A Public Service Message From the Klan: Not All KKK Members Support Donald Trump
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Remember: there are some bad things about Donald Trump too.
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Six in 10 Mississippi Democratic primary voters are black per preliminary exit poll results, which would be a record if it holds. #MSprimary
— Ryan Struyk (@ryanstruyk) March 8, 2016
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
Welp, Clinton would likely win then.
Dreher at TAC has been trying to explain how Trump is the fault of both Republicans and Democrats because of course…
A charming letter he posted on his front page:
My main reason is anger at the two-party system and the horrible presidencies of Obama and Bush. But I’m also furious at political correctness on campus and in the media.
I’m angry at forced diversity and constant, frequently unjustified complaints about racism/sexism/homophobia/lack of trans rights. I’m particularly angry at social justice warriors and my main reason to vote Trump is to see the looks on your faces when he wins.
It’s not that I like Trump. It’s that I hate those who can’t stand him. I want them to suffer the shock of knowing all their torrents of blog posts and Tumblr bitch-fests and “I just can’t …” and accusations of mansplaining didn’t actually matter. That they’re still losing. And that things are not getting better for them. They’re getting worse.
If only we didn’t have college kids and that uppity black guy in the White House, this wouldn’t be necessary amirite?
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JUST IN: Attorney General Lynch asks White House to take her out of any consideration for SCOTUS - @ABCPolitics pic.twitter.com/Vl0nWmuaQk
— ABC News (@ABC) March 8, 2016
re: #3 Aunty Entity Dragon
Dreher at TAC has been trying to explain how Trump is the fault of both Republicans and Democrats because of course…
A charming letter he posted on his front page:
If only we didn’t have college kids and that uppity black guy in the White House, this wouldn’t be necessary amirite?
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Look what you did by demanding people of all backgrounds be treated with respect, you made me embrace a bigoted fuckstickle!
Sanders files a suit against the Ohio secretary of state to allow 17-year-olds to vote https://t.co/xmJQ7gRRxJ pic.twitter.com/LU3y1augAj
— CNN Politics (@CNNPolitics) March 8, 2016
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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The one good thing (I can think of off-hand) my governor has done is to allow 17 year-olds to vote in a primary if they’ll be 18 in time for the general.
re: #10 Nyet
LOL!
Well the state was allowing seventeen year olds who will be eighteen by November to vote. I have no problem with that. I would have liked that in 2005.
JUST IN: Michigan struggling with overwhelming ballot demand in primaries https://t.co/zYFE0nRVaF pic.twitter.com/QRfjrKSVCV
— The Hill (@thehill) March 8, 2016
re: #12 wrenchwench
The one good thing (I can think of off-hand) my governor has done is to allow 17 year-olds to vote in a primary if they’ll be 18 in time for the general.
Right. I’m all for that.
re: #11 Nyet
No, the Ku Klux Klan Has Never, Ever Been a ‘Leftist’ Organization
The people who call the Klan leftist are the ideological descendants of the Klan’s supporters.
re: #13 HappyWarrior
Oh, I misread that tweet to say the opposite :P
@LorettaLynch says she’s grateful for those who suggested her for #Scotus vacancy but she wants to focus on “urgent issues” @ Justice Dept.
— Carrie Johnson (@johnson_carrie) March 8, 2016
re: #6 HappyWarrior
Too bad, she’d be good.
Well, Cornyn basically said any nominee is going to get tarred and feathered for all the world to see. Who wants that kind of scrutiny? It’s way beyond asking about experience and prior judicial opinions.
re: #20 MsJ
Well, Cornyn basically said any nominee is going to get tarred and feathered for all the world to see. Who wants that kind of scrutiny? It’s way beyond asking about experience and prior judicial opinions.
Yeah it’s not an enviable position at all. Fucking Republicans.
re: #12 wrenchwench
One of the features of the Scottish independence referendum a couple of years ago was that 16-year-olds were permitted to vote; the normal voting age for elections is 18. The case for this exception was made that they were going to have to live with the decision to leave the UK, if it came to that, for longer than anyone else.
Interviews and research later showed that people younger than 18 who voted took it very seriously and generally did not treat it as a joke. This has led to some pressure to move the age limits down to 16 for all other elections in the future. It’s not happened yet but the experiment was a success.
re: #23 Nojay UK
One of the features of the Scottish independence referendum a couple of years ago was that 16-year-olds were permitted to vote; the normal voting age for elections is 18. The case for this exception was made that they were going to have to live with the decision to leave the UK, if it came to that, for longer than anyone else.
Interviews and research later showed that people younger than 18 who voted took it very seriously and generally did not treat it as a joke. This has led to some pressure to move the age limits down to 16 for all other elections in the future. It’s not happened yet but the experiment was a success.
I’m actually open to that too. Really wanted to vote in 2004 but because of my late birthday I could not. Yet I had plenty of classmates who could bring 18 already could even though most of them didn’t have my political interests.
re: #23 Nojay UK
Philosophically, I have some issue with allowing citizens to vote long before they’ve completed the length of schooling we’ve decided they need to be basically functional adults.
re: #3 Aunty Entity Dragon
He says he’s angry about “forced diversity”—WTF does that even mean? I’m gonna guess he means “forced tolerance” of anti-discrimination laws. A guy can’t even abuse or discriminate against the people he’s uncomfortable with anymore.
Such tyranny. //
re: #25 Testy Toad T
Philosophically, I have some issue with allowing citizens to vote long before they’ve completed the length of schooling we’ve decided they need to be basically functional adults.
Well there’s a quagmire there. You do have a sizable amount of 18 year old high school seniors in November.
re: #14 Backwoods_Sleuth
But of course.
Multiple callers at Plainfield Township Precinct No. 3, for example, reported that Democratic presidential primary ballots had run out there.
The shortage occurred after the precinct’s ballots were sent to another one by mistake, ABC’s local affiliate continued. The precinct lacked ballots for over two hours, it added, forcing polling places to turn many would-be voters away.
I’d expect little ease from Snyder at this point. I’m starting to wonder if tying his shoes is too hard for him to do properly.
re: #8 Backwoods_Sleuth
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Nothing like waiting till the last moment. Good job planning ahead, Bernie.
re: #25 Testy Toad T
I graduated from High School at 16…
re: #26 CuriousLurker
He says he’s angry about “forced diversity”—WTF does that even mean? I’m gonna guess he means “forced tolerance” of anti-discrimination laws. A guy can’t even abuse or discriminate against the people he’s uncomfortable with anymore.
Such tyranny. //
I mean it’s an attack on my freedom that I can’t refuse to serve you because you’re Muslim. Downright Hitlerian.//
re: #27 HappyWarrior
Oh, it certainly is, and I’m not saying I wouldn’t consider extending the vote to 17- or 16-year olds.
Really, we should just let people vote exclusively if they agree with me on every position.
re: #18 Backwoods_Sleuth
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In other words, she don’t want no part of the impending shitshow that filling Scalia’s seat is sure to be. Can’t say as I blame her.
Crossing my fingers in Kentucky that this holds up:
The first election results are trickling in. Watch live here: https://t.co/Uq8zkYgLpW #kyelect pic.twitter.com/cMr8Cylxot
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 8, 2016
re: #32 Testy Toad T
Oh, it certainly is, and I’m not saying I wouldn’t consider extending the vote to 17- or 16-year olds.
Really, we should just let people vote exclusively if they agree with me on every position.
All good. Honestly 16 I think may be reasonable. It’s the age many get their first job, car, and start getting ready for college.
re: #25 Testy Toad T
Philosophically, I have some issue with allowing citizens to vote long before they’ve completed the length of schooling we’ve decided they need to be basically functional adults.
Or before their brain has finished developing.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
All good. Honestly 16 I think may be reasonable. It’s the age many get their first job, car, and start getting ready for college.
Although we don’t allow them to enlist in the military until 17 (with parental consent) or 18 (alone).
I dunno, there’s really no right answer here I don’t think, but neither does the issue keep me up at night.
re: #37 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Or before their brain has finished developing.
Well, in that case we wouldn’t have any voters before the age of 30.
re: #37 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Or before their brain has finished developing.
Doesn’t science say something like age 25 on that?
re: #26 CuriousLurker
He says he’s angry about “forced diversity”—WTF does that even mean?
Brown v. Board of Education?
re: #38 Testy Toad T
Although we don’t allow them to enlist in the military until 17 (with parental consent) or 18 (alone).
I dunno, there’s really no right answer here I don’t think, but neither does the issue keep me up at night.
True points. It’s not a simple answer. I’m okay with it being 18 but I’d be okay with 16. 14 would be pushing it IMO.
re: #36 HappyWarrior
All good. Honestly 16 I think may be reasonable. It’s the age many get their first job, car, and start getting ready for college.
When I was in high school, I teased a friend for being so engrossed in politics at age 15. He said he was right to be concerned because the Vietnam War would still be happening when he turned 18 and he could be drafted. 15 is a bit young, but I could support a 16 year old voting age.
re: #26 CuriousLurker
He says he’s angry about “forced diversity”—WTF does that even mean? I’m gonna guess he means “forced tolerance” of anti-discrimination laws. A guy can’t even abuse or discriminate against the people he’s uncomfortable with anymore.
