Podcast o’ the Night: The Bob & Chez Show, 2/2/16

Is Ted Cruz even worse than Donald Trump?
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Bob and Chez chew up and spit out the Iowa caucus results in tonight’s show:

Turn Those Machines Back On: Our Complete Recap of the Iowa Caucus; Hillary Narrowly Defeats Bernie; Ted Cruz’s Insane Victory Speech; Cruz Is Going to Be an Ever Bigger Jerk Now; Trump Is Absolutely Still Alive; Coin Toss Truthers; Millennials and Trophies for Everyone; Undecided Caucusgoer Says the F Word on MSNBC; Third Place Failures; and much more.

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690 comments
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darthstar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:16:54pm
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darthstar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:20:14pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:20:31pm

re: #1 darthstar

Um, OK. But calling it “junk” isn’t a slur?

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:21:41pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

Um, OK. But calling it “junk” isn’t a slur?

Not if it has the curvature of a Chinese boat.

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retired cynic  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:22:00pm

Heidi does not look pleasant. Or happy.

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darthstar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:23:31pm
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darthstar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:24:12pm

re: #5 retired cynic

Heidi does not look pleasant. Or happy.

Think about who she married and you’ll understand why.

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darthstar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:24:28pm

re: #6 darthstar

In keeping with Ted Cruz, and Junk.

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retired cynic  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:25:36pm

re: #7 darthstar

Oh, I got it. Of all of them, he makes my skin crawl the worst. Can’t watch him. Can’t listen to him.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:25:44pm
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Decatur Deb  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:25:57pm

Is Ted Cruz even worse than Donald Trump?

Much.

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Targetpractice  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:26:49pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

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Dude, censor that!

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Targetpractice  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:32:00pm

*pokes thread with a stick*

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Charles Johnson  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:32:03pm

re: #12 Targetpractice

I know, I should have blurred out that mouse button.

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missliberties  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:32:09pm

All I’m saying is if Steve King looks happy….. we’re DoomeD!!!

And yes Ted Cruz is a TOTAL jerk. Apparently, according to the Bible, Jesus loves him anyway.

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lawhawk  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:32:20pm

That’s not the junk we’re looking for. But is that a RS-232 cable? /

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Stanley Sea  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:32:28pm

I’ve got to repost this.

There is nothing so wonderful, weird & wrong about Sister Sarah and her daughter being guarded by 2 cops at the regular people’s airport waiting area, while trash guy flashes them an “I know you” grin.

pfawww
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:32:53pm
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Kent Dorfman  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:34:19pm
Cock Shot
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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:35:51pm

re: #2 darthstar

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gocart mozart  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:37:52pm
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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:38:34pm

Meanwhile…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:39:40pm

re: #10 Charles Johnson

Is that an MDR-V6 headphone on the top of the pic?

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:40:01pm

re: #16 lawhawk

That’s not the junk we’re looking for. But is that a RS-232 cable? /

Hey. The police might have simply been there to prevent derp contamination from spreading. An outbreak of word salad could cause a lot of harm. Just look at the GOP primaries.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:40:06pm
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Charles Johnson  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:41:04pm

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nines09  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:41:45pm

Allow me ….In another life….
Ted Cruz and his Pappy Rafael rolled into town late under the cover of darkness. Word had spread from far that the father son duo could do amazing things. Heal the sick. Help the infirm. Bring speech where there was only grunts. They said the power of the “Lawd” was within them and they spoke to him and he to them. Townsfolk saved hard earned money to be able to take a sick or crippled friend or relative to the Cruz Caravan of Cures, In His Names Sake, Amen, Pass the Plate LLC. The night came early it seemed. The crowd was larger than most, and the summer heat decided to show up that evening and anyone with a fine shirt or dress was soon soaked. The usual talk and admonitions about sin and the price paid, and the plates never stopped being passed around. Rafael asked how the crowd was that night. Ted was learning quick how to size up the haul via how well fed and clothed the rubes were. Then after what seemed a lifetime, Rafael took the stage. Fire and Brimstone and the eternal damnation of any and all who did not heed the “Lawds” word spilled forth until the crowd became almost electrified. But this is not what they came for. No. Ted had a power that was only whispered about, and those who had seen it personally were changed evermore. Just as all the air seemed ready to burst into flames under that tent, Ted stepped up to the podium. He spoke of trials and tribulations. Sin and evil. The frailty and failure of man and the “Lawds” righteous power to undo Satans work. He then asked the crowd if they truly believed. “YES” they screamed back as one. “YES!!” He asked if there were one among them who needed the “Lawds” guidance and sure hand. A small hand went up from the back. “Yes. I do.” Come forward, cried Ted. Come forward so we may see you and your affliction. A slight young man, poorly clothed shuffled forward on crutches. As he reached the front of the stage, Ted bellowed out; TELL US YOUR NAME,CHILD!” The slight young man looked up and tried to speak, the words coming out in pieces….”Fred, my…name is Fred and I cannot….” Ted finished it for him….Walk. Is that right? Cannot walk.. Tell me son. Do you believe? “Yes”, said Fred. Truly believe in the “Lawd” and his power? “Yes. I do.” Well then, someone help Fred come up on this stage, and guide him behind that curtain. Fred was taken up and placed behind the curtain on stage. Murmurs in the crowd and the heat suddenly seemed to be turned up….Ted turned his attention once again to the crowd and bellowed out; “IS THERE ONE MORE AMONG YOU WHO NEEDS TO FEEL THE POWER OF….” he was stopped short by a frantic young girl jumping up and down waving her arms frantically running towards the stage. All anyone heard as she ran past them was.. MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM……She fell just as she reached base of the stage. Ted looked down at her and said; Child? What is your affliction? She looked up and tried to speak. All that came out was; I I I I I I I I I hhhhhhhh…..uhhhhh ……hhhhhavvvvvve…….MMMMMM II Speakkkkkkkkkk…uhhhhh” Ted stopped her and smiled. You have lost the power of speech dear child. Is that it? She nodded enthusiastically. Would you like to be able to speak in a normal voice? “YYYYEEEE”….Say no more child. Do you believe in the power of the “Lawd”? Her head went up and down so hard it almost shook off. What is your name? “SSSSUUUUUU…SUUEE.” Susan? Her head nodded franticly. Well you come on up on this stage Susan and go behind that curtain where Fred is. And you pray real hard. And you listen to me…..And we will beat back Satan and his tricks.
She goes up and steps behind the curtain. Now by this time the crowd is nuts. Ready to be played like a violin, Ted steps up and asks all there if the believe. Truly believe. “YES” comes back like thunder. Women as passing out, men are on their knees. But do you TRULY BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE “LAWD”?!? YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!! The plates overflow with money. The ushers pockets are full……..The lights dim on the crowd and a spot goes bright on stage on the curtin. People are starting to foam. Screams from the back, bodies falling into one another. DO YOU BELIEVE!!?????? It seemed the world itself screamed back YESSSSSS! Ted turned to the curtin. And said; “FRED! Do you BELIEVE IN THE POWER OF THE “LAWD”??!? A small voice replied….”Yes.” THEN THROW THOSE CRUTCHES OVER THE CURTIN!!! THROW THEM UP NOWWW!!. A second later two crutches came over the curtin and rattled across the stage. YOU CAN WALK FRED!!! WALK!!!!! The crowd lost it. TED then screamed SUSAN! SPEAK TO US!!!!! SPEAK TO USSSSSSS!!!!!!!!

wait for it….

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Charles Johnson  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:42:06pm

re: #23 Eric The Fruit Bat

Is that an MDR-V6?

Indeed it is, and it’s not really junk. I still use it. That’s why it’s on top of the pile.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:43:15pm
Where did all our ice go?

Gulls are back to sitting on the rocks when the tide is out. Looked like this as recently as Sunday.

The boats are stuck, it’s all ours!
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:44:11pm

meanwhile in Kentucky tonight:

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Targetpractice  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:45:19pm

re: #25 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah, no real surprises here. Hillary won among the demographics that Democrats will need in November if they want a chance at the brass ring, while Bernie won the demographics that bitch that the system is “broken’ and then sit out elections so they can claim moral superiority.

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jaunte  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:47:13pm
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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:48:07pm

Look who got arrested again…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:52:04pm

re: #28 Charles Johnson

Excellent set of cans-I’ve had mine for decades. I get my new hearing aid on Thursday and hope to start transcribing my vinyl collection to 24/96 using Audition - can’t use earbuds anymore, so the MDR-V6’s are the perfect match!

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Charles Johnson  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:52:40pm

re: #16 lawhawk

That’s not the junk we’re looking for. But is that a RS-232 cable? /

That would be some really old junk.

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nines09  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:53:32pm

FR…. FR….. FR…. FRED FELL OVER

Rimshot…..G’night.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:54:25pm

Even Ted Cruz’s daughter is grossed out by him
And who knows sign? What is she signing at him? BOOGER FROM HELL’S HEART I FLICK AT THEE
why wont ted cruz’s daughter give him a hug?

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:55:21pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:56:39pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

RS-232 is older than the Kansas City standard, tho….

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Belafon  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:56:55pm

I finally got to look at the video posted earlier that an anonymous person put up on C-Span, c-span.org. There’s a transcript as well, and it shows them actually having counts.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 6:57:54pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

I hope Cruz’s daughters grow up to be liberal lesbians who marry black wives.

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unproven innocence  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:00:34pm

(Repost, abbreviated) Must see —about 12minutes:
Ted Cruz: We Need A Hundred More Racists In Congress

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:00:50pm

re: #40 Belafon

Yup. lol

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:02:28pm

Lame excuse is lame, why not pick Time or the New Yorker, maybe the NRO?

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:05:48pm

re: #44 ausador

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:07:21pm

Dishes are done. Last load of laundry in the dryer. Litter boxes scooped.

I haz amaretto and a Kit-Kat bar.

(Enjoy the simple things.)

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:08:10pm

Hopefully this might lead to something, time for them to leave the refuge.

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jaunte  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:08:40pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:09:16pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:09:52pm
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TedStriker  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:10:00pm

re: #22 Kragar

Meanwhile…

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That’s a pretty wicked SW/W40K mashup; if Vader was built like that in the films, Luke wouldn’t have been able to have done shit.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:11:22pm

re: #51 TedStriker

Jar-Jar even less.

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Belafon  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:12:18pm

re: #51 TedStriker

That’s a pretty wicked SW/W40K mashup; if Vader was built like that in the films, Luke wouldn’t have been able to have done shit.

And a heavily mechanized military with walking transport ought to be able to build those kinds of suits.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:12:51pm

re: #41 Eric The Fruit Bat

I hope Cruz’s daughters grow up to be liberal lesbians who marry black wives.

I hope they grow up to be happy.

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Targetpractice  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:14:27pm

re: #50 Backwoods_Sleuth

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All I knew was that the third word began with an “N.” What more do you want from me?!

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:15:53pm

re: #52 GlutenFreeJesus

Jar-Jar even less.

Meesa need mor’ dakka.

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Lidane  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:16:59pm

re: #2 darthstar

Mine’s got advanced firepower and anger issues:

:)

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:18:40pm

re: #57 Lidane

Mine’s got advanced firepower and anger issues:

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:)

And maybe rabies as well.

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:19:04pm

re: #53 Belafon

And a heavily mechanized military with walking transport ought to be able to build those kinds of suits.

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Stanley Sea  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:20:23pm

re: #54 The Vicious Babushka

I hope they grow up to be happy.

Read the story about Heidi’s kind of breakdown. Whatever the circumstances, very sad.

Too much ambition can be dangerous.

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Lidane  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:21:25pm

re: #58 Feline Fearless Leader

And maybe rabies as well.

Possibly. Maybe. Or that might just be his usual personality. ;)

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:21:38pm

Meanwhile, we all know how the Empire would do against the Imperium…

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:22:29pm

Oh yeah, that guy…

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:25:43pm

re: #57 Lidane

Mine’s got advanced firepower and anger issues:

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:)

Mine just snuck into a ball game, and just wants tp be left alone

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withak  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:27:01pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart

Mine just snuck into a ball game, and just wants tp be left alone

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Mine takes care of me when I’m sick.

i.imgur.com

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:27:18pm

re: #64 FormerDirtDart

Mine just snuck into a ball game, and just wants tp be left alone

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Looks like a 76er’s fan.

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:27:37pm
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FormerDirtDart  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:28:37pm

re: #65 withak

Mine takes care of me when I’m sick.

i.imgur.com

OK, I liked rubbing of paws while eagerly awaiting the treat

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A Cranky One  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:31:34pm

re: #6 darthstar

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Seek medical help for an erection lasting more than 99 million years…

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Stanley Sea  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:31:55pm

Sandwich with bacon pickles is as makeitstop said, sublime.

Not over powering, the perfect add.

Carry on.

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withak  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:31:57pm

re: #68 FormerDirtDart

OK, I liked rubbing of paws while eagerly awaiting the treat

I wish trash pandas were domesticatable. They’re so freaking smart, and seem like they’d be so much fun.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:32:48pm

re: #66 Feline Fearless Leader

Looks like a 76er’s fan.

Yankees spring training

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:33:17pm

re: #48 jaunte

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“Constitution”, it seems, is the official Right Wing Fetish Buzzword of 2016.

It’s kind of like “Jesus”. It’s an unassailable term. Criticize somebody for referring to it too much, and on their home planet you automagically become ANTI-GOOD. Even if your point is just to say that they have no fcking clue what it really means…

I wonder who exactly strateegeries this stuff. It has to come in an e-mail from somewhere, and e-mails can be saved and copied and leaked.

“From: REPUBLICAN COMMAND
To: ALL SERVANTS

Our magic word of the quarter is CONSTITUTION. Use it a lot! Say you’re for it! Remember, if you talk about it like The Enemy doesn’t like it, people will assume you’re good and they’re bad, automatically.”

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makeitstop  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:33:42pm

re: #70 Stanley Sea

Sandwich with bacon pickles is as makeitstop said, sublime.

Not over powering, the perfect add.

Carry on.

I was waiting for the report. :)

Glad you liked ‘em.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:34:09pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

Even Ted Cruz’s daughter is grossed out by him
And who knows sign? What is she signing at him? BOOGER FROM HELL’S HEART I FLICK AT THEE
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Kid is angry at Dad for dragging her away from whatever she’d rather be doing, like watching her fave TV show, or sleeping, or playing Minecraft.

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:34:22pm
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FormerDirtDart  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:36:29pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:36:44pm

re: #76 Kragar

I wish the Feds would just put Cliven out of his misery (or inject some form of pathogen into his herd….)

And he doxxed himself with his PO Box.

Dildoes away!!!!!

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Targetpractice  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:37:45pm

re: #76 Kragar

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Fighting for the freedom to steal federal land in Oregon…from the safety of his ranch in Nevada.

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KGxvi  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:38:10pm

Been trying to think of a meme for this image since I saw it yesterday, the spirit animal comments gave me an idea:

Murka, Fuck Yeah
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Stanley Sea  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:38:21pm

re: #74 makeitstop

I was waiting for the report. :)

Glad you liked ‘em.

I went with my usual. Genoa & swiss. I should probably branch out. But all gooooood.

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:39:15pm

re: #78 Eric The Fruit Bat

I wish the Feds would just put Cliven out of his misery (or inject some form of pathogen into his herd….)

Now, now, mustn’t grumble. Patience is a virtue, and Cliven will eventually reap what he has sown.

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:39:16pm

For the internet age…

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jaunte  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:40:06pm

re: #76 Kragar

“and also We the People of the citizens of the United States”

It’s like they were just mumbling this out loud.

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:40:09pm

Well, I’m going to go re: #76 Kragar

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And if you don’t, I’m going to stamp my feet and hold my breath, and maybe hold a Citizens Grand Jury.

I’m not quite 100% sure the he understands the dynamics of the power situation here, and he’s not quite in a position to be making demands. Of course, if you’re bat-shit crazy then he probably figures he’s got them right where he wants them.

RBS

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:40:53pm

re: #76 Kragar

I am noticing more the PO Box.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:40:59pm

re: #78 Eric The Fruit Bat

I wish the Feds would just put Cliven out of his misery (or inject some form of pathogen into his herd….)

I wish they’d get out. There’s better ranching in Chile or Argentina, surely?

Honestly, it’s like my father likes to say about his idea of people who are anti-American: “There are planes leaving every day”. If America is so Unconstitutional and Un-this and Un-that, and Big Evil Gubmint is so Big and Evil that he can’t stand it, then he should leave.

“BYE BUNDY. Don’t let the jetway door hit your ass on the way out.”

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jaunte  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:42:45pm
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A Cranky One  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:42:55pm

re: #71 withak

I wish trash pandas were domesticatable. They’re so freaking smart, and seem like they’d be so much fun.

