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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 3, 2016 • 9:58:22pm

Please clap.

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:07:43pm

re: #1 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Please clap.

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:08:00pm

I’m watching Victor/Victoria for the first time. What a riot!

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teleskiguy  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:08:42pm

The Nobel Peace Prize is illegitimate at this point.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:10:17pm

re: #4 teleskiguy

I’d point out the panel can’t control the nominations. From the article:

Being nominated for the prize doesn’t mean the Nobel Institute has approved anything — thousands of people around the world are allowed to nominate, including: members of national legislatures and top government officials, current and former Nobel Committee members, previous Peace Prize laureates, certain types of professors, members of international courts, and the heads of some think tanks.

I’m sure we have a few legislators stupid enough to write the letter.

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:16:04pm
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Sophist: Domo Arigato, Marco Ruboto  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:22:31pm

re: #5 klys (maker of Silmarils)

I’d point out the panel can’t control the nominations. From the article:

I’m sure we have a few legislators stupid enough to write the letter.

Yeah, nominating someone for a Nobel is like writing a letter to Santa; pretty much anyone can do it. The trick is getting them to write back.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:23:28pm

re: #7 Sophist: Make America Grate Again

Yeah, nominating someone for a Nobel is like writing a letter to Santa; pretty much anyone can do it. The trick is getting them to write back.

Now, if they give it to Snowden, I’ll be the first in line to be pissed off.

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Jenner7  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:24:39pm

A new Bad Lip Reading. G’night.

Video

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:50:40pm

Oldtimers will know who this is. This is Wally Ballou, signing off.

Bob Elliott, Half of the Deadpan Bob and Ray Comedy Team, Dies at 92

nytimes.com

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retired cynic  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:51:13pm

re: #10 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I -LOVED- them!

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retired cynic  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:53:03pm

re: #11 retired cynic

I don’t see how anyone could stay straight-faced listening to the slow-talkers of America convention.

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teleskiguy  Feb 3, 2016 • 10:54:33pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:05:37pm
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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:15:02pm

Been a while since I’ve offered an update here, so here’s one.

I also finished a smaller piece. Debating what my next big one will be, still.

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ausador  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:46:45pm
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retired cynic  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:47:53pm

re: #14 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Thank you for that! I remember radio versions that went on so long your teeth hurt!

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Kragar  Feb 3, 2016 • 11:57:28pm
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Amory Blaine  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:10:47am

Went and saw Dave Chappelle at the Pabst Theater tonight. Show was a laugh riot, though we were packed in like sardines and Dave tried to polish the Cosby turd.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:11:14am

re: #17 retired cynic

Thank you for that! I remember radio versions that went on so long your teeth hurt!

I grew up on Long Island. Bob & Ray had a radio show then, and my father always tuned in when we were in the car. I also got exposed to Jean Shepherd’s monologues this way.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:12:24am

re: #20 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I grew up on Long Island. Bob & Ray had a radio show then, and my father always tuned in when we were in the car. I also got exposed to Jean Shepherd’s monologues this way.

I also remember their contributions to Mad Magazine, whose anarchy is one of cornerstones of modern American humor.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:15:10am

Ariens Co. fires seven Muslim employees over unscheduled prayer breaks

Ariens Co. says it has fired seven Muslim employees for taking unscheduled prayer breaks, and 14 others have resigned over the issue.

More than 50 Somali immigrant Muslims at the Brillion manufacturer recently protested the company’s enforcement of a policy of two 10-minute breaks per work shift — without accommodations for unscheduled prayer time.

The Muslim employees wanted the manufacturer of snowblowers and lawn mowers to continue a previous, more lenient practice of allowing them to leave their work stations at different times — such as at dawn and sunset — to pray as their faith requires of them.

Ariens said it was sticking with a policy that does not accommodate special prayer breaks, despite having bent the rules earlier.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:22:28am

re: #21 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I also remember their contributions to Mad Magazine, whose anarchy is one of cornerstones of modern American humor.

Bob also gave us Chris Elliot, his son.
CHRIS AND BOB ELLIOTT INTERVIEW JUN 22 1988 LETTERMAN, GET A LIFE

And Abby Elliott of SNL fame is his grand-daughter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:28:21am

re: #22 Amory Blaine

Ariens Co. fires seven Muslim employees over unscheduled prayer breaks

I think it depends heavily on the type of work being done: if it is a production line, then the company has to stick to a tight schedule of breaks.

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ausador  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:29:01am

Had this come up twice today in RWNJ arguments so in the spirit of “forewarned is forearmed…”

Oct. 2014
Ben Shapiro uses patented wingnut math to claim that there are over 800 million “radical Muslims” worldwide.

Ben Shapiro: The Myth of the Tiny Radical Muslim Minority

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Amory Blaine  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:30:38am

re: #24 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They may have a problem because they allowed it, then suddenly, they didn’t.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:31:37am

re: #25 ausador

Had this come up twice today in RWNJ arguments so in the spirit of “forewarned is forearmed…”

Oct. 2014
Ben Shapiro uses patented wingnut math to claim that there are over 800 million “radical Muslims” worldwide.

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More than half the world’s Muslims, so by his math, at least half of the Muslims I have seen in Malaysia are radicals.

I am in such biiigggg trouble. ////

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:37:40am

re: #25 ausador

Had this come up twice today in RWNJ arguments so in the spirit of “forewarned is forearmed…”

Oct. 2014
Ben Shapiro uses patented wingnut math to claim that there are over 800 million “radical Muslims” worldwide.

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Hmm, one would think a militant force 800 times bigger than the US army might be a tad more noticeable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:43:17am

re: #26 Amory Blaine

They may have a problem because they allowed it, then suddenly, they didn’t.

that seems to be the gist of it, yes…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:43:42am

re: #28 Kragar

Hmm, one would think a militant force 800 times bigger than the US army might be a tad more noticeable.

They’re a stealthy lot.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:44:20am

re: #28 Kragar

Hmm, one would think a militant force 800 times bigger than the US army might be a tad more noticeable.

Because our President is hiding them in his Secret Mosque deep within the bowels of the White House…

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ausador  Feb 4, 2016 • 12:57:21am

re: #28 Kragar

Hmm, one would think a militant force 800 times bigger than the US army might be a tad more noticeable.

Would be quite a problem wouldn’t it?

The thing that really gets me is that these people like Shapiro do every possible to stir up more intolerance and hate. They never even attempt to offer any solution, they just go on profiting from making the situation worse. What is it they want us to do, wipe out 1.6 billion people, declare war on 87 majority Muslim countries, what?

Shapiro, Geller, et al, are fine ones for standing on soapboxes and shouting hateful slogans. To what purpose though? It’s hard to believe they can’t see that the atmosphere they help engender only creates more of the people they claim to be fighting.

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:06:09am

re: #32 ausador

And of course they need to fulfill the vital role of calling others to action, rather than get out there and taking the fight to the enemy, but its a sacrifice they’re willing to make for the cause.
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:07:47am

re: #32 ausador

Would be quite a problem wouldn’t it?

The thing that really gets me is that these people like Shapiro do every possible to stir up more intolerance and hate. They never even attempt to offer any solution, they just go on profiting from making the situation worse. What is it they want us to do, wipe out 1.6 billion people, declare war on 87 majority Muslim countries, what?

Magic Carpet Bombing.

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:10:08am

re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Magic Carpet Bombing.

We’ll use the secret teleporter Tech that Obama and Hillary didn’t use for Benghazi

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ausador  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:44:11am

I don’t know about all…

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ausador  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:45:32am

Radicals!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:47:58am

re: #37 ausador

Radicals!

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Only 2/3rds are by Ben Shapiro’s reckoning.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:51:03am

re: #36 ausador

I don’t know about all…

This Taco Bell lasagna combines all that is good in the world]

Enchilada lasagna is one of my signature dishes.

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ausador  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:53:46am

Who can afford to live there anymore?

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 4, 2016 • 1:57:15am

re: #4 teleskiguy

The Nobel Peace Prize is illegitimate at this point.

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Only if he actually wins it. Which he won’t.

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ausador  Feb 4, 2016 • 2:06:45am

The “man” behind the now cancelled pro-rape meet ups in his native habitat. Notice his “girlfriend” in the background…pathetic. :(

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 4, 2016 • 2:29:03am

re: #42 ausador

The “man” behind the now cancelled pro-rape meet ups in his native habitat. Notice his “girlfriend” in the background…pathetic. :(

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Pathetic. In contrast to that loser, here is my favorite photograph ever posted on this board, of a joyous girl and her eagle.

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Amory Blaine  Feb 4, 2016 • 2:48:21am

re: #42 ausador

“Hatemongers Not Welcome”; Kenosha Brat Stop Speaks out Against Pro Rape Rally

Owner’s of a popular Kenosha restaurant are speaking out against a Pro-Rape event originally scheduled for Saturday.

That rally was set to meet at the Brat Stop parking lot Saturday night, before moving on to an undisclosed location.

The Brat Stop is hosting its annual Polar Plunge event the same day.

“Hopefully that event doesn’t have any interaction with these people, and hopefully no one does,” says General Manager Nick Klein. “They are not welcome here.”

Wednesday night, Klein changed a sign in front of the store to read “Hatemongers Not Welcome”. Hours later, the blogger in charge of that rally canceled all meetings worldwide.

cbs58.com

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:00:39am
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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:08:44am

So, upgraded to the latest version of Chrome, and now Google is warning me that soon they will stop supporting the older versions of OSX.

I just hope the final version of Chrome is not one of the more buggy releases.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:22:26am

re: #46 freetoken

So, upgraded to the latest version of Chrome, and now Google is warning me that soon they will stop supporting the older versions of OSX.

I just hope the final version of Chrome is not one of the more buggy releases.

They’re also ending official support for 32-bit Linux next month.

What version of OSX are you running?

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:44:42am

re: #47 Timothy Watson

10.6.8 .

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:50:11am

So it’s been 2 days since I got my new PC, and my required software is still not installed so I can’t do any actual work.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:53:22am

Butthurt sore loser is still sore==>

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:57:03am

Our society is so poorly equipped to live in the 21st century - and media outlets reflect that in their numerous stories in which complex topics are stumbling blocks to describe, especially in headlines.

This story is popping up:

Babies With Genes From 3 People Could Be Ethical, Panel Says

It’s a technique that was first used in the UK - where the egg and mitochondria from one woman is used to host the nuclear DNA from another woman, and of course then also nuclear DNA from a male.

So while 3 people are involved, in reality the very few genes in mitochondria are the same from person to person. In those rare cases where there is a problem in the mitochondria of a female, then this technique allows a child to be born without inheriting the mitochondrial DNA which has the problem.

But the headline and stories make this all sound scarier than it really is.

Chances are really good that your mitochondrial DNA and mine are functionally identical. There are only a bit over 18 thousand nucleotides in mtDNA, and if your’s and mine differ, it will only be in a few locations that have no function.

So in reality, just about anybody can be a mtDNA donor, and unless you have one of the very rare mutations that cause a problem, it doesn’t really matter from where the mtDNA came.

There’s so much scaremongering going on about stuff in medicine these days, including genetics.

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 4:59:56am

And the comments on that NPR story reveal just how unprepared Americans are for this kind of stuff.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:00:51am

re: #52 freetoken

And the comments on that NPR story reveal just how unprepared Americans are for this kind of stuff.

Designer anchor terror babies!!!

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:02:24am

Oh, and once again, and this is getting quite repetitive, that NPR story quotes “the Center for Genetics and Society, a watchdog group based in Berkeley, Calif.” which for some reason always seem to be the go-to group to find someone scaremongering about this.

But that group almost always reports just the possible bad outcomes. They really are becoming the puritans of the genetic age.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:03:53am

re: #54 freetoken

Oh, and once again, and this is getting quite repetitive, that NPR story quotes “the Center for Genetics and Society, a watchdog group based in Berkeley, Calif.” which for some reason always seem to be the go-to group to find someone scaremongering about this.

But that group almost always reports just the possible bad outcomes. They really are becoming the puritans Luddites of the genetic age.

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:06:55am

So, whenever I watch one of those vaunted “debates” or “townhalls” that supposedly our future leaders attend and at which they declare their wonderfulness, I just hang my head at the absence of questions about these sort of difficult questions.

Empty posturing over magick words - that is what our politics is all about.

Magick words:
“Conservative”
“Radical Islamic Terrorism”
“the Rich”
“God”
“Values”
“American Exceptionalism”

… the list goes on.

These are trigger words, which through repetition are intended to make the viewer respond emotionally in a programmed way.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:08:26am

re: #56 freetoken

So, whenever I watch one of those vaunted “debates” or “townhalls” that supposedly our future leaders attend and at which they declare their wonderfulness, I just hang my head at the absence of questions about these sort of difficult questions.

Empty posturing over magick words - that is what our politics is all about.

Magick words:
“Conservative”
“Radical Islamic Terrorism”
“the Rich”
“God”
“Values”
“American Exceptionalism”

… the list goes on.

These are trigger words, which through repetition are intended to make the viewer respond emotionally in a programmed way.

Remember the role that ISIS beheadings and Ebola played in the last midterms?

While almost daily mass shootings hardly had an effect…

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:13:17am

re: #57 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Oh, yes, Ebola.

So, not even 2 years ago, allowing a nurse back into the US was some sort of dangerous plot by the Obama administration to undo America… and now with ebola contained all of a sudden “ebola” disappears from the vocabulary of our media.

Where the f*ck is the media calling Cruz to accountability for this:

With just two weeks to go until closely fought midterm elections, the Texas Republican senator Ted Cruz stepped up his criticism of White House policy against travel restrictions, calling for extra border guards and dismissing the administration’s argument that medical advice showed quarantines and travel bans would be counter-productive.

