Tuesday Night Jam: Snarky Puppy Feat. Laura Mvula & Michelle Willis, “Sing to the Moon”

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“Sing to the Moon”
featuring Laura Mvula & Michelle Willis
from Snarky Puppy’s live DVD/CD - “Family Dinner - Volume Two”
©GroundUP Music 2016

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written by Laura Mvula & Steve Brown
produced by Michael League
arranged by Michael League & Snarky Puppy
recorded and filmed at Esplanade Studios in New Orleans, LA, February 12-14, 2015.

FEATURED GUESTS
Laura Mvula - vocals
Michelle Willis - pump organ & vocals

SNARKY PUPPY
Michael League - Moog bass
Bill Laurance - Moog
Cory Henry - piano
Shaun Martin - organ
Justin Stanton - Moog & trumpet
Bob Lanzetti - guitar
Mark Lettieri - baritone guitar
Chris McQueen - baritone guitar
Jay Jennings - trumpet
Mike “Maz” Maher - trumpet
Chris Bullock - tenor
Robert “Sput” Searight - drums
Larnell Lewis - drums
Nate Werth - percussion
with…
Candy West - vocals
Peaches West - vocals
Rachella Searight - vocals

engineered by Eric Hartman
assisted by Matt Recchia, Andrés Daza, & Camilo Salazar
mixed by Eric Hartman, Michael League, & Nathan Forsbach
mastered by Scott Hull
directed by Andy LaViolette & Michael League

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594 comments
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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 7:56:57pm

Odd segue, Charles. There’s delegates afoot!

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 7:59:12pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:00:21pm
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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:00:30pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:02:15pm

re: #3 Charles Johnson

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It ain’t just Duke. And Byrd is a terrible example because the man actually felt guilt.Duke is still a racist shithead.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:02:35pm
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Reality Based Steve  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:04:52pm

re: #2 Backwoods_Sleuth

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That is totally unfair to Christie. I’m sure he’ll say “NO” when Donald tells him to.

RBS

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Jenner7  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:05:04pm

Nicole Wallace is trying to sell it.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:06:04pm

re: #8 Jenner7

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Nicole Wallace is trying to sell it.

You don’t move to the center after the kind of campaign Trump’s been running. Maybe the center far right.

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Jenner7  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:06:48pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:07:05pm

Already seeing other sites appropriate this story without crediting LGF.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:08:12pm
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jaunte  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:08:52pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:09:32pm
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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:09:41pm

All I’m saying is, sometimes Ted Cruz creeps out into the Texas countryside and drains several goats of their blood.

Not all the time. Just once a fortnight or so.

Doubtless it must be infuriating to have his thoroughly marked hunting ground intruded upon by Donald Trump.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:09:49pm

Clinton wins MA. Boom.

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EPR-radar  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:10:07pm

re: #9 HappyWarrior

You don’t move to the center after the kind of campaign Trump’s been running. Maybe the center far right.

I think we have no idea at all of what Trump will try to do in the general election.

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Brian J.  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:10:19pm

re: #13 jaunte

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And Fiorina, Santorum, and Graham.

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Jenner7  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:10:19pm

re: #11 Charles Johnson

Media Matters gave you credit, but they said Trump did the interview, not Trump Jr.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:10:42pm

re: #17 EPR-radar

I think we have no idea at all of what Trump will try to do in the general election.

True. Can’t wait for the movie. You’ll even be able to get Trump to play himself.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:12:14pm

re: #19 Jenner7

Media Matters gave you credit, but they said Trump did the interview, not Trump Jr.

Glad to see they added that credit - it wasn’t there when I first saw it.

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Brian J.  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:12:17pm

re: #16 Dr. Matt

Clinton wins MA. Boom.

So eight wins, four losses, and roughly +200 delegates. I was hoping for a little better, but this should do. My vote will have to do its work on Saturday, but Hillary’s going to win easily here.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:12:57pm

re: #10 Jenner7

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:13:23pm

re: #10 Jenner7

Jeffrey Lord is an unabashed racist.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:14:52pm

re: #22 Brian J.

So eight wins, four losses, and roughly +200 delegates. I was hoping for a little better, but this should do. My vote will have to do its work on Saturday, but Hillary’s going to win easily here.

According to this: bloomberg.com, she has 883 delegates (includes 457 superdelegates) vs. 232 (includes 22 superdelegates).

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:15:30pm

re: #23 Backwoods_Sleuth

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So sick of patronizing whtie bullshit. Jones knows who the KKK are and he knows they’re not leftists. There’s nothing leftist about white supremacy. Someone should remind Lord that the Republican Party had to distance themselves from Duke when he ran as a Republican. It’s true Duke has run as a Democrat before but he was actually elected as a Republican.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:15:31pm

Soyuz capsule is under parachutes

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CleverToad  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:16:07pm

Home from the Colorado Caucus. Our precinct in a mostly-red suburban county had 52 voters — I’d estimate about 400 people there altogether for 7 or 8 precincts. The gentleman heading the cat-herding process commented that in 2014 a whopping 12 people showed up for his precinct, so he was happy to deal with the overflow.

Our precinct vote was 30 for Hillary, 22 for Bernie, which translated to 2 delegates for her, 1 for him going to the state convention in April. There was some discussion/debate about the candidates, but fortunately damped down quickly by our volunteer precinct chairman. The only people who took the offer to advocate for their candidate were Bernie supporters; unfortunately there was more dissing of H than persuasion for B — emails were mentioned, with one (older) lady saying that Hillary was a Republican and Bernie was a True Democrat, which did provoke my spousal unit to reply. Most of the rest of the Hills people shook our heads but didn’t try to engage.

It was an educational experience. I vote regularly but have never caucused before. Our lot got through the business and out the door early, where some of the other precincts were still in the attempt-to-persuade discussions.

So tomorrow morning I’m going over to Dem HQ to volunteer to input data from this exercise. The one thing we could all agree on was how important this election is — hang together or we shall most assuredly hang separately!

Now I have to go back and try to get through that 590+ thread back there, and see what’s happened elsewhere…

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:16:19pm

re: #27 FormerDirtDart

T - 10 minutes

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:16:20pm

How will Trump handle coming in 3rd in Minnesota?

Bronze isn’t really Trump’s kind of metal.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:16:48pm

re: #25 Dr. Matt

According to this: bloomberg.com, she has 883 delegates (includes 457 superdelegates) vs. 232 (includes 22 superdelegates

So even without the hated SD’s she still has a decent lead and honestly his failure to get the SDs is on him since he’s never shown a big desire to help other Democrats get elected or stay in office. You may not like the SD system but it’s one he should be aware of if he had high office aspirations.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:17:35pm

re: #30 freetoken

How will Trump handle coming in 3rd in Minnesota?

Bronze isn’t really Trump’s kind of metal.

Forget that, I want to see how Marco is going to respond to actually having won for once.

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:17:53pm

re: #25 Dr. Matt

According to this: bloomberg.com, she has 883 delegates (includes 457 superdelegates) vs. 232 (includes 22 superdelegates

And that will be sufficient. 435 super super delegates makes it almost impossible that he can can come back. But he did what he needed to do. He moved Hillary to the left.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:18:07pm

re: #25 Dr. Matt

So, without Supers, it is 426 to 210.

That might be tough to overcome. Over 2 to 1.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:18:35pm
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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:18:56pm

re: #29 Eric The Fruit Bat

T - 10 minutes

T-7 minutes

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:18:57pm

re: #33 austin_blue

And that will be sufficient. 435 super super delegates makes it almost impossible that he can can come back. But he did what he needed to do. He moved Hillary to the left.

Yeah I do hope he has. The Democratic base has definitely moved to the left.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:19:45pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

Forget that, I want to see how Marco is going to respond to actually having won for once.

An aide will have to explain to him that coming in first is actually better than second and third place victories.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:20:57pm

re: #38 Big Beautiful Door

An aide will have to explain to him that coming in first is actually better than second and third place victories.

Oh no then he’ll be insufferable. Well already is.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:21:06pm

Remember those sad shocked faces at Romney hq’s across the country in 2012? I have a feeling that come next election night, we’ll be seeing hundreds, if not thousands, of Republicans literally committing suicide live on television, brought to you by Panera Bread and Armor All.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:21:09pm
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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:21:19pm

re: #32 HappyWarrior

Forget that, I want to see how Marco is going to respond to actually having won for once.

Multiple orgasisms.

Fortunately it will be off camera as he’s already given his speech for the night.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:21:45pm

re: #41 FormerDirtDart

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Well it’s official, Marco has won one more Republican primary than I have.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:21:58pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:22:20pm

re: #42 freetoken

Multiple orgasisms.

Fortunately it will be off camera as he’s already given his speech for the night.

Good. He would have been even worse if he had given a speech since he finally won for once. Overall a pretty bad night for him I must say.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:22:38pm

re: #41 FormerDirtDart

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:22:45pm

re: #44 FormerDirtDart

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What I love is that MN is the one state that never went for Reagan.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:23:50pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

What I love is that MN is the one state that never went for Reagan.

Yes, but they gave us Michele Bachmann

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:23:55pm

re: #42 freetoken

Multiple orgasisms.

Fortunately it will be off camera as he’s already given his speech for the night.

Foreigner - Feels like the first Time 1978

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:24:00pm

Search and Recovery teams have TMA-14M in sight.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:24:07pm

re: #47 HappyWarrior

What I love is that MN is the one state that never went for Reagan.

“Check out the big brain on brad”.

check out the big brain on brad

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:24:25pm

re: #48 FormerDirtDart

Yes, but they gave us Michele Bachmann

A district though not the entire state but fair enough. I think Bachmann’s probably in the Cruz camp though.

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Reality Based Steve  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:24:48pm

The one I’m sort of watching right now is Alabama. Trump’s a given, but right now with 72% of the vote in, Cruz is at 20.8%, if he falls below 20% then it’s “Winner Take All” for the delegates.

RBS

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withak  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:24:55pm

re: #48 FormerDirtDart

Yes, but they gave us Michele Bachmann

Technically, that was Iowa. ///

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:25:21pm
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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:25:27pm

re: #37 HappyWarrior

Yeah I do hope he has. The Democratic base has definitely moved to the left.

It has. Some of Bernie’s proposals are just silly from a policy point of view. Free college far all? How about means testing? Does a millionaire’s kid need free tuition when a brilliant kid from a working class family needs to compete?

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:25:27pm

Looks like Kasich is going to take silver in MA.

Which means Rubio gets another bronze.

But MINNESOTA!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:25:38pm

re: #54 withak

Technically, that was Iowa. ///

Well if we play it like that, George Allen is California and not mine and none of our Democrats in recent years are ours.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:25:44pm

re: #52 HappyWarrior

A district though not the entire state but fair enough. I think Bachmann’s probably in the Cruz camp though.

Gov. Jesse Ventura

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Reality Based Steve  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:26:28pm

re: #54 withak

Technically, that was Iowa. ///

same thing.

RBS

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:26:41pm

re: #56 austin_blue

It has. Some of Bernie’s proposals are just silly from a policy point of view. Free college far all? How about means testing? Does a millionaire’s kid need free tuition when a brilliant kid from a working class family needs to compete?

Right. I am glad he’s touched about things like income equality. I just wish he would realize there are other factors at play. Agree with you about that too. A working class kid needs more affordable tuition far more than a rich kid.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:26:47pm

Soyuz has landed

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:26:54pm

re: #59 FormerDirtDart

Gov. Jesse Ventura

True.

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danarchy  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:27:00pm

re: #33 austin_blue

And that will be sufficient. 435 super super delegates makes it almost impossible that he can can come back. But he did what he needed to do. He moved Hillary to the left.

He also raised over 40 million in February, so he has plenty of cash to keep going.I think he will go the distance if for nothing else so he can have more input on the party platform.

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withak  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:27:06pm

I don’t care who won; Trump came in third here, which makes me proud of my state. Our crazies are slightly less crazy!

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:27:35pm

re: #64 danarchy

I could live with that.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:27:38pm

re: #57 freetoken

Looks like Kasich is going to take silver in MA.

Which means Rubio gets another bronze.

But MINNESOTA!

He because of his win in Minnesota has gone from being the GOP’s Buffalo Bills to the GOP’s Atlanta Braves.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:27:50pm

Say what you want, but Marco Rubio is the best motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis yet. Were he not sharing the stage with a chupacabra and an Oompa-Loompa pimp, it would be absolutely riveting.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:28:19pm

re: #56 austin_blue

It has. Some of Bernie’s proposals are just silly from a policy point of view. Free college far all? How about means testing? Does a millionaire’s kid need free tuition when a brilliant kid from a working class family needs to compete?

If we could get it through, I would say yes. The wealthy are going to pay more in taxes to do this, so the one good way to sell it would be to have them get tuition for free as well. It would also be the only way to ensure that it doesn’t slowly get dismantled. It’s what’s saved SS, versus things like Medicaid, which get cut to no end in places like Texas.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:28:39pm

re: #66 Ziggy_TARDIS

I could live with that.

I’m fine with that. Never really was about his ideology for me anyhow. Just that he doesn’t strike me as the best standard bearer. If he can positively influence the platform going forward, thanks Bern.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:28:47pm

re: #62 FormerDirtDart

Soyuz has landed

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withak  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:29:28pm

MN called for Bernie.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:29:38pm

re: #68 The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork

Say what you want, but Marco Rubio is the best motion-capture performance by Andy Serkis yet. Were he not sharing the stage with a chupacabra and an Oompa-Loompa pimp, it would be absolutely riveting.

Heh this reminds me of a video that some Aussies did about the climate change denier Lord Monckton where they followed him around and talked to him as if he were Sasha Baron Cohen asking him to do “That’s nice” and “Great success.”

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:29:44pm
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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:29:55pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Please, please, please tell me that’s the last caucus of the year.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:30:25pm

Seeing folks on Twitter calling for primarying Elizabeth Warren because she didn’t endorse Bernie.

Just.

Yeah.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:30:34pm

re: #75 De Kolta Chair

Please, please, please tell me that’s the last caucus of the primary season.

Kentucky GOP caucus is on Saturday.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:30:35pm

TMA-14M Touchdown in Kazakhstan 10:26 PM CT

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:31:15pm

re: #69 Belafon

If we could get it through, I would say yes. The wealthy are going to pay more in taxes to do this, so the one good way to sell it would be to have them get tuition for free as well. It would also be the only way to ensure that it doesn’t slowly get dismantled. It’s what’s saved SS, versus things like Medicaid, which get cut to no end in places like Texas.

That’s a good point too I guess. Honestly, I think we need to work on making tutition more affordable for all before Bernie’s plan is considered. I like it, don’t get me wrong but I just don’t know how realistically it is go from record high tuition rates to that.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:31:56pm

re: #76 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Seeing folks on Twitter calling for primarying Elizabeth Warren because she didn’t endorse Bernie.

Just.

Yeah.

She doesn’t owe Bernie shit. Did Bernie even show up in MA two years ago to help campaign for her? Four years ago. Point still stands. If Bernie wants to make good with other Progressive Democrats, actually campaign for htem rather than staying in Vermont.

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Belafon  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:32:05pm

re: #75 De Kolta Chair

Please, please, please tell me that’s the last caucus of the year.

Nope, caucuses scattered throughout: thegreenpapers.com

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:32:12pm

Bernie Sanders is now being projected to win the Minnesota caucuses.

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:32:20pm

re: #64 danarchy

He also raised over 40 million in February, so he has plenty of cash to keep going.I think he will go the distance if for nothing else so he can have more input on the party platform.

Yeah, but he’s spending a whole shitpot of money for not enough votes. Don’t get me wrong, I feel twinges of the Bern. It’s just that portions of his platform don’t seem very well thought out, and that his platform is not broad enough to be viable nationally.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:32:52pm
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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:33:29pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky GOP caucus is on Saturday.

That’s a yuuuuge day for moonshiners.

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:34:02pm

re: #71 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:34:04pm

re: #83 austin_blue

Yeah, but he’s spending a whole shitpot of money for not enough votes. Don’t get me wrong, I feel twinges of the Bern. It’s just that portions of his platform don’t seem very well thought out, and that his platform is not broad enough to be viable nationally.

Bernie’s platform would be dandy fi we had more people in this country who understood nuance. The otehr thing though is I really think he doesn’t see the big picture on some issues. Income inequality is a prolbem but it’s not the only problem.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:34:26pm
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Viscous Obama  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:35:10pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:36:39pm

re: #89 Viscous Obama

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God I love that. They totally deserve it. I think Clinton could crush both of them.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:37:33pm

The CBS talking headz were making a big deal about Trump winning the Texas counties on the border with Mexico, implying this was an endorsement of his “wall” policy.

Well, let’s look at those counties:

In Zapata county… Trump has a total of 34 votes
In Terrell county… “’ “” has 49 total votes
In Hudspeth county… Trump has a total of 7 votes.

In other words, CBS is doing that exaggeration by geography that the wingnuts always like to do with their maps.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:37:42pm

re: #86 Eric The Fruit Bat

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International cooperation isn’t always dreadfully serious…

Planeta Bur (USSR 1962)
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Dr. Matt  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:38:37pm

re: #89 Viscous Obama

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Set an egg-timer for the amount of time before Rubio starts kissing Trump’s ass.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:38:49pm

re: #91 freetoken

The CBS talking headz were making a big deal about Trump winning the Texas counties on the border with Mexico, implying this was an endorsement of his “wall” policy.

Well, let’s look at those counties:

In Zapata county… Trump has a total of 34 votes
In Terrell county… “’ “” has 49 total votes
In Hudspeth county… Trump has a total of 7 votes.

In other words, CBS is doing that exaggeration by geography that the wingnuts always like to do with their maps.

Yeah it’s like when they brag about how many counties they win.

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CleverToad  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:38:54pm

re: #35 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Oh well, we tried. Not really surprised, and not too worried about the eventual outcome on the D side. Much more concerned with making sure that all the available Dems get their little blue bums out there and VOTE in November.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:39:01pm

re: #75 De Kolta Chair

Please, please, please tell me that’s the last caucus of the year.

