Rapper B.o.B has been creating a stir on Twitter with his hare-brained ideas about the shape of the Earth, and as you might expect, Neil deGrasse Tyson is not amused.
Charles Johnson,
I’ve got to hand to Neil deGrasse Tyson for laying the smack down on that idiot rapper B.o.B!
By the way, Speaking of B.o.B, the fact that he’s a flat Earther isn’t the dumbest thing about him.
“Flat Earth” rapper B.o.B has even more extreme, dangerous views: He promotes Holocaust denial
salon.com
Dr. Tyson has become a target for the right wing hit machine. This is how anti-science some groups have become in America. I think this rapper is just writing nonsense to get free publicity for his album.
OT, heavyweight attorney Michael Kennedy has died. His only divorce case was Ivana Trump’s.
But read this obit. He was the consummate civil rights attorney.
Mr. Kennedy, whose career as both a civil liberties and criminal attorney began in California in the 1960s, successfully defended Black Panther Huey Newton on manslaughter and murder charges in Oakland. In San Francisco, he won acquittal for all seven young Mexican Americans, Los Siete de la Raza, charged with murdering a police officer in the city’s Mission District. - See more at: legacy.com
re: #3 Great White Snark
I always thought it was “*BOOM!* (mike drop)”, but this time it was “*BOOM!* (mike drop) *BOOM!*”
Gravity. It’s a bitch, y’all!
Sanders hasn’t given promised foreign policy speech. This story suggests it’s bc he doesn’t have much more to say. https://t.co/sXhUvzf42f
— Jennifer Epstein (@jeneps) January 30, 2016
He’s not ready for this.
re: #4 Shimshon
Dr. Tyson has become a target for the right wing hit machine. This is how anti-science some groups have become in America. I think this rapper is just writing nonsense to get free publicity for his album.
Not sure. One would hope he’s not serious, but unfortunately he appears to be.
Creeping Sharia? Free Trump Tattoos Feature Prominent Islamic Symbol https://t.co/AHbxiWRvVl
— BuzzFeed Politics (@BuzzFeedPol) January 30, 2016
OT (sorry) - repost from downstairs:
Creepy POTUS wannabe & creepy militia guy.
Oh looky here: Blaine Cooper and Ted Cruz photo (as per 12/2015 Raw Story article).
re: #7 Jenner7
“Current and former Senate aides call the episode typical of Sanders, who on any given day would rather talk about Wall Street profits than about Middle East conflict.”
“I see…and how long have you been worried that you’re not a good dog, who’s a good dog?” pic.twitter.com/gCh3uOJOgG
— Eric Alper (@ThatEricAlper) January 30, 2016
re: #9 FormerDirtDart
@BuzzFeedPol How long until the anti Muslim “Counter Jihad” attacks Trump for being “pro Islam” now?
— CriticalDragon1177 (@CriticalDragon1) January 30, 2016
But seriously, that FEELTHEBERN!!1 article is really damning.
“Sanders talks about foreign policy all the time,” said his spokesman Michael Briggs, noting that the subject often comes up during Sanders’s appearances on Sunday talk shows.
“And oh yeah, he voted against the Iraq war,” Briggs added.
You serious, Chief? Fuck off, I thought we were supposed to be having an adult conversation here.
Been a long wait but I think we finally have a worthy successor to the late Carl Sagan as the culture’s top advocate of science and the scientific worldview. Dr. Tyson is a different kind of spokesman; more accessible, more conscious of style and the ways of media, less political, but at least as effective. He is also supremely courageous and confident in confronting the advancing forces of anti-science. That is exactly what we need in this day and age.
re: #15 Testy Toad T
Yeah. “I voted against the Iraq war” isn’t a foreign policy.
hey y’all — i’m looking for that FB posting about David Fry not being a real patriot, not a real member. Can’t find it. Help?
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 30, 2016
here it is, of course, from HG https://t.co/ly96G6Oczq
— John Sepulvado (@JohnLGC) January 30, 2016
CFCF has disowned David Fry https://t.co/Qen9tq2mN0 pic.twitter.com/3ALuscbPs0
— HGTomato (@HGTomato) January 28, 2016
rats abandoning the ship…
chips are falling…
re: #7 Jenner7
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He’s not ready for this.
Sanders entire foreign policy is “let me talk instead about domestic economic issues.”
If you don’t recall, Citizens for Constitutional Freedom is entity formed by the occupiers of the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge
CFCF has disowned David Fry https://t.co/Qen9tq2mN0 pic.twitter.com/3ALuscbPs0
— HGTomato (@HGTomato) January 28, 2016
re: #17 Jenner7
Yeah. “I voted against the Iraq war” isn’t a foreign policy.
It’s especially not a way of convincing the concerned but bern-curious that you’re capable of compromise or nuance.
This man would do remarkable damage to the basic credibility of the American left were he to accede to the presidency.
Works for me… //
What next for Blaine Cooper? “I kind of vowed that if they try to do anything to me, I’m going to go the way Lavoy did.”
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) January 30, 2016
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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rats abandoning the ship…
chips are falling…
Damn you…….
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
rats abandoning the ship…
chips are falling…
At this rate, they’re going to deplete the supplies of No True Scotsman fallacy they’d been accumulating in their garages against TEOTWAWKI.
re: #17 Jenner7
Yeah. “I voted against the Iraq war” isn’t a foreign policy.
Right. I appreciate that he did but this is really getting lame.
re: #19 sagehen
Sanders entire foreign policy is “let me talk instead about domestic economic issues.”
Too true. Honestly, this really botehrs me. he’s been in Congress for a quarter of a century. He’s had time to try to learn about FP. Man I wanted an alternative to Clinton but Sanders as the main one has been a disappointment.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
Great conversation-shifter, kinda crappy serious candidate.
Iowa Secretary of State on the mailers from the Cruz campaign, which they confirm are authentic. pic.twitter.com/t56Ifd3AZT
— Teddy Schleifer (@teddyschleifer) January 30, 2016
I don’t know if this counts, but…
This is from a day trip my wife and I took out to Montauk a few years ago. These rocks are situated at the eastern-most point of Long Island, and if you look out at the Atlantic, you actually can see the curve of the earth.
In closing…. B.o.B is F.o.S.
Some Republicans waking up to the fact that Cruz is a liar.
re: #27 Testy Toad T
Great conversation-shifter, kinda crappy serious candidate.
Right and if you point out his weaknesses, you get accused of being a stooge for the DNC. I mean Cilnton has her own problems but I’ve seen more work from Camp Clinton on their deficits than Camp Sanders on theirs.
I get that the left wing of the party feels they have to “settle” for Hillary but at the same time I would ask them consider the progress on certain issues we’ve made with Obama. No, I don’t expect Hillary to address all hot button progressive issues but I don’t think that’s a realistic expectation. Honestly if Sanders had a real plan to counter Republican opposition and to also build a strong Democratic Congress to help pass his agenda, I’d probably be on board but his rhetoric to me is sounding more and more pie in the sky. And I hate to say it but I think his age is a fair issue too. I’ve gone from saying I’d vote for Bernie based on principle to honestly being undecided or none of the above.
Ammon Bundy: “This was never meant to be an armed standoff.” https://t.co/xifBoSULSW
— OPB News (@OPBnews) January 30, 2016
@OPBnews “We need you to bring your arms. And we need you to come to the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge” - Ammon B https://t.co/IJKBfcp3Gz
— Austin (@40kilometers) January 30, 2016
@OPBnews That was right after he said “We plan on staying here for several years”
— Austin (@40kilometers) January 30, 2016
oh, look! Blaine Cooper…
re: #33 HappyWarrior
I’ve gone from saying I’d vote for Bernie based on principle to honestly being undecided or none of the above.
I’ve grown less and less convinced that Sanders and I even agree about a solution to anything. We just seem to really, really dislike some of the same policy outcomes we see in 2015 2016 America.
That’s not principle, that’s just being able to recognize a problem.
re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
Not an armed standoff, just a standoff with arms.
I can see how everybody got so confused. Judge, may I go home now?
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re: #34 Backwoods_Sleuth
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oh, look! Blaine Cooper…
All they want is peace…a piece of Oregon, a piece of Idaho, a piece of Montana, a piece of Arizona, a piece of Wyoming! #Oregonstandoff
— Return Our Refuge (@ReturnOurRefuge) January 30, 2016
re: #33 HappyWarrior
And I hate to say it but I think his age is a fair issue too. I’ve gone from saying I’d vote for Bernie based on principle to honestly being undecided or none of the above.
Part of my lukewarmishness towards Hillary is… she’s no spring chicken either.
Come November, I’ll be voting for the lukewarm-good-enough candidate, because the only alternative is the batshit-insane-I-could-never candidate.
re: #38 sagehen
Part of my lukewarmishness towards Hillary is… she’s no spring chicken either.
Come November, I’ll be voting for the lukewarm-good-enough candidate, because the only alternative is the batshit-insane-I-could-never candidate.
PRecisely.
re: #4 Shimshon
I couldn’t watch the video because I’m not in the U.S. So I went looking.
I found it again…on a site full of Flat Earthers. o_O
One comment stood out: Neil DeGrasse Tyson is a pompous gasbag.