Such tyranny. //
The peple who post over at Dreher’s site tend to think that having to sublet apartments to GLBT people or serve or employee them in any way is gubmint tyranny and a vilation of mah relijus freedumb
Hence, Dreher posted an interview with a Texas congressional evangelical candidate who is running in response to those gheys getting the right to marry. Natch, the guy is a nutbag and a young earth creationist. This was pointed out to Rod…who got very, very testy as is his want when he is challenged in his own combox:
[NFR: Whether or not a Congressional candidate believes in Young Earth Creationism is a deal-breaker only to militant atheists, readers of P.Z. Myers and Jerry Coyne, and other cranks. I am not a Young Earth Creationist, but I’d vote for one in a heartbeat if he or she were right on the issues that really mattered, and effective. … — RD]
So, a YEC lunatic is fine with Dreher as long as he/she sticks it to the gheys and the “trannies”.
Also, defenders of science in schools are “cranks”.
Of course, this from a guy who keeps telling the world about his knowledge of univocity, nominalism and (insert Greek philosophy term here) since Medieval theology and philosophy were the high point of mankind’s intellectual achievement in Dreherland.
re: #39 thedopefishlives
Well, in that case we wouldn’t have any voters before the age of 30.
Well I’m fucked.
re: #39 thedopefishlives
Well, in that case we wouldn’t have any voters before the age of 30.
I dunno, I knew a few folks in school whose brains had stopped developing at a much younger age…
re: #43 wrenchwench
When I was in high school, I teased a friend for being so engrossed in politics at age 15. He said he was right to be concerned because the Vietnam War would still be happening when he turned 18 and he could be drafted. 15 is a bit young, but I could support a 16 year old voting age.
Right. Same page.
re: #45 HappyWarrior
Well I’m fucked.
I had to laugh; my therapist was telling me that a man’s brain doesn’t finish developing the part that connects actions with consequences until age 30 or 31. I took a mental look back across my life’s timeline and said, yup, that sounds just about right.
Anyhow from only landowning white guys to all over 18 year olds is good. Hell my own grandmother would have remembered the day women got suffrage. I imagine her first vote was for FDR.
re: #48 thedopefishlives
I had to laugh; my therapist was telling me that a man’s brain doesn’t finish developing the part that connects actions with consequences until age 30 or 31. I took a mental look back across my life’s timeline and said, yup, that sounds just about right.
Yeah I’m still impulsive too.
- cats will be cats no matter the size pic.twitter.com/UbL6EJgT9l
— Köksal Akın (@Koksalakn) March 8, 2016
I was just visited by the judge who decided the case against the woman who hit me (and his wife). I worked on their tandem 20 years ago or so. When they were leaving, I shook his hand and said I thought he did a great job. He said ‘You did the great job.’ That’s the best compliment ever.
re: #41 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Brown v. Board of Education?
Could be. He’s bitching about Bush & Obama though and Brown v. Board of Ed was a long time ago. I’m guessing a large part of his dislike is LGBT tolerance.
Says something when your kid’s school feels need to tell students that the language/tone of presidential debates is unacceptable in school.
— Peter Baker (@peterbakernyt) March 8, 2016
re: #11 Nyet
No, the Ku Klux Klan Has Never, Ever Been a ‘Leftist’ Organization
Thanks for the link. It jibes with the comment I made at the time, kind of pissed me off Van Jones didn’t handle it.
re: #52 HappyWarrior
Here, kitty, kitty.
Never stare at a tiger in the eye. I found that it really, really pisses them off in a serious way.
I got charged in the viewing enclosure at the Greensboro Science Center. The tiger was across the habitat and ran at me. He hit the plexiglass just a few feet from where I was standing (astonished) while two other women in the viewing area ran out screaming.
The cat must have taken it as a territorial challenge or something, but I never did it again.
re: #57 Aunty Entity Dragon
Never stare at a tiger in the eye. I found that it really, really pisses them off in a serious way.
I got charged in the viewing enclosure at the Greensboro Science Center. The tiger was across the habitat and ran at me. He hit the plexiglass just a few feet from where I was standing (astonished) while two other women in the viewing area ran out screaming.
The cat must have taken it is a territorial challenge or something, but I never did it again.
So you’re saying my poor eye contact skills may be an advantage if I ever trained tigers. Interesting though, I didn’t know that about them.
re: #44 Aunty Entity Dragon
The peple who post over at Dreher’s site tend to think that having to sublet apartments to GLBT people or serve or employee them in any way is gubmint tyranny and a vilation of mah relijus feedumb
Hence, Dreher posted an interview with a Texas congressional evangelical candidate who is running in response to those gheys getting the right to marry. natch, the guy is a nutbag and a young earth creationist. This was pointed out to Rod…who got very, very testy as is his want when he is challenged in his own combox:
So, a YEC lunatic is fine with Dreher as long as he/she sticks it to the gheys and the “trannies”.
BTW, a great example of a proper religious test. A YEC? No, thanks.
OT: Here’s my current favourite new song. Reminds me a bit of of Jonathan Richmond & The Modern Lovers “Roadrunner” when I was a young(er) man.
re: #58 Nyet
Read this. You need to read this.
That is too delicious. They don’t say Trump supporters are stupid for nothing.
The turnout in Flint is the highest it’s been in at least 20 years, City Clerk Inez Brown tells @MSNBC.
— tonydokoupil (@tonydokoupil) March 8, 2016
Roy Warden is sick of the Finicum patriots: “Oh You IGNORANT, Red Necked HICKS!” https://t.co/6yv8SDxYAa
— HGTomato (@HGTomato) March 8, 2016
re: #44 Aunty Entity Dragon
The Earth being very old is a fact only slightly less well established than the fact of the sky being blue. Being okay with a young-earth creationist is being okay with electing someone who cannot reconcile themselves with obvious, flagrant, smack-you-in-the-face reality.
Apparently finding this objectionable makes me a crank.
Rebecca Bradley compared abortion to the Holocaust in student column
In a college newspaper column, Supreme Court Justice and candidate Rebecca Bradley compared the practice of abortion to the Holocaust and slavery and criticized it in a range of cases, including to save the life of the mother.
Bradley wrote in 1992 for the Marquette Tribune that the killing of fetuses was similar to the less than human treatment once accorded to Jews and blacks, providing a window into her views on abortion that candidates to the state’s highest court rarely offer.
“Where does any difference lie between mutilating a baby in the womb (a legal act) and murdering one’s child outside of the womb (an obviously illegal act)… Why do some create an absurd distinction between torturing a baby in a uterus and torturing a baby in a crib?” Bradley wrote.
“Do not be persuaded by any pleas for a woman’s right to control her body or ‘choose’ to be pregnant or not; they have no moral or ethical basis.”
re: #58 Nyet
Read this. You need to read this.
Too much like all the RWNJ employers who claimed to lay off the company liberal as soon as Obamacare wrecked their businesses.
In such a scenario, it would have played better simply to walk up for a pleasant chat then leave her wondering.
re: #26 CuriousLurker
He says he’s angry about “forced diversity”—WTF does that even mean? I’m gonna guess he means “forced tolerance” of anti-discrimination laws. A guy can’t even abuse or discriminate against the people he’s uncomfortable with anymore.
Such tyranny. //
That and his railing against SJWs comes straight out of the “mantra” from white nationalist groups. I’m surprised that he didn’t go all-in with the “white genocide” that usually accompanies those statements.
Hope this happens.
Democrats Are Now Favored To Win Back The Senate Thanks To Trump and Cruz https://t.co/wzAjHW3zaC #TakeBackTheSenate #VoteBlue
— Thomas Reich (@gollum1419_g) March 8, 2016
re: #54 CuriousLurker
Could be. He’s bitching about Bush & Obama though and Brown v. Board of Ed was a long time ago.
It’s Rod Dreher. He might very well be whinging about the Council of Nicea.
re: #69 Decatur Deb
Too much like all the RWNJ employers who claimed to lay off the company liberal as soon as Obamacare wrecked their businesses.
In such a scenario, it would have played better simply to walk up for a pleasant chat and leave her wondering.
Well, she was absent from her workplace for two hours.
(BTW it could, of course, also be a facebook hoax, but the diarist has corresponded with the author and thinks it’s legit).
re: #66 Tigger2
I like it, a little proof reading would help his cause though as a simple typo looks like he is contradicting his whole message.
Every day in America, innocent people are arrested; sometimes innocent
people are sent to prison. But if you “drive off” law enforcement at the point of a gun, or “drive away” from law enforcement trying to arrest
you, you WILL be arrested like Clive Bundy, or unlawfully executed like LaVoy Finicum!
/rant
re: #68 Amory Blaine
Rebecca Bradley compared abortion to the Holocaust in student column
More fun from Wisconsin Supreme Court nominee Rebecca Bradley…
The column and letters to the editor include these statements:
■ “Perhaps AIDS Awareness should seek to educate us with their misdirected compassion for the degenerates who basically commit suicide through their behavior.”
■ “But the homosexuals and drug addicts who do essentially kill themselves and others through their own behavior deservedly receive none of my sympathy.”
■ “This brings me to my next point — why is a student government on a Catholic campus attempting to bring legitimacy to an abnormal sexual preference?”