Two more on Saturday, Kansas & Nebraska. then Maine on Sundasy

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:39:15pm

re: #93 Dr. Matt

Set an egg-timer for the amount of time before Rubio starts kissing Trump’s ass.

That’ll be fun. It’s going to be so painful for Rubio but he’s going to have to.

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:39:35pm

Gratuitous ski break from teleskiguy:

98 Year Old Skier George - The Powder Philosophy

George Jedenoff is back skiing Utah at 98 years old, making this his 56th consecutive season in the Wasatch. In our latest video, George shares his”Powder Philosophy” that he credits with his longevity on the slopes.

Many thanks to George and his family.

I want to be like George.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:39:50pm

re: #96 FormerDirtDart

Two more on Saturday, Kansas & Nebraska. then Maine on Sundasy

Bernie will win Maine. Not sure about Kansas and Nebraska though.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:40:13pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:40:19pm

re: #98 teleskiguy

Gratuitous ski break from teleskiguy:

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I want to be like George.

Awesome you gotta admire people like that.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:40:39pm

re: #96 FormerDirtDart

Two more on Saturday, Kansas & Nebraska. then Maine on Sundasy

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:41:03pm

re: #100 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Miles apart from the Republican party apparatus pretending they don’t know Trump and they met him in a bar when they were really drunk one night.

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MsJ  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:41:19pm

From tonight’s Chuck Lorre vanity card. Heh.

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Jenner7  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:41:29pm
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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:42:56pm

Looks like Jolly John is going to lose VT to Trump.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:43:17pm

re: #99 HappyWarrior

Bernie will win Maine. Not sure about Kansas and Nebraska though.

No Dem polling out of Maine since Sep. 15, B 28 - C 27
No Dem polling out of Nebraska…at all

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:44:13pm

Wow Hillary demolished Bernie in Arlington County. I thought that’d be good Bernie turf. Granted it’s wealthy but it’s young and has a good amount of college students.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:44:51pm

Peggy Noonan just now on CBS said Trump was “Presidential” in his press conference tonight, until the last question on the way out.

Schieffer doesn’t even press her on this.

I guess “Presidential” doesn’t mean what it used to.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:46:10pm

re: #26 HappyWarrior

Someone should remind REMOVE Lord FROM ALL PRESENT AND FUTURE TEEVEE SHOWS.that the Republican Party had to distance themselves from Duke when he ran as a Republican. It’s true Duke has run as a Democrat before but he was actually elected as a Republican.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:46:24pm
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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:46:53pm

I guess the reason CBS keeps with these dinosaurs from the old media is they are going for the over-75 viewer.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:47:07pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:47:20pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:48:10pm

re: #111 FormerDirtDart

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Rubio’s fucked honestly but hey Marco you won Minnesota. You can hang your laurels high that you did something Jeb could not.

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:48:16pm

Get out the vote, or else.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:48:21pm

re: #113 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Ouch.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:48:30pm

The wretched optimism of Cruz campaign operatives is a joy to behold.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:48:47pm

re: #114 Charles Johnson

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Someone’s drunk again with hate I see.

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Viscous Obama  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:49:24pm

re: #109 freetoken

Peggy Noonan just now on CBS said Trump was “Presidential” in his press conference tonight, until the last question on the way out.

Ah the erudite Peggy Noonan

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:49:24pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:50:20pm

LOL!!!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:50:34pm

re: #121 FormerDirtDart

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Maybe the people of Chelsea for some weird reason got his old repeal the car tax commercials from the 1997 governor election here in Virginia. Or maybe this is a sign that Gilmore needs to run for Mayor of Chelsea.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:50:40pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:51:07pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

LOL!!!

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Got news for you Newt, Reagan’s dead and he’s not coming back.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:51:11pm

Well, that’s got to leave a mark…

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:51:19pm

re: #87 HappyWarrior

Bernie’s platform would be dandy fi we had more people in this country who understood nuance. The otehr thing though is I really think he doesn’t see the big picture on some issues. Income inequality is a prolbem but it’s not the only problem.

The limit on Social Security deductions is just stupid. If you want to pay an employee $1 million, SS should be taken out of the total, with the employer matching it. Capital gains should be indexed for inflation and taxed as income after one year of holding the instrument whether it be a stock or a bond. Day traders can continue to screw themselves as the gamblers they are.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:51:42pm

re: #126 FormerDirtDart

Well, that’s got to leave a mark…

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Sucks to be Marco.

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:51:51pm

re: #121 FormerDirtDart

They found the one precinct he is popular in.

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retired cynic  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:52:01pm

re: #120 Viscous Obama

Ah the erudite Peggy Noonan

Watch Charlie Pierce tomorrow for this, and check the comments for Barry Friedman’s take. Worth it.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:52:39pm

re: #126 FormerDirtDart

Well, that’s got to leave a mark…

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In Marco’s eyes, that’s the mark of a winner!

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:54:04pm

re: #129 Ziggy_TARDIS

They found the one precinct he is popular in.

I honestly want to know who the “1” write-in candidate was…

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:54:58pm

re: #129 Ziggy_TARDIS

They found the one precinct he is popular in.

That’s a town. Gilmore’s really not that insane. I think he actually did call Trump a fascist but if a

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Jenner7  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:55:23pm

re: #122 Backwoods_Sleuth

“Unify with me or else.”

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Eric The Fruit Bat  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:55:47pm

Scott Kelly

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:56:13pm

re: #132 FormerDirtDart

I honestly want to know who the “1” write-in candidate was…

RONALD REAGAN. That’s odd though. We don’t have write ins here. I nearly did a write in the Virginia 2006 Senate Democratic Primary because I didn’t like the candidates. Ended up swallowing and voting for Webb. Probably was the right choice since Harris Miller would not have beaten Allen and Allen could very well have gone places in the GOP.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:56:38pm
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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:56:39pm

re: #135 Eric The Fruit Bat

Scott Kelly

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Outstanding!

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Viscous Obama  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:57:20pm

re: #134 Jenner7

“Unify with me or else.”

Brain of Newt, Hair of Trump, Teeth of Skeletor, Eyes of Ingraham ARISE

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:57:32pm

re: #135 Eric The Fruit Bat

Scott Kelly

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:57:33pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Hard to argue with that but speaking as a Zima, Marco is Zima and it’s even funnier if you know the meaning of that word in some Slavic languages.

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Jenner7  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:58:22pm

and

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:58:45pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:59:07pm

re: #142 Jenner7

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gracious, aren’t they?

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:59:14pm

Sigh… CBS “space expert”, in discussing effects of living in orbit, makes a big deal about the speed of 5 miles per sec… as if that is something that would affect the human body.

All those physics classes, gone to waste.

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:59:50pm

re: #137 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 8:59:59pm

re: #142 Jenner7

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Again what did she owe Sanders? I guarantee that Bill (don’t think Hillary did any since she was still SoS) campaigning for Warren in 2012 that got her in the office in the first place than Bernie did. I mean it. Bernie doesn’t owe her crap. When’s the last time that Bernie actually campaigned for a Democrat? Oh and fuck this sexist asshole.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:00:14pm

re: #76 klys (maker of Silmarils)

Seeing folks on Twitter calling for primarying Elizabeth Warren because she didn’t endorse Bernie.

Just.

Yeah.

Over at the dailybern, they’re all excited about Tulsi Gabbard (who most of them had never heard of before yesterday) and saying her endorsement is MUCH more important/impressive/exciting than anything that old stick-in-the-mud Elizabeth Warren could have produced. It’s all Tulsi for VP and Tulsi for SoS and Tulsi really ups Bernie’s foreign policy cred because she was in the military (I know, huh??)

You know, she spoke at our state convention a few years ago and there was something about her that just didn’t set well with me. Can’t remember exactly what it was about her, but I was not impressed at all.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:00:37pm

welp, Scott Kelly is safely home (that’s why I stayed up so late), so I’ll head off to sleep.

niterz, lizardz!

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:01:24pm

re: #77 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky GOP caucus is on Saturday.

Yeah, but without LuapDnar, it really doesn’t have the same luster, does it?

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:01:49pm

re: #149 Backwoods_Sleuth

HE FOUND THE HAMDINGERS!

/MSTies will get it

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:01:54pm

re: #148 BeachDem

Being a cultist?

Someone mentioned that earlier. Apparently, she is affiliated with a break off group of the Hare Krishna.

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:02:13pm

re: #145 freetoken

Sigh… CBS “space expert”, in discussing effects of living in orbit, makes a big deal about the speed of 5 miles per sec… as if that is something that would affect the human body.

All those physics classes, gone to waste.

Iknowright? Weightlessness, bone loss, &c, it’s all about velocity.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:03:05pm

re: #142 Jenner7

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:04:10pm

re: #148 BeachDem

Over at the dailybern, they’re all excited about Tulsi Gabbard (who most of them had never heard of before yesterday) and saying her endorsement is MUCH more important/impressive/exciting than anything that old stick-in-the-mud Elizabeth Warren could have produced. It’s all Tulsi for VP and Tulsi for SoS and Tulsi really ups Bernie’s foreign policy cred because she was in the military (I know, huh??)

You know, she spoke at our state convention a few years ago and there was something about her that just didn’t set well with me. Can’t remember exactly what it was about her, but I was not impressed at all.

She’s very young. So young that I had to check to see if she qualifies. She does just barely. I’m sure she’s alright bu their ficklenss amuses me since they would hate her if she was stilll with Clinton.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:04:38pm

re: #153 austin_blue

Iknowright? Weightlessness, bone loss, &c, it’s all about velocity.

It wasn’t even velocity… it was only the speed on which he remarked.

As well he also mentioned “space radiation”, which actually is a problem.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:06:18pm

98% in Texas and Little Marco only has 17%, which is bad.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:06:46pm

David Sipress/The New Yorker

“Don’t look so glum, people! After all, Justice Thomas spoke this week, and that means that anything can happen.”
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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:07:23pm

Cruz has even edged ahead of Rubio in Travis county.

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:07:49pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

Again what did she owe Sanders? I guarantee that Bill (don’t think Hillary did any since she was still SoS) campaigning for Warren in 2012 that got her in the office in the first place than Bernie did. I mean it. Bernie doesn’t owe her crap. When’s the last time that Bernie actually campaigned for a Democrat? Oh and fuck this sexist asshole.

Now now, I understand your distress, but let’s not eat our own, shall we? This cycle is looking pretty damn fantastic for us this year.

Go The Donald! Fuck up the Existing Paradigm!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:08:12pm

re: #159 freetoken

Cruz has even edged ahead of Rubio in Travis county.

Austin.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:08:50pm

In fact, Cruz has won more border counties than Trump, so that throws out CBS’s theory about the Trumpian Wall message being so popular on the border.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:09:12pm
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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:09:14pm

re: #161 HappyWarrior

I assume all the reasonable people in Travis county are Democrats by now.

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:09:20pm

Scott Kelly’s Twitter account is tear duct opening goodness.

@StationCDRKelly

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:09:30pm

re: #160 austin_blue

Now now, I understand your distress, but let’s not eat our own, shall we? This cycle is looking pretty damn fantastic for us this year.

Go The Donald! Fuck up the Existing Paradigm!

Oh when I said fuck this asshole, I meant the guy calling Clinton a bitch not Bernie. I am just stating that i don’t feel Warren owes Sanders anything. I have a problem with that he does little for other elected Democrats even though he has a safe seat but fair enough.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:09:47pm

re: #164 freetoken

I assume all the reasonable people in Travis county are Democrats by now.

That’s a safe bet.

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SpaceJesus  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:10:02pm

en.wikipedia.org

The name comes from the Dakota word for “clear blue water”

Rubio’s overwhelming victory here makes more sense to me now.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:10:18pm

Democrats have over twice as many voters in Travis county… and Bernie holds a very, very slim lead there.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:11:06pm

re: #169 freetoken

Democrats have over twice as many voters in Travis county… and Bernie holds a very, very slim lead there.

And that’s with UT. Very surprised to see how poorly he did here in Va. Knew Clinton would win but not by this much.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:12:17pm

re: #168 SpaceJesus

en.wikipedia.org

Rubio’s overwhelming victory here makes more sense to me now.

See, I thought it was teh famous Minnesota nice where they thought “Ya know, poor Marco’s not doing so good so let’s make him feel better ya.”

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:14:22pm

Wish I could take credit for this

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:15:07pm

re: #172 De Kolta Chair

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That’s an insult to Dr. Lecter, he was cultured.

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Reality Based Steve  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:15:30pm

I understand that Trump has sent some refreshments over to the Cruz camp.

/Totally_Madeup_Fact

RBS

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:16:35pm

Today’s NY Daily News:

Good lord, that’s ugly, but I like the text.
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bratwurst  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:17:18pm

If you click on only one Vine tonight…

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:17:36pm

One third of registered voters in Colorado are “unaffiliated,” that is, not Republican or Democrat. Including me. I’m a registered independent.

My more politically active Facebook folk are already having a field day.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:18:33pm

re: #141 HappyWarrior

Hard to argue with that but speaking as a Zima, Marco is Zima and it’s even funnier if you know the meaning of that word in some Slavic languages.

Horse piss?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:19:58pm

re: #178 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Horse piss?

Winter or Cold depending on whether you’re speaking Slovak or Czech. As in Marco’s campaign is cold or frozen.

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bratwurst  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:20:10pm

PIPING HOT TAKE INCOMING!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:20:41pm

re: #180 bratwurst

PIPING HOT TAKE INCOMING!

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So much for trial by jury eh Curt?

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:21:33pm

re: #159 freetoken

Cruz has even edged ahead of Rubio in Travis county.

We are the People’s Republic of Travis County, but we have D and R primaries. This used to be an 80% Dem County, but then those rotten California carpetbaggers moved in.

True fact. When we bought our house in 1997, the dirt was valued at $25,000 and our property value was $145,000. Since we have no income tax in Texas, we have no control over what we pay on profit we haven’t made. The property tax that I paid this year was $9,130 on a piece of land that is now valued at $350,000.

Can I please have an income tax?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:24:00pm

re: #179 HappyWarrior

Winter or Cold depending on whether you’re speaking Slovak or Czech. As in Marco’s campaign is cold or frozen.

Well, the drink is horse piss. Rubio is more like toast at this point, unless he was really hoping to get that all-important number 3 spot.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:24:17pm

re: #152 Ziggy_TARDIS

Being a cultist?

Someone mentioned that earlier. Apparently, she is affiliated with a break off group of the Hare Krishna.

No, that wasn’t it. I think it was that all she talked about was the military. Whether that was the topic at hand or not. And there was something she said, which I can’t remember, that sounded really off to me.

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Viscous Obama  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:24:43pm

What happened to Rubio tonight

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:25:35pm

re: #183 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Well, the drink is horse piss. Rubio is more like toast at this point, unless he was really hoping to get that all-important number 3 spot.

I know. It’s not perfect. I never actually tried it since I was young when it came out. I kind of do want to get a can though for my room. Zima really was my great grandmother’s maiden name. Apparently when it came out, my grandmother’s cousin bought a bunch of it just because of the name heh.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:25:51pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:28:24pm

re: #184 BeachDem

No, that wasn’t it. I think it was that all she talked about was the military. Whether that was the topic at hand or not. And there was something she said, which I can’t remember, that sounded really off to me.

To be fair to her, she’s 35 years old and has been in the military since 2004. It’s a big part of who she is. Now what I think is fair considering that Bernie’s bros love attacking Hillary’s stance on LGBT rights is their new hero’s past stance that included even opposing civil unions. But I do see to her credit that she’s cosponsored a lot of LGBT friendly legislation since entering Congress. I don’t even think her endorsement of Sanders is baesd on principle, it’s based on her infighting with DWS. Shrug.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:31:18pm

re: #186 HappyWarrior

I know. It’s not perfect. I never actually tried it since I was young when it came out. I kind of do want to get a can though for my room. Zima really was my great grandmother’s maiden name. Apparently when it came out, my grandmother’s cousin bought a bunch of it just because of the name heh.

My sister-in-law drinks it, because she says she doesn’t like the taste of beer. I tried one of her Zimas once. It’s like sweet fruity near-beer. I suppose one could call it a “girly drink.” The local supermarket here sells something similar, called Rio, — not malt beverage based AFAIK — that’s popular with the female students at the uni. I tried Rio once, too. Tasted like a wine cooler, but like Zima very sweet and fruity.

If i want something sweet and fruity, I’ll have a margarita or a piña colada, thank you.

Bartender!

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:32:38pm

Zima came in a fluted bottle if I remember correctly.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:33:28pm

re: #189 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

My sister-in-law drinks it, because she says she doesn’t like the taste of beer. I tried one of her Zimas once. It’s like sweet fruity near-beer. I suppose one could call it a “girly drink.” The local supermarket here sells something similar, called Rio, — not malt beverage based AFAIK — that’s popular with the female students at the uni. I tried Rio once, too. Tasted like a wine cooler, but like Zima very sweet and fruity.

If i want something sweet and fruity, I’ll have a margarita or a piña colado, thank you.

Bartender!

I’m very fond of ciders myself. I don’t mind some fruit flavors in my beer but I don’t like t too sweet either. I hate malt liqours like that Mike’s HArd Lemoniade crap.

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:34:51pm

re: #180 bratwurst

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:34:56pm

T.J. Swan EZ Nights and Squirt.

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austin_blue  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:37:14pm

Night all, sweet scaly dreams!

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:38:01pm

re: #191 HappyWarrior

I’m very fond of ciders myself. I don’t mind some fruit flavors in my beer but I don’t like t too sweet either. I hate malt liqours like that Mike’s HArd Lemoniade crap.

Oh, jeez. I tried that once, too. Drank only half the bottle. I’ve tried hard root beer, too. Ick. Cider, though, is fine.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:38:16pm

I don’t hear Van Jones talk often, but he dropped the ball when he let the “leftist” smear stand. With that one word alone he could have smashed that feeble old man’s stupid argument and destroyed his credibility as a “student” of US history.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:38:47pm

re: #192 Kragar

But he’s a World Series Champion which makes him a winner like Trump!