“The doctors making this argument are working for the administration and repeating their talking points,” said Cruz, a potential candidate for the presidency in 2016, in an interview on CNN. “The arguments they are giving don’t make sense.”

Well?

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:27:43am

re: #49 The Vicious Babushka

So it’s been 2 days since I got my new PC, and my required software is still not installed so I can’t do any actual work.

Thanks Obama!

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:40:31am

re: #56 freetoken

So, whenever I watch one of those vaunted “debates” or “townhalls” that supposedly our future leaders attend and at which they declare their wonderfulness, I just hang my head at the absence of questions about these sort of difficult questions.

Empty posturing over magick words - that is what our politics is all about.

Magick words:
“Conservative”
“Radical Islamic Terrorism”
“the Rich”
“God”
“Values”
“American Exceptionalism”

… the list goes on.

These are trigger words, which through repetition are intended to make the viewer respond emotionally in a programmed way.

Paging Dr. Pavlov, paging Dr. Pavlov. Dr. Pavlov, please pick up the white courtesy phone. DING

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:41:17am

re: #50 The Vicious Babushka

Butthurt sore loser is still sore==>

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All of this shock and pearl clutching amuses me.
Cruz isn’t the first candidate to use that “voter violation” mailer.
I’ve gotten it often over the last few years courtesy of the RNC and state GOP groups.
Anyone stupid enough to believe it’s a true thing, is too stupid to be voting.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:43:00am
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Eventual Carrion  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:43:29am

re: #61 Backwoods_Sleuth

All of this shock and pearl clutching amuses me.
Cruz isn’t the first candidate to use that “voter violation” mailer.
I’ve gotten it often over the last few years courtesy of the RNC and state GOP groups.
Anyone stupid enough to believe it’s a true thing, is too stupid to be voting.

tRump voters then.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:44:59am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

Medicaid births rose when Texas cut Planned Parenthood

All the more reason to cut Medicaid. Sluts have to pay for their sins…

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:50:29am
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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:52:28am

Greets and saluts from the NYC metro area. Since we’re displaying videos shot in subways, still think this one is tops:

Michael Jackson’s Bad. Directed by Scorsese. Yes, that Martin Scorsese. And it features Wesley Snipes in one of his first roles in movies/film/tv/video.

Michael Jackson - Bad

Runner up? White Stripes’ Hardest Button to Button:

The White Stripes-Hardest Button To Button

That’s the White Stripes and the subway is the PATH station at 34th Street in Manhattan.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:52:31am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:53:44am

*thunk*

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:55:33am

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

*thunk*

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Shades of Rautner in Illinois cutting programs for Autistic kids on Autism Day. These guys really are something aren’t they?

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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:58:32am
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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:58:41am

I think our Simpsons quota will be full after rummaging through this. Searchable screencaps of Simpsons episodes. Woo!!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:58:55am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 5:59:30am

re: #71 lawhawk

I think our Simpsons quota will be full after rummaging through this. Searchable screencaps of Simpsons episodes. Woo!!

Wow awesome.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:08:17am

very sad

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:24:16am

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

*thunk*

From now on, they’ll just celebrate that they used to have it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:25:19am

re: #74 Backwoods_Sleuth

He made one of the most famous plays in Super Bowl history. He remembers nothing of it

very sad

I was reading an old Hunter Thompson sports column from the late 1960’s about the NFL and what struck me was that player salaries were not much higher than what my dad was making working for US Steel.

Later I went on to work for Gary K Walker, who negotiated the first one million dollar (cue Professor Evil voice) sports contract for Reggie Jackson.

One million US dollars…

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:27:36am

re: #50 The Vicious Babushka

#ICYMI: @KarlRove & @oreillyfactor discuss what Ted Cruz did to the great people of Iowa- as they went to vote. t.co
— Donald J. Trump

THE GREATE PEOPLE OF THE GREATE STATE OF IOWA WHO WENT TO VOTE ARE REALLY GRATE EXCEPT THEY DIDNT GIVE ME CREDIT FOR FUNDING MY OWN CAMPAIGN WHICH I TOTALLY DID LOSERS!!!!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:28:36am

I see where Marco Polo Rubio whined about Obama’s mosque visit. Gawd Rubio is WATB.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:31:46am

re: #78 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I see where Marco Polo Rubio whined about Obama’s mosque visit. Gawd Rubio is WATB.

I so hope that Jeb?, Christie or Kasich outperforms Rubio in NH Tuesday; he is the only Republican who scares me in this race.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:32:35am

re: #68 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because, as everyone knows, special education is THE most overfunded part of our educational system. Fucking asshole. There is a very hot place in hell for people like this.

My kid graduated high school in 2012. Most of that time he was in SE classes. I’ve attended meetings all over the area regarding parent concerns regarding SE funding.I actually heard one school district supervisor quip that SE dollars are a waste because “everyone knows these kids won’t go anywhere, the parents are just using the schools for babysitting”. YES, he said that. And yes he was “let go” later. For THIRTEEN years, from k-12, I spent so much time at school, fighting for help- and then having to make sure he was getting what they said they’d deliver, being transportation because the kid was harassed on the regular bus(he didn’t want to ride the little bus, because he knew what THAT would cause) and no one gave a damn. I literally gave up a career and any earning power to make fucking sure my kid got an education because I KNEW the shit he was up against.

And people like this, this, “governor” will then go on to bitch and whine and trash talk people with disabilities who are a “drain on society”. I hope he gets bitten on the ass by a hoard of angry ants. Bastard.

(OK, I need coffee and more sleep. I apologize. Gifted programs aren’t the same as special ed classes. My overall sentiment still applies however)

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:33:29am

re: #77 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

THE GREATE PEOPLE OF THE GREATE STATE OF IOWA WHO WENT TO VOTE ARE REALLY GRATE EXCEPT THEY DIDNT GIVE ME CREDIT FOR FUNDING MY OWN CAMPAIGN WHICH I TOTALLY DID LOSERS!!!!

THE VOTERS OF IOWA WOULDN’T LET ME BUY THEM WITH MY OWN MONEY!!!111 WHAT UNGRATEFUL STUPIDS, THEY LET THEMSELVES BE CONNED BY CROOK TED CRUZ!!! BAD, BAD STUPID LOSERS!!!!

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Timothy Watson  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:34:53am

re: #79 Big Beautiful Door

I so hope that Jeb?, Christie or Kasich outperforms Rubio in NH Tuesday; he is the only Republican who scares me in this race.

I am more concerned about Kasich honestly, he manages to come off as a “moderate” despite being as far-right as the other GOP candidates.

Rubio comes off as lightweight who’s wearing his daddy’s old suit to me.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:35:17am

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

For most of baseball’s history until after the 1960s, pro sports players had to take outside jobs to make ends meet. Mickey Mantle made $100k as a player for the Yankees. His was the exception, rather than the rule. It was large sum to be sure, but most other players during that era made a whole lot less. Pee Wee Reese made at most $35k. Most scrambled for money after the season ended.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:36:07am

re: #78 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

I see where Marco Polo Rubio whined about Obama’s mosque visit. Gawd Rubio is WATB.

WATB? But yeah I saw that too. Rubio’s a pathetic little hack.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:38:46am

re: #83 lawhawk

For most of baseball’s history until after the 1960s, pro sports players had to take outside jobs to make ends meet. Mickey Mantle made $100k as a player for the Yankees. His was the exception, rather than the rule. It was large sum to be sure, but most other players during that era made a whole lot less. Pee Wee Reese made at most $35k. Most scrambled for money after the season ended.

Yeah I’ve read about guys who played in the same period as Mantle who took regular people jobs in the winter. And the minors wow even more stark. And it’s like that even now honestly. An alum of my high school who was in the Braves system at the time substitute taught for us a few times. He never made it to the bigs unfortunately but it’s my understanding that he became the baseball coach not long after I graduated. It really is amazing how salaries have skyrocketed. A lot of guys make in an at bat what old time guys like Pee Wee made in their entire career.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:39:15am

re: #80 A Mom Anon

snip

(OK, I need coffee and more sleep. I apologize. Gifted programs aren’t the same as special ed classes. My overall sentiment still applies however)

The same rant applies.
What really gripes me is that school sports program funding (specifically football and basketball) is sacrosanct here. Actual education? pffft….

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Botsplainer  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:40:05am

re: #76 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

“Grown men playing a game, blah blah…”

In actuality, the owners were getting all the profits for the mere act of owning. Of course, fans don’t buy tickets, fan gear or watch commercial TV to see owners own.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:40:18am

re: #83 lawhawk

For most of baseball’s history until after the 1960s, pro sports players had to take outside jobs to make ends meet. Mickey Mantle made $100k as a player for the Yankees. His was the exception, rather than the rule. It was large sum to be sure, but most other players during that era made a whole lot less. Pee Wee Reese made at most $35k. Most scrambled for money after the season ended.

Was that also not about the time that increases in executive salaries started outstripping those of workers by a factor of 100 to one?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:40:23am

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

The same rant applies.
What really gripes me is that school sports program funding (specifically football and basketball) is sacrosanct here. Actual education? pffft….

Those high school football stadiums in Texas yet Texas has some of the biggest education problems in the country. Hmmm priorities. I mean I enjoy football and basketball a lot but a high school especially needs to be focused on education.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:41:22am

re: #82 Timothy Watson

I am more concerned about Kasich honestly, he manages to come off as a “moderate” despite being as far-right as the other GOP candidates.

Rubio comes off as lightweight who’s wearing his daddy’s old suit to me.

Kasich isn’t going to be the nominee even if he does finish second or third in NH. He could, however, seriously damage Rubio’s chances by beating him there.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:43:26am

I edit high school sports articles as well as school board articles for a chain of weekly newspapers in Illinois.
It’s gobsmacking to know that the highest paid people in the school systems there are the district superintendents and the athletic directors (sometimes the AD actually makes more than the super).

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:43:40am

re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Was that also not about the time that increases in executive salaries started outstripping those of workers by a factor of 100 to one?

I think the time executive pay started that was in the early 80’s right around the time Nolan Ryan became the first player to have a contract that paid him over a million annually. Reggie’s was for 3 million but I think over the course of five or six years. Now 40 years later, a free agent back up catcher probably makes the same amount of money if not more. The other thing though, the young guys don’t make as much as the older guys. Most people don’t hit free agency until they’re in their late 20’s. Now granted because of arbitration, they’re making more than the bare minimum but salaries are a lot more complicated than people think.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:43:52am

Politically Correct Iowa Senator Introduces Just The Whiniest Bill About The Stanford Band

The notoriously “edgy” Stanford marching band performed a skit full of dumb hick stereotypes during halftime of Stanford’s 45-16 thwacking of Iowa in the Rose Bowl. Despite the fact that the skit wasn’t particularly good, funny, or unexpected, everybody lost their goddamn minds. Iowa fans got mad, Rose Bowl officials got mad, and now a deeply stupid Iowa State Senator has gotten mad.

Senator Mark Chelgren introduced a bill Wednesday that would prohibit “collaboration and cooperation” between Stanford and the University of Iowa, Iowa State, or Northern Iowa until Stanford apologizes for the band’s skit. Here is the bill legis.iowa.gov and relevant text:

The state board of regents shall prohibit any future collaboration or cooperation between the institutions of higher learning governed by the board and Stanford university, excluding sporting events, until Stanford university officials publicly apologize to Iowa’s citizens and to the university of Iowa for the unsporting behavior of the Leland Stanford junior university marching band

Good to see Republicans worried about the important issues of today.

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Botsplainer  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:43:59am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

The answer to that is to cut Medicaid with a signing statement of “screw you, poor sluts, in the holy name of Jesus Christ!”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:43:59am

re: #90 Big Beautiful Door

Kasich isn’t going to be the nominee even if he does finish second or third in NH. He could, however, seriously damage Rubio’s chances by beating him there.

Which is what I hope can and does happen.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:44:07am

re: #89 HappyWarrior

You are referring to bread and circuses. Texas politicians seem rather adept at that.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:45:13am

re: #96 lawhawk

You are referring to bread and circuses. Texas politicians seem rather adept at that.

Yeah they are.

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darthstar  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:45:25am
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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:45:39am

re: #85 HappyWarrior

Yeah I’ve read about guys who played in the same period as Mantle who took regular people jobs in the winter. And the minors wow even more stark. And it’s like that even now honestly. An alum of my high school who was in the Braves system at the time substitute taught for us a few times. He never made it to the bigs unfortunately but it’s my understanding that he became the baseball coach not long after I graduated. It really is amazing how salaries have skyrocketed. A lot of guys make in an at bat what old time guys like Pee Wee made in their entire career.

Yep, and depending on which sport, the money made in the minors or lower levels is still small. I played professional football at Arena and lower levels for a few years. Never even had a salary. Made at most $250 per game before taxes.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:46:05am

since some of the conversation has involved childhood memories of cartoons:

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:47:34am

re: #93 Dr. Matt

Politically Correct Iowa Senator Introduces Just The Whiniest Bill About The Stanford Band

Good to see Republicans worried about the important issues of today.

Check this out on the guy sponsoring the bill,
en.wikipedia.org
He wants to make it possible to remove professors based off of poor student evaluations and have students vote to remove them. I really think that’s a load of crap. You all remember course evaluations I’m sure. They take five minutes to do, you really don’t give them much thought, and they definitely should not be used to fire someone. This guy sounds like a real wanker.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:48:12am

re: #89 HappyWarrior

I’ve honestly just gotten sick of the commercialized of anything and everything dealing with the NFL. When the NFL pregames shows started up in the ’90s when I was kid, it was something fun and novel. Now, we need three hours of pregame and another hour of postgame coverage. CBS was running Super Bowl promos before the regular season had even ended.

