Tonight’s program on our podcasting affiliate, The Bob & Chez Show:
The Almighty Zuckerberg: Rare Species of Dolphin Killed by Selfie Seekers; Humans Suck; Trump Gets into a Pissing Match with the Pope; Mika Brzezinski Nails Trump; Facebook Controls the Election and the Internet; Bernie’s Legislative Road Map; New Polls Showing Hillary Victories in March Primaries; Hillary Barked Like a Dog; and much more.
Chuck Todd would be better off just forgoing the comb-forward, embrace his enlarging forehead, and add a full beard. I think he could work the look.
Good…was hoping someone would force this into court since it first hit the news.
Hatriots, Niki & Chad Neal, owners of gun range, sued after kicking out a U. S. soldier, citing “Muslim free zone.” https://t.co/sp6hNLohqd
— ✨Nicole Bonnet✨ (@NicoleBonnet1) February 19, 2016
This podcast will do nicely tonight, thanks man!
It’s 67F here in Dallas, at 11pm on Feb 18th. Where’s my freakin’ winter?
Okay then…
Mysterious abandoned ‘chicken church’ built in Indonesian jungle by a man who had a vision from God.. pic.twitter.com/0F5MiumAWJ
— interesting pictures (@interesting_pi) February 17, 2016
Ha.
Via https://t.co/sxaXArMVkV pic.twitter.com/LXNH0O8WBL— Steve Marmel (@Marmel) February 19, 2016
From last thread, check @realscientists timeline now to learn about shark sex & whale sex & who knows what next! #sexinthesea
You’d think the Pope and Trump could find some common ground - for example, they both put a large letter t on all their buildings.
— J. Elvis Weinstein (@JElvisWeinstein) February 18, 2016
@JeffJankovich @DineshDSouza Maybe because Serbs themselves had no problem killing Catholics in Croatia? Remember Dubrovnik idiot
— Danial J دانیال ج (@danja84) February 19, 2016
@thirdlantern @DineshDSouza How were the Crusader forces sacking Constantinople in 1204 a “defensive” measure? Dumbass.
— Danial J دانیال ج (@danja84) February 19, 2016
Thanks to M Wuerker#MemeGOP pic.twitter.com/6D75HVIHlb
— Meme GOP (@GOPMeme) February 19, 2016
The smoke detector doesn’t want me to follow my dream. pic.twitter.com/cyTX3mCUtq
— DC Pierson (@DCpierson) February 14, 2016
The cops held their hands up in the video. That was it. Oh and the NOLA cop car went down in the water.
Weaklings.
Miami Police Union Calls for Beyoncé Boycott https://t.co/bw4jTbwFzj #IfThisIsHowTheyTreatBeyoncéImagineHowTheyTreatRegularBlackfolks
— Rugged Amethyst (@GrooveSDC) February 19, 2016
re: #10 electrotek
It should be noted the President of Bosnia, an Alija Izetbegovic, while flawed, was certainly a better man than his opponents.
Though, what the US and Pakistan did to support Bosnians did have serious negative consequences, what choice did we have back then. 2 of the major powers in Europe supported the mass murder of the Bosnian people.
re: #16 Ziggy_TARDIS
Another of the good Presidents was the President of Macedonia, Kiro Gligorov.
re: #15 Stanley Sea
Boycotting someone who they would never listen to anyways. Yeah. That’ll work.
re: #16 Ziggy_TARDIS
It should be noted the President of Bosnia, an Alija Izetbegovic, while flawed, was certainly a better man than his opponents.
Though, what the US and Pakistan did to support Bosnians did have serious negative consequences, what choice did we have back then. 2 of the major powers in Europe supported the mass murder of the Bosnian people.
When the late Christopher Hitchens himself had nothing but positive things to say about Izetbegovic, you know he was a much better man. He himself even stated his opposition to the fatwa of Salman Rushdie in 1993 as well!
IMO the so-called mujahideen did more damage to Bosnia’s cultural heritage than the Serbs could accomplish, but that’s for another topic.
re: #19 electrotek
Mitterand and Major had both said that what was happening in Bosnia was “correction.” Kohl of Germany disagreed, but couldn’t get most of Europe behind him. We ended up support black flights of weapons into the nation, ticking off both Norway and the UK.
We ended supporting Pakistan’s and Turkey’s efforts in the war. And supporting Islamist groups directly in some cases.
But, considering how our NATO allies in Europe were acting, we had no choice.
re: #2 ausador
Good…was hoping someone would force this into court since it first hit the news.
Hatriots, Niki & Chad Neal, owners of gun range, sued after kicking out a U. S. soldier, citing “Muslim free zone”.
If he wants to change it to a private, members-only gun club, then he can choose who he allows in. That is a basic principle of the Civil Rights Act that seems to be lost on a lot of idiots.
Emails show top VW executive new of emission problems of diesel vehicles.
According to the documents reviewed by The Times, a confidant of Mr. Winterkorn wrote to him in May 2014, warning that regulators might accuse the carmaker of using a so-called defeat device — software that recognized when the car was being tested for emissions and activated pollution-control equipment. At other times, the cars produced up to 35 times the allowed amount of nitrogen oxide emissions, which are linked to lung ailments and premature deaths.
It was not until last September, more than a year after the letter of warning to Mr. Winterkorn, that Volkswagen admitted publicly that 11 million diesel vehicles, including about 480,000 Volkswagen cars in the United States, were equipped with defeat devices. The number of cars in the United States has since risen to include about 100,000 Audi and Porsche cars with diesel engines.
re: #5 ausador
Okay then…
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That’s, by far, one of the best things God has said in recent years.
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Of course it is early in the morning, so there will be MOAR STUPIDS
THIS birth control is FREE and READILY AVAILABLE! #DefundPP #WakeUpAmerica #PJNET #TCOT #CCOT pic.twitter.com/laXM34NWZp
— Stanley Cox (@Stanley_Cox_) February 19, 2016
re: #25 The Vicious Babushka
STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
Of course it is early in the morning, so there will be MOAR STUPIDS
Remember: these people are not just opposed to Planned Parenthood, they are opposed to the idea of planning parenthood through any other means than abstinence before marriage and rhythm method thereafter.
re: #25 The Vicious Babushka
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@Stanley_Cox_ A girl I know says the neutering of guys works good too.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) February 19, 2016
re: #27 Tigger2
My girlfriend in college used to say that the world’s best birth control was other people’s kids…
re: #28 William Lewis
My girlfriend in college used to say that the world’s best birth control was other people’s kids…
re: #28 William Lewis
My girlfriend in college used to say that the world’s best birth control was other people’s kids…
My Soviet-era Russian friends said that the best birth control was the junior associate’s salary of 120 Rubles per month…
Charles had covered this story recently. One of the two Texas Health Officials who published a study favorable to Planned Parenthood is now out of a job. So now we know how Conservatives handle opposing viewpoints.
re: #10 electrotek
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Man that is just ignorant. Serbia was NOT our WWII ally. Yugoslavia was which included Orthodox Serbs, Muslim Bosnians, Catholic Croats/Slovenes, etc. And oh yeah that whole genocide thing that Milosevic was doing but I guess genocide is okay when it’s done to Muslims.
re: #11 electrotek
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re: #32 HappyWarrior
Man that is just ignorant. Serbia was NOT our WWII ally. Yugoslavia was which included Orthodox Serbs, Muslim Bosnians, Catholic Croats/Slovenes, etc. And oh yeah that whole genocide thing that Milosevic was doing but I guess genocide is okay when it’s done to Muslims.
Nothing like a selective approach to history, science and theology to support a distorted political ideology…
re: #2 ausador
Good…was hoping someone would force this into court since it first hit the news.
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I did see that. About fucking time.
re: #34 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Nothing like a selective approach to history, science and theology to support a distorted political ideology…
I wouldn’t even say that’s selective. It’s just ignorant of the history of the region. Man would these people be confused during WWI though since Christian German and Austria-Hungary along side Muslim Ottomans but they were fighting Christian French, British, and Muslim Arabs.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
I wouldn’t even say that’s selective. It’s just ignorant of the history of the region. Man would these people be confused during WWI though since Christian German and Austria-Hungary along side Muslim Ottomans but they were fighting Christian French, British, and Muslim Arabs.
It’s a cherry-picking approach of taking selected facts or Scriptural quotes and applying them totally out of context to support some preconceived notion.
re: #37 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
It’s a cherry-picking approach of taking selected facts or Scriptural quotes and applying them totally out of context to support some preconceived notion.
True. I guess I was thinking more of that he calls Serbia our WWI ally which is impossible given Serbia did not exist during WWI as an independent state and the Bosnians were more a part of Austro-Hungary hence why the Archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo.
re: #38 HappyWarrior
True. I guess I was thinking more of that he calls Serbia our WWI ally which is impossible given Serbia did not exist during WWI as an independent state and the Bosnians were more a part of Austro-Hungary hence why the Archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo.
Which is just selective ignorance.
re: #39 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Which is just selective ignorance.
It’s a wonder that Yugoslavia lasted as long as it did honestly.
re: #40 HappyWarrior
It’s a wonder that Yugoslavia lasted as long as it did honestly.
Tito, and its unique position as a linchpin between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
re: #30 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
My Soviet-era Russian friends said that the best birth control was the junior associate’s salary of 120 Rubles per month…
In economically advanced states it tends to be education and career paths for women. Of course, we can’t give that to just anyone.
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Tito, and its unique position as a linchpin between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
Yeah I’ve read about Tito. Fascinating figure. I’d love to visit Slovenia one day. Dubrovenik always looked beautiful too.
Then Tito brought his Vodka-making skills to Texas….
Whoa
DRAMATIC VIDEO captures a helicopter with 5 people on board crashing into the Pacific in Pearl Harbor. A 16-year-old boy is critically hurt. Breaking details: http://bit.ly/1oNIYFW
Posted by WFLA News Channel 8 on Thursday, February 18, 2016
re: #41 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Tito, and its unique position as a linchpin between NATO and the Warsaw Pact.
A resident of Yugoslavia either supported Tito in thought, word, or deed, or they ceased to exist.