■ “Heterosexual sex is very healthy in a loving martial relationship. Homosexual sex, however, kills.”
■ “I will certainly characterize whomever transferred their infected blood (to a transfusion recipient) a homosexual or drug-addicted degenerate and a murderer.”
■ “We’ve just had an election (in 1992) which proves the majority of voters are either totally stupid or entirely evil.”
■ Clinton “supports the Freedom of Choice Act, which will allow women to mutilate and dismember their helpless children through their ninth month of pregnancy. Anyone who could consciously vote for such a murderer is obviously immoral.”
re: #58 Nyet
Heh, just read it. That was pretty good.
re: #74 Amory Blaine
I like it, a little proof reading would help his cause though as a simple typo looks like he is contradicting his whole message.
/rant
He’s one of them, I’m sure he isn’t the most intelligent person around.
re: #33 HappyWarrior
17 years 11 months here.
Hey, back in the days when we wore onions on our belts, the voting age was 21. I turned 21 in 1969, so had to wait until I was 24 in 1972 to vote in a presidential election.
re: #57 Aunty Entity Dragon
Never stare at a tiger in the eye. I found that it really, really pisses them off in a serious way.
I got charged in the viewing enclosure at the Greensboro Science Center. The tiger was across the habitat and ran at me. He hit the plexiglass just a few feet from where I was standing (astonished) while two other women in the viewing area ran out screaming.
The cat must have taken it is a territorial challenge or something, but I never did it again.
That’s very aggressive behavior in the animal world. It leads to fightin’ time.
There’s a dog temperament test to stare down the dog. They pass if they look away first. When I’m having a battle of wills with my dogs I always state them down, always, because I don’t want them to get it in their little minds, for as much as one second, that they are alpha, because they’re not. I am. Full stop.
The longest starer is that damned dachshund. That 9 pound demon will stare the hell out of me. 5 minutes one time. Stare at a dog for 5 minutes. It feels like…an hour. But they have to be the one who breaks away first.
So, long story longer, probably best to not do that again. :-)
re: #73 Nyet
Well, she was absent from her workplace for two hours.
(BTW it could, of course, also be a facebook hoax, but the diarist has corresponded with the author and thinks it’s legit).
Who knows…great story no matter. :-)
re: #72 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
It’s Rod Dreher. He might very well be whinging about the Council of Nicea.
He was honest to God complaining about William of Occam and his threat to univocity…whatever the fuck that is.
Yeah…that William of Occam.
re: #78 BeachDem
Hey, back in the days when we wore onions on our belts, the voting age was 21. I turned 21 in 1969, so had to wait until I was 24 in 1972 to vote in a presidential election.
You had the same thing as my grandmother who was born in late November 1912.
re: #75 Aunty Entity Dragon
Wow, she seems nice. //
re: #85 CuriousLurker
Wow, she seems nice. //
Just the strict constructionist Wisconsin needs. They should just appoint a random badger they find near the UW campus. They’d probably render more sane rulings. I mean yeah you may have some biting but who’s to say this nutcase doesn’t bit either.
re: #75 Aunty Entity Dragon
She is still an extremist, as recent as 2006:
Rebecca Bradley argued on contraception bill
State Supreme Court Justice Rebecca Bradley argued for legislation in 2006 allowing pharmacists to refuse to give women contraception on moral grounds.
A column she wrote for the weekly newspaper MKE gives one of the clearest views of Bradley’s position on a social issue. In recent months, she has declined to talk about her thoughts on abortion and other issues, saying judges and justices shouldn’t take positions on public policies.
Gov. Scott Walker in September appointed Bradley to the high court. She faces three opponents in the spring election for a 10-year term on the court.
In the 2006 column, she argued for the bill and criticized the “pro-abortion movement” for “attempting to prohibit morally guided pharmacists from freely exercising their religious beliefs.”
re: #75 Aunty Entity Dragon
My friends across the river are utterly and completely screwed.
Lily has a big heart and a great sense of humor; she starts her own statement with “SEX CHANGE SHOCKER—WACHOWSKI BROTHERS NOW SISTERS!!!” :D
— Jen Richards (@SmartAssJen) March 8, 2016
re: #79 MsJ
That’s very aggressive behavior in the animal world. It leads to fightin’ time.
There’s a dog temperament test to stare down the dog. They pass if they look away first.
One way of establishing dominance with a dog is to evict them from their favourite resting place and occupy it yourself for a few minutes. Make it clear you’re comfortable there, settle down, wriggle a bit. The dog will watch you VERY closely. After a while graciously get up and let them back in. Do this a few times and they know you’re the boss.
So they said they were unarmed in Lavoys truck.
Under the rear seats of Finicum’s vehicle: 2 assault rifles… and some notebooks. pic.twitter.com/XftiKiVLcv
— Paul D (@Paulmd199) March 8, 2016
re: #84 Nyet
I had to look it up and I still can’t figure out WTF bee Dreher has in his bonnet on that one.
Basically, Dreher hates the modern world as it exists and he really hates the Enlightenment. He say that a lot.
Imagine his shock last month when he visited Jefferson’s home at Monticello and didn’t realize that Jefferson was the epitome of Enlightenment rationality and that our Revolution was largely predicated on Enlightenment principle.
At least Dreher had enough self awareness to admit he likely would have been a Tory and opposed the Revolution back at that time.
But Dreher really is a rare kind of strange bird who is utterly at war with modern thought and the scientific method, and who openly admits he would rather live in the time of the Tudors (where gays and heretics knew their place…roasting over a fire) because their sense of time was (I kid you not) “sacramental”.
re: #93 Tigger2
So they said they were unarmed in Lavoys truck.
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They were white people who weren’t actively aiming a weapon at anyone, which means they were unarmed.
re: #74 Amory Blaine
I like it, a little proof reading would help his cause though as a simple typo looks like he is contradicting his whole message.
/rant
That’s not a typo. It’s what he believes. He’s a crazy person, who has a slightly better grasp on reality than the Bundy crowd.
re: #89 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
Bless her heart.
I just don’t get hateful people like that. They always seem to want to impose their views & religious rules on others, yet they’re the first howl in outrage if it’s done to them.
re: #94 Aunty Entity Dragon
Why doesn’t he just move to Russia then?
re: #97 CuriousLurker
I just don’t get hateful people like that. They always seem to want to impose their views & religious rules on others, yet they’re the first howl in outrage if it’s done to them.
Because they’re RIGHT, goddamn it.
No, I’m not exaggerating, either: This is their thinking. Because their particular brand of religious bigotry is the “right” one, they should be allowed to do what they want, and fuck everybody else.
re: #94 Aunty Entity Dragon
I know the type. Though those are usually loudly (as opposed to slyly) racist, sexist etc.
re: #94 Aunty Entity Dragon
I had to look it up and I still can’t figure out WTF bee Dreher has in his bonnet on that one.
Basically, Dreher hates the modern world as it exists and he really hates the Enlightenment. He say that a lot.
Imagine his shock last month when he visited Jefferson’s home at Monticello and didn’t realize that Jefferson was the epitome of Enlightenment rationality and that our Revolution was largely predicated on Enlightenment principle.
At least Dreher had enough self awareness to admit he likely would have been a Tory and opposed the Revolution back at that time.
But Dreher really is a rare kind of strange bird who is utterly at war with modern thought and the scientific method, and who openly admits he would rather live in the time of the Tudors (where gays and heretics knew their place…roasting over a fire) because their sense of time was (I kid you not) “sacramental”.
My favorite scene in the movie Timeline was that right after they get teleported back to the past, people show up and kill some of them, beheading at least one. Forget the idea of a quaint and simple past.
re: #99 thedopefishlives
Because they’re RIGHT, goddamn it.
No, I’m not exaggerating, either: This is their thinking. Because their particular brand of religious bigotry is the “right” one, they should be allowed to do what they want, and fuck everybody else.
One of life’s great jokes is that clueless people are extremely self-confident, much more so than intelligent people who know their limits.
re: #97 CuriousLurker
I just don’t get hateful people like that. They always seem to want to impose their views & religious rules on others, yet they’re the first howl in outrage if it’s done to them.
It’s simple: they’re hypocrites.
re: #102 No Country For Old Haters
One of life’s great jokes is that clueless people are extremely self-confident, much more so than intelligent people who know their limits.
Look up the Dunning-Kruger effect. It explains a lot, especially as applied to conspiracy theorists and wingnut bigots.
re: #61 Nyet
BTW, a great example of a proper religious test. A YEC? No, thanks.
Agreed. A young earth creationist is simply too irrational to be entrusted with any real-world responsibility, such as elected office.
Edited to add: This should be a religious test imposed by the voters.
re: #91 klys (maker of Silmarils)
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What are the odds of that? I hope she finds happiness. And i like the name Lily.
re: #96 No Country For Old Haters
That’s not a typo. It’s what he believes. He’s a crazy person, who has a slightly better grasp on reality than the Bundy crowd.
He didn’t get Bundy’s first name right. Clive. Not so much.
Near Jonesboro TX #txwx pic.twitter.com/yoYCbCaeUB
— Stas Speransky (@StasIsChasing) March 9, 2016
re: #109 HappyWarrior
Too fucking cold I bet.