I left quickly before I lost too many brain cells. It was toxic in there.
re: #35 Testy Toad T
I’ve grown less and less convinced that Sanders and I even agree about a solution to anything. We just seem to really, really dislike some of the same policy outcomes we see in
20152016 America.That’s not principle, that’s just being able to recognize a problem.
I’m not sure honestly but here’s the thing. I think some of the ideas are sound but I think there’s this delusion that it can all be changed overnight.
re: #7 Jenner7
I don’t believe anyone could ever possibly be completely ready for that job.
re: #38 sagehen
Part of my lukewarmishness towards Hillary is… she’s no spring chicken either.
Come November, I’ll be voting for the lukewarm-good-enough candidate, because the only alternative is the batshit-insane-I-could-never candidate.
I tug at my collar and state that Clinton’s VP choice is extremely important to me, because I wouldn’t be surprised to vote for (likely) him in 2020. Not because I think she won’t be around, but because the presidency really seems to age people in a way it didn’t used to.
What did Bundy & Co. accomplish in three months in Harney County? Little, it appears. https://t.co/anNTJGOdDk pic.twitter.com/C4ZaIbhoYh
— Les Zaitz (@LesZaitz) January 30, 2016
re: #43 Testy Toad T
I tug at my collar and state that Clinton’s VP choice is extremely important to me, because I wouldn’t be surprised to vote for (likely) him in 2020. Not because I think she won’t be around, but because the presidency really seems to age people in a way it didn’t used to.
Yeah the VP choice is very important here. It’s something I’ll be watching with much interest.
re: #19 sagehen
Sanders entire foreign policy is “let me talk instead about domestic economic issues.”
A strong economy for all means we can afford tanks and guns for all!”
Or something.
Adobe has an entire section on their website where they get all pissy about photoshop as a verb, and it’s hilarious. pic.twitter.com/w4w4KE2Xq5
— SecuriTay (@SwiftOnSecurity) January 30, 2016
Set the counter back to Zero.
Police responded to reports of shots being fired and a stabbing at the venue where the Colorado Motorcycle Expo was being held Saturday, the Denver Post reported.
At least two people have been shot and one has been stabbed at the Denver Coliseum, police spokesman Sonny Jackson told the paper.
At least nine people have been sent to area hospitals, according to Denver Health.
I’m going to go grocery shopping (needs: lemongrass, cilantro, shallots) but before I do, I’m going to once again point out that even the “smartest” (most articulate) participants in the Malheur standoff cannot effectively articulate how the events was supposed to occur…even taking for granted the base assumptions and premises of their pseudo-legal sovereign citizen thinking.
It was an armed peaceful standoff where the occupiers were warriors ready to die, trying to come to terms with an illegal federal government that they would not acknowledge the authority of and that would kill them at the drop of a ha… via arbitration. Their interactions with the locals involved issuing demands while claiming to implement a local-only democracy, while being complete outsiders “invited” by a small contingent of residents. The “win” would be, effectively, a de facto coup of local government paired with demanding an accommodation from the non-local government whose job is, in part, to insure that people don’t jack local power to deprive people of their franchise and rights.
I’d further say that this is how it’s always been, because the ur-assumption of their movement is: we possess an inherent superiority that will push our cause through. It’s there in their assumption about God, about law, and about social structure. They’ve built backwards from vainglory. All their prayers and posturing and concerns about flag fringes are flair.
There’s no coherent ethos beyond “we’re not muggles, and therefore possess validity” so basically any horseshit behavior or idea can be slotted into place. And, in keeping with the bowerbird quality of their assembled malarkey, what is added is further baubles decorating their vanity. Which is how you end up with a mess of white supremacy, theocracy, and paleo-libertarianism spit-pasted into their claims.
There’s a cool new feature in the Image Library - you can now generate proportionally scaled versions of any image in your library. Great for creating thumbnail versions of large images, and that sort of thing. You can scale them larger or smaller, although if you go much larger than the original it will start to look funky.
Just click the “Scale” button, and enter a new width. The height is calculated automatically, keeping the same aspect ratio as the original image.
“The image was reduced to a banal cliché with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements software.”
That is a sweet damn feature that I will eventually use for non-Zardoz purposes. Bravo.
re: #53 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
That is a sweet damn feature that I will eventually use for non-Zardoz purposes. Bravo.
The gun is good. Photoshopping is evil.
re: #26 HappyWarrior
Too true. Honestly, this really botehrs me. he’s been in Congress for a quarter of a century. He’s had time to try to learn about FP. Man I wanted an alternative to Clinton but Sanders as the main one has been a disappointment.
HappyW, thought you might want to hear this video of an ex-Iowa Democrat Senator speak on Bernie and Hillary and why he endorses Clinton. Just ignore the boob interviewing him and asking dumb leading questions.
re: #49 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
They’ve built backwards from vainglory. All their prayers and posturing and concerns about flag fringes are flair.
I love how you worded that, especially the bolded sentence. (Sounds like you’re going to cook Thai food——can we all come over?)
So the IOC says the Olympics will be safe from the zika virus. Yeah. Suuuuure.
re: #29 makeitstop
I don’t know if this counts, but…
This is from a day trip my wife and I took out to Montauk a few years ago. These rocks are situated at the eastern-most point of Long Island, and if you look out at the Atlantic, you actually can see the curve of the earth.
In closing…. B.o.B is F.o.S.
That’s just caused by the curvature of your camera lens.
/// …there can always be made an excuse. Nice pic too.
re: #53 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
That is a sweet damn feature that I will eventually use for non-Zardoz purposes. Bravo.
On an objective level, Hillary Clinton is the most qualified and prepared candidate for the office of POTUS in the history of our nation. She has served as Senator and SoS as well as occupied the White House for 8 years as First Lady. I doubt anyone understands the game of politics as well as she does or has a better understanding of how to get things done in a heated and negative atmosphere. Having survived the acid bath of RWNJ hatred and lies for the past couple of decades, she has a spine of steel and I doubt will fall prey to the bullshit that marred Obama’s first couple of years, at least, in office as he continously tried for bipartisanship that was never, ever going to happen.
I’ve grown increasing respect for her watching her debate performances, that awsome marathon Benghazi inquisition, and hearing about the ground preps she has overseen for both her election and down-ticket races. I am also cheering her refreshing boldness in taking on women’s reproductive rights head on rather than murmuring the platitudes we have grown so painfully accustomed to which, IMO has allowed for serious chiseling away of those rights without righteous opposition.
As of now, I don’t feel at all as though my vote for Hillary is “settling” but one I quite look forward to casting because I see her as a fine candidate for the office.
re: #47 Charles Johnson
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The kids call it “shooping” and Adobe should be thrilled when someone calls it “photoshopping.”
re: #60 ObserverArt
That’s just caused by the curvature of your camera lens.
/// …there can always be made an excuse. Nice pic too.
That could be an excuse, except for the fact that you can see the curve with the naked eye. :)
In other news, looks like the trade for the Peavey is going to happen. We’re stopping off in Brooklyn on the way to see a friend’s band tonight, and I’ll most likely have the guitar when I leave Brooklyn. Downside - I won’t get to road-test it with my rig until tomorrow.
re: #57 GlutenFreeJesus
So the IOC says the Olympics will be safe from the zika virus. Yeah. Suuuuure.
My daughter-in-law works to protect rain forests and frequently travels to Central and South America. She found out she was expecting while in Nicaragua last Summer and had to get the Zika screening. Fortunately she and the future grandchild (our first) are fine, but it really brings it home how serious a worry this is for all women of child bearing age who live or visit areas plagued with this new strain of a mosquito borne virus.
re: #62 allegro
10/10
Hillary Clinton is a fucking excellent nominee, I will be proud to support her in the primary and hopefully in the general, and I will not apologize for supporting her over Bernie Sanders merely because it’s somehow more “pragmatic”.
re: #61 Feline Fearless Leader
I’m not a specialist on felines, but I notice your cat has a totally black face. Even around the nose, whiskers, everything. Is that typical for black cats?
Anyhow I just noticed and I love that image…s/he looks so inquisitive but trying not to be too noticed.
Edit. I don’t know the cats gender. Oops.
re: #62 allegro
Completely agree.
I’d also add, that just because I’m pragmatic, it doesn’t make me any less liberal.
re: #67 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Nah, just the xeroxed version.
excuse me whilst I grab a kleenex…that barn dust makes me sneeze every time…
Listen, anybody who has actually been to a caucus knows this shit is absolutely common. In 2004 my ex-wife and I changed our votes just to block Edwards from getting a delegate. Even then we know something was fucked up about that guy.
Clinton Iowa Volunteers Train When To Push Backers To O’Malley — To Block Bernie
The software, which Lehtola showed BuzzFeed News on his iPhone, allows them to enter the complete number of attendees at a given caucus, and then to divvy them up by candidate. The app shows how many supporters each candidate needs to reach their thresholds. Precinct captains can then calculate easily whether, say, Clinton can — without cost to her own delegate count — boost O’Malley to a viability. And they’ve been trained, Lehtola said, in that maneuver.
A senior Sanders caucus strategist, who also spoke on background, allowed that caucus rules allow for these kind of math games, but said the Sanders campaign has no similar plan. They have trained their volunteers to play it straight, the strategist said — try to get as many people to the caucus site as possible, and then try to recruit caucus goers from among the candidates not deemed to be viable.