Same thing happened to NASCAR, for all its commercial advertising on the vehicles and everything, there was something still rebellious about in the ’90s.

Now it just sucks.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:49:36am

re: #99 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Yep, and depending on which sport, the money made in the minors or lower levels is still small. I played professional football at Arena and lower levels for a few years. Never even had a salary. Made at most $250 per game before taxes.

And when you’re in the minors especially in a sport like Baseball, you’re on the move a lot. And as a former football player, you no doubt understand about practice squads and stuff like that. The sports world is really a lot like the rest of us, those at the top make a ton but a lot of those aren’t.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:50:14am

re: #102 Timothy Watson

I’ve honestly just gotten sick of the commercialized of anything and everything dealing with the NFL. When the NFL pregames shows started up in the ’90s when I was kid, it was something fun and novel. Now, we need three hours of pregame and another hour of postgame coverage. CBS was running Super Bowl promos before the regular season had even ended.

Same thing happened to NASCAR, for all its commercial advertising on the vehicles and everything, there was something still rebellious about in the ’90s.

Now it just sucks.

I’ve come to hate the NFL in that way too but at the same time I love my team.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:50:48am

re: #92 HappyWarrior

I think the time executive pay started that was in the early 80’s right around the time Nolan Ryan became the first player to have a contract that paid him over a million annually. Reggie’s was for 3 million but I think over the course of five or six years.

He also had a clause that said that after a certain number of tickets had been sold in the season (about halfway through), Reggie got 25 cents per seat…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:51:21am

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

since some of the conversation has involved childhood memories of cartoons:

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RIP. He was a gifted and versatile voice actor. I’ve always envied those guys. Such an awesome skill. I’ve seen some behind the scenes stuff on how they work their craft. It’s quite a skill.

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darthstar  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:51:26am

Okay…I’m not a Star Wars geek at all, but I would love to have a pair of these to whip out at a restaurant.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:51:36am

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

It’s gobsmacking to know that the highest paid people in the school systems there are the district superintendents and the athletic directors (sometimes the AD actually makes more than the super).

Same thing with most universities. Coaches and athletic directors for football or basketball usually make more than the university president.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:52:08am

re: #105 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He also had a clause that said that after a certain number of tickets had been sold in the season (about halfway through), Reggie got 25 cents per seat…

Ah, I wasn’t aware of that. Smart agent especially because the Yankees were a top team in those days and Yankee Stadium had just been renovated.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:52:50am

re: #108 Timothy Watson

Same thing with most universities. Coaches and athletic directors for football or basketball usually make more than the university president.

There’s a map of the country that shows the highest paid state official in each state and a good amount of them are basketball and football coaches or ADs.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:55:25am

From what I understand in Europe, collegiate sports as a money making enterprise isn’t a huge deal. They do love their sports of course. I’ve been to Bernabeau in Madrid and Croke Park in Dublin where Real Madrid and the Gaelic games are held respectively. I don’t know if the amount of public funding for stadiums is there either. Croke Park in Dublin though is really old. If it were an American baseball stadium, it would easily be the oldest stadium in the majors having opened in 1884 and it still looks quite good I must say.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:56:52am

re: #101 HappyWarrior

He makes Trump look like a Rhodes Scholar.

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Skip Intro  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:57:21am

re: #50 The Vicious Babushka

At least he’s attacking Cruz. Usually these things are always Obama’s/Hillary’s fault.

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A Mom Anon  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:57:40am

re: #91 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yep. And at the state college level, football coaches are often the highest paid state government employee. I have yet to hear ANY conservative bitch about THOSE government employees.

There’s a middle school here that’s fairly new, right down the road from me. When it was being built, parents loudly rallied and insisted a football field be included in the plans. It’s always the same group of parents lobbying for this shit too. So, they got their precious football field. Guess what it’s used for? PE classes. That’s IT. Because there is no freaking middle school level football league besides the one that’s existed since forever that already has their places to play. But by God they got their stupid unused football field and also started an “alumni association” FOR A MIDDLE SCHOOL. Priorities, yay.

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:57:57am

re: #102 Timothy Watson

Same thing happened to NASCAR, for all its commercial advertising on the vehicles and everything, there was something still rebellious about in the ’90s..

Part of the reason I always preferred Formula racing was the honesty that it was about and for the auto companies. NASCAR? The last whiskey smugglers raced too long ago for me to pretend to care.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:58:35am

re: #110 HappyWarrior

There’s a map of the country that shows the highest paid state official in each state and a good amount of them are basketball and football coaches or ADs.

was about to post that link

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:58:37am
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Skip Intro  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:58:44am

re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Designer anchor terror babies!!!

With calves the size of cantaloupes!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:59:05am

re: #112 Dr. Matt

He makes Trump look like a Rhodes Scholar.

nbcnews.com
Found this too. This guy makes Steve King look like Ted Kennedy. Hyperbole on my part but it furthers my belief that even when wingnuts like Bachmann leave Congress, there’s a roster in the wings waiting to take their place. And this guy isn’t an old guy either.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:59:58am

re: #116 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

was about to post that link

Man I thought it was more balanced. Didn’t remember it being that overwhelming but thanks.

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 6:59:59am

re: #99 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

Yep, and depending on which sport, the money made in the minors or lower levels is still small. I played professional football at Arena and lower levels for a few years. Never even had a salary. Made at most $250 per game before taxes.

And if you are in the NFL’s minor league (aka NCAA football) you officially make nothing.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:01:45am

re: #114 A Mom Anon

Yep. And at the state college level, football coaches are often the highest paid state government employee. I have yet to hear ANY conservative bitch about THOSE government employees.

There’s a middle school here that’s fairly new, right down the road from me. When it was being built, parents loudly rallied and insisted a football field be included in the plans. It’s always the same group of parents lobbying for this shit too. So, they got their precious football field. Guess what it’s used for? PE classes. That’s IT. Because there is no freaking middle school level football league besides the one that’s existed since forever that already has their places to play. But by God they got their stupid unused football field and also started an “alumni association” FOR A MIDDLE SCHOOL. Priorities, yay.

What a bunch of jackasses. I don’t remember my middle school having a football field honestly. We did have a baseball field but the entire community did use that.

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:02:01am

re: #118 Skip Intro

With calves the size of genetically modified cantaloupes!

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:02:02am

re: #104 HappyWarrior

I’ve come to hate the NFL in that way too but at the same time I love my team.

I just watch English Premier League instead. Beautiful game and I don’t know the nasty garbage hidden in the shadows…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:02:31am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:03:13am

re: #124 William Lewis

I just watch English Premier League instead. Beautiful game and I don’t know the nasty garbage hidden in the shadows…

I need to get a team for that heh.

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sagehen  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:03:45am

re: #15 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Been a while since I’ve offered an update here, so here’s one.

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I also finished a smaller piece. Debating what my next big one will be, still.

Is that the Magical Balance Fairy?

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:03:46am

re: #104 HappyWarrior

I’ve come to hate the NFL in that way too but at the same time I love my team.

My distancing from professional football was made easy. Dan Snyder bought the Washington team and within two years managed to destroy all the karma that the Cooke family had built up. And, that’s saying a lot when the Cooke’s weren’t exactly model citizens. But, hindsight is often filtered through a rose.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:04:35am

re: #128 Le Lapin Tueur

My distancing from professional football was made easy. Dan Snyder bought the Washington team and within two years managed to destroy all the karma that the Cooke family had built up. And, that’s saying a lot when the Cooke’s weren’t exactly model citizens. But, hindsight is often filtered through a rose.

Yeah Snyder’s an asshole. One of the biggest in the league and that’s saying a lot.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:05:18am

re: #107 darthstar

Okay…I’m not a Star Wars geek at all, but I would love to have a pair of these to whip out at a restaurant.

Ask and ye shall receive.

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Timothy Watson  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:09:40am

re: #128 Le Lapin Tueur

My distancing from professional football was made easy. Dan Snyder bought the Washington team and within two years managed to destroy all the karma that the Cooke family had built up. And, that’s saying a lot when the Cooke’s weren’t exactly model citizens. But, hindsight is often filtered through a rose.

Heh, the perpetual ability for Washington to disappoint undoubtedly helped me get sick of the NFL too.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:09:43am

Morning all!

Here’s a collection of legal documents surrounding Y’all Qaeda. Peruse as you will.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:11:31am

re: #132 WhatEVs

These eejits are always looking for free stuff:

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:12:15am

re: #102 Timothy Watson

I’ve pretty much stopped watching football. If I’m visiting friends and it’s on, then I’ll take a gander, but otherwise I’m done with football at all levels.

CTE and the NFL coverup of how the league knew about permanent and lasting injuries linked to concussions did it for me.

I take no joy from watching football, when any play can mean permanent harm to the player’s life after football. Seen too many players diagnosed with CTE - after dying way too young and crippled.

Guys who were amazing athletes had their brains scrambled due to incessant hits to the head. Junior Seau to name but one. Some committed suicide. Others engaged in violence because their brain chemistry was all screwed up. Still others can’t remember anything due to early onset Alzheimers or other brain disorders.

No, I’m done with football.

The Super Bowl? I’ll watch to complain about the commercials or the half-time show. Or else we’ll watch movies or something.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:13:28am

re: #121 William Lewis

And if you are in the NFL’s minor league (aka NCAA football) you officially make nothing.

And man, I could go on for days about the NCAA system…

The scholarship, (that even while receiving a Pell Grant) that DOES NOT cover all costs of school. I left school as a scholarship athlete, with 5 figures of student loans. At least there is some looking into making improvements to that now.

At least I’m going to get a small check from the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit. We will see about the lawsuit/settlement with EA Sports(my likeness is on the EA Sports NCAA Football game one year)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:14:22am

re: #134 lawhawk

The NYT article about Wood that I posted earlier says the family suspects CTE but, of course, there’s no way of knowing for sure until after he dies.

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:14:52am
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sagehen  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:15:39am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

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My shock, let me show you.

(and then very quietly, almost a whisper, I’ll remind you that *this* is exactly why GHWB was a PP board member until the Reagan team demanded he distance himself from the organization)

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:17:17am

re: #137 freetoken

I sense a Bernite:

The Daily 202: Hillary Clinton makes her Wall Street problem worse

Yet, they want me to ignore Bernie’s votes on gun issues.
Funny, that.

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:17:41am

re: #126 HappyWarrior

I need to get a team for that heh.

I chose Arsenal. They started as a workers team at the Royal Artillery Foundry and are still called The Gunners. Much like my NFL team they have been up and down over the years and are pretty good these days. Makes for an easier transition of my loyalties than some others might.

Go Goooooners!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:17:59am

re: #137 freetoken

I sense a Bernite:

The Daily 202: Hillary Clinton makes her Wall Street problem worse

I don’t know how they can say she made it worse. I think she actually did a good job standing up for herself and pointing out that Bernie for all his calls about how you can’t be progressive and moderate at the same time has that in his record as well. I think HRC really is damned if you do, damned if you don’t with a lot of people because let’s face it, people know where they feel about her at this point.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:18:29am

re: #139 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Yet, they want me to ignore Bernie’s votes on gun issues.
Funny, that.

i missed it but apparently Clinton brought up some votes on immigration. That actually bothers me more than the gun votes.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:18:47am

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

I am curious as to what “varification,” is?

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:19:14am

re: #136 Backwoods_Sleuth

Think that they’re working on a blood test or scan that might help diagnose CTE without waiting for an autopsy.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:19:40am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:20:02am

re: #140 William Lewis

I chose Arsenal. They started as a workers team at the Royal Artillery Foundry and are still called The Gunners. Much like my NFL team they have been up and down over the years and are pretty good these days. Makes for an easier transition of my loyalties than some others might.

Go Goooooners!

Funny you mention them, when I bought my kid brother a premier league shirt when I was going through London, I chose Arsenal. Graned because it was the coolest looking shirt. If it helps you help me, I’m a Pittsburgh fan in football. I was drawn to the Steelers as a kid since I liked smashmouth football (big Bettis fan) and strong defense (Blitzburgh!).

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:20:43am

re: #145 lawhawk

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Am I off or does he resemble Greenwald?

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:21:24am

re: #135 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

And man, I could go on for days about the NCAA system…

The scholarship, (that even while receiving a Pell Grant) that DOES NOT cover all costs of school. I left school as a scholarship athlete, with 5 figures of student loans. At least there is some looking into making improvements to that now.

At least I’m going to get a small check from the Ed O’Bannon lawsuit. We will see about the lawsuit/settlement with EA Sports(my likeness is on the EA Sports NCAA Football game one year)

May you finally receive what they owe you, especially from EA.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:21:27am

re: #142 HappyWarrior

i missed it but apparently Clinton brought up some votes on immigration. That actually bothers me more than the gun votes.

Right!
The 2007 vote on immigration reform.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:22:08am

re: #121 William Lewis

And if you are in the NFL’s minor league (aka NCAA football) you officially make nothing.

You get a scholarship, for what that’s worth…

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:23:01am

Well of course he invoked the 5th. He’s under multiple investigations, and his lawyer (Ben Brafman) knows what he’s doing. Ben Brafman is protecting Shkreli from himself.

That’s a lesson that Rage Furby (aka Chucky) has yet to learn.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:23:51am

re: #151 lawhawk

Well of course he invoked the 5th. He’s under multiple investigations, and his lawyer (Ben Bronfman) knows what he’s doing. Bronfman is protecting Shkreli from himself.