/

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:39:15pm

re: #190 Amory Blaine

Zima came in a fluted bottle if I remember correctly.

It is a cool looking bottle. It’s funny how some of the coolest looking bottles have the shittiest beer. One of the pubs where I studied in Galway had Duff. I asked if I could keep the bottle and brought it all the way home with me. Really an unimpressive beer but come on it’s Duff.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:39:29pm

I’m a big fan of fruit flavored Lambic beers. Lindemann’s Kriek (cherry) being my favorite.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:39:34pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:39:56pm

re: #195 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh, jeez. I tried that once, too. Drank only half the bottle. I’ve tried hard root beer, too. Ick. Cider, though, is fine.

I liked Hard Root Beer honestly but Cider is my beer of choice when it’s cold. Another habit I picked up in Ireland. They make some fine ciders there.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:41:01pm

re: #199 Amory Blaine

I’m a big fan of fruit flavored Lambic beers. Lindemann’s Kriek (cherry) being my favorite.

You got a good one in Wisconsin I like, I like that Summer Shandy by Leinenkugel that I enjoy on a summer day.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:41:22pm

Goodnight all.

The pride and joy of my humble vintage paperback collection
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:42:11pm

ravenbeer.com
I take that back. This was a pretty cool beer bottle and a tasty beer.

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Tigger2  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:43:01pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:43:54pm

Now I need to go to the supermarket and buy beer. Suddenly, I’m very thirsty.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:44:11pm

re: #200 goddamnedfrank

Since when can 17 year olds vote?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:44:48pm

re: #206 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Now I need to go to the supermarket and buy beer. Suddenly, I’m very thirsty.

Haha sorry. You know I actually have had that one Chinese beer. Pretty average to be honest with you but pretty cool to have tried anyhow.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:45:19pm

re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg

Since when can 17 year olds vote?

I think that’s a mess up on their part.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:45:53pm

I have a bottle of Iron Maiden Trooper beer for a novelty at the house. Mainly for the bottle.

An example where the bottle is more attractive than the contents.

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MsJ  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:46:21pm

re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg

Since when can 17 year olds vote?

If they’ll be 18 on Election Day.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:46:22pm

re: #207 Eclectic Cyborg

Since when can 17 year olds vote?

In some states 17 year olds can vote in the primary if they will be 18 by the date of the presidential election.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:46:32pm

re: #210 Amory Blaine

I have a bottle of Iron Maiden Trooper beer for a novelty at the house. Mainly for the bottle.Embedded Image

An example where the bottle is more attractive than the contents.

I think I may have seen that one around at some shops.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:46:45pm

re: #211 MsJ

If they’ll be 18 on Election Day.

Aha.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:47:13pm

Singha is my favorite southeast Asian beer. So crisp, dry and smooth,

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:47:27pm

re: #212 klys (maker of Silmarils)

In some states 17 year olds can vote in the primary if they will be 18 by the date of the presidential election.

People being born in 1998 voting. Man that’s something.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:47:53pm

re: #215 Amory Blaine

Singha is my favorite southeast Asian beer. So crisp, dry and smooth,

That’s Thai isn’t it? I normally get the Thai Iced Tea at Thai places but that one is pretty good.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:49:40pm

Vermont called for Trump.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:49:43pm

re: #208 HappyWarrior

Haha sorry. You know I actually have had that one Chinese beer. Pretty average to be honest with you but pretty cool to have tried anyhow.

Tsingtao? It’s probably the best China offers. Most of the domestic beers are light lagers, and pretty much indistinguishable from one another. Rarely stronger than 3-4%. But craft beers are beginning to take off in the bigger cities, like Shanghai.

There is a kind of stout sold here, though. It’s passable, but not like Guinness or a UK stout.

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:52:35pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:54:16pm

re: #219 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Tsingtao? It’s probably the best China offers. Most of the domestic beers are light lagers, and pretty much indistinguishable from one another. Rarely stronger than 3-4%. But craft beers are beginning to take off in the bigger cities, like Shanghai.

There is a kind of stout sold here, though. It’s passable, but not like Guinness or a UK stout.

Yeah Tsingtao. Traditional liquor is sorghum I want to say. If I remember my Taiwanese co-worker right, he said it was more like a wine. I really learned a lot about China and Taiwan from him. He was very good at explaining the nuances even though his own family had fled from the mainland. People like him and the two classes on China really helped shape my views on China. I mean I don’t like the dictatorship obviously but I don’t like the country and its people being used as a scapegoat the way Trump does either.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:54:41pm

There’s a Japanese beer I used to drink that came in ceramic bottles (black or white) but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called right now (Still have the flu cobwebs in my head).

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:54:52pm

re: #220 Kragar

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That’s true. The facts show you’re an insufferable asshole.

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Teukka  Mar 1, 2016 • 9:55:06pm

re: #220 Kragar

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*snickers evily*

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:04:52pm

studying the republican delegate math, this thing is gonna go all the way and wont be settled until june, if then

rubio will probably have to drop out after march 15, and cruz believes he will then clean up. that’s what he believes

blech

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CleverToad  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:05:23pm

re: #216 HappyWarrior

People being born in 1998 voting. Man that’s something.

Man, that’s my son — October 1, so he’ll be able to vote this election (and he’d better vote EVERY election from here on out or Mama’s gonna nag)

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:07:53pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:08:36pm

re: #222 Amory Blaine

There’s a Japanese beer I used to drink that came in ceramic bottles (black or white) but for the life of me I can’t remember what it was called right now (Still have the flu cobwebs in my head).

Asahi? Though the last I saw, it was in glass bottles.

re: #221 HappyWarrior

Yeah Tsingtao. Traditional liquor is sorghum I want to say. If I remember my Taiwanese co-worker right, he said it was more like a wine. I really learned a lot about China and Taiwan from him. He was very good at explaining the nuances even though his own family had fled from the mainland. People like him and the two classes on China really helped shape my views on China. I mean I don’t like the dictatorship obviously but I don’t like the country and its people being used as a scapegoat the way Trump does either.

That’s baijiu, though it can be made from nearly any grain. Sorghum is the traditional source. The Chinese call it wine (baijiu = white wine), but we’d call it liquor in the states. Lowest alcohol content is 35% and highest can be 62%. The premium stuff is very drinkable, so smooth that you won’t realize its effects until you hit the floor. The common stuff varies in quality from drain cleaner to paint stripper, and will leave you wishing for death the next morning.

Yeah, personal experiences. More than once. I’m dumb that way.

Moutai is the baijiu exported to the States. It’s not premium, but better than the swill sold in the supermarkets in China.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:10:02pm

re: #228 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Asahi? Though the last I saw, it was in glass bottles.

That’s baijiu, though it can be made from nearly any grain. Sorghum is the traditional source. The Chinese call it wine (baijiu = white wine), but we’d call it liquor in the states. Lowest alcohol content is 35% and highest can be 62%. The premium stuff is very drinkable, so smooth that you won’t realize its effects until you hit the floor. The common stuff varies in quality from drain cleaner to paint stripper, and will leave you wishing for death the next morning.

Yeah, personal experiences. More than once. I’m dumb that way.

Moutai is the baijiu exported to the States. It’s not premium, but better than the swill sold in the supermarkets in China.

Oh yeah definitely liquor then. I probably remembered him wrong.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:12:19pm

I had planned to become a citizen in time to vote in this election but I’ve had a challenging time finding another $800 to give the government for the privilege.

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Jenner7  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:14:26pm

Trump is leading in Alaska.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:16:56pm

re: #231 Jenner7

Trump is leading in Alaska.

It’s certainly wingnut enough to go for either Trump or Cruz.

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:17:05pm

I accidentally clicked on the “About” button here. I read the seven paragraphs and was all like

Don’t you ever forget, LGF is

IRRELLLEVANNTTT!!!!
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:18:08pm

re: #229 HappyWarrior

Oh yeah definitely liquor then. I probably remembered him wrong.

He probably called it wine. I’m not sure about Taiwanese folks, but Chinese don’t really speak of liquor when referring to baijiu. It’s always wine.

If you want grape wine in China, you have to ask for putaojiu (grape wine) or hongjiu (red wine). For some reason, white grape wine is not very common here, and usually quite expensive — $15-$20 a bottle. Chinese red wine, though, is quite good — even the cheap ones. Like vin ordinaire in France.

The up-and-coming trend now is wine shops, selling imported wines from all over. My friends own one. The wife and husband both like wines, and he likes Cuban cigars. They’re also going to sell imported liquors, too, like whiskey, gin and so so on.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:18:20pm

I love how over the years republicans charged democrats with fawning love for celebrities and they would never allow a movie or music star to cloud their vaunted judgement. Just another observation toward their never ending well of hypocrisy.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:19:46pm

These talking heads on CBS are so lost when it comes to statistics and knowing what they mean.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:20:24pm

re: #235 Amory Blaine

I love how over the years republicans charged democrats with fawning love for celebrities and they would never allow a movie or music star to cloud their vaunted judgement. Just another observation toward their never ending well of hypocrisy.

That was back in the mythic time when everyone in Hollywood were flaming liberals bent on undermining the moral fabric of our nation.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:26:55pm

Looking at the Arkansas map is interesting. Rubio won the capitol metro area, and Wally-World up in the NW corner.

Trump won in the rural areas, but especially along the Mississippi, where he won overwhelmingly. This part of the state along the Mississippi has a relatively large African American population.

It would be interesting to do exit polls in these areas. I wonder why the Trump voters really voted for him.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:27:17pm

Try baking your favorite Girl Scout cookies at home

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:27:54pm
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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:28:44pm

Lindsay Graham explains Trump’s popularity by saying 35% of his own party believes Obama is a Muslim born in Kenya.

Well, at least Lindsay is at step one in the process.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:30:03pm
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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:31:27pm
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Tigger2  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:32:21pm

HeHeHe

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:33:32pm

Trump won every county in Alabama.

And Rubio finished out of the money.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:36:44pm

Cruz creeping up on Trump in AK.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:37:15pm

Rubio must be the shittiest ROI politician ever. Has he even voted enough to pay off his investors?

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:41:52pm

Kasich probably beat Rubio in MA.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:44:31pm

re: #189 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

My sister-in-law drinks it, because she says she doesn’t like the taste of beer. I tried one of her Zimas once. It’s like sweet fruity near-beer. I suppose one could call it a “girly drink.” The local supermarket here sells something similar, called Rio, — not malt beverage based AFAIK — that’s popular with the female students at the uni. I tried Rio once, too. Tasted like a wine cooler, but like Zima very sweet and fruity.

If i want something sweet and fruity, I’ll have a margarita or a piña colado, thank you.

Bartender!

Any other olds here remember HopNGator? It was gatoraid and malt liquor. Pretty ghastly. We’d order mass quantities in a bar, pour it into a pitcher and all grab straws to share it. Quick buzz—nasty stuff, but we were poor and dumb.

“Hop’n Gator Beer was put on the market by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company in 1969. It was developed by Dr. Robert Cade who also invented Gatorade. Hop’n Gator Beer was a mixture of beer and Gatorade with about 25% more alcohol content than standard beers. They got sued for trademark infringement and it got pulled from the market.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:47:06pm

re: #220 Kragar

Facts don’t care about the opinions you declare to be facts because of your feelings about them, Ben.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:47:21pm

re: #249 BeachDem

Any other olds here remember HopNGator? It was gatoraid and malt liquor. Pretty ghastly. We’d order mass quantities in a bar, pour it into a pitcher and all grab straws to share it. Quick buzz—nasty stuff, but we were poor and dumb.

“Hop’n Gator Beer was put on the market by the Pittsburgh Brewing Company in 1969. It was developed by Dr. Robert Cade who also invented Gatorade. Hop’n Gator Beer was a mixture of beer and Gatorade with about 25% more alcohol content than standard beers. They got sued for trademark infringement and it got pulled from the market.Embedded Image

Never heard of it. Probably didn’t enter the NYC metro market.

I’m old enough to remember when 18 was the drinking age in NY and NJ. They raised the age to 21 after I graduated college. Immediately, college-age drinking plummeted to record lows.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:49:28pm

I had a hefty bar tab at 16, about $200. Had to get a job.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:50:06pm

re: #249 BeachDem

A former student of mine, who had a pretty serious drinking problem while in high school, told me one of his favorite drinks was Gatorade and vodka, because (he said) the Gatorade sped up the intoxication process and helped with the hangover afterward.

I told him it would probably work as an emetic for me. Yuck.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:52:41pm

TV Talking heads keep using the word “dishonest” when talking about Hillary.

This is Trump-talk.

Like on many topics, the media’s talking heads are following Trump.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:53:23pm

Really sad to see so much of the television media give up on journalism.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:54:46pm

re: #252 Amory Blaine

I had a hefty bar tab at 16, about $200. Had to get a job.

The official drinking age in China is 18, but no one pays any attention to it. One of my middle school tutorial students posted photos online of her drinking beer at her 13th birthday party. I was surprised she was so open about it. Drinking here is saved for special occasions, and students never have the weekly binge parties like they do in the States. It’s a very different drinking culture. Aside from the businessmen getting wasted on baijiu at important dinner meetings, most Chinese remain pretty sober 90% of the time.

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:55:09pm

re: #255 freetoken

Really sad to see so much of the television media give up on journalism.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:56:21pm

So Trump is setting both the agenda and the language.

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BeachDem  Mar 1, 2016 • 10:58:56pm

re: #251 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Never heard of it. Probably didn’t enter the NYC metro market.

I’m old enough to remember when 18 was the drinking age in NY and NJ. They raised the age to 21 after I graduated college. Immediately, college-age drinking plummeted to record lows.

////

Yeah, I lived in NY when I turned 18 (had a fake id at 17) then moved to Ohio, where you could only drink “low beer” until 21. HopNGator wasn’t around for long, and was probably fairly limited distribution out of Pittsburgh.

As I said, I remember it was a quick, cheap buzz—and now that I looked it up, I see why—25% MORE alcohol content than regular beers—yowza.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:03:58pm

re: #256 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Milwaukee had one of the drunkest cultures in America. There were bars on every corner and sometimes, in the middle of the block. I knew old timers that were brewery workers and these guys were like diplomats or something. Cases and cases of free beer in their vans. This culture has subsided somewhat and that is a good thing. Thousands of drunken yokels all vouching for each other bred a lot of family dysfunction and abuse. We still have the most lax DUI laws.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:05:08pm

Cruz pulls ahead in Alaska. This could be his third gold of the night.

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Nyet  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:05:55pm

Much sourness on dailybern today.

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teleskiguy  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:06:35pm

re: #258 freetoken

So Trump is setting both the agenda and the language.

I use the word BIGLY here and there.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:07:23pm

re: #255 freetoken

Really sad to see so much of the television media give up on journalism.

“Fuck journalism! We’ve got to go with what gets ratings!

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Nyet  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:10:00pm

One of my main gripes with Clinton in ‘08 was the unnecessary prolongation of the campaign. I hope Bernie won’t repeat this mistake.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:10:12pm

Meanwhile, over at The Regurgitant, Son of Erick whines:

Trump’s Dead End Republicans

Have you noticed Trump’s major endorsements. From Sarah Palin to Jan Brewer to Chris Christie, Trump is being endorsed by Republican leaders whose careers have hit a brick wall within the GOP. They have no where to go, so they are going to Trump.

They go to Trump not because they want to make America great again, but because they want to make themselves great again. […]

The Trump endorsements are people who have reached the end of their political careers or failed at life off the stage. They covet the attention and proximity to power that Trump offers them. They’re the very leeches we should be worried about as a nation. And they will compromise themselves to stand next to Trump.

Son of Erick comes from the Ted Cruz School of How To Make Friends, it seems.

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Nyet  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:14:05pm

This idiotic point is everywhere in Berniestan today:

Sour grapes. Why did Bernie campaign there at all?

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Nyet  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:16:12pm
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Tigger2  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:17:23pm

re: #267 Nyet

This idiotic point is everywhere in Berniestan today:

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Sour grapes. Why did Bernie campaign there at all?

I’m glad there are so many Berniebot soothsayers. It’s a shame they can’t see Bernie is losing the Nomination.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:18:29pm

re: #266 freetoken

Meanwhile, over at The Regurgitant, Son of Erick whines:

Trump’s Dead End Republicans

Son of Erick comes from the Ted Cruz School of How To Make Friends, it seems.

Erick has suddenly discovered what makes politicians tick. What an idealist!

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Alyosha  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:20:15pm

re: #265 Nyet

One of my main gripes with Clinton in ‘08 was the unnecessary prolongation of the campaign. I hope Bernie won’t repeat this mistake.

It might just be the usual big-talking, but they’ve stated that they’re sticking around until the convention.

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:21:09pm
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Tigger2  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:21:25pm

re: #271 Alyosha

It might just be the usual big-talking, but they’ve stated that they’re sticking around until the convention.

Yep I saw a tweet saying that but can’t find it now.

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Nyet  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:22:11pm

re: #271 Alyosha

It might just be the usual big-talking, but they’ve stated that they’re sticking around until the convention.

If so, Bernie might just become an enemy.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:23:57pm

149 votes separate Cruz and Trump in Alaska with about half way done.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:24:05pm

re: #260 Amory Blaine

Milwaukee had one of the drunkest cultures in America. There were bars on every corner and sometimes, in the middle of the block. I knew old timers that were brewery workers and these guys were like diplomats or something. Cases and cases of free beer in their vans. This culture has subsided somewhat and that is a good thing. Thousands of drunken yokels all vouching for each other bred a lot of family dysfunction and abuse. We still have the most lax DUI laws.

Reading history, it seems that kind of culture was common throughout the USA during the 1800s. People didn’t drink water much, and milk was for kids. Fruit juices, other than apple cider, were unheard of. So people drank beer, whiskey and rum. A lot of beer,w whiskey and rum. That’s how the temperance movement got started, as a way to make communities safe from drunken sots stumbling all over the place, creating havoc. It also led to the creation of soft drinks.

