]

We will never bow down to the democratic system of governance as we will only follow Allah God’s rules.”

[snip]
thestar.com.my

Sound familiar?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:15:12am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:15:46am

re: #126 Eventual Carrion

[snip]
thestar.com.my

Sound familiar?

Quite familiar.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:18:34am

re: #127 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

First question, I can’t even see the four possible answers. Somebody kick the web developers in the ass for me.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:19:42am

re: #127 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

If you can answer these questions, you’re in the smartest 4 per cent of the population

Yeah, I’m somebody.
“Your mind detects patterns better than 96% of the population”

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:22:54am

re: #130 Eventual Carrion

Yeah, I’m somebody.
“Your mind detects patterns better than 96% of the population”

I didn’t think it was that hard. I know some that would.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:23:29am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:28:00am

re: #113 ausador

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:37:21am

YUP, THIS IS IT.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:40:02am
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Alephnaught  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:42:36am

re: #127 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

If you can answer these questions, you’re in the smartest 4 per cent of the population

Yay! I’m in the 4%. That last question was really hard, the rest weren’t though.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:46:12am

Possibly SIX PERCENT of the population suffers traumatic brain injury resulting from Domestic Violence …

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:47:16am

re: #136 Alephnaught

Yay! I’m in the 4%. That last question was really hard, the rest weren’t though.

Hey, we are in the top 4% of something!!!

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:56:40am

yes or no

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Kent Dorfman  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:57:36am

re: #123 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

I am sorry to hear that. They make special glass for that.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 4:59:06am

re: #140 Kent Dorfman

I am sorry to hear that. They make special glass for that.

Yes, and it shatters.

2nd time I’ve been thru this.

Not happy.

thanks for your thoughts.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:10:42am

re: #141 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Yes, and it shatters.

2nd time I’ve been thru this.

Not happy.

thanks for your thoughts.

Same manufacturer as the last one?

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:15:59am

re: #142 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Same manufacturer as the last one?

IDK. Fireplace guys came out and fixed the last one —it was a different side of the fireplace. Guess, no matter what the glass will expand and contract —after 20 years it is prone to shattering.

Ceramic glass is the next step, from what I read. We shall see what the fireplace guys say.

Our unit is discontinued —so that means everything has to be special ordered.

More than the $$ right now, I miss the fireplace—especially in the am. It just helps the world seem friendlier.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:18:38am

a friend was sitting in a chair not far from the fireplace when it blew. It makes a loud boom.

Was humorous watching her reaction.

(ggt with evil grin)

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:20:45am

Found on Facebook:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:21:54am

re: #143 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

OK, after 20 years I guess it has an excuse.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:38:50am

Since I’m outside the Great Firewall of China, I’m spending more time on Facebook than is wise. I am now completely fed up with this latest clickbait craze, because the number of users far outnumbers the available memes, so I have seen repetitions even after only a few days.

Be like Wheat-dogg. Don’t click on these idiotic meme generators.

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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:43:08am

re: #13 bratwurst

Wow, note MGTOW in his handle…that is “Men Going Their Own Way” an especially insane branch of the generally insane MRA tree. I won’t post a link here, anyone curious will have to fire up google themselves.

The blog WEHuntedTheMammoth does a great job mocking all parts of the Men’s Rights Activists movement. Highly recommend for anyone curious about such folks who are racist and sexist at the same time.

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Kent Dorfman  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:43:56am

Old hippies never die, they just smell that way.

Sanders already has a substantial lead among millennials, generally defined as those born between 1985 and 1997, beating Clinton by 2-1 in most polls. But her strength is among those aged 50 and over, where she holds a 3-1 edge, and it is even larger among nonwhites and women in that age group.

Sanders is shopping for support among those older voters, and Simon & Garfunkel’s wistful elegy fits his theme like a glove.

If you don’t believe me, do a focus group of the ad at home. Kids will like it, but many of those who were young in the turbulent ’60s and are prime voters now will find it emotionally powerful. The ad skillfully links Sanders’ populist campaign to voters’ memories of the civil-rights and antiwar movements.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:46:15am
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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:47:01am

re: #147 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Since I’m outside the Great Firewall of China, I’m spending more time on Facebook than is wise. I am now completely fed up with this latest clickbait craze, because the number of users far outnumbers the available memes, so I have seen repetitions even after only a few days.

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Be like Wheat-dogg. Don’t click on these idiotic meme generators.

I do research them --unless It’s early in the am and I’m sure I’ve researched it before …

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:48:29am

re: #149 Kent Dorfman

Old hippies never die, they just smell that way.

True ‘nough. I finally became sure Obama was going to win in 2008 when he launched a late-season rendition of “An American Tune”. It was complete, over a montage of a largely-white Americans in daily activity. Also had no voiceover, no text. We vote, we donate, we volunteer.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:49:00am

Blocked Gun-Fucker of the Day==>

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:49:59am
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Patricia Kayden  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:51:09am

re: #135 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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Yet forced birthers are anti-birth control. Doesn’t make a lick of sense.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:52:32am

re: #155 Patricia Kayden

Yet forced birthers are anti-birth control. Doesn’t make a lick of sense.

It’s about sex and control, not the status of the fetus.

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I Stand With Planned Parenthood  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:55:06am

bbl

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:57:05am

re: #153 The Vicious Babushka

Blocked Gun-Fucker of the Day==>

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I hope I never fly with that asshole. It’s not about the 2nd amendment you fucking gun humping assholes. It’s about safety. I can’t shout shit on an aircraft either and you don’t see me bitching about my first amendment rights being violated. Airlines do have the right to make their aircraft safe by forbidding guns as they should. Man these fucking people. There’s more to life than your dick surrogates.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 5:57:59am

re: #154 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Report warns of more plastic than fish in oceans by 2050

Well there goes the saying plenty of fish in the sea. That really sucks though if true for so many reasons.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:00:56am

re: #159 HappyWarrior

Well there goes the saying plenty of fish in the sea. That really sucks though if true for so many reasons.

There is apparently a huge “island” of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:03:30am

re: #160 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There is apparently a huge “island” of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.

I believe it. Agh. It’s terrible how we treat our oceans.

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:03:34am

re: #160 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There is apparently a huge “island” of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.

One in the Atlantic also.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:06:24am

re: #161 HappyWarrior

I believe it. Agh. It’s terrible how we treat our oceans.

It’s junk that washes out of rivers and harbors, carried by currents out to sea, plus all the crap people at sea throw overboard.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:07:59am

re: #163 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s junk that washes out of rivers and harbors, carried by currents out to sea, plus all the crap people at sea throw overboard.

And bits of aircraft and rocket components, apparently.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:08:12am

re: #160 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There is apparently a huge “island” of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.

It’s twice the size of Texas.

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Ace-o-aces  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:08:30am

re: #160 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There is apparently a huge “island” of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.

I hear it’s on the shortlist for Trump’s VP pick.

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Dr Lizardo  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:09:05am

re: #166 Ace-o-aces

I hear it’s on the shortlist for Trump’s VP pick.

Followed closely by dumpster fire.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:09:32am

re: #165 The Vicious Babushka

It’s twice the size of Texas.

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There is a ‘skeptical’ point of view on that, also. It might be overstated for the sake of virtue.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:13:02am

re: #168 Decatur Deb

There is a ‘skeptical’ point of view on that, also. It might be overstated for the sake of virtue.

Note the skeptic in this case writes for the WSJ, so take it for what it’s worth.

ic.galegroup.com

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Dave In Austin  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:14:05am

re: #139 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

I say no.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:14:35am

re: #166 Ace-o-aces

I hear it’s on the shortlist for Trump’s VP pick.

TOO ASIAN. //

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:15:03am

re: #167 Dr Lizardo

Followed closely by dumpster fire.

RAGE is also being considered I hear.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:15:33am

re: #163 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s junk that washes out of rivers and harbors, carried by currents out to sea, plus all the crap people at sea throw overboard.

