Overnight Jam: FORQ, “Lenburu”

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FORQ - Lenburu (by Michael League) from the CD/DVD “Batch” on GroundUP Music.
Buy the album here - https://groundup-music.myshopify.com

Henry Hey - keyboards & khan
Chris McQueen - electric guitar
Michael League - electric bass
Jason “JT” Thomas - drums

Recorded by Nic Hard at the Bunker Studio in Brooklyn, New York.
Mixed by Nic Hard at Limebeat Studios in New York, New York.
Mastered by Scott Hull at Masterdisk in New York, New York.

Video directed by Andy LaViolette for Mr. Magic Carpet Ride Productions.
www.andylaviolette.com

Filmed by Andy LaViolette, Simon “C.F.” Yu, and Yusuke Suzuki.

Management and Booking - Mike Bindraban - mike@goodmusiccompany.com

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323 comments
1
retired cynic  Feb 15, 2016 • 10:32:06pm

Oh, good! More FORQ!

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goddamnedfrank  Feb 15, 2016 • 11:08:10pm
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William Lewis  Feb 15, 2016 • 11:38:21pm

A nice little blues jam with the President singing at the end… :D

Sweet Home Chicago with the White House All Stars

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 16, 2016 • 12:52:57am

re: #3 William Lewis

A nice little blues jam with the President singing at the end… :D

Gangsta music.

/

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Scout  Feb 16, 2016 • 2:55:05am

Speaking of musicians, here’s one who will not be getting my patronage.

From my hometown paper, an article about the Eagles of Death Metal:

japantimes.co.jp

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 16, 2016 • 3:06:54am

re: #5 Scout

Speaking of musicians, here’s one who will not be getting my patronage.

From my hometown paper, an article about the Eagles of Death Metal:

japantimes.co.jp

I would feel safer at any rock concert knowing that the audience was heavily armed and ready to use their weapons to defend Freedom.

/

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 3:23:20am

From the overnight threads, it seems there was a musicball competition.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Feb 16, 2016 • 3:27:40am

re: #7 Decatur Deb

From the overnight threads, it seems there was a musicball competition.

Somebody who sold millions of records was awarded with a prize for selling millions of records…

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 3:43:43am

This recording has not won any trade association awards.

Don Shirley Trio - Water Boy

(Be careful—some of the artwork posted behind Don Shirley cuts is conceivably NSFW.)

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 3:56:32am

re: #7 Decatur Deb

From the overnight threads, it seems there was a musicball competition.

I’ve only gathered that, even without my own yard to watch, and at my tender-ish age, I ought to be yelling at someone.

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:08:38am

Mastodon - Octopus Has No Friends

I nice subdued bit of shredding by Mastodon.

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:15:46am

Queens of the Stone Age - Mexicola

I might as well spam some…

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:21:41am

re: #2 goddamnedfrank

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The Bremen Town Musicians

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Danack  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:22:32am

A Republican National committeewoman from Nevada said Monday that she believes both Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) are ineligible to run for President.

It’s funny. I thought you could only go halfway into the forestderp, then you’d just start making your way out. No, it can go on forever sometimes.

/possibly actually obscure

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:23:19am

Baby Whiplash turning the Derp up to eleventy.
Nobody thinks that, asshole.

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:28:12am

Purty amped for tonight. This time of year, I live a day behind. I know I’m turning up for a Wednesday’s work but an important quarter is still living Tuesday and doing important work.
I wish I was there making a difference. Props to BeachDem and Decatur Deb (plus anyone else involved at this stage). You’re inspirational.

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:30:45am

re: #15 The Vicious Babushka

Really, seriously, incredibly difficult to do whilst simultaneously delivering said child -_-

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:32:27am

re: #17 Alyosha

Really, seriously, incredibly difficult to do whilst simultaneously delivering said child -_-

All it takes to terminate the pregnancy at that point is ONE MORE HARD PUSH.

ABORTION= ending a pregnancy

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:34:02am

Why would I want to buy a used car and someone else’s collection of boogers under the seat?

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:35:24am

re: #19 Kent Dorfman

Why would I want to buy a used car and someone else’s collection of boogers under the seat?

Depends. Was the previous owner Jon Voigt?

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:38:14am

re: #5 Scout

“Rock and roll for me has always been fun and I am not going to let anyone take that away from me, or my friends,” he said, referring to the band’s fans.

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freetoken  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:48:36am

The end of cheap oil ➛ the end of cheap gasoline ➛ increasing angst in car-luvin America:

Saudis and Russia agree to oil output freeze, Iran still an obstacle

Top oil exporters Russia and Saudi Arabia agreed on Tuesday to freeze output levels but said the deal was contingent on other producers joining in - a major sticking point with Iran absent from the talks and determined to raise production.

The Saudi, Russian, Qatari and Venezuelan oil ministers announced the proposal after a previously undisclosed meeting in Doha. It could become the first joint OPEC and non-OPEC deal in 15 years, aimed at tackling a growing oversupply of crude and helping prices recover from their lowest in over a decade.

[…]

I suspect Trump will jump on this as an example of America losing again.

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:50:36am

re: #22 freetoken

A freeze is probably too late, and they are very dependent on the money coming in. Saudi Arabia has been burning through their cash reserves for quite some time.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:54:32am

re: #13 The Vicious Babushka

The Bremen Town Musicians

My first thought, except for llama/donkey.

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:56:13am

re: #22 freetoken

The end of cheap oil ➛ the end of cheap gasoline ➛ increasing angst in car-luvin America:

Saudis and Russia agree to oil output freeze, Iran still an obstacle

I suspect Trump will jump on this as an example of America losing again.

Russia has been trying to raise revenue for a few years now by manufacturing crises, culminating in a proxy war now in Syria in which one of the parties to the deal happens to be a geopolitical rival…

We, in what remains of this Coalition ought to remain grateful that Obama was president at this moment. Now with Turkey hitting the Kurds, who happen to be our most effective shot against Daesh *and* Russia’s proxies…

Ugh…

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:57:31am

re: #25 Alyosha

but, but, but Russia has GOLD

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 4:59:16am

re: #26 Kent Dorfman

Bitcoins are still good, right?

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Patricia Kayden  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:02:53am

re: #14 Danack

A Republican National committeewoman from Nevada said Monday that she believes both Sens. Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Ted Cruz (R-TX) are ineligible to run for President.

It’s funny. I thought you could only go halfway into the forestderp, then you’d just start making your way out. No, it can go on forever sometimes.

/possibly actually obscure

Loving it. Republicans attacking each other makes my day. They’re nasty people and hopefully they’ll take candidates down one by one with only Trump standing.

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freetoken  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:08:08am

The first two post-debate polls show Trump still leading in SC, though perhaps lost a bit of luv from the South Carolinians:

thestate.com

drive.google.com

Certainly this is going to be an interesting race come the morning of 2 March.

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:08:22am

LOL, Hillary barking is a Howard Dean moment, I highly doubt that.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:10:05am

re: #30 Kent Dorfman

LOL, Hillary barking is a Howard Dean moment, I highly doubt that.

The standard has changed so much, so quickly, that Dean could cream “Mofo” and walk away from it.

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:11:07am

Is it South Carolina that was referred to antebellum as ‘too small for a republic and too large for a sanitarium’?

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:12:59am

re: #32 Alyosha

Is it South Carolina that was referred to antebellum as ‘too small for a republic and too large for a sanitarium’?

Right state, some variation out there on the wording.

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freetoken  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:13:49am

NBC’s national tracking poll still shows Trump untouchable:

Trump Maintains National Lead Heading Into South Carolina

Image: nbc-surveymonkey_weekly_election_tracking_poll_bush_carson_christie_cruz_kasich_rubio_trump_chartbuilder_444f58c2e149c2d597dd8be5f17d5c16.nbcnews-ux-600-480.png

One thing evident in that NBC article is how clueless Chuck Todd still is - “South Carolina is a 2-person race on GOP side”

The polls show otherwise.

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:15:41am

Fox & Friends just showed a bunch of tweets asking if Clarence Thomas was next and said it was liberals hoping for him to die, when I bet you it was a bunch of Alex Jones whackjobs promoting their stupid conspiracy theory. Fuckers.

EDIT: I rewound the TV to the segment and it was actually left-leaning Twitter users making jokes about Thomas being next. I stand corrected. Still, I wouldn’t put it past Fox to do something like that.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:21:47am

re: #35 No Depression

Fox & Friends just showed a bunch of tweets asking if Clarence Thomas was next and said it was liberals hoping for him to die, when I bet you it was a bunch of Alex Jones whackjobs promoting their stupid conspiracy theory. Fuckers.

There’s some RWNJs who could live without Chief Justice Roberts.

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Alyosha  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:25:56am

re: #33 Decatur Deb

Right state, some variation out there on the wording.

Gives me an excuse to revisit Mr. Burns’ doco without, hopefully, seeing too many parallels…

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:27:17am

re: #29 freetoken

The first two post-debate polls show Trump still leading in SC, though perhaps lost a bit of luv from the South Carolinians:

thestate.com

drive.google.com

Certainly this is going to be an interesting race come the morning of 2 March.

Every single poll shows Trump way ahead of everyone else. Here is a fact to chew on. Since 1980, every Republican nominee for President has won either the NH or SC primary, and Trump is poised to win both. Three GOP non-incumbent candidates have won both, and all three became the nominee.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:28:22am

re: #24 Decatur Deb

My first thought, except for llama/donkey.

It could be a modern version, obviously there were no llamas in medieval Germany.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:31:06am

re: #34 freetoken

NBC’s national tracking poll still shows Trump untouchable:

Trump Maintains National Lead Heading Into South Carolina

Image: nbc-surveymonkey_weekly_election_tracking_poll_bush_carson_christie_cruz_kasich_rubio_trump_chartbuilder_444f58c2e149c2d597dd8be5f17d5c16.nbcnews-ux-600-480.png

One thing evident in that NBC article is how clueless Chuck Todd still is - “South Carolina is a 2-person race on GOP side”

The polls show otherwise.

And new Democratic polling still shows Hillary poised to crush Bernie in South Carolina. There is still a lot of time for that to change since the Ds don’t vote in SC until the 27th, and if Bernie can pull off an upset in the Nevada Caucus that could give him added momentum.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:31:44am

re: #35 No Depression

Fox & Friends just showed a bunch of tweets asking if Clarence Thomas was next and said it was liberals hoping for him to die, when I bet you it was a bunch of Alex Jones whackjobs promoting their stupid conspiracy theory. Fuckers.

EDIT: I rewound the TV to the segment and it was actually left-leaning Twitter users making jokes about Thomas being next. I stand corrected. Still, I wouldn’t put it past Fox to do something like that.