Prohibition was the ultimate goal of the temperance unions, and that was a total disaster. You can’t tell an entire nation to go cold turkey all at once.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:25:28pm

The language I see being used to describe Christie behind Trump today seems to be that people should feel sympathy or pity.

Chris Christie should just shut his fat fucking face and if he don’t, his enemies should do it for him.

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Alyosha  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:29:45pm

re: #274 Nyet

If so, Bernie might just become an enemy.

I saw a WaPo editorial that suggested he’d use the young’uns as leverage in formulating policy. But if he doesn’t have the delegates by that point he’s only relying on Democratic goodwill that will likely be even more frayed by then.
So, even if he keeps his word and doesn’t run independently, he’ll still be going for the spoiler campaign.
If that’s the case, yeah, enemy’s not too strong a word.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:29:45pm

re: #276 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Wisconsin Heaviest-Drinking State In Country, Study Finds

The study, which was published this month in the American Journal of Public Health, analyzed survey data collected by the Centers for Disease Control between 2002 and 2012 to suss out drinking patterns by county across the U.S. Using the data from 2012, it found that 12 percent of Wisconsin residents had reported engaging in heavy drinking in the previous 30 days.

Julia Sherman, the coordinator of the Wisconsin Alcohol Policy Project, said that these numbers may not be news for most Wisconsin residents, but they do provide valuable insight for each county to monitor their alcohol problems.

“We have known for some time that Wisconsin has a problem with alcohol,” said Sherman. “Clearly, this provides every community in Wisconsin a better tool to look at their own drinking locally and maybe take steps to remediate certain problems if they think they exist.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:29:45pm

re: #277 Amory Blaine

The language I see being used to describe Christie behind Trump today seems to be that people should feel sympathy or pity.

Chris Christie should just shut his fat fucking face and if he don’t, his enemies should do it for him.

Christie sold his soul to The Donald. I weepeth not.

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Alyosha  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:31:28pm

Deleted

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Alyosha  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:32:46pm

Device unable to handle all the things…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:34:45pm

re: #282 Alyosha

Device unable to handle all the things…

Are you a prisoner of your own device?

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Nyet  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:35:03pm

re: #278 Alyosha

Not dropping out at the right time affects the GE campaigning, prolongs the fracturing of the Dems. All because of stupid ambitions.

It’s too early to say if he goes that way, his campaign is still fully legit at this point so I’m withholding judgment. But…

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Alyosha  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:35:46pm

re: #283 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Are you a prisoner of your own device?

In multiple ways in both senses haha

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Alyosha  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:37:11pm

re: #284 Nyet

Not dropping out at the right time affects the GE campaigning, prolongs the fracturing of the Dems. All because of stupid ambitions.

It’s too early to say if he goes that way, his campaign is still fully legit at this point so I’m withholding judgment. But…

I won’t judge him by the worst of his boosters so I’m confident he’ll do the right thing.

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:39:23pm

National Racists Online are filling their minds with fantasies of how Cruz is stopping Trump.

Reality is going to be very difficult for that crowd.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:40:31pm

re: #287 freetoken

National Racists Online are filling their minds with fantasies of how Cruz is stopping Trump.

Reality is going to be very difficult for that crowd.

SMH.
They’re just done broke at this point.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:48:47pm

WMD’s or lack thereof never stopped that crowd of loose turds and their fantasies, I don’t see how this uncomfortable situation will be any different.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:50:39pm

3:00am.
Where’s mah coffee?!

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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:51:03pm
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Kragar  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:53:06pm

So Trump lost Alaska.

That Sarah Palin endorsement really helped out.

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Alyosha  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:53:48pm

re: #291 Kragar

[Embedded content]

We know how to keep people out with extreme prejudice.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:54:19pm

re: #291 Kragar

[Embedded content]

Ahh cnn.

WARP 2.3!

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freetoken  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:54:55pm

re: #292 Kragar

Trump is down by 394 votes, but only about 2/3rds counted.

But yes, Cruz is going to crow about winning a 4th state.

And Rubio gets another bronze… which means he wins.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 1, 2016 • 11:59:50pm
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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:00:33am

re: #293 Alyosha

We know how to keep people out with extreme prejudice.

What’s it like living with critters that want humanity dead???
;)

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Alyosha  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:02:51am

re: #297 Not a Sparkly Vampire

What’s it like living with critters that want humanity dead???
;)

You learn to extirpate them while they’re little and leave offerings to those who survived.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:04:18am

re: #291 Kragar

That is so blonde.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:05:39am

Oh those poor voiceless, disenfranchised white people.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:13:59am

Are you sure, Shaun? Check that again to be sure.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:14:21am

I’ve been having some strange fever dreams, being sick and all. Last night I dreamt I saw Steven Colbert waiting for an elevator at a high rise, so I asked him if I could help carry his bags. I spent the next couple hours chasing after him. Then, I dreamt I was in prison huffing paint out of a paper bag in the basement of the prison with other inmates. I spent the rest of the evening trying to dispose of the bag without being caught by the guards.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:14:47am

I saw this while watching Fox ‘news’ on a stream. I got a great Déjà vu laugh out of it.

Karl Rove Predicts Rubio Surge In Virginia Seconds Before Race Is Called For Trump

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Timothy Watson  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:15:23am

re: #287 freetoken

National Racists Online are filling their minds with fantasies of how Cruz is stopping Trump.

Reality is going to be very difficult for that crowd.

How long until they move on to the Acceptance stage of grief?

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:17:32am

re: #304 Timothy Watson

How long until they move on to the Acceptance stage of grief?

How long before they go *SPLAT* on the windshield of reality?

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Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:18:43am

They’ll just remind you they own 35 states, the Legislature, the courts…

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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:22:12am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:24:02am

re: #292 Kragar

So Trump lost Alaska.

That Sarah Palin endorsement really helped out.

That’s probably what sunk his chances there.

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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:24:11am
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Timothy Watson  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:24:12am

re: #307 Kragar

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Where is he getting those figures from? Politico shows 285 for Trump and 247 for Cruz and Rubio together.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:26:08am

re: #307 Kragar

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And they would still lose to HRC, because Kristol says they can win.

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Not a Sparkly Vampire  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:26:33am

re: #307 Kragar

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Wow, Bill, just wow.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:44:05am

Long article at vox.com about American authoritarianism and Trump. I haven’t started reading it, but here’s the link.
vox.com

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:45:35am

re: #304 Timothy Watson

How long until they move on to the Acceptance stage of grief?

They are a very long way from that.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:45:51am

Cruz is up by a bit over 600 in Alaska.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:47:50am

What Kristol is referring to, I suppose, is just Super Tuesday results, where Trump has so far won 203 delegates to Cruz+Rubio = 214 for the daily haul.

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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:50:21am
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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:50:42am

Rubio only got 1 delegate out of Alabama. Trump got 36.

Rubio (and Kasich, who beat Rubio) got 8 delegates out of MA. Trump got 22.

And so far in Texas… Rubio has gotten no delegates.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:51:57am

In Vermont, both Trump and Kasich got 8 delegates.

Rubio got none.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:55:30am

re: #313 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Long article at vox.com about American authoritarianism and Trump. I haven’t started reading it, but here’s the link.
vox.com

Browsed through it. It’s a good article, but tells bad news. Nothing good ever comes from authoritarianism.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:13:24am

This one goes out to “Little Marco” “The Mondale of the GOP” Rubio:

MP3 Audio

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:19:44am
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Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:27:45am

re: #322 freetoken

I’m always a day late and a dollar short.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:41:48am

re: #320 Teukka

Browsed through it. It’s a good article, but tells bad news. Nothing good ever comes from authoritarianism.

Reading it now.

With its appeals to traditional values, the GOP has attracted a large number of authoritarians — people who want order and who fear outsiders and the unknown.

Authoritarians are thought to express much deeper fears than the rest of the electorate, to seek the imposition of order where they perceive dangerous change, and to desire a strong leader who will defeat those fears with force. They would thus seek a candidate who promised these things. And the extreme nature of authoritarians’ fears, and of their desire to challenge threats with force, would lead them toward a candidate whose temperament was totally unlike anything we usually see in American politics — and whose policies went far beyond the acceptable norms.

A candidate like Donald Trump.

I don’t see how the GOP is going to stuff this genie back into the magic lamp, short of a party split. The authoritarians are the ones that made John Boehner’s job as Speaker a nightmare, and if Trump loses, they will be out for blood (hopefully not literally) from the party leadership.

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Alyosha  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:58:41am

re: #324 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Reading it now.

With its appeals to traditional values, the GOP has attracted a large number of authoritarians — people who want order and who fear outsiders and the unknown.

I don’t see how the GOP is going to stuff this genie back into the magic lamp, short of a party split. The authoritarians are the ones that made John Boehner’s job as Speaker a nightmare, and if Trump loses, they will be out for blood (hopefully not literally) from the party leadership.

I’d like to know how exactly Trump reacts to a defeat. He spent a while whining about the Iowa results until he probably realised how miniscule the prize was.
But the biggest trophy of all? How does he lose that and not contest the results however one-sided they might be?
I guess then we’ll see if the whole thing was an exercise in ego-fluffing.
Would you put anything past him at that point?
Losing. To a woman?
We might see him imprisoned for incitement to violence yet.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:09:31am

I’m listening to the scanner. CHP is chasing a car from San Leandro, south of Oakland and are now in Vacaville heading to Sacramento on I80. Chasing a car going 130+ mph, unknown occupants, original want was speed. Fucking California, jeeze.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:09:55am

re: #325 Alyosha

I’d like to know how exactly Trump reacts to a defeat. He spent a while whining about the Iowa results until he probably realised how miniscule the prize was.
But the biggest trophy of all? How does he lose that and not contest the results however one-sided they might be?
I guess then we’ll see if the whole thing was an exercise in ego-fluffing.
Would you put anything past him at that point?
Losing. To a woman?
We might see him imprisoned for incitement to violence yet.

I’m more worried about his supporters. Some of them are borderline psychotic.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:19:27am

Still 130 MPH, lights out, east of Dixon, heading to Davis, still no helicopter support. This could be a record chase.

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ElaineBenis  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:20:19am

I need to stock up on waaaay more popcorn and alcohol to handle the hilarity and horror of the GOP implosion.


Travis County GOP Apoplectic Over New Chairman

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:22:24am

re: #328 Single-handed sailor

Still 130 MPH, lights out, east of Dixon, heading to Davis, still no helicopter support. This could be a record chase.

…”switching to the Black”, and I don’t have the Black channel (Sacramento?), so I lose the chase.

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Alyosha  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:24:40am

re: #327 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m more worried about his supporters. Some of them are borderline psychotic.

Exactly the kind of person he might try to incite. Who knows? It depends on how much of his campaign is purely playacting.

If he does lose and concedes gracefully, he is likely to be at risk of being violently targeted.
It might be a simple calculation to continue to scapegoat the government for his failure rather than admit to the more foamy-mawed of his supporters that it’s over.
There’s no way of knowing where this goes even after Clinton becomes President-Elect.

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Single-handed sailor  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:35:08am

Interesting, one of the Vallejo CHP units is out of the chase after 40 miles at 130 MPH due to a tire failure on highway 50 in Sacramento. This is why the police need to buy the higher rated tires over standard passenger tires.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:40:23am

re: #329 ElaineBenis

My, the Republicans have a winner there in Travis.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:52:33am
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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:53:21am

re: #334 Amory Blaine

dafuque?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:53:37am

re: #332 Single-handed sailor

Interesting, one of the Vallejo CHP units is out of the chase after 40 miles at 130 MPH due to a tire failure on highway 50 in Sacramento. This is why the police need to buy the higher rated tires over standard passenger tires.

A regular announcement on Armed Forces Radio in Germany reminds Americans that although their cars have the muscle under the hood to travel at high speeds on the Autobahn, most American cars do not have the steering or suspension to drive safely at speeds of 100mph or more.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:54:56am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

A regular announcement on Armed Forces Radio in Germany reminds Americans that although their cars have the muscle under the hood to travel at high speeds on the Autobahn, most American cars do not have the steering or suspension to drive safely at speeds of 100mph or more.

What a metaphor for American foreign policy.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:08:20am

re: #337 SoundGuy 2016

What a metaphor for American foreign policy.

Power without control is useless.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:09:46am

White nationalists:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:23:16am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

A regular announcement on Armed Forces Radio in Germany reminds Americans that although their cars have the muscle under the hood to travel at high speeds on the Autobahn, most American cars do not have the steering or suspension to drive safely at speeds of 100mph or more.

I’ve driven that fast only twice. Once in an American car, which scared me shitless. The power steering got so jittery I had to slow down. And once in a BMW 2002, which was more reassuring but I only did it for a brief time, in case there be a state trooper hiding somewhere.

Most passenger car tires in the USA are only rated for 80 mph, I think. Running them for sustained periods at higher speeds risks catastrophic blowouts, with catastrophic results. American love their power steering, which reduces road feel, and suspensions tend to be on the soft, mushy side, which makes the car unstable at high speeds or with high lateral acceleration.

So yeah, I’d advise against driving that fast in the typical US automobile. (Especially on the crumbling Interstate highway system.)

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:26:43am

re: #340 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ve driven that fast only twice. Once in an American car, which scared me shitless. The power steering got so jittery I had to slow down. And once in a BMW 2002, which was more reassuring but I only did it for a brief time, in case there be a state trooper hiding somewhere.

I was once on the Autobahn once in a VW Passat doing 100 mph, had to brake for backed up traffic around a curve and wound up stopping about three feet behind the car ahead of me.

Since then, I have driven that speed, but only on stretches of Autobahn that were empty and where I could see for miles ahead.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:30:37am
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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:31:56am
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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:35:18am

He really is a loon:

Carson ‘Not Ready to Quit,’ Gives 15-Minute Speech on Pledge of Allegiance

[…]

“I am not ready to quit,” he told supporters in Baltimore Tuesday night.

Instead, he turned his attention to a far different topic: the Pledge of Allegiance.

“You think about the pledge,” he said. “The pledge that we all learned in kindergarten.”

And with that the candidate launched into a 15-minute soliloquy, annotating each phrase.

[…]

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:36:22am

re: #343 Nyet

So much wrong, all in 140 characters.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:39:14am

Is Rubin ready to endorse Hillary?

washingtonpost.com

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CuriousLurker  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:39:25am

re: #342 Nyet

@davidfrum
“Millions of women have been helped by Planned Parenthood.” - the Republican front runner
9:50 PM - 1 Mar 2016

The horror. How could he say such a thing?

re: #343 Nyet

@JRubinBlogger
Kasich’s 63K votes more than enough for Rubio to have won VA. Why is he still in?
8:38 PM - 1 Mar 2016

I dunno, maybe because it’s a free country and he can if he wants to?

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:40:24am

Swiss voters reject marriage initiative, automatic deportations

By a slim 51%-49% margin, voters in Switzerland have rejected a ballot initiative that would have defined marriage as the union of a man and a woman and would also have ended tax penalties against married couples.

[…]

By a 59%-41% margin, Swiss voters also rejected a ballot initiative that would have led to the automatic deportation of foreigners convicted of any crime.

[…]

Definitely not a place where Trumpism or Cruzism regins.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:40:31am

re: #346 Nyet

Is Rubin ready to endorse Hillary?

washingtonpost.com

LOL

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:42:40am

re: #348 freetoken

Swiss voters reject marriage initiative, automatic deportations

Definitely not a place where Trumpism or Cruzism regins.

But they did pass a law banning the building of minarets on mosques.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:45:59am

re: #350 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Well, it’s Switzerland. They’ve always been a polyglot, literally and figuratively.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:47:38am

Gotta luv these Euro tabloids:

Everyone is worried Donald Trump might have actually taken Chris Christie hostage

People are getting really worried that New Jersey Governor Chris Christie might have been abducted by Donald Trump, and is now being held hostage.

[…]

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William Lewis  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:49:10am

re: #341 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was once on the Autobahn once in a VW Passat doing 100 mph, had to brake for backed up traffic around a curve and wound up stopping about three feet behind the car ahead of me.

Since then, I have driven that speed, but only on stretches of Autobahn that were empty and where I could see for miles ahead.

I have driven “Very” fast on the interstate in my mother’s muscle cars - a 1970 Plymouth Sport Fury with a 383 and a four barrel carb and then her 76 Trans AM.Gold color with the big Phoenix decal on the hood and 6.6 liters of V8 under it. I once made it from Mother Fools in Minneapolis to Eau Claire WI in under an hour in the Trans Am… Oh to be that sure of myself again.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:55:23am

Even the Beeb noticed:

US elections 2016: Chris Christie mocked at Trump speech

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 3:59:33am

re: #341 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I was once on the Autobahn once in a VW Passat doing 100 mph, had to brake for backed up traffic around a curve and wound up stopping about three feet behind the car ahead of me.

Since then, I have driven that speed, but only on stretches of Autobahn that were empty and where I could see for miles ahead.

Speaking of which

KRAFTWERK AUTOBAHN NUITS SONORES LYON 2014

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:02:10am

re: #344 freetoken

Carson is either heavily self-medicated or suffering from some mental disorder, maybe Alzheimer’s. He’s acting like one of those crazy people on the bus or subway who talk to themselves loud enough for others to hear.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:21:13am

re: #356 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I don’t know what is the hyper-religiosity, and what may be the pathology of aging.

Regardless, Carson seems disconnected from the social environment in which he finds himself.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:22:40am

re: #357 freetoken

I don’t know what is the hyper-religiosity, and what may be the pathology of aging.

Regardless, Carson seems disconnected from the social environment in which he finds himself.

He’s in his own little world, that’s for sure. The voters have picked up on that.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:23:44am

re: #338 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Power without control is useless.

Are we still talking about trump?

//

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:23:53am

re: #358 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

He’s in his own little world, that’s for sure. The voters have picked up on that.

Does not matter, he managed to fleece donors for millions which he is now having fun spending.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:27:03am

re: #360 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Does not matter, he managed to fleece donors for millions which he is now having fun spending.