Yeah makes sense.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:23:06am

re: #149 Kent Dorfman

Old hippies never die, they just smell that way.

He’s using some of his ammunition too early. Clinton also has her stories from around that area, such as when she posed as a mother in Alabama to fight against racism in southern schools (DK link to other articles):

A look at Mrs. Clinton’s efforts that summer, through archives and interviews with more than 50 local officials, civil rights activists and people who knew her, reveals a summer job that was both out of character for the bookish law student and a moment of awakening.

Until her trip to Alabama, she had been relatively sheltered, her activism mostly confined to Ivy League debates and campus turmoil. Like many white activists from the North who traveled south to help on civil rights issues, Mrs. Clinton confronted a different world in Dothan, separate and unequal, and a sting of injustice she had previously only read about.

“I went through my role-playing, asking questions about the curriculum and makeup of the student body,” Mrs. Clinton wrote in “Living History.” “I was assured that no black students would be enrolled.”

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:24:44am

re: #174 Belafon

He’s using some of his ammunition too early. Clinton also has her stories from around that area, such as when she posed as a mother in Alabama to fight against racism in southern schools (DK link to other articles):

One of the segregation academies she investigated is still there—800 yards from our house. (They have nominal Black attendance now, often on football scholarship.)

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:26:52am

Nailed it.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:27:52am

re: #13 bratwurst

Wow, note MGTOW in his handle…that is “Men Going Their Own Way” an especially insane branch of the generally insane MRA tree. I won’t post a link here, anyone curious will have to fire up google themselves.

Actually, I thought that meant he has an unnatural love of machine guns and TOW missiles.

//

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:30:16am

re: #106 ausador

As Terry Pratchett put it, “The truth is out there but the lies are in your head.”

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:30:28am

re: #150 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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Two corrections: Bail bonds and DUI schools have pretty much always been private concerns. Hence calling them “privatized” is not correct, since they were never governmental in the first place.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:33:20am

re: #180 Dark_Falcon

Two corrections: Bail bonds and DUI schools have pretty much always been private concerns. Hence calling them “privatized” is not correct, since they were never governmental in the first place.

We just won this one in the next county—largely by shining light on it. Goes a lot better when John Oliver is helping out.

en.wikipedia.org

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:36:15am

re: #181 Decatur Deb

We just won this one in the next county—largely by shining light on it. Goes a lot better when John Oliver is helping out.

en.wikipedia.org

Well, I don’t favor having private companies handle parole. The law enforcement functions a parole officer fulfills requires that he or she be an agent of the state, IMO.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:37:06am

Being unemployed and banned from twitter does have benefits:

I have read a book every three days for the last three months. The best of these include: Things Hidden Since the…

Posted by Charles C. Johnson on Sunday, January 24, 2016
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:38:16am

re: #135 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

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Free reliable birth control could result in 99% more sluttiness among American females!!!

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Romantic Heretic  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:38:36am

re: #127 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

Got in the 4%.

They didn’t let me into Mensa for my good looks. ;)

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:38:49am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Beloved by wingnuts who want to shutdown government forever

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:41:06am

re: #160 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

There is apparently a huge “island” of rubbish floating in the Pacific Ocean somewhere.

So that is the price we ultimately pay for all that “cheap” plastic we have been consuming relentlessly for the past half-century…

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:41:23am

Dumb and dumberer (and a flat out lying liar).

For those who missed it over the weekend, Ted Cruz claimed that he lost his insurance due to Obamacare, and that his premiums went up 50%. Both are flat out lies. He never lost insurance. Policies were always available to him, he invented a scenario that doesn’t reflect reality. He screwed up. And there’s no way his policies went up 50%, not when the highest increase of any policy in Texas was about 10%, or that DC plans were likewise in the same range.

So, forget all the talk of Cruz walking back his claims. He lied. He was caught. And yet this was the least bad thing a GOP frontrunning candidate did this weekend. For that, we go to Trump, who repeatedly tweeted a white supremacist (and was conversing at length with said white supremacist), plus thought that his followers wouldn’t mind if he shot people on 5th Avenue (and not hit any of his voters).

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:42:12am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:43:02am

“Power users” = abusive stalkers

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:44:43am

re: #182 Dark_Falcon

Well, I don’t favor having private companies handle parole. The law enforcement functions a parole officer fulfills requires that he or she be an agent of the state, IMO.

They weren’t doing parole—they were charging fees and interest on what were essentially “payday loans” to cover your fine and court costs. If you don’t make the payment the loan company has you in the slammer.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:49:21am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:54:53am

He’s still butthurt over that blue checkmark

194
The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:55:32am

Again, he thinks abusive stalkers are “power users”

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:56:24am

re: #180 Dark_Falcon

Two corrections: Bail bonds and DUI schools have pretty much always been private concerns. Hence calling them “privatized” is not correct, since they were never governmental in the first place.

Our local DUI classes (not psych sessions if demanded by court, but DUI classes) are run by the county probation staff.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 6:56:36am

re: #192 Dr. Matt

Ted Cruz will make sure there’s a tiny Ted Cruz in everyone’s chest ready to burst out, if he becomes president.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:01:35am

Milo is Tweeting out a multi-part manifesto about how Twitter is crashing & he did it all by himself.

If he thinks Twitter sucks so hard, why doesn’t he find another social media platform that caters to his whims, like Tumblr or Grindr?

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unproven innocence  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:05:33am

re: #27 darthstar

A friend of ours has a pig roasting box - an aluminum box that you build a charcoal fire on top of and it heats up so fast and hot that you can roast a 60lb pig in about three hours. I’ve had two pigs this way at his house…it’s freakin’ good.

Just google pig roaster box. I will have one of these by Summer - as soon as I get some other shit out of the garage.

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Aluminum melts at about 660 C —close the temp where things begin to glow visibly dull red. Charcoal can easily get much hotter. Stainless steel is costlier but much longer-lasting.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:06:01am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Beloved by wingnuts who want to shutdown government forever

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From the people who brought you Evolution is just a theory.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:07:29am

re: #189 Dark_Falcon

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I don’t know what he’s blabbering about. It makes sense that DC’s suburbs are wealthy. People around here are more educated than the average American and more education typically translates to more income. I guess he’s bitter because he didn’t work hard enough.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:08:04am

re: #189 Dark_Falcon

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Name your budget cuts.

Tell us what programs you want to cut. If you believe there is so much fat in the government, tell us where it is including the bloated defense budget!!!!!

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:08:16am

Jim Geraghty retweeted that. Let’s unpack it, shall we?

Math is hard. Yes, it is. Let’s take every single GOP tax plan. Every single one of the ones proffered by the GOP field would massively add to the deficit (that’s the cumulative annual debt carried by the nation). Not a single one of those plans would pass the smell test, and all would end up saddling future generations with more debt.

Let’s also take every single GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare. Every single one of them would add to the national debt. Every single one. The JCT/CBO has unequivocally stated that repealing it would massively increase the debt - and none of the GOP plans (malware/vaporware as currently constituted) would approach the number of insureds as under Obamacare.

Let’s also look at the GOP approach to public health. Slashing spending on safe drinking water has ended up costing far more. See Flint, Michigan. Reducing environmental protection for water and air quality, which is a GOP mantra claiming that it’s overregulated, would end up costing the nation far more in lost productivity and higher health care costs due to additional time in hospitals treating everything from lead poisoning to respiratory ailments (or in Flint’s case - a bunch of both - as Legionnaire’s disease outbreak also traced to Flint water crisis).

Adulthood is indeed hard. The GOP plays fairytales with what they can and would do, ignoring all the consequences of their actions. They think slashing and burning the safety net is compassionate, or will somehow enable them to save money resulting from their massive tax hikes (which shift the tax burdens from the rich on to everyone else).

So, no, conservatism isn’t hard, nor is rejecting them even harder. That’s what happens when you deny reality and facts and logic. Conservatism as it is currently construed and practiced by the GOP, right wingers, and the likes of the NRO cabal, are angry, selfish, and don’t care about the consequences of their actions. They are worse than petulant 2 year olds who think that if they think the sky is green, that everyone must believe it as well. And they throw temper tantrums that result in government shutdowns that cost billions more than they saved (yeah Ted Cruz, your math sucked on that one too).

