Ben Carson Is Bailing Out

God misleads another Republican
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For some reason he’s not actually “suspending” his campaign (which itself is a euphemism for “quitting”) but Ben Carson has reportedly decided to become an ex-candidate.

Ben Carson, the retired neurosurgeon who briefly led the Republican presidential race before his campaign began an extended public implosion, will tell his supporters in a statement Wednesday afternoon that he does not see a “path forward” and will not attend Thursday’s debate in Detroit, according to two Republicans familiar with his plans.

Carson, however, will not formally suspend his campaign. Instead, the Republicans said, he has decided to make a speech about his political future on Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, just outside of Washington.

And to think, just yesterday he was telling people “the power Of God” was behind his presidential campaign.

Maybe God was just kidding? What a prankster!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 11:57:16am

He outlasted Jeb Bush. That tells you a lot about the state of the Republican Party and I got as much use for Jeb as I do a second belly button.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 11:57:56am

Has anyone worked out how much his campaign cost per delegate (or per vote)?

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 11:58:28am

Simple misunderstanding. God said: “I’m going to make you a precedent.”

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 11:58:40am

You need to put SUSPENDED on that photo of Carson ;)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 11:58:50am
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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 11:59:01am

The “Power of God” moment was in October of last year

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 11:59:58am

Goddamnit Facebook. I get it, I have one friend that likes Donald J. Trump. I have no desire to like him back.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:00:36pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I would not be surprised to see Carson endorse Trump or Cruz. Can’t see Rubio.

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jaunte  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:00:55pm
he does not see a “path forward”

For the gate is small and the way is narrow that leads to candidacy, and there are few who find it.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:01:20pm

re: #3 Decatur Deb

Simple misunderstanding. God said: “I’m going to make you a precedent.”

So this novice monk was copying manuscripts. He asked the Abbot if he was copying a copy, as that could lead to mistakes being inadvertently repeated.

The Abbot realizes this was a good idea and goes down to the archive to check the originals.

He is gone for some time, so the novice monk goes to look for the Abbot, and finds him dashing his head against the wall, shouting: “Dammit!!! It says here CELEBRATE! CELEBRATE!!!”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:01:39pm
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Testy Toad T  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:03:49pm

Consider: this was NOT the candidate that The Donald described as “low energy”.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:05:14pm

God is not without a sense of humor. Or irony. All these Republicans who think that it was god’s will to run (and win) have done nothing more than what televangelists have done before them - taking money and delivered nothing in return. Fleecing blind faith followers.

And for what?

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:06:29pm

Not bothering to show up for a last hurrah in his hometown is weird, even for him.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:07:31pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:08:43pm
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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:11:57pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

I’m hoping Obama will get around to doing it soon.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:12:27pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

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This is really fucking disgraceful shit. I get it Republicans, you’re rightfully scared that Obama’s nominee is going to overturn a lot of the shitty stuff you stand for. Tough shit assholes.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:13:38pm

re: #17 Belafon

I’m hoping Obama will get around to doing it soon.

I’m almost at the point where Obama says fuck it and nominates someone as nasty to right wing judicial thought as Scalia was to left wing. They loved Scalia when he was condescending and mocking liberal interpretations of law, well assholes how about a left wing Scalia to tell you that you’re stupid and your views on the Constitution are ridiculous.

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Jenner7  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:13:59pm
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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:14:13pm

re: #17 Belafon

I’m hoping Obama will get around to doing it soon.

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KingKenrod  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:15:29pm

Former CEO of Chesapeake Aubrey McClendon just commited suicide by car. He was indicted for conspiracy yesterday - he was involved with a gas contract bid rigging scheme.

kfor.com

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:15:38pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:15:43pm

Another one that they’ve approved already in the past. I believe Grassley had praise for her. She has Iowa ties.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:17:16pm
….Friday at the Conservative Political Action Conference in Maryland, just outside of Washington.

Good dog, it’s that time of year again?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:17:54pm

re: #24 HappyWarrior

Another one that they’ve approved already in the past. I believe Grassley had praise for her. She has Iowa ties.

Obama is not going to nominate anyone the GOP have not overwhelmingly supported in the past just to highlight what a bunch of cantankerous, obstructionist ideologues they have become.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:18:23pm

re: #25 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Good dog, it’s that time of year again?

Unfortunately for us in the NoVa/SoMd/Dc area. I wish they would just fucking cancel CPAC already. It’s the same shit every year. Waaaah we conservatives are so repressed and we’re awesome too.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:18:46pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:18:47pm

So Dr. Ben was on the DayStar “Christian” television network. Talk about con-artists.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:19:06pm

re: #26 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Obama is not going to nominate anyone the GOP have not overwhelmingly supported in the past just to highlight what a bunch of cantankerous, obstructionist ideologues they have become.