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That’s a lesson that Rage Furby (aka Chucky) has yet to learn.

Does he ever not have a punchable smirk?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:24:37am

re: #102 Timothy Watson

I’ve honestly just gotten sick of the commercialized of anything and everything dealing with the NFL. When the NFL pregames shows started up in the ’90s when I was kid, it was something fun and novel. Now, we need three hours of pregame and another hour of postgame coverage. CBS was running Super Bowl promos before the regular season had even ended.

Same thing happened to NASCAR, for all its commercial advertising on the vehicles and everything, there was something still rebellious about in the ’90s.

Now it just sucks.

Yeah.

The hoopla and pageantry and commercialism freak show that is the Super Bowl is just way too much. Make football grate again.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:24:42am

re: #149 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Right!
The 2007 vote on immigration reform.

Thank you, I was wondering what specific bit of legislation it was.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:25:20am

re: #152 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Nope. He’s got resting bitchslap face.

Same kind of face as one Ted Cruz.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:25:38am

re: #150 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

You get a scholarship, for what that’s worth…

Only if you’re at a D1 school. An older brother of a friend of my brother’s (blah!) goes to a DIII school and plays football but doesn’t have a scohlarship.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:26:24am

Remind right wingers of this next time the GOP claims that the US isn’t doing anything against ISIL:

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:26:25am

re: #151 lawhawk

Well of course he invoked the 5th. He’s under multiple investigations, and his lawyer (Ben Bronfman) knows what he’s doing. Bronfman is protecting Shkreli from himself.

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That’s a lesson that Rage Furby (aka Chucky) has yet to learn.

That dude may have one of the most punchable faces ever and I’ve come to know Ted Cruz’s face too well these past three years.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:26:45am

re: #114 A Mom Anon

Yep. And at the state college level, football coaches are often the highest paid state government employee. I have yet to hear ANY conservative bitch about THOSE government employees.

There’s a middle school here that’s fairly new, right down the road from me. When it was being built, parents loudly rallied and insisted a football field be included in the plans. It’s always the same group of parents lobbying for this shit too. So, they got their precious football field. Guess what it’s used for? PE classes. That’s IT. Because there is no freaking middle school level football league besides the one that’s existed since forever that already has their places to play. But by God they got their stupid unused football field and also started an “alumni association” FOR A MIDDLE SCHOOL. Priorities, yay.

And it’s not just the coaches with their outsized salaries. The amount of money flowing into the college stadiums and facilities from boosters is approaching defense spending levels. OK I’m exaggerating a little.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:27:12am

re: #147 HappyWarrior

Am I off or does he resemble Greenwald?

I think he looks more like O’Keefe.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:27:13am

re: #133 Backwoods_Sleuth

Yeah, it’s amazing. I almost feel bad for the four that are left…well, three of them. I don’t know anything about the fourth, including his name. He’s either doing it right or wrong. :-) The others are mentally deficient. David Fry is like a little boy. Both Anderson’s have life problems (many of which they brought on themselves) and collectively, they are completely delusional, making statements like they were only exercising their first and second amendment rights, peaceful protests, yada yada yada.

This gal is posting good updates @maxoregonian along with the others @LesZaitz, @ryanjhaas, @jjmacnab if anyone wants updates. I am pretty enthralled with the whole thing. I especially want to watch the court cases unfold.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:27:46am

re: #157 lawhawk

Remind right wingers of this next time the GOP claims that the US isn’t doing anything against ISIL:

And The Daily Caller is trumpeting this? I’d expect them to whine about how we aren’t doing anything and Obama’s an appeaser, etc.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:27:56am

re: #160 The Vicious Babushka

I think he looks more like O’Keefe.

Yeah guess so, either way it appears both our Asshole-dars went off.

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:28:45am

re: #146 HappyWarrior

Packers for me. Literally my earliest memory is Max McGee’s touchdown catch in Super Bowl 1 (the first in any superb owl :) Arsenal had just enough of the same working class heritage for my tastes. The Steelers always seemed the same as well.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:29:32am

re: #158 HappyWarrior

That dude may have one of the most punchable faces ever and I’ve come to know Ted Cruz’s face too well these past three years.

Yes, yes he does

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:29:43am

re: #134 lawhawk

I’ve pretty much stopped watching football. If I’m visiting friends and it’s on, then I’ll take a gander, but otherwise I’m done with football at all levels.

The Super Bowl? I’ll watch to complain about the commercials or the half-time show. Or else we’ll watch movies or something.

My expat friends follow the playoffs and SB, I usually watch along with them to be sociable, I do the same with my European friends and the European Cup and World Cup games out of cultural solidarity.

Last time I got excited about a Super Bowl was in 1969 when my favorite team from each league (Jets vs Colts) played each other. I was happy as a clam, and even as a nine-year-old could get all philosophical about the relative qualities of the flashy young long-haired Broadway Joe Namath vs the upright and traditionally buzz-cut Johnny Unitas.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:29:58am

re: #157 lawhawk

Remind right wingers of this next time the GOP claims that the US isn’t doing anything against ISIL:

And speaking of ISIL, I’m glad things have more or less settled down since the Paris/San Bernadino attacks. Or news about ISIL hasn’t gotten shoved aside by the presidential race.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:30:23am

re: #160 The Vicious Babushka

Well, Daledein is pals with O’Keefe associate Lila Rose. Daledein also went to same school as Rage Furby, so this is a very tight circle of extremists.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:30:53am

re: #165 FormerDirtDart

Yes, yes he does

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Well, not all the time.
google.com

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:31:59am

re: #164 William Lewis

Packers for me. Literally my earliest memory is Max McGee’s touchdown catch in Super Bowl 1 (the first in any superb owl :) Arsenal had just enough of the same working class heritage for my tastes. The Steelers always seemed the same as well.

Yeah I always felt the same way about the Packers. I normally make myself hate opponents but I couldn’t’ do it with Green Bay in that Super Bowl. I also thought it was awesome how Aaron Rodgers came out condemning anti-Muslim bigotry following Paris.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:32:00am

re: #145 lawhawk

Meh.

He [Daleiden ]is expected to post bond immediately and then appear at a media conference at the Harris County courthouse.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:32:11am

re: #168 lawhawk

Well, Daledein is pals with O’Keefe associate Lila Rose. Daledein also went to same school as Rage Furby, so this is a very tight circle of extremists.

Grateful I missed being stuck in college along with these folks.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:33:22am

re: #147 HappyWarrior

Am I off or does he resemble Greenwald?

A white, self-centered, self-aggrandizing, entitled douchebag? Yup. :-)

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:33:38am

re: #168 lawhawk

Well, Daledein is pals with O’Keefe associate Lila Rose. Daledein also went to same school as Rage Furby, so this is a very tight circle of extremists excrementists.

FTFY

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:35:01am
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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:35:45am

re: #162 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

And The Daily Caller is trumpeting this? I’d expect them to whine about how we aren’t doing anything and Obama’s an appeaser, etc.

That was my first thought. I tried to load comments but nothing is opening. I would love to see what the DC readers think.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:37:16am

re: #168 lawhawk

Well, Daledein is pals with O’Keefe associate Lila Rose. Daledein also went to same school as Rage Furby, so this is a very tight circle of extremists.

It’s that one school in California. Name escapes me at the moment. It’s really funny for all their claims of liberal academia brain washing young people. I see it a ton with the right wing ones. My alma mater’s Economics department is famous for being Koch funded. Most of the kids in it are conservatives or libertarians but i met an undergrad who wasn’t and this wasn’t long after Obama became President and she was telling us how one of their questions was - How is the stimulus bad, not is the stimulus good, or bad, but why is it bad and it’s a big part of why I laugh my ass off at David Horowitz complaining about liberal professors indoctrinating people. In fact, one professor who I thought was pretty conservative, one of her colleagues later told me was someone who loved to play Devil’s Advocate and my American History professor while definitely an old liberal didn’t demonize the Industrial Revolution magnates, he did talk about ohw guys liek Carnegie did union bust but he also recalled his early years learning to love to read in a Carnegie library in Georgia. I ended up using both of them as references when I transferred to GMU. They made me think outside the box.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:37:56am

re: #169 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Well, not all the time.
google.com

Smirk or no smirk, his face is still very punchable. Actually, I think that’s pretty much the automatic desire when looking at this douchebag. :-)

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:38:15am

re: #177 HappyWarrior

It’s that one school in California. Name escapes me at the moment. It’s really funny for all their claims of liberal academia brain washing young people. I see it a ton with the right wing ones. My alma mater’s Economics departed is famous for being koch funded. Most of the kids in it are conservatives or libertarians but i met an undergrad who wasn’t and this wasn’t long after Obama became President and she was telling us how one of their questions was - How is the stimulus bad, not is the stimulus good, or bad, but why is it bad and it’s a big part of why I laugh my ass off at David Horowitz complaining about liberal professors indoctrinating people. In fact, one professor who I thought was pretty conservative, one of her colleagues later told me was someone who loved to play Devil’s Advocate and my American History professor while definitely an old liberal didn’t demonize the Industrial Revolution magnates, he did talk about ohw guys liek Carnegie did union bust but he also recalled his early years learning to love to read in a Carnegie library in Georgia. I ended up using both of them as references when I transferred to GMU. They made me think outside the box.

Claremont McKenna School For The Gifted
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:38:25am

re: #175 lawhawk

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Observed this last night but Deray being as close as he is to my age shocks me but for the opposite reason that CCJ being close to my age shocks me. I wish him well in his attempt. He’s a great dude who clearly cares a lot about his communtiy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:38:39am

re: #179 The Vicious Babushka

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That’s right.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:40:00am

re: #176 WhatEVs

That was my first thought. I tried to load comments but nothing is opening. I would love to see what the DC readers think.

WtH DC? U on the Wh payroll?!?!1

yeah no thanks to Obummer!

Now we just need to get rid of the Muslem in the WH

What about radical Islams here?!?!?!?!?

Now ISIS just comes across the Mex border!!1

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:40:48am

re: #175 lawhawk

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No idea if he stands a chance, but, damn, where can I give him some money to go down fighting worst-case?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:42:10am

re: #175 lawhawk

Thought he lived in Minnesota—although I believe he is native to Bmore.

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:42:12am

re: #182 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

WtH DC? U on the Wh payroll?!?!1

yeah no thanks to Obummer!

Now we just need to get rid of the Muslem in the WH

What about radical Islams here?!?!?!?!?

Now ISIS just comes across the Mex border!!1

ISIS is just a false flag to take away our guns!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:43:23am

re: #180 HappyWarrior

Observed this last night but Deray being as close as he is to my age shocks me but for the opposite reason that CCJ being close to my age shocks me. I wish him well in his attempt. He’s a great dude who clearly cares a lot about his communtiy.

Rage Furby’s gotta be blowing a gasket at this news.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:43:29am

heh

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:44:20am

re: #186 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rage Furby’s gotta be blowing a gasket at this news.

Yeah I am sure he is.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:44:26am

re: #185 Belafon

ISIS is just a false flag to take away our guns!

Thanks for nothing, Daily Caller, sellout. I’ll just get all my news from the only tru source, Breitbart!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:45:07am

re: #186 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rage Furby’s gotta be blowing a gasket at this news.

Last night:

Facebook Post

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:45:50am

re: #190 Backwoods_Sleuth

Last night:

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It really is so fitting that he is a Cruz guy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:46:13am

In fact, I bet CCJ wishes he could have been Cruz’s college roommate.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:46:20am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Anti-choicers using Ayn Rand in an anti-abortion meme
Also too: AR was much more of a racist than they think Margaret Sanger was.

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:47:10am

Frigging Charter… Made the mistake of choosing them as my isp after the divorce. They screwed up a payment by me and then demanded 2x said payment to avoid being cut off. Foo that. Upped my data package for my tablet by the same cost instead. F them and the horse that they rode in on…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:48:01am

re: #193 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Anti-choicers using Ayn Rand in an anti-abortion meme
Also too: AR was much more of a racist than they think Margaret Sanger was.

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She also glamorized a rapist serial killeras the ideal man.
- Many thanks for the correction

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:48:51am

re: #195 HappyWarrior

She also glamorized a rapist as the ideal man.

A serial killer.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:50:06am

re: #196 The Vicious Babushka

A serial killer.

Even worse, thanks. Really I had to read the Fountainhead in high school and man what a load of pretentious bullshit. And you’re right, she was a huge racist which makes their attempts to smear Sanger as a terrible racist all the more pathetic. And as you got at too she was far from anti-abortion.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:51:21am
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Le Lapin Tueur  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:52:43am

re: #176 WhatEVs

That was my first thought. I tried to load comments but nothing is opening. I would love to see what the DC readers think.

WTFUAMERIKA • 2 days ago

The Façade that Obamao’s doing something continues.

Abject denial of reality.

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:52:53am

re: #186 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rage Furby’s gotta be blowing a gasket at this news.

Ah what is worse for the ginger freak? That DeRay is black or gay?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:53:02am

re: #198 lawhawk

Islamic terrorists ‘likely’ behind mid-air blast that ripped a hole through the side of a Somali plane

Which is why we should put all Muslims on the no-fly list.

/

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:56:41am

re: #200 William Lewis

Ah what is worse for the ginger freak? That DeRay is black or gay?

That he’s more successful than Rage Furby

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William Lewis  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:58:03am

Can one of you ask on Twitter if DeRay has a website I can contribute to his campaign at? My Google Foo is failing,.

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:58:30am

Meanwhile, in NH, Rubio is surging, nearly doubling his previous numbers in this poll:

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:59:17am

re: #200 William Lewis

Ah what is worse for the ginger freak? That DeRay is black or gay?