A spokesperson reacted much more strongly.
“It’s sad and telling that their campaign doesn’t think they can win without these kinds of tactics,” said Rania Batrice, Sanders’s Iowa spokesperson. “At the end of the day though, we believe in the caucus process and know it’s in the very capable hands of Iowans.”
re: #70 ObserverArt
I’m not a specialist on felines, but I notice your cat has a totally black face. Even around the nose, whiskers, everything. Is that typical for black cats?
Anyhow I just noticed and I love that image…he looks so inquisitive but like he is trying not to be too noticed.
We have an all-black cat, and he’s literally all black - his paw pads are even black!
He is getting up in years, though, and he shows it with a solitary white whisker on one side of his face.
Got you a #cake. Have it. pic.twitter.com/pSh8HdQuCr
— Mark Pahlow (@mcpheeceo) January 30, 2016
re: #63 mmmirele
The kids call it “shooping” and Adobe should be thrilled when someone calls it “photoshopping.”
Unfortunately trademark law doesn’t respect claims that aren’t consistently and aggressively defended.
re: #56 KerFuFFler
(Sounds like you’re going to cook Thai food——can we all come over?)
In theory, this is my first run at Burmese—no prior experience eating or making.
It sort of look like Thai and shares a lot of ingredients, particularly the aromatics, but it doesn’t use coconut nearly as much. It’s also looks vaguely Indian, but doesn’t have the masalas with many, many spices. Tomato, chickpeas, and tumeric turn up often. There’s even a “tofu” made of chickpea flour. Dried fermented soybeans are used sort of like miso, and dried shrimp are processed into powder and used as both seasoning and topping.
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
Bernie, if you’re grouchy and whining about unfairness because the Clinton ground game is deploying grade-school arithmetic against you, I can’t wait to see how you’ll fair against traditional GOP tactics.
What a farce of a campaign this man is running.
RCP adds the Gravis poll results, which compared to the previous version mostly shows that Rubio is surging, sort of:
OTOH, the older Gravis poll was an outlier regarding Rubio, polling him quite low.
re: #78 Testy Toad T
Bernie, if you’re grouchy and whining about unfairness because the Clinton ground game is deploying grade-school arithmetic against you, I can’t wait to see how you’ll fair against traditional GOP tactics.
What a farce of a campaign this man is running.
To quote Chevy Chase as Gerald Ford, “It was my understanding that there would be no math.”
re: #71 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
Completely agree.
I’d also add, that just because I’m pragmatic, it doesn’t make me any less liberal.
I think far more like Bernie than HRC, but if fukn’ Joe Hill was running in the 2016 primary I would skip over his zombie ass and vote for Hillary. She might lose, anyone else will lose, and it’s just that important.
So the stockyards in Lexington caught on fire a couple of hours ago.
The city says there are 120-140 firefighters on the scene of the stockyards fire. @LexKYFire @heraldleader pic.twitter.com/1J3YQ2kPfT
— HLpublicsafety (@HLpublicsafety) January 30, 2016
re: #84 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
So the stockyards in Lexington caught on fire a couple of hours ago.
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Space Marine humor, from the novel “Rynn’s World”
SM 1: “Stay here and wait for the medic.”
SM 2: “I’m fine. Lets go.”
SM 1: “You lost an arm!”
SM 2: “No I didn’t. Its right over there.”
Heh. Just tuned to a Purdue basketball game and they showed a creative fan in the court end stands with a costume that made them look like one of those inflating ‘wild man with swinging arms’ ad displays (used car lots) that pops up and down and blows around a bit in the wind. They have the flapping down pat with lengthy cloth arms.
Ah, college. Probably an art student…
re: #65 makeitstop
That could be an excuse, except for the fact that you can see the curve with the naked eye. :)
Flat Eartherism was taken seriously back in the Victorian period in Britain to the point where experiments were carried out to prove or disprove the “theory”. The Bedford Levels are a series of canals in the Fen country and one of them ran straight for six miles allowing sightings and, later, photographs along its length. The results were inconclusive due to refraction and mirage and both sides of the debate claimed victory.
One of our American cousins, newspaperman Ulysses Grant Morrow, confident that the Earth’s surface was in fact curved repeated the experiments in a canal in Illinois in 1896 and proved conclusively that the world was indeed not flat, but concave.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
I think far more like Bernie than HRC, but if fukn’ Joe Hill was running in the 2016 primary I would skip over his zombie ass and vote for Hillary. She might lose, anyone else will lose, and it’s just that important.
Power of suggestion:
re: #50 Charles Johnson
There’s a cool new feature in the Image Library - you can now generate proportionally scaled versions of any image in your library. Great for creating thumbnail versions of large images, and that sort of thing. You can scale them larger or smaller, although if you go much larger than the original it will start to look funky.
Just click the “Scale” button, and enter a new width. The height is calculated automatically, keeping the same aspect ratio as the original image.
Very cool, thanks!
BTW, are you aware that when we make a comment “Private” the usual transformations (embedding, auto-creation of URLs, etc.) don’t happen, nor do additional formatting tags (like font color, large, small, etc.)
re: #77 Sic semper evello dildos tyrannis
In theory, this is my first run at Burmese—no prior experience eating or making.
It sort of look like Thai and shares a lot of ingredients, particularly the aromatics, but it doesn’t use coconut nearly as much. It’s also looks vaguely Indian, but doesn’t have the masalas with many, many spices. Tomato, chickpeas, and tumeric turn up often. There’s even a “tofu” made of chickpea flour. Dried fermented soybeans are used sort of like miso, and dried shrimp are processed into powder and used as both seasoning and topping.
Sounds interesting and adventurous. Let us know how it comes out. For while I was cooking a lot of different asian cuisines——Indian, Thai, Chinese, Japanese, but never
Burmese. Recently I’ve been cooking more Northern and Eastern European food———borscht, stuffed cabbage, potato pancakes, rutabagas. Somehow they really appeal to me in winter. Then again, a tasty curry or spicy soup would hit the spot too in this weather.
re: #33 HappyWarrior
I get that the left wing of the party feels they have to “settle” for Hillary but at the same time I would ask them consider the progress on certain issues we’ve made with Obama. No, I don’t expect Hillary to address all hot button progressive issues but I don’t think that’s a realistic expectation. Honestly if Sanders had a real plan to counter Republican opposition and to also build a strong Democratic Congress to help pass his agenda, I’d probably be on board but his rhetoric to me is sounding more and more pie in the sky. And I hate to say it but I think his age is a fair issue too. I’ve gone from saying I’d vote for Bernie based on principle to honestly being undecided or none of the above.
From a kos diary that is about 98bajjilion words long about how great Bernie will deal with Congress:
When President Bernie Sanders addresses the Republicans gathered in Congress, he will be talking over their heads directly to the American people, including those in the Republican populist base.
Yep, that’s some serious magical thinking there—and I thought it was Republicans who didn’t understand how government worked.
#OregonStandoff holdouts livestreaming: ‘If we don’t stand up til the end on this, then why did we come here in the 1st place?’
— Molly Young (@mollykyoung) January 30, 2016
Answer: because you are a bunch of losers.
re: #88 Nojay UK
One of our American cousins, newspaperman Ulysses Grant Morrow, confident that the Earth’s surface was in fact curved repeated the experiments in a canal in Illinois in 1896 and proved conclusively that the world was indeed not flat, but concave.
So…that means we live inside a bubble?? Heh.
re: #83 Decatur Deb
I think far more like Bernie than HRC, but if fukn’ Joe Hill was running in the 2016 primary I would skip over his zombie ass and vote for Hillary. She might lose, anyone else will lose, and it’s just that important.
I think much more like Bernie too which is why I would never be effective in political office. I’m glad he’s in the race and was delighted he decided to run. We need his voice and we need to hear him. He has tremendous value in his current role. He would not be a good Dem nominee for president nor would he be effective in that office, IMO.
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
Molly Young ✔ @mollykyoung
#OregonStandoff holdouts livestreaming: ‘If we don’t stand up til the end on this, then why did we come here in the 1st place?’
4:56 PM - 30 Jan 2016
Answer: because you are a bunch of losers.
Interesting. Sounds like something Mr. Natural would ask in an R. Crumb cartoon.
(heh)
re: #93 Backwoods_Sleuth
‘If we don’t stand up til the end on this, then why did we come here in the 1st place?’
Answer: because you are a bunch of losers.
Snacks and dildos.
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
Listen, anybody who has actually been to a caucus knows this shit is absolutely common. In 2004 my ex-wife and I changed our votes just to block Edwards from getting a delegate. Even then we know something was fucked up about that guy.
I would not be surprised if Clinton learned this from the master, Obama. Obama was ruthless in his ability to win votes.
re: #70 ObserverArt
I’m not a specialist on felines, but I notice your cat has a totally black face. Even around the nose, whiskers, everything. Is that typical for black cats?
Anyhow I just noticed and I love that image…s/he looks so inquisitive but trying not to be too noticed.
Edit. I don’t know the cats gender. Oops.
It’s a he, and he is pretty much totally black furred, whiskers, and foot pads. He has one small patch of 10-20 silverish hairs on his chest, and a single silverish hair here and there in his coat. Thus I refer to him as Chat Noir in comments, though his human name of record is “L.C.” (which stands for Loose Cannon.)