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:09:42am

re: #200 HappyWarrior

I don’t know what he’s blabbering about. It makes sense that DC’s suburbs are wealthy. People around here are more educated than the average American and more education typically translates to more income. I guess he’s bitter because he didn’t work hard enough.

also he is too stupid to understand that “non-essential” does not mean “superfluous”, it means “you don’t have to be there on a day-to-day basis to ensure the ongoing operation of the government’s vital services”.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:09:45am

re: #202 lawhawk

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Jim Geraghty retweeted that. Let’s unpack it, shall we?

Math is hard. Yes, it is. Let’s take every single GOP tax plan. Every single one of the ones proffered by the GOP field would massively add to the deficit (that’s the cumulative annual debt carried by the nation). Not a single one of those plans would pass the smell test, and all would end up saddling future generations with more debt.

Let’s also take every single GOP attempt to repeal Obamacare. Every single one of them would add to the national debt. Every single one. The JCT/CBO has unequivocally stated that repealing it would massively increase the debt - and none of the GOP plans (malware/vaporware as currently constituted) would approach the number of insureds as under Obamacare.

Let’s also look at the GOP approach to public health. Slashing spending on safe drinking water has ended up costing far more. See Flint, Michigan. Reducing environmental protection for water and air quality, which is a GOP mantra claiming that it’s overregulated, would end up costing the nation far more in lost productivity and higher health care costs due to additional time in hospitals treating everything from lead poisoning to respiratory ailments (or in Flint’s case - a bunch of both - as Legionnaire’s disease outbreak also traced to Flint water crisis).

Adulthood is indeed hard. The GOP plays fairytales with what they can and would do, ignoring all the consequences of their actions. They think slashing and burning the safety net is compassionate, or will somehow enable them to save money resulting from their massive tax hikes (which shift the tax burdens from the rich on to everyone else).

So, no, conservatism isn’t hard, nor is rejecting them even harder. That’s what happens when you deny reality and facts and logic. Conservatism as it is currently construed and practiced by the GOP, right wingers, and the likes of the NRO cabal, are angry, selfish, and don’t care about the consequences of their actions. They are worse than petulant 2 year olds who think that if they think the sky is green, that everyone must believe it as well. And they throw temper tantrums that result in government shutdowns that cost billions more than they saved (yeah Ted Cruz, your math sucked on that one too).

Conservatism these days is about being a victim while at the same time accusing everyone else of being a victim. It’s where being wished a Happy Holidays is an outrage but racial profiling is just peachy.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:10:56am

re: #203 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

also he is too stupid to understand that “non-essential” does not mean “superfluous”, it means “you don’t have to be there on a day-to-day basis to ensure the ongoing operation of the government’s vital services”.

Precisely. They just see the term “non-essential” and by being blockheads assume “Oh that means we don’t need them for the government to function.” As a child and grandchild of federal employees, I can’t begin to tell you what a load of patronizing right wing bullshit that is by that idiot.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:12:04am

He’s still ranting on and on

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:13:00am

re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

He’s still ranting on and on

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He must be drinking what CCJ drinks. Really dude, you’re not entitled to your blue check mark. Maybe stop being a dick and they might give it to you. Milo’s such a whiny right wing asshole.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:13:04am

re: #186 The Vicious Babushka

Every organization has critical personnel and noncritical personnel. There’s stuff that must be done every day - managing computer networks, getting out news, etc. There are other functions that may not be necessary when a natural disaster strikes - like some HR functions, etc.

These people seem to ignore that a blizzard of epic proportions is a natural disaster.

On the preliminary NESIS scale, it was a class 4 storm (crippling), and fell just short of two of the all time worst storms. Much of the northeast saw 2 feet of snow or more. That includes much of the NYC metro area, most of New Jersey, and even higher amounts in places.

The amount of ignorance is stunning.

Schools are closed. Does that make them unessential personnel? Hardly. But if you can’t get students there safely, then schools should be shut.

If schools are closed, then are bus drivers unessential? Hardly.

Same thing applies with government agencies.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:14:13am

re: #205 HappyWarrior

Precisely. They just see the term “non-essential” and by being blockheads assume “Oh that means we don’t need them for the government to function.” As a child and grandchild of federal employees, I can’t begin to tell you what a load of patronizing right wing bullshit that is by that idiot.

Brings back memories of Newt”s temper tantrum that shut the government down from Thanksgiving 1995 past New Years 1996. For five weeks we had to come to work and NOT get paid. Kids had NO Christmas that year. Yet we still dealt with teabaggers calling us lazy, shiftless, etc.

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ObserverArt  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:14:27am

re: #149 Kent Dorfman

Old hippies never die, they just smell that way.

The author of that is working too hard for what he is getting results wise. It is almost like he chose his theme ‘Woodstock Generation” and worked out how to make it all fit…based on the Simon and Garfunkel song.

One thing I do feel though…it is as turbulent now as it was in the 60s. I’m going to judge stuff on today. Plus, I do tend to vote for the future. Isn’t that what it is all about. What does me being 14 when “America” came out have to do with all the turbulence now?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:14:53am

re: #194 The Vicious Babushka

“As a rising star” pffft! Talk about an oversized ego.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:15:53am

re: #207 HappyWarrior

He must be drinking what CCJ drinks. Really dude, you’re not entitled to your blue check mark. Maybe stop being a dick and they might give it to you. Milo’s such a whiny right wing asshole.

He goes on and on about “Free Speech”

His “Free Speech” on Twitter has not been compromised or restricted in any way.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:16:11am

re: #208 lawhawk

Every organization has critical personnel and noncritical personnel. There’s stuff that must be done every day - managing computer networks, getting out news, etc. There are other functions that may not be necessary when a natural disaster strikes - like some HR functions, etc.

These people seem to ignore that a blizzard of epic proportions is a natural disaster.

On the preliminary NESIS scale, it was a class 4 storm (crippling), and fell just short of two of the all time worst storms. Much of the northeast saw 2 feet of snow or more. That includes much of the NYC metro area, most of New Jersey, and even higher amounts in places.

The amount of ignorance is stunning.

Schools are closed. Does that make them unessential personnel? Hardly. But if you can’t get students there safely, then schools should be shut.

If schools are closed, then are bus drivers unessential? Hardly.

Same thing applies with government agencies.

It was close to or may have been record recorded snowfall here in the DC area. I just love wingnut bullshit. These guys bitch about the big bad federal government but then during the shutdown, they cried about how the WWII memorial was shutdown. I mean that was unfortunate especially for people who had paid for their airfare and hotel fare months in advance to visit but at the same time those wingnut assholes had zero sympathy for people like my mom who were put out of work due to the Republican Congress’s toddler temper tantrum. And she remembered the first shutdown in the Newt years too. Hmmm Republicans there’s a reason why federal workers typically don’t vote for your party. Maybe stop viewing them with contempt like you do for anyone who’s not a heterosexual white Christian male.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:16:33am

re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

He and Rage Furby really believe the world revolves around them.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:17:41am

re: #209 Joe Bacon

Brings back memories of Newt”s temper tantrum that shut the government down from Thanksgiving 1995 past New Years 1996. For five weeks we had to come to work and NOT get paid. Kids had NO Christmas that year. Yet we still dealt with teabaggers calling us lazy, shiftless, etc.

Yes, I remember that shutdown quite well. My mom and her co-workers did it in good spirits. I remember hearing about “The Gingrich.” Really fuck people who call federal employees lazy, shiftless, useless, etc. Those cowards wouldn’t say that about military personale who are technically federal government employees too but no they don’t have the balls to do that so they do it on people like you, my mother, and millions of other hard working Americans.