Was out walking one night and noticed something moving in the bushes. Out popped 3 very young raccoons. I stopped to watch them, quite the comedians. One walked up to me and started pulling on my pant leg. About that time the mom appeared, so I stayed still while she shepherded the group away. I was worried that she might be aggressively protective about her kits, but her attitude seemed to be more “stop messing around with that old guy, we’re late!”

Comedians all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:44:16pm
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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:46:01pm
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KGxvi  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:46:31pm

Ok, one more, because this kind of sums up my feels on the election entirely:

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Bubblehead II  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:46:48pm

re: #35 Charles Johnson

That would be some really old junk.

RS-232 is still a viable communication protocol as well as as RS-485 within the gaming community. Every progressive controller I program uses RS-232 to communicate with my laptop and RS-485 to communicate with the signs. The only exception to this is the IGT progressive controller that uses fiber optic. The sign controller has an interface for both RS-485 and fiber. Short story, you will always have RS-232 or a variant. You only need 3 lines. TXD, RXD, and a ground. Everything else is fluff.

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jaunte  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:49:35pm

“Calming yin to his yang” is the new queasy-making phrase of 2016.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:50:43pm

re: #82 austin_blue

Now, now, mustn’t grumble. Patience is a virtue, and Cliven will eventually reap what he has sown.

Depends on how is estate is structured once he shuffles off the mortal coil, assuming the Feds don’t move on him while he’s still alive and kicking.

Seems to me this could be the end of the Bundy criminal enterprise once and for all.

Ongoing problem is that the soverign movement will still treat the death of Finicum as a martyr. But at the same time this should also serve a signal to the neo-Confederates as a “go ahead fuckers-this is what you’ll face” event.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:50:51pm

re: #91 ausador

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If money decided elections, Jeb! would have done a whole lot better in Iowa.

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:54:12pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

If money decided elections, Jeb! would have done a whole lot better in Iowa.

The Thunder God determines our world, and his latest tool was delaying a blizzard.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:54:34pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

If money decided elections, Jeb! would have done a whole lot better in Iowa.

Of course, the CATO “Institute” is flogging their dead horse with this dubious outcome…..

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Stanley Sea  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:56:23pm

re: #88 jaunte

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He’s seen her as his successor since she was 12.

Poor Donny Jr.

(and it’s terribly creepy)

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Reality Based Steve  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:56:37pm

Well, I’m off to bed. Going to be a stormy night tonight. Hopefully no sirens or weather alarms. We had a tornado warning earlier today, the sirens went off and at the same time petty much everybody in the shop had their phone screaming at them. We, of course, all went out on the porch to see if we could see a tornado. (no, we’re not too bright)

Seen a few at distance in my life, seen the results up close a couple of times. So far I’ve not been personally affected by one. Would like to keep it that way.

RBS

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Stanley Sea  Feb 2, 2016 • 7:58:13pm

re: #97 freetoken

The Thunder God determines our world, and his latest tool was delaying a blizzard.

But in his gracious blessing, stranded Sister Sarah with the regular people.

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:00:12pm

re: #97 freetoken

The Thunder God determines our world, and his latest tool was delaying a blizzard.

Could have been worse…

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:06:30pm

re: #65 withak

The raccoon was saying, “I’ve done what you wanted. Pay me.”

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stpaulbear  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:07:45pm

Just came in from shoveling snow for the second time this evening. There was about 3-4 inches when I got home from work and about 6 inches this time. I took a look at WeatherUnderground when I came in and it looks like we’re still sitting in the middle of this system. It’s supposed to taper off by morning but tomorrow’s commute is going to suck.

St. Paul has declared a snow emergency so at least one side of my street will be plowed tomorrow. It looks like all of my neighbors got the message and have moved their cars to make way for the plows.

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A Cranky One  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:07:53pm

re: #100 Reality Based Steve

Well, I’m off to bed. Going to be a stormy night tonight. Hopefully no sirens or weather alarms. We had a tornado warning earlier today, the sirens went off and at the same time petty much everybody in the shop had their phone screaming at them. We, of course, all went out on the porch to see if we could see a tornado. (no, we’re not too bright)

Seen a few at distance in my life, seen the results up close a couple of times. So far I’ve not been personally affected by one. Would like to keep it that way.

RBS

I’ve been up close and affected by several. You have the right idea. Mrs Cranky gets annoyed when I round up the dogs and insist we go to the basement when the sirens go off, but after my experiences I won’t take chances.

Was walking into a store many years ago, saw a tail hanging from a wall cloud and jumped into my car to get home to the family. Tornado went through the shopping center, with the store I almost went into at the center of destruction. 13 people were killed. If I’d been a minute earlier and not seen the tornado forming, I’d have been in that store when it hit.

That kind of thing stays with you.

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:14:48pm

re: #95 Eric The Fruit Bat

Depends on how is estate is structured once he shuffles off the mortal coil, assuming the Feds don’t move on him while he’s still alive and kicking.

Seems to me this could be the end of the Bundy criminal enterprise once and for all.

Ongoing problem is that the soverign movement will still treat the death of Finicum as a martyr. But at the same time this should also serve a signal to the neo-Confederates as a “go ahead fuckers-this is what you’ll face” event.

Reasonable conjecture. We’ll just have to wait and see, eh?

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WhatEVs  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:15:36pm

I have a serious need for smiles today.

Thank dog for…dogs. And cats. And pandas. And, and, and….

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:17:13pm

re: #102 Kragar

Could have been worse…

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Okay, that is just wrong.

Funny, but wrong.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:17:47pm

Ex-Flint manager Earley shrugs off U.S. House subpoena

They’re really cutting it close here….

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:21:12pm

re: #89 A Cranky One

One of the nicer moments in my life was when I went out late one night to pick up some munchies due to my insomnia.

I left my building and crossed the street. The house there had a sprinkler running. As I passed I noticed a momma raccoon and her three kits on the lawn. She was teaching them that you could find worms on lawns being watered and showing her kits how to find them.

She’d spread her paws and pat the grass. Every so often she’d grab a worm and scarf it down.

The kits watched her and tried to imitate her, without a lot of success. It’s a learned skill I guess.

One of the kits came within five feet of me, then noticed I was there. He ran and cowered behind mom. She gave me a look only a mother can give and hissed at me.

I stood up, said, “Lovely family you have there, momma,” and continued on my way.

It was quite special watching wild animals not worried about the human watching them.

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:26:59pm

This theater, we call the nomination process, I’m finding very tiring.

Can we get it over already?

It’s pretty clear to me that the companies whose major product are “television” are driving this thing as an alt-sport. Down to play-by-play announcers, color commentators, locker room interviewers, etc.

It’s all about selling advertising, just to get you to buy an extra bag of Fritos and an extra can of Mountain Dew.

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:28:06pm

To whit, the New York Times:

Iowa Results Signal Long Nominating Contests for Both Parties

Get it over, already.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:28:28pm

re: #111 freetoken

This theater, we call the nomination process, I’m finding very tiring.

Can we get it over already?

It’s pretty clear to me that the companies whose major product are “television” are driving this thing as an alt-sport. Down to play-by-play announcers, color commentators, locker room interviewers, etc.

It’s all about selling advertising, just to get you to buy an extra bag of Fritos and an extra can of Mountain Dew.

Sportsball can only get you so far. So a different ring of the circus has to be run periodically in order to fill the gap.

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:29:06pm

re: #109 Eric The Fruit Bat

Ex-Flint manager Earley shrugs off U.S. House subpoena

They’re really cutting it close here….

The thing is, this isn’t the first time this has happened. The difference is that DC attacked it head on. In Flint, the Governor’s office and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality could not in any way say they didn’t know. The Governor should be arrested and tried for flagrant indifference to a public health crisis. This is a major fuck up. Those kids are screwed for life.

en.wikipedia.org

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allegro  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:29:48pm

Urban raccoons are typically very cool with humans and rarely run off in fear. They are sooo smart and learn young the ultimate secret in dealing with humans: cute works.

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:31:18pm

re: #111 freetoken

This theater, we call the nomination process, I’m finding very tiring.

Can we get it over already?

It’s pretty clear to me that the companies whose major product are “television” are driving this thing as an alt-sport. Down to play-by-play announcers, color commentators, locker room interviewers, etc.

It’s all about selling advertising, just to get you to buy an extra bag of Fritos and an extra can of Mountain Dew.

Capitalism! Funded by the Koch Brothers (Inc.).

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:34:23pm

re: #114 austin_blue

The thing is, this isn’t the first time this has happened. The difference is that DC attacked it head on. In Flint, the Governor’s office and the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality could not in any way say they didn’t know. The Governor should be arrested and tried for flagrant indifference to a public health crisis. This is a major fuck up. Those kids are screwed for life.

en.wikipedia.org

Of tertiary importance is that I expect a lot of pets got fucked up by this water as well. Unless they refused to drink it I guess. (I say tertiary since even though I feel a great sense of responsibility for being a good steward for pets it does pale in comparison to the uncaring damage being done to human lives. Emphasis on the *uncaring* since it heavily runs against the grain of what holding public office is supposed to be about.)

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:34:31pm

The latest NH popularity polls still show Trump with a giant lead over the rest of the field.

Without the Je$u$ voters, this could be Trump’s time.

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:38:20pm

re: #115 allegro

Urban raccoons are typically very cool with humans and rarely run off in fear. They are sooo smart and learn young the ultimate secret in dealing with humans: cute works.

Some take it too far though…

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:39:20pm

re: #119 Kragar

Some take it too far though…

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In at least a few Sci-Fi stories they evolve to replace us.

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:43:48pm

re: #118 freetoken

The latest NH popularity polls still show Trump with a giant lead over the rest of the field.

Without the Je$u$ voters, this could be Trump’s time.

Recent winners in Iowa haven’t fared will in the rest of the States. You sell your soul chasing evangelicals in Iowa. Just ask Hukkabukka and Santorum (eww).

Cruz may get fifth in New Hampshire. He’ll do well in the south, but then will crater in the west and the northeast. I still think it will be an open convention, with no one having the delegates needed to win on a first ballot. Best guess, but it’s early. Lots of popcorn between now and then. This is really shaping up as a car wreck- the fascination of the abomination that everyone slows down and takes a look.

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:44:53pm

re: #121 austin_blue

Recent winners in Iowa haven’t fared will in the rest of the States. You sell your soul chasing evangelicals in Iowa. Just ask Hukkabukka and Santorum (eww).

Republicans, anyway. For Democrats, Iowa may be more diagnostic of the state of the party.

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allegro  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:45:30pm

re: #119 Kragar

Some take it too far though…

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Just dressed appropriately for the wedding reception where he’s serving the filet mignon. Of course the guests will only get the steamed carrots and long grain and wild rice because he’s long gone with those steaks.

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:49:01pm

I guess for Republicans, too, Iowa is diagnostic.

It is very clear that the fundamentalist tail is trying to wag the Republican dog. And that is exactly what the insiders in the party apparently fear, because someone like Cruz really does turn off a lot of Americans.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:50:01pm

re: #123 allegro

Just dressed appropriately for the wedding reception where he’s serving the filet mignon. Of course the guests will only get the steamed carrots and long grain and wild rice because he’s long gone with those steaks.

You have to distract him first with the plate of candy floss pieces and a bowl of water.

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allegro  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:51:22pm

re: #125 Feline Fearless Leader

You have to distract him first with the plate of candy floss pieces and a bowl of water.

That was so mean. Poor li’l guy.

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WhatEVs  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:51:58pm

Wow. This is dirty.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:55:33pm

re: #126 allegro

Ya gotta be careful with ‘em, tho-if they become too friendly, they may have come down with distemper-which is something you don’t want around your critters.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:57:26pm
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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:59:15pm

re: #104 stpaulbear

Yeah, about an hour and a half east of you we had some similar stuff. I’m guessing snowfall at around 6” or so but the commute/driving was brutal. I love snowplows, but my timing is so bad that I swear as soon as a clear my driveway they come rolling through to plow me in. ;).

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KGxvi  Feb 2, 2016 • 8:59:46pm

re: #124 freetoken

I guess for Republicans, too, Iowa is diagnostic.

It is very clear that the fundamentalist tail is trying to wag the Republican dog. And that is exactly what the insiders in the party apparently fear, because someone like Cruz really does turn off a lot of Americans.

I’m not sure Iowa tells us much on either side. There’s been 8 competitive caucuses since 2000, between both parties. Theres two things that come from it:

1. We get to see who actual voters actually like.
2. It gives us a narrative for a week, until New Hampshire votes.

Because the election cycle is effectively two years long, that second thing is useful

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allegro  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:03:52pm

That reminds me of another NASA story during my FWS days. I got a call from the Space Center grounds guy demanding that I come down there and trap/kill all the area raccoons. “The hell?” I ask. Even if it was possible - and it most certainly wasn’t - why the heck would he ask such a thing?

Turns out the AC units at the SC are these huge outdoor water cooled, small swimming pool sized things. Gotta refrigerate control central apparently. Raccoons were getting chicken bones and stuff outa the dumpsters from the employee cafeteria, washing them in the cooler pools, and dropping some down in there to fuck up the equipment. Obviously the brilliant engineers decided the solution was to kill all the raccoons to solve the problem. Hadn’t occurred to them to spend a couple of hundreds bucks for screening to put over the tops to keep the raccoons from washing their food in them.

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:04:29pm

re: #122 freetoken

Republicans, anyway. For Democrats, Iowa may be more diagnostic of the state of the party.

Hillary is going to get waxed in Hew Hampshire, but then things get very difficult for Bernie. She’s done a smart thing after getting blindsided in ‘08. She has tailored her message to appeal to suburban moms, minorities, and trad Dems. Bernie is getting the youth vote (What was his advantage in the 18-30 vote in Iowa, 70%? Have mercy!), but that can’t hold down the road. Again, more popcorn. I think this cycle is going to be a free-for-all, but it will be Hillary and whoever the open convention on the R side nominates.

At this point, since Jeb! is running a campaign tailor-made for 2002, which is so 14 years ago, I’ll trust my political spidey-sense on Rubio, who has been deeply hurt, strategically, on some the choices he has made recently. Hard to un-ring a bell.

The R’s are in a hell of a fix.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:04:45pm

So I was sort of aimlessly wandering around the internet and I learned a couple of things. First, did you guys know there are cat-shaped marshmallows? I had no idea!

I learned that the word kawaii is “is the quality of cuteness in the context of Japanese culture.” If you like emojis like I do, that’s how you find the mother lode.

Some of the animated emoji illustrators get downright weird though. For example this obviously terrified child in a rabbit costume… what is s/he running from?

Then there are these bizarre pigs, one of whom is a stripper/monster (NSFW):

Okaaaaaay. Last, but not least, a pole-dancing stripper bunny. Yes, you read that right, a pole-dancing stripper bunny. I just… Is nothing sacred, not even bunnies? Sheesh. (Also prolly NSFW):

I just… I’ma go read a book. O_o

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:06:58pm
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teleskiguy  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:07:37pm
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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:09:11pm

re: #134 CuriousLurker

Ya missed the dancing Deadpool….

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:13:00pm

re: #115 allegro

Urban raccoons are typically very cool with humans and rarely run off in fear. They are sooo smart and learn young the ultimate secret in dealing with humans: cute works.

So true. When I lived in Queens my ex used to love to BBQ whenever the weather permitted and the yard behind our building was sort of a jungle. There was an entire family of raccoons that would come around as soon as he’d fire up the grill. They knew—you’d hear them lumbering through the greenery making their weird little chirping noises. They’d be cautious at first, but after a few minutes they’d walk right up to you and beg for scraps (we usually had fruit or something to give them also).

The building since been sold, all the trees & plants removed and paved over. Sadly, the new owners destroyed an entire little ecosystem (there were lots of other critters living back there, including several generations of stray & feral cats we used to feed).

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:13:14pm

re: #137 Eric The Fruit Bat

Ya missed the dancing Deadpool….

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LOLOLOL

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:13:22pm

re: #134 CuriousLurker

So I was sort of aimlessly wandering around the internet and I learned a couple of things. First, did you guys know there are cat-shaped marshmallows? I had no idea!

I learned that the word kawaii is “is the quality of cuteness in the context of Japanese culture.” If you like emojis like I do, that’s how you find the mother lode.

Some of the animated emoji illustrators get downright weird though. For example this obviously terrified child in a rabbit costume… what is s/he running from?

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I just… I’ma go read a book. O_o

The Japanese are not like us, eh? So very conservative and frozen a culture, and yet so bizarre to us in the fetishes in which they indulge…

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:13:37pm

re: #135 Kragar

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That’s insane. LOL

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:14:34pm

“I think he undermined any of the legal actions his son, sons and others are doing to get released,” county Judge Steve Grasty told KOIN-TV.

The letter, composed by the Pacific Patriots Network militia group, demands not only the officials’ resignation, but that the officers involved in the shooting death of LaVoy Finicum last week be detained.

“Last night I got a tweet with a copy of the letter in it from Mr. Cliven Bundy,” Grasty said. “I looked at that and wondered what does that mean? Perhaps he thinks he owns the refuge. I don’t think that’s the case.”