As to whether this is uncommon I cannot comment since the sample size of black cats I have interacted with is small. His apartment mate, Tuxedo Cat, has a lot more white on her, and all white whiskers as well.
Tuxedo Cat with box
He is actually sort of hard to photograph since if the light is wrong it just comes out as a black blob with eyes.
re: #92 BeachDem
From a kos diary that is about 98bajjilion words long about how great Bernie will deal with Congress:
When President Bernie Sanders addresses the Republicans gathered in Congress, he will be talking over their heads directly to the American people, including those in the Republican populist base.
If only that lame duck poo-brain Barack Obama had thought of that.
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interesting: greenhouse posts in the backyard started vibrating. There is no wind.
Waiting to see if USGS has an earthquake announcement.
This should scare wingnuts:
First Spanish-Speaking Islamic Center Opens for Growing Muslim Latino Community
re: #84 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
So the stockyards in Lexington caught on fire a couple of hours ago.
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Wow. Both of my kids rode school buses that passed right by there (one of them had his bus break down right on the tracks on a hot day in early September—he was not happy). Hope no one was hurt.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
interesting: greenhouse posts in the backyard started vibrating. There is no wind.
Waiting to see if USGS has an earthquake announcement.
It’s just Donald Trump’s ego walking by on the street.
re: #84 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs
So the stockyards in Lexington caught on fire a couple of hours ago.
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Helluva BBQ.
re: #97 Decatur Deb
Snacks and dildos.
They are never in a million years going to live that down, especially since that idiot Ritzheimer immortalized it on YouTube.
I watched it again last night and had to LOL at his utter lack of self-awareness in complaining about haters wasting their time & money bothering other people. Because, of course, his previous behavior wasn’t hateful, right? He was just standing up for free speech like any good patriot would!
re: #89 wrenchwench
Power of suggestion:
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“Could you arrange to have my body hauled to the state line to be buried? I don’t want to be found dead in Utah.”
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Hill’s ashes were placed in envelopes and distributed to IWW locals in every state but Utah. Envelopes were also sent to South America, Europe, Asia, South Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.”
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
interesting: greenhouse posts in the backyard started vibrating. There is no wind.
Waiting to see if USGS has an earthquake announcement.
Every time I watch these live streams from Malheur I’m reminded once again what a bunch of brain-dead delusional dopes these people are.
re: #100 Feline Fearless Leader
It’s a he, and he is pretty much totally black furred, whiskers, and foot pads. He has one small patch of 10-20 silverish hairs on his chest, and a single silverish hair here and there in his coat. Thus I refer to him as Chat Noir in comments, though his human name of record is “L.C.” (which stands for Loose Cannon.)
As to whether this is uncommon I cannot comment since the sample size of black cats I have interacted with is small. His apartment mate, Tuxedo Cat, has a lot more white on her, and all white whiskers as well.
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He is actually sort of hard to photograph since if the light is wrong it just comes out as a black blob with eyes.
Our black cat is similar, except his small white patch on the belly.
Well, when I went to check USGS, saw that this happened overnight: 7.2 beneath the Kamchatka Peninsula of Russia at 03:25:10 UTC (11:25 pm ET)
re: #107 Charles Johnson
“We never impeded anyone from coming to work!”
Yeah, they could have gone about their work with a bunch of heavily armed jackasses using them as human shields, the pussies.
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re: #107 Charles Johnson
That woman has an incredibly annoying voice. I’m surprised she hasn’t driven the others to surrender.
re: #112 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Our black cat is similar, except his small white patch on the belly.
Nice image klys. Really puts emphasis on those classic eyes. Good color.
re: #99 Belafon
You’re using the goat for your profile pic! *claps*
Brunswick the snowy owl has a fancy new GPS monitor & now you can track her adventures: https://t.co/muQ2xq4zO7 pic.twitter.com/EGQcZMbD0l
— US Fish and Wildlife (@USFWS) January 29, 2016
re: #117 ObserverArt
Nice image klys. Really puts emphasis on those classic eyes. Good color.
Thanks. That was one of the first photos I took when I got my good camera. :)
DESPERATE TED: Cruz campaign sends these notices to Iowans to scare/threaten them. That’s how GOP rolls. #iacaucus pic.twitter.com/opakz3jocL
— The Baxter Bean (@TheBaxterBean) January 30, 2016
re: #118 CuriousLurker
You’re using the goat for your profile pic! *claps*
Thank you for finding it. It needed to be immortalized somewhere.
Meanwhile over at the “Appiled Technologies” building… 😳😂 pic.twitter.com/eN4pDtkGtS
— Charles (@MrLXC) January 30, 2016
re: #122 ausador
I wouldn’t mind doing this to Democrats, just to get them to think about why they are not voting.
re: #122 ausador
Is calling something an “official public record” not, like, in some way illegal?
Canadian groundhog dies just days before #GroundhogDay. R.I.P., Winnipeg Willow: https://t.co/Bb88YSJS4N pic.twitter.com/pTtuqwUjqs
— The Weather Network (@weathernetwork) January 30, 2016
Clearly not a good sign. https://t.co/eZ8hKCXESj
— Cheryl Rofer (@CherylRofer) January 30, 2016
The average life span of a groundhog is 4-6 years, so Willow had a good run.
She’d have turned 6 in May.
re: #125 bratwurst
If you google “Appilied Technologies” you actually get hits. It’s someone’s last name.
re: #126 Belafon
I wouldn’t mind doing this to Democrats, just to get them to think about why they are not voting.
I think there is not a better way to get someone to vote for anyone else but the asshole who tries to publicly humiliate them.
re: #55 ObserverArt
HappyW, thought you might want to hear this video of an ex-Iowa Democrat Senator speak on Bernie and Hillary and why he endorses Clinton. Just ignore the boob interviewing him and asking dumb leading questions.
Thanks. Harkin is someone I always had a lot of respect for.
re: #130 allegro
Yep, this is all about “vote or we will publicly shame you to your neighbors…again.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
They’re getting really whiny up there at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. It’s like NAZI GERMANY!
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re: #92 BeachDem
From a kos diary that is about 98bajjilion words long about how great Bernie will deal with Congress:
When President Bernie Sanders addresses the Republicans gathered in Congress, he will be talking over their heads directly to the American people, including those in the Republican populist base.
Yep, that’s some serious magical thinking there—and I thought it was Republicans who didn’t understand how government worked.
Right and it’s that attitude that if Bernie gets elected will make him ineffective. It’s nice that Bernie has ideas but I’ve grown very skeptical about how he’d implement them when Obama’s had a much less radical agenda and still a hostile Congress and if Bernie’s suporters think the R’s in Congress won’t be hostile to him, they’re full of shit.
re: #132 ausador
Yep, this is all about “vote oe we will publicly shame you to your neighbors…again.
When is Cruz going to claim Trump did this and put his name on it? Enough backlash yet?
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
What a drama queen!!!
re: #130 allegro
I think there is not a better way to get someone to vote for anyone else but the asshole who tries to publicly humiliate them.
You’re right. I was thinking about the idea of sending Democratic voters a note and asking why they haven’t voted. I definitely wouldn’t do anything that gathered any actual voting information. And yeah, public humiliation is never going to work.
re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Why would feds/police be knocking on doors in Burns when they know the guys they’re looking for are at the refuge?
AN ARMY OF HOMEMADE GUMMY BEARS pic.twitter.com/ApqWxWRMUp
— Kat Chow (@katchow) January 30, 2016
These guys honestly thought that they could occupy a Federal building for 27+days, heavily armed no less, and walk away. Meanwhile, in many places in the country, even a small group of African-American men are lucky if they can occupy a street corner for more than a few minutes before being harassed by LE.
The privilege these guys all take for absolute granted is simply staggering.
re: #102 Backwoods_Sleuth
interesting: greenhouse posts in the backyard started vibrating. There is no wind.
Waiting to see if USGS has an earthquake announcement.
Beware the Graboid.
Beading away on my anchor baby Santa…
Stitching and rooting for John Scott today! pic.twitter.com/V3AoXirDkA
— sylk (@sylk) January 30, 2016
re: #141 Whack-A-Mole
These guys honestly thought that they could occupy a Federal building for 27+days, heavily armed no less, and walk away. Meanwhile, in many places in the country, even a small group of African-American men are lucky if they can occupy a street corner for more than a few minutes before being harassed by LE.
The privilege these guys all take for absolute granted is simply staggering.
It really is pathetic. I saw that they’re asking for a full pardon. I hope Governor Brown of Oregon tells them fuck off maybe not in those exact words but the nerve of Bundy and this whole crowd to think they shouldn’t have any criminal charges for this shit. Really I pity any children being raised by this jackass.
re: #107 Charles Johnson
They’re getting really whiny up there at the Malheur Wildlife Refuge. It’s like NAZI GERMANY!
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That shelter is some seriously ramshackle bullshit.
re: #134 HappyWarrior
Okay but Hilary will fare no better with them, perhaps worse. Whoever comes next will have to manage that rare feat of getting the general population on their side.
re: #143 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Beading away on my anchor baby Santa…
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Beaded codpiece in his future?
re: #144 HappyWarrior
Actually, using those exact words would probably earn some votes. I’m sure that’s EXACTLY how many Oregonians feel.
re: #147 allegro
Beaded codpiece in his future?