Only us modern librul types have the ability to survive on the frozen tundra. Why do you think Minnesota is blue?
re: #98 Ziggy_TARDIS
Why doesn’t he just move to Russia then?
He has been slobbering over a novel on Russian mystical Medievalism called Laurus. I think I’ll pass.
He also gave Putin a tongue bath back during the Pussy Riot incident:
The West is post-Christian. We know that, or we should know that. Buchanan’s column highlights this reality. What an embarrassment that post-Soviet Russia, for all its grievous flaws, is, in important ways more conscious of its Christian history and character than the United States, a nation that still likes to think of itself as culturally Christian, but which is becoming ever more anti-Christian. That’s why I give 1.5 cheers to Putin. He is anti-liberal in ways that are morally objectionable, but also in ways that are morally praiseworthy. The Christians of the Middle East have a greater friend in Vladimir Putin than they do in Barack Obama — or that they did in George W. Bush, for that matter.
RW radio is in full damage control mode on her. “She was just a college kid, etc.” is the tactic of the day. Also, calling Kloppenburg ugly must be another one because that one was flung at me by a RWNJ co worker today (he likes to try to rattle me).
re: #108 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s a lot of car damaging hail!
re: #68 Amory Blaine
Rebecca Bradley compared abortion to the Holocaust in student column
Someone should make a graphic of pregnant women in concentration camp uniforms, imprisoned until they give birth, to show who are really the “Holocaust victims” in this scenario.
re: #110 thedopefishlives
Only us modern librul types have the ability to survive on the frozen tundra. Why do you think Minnesota is blue?
I dunno. It doesn’t explain Alaska and how I could never handle your winters. I think I must have been from the tropics in a past life since I am a complete wimp when it comes to the cold.
re: #112 Amory Blaine
RW radio is in full damage control mode on her. “She was just a college kid, etc.” is the tactic of the day. Also, calling Kloppenburg ugly must be another one because that one was flung at me by a RWNJ co worker today (he likes to try to rattle me).
I recall the same strategy being used with Bob McDonnell here in Va.
re: #115 HappyWarrior
I dunno. It doesn’t explain Alaska and how I could never handle your winters. I think I must have been from the tropics in a past life since I am a complete wimp when it comes to the cold.
Ironically, I’m the opposite. I could never live in the South. Living without snow and cold would probably kill me. As for Alaska, I blame the lack of sunlight. Buncha weirdos.
re: #111 Aunty Entity Dragon
He has been slobbering over a novel on Russian mystical Medievalism called Laurus. I think I’ll pass.
He also gave Putin a tongue bath back during the Pussy Riot incident:
The fucked up thing is I think Putin probably could careless about who’s fucking who but he knows how deeply prevalent homophobia is especially in Russian Orthodox society so he uses it. Putin would attack the church if he thought it could help him maintain control of the masses.
re: #103 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate
It’s simple: they’re hypocrites.
No…they are supremacists.
Dreher et al believe Christianity should have special privilege over other beliefs because it is foundational to Western Civilization and according to people like Alistair Mcintyre, we lose the whole damned thing if we do not have a common understanding of ethical, moral and religious behavior.
Of course, that flies in the face of what our country stands for, but that doesn’t stop the supremacists.
re: #117 thedopefishlives
Ironically, I’m the opposite. I could never live in the South. Living without snow and cold would probably kill me. As for Alaska, I blame the lack of sunlight. Buncha weirdos.
I’ve done Albuquerque and Houston in the summer, and I only survived thanks to modern technology such as air conditioning and ice cream.
re: #117 thedopefishlives
Ironically, I’m the opposite. I could never live in the South. Living without snow and cold would probably kill me. As for Alaska, I blame the lack of sunlight. Buncha weirdos.
You could live here in NoVa just fine but yeah the deep South would be a struggle. I don’t like it too hot either but I prefer it hotter. I live to be able to go swimming in the pool or ocean on a hot summer’s day.
re: #82 Aunty Entity Dragon
He was honest to God complaining about William of Occam and his threat to univocity…whatever the fuck that is.
Yeah…that William of Occam.
Dreher really is a special kind of crank. The idea that human civilization reached its all-time intellectual peak in the 12th century and every development since then has been one error after another is unique.
re: #123 EPR-radar
Dreher really is a special kind of crank. The idea that human civilization reached its all-time intellectual peak in the 12th century and every development since then has been one error after another is unique.
He’s a cuckoo alright but not a cuckoo clock since those are secularist devil toys.
re: #102 No Country For Old Haters
One of life’s great jokes is that clueless people are extremely self-confident, much more so than intelligent people who know their limits.
That certainly explains at least one presidential candidate.
I continue to see little difference between the Christian right and the Islamic right when it comes to rhetoric and their beliefs about people who aren’t them/
re: #122 HappyWarrior
You could live here in NoVa just fine but yeah the deep South would be a struggle. I don’t like it too hot either but I prefer it hotter. I live to be able to go swimming in the pool or ocean on a hot summer’s day.
I’m really not a water person. Ironic to live in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and not be a waterbug, but there you have it. I also couldn’t handle cold and snow year-round either, so really, living in the temperate zones of the Midwest is ideal for me.
re: #93 Tigger2
So they said they were unarmed in Lavoys truck.
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re: #92 Nojay UK
One way of establishing dominance with a dog is to evict them from their favourite resting place and occupy it yourself for a few minutes. Make it clear you’re comfortable there, settle down, wriggle a bit. The dog will watch you VERY closely. After a while graciously get up and let them back in. Do this a few times and they know you’re the boss.
I think my younger cat has been doing that one with me. She’s recently taken to waiting for me to get out of bed to go turn off a light or get a drink of water or whatever, then she steals my spot—parks herself at the base of the pillows right smack in the middle of where I was lying and just looks at me when I come back.
Both my cats know that when I say “Excuse me,” it means they should move. I say it. Ignored. I sit down on the bed and start leaning towards the pillows (usually works). Ignored. I say it again, more forcefully this time. Ignored. Try to pick her up and move her. Glares, lays ears back and digs claws into mattress. WTF?
So I give up and lie down on my side with my arm bent so I don’t totally squish her. It can’t be that comfortable because I’m still putting some weight on her, but she’s unfazed. She’ll eventually dislodge herself when she is good & ready. I have no idea what that’s all about.
re: #127 thedopefishlives
I’m really not a water person. Ironic to live in the Land of 10,000 Lakes and not be a waterbug, but there you have it. I also couldn’t handle cold and snow year-round either, so really, living in the temperate zones of the Midwest is ideal for me.
I really would love to see Minnesota one day if only to see if people really sound like people in Fargo. Well not really, Minneopolis and St. Paul look like they could be fun cities to visit.
re: #114 The Vicious Babushka
Rebecca Bradley is just not a good person. I hope Kloppenburg wins, she’s pragmatic and smart with good law experience.
re: #119 HappyWarrior
I think you are not far from the truth there.
re: #131 HappyWarrior
I really would love to see Minnesota one day if only to see if people really sound like people in Fargo. Well not really, Minneopolis and St. Paul look like they could be fun cities to visit.
Yah, sure, ya betcha. If you ever swing by, drop me a line, I don’t live far from the airport and a meetup would be simple to arrange.
re: #131 HappyWarrior
I really would love to see Minnesota one day if only to see if people really sound like people in Fargo. Well not really, Minneopolis and St. Paul look like they could be fun cities to visit.
MSP is a lot of fun, and we can fake the accent if you ask really nicely.
re: #124 HappyWarrior
He’s a cuckoo alright but not a cuckoo clock since those are secularist devil toys.
I guess if you believe that God does not permit Special Holy People to rot after death, you can believe all kinds of interesting things…
Above is an image taken today of the incorrupt body of Archbishop Dmitri of Dallas. He died in the summer of 2011, and was buried unembalmed, according to Orthodox tradition. On Friday his body was disinterred for transferral to his new tomb in St. Seraphim Orthodox Cathedral in Dallas, which was his own. When the cemetery personnel opened his coffin, they found Vladyka Dmitri incorrupt.
That is to say, his body had not decayed. He has been buried for four and a half years under the Texas ground, and his body looks like it did the day he died.
This is a miracle. In Orthodox and Roman Catholic Christianity, it is seen as a sign that the deceased was, and is, a saint. If you read The Brothers Karamazov, you may remember that whether or not the deceased Elder Zosima was incorruptible was a feature of the narrative.
Forensic pathologists are wicked, deluded dupes in Dreherland.
re: #131 HappyWarrior
I really would love to see Minnesota one day if only to see if people really sound like people in Fargo. Well not really, Minneopolis and St. Paul look like they could be fun cities to visit.
Some of the folks in Wisconsin have a bit of that Fargo speech going on.
yay! One of four, at least. Dems hold the advantage in the Kentucky House.
House 98th District special election called for Democrat Lew Nicholls, meaning the #kyga16 House won’t flip (for now).
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 9, 2016
re: #135 withak
MSP is a lot of fun, and we can fake the accent if you ask really nicely.