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allegro  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:17:10pm

re: #136 teleskiguy

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Before zip codes were invented.

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:17:27pm

re: #134 CuriousLurker

I learned that the word kawaii is “is the quality of cuteness in the context of Japanese culture.” If you like emojis like I do, that’s how you find the mother lode.

かわいい , or  カワイー for emphasis, is commonly used by young women, and is a term of desire in a childish fashion. Often translated “cute”, in some situations a translation of “dear” or “neat” might be better. Young women would like to think of themselves as かわいい .

Hello Kitty is the ultimate かわいい。

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:18:09pm

Like loser.com but different…

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:20:07pm

re: #140 austin_blue

The Japanese are not like us, eh? So very conservative and frozen a culture, and yet so bizarre to us in the fetishes in which they indulge…

Indeed. I’ve run across some truly strange Japanese stuff. And I don’t mean just the x-rated stuff, I mean downright weirdness. Like the girls who buy contact lenses to make themselves look like big-eyed manga characters. Their trends, at least some of them, seem to spread all across Asia.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:21:31pm

re: #144 freetoken

かわいい , or  カワイー for emphasis, is commonly used by young women, and is a term of desire in a childish fashion. Often translated “cute”, in some situations a translation of “dear” or “neat” might be better. Young women would like to think of themselves as かわいい .

Hello Kitty is the ultimate かわいい。

Thanks! It’s always good to have a more detailed understanding of foreign terms.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:22:13pm

re: #145 ausador

Like loser.com but different…

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Uh, yeah, NO. Not clicking on that. //

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:22:27pm

re: #140 austin_blue

The Japanese are not like us, eh? So very conservative and frozen a culture, and yet so bizarre to us in the fetishes in which they indulge…

I lost count on how many variants of hentiai they have, let alone the tentacle porn…

Hey, Varek……

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:25:10pm

My idea of a cute Asian girl, heh:

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:26:37pm

re: #150 CuriousLurker

My idea of a cute Asian girl, heh:

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That’s the laugh as the hordes of Mongolian war eagles are released.

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Joe Bacon  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:28:43pm

re: #142 Kragar

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So why hasn’t Old Fart Bundy been arrested?

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teleskiguy  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:29:01pm

re: #148 CuriousLurker

Uh, yeah, NO. Not clicking on that. //

It’s safe for work, but nonetheless horrible and disgusting.

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Feline Fearless Leader  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:30:11pm
This big candy store seems to have a theme…

G’night folks. Stay safe and scaly.

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WhatEVs  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:30:43pm

re: #142 Kragar

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This is the best:

(cloven) Bundy told The Guardian that he was “taking over” the direction of the four militants who remain at the facility, despite calls from his son Ammon — who originally led the group into the refuge — that they leave the area.

He must really hate his kids.

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Mattand  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:31:43pm

Call back to the raccoon stories: we had five of the furry little bandits in our crabapple tree this summer. Absolutely amazing. I don’t know if it was a family or what, but they were all roughly the same size. I thought the adults were more solitary than that.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:31:49pm

re: #153 teleskiguy

It’s safe for work, but nonetheless horrible and disgusting.

Okay, you made me look—hahahahahahaha…

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:32:01pm
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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:33:01pm

re: #152 Joe Bacon

So why hasn’t Old Fart Bundy been arrested?

That is a damn fine question

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Mattand  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:37:47pm

re: #152 Joe Bacon

So why hasn’t Old Fart Bundy been arrested?

re: #159 Kragar

That is a damn fine question

I’m wondering if DOJ lawyers are researching statute of limitations on pointing weapons at unarmed BLM agents.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:40:27pm

re: #156 Mattand

Call back to the raccoon stories: we had five of the furry little bandits in our crabapple tree this summer. Absolutely amazing. I don’t know if it was a family or what, but they were all roughly the same size. I thought the adults were more solitary than that.

A couple of years ago I read somewhere that NY or NJ (don’t remember which one) has the biggest population of raccoons in the 50 states. I also don’t remember if it was in terms of population density or overall numbers. The only reason I even remember it at all is because at the time I found it very surprising.

When I thought about it some more, it seemed maybe not so surprising since humans have taken over most of their habitat—I mean, Jersey itself, while small, is the most densely populated state in the union.

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austin_blue  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:41:24pm

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

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retired cynic  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:42:42pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Hooray for you!

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:42:51pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

Good for you! Congrats & Happy Birthday. ;-)

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Mattand  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:43:51pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

Congrats! Keep on rockin’.

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WhatEVs  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:46:31pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

Happy birthday! And a happy, joyful and prosperous retirement!

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:46:52pm
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retired cynic  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:50:25pm

re: #167 ausador

Do you remember the wedding between John Watson and his bride on Sherlock? Reminds me of the faces in the audience!

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allegro  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:50:57pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

Congrats! Getting older does have its bennies, don’t it.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:52:26pm

Raccoon Nation on PBS. I loved this episode.

Raccoon: Backyard Bandit (2015) - full Documentary

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CuriousLurker  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:54:02pm

I’m out too—after midnight here.

Later, lizards.

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Kragar  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:56:31pm
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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:56:52pm

Is this the start of goodbye to Santorum?

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allegro  Feb 2, 2016 • 9:59:27pm

re: #173 ausador

Is this the start of goodbye to Santorum?

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Who the heck has been funding this guy all this time?

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:02:15pm

re: #174 allegro

Stonecutters.

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WhatEVs  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:05:06pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:19:45pm

re: #146 CuriousLurker

Indeed. I’ve run across some truly strange Japanese stuff. And I don’t mean just the x-rated stuff, I mean downright weirdness. Like the girls who buy contact lenses to make themselves look like big-eyed manga characters. Their trends, at least some of them, seem to spread all across Asia.

Some of the Japanese styles have been adopted by trendy Chinese. One of my former students really likes the Victorian Lolita style of fashion (as well as cosplay in general), for example.

This style is apparently a big thing in Tokyo. smh

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:21:33pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

Welcome to the 60s Club. I joined up just a week or so ago.

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teleskiguy  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:26:28pm
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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:29:06pm

Pretty good read and not so much negative as a look at the generational/experience gap, in spite of the awkward title.

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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:34:05pm

Almost makes you want Bernie to win just to have the “fun” of watching them turn on him. Just as their fellow brothers in idealogical purity did to Obama in 2010. :(

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Sophist: Domo Arigato, Marco Ruboto  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:38:45pm

re: #167 ausador

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Still looks more presidential than anyone running with an “R” after their name.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:40:05pm

re: #146 CuriousLurker

Don’t forget about Ladybaby. A national treasure. :)

LADYBABY「ニッポン饅頭 / Nippon Manju」Music Clip

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Sophist: Domo Arigato, Marco Ruboto  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:49:57pm

re: #134 CuriousLurker

Then there are these bizarre pigs, one of whom is a stripper/monster (NSFW):

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I just… I’ma go read a book. O_o

Those aren’t pigs, I’m pretty sure they’re supposed to be Chiyo’s father from Azumanga Daioh.

…not that knowing that makes it any more comprehensible, even in context.

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Lancelot Link  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:54:23pm

re: #91 ausador

That’s pretty ironic, considering Snowjob’s a Rand Paul donor.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 2, 2016 • 10:57:12pm

re: #151 Feline Fearless Leader

That’s the laugh as the hordes of Mongolian war eagles are released.

What? No, she’s unleashing them with her special cry.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 2, 2016 • 11:01:03pm

re: #183 GlutenFreeJesus

Don’t forget about Ladybaby. A national treasure. :)

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Asian pop girl groups lean heavily toward cuteness and teen behavior, though the performers are usually (not always) over 20. Boy groups lean towards androgyny.

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freetoken  Feb 2, 2016 • 11:15:33pm
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ausador  Feb 2, 2016 • 11:55:03pm

***NSFW LANGUAGE***

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Cheechako  Feb 2, 2016 • 11:58:22pm

re: #162 austin_blue

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

Welcome to the Retirees Club!!! I’ve been a member for 8 years.

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ausador  Feb 3, 2016 • 12:01:32am
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Nojay UK  Feb 3, 2016 • 12:56:47am

re: #177 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some of the Japanese styles have been adopted by trendy Chinese. One of my former students really likes the Victorian Lolita style of fashion (as well as cosplay in general), for example.

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This style is apparently a big thing in Tokyo. smh

“Gosurori” or Gothic Lolita — there are entire shopping districts in Tokyo dedicated to that particular fashion.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 1:21:29am

re: #121 austin_blue

. I still think it will be an open convention, with no one having the delegates needed to win on a first ballot. Best guess, but it’s early. Lots of popcorn between now and then. This is really shaping up as a car wreck- the fascination of the abomination that everyone slows down and takes a look.

Sheldon Adelson spent a lot of money derailing Rick Santorum by supporting Newt Gingrich last time around just to prevent such a scene, which would be very damaging to the GOP’s prospects as the ensuing debate will make it clear for all to see that they are hell bent on turning back all the gains we have made over the past 50 years or more in personal freedoms, gay, women’s and minority rights, as well as consumer and environmental protections.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 1:38:21am

‘Morning, all. It’s 3:30 CST, and 70 degrees out. The flow of hot wet air from the Gulf is continuing. One tornado in AL, one in MS overnight.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 3, 2016 • 2:27:11am

Oops.
‘White Pride Fitness Room’ uproar prompts Wisconsin school to change name

The River Falls school district has changed the name of its newly refurbished fitness center in response to critics who warned it could be seen as racist.

Originally, the facility at Meyer Middle School was known as Pride Fitness. The project was made possible with $100,000 in private donations, and the River Falls Journal reported last week that the name would be expanded to include two of the biggest donors: The family of Roger T. White and Royal Credit Union.

The resulting name: Roger T. White Pride Fitness Room as presented by RCU.

The controversy appears to have stemmed from the follow-up comment an official made about how long the new name was. The official said it likely would be shortened to “White Pride Fitness Room.”

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 2:30:50am

re: #195 Amory Blaine

Oops.
‘White Pride Fitness Room’ uproar prompts Wisconsin school to change name

I am sure that this will be polemicized as another example of how PC is oppressing proud white people…

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Sophist: Domo Arigato, Marco Ruboto  Feb 3, 2016 • 2:38:19am

Not to be mean, but Heidi Cruz has a serious case of resting Ann Romney face, doesn’t she? The wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command are really quite distinctive.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 2:39:11am

re: #197 Sophist: Make America Grate Again

Not to be mean, but Heidi Cruz has a serious case of resting Ann Romney face, doesn’t she? The wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command are really quite distinctive.

Just imagine what it is like living with Ted…

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Sophist: Domo Arigato, Marco Ruboto  Feb 3, 2016 • 2:45:42am

re: #198 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Just imagine what it is like living with Ted…

Not even if you paid me. I’d prefer not to sully my beautiful mind so grievously.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 2:49:29am

re: #199 Sophist: Make America Grate Again

Not even if you paid me. I’d prefer not to sully my beautiful mind so grievously.

She spends all day at Goldman-Sachs. Coming home to Ted might seem like a relief after that…

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Botsplainer  Feb 3, 2016 • 4:02:29am

re: #95 Eric The Fruit Bat

I’m guessing the Bundy ranch is already liened to the gills on the judgments. Ammon and Ryan and the rest of the Bundy klan (slackjawed siblings and the hundreds of undoubtedly functionally zikabrain grandchildren) have no inheritance other than widespread scorn. As a bonus, the image of the rugged individualist patriot rancher is shot to shit in general.

I suspect that Waco and Ruby Ridge would have been viewed differently in their aftermath of given the availability of shared widespread snark.

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Botsplainer  Feb 3, 2016 • 4:03:52am

re: #200 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Talk about a joyless life - days at Goldman Sachs, nights with Ted Cruz.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 4:14:25am

re: #201 Botsplainer

I suspect that Waco and Ruby Ridge would have been viewed differently in their aftermath of given the availability of shared widespread snark.

I think the authorities played their hand well by keeping confrontation and violence to a minimum. We have seen how even a thoroughly justified use of force against a fugitive who was known to be armed and dangerous was played up as a police assassination.

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 3, 2016 • 4:18:13am

Feeling the Bern? Head to Vermont and get some free ink!

The race to the white house is garnering more attention from an even younger audience.

Most of that audience is showing support for the oldest candidate in the race.

Now Bernie Sanders state of Vermont is giving folks a unique way to show that support.

A tattoo shop in Winooksi are doing free Bernie Sander tattoos.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 4:19:54am

re: #204 Kent Dorfman

Feeling the Bern? Head to Vermont and get some free ink!

I could not begin to imagine Hillary making a similar offer, although I am sure that there is already more than one Trump supporter already sporting a Donald tattoo…

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 4:43:16am

re: #172 Kragar

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Fucking Nazi, man-child, mental midgets.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 4:54:27am

re: #206 Eventual Carrion

Fucking Nazi, man-child, mental midgets.

Or in Trump-speak, “impassioned supporters”.

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SoundGuy 2016  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:03:34am

Brown shirts are coming back in style. Now they’re called Trumpet Tees.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:07:30am

RW media sites have (gin up) a particular hate for MHP and Rachel Maddow.

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:10:56am

re: #209 Barefoot Grin

Rachel Maddow is an amazing interviewer. She seems to disarm her guests with her charm.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:25:19am

re: #210 Kent Dorfman

Rachel Maddow is an amazing interviewer. She seems to disarm her guests with her charm.

I agree. Commenters at places like breitbart, etc. seem fixated on her sexuality rather than her knowledge and skills.

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:34:25am

I heard this song on my way into work this morning and spent the better part of my morning trying to find it.

Live uit Lloyd - Jeffrey Foucault & Caitlin Canty - Slow Talker

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SoundGuy 2016  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:41:05am

The rabid hate for MHP and Maddow is nothing more than a stew of misogyny/racism/homophobia. Justified because liberals.

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danarchy  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:45:24am

re: #211 Barefoot Grin

I agree. Commenters at places like breitbart, etc. seem fixated on her sexuality rather than her knowledge and skills.

I am not a big Maddow fan. I don’t want snark from reporters and she can’t seem to go more than 30 seconds without being snarky. That’s fine on comedy central but not what I want in a news report.

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Schroedinger's Dog  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:50:17am

re: #214 danarchy

I am not a big Maddow fan. I don’t want snark from reporters and she can’t seem to go more than 30 seconds without being snarky. That’s fine on comedy central but not what I want in a news report.

When you’re faced with farce masquerading as seriousness, snark is the only sane response.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:50:37am

Trump must have laid into the sauce overnight:

And I can’t believe that I’m telling him to buck up (though it shows lack of character/judgment.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:55:03am

Awwww… too bad, not sad. Idiot will be around for decades to come running Quixotic campaigns pandering to the fringe.

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Schroedinger's Dog  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:56:06am

re: #216 lawhawk

Trump must have laid into the sauce overnight:

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In all fairness, there were shenanigans of sorts, with a Cruz supporter tweeting a CNN story that Carson was taking a “break” after Iowa.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:57:15am

re: #217 lawhawk

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Awwww… too bad, not sad. Idiot will be around for decades to come running Quixotic campaigns pandering to the fringe.

Gonna miss that loveable lug.

Now there will be no excuse for a kiddie table, and all the crazy will be on the debate stage at once.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 5:57:35am

re: #218 Schroedinger’s Dog

Yes, I saw that. Cruz was running all manner of dirty tricks - whether it was bogus mailers grading people’s voting habits (and everyone seemed to get failing grades to shame them into showing) and the claims that Carson was dropping out.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:01:35am

Donald Trump is as klassy and Presidential as ever:

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:03:29am

re: #216 lawhawk

Trump must have laid into the sauce overnight:

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And I can’t believe that I’m telling him to buck up (though it shows lack of character/judgment.

Here is the first version:

hahaha. “Illegally stole”.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:08:38am
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:08:56am

Trump has a YOOGE butt and it HURTZ

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:09:34am

re: #222 Dr. Matt

Here is the first version:

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hahaha. “Illegally stole”.

Must have used the six-gun instead of the fountain pen.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:10:05am

re: #224 The Vicious Babushka

Trump has a YOOGE butt and it HURTZ

See: the definitions of “butthurt”, “sore loser”, and “LOL!”.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:11:32am

re: #222 Dr. Matt

Here is the first version:

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hahaha. “Illegally stole”.

Sounds like he’s reading off of an indictment, “did knowingly and feloniously steal…”

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:11:57am

re: #211 Barefoot Grin

I agree. Commenters at places like breitbart, etc. seem fixated on her sexuality gender rather than her knowledge and skills.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:12:40am

re: #149 Eric The Fruit Bat

Huh, what?
I ain’t done shit.
YOU CAN’T PROVE IT!

Errr…
Nevermind.