No, there will be fringe from the poncho there. Along with a little bit of beading for the poinsettia.
re: #146 Great White Snark
Okay but Hilary will fare no better with them, perhaps worse. Whoever comes next will have to manage that rare feat of getting the general population on their side.
Oh I don’t disagree with that but the thing is I think Hillary is ready for it. Sanders has said he won’t campaign for downticket candidates and he’s said basically that if Congress rejects his legislation, he expacts people to organize in anger. I just think there’s not alot of realism. My problem with Sanders isn’t ideology, I’m much closer to him than Clinton ideologically but I don’t see any understanding of the realities of the presidency with him. Plus I’ve been disappointed with his simplistic approach to FP.
re: #148 Whack-A-Mole
Actually, using those exact words would probably earn some votes. I’m sure that’s EXACTLY how many Oregonians feel.
Heh true. In any case, fuck the Bundys.
Forget the Vampire Weekend concert with Bernie Sanders— look what’s happening tomorrow in Des Moines! pic.twitter.com/ZV4l578jZi
— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) January 30, 2016
Hasn’t Iowa suffered enough?
Adolf Hitler was named chancellor of Germany on this day in 1948 https://t.co/OLCNC6X6OO pic.twitter.com/5Pd4UESkH1
— LIFE (@LIFE) January 30, 2016
… but was unable to serve, having died three years earlier in a bunker. https://t.co/r3dYm8KZZb
— Tedious Length (@trollprincess) January 30, 2016
re: #150 HappyWarrior
Oh I don’t disagree with that but the thing is I think Hillary is ready for it. Sanders has said he won’t campaign for downticket candidates and he’s said basically that if Congress rejects his legislation, he expacts people to organize in anger. I just think there’s not alot of realism. My problem with Sanders isn’t ideology, I’m much closer to him than Clinton ideologically but I don’t see any understanding of the realities of the presidency with him. Plus I’ve been disappointed with his simplistic approach to FP.
Said it before, he is the wrong guy for POTUS yet with the right arguments to make.
“Why can’t they pardon all of us?” occupier David Fry. 😫 Because you broke the law, idiot. #Oregonstandoff
re: #152 jaunte
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Hasn’t Iowa suffered enough?
Wait until Ted Nugent drops “The Ballad of LeVoy”.
re: #151 HappyWarrior
Fuck them and all of these sovereign citizens and so-called patriots who think that the America of their imaginations is more legitimate than the America that is, the America you and I and millions of other people are proud to call home.
re: #152 jaunte
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Hasn’t Iowa suffered enough?
I believe that qualifies as Cruel and Unusual Punishment.
re: #154 Great White Snark
Said it before, he is the wrong guy for POTUS yet with the right arguments to make.
We agree. I think he’d be great if he just had a little more tact and honestly I do think his age is an issue. I just see him as someone who is very issues conscientious but not focused on the other aspects of governing. I’m not completely sold on Clinton either FWIW since she has her own problems IMO and I know some will disagree with me here but I still can’t get over the idea of having Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton. That’s really not fair to her I concede since she’s earned her qualifications but it’s how I feel.
re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #156 Decatur Deb
Wait until Ted Nugent drops “The Ballad of LeVoy”.
Heh it’s times like this that I’m reminded that Ted Nugent was a musician in a past life and not that crazy guy that tells people to suck his gun.
re: #159 HappyWarrior
We agree. I think he’d be great if he just had a little more tact and honestly I do think his age is an issue. I just see him as someone who is very issues conscientious but not focused on the other aspects of governing. I’m not completely sold on Clinton either FWIW since she has her own problems IMO and I know some will disagree with me here but I still can’t get over the idea of having Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton. That’s really not fair to her I concede since she’s earned her qualifications but it’s how I feel.
Think of her as Rodham if that helps.
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re: #153 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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Germany’s first openly zombie chancellor. Way to go Life.
re: #162 BeachDem
Think of her as Rodham if that helps.
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Heh true. Anyhow I am willing to give her a shot. i’ve definitely appreciated that she sees the big picture on things.
Evening lizards. I’ve come to accept that while I like both Bernie and Hillary, what I don’t like are my choices. Martin does nothing for me..
This really doesn’t mean to be said I’ll say it. Clinton is better than any Republican running by a long shot if you actually care about liberal issues. She’s not going to appoint Scalia clones to the USSC or other courts. She’s not going to have a DOJ that supports bigoted religious groups at the expense of LGBT people’s rights. She’s not going to ignore the environment because she hates Al Gore. She’s not going to have a labor policy that ignores workers’ rights so some fatcats can have a little bit more. She won’t have an immigration policy that treats immigrants like shit. Will Clinton be Progressive Utopia? No but honestly we’ve never had that and I don’t expect we ever will but what we can do is keep on improving as a society and that’s not going to happen with a Republican in the WH.
re: #165 Schroedinger’s Dog
Evening lizards. I’ve come to accept that while I like both Bernie and Hillary, what I don’t like are my choices. Martin does nothing for me..
I sort of do like Martin but I was disappointed to read about his criminal justice record.
re: #167 HappyWarrior
I sort of do like Martin but I was disappointed to read about his criminal justice record.
No charisma there.
Hillary - screw those emails!
Bernie - I didn’t vote for Iraq.
O’Malley - look at what I did in Maryland!
:))))
re: #168 Schroedinger’s Dog
No charisma there.
I guess I was just impressed by the fact he’s fairly local, the band thing is kinda cool, and he was to his credit one of the first Democratic governors to come out in favor of SSM.
re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus
Hillary - screw those emails!
Bernie - I didn’t vote for Iraq.
O’Malley - look at what I did in Maryland!
:))))
Webb: I’m running for the 1980 Republican nomination aren’t I?
Chaffee: I’m running for the 1960 Republican nomination aren’t I?
Hillary: I’ll Fight!
Bernie: I’m mad as hell!
Martin:I did that.
re: #169 GlutenFreeJesus
Hillary - screw those emails!
Bernie - I didn’t vote for Iraq.
O’Malley - look at what I did in Maryland!
:))))
Beat me to it
re: #171 HappyWarrior
If only Trump would have a Dukakis tank moment.
re: #174 GlutenFreeJesus
If only Trump would have a Dukakis tank moment.
Yes, please. At least Dukakis was an actually a veteran. Not a combat veteran but he didn’t dodge out of it and then have a quack declare him in the best shape of his life.
re: #157 Whack-A-Mole
Fuck them and all of these sovereign citizens and so-called patriots who think that the America of their imaginations is more legitimate than the America that is, the America you and I and millions of other people are proud to call home.
This. I work hard, pay my taxes, obey the law, mind my own business, etc. Not a single time in my 50+ years has the “tyrannical” U.S. government come and busted my door down, dragged me away to jail, or attempted to search my person or property without a warrant. This is despite having been identifiably Muslim for nearly half that time.
Given the privilege that these asshats are accorded from birth by virtue of their white skin—something not all of us have the advantage of—I can only assume that they’re having problems with the government/LE because they’re doing illegal shit.
re: #159 HappyWarrior
We agree. I think he’d be great if he just had a little more tact and honestly I do think his age is an issue. I just see him as someone who is very issues conscientious but not focused on the other aspects of governing. I’m not completely sold on Clinton either FWIW since she has her own problems IMO and I know some will disagree with me here but I still can’t get over the idea of having Bush-Clinton-Bush-Obama-Clinton. That’s really not fair to her I concede since she’s earned her qualifications but it’s how I feel.
Happy, I think you should feel what you feel. I also think you will still be a positive participant. And that is all anyone can ask of a citizen.
re: #175 HappyWarrior
“Bone Spurs” - a Donald Trump tribute band.
re: #176 CuriousLurker
These idiots keep yapping about the Constitution but fail to understand that it’s the US Code that is the source of their grief. They seem to believe because it isn’t in the constitution it doesn’t apply, yet at the same time they refer to the same US Code to enforce their batshit insane extra-judicial lawlessness.
re: #175 HappyWarrior
Yes, please. At least Dukakis was an actually a veteran. Not a combat veteran but he didn’t dodge out of it and then have a quack declare him in the best shape of his life.
Really, Dukakis didn’t look silly in the tank to me. It was like somebody just started a meme: Oh, that looks silly! LOL! And the media ran with it. Same as the Muskie tear or Dean screaming thing. Those should NOT have had the effect of negating the records of accomplishment those men had.
re: #176 CuriousLurker
And BTW are the Feds slacking off or what? I still have exactly the number of guns as when Obama took office. How is that possible?
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re: #182 Great White Snark
And BTW are the Feds slacking off or what? I still have exactly the number of guns as when Obama took office. How is that possible?
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I actually have two more in the collection here since then…
re: #182 Great White Snark
And BTW are the Feds slacking off or what? I still have exactly the number of guns as when Obama took office. How is that possible?
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Because you’re not buying enough guns.
Obama wins!
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My monthly salary was just direct deposited to my bank. My boss recently relocated the business office out of Manhattan and had told me to expect the portion taken out of my monthly check to decrease by $50 or so since we no longer have to pay the high(er) NYC taxes. Anyway my check landed in the bank $400+ than usual.