I know. It’s the smart thing to do. I don’t actually want a left wing Scalia.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:19:47pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Which is why the Senate R’s are holding out hope they can get a Republican president and still have the Senate in 2017. Not bloody likely IMO.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:19:58pm

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:20:30pm

re: #30 HappyWarrior

I know. It’s the smart thing to do. I don’t actually want a left wing Scalia.

I don’t think that Obama would nominate one, even if he was working with a Congress that was not obstructionist.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:20:33pm

re: #28 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I like the way Chris Geidner put it:

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:20:33pm

re: #15 Backwoods_Sleuth

Wow - Senator McConnell’s office is now declaring that President Obama can’t even NOMINATE someone for SCOTUS.

“Liberal” Media: (Yawn)

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:21:26pm

re: #33 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I don’t think that Obama would nominate one, even if he was working with a Congress that was not obstructionist.

No, I don’t think so either. I think he’d probably go with someone more liberal minded but as I said when Bork got brought up, I think Obama respects the court and system much more than Reagan did to make such a pigheaded selection.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:22:21pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:22:23pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:23:07pm

re: #37 The Vicious Babushka

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Trump also represents the ominous cloud of racism. I was thinking about and watched that clip the other day.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:25:01pm

Rage Furby doesn’t see anything wrong with Donald Trump’s son giving an interview to a white supremacist, of course.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:25:39pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

Rage Furby doesn’t see anything wrong with Donald Trump’s son giving an interview to a white supremacist, of course.

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Wonder what he’ll say if Cruz criticizes that.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:27:05pm

re: #40 Charles Johnson

Rage Furby doesn’t see anything wrong with Donald Trump’s son giving an interview to a white supremacist, of course.

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But Trump’s campaign said that interview never happened!
littlegreenfootballs.com

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KGxvi  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:27:05pm
And to think, just yesterday he was telling people “the power Of God” was behind his presidential campaign.

Maybe God was just kidding? What a prankster!

More and more, when I hear a politician talk about getting direction from god, I’m convinced that god is Loki.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:29:00pm

re: #43 KGxvi

More and more, when I hear a politician talk about getting direction from god, I’m convinced that god is Loki.

God tells them “I’ll make you a president.” They think he’s emphasizing “you” when, in fact, he’s emphasizing “make”.

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Teukka  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:30:14pm

re: #43 KGxvi

More and more, when I hear a politician talk about getting direction from god, I’m convinced that god is Loki.

With some, I’m getting convinced it is one of the Elder Gods.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:30:27pm

Links to Vox article about Samantha Bee’s interview with the guy last night.

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De Kolta Chair  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:31:39pm
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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:33:25pm

re: #21 wrenchwench

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What, are we gonna end up with a bunch of damn liberal women on the Supreme Court???

Cool!

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:34:23pm

re: #45 Teukka

With some, I’m getting convinced it is one of the Elder Gods.

Azathoth: shrieking and blind at the center of chaos…

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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:34:49pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:34:52pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:36:28pm
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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:38:59pm

re: #47 De Kolta Chair

I didn’t. Explain? ;)

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sizzzzlerz  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:39:00pm

We should chip in and buy him a fruit salad as a consolation prize.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:39:30pm

re: #48 ObserverArt

What, are we gonna end up with a bunch of damn liberal women on the Supreme Court???

Cool!

The number of women that would be too many for the Supreme Court: 10 or more.

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Jenner7  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:39:55pm
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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:40:24pm

re: #32 Charles Johnson

Just filed a Twitter abuse report on this stalker asshole, who was previously suspended under the name “LizardStomp.”

Not very imaginative, but hatemail-y enough for the hat-tip jar.

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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:40:44pm

re: #46 Backwoods_Sleuth

Gotta disagree with the headline. That Texas rep doesn’t sound or look like he’s embarrassed. In fact, it sounds like he’s proud of inflicting harm on women in the name of “protecting” them.

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:41:47pm

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Check this wacko Texas nut out…

Texan who says Obama was a gay prostitute holds commanding lead in Board of Education vote

When you wonder why your local school district in Ohio is buying textbooks where Jesus rode a dinosaur to Jerusalem and Lincoln was a traitor to the white race…you can read her facebook comments and understand. Texas decides what books the rest of us get.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:42:01pm

Popcorn/schadenfreude alert:

Snarling dog fight at Freepistan over the by now well-known Trump swastika sign:

SHOCK: The Sickening Anti-Trump Sign Found Outside Cruz Polling Location

I have no idea what the linked article (from teaparty.org) means by a “Cruz polling location.” I was not aware that candidates had their own polling places where they control signage. In any case, the Trump troops are blaming Cruz, while Cruzaders blame lefties and invoke the no true Scotsman fallacy.