Unfortunate, because it just gives credence to GOPers’ wishful thinking: this morning on NPR Orrin Hatch was asked if he’d like to be nominated. He answered in effect that he’d like the job, but Democrats would wish him dead within the first year, and that he’d stay alive 20 years just to spite them. Yes, that’s what SCOTUS is about.

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Tigger2  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:35:20am

re: #40 Big Beautiful Door

And new Democratic polling still shows Hillary poised to crush Bernie in South Carolina. There is still a lot of time for that to change since the Ds don’t vote in SC until the 27th, and if Bernie can pull off an upset in the Nevada Caucus that could give him added momentum.

Don’t think that’s going to happen for Bernie in the southern SC they are more small D traditional voters, JMO. But like you not sure of Navada.

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Tigger2  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:37:58am
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:38:26am

What a dumpster fire of a human being==>

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:38:47am

re: #43 Tigger2

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SERIES OF TUBES, HOW DO THEY WORK

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:39:29am

re: #44 The Vicious Babushka

What a dumpster fire of a human being==>

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Before you can consent, there has to be a question, Benny. Your party is saying no even before there’s a nominee.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:44:07am

re: #46 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Before you can consent, there has to be a question, Benny. Your party is saying no even before there’s a nominee.

Ben is mocking the idea that there has to be mutual consent before sex.

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:44:25am

\re: #44 The Vicious Babushka

What a dumpster fire of a human being==>

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I feel sorry for his kid. It’s gonna suck for him/her (can’t remember which) to grow up with a miserable, spiteful shithead at the head of the household.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:44:28am

re: #42 Tigger2

Don’t think that’s going to happen for Bernie in the southern SC they are more small D traditional voters, JMO. But like you not sure of Navada.

One recent poll in Nv showed them tied, but it was by a Republican outfit I don’t recognize, so I don’t give it much credence. Since Nevada is a Caucus, polling is going to be pretty unreliable anyway.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:45:11am

re: #44 The Vicious Babushka

What a dumpster fire of a human being==>

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:45:49am

re: #47 The Vicious Babushka

Ben is mocking the idea that there has to be mutual consent before sex.

So he’s pro-rape, then. Wonderful.

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Tigger2  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:46:47am

re: #49 Big Beautiful Door

One recent poll in Nv showed them tied, but is was by a Republican outfit I don’t recognize, so I don’t give it much credence. Since Nevada is a Caucus, polling is going to be pretty unreliable anyway.

Yeah I don’t trust republican polls and I don’t trust online polls either.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:50:11am

re: #45 Not a Sparkly Vampire

SERIES OF TUBES, HOW DO THEY WORK

Trump is much better at this reality tv show competition than any of his rivals. He is the Richard Hatch of the GOP campaign.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:52:31am

re: #52 Tigger2

Yeah I don’t trust republican polls and I don’t trust online polls either.

Online polls are worthless. All polling by outfits which are expressly partisan can be assumed to have a built in bias. I assume the bias in a R poll of the Democratic race is pro-Bernie, because they are salivating at the prospect of running against a self-professed socialist.

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Tigger2  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:53:17am

re: #53 Big Beautiful Door

Trump is much better at this reality tv show competition than any of his rivals. He is the Richard Hatch of the GOP campaign.

That’s because Trump has come into the 21 Century and the Republicans haven’t made it there yet.

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:56:56am

Tucker Carlson just interviewed a couple of Sports Illustrated models. Poor women.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:57:38am

re: #19 Kent Dorfman

Why would I want to buy a used car and someone else’s collection of boogers under the seat?

If it’s Keith Richards’ car? That car’ll run forever. And who knows what else is under the seats.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 5:58:44am

We got 2.75 inches of heavy, wet snow overnight (it was probably more than that because we got .8 inch of rain before it transitioned to snow, so snow accumulation took a while to happen).
Anyhoo…here I am with loads of most excellent snowball material and no one to throw them at.
Guess I could mess with the dogs and play fetch with them….

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:03:48am

re: #39 The Vicious Babushka

It could be a modern version, obviously there were no llamas in medieval Germany.

Insidious infiltration by the Seuss Bloc.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:03:51am

re: #52 Tigger2

There’s been only a handful of polls in NV. One back in December that showed Hillary ahead by a huge margin, and a GOP leaning pollster (paid for by Free Beacon) releasing one claiming a tie.

There’s narratives to uphold.

Many states haven’t had recent polling because the earlier margins were so wide that there was little need to indicate that Hillary was going to do anything but win the nomination. That may still be the case, but the early primaries/caucus situations suggest a slightly tighter race.

That’s why the Sanders supporters are bitching about the superdelegate system. Hillary’s ahead by a large margin, which means Sanders’ win in NH doesn’t mean anything in the grand scheme. It’s barely a ripple in the pond. If Bernie wins a couple more states between now and Super Tuesday, then that’s a different story, but right now, there’s not much to indicate it.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:05:29am

re: #58 Backwoods_Sleuth

We got a couple inches of slush as a result of a few inches of snow yesterday and overnight before temps rose into the 50s and rain. Some branches have already come down due to wind and the heavy wet snow. Now, the worry is about local flooding due to the drains being covered with snow/ice and runoff causing a problem.

Fun times.

I’d almost prefer a foot of snow to the mixed bag BS.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:09:27am

re: #57 lawhawk

If it’s Keith Richards’ car? That car’ll run forever. And who knows what else is under the seats.

Dialogue from Inspector Lewis:

Detective Sgt: “Did you know there are 20,000 quid in the glove box of that old Land Rover?”

Ancient Rocker Suspect: “So that’s where it went.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:11:35am
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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:12:06am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:16:07am

re: #64 lawhawk

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Great White Snark  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:17:44am

Terrible video of a cluster bomb attack on Aleppo by Russian planes. Unbelievably indiscriminate bombing.
Paged.

I sure hope Obama and Kerry are maneuvering strongly to put an end to this.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:19:06am

re: #64 lawhawk

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No One Showed Up To That Anti-Beyoncé Rally, Which Might’ve Been A Prank To Begin With

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ChuckJager95  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:20:46am

I checked Ben Shapiro’s Twitter for the first time in a while, and it seems the White Nationalists have really stepped up the “assault” on his page. He can’t make a single comment without at least some anti-Jewish dog whistle as a response (more often than not it’s less subtle).

Some friends you got there, Ben.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:21:07am

re: #66 Great White Snark

The Russians engage in war crimes, and Greenwald and Snowden couldn’t be bothered to issue a statement. They don’t care unless it’s the US dropping those bombs, in which case then they demand the US be held accountable for everything.

Seen a few nit-twits trying to argue around the Russian bombings of schools and MSF facilities in Syria, as though we must hold the US accountable before addressing the current carnage.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:22:40am

re: #68 ChuckJager95

I don’t feel sorry in the slightest for him. He’s lied down with dogs, and he’s got all that is coming to him. He runs with Milo, and thinks that he’s the arbiter of all things Jewish.

It figures that the white supremacists/neo Nazis would remind him that he’s still Jewish and fits into their plans too… and not in a good way.

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ChuckJager95  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:22:54am

re: #68 ChuckJager95

I checked Ben Shapiro’s Twitter for the first time in a while, and it seems the White Nationalists have really stepped up the “assault” on his page. He can’t make a single comment without at least some anti-Jewish dog whistle as a response (more often than not it’s less subtle).

Some friends you got there, Ben.

for example, a RT from Ben:

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:24:44am

Scalia couldn’t have died at a better time and I don’t feel bad for saying it:

Scalia’s Death Came As Conservatives Were About To Seize Historic Legal Gains

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:26:56am

re: #68 ChuckJager95

I checked Ben Shapiro’s Twitter for the first time in a while, and it seems the White Nationalists have really stepped up the “assault” on his page. He can’t make a single comment without at least some anti-Jewish dog whistle as a response (more often than not it’s less subtle).

Some friends you got there, Ben.

That might explain some of Ben’s tweets. “What do I have to do to be part of their gang?” he asks himself. And he totally misses why they are attacking him.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:33:08am

re: #68 ChuckJager95

I checked Ben Shapiro’s Twitter for the first time in a while, and it seems the White Nationalists have really stepped up the “assault” on his page. He can’t make a single comment without at least some anti-Jewish dog whistle as a response (more often than not it’s less subtle).

Some friends you got there, Ben.

What I can’t get over is how miserable he is. Can’t even talk about his daughter without acting like a complete shithead. I don’t feel bad either. He chooses to make a bunch of bigots his friends and is one himself too.

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ChuckJager95  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:33:47am

re: #73 Belafon

That might explain some of Ben’s tweets. “What do I have to do to be part of their gang?” he asks himself. And he totally misses why they are attacking him.

I think he realizes -now, and a bit too late - that deep down inside, most racists still hold the Jewish people and the Blahs as the lowest and it’s just that it’s just been more politically expedient to scream about Muslims and Mexicans.

I wonder how much time passes before the Allen Wests of the world start catching shit. Until Beyoncé’s halftime show, I would have thought at least a decade more of open facism, but now I’m not so sure.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:33:57am

Sigh…
All the sump pump lines are frozen.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:36:57am

re: #76 Not a Sparkly Vampire

really sucks when that happens.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:37:15am

re: #72 No Depression

Scalia couldn’t have died at a better time and I don’t feel bad for saying it:

Scalia’s Death Came As Conservatives Were About To Seize Historic Legal Gains

That will only further the conspiracy crap but yes I don’t feel bad observing that.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:38:10am
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Tigger2  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:42:25am

re: #79 Dr. Matt

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Don’t think that’s covered in the Constitution.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:42:26am

re: #79 Dr. Matt

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True story but when Souter retired, a wingnut I knew claimed Souter couldn’t do that because he was a Republican appointee. Guess he forgot who Thomss replaced.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:44:53am

You know you’re a Supreme Court nerd and you dream Obama chose Loretta Lynch for the job.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:46:59am

re: #80 Tigger2

Don’t think that’s covered in the Constitution.

Since when did that ever prevent a GOP talking point?