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Timothy Watson  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:26:38am

re: #215 HappyWarrior

Yes, I remember that shutdown quite well. My mom and her co-workers did it in good spirits. I remember hearing about “The Gingrich.” Really fuck people who call federal employees lazy, shiftless, useless, etc. Those cowards wouldn’t say that about military personale who are technically federal government employees too but no they don’t have the balls to do that so they do it on people like you, my mother, and millions of other hard working Americans.

Oh, they don’t have a problem saying it about military personnel either. Just look at the refusal to pay for the VA, or the G.I. Bill expansion from a couple years ago, or giving pay increases.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:27:22am
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ObserverArt  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:29:27am

re: #194 The Vicious Babushka

Again, he thinks abusive stalkers are “power users”

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So, being a massive asshole on twitter is what makes you a power user?

Did these idiots actually have parents? What a pack of spoiled self-centered brats. Yeah the world needs a whole bunch of 20-35 year old immature children.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:33:32am

re: #216 Timothy Watson

Oh, they don’t have a problem saying it about military personnel either. Just look at the refusal to pay for the VA, or the G.I. Bill expansion from a couple years ago, or giving pay increases.

True that. Fuckers.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:33:48am

re: #189 Dark_Falcon

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Why? Why does government have to be cut back? Why do we have to pay the middleman (meaning paying more)?

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:35:58am

re: #220 WhatEVs

Why? Why does government have to be cut back? Why do we have to pay the middleman (meaning paying more)?

HURR HURR GUBMIT HAS TO BE PRIVATIZED BECUZ TEH PRIVAT SEKTER IS MOAR EFFICIENT!!!11!!!!

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:36:10am

re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

He’s still ranting on and on

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I think he and CCJ were Siamese twins separated at birth by Ben Carson who was whispering RW platitudes into their tender ears.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:36:58am

Things about to go from bad to worse for Gov. Snyder.

The argument as far as I can tell for originally switching Flint’s water supply was that it would be cheaper in long term to go to source other than Detroit, which was the city’s long term provider.

Yet, there’s now evidence that Detroit was willing to give favorable terms, cutting the cost significantly?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:37:40am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:39:54am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:40:17am

re: #223 lawhawk

Things about to go from bad to worse for Gov. Snyder.

The argument as far as I can tell for originally switching Flint’s water supply was that it would be cheaper in long term to go to source other than Detroit, which was the city’s long term provider.

Yet, there’s now evidence that Detroit was willing to give favorable terms, cutting the cost significantly?

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Motor City Muckraker suggests that Snyder wanted to completely dismantle the entire DWSD and privatize the whole thing however only “unidentified sources” are quoted.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:41:49am

re: #225 Backwoods_Sleuth

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It’s something else. I found out last night that I have class canceled tomorrow. I’ve never from what I can remember had a college class canceled that early.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:42:21am

UPDATE: Breitbart News has corrected its piece. The headline now states, “CORRECTED — Michael Goldfarb: Trump is the Politics of ‘Fear, Paranoia, Nativism.’” An attached note reads: “CORRECTION: Our morning lead was a link to a story on the BBC Magazine by Michael Goldfarb. This is not the Founder of the Washington Free Beacon, but a different individual. Breitbart News Executive Chairman Stephen K. Bannon and Editor-in-Chief Alexander Marlow accept responsibility for this mistake and apologize to Michael and the staff of the Free Beacon.”

ORIGINAL: Breitbart News ran a piece claiming that the founder of the conservative Free Beacon attacked Donald Trump as embodying “the politics of ‘fear, paranoia, nativism.’” But Breitbart News, which has been criticized for being “the most pro-Trump news outlet on the right,” wrote about the wrong person.
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A January 24 Breitbart News piece carried the headline, “‘Free Beacon’ Founder: Trump Is The Politics of ‘Fear, Paranoia, Nativism’” and linked to a January 24 BBC News Magazine piece by Michael Goldfarb. During the morning of January 25, Breitbart News made the article its top story:

heh

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:43:06am

re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth

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heh

Nice work asshats.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:44:18am

re: #226 The Vicious Babushka

Motor City Muckraker suggests that Snyder wanted to completely dismantle the entire DWSD and privatize the whole thing however only “unidentified sources” are quoted.

Thus the report should be dismissed. In a story this important, only on-the-record sources are to be trusted. Anyone insisting on anonymity should be considered as attempting a screw-job and ignored.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:44:46am

from the “no kidding” file:

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:45:00am

re: #230 Dark_Falcon

Thus the report should be dismissed. In a story this important, only on-the-record sources are to be trusted. Anyone insisting on anonymity should be considered as attempting a screw-job and ignored.

Felt didn’t go on the record during Watergate.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:45:34am

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

from the “no kidding” file:

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Yeah but Carl from Up thought you were too uptight so he started supporting Bernie.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:46:09am

re: #231 Backwoods_Sleuth

from the “no kidding” file:

GOP strategist lashes out: “We appeal to only cranky, old white guys”

Don’t bet on our votes, dipshit.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:46:38am

re: #230 Dark_Falcon

You mean like Gov. Snyder, whose email dump included countless pages where everything but his own email address was blacked out?

If these unnamed sources fear retribution, they should go to the federal prosecutors in MI and seek whistleblower protections. I don’t particularly trust the MI AG at this point given his foot-dragging for months as the crisis unfolded. No one associated with Snyder and the MI government agencies has handled this well.

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Dark_Falcon  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:47:52am

re: #232 HappyWarrior

Felt didn’t go on the record during Watergate.

I don’t care. That’s my rule and I hold to firmly.

Moreover, after what David Brock said about Bernie Sanders recently, Media Matters should be treated as wholly in the pocket of Hillary’s pantsuit.

BBT

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:49:13am

Hillary’s pantsuit!
Drink!

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:49:16am
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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:49:56am

All those poor oppressed white males, desperate for a level playing field.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:50:22am

re: #236 Dark_Falcon

I don’t care. That’s my rule and I hold to firmly.

Operative words: “my rule”. While on top of your soapbox, feel free to hold as firm as you want to them.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:50:44am

re: #236 Dark_Falcon

I don’t care. That’s my rule and I hold to firmly.

Moreover, after what David Brock said about Bernie Sanders recently, Media Matters should be treated as wholly in the pocket of Hillary’s pantsuit.

BBT

Well I am saying that your standard of holding unnamed sources to be ignored is frankly crap given that the political scandal that brought down Richard Nixon was brought down by an unnamed source. You don’t have to like Brock, hell I myself am wary of him in some ways but that’s not a reason to just poo-poo it.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:51:39am

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hillary’s pantsuit!
Drink!

I do have cider and hard root beer in the garage but it’s not even noon ehre yet.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:51:52am

re: #237 Backwoods_Sleuth

Hillary’s pantsuit!
Drink!

Was hoping for “Soros” and “Community organizer” references so I can have a nice buzz by lunch.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:53:29am

re: #243 Dr. Matt

Was hoping for “Soros” and “Community organizer” references so I can have a nice buzz by lunch.

“Ayles” and “Alinsky”, too. This is too serious to approach sober.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:53:39am

Honestly given this scandal, it’s not surprising that a source would go anonymous. This is a pretty bad scandal. Dirty water fucks with people’s lives.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:55:13am

re: #245 HappyWarrior

Honestly given this scandal, it’s not surprising that a source would go anonymous. This is a pretty bad scandal. Dirty water fucks with people’s lives.

Snyder can win with the babypoisoner demographic.

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mmmirele  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:56:43am

re: #127 I Stand With Planned Parenthood

If you can answer these questions, you’re in the smartest 4 per cent of the population

I did it. It was a spatial patterns test and I scored in the 4 percent, like I knew I would. I key into patterns very easily.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:56:55am

re: #245 HappyWarrior

Honestly given this scandal, it’s not surprising that a source would go anonymous. This is a pretty bad scandal. Dirty water fucks with people’s lives.

HURR HURR WHAT ELSE DID U EXPECT THAT SNYDER RAPED FLINT WITH POISON WATER!!!! IT TEH DEMOCRATZ FAULT THEY MADE FLINT DRESS SLUTTY!!!1!!!!