Black. Rage Furby seems pretty occupied with “race realism”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:59:29am

re: #204 freetoken

cannot see anything. please post link

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:59:33am

re: #204 freetoken

Meanwhile, in NH, Rubio is surging, nearly doubling his previous numbers in this poll:

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The old adage is true. Dems fall in love, Republicans settle. Something tells me if Rubio is nominated though, noise will be made about a third party though..

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 4, 2016 • 7:59:50am

re: #44 Amory Blaine

I go there every now and then to see bands. Good to know he’s not a douche. I already lost Jimmy Johns.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:00:37am

re: #202 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That he’s more successful than Rage Furby

And deray has a blue checkmark on twitter.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:00:47am

re: #207 HappyWarrior

The old adage is true. Dems fall in love, Republicans settle. Something tells me if Rubio is nominated though, noise will be made about a third party though..

Now that the GOP establishment has its savior, they are going to do everything they can to promote him and confound the orange boor and the smirking theocrat.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:00:52am

re: #180 HappyWarrior

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:01:49am

re: #161 WhatEVs

Yeah, it’s amazing. I almost feel bad for the four that are left…well, three of them. I don’t know anything about the fourth, including his name. He’s either doing it right or wrong. :-) The others are mentally deficient. David Fry is like a little boy. Both Anderson’s have life problems (many of which they brought on themselves) and collectively, they are completely delusional, making statements like they were only exercising their first and second amendment rights, peaceful protests, yada yada yada.

This gal is posting good updates @maxoregonian along with the others @LesZaitz, @ryanjhaas, @jjmacnab if anyone wants updates. I am pretty enthralled with the whole thing. I especially want to watch the court cases unfold.

I want to see what happens to the barrel of lube.

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:02:10am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:02:20am

re: #204 freetoken

Meanwhile, in NH, Rubio is surging, nearly doubling his previous numbers in this poll:

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What’s his percentage/ranking? Can’t see link. Thanks

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:03:21am

re: #214 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What’s his percentage/ranking? Can’t see link. Thanks

In that NH poll, Rubio when from 8% to 15%, to come in 2nd, behind Trump.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:03:27am

re: #204 freetoken

Meanwhile, in NH, Rubio is surging, nearly doubling his previous numbers in this poll:

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It’s his turn at the top.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:03:42am

re: #203 William Lewis

Can one of you ask on Twitter if DeRay has a website I can contribute to his campaign at? My Google Foo is failing,.

I Am Running for Mayor of Baltimore

Donate here.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:03:55am

re: #168 lawhawk

Well, Daledein is pals with O’Keefe associate Lila Rose. Daledein also went to same school as Rage Furby, so this is a very tight circle of extremists.

With links through Dana Loesch (and CCJ) to the Breitbrat world. Six Degrees of Derp.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:04:25am

re: #209 Backwoods_Sleuth

And deray has a blue checkmark on twitter.

Honestly, I wouldn’t be surprised in the least if that wasn’t true. Stupid stuff like that drives people like him nuts.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:04:30am

re: #213 freetoken

Surging, I tell ya, surging:

Rubio sees surge of support after strong showing in Iowa

It was the influx of Santorum.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:05:16am

re: #220 Decatur Deb

It was the influx of Santorum.

and more shoe inserts…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:06:58am

re: #211 WhatEVs

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Nah I’m done with that. Thanks though.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:07:27am

And what does Shkreli do after taking the Fifth in front of Congress?…

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:08:48am

re: #217 Backwoods_Sleuth

I Am Running for Mayor of Baltimore

Donate here.

You cannot read that and not think well of Deray. He is an impressive man.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:09:08am

re: #223 FormerDirtDart

And what does Shkreli do after taking the Fifth in front of Congress?…

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I really like this guy. He made a good impression on me last year I think during the PP or Benghazi hearings.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:09:36am

re: #218 Decatur Deb

With links through Dana Loesch (and CCJ) to the Breitbrat world. Six Degrees of Derp.

It’s the circle of derpppppppppppppp!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:09:54am

re: #225 HappyWarrior

I really like this guy. He made a good impression on me last year I think during the PP or Benghazi hearings.

He was pretty good at the Flint Water hearing yesterday.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:10:30am

re: #227 Backwoods_Sleuth

He was pretty good at the Flint Water hearing yesterday.

Someone to watch for. Perhaps Senator or Governor when DiFi and Brown step down?

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:10:52am

re: #197 HappyWarrior

Even worse, thanks. Really I had to read the Fountainhead in high school and man what a load of pretentious bullshit. And you’re right, she was a huge racist which makes their attempts to smear Sanger as a terrible racist all the more pathetic. And as you got at too she was far from anti-abortion.

Did you ever see the damn movie? It features Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal.

I think the script was carved in stone and the dialogue in the movie is stone.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:11:17am

Gets me at another thought Asian-Americans are a quiet but growing part of the Democratic coalition too.

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:12:17am

re: #200 William Lewis

Ah what is worse for the ginger freak? That DeRay is black or gay?

Even worse. DeRay has a brain.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:13:01am

re: #229 ObserverArt

Did you ever see the damn movie? It features Gary Cooper and Patricia Neal.

I think the script was carved in stone and the dialogue in the movie is stone.

Yeah I did. Agh. Howard Roark brings shame to that name. Really I read and then watched it, I thought goddamn this guy’s a childish little brat and then this is what clinched my feelings on Ayn Rand was seeing the old Donahue interview where she denounces charity and helping people. I don’t remember if he did it or not but he really should have said if we didn’t help people she would have rotted it in the Soviet Union because hey tough shit.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:13:27am

re: #230 HappyWarrior

Gets me at another thought Asian-Americans are a quiet but growing part of the Democratic coalition too.

Since the GOP is doing such a bang-up job of alienating everyone but hetero male White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, yes…

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:14:04am

re: #215 freetoken

In that NH poll, Rubio when from 8% to 15%, to come in 2nd, behind Trump.

Buh-bye Jeb, Kasich, Christie.

Not that I think a Trump-Cruz-Rubio field is a good thing.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:14:52am

re: #233 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Since the GOP is doing such a bang-up job of alienating everyone but White Anglo-Saxon Protestants, yes…

Ha touche. But really just wanted to bring that up since Hispanic Americans get talked a lot about and Asians are sort of forgotten.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:15:43am

re: #234 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Buh-bye Jeb, Kasich, Christie.

Not that I think a Trump-Cruz-Rubio field is a good thing.

They’ve come a long way from McCain and Huckabee in 2008. //

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:16:09am

re: #223 FormerDirtDart

And what does Shkreli do after taking the Fifth in front of Congress?…

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I bet Martin Shkreli is a yooooooouge Donald Trump supporter.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:16:53am

re: #237 ObserverArt

I bet Martin Shkreli is a yooooooouge Donald Trump supporter.

I saw him more as a Rand Paul type.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:17:18am

re: #230 HappyWarrior

Gets me at another thought Asian-Americans are a quiet but growing part of the Democratic coalition too.

For all of yesterday’s self-definition, the bottom line is simple: If your group has been routinely shat-upon, you’re a natural Democrat. If you’re the shitter, join the Republican caucus.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:17:58am

re: #220 Decatur Deb

It was the influx of Santorum.

Was a little surprised to see him endorse Rubio.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:18:31am

re: #237 ObserverArt

I bet Martin Shkreli is a yooooooouge Donald Trump supporter.

He attempted to donate to the Bernie Sanders campaign. They threw it back in his face.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:18:44am

Finally got that Daily Caller article to load comments. Pretty subdued, actually…only eight comments in total.

But then there’s this:

Anita Gummer • 2 days ago
How can twitter boot Milo but let ISIS disseminate its propaganda in the name of free speech?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:18:48am

re: #240 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Was a little surprised to see him endorse Rubio.

No one ever expects the Pennsylvania Inquisitor.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:18:51am

re: #239 Decatur Deb

For all of yesterday’s self-definition, the bottom line is simple: If your group has been routinely shit-upon, you’re a natural Democrat. If you’re the shitter, join the Republican caucus.

Well as an Agnostic Autistic Irish-German-Slavic ntrovert, I do say!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:19:59am

re: #242 WhatEVs

Finally got that Daily Caller article to load comments. Pretty subdued, actually…only eight comments in total.

But then there’s this:

Milo is still on Twitter, isn’t he (@Nero)?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:20:26am

re: #242 WhatEVs

Finally got that Daily Caller article to load comments. Pretty subdued, actually…only eight comments in total.

But then there’s this:

Not enuff!!!!!!1111

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:20:37am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:20:38am

re: #245 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Milo is still on Twitter, isn’t he (@Nero)?

Detail, details …

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:20:39am

re: #245 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Milo is still on Twitter, isn’t he (@Nero)?

yes, but twitter keeps locking him out of his account.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:20:46am

re: #235 HappyWarrior

Ha touche. But really just wanted to bring that up since Hispanic Americans get talked a lot about and Asians are sort of forgotten.

…and in both groups, we see a lot of conservative family values, but they both have a strong sense of community, and this means that they value community institutions like schools and strong local governments, and understand that these need a sound tax base in order to function.

They also understand that families, no matter how hard they work, need an environment where they can improve their own lot in life and help their children ascend the social and economic ladder. When they see more and more wealth being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, they see their own chances as diminishing.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:24:18am

re: #249 Backwoods_Sleuth

yes, but twitter keeps locking him out of his account.

Looked at his TL the other day, and geeesh oh man. What a hateful loon.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:24:22am

re: #247 The Vicious Babushka

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She’s always outraged. She’s outraged that Muslims have the same rights as she does. She really is demented.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:25:40am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:25:51am

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

…and in both groups, we see a lot of conservative family values, but they both have a strong sense of community, and this means that they value community institutions like schools and strong local governments, and understand that these need a sound tax base in order to function.

They also understand that families, no matter how hard they work, need an environment where they can improve their own lot in life and help their children ascend the social and economic ladder. When they see more and more wealth being concentrated in fewer and fewer hands, they see their own chances as diminishing.

Exactly. And also with those of immigration stock about immigration, they realize that while maybe they weren’t illegal themselves, they probably do know families that were and know that they’re not sinister criminals but rather people who came here trying to make better lives.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:26:31am

re: #253 The Vicious Babushka

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And that makes you different from Obama how, Ted? P.S, Obama has actually expanded gun rights in contrast to your wet dream fantasy, Ronnie.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:27:01am

re: #240 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Was a little surprised to see him endorse Rubio.

I was too.

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gwangung  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:27:32am

re: #254 HappyWarrior

Exactly. And also with those of immigration stock about immigration, they realize that while maybe they weren’t illegal themselves

Heh. Chinese Americans know all too well about paper sons and racist immigration policy.

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:28:08am

re: #241 The Vicious Babushka

He attempted to donate to the Bernie Sanders campaign. They threw it back in his face.

That is surprising, but I do remember it.

With his comment about “Hard to accept that these imbeciles represent the people in our government” in #223 it seems he is channeling Trump.

Add in his “whatever it takes to get over and get ahead” attitude and he seems like a good Trump supporter.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:28:17am

re: #253 The Vicious Babushka

Too late. Obummer already took all the gunz.

/

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Charles Johnson  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:29:12am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:29:20am

re: #256 HappyWarrior

I was too.

Expedient I guess. Rubio can win, and for the most part just as wingnut as the others.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:29:52am

re: #240 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Was a little surprised to see him endorse Rubio.

My best guess is that Rubio and Santorum are in 100% agreement on abortion.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:30:06am

re: #260 Charles Johnson

MiloNero’s a real humanitarian, he is.

///

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:31:07am

re: #260 Charles Johnson

What’s with the “X”? Does he think he’s Malcolm?

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:31:17am

re: #257 gwangung

Heh. Chinese Americans know all too well about paper sons and racist immigration policy.

Honestly what gets me is white people who insist MY FAMILY EMIGRATED LEGALLY! Well, can they prove that and the concept of legal versus illegal immigration is a new thing. But yeah the immigration policy to the Chinese was awful. When I went to Donner National Park, they had a side exhibit about the Chinese on the railroad. Man how those people were treated was awful.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:32:04am

re: #262 Backwoods_Sleuth

My best guess is that Rubio and Santorum are in 100% agreement on abortion.

Frothy claimed it was because Rubio takes the threat of ISIS seriously. I guess no one showed him Rubio’s attendance record on hearings.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:32:12am

re: #264 Decatur Deb

What’s with the “X”? Does he think he’s Malcolm?

twitter took away his blue checkmark.
milo is protesting…

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:32:39am

re: #265 HappyWarrior

Honestly what gets me is white people who insist MY FAMILY EMIGRATED LEGALLY! Well, can they prove that and the concept of legal versus illegal immigration is a new thing. But yeah the immigration policy to the Chinese was awful. When I went to Donner National Park, they had a side exhibit about the Chinese on the railroad. Man how those people were treated was awful.

The railroad barons used Asian labor to build the railroads because they could get away with paying them less. As soon as they didn’t need them for the railroads, the Chinese Exclusion acts passed.

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:32:45am

re: #263 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

MiloNero’s a real humanitarian, he is.

///

Milo seems well versed in dicks.

And I don’t mean the male anatomy…more the character.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:33:04am

re: #267 Backwoods_Sleuth

twitter took away his blue checkmark.
milo is protesting…

He should arm up and occupy a Starbucks.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:33:07am

re: #260 Charles Johnson

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Well Marco this is your base. Enjoy them.

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:33:15am

re: #264 Decatur Deb

Oh, it’s worse… so. much. worse.