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lizardofid  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:14:35am

re: #162 austin_blue

Night all. My 60th birthday is tomorrow and I’m retiring with a pension (!) on Friday. Yes, there are still jobs, if you started twenty years ago, where they will pay you to stay at home. I have a significant honey-do list of deferred house maintenance, but I will be throwing a shingle out in a month or so as consulting geologist.

New opportunities! Can’t wait.

Congrats, and good luck along the new path. May it bring new textures and flavors to your stew.

63yo here on Super Sunday, and well into my second year of home based self employment, after being laid off from a job I loved for 25 years. What seemed like a blow at the time, (the MS made it really scary) has turned out pretty sweet.

Change can be cathartic and transformative.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:18:39am

re: #146 CuriousLurker

Like the girls who buy contact lenses to make themselves look like big-eyed manga characters. Their trends, at least some of them, seem to spread all across Asia.

Not new at all. Atropa belladonna has been used in centuries past to give women large pupils - which gives the illusion of larger eyes.

The common name belladonna originates from its historic use by women - Bella Donna is Italian for beautiful lady. Drops prepared from the belladonna plant were used to dilate women’s pupils, an effect considered to be attractive and seductive

Belladona Eye

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:22:17am

They’re not overturning the Iowa caucus results. Move on, butthead.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:22:52am

re: #231 Le Lapin Tueur

Not new at all. Atropa belladonna has been used in centuries past to give women large pupils - which gives the illusion of larger eyes.

Belladona Eye

I often wondered why we make ourselves look sick in order to seem attractive. I seem to recall that consumptive women were considered sexy in the 18th and 19th centuries.

My own personal theory is that the human genome is so chock full of retroviruses and latent diseases that we are somehow drawn to sickness.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:24:47am

Now he just sounds like a jaded ex:

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andres  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:26:21am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

I doubt Trump wants to overturn the results. I mean, if he gets his way, how can Trump keep pounding Cruz on the certificate fraud? He’ll keep playing like a 4 chord song until the end of the primary.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:26:52am

re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I often wondered why we make ourselves look sick in order to seem attractive. I seem to recall that consumptive women were considered sexy in the 18th and 19th centuries.

My own personal theory is that the human genome is so chock full of retroviruses and latent diseases that we are somehow drawn to sickness.

Men are attracted to women that seem weak. It allows the men to protect the women.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:28:00am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

They’re not overturning the Iowa caucus results. Move on, butthead.

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I thought only minorities, immigrants and lefty malcontents did voter fraud. Should tRump get the nom and lose the general, will we be back to the SCOTUS for ruling like 2000?

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:28:28am

re: #197 Sophist: Make America Grate Again

Not to be mean, but Heidi Cruz has a serious case of resting Ann Romney face, doesn’t she? The wrinkled lip and sneer of cold command are really quite distinctive.

Timely article in WaPo: Scientists have discovered what causes Resting Bitch Face

To establish a baseline, Rogers and Macbeth first had FaceReader assess a series of genuinely expressionless faces. Those expressions registered about 97 percent neutrality, Macbeth said; the remaining three percent included “little blips of emotion” — a touch of sadness here, a hint of surprise there, but nothing significant.

The FaceReader software analyzes Kanye, one of the few men commonly associated with RBF. (Courtesy Noldus Information Technology)

Then they plugged in photos of RBF all-stars Kanye West, Kristen Stewart and Queen Elizabeth. Suddenly, the level of emotion detected by the software doubled to six percent.

One particular emotion was responsible for the jump: “The big change in percentage came from ‘contempt,’” Macbeth said.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:28:30am

re: #235 Dr. Matt

Now he just sounds like a jaded ex:

LIE!! STOP LYING ABOUT MY RECORD!!! LOSER11!11 SHUTUP!!1 DUMMIE!!11

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:29:53am

re: #236 andres

I doubt Trump wants to overturn the results. I mean, if he gets his way, how can Trump keep pounding Cruz on the certificate fraud? He’ll keep playing like a 4 chord song until the end of the primary.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:30:13am

re: #233 The Vicious Babushka

The Voter Violation certificate gave poor marks to the unsuspecting voter(grade of F) and told them to clear it up by voting for Cruz. Fraud
— Donald J. Trump

Is there an English translation of this?

/

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:30:58am

re: #239 Le Lapin Tueur

Timely article in WaPo: Scientists have discovered what causes Resting Bitch Face

I want to see a study on Smirking Bastard Face, with Ted Cruz as the baseline model.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:31:21am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:31:54am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.
— Donald J. Trump

Oh dear. Not a good look.

Does Trump understand there are 49+ other primaries/caucuses?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:34:05am

re: #245 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh dear. Not a good look.

Does Trump understand there are 49+ other primaries/caucuses?

HURR HURR IF I DON’T WIN THEM ALL EVERYONE IS A DUMMY!!!!!111! SO SECOND RATE, TOTAL FAILURES1!!11

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:35:09am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.
— Donald J. Trump

Someone’s coming unglued

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:38:29am

The Twitters are saying something about Dr. Rand Paul and suspended campaign….

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WhatEVs  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:38:40am

re: #223 The Vicious Babushka

On this part, Trump is right. Cruz played really dirty against Carson. Not that I like any of them but it’s really wrong. See my 127 for the article. Politics is dirty, I get that. I mean really, Bush robocalling McCain’s kid is dirty. But that’s personal dirty. That’s not election dirty. I just found what Cruz did worse than the rest…it’s like electoral fraud.

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b.d.  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:40:24am

I bet the very cold people in New Hampshire are appreciating this nice warm Trump meltdown that he is providing for them.

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:42:14am
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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:42:21am

re: #249 WhatEVs

On this part, Trump is right. Cruz played really dirty against Carson. Not that I like any of them but it’s really wrong. See my 127 for the article. Politics is dirty, I get that. I mean really, Bush robocalling McCain’s kid is dirty. But that’s personal dirty. That’s not election dirty. I just found what Cruz did worse than the rest…it’s like electoral fraud.

I consider personal dirty to be worse, especially if it involves someone like a kid. Lying to voters ranks pretty close, thought.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:42:32am

re: #249 WhatEVs

On this part, Trump is right. Cruz played really dirty against Carson. Not that I like any of them but it’s really wrong. See my 127 for the article. Politics is dirty, I get that. I mean really, Bush robocalling McCain’s kid is dirty. But that’s personal dirty. That’s not election dirty. I just found what Cruz did worse than the rest…it’s like electoral fraud.

Look. Cruz is a true conservative Christian and he’s “sorry”. Cruz is “sorry if anyone was offended…”

/

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:42:41am

Just imagine if Obama or Clinton acted anywhere near the way Trump is acting now. The media and GOP supporters applaud Trump for his tantrums but would completely lambast Obama or Clinton.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:42:56am

re: #250 b.d.

I bet the very cold people in New Hampshire are appreciating this nice warm Trump meltdown that he is providing for them.

I can feel the heat all way down here in DC.

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b.d.  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:42:58am

re: #248 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

The Twitters are saying something about Dr. Rand Paul and suspended campaign….

DAMN! And I was just about to give him that $3 that he keeps asking for.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:43:32am

Hate to rekindle conspiratorial thinking, but if Trump were a true Democrat with a talent for sardonic comedy he would do exactly what he’s doing now.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:43:32am

re: #250 b.d.

I bet the very cold people in New Hampshire are appreciating this nice warm Trump meltdown that he is providing for them.

I think they might go for it though. Trump’s pointing out the serious BS Cruz pulled. People might be more turned off by Cruz’s dishonesty than they are by Trump’s meltdown.

And Rubio will continue to play as though being in 3d places was winning.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:43:42am

re: #251 Tigger2

I can’t wait for the SCOTUS ruling on this: “A state has the right to poison it’s citizens. If they had wanted to do something about it, the citizens would have kept the officials out of office.”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:44:34am

re: #256 b.d.

DAMN! And I was just about to give him that $3 that he keeps asking for.

For $3 you can get back issues of Dr. Ron Paul’s newsletters…..

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:44:35am

That sound you hear is from wingnuts brain matter hitting your house.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:44:51am

re: #231 Le Lapin Tueur

Not new at all. Atropa belladonna has been used in centuries past to give women large pupils - which gives the illusion of larger eyes.

Belladona Eye

Interesting is the massive use of cosmetic surgery in South Korea and increasingly China. South Koreans, whether they acknowledge it or not, are perhaps more heavily influenced by Confucianism than even many Chinese (or Japanese). In Confucianism, one was not to alter the body given to you by your parents (thus, tattoos are the mark of the criminal). But plastic surgery is given a pass because it supposedly increases the chance of better job and marriage prospects. Or maybe it’s the cultural conformity thing. What the hell do I know.

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WhatEVs  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:45:01am

re: #252 Belafon

I consider personal dirty to be worse, especially if it involves someone like a kid. Lying to voters ranks pretty close, thought.

I consider personal dirty worse, personally. It shows flawed humanity.

Lying to voters is an offense against democracy.

We’re used to politicians being assholes to each other for points. I am unbelievably offended at Cruz’s attack on democracy. I find that worse because it isn’t a personal attack…it’s attack against every single one of us.

I hope that made sense. I know what I am trying to say but I don’t know if I explained it right.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:45:14am

re: #261 Tigger2

That sound you hear is from wingnuts brain matter hitting your house.

I hope there’s still some left because Obama is going to an Islamic mosque today….

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:45:19am

re: #258 lawhawk

Any publicity is good publicity. Trump is getting attention, all for free.

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:46:39am

re: #259 Belafon

I can’t wait for the SCOTUS ruling on this: “A state has the right to poison it’s citizens. If they had wanted to do something about it, the citizens would have kept the officials out of office.”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:47:36am

Kinda weird for Dr. Ayn Rand Paul to drop out before NH. Not that he was gonna last much beyond there anyway, but NH figures to be his kind of state, strong Libertarian influence there.

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darthstar  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:48:20am

This is a little random, but I like it.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:48:29am

re: #265 Kent Dorfman

Any publicity is good publicity. Trump is getting attention, all for free.

Except that is an unexamined premise, largely for entertainers. Even in the post-shame world, dead girl/live boy will do a politician in.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:48:54am

re: #217 lawhawk

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Awwww… too bad, not sad. Idiot will be around for decades to come running Quixotic campaigns pandering to the fringe.

He has really shot himself in the foot here in Kentucky.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:49:57am

re: #267 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Kinda weird for Dr. Ayn Rand Paul to drop out before NH. Not that he was gonna last much beyond there anyway, but NH figures to be his kind of state, strong Libertarian influence there.

Oh, hmmm, Rand has his Senate re-election bid to think of, too. Is he facing some sort of deadline there to file?

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:50:00am

re: #264 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I hope there’s still some left because Obama is going to an Islamic mosque today….

This should hurt him on his next Presidential run.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:50:39am

re: #272 Tigger2

This should hurt him on his next Presidential run.

He’s just going to declare himself dictator for life so he can do whatever he wants now.

//

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lizardofid  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:50:52am

re: #257 Decatur Deb

Hate to rekindle conspiratorial thinking, but if Trump were a true Democrat with a talent for sardonic comedy he would do exactly what he’s doing now.

As far fetched as it seems, it would assure his legacy, as having pulled off one of the most diabolical scams of all time. Move over Machiavelli.

nah, he’s just an a..hole

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:50:57am

A presidential campaign year should accelerate the GDP detectably. Anyone got numbers?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:54:32am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

So this means that the Republican Party of Kentucky is spending a ton of money on a new caucus system for nothing, w/ no Rand. Thanks, Rand.
— Joe Sonka

Not for nothing. Torch of Liberty.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:55:37am

re: #276 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Not for nothing. Torch of Liberty.

/

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:56:03am

re: #276 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Not for nothing. Torch of Liberty.

/

You can use a torch for light, or for arson.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:57:24am

re: #278 Decatur Deb

You can use a torch for light, or for arson.

Or a song…

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:57:29am

Rand Paul finished ahead of Jeb! in Iowa.

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b.d.  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:58:24am

re: #280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rand Paul finished ahead of Jeb! in Iowa.

Rand’s dad had longer coattails than Jeb’s dad.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:58:58am

re: #280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rand Paul finished ahead of Jeb! in Iowa.

But he probably does not have the war chest that Jeb! has been able to amass.

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darthstar  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:59:17am

re: #280 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rand Paul finished ahead of Jeb! in Iowa.

Jeb! quietly steps up next to Ben Carson. “Look ma! I’m in fifth place now!”

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:59:30am

re: #266 Tigger2

Slate tried to push the “everyone to blame” claptrap, when culpability and responsbility starts with Gov. Snyder and his designated city managers who put supposed cost savings ahead of public safety - and where it turns out that staying with Detroit water would have been cheaper than switching (20% cheaper in fact).

There was no reason to switch if Detroit water was cheaper. But for Snyder’s decision to switch, Flint residents would have remained with safe water supply.

Instead, GOP penny pinching will cost the city, state, and feds upwards of a billion dollars to remediate and fix all of the water distribution network - up to and including in-building piping damaged due to using Flint River for months.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 6:59:37am

re: #281 b.d.

Rand’s dad had longer coattails than Jeb’s dad.

GWB left them kind of threadbare.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:00:42am

I’m pretty sure Rand hasn’t paid the other half like his promised.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:01:22am

re: #286 Dr. Matt

Rage Furby simultaneously fellates Ted Cruz and compares himself to Ted Cruz

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This guy, man…..

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:02:41am

re: #282 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

But he probably does not have the war chest that Jeb! has been able to amass.

Jeb! doesn’t have a war chest, that’s a totally unaffiliated Super PAC which is completely different than the Jeb! campaign and isn’t coordinated at all.

///

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:03:51am

re: #234 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I often wondered why we make ourselves look sick in order to seem attractive. I seem to recall that consumptive women were considered sexy in the 18th and 19th centuries.

My own personal theory is that the human genome is so chock full of retroviruses and latent diseases that we are somehow drawn to sickness.

It’s not the heroin-chic waif look of the 1980s/90s (Kate Moss anyone?)

The belladonna thing is because dilated pupils is one of the “unfakeable” signs of sexual arousal. A girl who looks like she’s going to say yes is a lot more attractive than the same girl looking like she’s going to yell for her brother to slit your throat.

This is also the origin of blush.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:04:18am

re: #286 Dr. Matt

Rage Furby simultaneously fellates Ted Cruz and compares himself to Ted Cruz

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He missed the clincher: “We’re both sort of loathsome.”

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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:04:32am

re: #231 Le Lapin Tueur

Not new at all. Atropa belladonna has been used in centuries past to give women large pupils - which gives the illusion of larger eyes.

That’s more understandable to me since it artificially mimics a natural look. Just a wild guess, but I’ll bet naturally dilated pupils indicate sexual arousal, hence their attractiveness/seductiveness.

While the contact lenses I linked to also make the eyes appear larger, it’s done by increasing the size of the iris, not the pupil. It’s not a natural appearance, which makes it look kinda creepy (to me anyway). Puts it in the uncanny valley category, y’know? Same as with button eyes, like the characters in Coraline’s parallel world. *shudder*

Coraline (3/10) Movie CLIP - Coraline’s Other Parents (2009) HD

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:04:44am

re: #271 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh, hmmm, Rand has his Senate re-election bid to think of, too. Is he facing some sort of deadline there to file?

He already filed for the Senate race back in December.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:08:13am

re: #271 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Oh, hmmm, Rand has his Senate re-election bid to think of, too. Is he facing some sort of deadline there to file?

I assume that he wants to concentrate his resources on something he stands a chance of winning.

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:08:21am

re: #237 Belafon

Men are attracted to women that seem weak. It allows the men to protect the women.

A woman in high heels, and/or a huge bustle skirt or a below-the-knee pencil skirt, looks like a woman who can’t run away from you.

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withak  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:08:22am

re: #291 Decatur Deb

He missed the clincher: “We’re both sort of loathsome.”

You misspelled “completely.”

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:08:38am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:10:16am

re: #297 De Kolta Chair

Based on the fraud committed by Senator Ted Cruz during the Iowa Caucus, either a new election should take place or Cruz results nullified.

“We didn’t win, but it doesn’t matter because it didn’t count anyways!”

Took him over 12 hours to come up with that spin?

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withak  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:11:09am

Wait, what fraud is Trump on about now?

I had a momentary bout of sanity and stopped paying attention to the caucus crap for a day or so…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:11:34am

LOL, what a tool he is:

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:11:40am

re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

“We didn’t win, but it doesn’t matter because it didn’t count anyways!”

Took him over 12 hours to come up with that spin?

Trump should know better than act like a sore loser, with an emphasis on LOSER!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:11:42am

re: #297 De Kolta Chair

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Man this is great. He really is one unbelievably sore loser.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:12:22am

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL, what a tool he is:

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He’s frankly a one trick pony. I’ll always appreciate what he did in regards to Watergate but Bob Woodward’s career aside from that meh.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:12:53am

re: #299 withak

Wait, what fraud is Trump on about now?