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iossarian  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:57:05am

re: #246 Decatur Deb

Snyder can win with the babypoisoner demographic.

I was going to say that won’t give him two votes to rub together.

But then I remembered there’s Cheney and Kissinger.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:57:22am

re: #241 HappyWarrior

Well I am saying that your standard of holding unnamed sources to be ignored is frankly crap given that the political scandal that brought down Richard Nixon was brought down by an unnamed source. You don’t have to like Brock, hell I myself am wary of him in some ways but that’s not a reason to just poo-poo it.

It does not mean that the source is to be brushed off, just look at it with a bit more caution before making sweeping judgments about anyone or anything.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2016 • 7:57:31am

re: #238 The Vicious Babushka

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Probably triggered by guys he insulted on Grindr, Manhunt, Adam4Adam, etc…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:00:24am
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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:00:32am

re: #250 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It does not mean that the source is to be brushed off, just look at with a bit more caution before making sweeping judgments about anyone or anything.

Of course. I was just saying DF shouldn’t shit on the source just because he/she is not giving their name and that the Watergate Scandal was broken by an unnamed source.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:02:35am

re: #253 HappyWarrior

Of course. I was just saying DF shouldn’t shit on the source just because he/she is not giving their name and that the Watergate Scandal was broken by an unnamed source.

it’s quite okay to clutch at unnamed straws

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:05:05am
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iossarian  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:05:50am

Henry Kissinger,
How I’m missin’ ya,
You’re the doctor of my dreams.

With your crinkly hair,
And your glassy stare,
And your mach-ia-vellian schemes!

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mmmirele  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:09:34am

I got a ticket in the mail last week for blowing a red light late last month. It was one of those “do I stand on the brakes and have everything in the front seat, including my work laptop, fly out the window,” or do I blow the light? I blew the light. I knew I blew the light at the time and was expecting a ticket.

So I got the ticket. Not only is it $280.50 to blow a red light in Mesa, Arizona, I have to take an eight-hour traffic safety class which costs $130.00, for which I have not yet received the paperwork. And it is absolutely *unclear* from the paperwork whether I can take the 4 hour defensive driving course and satisfy the ticket that way (for $227 instead of $280.50) *plus* take the traffic safety class. Seriously, the paperwork is so opaque that I, a law school graduate and former lawyer, am looking at it and going, “well, what the F do I do now?”

I complained about the cost of the ticket on Facebook until I learned a couple of days later that it’s $500 to not come to a full stop at a red light before making a right in California. I have since shut up about the cost and am now whining about the paperwork. I worry that if the paperwork is this opaque for me, and I’m edumacated /s, then some of my fellow citizens could really get hamstrung by failing to meet the deadlines and take the right classes.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:13:21am

re: #257 dholmes32

I got one a few years ago for going through a red light. It was wet and rainy, so my options were either to a) slam on the brakes and risk skidding uncontrollably or b) continue on. I choose ‘b’ and paid the fine and took the online traffic course. I really hate red light cams. I can’t believe they are legal.

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withak  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:14:45am

re: #258 Dr. Matt

I got one a few years ago for going through a red light. It was wet and rainy, so my options were either to a) slam on the brakes and risk skidding uncontrollably or b) continue on. I choose ‘b’ and paid the fine and took the online traffic course. I really hate red light cams. I can’t believe they are legal.

Thankfully, some states have decided that they’re not.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:14:48am

Egad. I just ran a seriously orange light in Frankfurt this afternoon…hope there was no camera.

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iossarian  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:18:46am

re: #257 dholmes32

That sucks.

In my area, it’s now at the point where I slow down approaching green lights, in case they go to amber. I also look for the pedestrian signs that show seconds remaining.

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Decatur Deb  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:18:48am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Egad. I just ran a seriously orange light in Frankfurt this afternoon…hope there was no camera.

“Seriously orange” sounds like a valley girl description of “red”.

Back in the bad old days, the Army required minor violators to attend a Saturday traffic school to be taught by the “Senior Violator Present”.

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:20:52am

re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

He’s still ranting on and on

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And yet, he still has an account. Such drama.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:24:56am

re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Egad. I just ran a seriously orange light in Frankfurt this afternoon…hope there was no camera.

That’s either a Trump or Boehner light, probably…

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:26:18am

re: #257 dholmes32

Was the weather bad that day?

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:28:27am

re: #258 Dr. Matt

I got one a few years ago for going through a red light. It was wet and rainy, so my options were either to a) slam on the brakes and risk skidding uncontrollably or b) continue on. I choose ‘b’ and paid the fine and took the online traffic course. I really hate red light cams. I can’t believe they are legal.

What I would have done is asked for a court date, explained that by the time the light was changing the weather made me hesitate a very quick stop - because you were so close to the intersection, but NOT going too fast - and thought, for safety sake it was better to go through the light rather than cause a slide. Basically beg for the courts forgiveness.

I have done that in the past with success. FWIW and YMMV.

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sagehen  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:32:17am

re: #230 Dark_Falcon

Thus the report should be dismissed. In a story this important, only on-the-record sources are to be trusted. Anyone insisting on anonymity should be considered as attempting a screw-job and ignored.

Deep Throat was a liar! His information is inherently unreliable!

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:33:13am

re: #267 sagehen

Deep Throat was a liar! His information is inherently unreliable!

Already covered that.

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:34:56am

Serious question. Who are all these Milo fans and followers? If I didn’t follow things here, I would never have heard of him, and even reading his bio etc., I can’t figure out why he’s a “thing.” I’ve asked friends if they’ve heard of him and they just say, “Who?” (I know, anecdotal, but…)

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sagehen  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:36:30am

re: #268 HappyWarrior

Already covered that.

This is what happens when I wake up late and try to catch up.

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BeachDem  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:37:27am
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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:39:40am

The death toll from the weekend storm continues rising. 3 more people died from the storm in Northern NJ alone - 1 woman died in her car after being afraid to drive home Friday night as the storm picked up. A woman and her child died of carbon monoxide poisoning as the car was warming up while her husband was trying to free the car from the snow.

That latter incident is all too common. People don’t realize that you’ve got to clear the tailpipe or else the gases can back up into the car.

At least 30 people have died from the storm from KY/TN to VA to NY.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:41:23am

re: #272 lawhawk

Meanwhile in Iowa, lamebrain Ted makes an Al Gore joke.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:42:30am

re: #269 BeachDem

Serious question. Who are all these Milo fans and followers? If I didn’t follow things here, I would never have heard of him, and even reading his bio etc., I can’t figure out why he’s a “thing.” I’ve asked friends if they’ve heard of him and they just say, “Who?” (I know, anecdotal, but…)

From what I can tell, mostly a bunch of guys who are so insecure they drag other down (in Milo’s case he is threatened by anything not young, white and male). They tend to find each other via Facebook, Twitter, etc. They find each other and reinforce each other. Writing for various sites (Milo, for example, writes for Brietbart, IIRC), automatically gives him access to a bunch of like-minded people.

He’s an interesting guy because he’s an apparently self-loathing gay guy who would be roundly despised if it wasn’t for the other shared hatred.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:43:21am

re: #271 BeachDem

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Josh Brolin for Perry the Movie. Grandpa Munster can still play Ted.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:43:43am

re: #271 BeachDem

Cruz’s theme song should be - Never Gonna Get It. Because he’s never going to get “it”. Not winning the White House. Not showing a shred of empathy. Not showing a willingness to address reality. Nothing.

And Rick Perry? He’s a lost causer too.

They just wont free their minds…

En Vogue - Free Your Mind (Official Video)

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makeitstop  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:44:06am

re: #236 Dark_Falcon

I don’t care. That’s my rule and I hold to firmly.

Moreover, after what David Brock said about Bernie Sanders recently, Media Matters should be treated as wholly in the pocket of Hillary’s pantsuit.