Here is CCJ’s mentor doing fraud to Bernie people
Here’s where I confronted a @BernieSanders field director about committing #VoterFraud to vote in NH #tcot #tlot pic.twitter.com/qAJOCsO5gm
— James O’Keefe (@JamesOKeefeIII) February 18, 2016
#JoeScarborough Joins The #Trump Campaign.#VaticanWall #MorningJoe @MSNBC @Morning_Joehttps://t.co/q87AKMLchv pic.twitter.com/RSejR9iBDw
— W Smith (@wessmith123) February 19, 2016
re: #46 BeenHereAwhile
A resident of Yugoslavia either supported Tito in thought, word, or deed, or they ceased to exist.
Family lore is that my grandfather’s uncle and cousins were Partisans during the war. Got no way of proving that though. He may have also said Chetniks but doubtful given the Chetniks were overwhelmingly Serbian and Orthodox. I understand completely why the West supported Tito over the Chetniks in WWII after some of the stuff about the Chetniks helping the Italian fascists out came ot light.
re: #47 The Vicious Babushka
Here is CCJ’s mentor doing fraud to Bernie people
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I liked John Oliver’s take on voting in person fraud that Charles posted the other day. And I see O’Keefe’s still a painfully pathetic dickhead.
re: #50 HappyWarrior
I liked John Oliver’s take on voting in person fraud that Charles posted the other day. And I see O’Keefe’s still a painfully pathetic dickhead.
A painfully pathetic dickhead who still hasn’t have a real job. In other words, he’s a conservative commenter.
re: #51 Dr. Matt
A painfully pathetic dickhead who still hasn’t have a real job. In other words, he’s a conservative commenter.
Wingut welfare my friend. Pays the bills but not the dignity.
re: #49 HappyWarrior
Family lore is that my grandfather’s uncle and cousins were Partisans during the war. Got no way of proving that though. He may have also said Chetniks but doubtful given the Chetniks were overwhelmingly Serbian and Orthodox. I understand completely why the West supported Tito over the Chetniks in WWII.
My mom’s family comes from Croatia before WWI (thak God), I have tried to sort out the clusterf*ck of my family’s historical background.
Best thing I have found on it is Danubia, a historical work that starts to explain why the place was such a mess.
re: #53 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
My mom’s family comes from Croatia before WWI (thak God), I have tried to sort out the clusterf*ck of my family’s historical background.
Best thing I have found on it is Danubia, a historical work that starts to explain why the place was such a mess.
What you have in the region are people with very long memories. I do remember hearing about that book. Mine got out a few years before WWI too but I imagine like yours stil had some family there. Found that they’re actually pretty close to the Slovene-Croat border. That side though has been the least researched though given the scarcity of records that do exist.
I have an idea for a snack. Might do really well at the DNC. Trump Misfortune Cookies. every one has one of his stupid insults on a slip of paper inside. Thinking it should be a bitter flavor.
Great photo essay
The Unchanging Streets of Hasidic South Williamsburg https://t.co/eyACObIvOm #UniteBlue pic.twitter.com/kILd4PfLHM
— The Progressive Mind (@Libertea2012) February 19, 2016
Morning.
I think I am suffering major election fatigue.
I wonder if many of the other LGF members are also suffering. I was sort of surprised by the lack of commenting last night with what all was going on yesterday.
re: #57 ObserverArt
Morning.
I think I am suffering major election fatigue.
I wonder if many of the other LGF members are also suffering. I was sort of surprised by the lack of commenting last night with what all was going on yesterday.
That would be me. So done with it all.
re: #47 The Vicious Babushka
Bernie’s people should be well aware of ole Jimmy. In fact everybody should be aware of that little ghoul.
Obama’s not doing anything about ISIS again. /
U.S. airstrike targets ISIS operative in Libya; at least 40 reportedly dead https://t.co/nCzfFoP3TX
— OPB News (@OPBnews) February 19, 2016
I saw Johnny Depp’s Trump in Funny or Die’s ‘Art of the Deal’ and that was a pretty subtle and satisfying impression. The little verbal tics, down to the off-hand ‘okay’s, were prerty masterful given the short production time involved.
Just saw this. Stephen Colbert takes every verbal trope that the buffoon slings and parodies it like a champion. An old clip admittedly, but I was impressed.
re: #57 ObserverArt
Morning.
I think I am suffering major election fatigue.
I wonder if many of the other LGF members are also suffering. I was sort of surprised by the lack of commenting last night with what all was going on yesterday.
I can honestly say that this is the worst election cycle in my lifetime. I am beyond disgusted with the candidates, the media, and the voters who would happily put the worst candidates I’ve ever seen in the White House. That includes you Bernie voters, too, since you’ll be guaranteeing a GOP sweep in November.
re: #60 Tigger2
Obama’s not doing anything about ISIS again. /
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My only snark is like a teacher’s attempt at using shame to inspire motivation; ‘he could achieve wonders if only he’d apply himself’.
My one worry with Clinton is that she’d not use Obama’s patience and circumspect approach. Though this is likely due to her support of the Iraq intervention. I’ve no doubt that her time as SoS has sufficiently armoured her with tools and strategies that don’t rely on Bush Doctrine malletting.
More “Vote for Bernie! He’s not a career politician like all those other assholes” stuff on my FB this morning.
Smack. My. Head.
re: #63 Alyosha
My only snark is like a teacher’s attempt at using shame to inspire motivation; ‘he could achieve wonders if only he’d apply himself’.
My one worry with Clinton is that she’d not use Obama’s patience and circumspect approach. Though this is likely due to her support of the Iraq intervention. I’ve no doubt that her time as SoS has sufficiently armoured her with tools and strategies that don’t rely on Bush Doctrine malletting.
I think she would do fine, and I can’t fault her for supporting the Iraq war at first when I did the same thing at first.
re: #64 GlutenFreeJesus
More “Vote for Bernie! He’s not a career politician like all those other assholes” stuff on my FB this morning.
Smack. My. Head.
Give them the link to his Wikipedia page and ask them how 34 years in office makes him not a career politician.
It has been a frustrating cycle. I’ll be glad when it’s all over hopefully with Trump, Rubio, and Cruz far far far away from the Presidency. Oh and there’s another story out on Rubio today. Apparently when he was in the FL legislature, he sought a seat on a 9/11 commission and then missed most of his meetings. What’s with this dude?
I also remember people bitching about the previous two elections, about how long they were and how they wish they were over.
I’m honestly tired of hearing people whine about career politicians. That’s honestly the last of our problems. In fact, I think the people who run on raw rage like Trump are more problematic than wheelers and dealers. Point was made last night but why do people want people who don’t compromise? I mean I want my leaders to have strong ideals but I also think compromising is a leadership skill too for without it we would have no Constitution but that gets lost on purists.
re: #67 HappyWarrior
It has been a frustrating cycle. I’ll be glad when it’s all over hopefully with Trump, Rubio, and Cruz far far far away from the Presidency. Oh and there’s another story out on Rubio today. Apparently when he was in the FL legislature, he sought a seat on a 9/11 commission and then missed most of his meetings. What’s with this dude?
He is the type of person that likes holding a title but doesn’t want to do anything out of his way to support it.
re: #68 Belafon
I also remember people bitching about the previous two elections, about how long they were and how they wish they were over.
I don’t think back then we had the reality tv series Town Hall Starring Donald Trump running five nights a week like now.
re: #70 Tigger2
He is the type of person that likes holding a title but doesn’t want to do anything out of his way to support it.
Yeah the prestige that comes with being called Senator Rubio with none of the work.
I’m glad I’m getting back into writing. Submit some work to some of the magazines. Maybe get published. I dunno. I just know I’m glad I never got into politics for a career like I wanted to when I was getting out of high school eleven years ago.
re: #65 Tigger2
I think she would do fine, and I can’t fault her for supporting the Iraq war at first when I did the same thing at first.
The fact that she’s a flawed candidate because of her susceptibility to the pressure for war with Iraq is a weird-ish angle for Sanders to take to criticise her.
How many other Americans who traditionally vote Democratic *also* fell for the fearmongering?
Are they not stung when Sanders brings it up? Hindsight is what contextualises things; Obama got it right and voted against the action: but he didn’t pillory those who had.
His refusal to move for criminal charges against members of the Bush Admin. his desire to avoid ‘relitigation’ of that dark time in American history has had mixed results.
One was that those unabashed voices for war, even after the conflict went sour, were not forever chastened.
The second are those who now see the Iraq vote as a litmus test, and will never support a candidate who shared America’s anxieties.
Can you imagine an America today if Bush and Cheney had been referred to a Congressional inquest of some sort?
@ThePlumLineGS @LOLGOP Hear the click click click that’s the sound of some of the few Latino voters Rubio had walking away from him.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) February 19, 2016
re: #75 Tigger2
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re: #65 Tigger2
Same, I mean, I can’t say I was “rahrah” about it, but I wasn’t marching in the streets against it.
If I’d known then what I know now…but, blah blah hindsight is 20/20…yeah, but that doesn’t make anyone less dead.
re: #74 Alyosha
The fact that she’s a flawed candidate because of her susceptibility to the pressure for war with Iraq is a weird-ish angle for Sanders to take to criticise her.
How many other Americans who traditionally vote Democratic *also* fell for the fearmongering?
Are they not stung when Sanders brings it up? Hindsight is what contextualises things; Obama got it right and voted against the action: but he didn’t pillory those who had.
His refusal to move for criminal charges against members of the Bush Admin. his desire to avoid ‘relitigation’ of that dark time in American history has had mixed results.One was that those unabashed voices for war, even after the conflict went sour, were not forever chastened.
The second are those who now see the Iraq vote as a litmus test, and will never support a candidate who shared America’s anxieties.Can you imagine an America today if Bush and Cheney had been referred to a Congressional inquest of some sort?
Some of Sanders votes on gun issues bothers me.
Right wingers kinda freaking out over the fact that Trump has the edge over everyone else. Cruz’s path to a nomination is slipping away. It’s math, which as we all know, isn’t a GOP strong suit.
Within GOP, Catholics are overrepresented in winner-take-all & take-most states. Could be building block for Rubio. https://t.co/WwhPxLxJry
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 18, 2016
538’s Nate Silver lays it out. Rubio actually has a slightly better path to a nomination (if he survives SC, that is). Cruz needs evangelicals, but the states where they have the largest numbers aren’t winner take all states; they’re states that may either apportion delegates by vote percentages, or are winner take all by district - diluting the value of winning a given state.