Addendum: True to 2016 GOP form, several pro-Cruz types have suggested a Trumpster false flag. Of course.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:43:29pm

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

The newest Texas GOP chairman is completely fucking insane

Isn’t that in the job description?

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:44:02pm

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel

Popcorn/schadenfreude alert:

Snarling dog fight at Freepistan over the by now well-known Trump swastika sign:

SHOCK: The Sickening Anti-Trump Sign Found Outside Cruz Polling Location

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I have no idea what the linked article (from teaparty.org) means by a “Cruz polling location.” I was not aware that candidates had their own polling places where they control signage. In any case, the Trump troops are blaming Cruz, while Cruzaders blame lefties and invoke the no true Scotsman fallacy.

That reminds me that last night, Cruz all but promised to hold a criminal investigation of Obama when he supposedly takes the reins of the justice dept.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:44:45pm

re: #42 Backwoods_Sleuth

But Trump’s campaign said that interview never happened!
littlegreenfootballs.com

He had a bad earpiece and though that he was being interviewed about a “Flight Apprenticeship”.

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EPR-radar  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:45:11pm

re: #16 wrenchwench

Conservative ‘originalism’ as a judicial philosophy is completely worthless. It is nothing more than a convenient way to arrive at conservative conclusions.

What could be easier than projecting present-day prejudices onto the past, finding real or imagined support for the desired conclusions there, and then coughing up some hairball of a judicial opinion accordingly?

And if the past is inconvenient, just ignore it or change it. A good example of this is the recent gutting of the Voting Rights act. The voting rights act was Congress giving teeth to the 15th amendment. But the conservative majority for that decision made very sure to not talk about the 15th amendment at all, instead framing the case as a pure matter of statutory law. Any honest originalist analysis of the 15th amendment would have noted that it was enacted right after the Civil War by a nation and by a Republican party that was, at that time, committed to real reform. These people would have had no patience for the neo-Confederate bullshit on which the challenge to the Voting Rights act was based.

But the all-time record for bad SCOTUS opinions coming from ‘originalist’ thinking is, naturally enough, the Dred Scott decision. Bork and other conservative jurists have attempted to cast the Dred Scott case as an example of over reach in liberal jurisprudence, but this is just an example of conservatives trying to pretend their greatest weaknesses don’t exist and are the other side’s fault.

The Dred Scott decision is really very simple. After a bit of preliminary blather, Chief Justice Taney declares it to be relevant to inquire what rights blacks had at the time of the founding. His self-provided answer to that inquiry was, to be polite about it, “no rights at all”. Therefore Dred Scott could not be a citizen making his personal case moot.

In a fit of judicial activism, Taney went on to announce that the Missouri Compromise was unconstitutional, although there was certainly no reason for this bit of extra entertainment once Dred Scott’s case had been nuked by making him an unperson at law.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:45:40pm

re: #60 Shiplord Kirel

Popcorn/schadenfreude alert:

Snarling dog fight at Freepistan over the by now well-known Trump swastika sign:

SHOCK: The Sickening Anti-Trump Sign Found Outside Cruz Polling Location

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I have no idea what the linked article (from teaparty.org) means by a “Cruz polling location.” I was not aware that candidates had their own polling places where they control signage. In any case, the Trump troops are blaming Cruz, while Cruzaders blame lefties and invoke the no true Scotsman fallacy.

Gonna go with “Leftie”. There’s thought and talent in that.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:45:50pm

re: #38 Backwoods_Sleuth

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He just better not show up somewhere else.

I betcha he will.

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:46:37pm

CPAC and the Country Music Awards—I swear they both take place four times a year.

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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:46:43pm
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Rocky-in-Connecticut  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:47:52pm

Wow. God has to be the LEAST accountable political hack I’ve ever seen. So many bad choices that didn’t pan out, it’s a wonder people even seek out his council anymore on matters like politics…

Or football team winners …

Or preachers caught doinking a church member (or three).

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:48:18pm

re: #52 Backwoods_Sleuth

The Star Wars stormtrooper socks look cool until you put them on and look down

Look a little bit like E.T.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:48:29pm

re: #54 sizzzzlerz

We should chip in and buy him a fruit salad as a consolation prize.