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:33:27am

re: #264 Decatur Deb

What’s with the “X”? Does he think he’s Malcolm?

His own check mark most likely/

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freetoken  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:33:38am

re: #234 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Not that I think a Trump-Cruz-Rubio field is a good thing.

The Carol Of The Three:

We three schlocks of America are
Begging for votes we traverse afar.
Field and fountain, moor and mountain,
Following yonder vote.

O votes of wonder, votes of might,
Votes with royal beauty bright,
Wingnut leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.

Born a front-runner on Iowa's plain,
Gold we schill to fleece them again,
Running forever, ceasing never
Over all to campaign.

O votes of wonder, votes of might,
Votes with royal beauty bright,
Wingnut leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.

Demagoguery to offer have I.
Hypocrisy owns a Deity nigh.
Prayer and praising all men raising,
Worship votes, Donors on high.

O votes of wonder, votes of might,
Votes with royal beauty bright,
Wingnut leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.

The Office is mine: it's bitter perfume
Breaths a life of gathering gloom.
Sorrowing, sighing, bleeding dying,
Sealed in a ballot box room.

O votes of wonder, votes of might,
Votes with royal beauty bright,
Wingnut leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.

Glorious now behold Me arise,
King and God and Kickbacks.
Alleluia, alleluia!
Sounds through K-street and Wall-Street.

O votes of wonder, votes of might,
Votes with royal beauty bright,
Wingnut leading, still proceeding,
Guide us to thy perfect Light.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:34:23am

re: #268 The Vicious Babushka

The railroad barons used Asian labor to build the railroads because they could get away with paying them less. As soon as they didn’t need them for the railroads, the Chinese Exclusion acts passed.

Yeah I know. It’s a terrible history. One other thing though, what amazes me about the Japanese-American community is even though they were treated terribly that a regiment of Japanese-Americans ended up being among fi not the most decorated units of WWII. The late Senator Dan Inoyve of Hawaii was in that unit.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:34:59am

re: #274 freetoken

The Carol Of The Three:

Bogus. No “Moors” in a Trump-Cruz-Rubio tune.

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gwangung  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:35:34am

re: #265 HappyWarrior

Honestly what gets me is white people who insist MY FAMILY EMIGRATED LEGALLY! Well, can they prove that and the concept of legal versus illegal immigration is a new thing. But yeah the immigration policy to the Chinese was awful. When I went to Donner National Park, they had a side exhibit about the Chinese on the railroad. Man how those people were treated was awful.

I am mindful that today’s anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant rhetoric are THE EXACT SAME ONES, argument for argument, word for word, as the ones used against my family and friends. I am the living counter-argument to their stupid arguments; their words leave me profoundly unimpressed.

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:36:44am

re: #265 HappyWarrior

Honestly what gets me is white people who insist MY FAMILY EMIGRATED LEGALLY! Well, can they prove that and the concept of legal versus illegal immigration is a new thing. But yeah the immigration policy to the Chinese was awful. When I went to Donner National Park, they had a side exhibit about the Chinese on the railroad. Man how those people were treated was awful.

It was a national disgrace. I understand the Chinese helped to build one of the most difficult passages through the mountains and were the reason the damn railroad was able to be cost to coast. Used, abused and discarded. Really and sadly the American way.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:40:46am
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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:40:54am
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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:41:25am

re: #279 Backwoods_Sleuth

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LOL Posting at the same time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:42:00am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:42:56am

re: #265 HappyWarrior

Honestly what gets me is white people who insist MY FAMILY EMIGRATED LEGALLY! Well, can they prove that and the concept of legal versus illegal immigration is a new thing. But yeah the immigration policy to the Chinese was awful. When I went to Donner National Park, they had a side exhibit about the Chinese on the railroad. Man how those people were treated was awful.

That came up in the documentary “The Search for General Tso”: the reason the Chinese opened so many restaurants and laundries was because they were forbidden by law to take wage-earning jobs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:43:14am

Named along with Ammon Bundy and his brother Ryan Bundy are Jon Ritzheimer, Joseph O’Shaughnessy, Ryan Payne, Brian Cavalier, Shawna Cox, Peter Santilli , Jason Patrick, Duane Leo Ehmer and Dylan Anderson.

Also indicted are four who remain at the refuge: Sean Anderson, David Lee Fry , Jeff Wayne Banta and Sandra Lynn Pfeifer Anderson.

Finally, Kenneth Medenbach, the first person arrested in January and accused of driving a government truck off the refuge property, is also named.

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ObserverArt  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:43:52am

re: #281 Tigger2

LOL

I always get a kick out of the tweet watchers and embedders. I think the other day I saw a thread where there were four of the same tweets posted within a minute.

Lizards be on it and wanting to share.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:44:27am

re: #284 Backwoods_Sleuth

also:

Ammon Bundy, 40, of Emmett, Idaho, faces one count of the conspiracy charge; Jon Ritzheimer ,32, of Peoria, Arizona, faces two counts; Joseph O’Shaughnessy, 43, of Cottonwood, Arizona, three counts, Ryan Payne, 32, of Anaconda, Montana, four counts, Ryan Bundy, of Bunkerville, Nevada, Brian Cavalier,44, of Bunkerville, Nevada, six counts, Shawna Cox, 59, of Kanab, Utah, seven counts, Peter Santilli 50, of Cincinnati, eight counts, Jason Patrick, 43, of Bonaire, Georgia, nine counts, Duane Leo Ehmer, 45, of Irrigon, ten counts, Dylan Anderson , 11 counts, Sean Anderson ,47, 12 counts, David Lee Fry, 27, of Blanchester, Ohio, 13 counts, Jeff Wayne Banta, 46, of Elko, Nevada, 14 counts, Sandra Lynn Pfeifer Anderson, 15, and Kenneth Medenbach 16 counts.

I think Maxine messed up on the count numbers.

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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:45:43am

re: #285 ObserverArt

I always get a kick out of the tweet watchers and embedders. I think the other day I saw a thread where there were four of the same tweets posted within a minute.

Laizards be on it and wanting to share.

Things come out so fast on twitter. Have to beat the MSM most of their stuff prob comes from twitter. lol

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:47:54am

re: #277 gwangung

I am mindful that today’s anti-Muslim/anti-immigrant rhetoric are THE EXACT SAME ONES, argument for argument, word for word, as the ones used against my family and friends. I am the living counter-argument to their stupid arguments; their words leave me profoundly unimpressed.

The cycle repeats itself. They did a lot of the same crap about some of mine as well. In fact, I saw CCJ justifying the immigration quotas against Eastern Europeans set in the 20’s because in his words we’re violent and communists. It’s my family experiences along with a sense of justice that makes me stand up for today’s immigrants loudly.

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:48:05am

re: #286 Backwoods_Sleuth

The count numbers seem to correspond to their position in the list. I don’t see Ammon only getting one count of conspiracy.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:49:01am

re: #289 Belafon
That’s what I think too.
Indictment is a scribd document here

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:49:22am

re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That came up in the documentary “The Search for General Tso”: the reason the Chinese opened so many restaurants and laundries was because they were forbidden by law to take wage-earning jobs.

Interesting. I need to catch that documentary.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:50:29am

re: #278 ObserverArt

It was a national disgrace. I understand the Chinese helped to build one of the most difficult passages through the mountains and were the reason the damn railroad was able to be cost to coast. Used, abused and discarded. Really and sadly the American way.

Yep. Sigh. I’m not lying here, I’m a liberal because I’m a historian. If you truly read and understand history, you should be a staunch liberal IMO.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:50:55am

re: #289 Belafon

The count numbers seem to correspond to their position in the list. I don’t see Ammon only getting one count of conspiracy.

The advantage of getting busted early? Actually looks like it relates a bit to recorded instances of public statements. The young dipshit who presents himself as their commo guy drew 13 counts.

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:52:13am

re: #293 Decatur Deb

The advantage of getting busted early? Actually looks like it relates a bit to recorded instances of public statements. The young dipshit who presents himself as their commo guy drew 13 counts.

I wouldn’t expect everyone to have a different set of counts, one more than the previous person.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:53:04am

Carson’s done. He just doesn’t realize it. Typical.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:53:06am

according to the indictment document, it’s just one count each.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:54:03am

re: #295 lawhawk

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Carson’s done. He just doesn’t realize it. Typical.

He does, but he still has money to spend…

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:54:43am

re: #294 Belafon

I wouldn’t expect everyone to have a different set of counts, one more than the previous person.

Don’t see a 5 or a 7. It’s probably some routinized legal shtick. Law-Lizards?

Edit: There is a place for 5 counts, and there is a seven (spelled), so no.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:56:19am

re: #297 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He’s spending money on fundraising - to raise more money. It’s a grift. But at least his campaign wont end up like Newt’s where he’s still owing vendors $4.5 million nearly 4 years after Newt’s campaign in 2012 ended.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:57:27am

re: #299 lawhawk

He’s spending money on fundraising - to raise more money. It’s a grift. But at least his campaign wont end up like Newt’s where he’s still owing vendors $4.5 million nearly 4 years after Newt’s campaign in 2012 ended.

Let’s hope the vendors learned their lesson in dealing with GOP candidates, especially ones who are clearly unqualified for the office they are campaigning for.

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:58:14am

re: #298 Decatur Deb

Don’t see a 5 or a 7. It’s probably some routinized legal shtick. Law-Lizards?

Seven is in the list. Ryan Bundy, doesn’t have a number, but he’s between four and six.
But, as #296 Backwoods_Sleuth points out, each is only being charged with one count of conspiracy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:59:48am

re: #295 lawhawk

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Carson’s done. He just doesn’t realize it. Typical.

Yeah he’s done.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 8:59:49am

re: #301 Belafon

Seven is in the list. Ryan Bundy, doesn’t have a number, but he’s between four and six.
But, as #296 Backwoods_Sleuth points out, each is only being charged with one count of conspiracy.

Yup. edited my above. And these are just placeholder charges until the LE gets in there and sorts it all out. If they actually find explosives, as reported, it’s going to get weird.

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nines09  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:00:06am

re: #295 lawhawk

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Carson’s done. He just doesn’t realize it. Typical.

He’s just wrapping up his book tour.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:00:21am

re: #302 HappyWarrior

Yeah he’s done.

Born done, like most of the campaigns.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:01:14am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:01:58am

re: #305 Decatur Deb

Born done, like most of the campaigns.

Indeed.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:02:16am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Maybe President Cruz will pardon them.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:05:16am

re: #299 lawhawk

He’s spending money on fundraising - to raise more money. It’s a grift. But at least his campaign wont end up like Newt’s where he’s still owing vendors $4.5 million nearly 4 years after Newt’s campaign in 2012 ended.

Yet Newt would argue that Republicans are fiscally responsible. Sheesh!

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:07:32am

re: #234 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Buh-bye Jeb, Kasich, Christie.

Not that I think a Trump-Cruz-Rubio field is a good thing.

Best case scenario for us is that none of the three has a majority of delegates going into the convention, and the GOP tears itself apart. When John Kasich is the best option, there is no good candidate.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:07:42am

re: #309 Patricia Kayden

Yet Newt would argue that Republicans are fiscally responsible. Sheesh!

Indeed if you want to see how fiscally reponsible Republicans really are, just look at how they run their campaigns.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:08:40am

What I’m curious about is who they’re going to pick as the VP. I think if it’s Rubio, they’re going to be forced to appease the firebagger base again and if it’s Trump or Cruz, they’ll be forced to choose someone acceptable to the estabblishment.

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:11:05am

re: #283 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

That came up in the documentary “The Search for General Tso”: the reason the Chinese opened so many restaurants and laundries was because they were forbidden by law to take wage-earning jobs.

Thanks for the info. Sometimes I tend to think of discrimination as literally black and white. I forget that this country’s racism impacted other minorities including Asians (who are mostly now referred to as the “model minority” as opposed to Blacks).

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Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:13:21am

Interesting observation. The cheapest Super Bowl tickets on stubhub are $2.9K each.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:13:56am

re: #295 lawhawk

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Carson’s done. He just doesn’t realize it. Typical.

Cruz was right!!! ;)

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CuriousLurker  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:14:10am

re: #198 lawhawk

New York Daily News @NYDailyNews

Islamic terrorists ‘likely’ behind mid-air blast that ripped a hole through the side of a Somali plane nydn.us
10:50 AM - 4 Feb 2016

You know what irks me about these reports? They never fail to mention it when the perpetrators are Muslim, but they almost never point out that the victims are also Muslim.

A plane was going from Somalia, a 99% Muslim country, to Djbouti, a 97% Muslim country. The official state religion of both countries is Islam. In all likelihood both the intended targets and actual victims were Muslims. [Source]

This happens somewhere nearly every day. This month is off to a slow start—10 dead and 20 injured in Kabul on 2/1, and one Israeli border policewoman killed on 2/3 (two others injured).

There were 90 terrorist attacks in January. Let that number sink in for a minute—90 terrorist attacks—that’s an average of 3 per day. Out of those, 78 resulted in one or more deaths. The vast majority of the dead & injured were Muslim, though a few Europeans, Israeli Jews, and at least one American were also casualties (no deaths among the European or American victims, and the Palestinians tend to lose one or more for every Israeli they kill).

I’m not going to try to add up the numbers of the Muslims killed by Muslim terrorists last month. It takes too long and is too depressing.

But, yeah, lets all run around with our hair on fire screaming about how ISIS is coming to get us and is a threat to the very existence of western democracies, because that’s what politicians and the media tell us is going to happen. Gah!

(Lawhawk, I’m not picking on you or mad at you, I’m just annoyed with the constant scaremongering B.S. coming from politicians and the media.)