I had a momentary bout of sanity and stopped paying attention to the caucus crap for a day or so…

Why the fraud was him not winning of course.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:12:56am

re: #299 withak

Wait, what fraud is Trump on about now?

I had a momentary bout of sanity and stopped paying attention to the caucus crap for a day or so…

The “voter violation” flyer and implying that Carson was suspending his campaign.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:13:26am

re: #295 sagehen

A woman in high heels, and/or a huge bustle skirt or a below-the-knee pencil skirt, looks like a woman who can’t run away from you.

That must have been it. Wearing her ‘chute and her chest-mounted reserve, Wife looked like easy prey. Had to watch out for the riser knife, though.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:13:51am

re: #177 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Some of the Japanese styles have been adopted by trendy Chinese. One of my former students really likes the Victorian Lolita style of fashion (as well as cosplay in general), for example.

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Victorian Lolita, huh? First time I’ve heard that one. The fascination with young girls creeps me out. Young women I could understand, but the preferred look seems to be that of underage girls. Ugh.

re: #183 GlutenFreeJesus

Don’t forget about Ladybaby. A national treasure. :)

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That’s just…. WTF was that? Good grief, national treasure indeed. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:14:30am

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:14:49am

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL, what a tool he is:

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Has he ever listened to Sanders.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:15:25am

re: #299 withak

Wait, what fraud is Trump on about now?

I had a momentary bout of sanity and stopped paying attention to the caucus crap for a day or so…

Supposedly because of this:

But it’s really about his having lost to Cruz.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:15:29am

re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Tell it as is.”

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Lidane  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:15:29am

Rand Paul dropping out of the race before New Hampshire and Trump demanding a do-over of Iowa?

I need more popcorn. This is comedy gold.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:15:34am

re: #298 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

“We didn’t win, but it doesn’t matter because it didn’t count anyways!”

Took him over 12 hours to come up with that spin?

Yeah. The derp here is a little disappointing. I expected better.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:15:55am

Speaker Ryan: “We’ll get right to work on this after we finish with higher priority legislation, like repealing the ACA.”
//

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:16:20am

re: #312 Lidane

Rand Paul dropping out of the race before New Hampshire and Trump demanding a do-over of Iowa?

I need more popcorn. This is comedy gold.

I just saw that. Good riddance to Rand. Ended up being a bigger flop than his old man whose entire career was just saying No.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:16:56am

re: #302 HappyWarrior

Man this is great. He really is one unbelievably sore loser.

Trump is the original Affluenza Boy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:16:56am

re: #314 FormerDirtDart

Speaker Ryan: “We’ll get right to work on this after we finish with higher priority legislation, like repealing the ACA.”
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Meet the new Speaker, just as pathetic and doing right wing extremists’ bidding as the old one.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:17:24am

re: #312 Lidane

Rand Paul dropping out of the race before New Hampshire and Trump demanding a do-over of Iowa?

I need more popcorn. This is comedy gold.

We weren’t prepared.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:17:52am

re: #251 Tigger2

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SEND THE CITIZENS GRAND JURY AFTER HIM!!!

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Stanley Sea  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:18:06am

re: #307 CuriousLurker

Victorian Lolita, huh? First time I’ve heard that one. The fascination with young girls creeps me out. Young women I could understand, but the preferred look seems to be that of underage girls. Ugh.

That’s just…. WTF was that? Good grief, national treasure indeed. //

Charles posted that here. I’ve shared it with probably 20 people.

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withak  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:18:48am

re: #305 Big Beautiful Door

The “voter violation” flyer and implying that Carson was suspending his campaign.

Oh, that fraud. I thought it was some new and exciting fraud perpetrated by the Cruz campaign, not that old stuff.

Yawn.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:19:29am

re: #258 lawhawk

I think they might go for it though. Trump’s pointing out the serious BS Cruz pulled. People might be more turned off by Cruz’s dishonesty than they are by Trump’s meltdown.

And Rubio will continue to play as though being in 3d places was winning.

When your “enemy’s” are fighting among themselves, let them.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:20:08am

re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth

but remember, GOP loudmouths like Trump and Christie are ‘passionate’ and ‘authentic’
— Eric Boehlert

‘Manly’
‘Strong’
‘Leader’

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:21:18am

re: #308 Backwoods_Sleuth

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:22:26am

re: #319 Eventual Carrion

SEND THE CITIZENS GRAND JURY AFTER HIM!!!

Hey the Genesee County Volunteer Militia is stepping up to help the people of Flint

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:23:06am
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:24:25am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

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Hard to believe for as devout a Muslim as the President is./

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:25:32am

re: #327 Big Beautiful Door

Hard to believe for as devout a Muslim as the President is./

First time he has publicly visited one. He keeps a secret mosque hidden in the White House, you know…

/

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:25:49am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:26:40am

re: #329 Dr. Matt

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That’s very true. There’s focus on the narrowness of her victory but frankly a victory is a victory. Granted it’s not winner take all but she did win Iowa.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:28:20am

re: #330 HappyWarrior

That’s very true. There’s focus on the narrowness of her victory but frankly a victory is a victory. Granted it’s not winner take all but she did win Iowa.

What is this obsession with the results of a nearly all-white state with a population of less than four million?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:28:23am

Well one thing I’ve concluded is that the Religious Right as a force in GOP politics isn’t going anyway any time soon. It really is adorable to see Libertarians think they can change the GOP from a theocratic party that doesn’t care about the well being of people who aren’t wealthy to a secular party who doesn’t.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:29:13am

re: #330 HappyWarrior

That’s very true. There’s focus on the narrowness of her victory but frankly a victory is a victory. Granted it’s not winner take all but she did win Iowa.

If she doesn’t win South Carolina by more than twenty points, the media will spin it as a huge victory for Bernie.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:29:27am

re: #331 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

What is this obsession with the results of a nearly all-white state with a population of less than four million?

I know. Iowa’s demographics aren’t even reflective of what the country was in 1900. New Hampshire isn’t much better. The third primary states- Nevada and South Carolina are much more representative of the nation as a whole.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:30:00am

re: #333 Big Beautiful Door

If she doesn’t win South Carolina by more than twenty points, the media will spin it as a huge victory for Bernie.

I imagien so.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:30:08am

re: #330 HappyWarrior

Whether it was a narrow win, a dead tie, or a narrow loss, let the process play out. The Dems have two quality and SANE candidates. America should be grateful that the Democratic Party exists because just look at the insanity and evil in the other party.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:30:17am

re: #332 HappyWarrior

Well one thing I’ve concluded is that the Religious Right as a force in GOP politics isn’t going anyway any time soon. It really is adorable to see Libertarians think they can change the GOP from a theocratic party that doesn’t care about the well being of people who aren’t wealthy to a secular party who doesn’t.

It is a major force in the Deep South and Flyover Country, but not nearly as influential in any urbanized or industrialized region.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:30:25am

re: #331 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

What is this obsession with the results of a nearly all-white state with a population of less than four million?

Because its the first contest before the next contest in a nearly all-white state with a tiny population.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:30:54am

re: #336 Dr. Matt

Whether it was a narrow win, a dead tie, or a narrow loss, let the process play out. The Dems have two quality and SANE candidates. America should be be grateful the Democratic Party exists because just look at the insanity and evil in the other party.

Very much agreed. The worst Democratic candidate is still by far better than the “best” Republican,

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:31:33am

re: #338 Big Beautiful Door

Because its the first contest before the next contest in a nearly all-white state with a tiny population.

I think it is also related to our national weakness for instant miracle diets, overnight get-rich-quick schemes and polls that give us election results nine months in advance…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:31:45am

re: #337 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is a major force in the Deep South and Flyover Country, but not nearly as influential in any urbanized or industrialized region.

I dunno, I still see the RR’s influence here in suburbia. My state senator is very much RR.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:31:57am

re: #326 The Vicious Babushka

Niraj Warikoo @nwarikoo

Pres. Obama visiting a mosque today in U.S. for the first time as president. He is to visit a mosque in Baltimore.bigstory.ap.org
10:21 AM - 3 Feb 2016

Now all we’re gonna hear about today is how horrible POTUS and Muslims are. The wingnuts & Islamophobes have been working up to it ever since the news broke (last week?), saying that the mosque has terrorist connections or some such shit.

Is there any mosque they wouldn’t make those claims about? Nope.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:32:33am

re: #338 Big Beautiful Door

Because its the first contest before the next contest in a nearly all-white state with a tiny population.

Which needs to be changed but I doubt ever would be because the Iowans would go ballistic since it’s what makes their state unique.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:32:38am

Ben Carson has a G.H.W. Bush Moment…

Bonus joke — Guy on the right: “I need to go home and rethink what I’m doing with my life.”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:33:26am

Would it be a crazy idea to sort of rotate the first states having primaries? Or maybe better yet have a national primary day in the Spring and use a sort of electoral college system?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:33:58am

re: #342 CuriousLurker

Now all we’re gonna hear about today is how horrible POTUS and Muslims are. The wingnuts & Islamophobes have been working up to it ever since the news broke (last week?), saying that the mosque has terrorist connections or some such shit.

Is there any mosque they wouldn’t make those claims about? Nope.

Nope.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:34:24am

re: #341 HappyWarrior

I dunno, I still see the RR’s influence here in suburbia. My state senator is very much RR.

The fact that Trump, a thrice-married casino owner, purveyor of booze and whoremonger, is so popular in the GOP is a sign that the RR does not have a stranglehold on it.

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Nojay UK  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:34:32am

re: #307 CuriousLurker

That’s just…. WTF was that? Good grief, national treasure indeed. //

Try Googling “Sailor Bubba” sometime. Home-grown All-American that one.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:36:25am

re: #345 HappyWarrior

Would it be a crazy idea to sort of rotate the first states having primaries? Or maybe better yet have a national primary day in the Spring and use a sort of electoral college system?

As we discovered in 2008, the states have more control over their primaries/caucuses than the parties. It’ll be very hard to force that kind of system.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:36:31am

re: #347 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The fact that Trump, a thrice-married casino owner, purveyor of booze and whoremonger, is so popular in the GOP is a sign that the RR does not have a stranglehold on it.

The RR has always been selective with its morals. Remember that they loved Ronald Reagan, a once divorced Hollywood actor with plenty of gay friends and colleagues. The RR has always been morals for tehe but not necessarily for me.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:36:49am

re: #349 Belafon

As we discovered in 2008, the states have more control over their primaries/caucuses than the parties. It’ll be very hard to force that kind of system.

Yeah you’re right. Agh.

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ObserverArt  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:37:13am

So sick of Trump…so Imma going with some cuteness video.

The Columbus Zoo is currently caring for a baby polar bear that was abandoned by it’s mother. Today they are going to announce a name for the little female bear from a contest they have been holding. The morning NBC news showed some video and dang if this isn’t the cutest little bear.

I found some YouTube taken about a month ago…cute little bears are better than Trump The Loser.

Adorable polar bear cub, rejected by her mother doing great at Columbus Zoo

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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:37:17am

re: #348 Nojay UK

Try Googling “Sailor Bubba” sometime. Home-grown All-American that one.

E gad, my eyes. That which has been seen…

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:39:53am

So, Trump tweeted that Cruz stole the Iowa caucus, then deleted the tweet??

Hahahahahahahaha.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:39:54am

re: #345 HappyWarrior

Would it be a crazy idea to sort of rotate the first states having primaries? Or maybe better yet have a national primary day in the Spring and use a sort of electoral college system?

I think the general idea is to give candidates who don’t have massive warchests from the get go a chance to make their case through retail politicking, though there are small states which are more diverse than Iowa which could do the job.

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:41:52am

Good morning, Lizards.

Just got the electric back on. That is twice in less than 24 hours. It is 10 degrees out, but we had the fireplace going. Hope this is the last time.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:42:45am

re: #354 Jenner7

So, Trump tweeted that Cruz stole the Iowa caucus, then deleted the tweet??

Hahahahahahahaha.

He deleted the initial tweet that mentioned “illegally stole” and replaced it with a virtually identical tweet saying Cruz stole the caucus.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:42:51am

re: #355 Big Beautiful Door

I think the general idea is to give candidates who don’t have massive warchests from the get go a chance to make their case through retail politicking, though there are small states which are more diverse than Iowa which could do the job.

Oh that’s a good idea then. I just don’t like yeah how Iowa doesn’t really represent the country as a whole honestly in both parties.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:43:05am
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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:43:26am

re: #316 De Kolta Chair

Trump is the original Affluenza Boy.

A self-made man, who started on a shoestring million dollar gift from daddy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:43:27am

So I guess the bromance between Donald and Ted is officially over. RIP Tednoald. :(.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:45:06am

re: #360 Eventual Carrion

A self-made man, who started on a shoestring million dollar gift from daddy.

A loan, which he had to pay back WITH INTEREST! /

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:45:42am

re: #361 HappyWarrior

So I guess the bromance between Donald and Ted is officially over. RIP Tednoald. :(.

Yeah, when the Donald went full birther on Ted’s ass, that pretty much ended it there.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:47:36am

Rand Paul this morning:

“Honey, I’ve decided to quit the race and run for the Senate!”

“You’re already a senator, dear”

“Funny, dad’s never mentioned that.”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:47:58am

re: #363 Big Beautiful Door

Yeah, when the Donald went full birther on Ted’s ass, that pretty much ended it there.

Yeah and now accusing Ted of stealing is teh final nail. Here’s some Todd Rundgren for Ted and Donald.
Todd Rundgren - Can We Still Be Friends?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:48:28am
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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:48:40am

re: #352 ObserverArt

Awwwww, defintely MUCH better than Trump in the morning (or any time).

Switching gears:

The dynamic PDFs I asked about? They require Adobe Reader and will only work with the desktop version, so they’re a total wash when it comes to mobile devices. Just letting you know about the limitations, in case anyone ever asks you to create one.

That comes straight from the horse’s mouth via the Adobe LiveCycle blog: Adobe Reader Mobile and XFA forms from LiveCycle Designer

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:48:51am

re: #364 De Kolta Chair

Rand Paul this morning:

“Honey, I’ve decided to quit the race and run for the Senate!”

“You’re already a senator, dear”

“Funny, dad never mentioned that.”

Heh I will give Rand Paul credit on one thing unlike Cruz and Rubio, he does vote on legislation. He just happens to vote the wrong way on 99% of it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:49:39am

hey VB!

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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:51:49am

re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth

Let him rot in there. Ugh.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:52:01am

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey VB!

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True story but having no knowledge of Russian or Slavic culture, for the first few years of my life, I called my grandma, Baba. I seriously have no idea where I would have gotten that. Seriously though that photo looks like the photo I saw of my grandfather’s grandmother. You don’t mess with the Babushkas as VB will agree.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:53:28am

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

hey VB!

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tweet right before that one:

then the tweet after:

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:53:28am

re: #357 lawhawk

He deleted the initial tweet that mentioned “illegally stole” and replaced it with a virtually identical tweet saying Cruz stole the caucus.

It’s possible to legally steal something?

/

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japa21  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:53:59am

Regarding Trump’s tweets about Cruz’s shenanigans, I want to play the Devil’s Advocate for a moment. And since it is a defense, of sorts, of Trump, the DA term is appropriate.

First, Trump knows he is not going to get the results changed in Iowa, so what is the en goal of his whining? Trump’s biggest selling point is that he is a winner. He lost in Iowa so how does he try to get the winner label back? By saying he really won, but Cruz cheated.

Secondly, he wants to make sure that Carson’s supporters know how Cruz cheated so that when Carson drops out, they are more likely to come to him and not Cruz. He is actually coming off as defending Carson here.

Third, he wants people to realize that Cruz’s “I am holy” attitude covers up a shady character.

Finally, just a little note about people’s reactions to his coming out with this stuff. In 2000, a lot of people jumped on Gore for not complaining more about what the Bush camp did. In 2004, a lot of people jumped on Kerry for not making more noise about possible shenanigans in Ohio. Those folks (and I am not saying any of the folks here are included in that number) said that Gore and Kerry accepted defeat too easily.

What Trump is doing is what some people wanted Gore and Kerry to do. The biggest difference is that Trump doing this can play in his favor in coming elections.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:53:59am

re: #373 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s possible to legally steal something?

/

Why yes, Donald’s probably very familiar with that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:54:03am

re: #373 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s possible to legally steal something?

/

Wall Street…

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Kryptik  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:55:19am

re: #292 CuriousLurker

That’s more understandable to me since it artificially mimics a natural look. Just a wild guess, but I’ll bet naturally dilated pupils indicate sexual arousal, hence their attractiveness/seductiveness.