In honor of Ben: The Wiggles

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:49:23pm

More Kentucky:

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:50:22pm

re: #56 Jenner7

“Outsourcing Creates Jobs in the Long Run.”

Yes, of course, minimum-wage jobs at the Amazon warehouse and the Wal-Mart, stacking and delivering all those cheap consumer goods people used to manufacture here in the USA.

Do we still buy this nonesense?

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:51:06pm

re: #65 Decatur Deb

Gonna go with “Leftie”. There’s thought and talent in that.

One freeper has actually discerned roughly the same thing:

The use of the words (Trump X4) to create the swastika in the negative space between the words is far more clever than anything I’ve seen come out of any GOP graphic artist in a long time.
Jussayin

Btw, this is addressed to another freeper who uses the name “Sgt. Schultze.” For real.

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TedStriker  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:53:22pm

re: #3 Decatur Deb

Simple misunderstanding. God said: “I’m going to make you a precedent.”

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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:56:38pm

Ginsburg asked Keller how many women would live 100 miles or more from a clinic if the Texas law went into effect. About 25 percent, he responded—but that didn’t include the clinic in Santa Teresa, New Mexico, just over the border from El Paso. The existence of this clinic featured heavily in the 5th Circuit’s decision to uphold the Texas statute; it asserted that the law did not impose on “undue burden” on abortion-seeking El Paso women, because they could simply cross state lines for the procedure.

“That’s odd that you point to the New Mexico facility,” Ginsburg said, in a clear and firm voice. New Mexico, after all, doesn’t force abortion clinics to meet the same standards that Texas would—standards which, Texas claims, are absolutely critical to protect women.

“So if your argument is right,” Ginsburg continued, “then New Mexico is not an available way out for Texas, because Texas says: To protect our women, we need these things. But send them off to New Mexico,” to clinics with more lenient standards, “and that’s perfectly all right.”

“Well,” Ginsburg concluded, with just a hint of pique in her voice, “If that’s all right for the women in the El Paso area, why isn’t it right for the rest of the women in Texas?”

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:57:07pm

Not only does the Russian Communist party have a website called “stop migration”, they illustrate it with a picture of a woman in burqa with a cut-off head of a child (scroll way down).

stopmigration.kprf.ru

In case anyone wonders why I hate Russian commies.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:57:28pm
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:58:29pm

re: #76 Kragar

The arguments really outline the fact that the Texas standards are really all about denying access to abortion in the state.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 12:59:50pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:02:12pm
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lawhawk  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:02:35pm

If you think that GOP Math is tough, consider that every other GOPer who is left in the field would have to win an even greater number of remaining delegates. And I think his math is wrong too.

Luntz assumes that the other candidates wont drop out as their timeframe to close the gap closes. He also assumes that the other candidates will somehow magically outperform their performance to date.

Rubio’s only managed to win a single state. Cruz won a handful, including his home state. That’s not exactly confidence building. Kasich hasn’t won anything anywhere, and he’s still in. Carson has decided to snooze through the rest of the campaign.

Given the nearly 1,715 remaining delegates, and that you need to get to 1,237, this means that Rubio would have to collect… 65% of the remaining delegates.

Cruz would have to collect 58%.

Trump would have to collect 53%.

Here’s my math - take the delegates needed to win (1,237) subtract the candidate’s take so far, then divide that by the total number of delegates remaining.

Or is that not how you would compute the percentage of remaining delegates to win?

That also ignores that there are quite a few winner take all primaries in the GOP, so even if Trump wins 40% in state X. and Rubio and Cruz get 30 each%, Trump gets all the delegates from state X.

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Nyet  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:03:29pm

Stalinist parties should be treated the same way Nazi parties are treated. That’s why I support Ukraine’s prohibition of their Community party which is as bad as its Russian sister.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:05:38pm

re: #83 Nyet

Stalinist parties should be treated the same way Nazi parties are treated. That’s why I support Ukraine’s prohibition of their Community party which is as bad as its Russian sister.

One thing I will give US politics credit for is that Stalinism never really took off here.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:06:43pm

re: #81 Backwoods_Sleuth

There’s a Page in there. Or a book. Maybe Imani will write it.

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Danack  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:06:49pm

A classic:

I believe that Donald Trump was talking, tonight, and that he, in fact, held an entire press conference. But it was impossible to hear him over Chris Christie’s eyes.

Chris Christie spent the entire speech screaming wordlessly. I have never seen someone scream so loudly without using his mouth before. It would have been remarkable if it had not been so terrifying.