BBT

How many ‘unnamed sources’ have been treated as confirmed fact regarding Benghazi?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:44:31am

re: #273 jaunte

Meanwhile in Iowa, lamebrain Ted makes an Al Gore joke.

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Really Ted? That’s even lamer than your Simpsons impressions.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:46:06am

re: #270 sagehen

This is what happens when I wake up late and try to catch up.

It’s all good. Really that was a crap generalization. I mean if he had said I don’t generally trust anon sources, fine but to put them all down as uncredible and not worthy of trust was poor form.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:46:22am

re: #277 makeitstop

All of them, if you’re the right wingers with the Benghazi ribbons in their avis.

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makeitstop  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:47:02am

re: #257 dholmes32

I got a ticket in the mail last week for blowing a red light late last month. It was one of those “do I stand on the brakes and have everything in the front seat, including my work laptop, fly out the window,” or do I blow the light? I blew the light. I knew I blew the light at the time and was expecting a ticket.

So I got the ticket. Not only is it $280.50 to blow a red light in Mesa, Arizona, I have to take an eight-hour traffic safety class which costs $130.00, for which I have not yet received the paperwork. And it is absolutely *unclear* from the paperwork whether I can take the 4 hour defensive driving course and satisfy the ticket that way (for $227 instead of $280.50) *plus* take the traffic safety class. Seriously, the paperwork is so opaque that I, a law school graduate and former lawyer, am looking at it and going, “well, what the F do I do now?”

I complained about the cost of the ticket on Facebook until I learned a couple of days later that it’s $500 to not come to a full stop at a red light before making a right in California. I have since shut up about the cost and am now whining about the paperwork. I worry that if the paperwork is this opaque for me, and I’m edumacated /s, then some of my fellow citizens could really get hamstrung by failing to meet the deadlines and take the right classes.

Wow, they only bite you for 50 bucks in New York. (Speaking from experience.)

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iossarian  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:48:46am

re: #281 makeitstop

Presumably because the godless liberals pay for their police force through general taxation and not fines.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:51:05am
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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:53:43am

re: #283 The Vicious Babushka

And somehow Texas is going to stop them from entering the state once they arrive in the U.S.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:55:38am
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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:56:02am

re: #283 The Vicious Babushka

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Maybe the government should have refused to take your father in and left him to rot in Castro’s Cuba, Ted. // Really, this little prick has a lot of nerve. His father was an actual dyed in the wool Castro supporter and he pushes shit like this. Fuck Ted Cruz. Really Ted, you have no sense of shame or dignity at all just like your doppleganger, Joe McCarthy except you don’t have the excuse of being an addict.

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b.d.  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:56:42am

re: #284 jaunte

And somehow Texas is going to stop them from entering the state once they arrive in the U.S.

Governor Abbott is going to post border guards along Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico now too?

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:57:10am

re: #285 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Coming from a guy whose Virginia chairman actually wrote a love letter to Bashar Al-Assad and by the way Ted, thanks to the Obama administration, Cubans who have fled Cuba for America can now visit their families. Just because Raffy’s family probably doesn’t want anything to do with you or him doesn’t mean you have to be bitter. I believe Ted loves him some Al-Assad too IIRC but I had to note that about Dick Black.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:57:52am

re: #287 b.d.

Governor Abbott is going to post border guards along Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico now too?

maybe he’ll build a wall around Texas…

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:59:09am

You know what they said the crap they said about the Irish that they say about the Syrians. That they’re the wrong religion, that we shouldn’t be dealing with another country’s problem and that they’re inherently violent. Well 165 years later, here the fuck I am- an Irish as well as German and Slavic American defending the right of Syrians to get treated with fairness.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:59:25am

re: #287 b.d.

This is the respect that pandering Ted shows for his constituents’ powers of reasoning.

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makeitstop  Jan 25, 2016 • 8:59:43am

re: #289 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

maybe he’ll build a wall around Texas…

And make Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico pay for it!

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:02:46am
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b.d.  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:06:02am

re: #292 makeitstop

And make Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico pay for it!

Ha! I wish him luck with that one.

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Joe Bacon  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:06:57am

re: #286 HappyWarrior

Maybe the government should have refused to take your father in and left him to rot in Castro’s Cuba, Ted. // Really, this little prick has a lot of nerve. His father was an actual dyed in the wool Castro supporter and he pushes shit like this. Fuck Ted Cruz. Really Ted, you have no sense of shame or dignity at all just like your doppleganger, Joe McCarthy except you don’t have the excuse of being an addict.

Wrong. He’s addicted to Jay-Zuss!

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b.d.  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:07:26am

re: #289 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

maybe he’ll build a wall around Texas…

Damn wall and Texas border guards better not delay me in getting to those Oklahoma/Louisiana casinos

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:08:49am

re: #295 Joe Bacon

Wrong. He’s addicted to Jay-Zuss!

Never met him. Heh, honestly, I think Cruz’s religion act is a bit fake personally. I mean he’s obviously done more research into it than Trump has but I think Ted Cruz probably laughs at all the fundies who think he’s the second coming or perhaps he does share his father’s zealotry. I don’t know. Ted Cruz just strikes me as a huge phony and it wouldn’t shock me if his religion is too.

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Mattand  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:10:45am

re: #296 b.d.

Damn wall and Texas border guards better not delay me in getting to those Oklahoma/Louisiana casinos

I sometimes wonder how long it’s going to be before one of these shit heels actually tries to put checkpoints on the public highways leading into their states.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:11:00am

Apologies if this got posted yesterday and I missed it.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:12:03am

re: #298 Mattand

I sometimes wonder how long it’s going to be before one of these shit heels actually tries to put checkpoints on the public highways leading into their states.

To be fair, CA actually has agricultural inspection stations on the major entry crossings.

Which I have joked about.

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Mattand  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:12:06am

re: #236 Dark_Falcon

I don’t care. That’s my rule and I hold to firmly.

Moreover, after what David Brock said about Bernie Sanders recently, Media Matters should be treated as wholly in the pocket of Hillary’s pantsuit.

BBT

You’re way too intelligent to be talking like a Rush Limbaugh groupie. This is just really, really sad.

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lawhawk  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:12:06am

Getting back to the Flint water crisis and the report I cited earlier about how Flint could have stayed on the Detroit water system, saving Flint money over switching to the new water source.

This part is unequivocal. There are named names here. There are confirmations about this part.

A high-ranking DWSD official told us today that Detroit offered a 50% reduction over what Flint had been paying Detroit. In fact, documents show that DWSD made at least six proposals to Flint, saying “the KWA pipeline can only be attributed to a ‘political’ objective that has nothing to do with the delivery - or the price - of water.”

The offer by DWSD raises serious questions about whether Gov. Rick Snyder was lying when he insisted the water switch was motivated by saving money for Flint, which was under the control of a state emergency manager.

“When compared over the 30 year horizon the DWSD proposal saves $800 million dollars or said differently - saves 20% over the KWA proposal,” then-DWSD Director Sue McCormick said in the e-mail dated April 15, 2013.

The e-mail was first obtained by the Bill Johnson Group, a Detroit-based media consulting firm, and confirmed today by DWSD.

The part that isn’t quite clear is the rationale on why the water source was being changed, when Detroit was willing to cut the cost as they indicated in the emails.

And that’s what Gov. Snyder and his emergency manager needs to address - and the AG and federal prosecutors better look into.

One possibility is that they’re engaging in crony capitalism, shifting business from a municipal water source to a private source benefiting those close to the administration. Another is incompetence. Still another is a failure of basic math.

I get that the original Flint water deal was expensive - Detroit water was costing Flint too much. They got a proposal for cheaper water from KWA. But they go and get an even better deal from Detroit water.

And yet, Flint’s emergency manager goes with KWA, and they opt to interrupt safe water supply by going with the Flint River as their source in the interim until the new hookups are complete.

Had they remained on Detroit water, the entire situation could have been avoided. And it would have been cheaper.