While the contact lenses I linked to also make the eyes appear larger, it’s done by increasing the size of the iris, not the pupil. It’s not a natural appearance, which makes it look kinda creepy (to me anyway). Puts it in the uncanny valley category, y’know? Same as with button eyes, like the characters in Coraline’s parallel world. *shudder*

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The thing with the whole big eye look is a weird sort of winding thing. It’s inspired by japanese manga, which was inspired by Disney, specifically Scrooge McDuck Comics. Osamu Tezuka, the man behind Astro Boy/Tetsuwan Atom, essentially codified the big eyes look of future manga/anime and was inspired by Carl Barks’ Scrooge cartoons.

The anime style of big eyes, vague racial features, and multi-colored hair nowdays is called Mukokuseki (lit. statelessness), and is an odd sort of duck. Because of the way they tend to be drawn and designed, a “generic” anime character can easily come off as distinctly white to a more western observer and distinctly Japanese/Asian to an Asian observer. (Curiously enough, Westerners are often drawn with harder, more angular features, including squarer (and on occasion narrower) eyes.). Some of it is pure stylistic choice, but a lot of it is also about preserving or playing to the sense of kawaii appeal.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:55:27am

re: #373 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s possible to legally steal something?

/

According to the GOP that’s called taxes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:56:01am

The tweet that started that:

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:56:02am
Absolutely certain that he will be drafted as the presidential nominee during a deadlocked GOP convention, Rudy Giuliani rehearses his acceptance speech
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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:56:43am

Roger Waters and David Gilmour might not take too kindly to the one on the upper left.

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:56:53am
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FormerDirtDart  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:57:02am

Sure sign the economy has improved dramatically:
People are throwing out perfectly good snakes

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:57:36am

re: #380 De Kolta Chair

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Hunky guy on the left tan lines are showing. He’s actually pasty white.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:58:05am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

Hunky guy on the left tan lines are showing. He’s actually pasty white.

Same with the guy on the right.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 7:59:25am

Ben “Baby Snidely Whiplash” Shapiro, who obsesses over “real Jews” and “Anti-Semitism” is BFFs with this guy==>

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:00:34am

re: #366 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I think no.

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:01:30am
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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:02:16am

re: #377 Kryptik

Interesting, thanks!

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:05:03am

re: #388 Tigger2

I can’t watch it at work. Hopefully someone will summarize or live blog it.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:05:12am

re: #382 Tigger2

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I think Frothy must be addicted to running. he had a bit of success in 2012, and he just can’t give it up. I really thought he would’ve dropped out right after Iowa.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:05:35am

Another GOP talking point falls apart.

Companies in US add 205,000 jobs in January: ADP

The GOP continues hoping for bad news about the economy. And while Speaker Ryan continues claiming that the GOP is ready to do all it can to improve the economy, the only thing they’re doing is pushing for still more Obamacare repeal bills, and the Ways and Means Chair is holding hearings about the virtues of supply side economics and how tax cuts will spur the economy (even though supply side has been completely shown to be bunk over the past 40 years). All the GOP wants to do is push redistribution of tax burdens from the rich on to everyone else, and the result is massively higher deficits along with slashing/burning the safety net.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:05:48am

re: #381 lawhawk

Roger Waters and David Gilmour might not take too kindly to the one on the upper left.

Hey, “Teachers, leave those kids alone” is Santorum’s line!

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:08:10am

re: #392 lawhawk

Another GOP talking point falls apart.

Companies in US add 205,000 jobs in January: ADP

The GOP continues hoping for bad news about the economy. And while Speaker Ryan continues claiming that the GOP is ready to do all it can to improve the economy, the only thing they’re doing is pushing for still more Obamacare repeal bills, and the Ways and Means Chair is holding hearings about the virtues of supply side economics and how tax cuts will spur the economy (even though supply side has been completely shown to be bunk over the past 40 years). All the GOP wants to do is push redistribution of tax burdens from the rich on to everyone else, and the result is massively higher deficits along with slashing/burning the safety net.

Also GM, which the Republicans wanted liquidated along with the rest of the US auto industry, reported a nearly $10 bn profit in 2015. Most of its nearly 50k hourly workers will receive $11k profit sharing bonus checks.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:08:13am

Gah, work. BBL

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Dave In Austin  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:09:49am

re: #388 Tigger2

Oh Shit!!

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Whack-A-Mole  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:10:34am

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:12:18am

re: #396 Dave In Austin

Oh Shit!!

What?!!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:13:21am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:13:22am

re: #388 Tigger2

re: #390 Belafon

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:14:45am

re: #400 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Cummings would make a terrific Senator.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:14:46am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:15:03am
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:15:52am

My sis-in-law, who works at Social Security in the ‘burbs of Baltimore, is bummed out that the president’s helicopter didn’t land in the parking lot as planned, but due to the weather he was driven to Baltimore instead. They had a run-through for the event yesterday.

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:16:04am

re: #345 HappyWarrior

Would it be a crazy idea to sort of rotate the first states having primaries? Or maybe better yet have a national primary day in the Spring and use a sort of electoral college system?

A national primary is a bad idea; part of the point of giving it first to a couple of small states is that the candidates can take a retail, small-town approach — lots of people meet them all face-to-face, and we don’t automatically give the win to whoever starts out with name recognition and big donors for TV ad buys.

That being said… Montana doesn’t have a lot of people. Or Rhode Island.

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:16:29am

And the EPA is one of the dept the Republicans want to do away with.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:16:54am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:17:17am

re: #406 Tigger2

And the EPA is one of the dept the Republicans want to do away with.

Yep even the “moderates” like Hunstman want to do away with it.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:17:41am

re: #402 The Vicious Babushka

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Cartwright is PA not VA. Not to nitpick them because his point is spoit on.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:18:12am
Metaphor for soemthing…

I may be getting old, but I can still spot safety violations. This man has no hard hat, no safety glasses, no hearing protection and no gloves!

There’s a joke somewhere is this picture about the ongoing primaries, but I can’t quite tease out the line.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:19:00am

I like this Cartwright guy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:19:21am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:20:17am

re: #412 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wait so when you don’t appoint and properly staff Federal Agencies there may be massive consequences.

Nothing that the Free Market cannot sort out better and quicker, right?

/

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Dave In Austin  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:20:55am

re: #398 Belafon

Go listen to Tigger2’s vid. Senate hearings on Flint. Screeching at the EPA and the Governer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:20:59am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:21:50am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:23:52am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:23:57am

Yeah of course to the Republicans, it’s all the EPA’s fault.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:24:14am

Oh, and Flint is only the tip of the iceberg.

vox.com

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:24:27am

re: #415 Backwoods_Sleuth

So, Republicans are focusing their questions on an organization they want to abolish.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:24:45am

re: #419 Big Beautiful Door

Oh, and Flint is only the tip of the iceberg.

vox.com

And the Republcan party thinks we need less environmental regulations. Riiiiiiiiiiiight.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:25:02am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:25:18am

re: #420 Belafon

So, Republicans are focusing their questions on an organization they want to abolish.

See, IRS, ACORN, and PP for reference. It’s a choose your own adventure book starring everyone’s favorite theocratic party.

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Dave In Austin  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:26:04am

re: #420 Belafon

So, Republicans are focusing their questions on an organization they want to abolish.

I wonder what the funding looks like for the EPA?

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:26:04am

Some crazy talk followed by tremendous composure

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:26:05am
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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:26:23am

re: #374 japa21

Finally, just a little note about people’s reactions to his coming out with this stuff. In 2000, a lot of people jumped on Gore for not complaining more about what the Bush camp did. In 2004, a lot of people jumped on Kerry for not making more noise about possible shenanigans in Ohio. Those folks (and I am not saying any of the folks here are included in that number) said that Gore and Kerry accepted defeat too easily.

I am included in that number. Gore should have hit back harder, and faster. Kerry should have raised holy hell. They still thought we were living in the 20th century; Nixon had solid grounds to contest Illinois in 1960 (the Daley machine really did do all the things Acorn is falsely accused of doing), but national unity mattered back then and he thought letting it go was the statesmanlike way to go.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:26:33am

re: #348 Nojay UK
I actually saw him at Anime Central back in 2000 and 2001.

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:28:06am

re: #373 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s possible to legally steal something?

/

According to the terms of sale, Wu-Tang Clan and Bill Murray can legally steal back that record from Skreli…

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:28:06am

re: #420 Belafon

So, Republicans are focusing their questions on an organization they want to abolish.

The only time the Republicans like the EPA is when they are grandstanding against it if the EPA does something wrong or slow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:28:06am
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japa21  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:28:41am

re: #427 sagehen

And I wasn’t necessarily criticizing that attitude. It is just that some people who wanted that kind of fight are making fun of The Donald for doing what they wanted Kerry and Gore to do.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:30:25am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:30:43am
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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:30:59am

Congressman Lieu wants prosecutions.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:31:26am

re: #435 Tigger2

Congressman Lieu wants prosecutions.

There should be.

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:31:47am

re: #383 FormerDirtDart

Sure sign the economy has improved dramatically:
People are throwing out perfectly good snakes

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Do I want to know what that half-digested lump in the middle is?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:31:53am
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:31:54am

Speaking of public water scandals, from The Friendly Atheist a couple of days ago: Federal Lawsuit Alleges That Two Towns Refused Water Requests for Non-Mormons

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Colorado City in Arizona and Hildale in Utah, alleging that the towns’ leadership prioritized the clean water needs of Mormons while denying access to non-church members.

And the ongoing trial is providing pretty solid evidence to substantiate the charges.

The two towns had close ties to the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints church (convicted sexual abuser Warren Jeffs’ sect of Mormonism); in fact, the Colorado City board members involved in granting or denying water access were all FLDS members.

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:32:14am

re: #436 HappyWarrior

There should be.

Yes there should be.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:33:45am

re: #438 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Am I the only person that has to stifle a laugh when someone uses Synder’s twitter handle?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:33:46am

re: #439 De Kolta Chair

Speaking of public water scandals, from The Friendly Atheist a couple of days ago: Federal Lawsuit Alleges That Two Towns Refused Water Requests for Non-Mormons

Agh.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:33:49am

Wingnuts blaming #FlintWaterCrisis on Democrats because of course they are==>

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:33:53am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:34:34am

re: #443 The Vicious Babushka

Wingnuts blaming #FlintWaterCrisis on Democrats because of course they are==>

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It’s always just the Democrats’ fault with these partisan clowns.

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KGxvi  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:35:46am

re: #436 HappyWarrior

Sadly though, this is going to turn out like the market crash and bailouts in 2008… No one could have predicted, we need to look forward not back, keep on walking - all of which translates to everyone’s fucking guilty and so nobody is going to get a visit from the US Marshall’s Office with an arrest warrant.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:36:05am

re: #433 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rep Russell: EPA tries to blame MDEQ, after obstructing justice & trying to blame community.

What justice did the EPA block?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:36:34am

re: #446 KGxvi

Sadly though, this is going to turn out like the market crash and bailouts in 2008… No one could have predicted, we need to look forward not back, keep on walking - all of which translates to everyone’s fucking guilty and so nobody is going to get a visit from the US Marshall’s Office with an arrest warrant.

Yeah that was my thought too. The assholes always skate when shit like this happens.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:37:34am

re: #437 sagehen

Do I want to know what that half-digested lump in the middle is?

You’ll need to give up 15 minutes of you life to find out

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KGxvi  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:37:53am

re: #448 HappyWarrior

The assholes always skate when shit like this happens.

I very briefly had hope when executives at Enron saw prison time. But that turned out to be an outlier and not a correction.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:37:55am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:38:13am

re: #450 KGxvi

I very briefly had hope when executives at Enron saw prison time. But that turned out to be an outlier and not a correction.

Yeah it was.

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Snarknado!  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:39:04am

re: #446 KGxvi

Sadly though, this is going to turn out like the market crash and bailouts in 2008… No one could have predicted, we need to look forward not back, keep on walking - all of which translates to everyone’s fucking guilty and so nobody is going to get a visit from the US Marshall’s Office with an arrest warrant.

I thought everyone was talking about sovereign immunity.

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:39:32am

re: #414 Dave In Austin

Go listen to Tigger2’s vid. Senate hearings on Flint. Screeching at the EPA and the Governer.

Also on C-Span3.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:40:58am

I am missing a detail. Does anyone know the actual involvement of the Flint City Council? What did they vote on and what did they actually have power to do?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:43:10am

re: #455 Belafon

I am missing a detail. Does anyone know the actual involvement of the Flint City Council? What did they vote on and what did they actually have power to do?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:43:11am

re: #455 Belafon

I am missing a detail. Does anyone know the actual involvement of the Flint City Council? What did they vote on and what did they actually have power to do?

They didn’t.
The decision was made by the emergency manager appointed by Snyder.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:43:46am

re: #439 De Kolta Chair

Speaking of public water scandals, from The Friendly Atheist a couple of days ago: Federal Lawsuit Alleges That Two Towns Refused Water Requests for Non-Mormons

The U.S. Department of Justice has filed a lawsuit against Colorado City in Arizona and Hildale in Utah, alleging that the towns’ leadership prioritized the clean water needs of Mormons while denying access to non-church members.

Colorado City used to be called Short Creek and the fundamentalist Mormons practiced polygamy there openly until it was raided by federal agents in the 1950’s.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:44:11am

And once again, here’s the difference between the Democrats and Republicans on the committee: Let’s say it was a multi-group effort, and that it was the Governor, the Emergency Manager, the City Council, and the EPA involved. Democrats want everyone involved punished. Republicans want the Democrats punished.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:44:31am

re: #459 Belafon

And once again, here’s the difference between the Democrats and Republicans on the committee: Let’s say it was a multi-group effort, and that it was the Governor, the Emergency Manager, the City Council, and the EPA involved. Democrats want everyone involved punished. Republicans want the Democrats punished.

That’s been my observation as well.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:44:51am
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b.d.  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:45:08am

re: #445 HappyWarrior

It’s always just the Democrats’ fault with these partisan clowns.

The party of personal responsibility strikes again.

//

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KGxvi  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:46:02am

re: #453 Snarknado!

I thought everyone was talking about sovereign immunity.

Now or in 2008?

I honestly haven’t paid a lot of attention to what’s happened in Flint. I’m sure there’s a lot of sovereign immunity talk on this one. Which, let’s be honest is typically publicly perceived the same as someone saying, “Upon advice from counsel, I am invoking my fifth amendment right against self-incrimination.”

On the other hand, I remember 2008 being something like this:

southpark.cc.com

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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:46:16am

re: #400 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Speaking of firewalls, Cummings is the only one between RWNJ idiots and sanity in these House hearings. I love that guy!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:47:24am

re: #464 BeachDem

Speaking of firewalls, Cummings is the only one between RWNJ idiots and sanity in these House hearings. I love that guy!

One of the best IMO.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:49:02am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:49:44am
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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:50:08am

re: #327 Big Beautiful Door

Hard to believe for as devout a Muslim as the President is./

Yeah, he’s as observant of his religion as tRump is.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:50:43am
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:51:24am

re: #384 The Vicious Babushka

Hunky guy on the left tan lines are showing. He’s actually pasty white.

That’s Mae West & her dancers, The Incontinent Eight, who I believe were from Iceland, which would explain both their pallidness and the diapers.

I’ll see myself out.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:51:57am
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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:51:58am

re: #426 Backwoods_Sleuth

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But they wouldn’t “invite” or subpoena Snyder for the hearings, so their outrage is sort of pathetic.

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:52:27am

The Republicans on that committee are full of shit just like they are on every committee.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:54:31am

re: #469 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Dave In Austin  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:54:53am

re: #455 Belafon

I am missing a detail. Does anyone know the actual involvement of the Flint City Council? What did they vote on and what did they actually have power to do?

City Council has no bearing here. The Emer. Manager looks to control all decisions for the city.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:56:14am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:56:40am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:57:44am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:58:03am

re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Things that make you go hmmm.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:59:16am

re: #373 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

It’s possible to legally steal something?

/

Banks and corporations do it all the time.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:59:25am

re: #475 Dave In Austin

City Council has no bearing here. The Emer. Manager looks to control all decisions for the city.

Thanks. I kept seeing the City Council brought up, such as the wingnut mentioned at #443. Just wanted to be sure.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Feb 3, 2016 • 8:59:57am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:00:01am

re: #478 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I looked her up. She’s from one of the territories (Virgin Islands) so I don’t think she gets to vote but appreciate her strong voice in this debate.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:00:07am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:00:51am
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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:01:26am

re: #476 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yep—first Benton Harbor then the dominoes started falling. Has anyone mentioned the vote to do away with emergency managers that was then undone by the lege one day later and reinstated to make it impossible to vote on it in the future?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:01:26am
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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:01:30am

re: #300 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL, what a tool he is:

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Do you know who else shouted a lot?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:01:31am

So this is interesting. Republicans love to insist local knows best but I guess that’s different when it’s blah people making the decisions. //

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:01:35am

I’m freakin’ stunned at the whole EPA pivot. My mind is blown. The current crop of tea bagger GoP is just a waste of freakin’ clean air… and water.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:01:53am

re: #480 Eventual Carrion

Banks and corporations do it all the time.