Sometimes, at night, do you still hear them, Clarice? The screaming of the Christies?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:07:05pm

re: #82 lawhawk

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If you think that GOP Math is tough, consider that every other GOPer who is left in the field would have to win an even greater number of remaining delegates. And I think his math is wrong too.

Luntz assumes that the other candidates wont drop out as their timeframe to close the gap closes. He also assumes that the other candidates will somehow magically outperform their performance to date.

Rubio’s only managed to win a single state. Cruz won a handful, including his home state. That’s not exactly confidence building. Kasich hasn’t won anything anywhere, and he’s still in. Carson has decided to snooze through the rest of the campaign.

Given the nearly 1,715 remaining delegates, and that you need to get to 1,237, this means that Rubio would have to collect… 65% of the remaining delegates.

Cruz would have to collect 58%.

Trump would have to collect 53%.

Here’s my math - take the delegates needed to win (1,237) subtract the candidate’s take so far, then divide that by the total number of delegates remaining.

Or is that not how you would compute the percentage of remaining delegates to win?

That also ignores that there are quite a few winner take all primaries in the GOP, so even if Trump wins 40% in state X. and Rubio and Cruz get 30 each%, Trump gets all the delegates from state X.

I just don’t know how you force Rubio on the delegates without some extremely pissed off people. As you get at, Rubio has one state win to his credit. Cruz can probably actually argue he’s a better anti-Trump than RUbio can at this point.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:07:18pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:08:18pm

re: #88 FormerDirtDart

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Sounds like something they’d do. Hard to believe they’ve gotten even more crappy since then.

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Testy Toad T  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:08:23pm

re: #87 HappyWarrior

I just don’t know how you force Rubio on the delegates without some extremely pissed off people. As you get at, Rubio has one state win to his credit. Cruz can probably actually argue he’s a better anti-Trump than RUbio can at this point.

Cruz has had his shot at the south and he mostly blew it. He’s mostly accumulated the delegates that were going to be available to him. Rubio has a much easier case to make that he’s more broadly acceptable to the coasts, which is where we’re heading next.

IMO, anyway.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:09:03pm

re: #90 Testy Toad T

Cruz has had his shot at the south and he mostly blew it. He’s mostly accumulated the delegates that were going to be available to him. Rubio has a much easier case to make that he’s more broadly acceptable to the coasts, which is where we’re heading next.

IMO, anyway.

That’s true.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:10:07pm

re: #86 Danack

A classic:

“I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream”
(apologies to Harlan Ellison for re-purposing that title)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:12:04pm

If I was any good at Photoshop, I’d make one of the Ellison title and then another of Edvard Much’s “The Scream”.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:12:05pm

re: #76 Kragar

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“So if your argument is right,” Ginsburg continued, “then New Mexico is not an available way out for Texas, because Texas says: To protect our women, we need these things. But send them off to New Mexico,” to clinics with more lenient standards, “and that’s perfectly all right.”

“Well,” Ginsburg concluded, with just a hint of pique in her voice, “If that’s all right for the women in the El Paso area, why isn’t it right for the rest of the women in Texas?”

Texas should just give El Paso to New Mexico. Then our biggest city would be twice as big. They can have Portales, and Rep. Pearce.

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Kragar  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:14:43pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:15:08pm

Mayor of Louisville:

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:16:03pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mayor of Louisville:

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Is he the one running for Senate or is that the mayor of another city?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:16:50pm

re: #97 HappyWarrior

Is he the one running for Senate or is that the mayor of another city?

Lexington Mayor Gray is running for Senate.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:16:57pm
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:17:49pm

re: #72 Backwoods_Sleuth

More Kentucky:

Let all the guns be free, be free little guns……

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:19:19pm

re: #98 Backwoods_Sleuth

Lexington Mayor Gray is running for Senate.

Lexington, thanks.

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Testy Toad T  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:19:20pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

I think this is the third or fourth article I’ve read that casually name-drops the short Trump fingers thing. It cracks me up. I love it so much.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:19:23pm

At least Gawker credits LGF for the James Edwards story: gawker.com

(That’ll irritate the hell out of Rage Furby.)