Trump, who continues to lead in most polls in most of the upcoming states, has the easiest path right now.
Jeb? He’s toast. Kasich and Carson are afterthoughts.
Oh, and Trump’s “rift” with the Pope?
Among Republicans, 56% have a favorable view of Pope Francis, and 21% an unfavorable view: https://t.co/WwhPxLxJry
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) February 18, 2016
re: #78 Tigger2
Some of Sanders votes on gun issues bothers me.
Some has come out about his immigration votes that bothers me even more than that.
Oh, and one more thing. Talking about a rift among Bernie/Hillary voters? It really is an Internet thing - polling finds not so much:
.@wccubbison You aren’t lying. Also, this. Holy moly. pic.twitter.com/Ed6my4l9UF
— Addisu Demissie (@ASDem) February 18, 2016
For all the chatter on Twitter and the Net about a rift between Bernie and Hillary, the fact is that the Democrats are in good shape - if they GOTV in November. That’s a huge IF.
re: #78 Tigger2
Some of Sanders votes on gun issues bothers me.
And the rebuttal is simple: ‘it’s not that he’s in the tank for the NRA, it’s that he represents Vermont.’
It’s hard to expose his true motive when the anti-establishment mantle pretty much covers it.
re: #82 Alyosha
And the rebuttal is simple: ‘it’s not that he’s in the tank for the NRA, it’s that he represents Vermont.’
It’s hard to expose his true motive when the anti-establishment mantle pretty much covers it.
Rural ares vs urban explains that precisely. The gun rules for one are often all wrong for the other. But that divide put that way bears no electoral/poll/ fundraising goals. So that rather obvious fact is largely ignored in favor of more divisive (i.e. useful) arguments.
re: #81 lawhawk
Oh, and one more thing. Talking about a rift among Bernie/Hillary voters? It really is an Internet thing - polling finds not so much:
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For all the chatter on Twitter and the Net about a rift between Bernie and Hillary, the fact is that the Democrats are in good shape - if they GOTV in November. That’s a huge IF.
I’m fairly confident that the first debate should pretty much erase all doubt and batsignal the importance of one’s civic duty to keep the wolves at bay.
re: #82 Alyosha
And the rebuttal is simple: ‘it’s not that he’s in the tank for the NRA, it’s that he represents Vermont.’
It’s hard to expose his true motive when the anti-establishment mantle pretty much covers it.
My Reply would be, Well his Vermont stance means nothing to me he’s not running to be the President of Vermont. Is his stance going to change on some of the gun issues ?
Cliven Bundy has been extradited to Nevada.
re: #83 Great White Snark
Rural ares vs urban explains that precisely. The gun rules for one are often all wrong for the other. But that divide put that way bears no electoral/poll/ fundraising goals. So that rather obvious fact is largely ignored in favor of more divisive (i.e. useful) arguments.
My opinion on the matter is, to some degree, informed by your posts. I have to defer to the better-informed, even if I can’t agree on specific notions of what constitutes a ‘right’.
I have the fortune of not being a citizen automatically empowered with death-dealing capabilities by charter.
re: #85 Tigger2
My Reply would be, Well his Vermont stance means nothing to me he’s not running to be the President of Vermont. Is his stance going to change on some of the gun issues ?
And I’m not trying to nitpick I have owned guns for 54 yrs.
Car’s in the shop…transmission light came on.
At home watching old movies hoping I don’t have to replace the transmission/car.
I can let the gun issue slide some but I have to admit I wince when Steve King praises him and even compares him favorably against other Republicans. It’s a harsh title I admit but Rep Gutierrez is probably among the biggest leaders on immigration in Congress.
univision.com
re: #86 GlutenFreeJesus
Cliven Bundy has been extradited to Nevada.
Cliven Bundy doesn’t believe in extradition. To him it’s like leprechauns, or eskimos.
re: #85 Tigger2
My Reply would be, Well his Vermont stance means nothing to me he’s not running to be the President of Vermont. Is his stance going to change on some of the gun issues ?
I’m hoping it comes up in debates a bit more. The sooner the better. It’s been touched on, but gun violence seems to be a problem both candidates acknowledge, but don’t consider a cornerstone of their platform.
Wait, I thought Obama was the Antichrist…
And there it is pic.twitter.com/BlFafrXviC
— Brian Tashman (@briantashman) February 19, 2016
re: #92 Alyosha
I’m hoping it comes up in debates a bit more. The sooner the better. It’s been touched on, but gun violence seems to be a problem both candidates acknowledge, but don’t consider a cornerstone of their platform.
I’d like to see more too. I can understand the state issue and the rural versus urban dynamic but I think you can make an argument that our states don’t exist in a vaccum. Tons of people buy guns here in Virginia and use them in crimes in the District or Maryland that have stricter gun laws.
re: #93 ausador
Wait, I thought Obama was the Antichrist…
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Why Clinton’s successor is the Anti-Christ, copyright 2020 or 2024.
re: #87 Alyosha
Well thanks for that, glad to help inform as I can. The candidates have been oversimplifying and that just makes a mess of the debate. Like the due process defying no fly list=gun ban idea Hilary has repeatedly endorsed. She has to know the legal problems there, but votes first right? Not a slam on HRC, but the electoral campaign culture.
Gabby Giffords and I agree on a lot of gun control ideas. Ideas with rights and safety motivations in balance.
re: #93 ausador
Wait, I thought Obama was the Antichrist…
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re: #93 ausador
Wait, I thought Obama was the Antichrist…
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@briantashman No, I think that is Trump. They better check into that.
— jim (@jlcoffeecup) February 19, 2016
re: #95 HappyWarrior
Why Clinton’s successor is the Anti-Christ, copyright 2020 or 2024.
Bill Clinton Obama looked promising as the Anti-Christ, but he’s proven a disappointment. America still exists. But surely Hillary will bring on the Apocalypse and the Rapture and..wait is this supposed to be good or bad?
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re: #97 The Vicious Babushka
Obama’s the anti-Christ (when position not filled by Democrat du jour).
No wait…. Obama’s a Time Lord. After all, he’s managed to erase his past, and insert his own predestined history.
No, that’s not it. He’s like the exiled time cop from Legends of Tomorrow.
No, that’s not it.
Obama’s the Silver Surfer - the herald for Galactus Hillary, destroyer of worlds.
Perfect.
This is the right wing mindset, where conspiracy theories and batcrap insanity take the place of rational thought.
re: #100 Nojay UK
I think Trump is the Antipope, not the AntiChrist.
Trump is the AntiKnowledge. Judging by his base.
Harper Lee has died :::: https://t.co/mOu3JFFT4x
— Hadas Gold (@Hadas_Gold) February 19, 2016
Realiy show idea, America’s Next Antichrist.
GOP philosophy, if the facts contradict your idealogy then go after the people who published the facts.
TX Fires Health Official for Studying Effects of Planned Parenthood Defunding https://t.co/nmIaPCsftK @PPact
— Peter Daou (@peterdaou) February 19, 2016
re: #104 lawhawk
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Shit. My kid brother’s actually reading To Kill a Mockingbird right now. Reminds me of learning about Woodward and Bernstein and watching All the President’s Men and then Woodward revealing Felt as Deepthroat. RIP, Ms.Lee. Thanks for Atticus and Scout, two great characters.
re: #106 ausador
GOP philosophy, if the facts contradict your idealogy then go after the people who published the facts.
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What happened to free speech. Oh wait, that’s only for bigoted right wing assholes shouting shit.
re: #96 Great White Snark
Well thanks for that, glad to help inform as I can. The candidates have been oversimplifying and that just makes a mess of the debate. Like the due process defying no fly list=gun ban idea Hilary has repeatedly endorsed. She has to know the legal problems there, but votes first right? Not a slam on HRC, but the electoral campaign culture.
Gabby Giffords and I agree on a lot of gun control ideas. Ideas with rights and safety motivations in balance.
Coming from a mostly gun-free culture I don’t assign much blame to candidates who aim to legislate against the ownership of guns for anyone. I consider it a blind spot of sorts. So I do take the time to read contradictory posts and consider their merits.
In some ways, I’ll never quite get it. My mood is more pessimistic.
I don’t think it’s possible, at this point, to discover a consensus upon which sensible and effective gun laws can be enacted. The climate is far too polarised; one half of one side (not the gun control side, mind you) is freaking paranoid. And besides which, guns aren’t like drugs. They don’t disappear after use and they can be used without firing.
The horse has long since bolted. It’s all damage control now.
re: #99 HappyWarrior
The Antichrist is a busy guy.
Maybe he moves from host body to host body like in Fallen, the movie. Obama today, Hillary (or Bernie) tomorrow…
re: #112 HappyWarrior
It’d be tough finding a host though.
Trump’s not doing anything after November.
re: #106 ausador
Powerful Republican state Sen. Jane Nelson dismissed the findings as invalid, in part because the research was funded by the nonprofit Susan T. Buffet Foundation, which is a major supporter of Planned Parenthood and other abortion rights groups.
She also questions why two state health employees were among the study’s five co-authors.
“It’s one thing for an agency to provide data upon request. It’s quite another to be listed as a ‘co-author’ on a deeply flawed and highly political report,” said Nelson, an architect of Texas’ current women’s health program. “I’ve communicated strong concerns to the agency. This should not have happened, and we need to make sure it doesn’t happen again.”
Disgusting. Really disgusting and scary for academic and scientific freedom.
re: #111 KerFuFFler
Maybe he moves from host body to host body like in Fallen, the movie. Obama today, Hillary (or Bernie) tomorrow…
That’s gotta be exhausting on the poor fella. Doesn’t he have time to visit the little Antichrists and Mrs. Antichrist? I mean I’m sure Billy Antichrist just wants to have a catch with his Dad and for his Dad to take him to some baseball games but Dad is always busy!
re: #115 Dr. Matt
Disgusting. Really disgusting and scary for academic and scientific freedom.
Ur findings are Unvalidated!!!
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re: #115 Dr. Matt
Disgusting. Really disgusting and scary for academic and scientific freedom.