I was like, “WTF—did the accountant screw up??” So I emailed my boss and she just replied with one word: “Raise.” Eeeeek!
Woohoo, happy dance!Members of Rural Organizing Project rallied in PDX & around OR today, urging armed occupiers to leave Harney Co. pic.twitter.com/rIPTFVr5lw
— Ashley Korslien (@AshleyKorslien) January 30, 2016
The group says they support people of #HarneyCounty & don’t approve of the armed takeover/intimidation @KGWNews pic.twitter.com/SwhHZFPW4Q
— Ashley Korslien (@AshleyKorslien) January 30, 2016
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
I actually have two more in the collection here since then…
I have the same number, but I might be trading up at the next gun show.
re: #186 CuriousLurker
My monthly salary was just direct deposited to my bank. My boss recently relocated the business office out of Manhattan and had told me to expect the portion taken out of my monthly check to decrease by $50 or so since we no longer have to pay the high(er) NYC taxes. Anyway my check landed in the bank $400+ than usual.
I was like, “WTF—did the accountant screw up??” So I emailed my boss and she just replied with one word: “Raise.” Eeeeek!
Party at CL’s place!
re: #183 Backwoods_Sleuth
I actually have two more in the collection here since then…
I have one less.
re: #182 Great White Snark
And BTW are the Feds slacking off or what? I still have exactly the number of guns as when Obama took office. How is that possible?
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Dear gun grabbers: You just had one job…
re: #186 CuriousLurker
My monthly salary was just direct deposited to my bank. My boss recently relocated the business office out of Manhattan and had told me to expect the portion taken out of my monthly check to decrease by $50 or so since we no longer have to pay the high(er) NYC taxes. Anyway my check landed in the bank $400+ than usual.
I was like, “WTF—did the accountant screw up??” So I emailed my boss and she just replied with one word: “Raise.” Eeeeek!
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Mo’ betta!
re: #185 BeachDem
You just haven’t seen him without his shirt!
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Oh my. That’s not ‘shopped?
re: #186 CuriousLurker
My monthly salary was just direct deposited to my bank. My boss recently relocated the business office out of Manhattan and had told me to expect the portion taken out of my monthly check to decrease by $50 or so since we no longer have to pay the high(er) NYC taxes. Anyway my check landed in the bank $400+ than usual.
I was like, “WTF—did the accountant screw up??” So I emailed my boss and she just replied with one word: “Raise.” Eeeeek!
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Congratulations CL,
Wish I could get a $400 raise, my boss is too much of a ahole.
I hate being self employed sometimes.
re: #194 Usually refered to as anyways
Congratulations CL,
Wish I could get a $400 raise, my boss is too much of a ahole.
I hate being self employed sometimes.
LOL, thanks.
re: #186 CuriousLurker
My monthly salary was just direct deposited to my bank. My boss recently relocated the business office out of Manhattan and had told me to expect the portion taken out of my monthly check to decrease by $50 or so since we no longer have to pay the high(er) NYC taxes. Anyway my check landed in the bank $400+ than usual.
I was like, “WTF—did the accountant screw up??” So I emailed my boss and she just replied with one word: “Raise.” Eeeeek!
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Seen your skills, congratulations you so deserve it!
Final Selzer poll just released:
Democrats: Hillary 45, Bernie 42, Martin 3.
Repubs: Trump 28, Cruz 23, Rubio 15, Carson 10, Paul 5, etc.
The three drummers peace and love 😎✌️🌟💖😇😄👏🌸🌹🌻🌟🌟🌟 pic.twitter.com/RykUmbu5NU
— Ringo Starr (@ringostarrmusic) January 30, 2016
re: #195 BeachDem
For your viewing enjoyment…
So he’ll win the bathing suit competition. Won’t get past the “world peace” interview.
On the topic of the potential Clinton ‘dynasty’ (and Happy, this isn’t aimed at you, you just reminded me that this is something of a sore spot): seriously, a woman does not automagically become a member of her husband’s family because of marriage, with no history, past, ambition, or bloodline of her own. She is not related by blood to them. She has not given up her right to do things on her own, of her own ambition. My achievements and name are not to be perpetually subsumed underneath my husband’s.
I am not mrs. “mr. klys” and while I may have given up having that argument with my grandparents (the bank will take the damn check anyway), the proper form of address would be Mr. and Dr. “mr. klys”, thank you very fucking much.
Or better yet, Dr. klys and Mr. “mr. klys”.
Grrrr.
re: #149 klys (maker of Silmarils)
No, there will be fringe from the poncho there. Along with a little bit of beading for the poinsettia.
re: #150 HappyWarrior
Oh I don’t disagree with that but the thing is I think Hillary is ready for it. Sanders has said he won’t campaign for downticket candidates and he’s said basically that if Congress rejects his legislation, he expacts people to organize in anger. I just think there’s not alot of realism. My problem with Sanders isn’t ideology, I’m much closer to him than Clinton ideologically but I don’t see any understanding of the realities of the presidency with him. Plus I’ve been disappointed with his simplistic approach to FP.
Because rallying more people to anger and revolution!11nty is just what we need right now. ,,re: #192 ObserverArt
Mo’ betta!
My fish just perked up. “You talkin’ to me????”
re: #200 Decatur Deb
So he’ll win the bathing suit competition. Won’t get past the “world peace” interview.
But I will contend that, all things considered, he looks better in a bathing suit than another former vp candidate/beauty queen who will not be named!
And now I must leave you all for awhile to go do some data entry from a 6-hour phone bank for that candidate who has no ground game and no support and is expecting her coronation to occur by osmosis.
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re: #199 Lidane
Who’s the third guy? (I know I’m going to regret asking this)
re: #203 BeachDem
But I will contend that, all things considered, he looks better in a bathing suit than another former vp candidate/beauty queen who will not be named!
And now I must leave you all for awhile to go do some data entry from a 6-hour phone bank for that candidate who has no ground game and no support and is expecting her coronation to occur by osmosis.
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I should look into volunteering on things like data entry. I hate phones and talking to people, but I can type!
re: #194 Usually refered to as anyways
Congratulations CL,
Wish I could get a $400 raise, my boss is too much of a ahole.
I hate being self employed sometimes.
I was thinking along those lines. I might have to fire myself.
re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Or better yet, Dr. klys and Mr. “mr. klys”.
Grrrr.
And speaking of dynasties, Jeb Bush? Two percent. Like your favorite milk.
re: #195 BeachDem
For your viewing enjoyment…
Oh dear… *closes browser window, repeating to self, “the first look is halal, the first look is halal…” NO, CL, you know good & well that continuously gaping at the same group of images for minutes on end without looking elsewhere doesn’t count as a “first look,” FFS…*
re: #207 Brian J.
And speaking of dynasties, Jeb Bush? Two percent. Like your favorite milk.
That one’s at least a fucking valid use of the word dynasty, seeing how there is a blood relationship.
I wonder if my sister is going to caucus. I should ask.
re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)
On the topic of the potential Clinton ‘dynasty’ (and Happy, this isn’t aimed at you, you just reminded me that this is something of a sore spot): seriously, a woman does not automagically become a member of her husband’s family because of marriage, with no history, past, ambition, or bloodline of her own. She is not related by blood to them. She has not given up her right to do things on her own, of her own ambition. My achievements and name are not to be perpetually subsumed underneath my husband’s.
I am not mrs. “mr. klys” and while I may have given up having that argument with my grandparents (the bank will take the damn check anyway), the proper form of address would be Mr. and Dr. “mr. klys”, thank you very fucking much.
Or better yet, Dr. klys and Mr. “mr. klys”.
Grrrr.
QFT
On the other hand, the Bush clan…
re: #204 stpaulbear
Who’s the third guy? (I know I’m going to regret asking this)
No idea, honestly. I was hoping someone here would know.
I recognize Ringo and Charlie Watts. The third one escapes me. Heh. I shared it because I think that’s the first time I’ve seen Charlie Watts smiling.
re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)
On the topic of the potential Clinton ‘dynasty’….
For a long time it irked me that Hillary definitely would seem to be getting a leg up from Bill’s presidency, in visibility if nothing else.
It stopped irking me when I had the blinding flash of the obvious that every president of my lifetime, my parents’ lifetimes, my grandparents’ lifetimes… has gotten legs up from various things. Presidential candidates tend to be of a privileged class, film at 11.
re: #212 Testy Toad T
For a long time it irked me that Hillary definitely would seem to be getting a leg up from Bill’s presidency, in visibility if nothing else.
It stopped irking me when I had the blinding flash of the obvious that every president of my lifetime, my parents’ lifetimes, my grandparents’ lifetimes… has gotten legs up from various things. Presidential candidates tend to be of a privileged class, film at 11.
FDR was related to eleven other presidents.
re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)
On the topic of the potential Clinton ‘dynasty’ (and Happy, this isn’t aimed at you, you just reminded me that this is something of a sore spot): seriously, a woman does not automagically become a member of her husband’s family because of marriage, with no history, past, ambition, or bloodline of her own. She is not related by blood to them. She has not given up her right to do things on her own, of her own ambition. My achievements and name are not to be perpetually subsumed underneath my husband’s.