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:19:28pm

BOOM

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:19:36pm
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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:19:56pm

re: #99 Backwoods_Sleuth

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TOo true.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:20:35pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:21:58pm

Our Attorney General on what happened at the Trump rally in Louisville:

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:22:44pm

ARGH! Another article that doesn’t credit LGF.

huffingtonpost.com

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:24:09pm

re: #109 Charles Johnson

ARGH! Another article that doesn’t credit LGF.

huffingtonpost.com

But you’re so irrelevant. No one’s gonna source you.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:26:06pm
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Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:26:38pm

re: #96 Backwoods_Sleuth

Mayor of Louisville:

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:28:35pm

re: #104 Backwoods_Sleuth

BOOM

*Cough* Voter ID *Cough*

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BeachDem  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:29:16pm

re: #59 Aunty Entity Dragon

Check this wacko Texas nut out…

When you wonder why your local school district in Ohio is buying textbooks where Jesus rode a dinosaur to Jerusalem and Lincoln was a traitor to the white race…you can read her facebook comments and understand. Texas decides what books the rest of us get.

True. and pathetic. I used to work on a lot of ancillary material for one of the top textbook publishers. Worked on one world history book that had 12 pages on Christianity, complete with bible graphics, and 1/2 page on France.

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majii  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:30:32pm

re: #5 Backwoods_Sleuth

I could be wrong, but my instincts tell me that Trump would like to use Sleepy in an attempt to win more votes from Black Americans. What he doesn’t understand is that most of us do not like Carson’s positions on the issues. In his drive to be admired by GOP/TPers he has said some things he can never take back, things like “Obamacare is worse than slavery” and “blacks are on the the Democrat party plantation.” Very offensive stuff, things that are not likely to be forgotten or overlooked by most of us. If Carson decides to stump for Trump by speaking at predominately black churches, he’ll be welcomed and treated well, but he will not be taken seriously.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:31:53pm
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Lidane  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:34:18pm

Facebook Post

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:35:39pm
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:36:27pm

re: #118 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Related:

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:37:40pm

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

Related:

[Embedded content]

The boss has spoken.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:37:42pm

re: #114 BeachDem

True. and pathetic. I used to work on a lot of ancillary material for one of the top textbook publishers. Worked on one world history book that had 12 pages on Christianity, complete with bible graphics, and 1/2 page on France.

McGraw-Hill Education by any chance?

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:38:38pm
123
Lidane  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:38:40pm
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EPR-radar  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:39:21pm

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

So a fascist magically becomes better than any Democrat simply because of the magic (R) after Trump’s name?

The Republican party really needs to be exposed as the party of fascism waiting to happen.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:40:15pm
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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:40:37pm

Sometimes it actually works to speak up.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:43:38pm

re: #123 Lidane

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Wait the Club for Growth is claiming to be concerned for workers and the elderly now? HAhaa.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:43:56pm

re: #124 EPR-radar

So a fascist magically becomes better than any Democrat simply because of the magic (R) after Trump’s name?

The Republican party really needs to be exposed as the party of fascism waiting to happen.

That’s pretty much what Rubbie is arguing.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:46:38pm

re: #128 HappyWarrior

That’s pretty much what Rubbie is arguing.

And Republicans everywhere respond with “Yeah, but you Democrats are going to do the same with a Socialist.”

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:47:30pm

re: #129 Belafon

And Republicans everywhere respond with “Yeah, but you Democrats are going to do the same with a Socialist.”

To which I respond better a socialist than Nazi.

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BeachDem  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:48:01pm

re: #121 ObserverArt

McGraw-Hill Education by any chance?

How did you guess?
/

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Testy Toad T  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:49:32pm

re: #119 Backwoods_Sleuth

Related:

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Wow. I didn’t think he’d do it.

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:51:28pm

how long, d’you suppose, it will take the morons to realize that trump’s been lying to them too and he wont be able to do one tenth of what he promised

especially “bring the jobs back”

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Lidane  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:51:36pm

ROFL:

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:52:52pm

ex-candidate

‘e’s just pinin’ for the fjords

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:53:03pm

re: #134 Lidane

ROFL:

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He’s wearing a classy gold tie…

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:53:15pm

re: #134 Lidane

ROFL:

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The future Ambassador to Uz-beki-beki-beki-stan has spoken.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:53:32pm

re: #59 Aunty Entity Dragon

Check this wacko Texas nut out…

When you wonder why your local school district in Ohio is buying textbooks where Jesus rode a dinosaur to Jerusalem and Lincoln was a traitor to the white race…you can read her facebook comments and understand. Texas decides what books the rest of us get.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:53:46pm

Zombie Breitbart “news” is pimping a story about: Illegals Rushing to Get into U.S. Before Trump Wall. In their “story” they include a photo of the supposed immigrants captured by U.S. Border Patrol agents. The only problem is that the pic is from December 10, 2015 in La Grulla, Texas.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:55:13pm

Interesting. The founder and former chief executive of Chesapeake Energy who died in the car crash today, Aubrey McClendon, was a part owner of the Oklahoma City Thunder NBA team. He owned 20%. Saw it in this (see link) article at ESPN.