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:48:08am

re: #65 Backwoods_Sleuth

Welansa Asrat, MD @Dr_Asrat
Beyoncé Sells Out Wembley Stadium In 10 Minutes bit.ly

So much for that anti-Beyoncé protest today pic.twitter.com

The American right has no idea how isolated or alone it is in the world. They used to have the Latin American dictators and Apartheid South Africa as reliable co-ideologues, but now those are gone and even Putin’s solidarity is a sham and a cynical manipulation. They still have Netanyahu, but have no idea that he presides over a society that is dramatically more liberal than they realize. To the average European the American right-wing, especially the so-con branch, is a bizarre and faintly amusing cult, if they are aware of it at all.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:49:27am

re: #84 Shiplord Kirel

The American right has no idea how isolated or alone it is in the world. They used to have the Latin American dictators and Apartheid South Africa as reliable co-ideologues, but now those are gone and even Putin’s solidarity is a sham and a cynical manipulation. They still have Netanyahu, but have no idea that he presides over a society that is dramatically more liberal than they realize. To the average European the American right-wing, especially the so-con branch, is a bizarre and faintly amusing cult, if they are aware of it at all.

They really are. Perhaps that’s what scares them most.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:50:03am
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:50:33am

re: #83 Dr. Matt

Since when did that ever prevent a GOP talking point?

The logic is implied in the argument. The assumption is that a republican will win the election and so by rights, since Scalia was conservative and a republican appointee, it would seem against some sort of rule or law or article or something that Obama should defer to the other team oops, should appoint a nominee. So I won’t be surprised if someone makes that assumption soon if it hasn’t happened already: “it must be unconstitutional!”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:54:05am

re: #87 Barefoot Grin

The logic is implied in the argument. The assumption is that a republican will win the election and so by rights, since Scalia was conservative and a republican appointee, it would seem against some sort of rule or law or article or something that Obama should defer to the other team. So I won’t be surprised if someone makes that assumption soon if it hasn’t happened already: “it must be unconstitutional!”

Be ironic if Scalia himself did that but I think he replaced Rehnquist when Reagan promoted Rehnquist to CJ which btw requires a new confirmation hearing.

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KGxvi  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:58:32am

re: #82 HappyWarrior

You know you’re a Supreme Court nerd and you dream Obama chose Loretta Lynch for the job.

I don’t think it’ll be Lynch. As the current AG, she’d probably have to recuse herself from far too many cases.

I need to read up on some of the other names being thrown around, particularly those already on the bench.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 6:59:03am

re: #87 Barefoot Grin

The next game the GOP is playing is that he should adhere to the Thurmond Rule. For those not familiar with that BS, it’s the claim by Thurmond that a president shouldn’t nominate anyone within the final 6 months of their presidency.

For those keeping count, Obama still has roughly 11 months to go.

The GOP keeps trying to play these procedural games, and it just doesn’t pass the smell test.

I get it; the GOP doesn’t want Obama flipping the ideological balance of the Court from conservative to liberal. But guess what, he can and has that right under the Constitution. If the Senate wants to block his nomination from consideration, that’s on them and it will be their obstructionism that will come back to bite the GOP. But the nation will see just how qualified his nomination will be and if he picks someone recently confirmed, it’ll show just how nakedly partisan the GOP are - that they aren’t interested in governance, but rather obstructionism and being the party of No.

More to the point, the GOP nonsense actually starts with the Dixiecrats thwarting Fortas being confirmed as Chief Justice (he was already on the bench). That’s the current GOP base for those not keeping score. They were pissed at their segregationism being rolled back by the Warren court. Oh, and they weren’t exactly hiding their anti Semitism either (Fortas was Jewish).

So, yeah, the GOP hypocrisy on this runs deep and long - and has its genesis in segregationism, anti Semitism, and racism (what, you mean you’re surprised that the GOP now champions all of the above?)

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:00:12am

re: #89 KGxvi

I don’t think it’ll be Lynch. As the current AG, she’d probably have to recuse herself from far too many cases.

I need to read up on some of the other names being thrown around, particularly those already on the bench.

Just a dream heh. SCOTUSBlog likes her though FWIW but I agree.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:00:18am
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KGxvi  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:00:35am

re: #90 lawhawk

Is anyone else surprised that a Dixiecrat would have come up with a rule like that?

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Skip Intro  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:01:40am

re: #82 HappyWarrior

You know you’re a Supreme Court nerd and you dream Obama chose Loretta Lynch for the job.

I want him to nominate Anita Hill.

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ipsos  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:02:25am

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh gawd. I don’t always notice the Ns, but upside-down 8s in signage drive me crazy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:03:56am

re: #90 lawhawk

The next game the GOP is playing is that he should adhere to the Thurmond Rule. For those not familiar with that BS, it’s the claim by Thurmond that a president shouldn’t nominate anyone within the final 6 months of their presidency.

For those keeping count, Obama still has roughly 11 months to go.

The GOP keeps trying to play these procedural games, and it just doesn’t pass the smell test.

I get it; the GOP doesn’t want Obama flipping the ideological balance of the Court from conservative to liberal. But guess what, he can and has that right under the Constitution. If the Senate wants to block his nomination from consideration, that’s on them and it will be their obstructionism that will come back to bite the GOP. But the nation will see just how qualified his nomination will be and if he picks someone recently confirmed, it’ll show just how nakedly partisan the GOP are - that they aren’t interested in governance, but rather obstructionism and being the party of No.

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More to the point, the GOP nonsense actually starts with the Dixiecrats thwarting Fortas being confirmed as Chief Justice (he was already on the bench). That’s the current GOP base for those not keeping score. They were pissed at their segregationism being rolled back by the Warren court. Oh, and they weren’t exactly hiding their anti Semitism either (Fortas was Jewish).

So, yeah, the GOP hypocrisy on this runs deep and long - and has its genesis in segregationism, anti Semitism, and racism (what, you mean you’re surprised that the GOP now champions all of the above?)

Krauthammer might want to look at this because this is actual hypocrisy.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:04:29am

re: #94 Skip Intro

I want him to nominate Anita Hill.

Talk to my dreams heh.

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Sionainn  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:04:56am

re: #49 Big Beautiful Door

One recent poll in Nv showed them tied, but it was by a Republican outfit I don’t recognize, so I don’t give it much credence. Since Nevada is a Caucus, polling is going to be pretty unreliable anyway.

I’ve had three polling calls so far in Nevada, all of them from different organizations, but all asking the same questions. How likely am I to vote? How likely am I to caucus? Who will I caucus for?

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:05:12am

re: #95 ipsos

Oh gawd. I don’t always notice the Ns, but upside-down 8s in signage drive me crazy.

˙ʎzɐɹɔ ǝɯ sǝʌᴉɹp ʇɐɥʇ ‘ɥɐǝ⅄

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:06:46am

It’s a good point that the DB makes that Supreme Court picks weren’t a huge deal until the right flipped its collective shit on integration.

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KGxvi  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:07:24am

re: #91 HappyWarrior

Just a dream heh. SCOTUSBlog likes her though FWIW but I agree.

My guess is that it will be one of the judges that Obama had recently named to the DC Circuit. I wouldn’t be opposed to someone from a state supreme court either, but they rarely get the call anymore. It’d also be interesting to see a private practice litigator get the nod - but this close to the end of his term, that’s probably too much of a gamble.

The reason I suggest someone from private practice is because most Justices, upon appointment, are a few years removed from being practicing lawyers (lately, they’ve been lower court judges). The Supreme Court is the last word on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so it’d be nice to have someone with some recent practical experience on the Court. (Kagan comes the closest to having such experience among current members).

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Tigger2  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:09:48am
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:10:15am

re: #72 No Depression

Scalia couldn’t have died at a better time and I don’t feel bad for saying it:

Scalia’s Death Came As Conservatives Were About To Seize Historic Legal Gains

What is at stake? Only the fate of the planet for the next 10,000 years. And I’m sorry, but that isn’t an exaggeration.
vox.com

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:10:41am

re: #101 KGxvi

My guess is that it will be one of the judges that Obama had recently named to the DC Circuit. I wouldn’t be opposed to someone from a state supreme court either, but they rarely get the call anymore. It’d also be interesting to see a private practice litigator get the nod - but this close to the end of his term, that’s probably too much of a gamble.

The reason I suggest someone from private practice is because most Justices, upon appointment, are a few years removed from being practicing lawyers (lately, they’ve been lower court judges). The Supreme Court is the last word on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure, so it’d be nice to have someone with some recent practical experience on the Court. (Kagan comes the closest to having such experience among current members).

Sounds good to me.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:10:53am

Jeb getting jebbush.com pulled right out from under him

Rubio using Vancouver as the US

Trump using Nazi re-enactors for a Make America Great Again ad

Cruz just being a total asshole

What an election year.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:11:49am

re: #90 lawhawk

The next game the GOP is playing is that he should adhere to the Thurmond Rule. For those not familiar with that BS, it’s the claim by Thurmond that a president shouldn’t nominate anyone within the final 6 months of their presidency.

For those keeping count, Obama still has roughly 11 months to go.

The GOP keeps trying to play these procedural games, and it just doesn’t pass the smell test.

I get it; the GOP doesn’t want Obama flipping the ideological balance of the Court from conservative to liberal. But guess what, he can and has that right under the Constitution. If the Senate wants to block his nomination from consideration, that’s on them and it will be their obstructionism that will come back to bite the GOP. But the nation will see just how qualified his nomination will be and if he picks someone recently confirmed, it’ll show just how nakedly partisan the GOP are - that they aren’t interested in governance, but rather obstructionism and being the party of No.

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More to the point, the GOP nonsense actually starts with the Dixiecrats thwarting Fortas being confirmed as Chief Justice (he was already on the bench). That’s the current GOP base for those not keeping score. They were pissed at their segregationism being rolled back by the Warren court. Oh, and they weren’t exactly hiding their anti Semitism either (Fortas was Jewish).

So, yeah, the GOP hypocrisy on this runs deep and long - and has its genesis in segregationism, anti Semitism, and racism (what, you mean you’re surprised that the GOP now champions all of the above?)

I only heard of the Thurmond rule this morning when someone posted a clip from Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal about this mess. Samantha: “Strom will be smiling up from hell at the GOP obstruction….”

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Tigger2  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:12:43am

re: #105 GlutenFreeJesus

Jeb getting jebbush.com pulled right out from under him

Rubio using Vancouver as the US

Trump using Nazi re-enactors for a Make America Great Again ad

Cruz just being a total asshole

What an election year.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:13:14am

re: #92 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Wow, and I thought the Fox Babe panty-flash sites (yes, there is more than one) were weird. In response to the usual suspicious questions, I first found these because a discussion here had mentioned several of the Fox News contingent’s female stars. I could not match faces with names so I did an image search. Yikes! There apparently really are people who sit around all day waiting for a Fox girl to inadvertently (?) reveal a pixel or two of underwear imagery.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:13:31am

Apparently this is happening in Chicago right now:

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:14:16am

re: #100 HappyWarrior

Look, I get the need to make sure that candidates are qualified. That’s the advice and consent clause at work. Some nominees weren’t qualified - Miers being the most recent example. That lack of qualifications would have been exposed during hearings.