They did in VA under Cucinelli’s AG office. Coochie didn’t like UVA’s climate change scientists doing their research. It’s that crap why I laugh my fucking ass off when I hear conservatives complain about liberals censoring them when we have actual states doing crap like this.
re: #115 Dr. Matt
Disgusting. Really disgusting and scary for academic and scientific freedom.
So doing the study was “political” but firing the researcher isn’t “political”.
I see.
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re: #117 HappyWarrior
I was thinking he’d be a contestant.
I’m hoping he’d blur the line. Like if Jeff Probst sidled into the contestants encampment and ate all the food.
Latest SC popularity polls still show Trump with a large lead, but momentum seems to be with Rubio, who is doing better.
The WSJ/NBC poll continues to be an outlier. Even in the Democratic contest they have Clinton by an outsized margin ahead of Bernie.
Some have pointed out that the WSJ/NBC poll is too heavily weighted towards those who declare themselves to be very conservative (whatever that means.)
re: #115 Dr. Matt
Disgusting. Really disgusting and scary for academic and scientific freedom.
There were five researchers on the study, two worked for the state and the other three a university. The university initiated the research and contrary to Sen. Nelson’s assertion says the Buffet foundation had nothing to do with it
We are all the anti-Christ.
Or was it Kosh?
Meh.
re: #122 freetoken
Latest SC popularity polls still show Trump with a large lead, but momentum seems to be with Rubio, who is doing better.
The WSJ/NBC poll continues to be an outlier. Even in the Democratic contest they have Clinton by an outsized margin ahead of Bernie.
Some have pointed out that the WSJ/NBC poll is too heavily weighted towards those who declare themselves to be very conservative (whatever that means.)
WaPo article I read indicates that it’s a fight between Rubio and Cruz for second place along with another article indicating that Rubio in the FL legislature sought out a committee spot on a 9/11 comission and missed the most meetings of anyone by far. So it seems to me that his behavior in the Senate is not merely due running for President as he may claim but due to being someone who wants prestige but none of the hard work that came with it.
re: #122 freetoken
Latest SC popularity polls still show Trump with a large lead, but momentum seems to be with Rubio, who is doing better.
The WSJ/NBC poll continues to be an outlier. Even in the Democratic contest they have Clinton by an outsized margin ahead of Bernie.
Some have pointed out that the WSJ/NBC poll is too heavily weighted towards those who declare themselves to be very conservative (whatever that means.)
If the one poll showing Rubio way ahead of Kasich and Cruz is right, the GOP may get down to a one-on-one race between Trump and Rubio sooner rather than later. Cruz obviously won’t quit until he takes his shot in the SEC primary, but if he doesn’t win outside of Texas I think he’s done. Then we’ll see if Trump can add enough other Republicans to the third he has to make a majority, or if instead Rubio takes the lion’s share.
re: #93 ausador
Wait, I thought Obama was the Antichrist…
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Also, I thought the Antichrist had to be a guy….
Hillary Clinton, breaking gender barriers again!!!
re: #43 HappyWarrior
My late grandmother was Croatian and a couple of years ago I took my mom on a Rick Steves tour of Croatia, Slovenia & Bosnia. It was fantastic. We got to explore Titos summer place on Lake Bled. We spent a couple of days in Dubrovnik and it was indeed stunning. Bosnia was my first experience in Muslim country and I fell in love with the minarets and calls to prayer. Literally every building we saw in Bosnia was pockmarked with bullet holes.
It was a great trip that I highly recommend.
re: #123 ausador
There were five researchers on the study, two worked for the state and the other three a university. The university initiated the research and contrary to Sen. Nelson’s assertion says the Buffet foundation had nothing to do with it
And both grants (The Foundation grant and the NIH R24) were awarded to UT-Austin. As usual, anti-science conservative fascists live in their own reality that is devoid of facts.
Lena Dunham should get a restraining order on stalker Baby Whiplash.
Lena Dunham likes to eat baby food. She first discovered this after sexually abusing her sister. https://t.co/ArYaRtlvcx
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 19, 2016
re: #130 The Vicious Babushka
Lena Dunham should get a restraining order on stalker Baby Whiplash.
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re: #128 ElaineBenis
My late grandmother was Croatian and a couple of years ago I took my mom on a Rick Steves tour of Croatia, Slovenia & Bosnia. It was fantastic. We got to explore Titos summer place on Lake Bled. We spent a couple of days in Dubrovnik and it was indeed stunning. Bosnia was my first experience in Muslim country and I fell in love with the minarets and calls to prayer. Literally every building we saw in Bosnia was pockmarked with bullet holes.
It was a great trip that I highly recommend.
Sounds like a beautiful trip. I used Rick’s guidebooks and tour videos to help plan my trip to Spain, Portugal, and Ireland two summers ago. I think he’s one of the best travel guys on TV. My mom’s father was Slovenian. It’s probably the country I know least about that I have roots in and consequently enough the one I’ve met the fewest relatives on since my grandfather was the youngest and a lot of his siblings had died by my birth.
re: #131 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Baby Ben keeps making me like Lena Dunham.
I have never watched the “Girls” show and have no opinion of Lena Dunham, but Baby Whiplash’s obsession with her is creepy and scary.
re: #130 The Vicious Babushka
Lena Dunham should get a restraining order on stalker Baby Whiplash.
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He really needs to see someone about his obsession with her. It’s not healthy nor is it normal. Are you made that Lena would want nothing to do with a lame troll like you Ben who acts three times his age?
re: #131 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Baby Ben keeps making me like Lena Dunham.
No kidding, I’ve never watched Girls but I’m starting to feel that if this little prick hates her so much that she may be alright.
First step towards getting them pulled off shelves until manufacturers/distributors can have them tested and listed by U.L. or another recognized listing agency.
U.S. government declares hoverboards unsafe https://t.co/72RRU20i6u pic.twitter.com/waQKpbOVr7
— Mashable (@mashable) February 19, 2016
It takes a really disturbed mind to treat Lena Dunham’s actions as a child as terrible, sexual assault but to just brush off Josh Duggar, a repeat offender at that as an adult as a victim of liberal smears but that’s Baby Whiplash, always eager to attack Liberal women but always happy to help a Wingnut brother in arms.
re: #54 HappyWarrior
What you have in the region are people with very long memories. I do remember hearing about that book. Mine got out a few years before WWI too but I imagine like yours stil had some family there. Found that they’re actually pretty close to the Slovene-Croat border. That side though has been the least researched though given the scarcity of records that do exist.
One point made in Danubia is that despite long memories, almost nobody has an “ancestral” claim to any particular territory: people have been tossed about back and forth by the tides of history so that no single group ever stayed in one place permanently.
re: #67 HappyWarrior
He is the type of person who loves prestige and power but hates the work involved. In other words the typical modern revolutionary masquerading as a conservative.
I was going to say, “masquerading as a human” but such behaviour is very human.
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
One point made in Danubia is that despite long memories, almost nobody has an “ancestral” claim to any particular territory: people have been tossed about back and forth by the tides of history so that no single group ever stayed in one place permanently.
I believe it’s been really only since the 20th century that Bratislava, Slovakia’s capital has become majority Slovak speaking. And as you know, there’s tons of lands far removed from Germany and Austria that have tons of German speakers. I should pick up that book. It sounds fascinating.
re: #119 HappyWarrior
They did in VA under Cucinelli’s AG office. Coochie didn’t like UVA’s climate change scientists doing their research. It’s that crap why I laugh my fucking ass off when I hear conservatives complain about liberals censoring them when we have actual states doing crap like this.
Don’t forget the ban on NIH studying the nature and impact of guns on health outcomes.
W also tried to stymie Climate science study at NASA.
And then there was the (partially successful) attempt to make it illegal to refer to current scientific projections of sea level rise by North Carolina legislatures and bureaucracies.
And remember W refusing to open certain emails so he would not have to act on the information.
The 3 strategies to avoid dealing with reality:
1. You can’t study it.
2. If you did anyway, you may not speak of it.
3. If you speak of it, *puts fingers in ears while running around* “I’m not listening”
re: #141 KerFuFFler
Don’t forget the ban on NIH studying the nature and impact of guns on health outcomes.
W also tried to stymie Climate science study at NASA.
And then there was the (partially successful) attempt to make it illegal to refer to current scientific projections of sea level rise by North Carolina legislatures and bureaucracies.
And remember W refusing to open certain emails so he would not have to act on the information.
The 3 strategies to avoid dealing with reality:
1. You can’t study it.
2. If you did anyway, you may not speak of it.
3. If you speak of it, *puts fingers in ears while running around* “I’m not listening”
Oh for sure. The UVA example just came to me since it was here in VA but tons of other examples of this but yet i’m supposed to feel bad for Ann Coulter or some other right wing asshole who makes a speech on a college campus insulting a lot of the student body and they’re upset that people et angry about that? Nah, I’ll chose my outrage for shit like this,
re: #138 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
One point made in Danubia is that despite long memories, almost nobody has an “ancestral” claim to any particular territory: people have been tossed about back and forth by the tides of history so that no single group ever stayed in one place permanently.
In this and the latter half of the last century, we’ve tried to acheive a kind of national stasis. Anyone with an appreciation of history knows this time we’re living in is exceptionally peaceful.
The next test is how nations respond to climate change.
Daesh already made a mess of the colonial maps due in part to drought. What’s next?
FROTHING WINGNUT RAGE OF THE DAY==>
POTUS not attending Scalia’s funeral.
re: #135 HappyWarrior
No kidding, I’ve never watched Girls but I’m starting to feel that if this little prick hates her so much that she may be alright.
My guess is that she looks like someone who made fun of him in middle school.
re: #38 HappyWarrior
True. I guess I was thinking more of that he calls Serbia our WWI ally which is impossible given Serbia did not exist during WWI as an independent state and the Bosnians were more a part of Austro-Hungary hence why the Archduke was assassinated in Sarajevo.
Actually Serbia was a separate country in WW1.
en.wikipedia.org
Their support of Bosnian separatists and believed collusion in the assassination is what led to AH’s ultimatum and then declaration of war. Russia was backing Serbia, and Germany backing AH. France was allied with Russia. And Germany decided they needed to go through Belgium in order to defeat France quickly. And the UK was guaranteeing Belgium’s neutrality. O_o
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
FROTHING WINGNUT RAGE OF THE DAY==>
POTUS not attending Scalia’s funeral.