TBH, I suspect his staff fleeced the donors and Dr Ben. He may not have a nickel left after all this is over.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:31:20am

Speaking of brains and such:

COMPOSING AND ARRANGING MUSIC PARTLY GENETICALLY DETERMINED

A new study identifies genome variants and pathways that contribute to composing and arranging in musically trained individuals. The study estimates the inherited proportion as 30% for these characteristics. Genes linked to composing and arranging suggest the role of the cerebellar LTD pathway, known to affect the acquisition of novel information and memory, as a common denominator for these cognitive activities.

The paper in PLOS:

Creative Activities in Music - A Genome-Wide Linkage Analysis

[…] Musical creativity is a complex phenotype where a common background with musicality and intelligence has been proposed. Here, we implicate genetic regions affecting music-related creative behaviour, which also include genes with neuropsychiatric associations. We also propose a common genetic background for music-related creative behaviour and musical abilities at chromosome 4.

But:

Heritability is the proportion of the phenotype variation explained by additive genetic factors. The heritability estimates ranged from 29% to 34% for composing, arranging, NCNA and other creativity (Table 1). The heritability estimate for improvising was only 11% and it was thus left out from the following genetic analyses. These estimates are lower than the heritabilities published in our previous study by Ukkola et al. [37]. Here, we used a larger sample and more focused phenotypes that should produce more reliable estimates of heritability.

Although there is probably a deterministic portion to the ways our brains work, this is just one of many studies that demonstrate the lack of very high correlation to various alleles. That is, for our characterological actions, development and life choices still play at least as large a roll.

Still, as is shown, and in many other studies, there is a heritability in regards to our musical ability.

Important in this study is that some of the genes studied are also of interest to those studying mental illness.

This brings once again to the fore that while our creativity is what makes us human, the very nature of the change to the organism (our brain) also makes us susceptible for what we call “mental illness”.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:39:59am

re: #361 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

TBH, I suspect his staff fleeced the donors and Dr Ben. He may not have a nickel left after all this is over.

But tons of free publicity for his upcoming books on how he was persecuted for sharing his Christian faith.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:40:50am

Jim Morin’s editorial cartoon in yesterday’s Miami Herald is spot on:

miamiherald.com

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:46:10am

538’s first story this morning basically concludes the Democratic race:

Hillary Clinton’s Got This

[…]

This lead is pretty much insurmountable. Democrats award delegates proportionally, which means Sanders would need to win by big margins in the remaining states to catch up. He hasn’t seen those kinds of wins outside of his home state of Vermont and next-door New Hampshire. Consider the case of Massachusetts: My colleague Nate Silver’s model had Sanders winning the state by 11 percentage points if the race were tied nationally and by 3 points based on the FiveThirtyEight polling average last week. Instead, Sanders lost by nearly 2 percentage points.

[…]

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:55:33am

re: #365 freetoken

“That evil witch stole the primaries! The system is rigged! Feel the Bern! REVOLUTION!!!!! I’m voting for Trump!!!”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:56:52am

re: #364 freetoken

Jim Morin’s editorial cartoon in yesterday’s Miami Herald is spot on:

miamiherald.com

Spot on.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:58:46am

re: #329 ElaineBenis

I need to stock up on waaaay more popcorn and alcohol to handle the hilarity and horror of the GOP implosion.


Travis County GOP Apoplectic Over New Chairman

That is a must-read, the capture of the Trump phenomenon in micro.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:03:28am

Oh yes… Texastan, how you love your creationists.

Among the elections on Tuesday was one for the infamous SBOE. Here are the results of the Republican Primary:


........... Bruner .. Ellis ..Herring
ALL COUNTIES 106,662 68,465 45,004

Who is this Bruner? One Mary Lou Bruner, a creationist, of course, and someone who thinks Obama was a gay prostitute:

Texas Board of Education Candidate: President Obama Was a Prostitute

That post has screen caps of her Facebook.

And according to the Bratfrats:

However, comments Bruner made on her Facebook page covering a smattering of topics from President Obama’s sexuality to the origins of the universe attracted unflattering media attention, including from the Texas Tribune. Bruner since removed the dicey remarks and told Breitbart Texas, “I don’t intend to apologize for my opinions because I still believe my statements were accurate.”

One post suggested that baby dinosaurs were on Noah’s Ark. She told Breitbart Texas, “As for my personal beliefs as to how the universe was formed, scientists have forced us to say creation is religion and evolution is science.” Despite Bruner’s beliefs, Texas public schools opt for the scientific approach and teach the theory of evolution.

That’s the Republicans in Texastan for you.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:03:46am

re: #327 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’m more worried about his supporters. Some of them are borderline psychotic.

They crossed the border a long time ago and are deep in country.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:06:59am

Between the chair of the Travis county GOP, and the candidate for the SBOE, the Texas Republicans sure have picked themselves some winners, for sure.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:08:05am

Bernie can still get the nomination, in theory. We Pirate fans know what “mathematically eliminated” means.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:09:21am

re: #372 Decatur Deb

Bernie can still get the nomination, in theory. We Pirate fans know what “mathematically eliminated” means.

Isn’t that like “Mitt can win this election, you just wait!”

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:10:18am

Her public Facebook is almost completely scrubbed, but she left this up:

Facebook Post

You have to read her own comment to her post, which for some reason is not digested by the hamsters here though I thought I gave the right URL…

To the television reporter who asked me while the camera was rolling if I REALLY believe there was a man named Noah who built an Ark and filled it with pairs of animals, and the entire world was covered with water: THE ANSWER IS STILL “YES, I believe the Holy Bible. I believe there was a Great Flood. How do YOU explain fossils of seashells and other sea animals on tops of mountains all over the world? How do you explain the Grand Canyon? You are very naive if you believe a tiny river carved out the Grand Canyon. I believe it took a lot more water than that to carve out the Grand Canyon and other land and rock formations formed by water erosion. You can call me ignorant or intolerant or whatever you want, but I did not make fun of YOUR religion.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:10:18am

re: #313 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

That was an excellent article.

I’m surprised they didn’t mention Erich Fromm’s Escape From Freedom though. It did an excellent job of exploring the authoritarian mind set.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:13:56am

re: #329 ElaineBenis

I need to stock up on waaaay more popcorn and alcohol to handle the hilarity and horror of the GOP implosion.


Travis County GOP Apoplectic Over New Chairman

Holy crap! That man is clinically insane.

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:24:34am

San Diego Rep. Issa (R-Car Thief) keeps using the term “hard drive” in reference to the iPhone 5C:

The Encryption Tightrope: Balancing Americans’ Security and Privacy

Starts about 1:23:— into the video, where Issa is questioning a witness.

Story covered here:

It may be possible for investigators to make multiple copies of the hard drive on an iPhone used by the San Bernardino mass shooter

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:25:34am

It is in the nature of a car thief to always be thinking of ways to break into something.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:26:40am

re: #377 freetoken

San Diego Rep. Issa (R-Car Thief) keeps using the term “hard drive” in reference to the iPhone 5C:

[Embedded content]

He just means “non-volatile storage medium”. I speak Fogey.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:28:07am

re: #378 freetoken

It is in the nature of a car thief to always be thinking of ways to break into something.

That’s the difference between Issa and Christie—“Slim Jim” is a whole other concept.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:36:11am

re: #365 freetoken

Very good.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:36:49am
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makeitstop  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:42:11am

re: #355 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Speaking of which

[Embedded content]

Sly Beach Boys ref in the chorus - ‘Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n’ recalls the chorus from their ‘Fun, Fun, Fun.’

I always liked that about Kraftwerk. That, and they were actually pretty funky for a bunch of German dudes.

Kraftwerk - Tour de France [Original Version, 1984] HD

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:50:44am

re: #383 makeitstop

Sly Beach Boys ref in the chorus - ‘Wir fahr’n fahr’n fahr’n’ recalls the chorus from their ‘Fun, Fun, Fun.’

I always liked that about Kraftwerk. That, and they were actually pretty funky for a bunch of German dudes.

And at the same time they were the fore-forerunners of techno dance-beat music.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:51:10am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:53:03am

re: #384 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And at the same time they were the fore-forerunners of techno dance-beat music.

The grandfathers of Daft Punk, as it were.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:58:43am

I love this leading diary title at DK: “Don’t listen to the pundits — MA was stunning Bernie achievement”.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 5:58:47am

re: #386 freetoken

Indonesia issues tsunami warning after massive 7.9 magnitude quake

Whoa! Hope there is minimal damage.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:00:28am

re: #388 Belafon

I love this leading diary title at DK: “Don’t listen to the pundits — MA was stunning Bernie achievement”.

I peeked at Facebook to see what my younger relatives had to say about Bernie. They appear to be in shock: “What happened? Who are these people voting for Hillary?”

They are not in MA or VT, hence their surprise.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:00:33am

re: #385 Dr. Matt

RIP GOP. SuperTuesday

They survived Nixon, they will survive Trump.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:01:33am
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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:03:13am

This is why any of the GOP candidates would be a disaster. The GOP itself is the problem. Trump’s just running with the bigotry a whole lot more out in the open than the others, and that’s appealing to all the closet bigots and white supremacists who have come crawling out of the shadows to revel in the spotlight that Trump’s giving them.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:03:27am

re: #388 Belafon

I love this leading diary title at DK: “Don’t listen to the pundits — MA was stunning Bernie achievement”.

*Iraqi propaganda minister.jpg*

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:04:13am

Australian dude frolics in water with pet snake while drinking beer

Instagram

There’s currently a bloke down here drinking a VB tally and chucking his pet snake around. Amazing

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:04:27am

re: #392 Dr. Matt

What is with this new way of spelling “y’all?” Now I see people spelling it “ya’ll.” Looks weird.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:06:37am

re: #396 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

What is with this new way of spelling “y’all?” Now I see people spelling it “ya’ll.” Looks weird.

I supposed because the two spellings are pronounced differently.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:06:52am

re: #395 Dr. Matt

Australian dude frolics in water with pet snake while drinking beer

[Embedded content]

Does the National Stereotype position pay well?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:07:49am

re: #397 Nyet

I supposed because the two spellings are pronounced differently.

Not as far as I know. It’s “y” + “all” throughout the South, like “yawl.”

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:08:11am

re: #398 Decatur Deb

Does the National Stereotype position pay well?

Big beer and a big snake….Me thinks he’s overcompensating for something. Quick, someone ask Rubio for his take.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:08:34am

re: #399 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Not as far as I know. It’s “y” + “all” throughout the South.

Yes, and “ya’ll” doesn’t have “all”, so it will have to be pronounced differently.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:08:37am

re: #396 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

What is with this new way of spelling “y’all?” Now I see people spelling it “ya’ll.” Looks weird.

Bless your heart. /

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:08:44am

re: #397 Nyet

I supposed because the two spellings are pronounced differently.

Two different words— “You all” and “You will”. I speak Suthron.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:10:03am

re: #336 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

A regular announcement on Armed Forces Radio in Germany reminds Americans that although their cars have the muscle under the hood to travel at high speeds on the Autobahn, most American cars do not have the steering or suspension to drive safely at speeds of 100mph or more.

Once upon a time in the low Countries I was travelling with my family and another. We had to have our van back to Charles DeGaulle airport by 1045pm, Naturaly the GPS the rental car gave us coked out but we had all to to get back from Amsterdam. Wife has the map but soon I realize I’m watching A Bridge Too Far. Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and when I saaw a sign for Arnhem I knew we were going the wrong way. Anyway I put my foot on the floor and didn’t take it off until we got near the airport with minutes to spare. At times we got up to 180 km/hr (about 112 mph) but remained consistently over 160 the rest of the way. Fortunately they don’t seem to have state troopers in Belgium and France.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:10:03am

re: #403 Decatur Deb

Two different words— “You all” and “You will”. I speak Suthron.

Sure, but in Dr Matt’s quoted tweet, it’s “you all” spelled “ya’ll.”

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:10:32am

re: #372 Decatur Deb

Bernie can still get the nomination, in theory. We Pirate fans know what “mathematically eliminated” means.

They’re definitely channeling you at Daily Kos. And he could win.

I’m just as fascinated by unskewing-the-poll types on the left as well as the right. I also remember 2010, hoping that the polls weren’t really indicating the beating we were about to get. Then we got it. That’s why, while I hope Clinton wins, I’m not emotionally invested in her winning. I’m not emotionally invested in a Democrat winning the White House. I am, on the other hand, realistic about the need that a Republican be kept as far away from the White House as possible and that we need to do whatever it takes to get the Senate back.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:11:03am

re: #405 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Sure, but in Dr Matt’s quoted tweet, it’s “you all” spelled “ya’ll.”

Suthron isn’t excessively orthographic.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:11:05am

re: #395 Dr. Matt

Australian dude frolics in water with pet snake while drinking beer

[Embedded content]

Good thing there was a photo to go with that.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:11:10am

re: #404 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

They probably thought you were a local.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:11:28am

I think an eagle stole Trump’s hair:

Instagram

A female bald eagle carries nesting material to a nest near Alexandria, Virginia. Photo was made on March 13, 2009. Photo by @j_macpost / The Washington Post.
#nature #naturelovers #naturalbeauty #natural #naturalbeauty #wild #wildlife #wildlifephotography #wilderness #eagle #eagles #landscape #bird #birds #birdstagram #birdsofinstagram #birdsofprey #alexandria #alexandriava #potomacriver

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:12:41am

re: #403 Decatur Deb

Two different words— “You all” and “You will”. I speak Suthron.

I also learned from my son (Alabaman by choice)
y’all = singular
all y’all = plural

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:14:30am

The GOP is waking up this morning to the increasing realization that Trump is going to be their nominee. Cruz won 3 states last night, but barely budged in closing the gap on Trump.

Rubio did even worse. He was promising a bunch of wins, and went 1 for 11. He’s toast, but he promises to continue running. Apparently Kasich pissed off the establishment who thinks that Kasich siphoned off votes that would have otherwise gone to Rubio.

Except there’s no reason to think that Trump would have capitalized on that too.

Trump’s showing strength across all demographics and all regions of the country. Cruz held on to his home state (had he lost there, he was done on the spot). Rubio faces an uphill battle in FL, where he’s behind Trump in his home state.

In coming days we’re going to see a whole lot of 5 stages of Trumpism with the GOP - denial, anger, bargaining, depression and acceptance. We’re seeing some of those all happening in the span of a week - as with Christie going from vocal opponent to prominent supporter in the span of less than a week.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:14:40am

re: #407 Decatur Deb

Suthron isn’t excessively orthographic.

Talk to several generations of Suthron authors ‘bout that’n. It’s been “y’all” as far as I can remember. It bugs me, like spelling “do’nt” instead of “don’t”.

I’m a (former) copy editor. Stuff like this leaps out at me and drives me batty. You can imagine what Chinglish signage and advertising does to me.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:17:49am

Headline from Alternet:

Trump Continues to Steamroll the GOP, While Bernie Disrupts the Night Hillary Was Supposed to Lock up the Nomination

The GOP are not the only ones in denial.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:18:09am

re: #393 lawhawk

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This is why any of the GOP candidates would be a disaster. The GOP itself is the problem. Trump’s just running with the bigotry a whole lot more out in the open than the others, and that’s appealing to all the closet bigots and white supremacists who have come crawling out of the shadows to revel in the spotlight that Trump’s giving them.

…because the rest of the GOP has not been giving them enough of the Red Meat that they so crave.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:20:50am

re: #415 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

…because the rest of the GOP has not been giving them enough of the Red Meat that they so crave.

Trump is giving them a Fearless Leader who has Easy Answers to Intractable Problems. Plus, scapegoats.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:21:23am

re: #414 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Headline from Alternet:

The GOP are not the only ones in denial.

Alternet. Of course. Nutty lefties.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:21:33am

re: #414 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

If you think Hillary hasn’t locked up the nomination, you’re playing with skewed polls and GOP math.

Hillary has more than 50% of the delegates needed for the nomination. Bernie has a 1/3 of the number.

Bernie won a couple of states last night, but the deck is stacked against him. He’s the last one to realize his campaign is all but over.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:21:38am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:22:58am

re: #404 SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN

Once upon a time in the low Countries I was travelling with my family and another. We had to have our van back to Charles DeGaulle airport by 1045pm, Naturaly the GPS the rental car gave us coked out but we had all to to get back from Amsterdam. Wife has the map but soon I realize I’m watching A Bridge Too Far. Eindhoven, Nijmegen, and when I saaw a sign for Arnhem I knew we were going the wrong way. Anyway I put my foot on the floor and didn’t take it off until we got near the airport with minutes to spare. At times we got up to 180 km/hr (about 112 mph) but remained consistently over 160 the rest of the way. Fortunately they don’t seem to have state troopers in Belgium and France.

I have only been pulled over once by the police in Western Europe, unless you count being stopped at a static checkpoint.

For that, all cars have front license plates and the police rely on speed and traffic cameras to nail offenders. So if it was a rental car and you were leaving the country, the owners might have received a notice at some point, but you would’ve been long gone.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:26:03am

re: #419 lawhawk

‎@washingtonpost
The GOP has two weeks to take down Donald Trump

The GOP spent 7+ years trying to take down a weak, feckless, Kenyan Muslim dictator….and they failed.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:26:34am

re: #418 lawhawk

If you think Hillary hasn’t locked up the nomination, you’re playing with skewed polls and GOP math.

Hillary has more than 50% of the delegates needed for the nomination. Bernie has a 1/3 of the number.

Bernie won a couple of states last night, but the deck is stacked against him. He’s the last one to realize his campaign is all but over.

The argument tends to focus on the fact that the superdelegates could switch at any time so they technically shouldn’t be counted. But, even ignoring the superdelegates, she’s done far better than was originally projected. Not only did she do better than expected in places like South Carolina and Georgia, she won Massachusetts.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:27:32am

re: #267 Nyet

This idiotic point is everywhere in Berniestan today:

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Sour grapes. Why did Bernie campaign there at all?