Had a friend of mine who arrived in town from China, looking for a job Stateside. He had originally gone to Chicago, but MSP was a second option so he came out to visit and do some interviews. He was impressed by how tight-knit the community is and how clean and beautiful the Cities are.
re: #126 HappyWarrior
I continue to see little difference between the Christian right and the Islamic right when it comes to rhetoric and their beliefs about people who aren’t them/
Hey, our side burned people at the stake for 300 years instead of beheading. Better public entertainment value.
re: #129 CuriousLurker
I think my younger cat has been doing that one with me. She’s recently taken to waiting for me to get out of bed to go turn off a light or get a drink of water or whatever, then she steals my spot—parks herself at the base of the pillows right smack in the middle of where I was lying and just looks at me when I come back.
Both my cats know that when I say “Excuse me,” it means they should move. I say it. Ignored. I sit down on the bed and start leaning towards the pillows (usually works). Ignored. I say it again, more forcefully this time. Ignored. Try to pick her up and move her. Glares, lays ears back and digs claws into mattress. WTF?
So I give up and lie down on my side with my arm bent so I don’t totally squish her. It can’t be that comfortable because I’m still putting some weight on her, but she’s unfazed. She’ll eventually dislodge herself when she is good & ready. I have no idea what that’s all about.
All my dogs do that. I thought they just liked the spot because it was warm and smelled like me.
Mine always get up. Sit on em (gently!!) once and they’ll forever move when asked. :-)
re: #138 ObserverArt
Some of the folks in Wisconsin have a bit of that Fargo speech going on.
Yeah they do. I really shouldn’t throw shade on accents though. I probably have a slight Southern one.
re: #120 Aunty Entity Dragon
No…they are supremacists.
Dreher et al believe Christianity should have special privilege over other beliefs because it is foundational to Western Civilization and according to people like Alistair Mcintyre, we lose the whole damned thing if we do not have a common understanding of ethical, moral and religious behavior.
Of course, that flies in the face of what our country stands for, but that doesn’t stop the supremacists.
The Athenian, Spartan, and Roman delegations have requested the floor to speak on this matter.
re: #134 thedopefishlives
Yah, sure, ya betcha. If you ever swing by, drop me a line, I don’t live far from the airport and a meetup would be simple to arrange.
re: #135 withak
MSP is a lot of fun, and we can fake the accent if you ask really nicely.
Sounds good. I’ve known a couple people from the region over the years. Nice people.
re: #93 Tigger2
So they said they were unarmed in Lavoys truck.
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I looked at the other pictures to either side.
Lavoy was a fucking tool. You have to be a double-double-with-cheese kind of mentally crippled idiot to carry a full-sized 9mm stuffed cattywampus into a soft snaggy cotton liner pocket.
All that fantasizing about blowing away law enforcement in his stupid book, and he couldn’t even be bothered to practice what he preached.
Which is fine, because that meant he fumbled his draw on LEOs, but still… Tactical facepalm. God, those guys were all so dumb, I could believe they were a conspiracy to make ranchers look stupid.
re: #144 KGxvi
The Athenian, Spartan, and Roman delegations have requested the floor to speak on this matter.
+100000
re: #133 Nyet
I think you are not far from the truth there.
I must confess that I sort of got the idea from the Putin based character in House of Cards but I’m convinced that he definitely sees how religion has worked as a tool for the masses not just in Russian history but world history.
Get ready for the Next Big Outrageous Outrage…
President Obama to skip Nancy Reagan’s funeral in order to attend South by Southwest
President Barack Obama has opted to attend South by Southwest over the funeral for former first lady Nancy Reagan, reports The Washington Post.
As previously reported, President Obama is scheduled to give a keynote speech during SXSW Interactive on Friday, March 11th, the same day Reagan will be laid to rest in Simi Valley, California.
First lady Michelle Obama will attend the funeral on her husband’s behalf, as will Democratic presidential candidate and former secretary of state Hillary Clinton.
Another house seat goes to the Dems
In House district 62 (Owen Co. and parts of Fayette, Scott Cos.)
Chuck Tackett (D) 2,867
Phillip Pratt (R) 2,599
100% of vote reporting— Bill Goodman (@BillKET) March 9, 2016
re: #131 HappyWarrior
I really would love to see Minnesota one day if only to see if people really sound like people in Fargo. Well not really, Minneopolis and St. Paul look like they could be fun cities to visit.
Nothing personal to Mr. Fish, but St. Paul rolls up the sidewalks at 4:30 pm.
re: #151 MsJ
Nothing personal to Mr. Fish, but St. Paul rolls up the sidewalks at 4:30 pm.
Very true, but Minneapolis is definitely much more lively up by the river.
re: #152 thedopefishlives
Very true, but Minneapolis is definitely much more lively up by the river.
The Mississippi there too yah?
re: #117 thedopefishlives
Ironically, I’m the opposite. I could never live in the South. Living without snow and cold would probably kill me. As for Alaska, I blame the lack of sunlight. Buncha weirdos.
Snow, like nature generally, should be experienced only from a distance, preferably from behind a glass wall with an adult beverage in hand. Unless there are ski lifts, then snow should be experienced at high speeds barreling down a mountain to the adult beverage behind a glass wall.
re: #149 makeitstop
Get ready for the Next Big Outrageous Outrage…
President Obama to skip Nancy Reagan’s funeral in order to attend South by Southwest
Oh boy, here we go. *sigh*
re: #154 KGxvi
Snow, like nature generally, should be experienced only from a distance, preferably from behind a glass wall with an adult beverage in hand. Unless there are ski lifts, then snow should be experienced at high speeds barreling down a mountain to the adult beverage behind a glass wall.
Ha yes.
re: #137 Aunty Entity Dragon
A normal thing in the two traditional churches.
Of course there are all kinds of natural reasons as to why bodies don’t decay (e.g. adipocere), but fuck that: it’s a miracle!
re: #157 Nyet
A normal thing in the two traditional churches.
Of course there are all kinds of natural reasons as to why bodies don’t decay (e.g. adipocere), but fuck that: it’s a miracle!
Those saint bodies that don’t decay are just creepy. And of course being Russian there’s also St. Vladimir of Lenin who is coming up on nearly 100 years.
re: #153 HappyWarrior
The Mississippi there too yah?
Yah. The Mighty Mississippi has her headwaters up to the north. I actually need to go visit Itasca sometime soon. One thing I love about this state, that has really sucked me in, is the bounty of outdoor space for those of us who live beneath the stars.
re: #159 thedopefishlives
Yah. The Mighty Mississippi has her headwaters up to the north. I actually need to go visit Itasca sometime soon. One thing I love about this state, that has really sucked me in, is the bounty of outdoor space for those of us who live beneath the stars.
Man it’s amazing how big that river is. I live near the Potomac which looks like a pond compared to that.
re: #144 KGxvi
The Athenian, Spartan, and Roman delegations have requested the floor to speak on this matter.
Does Western civilization include Hitler? Was Christianity foundational for that? Just asking for a Trump supporter.
re: #159 thedopefishlives
… is the bounty of outdoor space for those of us who live beneath the stars…
… and among the mosquitos.
re: #157 Nyet
A normal thing in the two traditional churches.
Of course there are all kinds of natural reasons as to why bodies don’t decay (e.g. adipocere), but fuck that: it’s a miracle!
He keeps daring WEIRD (western educated industrialized rich democratic) readers to explain how it ISN’T A MIRACLE in the combox.
Forensic biology! How the hell does it work?
Trump spokesperson on CBS… as annoying as Katrina Pierson, but without the bullets.
re: #161 HappyWarrior
Man it’s amazing how big that river is. I live near the Potomac which looks like a pond compared to that.
You don’t really get a sense of scale until you’re standing on one of the river bridges in St. Paul. And that’s at a fairly narrow point; I’ve been over the crossings down in the Iowa-Illinois area. How those guys down in Louisiana handle it, I don’t even know.
A good article from the Dallas Observer, which reaffirms my hope that Trump goes the distance…
Listen, Lindsey Graham (University of South Carolina School of Law) and Mitt Romney (Harvard Law and Business schools) and all of you bushes types (Andover and Yale), you think that Ted Cruz (Harvard Law, Princeton Woodrow Wilson School of Public Affairs) must have been scoured and cured somehow of his father’s outer space political syndrome when he attended Ivy League schools.
Wow. You’ve got a lot of faith in the Ivy League. All we can tell you, here in Texas, is that you can take the boy out of outer space, but you can’t take the outer space out of the boy.
Are you not watching? Did you not notice last December when Cruz appeared on stage in Des Moines, Iowa — his father’s face bobbing behind him like a rain-dance mask — at a conference headed up by Pastor Kevin Swanson, who reiterated his call for the extermination of homosexuals?
In fact Cruz has been endorsed by — and has not renounced — virtually every frightening, apocalyptic, wackadoodle preacher in the land, from Mike Bickle of Kansas City, who preaches that God is going to “raise up” somebody in the End Times to hunt down all the Jews who have failed to convert to Christianity (big group), to Bob Vander Plaats of Iowa, who preaches that same-sex marriage is a Satanic plot to get people to marry their own children (theory with important missing synapses).
Then there is Phil Robertson, the ZZ Top-resembling reality TV personality from a show called Duck Dynasty, who denounces homosexuals as “wicked” and “evil” and sometimes takes the stage with Cruz while blowing urgently on a duck call.