So, no, this isn’t just anonymous sources. There are identified sources on key parts of the report - the costs. There just aren’t identified sources on why the decisions were made as they ended up.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:13:46am

re: #301 Mattand

You’re way too intelligent to be talking like a Rush Limbaugh groupie. This is just really, really sad.

OUCH

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Mattand  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:14:07am

re: #302 lawhawk

The short story is that if you’re a Republican, you literally can get away with poisoning tens of thousands of African-Americans.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:14:55am

And yet another wingnut blaming Flint City Council hurr hurr DEMOCRATZ!!!1!!!! for Snyder’s fuckup.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:14:57am

re: #297 HappyWarrior

Never met him. Heh, honestly, I think Cruz’s religion act is a bit fake personally. I mean he’s obviously done more research into it than Trump has but I think Ted Cruz probably laughs at all the fundies who think he’s the second coming or perhaps he does share his father’s zealotry. I don’t know. Ted Cruz just strikes me as a huge phony and it wouldn’t shock me if his religion is too.

Cruz strikes me as a completely insincere manipulator, but he’s been soaking in the fundamentalist culture his whole life, so he knows how to do the preacher talk.

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b.d.  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:15:56am

re: #298 Mattand

I sometimes wonder how long it’s going to be before one of these shit heels actually tries to put checkpoints on the public highways leading into their states.

And they way the Feds are letting those Oregon yaloos get away with sedition, I wouldn’t be surprised if they let them get away with check points and tolls.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:16:02am

Speaking of Watergate though. A couple things hit me. !) They reference Deepthroat in Metal Gear Solid which takes place in 2005, 2005 was also the year Felt outed himself as Deepthroat with Woodward which also was the year I took journalism. I think Alexander Butterfield was the only person in the Nixon administration that guessed correctly who ti was. Wonder who Nixon thought it was. I didn’t get to the part in his memoirs if he even mentioned it at all since my Nixon paper I wrote as an undergrad was simply policy related.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:16:32am

re: #304 Mattand

The short story is that if you’re a Republican, you literally can get away with poisoning tens of thousands of African-Americans.

But don’t use a home email server. That’s very very naughty.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:17:10am

re: #306 jaunte

Cruz strikes me as a completely insincere manipulator, but he’s been soaking in the fundamentalist culture his whole life, so he knows how to do the preacher talk.

Oh, how long has the old man been a born again? Anyhow, I agree with you. Insincere manipulator.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:18:00am

re: #304 Mattand

The short story is that if you’re a Republican, you literally can get away with poisoning tens of thousands of African-Americans.

If Snyder had a “D” after his name and 10 people from Grosse Pointe died, a whole new twibbon would exist today.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:22:13am

re: #310 HappyWarrior

He switched from Roman Catholicism and became a “born again” Christian in 1975. It may have had something to do with Texas conservative politics.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:23:36am

Latest Fox poll from Iowa shows that Trump is starting to pull away from Cruz in Iowa:

foxnews.com

The CBS poll also shows a turn around from their previous edition:

Scribd Document

Is Trump’s strategy of attacking the Canadian birth working? Maybe.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:24:42am

re: #312 jaunte

He switched from Roman Catholicism and became a “born again” Christian in 1975. It may have had something to do with Texas conservative politics.

Oh okay so yeah Ted’s spent his whole life in this then. Didn’t know the Cruzes had been in Texas since then though.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:25:12am

re: #313 freetoken

Latest Fox poll from Iowa shows that Trump is starting to pull away from Cruz in Iowa:

foxnews.com

The CBS poll also shows a turn around from their previous edition:

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Is Trump’s strategy of attacking the Canadian birth working? Maybe.

I think it is personally.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:29:06am

re: #315 HappyWarrior

I think it is personally.

Well, look at question 9 on the CBS poll. Cruz comes out best for having the least number of people who absolutely would not consider him.

Kasich comes out worst, which is strange as he seems to be the most reasonable one of the bunch.

But the Iowa Republicans are dominated by the religious right, so that’s what we’re probably seeing here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:29:08am
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Charles Johnson  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:29:22am
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mmmirele  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:30:51am

re: #265 WhatEVs

Was the weather bad that day?

Nope. It was 6 am and I’d been out of bed all of 30 minutes at that point. The face in the picture looks it, too.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:32:36am

re: #316 freetoken

Well, look at question 9 on the CBS poll. Cruz comes out best for having the least number of people who absolutely would not consider him.

Kasich comes out worst, which is strange as he seems to be the most reasonable one of the bunch.

But the Iowa Republicans are dominated by the religious right, so that’s what we’re probably seeing here.

That is strange then.

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Skip Intro  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:33:11am

re: #318 Charles Johnson

Those people don’t vote Republican.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:33:51am

re: #318 Charles Johnson

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I’m completely serious in that I believe Republican voters think for Global Warming to be real, it needs to be beach weather in the middle of winter. I mean I admit, I sometimes say global warming my ass when it’s bitterly cold outside but I’m not using it to mock climate change believers.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:34:47am

re: #321 Skip Intro

Those people don’t vote Republican.

Woman: Why, Mr. Stevenson, you’ll get the vote of every thinking man and woman.
Adlai: Thank you madam but I need a majority.
Heh hypothetically I’m undecided in Ike versus Adlai but I love that one liner.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:36:17am

re: #320 HappyWarrior

Well, if you look at question 7, it seems the primary determiner is what influences support is “Convince me they can win”.

Everyone wants a winner, don’t they?

Trump’s support is based on the idea he can win.

Which is exactly why he is always pushing his poll numbers.

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:38:56am

re: #324 freetoken

Well, if you look at question 7, it seems the primary determiner is what influences support is “Convince me they can win”.

Everyone wants a winner, don’t they?

Trump’s support is based on the idea he can win.

Which is exactly why he is always pushing his poll numbers.

Yeah good point. Something’s interesting going to happen. I still think Cruz wins Iowa but I’m not going to be shocked if Trump wins now either.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:42:01am

New Democrat governor of LA seems a bit sheepish in undoing Jindal’s idiocy:

New governor hasn’t made decisions on Jindal-era lawsuits

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:42:44am

All praise contractors that show up on time and complete the work in an efficient and polite way.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:43:57am

...

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:44:41am

Trump headline of the morning:

Trump goes to Iowa church, sermon on humility, says, might have been ‘aimed at me’

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:45:06am
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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:45:32am

There’s nothing quite like saying that a sermon for an entire congregation is about oneself.

Especially when the sermon is on humility.

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:45:55am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

Ted Cruz is distributing clean water to the people of Flint who visit anti-abortion centers t.co
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) January 25, 2016

What a heartless fucking Dick with a capital ‘D’.

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jaunte  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:46:06am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

“Conditionally pro-life.”

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HappyWarrior  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:46:18am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

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Uh oh, he said that every American is entitled to water. Really, what a fucking dick this guy is. As if anti-abortion people are the only people who need clean water.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:47:27am

What are they going to do, shoot the water pipes?

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Dr. Matt  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:47:42am

Dear Politicians,

Put your money where your mouth is. Case in point: Pearl Jam donate $300,000 to city of Flint, Michigan amid water crisis

Sincerely,
Go Fuck You

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iossarian  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:48:20am

re: #330 The Vicious Babushka

What a total fucking bastard.

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freetoken  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:49:35am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:57:49am

jeebus…some people…

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Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Jan 25, 2016 • 9:59:41am

<invoke: bitch session about webclients>
{
if: work done in November
if: clients promised to pay in December
then if: money =/= received by February
then: var finances == something that keeps me from sleeping at night
end: design firm
random: eat a pistol * 20%
}
</bitch session about deadbeat webclients>

…sorry. Just had to get that off my chest in a way that makes me smile, rather than have trouble breathing.

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b_sharp  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:01:09am

re: #340 Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)

<invoke: bitch session about webclients>
{
if: work done in November
if: clients promised to pay in December
then if: money =/= received by February
then: var finances == something that keeps me from sleeping at night
end: design firm
random: eat a pistol * 20%
}
</bitch session about deadbeat webclients>

…sorry. Just had to get that off my chest in a way that makes me smile, rather than have trouble breathing.