Voice votes, which was all it took in some instances, wouldn’t identify any issues.

But the GOP has now carried this to an extreme, and are threatening to ignore the constitution altogether - so-called strict constructionist Ted Cruz says the President shouldn’t nominate anyone at all - which is odd since it says that the President shall nominate under Art. 2, Sec. 2.

Cruz knows this, but doesn’t care. All his talk about Obama shredding the constitution is a smokescreen for GOP obstructionism (often by him personally).

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:15:43am

re: #110 lawhawk

And Rand Paul saying Obama should not nominate anyone because he has a conflict of interest…

O_o

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:16:25am

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Rand Paul saying Obama should not nominate anyone because he has a conflict of interest…

O_o

Lolwhut.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:17:03am

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Rand Paul saying Obama should not nominate anyone because he has a conflict of interest…

O_o

Wouldn’t that disqualify Rand, Rubio and Cruz, as well as Hillary and Bernie, since they’re running (or were running) for the very office that nominates. What an asshat flack who ignores the Constitution and doesn’t seem to know how to read the pocket constitution he and his buddies claim to carry around.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:17:29am

OMFG, is seriously said that.
HAHAHAHAHAHA

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:18:23am

re: #113 lawhawk

Wouldn’t that disqualify Rand, Rubio and Cruz, as well as Hillary and Bernie, since they’re running (or were running) for the very office that nominates. What an asshat flack who ignores the Constitution and doesn’t seem to know how to read the pocket constitution he and his buddies claim to carry around.

We’d have no Supreme Court in that case.
XD

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:18:43am

re: #110 lawhawk

Look, I get the need to make sure that candidates are qualified. That’s the advice and consent clause at work. Some nominees weren’t qualified - Miers being the most recent example. That lack of qualifications would have been exposed during hearings.

Voice votes, which was all it took in some instances, wouldn’t identify any issues.

But the GOP has now carried this to an extreme, and are threatening to ignore the constitution altogether - so-called strict constructionist Ted Cruz says the President shouldn’t nominate anyone at all - which is odd since it says that the President shall nominate under Art. 2, Sec. 2.

Cruz knows this, but doesn’t care. All his talk about Obama shredding the constitution is a smokescreen for GOP obstructionism (often by him personally).

Precisely. Make sure the nominee is qualified but there’s no good reason to use the nominee’s beliefs against him. If the GOP wants Scalia like minded individuals, they need to expect liberal minded ones on the court too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:19:00am

re: #112 Not a Sparkly Vampire

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:19:23am

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Rand Paul saying Obama should not nominate anyone because he has a conflict of interest…

O_o

Rand says that word, he has no clue what it means.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:19:52am

re: #117 Backwoods_Sleuth

This has to be the dumbest thing I’ve heard in some time.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:20:55am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:21:15am

That’d mean Alito and Roberts had a COI for the challenges to Bush’s interrogation rules. Scalia, O’Connor, and Kennedy to Reagan’s agenda. Paul really shows his ignorance there. It’s his job you hack.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:21:58am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Okay how the fuck can you not be sure and call yourself someone who loves this country?

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:24:14am

re: #86 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Protesters just aren’t like they used to be.

I wonder if all the online talk about acting tough and getting together and holding a big demonstration tuckers out once they blow off their initial steam and then log off.

All those TeaParty demos, and million truckers and bikers and taking back America rallys…pfft. Duds.

Hmmm. Bernie Sanders…are you paying attention?

It might be a little difficult to get the modern American to actually take to the streets to tell the Wall Street Bankers and the 1 Percenters and their political backers that they are not going to stand for all this inequality.

Something to consider. Sometimes it does seem to be all talk.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:24:21am

The more I see the more I think the American right especially in the South would repeal the 13th if they could.

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:24:29am

re: #63 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Makes you wonder who ties his shoes for him. Or they just cut to the chase and he wears loafers.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:25:10am

re: #125 nines09

Makes you wonder who ties his shoes for him. Or they just cut to the chase and he wears loafers.

flip-flops…

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:26:36am

re: #126 Backwoods_Sleuth

flip-flops…

Velcro.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:28:28am

re: #96 HappyWarrior

Krauthammer might want to look at this because this is actual hypocrisy.

Heh…you said Krauthammer might want to consider something conservatives are doing as hypocrisy.

That will never happen. Unpossible.

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KGxvi  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:28:53am

re: #120 Backwoods_Sleuth

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:29:14am

re: #125 nines09

Makes you wonder who ties his shoes for him. Or they just cut to the chase and he wears loafers.

THE CROODS - Official Clip - “Shoes”

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:32:07am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:33:07am

re: #128 ObserverArt

Heh…you said Krauthammer might want to consider something conservatives are doing as hypocrisy.

That will never happen. Unpossible.

I’m a dreamer. Old fool showed last night he has or at least his readership what hypocrisy is. He used a hypothetical to call the Dems hypocrites. Nice one Chuck.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:33:26am

re: #111 Backwoods_Sleuth

And Rand Paul saying Obama should not nominate anyone because he has a conflict of interest…

O_o

Every senator has a conflict of interest then, since the SCOTUS rules on their decisions as well.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:33:50am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:34:17am

re: #133 Belafon

Every senator has a conflict of interest then, since the SCOTUS rules on their decisions as well.

Exactly but don’t let that stop Randy Rand. He’s a diggin’!

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:35:26am

re: #131 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Line of reasoning usually leads to a right wing cognitive dissonance moment or 5 thousand.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:36:06am

re: #134 The Vicious Babushka

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That is his legacy. We can talk about his ‘sharp tongue’ but the man’s rulings screwed millions of people based on a nonsensical view of the Constitution as a document that can’t be altered with the times,

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:36:42am
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:38:15am

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Our military is still the most powerful on the planet.
Not sure why it needs to be even more powerful…

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:38:46am

re: #140 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Because. It always was. ////

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:39:00am
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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:39:18am

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:40:21am

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Rebuild? It’s more powerful than ever Ted and you’d know that if you actually went to committee hearings rather than waxing false nostalgia about Reagan all the time. Reagan is dead, he’s not coming back to make conservatives feel better about being bigoted assholes.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:40:40am

re: #142 lawhawk

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Enjoyed his spot on Ali G.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:40:53am

Bickering about Scalia’s replacement is just a distraction from Scalia’s murder cover-up….and from Benghazi!

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:41:43am

re: #138 Backwoods_Sleuth

And then, with Cruz in charge, the military will be feared by allies, and lots of people will ally against us.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:42:31am

Here’s why this fails my Conspiracy Faintest Hint of Logic Test.
He waited until year 7 of 8 to do this.
That, right there, fails it.
NEXT!

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:42:39am

re: #142 lawhawk

Obama had him killed so he could take over the UN.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:43:37am

re: #148 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Here’s why this fails my Conspiracy Faintest Hint of Logic Test.
He waited until year 7 of 8 to do this.
That, right there, fails it.
NEXT!

With a Republican Senate Majority no less. Derp. Nice one Alex, tell us again how the Illuimanti gives you sleepless nights.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:44:58am

re: #148 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Here’s why this fails my Conspiracy Faintest Hint of Logic Test.
He waited until year 7 of 8 to do this.
That, right there, fails it.
NEXT!

THAT JUST PROVES HE’S GOING TO DECLARE MARITAL LAW AND NOT LEAVE!!!

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:45:11am

re: #151 HappyWarrior

With a Republican Senate Majority no less. Derp. Nice one Alex, tell us again how the Illuimanti gives you sleepless nights.

You can’t even get to “Why?” when they spout their conspiracies anymore without rolling your eyes and walking away.

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Shiplord Kirel  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:45:21am

re: #151 HappyWarrior

With a Republican Senate Majority no less. Derp. Nice one Alex, tell us again how the Illuimanti gives you sleepless nights.

Imagine the conspiraloon meltdown if Alex himself croaks, as he looks like he might do any minute.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:45:56am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:46:55am

re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Absolutely. Great observation.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:47:37am

re: #155 Backwoods_Sleuth

And there’s another country, just like this: North Korea.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:48:00am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:50:26am

sigh…

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:50:47am

Said it during the Ryan Budget debate and I’ll say it again, you can NOT call yourself a deficit hawk and not only oppose defense cuts but want increases.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:51:25am

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

If his is true, Bernie is dead to me.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:51:35am

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

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Are they mad that HRC actually handled Flint like a leader should?

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:52:49am

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

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Such Upstanding. So Honesty. Many Integrity. Wow!

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:52:50am

re: #152 Blind Frog Belly White

THAT JUST PROVES HE’S GOING TO DECLARE MARITAL LAW AND NOT LEAVE!!!

He’s going to lock down the entire world and take all of its guns and then take complete control and really set up The New World Order!

Obamanation. You can live in Dark Obamanation, Obamanation Asia, North Obamanation, Old Euro Obamanation, South Obamanation, Aussie Obamanation, Polar Obamanation…but it will all be Obama all the time.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:53:06am

Sometimes you just wanna summon the meteors….
/

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:54:06am

Rochester, NY:

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:54:19am

re: #154 Shiplord Kirel

Imagine the conspiraloon meltdown if Alex himself croaks, as he looks like he might do any minute.

Okay, I admit it. I may have killed him. /

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:55:53am

re: #162 HappyWarrior

Are they mad that HRC actually handled Flint like a leader should?

wut u think shillary is being serious? she’s just pandering man

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:56:34am

re: #168 No Depression

wut u think shillary is being serious? she’s just pandering man

Heh that’s what amuses me. Hillary is always pandering but Bernie never would pander. They both do.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:56:37am

In the Wingnut World, the US Military ALWAYS needs to be ‘rebuilt’. These are the people who laugh out loud at the idea that our military is the strongest in the world - but of course they can’t name a stronger one.

It’s like during the great ‘Mandatory Minimums’ rage of the 1990s, when Senators and Congressmen each wanted to appear harder on crime than everyone else, so they started bidding up the sentences. Now, in order to appear to be the Tough Guy, they have to bid DOWN the current state of the US Military.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:56:46am

re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rochester, NY:

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Wowie.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:56:47am

And without carpet bombing a bunch of cities, go figure

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 7:56:51am

re: #159 Backwoods_Sleuth

sigh…

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Don’t worry. Bernie will tell them to knock it off in a couple weeks. He runs a clean campaign after all.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:00:18am

re: #166 Backwoods_Sleuth

Rochester, NY:

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I was born in Rochester. We left when I was 3, so my memories are few and ‘snapshotty’. One is of walking a shoveled path with snow higher than my head.

I prefer to have snow as an option, rather than a miserable reality.