Good read. Tell your friends.
re: #1 Backwoods_Sleuth
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re: #163 freetoken
… and among the mosquitos.
To our credit, our mosquitoes are only capable of carrying off small children.
re: #157 Nyet
A normal thing in the two traditional churches.
Of course there are all kinds of natural reasons as to why bodies don’t decay (e.g. adipocere), but fuck that: it’s a miracle!
Dallas guy did 4.5 years? Pffft. St Lucy Under Glass in Venice has been chilling since 304 AD. She moves a lot.
re: #150 Backwoods_Sleuth
Another house seat goes to the Dems
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A take away or a retention?
re: #157 Nyet
A normal thing in the two traditional churches.
Of course there are all kinds of natural reasons as to why bodies don’t decay (e.g. adipocere), but fuck that: it’s a miracle!
BTW, if you look up adipocere like I just did, by all means read the wiki entry, but do not—I repeat DO NOT—switch over to Google Images. E gad.
GOP gets one
In House 54 special election, Republican Daniel Elliott handily beat Democrat Bill Noelker, as KY GOP avoids sweep, but #NoFlip. #kyga16
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 9, 2016
Waiting on the 8th district results where the Dem has a huge lead.
State pundits are a bit stunned that Dems might get three out of four.
re: #167 thedopefishlives
You don’t really get a sense of scale until you’re standing on one of the river bridges in St. Paul. And that’s at a fairly narrow point; I’ve been over the crossings down in the Iowa-Illinois area. How those guys down in Louisiana handle it, I don’t even know.
Yeah I’d like to see it some day. I haven’t seen the midwest at all. I’ve had a couple layovers in Chicago and that’s it. Been out west a few times now.
re: #168 makeitstop
A good article from the Dallas Observer, which reaffirms my hope that Trump goes the distance…
Good read. Tell your friends.
Open letter to Caitlyn Jenner in the Daily Beast today. She is a Ted Cruz fan. She needs to be told that she would be in prison (along with me, my spouse and a lot of other people) if Ted Cruz had his way with the laws at the federal level.
What a dickhead. Very Presidential.
Trump wines, water, and steaks on display at the Trump press conference tonight. pic.twitter.com/iDYpo57XHZ
— Katy Tur (@KatyTurNBC) March 9, 2016
re: #170 thedopefishlives
To our credit, our mosquitoes are only capable of carrying off small children.
Did you know that “mosquito” means “a little mosque”? See?!!?
/
re: #168 makeitstop
A good article from the Dallas Observer, which reaffirms my hope that Trump goes the distance…
Good read. Tell your friends.
Cruz is scary.
re: #82 Aunty Entity Dragon
Dreher is one of those guys that gets on my nerves out of proportion to the harm he does. He is such an pseudointellectual middle ages theology snob and is offended that we as a group don’t respect his beliefs enough; while of course never reciprocating that respect. Seriously William of Occam he complains about Occam. The problem isn’t that he can’t go cosplay his monastic lifestyle it’s that he can’t do it and pretend that the rest of the world gives a shit. And that’s the problem we don’t acknowledge his intellectual and moral superiority and that’s not acceptable in his world. He’s the sort of asshat that if he did actually withdraw he would be so smug about it that I would be seriously tempted to introduce him to some good old fashioned depredations and raiding. For verisimilitude of course.
re: #177 Tigger2
What a dickhead.
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That is sort of the point of his entire campaign.
re: #176 Aunty Entity Dragon
Open letter to Caitlyn Jenner in the Daily Beast today. She is a Ted Cruz fan. She needs to be told that she would be in prison (along with me, my spouse and a lot of other people) if Ted Cruz had his way with the laws at the federal level.
I heard about that. I just don’t fucking get that. I mean it’s one thing to have some socially and economically conservative views but Cruz is very anti-trans even for a Republican in 2016.
re: #182 Aunty Entity Dragon
That is sort of the point of his entire campaign.
Yep one big Trump advertisement.
Even though Trump won Kentucky and Louisiana on Saturday, he didn’t post the same commanding numbers as he had on Super Tuesday, and if he turns in tepid numbers tonight, the chatter that Trump has “topped out” will get louder. But a new analysis of ad spending over the past month at the Cook Political Report explains why this wouldn’t be a random phenomenon.
According to CMAG/Kantar Media’s Elizabeth Wilner and Mitchell West, the proportion of anti-Trump ads (either by unaffiliated PACs or candidate-affiliated super PACs) as a percentage of all GOP ads has grown from 9 percent at the beginning of February to 47 percent in the first week of March. In terms of dollars, anti-Trump ads grew from 15 percent of all GOP ad spending in the first week of February to 62 percent in the first week of March.
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Probably started way too late.
re: #181 Dave80
Dreher is one of those guys that gets on my nerves out of proportion to the harm he does. He is such an pseudointellectual middle ages theology snob and is offended that we as a group don’t respect his beliefs enough; while of course never reciprocating that respect. Seriously William of Occam he complains about Occam. The problem isn’t that he can’t go cosplay his monastic lifestyle it’s that he can’t do it and pretend that the rest of the world gives a shit. And that’s the problem we don’t acknowledge his intellectual and moral superiority and that’s not acceptable in his world. He’s the sort of asshat that if he did actually withdraw he would be so smug about it that I would be seriously tempted to introduce him to some good old fashioned depredations and raiding. For verisimilitude of course.
If you’ve ever read John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, you have no trouble at all identifying Dreher as a more bad-tempered and even dumber version of its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly. I really didn’t know if there were such people, but apparently there are.
re: #177 Tigger2
What a dickhead. Very Presidential.
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re: #175 HappyWarrior
Yeah I’d like to see it some day. I haven’t seen the midwest at all. I’ve had a couple layovers in Chicago and that’s it. Been out west a few times now.
As quiet and dead as St. Paul is, it has the Minnesota Science Museum, which is built on the banks of the Great River and has a nice big exhibit permanently dedicated to her. And Minneapolis isn’t too far from downtown St. Paul for those who like a little night life after experiencing the culture and history.
re: #172 MsJ
A take away or a retention?
98th District stayed Dem. 62nd flipped and it looks like the 8th will flip retain, too.
KY 8th District House of Rep. Special Election (unofficial)(D) Jeff Taylor 3,077(R) Walker Thomas 1,75023 of 27 precincts reporting
— WKDZ Radio (@WKDZ) March 9, 2016
(edited to fix)
Obama sucks so hard at not killing ISIS.
Top ISIS leader ‘Omar the Chechen’ dead in U.S. airstrike, defense official says https://t.co/QhCip8u1Mo pic.twitter.com/g3V7AL6SOK
— NBC News (@NBCNews) March 9, 2016
re: #181 Dave80
Dreher is one of those guys that gets on my nerves out of proportion to the harm he does. He is such an pseudointellectual middle ages theology snob and is offended that we as a group don’t respect his beliefs enough; while of course never reciprocating that respect. Seriously William of Occam he complains about Occam. The problem isn’t that he can’t go cosplay his monastic lifestyle it’s that he can’t do it and pretend that the rest of the world gives a shit. And that’s the problem we don’t acknowledge his intellectual and moral superiority and that’s not acceptable in his world. He’s the sort of asshat that if he did actually withdraw he would be so smug about it that I would be seriously tempted to introduce him to some good old fashioned depredations and raiding. For verisimilitude of course.
I could get down with an old fashioned Scottish border reiving party. Grab all you can from the English sacramentalists and back to Scotland we go! Free steak along the way!
Rib-eyes, frenched. My favorite, meat on a stick.
re: #155 CuriousLurker
Just tell anyone who gets pissed about this that Nancy supported stem cell research.
re: #189 thedopefishlives
As quiet and dead as St. Paul is, it has the Minnesota Science Museum, which is built on the banks of the Great River and has a nice big exhibit permanently dedicated to her. And Minneapolis isn’t too far from downtown St. Paul for those who like a little night life after experiencing the culture and history.
Yeah that’s my way. Touristy and culture by day but fun by night.
I thought Snopes was to prove/disprove. Not guess.
#DonaldTrump Isn’t Hiring a Latina Actress to Play His Assistant https://t.co/JNWaZPOO8z
— Jesse Stark (@StopNuclearWar) March 9, 2016
re: #193 Aunty Entity Dragon
I could get down with an old fashioned Scottish border reiving party. Grab all you can from the English sacramentalists and back to Scotland we go! Free steak along the way!
I really need to go to Scotland one day.
re: #196 freetoken
Bernie going on about the hidden speeches…
Now he’s a two issue Candidate, the Speeches and Wall Street.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
I really need to go to Scotland one day.
That one’s on my list, too. It’s the other half of my heritage.
re: #201 HappyWarrior
I really need to go to Scotland one day.
Don’t come to Edinburgh in August. Anywhere else, not a problem but not Edinburgh in August. BloodyFestivalbloodymimesbloodybloody…
re: #204 MsJ
What about the 4th?
54 was a Republican retention. The Democrats gained one seat on the night and now hold a 53-47 majority. A Republican sweep would have given them control of the Kentucky House, as they hold the tiebreaker., I think
re: #208 Nojay UK
Don’t come to Edinburgh in August. Anywhere else, not a problem but not Edinburgh in August. BloodyFestivalbloodymimesbloodybloody…
But you get to see things like this!