It appears he even played loose with the rules with the buyer/ownership group that bought the NBA franchise and moved it from Seattle (Sonics) to OKC. Some people just have a hard time with rules.

Before the SuperSonics’ relocation, McClendon was quoted by Oklahoma City’s The Journal Record in 2007 as saying the ownership group “didn’t buy the Seattle SuperSonics to keep them in Seattle.” The NBA fined McClendon $250,000 for the comment because his statement was in contrast to the organization’s publicly claimed intentions of keeping the team in Seattle.

espn.go.com - OKC part-owner Aubrey McClendon dies in single-car crash

I was wondering about his political affiliation, so I did a Google search and the Wiki page was the first link. Under politic donations was this…

Political donations

McClendon has donated to both Republican and Democratic political candidates, though most of his donations and his major donations have been to Republicans or Republican-associated groups, including the Republican National Committee, National Republican Congressional Committee and Oklahoma Leadership Council; [12] and 527 groups, most notably the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth, to which he contributed $250,000 in 2004. [13]

Swift Boater eh? Yep, likes to play loose with the rules.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:55:30pm

ARGHHH! Another article that doesn’t credit LGF: theguardian.com

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:56:18pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

ARGHHH! Another article that doesn’t credit LGF: theguardian.com

You’re everywhere and nowhere!

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Danack  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:56:20pm

re: #115 majii

I could be wrong, but my instincts tell me that Trump would like to use Sleepy in an attempt to win more votes from Black Americans.

That would be a good long term strategy.

Mr Trump does not do long term strategy.

All he needs is a few percent more voters to be able to seal the deal for the GOP nomination, and Mr Carson could do that by giving cover to religious voters to back Mr Trump. That’s why Mr Trump would urgently desire Mr Carson to endorse him, or at worst not endorse anyone else.

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Charles Johnson  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:58:35pm
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Testy Toad T  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:59:52pm

re: #143 Danack

All he needs is a few percent more voters to be able to seal the deal for the GOP nomination, and Mr Carson could do that by giving cover to religious voters to back Mr Trump. That’s why Mr Trump would urgently desire Mr Carson to endorse him, or at worst not endorse anyone else.

I’m not convinced that Sleepy Spice has any ability to influence primary voters one way or the other.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 1:59:54pm

re: #141 Charles Johnson

ARGHHH! Another article that doesn’t credit LGF: theguardian.com

Seems like they all picked up the article from the relevant sites.

(I kid…I kid!)

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TedStriker  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:00:38pm

re: #142 wrenchwench

You’re everywhere and nowhere!

Nowhere Man?

The Beatles Nowhere Man 1966 YouTube

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:00:55pm

Rage Furby has reached the bargaining stage:

Facebook Post

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Aunty Entity Dragon  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:05:19pm

Having a real bad pain day. May need to go lay down again.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:08:08pm
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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:10:16pm

re: #59 Aunty Entity Dragon

littlegreenfootballs.com

littlegreenfootballs.com

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:11:14pm

Thing is, Kasich is trailing Trump in the polls out of Ohio, though not by nearly as much as Rubio it trailing in Florida…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:11:24pm
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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:11:31pm

re: #130 HappyWarrior

To which I respond better a socialist than Nazi.

“Yeah, but Trump never said he was a Nazi. And the Nazi’s were socialists too.”

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:13:32pm

re: #152 FormerDirtDart

Thing is, Kasich is trailing Trump in the polls out of Ohio, though not by nearly as much as Rubio it trailing in Florida…

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Kasich may actually have a point there. Rubio needs to actually win other than one state if he’s going to act like this. I think his attitude really rubs people the wrong way.

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teleskiguy  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:14:10pm

The sharks are feeding and there is chum everywhere.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:16:00pm

re: #156 teleskiguy

The sharks are feeding and there is chum everywhere.

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Welcome to who Sean Hannity is Rubio staffers.

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:17:24pm

re: #156 teleskiguy

The sharks are feeding and there is chum everywhere.

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teleskiguy  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:20:33pm

re: #158 The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:20:42pm

re: #156 teleskiguy

The sharks are feeding and there is chum everywhere.

I HAVE 14 MILLION LISTENERS U LOOOOSERS!!!!1111

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:21:25pm

re: #155 HappyWarrior

Kasich may actually have a point there. Rubio needs to actually win other than one state if he’s going to act like this. I think his attitude really rubs people the wrong way.

Rubio makes Trump seem likeable.