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FormerDirtDart  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:00:22am

1. This is worth the 14 seconds of your life spent watching it.
2. Must say I really like the #Cosplaytriot tag.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:01:20am

re: #175 FormerDirtDart

1. This is worth the 14 seconds of your life spent watching it.
2. Must say I really like the #Cosplaytriot tag.

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Ow.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:02:38am
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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:02:45am

Aaaannnndddddddddd here it is:

Trump Says Scalia’s Death Is Under ‘Unusual’ Circumstances

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:03:42am

re: #175 FormerDirtDart

Nelson

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ipsos  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:03:49am

re: #174 Blind Frog Belly White

I was born in Rochester. We left when I was 3, so my memories are few and ‘snapshotty’. One is of walking a shoveled path with snow higher than my head.

I prefer to have snow as an option, rather than a miserable reality.

I still live here. It’s pretty miserable out there today, which makes me very happy to be working from home.

But by tomorrow it will be in the 40s and half of what’s out there will have melted. We’ve actually had a freakishly mild winter overall this year. Thanks, Al Gore… :/

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Blind Frog Belly White  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:04:17am

re: #176 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Ow.

On Mythbusters, they like to test movie scenes for plausibility. One involved decapitation by ceiling fan. No actual ceiling fans, even with blades, could do it. So they rigged a lawn mower engine up with sharpened steel blades. Didn’t quite decapitate their ballistic gelatin model, but did fuck him up seriously.

Of course, it was also loud as hell and couldn’t possibly escape notice….

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:04:53am
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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:04:56am

re: #178 Dr. Matt

Aaaannnndddddddddd here it is:

Trump Says Scalia’s Death Is Under ‘Unusual’ Circumstances

Well, yeah, it’s Marfa. It was probably the aliens that did him in.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:05:30am

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

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They also had slaves Steve. I know that detail in particular makes you really sad.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:06:24am

re: #180 ipsos

I still live here. It’s pretty miserable out there today, which makes me very happy to be working from home.

But by tomorrow it will be in the 40s and half of what’s out there will have melted. We’ve actually had a freakishly mild winter overall this year. Thanks, Al Gore… :/

I’ve been in Rochester in early April and there were still mounds of snow stacked wherever they could put it, left over from the winter.

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ipsos  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:07:34am

re: #185 ObserverArt

I’ve been in Rochester in early April and there were still mounds of snow stacked wherever they could put it, left over from the winter.

That’s still the case in winters with heavy snow, but there have been fewer and fewer of those lately.

(And early April still *is* “winter” here, at least sometimes.)

The tradeoff is that spring, when it arrives, is glorious here. Summer is even better, and autumn is out of this world.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:08:11am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:11:06am
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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:12:17am

re: #137 HappyWarrior

That is his legacy. We can talk about his ‘sharp tongue’ but the man’s rulings screwed millions of people based on a nonsensical view of the Constitution as a document that can’t be altered with the times,

Its not even so much that the document can’t be altered as that the legal principles espoused there can’t be applied to specific situations that arise unless there is evidence that people in the 18th and 19th centuries had considered the situation and intended it to apply in those situations. So, for example, despite the clear equal protection language in the 14th amendment, it should only provide equal protection to African-Americans and not women or LGBT. Its a nutty philosophy, IMO.

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:12:19am

re: #178 Dr. Matt

Aaaannnndddddddddd here it is:

Trump Says Scalia’s Death Is Under ‘Unusual’ Circumstances

But of course. He knows his audience. He will never pass up the opportunity to use his WWF skills. Ninja left pillow just to confuse.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:13:39am

re: #139 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Trump Joins Radio Ally To Fuel Scalia Murder Conspiracy Theory

They are both raging racists, so its not surprising that they are buds.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:14:19am

re: #140 Not a Sparkly Vampire

Our military is still the most powerful on the planet.
Not sure why it needs to be even more powerful…

The GOP has convinced half the country that the US military is not the most powerful on the planet.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:15:21am

re: #189 Big Beautiful Door

Its not even so much that the document can’t be altered as that the legal principles espoused there can’t be applied to specific situations that arise unless there is evidence that people in the 18th and 19th centuries had considered the situation and intended it to apply in those situations. So, for example, despite the clear equal protection language in the 14th amendment, it should only provide equal protection to African-Americans and not women or LGBT. Its a nutty philosophy, IMO.

It really is and it’s a joke that he was seen as a model conservative judge. I remember being a kid and learning about the court and both Scalia and his friend RBG were interviewed for the program and what RBG said made infinite much more sense than what Scalia did. Scalia’s philosophy was inflexible.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:17:15am

re: #160 HappyWarrior

Said it during the Ryan Budget debate and I’ll say it again, you can NOT call yourself a deficit hawk and not only oppose defense cuts but want increases.

LOL, they have plans for budget busting tax cuts for the 1%, and they still claim to be deficit hawks. They lie without compunction.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:18:26am

re: #194 Big Beautiful Door

LOL, they have plans for budget busting tax cuts for the 1%, and they still claim to be deficit hawks. They lie without compunction.

And the medai never calls them out on it.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:22:43am

Dr. Ben Carson says Republican presidential candidates wouldn’t be calling on deceased Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia’s replacement to be nominated by the next president if a member of their party currently held the White House.

Asked on WRNN 99.5 FM in South Carolina if his fellow candidates would say the same thing about waiting to nominate a new justice if there was a Republican president, Carson replied, “No, they wouldn’t.”

“But then again, recognize that the two picks that the president has selected are ideologues, so there’s really no reason to believe that his next pick wouldn’t be an ideologue also,” Carson said.

It’s indisputable that this would be the case. The GOP would be looking to steamroll the nomination and confirmation process to make sure that the next president doesn’t get that opportunity. Now, they’re playing delay and obstruct. It’s all politics.

Someone forgot to give Carson the Blue Pill.

I also have little doubt that Democrats would be attempting to delay confirmation under those circumstances, but they would give the President’s nomination the hearings. They did so with Bork (it’s just that Bork couldn’t get confirmed - lost the Committee vote and then the full Senate), and Reagan’s next option withdrew (Doug Ginsburg - for pot use no less) before Kennedy was easily confirmed.

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No Depression  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:24:03am

re: #192 Big Beautiful Door

The GOP has convinced half the country that the US military is not the most powerful on the planet.

We need to spend more on our military. If China, Russia, Saudi Arabia, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Japan, India and South Korea enter an alliance and declare war on us, we’re fucked! //

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:24:46am

re: #195 HappyWarrior

And the medai never calls them out on it.

Of course not, they neutrally present the opposing claims that on the one hand, tax cuts will increase the deficit, and on the other hand magical tax cut unicorns will fart rainbows of new money to reduce the deficit. It would be biased to observe that only one take is based in reality.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:27:44am

re: #196 lawhawk

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It’s indisputable that this would be the case. The GOP would be looking to steamroll the nomination and confirmation process to make sure that the next president doesn’t get that opportunity. Now, they’re playing delay and obstruct. It’s all politics.

Someone forgot to give Carson the Blue Pill.

I also have little doubt that Democrats would be attempting to delay confirmation under those circumstances, but they would give the President’s nomination the hearings. They did so with Bork (it’s just that Bork couldn’t get confirmed - lost the Committee vote and then the full Senate), and Reagan’s next option withdrew (Doug Ginsburg - for pot use no less) before Kennedy was easily confirmed.

For as much as they love to talk about how Bork got treated by the Democrats. There were Republicans like Specter and Warner who opposed him as well. Reagan knew he chose a lightening rod with a Democratic controlled Senate and went with it. But you’re right, Bork at least got a hearing and a chance to be voted down upon on his own merits or in Bork’s case demerits. McConnell and the other Republicans have flat out said they’d opopse anyone President Obama picks. The two situations couldn’t be moer different. As for Carson, there’s something funny about him calling Kagan and Sotomayor idealogues when looking at who Obama is replacing.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:29:12am
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Barefoot Grin  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:29:56am

re: #185 ObserverArt

I’ve been in Rochester in early April and there were still mounds of snow stacked wherever they could put it, left over from the winter.

My mental association of the region and winter is with the Buffalo mayor who declared ahead of a blizzard in the 1980s something like “get a six-pack and watch a football game” as advice on how to handle the storm.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:32:05am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:33:31am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

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As with the Civil War question, the one that gets me are the not sures. What in the name in that all is fuck?

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Danack  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:36:41am

re: #106 Barefoot Grin

I only heard of the Thurmond rule this morning when someone posted a clip from Samantha Bee’s Full Frontal about this mess. Samantha: “Strom will be smiling up from hell at the GOP obstruction….”

Video for those who hadn’t seen it:

Scalia Dies, Republicans Debate | Full Frontal with Samantha Bee | TBS

Pretty nsfw audio.

/I like Sam Bee

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:38:15am

re: #203 HappyWarrior

As with the Civil War question, the one that gets me are the not sures. What in the name in that all is fuck?

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:39:45am

re: #203 HappyWarrior

As with the Civil War question, the one that gets me are the not sures. What in the name in that all is fuck?

They don’t want to admit they are white supremacists to the pollster.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:41:20am

re: #124 HappyWarrior

The more I see the more I think the American right especially in the South would repeal the 13th entire Constitution if they could.

FTFY.

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:41:58am

re: #203 HappyWarrior

I had a person give me the shit about the Confederate Rag being heritage and all that drivel. Then he went on to say some blacks actually liked that. I asked WTF “that” was. He had the brass to say “living in the old south being a slave and all”……I then asked him how he would like to be a slave. Have your entire life depend on the whims of a master who could sell you, your wife, your kids, kill you if he wished, beat you when he wanted, use you as a whore, lend you out for fun and games…Yes. It hurts to think. Really hurts some folks.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:43:50am

re: #204 Danack

Video for those who hadn’t seen it:

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Pretty nsfw audio.

/I like Sam Bee

My middle kid likes her as well. He’s just starting to get political and she’s the first political commentator he’s paid attention to.

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withak  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:44:15am

re: #202 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“Stupid poll questions” from a “Dem pollster.” Never mind that 10% of those polled are literal white supremacists and another 11% are somehow not sure on that particular question.

Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:45:26am

Morning everyone. Not as much snow here in Lexington as it could have been. Switched from snow to rain early in the morning, and temps up a little. Public schools are out in the county(bus routes still not great, but main roads fine), but Private schools are mainly in session.

Crazy weekend. I wouldn’t ever be happy that someone died, and I’m not. But I feel that President Obama being able to nominate another justice just seems to feel right. And hopefully the right can cut off their nose and their face to spite their head in the process.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:46:44am

re: #143 lawhawk

If they’re that concerned about “rebuilding” maybe spend more time fixing the completely broken procurement system.