100% of US Presidents attend 100% of Supreme Court Justice funerals and 100% of presidents don’t nominate to court in final year!!!!
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re: #145 Pawn of the Oppressor
My guess is that she looks like someone who made fun of him in middle school.
or turned him down for a date.
re: #49 HappyWarrior
Family lore is that my grandfather’s uncle and cousins were Partisans during the war. Got no way of proving that though. He may have also said Chetniks but doubtful given the Chetniks were overwhelmingly Serbian and Orthodox. I understand completely why the West supported Tito over the Chetniks in WWII after some of the stuff about the Chetniks helping the Italian fascists out came ot light.
Though it should be noted as well that Chetniks helped rescue and hide Allied air crew who were shot down over Yugoslavia.
en.wikipedia.org
(The book on this is unfortunately not that good a read.)
re: #146 Feline Fearless Leader
Actually Serbia was a separate country in WW1.
en.wikipedia.orgTheir support of Bosnian separatists and believed collusion in the assassination is what led to AH’s ultimatum and then declaration of war. Russia was backing Serbia, and Germany backing AH. France was allied with Russia. And Germany decided they needed to go through Belgium in order to defeat France quickly. And the UK was guaranteeing Belgium’s neutrality. O_o
I meant WWII and I was responding to a claim that Serbia was our ally during WWII. Thanks though. Knew Serbia was independent during WWI and the history tehre but thanks anyohw. Man what a bloody mess that was.
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
FROTHING WINGNUT RAGE OF THE DAY==>
POTUS not attending Scalia’s funeral.
‘It’s the beating of that hideous heart!’re: #149 Feline Fearless Leader
Though it should be noted as well that Chetniks helped rescue and hide Allied air crew who were shot down over Yugoslavia.
en.wikipedia.org
(The book on this is unfortunately not that good a read.)
Yeah they did. I think the Partisans were the best choice to back given the situation since they were multi-ethnic. Tito was Croatian but he had associates who were Serbian, Slovene, Bosnian, and other groups.
re: #145 Pawn of the Oppressor
My guess is that she looks like someone who made fun of him in middle school.
It’s much simpler. She’d tell him off if he met her face to face. This is the only way he’d ever be able to bully her.
Edwardo Cruz has been raiding Ed Grimleys closet again… pic.twitter.com/riGn10Lacq
— The Goat (@Mr_Jitters) February 19, 2016
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
FROTHING WINGNUT RAGE OF THE DAY==>
POTUS not attending Scalia’s funeral.
And if Obama were to show up wingnuts, you’d still bitch at him. Just face it, Obama could nominate Scalia’s long lost twin or someone who clerked under him and says he’s an influence and you’d still bitch because you’re not getting your pony.
re: #124 Not a Sparkly Vampire
We are all the anti-Christ.
Or was it Kosh?
Meh.
Who are you?
What do you want?
re: #144 The Vicious Babushka
FROTHING WINGNUT RAGE OF THE DAY==>
POTUS not attending Scalia’s funeral.
So ridiculous! As I understand it, he is not exactly invited.
But why give up on an opportunity to froth?
re: #151 Alyosha
Neither is Ted Cruz. So what.
Obama would be chastized for going or not going. So he’s not going.
If I were in his shoes, I’d go. But that’s me. I’m also not the guy who the GOP demonizes at every opportunity.
If Obama attended the funeral, wingnuts would scream
HURR HURR HE SHOWED UP TO DISRESPECT TEH FAMILY’S WISHES!!!11!!!!
re: #160 The Vicious Babushka
If Obama attended the funeral, wingnuts would scream
HURR HURR HE SHOWED UP TO DISRESPECT TEH FAMILY’S WISHES!!!11!!!!
Exactly. So fuck em.
re: #160 The Vicious Babushka
If Obama attended the funeral, wingnuts would scream
HURR HURR HE SHOWED UP TO DISRESPECT TEH FAMILY’S WISHES!!!11!!!!
Heads we win, tails you lose.
re: #150 HappyWarrior
I meant WWII and I was responding to a claim that Serbia was our ally during WWII. Thanks though. Knew Serbia was independent during WWI and the history tehre but thanks anyohw. Man what a bloody mess that was.
Check your comment #38 then. Unless you edited it since I read it there is “WWI” in two places instead of “WWII”. Thus my comment and wondering when the time reference changed.
re: #159 lawhawk
Neither is Ted Cruz. So what.
Obama would be chastized for going or not going. So he’s not going.
If I were in his shoes, I’d go. But that’s me. I’m also not the guy who the GOP demonizes at every opportunity.
Just riffin’ on the CTs.
re: #163 Feline Fearless Leader
Check your comment #38 then. Unless you edited it since I read it there is “WWI” in two places instead of “WWII”. Thus my comment and wondering when the time reference changed.
it’s cool. I meant WWII though. My computer’s been slow and I was just getting up too. Good looking out though so thanks. Just wanted to make it clear that I was aware of Serbia’s independence at the time WWI broke out.
re: #152 HappyWarrior
Yeah they did. I think the Partisans were the best choice to back given the situation since they were multi-ethnic. Tito was Croatian but he had associates who were Serbian, Slovene, Bosnian, and other groups.
Probably. And Tito managed to keep the lid on that particular pot for a period of time. Though not necessarily via the best of methods. The Balkans have been a political mess and international football for centuries in any case. One reason it’s a religious and ethnic mish-mash is due to being the obvious route between Asia Minor and Central Europe.
re: #158 KerFuFFler
So ridiculous! As I understand it, he is not exactly invited.
But why give up on an opportunity to froth?
I got into this with a wingnut yesterday, even mentioned that the family preferred it that way. He said, ‘No, they didn’t want an autopsy. They didn’t say anything about the funeral’. So posted the link to the story where family friends said this was best.
Apparently, the family can’t just let it be known to the White House in the standard, polite way, behind the scenes. They’re supposed to make an announcement and be dicks about it.
re: #162 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
Heads we win, tails you lose.
I presume (ha!) every single GOP POTUS candidate *is* attending in order to show their respect?
re: #165 HappyWarrior
it’s cool. I meant WWII though. My computer’s been slow and I was just getting up too. Good looking out though so thanks. Just wanted to make it clear that I was aware of Serbia’s independence at the time WWI broke out.
No problem. That let me type in that paragraph of the quick version of the alliance web that led to a world war breaking out.
re: #168 Feline Fearless Leader
I presume (ha!) every single GOP POTUS candidate *is* attending in order to show their respect?
Unless they have something important to do, like campaign in a primary.
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re: #166 Feline Fearless Leader
Probably. And Tito managed to keep the lid on that particular pot for a period of time. Though not necessarily via the best of methods. The Balkans have been a political mess and international football for centuries in any case. One reason it’s a religious and ethnic mish-mash is due to being the obvious route between Asia Minor and Central Europe.
Yeah you’ve got tons Orthodox, Catholic, and Muslims all on the same land. In hindsight, the base thing to do after WWI would have been to give each of the groups their own independence but Pan-South Slavism as espoused by Tito was a big thing in those days so I doubt it could realistically happen. I am just glad the wars appear to be over. I know for a fact I still have family in Slovenia. I hope they managed to make it through all the conflicts safe.
re: #164 Alyosha
@WillMcAvoyACN @AbuKedem Politico reported it. https://t.co/mxiEK13orc pic.twitter.com/ilE1Vmw4UF
— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) February 19, 2016
And with that understanding, I wouldn’t attend either.
re: #169 Feline Fearless Leader
No problem. That let me type in that paragraph of the quick version of the alliance web that led to a world war breaking out.
Yeah, I wasn’t trying to sound defensive or anything like that. I just pride myself on my knowledge, history degree and all that jazz. I’m actually re-watching that excellent BBC documentary series that features the 14 war diaries. My only small qualm with it is that they did not include a diary of someone from one of the Slavic groups in the Austrian-Hungarian empire or a Serb. That world of alliance is the world that my mom’s folks were fleeing when they came to the US. In fact, my mom’s mom was in Europe for WWI. That land in northeastern Slovakia is today very close to the Polish border(like literal walking distance) but I don’t know who controlled that part of Poland during WWI since I want to say that Poland had parts of it controlled by Russia, Austria-Hungary, and Germany during that time.
Shut the fuck up Republicans. He went to pay his respects to Scalia at the court yesterday. People mourn and grieve in their own ways.
re: #132 HappyWarrior
Slovenia is a lovely little overlooked country; Lubjliana (yes I butchered the spelling) is a really, really pretty city.
I’m not at all a tour/cruise ship person but I didn’t want to deal with logistics and language AND my elderly mother so went with RS. And it was great.
re: #172 lawhawk
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If the Scalia family thinks he’s making the right choice than that really is all that needs to be said. It’s not like Obama and Scalia were close. And while the two aren’t the same situation, Scalia made a habit of not attending Obama’s SOTU addresses. This is just a fake outrage and I am glad the Scalia family isn’t humoring right wing bullshit here.
re: #174 GlutenFreeJesus
Shut the fuck up Republicans. He went to pay his respects to Scalia at the court yesterday. People mourn and grieve in their own ways.
If he truly wanted to pay his respects, he and Biden would resign so that Ryan could become president and appoint Scalia’s replacement.
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re: #175 ElaineBenis
Slovenia is a lovely little overlooked country; Lubjliana (yes I butchered the spelling) is a really, really pretty city.
I’m not at all a tour/cruise ship person but I didn’t want to deal with logistics and language AND my elderly mother so went with RS. And it was great.
It does look quite lovely. It’s so funny because I’m Slovak on my mother’s mother’s side and people always mess up the two nations. I’d really like to go some day. I’d probably have to fly into Vienna and take a train to Slovenia since there probably aren’t too many cheap flights that are either one or even two way ot Ljubiana.
re: #172 lawhawk
I won’t belabour my admittedly crappy joke, but that kind of insight won’t placate the nation’s ‘disembrained’*.