With interest!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:02:39am

re: #485 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Damn good point.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:03:26am
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Skip Intro  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:04:15am

re: #216 lawhawk

Trump must have laid into the sauce overnight:

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And I can’t believe that I’m telling him to buck up (though it shows lack of character/judgment.

I see Trump is now following the sage advise of Orly Taitz.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:04:34am

gaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

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Targetpractice  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:05:48am

re: #490 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin

I’m freakin’ stunned at the whole EPA pivot. My mind is blown. The current crop of tea bagger GoP is just a waste of freakin’ clean air… and water.

I’m not, the EPA is the only agency involved in this fiasco that didn’t report to Snyder or had been rendered powerless by a law he rammed through the state legislature. Plus its an agency that the GOP want to see defanged, if not disbanded altogether.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:06:26am

re: #495 Backwoods_Sleuth

gaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

So, the EPA ordered the water switched?

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Targetpractice  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:08:34am

It’s election-year politicking, you can practically hear the campaign ads now: “The EPA allowed thousands in Flint to be poisoned by contaminated water, and Washington did nothing. And Hillary doesn’t want to have them all strung up, but Republicans do. Vote Republican, because we’ll protect you from the EPA.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:08:47am

re: #497 Belafon

So, the EPA ordered the water switched?

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Apparently, the EPA personally poisoned the water in Flint…
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:08:52am

re: #495 Backwoods_Sleuth

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gaaaaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh

Yeah it’s all the EPA’s fault, right Jason. Makes total sense. //

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Tigger2  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:09:26am

Chaffetz seems stunned to find out some of the lower level EPA people could be influenced or owned by corporations when some Congressman and Senators have the same problem of being influenced and owned by the same corporations.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:09:44am

re: #499 Backwoods_Sleuth

Apparently, the EPA personally poisoned the water in Flint…
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:10:23am

re: #502 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Christ, he’s an even bigger jackass than I thought.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:10:33am

re: #371 HappyWarrior

True story but having no knowledge of Russian or Slavic culture, for the first few years of my life, I called my grandma, Baba. I seriously have no idea where I would have gotten that. Seriously though that photo looks like the photo I saw of my grandfather’s grandmother. You don’t mess with the Babushkas as VB will agree.

That’s a common Japanese term, too (I’m late to the thread; someone else may already have said this).

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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:10:56am

re: #503 HappyWarrior

Christ, he’s an even bigger jackass than I thought.

He’s exactly the size I thought he was.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:11:37am

re: #451 Backwoods_Sleuth

Republicans on Oversight Cmte are claiming #FlintWaterCrisis resulted from EPA’s delays issuing updated copper and lead rule. That is false.
— RightWingWatch Fan

So we need moar EPA regulationz according to the GOP?

That’s a switch.

/

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:12:17am

re: #504 Barefoot Grin

That’s a common Japanese term, too (I’m late to the thread; someone else may already have said this).

I never knew that. We always called my Dad’s mother, Nana. I think she adopted it from her mother in law as her own mother died before my Dad, uncles, aunts, and cousins were born. Plus I think Nana is German in background and my Nana was Irish in background.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:12:25am

Meanwhile in overseas news:

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:12:29am

Can I respectfully suggest:

Everyone write to CNN and MSNBC and ask why this hearing is NOT. ON. THEIR. CHANNELS. because they’re talking horserace fucking trivia about New Hampshire campaign stops?

News, assholes. Isn’t this why you wanted to be a channel, why your staff calls themselves journalists? DO YOUR DAMN JOB!

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Skip Intro  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:12:34am

re: #431 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That’s just outrageous! They’re Republicans! They should have made a profit from it.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:12:40am

re: #505 BeachDem

He’s exactly the size I thought he was.

Touche. What I mean is he’s even more pathetic than I thought. I guess I sohuldn’t be shocked anymore.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:13:00am

re: #508 De Kolta Chair

Meanwhile in overseas news:

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Oh no, they’re feminizing sports. //

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:13:29am
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Targetpractice  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:14:24am

Dems are asking who was responsible for the switch and using emails to show that the problem was known but not acted upon, Repubs are only interested in why the EPA didn’t stop the state from poisoning Flint. “Local control,” my ass.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:14:48am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:15:01am

re: #512 HappyWarrior

Oh no, they’re feminizing sports. //

What next? The amalgamation of the sexes?

/

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:16:31am

Oh, shit.. here comes Grothman. There is no bigger douchebag.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:16:45am

re: #506 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

So we need moar EPA regulationz according to the GOP?

That’s a switch.

/

Nope, we need less regulations because if the EPA hadn’t tried to tell everyone what dangerous levels of lead are, the governor of Michigan would have made the safe decision and required zero lead. Because that’s how it’s worked before.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:16:58am

re: #517 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin

Oh, shit.. here comes Grothman. There is no bigger douchebag.

Not familiar with him? One of your state’s?

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:17:11am

re: #507 HappyWarrior

I never knew that. We always called my Dad’s mother, Nana. I think she adopted it from her mother in law as her own mother died before my Dad, uncles, aunts, and cousins were born. Plus I think Nana is German in background and my Nana was Irish in background.

I’ve always wondered about that. Several of my Irish-American friends used Nana in the midwest.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:18:21am

re: #517 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin

Oh, shit.. here comes Grothman. There is no bigger douchebag.

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:18:36am

re: #520 Barefoot Grin

I’ve always wondered about that. Several of my Irish-American friends used Nana in the midwest.

Mine were grandma and grandpa… but most of my bar mitzvah class called theirs bubbie and zaydie.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:18:36am

re: #507 HappyWarrior

I never knew that. We always called my Dad’s mother, Nana. I think she adopted it from her mother in law as her own mother died before my Dad, uncles, aunts, and cousins were born. Plus I think Nana is German in background and my Nana was Irish in background.

Oma is the German term, I am pretty sure Nana is from the Gaelic (nan, for woman)

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:18:39am

LOLWUT

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:19:36am

Trump classiness is trumped by the Playboy cover on the wall showing him and a Playboy playmate.

Yet, that’s not the most crazy cover he’s been on.

Anyone else recall a president or presidential candidate on the cover of Playboy? I can’t.

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:19:50am

re: #519 HappyWarrior

Yup. He’s Wisconsin’s Michele Bachmann.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:19:54am

This happened yesterday

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:20:28am

re: #520 Barefoot Grin

I’ve always wondered about that. Several of my Irish-American friends used Nana in the midwest.

I think so. My dad and his brothers and sisters called their grandfather, Pap-Pap which interestingly enough is close to what my Dad decided on what my niece calls him, Pop-Pop.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:21:02am

re: #525 lawhawk

Trump classiness is trumped by the Playboy cover on the wall showing him and a Playboy playmate.

Yet, that’s not the most crazy cover he’s been on.

Anyone else recall a president or presidential candidate on the cover of Playboy? I can’t.

As long as the 2 Corinthians weren’t there with him.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:21:30am

re: #523 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The Mrs. called her grandparents on her mom’s side Oma/Opa (she was German). I called mine grandma/grandpa, but called my great grandparents bubbe/zayde.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:21:36am

re: #524 The Vicious Babushka

LOLWUT

TRUMPS BRING PEOPLE TOGETHER!!!!111

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:21:45am

re: #523 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Oma is the German term, I am pretty sure Nana is from the Gaelic (nan, for woman)

Ah thanks. Then I really don’t know then since my Great Nana was definitely German without any known Irish roots. Interesting stuff in any case.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:21:52am

This woman from DetroitNews has been cheerleading the GOP attack on the EPA throughout the hearing.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:25:16am

re: #530 lawhawk

The Mrs. called her grandparents on her mom’s side Oma/Opa (she was German). I called mine grandma/grandpa, but called my great grandparents bubbe/zayde.

I never knew any of my Great Grandparents. They’ve always felt so distant to me especially because 5/8 were foreign born along with their ages. I’m only 28 but I have great grandparents that were born in the 1870’s. My tree is a little bit funky because of that. I’m descended from a lot of youngest children.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:25:21am

re: #533 Backwoods_Sleuth

This woman from DetroitNews has been cheerleading the GOP attack on the EPA throughout the hearing.

Is that a newspaper? Detroit Free Press is the main Detroit paper, IIRC.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:26:09am

re: #525 lawhawk

Just the fact that a current presidential candidate was once on the cover of Playboy is hilarious, but the look on Trump’s face in this 15-year-old photo is also priceless.

In reference to the the 1990 cover…

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Targetpractice  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:26:24am

Republicans preach all the time about “local control,” about how state and even local governments are better at everything because they listen to the needs of their people better, worry more about their constituents, and can be more easily replaced if they fuck up. So when you have situation where the state government deliberately put in place a system that neutralized the local government’s power and put contaminated water in the houses of over 100,000 folks, who does the GOP believe is responsible?

The EPA, a federal agency. Imagine that.

/////////

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:27:17am

re: #535 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

There’s this:

detroitnews.com

?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:27:35am

re: #535 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Is that a newspaper? Detroit Free Press is the main Detroit paper, IIRC.

no idea

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:27:53am

re: #533 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because, as we all know, private companies like Exxon were all over reducing lead exposure.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:29:38am

re: #535 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Is that a newspaper? Detroit Free Press is the main Detroit paper, IIRC.

Detroit News/Detroit Free Press used to be two competing papers. They merged in the ‘80’s but still maintain separate mastheads and editorial positions (News is conservative, FP is liberal)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:30:28am

pretty sure there’s already a really good idea which pipes need replacing.
Like all of them…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:31:31am

uh huh…your “experts” haven’t had a great record so far.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:32:27am

re: #543 Backwoods_Sleuth

uh huh…your “experts” haven’t had a great record so far.

All is well…..

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:33:16am
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:37:06am

The 99-million-year-old spider erection story is the perfect metaphor for Rupert Murdoch’s ownership of the National Geographic.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:37:34am

re: #543 Backwoods_Sleuth

The experts have also found that the water was so corrosive that the phosphates wont be able to do the job in a timely manner.

All the service pipes will need replacement due to having been aged nearly 2 decades in 18 months time. That’s a billion dollar proposition.

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ObserverArt  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:37:39am

re: #470 De Kolta Chair

That’s Mae West & her dancers, The Incontinent Eight, who I believe were from Iceland, which would explain both their pallidness and the diapers.

I’ll see myself out.

Hahaha. I guess were are not supposed to ask how you know all that?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:37:48am

re: #545 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Jim Jones shot himself in the head, he didn’t drink the Koolaid like everyone else.

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gwangung  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:40:33am

re: #549 The Vicious Babushka

Jim Jones shot himself in the head, he didn’t drink the Koolaid like everyone else.

Well, I see Snyder is repeatedly shooting himself in the foot….close enough?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:41:40am

re: #537 Targetpractice

Republicans preach all the time about “local control,” about how state and even local governments are better at everything because they listen to the needs of their people better, worry more about their constituents, and can be more easily replaced if they fuck up. So when you have situation where the state government deliberately put in place a system that neutralized the local government’s power and put contaminated water in the houses of over 100,000 folks, who does the GOP believe is responsible?

The EPA, a federal agency. Imagine that.

/////////

Just muddying the waters here, no pun intended. Blame someone else, confuse the issue, misdirection, avoid responsibility, rinse, repeat….

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:42:24am

Didn’t networks show the October Benghazi hearing in it’s entirety? If I remember correctly, they did.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:42:58am

re: #545 Backwoods_Sleuth

Woah, Rep. @JacksonLeeTX18 comparing Snyder to Jim Jones #FlintWaterCrisis
— Marissa Luna

OK, well, that seems a bit much….

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:43:24am

re: #547 lawhawk

The experts have also found that the water was so corrosive that the phosphates wont be able to do the job in a timely manner.

All the service pipes will need replacement due to having been aged nearly 2 decades in 18 months time. That’s a billion dollar proposition.

There is a technology that allows recovery of old systems by sliding flexible plastic mains into existing pipe. Sounds like an engineering/economics issue.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:44:26am
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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:46:05am

re: #554 Decatur Deb

I’ve seen that too, but the costs for replacing all the service mains will run anywhere from $700 million to nearly twice that - and I don’t even think that addresses the pipe replacement from the water meters to the faucets in the homes. That requires full replacement, not merely slipping liners into the pipe.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:46:32am

re: #555 Backwoods_Sleuth

Who are these outside agitators telling are people thare water aint no good and trying to shove there water down are peoples throats our Flints peoples are very happy as they are without ur water!!!1

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:49:51am

re: #550 gwangung

Well, I see Snyder is repeatedly shooting himself in the foot….close enough?

With both feet in his mouth and halfway down his throat… yeah. Pretty close.

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:49:51am

re: #439 De Kolta Chair

Speaking of public water scandals, from The Friendly Atheist a couple of days ago: Federal Lawsuit Alleges That Two Towns Refused Water Requests for Non-Mormons

Don’t need government to take care of people, there are plenty of church centered charities that will help.

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lizardofid  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:50:18am

re: #554 Decatur Deb

There is a technology that allows recovery of old systems by sliding flexible plastic mains into existing pipe. Sounds like an engineering/economics issue.

Slip Lining is one technology. Saw the operation on the street outside our old place of business.

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sagehen  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:50:50am

re: #552 Jenner7

Didn’t networks show the October Benghazi hearing in it’s entirety? If I remember correctly, they did.

Only because it was a primary candidate on the grill. Not because anybody gave a damn about the actual issue in question.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:52:26am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:54:21am

re: #562 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That posted before I got my comment finished.
Wonder why Bernie felt that way on January 16, but refuses Hillary’s suggestion for a debate in Flint?

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:57:04am

So, is Bernie going to debate tomorrow on MSNBC?

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:57:07am

re: #6 darthstar

On the bright side, Jurassic Park is about to get a whole lot racier.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:58:33am

re: #565 De Kolta Chair

On the bright side, Jurassic Park is about to get a whole lot racier.

Jurassic Prick?

567
Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:00:15am

Haha, Trump is having a tantrum.
CRUZ STOLE IOWA!1lkdj

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:01:40am

re: #549 The Vicious Babushka

Jim Jones shot himself in the head, he didn’t drink the Koolaid like everyone else.

Just as an FYI, making jokes about koolaid to a Guyanese ex-pat, even if completely unrelated to Jonestown, and made in perfect innocence, is never a good idea.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:01:51am
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:02:26am

re: #566 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Jurassic Prick?

LOL But enough about Rupert Murdoch…

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:02:55am

re: #559 Eventual Carrion

Don’t need government to take care of people, there are plenty of church centered charities that will help.

Freedom of religion should mean that local governments can refuse to help those that aren’t of the correct religion.

///

And those on the right will only be angry that Christians weren’t helped.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:04:14am

re: #567 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Haha, Trump is having a tantrum.
CRUZ STOLE IOWA!1lkdj

Not a bad tactic, the GOP has claimed that about Obama in 2008 and 2012 (ACORN and Obamaphone bribes), likewise they still claim that he was not a legal candidate. So why not just tweak it a little bit for another purpose?

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:04:34am

re: #568 Le Lapin Tueur

In reference to the the 1990 cover…

Just as an FYI, making jokes about koolaid to a Guyanese ex-pat, even if completely unrelated to Jonestown, and made in perfect innocence, is never a good idea.

Jim Jones ordered his followers to drink poison “Flavour Aid” and then shot himself. I was not making a “joke” just stating a historical fact.

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:06:04am

re: #564 Jenner7

thehill.com

Guess so. Yesterday, he said he wasn’t.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:07:03am

re: #568 Le Lapin Tueur

In reference to the the 1990 cover…

Just as an FYI, making jokes about koolaid to a Guyanese ex-pat, even if completely unrelated to Jonestown, and made in perfect innocence, is never a good idea.

I had to explain to my son the meaning of “drinking the Kool-Aid.” Just like I had to explain the origin of “suck”. It’s become part of the language and is losing its ties to its origin.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:07:38am

re: #556 lawhawk

I’ve seen that too, but the costs for replacing all the service mains will run anywhere from $700 million to nearly twice that - and I don’t even think that addresses the pipe replacement from the water meters to the faucets in the homes. That requires full replacement, not merely slipping liners into the pipe.

The real promise of the plastic liners is less the immediate cost than the effect of tearing up all of a city’s streets on an emergency schedule. Don’t know if anyone is costing that in.

577
De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:07:39am

HOLY MOLY OBUMMER’S ON MAH TV WORSHIPING IN THE HOUSE OF SATAN!!!1!!

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:08:03am
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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:08:53am

re: #577 De Kolta Chair

HOLY MOLY OBUMMER’S ON MAH TV WORSHIPING IN THE HOUSE OF SATAN!!!1!!

He’s in Los Angeles? At a bar?

//

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:09:49am

re: #578 The Vicious Babushka

Now all GOPtard candidates have to promise, super duper promise that they will never ever go to a Muslim Mosque. That’ll be the new “No New Taxes” standard.