That will never, ever happen.

Far too much of the American economy depends on the corruption of the current system. If the procurement system is fixed then many Americans, in places with stagnant economies, will be out of work.

The profitability of many corporations will suffer as well.

So there will never be a fix.

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MsJ  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:46:53am

re: #175 FormerDirtDart

1. This is worth the 14 seconds of your life spent watching it.
2. Must say I really like the #Cosplaytriot tag.

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I had to watch that four times…to make sure I fully got all the intricate nuances.

It wasn’t to LMAO, honest. Really.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:47:38am

re: #214 WhatEVs

I had to watch that four times…to make sure I fully got all the intricate nuances.

It wasn’t to LMAO, honest. Really.

Sounds like a baseball bat hitting a baseball.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:47:57am

re: #196 lawhawk

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It’s indisputable that this would be the case. The GOP would be looking to steamroll the nomination and confirmation process to make sure that the next president doesn’t get that opportunity. Now, they’re playing delay and obstruct. It’s all politics.

Someone forgot to give Carson the Blue Pill.

I also have little doubt that Democrats would be attempting to delay confirmation under those circumstances, but they would give the President’s nomination the hearings. They did so with Bork (it’s just that Bork couldn’t get confirmed - lost the Committee vote and then the full Senate), and Reagan’s next option withdrew (Doug Ginsburg - for pot use no less) before Kennedy was easily confirmed.

He’s talking in his sleep again. No blue pill needed.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:49:19am

re: #211 withak

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“Stupid poll questions” from a “Dem pollster.” Never mind that 10% of those polled are literal white supremacists and another 11% are somehow not sure on that particular question.

Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug.

It’s like Trump being a Democratic plant. It doesn’t matter if he was a plant, if Republicans are voting for him it’s a problem with their party. If people are going to answer yes to “Are you a white supremacist?” then it’s your problem, not the fault of the pollster.

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withak  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:51:52am

re: #217 Belafon

It’s like Trump being a Democratic plant. It doesn’t matter if he was a plant, if Republicans are voting for him it’s a problem with their party. If people are going to answer yes to “Are you a white supremacist?” then it’s your problem, not the fault of the pollster.

I’m sure those partisan hacks at PPP asked those questions in a super-tricksy way, leading them on somehow.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:52:34am

re: #209 nines09

I had a person give me the shit about the Confederate Rag being heritage and all that drivel. Then he went on to say some blacks actually liked that. I asked WTF “that” was. He had the brass to say “living in the old south being a slave and all”……I then asked him how he would like to be a slave. Have your entire life depend on the whims of a master who could sell you, your wife, your kids, kill you if he wished, beat you when he wanted, use you as a whore, lend you out for fun and games…Yes. It hurts to think. Really hurts some folks.

It was a terrible era. A real dark stain on our country.

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:53:50am

re: #219 HappyWarrior

It’s still affecting us today. Still.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 8:57:26am

re: #220 nines09

It’s still affecting us today. Still.

Yep and anyone who denies that is foolish.

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:00:07am

re: #204 Danack

Video for those who hadn’t seen it:

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Video

Pretty nsfw audio.

/I like Sam Bee

Thanks. I blew it “smiling up from hell at …. keeping a black President from doing his job.” A bit closer to the MO of the racist POS Thurmond. Thanks for posting. It was on my FB this am.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:00:31am

re: #213 Romantic Heretic

That will never, ever happen.

Far too much of the American economy depends on the corruption of the current system. If the procurement system is fixed then many Americans, in places with stagnant economies, will be out of work.

The profitability of many corporations will suffer as well.

So there will never be a fix.

The GOP only approves of welfare if its weaponized.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:06:29am

re: #211 withak

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“Stupid poll questions” from a “Dem pollster.” Never mind that 10% of those polled are literal white supremacists and another 11% are somehow not sure on that particular question.

Cognitive dissonance is a helluva drug.

I’d be more worried to be part of a party that has a good 25% of the people there that either believe or are not sure that whites are the most dominant race. But as said, it’s like when they call Trump a Democratic plant, who the fuck are the people responding to this so called plant. Conservatives and Republicans love to deny their own problems by focusing on what the parties once were but at the same time embracing the views of what they claim made the Democratic Party THE REAL RACISTS. That is to say, they agree with a lot of what the Democrats circa 1861 in the South believed but yet think because they were Democrats that means their views are different than theirs simply because of party identification.

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MsJ  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:07:30am

re: #196 lawhawk

Someone forgot to give Carson the Blue Pill.

Carson took the blue pill. His boner only lasted 3.5 hours so it was all good.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:08:17am

re: #225 WhatEVs

Carson took the blue pill. His boner only lasted 3.5 hours so it was all good.

Or at least that’s what he thinks happened. He was asleep through most of it.

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blueraven  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:10:38am

What? Did the Republicans think they could just bully Obama into not nominating anyone? Do they not know him better by now?

I mean really, I don’t get their strategy in announcing, minutes after Scalia’s death was confirmed, that they wouldn’t even consider any nomination at all.

Bad governance and even worse politics. Idiots, all.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:17:50am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:18:33am

re: #227 blueraven

What? Did the Republicans think they could just bully Obama into not nominating anyone? Do they not know him better by now?

I mean really, I don’t get their strategy in announcing, minutes after Scalia’s death was confirmed, that they wouldn’t even consider any nomination at all.

Bad governance and even worse politics. Idiots, all.

Gotta make the assholes in the base happy so they don’t get primaried.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:20:59am

re: #229 HappyWarrior

Gotta make the assholes in the base happy so they don’t get primaried.

Pandering? I thought no one was supposed to pander in politics.

//

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:21:45am

re: #19 Kent Dorfman

Why would I want to buy a used car and someone else’s collection of boogers under the seat?

Someday the next owner of my car will wonder what the rattling is under the driver’s seat and discover a small fortune in coins that slide out of my pocket, under the seat and into a little depression in the floor of the car. I can’t move the seat forward or aft far enough to get at it.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:25:32am

re: #231 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Ah yes, the ol’ Vehicle Vortex.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:34:17am

re: #227 blueraven

What? Did the Republicans think they could just bully Obama into not nominating anyone? Do they not know him better by now?

I mean really, I don’t get their strategy in announcing, minutes after Scalia’s death was confirmed, that they wouldn’t even consider any nomination at all.

Bad governance and even worse politics. Idiots, all.

It is not really about Obama…even though it is.

They had to get it out there to feed the Right Wing Nut Jobs. They always have to put on the kiddie show to indicate they are gettin’ ‘er done for the base. It is pathetic but so is that base. Apparently they are long past caring what it looks like to the sane people in this country. Been that way now for 7+ years.

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blueraven  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:35:02am

re: #229 HappyWarrior

Gotta make the assholes in the base happy so they don’t get primaried.

They could have accomplished that by voting down any nominee. Now they will drive away independents and moderates. Vulnerable R’s in blue states; Ayotte, Portman, Ron Johnson, et al. are following McConnel’s lead.

Incredibly stupid.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:35:47am

re: #227 blueraven

It’s not about keeping Obama from nominating someone. It’s about making as big a show as possible of doing everything they can to NOT confirm that person.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:36:02am
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vgranucci  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:36:43am

re: #178 Dr. Matt

Aaaannnndddddddddd here it is:

Trump Says Scalia’s Death Is Under ‘Unusual’ Circumstances

It’s so “unusual” that a 79-year old, overweight man dies.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:36:59am

Scalia’s body will be in repose at the U.S. Supreme Court in DC on Friday, and the funeral will be Saturday.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:37:26am

re: #237 vgranucci

It’s so “unusual” that a 79-year old, overweight man dies.

a 79-year old overweight SMOKER with HIGH BLOOD PRESSURE no less…

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:38:55am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

That’s got the look of a derecho (complete with the bow). No wonder the NWS has issued wind advisories/watches/warnings for parts of PA, NJ, NY, and CT, though nothing specific for NYC at the moment.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:39:49am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Is that an early season derecho…sure looks like it from that formation?

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Kent Dorfman  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:40:14am

re: #239 Eclectic Cyborg

I wouldn’t be surprised that every official that had to deal with Scalia’s untimely demise were all Republicans. I’m sure they will beat the dead horse though.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:40:40am

re: #240 lawhawk

That’s got the look of a derecho (complete with the bow). No wonder the NWS has issued wind advisories/watches/warnings for parts of PA, NJ, NY, and CT, though nothing specific for NYC at the moment.

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You beat me to it lawhawk.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:41:03am

re: #236 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That bow echo.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:44:04am

re: #243 ObserverArt

So, where’s my chimichanga then? /

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blueraven  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:44:25am

re: #235 Eclectic Cyborg

It’s not about keeping Obama from nominating someone. It’s about making as big a show as possible of doing everything they can to NOT confirm that person.

I still maintain that this tactic will backfire. You don’t telegraph your punches, especially the below the belt variety.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:45:08am

Whoever invented auto play video needs to be flogged.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:46:22am

re: #246 blueraven

I still maintain that this tactic will backfire. You don’t telegraph your punches, especially the below the belt variety.

Well it won’t backfire with regards to pissing off the base, but it may backfire by hurting the GOP in the general. The problem is they have a senate majority, so they can obstruct SCOTUS nominees as long as they need/want to.

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blueraven  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:47:13am

re: #248 Eclectic Cyborg

Well it won’t backfire with regards to pissing off the base, but it may backfire by hurting the GOP in the general. The problem is they have a senate majority, so they can obstruct SCOTUS nominees as long as they need/want to.

And lose the Senate next year. Brilliant!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:48:00am

re: #234 blueraven

They could have accomplished that by voting down any nominee. Now they will drive away independents and moderates. Vulnerable R’s in blue states; Ayotte, Portman, Ron Johnson, et al. are following McConnel’s lead.

Incredibly stupid.

No one said they were smart.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:48:57am
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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:49:35am

I think this is like immigration though. They know they’re losing the war so it’s time for yet another Hail Mary to inspire the derping idiots in teh base.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:49:46am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Assholes.

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wrenchwench  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:49:59am

Nicer than just pushing him over, which would look so old-hat in a photo. The tied-to-a-flatbed is a nice style for him. May the statue be recycled, but not the man.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:50:28am

theonion.com
Ha-ha The Onion again.

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lawhawk  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:50:32am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

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blueraven  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:50:53am

I can’t even…

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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:52:43am

re: #247 Eclectic Cyborg

Whoever invented auto play video needs to be flogged.

Yeah, but what if they liked it?

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Nojay UK  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:53:20am

re: #241 ObserverArt

Is that an early season derecho…sure looks like it from that formation?