*Stewart et. al. Warner Books, 2004, pg. 107
re: SC Primary tomorrow, I though Jeb! might rebound there, since he exceeded admittedly low expectations in NH and was bringing in W to campaign for him.
But doesn’t appear that will happen. Tomorrow might be Jeb’s last stand.
re: #176 HappyWarrior
If the Scalia family thinks he’s making the right choice than that really is all that needs to be said. It’s not like Obama and Scalia were close. And while the two aren’t the same situation, Scalia made a habit of not attending Obama’s SOTU addresses. This is just a fake outrage and I am glad the Scalia family isn’t humoring right wing bullshit here.
Nope. Not good enough for RWNJ.
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Religious Leaders Rush To Trump’s Defense After Pope Francis’ Comments
How dare the Pope offend Americas lord and saviour? I also saw where now it’s “the reporting” that is wrong. Ignore the audio and video of Trumps actual words. That’s the devils work.
@emmawod Sure, no problem.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 19, 2016
re: #180 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse
re: SC Primary tomorrow, I though Jeb! might rebound there, since he exceeded admittedly low expectations in NH and was bringing in W to campaign for him.
But doesn’t appear that will happen. Tomorrow might be Jeb’s last stand.
It might, but some polls show him within striking distance of Rubio and Cruz. We won’t know which polls got it right until tomorrow night, though if I were betting I would bet on Rubio finishing second.
Another machete attack:
re: #182 nines09
Religious Leaders Rush To Trump’s Defense After Pope Francis’ Comments
How dare the Pope offend Americas lord and saviour? I also saw where now it’s “the reporting” that is wrong. Ignore the audio and video of Trumps actual words. That’s the devils work.
Pretty much all evangelicals and Bill Donahue who is the reincarnation of Bill the Butcher if Bill the Butcher were a Catholic nativist.
re: #187 HappyWarrior
It’s like they stand in line to wait to see who Trump spits on next. Then they applaud. Trump does serve a purpose though. He shows us just how deep the sickness is.
This is the tweet:
The full context of Killer Mike’s quote does not improve it. He chose to repeat a blatantly sexist meme.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) February 17, 2016
re: #189 nines09
It’s like they stand in line to wait to see who Trump spits on next. Then they applaud. Trump does serve a purpose though. He shows us just how deep the sickness is.
I can’t wait to see who he goes after next. Of course, Falwell Jr and Graham spoke up for him. They’re just as bigoted as he is.
US air strike hits IS camp in Libya, dozens dead: https://t.co/GjPZawL3Lv.
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) February 19, 2016
Just a reminder that the US continues to take on IS all over the world, even if the GOP thinks that we’re just sitting back and lobbing pillows and unicorn farts. It isn’t carpet bombing either - not that that would improve the outcome either (separate and distinct from the fact that carpet bombing would constitute war crimes for indiscriminate bombing of civilians).
Hell Francis called out anyone who builds a wall. It wasn’t just an attack on Trump. As I said last night, from Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall to Mr. Trump, Please build up this wall.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
Hell Francis called out anyone who builds a wall. It wasn’t just an attack on Trump. As I said last night, from Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall to Mr. Trump, Please build up this wall.
But the Pope lives behind a wall! Never mind that the wall has a whole bunch of portals allowing people daily entry into the Vatican (a separate and distinct nation from Italy that surrounds it entirely).
The Pope was also talking about the moral and ethical choices of building walls and what it does to people on both sides of the fence. It’s not just good fences make good neighbors. There are costs too - and Trump and the rest of the right wing noise machine ignored that to focus on the criticism.
re: #194 HappyWarrior
Hell Francis called out anyone who builds a wall. It wasn’t just an attack on Trump. As I said last night, from Mr. Gorbachev, Tear Down This Wall to Mr. Trump, Please build up this wall.
Someone ought to ask Trump what that Lady in New York harbour is standing there for. Scrap prices are high, or she could be the new advertising tower. Bathe her in laser advertising for monthly fees. Name Ellis Island, uh, Bank One Island, or Wells Fargo Island. Rent it out to the highest bidder. This has always been a nation of contradictions. We’ve used immigrants to build our ivory towers, our railroads and pave our golden roads. Everyone outside of American Indians had a forefather come from somewhere else, and they were hated too. This is just the past showing up in new clothes.
re: #154 Dave In Austin
There’s a bit in here somewhere @bobcesca_go @chezpazienza https://t.co/MdSoVqxhFZ
— Franklin (@franklinftw) February 19, 2016
re: #195 lawhawk
But the Pope lives behind a wall! Never mind that the wall has a whole bunch of portals allowing people daily entry into the Vatican (a separate and distinct nation from Italy that surrounds it entirely).
The Pope was also talking about the moral and ethical choices of building walls and what it does to people on both sides of the fence. It’s not just good fences make good neighbors. There are costs too - and Trump and the rest of the right wing noise machine ignored that to focus on the criticism.
These RWNJs really are cowardly bullies. When given the least amount of power, they go absolutely berserk with it, wanting everyone else to bow and scrape before them.
When give the least amount of criticism, they whine like the most obnoxiously spoiled children ever.
How anyone capable of reason can look at this shit and say “that’s the kind of behavior I want elected officials to exhibit” is beyond comprehension.
re: #200 Dave In Austin
Oh…. A flash in my minds eye of Ted doing a Grimley
Complete with a triangle…I must say.
Petition to have Deadpool host “SNL” is gaining momentum https://t.co/P7TzvedrKH pic.twitter.com/F5IRmUXgHh
— Huffington Post (@HuffingtonPost) February 19, 2016
*headdesk*
Kentucky Senate approves bill creating separate marriage license forms for gay couples https://t.co/1XV73lX13b
— Fox News (@FoxNews) February 19, 2016
When will these idiots learn that “separate but equal” doesn’t work?
re: #192 lawhawk
US air strike hits IS camp in Libya, dozens dead: t.co.
— Max Abrahms (@MaxAbrahms) February 19, 2016
If Trump was president, it would have been hundreds, if not thousands, dead.
re: #203 Lidane
Brown vs Board comes to mind here.
re: #203 Lidane
*headdesk*
When will these idiots learn that “separate but equal” doesn’t work?
When it applies to them in an adverse way.
re: #205 HappyWarrior
Separate by equal. Fuckers.
It hasn’t passed the Kentucky House yet. But we are having special elections in March which may give the GOP control of the House so all the derp the Democrats have been killing for years can pass.
re: #203 Lidane
Kentucky Senate approves bill creating separate marriage license forms for gay couples
Well that should keep the gay cooties off straight marriage.//
re: #209 Big Beautiful Door
It hasn’t passed the Kentucky House yet. But we are having special elections in March which may give the GOP control of the House so all the derp the Democrats have been killing for years can pass.
Scary thoughts.
re: #209 Big Beautiful Door
It hasn’t passed the Kentucky House yet. But we are having special elections in March which may give the GOP control of the House so all the derp the Democrats have been killing for years can pass.
Even if it does pass, I can’t see how it wouldn’t be overturned in the courts.
These idiots need to be brought into the 21st Century already.
re: #203 Lidane
*headdesk*
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When will these idiots learn that “separate but equal” doesn’t work?
I would not begrudge them this little bit of administrative hair-splitting as long as they ensure that the rights granted were truly equal in all respects. To me it is about equal rights under the law, regardless of what is printed on the registration forms.
re: #210 KerFuFFler
Well that should keep the gay cooties off straight marriage.//
That is what it is about. If Kim Davis and her cohorts want to insist that these people are not married in the eyes of the Lord, then that is their religious right, as long as the gay married couples have identical rights to inheritance, common property, hospital visitation and adoption.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I would not begrudge them this little bit of administrative hair-splitting as long as they ensure that the rights granted were truly equal in all respects. To me it is about equal rights under the law, regardless of what is printed on the registration forms.
I wouldn’t.
The civil marriage contract is the same no matter who signs it. The marriage licenses should be the same too. They can’t just do some hand waving and pretend that gay marriage is somehow different because there’s a different form to fill out.
re: #15 Stanley Sea
The cops held their hands up in the video. That was it. Oh and the NOLA cop car went down in the water.
Weaklings.
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Words are so terribly murderous. Shooting unarmed black folks? Another day at the office.
HA! Ted Cruz has a Rick Santorium-like internet problem: lmgtfy.com
SovCit: Help call the police!
Officer: I am the police.
Same script over and over, for some reason the majik SovCit word incantations keep failing to work…
I could watch these guys getting tasered allll night. #Oregonstandoff
Sovereign Citizens Getting Owned Compilation https://t.co/KlGiJIWVot— Jonny Tig (@unbesiegt) February 19, 2016
This is Baby Whiplash projecting again==>
If you Google “pathetic, sad, whiny” you will get a picture of Ben Shapiro
This is how pathetic, sad, whiny leftists treat speech they do not like. https://t.co/uVnNMAA8QT
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) February 19, 2016
re: #221 The Vicious Babushka
This is Baby Whiplash projecting again==>
If you Google “pathetic, sad, whiny” you will get a picture of Ben Shapiro
What does the picture show?
re: #216 Lidane
I wouldn’t.
The civil marriage contract is the same no matter who signs it. The marriage licenses should be the same too. They can’t just do some hand waving and pretend that gay marriage is somehow different because there’s a different form to fill out.
I don’t agree with the decision, but if that is what it takes for the present to let gay people marry over the objections of religious bigots, then I am fine with that. I am certain that they will be abolished some day when stupidity ceases to be the accepted norm of political and social discourse.
re: #214 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I would not begrudge them this little bit of administrative hair-splitting as long as they ensure that the rights granted were truly equal in all respects. To me it is about equal rights under the law, regardless of what is printed on the registration forms.
Beg to differ: “equal” means “equal” - marriage licenses are civil contracts authorized by a government, and shouldn’t discriminate. Do think they should have separate forms for, say, black couples than for white ones? Or for, say, Christians and Jews? Hard to see how this would stand up to a court challenge.
re: #186 freetoken
Another machete attack:
Hope they find them before the husband/boyfriend/ex-boyfriend kills them too.
I loathe the media. I cringe every time I have to watch a video. 911 call playbacks are so vulgar.
And from the top of that page:
WATCH LIVE SUPREME COURT
ANTONIN SCALIA LIES IN REPOSE
(GET ALERTS)
“He’s not moving.”