Massachusetts? And we sure as hell ain’t red here in Virginia anymore.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:28:02am

Ha. This gem/turd of a comment gets 600+ likes at the NYT:

Jared Li Rochester, NY 9 hours ago
This election is bigger than Democrat vs. Republican. It’s about the working class, who work increasingly longer hours and make increasingly less, and the donor class. Trump represents the working class, and Hillary represents the donor class. Does anybody really think Hillary will do anything for the working class after she’s received millions from Wall Street? We’ve seen her record as First Lady, as Senator, as Secretary of State. She is a liar (remember we she claimed to be under sniper fire in Bosnia), and tried to cover up the mess in Benghazi. She panders to her biggest donors, which includes Wall Street. And she is grossly incompetent for the presidency.

I hope my fellow Democrats will wake from the Hillary shill and realize that Trump (assuming he wins the nomination, which he will), is the most qualified candidate for president.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:28:49am

re: #382 Dr. Matt

Total votes across Super Tuesday

Clinton —— 3.3 million
Trump —— 2.8 million
Cruz —— 2.3 million
Sanders - 2.0 million
Rubio - 1.8 million

Hmmm…
Guess Bernie’s crew are going to have to find a new complaint, other than the whole Superdelegate thing.
“Will of the people” doesn’t seem to carry much weight after last night.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:29:43am

re: #424 Amory Blaine

Trump represents the working class as much as I represent the landed gentry of Westeros.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:30:03am

re: #424 Amory Blaine

I hope my fellow Democrats….

Oh, yes, I’m sure.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:30:16am

re: #425 FormerDirtDart

Looks like Rubio won, again!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:30:41am

re: #424 Amory Blaine

Ha. This gem/turd of a comment gets 600+ likes at the NYT:

A billionaire who union busts and says people make too much represents the working class? Trump doesn’t represent the working class at all. He never has and he never will. Clinton I concede is an establishment politician all the way but like my own username’s namesake Hubert Humphrey in 1968 she has been on the right side of more issues than not. And Trump’s honesty issues are even worse than hers.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:30:57am

re: #428 Amory Blaine

Looks like Rubio won, again!

Rubio just needs all the other candidates from both parties to get out of the race.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:31:26am

re: #424 Amory Blaine

Ha. This gem/turd of a comment gets 600+ likes at the NYT:

Trump represents the working class

What in the utter pluperfect fuck

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:31:31am

re: #428 Amory Blaine

Looks like Rubio won, again!

Kickin’ ass, and takin’ names…
You betcha!

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:31:34am

- Hillary was a Goldwater girl in her teens.

“Burn the witch!”

- Elizabeth Warren was a Republican until 1995…

“She’s still a saint!”

- … and she didn’t endorse Bernie.

“Burn the witch!”

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:32:22am

re: #422 Belafon

The superdelegates follow whoever’s winning, and she’s winning by a significant margin. Trying to discount the superdelegate count is a desperate and last gasp ploy by Bernie supporters to avoid the reality that his campaign is all but toast at this point.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:32:51am

re: #425 FormerDirtDart

Hmmm…
Guess Bernie’s crew are going to have to find a new complaint, other than the whole Superdelegate thing.
“Will of the people” doesn’t seem to carry much weight after last night.

Well they’re complaining that the states that voted for Clinton are ones that won’t go Democratic which they lose credibility considering Clinton won Massachusetts and Bernie won Oklama. I admire their idealism but at the same tiem, they need to realize that revolutions just dont happen with a bunch white progressives.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:33:00am

re: #414 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Trump Continues to Steamroll the GOP, While Bernie Disrupts the Night Hillary Was Supposed to Lock up the Nomination

LOLwhut?

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Dave In Austin  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:33:11am

re: #400 Dr. Matt

Big beer and a big snake….Me thinks he’s overcompensating for something. Quick, someone ask Rubio for his take.

Must have big hands as well.

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b.d.  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:33:32am

re: #419 lawhawk

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Dear GOP, If you can’t take down Trump how can you take down ISIS?

btw, the way Trump snuck up on you and drank your milkshake doesn’t instill me with confidence that you wouldn’t let major things go on without you doing anything.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:34:28am

re: #429 HappyWarrior

A billionaire who union busts and says people make too much represents the working class?

He represents the people who feel disenfranchised and disenchanted with Politics as Usual, many of whom are also working class.

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b.d.  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:35:10am

re: #437 Dave In Austin

Must have big hands as well.

The GOP needs a more respectable candidate with big hands

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:37:04am

re: #388 Belafon

I love this leading diary title at DK: “Don’t listen to the pundits — MA was stunning Bernie achievement”.

Diarist could get a second job with the Rubio campaign.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:37:38am

re: #433 Nyet

- Hillary was a Goldwater girl in her teens.

“Burn the witch!”

- Elizabeth Warren was a Republican until 1995…

“She’s still a saint!”

- … and she didn’t endorse Bernie.

“Burn the witch!”

Have they responded to that their new Congressional hero, Representative Gabbard had an anti LGBT record in the Hawaii state legislature? They love to attack Clinton for having supported DOMA and DADT while her husband was president but Gabbard was anti-civil union in the 2000’s. I won’t attack Gabbard too hard on that point since entering Congress she has co-sponsored much pro-LGBT legislation but what I’m getting at is don’t throw stones when the stones just as easily could be thrown on you which is why I think Clinton’s Hispanic surrogates did push back on immigration.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:37:50am

re: #424 Amory Blaine

Trump, who offshored his clothing line to Mexico and China to maximize his profits rather than have his “premium” clothes made by American workers.

Trump, whose casinos went bankrupt 4 times.

Trump, whose airline shut down after losing money.

Same for the magazines, liquor, and steaks.

Anything outside real estate or branding his name as a premium (namely TV), and he fails.

He’s on the record as saying that wages are too high in the US to compete worldwide.

He’s avoided working with union labor as much as possible - so as to maximize his personal profits once again.

American workers wouldn’t benefit from a Trump presidency. Trump and the other GOP contenders all would benefit the richest of the rich through tax and social policies that shift the burdens from the rich on to everyone else.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:38:10am

re: #439 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He represents the people who feel disenfranchised and disenchanted with Politics as Usual, many of whom are also working class.

Considering he does things like renegotiate contracts after the work is done to get a lower price, because he knows they’re desperate for money, the only people he represents are those who have a need to be taken advantage of more.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:38:25am

re: #439 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He represents the people who feel disenfranchised and disenchanted with Politics as Usual, many of whom are also working class.

True could say that about a certain mustached failed artist too.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:40:18am

re: #420 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I have only been pulled over once by the police in Western Europe, unless you count being stopped at a static checkpoint.

For that, all cars have front license plates and the police rely on speed and traffic cameras to nail offenders. So if it was a rental car and you were leaving the country, the owners might have received a notice at some point, but you would’ve been long gone.

When we lived in Italy, the legal speed limit on the autostade varied by the displacement of the car. Honest to god. We were doing a safe clip in our Chevy Suburban when something red went by us showing a strong Doppler effect.

(A street in our town was marked “One Way Except for Buses and Taxis”.)

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:40:41am

Typical illiterate Trump humper==>

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:41:20am

re: #447 The Vicious Babushka

Typical illiterate Trump humper==>

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I can see father too. Hi Dad!

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:41:38am

re: #443 lawhawk

Anything outside real estate or branding his name as a premium (namely TV), and he fails.

We have all read that if he had simply invested his inheritance in a stock market fund, he would be worth twice what he is today.

But neither would he have the notoriety to run a successful bid for President at almost no personal expense.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:42:52am

re: #448 HappyWarrior

I can see father too. Hi Dad!

Can he see Russia?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:43:14am

re: #450 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Can he see Russia?

Have to ask VB, I don’t Twitter.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:43:44am

re: #445 HappyWarrior

True could say that about a certain mustached failed artist too.

And you could have said it about Teddy Roosevelt as well, or even FDR to an extent. Except for Hillary Clinton, all of the remaining 2016 candidates with any shot have upended the establishment at one point or another. Even Marco Rubio, who gained his senate seat by bagging Charlie Christ in a successful RINO Hunt.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:44:50am

re: #448 HappyWarrior

I can see father too. Hi Dad!

I can see for miles.

Oh say can you see…

See Dick run.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:47:18am

Anyhow here’s how I look at Bernie versus Hillary. I think he has to his credit got her thinking a little more to the left than if just O’Malley had ran though I think O’Malley who I voted for BTW could have pushed her to the left on some issues too than she would have. However, I think where Bernie’s failed is not so much in ideology itself though I think he is a tad unrealistic sometimes and I do wish he would realize that there are a lot of issues at play and not just economic inequalities. I think where Bernie failed is convincing people outside of white young Progressives that he’s presidential material. Maybe that’s harsh but a President takes on many roles. I’ll be happy to have Bernie remain in the Senate especially if we get a majority and he can start drafting some legislation that can pass and get signed. And finally I hate to sound dismissive but a 74 year old man isn’t the best face for a revolution and honestly I think they needed to do a much better job of reaching other demographics and they failed big time tehre.

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Great White Snark  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:47:48am

Super Tuesday? Some winning candidates over the years spoke to and tried to inspire the more positive things in our national makeup. The essential problem with Trump is his play is relentlessly negative and angry. Thuggish. For me that is more threatening than almost any other issue. Trump is most likely to inspire violence. Everything else pales.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:48:37am

This is where the GOP is hanging their hat: that closed primaries will make all the difference:

Except that Trump wins in closed primaries too. He’s winning across demographics and geographical regions.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:48:42am

re: #452 Dark_Falcon

And you could have said it about Teddy Roosevelt as well, or even FDR to an extent. Except for Hillary Clinton, all of the remaining 2016 candidates with any shot have upended the establishment at one point or another. Even Marco Rubio, who gained his senate seat by bagging Charlie Christ in a successful RINO Hunt.

I wasn’t talking about taking down the establishment. And actually yes the Clintons were anti-establishment once upon a time. I was talking about how Trump like the mustached artist takes advantage of raw anger and does nothing constructive with it but prey on fears and lies.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:49:01am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:49:32am

re: #456 lawhawk

This is where the GOP is hanging their hat: that closed primaries will make all the difference:

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Except that Trump wins in closed primaries too. He’s winning across demographics and geographical regions.

Man he’s in denial. Sucks to be him.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:49:47am

re: #453 lawhawk

I can see for miles.

Oh say can you see…

See Dick run.

See See Ryder, see what you done done.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:50:21am

re: #454 HappyWarrior

Frankly, I’m bewildered how a 74-year-old guy has managed to attract such a loyal following of (white) 20-somethings who in any other circumstance would just ignore him as an old fogey. I guess his pet issues are their pet issues, too.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:50:40am

re: #455 Great White Snark

Trump is most likely to inspire violence. Everything else pales.

Some sort of violent incident(s) is/are almost inevitable as the campaign heats up, and I shudder to think how things are going to be handled by the press and Trump’s PR operatives…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:51:30am

re: #461 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Frankly, I’m bewildered how a 74-year-old guy has managed to attract such a loyal following of (white) 20-somethings who in any other circumstance would just ignore him as an old fogey. I guess his pet issues are their pet issues, too.

Ron Paul also had a much younger constituency back when he was more relevant.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:52:32am

re: #461 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Frankly, I’m bewildered how a 74-year-old guy has managed to attract such a loyal following of (white) 20-somethings who in any other circumstance would just ignore him as an old fogey. I guess his pet issues are their pet issues, too.

Granddaddy Effect: Unconditional love without discipline.

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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:52:45am

re: #267 Nyet

This idiotic point is everywhere in Berniestan today:

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Sour grapes. Why did Bernie campaign there at all?

This is worth repeating.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:53:38am
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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:53:40am

Despite the outcomes yesterday, there’s still bad news for Democrats. While Democrats are doing exceptionally well with minorities (blacks, Latinos, etc.,) there’s one demographic that the Democrats aren’t - non-college whites:

That’s a not insurmountable problem, but it is a problem. Democrats can win without that group, but this is a group that is likely to vote in droves, especially for the likes of a demagogue like Trump who panders to them with asinine claptrap about how he’s going to do X and Y without ever actually saying how in a way that makes sense.

These are among the demographics that have not seen their economic outcomes improve despite the end of the recession, and are among those who think that minorities have taken all their benefits/resources. Trying to combat those lies/smears (which the GOP has cultivated for years) will take lots of work (deprogramming) but it has to be done.

And it has to be a sustained effort.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:54:52am

re: #458 The Vicious Babushka

Repeating the link from my 313, everyone should read this piece at vox.com about Trump and American authoritarianism. His followers may be in some sense stupid, but he’s giving them exactly what they want: easy answers to complex problems and a variety of scapegoats.

He’s tapped into the demographic that doesn’t think too well, is confounded at how lousy their lives are, and wants it all to change right now.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:55:13am

re: #457 HappyWarrior

I wasn’t talking about taking down the establishment. And actually yes the Clintons were anti-establishment once upon a time. I was talking about how Trump like the mustached artist takes advantage of raw anger and does nothing constructive with it but prey on fears and lies.

The Clintons were anti-establishment, but then like others in the class of “most successful politicians” they became the establishment, ‘reinventing’ themselves as needed. And it is that ‘reinvention that sits at the heart of the case against Hillary Clinton: That she believes in gaining power over all else, holding no definitive views but shifting as the political winds blow.

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makeitstop  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:55:46am

Berniebro butthurt levels approaching toxicity on Facebook this morning.

They all seem to be hanging their hats on the belief that Bernie lost all those states because Bill Clinton walked into a polling place in Massachusetts.

Whatever helps them face the day after an ass-kicking, I suppose.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:56:04am
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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:56:12am

re: #466 Dr. Matt

Cutting waffles? That’s how you kids call it nowadays?

//

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:56:50am

re: #461 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Frankly, I’m bewildered how a 74-year-old guy has managed to attract such a loyal following of (white) 20-somethings who in any other circumstance would just ignore him as an old fogey. I guess his pet issues are their pet issues, too.

You know I don’t know. I really think it’s the message which is why I think with certainty there will be a 2020 Bernie and a 2024 Bernie that appeals to this. Plus college tuition rates is a big problem and I am glad that he’s drawn attention to that in some way.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:57:31am

re: #469 Dark_Falcon

The Clintons were anti-establishment, but then like others in the class of “most successful politicians” they became the establishment, ‘reinventing’ themselves as needed. And it is that ‘reinvention that sits at the heart of the case against Hillary Clinton: That she believes in gaining power over all else, holding no definitive views but shifting as the political winds blow.

Same case can be made against politicians of any ilk.

The entire GOP reinvented itself after 1964

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makeitstop  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:57:58am

re: #466 Dr. Matt

UPDATE: Chris Christie just finished cutting up Mr. Trump’s waffles just the way he likes them.

That cracked me right up.

At least one Republican bully has gotten what he deserves this cycle. I’m hoping the other one gets his in the general.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:58:14am

re: #418 lawhawk

If you think Hillary hasn’t locked up the nomination, you’re playing with skewed polls and GOP math.

Hillary has more than 50% of the delegates needed for the nomination. Bernie has a 1/3 of the number.

Bernie won a couple of states last night, but the deck is stacked against him. He’s the last one to realize his campaign is all but over.

In answer to your comment and some comments Sergey had made upthread…It has been reported that Bernie received 40+ million in contributions in February alone. I’m thinking he isn’t going to be going away any time soon. He probably thinks he can buy commercials in the hard-hit rust belt Midwest states where his economic populism will take him to victory and he can close up on Hillary.

Yeah, I know…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:58:48am

re: #473 HappyWarrior

You know I don’t know. I really think it’s the message which is why I think with certainty there will be a 2020 Bernie and a 2024 Bernie that appeals to this. Plus college tuition rates is a big problem and I am glad that he’s drawn attention to that in some way.

A 2020 Bernie will be a 78-year-old Bernie, unless you’re thinking someone will take his place. He may be in good health, but I’m not sure running or electing a 78-year-old from any party is a good idea.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 6:59:50am

re: #475 makeitstop

That cracked me right up.

At least one Republican bully has gotten what he deserves this cycle. I’m hoping the other one gets his in the general.

So, Trump has marginalized Sarah Palin and Chris Christie. Who will be his next victim?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:00:47am

re: #469 Dark_Falcon

The Clintons were anti-establishment, but then like others in the class of “most successful politicians” they became the establishment, ‘reinventing’ themselves as needed. And it is that ‘reinvention that sits at the heart of the case against Hillary Clinton: That she believes in gaining power over all else, holding no definitive views but shifting as the political winds blow.

A true point. Just saying what Trump does is unique. There’s a difference between rallying up the disenfranchised people and being a demagogue, Trump is the latter.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:00:51am

re: #467 lawhawk

Hopefully, someday, someone will come up with a message that says “You’ve been racist all your life, and it’s actually been hurting you. They have been taking advantage of you because of your racism. Get that plank out of your eye. Once you do that, you’ll see that minorities are not your problem. The people that are taking advantage of you are the ones taking a dollar here and a dollar there from you and not earning it themselves.”

In other words, create a winning message that somehow convinces racists to become class warriors.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:02:05am

re: #478 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, Trump has marginalized Sarah Palin and Chris Christie. Who will be his next victim?

Reince Priebus will dance naked, scattering rose petals before his inaugural chariot.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:02:14am

re: #477 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

A 2020 Bernie will be a 78-year-old Bernie, unless you’re thinking someone will take his place. He may be in good health, but I’m not sure running or electing a 78-year-old from any party is a good idea.

Not Bernie in specific but someone who will have Bernie’s appeal. When I first got involved in 2004, it was Dean and Kucincih that had that. 2008 to some extent Obama. Ron Paul has had the same appeal on the right wing side.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:02:33am

re: #477 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

A 2020 Bernie will be a 78-year-old Bernie, unless you’re thinking someone will take his place. He may be in good health, but I’m not sure running or electing a 78-year-old from any party is a good idea.