We just had a sudden storm blow through Edinburgh here in Scotland. I was at the tram stop opposite where I live a few hours ago when a particularly strong gust hit and knocked an older lady off the platform and on to the tram tracks below. They called an ambulance and the tram services were disrupted for an hour or so while they took care of her.

This being Evull Socialist Scotland she won’t be charged for the ambulance, the emergency care or any hospitalisation stay resulting from her injuries, neither will she be expected to pay for any drugs prescribed for her. In this sort of a case involving physical trauma to an elderly person it’s likely she’ll get followup home visit nursing care at no cost to her once she’s discharged. If she has to go to the ER or hospital for followup care transport will be provided at no cost to her if she can’t make it there by her own efforts. Sucks, doesn’t it?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:56:01am

re: #259 Nojay UK

ITS JUST LIKE SLAVERY!!11!!

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wrenchwench  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:57:00am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

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From there:

Neither site attracted many but the most intrepid cross-country hikers, until a newspaper recently printed a two-page spread about day hiking to Carey’s Castle, Smith said. Soon after, the ranger’s office received six calls in one day about the site, compared with about that many visits by individual hikers per month, along with a few Sierra Club-sponsored group trips per year, he said.

That goes with this:

We’ll have to keep all the cool stuff secret! Where’s the fun in that?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:58:15am

re: #251 Backwoods_Sleuth

A couple of years ago I visited the Valley of Fire in Nevada. I can’t even put into words how angry it made me to see graffiti mere inches from ancient, irreplaceable petroglyphs.

Public lands need to be respected.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:59:29am

re: #259 Nojay UK

We just had a sudden storm blow through Edinburgh here in Scotland. I was at the tram stop opposite where I live a few hours ago when a particularly strong gust hit and knocked an older lady off the platform and on to the tram tracks below. They called an ambulance and the tram services were disrupted for an hour or so while they took care of her.

This being Evull Socialist Scotland she won’t be charged for the ambulance, the emergency care or any hospitalisation stay resulting from her injuries, neither will she be expected to pay for any drugs prescribed for her. In this sort of a case involving physical trauma to an elderly person it’s likely she’ll get followup home visit nursing care at no cost to her once she’s discharged. If she has to go to the ER or hospital for followup care transport will be provided at no cost to her if she can’t make it there by her own efforts. Sucks, doesn’t it?

Well, you know our US politicians like to tell us that even though you are getting all that free healthcare, it is substandard and not up to US quality. All those lines in those bad clinics and such. Pity.

Which is total bull of course.

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Dr. Matt  Feb 16, 2016 • 9:59:45am

re: #257 blueraven

NEWS: Joe & Mika will moderate a town hall with Donald Trump airing in prime time tomorrow at 8pmET @MSNBC
— Jesse Rodriguez (@JesseRodriguez) February 16, 2016

MSNBC!!!??! PROOOOOF THAT TRUMP IS A LIBRUL!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:01:30am
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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:01:40am

re: #259 Nojay UK

We just had a sudden storm blow through Edinburgh here in Scotland. I was at the tram stop opposite where I live a few hours ago when a particularly strong gust hit and knocked an older lady off the platform and on to the tram tracks below. They called an ambulance and the tram services were disrupted for an hour or so while they took care of her.

This being Evull Socialist Scotland she won’t be charged for the ambulance, the emergency care or any hospitalisation stay resulting from her injuries, neither will she be expected to pay for any drugs prescribed for her. In this sort of a case involving physical trauma to an elderly person it’s likely she’ll get followup home visit nursing care at no cost to her once she’s discharged. If she has to go to the ER or hospital for followup care transport will be provided at no cost to her if she can’t make it there by her own efforts. Sucks, doesn’t it?

THIS IS WHAT TEH COMMUNIST BERNIE SANDERS WANT TO BRING HEAR!!!11!!!

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:02:40am

re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg

A couple of years ago I visited the Valley of Fire in Nevada. I can’t even put into words how angry it made me to see graffiti mere inches from ancient, irreplaceable petroglyphs.

Public lands need to be respected.

Should be and would be in a society with some class. Not much of that around these day…gotta leave their mark. Pure selfishness.

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Skip Intro  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:02:56am

re: #264 Dr. Matt

That’s really brave of Trump, going with two huge Trump suck-ups. I’m surprised he hasn’t assigned the job to his kids yet. He probably will in time.

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Kragar  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:08:19am
270
Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:08:20am
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Nojay UK  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:09:01am

re: #263 ObserverArt

Well, you know our US politicians like to tell us that even though you are getting all that free healthcare, it is substandard and not up to US quality. All those lines in those bad clinics and such. Pity.

Which is total bull of course.

I’m one of those guys you love to hate, generally healthy with nothing chronic (no HBP, no heart problems etc.) even though I’m of a certain age and don’t actively work at it to keep myself in condition. Last time I needed to see a doc was a couple of years ago. I had to wait a whole two and a half hours from booking an appointment to getting seen by my local GP in the modern new surgery complex about half a kilometre walking distance from my front door.

If I had been really sick I could have booked a home visit by her, of course.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:09:38am

re: #262 Eclectic Cyborg

A couple of years ago I visited the Valley of Fire in Nevada. I can’t even put into words how angry it made me to see graffiti mere inches from ancient, irreplaceable petroglyphs.

Public lands need to be respected.

“And in today’s prehistoric news, some kids had to write their names on these very pristine rocks. Why can’t people just leave nature alone? Next, fire, how to start it, and its dangers.”

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Barefoot Grin  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:10:07am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So it was a real pro. Hmm, ex-CIA???

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:11:39am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

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OK, now I believe it’s murder. Evil people die with a sneer on their face. //

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:13:24am

re: #273 Barefoot Grin

Super Secret Islamo Fascist Gay Transgendered Kenyan Commie Hit Man. Named Bruce. His calling card is…..a pillow. But that was a secret. Shhh……

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:14:06am
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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:15:45am

re: #276 Backwoods_Sleuth

Texas used to elect Democrats as governors. Therefore the whole state wanted Scalia dead.

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ObserverArt  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:16:16am

re: #271 Nojay UK

I’m one of those guys you love to hate, generally healthy with nothing chronic (no HBP, no heart problems etc.) even though I’m of a certain age and don’t actively work at it to keep myself in condition. Last time I needed to see a doc was a couple of years ago. I had to wait a whole two and a half hours from booking an appointment to getting seen by my local GP in the modern new surgery complex about half a kilometre walking distance from my front door.

If I had been really sick I could have booked a home visit by her, of course.

Okay…now you are rubbing it in! Damn you for dispelling the Republican party universal health care scary stories.

: )

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:16:56am

For fucks sake Bernie people LEARN HOW TO SPELL! Kthxbai

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:17:38am

INTE GRITY!

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:19:00am

i just can’t even

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Nojay UK  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:19:14am

re: #267 ObserverArt

Should be and would be in a society with some class. Not much of that around these day…gotta leave their mark. Pure selfishness.

Decades ago a friend and I hiked up into the hills above Glasgow and defaced a Bronze Age trilithon using a lump hammer and cold chisel we brought with us. We were careful not to damage the three-hundred year old dated inscriptions chiseled by previous visitors into the millstone grit of the standing stones or the grotesque masks which, we surmised, the original builders of the tomb had carved there.

I chiseled a triode valve, my friend engraved the outline of an airliner (the trilithon lies under the flight path of Glasgow airport to the west). We went home with sore fingers and a blunt chisel and the happy thought that perhaps, five hundred years from now, our day’s work would be noted and commented on by historians.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:19:31am

re: #279 The Vicious Babushka

For fucks sake Bernie people LEARN HOW TO SPELL! Kthxbai

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Agree, but I really hate the word forty for that exact reason. At least with fifty, you don’t say five-ty, you say what is there, and fif isn’t another word.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:21:09am

re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

“Officer, how could I have shot that black man when I can’t even see?”

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nines09  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:21:34am

re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

i just can’t even

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So do they have to have a spotter travel with them? Just in case they need to stop a seeing man with a gun?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:21:47am

re: #283 Belafon

Agree, but I really hate the word forty for that exact reason. At least with fifty, you don’t say five-ty, you say what is there, and fif isn’t another word.

And then there’s sixty through ninety…

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freetoken  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:22:00am

re: #283 Belafon

Yeah, there are much easier numbers:

six becomes sixty
seven becomes seventy
…
eleven becomes eleventy…

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:22:06am

It’s kind of like judgment. Screw it, I like judgement better.

What’s great about the above is, if you switch between the UK and American English settings on the browser, it alternates which one is spelled wrong.

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The Vicious Babushka  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:22:10am

re: #283 Belafon

Agree, but I really hate the word forty for that exact reason. At least with fifty, you don’t say five-ty, you say what is there, and fif isn’t another word.

But what about tree fitty

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:22:58am

re: #289 The Vicious Babushka

But what about tree fitty

Word.

/

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:23:46am

re: #270 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Scalia slept with a pillow, shocking!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:24:15am

But a conservative senator from North Carolina is breaking with his colleagues and calling for the GOP to at least give consideration to a potential replacement.

Appearing on The Tyler Cralle Show on Tuesday morning, Sen. Thom Tillis (R-NC) cautioned against vowing to automatically block any nominee.

“I think we fall into the trap if just simply say sight unseen, we fall into the trap of being obstructionists,” Tillis said.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:24:43am
Okay…now you are rubbing it in! Damn you for dispelling the Republican party universal health care scary stories.

: )

When our kid got sick in Italy, our neighbors helped us select a doctor. They thought we were fooling around when we said US doctors don’t make house calls.

“Are you pazzi? She can’t go out. She’s sick!”

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:24:57am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

RINO!!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:25:52am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

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When Tillis is being the voice of reason, it’s time to take a look in the mirror, GOP “Moderates.” Oh and I know he’s not doing this out of genuine good faith but for fear of his party losing their majority but still.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:26:44am

I really can’t believe the GOP still has moderates.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:27:44am

But even if the Senate refuses to confirm Obama’s pick and a Republican wins the White House, there is one way Obama can still get his nominee confirmed.

It could all come down to 17 crucial days in January.

If Democrats win back the Senate and lose the White House in November, they would control both branches of government for about two weeks before Obama leaves office. That overlap in the transition of power is set in stone. The Constitution mandates the new Congress begins work on January 3, while President Obama stays in power until January 20.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:28:01am

re: #296 Eclectic Cyborg

I really can’t believe the GOP still has moderates.

They don’t have moderates. They have “moderates.”