I am not mrs. “mr. klys” and while I may have given up having that argument with my grandparents (the bank will take the damn check anyway), the proper form of address would be Mr. and Dr. “mr. klys”, thank you very fucking much.
Or better yet, Dr. klys and Mr. “mr. klys”.
Thus my reason for not changing my name when I married. I would not become an abbreviation of a man’s name and wouldn’t have even if I already hasn’t earned my doctorate and respected position in my field. I didn’t make a thing about being introduced as Mrs. BC in a social situation - I was proud to be his wife - and it tickled us both when he was introduced as Mr. Allegro at my professional things.
Grrrr.
re: #212 Testy Toad T
For a long time it irked me that Hillary definitely would seem to be getting a leg up from Bill’s presidency, in visibility if nothing else.
It stopped irking me when I had the blinding flash of the obvious that every president of my lifetime, my parents’ lifetimes, my grandparents’ lifetimes… has gotten legs up from various things. Presidential candidates tend to be of a privileged class, film at 11.
If that had been the only thing she had done, I could see being irked by it. But she took whatever visibility she had and turned it into working in the Senate. Serving as Secretary of State instead of throwing a fit at losing the primary to Obama and wanting to have nothing to do with it.
And more and more it’s clear that she is incredibly cool and ready to perform under fire. Just look at the Benghazi hearings. I’d love to see how Senator Sanders would have handled that. And she did it knowing any tiny slip would have been blown out of proportion because she’s a woman.
re: #212 Testy Toad T
For a long time it irked me that Hillary definitely would seem to be getting a leg up from Bill’s presidency, in visibility if nothing else.
It stopped irking me when I had the blinding flash of the obvious that every president of my lifetime, my parents’ lifetimes, my grandparents’ lifetimes… has gotten legs up from various things. Presidential candidates tend to be of a privileged class, film at 11.
In WJC/HRC’s case, both of them got the leg up and the marriage from the same source—elite education.
re: #202 allegro
Wow, formating fail times 2. LOL
re: #215 klys (maker of Silmarils)
By no means do I mean to suggest Hillary is underqualified, to be absolutely clear. She’s qualified as hell, and has done gangbusters work at every stop of her career.
re: #212 Testy Toad T
It stopped irking me when I had the blinding flash of the obvious that every president of my lifetime, my parents’ lifetimes, my grandparents’ lifetimes… has gotten legs up from various things. Presidential candidates tend to be of a privileged class, film at 11.
JEB’s son George was elected Land Commissioner in Texas last year. Word is his consiglieres expect him to make a run for the White House in 2024 or 2028, depending. He’s already ticked off the military service checkbox, with deployment to the Middle East in the plus column, now he is racking up the public service points with a Governorship (Texas probably) in the near future.
re: #193 CuriousLurker
Oh my. That’s not ‘shopped?
I think you meant to say, “That’s not enhanced with Adobe® Photoshop® Elements®?”
re: #214 allegro
I did it again! I think I need to start drinking or something.
re: #214 allegro
Thus my reason for not changing my name when I married. I would not become an abbreviation of a man’s name and wouldn’t have even if I already hasn’t earned my doctorate and respected position in my field. I didn’t make a thing about being introduced as Mrs. BC in a social situation - I was proud to be his wife - and it tickled us both when he was introduced as Mr. Allegro at my professional things.
Grrrr.
Here’s the kicker: I didn’t change my last name.
I added his last name to my middle name, and he did the same with mine. (I told him in no uncertain terms that if I was dealing with the paperwork for changing my name, he was too - and to be fair, he was completely on board with it.)
I had my first publication in progress underway when we got married, and I wanted to keep my name. I’d worked for that.
I just can’t seem to convince my extended relatives of this fact (and in general, I don’t make a deal out of it in social situations).
re: #222 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Here’s the kicker: I didn’t change my last name.
I added his last name to my middle name, and he did the same with mine. (I told him in no uncertain terms that if I was dealing with the paperwork for changing my name, he was too - and to be fair, he was completely on board with it.)
I had my first publication in progress underway when we got married, and I wanted to keep my name. I’d worked for that.
I just can’t seem to convince my extended relatives of this fact (and in general, I don’t make a deal out of it in social situations).
Have your husband play along: “This year, he’s adopted my last name.”
re: #223 Belafon
Have your husband play along: “This year, he’s adopted my last name.”
Like I said, the bank still cashes the check.
But the State Department couldn’t read the marriage license and fucked it up - but only on my passport. That one had to go back.
Now that Civ4 is working again, it’s time to rebuild my hamsterbike endurance. Be back in time to see if the sadsacks at Fort Tarp have offed themselves or had an epiphany.
re: #220 Charles Johnson
I think you meant to say, “That’s not enhanced with Adobe(r) Photoshop(r) Elements(r)?”
Who knew the Adobe Creative Suite ® could be so bitter?
A thought about the Oregon standoff: Imagine how boring it would be for us if the Feds had listened to us and cut off the power? All these live transmissions, gone.
re: #205 klys (maker of Silmarils)
I should look into volunteering on things like data entry. I hate phones and talking to people, but I can type!
I hate the phones as well. I took a bunch of treats over to the phone bank and then picked up the paperwork to do the data entry. I like it because it’s mindless and I also can type!
Not as much as usual, because some of the bankers were using predictive dial, which enters the info automatically, but enough that I should be working on it instead of running my mouth/keyboard here. Later.
re: #230 Belafon
A thought about the Oregon standoff: Imagine how boring it would be for us if the Feds had listened to us and cut off the power? All these live transmissions, gone.
They realized that the best propagandists for the federal government would be Y’all Qaeda themselves.
NEVER PLAY 11-DIMENSIONAL CHESS AGAINST BARACK OBAMA
re: #208 CuriousLurker
Oh dear… *closes browser window, repeating to self, “the first look is halal, the first look is halal…” NO, CL, you know good & well that continuously gaping at the same group of images for minutes on end without looking elsewhere doesn’t count as a “first look,” FFS…*
I am so sorry to have put you in that compromising position.
Just keep telling yourself that you’re doing political research, as any good citizen would do!
I am so ready to not hear a word about Iowa again soon.
Iowa Democrats
Des Moines Register/Bloomberg Poll
Clinton 45
Sanders 42
O’Malley 3 pic.twitter.com/fbDM07cphl— Teddy Davis (@TeddyDavisCNN) January 30, 2016
Iowa Poll by @jaselzer:
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) January 30, 2016
TRUMP 28
Cruz 23
Rubio 15
Carson 10
Paul 5
Christie 3
Bush/Fiorina/Huck/Kasich/Santorum 2
Not sure 2
Jan 26-29
re: #186 CuriousLurker
I would be doing the happy dance too. :)
It’s a gorgeous evening, much too pretty to waste. Just lit my firepit and selected some Beethoven… aaaand a rum n coke. Life is good.
Rubio is campaigning for the Democrats now? @BuzzFeedBen @Gus_802
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) January 31, 2016
re: #182 Great White Snark
And BTW are the Feds slacking off or what? I still have exactly the number of guns as when Obama took office. How is that possible?
///
For now!!!
re: #222 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Here’s the kicker: I didn’t change my last name.
I added his last name to my middle name, and he did the same with mine. (I told him in no uncertain terms that if I was dealing with the paperwork for changing my name, he was too - and to be fair, he was completely on board with it.)
I had my first publication in progress underway when we got married, and I wanted to keep my name. I’d worked for that.
I just can’t seem to convince my extended relatives of this fact (and in general, I don’t make a deal out of it in social situations).
I was briefly married early on, and just about the time of my divorce, I was becoming a partner in a business. My married last name was the same as my business partner’s first name, and he tried everything he could to get me to keep my married name (so that the name of our business would effectively be his last name and first name.) I said, thanks but no thanks, and changed back to my real name.
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
Jim Keltner
Lots of people do not directly know him, but many have heard him. Well known and very prolific studio drummer. Played and recorded with just about everybody.
Watching Now You See Me and just reached the point where the safe opens up and all those balloon dildos pop out.
MrBWS has never seen the movie before but said “wait! Is this about criminal magicians or is it about those eejits at the bird sanctuary?”
heh….
heh
@SteveRamsey333 @ryanjhaas You don’t have to have served to join the Oath Keepers. Several years ago, my cat joined.
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) January 31, 2016
Now I have my campfire but no hotdog. I did not plan this well.
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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The last animal in the world I would trust to be an Oath Keeper would be a housecat.
Totally of topic, but a coupla moments back, I heard this sound like a glass or lightbulb shattering. Couldn’t find out what it was. Until I looked some more and found one of my SR44 stacks where one of the cells had shorted out:
Image: 4eqKPUO.jpg
Lesson Learned: SR44 button cells pack a significant punch if handled incorrectly and can go “Pop!” in the night.
re: #238 GlutenFreeJesus
For now!!!
Right. Lets say Hilary wins. I think gun laws will be the kind of changes we can agree on. Legit collecting, sporting, hunting and self defense purposes will be fine. Universal registration, probable return of Brady bill limits etc. Nobody is coming for anything I own and if I happen to have one or two that I could take to a service rifle match they will remain locked up where I choose.
re: #243 allegro
Now I have my campfire but no hotdog. I did not plan this well.