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:14:30am

re: #313 Patricia Kayden

Thanks for the info. Sometimes I tend to think of discrimination as literally black and white. I forget that this country’s racism impacted other minorities including Asians (who are mostly now referred to as the “model minority” as opposed to Blacks).

Really, there was a lot of nastiness directed at anyone not a White Protestant oof Anglo Saxon stock. Granted I would never be so as insensitive to compare what the Irish and Eastern Europeans in my family experienced to the African-American experience or the Asian-American or Hispanic American etc.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:16:38am

re: #316 CuriousLurker

You know what irks me about these reports? They never fail to mention it when the perpetrators are Muslim, but they almost never point out that the victims are also Muslim.

All the more reason not to let Muslims fly anywhere. For their own safety.

/

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:17:46am

re: #316 CuriousLurker

You know what irks me about these reports? They never fail to mention it when the perpetrators are Muslim, but they almost never point out that the victims are also Muslim.

A plane was going from Somalia, a 99% Muslim country, to Djbouti, a 97% Muslim country. The official state religion of both countries is Islam. In all likelihood both the intended targets and actual victims were Muslims. [Source]

This happens somewhere nearly every day. This month is off to a slow start—10 dead and 20 injured in Kabul on 2/1, and one Israeli border policewoman killed on 2/3 (two others injured).

There were 90 terrorist attacks in January. Let that number sink in for a minute—90 attacks—that’s an average of 3 per day. Out of those, 78 resulted in one or more deaths. The vast majority of the dead & injured were Muslim, though a few Europeans, Israeli Jews, and at least one American were also casualties (no deaths among the European or American victims, and the Palestinians tend to lose one or more for every Israeli they kill).

I’m not going to try to add up the numbers for the Muslims killed by Muslim terrorists last month. It takes too long and is too depressing.

But, yeah, let all run around with our hair on fire screaming about how ISIS is coming to get us and is a threat to the very existence of western democracies, because that’s what politicians and the media tell us is going to happen. Gah!

(Lawhawk, I’m not picking on you or mad at you, I’m just annoyed with the constant scaremongering B.S. coming from politicians and the media.)

Guys like Dana Rohrabacher- Fourth ranking Republican on Foreign Affairs committee were singing the Taliban’s praises when the Taliban was oppressing the Hazara and Shi’a of Afghanistan. I had a classmate who was one of them. And of course the hated “Feminazis” and Human Rights groups were criticizing the Taliban as well.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:21:08am

But Baby Whiplash totally supports politicians who want to get all up in women’s business==>

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Stanley Sea  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:22:17am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:22:35am

re: #320 The Vicious Babushka

But Baby Whiplash totally supports politicians who want to get all up in women’s business==>

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or gay couples who just want the same rights under the law as Ben and his wife. Or Muslims who want to be able to worship without a bunch of armed douchebags showing up insisting that their place of worship is a terror mosque. Ben is fine with government infringing on people’s personal business as long as it’s not his business. Typical right wing hypocritical douchebag.

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darthstar  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:22:42am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:23:26am

re: #321 Stanley Sea

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Too bad that’s in the future and we don’t know where the planet is yet.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:23:57am

re: #323 darthstar

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Yikes.

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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:24:11am

re: #314 Dr. Matt

Interesting observation. The cheapest Super Bowl tickets on stubhub are $2.9K each.

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No football game is worth that. Not even 1/5 of that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:24:26am

re: #324 HappyWarrior

Too bad that’s in the future and we don’t know where the planet is yet.

Is that the one with the surf bums from space who jam with Spock on the Vulcan harp?

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:24:32am

re: #306 Backwoods_Sleuth

Good points.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:25:02am

re: #326 Tigger2

No football game is worth that. Not even 1/5 of that.

I paid 1/20 of that, maybe even less for Orioles playoff tickets.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:25:14am

re: #327 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Is that the one with the surf bums from space who jam with Spock on the Vulcan harp?

You’re asking the wrong nerd.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:25:21am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:26:03am

re: #326 Tigger2

No football game is worth that. Not even 1/5 of that.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:28:05am

Honestly I’d like to go to a pro football game once in my life but season tickets seem like a waste. I think football’s one of those sports that you can enjoy just as much watching home on TV.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:28:06am

re: #331 Charles Johnson

Having a subscription I only see ads before I log in, but there was one that opened a window that covered the entire screen “While your page is loading, browse this big bunch of ads”

AAAARRRGHHHHH KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!

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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:28:55am

re: #332 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

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The common man can’t go to it anymore It’s damn near a game for the 1% now.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:29:20am

re: #331 Charles Johnson

Note to LGF readers: we’ve been testing some new ads recently, but after much negative feedback we’ve decided to remove them.

Please don’t let it be the nice Russian ladies who like older men.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:29:39am

So typical==>

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:29:46am

re: #316 CuriousLurker

(Lawhawk, I’m not picking on you or mad at you, I’m just annoyed with the constant scaremongering B.S. coming from politicians and the media.)

Didn’t think you were.

I had initially posted about the plane incident the other day, and at the time, it didn’t look like there were any fatalities. Turns out there was one, along with several injured. As you note, the plane was flying between two Muslim majority nations, and the majority of those on board would be Muslim. Had the plane crashed, all or nearly all the victims would have been Muslim.

And every day there’s a constant stream of terror attacks primarily in the Middle East, but also South Asia and East & North Africa plus Nigeria perpetrated by people claiming to be Muslims whose targets are also Muslim, though perhaps of a different sect or are seen as being insufficiently Muslim (apostate).

The religious intolerance is taken to its extremes with ISIL/Daesh as well as Boko Haram or Al Shabaab, and domestic politicians attempt to show the threat from Islamic terror as great or greater than at any time since 9/11.

The statistics don’t bear that out - particularly in the US. Outside of NYC, the odds of being the victim of an Islamic terror attack, especially one linked to a foreign terrorist organization directly, is remote. You’re far more likely to be killed by some right wing nutter than an Islamic terror group. NYC is still a high profile target, but even here it’s still safer than say in Iraq or Syria, where the targets and victims are nearly all Muslim.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:30:14am

re: #337 The Vicious Babushka

So typical==>

[Embedded content]

Yep. Typical right wing asshole.

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makeitstop  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:30:16am

re: #334 The Vicious Babushka

Having a subscription I only see ads before I log in, but there was one that opened a window that covered the entire screen “While your page is loading, browse this big bunch of ads”

AAAARRRGHHHHH KILL IT KILL IT WITH FIRE!!!!!!

Yeah, that one was bad. The rest of them I can put up with until I’m in shape to subscribe.

Thanks, Charles!

341
Decatur Deb  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:30:18am

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Honestly I’d like to go to a pro football game once in my life but season tickets seem like a waste. I think football’s one of those sports that you can enjoy just as much watching home on TV.

Football and ballet.

342
Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:31:03am

re: #333 HappyWarrior

Honestly I’d like to go to a pro football game once in my life but season tickets seem like a waste. I think football’s one of those sports that you can enjoy just as much watching home on TV.

I’ve had season tickets with the [university redacted] alma mater for a number of years. Wouldn’t miss it. You can’t replicate the atmosphere.

I’ve also been to an NFL game. It was an oddly clinical, overproduced, and surprisingly unpleasant experience. Focus-grouped half to death and bland in the extreme.

I think Green Bay might be fun, though. Is it a coincidence that the only fun-looking (read: college-looking) atmosphere is with the team that’s owned by the people rather than some shady-ass billionaire who extorts the city for a new stadium every 20 years?

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:31:06am

re: #337 The Vicious Babushka

So typical==>

[Embedded content]

Except in reality in many countries which have paid maternity leave, women can work at higher rates than in the US.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:31:44am

re: #340 makeitstop

Yeah, that one was bad. The rest of them I can put up with until I’m in shape to subscribe.

Thanks, Charles!

Missed it, because I treated myself to a paid subscription. Its worth it!

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sagehen  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:32:48am

re: #326 Tigger2

No football game is worth that. Not even 1/5 of that.

The 1992 Olympics basketball final might have been worth that…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:34:36am

re: #345 sagehen

The 1992 Olympics basketball final might have been worth that…

What a squad. All hall of famers except Laettner.

347
Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:36:44am

Texas prosecutor offers probation deal to Planned Parenthood-hating activist David Daleiden

David Daleiden, indicted in January by a Houston-area grand jury, appeared briefly at Harris County District Court on the charge of tampering with a governmental record, which can bring up to 20 years in prison. He also faces a misdemeanor charge for trying to procure fetal tissue

[…]

He was offered a probation deal typically reserved for non-violent offenders in which, if he keeps a clean record for a certain period, charges would be dropped, prosecutors said.

[…]

Daleiden’s lawyers have said the charges are groundless and are seeking to have them thrown out.

Anyone seen his mugshot?

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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:37:12am

re: #345 sagehen

The 1992 Olympics basketball final might have been worth that…

Great team, I got to watch Bird play every home game when he went to ISU.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:37:32am

re: #326 Tigger2

My couch is so much more comfortable and there’s hardly ever a line for my bathrooms.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:38:56am

re: #349 Dr. Matt

My couch is so much more comfortable and there’s hardly ever a line for my bathrooms.

And the beer is a lotttttttttt cheaper.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:42:02am

That smirk just reeks of smug asshole:

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Targetpractice  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:45:22am

re: #347 Dr. Matt

Texas prosecutor offers probation deal to Planned Parenthood-hating activist David Daleiden

Anyone seen his mugshot?

I said the day the charges were announced that he’d be offered a plea deal before it was all said and done. But it seems the dumbass doesn’t see that it’s either probation or time in jail.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:46:09am

re: #338 lawhawk

And every day there’s a constant stream of terror attacks primarily in the Middle East, but also South Asia and East & North Africa plus Nigeria perpetrated by people claiming to be Muslims whose targets are also Muslim, though perhaps of a different sect or are seen as being insufficiently Muslim (apostate).

That bit right there is another thing that bugs me. It’s as obvious to me as the nose on my face that we shouldn’t trust ANY extremists, religious or otherwise because once they get started “fixing” things to their satisfaction, anyone who complains that they prefer some other flavor of Kool-Aid gets liquidated.

I don’t doubt for a minute that these militia “patriots” would turn on their fellow Americans in a heartbeat if they had any power. Ditto for the fundies like Cruz.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:49:08am
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Skip Intro  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:49:50am

re: #353 CuriousLurker

I agree with you, but they’ll never be called terrorists because they’re both Christian and white. That’s two free passes right there.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:52:19am

Once again, all the usual suspects show up.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:53:36am

re: #356 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

Once again, all the usual suspects show up.

They’re his base.

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CuriousLurker  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:55:04am

re: #354 Dr. Matt

[Embedded content]

He looks quite confident that he’ll walk away from this unscathed. We’ll see.

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The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:56:49am

re: #351 Dr. Matt

Smug asshole seems to be all the rage these days. I can’t go anywhere without seeing it.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:58:11am

re: #359 The alpuzzzzz from Wisconsin

Smilla’s Sense of Smug.

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BlueSpotinAL  Feb 4, 2016 • 9:58:46am

re: #350 Testy Toad T

And the beer is a lotttttttttt cheaper.

And better! On tap at my house: Wee Heavy aged 6 months in Jack Daniels barrel, Porter brewed with belgian yeast, Pale Ale with Soriachi Ace hops.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:01:16am

re: #352 Targetpractice

I said the day the charges were announced that he’d be offered a plea deal before it was all said and done. But it seems the dumbass doesn’t see that it’s either probation or time in jail.

How comes the PP selling baby parts for profits like we all saw on videos don’t get jail, huh!??!?!?!?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:01:35am

Response to Questions Regarding the Oregon Office of Sheriff - 02/04/16
Sheriffs in all 36 Oregon counties have taken an oath to support the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of Oregon, and the laws thereof. Our oath is our pledge to you, to be conservators of the peace for our citizens, while being respectful of the rights afforded to all of us under the Constitution.

What a great state and nation we live in that allows everyone to express their opinion, hold a sign in protest, lobby for change and live free without fear of retaliation from the government. Our founding fathers created a system of government consisting of three branches: legislative, judicial and executive.

Sheriffs and Sheriff’s Offices are part of the executive branch, charged with enforcement of laws as directed by the legislative branch and interpreted by the judicial branch. Under our system of government, the judicial branch is given the authority to interpret the Constitutionality of our laws. We are a nation of laws, and the executive branch cannot override the laws passed by the legislative branch, nor can we ignore the clear guidance of the judicial branch. There is a process for changing the laws of our great nation and for amending our Constitution, and that process does not involve the armed takeover of government facilities and disruption of an entire community. We fully support the expression of political opinions, and advocating for change within the legal system — that is what sets our country apart from developing countries where the government is changed by an armed takeover.

Recently, men and women have broken the law and encouraged others to take up arms against our local and federal governments. These individuals have used firearms and their interpretation of the Constitution to justify their criminal behavior. These militia men and women have broken into publicly owned buildings, disrespected Native American heritage and intimidated and harassed local residents and officials.

These men and women are asking for change, and we support their right to challenge our government to make change. However, we do not agree with or support any citizen or elected official who would advocate for change in a manner that includes illegal action, threats of violence, or violence against any citizen of the United States.

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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:07:12am
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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:07:15am

re: #356 lawhawk

Once again, all the usual suspects show up.

I really hope Cruz is their nominee. He would get absolutely crushed in the general election. But at the same time, the further away is is from the Presidency, the better.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:08:39am

re: #365 GlutenFreeJesus

I really hope Cruz is their nominee. He would get absolutely crushed in the general election. But at the same time, the further away is is from the Presidency, the better.