“ALERT: SCALIA STILL DEAD”
…and so is the news
re: #221 The Vicious Babushka
This is Baby Whiplash projecting again==>
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YAF? LOL that’s the definition of entitled prick in the dictionary there buddy boy. Again I hear all this crying about campus leftists from guys like Ben but silence when the state actually does engage in it as we discussed above. What’s the matter Ben? Afraid to actually take on powerful people and prefer just talking down to college kids?
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I don’t agree with the decision, but if that is what it takes for the present to let gay people marry over the objections of religious bigots, then I am fine with that. I am certain that they will be abolished some day when stupidity ceases to be the accepted norm of political and social discourse.
Like when we ended segregation of blacks using national guard troops?
As we know, stupidity will never cease to be an acceptable form of political and social discourse.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I don’t agree with the decision, but if that is what it takes for the present to let gay people marry over the objections of religious bigots, then I am fine with that. I am certain that they will be abolished some day when stupidity ceases to be the accepted norm of political and social discourse.
I understand both of you but at the same time, these people need to realize that gay marriage is legal in their state and country. If these clerks really object to the forms that badly then they need to find a new line of work.
re: #224 Jay C
Beg to differ: “equal” means “equal” - marriage licenses are civil contracts authorized by a government, and shouldn’t discriminate. Do think they should have separate forms for, say, black couples than for white ones? Or for, say, Christians and Jews? Hard to see how this would stand up to a court challenge.
If it makes the dickheads happy to have different colors and working for boy/girl, boy/boy and girl/girl, then let them have it and leave it for the courts to slap down. As long as they all grant equal and identical rights.
re: #228 HappyWarrior
I understand both of you but at the same time, these people need to realize that gay marriage is legal in their state and country. If these clerks really object to the forms that badly then they need to find a new line of work.
I also agree that extra forms are idiotic and unnecessary, but if that makes the assholes happy and lets them do their job with a clear conscience, then I would not worry about it. But if it does face a court challenge and gets smacked down, then I also say that Kim Davis can go f*ck herself.
re: #228 HappyWarrior
I understand both of you but at the same time, these people need to realize that gay marriage is legal in their state and country. If these clerks really object to the forms that badly then they need to find a new line of work.
This, exactly.
re: #231 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I also agree that extra forms are idiotic and unnecessary, but if that makes the assholes happy and lets them do their job with a clear conscience, then I would not worry about it. But if it does face a court challenge and gets smacked down, then I also say that Kim Davis can go f*ck herself.
May well be but I’ll add that we did not appease these types after Loving but if it really will shut them the hell up I guess I could live with it but something tells me they won’t since these people are forever victims.
re: #233 HappyWarrior
May well be but I’ll add that we did not appease these types after Loving but if it really will shut them the hell up I guess I could live with it but something tells me they won’t since these people are forever victims.
That’s just it. They won’t be happy.
It starts with separate forms for marriage licenses. Then it becomes separate tax forms to fill out. And separate marriage license offices. And so on. These assholes will not rest until they chip away at SSM.
re: #233 HappyWarrior
May well be but I’ll add that we did not appease these types after Loving but if it really will shut them the hell up I guess I could live with it but something tells me they won’t since these people are forever victims.
There is no reasoning with them, we can only hope to limit the amount of damage they can cause.
re: #234 Lidane
That’s just it. They won’t be happy.
It starts with separate forms for marriage licenses. Then it becomes separate tax forms to fill out. And separate marriage license offices. And so on. These assholes will not rest until they chip away at SSM.
Right. I mean I’m sorry but would these people be okay with me because I’m not fond of guns denying a permit for a gun club or firing range? Do your fucking job or give it to someone who will. This isn’t going to placate them. They want to keep on chipping away at legal SSM.
re: #124 Not a Sparkly Vampire
We are all the anti-Christ.
Or was it Kosh?
Meh.
Christ
Anti-Christ
Synthechrist
re: #226 HappyWarrior
He projects like Freud in Imax format. He’s got a mental woody for shitting on college kids who didn’t go into law.
I don’t know what good he thinks he’a doing by bitching on Twitter.
re: #228 HappyWarrior
In Kim’s case, she has no job skills. So she definitely won’t willingly give up her “career”.
re: #235 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
There is no reasoning with them, we can only hope to limit the amount of damage they can cause.
I understand that but when does it end for them. As I said, this is their job and we didn’t appease the idiots who couldn’t accept interracial marriage.
re: #238 Pawn of the Oppressor
He projects like Freud in Imax format. He’s got a mental woody for shitting on college kids who didn’t go into law.
I don’t know what good he thinks he’a doing by bitching on Twitter.
He’s a waste of a good JD.
I’m also tierd of Evangelicals whose number of marriages I can count on my left hand trying to deny marriage to gay couples who actually have stable, loving relationships because of “their values.” Especially a hypocritical asshole like Kim Davis.
re: #213 Lidane
Even if it does pass, I can’t see how it wouldn’t be overturned in the courts.
These idiots need to be brought into the 21st Century already.
Half our state just made it to the 19th Century.
re: #226 HappyWarrior
YAF? LOL that’s the definition of entitled prick in the dictionary there buddy boy. Again I hear all this crying about campus leftists from guys like Ben but silence when the state actually does engage in it as we discussed above. What’s the matter Ben? Afraid to actually take on powerful people and prefer just talking down to college kids?
YAF is the gang of privileged white fratboys who sponsor Baby Whiplash’s invasion of SJW “safe spaces” like on that South Park episode where the internet troll was eventually lynched.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I don’t agree with the decision, but if that is what it takes for the present to let gay people marry over the objections of religious bigots, then I am fine with that. I am certain that they will be abolished some day when stupidity ceases to be the accepted norm of political and social discourse.
Definitely see where you are coming from. And if marriage equality wasn’t the law of the land I would say ‘wow, this is an intriguing first step!’. But the law is the law. They need to comply or get out of the way.
re: #244 The Vicious Babushka
YAF is the gang of privileged white fratboys who sponsor Baby Whiplash’s invasion of SJW “safe spaces” like on that South Park episode where the internet troll was eventually lynched.
Yeah YAF are a bunch of pricks.
Wow. Cruz somehow finds a new low everyday:
Cruz Campaign Quietly Pulls Photoshopped Image of Rubio and Obama
re: #230 No Depression
Nice!
Buy This ‘Ted Cruz Was the Zodiac Killer’ Shirt and Fund Abortions
Tardis was wondering why Zodiac Killer came up while googling Cruz.
Here’s the answer.
re: #247 Dr. Matt
Wow. Cruz somehow finds a new low everyday:
Cruz Campaign Quietly Pulls Photoshopped Image of Rubio and Obama
it is a really lame photoshop at that
re: #220 ausador
SovCit: Help call the police!
Officer: I am the police.Same script over and over, for some reason the majik SovCit word incantations keep failing to work…
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Help Help I’m Bein’ Repressed!
One of those clips seemed to be taking place in Australia.
re: #228 HappyWarrior
I understand both of you but at the same time, these people need to realize that gay marriage is legal in their state and country. If these clerks really object to the forms that badly then they need to find a new line of work.
re: #232 Lidane
This, exactly.
States rights!
It is Kentucky and they are going to do what they are going to do. Watch this catch on and you will have two forms in many states.
Would it surprise anyone legislation is drawn up that states a LGBT marriage can not take place in a place of worship…they must be in a secular surrounding/building with no hint of religion in the proceedings.
Yep…separation of church and state…
Current mood:
This little girl just found out @POTUS can’t serve another term and she’s NOT ready (via https://t.co/ccDIqapi5e) pic.twitter.com/WHxl6ps9bk
— Mic (@micnews) February 19, 2016
re: #57 ObserverArt
Morning.
I think I am suffering major election fatigue.
I wonder if many of the other LGF members are also suffering. I was sort of surprised by the lack of commenting last night with what all was going on yesterday.
I am burned out beyond belief. I can’t watch the news because Trump is always on. I disliked him before but now I have a raging hate for him and I can only hope he fails so spectacularly that his business interests collapse around him.
As for here…I have very strong opinions and as strong a dislike for pie in the sky, wishful thinking, which is what I think Bernie is giving his supporters. Do I support his sentiment? Absolutely. Absofuckinglutely, even. But it’s bullshit. I know it and so do most other people who are willing to see beyond what is the desired state to what can actually happen.
So, for me, it is best to disengage. I never cared about whom people voted for in primaries. Alas, we used to live in a reality based universe, which these days is turned on its head. If I engage, I am likely to offend. So, backing off it is.
You think Flint is bad?
“Black sludge’ pours out of Texas town’s faucets days after FBI arrests most city officials https://t.co/6McXdp1QnR pic.twitter.com/3dlaUaem1j
— ThinkProgress (@thinkprogress) February 19, 2016
re: #136 ausador
First step towards getting them pulled off shelves until manufacturers/distributors can have them tested and listed by U.L. or another recognized listing agency.
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This is so infuriating. The original hoverboard was well made and expensive. Cheap knock offs come out and are poorly made and dangerous and now they will be no more. That sucks so bad.
re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
it is a really lame photoshop at that
Lame and embarrassing. Apparently shaking hands with a Blah man, let alone the leader of your own country, is a terrible thing.
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
You think Flint is bad?
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I have a suspicion we are going to be seeing more and more of these municipal water systems, small electrical grids, etc. failing.
Our infrastructure is sending a message to us, and it is being ignored.
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
You think Flint is bad?
“Black sludge’ pours out of Texas town’s faucets days after FBI arrests most city officials
Government over-regulation is worse!!!
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And sticking with the photoshop theme:
Ronda Rousey Apologizes For Posting Photoshopped Image That Made Her Arms Skinnier
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
You think Flint is bad?
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If you wanna live in a third world country, vote Republican!
re: #260 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
Government over-regulation is worse!!!
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It’s Freedom Water!
//
Good morning Lizards, Happy Friday. Picked up a copy of the newest Carmageddon off of Steam. Man I forgot how fun that game was.
re: #261 Dr. Matt
And sticking with the photoshop theme:
Ronda Rousey Apologizes For Posting Photoshopped Image That Made Her Arms Skinnier
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She didn’t need to. I’d gladly let her kick my butt with her real arms.