You have your cocktail and music, the hot dog will happen when it is time for a refill?
re: #243 allegro
Now I have my campfire but no hotdog. I did not plan this well.
I has rum and coke, and the NHL All Star Skills competition on the TV because they did not completely fuck it up.
GO JOHN SCOTT.
re: #247 b.d.
You have your cocktail and music, the hot dog will happen when it is time for a refill?
No hot dogs in my immediate future. But guacamole could happen.
re: #219 Nojay UK
JEB’s son George was elected Land Commissioner in Texas last year. Word is his consiglieres expect him to make a run for the White House in 2024 or 2028, depending. He’s already ticked off the military service checkbox, with deployment to the Middle East in the plus column, now he is racking up the public service points with a Governorship (Texas probably) in the near future.
You should read juanitajean.com on the topic of young George!
Bernie Sanders has never led in a poll conducted off of voter registration files https://t.co/mvvBYCFcyu pic.twitter.com/HIaAU3KwwD
— Nate Cohn (@Nate_Cohn) January 31, 2016
So, for all the sound and fury about Bernie being ahead/close in Iowa, the fact is that based on actual registered voters, Hillary leads. It’s only when you have random digit dialed polling does Bernie begin to get a few polls in his favor.
Curious how media folks will continue touting any poll that drops, while ignoring the metrics and methodologies.
re: #47 Charles Johnson
I suspect that ship has already sailed. A few more years, and “photoshop” will be as much a trademark as “aspirin”
Big Money nite at Barrett Jackson tonite. Beautiful cars…
re: #254 vgranucci
I suspect that ship has already sailed. A few more years, and “photoshop” will be as much a trademark as “aspirin”
kleenex
re: #253 lawhawk
Interesting…
I do know you must be registered as a Democrat to caucus in Iowa(or Republican), and I think that you can register on Primary night.
I think this standoff is like seeing the curtain drawn on the Wizard. The big bad patriot groups have been exposed as complete idiots incapable of even the basic skills of organizing. They have ended this siege with nothing more than that they came with-nothing, not even the respect of observers.
And completely divorced from reality too. Thirteen Navy Seals are going to parachute into an isolated Wildlife reserve to do battle with the Federal Government that trained and hired them and have given them generous pensions to save a bunch of people who don’t have a clue? 100,000 patriots are going to storm the tiny town of Burns to force the sheriff to force the Feds and Staties to go away? And now they want pardons to leave the refuge? They don’t even understand pardons-you get pardons after you have submitted to authority and have served some time, and have a legal basis for one. And what do they have to offer for such a generous gesture? Nothing that the feds/staties couldn’t get by simply waiting until they run out of food and supplies. Did they even read basic stuff about sieges and how a stronger force can simply wait until the inevitable occurs? If they were into medieval cos-play they would have learned this simple concept and maybe something about warfare in general.
And the way, now the ridicule has started, it’s going to be impossible to get any real recruits or respect anymore. So they are going to be limited to men who are living in a world of fantasy and whatever young malcontents they can brainwash. #YallQuida and #VanillaISIS sticks for good.
re: #249 klys (maker of Silmarils)
Because this is serious hockey.
THIS is what the #NHLAllStar Weekend is all about! pic.twitter.com/mwki9fLM2d
— NHL on NBC (@NHLonNBCSports) January 31, 2016
Oh my goodness gotta go get champagne. My wife has passed a huge tough test on Orchid species. Studied for months got it on the second try. It’s one of those that few pass the first time. ID and correctly spell 80 species from pictures. 80 selected from tens of thousands. Already respected as a grower she is coming up fast.
Okay CL thats twice today we got a new topic at my comment. We seem to share the timing…
re: #242 Backwoods_Sleuth
heh
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LOL, I just peeked at that guy’s timline. There was this:
Sheriff David Clarke: Obama, Clinton ‘anti-gun bigots’ https://t.co/G55c4qaMFZ pic.twitter.com/PtiAfUQ9eg
— WND News (@worldnetdaily) January 7, 2016
RT of WND/Crazypants sheriff, followed by RTs from Charlie Daniels & Franklin Graham. Alrighty then, we’re done here—blocked.
re: #261 Great White Snark
Okay CL thats twice today we got a new topic at my comment. We seem to share the timing…
Apparently, it’s a contagion. Tell DL congrats for me!
re: #258 CarolJ
The big bad patriot groups have been exposed as complete idiots incapable of even the basic skills of organizing. They have ended this siege with nothing more than that they came with-nothing, not even the respect of observers.
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So they are going to be limited to men who are living in a world of fantasy and whatever young malcontents they can brainwash.
You presume they could recruit and have been recruiting competent rational people who are not fantasists in the first place. Facts not in evidence.
My cat (Halley) has been cluing me in for the last couple days that there’s a mouse in the house. She just sits under the kitchen table and stares at the stove (the mice are coming up behind the stove) and she won’t eat her food.
I put a sticky tray under the stove and I’ve been checking the trap every time I see Halley watching. We just caught our first mouse. I suppose I’m glad that Halley’s afraid to try to catch it; she’d wind up with her paw in the sticky trap.
I hate sticky traps because they’re so inhumane, but there the only thing that will work under the stove. My method of dispatching the mouse is to put the mouse and trap in a plastic bag, take it outside, and whap it againt a deck rail as hard as I can about a half-dozen times to give the mouse a quick death.
I hate having to deal with mice in the house. I moved Halley’s food around the corner out of the kitchen to try to get her eating again.
brave miss Halleyre: #240 ObserverArt
Lots of people do not directly know him, but many have heard him. Well known and very prolific studio drummer. Played and recorded with just about everybody.
Yep. He’s been everywhere and I know who he is. Rarely see pictures of him.
re: #201 klys (maker of Silmarils)
On the topic of the potential Clinton ‘dynasty’ (and Happy, this isn’t aimed at you, you just reminded me that this is something of a sore spot): seriously, a woman does not automagically become a member of her husband’s family because of marriage, with no history, past, ambition, or bloodline of her own. She is not related by blood to them. She has not given up her right to do things on her own, of her own ambition. My achievements and name are not to be perpetually subsumed underneath my husband’s.
I am not mrs. “mr. klys” and while I may have given up having that argument with my grandparents (the bank will take the damn check anyway), the proper form of address would be Mr. and Dr. “mr. klys”, thank you very fucking much.
Or better yet, Dr. klys and Mr. “mr. klys”.
Grrrr.
You’re right about that.. Thank you for that really.
re: #212 Testy Toad T
For a long time it irked me that Hillary definitely would seem to be getting a leg up from Bill’s presidency, in visibility if nothing else.
It stopped irking me when I had the blinding flash of the obvious that every president of my lifetime, my parents’ lifetimes, my grandparents’ lifetimes… has gotten legs up from various things. Presidential candidates tend to be of a privileged class, film at 11.
That’s a great point that I have to admit that I never gave much thought about but it’s very true.
re: #266 stpaulbear
Yep. He’s been everywhere and I know who he is. Rarely see pictures of him.
Here you go.
re: #264 Nojay UK
But their reputation as being somewhat “badass” might have drawn in a few angry and competent people-like some cults have from time to time. People like McVeigh, angry and with some skills. Now?
re: #177 ObserverArt
Happy, I think you should feel what you feel. I also think you will still be a positive participant. And that is all anyone can ask of a citizen.
Oh yeah for sure. I am not really shortsighted enough for something that is a small annoyance contrasted with the big annoyance that the Republican candidates blow on the issues that impact our country and world. It’s just a minor annoyance since with the exception of these past seven years and the first year and a half of my life, I’ve had the Bushes and Bill Clinton as my President but Klys did make a great point about just because her name is Clinton doesn’t mean she becomes part of Bill’s bloodline, her accomplishments are definitely her own and she has them. She’s also one of the most intelligent people I’ve seen in politics.
re: #265 stpaulbear
My cat (Halley) has been cluing me in for the last couple days that there’s a mouse in the house. She just sits under the kitchen table and stares at the stove (the mice are coming up behind the stove) and she won’t eat her food.
I put a sticky tray under the stove and I’ve been checking the trap every time I see Halley watching. We just caught our first mouse. I suppose I’m glad that Halley’s afraid to try to catch it; she’d wind up with her paw in the sticky trap.
I hate sticky traps because they’re so inhumane, but there the only thing that will work under the stove. My method of dispatching the mouse is to put the mouse and trap in a plastic bag, take it outside, and whap it againt a deck rail as hard as I can about a half-dozen times to give the mouse a quick death.
I hate having to deal with mice in the house. I moved Halley’s food around the corner out of the kitchen to try to get her eating again.
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You need to turn on the gas and then throw a lighted match into the stove.
re: #152 jaunte
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Hasn’t Iowa suffered enough?
Is Morning Joke going to sing about Lori Klausutis?
re: #29 makeitstop
I don’t know if this counts, but…
This is from a day trip my wife and I took out to Montauk a few years ago. These rocks are situated at the eastern-most point of Long Island, and if you look out at the Atlantic, you actually can see the curve of the earth.
In closing…. B.o.B is F.o.S.
The curve may be an effect of your lens, but the photo does remind me that ancient seafarers knew the Earth was round. The first part of a ship you see as it approaches port is the top of the mast.
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