I think the best that could happen is he gets a lot of delegates and perhaps tries to force one of his minions as the running mate and brings down Rubio (presuming Rubio will be the guy) down.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:10:04am
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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:10:29am

what discussion is there about Ted Cruz’s chances going forward really anywhere? Seems to me there’s very little.

Part of this is certainly that the unique and enduring nature of these two states. A diehard conservative often wins Iowa, especially if they have an evangelical sheen. The same kind of candidate has a much harder time of it in New Hampshire where the conservatism is less extreme and less infused with religion. But even a no-hoper like Santorum managed to get more Sant-mentum in 2012 than Cruz is getting now.

Why?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:12:08am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:12:42am
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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:13:05am

The GOP is fighting Democrat efforts to include Flint aid funding in the energy bill under discussion. Democrats want it added to the bill. The GOP doesn’t want it. And their excuses ring hollow as usual. Penny pinching and ignoring that #GOPmath doesn’t add up.

The GOP broke Flint’s water supply, and now they’re refusing to do anything to fund the fix.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:15:02am

Good afternoon.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:16:50am
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Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:17:45am

re: #373 Not a Sparkly Vampire

e_e
‘Something smells’: Top Iowa paper calls for ‘complete audit’ of Clinton’s win over Sanders
Yeah, smells like desperation.

Link

I’m certain /////// they would be crowing about the horrid inequity of it all if Sanders had pulled out the victory.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:17:51am

But hey, whatever, investigate the hell out of it until your blue in the face. Won’t change anything.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:18:33am

Oregon Standoff Leader Ammon Bundy And Armed Militiamen Indicted

A federal grand jury has indicted Ammon Bundy and some of the men and women who joined him at the armed occupation of an Oregon wildlife refuge, authorities said Wednesday.

However, the indictment remained sealed and further details on the charges were unavailable.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Geoff Barrow said the documents would be unsealed within 24 hours.

Barrow said the indictment was returned against the 11 people who have already been arrested and others, perhaps a reference to the last four holdouts at the Malheur National Wildlife Refuge.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:18:34am

We live close enough to the Super Bowl that it’s going to be on the disruptive side. Our local light rail is running trains to the stadium - but the fare, instead of $2, will be $20, and you have to get on one of the stadium expresses, because all other trains will be stopping before the stadium.

I expect they’ll be checking tickets on those trains too.

The ACE trains are running to the stadium, but enforcing the stadium bag policy on the train - clear bag only, of a certain size, etc. Not sure what Amtrak is doing but I believe it’s not a normal schedule either. Parking for Caltrain is $20 for the day, so I expect that to be nuts.

mr. klys is working from home on Friday because his office is within sight of the stadium and they’ve been banging on the “TRAFFIC WILL BE HORRIBLE” drum all week. Hopefully we’re going to be able to take off around 2-3pm and get the hell out of the Bay Area for the weekend.

The plan is to time the drive home so that we arrive while the game is still ongoing, because while his risk assessment wants to be out of town for the start of it, mine says we damn well better be off the road by the end of it.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:19:03am

re: #376 Not a Sparkly Vampire

But hey, whatever, investigate the hell out of it until your blue in the face. Won’t change anything.

And again, even if true, it’s just stupid politics unless all you’re worried about is losing the rabidness of your following.

One or two delegates is stupendously unlikely to matter, but now you look like a petulant sore loser weak whiner. S-M-R-T.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:19:40am

re: #371 lawhawk

[Embedded content]

The GOP is fighting Democrat efforts to include Flint aid funding in the energy bill under discussion. Democrats want it added to the bill. The GOP doesn’t want it. And their excuses ring hollow as usual. Penny pinching and ignoring that #GOPmath doesn’t add up.

The GOP broke Flint’s water supply, and now they’re refusing to do anything to fund the fix.

This is what wingnuts think of Flint==>

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sizzzzlerz  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:19:41am

re: #371 lawhawk

The GOP broke Flint’s water supply, and now they’re refusing to do anything to fund the fix.

Honestly, would you have expected anything different? I’m only surprised that they haven’t been crowing that the thugs deserved what they got.

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WhatEVs  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:19:41am

re: #367 lawhawk

HA! You can drag the trumpet around and blow Trump’s hair in different directions.

That there’s funny…and I don’t care who you are.

trumpdonald.org

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:20:51am

re: #378 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Downtown San Jose has closed off one road and put down turf edge to edge to make a mini football field, though. That was kind of cool.

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Jenner7  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:21:43am

re: #369 Backwoods_Sleuth

Because “blah people”….

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:22:08am

re: #375 Testy Toad T

Link

I’m certain /////// they would be crowing about the horrid inequity of it all if Sanders had pulled out the victory.

Exactly. Their response:

BERN WON. GET OVER IT BITCH!!!!!

SHE TRYNA STEAL IT!!!!

etc. etc. etc infinity

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:24:27am

re: #373 Not a Sparkly Vampire

e_e
‘Something smells’: Top Iowa paper calls for ‘complete audit’ of Clinton’s win over Sanders
Yeah, smells like desperation.

When both campaigns accept the result and neither asks for a recount, who is really being served by pushing this story?

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:24:33am
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Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:25:00am

re: #380 The Vicious Babushka

This is what wingnuts think of Flint==>

[Embedded content]

The irony of using a bomb crater to represent the US debt, I am sure, is completely lost on him.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:25:40am

After his second-place finish in Iowa, Mr. Trump in the new ad conveys a sense of broad support and confidence, with minorities featured prominently — a tacit acknowledgment that his Republican rivals have been portraying him as offensive to a variety of demographic groups.

he’s never gonna win if he starts listening to campaign advisors like this and acting like a normal candidate

it should be more like Vote Trump and Hate Now!

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:25:58am

re: #386 Blind Frog Belly White

When both campaigns accept the result and neither asks for a recount, who is really being served by pushing this story?

The media.

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Jenner7  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:26:16am

No way, really???

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:26:26am

re: #388 Testy Toad T

The irony of using a bomb crater to represent the US debt, I am sure, is completely lost on him.

I think its supposed to be cancer

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:26:51am
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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:27:11am

re: #388 Testy Toad T

The irony of using a bomb crater to represent the US debt, I am sure, is completely lost on him.

It’s not a bomb crater. It’s an artist’s conception of what a cancer looks like. Apart from melanomas, though, most cancers aren’t black.

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lawhawk  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:27:11am

re: #391 Jenner7

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:28:04am

re: #388 Testy Toad T

The irony of using a bomb crater to represent the US debt, I am sure, is completely lost on him.

I’ll say this about Ramirez, he actually has better artistic skills than the other wingnut artists, Branco and the McCoys. But he is just as insane.

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Jenner7  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:28:33am

re: #395 lawhawk

He did use a private email and did not keep his emails after he left position.

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:28:36am

re: #395 lawhawk

And the answer is that he didn’t receive classified email. He received email that was later classified.

(I know you know that.)

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:29:38am

re: #398 Belafon

And the answer is that he didn’t receive classified email. He received email that was later classified.

(I know you know that.)

Yeah but Hillary had a SERVER so JAIL NO BAIL!!!111

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:29:43am

re: #386 Blind Frog Belly White

When both campaigns accept the result and neither asks for a recount, who is really being served by pushing this story?

Good grief, the comments on that article.

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Charles Johnson  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:30:06am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:30:34am

re: #386 Blind Frog Belly White

When both campaigns accept the result and neither asks for a recount, who is really being served by pushing this story?

And when the results are not winner-take-all, etc.

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Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:30:44am

re: #392 Kragar

I think its supposed to be cancer

Cue Morbo: CANCER DOES NOT WORK THAT WAY, GOOD NIGHT.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:30:52am

re: #391 Jenner7

Rice Aides, Powell Also Got Classified Info on Personal Email Accounts

But they are not running for President and they did not murder Americans in Benghazi, so there!

/

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:31:28am

re: #400 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Good grief, the comments on that article.

No thanks. Not going there. Someone needs to smack the Berniebots upside the head and introduce them to Ted Cruz and Donald Trump.

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sagehen  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:32:37am

re: #365 GlutenFreeJesus

I really hope Cruz is their nominee. He would get absolutely crushed in the general election. But at the same time, the further away is is from the Presidency, the better.

I want to believe that, but I keep flashing on something I read a while ago from some anti-Trump Republicans: “sure he’s whacko, he’d be a disaster, and if he gets the nomination I’m reasonably secure he’d lose the general. But what if Hillary Clinton slips on a banana peel? I’d rather not take the chance.”

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:32:44am

trump acting positive and inclusive

now his bubble will surely collapse

408
Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:33:35am

re: #379 Testy Toad T

And again, even if true, it’s just stupid politics unless all you’re worried about is losing the rabidness of your following.

One or two delegates is stupendously unlikely to matter, but now you look like a petulant sore loser weak whiner. S-M-R-T.

I really want to hammer this point, because I think it’s important: Bernie Sanders is fundamentally not a very good politician, and he is bad at hiring subordinates.

Bad politicians who make bad hires don’t get elected to the presidency, and when they do they are bad presidents. Even when they think some of the things I think.

409
Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:33:42am

re: #407 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸

trump acting positive and inclusive

now his bubble will surely collapse

Is he still demanding a recount in Iowa?

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Jenner7  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:34:01am

Oh look. An email story that turns out to be wrong days later.

What a joke.

411
Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:34:51am

re: #404 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

But they are not running for President and they did not murder Americans in Benghazi, so there!

/

Who was it - John Nolte? - who said the 22 emails were being held because THEY CONTAIN THE STAND DOWN ORDER!!!?

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:35:34am

re: #409 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Is he still demanding a recount in Iowa?

Nah - nullification or re-vote.

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Tigger2  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:36:24am

re: #410 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Oh look. An email story that turns out to be wrong days later.

What a joke.

Another wingnut outrage dies in the cradle.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:36:55am

re: #411 Blind Frog Belly White

Who was it - John Nolte? - who said the 22 emails were being held because THEY CONTAIN THE STAND DOWN ORDER!!!?

Well John Nolte’s about a straight-up guy as there is so I believe him.

///

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:37:30am

re: #414 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Well John Nolte’s about a straight-up guy as there is so I believe him.

///

There are no sarc tags strong enough for that one.

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Targetpractice  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:38:38am

re: #410 Jenner7

[Embedded content]

Oh look. An email story that turns out to be wrong days later.

What a joke.

They’re still hedging the story:

“She didn’t outright name anybody, but she indirectly revealed information that might have led to intelligence operatives being compromised!”

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:39:02am

re: #416 Targetpractice

They’re still hedging the story:

“She didn’t outright name anybody, but she indirectly revealed information that might have led to intelligence operatives being compromised!”

INDIRECT!!!1

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:39:50am
419
GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:40:21am

Wait. The CIA has undercover agents?????!?!?!?!!!!???

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:41:08am

re: #419 GlutenFreeJesus

Wait. The CIA has undercover agents?????!?!?!?!!!!???

See? Hillary’s emails have blown everything we’ve ever worked for.

/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:41:17am
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Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:41:26am

re: #410 Jenner7

Oh look. An email story that turns out to be wrong days later.

What a joke.

I had to introduce my ex-military coworker to the No Ifs Ands Or Buts 7-Day Clinton Outraeg Waiting Period the other day.

He was pleasantly receptive.

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Lidane  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:42:50am

re: #387 Kragar

Those “pro-rape” idiots even triggered a stopped clock moment for our idiot Governor:

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:43:12am

re: #423 Lidane

Those “pro-rape” idiots even triggered a stopped clock moment for our idiot Governor:

RINO.

/

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Testy Toad T  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:43:18am

Ha, I dig the money quote.

Powell told NBC News he strongly disputed that the information in the messages sent to him was classified, and characterized the contents as “fairly minor.”

“I wish they would release them,” Powell said, “so that a normal, air-breathing mammal would look at them and say, ‘What’s the issue?’”

Powell said he has read the two messages in question, having been made aware of the letter. The messages originated with ambassadors — one in the Philippines, the other in Europe. He said they were first circulated on unclassified State Department systems, and sent to his personal account by his assistant.

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Targetpractice  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:43:30am

re: #373 Not a Sparkly Vampire

e_e
‘Something smells’: Top Iowa paper calls for ‘complete audit’ of Clinton’s win over Sanders
Yeah, smells like desperation.

What put Bernie within spitting distance of Hillary by the end was O’Malley’s caucus voters being told he’d failed to meet the arbitrary breaking point and had to vote again, with most choosing to vote for Sanders as their second choice. If anybody has grounds to bitch, it’s O’Malley due to the arcane rules that screwed him out of the running.

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:44:55am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:45:27am

re: #427 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Eww

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Kragar  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:46:52am

re: #428 HappyWarrior

Eww

“ALL SHALL LOVE ME AND DESPAIR!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:47:08am

re: #427 Kragar

nicer face:

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:47:11am

re: #423 Lidane

Those “pro-rape” idiots even triggered a stopped clock moment for our idiot Governor:

[Embedded content]

Milo still sticks up for Roosh because “Freeze Peach”==>

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:48:37am

The media so desperately want the email thing to be a scandal.

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Belafon  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:49:15am

re: #431 The Vicious Babushka

Milo still sticks up for Roosh because “Freeze Peach”==>

Here’s the thing, Milo: It’s one thing to be allowed to talk about something disgusting, it’s another to actually do it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:55:03am

re: #418 FormerDirtDart

[Embedded content]

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Dr Lizardo  Feb 4, 2016 • 10:55:20am

re: #387 Kragar

[Embedded content]

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ausador  Feb 4, 2016 • 11:05:07am

re: #395 lawhawk


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