Of course it’s not. Gerontocracy is a part of the problem.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:02:54am

re: #480 Belafon

Hopefully, someday, someone will come up with a message that says “You’ve been racist all your life, and it’s actually been hurting you. They have been taking advantage of you because of your racism. Get that plank out of your eye. Once you do that, you’ll see that minorities are not your problem. The people that are taking advantage of you are the ones taking a dollar here and a dollar there from you and not earning it themselves.”

In other words, create a winning message that somehow convinces racists to become class warriors.

The 1% are your enemies, people. Not Jose the gardener or Ahmad the schwarma guy or the nice gay couple who moved in across the street.

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makeitstop  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:03:34am

re: #478 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, Trump has marginalized Sarah Palin and Chris Christie. Who will be his next victim?

Don’t forget Karl Rove. Trump tore him down without even trying.

I’m betting all the other GOP bullies are going to fall in line. Their sense of self-preservation is due to kick in any minute now.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:04:47am

re: #484 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The 1% are your enemies, people. Not Jose the gardener or Ahmad the schwarma guy or the nice gay couple who moved in across the street.

But these people have been raised on the promise that they or their children, if they work hard enough, will be able to elevate themselves into that clique. But not if Jose or Ahmad gets there first…

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:04:48am

re: #475 makeitstop

It’s a laugh but its not true. Trump only got one of his waffles, because Chris Christie ate the other two.

/Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:04:49am

re: #485 makeitstop

Don’t forget Karl Rove. Trump tore him down without even trying.

I’m betting all the other GOP bullies are going to fall in line. Their sense of self-preservation is due to kick in any minute now.

It’s really a sight to behold. And when Trump tanks, he’ll take the whole lot down with him.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:05:41am

re: #488 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

It’s really a sight to behold. And when Trump tanks, he’ll take the whole lot down with him.

Sad, that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:06:01am

So I asked Trumpeteers to explain what their candidate will do for them and I’m getting answers like this:
YOUR JUST JEALOUS OF HIS SUCCESS LIBTARD!!!11!!
HURR HURR BENGHAZI EMAILS HURR HURR
HURR HURR YOUR TEH HATER BIGOT RASSIST!!!111

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makeitstop  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:07:02am

re: #489 Decatur Deb

Sad, that.

Refraining from shedding tears for the GOP will be difficult, but I think I’ll manage.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:07:12am

re: #484 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

The 1% are your enemies, people. Not Jose the gardener or Ahmad the schwarma guy or the nice gay couple who moved in across the street.

I disagree, class warfare will get us nowhere. Better to unite against an external enemy who can be beaten and humiliated with disrupting things internally.

Reform is needed, and simple tax cuts won’t do it, but treating rich people as “the enemy” is the way to ruin.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:07:37am

re: #491 makeitstop

Refraining from shedding tears for the GOP will be difficult, but I think I’ll manage.

They are not going to collapse without causing a lot of collateral damage.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:08:03am

re: #476 ObserverArt

He’s spending nearly as much as he’s taking in - a burn rate that isn’t supportable, and his losses are piling up.

For Bernie, he’s raised $96.3 million. He’s spent $81.6 million, leaving him with $14.7 million on hand. He has next to no PAC money being spent on his behalf.

Hillary has more than twice that on hand ($32.9 million), and has $45 million in PAC money on hand too.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:08:38am

re: #493 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They are not going to collapse without causing a lot of collateral damage.

We aren’t going to collapse, either. That’s just a liberal fantasy.

And now, off to work.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:08:47am

re: #492 Dark_Falcon

I disagree, class warfare will get us nowhere. Better to unite against an external enemy who can be beaten and humiliated with disrupting things internally.

Reform is needed, and simple tax cuts won’t do it, but treating rich people as “the enemy” is the way to ruin.

OK. It’s late here, and I don’t have the energy to do much more than GAZE at that comment.

Others may have further commentary.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:08:56am

re: #492 Dark_Falcon

I disagree, class warfare will get us nowhere. Better to unite against an external enemy who can be beaten and humiliated with disrupting things internally.

Reform is needed, and simple tax cuts won’t do it, but treating rich people as “the enemy” is the way to ruin.

You are right in one respect, but a lot of the “class warfare” that is being waged is in the form of the 1% inciting the lower classes against each other.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:08:56am

re: #492 Dark_Falcon

I disagree, class warfare will get us nowhere. Better to unite against an external enemy who can be beaten and humiliated with disrupting things internally.

Reform is needed, and simple tax cuts won’t do it, but treating rich people as “the enemy” is the way to ruin.

Hahahhaa your party and ideology makes poor people the enemy all the fucking time DF. Okay, rich people aren’t the enemy in the sense that the Nazis were or Al Queda is, that I’ll concede but the very rich controlling a huge fraction of the nation’s overall wealth is a problem. That’s something the far left isn’t wrong about at all.

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makeitstop  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:09:00am

re: #487 Dark_Falcon

It’s a laugh but its not true. Trump only got one of his waffles, because Chris Christie ate the other two.

/Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

Actually, Christie got his own waffles - and was told to take them to the servants’ quarters and eat them out of Trump’s sight.

Trump: ‘Go eat your waffles. The servants’ quarters re over there. Go.’

Christie: ‘Okay.’

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:09:02am

re: #493 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They are not going to collapse without causing a lot of collateral damage.

They’re the great fans of “creative destruction”. Scroo’m.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:09:39am

re: #478 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So, Trump has marginalized Sarah Palin and Chris Christie. Who will be his next victim?

Rubio.

Not sure why, but Marco annoys me more than the other candidates.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:09:57am

re: #355 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

So many updings that I can’t upding, because, for posting Kraftwerk.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:10:17am

re: #461 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Frankly, I’m bewildered how a 74-year-old guy has managed to attract such a loyal following of (white) 20-somethings who in any other circumstance would just ignore him as an old fogey. I guess his pet issues are their pet issues, too.

College loan debt.

He is their big hope to not have ten to twenty years to pay it all off.

Then higher paying jobs, higher minimum wage salaries.

He is their big hope that while they are looking for the great job they can make enough in the service industries to afford to live while also paying down the loans.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:10:30am

I’m bowing out for the night. Morning classes tomorrow. Later on, people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:10:59am

re: #499 makeitstop

Actually, Christie got his own waffles - and was told to take them to the servants’ quarters and eat them out of Trump’s sight.

Trump: ‘Go eat your waffles. The servants’ quarters re over there. Go.’

Christie: ‘Okay.’

He was sent the servants’ quarters with his own waffle iron and a vat of batter…

another Slave to the Waffle Light is born…

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:11:07am

re: #501 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Rubio.

Not sure why, but Marco annoys me more than the other candidates.

I find myself annoyed by him too. I think what is honestly is how Rubio is two faced. Loves to talk about how he’s this son of immigrant parents and was about to be on board for immigration reform but the holler assholes spooked him and he backed away. Oh not to mention his blatant envy of President Obama is exhausting.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:11:44am

re: #492 Dark_Falcon

The GOP is engaging in class warfare too - they just disguise it as tax cuts for the rich and cutting the safety net programs for everyone else. That includes attempts to repeal Obamacare, slash food stamps, EITC, welfare, and even unemployment assistance.

The sum total of the GOP policy is to shift the burdens (tax and social) from the rich on to everyone else. The rich are those who benefit from the GOP policies, and everyone else is stuck with the bill (literally and figuratively).

The tax policies simply are fantasy - tax cuts for the rich do not stimulate the economy and only accelerate the divide between the rich and everyone else. At the same time, the tax cuts, whether it’s income tax cuts or demands to cut the estate tax, only benefits the wealthy while expanding the debt and deficits (whether at the state level or nationally).

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:11:48am

re: #502 Le Lapin Tueur

So many updings that I can’t upding, because, for posting Kraftwerk.

Thanks.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:12:10am

re: #492 Dark_Falcon

I disagree, class warfare will get us nowhere. Better to unite against an external enemy who can be beaten and humiliated with disrupting things internally.

Reform is needed, and simple tax cuts won’t do it, but treating rich people as “the enemy” is the way to ruin.

There is no external enemy that is going to rebuild the middle class.

You pay for government by paying taxes. It’s a requirement.

It’s not about treating the rich as the enemy. It’s about requiring the rich, who can afford to pay more, to be proper citizens in this country. If you’re not busting your butt the way most middle class and poorer people do, you can pay a little bit more.

And the rich that I consider the enemy are those that prey on the fears of the middle class in order to stay rich.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:12:13am

re: #356 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

…. one of those crazy people on the bus or subway who talk to themselves loud enough for others to hear.

But, we don’t have that indicator anymore. People are walking around all over the place, carrying on conversations with themselves, and we accept it without blinking. And, then you see the teeny-tiny bluetooth gizmo stuck in their ear.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:13:50am

When we had a great external enemy to combat, the rich were paying a 90% upper marginal tax rate.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:13:55am

re: #469 Dark_Falcon

The Clintons were anti-establishment, but then like others in the class of “most successful politicians” they became the establishment, ‘reinventing’ themselves as needed. And it is that ‘reinvention that sits at the heart of the case against Hillary Clinton: That she believes in gaining power over all else, holding no definitive views but shifting as the political winds blow.

So…just like your main man Marco. Except Marco has no experience because he has never actually done his jobs while running for the next.

I guess once again for a Republican, trying to work all those years on healthcare also falls under no definitive views.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:14:35am

re: #507 lawhawk

The GOP is engaging in class warfare too - they just disguise it as tax cuts for the rich and cutting the safety net programs for everyone else. That includes attempts to repeal Obamacare, slash food stamps, EITC, welfare, and even unemployment assistance.

The sum total of the GOP policy is to shift the burdens (tax and social) from the rich on to everyone else. The rich are those who benefit from the GOP policies, and everyone else is stuck with the bill (literally and figuratively).

The tax policies simply are fantasy - tax cuts for the rich do not stimulate the economy and only accelerate the divide between the rich and everyone else. At the same time, the tax cuts, whether it’s income tax cuts or demands to cut the estate tax, only benefits the wealthy while expanding the debt and deficits (whether at the state level or nationally).

The class war on the 1% is figurative. The war on the poor is literal. I know young people who are going to die much younger than necessary because of TPGOP ratfucking of ACA.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:16:11am

re: #512 ObserverArt

So…just like your main man Marco. Except Marco has no experience because he has never actually done his jobs while running for the next.

I guess once again for a Republican, trying to work all those years on healthcare also falls under no definitive views.

Yeah Marco wants to be the establishment man so bad but unlike the Clintons he doesn’t want to have to work for it. Say what you will about Bill and Hillary, they did work hard to get to where they were. I haven’t seen a damn thing from Rubio that indicates he takes his job seriously.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:17:56am

re: #490 The Vicious Babushka

So I asked Trumpeteers to explain what their candidate will do for them and I’m getting answers like this:
YOUR JUST JEALOUS OF HIS SUCCESS LIBTARD!!!11!!
HURR HURR BENGHAZI EMAILS HURR HURR
HURR HURR YOUR TEH HATER BIGOT RASSIST!!!111

So, they want him to tinkle trickle down on them.

Ahh…those good ol’ TRUMP Golden Showers™

Yeah, I get the feeling he is going to be pissing on everyone.

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BlackPearl  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:18:07am

re: #492 Dark_Falcon

I disagree, class warfare will get us nowhere. Better to unite against an external enemy who can be beaten and humiliated with disrupting things internally.

Reform is needed, and simple tax cuts won’t do it, but treating rich people as “the enemy” is the way to ruin.

Ok, because you’re going to ask why I downdinged you: Your argument is that instead of the 1%, we should just make up an “external enemy” to beat and humiliate. That is ridiculous, immoral, and self-defeating.

You can argue that we have more important enemies that we should unify against, or that the rich are not the enemy at all, but what you wrote was appalling.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:18:58am

re: #513 Decatur Deb

The class war on the 1% is figurative. The war on the poor is literal. I know young people who are going to die much younger than necessary because of TPGOP ratfucking of ACA.

Nobody is talking about hunting down and obliterating the 1%. It is just a matter of getting them to contribute more towards the costs of maintaining the government and infrastructure that allows them to generate and preserve their wealth.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:19:22am

Modela Est - Sopor Aeternus

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:19:31am

The thing is. The right and DF’s Republican Party have been engaging in class warfare Whether it’s Reagan attacking poor people on welfare (not even discussing that he used racially charged language which is another argument) to Mitt Romney just four years ago insisting that people vote Democratic because they’er “victims” and want “free stuff”, the Republican Party and right wing wages class war all the time. IT is the tax cut for the wealthy that results in a cut in education for your state’s poorest schools. It is the belittling of people who want a better wage. So yeah there is class warfare in American politics. Only it’s been done at the less well off and front and center has been the right doing it.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:21:14am

re: #517 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Nobody is talking about hunting down and obliterating the 1%. It is just a matter of getting them to contribute more to the cost of maintaining the government and infrastructure that allows them to generate and preserve their wealth.

Exactly, there’s no reason why in a free society that the ultra wealthy should be paying a smaller amount in income taxes than a bricklayer or coal miner. Call that class warfare, I call it reality.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:22:06am

re: #492 Dark_Falcon

I disagree, class warfare will get us nowhere. Better to unite against an external enemy who can be beaten and humiliated with disrupting things internally.

Reform is needed, and simple tax cuts won’t do it, but treating rich people as “the enemy” is the way to ruin.

Damn Dark, you really do have the GOP bad.

It is not about treating them as the enemy, it is about them treating everyone else as the enemy after their already fat piggy banks. It is called fair tax and it has always made this country great. It is what made the country after the war debt, it made the infrastructure and it made for a strong military. And the rich were still damn rich.

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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:23:16am

re: #391 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They survived Nixon, they will survive Trump.

But will WE?

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danarchy  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:23:32am

re: #511 Belafon

When we had a great external enemy to combat, the rich were paying a 90% upper marginal tax rate.

And an effective tax rate of about 30% after they figured out how to dodge them. Seriously, that is pretty much where historically the effective rate ends up settling out regardless of top marginal rates. My theory is we should look at what the effective rates have been historically, pin that as the tax rate and get rid of all deductions, credits, incentives, trusts, loopholes etc.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:23:41am

Dumbest Tweet Of The Day in my mentions==>

It’s still early, I am sure there will be MOAR DUMBS before the day is over.

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Lidane  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:23:50am

Morning all!

Last night’s post-primary shindig was interesting. Lots of head shaking over Trump doing so well, a whole lot of relief that at least Ted Cruz denied him Texas, and sadness that Rubio wasn’t more competitive nationwide. And I got one of my co-workers to admit that if it came down to Trump vs. Hillary, she could be persuaded to pull the lever for Hillary because Trump would be objectively worse as POTUS.

It’s going to be a weird ride to the Republican National Convention.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:25:51am

Put bluntly, the odds on favorite for the GOP nomination is Trump. And the GOP will either have to figure out a way to rewrite the rules so that MN counts for more than 1,200 delegates or accept that Trump’s the nominee.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:26:38am

re: #506 HappyWarrior

I find myself annoyed by him too. I think what is honestly is how Rubio is two faced. Loves to talk about how he’s this son of immigrant parents and was about to be on board for immigration reform but the holler assholes spooked him and he backed away. Oh not to mention his blatant envy of President Obama is exhausting.

Well, the little punkass seems to think he is the second coming of St. Ronald Reagan. All he seemed to learn from all that is the acting part. He acts smart, he acts like a politician, he can read the lines given to him. Strip him down though and there really is no Marco. He’s a fake.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:26:45am

re: #524 The Vicious Babushka

Already blocked one nitwit who was claiming that TRAP laws aren’t bad. And that saving lives is paramount (putting the unborn over the right of a woman).

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:28:18am

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
He’s not keeping shit

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:28:43am

re: #527 ObserverArt

Well, the little punkass seems to think he is the second coming of St. Ronald Reagan. All he seemed to learn from all that is the acting part. He acts smart, he acts like a politician, he can read the lines given to him. Strip him down though and there really is no Marco. He’s a fake.

Right, well the immigration stuff is personal for me. He got out of it because the xenophobic dickheads he chose to align himself with to primary Crist threw a tantrum. I mean I’m sorry if this sounds wrong but as Cuban-Americans, Cruz and Rubio have gotten special treatment in ways that other Hispanic groups do not and yet instead of being more empathetic to immigrants because of that, they especially Canadian Ted engage in xenophobic bullshit.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:29:16am

re: #529 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST MEME OF THE DAY==>
He’s not keeping shit

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No one keeps all their campaign promises.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:31:09am

re: #530 HappyWarrior

Right, well the immigration stuff is personal for me. He got out of it because the xenophobic dickheads he chose to align himself with to primary Crist threw a tantrum. I mean I’m sorry if this sounds wrong but as Cuban-Americans, Cruz and Rubio have gotten special treatment in ways that other Hispanic groups do not and yet instead of being more empathetic to immigrants because of that, they especially Canadian Ted engage in xenophobic bullshit.

Rubio and Cruz are the guys who keep the swimmers out of the lifeboat.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:31:37am

re: #532 Decatur Deb

Rubio and Cruz are the guys who keep the swimmers out of the lifeboat.

Yeah that type.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:32:08am

Was about 65F yesterday with a ton of rain.
Woke up this morning to white stuff on the ground.

I think maybe I should just go back to sleep….

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:33:11am

re: #535 The Vicious Babushka

Yes! Perfect!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:34:40am

Seeing a lot of spin from my Bernie fan friends that last night was actually a victory for Bernie. Yes, Hillary won all the states she was supposed to. I’m sorry. I really am but Bernie’s got to broaden his support. I see a lot of them are saying this is just like 2008. Well the big difference is Obama was doing much better with racial minorities than Sanders has.

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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:36:25am

re: #481 Decatur Deb

Reince Priebus will dance naked, scattering rose petals before his inaugural chariot.

It felt really weird updinging that.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:37:49am

re: #537 HappyWarrior

Seeing a lot of spin from my Bernie fan friends that last night was actually a victory for Bernie. Yes, Hillary won all the states she was supposed to. I’m sorry. I really am but Bernie’s got to broaden his support. I see a lot of them are saying this is just like 2008. Well the big difference is Obama was doing much better with racial minorities than Sanders has.