I live about a quarter of a mile south of the Colorado River, which splits Austin from east to west. One reason you can tell when POTUS is coming to town is when an HMX-1 Blackhawk blows over your house at 125 mph at 300 feet under full power ten minutes ago.
They are really loud. My feline overlord, sitting in the back yard, actually deigned to raise its head. Just getting to know the town, dontcha know…
re: #205 Nyet
Still there for me.
Maybe you know the secret handshake? It tells me that the story has been removed.
re: #212 austin_blue
I live about a quarter of a mile south of the Colorado River, which splits Austin from east to west. One reason you can tell when POTUS is coming to town is when an HMX-1 Blackhawk blows over your house at 125 mph at 300 feet under full power ten minutes ago.
They are really loud. My feline overlord, sitting in the back yard, actually deigned to raise its head. Just getting to know the town, dontcha know…
That’ll definitely wake you up. We get a few Blackhawks around here, but none that close; the Minnesota National Guard must do helicopter drop training somewhere nearby.
re: #177 Tigger2
What a dickhead. Very Presidential.
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raw meat just sitting there, waiting for Trump to throw it out to his fans…
re: #206 thedopefishlives
That one’s on my list, too. It’s the other half of my heritage.
I don’t have any heritage there but a great great grandmother was born there. Her parents were Irish. The Scots just seem like fun people and there’s a lot to do in the coutnry.
re: #215 Backwoods_Sleuth
You gotta have big hands to eat a cowboy steak.
re: #213 calochortus
Maybe you know the secret handshake? It tells me that the story has been removed.
Hmm, I guess it was a cache version the first time around.
I guess it was fake after all.
re: #118 Charles Johnson
Wow. Jacob Collier is a monster.
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I just had an opportunity to watch that front page video you posted of him, wow.
re: #208 Nojay UK
Don’t come to Edinburgh in August. Anywhere else, not a problem but not Edinburgh in August. BloodyFestivalbloodymimesbloodybloody…
Good to know.
re: #217 HappyWarrior
I don’t have any heritage there but a great great grandmother was born there. Her parents were Irish. The Scots just seem like fun people and there’s a lot to do in the coutnry.
I’m more or less half Irish, half Scottish, with a smattering of mixed genetics from other Northern European states (England, France, Germany).
re: #219 Nyet
Hmm, I guess it was a cache version the first time around.
I guess it was fake after all.
Nope, not fake, but…
re: #183 HappyWarrior
I heard about that. I just don’t fucking get that. I mean it’s one thing to have some socially and economically conservative views but Cruz is very anti-trans even for a Republican in 2016.
Tax cuts. Or, for Jenner, more like Fuck You, I Got Mine (And I Want To Keep It All).
Little Marco speaking in Florida… is getting a paunch.
All those lobbyist dinners really add up.
re: #222 thedopefishlives
I’m more or less half Irish, half Scottish, with a smattering of mixed genetics from other Northern European states (England, France, Germany).
That makes sense. I actually had an unsually high amount of Scandinavian in my DNA results though I have no idea where it’s coming from since I don’t have any traceable roots there. Of course the Vikings were in Germany and Ireland wehre I do have roots. I need to talk my folks into taking the test. My mom’s results are pretty much guaranteed to be overwhelmingly Eastern European but my Dad’s could be a little more shocking.
re: #158 HappyWarrior
Those saint bodies that don’t decay are just creepy. And of course being Russian there’s also St. Vladimir of Lenin who is coming up on nearly 100 years.
IIRC, there’s so much wax and makeup holding what’s left of ol’ Vlad together, he might as well be the star attraction at Madame Tussaud’s.
re: #186 Brian J.
If you’ve ever read John Kennedy Toole’s A Confederacy of Dunces, you have no trouble at all identifying Dreher as a more bad-tempered and even dumber version of its protagonist, Ignatius J. Reilly. I really didn’t know if there were such people, but apparently there are.
I first read that at least 20 years ago. It remains one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. A small sample:
Merchants and charlatans gained control of Europe, calling their insidious gospel “The Enlightenment.” The day of the locust was at hand, but from the ashes of humanity there arose no Phoenix. The humble and pious peasant, Piers Plowman, went to town to sell his children to the lords of the New Order for purposes that we may call questionable at best. (See Reilly, Ignatius J., Blood on Their Hands: The Crime of It All, A study of some selected abuses in sixteenth-century Europe, a Monograph, 2 pages, 1950, Rare Book Room, Left Corridor, Third Floor, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University, New Orleans 18, Louisiana. Note: I mailed this singular monograph to the library as a gift; however, I am not really certain that it was ever accepted. It may well have been thrown out because it was only written in pencil on tablet paper.) The gyro had widened; The Great Chain of Being had snapped like so many paper clips strung together by some drooling idiot; death, destruction, anarchy, progress, ambition, and self-improvement were to be Piers’ new fate. And a vicious fate it was to be: now he was faced with the perversion of having to GO TO WORK.
HARRY ENTEN 7:52 PMI want to pick up on a point Nate made earlier in terms of late-deciders in Michigan. Rubio, who usually does well with this group, seems to have failed to do so tonight, earning just 10 percent of them. The problem for the anti-Trump forces is that they don’t seem to have been able to crown one anti-Trump. Instead of either Cruz or Kasich walking away with this group, these voters split 35 percent to 31 percent. Given that Trump has dominated among early deciders, this split could allow Trump to win the state — if the exit poll is correct.
Exit polling not good for Little Marco.
re: #212 austin_blue
One reason you can tell when POTUS is coming to town is when an HMX-1 Blackhawk blows over your house at 125 mph at 300 feet under full power ten minutes ago.
One of the surprising things I found out living in Sydney is that effectively has no laws against helicopters making noise over residential areas.
Some of the helicopters around the harbour were annoying enough…..but the Australian armed forces also thought it would be fun to practice night flying in Blackhawks over the city at altitude in formation of either 3 or 4 helicopters, with all external lights extinguished.
After the first couple of passes, that got really annoying…
re: #98 Ziggy_TARDIS
Why doesn’t he just move to Russia then?
I think he did the next best thing: I may be wrong, but ISTR that Mr. Dreher converted to one variety of Orthodoxy or other, as, apparently, the Roman Catholic Church wasn’t quite theocratic enough for him….
re: #230 freetoken
Exit polling not good for Little Marco.
Rubio will always have Puerto Rico and Minnesota I guess.
Interestingly, the Republicans today failed to pick up either House seat emptied by a Democrat getting a state job from Gov Bevin. ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 9, 2016
Not only that, the Republican was blown out in both races, not close. #kyga16 #NoFlip https://t.co/9cHfaAwmPU
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 9, 2016
re: #232 Jay C
So I’m seeing he was put off by what he calls “the Lavender Mafia” in the hierarchy.
Now, I don’t know about the other Orthodox Churches, but the Russian one sorta has a similar problem…
And the exit polls for Super Tuesday 2: Electric Boogaloo:
Michigan: No exit poll yet.
Mississippi: Hillary 77-22.
re: #236 b.d.
HRC wins Mississippi per MSNBC.
And CBS.
Not much of a limb, though, on which to climb out.
BREAKING: ABC News projects Hillary Clinton will win Mississippi Democratic primary pic.twitter.com/On3bRMDjWu
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 9, 2016
re: #238 freetoken
And CBS.
Not much of a limb, though, on which to climb out.
Cue the Sandbaggers on why Mississippi doesn’t matter.
Also, Rachel is saying Rubio may come in 4th in Mississippi.
Polls are still open in Michigan! 4 counties in the UP are on CST#MIPrimary
— The Vicious Babushka (@viciousbabushka) March 9, 2016
BREAKING: Democrats win crucial House seat in Kentucky, thwart GOP control of state government: https://t.co/W2U3sEDeXY
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 9, 2016
Barack Obama made a robocall for the Dem candidates. There might very well have been some backlash against Gov. Bevin as well.
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re: #203 Scout
It seems to have been removed. What did it say?
I happened to have it open in another page.
In the midst of all our other troubles and squabbles, I thought you might enjoy this anecdote I found on Ye Olde Book of the Face the other day. It is reproduced, in full, with the permission of the author, with identifying details omitted.
I have officially been exposed to the Trump hate bandwagon in full force today…
I was leaving a meeting with a client today in ______ and there was a group of people (10-12) outside the building protesting or rallying, a pro-Trump group. As I am walking outside I stop to check my cell phone for emails missed etc, and I overhear the group chanting and making remarks of people as they walk by…extremely racist remarks…my favorite however is of the one they directed at me. … one lady in particular yells towards me as I am walking away, and tells me to go back to Mexico. That the US doesn’t need people like me dressing up in a suit to go interview with companies in _____ to clean their toilets. That me and my people also try to take the more educated and more deserving white person’s job.