And when is Adobe going to get onto them for using photoshop as a verb?
re: #263 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s Freedom Water!
//
That’s right dammit. We don’t need no EPA, we can filter that crap out ourselves, because we are Americans and we have a can-do spirit that makes even evil water great!
It’s an X-Files episode! It’s Mulder’s investigation and THE WATER IS ALIENS!!1
Flowers By Irene busted a real estate investor here yesterday but I hadn’t heard of them taking a whole town down. Wow.
re: #261 Dr. Matt
And sticking with the photoshop theme:
Ronda Rousey Apologizes For Posting Photoshopped Image That Made Her Arms Skinnier
Ya know, it’s a sad situation when a strong, beautiful woman, whose form is being celebrated in Sports Illustrated in a bodypainted swimsuit, still suffers from body image issues.
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
You think Flint is bad?
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Yeah but fuck the EPA! Who needs regulations? Corporations will police themselves? Geological studies? BAH!
Welcome to the Republican States of America where anything goes.
But back to Saturday’s debate, in which Trump was booed for saying George W. Bush knowingly lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; Marco Rubio said Cruz had a “disturbing pattern” of “just … telling lies”; Trump called Jeb Bush weak and a liar and Cruz “the single biggest liar” and “a nasty guy”
i applaud them all for their newfound clarity of vision in discovering that they are all liars
re: #265 Belafon
She didn’t need to. I’d gladly let her kick my butt with her real arms.
And when is Adobe going to get onto them for using photoshop as a verb?
They’ll just shorten it to Shopped. And Adobe is getting tons of free press.
re: #270 WhatEVs
Yeah but fuck the EPA! Who needs regulations? Corporations will police themselves? Geological studies? BAH!
Welcome to the Republican States of America where anything goes.
HURR HURR TEH PRIVATE CONTRACTORS & TEH PRIVATE INDUSTRY ENTREPRENEURS WILL BUILD ALL TEH ROADS & TEH INFRASTRUCTURE & TEH PEOPLES WILL PAY THEM DIRECTLY, WHO NEED TAXES!!!!!11!!!
re: #272 WhatEVs
They’ll just shorten it to Shopped. And Adobe is getting tons of free press.
I was making fun of something that came up a few days ago about Adobe’s terms of use, which actually including rules against using photoshop, and the shorter term shop, as a verb.
re: #259 ObserverArt
I have a suspicion we are going to be seeing more and more of these municipal water systems, small electrical grids, etc. failing.
Our infrastructure is sending a message to us, and it is being ignored.
Our municipal water system is installing ‘smart meters’, to the dismay of some moonbats who say they are sensitive to the electrowhatever they emit. I read a quote I will always remember (although not where I got it, sadly).
I’m a doctor, so I know electromagnetic hypersensitivity is not real. I work in psychiatry, so I know a thing does not have to be real to cause real distress.
re: #274 Belafon
I was making fun of something that came up a few days ago about Adobe’s terms of use, which actually including rules against using photoshop, and the shorter term shop, as a verb.
Good luck with that. Did they TM the word shop or shopped? If not…too bad, so sad.
re: #271 dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸
But back to Saturday’s debate, in which Trump was booed for saying George W. Bush knowingly lied about weapons of mass destruction in Iraq; Marco Rubio said Cruz had a “disturbing pattern” of “just … telling lies”; Trump called Jeb Bush weak and a liar and Cruz “the single biggest liar” and “a nasty guy”
i applaud them all for their newfound clarity of vision in discovering that they are all liars
It’s Friday, why not some tunes to take away from the election blues and to play on it all too.
I went to YouTube to get a video of the original version of Liar by Argent. Of course it was a huge hit for Three Dog Night, but I like the haunting original version by Argent.
Anyway…I happened to scroll down and what was the very first comment to the person that posted the vid:
radconserv68 1 year ago
I think of this song whenever Obama opens his mouth to speak.
Sigh. Good music doesn’t need this crap.
Anyway…Liar by Argent 1970
Introducing this to the mix-is probably the best ad so far in this election cycle:
Hillary is simply a class act.
I ride across a bridge that the legislators on both sides of the river know is obsolete-but they are still figuring out how to pay for the replacement. Concrete is already falling off it and there’s rust too. It was built back in the 60’s showing its age and heavily traveled taking traffic that simply didn’t exist back in the day. It’s a tribute to the workmanship that it’s still standing and still in use. But who knows when it will give way?
re: #256 The Vicious Babushka
No, he is the ANTCHRIST
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I thought Hillary Clinton is the Antichrist? Or is it a franchise?
I haz a confuze…
re: #277 ObserverArt
I love, love, love that song! Thanks!
re: #254 The Vicious Babushka
You think Flint is bad?
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From the article:
According to the the area’s district attorney Richard Durbin, the arrested officials have not resigned from their jobs and “for the time being, they remain the elected officials and the representatives of that city.” None of these officials have spoken about the water problem, and the city’s mayor, Ricardo Lopez — who was arrested again on Tuesday for assault — has said he “will not step in another council meeting.”
A lesson in how not to govern.
re: #223 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)
I don’t agree with the decision, but if that is what it takes for the present to let gay people marry over the objections of religious bigots, then I am fine with that. I am certain that they will be abolished some day when stupidity ceases to be the accepted norm of political and social discourse.
I’m fairly certain, although I cannot find the exact text to quote (I think it was in Hollingsworth v. Perry, which was the federal case against Prop 8), that at least one finding involved a right to privacy which the domestic partnerships was violating - in that requiring a specific different type of partnership violated the couple’s right to choose how and when they were public about their sexual orientation.
I would imagine that a separate marriage license only for gay people would fall under the same issue.
re: #280 Jay C
I thought Hillary Clinton is the Antichrist? Or is it a franchise?
I haz a confuze…
Note the misspelling.
People are making donations to the Malheur Refuge Center. I guess the stand off is not working out right for the Militias. It is also raising the awareness of a lot of Americans to just how important public lands are to America.
Silver lining of the Malheur Refuge Standoff: https://t.co/O7inRE2zWG Awareness & donations. :D
— HGTomato (@HGTomato) February 19, 2016
This story is getting a little bit of coverage:
Why Science Teachers Are Struggling With Climate Change
Here’s the article in Science:
The first graphic is a bit misleading, I think.
The take-away is not really surprising, though I wonder if there is a bit of over-emphasis arising to lumping all science classes together. For example, as a chemistry teacher, climate change may not really fit in the syllabus for the class. The survey was sent out to both middle school and high school science teachers, and I think the presumption that all science classes should cover the same topic is not well founded.
Anyway, I looked at the supplemental material:
And what I think is more important, societal-wise, than the article’s main emphasis is this:
Racial differences.
Tables S5 and S6 break down the sample of audited names based on the racial composition of the sampled school. The table shows that sampled educators at majority-minority schools were (a) less likely to be confirmed as on the school’s faculty (63% compared to 78% of those teaching at majority white schools), and (b) less likely to be confirmed as an eligible science teacher (50% compared to 68% of those at majority white schools). Combined, these help to account for the much lower response rates found among teachers at majority-minority schools.
Well now, what’s all this?
BREAKING: Texas judge: “Affluenza” teen’s fatal drunken-driving case will be moved to adult court.
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 19, 2016
The other day, Trump pontificated that he’s got a plan to save $300 billion a year on drug prescription costs. The plan? Total BS, in part because the total spending of the nation on prescription drugs each year is $300 billion.
.@realDonaldTrump doesn’t have a plan to reduce prescription drug spending. Pulling the wool over fools’ eyes? He’s got that down pat.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) February 19, 2016
IF he claimed he was saving $300 billion over 10 years, I might cut him some slack - a 10% savings per year is not inconsiderable. But that’s not what he said. He wanted to cut the spending by $300 billion each year.
re: #196 nines09
Someone ought to ask Trump what that Lady in New York harbour is standing there for. Scrap prices are high, or she could be the new advertising tower. Bathe her in laser advertising for monthly fees. Name Ellis Island, uh, Bank One Island, or Wells Fargo Island. Rent it out to the highest bidder. This has always been a nation of contradictions. We’ve used immigrants to build our ivory towers, our railroads and pave our golden roads. Everyone outside of American Indians had a forefather come from somewhere else, and they were hated too. This is just the past showing up in new clothes.
Just so I can still get my Big Ass Fries, I don’t care.
re: #288 Emoprog Refugee
Well now, what’s all this?
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Seems like said fuckhead may not get off light this time.
re: #285 Tigger2
People are making donations to the Malheur Refuge Center. I guess the stand off is not working out right for the Militias. It is also raising the awareness of a lot of Americans to just how important public lands are to America.
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Yeah, I saw an article in a magazine for hunting and fishing enthusiasts pointing out that public lands are what make hunting and fishing possible for people without huge personal land holdings. Privatizing the land would mean an end to such access. The people who do not get this are dupes of the Koch brothers. It’s such a shame how many “conservatives” don’t realize that liberal policies protect them from powerful interests.
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They Were Desperate to Get Pregnant. Then IVF Gave Them Extra Embryos. One morning last spring, Ashley Harrolle put her 1-year-old daughter down for a nap and went to the kitchen. She pulled up her fertility clinic’s contact information. It was time to make the call. In a freezer several hundred ... Cheechako
Joe Bacon ✅
March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
William Lewis
Russia’s New Combat Robots Blown Up by Drones Near Avdiivka When we landed on the moon, I thought about how science fiction had become real. Now, the robot wars have begun. It's more poignant somehow on the ground than in the missile wars we have in the air as ...
Rightwingconspirator
Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
Abortions Outside Medical System Increased Sharply After Roe Fell, Study Finds The number of women using abortion pills to end their pregnancies on their own without the direct involvement of a U.S.-based medical provider rose sharply in the months after the Supreme Court eliminated a constitutional right to abortion, according ... Cheechako
Detroit Local Powers First EV Charging Road in North America The road, about a mile from Local 58's hall, uses rubber-coated copper inductive-charging coils buried under the asphalt that transfer power to a receiver pad attached to a car's underbelly, much like how a phone can be charged wirelessly. ...
Backwoods Sleuth
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