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:30:06am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

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There’s so many ways Obama can win this battle. I think the only way he loses it is if he goes with a left wing version of Bork that inspires even Democrats to vote against the choice but I think Obama with his legal background is a lot more wise about courts than Reagan was. And frankly none of the names being considered are even close to what Bork was.

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Decatur Deb  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:30:22am

Hey—young lizards who look back and say you were too young/not born for the Civil Rights Movement:

It’s still the Civil Rights Movement.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:30:59am

re: #300 Decatur Deb

Hey—young lizards who look back and say you were too young/not born for the Civil Rights Movement: It’s still the Civil Rights Movement.

Very true unfortunately. It’s an ongoing battle.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:32:55am

BernieBros will have a problem with this:

The article links to Politico, but I think that this is something worth looking at; the difference between black and white millennials.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:36:05am

re: #302 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

BernieBros will have a problem with this:

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The article links to Politico, but I think that this is something worth looking at; the difference between black and white millennials.

I was genuinely curious about that since we hear so much about how popular Bernie is with millenial voters but we haven’t heard much about how he does with minority ones of the same age group. So thanks. No, they’re not going to like that one bit but that illustrates a real problem that Bernie does have.

304
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:44:48am

re: #259 Nojay UK

We just had a sudden storm blow through Edinburgh here in Scotland. I was at the tram stop opposite where I live a few hours ago when a particularly strong gust hit and knocked an older lady off the platform and on to the tram tracks below. They called an ambulance and the tram services were disrupted for an hour or so while they took care of her.

This being Evull Socialist Scotland she won’t be charged for the ambulance, the emergency care or any hospitalisation stay resulting from her injuries, neither will she be expected to pay for any drugs prescribed for her. In this sort of a case involving physical trauma to an elderly person it’s likely she’ll get followup home visit nursing care at no cost to her once she’s discharged. If she has to go to the ER or hospital for followup care transport will be provided at no cost to her if she can’t make it there by her own efforts. Sucks, doesn’t it?

TYRANNY!1!111!!

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KGxvi  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:48:49am

re: #298 HappyWarrior

They don’t have moderates. They have “moderates.”

It’s a mirrored version of “Reagan Democrats.” That was one of my favorite Fox News talking point “what happened to the Reagan Democrats?” The answer they never think of is “they became Republicans.” It’s the same thing now, “where are all the moderate Republicans?” They’ve become Democrats or Independents. The GOP is now in third place on party registration, at least according to this Pew Research study from April of last year - 39/32/23 split I/D/R.

306
Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:50:18am

re: #271 Nojay UK

I’m one of those guys you love to hate, generally healthy with nothing chronic (no HBP, no heart problems etc.) even though I’m of a certain age and don’t actively work at it to keep myself in condition. Last time I needed to see a doc was a couple of years ago. I had to wait a whole two and a half hours from booking an appointment to getting seen by my local GP in the modern new surgery complex about half a kilometre walking distance from my front door.

If I had been really sick I could have booked a home visit by her, of course.

Well sure, but that was only after a cage match fight to prove to the Death Panel that you deserve to live, right?

307
HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:51:22am

re: #305 KGxvi

It’s a mirrored version of “Reagan Democrats.” That was one of my favorite Fox News talking point “what happened to the Reagan Democrats?” The answer they never think of is “they became Republicans.” It’s the same thing now, “where are all the moderate Republicans?” They’ve become Democrats or Independents. The GOP is now in third place on party registration, at least according to this Pew Research study from April of last year - 39/32/23 split I/D/R.

Precisely. Cruz amused me. He was asked how he expect to win crossover votes. He said the Reagan Democrats. A group whose youngest member will be 50 this election.

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Big Beautiful Door  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:52:15am

re: #281 The Vicious Babushka

i just can’t even

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Heck, I recommended a blind guy get his concealed carry permit; he passed the target shooting test.

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KGxvi  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:54:05am

re: #307 HappyWarrior

Precisely. Cruz amused me. He was asked how he expect to win crossover votes. He said the Reagan Democrats. A group whose youngest member will be 50 this election.

Moderator: How do you expect to win cross over voters?
Wingnut: I’ll win Dixiecrat votes in the general!
Moderator: You realize all the Dixiecrats are either dead or Republicans now, right?
Wingnut: Then I’ll win Reagan Democrats!
Moderator: You realize they all became Republicans in the 1990s, right?
Wingnut: I’ll still win, because shut up, that’s why!

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:55:55am

re: #309 KGxvi

Moderator: How do you expect to win cross over voters?
Wingnut: I’ll win Dixiecrat votes in the general!
Moderator: You realize all the Dixiecrats are either dead or Republicans now, right?
Wingnut: Then I’ll win Reagan Democrats!
Moderator: You realize they all became Republicans in the 1990s, right?
Wingnut: I’ll still win, because shut up, that’s why!

Pretty much. Honestly I think the Republicans need to stop with the Reagan crap. Tell us about what makes YOU unique, you don’t always have to tell us that Ronald Reagan was the greatest thing since sliced bread in your eyes.

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TedStriker  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:56:04am

re: #283 Belafon

Agree, but I really hate the word forty for that exact reason. At least with fifty, you don’t say five-ty, you say what is there, and fif isn’t another word.

Sure it is:

Fiiif Chappelle Show - Fifth Amedment

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TedStriker  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:58:37am

re: #305 KGxvi

It’s a mirrored version of “Reagan Democrats.” That was one of my favorite Fox News talking point “what happened to the Reagan Democrats?” The answer they never think of is “they became Republicans.” It’s the same thing now, “where are all the moderate Republicans?” They’ve become Democrats or Independents. The GOP is now in third place on party registration, at least according to this Pew Research study from April of last year - 39/32/23 split I/D/R.

*raises hand*

313
Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)  Feb 16, 2016 • 10:59:40am

Just paged this - I didn’t believe it was true until I clicked on the link and it led me to Trump’s page.

Shee-it. What a total faceplant. Look for The Donald to smirk endlessly about this one, the next time (if there is a next time) he shares a stage with Jeb!

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ausador  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:00:21am

Strawmen everywhere!

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:01:49am

re: #263 ObserverArt

Well, you know our US politicians like to tell us that even though you are getting all that free healthcare, it is substandard and not up to US quality. All those lines in those bad clinics and such. Pity.

Which is total bull of course.

Agreed.

I’ve accompanied my wife to her health clinic in Louisiana. She does get transportation due to being in a wheelchair. Most of the drivers make it clear to her that they really don’t like it though. They hate leaving the comfort of the driver’s seat to help her in and stow her chair.

The clinic itself is nice enough but I’ve never seen it less than standing room only. This is because lots of people walk in for ‘emergencies’. The clinic can’t turn them away and they take up a lot of the staff’s time. She’s waited as long as four hours past her appointment time to see a nurse practitioner. My wife is on Medicaid so at least the worry of having to pay for it is removed. I believe it does make it hard for her to get health care as many places don’t want Medicaid patients.

My clinic here in Toronto? I’ve never seen the waiting room more than three quarters full. I once had to wait ten minutes past my appointment time and that was years ago. Not having to worry about having cash on hand makes things much easier, and unlike my wife since we have a single payer system, all medical facilities take patients on an equal basis.

But we’re all Commies up here in Canada so we don’t mind this loss of our freedom. /

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:02:38am

re: #314 ausador

Strawmen everywhere!

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Yeah that’s how liberals think. That’s why Obama okayed the mission to kill Bin Laden. It’s a typical wingnut bullshit misunderstanding of how liberals really view Islamic terrorism. I don’t have any sympathy for terrorists but I sure as hell do understand how our actions in the ME haven’t made us a ton of friends and I wouldn’t expect a wingnut who doesn’t know Sunni from a sunny day to get that.

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HappyWarrior  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:02:59am

re: #312 TedStriker

*raises hand*

A lot of people here like that. Not me personally but a lot.

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Romantic Heretic  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:08:14am

re: #292 Backwoods_Sleuth

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“I think we fall into the trap if just simply say sight unseen, we fall into the trap of being obstructionists,” Tillis said.

I don’t see that as a problem.

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ausador  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:08:54am

re: #313 Khal Wimpo (coatless in Vermont)

Just paged this - I didn’t believe it was true until I clicked on the link and it led me to Trump’s page.

Shee-it. What a total faceplant. Look for The Donald to smirk endlessly about this one, the next time (if there is a next time) he shares a stage with Jeb!

[Embedded content]

That was never a Jeb site, his site is here…
jeb2016.com

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Eventual Carrion  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:13:27am

re: #259 Nojay UK

We just had a sudden storm blow through Edinburgh here in Scotland. I was at the tram stop opposite where I live a few hours ago when a particularly strong gust hit and knocked an older lady off the platform and on to the tram tracks below. They called an ambulance and the tram services were disrupted for an hour or so while they took care of her.

This being Evull Socialist Scotland she won’t be charged for the ambulance, the emergency care or any hospitalisation stay resulting from her injuries, neither will she be expected to pay for any drugs prescribed for her. In this sort of a case involving physical trauma to an elderly person it’s likely she’ll get followup home visit nursing care at no cost to her once she’s discharged. If she has to go to the ER or hospital for followup care transport will be provided at no cost to her if she can’t make it there by her own efforts. Sucks, doesn’t it?

You monsters!

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KGxvi  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:17:34am

re: #310 HappyWarrior

Pretty much. Honestly I think the Republicans need to stop with the Reagan crap. Tell us about what makes YOU unique, you don’t always have to tell us that Ronald Reagan was the greatest thing since sliced bread in your eyes.

It’s amazing. It’s been 28 years since Reagan was president. Was Carter or other Dems in the 70s comparing themselves to FDR? Because that’s the time gap we’re currently dealing with.

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Belafon  Feb 16, 2016 • 11:24:01am

re: #300 Decatur Deb

Hey—young lizards who look back and say you were too young/not born for the Civil Rights Movement:

It’s still the Civil Rights Movement.

As they said about the Muslim deportation Trump brought up: if you wondered if you would do the right thing, here’s your chance to find out.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Feb 16, 2016 • 12:19:19pm

re: #315 Romantic Heretic

My clinic here in Toronto? I’ve never seen the waiting room more than three quarters full. I once had to wait ten minutes past my appointment time and that was years ago. Not having to worry about having cash on hand makes things much easier, and unlike my wife since we have a single payer system, all medical facilities take patients on an equal basis.

And of course, when you folks come across to the US to get specific services that you would have to wait for, your province pays the bill to the US provider. My paternal grandmother was Canadian, but I doubt that’ll do me a lot of good in obtaining Candain citizenship. OTOH, I do qualify for the Netherlands Option plan for citizenship (Dutch mother who was not a US citizen at time of birth)


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