As a business owner with similar problems I feel your anxiety.

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Alephnaught  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:09:36am

re: #194 The Vicious Babushka

Again, he thinks abusive stalkers are “power users”

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Blimey, what an egotist. Anyway, by his logic, spambots are “power users”, and I don’t see anyone arguing for their first amendment right right to a blue tick on Twitter.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:09:44am

What kind of a fucked up dickbasket has these things printed up to pass out at restaurants?

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Nyet  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:10:02am

re: #318 Charles Johnson

This is dumber than any Gore/internet joke.

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Nyet  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:11:06am

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

What kind of a fucked up dickbasket has these things printed up to pass out at restaurants?

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True Christians™

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GlutenFreeJesus  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:11:07am

re: #257 dholmes32

That blows. Around here, at least some of the more major intersections with foot traffic have timers on them now, so you know when the light is about to change. Every traffic light everywhere should have those.

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:12:02am

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

What kind of a fucked up dickbasket has these things printed up to pass out at restaurants?

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What happened to the whole “no bearing false witness” shit?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:15:44am
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sagehen  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:16:27am

re: #300 klys (maker of Silmarils)

To be fair, CA actually has agricultural inspection stations on the major entry crossings.

Which I have joked about.

In the 1930’s those were anti-Okie checkpoints; sheriffs, nat’l guard and sometimes random vigilante groups blocked entry to cars with the wrong license plates and too much furniture piled in the back.

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Nyet  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:17:08am

The tipper can’t even assume that he gave anyone a chance to eternal life etc.
Because maybe the guy is already a Christian.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:17:37am
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:17:42am

re: #349 sagehen

In the 1930’s those were anti-Okie checkpoints; sheriffs, nat’l guard and sometimes random vigilante groups blocked entry to cars with the wrong license plates and too much furniture piled in the back.

I feel like there’s some invasive species joke to be made here, except a) that was shitty and b) I’m too tired.

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The Vicious Babushka  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:18:30am

re: #350 Nyet

The tipper can’t even assume that he gave anyone a chance to eternal life etc.
Because maybe the guy is already a Christian.

It never even occurred to him (or her) that maybe the message would go down sweeter with a real Jackson?

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Eventual Carrion  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:18:57am

re: #287 b.d.

Governor Abbott is going to post border guards along Louisiana, Oklahoma, Arkansas and New Mexico now too?

They needs a much longer wall. Wonder if he will get LA, OK, AK and NM to pay for it?

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:23:39am

re: #343 The Vicious Babushka

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Targetpractice  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:25:52am

So I’ve had a Bernie supporter trying to sell me on signing a “Bernie or Bust” pledge since yesterday and my impression of the man’s supporters as little different from Paulians seems to be intact. The kid insists (in that classic passive-aggressive manner) that he’s not trying to sell me on the pledge, just trying to justify his signing it. But reading through his arguments is a lesson in blind faith:

- Bernie could win the nomination if the DNC wasn’t sabotaging him, as they’re obviously in the pocket of “corporate interests”

- Bernie and Trump being so popular this election is because Americans are tired of “business as usual.”

- If Bernie encountered strong resistance from Congress, then the American people would see his opponents as the problem and vote them out, provided (of course) that the people running to help him are against “corporate interests.”

- And if Bernie doesn’t win the nomination, then it’s better that a Republican wins than Hillary, because America will hit “rock bottom” and demand real change that will sweep Bernie or another candidate like him into the White House.

Oh, and he believes if enough people sign the online pledge, it will scare the DNC into recognizing that they can’t get Hillary to win without all those Bernie supporters. But when I pointed out that, since it’s an online pledge, it could be spoofed by any number of conservatives who have no intent on voting for Bernie but would want the DNC to think that the man has the votes to win the election…the fellow had a moment of clarity before it blinked out and he declared he had to have faith that Bernie has the support needed to win.

Ah, to be young and dumb again.

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Nyet  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:27:18am

re: #356 Targetpractice

Bernie and Trump being so popular this election is because Americans are tired of “business as usual.”

As they are every election since the beginning.

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Belafon  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:28:48am

re: #349 sagehen

In the 1930’s those were anti-Okie checkpoints; sheriffs, nat’l guard and sometimes random vigilante groups blocked entry to cars with the wrong license plates and too much furniture piled in the back.

When we did a trip to San Diego from Texas when I was a kid we ran into multiple checkpoints crossing state lines, though I don’t remember which states. They were checking for produce being brought across.

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Nyet  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:29:51am

re: #355 WhatEVs

Wait, I know! It was an evil atheist false flag! //

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CuriousLurker  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:30:33am

re: #206 The Vicious Babushka

He’s still ranting on and on

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OMG, the ego on these guys—it must be exhausting carrying it around and defending it 24/7. I saw an article last night about four Twitter execs quitting and wondered how long it would take the rage furby & drama llama to claim credit for it.

If they have such powerful connections, then why don’t they have real jobs and sit in positions of real influence? I know they’d like to believe otherwise, but having a your own gossipy blog or a snarky column on Breitbart and being mildly popular on social media isn’t influential beyond any of their immediate followers who believe their bullshit (the top 100 Twitter users have between 12 - 81.5 million followers) .

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sagehen  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:31:04am

re: #331 freetoken

There’s nothing quite like saying that a sermon for an entire congregation is about oneself.

Especially when the sermon is on humility.

There was a West Wing episode, when the team was considering whether Bartlett should issue a stay of execution for a particular prisoner, the anti-death-penalty activist who was lobbying them went to Toby’s rabbi and convinced him to make it the subject of that week’s sermon…

Toby was more than a little irritated.

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Alephnaught  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:33:34am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

I’m completely serious in that I believe Republican voters think for Global Warming to be real, it needs to be beach weather in the middle of winter. I mean I admit, I sometimes say global warming my ass when it’s bitterly cold outside but I’m not using it to mock climate change believers.

I’ve noticed that as well. You could point out to them that it’s comparing apples to oranges, (Weather vs climate) but really the argument seems to boil down to them seeing a concept with the word “warm” in it, then pointing at something not-warm, and thinking that cancels it out. It’s a bizarre non-sequitur of an argument, that not(X) and X are mutually exclusive. (Especially when you consider how many already firmly believe in an X/not(X) duality in the shape of the Christian concept of good vs evil.)

For all the sense the argument makes, they might as well argue that the recent blizzard refutes the existence of summer.

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CuriousLurker  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:47:54am

re: #351 WhatEVs

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So I see some of them do patrols & other “men’s work”—where are the men helping out with the cooking & cleaning? Is it beneath them to clean up after themselves?

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Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Jan 25, 2016 • 10:49:38am

re: #341 b_sharp

As a business owner with similar problems I feel your anxiety.

Something about the first three months of the year always leads to a cash crunch. Holiday hangover? I’ve planned for it, and still, the severity of it this year is really, really getting me down. May have to downsize the living situation. Fuckity damn bugger hell.

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 11:07:57am

re: #363 CuriousLurker

So I see some of them do patrols & other “men’s work”—where are the men helping out with the cooking & cleaning? Is it beneath them to clean up after themselves?

HAhahahahahah (breathe) hahahahahaha!

Oh, sorry…you were serious?

(reel menz don’t do no wimminz wurk)

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Jebediah, RBG  Jan 25, 2016 • 11:54:40am

re: #153 The Vicious Babushka

Show me where in the Constitution it says you can get in an airplane at all!

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WhatEVs  Jan 25, 2016 • 12:03:22pm

re: #366 Jebediah, RBG

Show me where in the Constitution it says you can get in an airplane at all!

And a unicorn that farts glitter!

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Lancelot Link  Jan 25, 2016 • 2:51:09pm

re: #329 freetoken

♫He’s so vain,
he prob’ly thinks that sermon’s about him♫

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Sophist: Make America Grate Again  Jan 25, 2016 • 3:57:54pm

re: #115 ausador

Cute…

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