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ObserverArt  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:21:58pm

What’s up with Hannity and Rubio? Is there a link to anything, or is it a twit war?

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The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:22:06pm

re: #159 teleskiguy

I just thought the removal of a single letter provided a different, but also accurate, description of what’s going on.

No reason to punish me with candid shots of Ted Cruz.

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nines09  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:23:38pm

Ben Carson will probably go on to get a lucrative contract for Ambien or Lunesta. Or some other somnambulant.
“See? No concerns or worries. Only a focused insight on all the important….shoes…..and the way we…..That reminds me of a clever…car ride….”
Maybe even write a book…. “On A Plane, With Donald.”

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Stanley Sea  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:23:55pm

re: #153 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Thanks for posting that! I love the Beyonce pulling the pizza.

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Belafon  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:24:06pm

re: #163 The Ghost of Bork Bork Bork Bork

I just thought the removal of a single letter provided a different, but also accurate, description of what’s going on.

No reason to punish me with candid shots of Ted Cruz.

Don’t insult Bean like that.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:24:13pm

re: #123 Lidane

New Club For Growth anti-Trump ad.t.co
— Jonah Goldberg

Does all this money being set on fire count as Gross Domestic Production?

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freetoken  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:26:03pm

538 declares:

Donald Trump Is Just Barely On Track To Win The GOP Nomination

They’re trying very hard to make it seem like Trump is not inevitable.

But when compared to his rivals regard who is “on track”:

projects.fivethirtyeight.com

Trump is doing far, far better than either Cruz or Rubio.

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wrenchwench  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:27:55pm

re: #147 TedStriker

Nowhere Man?

[Embedded content]

Or A Well Respected Man

the kinks- a well respected man

Or A 20th Century Man

The Kinks - 20th Century Man

Or A Session Man

Kinks-Session Man (1966) HD

Or a Plastic Man

The Kinks - Plastic Man

Or Apeman

The Kinks - Apeman (Official Audio)

And there are more Men from the Kinks, but I’ll stop now.

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Alephnaught  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:28:21pm

One last go for the Trump as Michaelangelo’s David, only this time time with an added Christie meme!

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Testy Toad T  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:31:51pm

re: #168 freetoken

538 declares:

Donald Trump Is Just Barely On Track To Win The GOP Nomination

They’re trying very hard to make it seem like Trump is not inevitable.

But when compared to his rivals regard who is “on track”:

“Make it seem”

Are you accusing them of jiggering their numbers to fit a narrative they want to push?

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Alephnaught  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:31:52pm

re: #147 TedStriker

Nowhere Man?

[Embedded content]

Charmless Man?

Blur - Charmless Man

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Bubblehead II  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:31:53pm

Unfortunately, Lindsey Vonn is out for the rest of the season.

Lindsey Vonn: American skier’s season ended by knee injury

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makeitstop  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:36:33pm

re: #172 Alephnaught

Charmless Man?

[Embedded content]

Schizoid Man?

21st Century Schizoid Man

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:45:34pm

re: #168 freetoken

538 declares:

Donald Trump Is Just Barely On Track To Win The GOP Nomination

They’re trying very hard to make it seem like Trump is not inevitable.

But when compared to his rivals regard who is “on track”:

projects.fivethirtyeight.com

Trump is doing far, far better than either Cruz or Rubio.

Right. But watching a discussion on MSNBC last night, where Ben Ginsburg laid out what the GOP can do to prevent Trump winning the nomination, the key part is to deny him an outright win on the first ballot.

If he manages to get enough committed delegates out of the Primaries, that’s it, game over.

But if he’s denied a victory on the first ballot, all bets are off.

So Trump is really only assured of the nomination in the former case. This is why it was actually BAD for the GOP that Rubio didn’t crack 20% in his 3rd place finishes last night. That’s generally the cutoff.

It also suggests that the GOP doesn’t need to back a SINGLE Trumpslayer, but if they’re splitting the anti-Trump vote, they need both players to exceed 20%, or they’re just giving Trump more delegates, because he’ll have won a larger percentage of the votes of all candidates with >20%.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:46:17pm

And I spent all that explanation on a dying thread. Great.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:53:23pm

re: #86 Danack

A classic:

I think it did
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MsJ  Mar 2, 2016 • 2:53:31pm

re: #176 Blind Frog Belly White

And I spent all that explanation on a dying thread. Great.

It was awesome. I’m, as per usual, playing catch-up.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 2, 2016 • 4:15:48pm

re: #167 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Does all this money being set on fire count as Gross Domestic Production?

It’s Gross something.


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