This is 2008 with Clinton as Obama and with Bernie as Clinton, except Clinton is winning even more.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:38:49am

re: #531 HappyWarrior

No one keeps all their campaign promises.

Even the ones that were possible to keep in the first place…

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:38:50am

Let’s not forget that Obama won the Super Tuesday.

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Tigger2  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:39:39am

re: #537 HappyWarrior

Seeing a lot of spin from my Bernie fan friends that last night was actually a victory for Bernie. Yes, Hillary won all the states she was supposed to. I’m sorry. I really am but Bernie’s got to broaden his support. I see a lot of them are saying this is just like 2008. Well the big difference is Obama was doing much better with racial minorities than Sanders has.

And Bernie sure isn’t Obama.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:39:42am

re: #534 Backwoods_Sleuth

Was about 65F yesterday with a ton of rain.
Woke up this morning to white stuff on the ground.

I think maybe I should just go back to sleep….

It has just been cold and windy here 100+ miles north of you. We are supposed to see snow 1-3”…

Oh crap…just looked up and it is snowing here now too. It’s coming early.

Long range does make it seem this will be the last of it. I hope. Brrrr.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:39:59am

re: #534 Backwoods_Sleuth

Was about 65F yesterday with a ton of rain.
Woke up this morning to white stuff on the ground.

I think maybe I should just go back to sleep….

Same here. Not a lot, but enough I had to brush off the car this morning. Was walking around in shirt sleeves yesterday.

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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:40:40am

re: #509 Belafon

There is no external enemy that is going to rebuild the middle class.

You pay for government by paying taxes. It’s a requirement.

It’s not about treating the rich as the enemy. It’s about requiring the rich, who can afford to pay more, to be proper citizens in this country. If you’re not busting your butt the way most middle class and poorer people do, you can pay a little bit more.

And the rich that I consider the enemy are those that prey on the fears of the middle class in order to stay rich.

And fight tooth and nail against things like wage increases, living wages, healthcare, etc. Those who can afford a heart transplant out of pocket change should not have input into whether others should have access to doctors other than by going to the ER.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:41:05am

re: #539 Nyet

This is 2008 with Clinton as Obama and with Bernie as Clinton, except Clinton is winning even more.

Kind of. Bernie unlike Clinton was winning younger voters and unlike Clinton was very much the outside bet. However, she like Obama did in 2008 have a broad coalition. White progressives need to realize they share a party with African-Americans, Hispanics, Asians(though they haven’t been a big demo yet), more moderate voters, and other people. Honestly I was shocked to see how well Clinton did here in Virginia since Obama won here pretty big in 2008.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:41:10am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:41:48am

re: #542 Tigger2

And Bernie is sure isnt Obama.

That in the end is the big difference. Obama is a much more shrewd candidate than Sanders ever will be.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:42:02am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:43:09am

re: #549 The Vicious Babushka

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Now the GOP can debate among themselves whether slavery was good or bad.

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Lidane  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:44:28am

So this happened yesterday:

Facebook Post

Travis County is where Austin is, BTW. Fun times.

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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:44:31am

re: #520 HappyWarrior

Exactly, there’s no reason why in a free society that the ultra wealthy should be paying a smaller amount in income taxes than a bricklayer or coal miner. Call that class warfare, I call it reality.

Or that corporations get so many tax breaks that they pay zero in taxes. I understand international competitiveness but the enormous tax breaks companies get is astounding.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:44:31am

re: #538 MsJ

It felt really weird updinging that.

It’s fun to say something, then use Google to find out “where the hell that came from”.

books.google.com

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Dave In Austin  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:45:39am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:45:41am

re: #552 MsJ

Or that corporations get so many tax breaks that they pay zero in taxes. I understand international competitiveness but the enormous tax breaks companies get is astounding.

Yeah it’s fucked up. I mean I get that you don’t need massive taxation but the tax breaks that have companies paying zero in taxes is obscene.

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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:46:49am

re: #526 lawhawk

The funny thing (oh, irony) is that had Priebus done his job, either Rubio or Cruz should have gone away because the two of them combined had almost two million more than Trump. Same with Kasich and Carson. All the division allowed Trump to take over.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:48:12am

re: #551 Lidane

So this happened yesterday:

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Fun times.

Sounds like he should be pretty easy to deal with in negotiations and decision making. WWE with automatic weapons running the country, where have I seen that before?

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Jenner7  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:48:23am

Good morning.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:48:30am

re: #556 MsJ

The funny thing (oh, irony) is that had Priebus done his job, either Rubio or Cruz should have gone away because the two of them combined had almost two million more than Trump. Same with Kasich and Carson. All the division allowed Trump to take over.

The establishment is complaining about Kasich taking votes from Rubio (though Kasich could argue the reverse). Same for Cruz and Rubio. All of these guys are nuts.

But the kicker to all of this is that Trump’s got more delegates than Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, and Carson combined.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:48:35am

Kentucky, where our state legislature spends so much time finding solutions to non-existent problems:

Christmas Counterattack: Rep. Will Coursey, D-Symsonia, filed HB 565 which would give any business owner immunity from civil liability for exhibiting a Christmas display and the bill also makes it unlawful for an employer to fire an employee for saying “Merry Christmas.”

And also pretty much defying SCOTUS:

Marriage Amendment: Rep. Joe Fischer, R-Ft. Thomas, filed HB 571, which is a proposed constitutional amendment that would add this sentence to the Constitution of Kentucky: “Only a matrimony between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a matrimony in Kentucky.” Fisher also filed HB 572 which is a 454-page bill “to redefine and establish the legal parameters of the civil institution of marriage.”

courier-journal.com

gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:49:05am

re: #552 MsJ

Or that corporations get so many tax breaks that they pay zero in taxes. I understand international competitiveness but the enormous tax breaks companies get is astounding.

Or that General Electric has the world’s largest corporate legal division and pays almost zero taxes. Because it is more profitable for them to hire more lawyers than to hire more workers, engineers or office staff.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:49:34am

re: #559 lawhawk

The establishment is complaining about Kasich taking votes from Rubio (though Kasich could argue the reverse). Same for Cruz and Rubio. All of these guys are nuts.

But the kicker to all of this is that Trump’s got more delegates than Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, and Carson combined.

Yep.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:49:55am

re: #548 HappyWarrior

That in the end is the big difference. Obama is a much more shrewd candidate than Sanders ever will be.

And do not forget Obama could really move an audience with his speechifying. Sanders can rally an audience with what he says, Obama could do that but also move the audience with how he said it.

Add in Obama’s political practicality knowing what he could actually do and you have major differences.

And with that…to work…finding work. Ugh.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:51:09am

re: #560 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky, where our state legislature spends so much time finding solutions to non-existent problems:

And also pretty much defying SCOTUS:

courier-journal.com

gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Yikes. And that’s a Democrat doing the stupid Christmas one. Sigh you know what I do. It’s simple. If I know the person celebrates Christmas like I do, I say Merry Christmas, I still may say Happy Holidays though since there’s a pretty damn big Holiday that falls a week after Christmas.

565
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:52:25am

re: #564 HappyWarrior

Yikes. And that’s a Democrat doing the stupid Christmas one. Sigh you know what I do. It’s simple. If I know the person celebrates Christmas like I do, I say Merry Christmas, I still may say Happy Holidays though since there’s a pretty damn big Holiday that falls a week after Christmas.

Blue dog democrat, like Kim Davis was.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:53:10am

re: #565 Backwoods_Sleuth

Blue dog democrat, like Kim Davis was.

Figured. Really someone should ask him about the rash of people being fired for saying Merry Christmas. Sigh.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:54:21am

re: #566 HappyWarrior

Figured. Really someone should ask him about the rash of people being fired for saying Merry Christmas. Sigh.

I want to know how many business owners have been sued over Christmas displays at their non-government place of business.

568
HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:54:39am

Honestly I am a little pissed off by the Sanders supporters just shrugging off Virginia as just another red state. It was vital to Obama’s two wins and if Camp Bernie wants to just shrug it off that way then frankly they’re making a big mistake and pissing off a lot of Democrats in this state who will be happy to keep Virginia Democratic.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:55:08am

re: #567 Backwoods_Sleuth

Especially in Eastern Kentucky, that’s where this guy is from right.

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KGxvi  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:55:12am

re: #564 HappyWarrior

Yikes. And that’s a Democrat doing the stupid Christmas one. Sigh you know what I do. It’s simple. If I know the person celebrates Christmas like I do, I say Merry Christmas, I still may say Happy Holidays though since there’s a pretty damn big Holiday that falls a week after Christmas.

I occasionally get annoyed with people who go over the top with wishing people Merry Christmas… Normally, I will bite my tongue, smile, and move on, because that’s the path of least resistance. But sometimes, I will wish them a blessed solstice.

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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:55:21am

re: #559 lawhawk

The establishment is complaining about Kasich taking votes from Rubio (though Kasich could argue the reverse). Same for Cruz and Rubio. All of these guys are nuts.

But the kicker to all of this is that Trump’s got more delegates than Cruz, Rubio, Kasich, and Carson combined.

Agreed, but go back to IA. If there weren’t 22,387 GOPers running, the delegate count wouldn’t be as insane as it is now.

Oops…meeting time. Cheers!

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:55:43am

re: #560 Backwoods_Sleuth

Kentucky, where our state legislature spends so much time finding solutions to non-existent problems:

And also pretty much defying SCOTUS:

courier-journal.com

gaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh

Does the KY constitution still attach disqualification to a politician who fights a duel?

573
HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:55:55am

re: #570 KGxvi

I occasionally get annoyed with people who go over the top with wishing people Merry Christmas… Normally, I will bite my tongue, smile, and move on, because that’s the path of least resistance. But sometimes, I will wish them a blessed solstice.

I just cannot believe this is actually an issue to people.

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gwangung  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:55:57am

re: #552 MsJ

Or that corporations get so many tax breaks that they pay zero in taxes. I understand international competitiveness but the enormous tax breaks companies get is astounding.

It suggests to me that US companies are NOT very competitive if they can’t compete without those tax loopholes….

575
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:57:01am

re: #572 Decatur Deb

Does the KY constitution still attach disqualification to a politician who fights a duel?

yes

576
KGxvi  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:57:05am

Anyone know where I can find some accounts of life/death in WWI field hospitals? I’m working on a new story and need some reference points - I’m amazed how little I know of WWI beyond “Archduke Ferdinand was shot and the world burned.”

577
Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:57:31am

re: #575 Backwoods_Sleuth

yes

That’s your problem, right there.

578
Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:58:29am

re: #577 Decatur Deb

That’s your problem, right there.

Candidates here actually have to swear an oath that they haven’t taken part in a duel.

579
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:58:32am

re: #570 KGxvi

I occasionally get annoyed with people who go over the top with wishing people Merry Christmas… Normally, I will bite my tongue, smile, and move on, because that’s the path of least resistance. But sometimes, I will wish them a blessed solstice.

They are not wishing you a Merry Christmas, they are trying to shove an agenda in your face. That is not the spirit of Christmas.

580
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:59:26am

re: #573 HappyWarrior

I just cannot believe this is actually an issue to people.

It is an an issue to them that Christianity is no longer the default semi-official religion of the USofA.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 7:59:58am

re: #576 KGxvi

Anyone know where I can find some accounts of life/death in WWI field hospitals? I’m working on a new story and need some reference points - I’m amazed how little I know of WWI beyond “Archduke Ferdinand was shot and the world burned.”

historymatters.gmu.edu
Interestingly enough this comes from my alma mater’s history department where I did my studies. It’s interesting you’re doing this. I have a short story that has to be 10 pages for my creative writing class and i’m thinking about doing it from a British soldier’s perspective in one day during the Somme. This is what I got so far:

“I starred across No Man’s Land. I imagined my German counterpart; he too stuck in a pointless war that appears to have no end. When this war started two summers ago, I hated him, I too fell in with the fervor that we all did. I happily took my oath to serve the king and empire. I was not lucky to be alive. No, the lucky ones were the dead who fell that first summer. The ones, who died believing that their cause was and still believing in god, king, and empire, they were the lucky ones not me and those of us who had survived. I used to believe. I was an altar boy and my earliest memory is of father weeping as he told me that the queen had died. I only remember Father crying once and that was one day he did. She, like so many was all that so many of us including even my grandparents had ever known and then she was gone.
Before that stupid Serb shot the Archduke and ignited this forsaken war, I was in university. I was going to be a barrister like my father before me. But when I heard that we had declared war on the Germans, I left school and immediately enlisted. I figured the empire had given me so much and the least I could do is volunteer for her in her hour of need. And here we are two years later with no end in sight. Thousands already dead and the same maimed. The old men sending us to die never faced a war like this. They never faced weapons that could mow down an entire company of men within minutes.
This morning is peaceful. I don’t know what today’s date is. I’ve lost track but the sweltering heat told me it was July. Summer in France, it’d be actually be romantic if these weren’t fields of death. “Hey Joe”, I hear, I turn around and it’s Frankie. Frankie and I get on quite well. He’s a coal miner’s kid from Wales but we’ve been through this together so it gives a bond that transcends whatever class differences we had before the war. “Say Joe, you don’t happen to got a fag do you?” “As a matter fact I do.” “Thanks mate.” Cigarettes, it was funny, I remember the smell of father’s cigars and I hated that smell but cigarettes are a lifesaver out here. I think it’s because the taste makes me think about something other than that I’m going to be firing a rifle into another man. I wondered about my German counterparts across the line. I wondered what they thought of this war. I remember hearing about Marx at university and thinking it all a bunch of rubbish but the more this war progresses the more I think the crazy German may have had a point about how class systems ruin countries. “You’re quiet this morning, Joe. Something troubling you?” “Dunno Frank, I keep on thinking about the Germans.” “Yeah what of them?” “I don’t think they’re too different from us.” “How do you mean?” ” I mean the average German bloke can’t be that different from you or me, only he’s German. I mean I don’t care about their officers but the average German has to be sick of this bloody war as we are.” “You think too bloody much”, he said with a laugh.
I guess he was right. “Wonder when we’ll get leave?”, I asked eager to make the conversation about something we could look forward to. Leave was always something we could look forward to. I have liked the French girls we’ve met in the villages. They flirt, kiss, and seem to appreciate us being there. And of course leave also meant better meals and alcohol. Oh alcohol, to drink good wine with a cute French girl and get your mind off of battle. The whole thing amused me thinking about the French. Grandfather told me when I was a boy about how his grandfather had fought against Napoleon. But here I am in a part of France that no one can find on a map. There is no Louvre nor Notre Dame here but endless fields. Frankie and I finish our cigarettes and go back in the dugout.
The modern trench is one of mankind’s worst inventions. It stinks, rats are everywhere, men live in cramped quarters, and disease is rampant. If you’re not getting sick from a rat, a comrade is happy to give you his ailment. But still we must fight on the officers say. “

582
Lidane  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:00:25am

What the actual fuck?

583
Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:00:26am

re: #572 Decatur Deb

Does the KY constitution still attach disqualification to a politician who fights a duel?

Not if Zell Miller has anything to say about it.

584
HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:00:29am

re: #580 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is an an issue to them that Christianity is no longer the default semi-official religion of the USofA.

That is the real issue yes.

585
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:00:54am

re: #576 KGxvi

Anyone know where I can find some accounts of life/death in WWI field hospitals? I’m working on a new story and need some reference points - I’m amazed how little I know of WWI beyond “Archduke Ferdinand was shot and the world burned.”

Hemmingway. A Farewell to Arms comes to mind immediately.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:01:06am

re: #582 Lidane

What the actual fuck?

[Embedded content]

Can’t have white nationalism without racism.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:01:11am

re: #576 KGxvi

A Farewell to Arms?

588
HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:02:22am

Farewell to Arms though is a great idea though. I thought you were looking for first hand accounts.

589
KGxvi  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:03:49am

re: #585 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

re: #587 lawhawk

I should have remembered that one.

re: #581 HappyWarrior

Beautiful, thank you.

The entire story isn’t about WWI, but it plays an important part - as will other times in history, but this was the scene I thought of first and wanted to get some meat on the bones.

590
KGxvi  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:04:56am

re: #588 HappyWarrior

Farewell to Arms though is a great idea though. I thought you were looking for first hand accounts.

I’d prefer first hand accounts, but I do need reference points beyond “trenches, no man’s land, and France.”

591
HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:05:29am

re: #589 KGxvi

I should have remembered that one.

Beautiful, thank you.

The entire story isn’t about WWI, but it plays an important part - as will other times in history, but this was the scene I thought of first and wanted to get some meat on the bones.

Oh I see. Interesting stuff. Good luck. It does sound like a powerful opening scene.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:08:53am

re: #590 KGxvi

I’d prefer first hand accounts, but I do need reference points beyond “trenches, no man’s land, and France.”

Oh the trench, no man’s land, and France is my work. Just wanted to share it. This could be interesting though. I used some of these first hand accounts when I took a German history class to show how the idealism of 1914 had become cynicism by 1916. As you can see, it’s influenced my creative writing.
germanhistorydocs.ghi-dc.org

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Nojay UK  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:27:50am

re: #579 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They are not wishing you a Merry Christmas, they are trying to shove an agenda in your face. That is not the spirit of Christmas.

The folks who wish you a Merry Christmas with an agenda are unlikely to actually be at Mass on the evening of the 24th of December (Christ Mass). Several of the original “Founding Fathers” Protestant sects the modern Evengelicals claim to trace their descent from frowned on any sort of a celebration on those days as it reeked of Papism and other works of the Devil.

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SteveMcGaziBolaGate RN  Mar 2, 2016 • 8:29:47am

re: #576 KGxvi

Anyone know where I can find some accounts of life/death in WWI field hospitals? I’m working on a new story and need some reference points - I’m amazed how little I know of WWI beyond “Archduke Ferdinand was shot and the world burned.”

At the risk of sounding partial, try a nursing angle. There are probably some vivid accounts of WW1 hospital conditions from the nurses of the day.


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