/

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:10:36am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:11:15am

re: #578 The Vicious Babushka

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T’aint nothing until he shows up at an Olive Garden with a colander on his head.

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:11:32am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:11:44am

Obama goes to more Mosques than Christian churches but Trump’s religious practices and beliefs doesn’t really matter because were not electing a Pope!!!11

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:12:03am

re: #579 Belafon

He’s in Los Angeles? At a bar?

//

That gives me an idea for a new RW meme: OBAMA’S REAL FATHER WAS CHARLES BUKOWSKI!!!11!!

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:13:18am

re: #585 De Kolta Chair

New RW meme:

OBAMA’S REAL FATHER WAS CHARLES BUKOWSKI!!!11!!

Love is a Portuguese Water Dog from Hell.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:14:32am

re: #586 Decatur Deb

Love is a Portuguese water dog from hell.

Time is a flat circle….

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:15:47am

re: #587 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Time is a flat circle….

No, that’s the Earth.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:15:58am

re: #573 The Vicious Babushka

I know you weren’t making a joke. I’m the one who’s made a a joke about koolaid to a Guyanese ex-pat and it was awkward. Should have added more words to my post.

590
Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:16:49am

Just posted a page that may be a bit of a pile-on — it’s about the ongoing implosion at The Blaze, and I know that’s already been noted here.

However, there’s a long, in-depth piece on The Daily Beast, featuring quotes from former employees venting about how much Glenn Beck has changed. He’s bought crazy-expensive private planes, had them custom-painted with his “crowned skull” logo and is now claiming he was suffering from some strange unnameable disease when he called Obama a racist.

But now Beck’s been cured by strapping himself into a giant gyroscope and twirling around and around …

It is a Preview of Coming Attractions for the ultimate fate of all these right-wing demagogues. They’re imploding under the weight of their own unrestrained and untreated mental illness.

Lindsay Graham had a good take on all this:

“Senator Graham told The Daily Beast, “that’s what so stupid about this thing. It’s like buying a ticket on the Titanic after you see the movie. You know how it ends.”

591
De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:18:46am

ALL TEH POLITICEANS ARE SECRET MUSLIMS!!!1!!

President George W. Bush speaks at a Washington mosque six days after the September 11, 2001 attacks
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:20:10am
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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:21:28am

re: #591 De Kolta Chair

ALL TEH POLITICKANS ARE SECRET MUSLIMS!!!1!!

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That’s different. If you had a beer with Bush (who doesn’t drink alcohol), you’d know he’s not a Muslim. If you tried to have a beer with Obama (who can make his own), you’d know by his drinking it that he was just being a secret Muslim.

Or something like that.

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:24:22am
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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:25:19am
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Franklin  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:25:27am

re: #593 Belafon

That’s different. If you had a beer with Bush (who doesn’t drink alcohol), you’d know he’s not a Muslim. If you tried to have a beer with Obama (who can make his own), you’d know by his drinking it that he was just being a secret Muslim.

Or something like that.

If you can’t have a beer with Bush, can you do blow with him instead?

Interesting Fact: I’ve brewed the POTUS Honey Ale, was pretty good. It was one of my first brews, will have to re-brew now that I am a seasoned veteran*.

* My beer tastes great to me and that’s all that counts :)

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Franklin  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:26:18am

re: #594 Jenner7

Can we have biblical middle easterners that aren’t white in movies first?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:27:31am

re: #597 Franklin

Can we have biblical middle easterners that aren’t white in movies first?

Judas in JC Superstar. Yeah, not the role you were looking for.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:28:15am

re: #594 Jenner7

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Shameless had that actually.

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:28:29am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:28:54am
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:29:15am

re: #600 Kragar

Damn…

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EmmaAnne  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:30:32am

re: #598 Decatur Deb

Judas in JC Superstar. Yeah, not the role you were looking for.

Lots of diversity in JC Superstar though. Not just Judas.

Yeah, sometimes it feels like we are going backwards.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:31:35am

re: #601 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Cruz wants to give her a spanking. You forgot that.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:32:14am

re: #548 ObserverArt

Hahaha. I guess were are not supposed to ask how you know all that?

;-)
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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:33:24am

re: #602 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Damn…

“Please clap.”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:35:21am

Obama speaking at Mosque, wingnut heads exploding everywhere.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:35:48am

re: #603 EmmaAnne

Lots of diversity in JC Superstar though. Not just Judas.

Yeah, sometimes it feels like we are going backwards.

The live action Grease the other night had some black people, which I know the movie didn’t. I actually kind of wondered how many wingers went nuts at that.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:36:04am

re: #607 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Obama speaking at Mosque, wingnut heads exploding everywhere.

To be fair their heads explode when he speaks period but yeah they’re really exploding over this. Well played.

610
HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:36:35am

re: #608 Belafon

The live action Grease the other night had some black people, which I know the movie didn’t. I actually kind of wondered how many wingers went nuts at that.

Given how many of them freaked out over the Whiz, probably a good amount.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:37:27am

Obama at mosque:

By the way, Thomas Jefferson’s opponents tried to stir things up by saying he was a Muslim…So I’m not the first….It’s true.

“Historian” David Barton’s head is probably rotating ala The Exorcist

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:38:45am

re: #611 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Obama at mosque:

“Historian” David Barton’s head is probably rotating ala The Exorcist

Ha yep they did.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:39:11am
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:40:07am

re: #248 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

The Twitters are saying something about Dr. Rand Paul and suspended campaign….

Here’s a good ‘un…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:40:10am

re: #613 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Quoth the Raven.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:40:48am

I think Rand wants to save his seat.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:40:50am

If Ben Carson was a cat:

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:43:17am
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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:43:20am

re: #613 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh, Poe….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:46:26am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:46:34am

re: #618 Kragar

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Yeah I’m sure.//

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:47:51am
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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:48:24am

re: #621 HappyWarrior

Yeah I’m sure.//

I may have clarified her statement a tad

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:48:24am

*yawn*

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:49:25am

re: #623 Kragar

I may have clarified her statement a tad

No, I mean I seriously doubt she’s willing to actually put her life on the line for these fucks.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:50:12am

re: #624 Backwoods_Sleuth

*yawn*

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Sad thing is this makes Cruz look more viable just by being silent. Good news though is if he loses the primary, I think he certainly will go third party or at least undermine the GOP nominee.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:50:26am

re: #624 Backwoods_Sleuth

Trump Says He’ll Probably Sue Over Iowa Results, Accuses Cruz Of “Voter Fraud”

Shouldn’t he get the World’s Greatest Expert on voter fraud onto this case? Calling CCJ…

Oh, he’s in the other camp.

Too bad, missed a golden opportunity…

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:50:42am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:51:58am
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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:52:39am

re: #624 Backwoods_Sleuth

*yawn*

Trump’s tantrums are so tiresome now.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:53:01am

re: #628 Not a Sparkly Vampire

e_e

The other day, I saw Elmo on TV. He said the letter E was a great salsa dancer.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:53:28am

re: #630 Dr. Matt

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Trump’s tantrums are so tiresome now.

But Daddy I want the vast majority of Iowa’s delegates, now.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:54:03am

re: #629 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Yeah that it just happened to benefit his candidate is just a concindink.

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Lidane  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:54:19am
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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:55:21am

re: #624 Backwoods_Sleuth

*yawn*

Stick a silver spoon in him, he’s done.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:55:45am

re: #634 Lidane

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Would you like some Frothy with your Cruz?

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:56:04am

re: #634 Lidane

High probability it’s Cruz.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:56:40am

re: #637 Belafon

High probability it’s Cruz.

That’s what I am thinking too. I can’t see it being Rubio or Trump.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:58:03am

re: #634 Lidane

Another GOP departure: CNN has learned @RickSantorum will exit race tonight. Plans endorsement.
— John King

Wonder where Santorum will take his Torch of Liberty

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:58:13am
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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:58:47am

re: #637 Belafon

High probability it’s Cruz.

Kim Davis.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:59:00am

re: #637 Belafon

High probability it’s Cruz.

Huckabee—who dropped out yesterday.

/

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:59:03am

re: #640 Dr. Matt

Jeb! has entered into Fred Thompson territory. How sad.

‘Please clap’: Jeb Bush begs crowd to applaud after speech is met with total silence

Worse honestly. Fred at least had a few bronze medals. Jeb won’t even get any of those IMO.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:59:25am

re: #640 Dr. Matt

Jeb! has entered into Fred Thompson territory. How sad.

‘Please clap’: Jeb Bush begs crowd to applaud after speech is met with total silence

That is going to become his signature piece - and his swan song…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:59:33am

re: #642 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Huckabee—who dropped out yesterday.

/

Actually I’m surprised Huckabee didn’t offer an endorsement. Thought for sure he’d go Cruz’s way.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:59:40am

re: #639 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Wonder where Santorum will take his Torch of Liberty

Put it with his Dildo of Decisiveness.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:59:48am

re: #634 Lidane

Cue the highlight reel

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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:00:13am

re: #634 Lidane

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But Rick was going to embark on a 46 county tour of South Carolina to bolster his .3% showing here. We’ll miss him so.
(and I’m sure his endorsement will mean the world to whichever loon he chooses to suck up to. Yeah. No doubt about it.)

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Schroedinger's Dog  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:00:21am

re: #646 Decatur Deb

Put it with his Dildo of Decisiveness.

He’ll spew Santorum where it belongs, all over Cruz.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:00:23am

re: #640 Dr. Matt

Jeb! has entered into Fred Thompson territory. How sad.

‘Please clap’: Jeb Bush begs crowd to applaud after speech is met with total silence

They don’t believe in fairies.

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lizardofid  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:00:24am

re: #641 Decatur Deb

Kim Davis.

Well, she is a personal friend of the Pope.

///

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:01:00am

re: #645 HappyWarrior

Actually I’m surprised Huckabee didn’t offer an endorsement. Thought for sure he’d go Cruz’s way.

Nobody fucking likes Cruz, and Huck is probably waiting to see what kind of deal he can get before endorsing anyone else

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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:01:35am

re: #643 HappyWarrior

Worse honestly. Fred at least had a few bronze medals. Jeb won’t even get any of those IMO.

Yeah, but Fred had to wake his audience up before he could ask them to clap.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:01:43am

re: #652 Kragar

Nobody fucking likes Cruz, and Huck is probably waiting to see what kind of deal he can get before endorsing anyone else

True, I just can’t imagine Santorum would go Rubio or Trump’s way. So by process of elimination, Cruz.

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Franklin  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:01:48am

re: #617 Backwoods_Sleuth

If Ben Carson was a cat:

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This is my favorite politi-vine recently:

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:02:09am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:02:32am

re: #653 BeachDem

Yeah, but Fred had to wake his audience up before he could ask them to clap.

Yeah it took me a couple months to wake up after the first time I heard him speak. I tried blaming the Thompson campaign for me sleeping through exams. But no luck.

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:03:50am

re: #634 Lidane

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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:03:52am

re: #654 HappyWarrior

True, I just can’t imagine Santorum would go Rubio or Trump’s way. So by process of elimination, Cruz.

Maybe he’ll go with Johnny Kasich—after all, Kasich keeps trying to tell us how godly he is.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:05:28am

re: #659 BeachDem

Maybe he’ll go with Johnny Kasich—after all, Kasich keeps trying to tell us how godly he is.

WESTERN PA TWINS ACTIVATE!. That’s a possibility though since they both try to sell themselves as the “compassionate ones.”

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lawhawk  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:05:43am
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Schroedinger's Dog  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:06:37am

I’m thinking Fiorina next, followed by Christie, followed by an indictment, followed by Jeb finally pulling out a shiv to stick Rubio in the ribs with over financial improrieties, then Cruz dropping out because he’s so odious that noone wants him outside his base. That leaves a Bush Clinton general, with Clinton winning because Trump runs a third party campaign and rips the GOP in half.

Why yes, I did have yogurt that was past its best by date for breakfast this morning, why do you ask?

663
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:06:42am

re: #659 BeachDem

Maybe he’ll go with Johnny Kasich—after all, Kasich keeps trying to tell us how godly he is.

I hate to say this out loud, but I’m thinking Kasich is going to surprise a lot of people in a short while.

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De Kolta Chair  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:06:48am
Bob Elliott (1923 - 2016)

Well said, TV’s Frank

665
SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:07:00am

Another responsible gun owner: Woman loses gun while jogging

nbcphiladelphia.com

Seriously, I can’t help but think I’d notice if I dropped my gun.

666
The Vicious Babushka  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:07:24am

Dim Jim’s BFF Kristinn decides who are the “Jewiest Jews”
Hey Kristinn that’s Ben Shapiro’s gig!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:07:50am

re: #663 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hate to say this out loud, but I’m thinking Kasich is going to surprise a lot of people in a short while.

I think that’s not such a bad thing. It would fuck Rubio’s momentum.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:08:32am

re: #666 The Vicious Babushka

Dim Jim’s BFF Kristinn decides who are the “Jewiest Jews”
Hey Kristinn that’s Ben Shapiro’s gig!

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Oh go fuck yourself Kristin. Seriously. Your ideological ancestors were the ones refusing to let Jews in the country fleeing Europe because you blamed them for Marxism.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:08:35am
670
Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:08:44am
671
HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:09:06am

re: #665 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Another responsible gun owner: Woman loses gun while jogging

nbcphiladelphia.com

Seriously, I can’t help but think I’d notice if I dropped my gun.

No kidding. And really bringing a gun jogging? Yeah that’s smart………

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:09:39am

re: #670 Kragar

Nobody cared when he entered…

Did he ever get past an asterisk?

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Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:09:42am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:09:48am

Santorum dropping out is not good news. With him in the race we could rely on his needing to campaign places to keep him occupied. Now he’s free to just babble obnoxiously anywhere at anytime.

/

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:11:02am

re: #666 The Vicious Babushka

Liberal Jews chose Iran & the cult of Obama over Conservative “Neo-Con” Jews. Did similar betrayals happen before the 1st holocaust?
— Progressives Today

Does Kristinn speak English?

676
Franklin  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:11:11am

re: #669 Backwoods_Sleuth

Man, I loved his effort with the Bruins, but f*ck that sh*t.

677
Dr. Matt  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:11:38am

arre: #669 Backwoods_Sleuth

#BREAKING: Flames’ Wideman suspended for 20 games for knocking down official
— CTV News (@CTVNews) February 3, 2016

1. He didn’t “knock down” the official. He cross-checked him. 2) He should be booted from the league and arrested. That was a filthy hit.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:11:49am
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Schroedinger's Dog  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:12:25am

re: #674 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Santorum dropping out is not good news. With him in the race we could rely on his needing to campaign places to keep him occupied. Now he’s free to just babble obnoxiously anywhere at anytime.

/

What’s he going to do now? Running for office was his only occupation. Does he even have a job?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:14:51am

re: #678 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh, I won’t, NRA. I won’t. But thanks for reminding me to vote for HRC.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:14:53am

re: #678 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Aww NRA still mad at the President actually standing up to you rather than kissing Wayne LaPierre’s ass like what happens when Republicans are in the WH? That’s okay. You can enjoy the four justices HRC will appoint that will actually have a vision of the Constitution based in reality when it comes to guns.

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Belafon  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:15:31am

re: #678 Backwoods_Sleuth

If I could get on Twitter: “Gun owners haven’t had their guns taken, but you sure have made a sweet profit on fear mongering.”

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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:19:11am

re: #663 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hate to say this out loud, but I’m thinking Kasich is going to surprise a lot of people in a short while.

Well, then all the Ohio folks who have been tracking Johnny’s odious behavior will have to get out the long knives and bring out the true Kasich. (Hey, a girl can dream.)

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:19:15am

re: #677 Dr. Matt

I thought he was dazed, but they show a replay in slow motion nothing looks right.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:19:25am

re: #682 Belafon

If I could get on Twitter: “Gun owners haven’t had their guns taken, but you sure have made a sweet profit on fear mongering.”

No kidding. I’d love to ask the jackass running that to explain if Obama is such a gun grabber, why gun ownership has increased in his presidency. If he’s a gun grabber, he’s doing a poor job of ding it. I’d also point out that Obama in an executive capacity has expanded gun rights more than Reagan who the NRA worships did.

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:22:12am

re: #678 Backwoods_Sleuth

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BeachDem  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:25:50am

re: #679 Schroedinger’s Dog

What’s he going to do now? Running for office was his only occupation. Does he even have a job?

He’ll go back to making movies nobody wants to watch.

google.com

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Bubblehead II  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:34:59am

..

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WhatEVs  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:54:39am

re: #397 Whack-A-Mole

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ObserverArt  Feb 3, 2016 • 12:08:42pm

re: #663 Backwoods_Sleuth

I hate to say this out loud, but I’m thinking Kasich is going to surprise a lot of people in a short while.

He’s like a snake lying in the grass. You don’t see him at first and then ‘wham” he strikes.

(He does have some snake-like traits.)


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