It did not take long to get my attention…As I turn around to respond, I notice that I recognize the woman, and she quickly recognizes that she knows me as well. She is my employee…and someone that I have placed to work for my client that I just went to go visit. I walk calmly back to her, asked her to please repeat herself in front of her group as to what exactly she said. Because last time I checked…this mexican as she put it, is the one that she reports to, and was helping her find a job, and if she was more educated and more deserving as she so eloquently stated…she would not be coming to this mexican for any help…because she lacks an education and has been unable to hold a job for the past 5 years, however I gave you the opportunity and took a chance on you. What cracks me up about all of this is that on top of all this, you are working at this office that you claimed treated you so well and you completely loved, but now outside protesting? Do your friends here know where you work?
Due to the fact that the client called me to tell me you have been gone for the past 2 hours, instead of being at your desk, consider yourself fired immediately….and go ask Donald Trump for a job at one of his locations..you wont want to lose that to someone like me in a suit..
re: #167 thedopefishlives
You don’t really get a sense of scale until you’re standing on one of the river bridges in St. Paul. And that’s at a fairly narrow point; I’ve been over the crossings down in the Iowa-Illinois area. How those guys down in Louisiana handle it, I don’t even know.
In Louisiana, river handles you.
Been meaning to ask: do you read John Sandford’s MN cop novels, and if so what do you think of them? I love them but would like a local take.
re: #245 whitebeach
In Louisiana, river handles you.
Been meaning to ask: do you read John Sandford’s MN cop novels, and if so what do you think of them? I love them but would like a local take.
I do not. Never even heard of them until you mentioned it, as a matter of fact.
re: #239 Charles Johnson
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Yeah, well, the only states that matters are blue states! Like Kansas! And Oklahoma!
re: #241 The Vicious Babushka
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Oh.
Looking at the MS exit poll, there ain’t no good news for Sanders (unless your expectations were so low that you thought he’d miss the 15% threshold, and keep in mind that the exit polls have tended to overrate him in the South). He lost among voters under 30. He lost whites by 8. (Whites were a puny 27% of the vote.) He lost independents. He lost very liberal voters 73-27. A majority of voters think he can’t handle the economy or race relations. I could go on.
Talking head ponders why Trump carried the Bible Belt Solid South but preacher son Cruz did not…
These talking heads are so limp when it comes to telling the truth.
Crashing Vor has posted the story again:
re: #189 thedopefishlives
Hey-what about Grand Ave?
LOLOLOLOLOLOL!!!!!!!
Ky GOP issues statement on special elections: “Republicans in the State House are one seat closer to taking the majority.” You are? ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 9, 2016
The talking heads don’t understand why “Evangelicals” would vote for Trump.
Hint for talking heads: Explain why the biggest Protestant denomination in the US is the Southern Baptists.
re: #251 Eric The Fruit Bat
Hey-what about Grand Ave?
I’ve actually never been down that way, myself. I try to spend a minimum of time in St. Paul, as it’s quite a haul from where I live.
Kasich takes early lead in MI, 51 votes ahead of Trump.
re: #248 Brian J.
Oh.
Looking at the MS exit poll, there ain’t no good news for Sanders (unless your expectations were so low that you thought he’d miss the 15% threshold, and keep in mind that the exit polls have tended to overrate him in the South). He lost among voters under 30. He lost whites by 8. (Whites were a puny 27% of the vote.) He lost independents. He lost very liberal voters 73-27. A majority of voters think he can’t handle the economy or race relations. I could go on.
Which is why MS will be instantly discounted by Sanders’ team and the BernieBots.
The #SolarEclipse seen from Tampines around 8.40am today. (Photos: Yan Loh, Mani Purnima) https://t.co/Nr2pXW7zxp pic.twitter.com/HN9TNx2sRx
— Channel NewsAsia (@ChannelNewsAsia) March 9, 2016
re: #257 TedStriker
Which is why MS will be instantly discounted by Sanders’ team and the BernieBots.
If they think it’s bad tonight, it’s gonna be a blood bath next Tuesday.
Wow. This is a landslide. pic.twitter.com/6is21CiTJj
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) March 9, 2016
re: #258 Backwoods_Sleuth
Cool photos. Especially through the clouds.
re: #248 Brian J.
Oh.
[…] (Whites were a puny 27% of the vote.)
Most of them are over on the other side, voting for the Grand Wizard.
This #MississippiBerning hashtag is the worst idea ever. It’s like everything wrong with his campaign distilled down to a fine white powder.
— goddamnedfrank (@goddamnedfrank) March 9, 2016
Hillary Clinton won 3/4 of male Democratic Mississippi voters, per preliminary exit polls: https://t.co/oPvwaVou2h pic.twitter.com/puqMcoQEFw
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) March 9, 2016
Here’s how women voted in the Dem #MSprimary. @HillaryClinton won 74% of men’s votes too https://t.co/bN8ccfFQoE pic.twitter.com/KnMNLjVudC
— CBS News Politics (@CBSPolitics) March 9, 2016
re: #263 freetoken
Most of them are over on the other side, voting for the Grand Wizard.
And we ain’t talking Oz…
Ky Dem Party on House victories: “This is a repudiation of Gov. Bevin’s efforts to dismantle public education and health care.” ^JC
— Bluegrass Politics (@BGPolitics) March 9, 2016
re: #237 Brian J.
And the exit polls for Super Tuesday 2: Electric Boogaloo:
Michigan: No exit poll yet.
Mississippi: Hillary 77-22.
Ouch. I guess Bernie’s message doesn’t sell in Mississippi.
By the way, Columbus is full of Bernie commercials. I heard a Bernie radio commercial on local ESPN station 97.1 The Fan at lunchtime while I was making lunch.
It was all about Wall Street being the cause of everything bad. He said something like “We will take on Wall Street and break up the banks and tax them. Will that make them mad…you bet it will, but I don’t care” like making them mad and breaking them up is going to get the Republicans scared and they will go along with any plan Bernie has to change banking.
As far as taxing, I guess he is tying Wall Street Bankers into his plan and making them pay is raising Wall Street’s taxes. From what the people looking into Bernie’s plans say he will be taxing the middle class fairly heavily. I guess he is thinking what everyone will pay in taxes will come back in savings in healthcare, better banking investment and interest on accounts and a more secure social security. I’d like to see that explained further.
However, I think he needs to make that clearer to the average middle class American. I don’t know how well they will take a surprise in higher personal taxes when he is constantly selling everyone on Wall Street being the big problem.
glad I got my flu shot.
Looks like influenza is spreading around Arkansas and the southeast according to the CDC pic.twitter.com/M1iVnHpdQZ
— Todd Yakoubian (@KATVToddYak) March 9, 2016
re: #264 goddamnedfrank
“truth to power!” *drink*
“oligarchy!” *drink*
“Wall Street!” *drink*
#ICYMI mudslide official cause of ACE train #Sunol derailment. Heavier #SF #BayArea rain forecast @nbcbayarea 5 pic.twitter.com/JD0sGphZ8v
— Jeff Ranieri (@JeffRanieri) March 9, 2016
Word is I am doing very well in Michigan and Mississippi! Wow, and with all that money spent against me! Will be going to Trump Jupiter now!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 8, 2016
Those steaks must be covered in flies by now.
re: #260 Charles Johnson
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Whoa, he’s losing bigger than the Redskins in the 1940 NFL Championship Game:
re: #257 TedStriker
Which is why MS will be instantly discounted by Sanders’ team and the BernieBots.
SRSLY - Bernie Sanders’ vote in Mississippi could be limited in its entirety to people named “Sanders” , and the BernieBots would find some reason to either 1) claim the vote was “fixed”; 2) blame media mischaracterization; 3) claim it was actually a “win” by exceeding expectation, or 4) change the subject.
I’m sure there’s already a diary or three on dKos expounding on some combination of the above…
re: #273 klys (maker of Silmarils)
First it’s drought country, now mudslides. What the hell, California.
tee hee
.@KyDems @SannieO @AndyBeshearKY @SpeakerStumbo statement digs at Bevin on special House #kyga16 wins: pic.twitter.com/5BdpWBDkWW
— Joe Sonka (@joesonka) March 9, 2016
re: #278 thedopefishlives
First it’s drought country, now mudslides. What the hell, California.
There was a lot of rain this weekend up in this area.
More coming, too.
Oh look A Satisfied Customer! It has to be totes for real, would The Donald ever lie?
Thank you! #Trump2016 pic.twitter.com/WvTkL8mMHY
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 9, 2016
MISSISSIPPI EXIT POLL:
Trump 49
Cruz 36
Rubio 7
Kasich 7— Samantha-Jo Roth (@SamanthaJoRoth) March 9, 2016
How old is this meat? Is it old enough to vote?
TRUMP STEAKS, Trump Chardonnay, Trump Rosé and Trump water will be served to guests at Trump’s presser 2nite in FL pic.twitter.com/oAXg5wV8nQ
— Nick Kalman (@NickKalmanFN) March 9, 2016
re: #264 goddamnedfrank
“MississippiBerning” is political malpractice of the highest order.
re: #285 The Vicious Babushka
How old is this meat? Is it old enough to vote?
If he had any brains, Trump would have made an order with Omaha Steaks and just slapped his name on it.
Chris Matthews just said that white people in the South feel vulnerable because of the large black population.
— digby (@digby56) March 9, 2016
good grief
re: #285 The Vicious Babushka
Hmm. I do not see any filet mignon. Gee this “person” is cheap.
re: #288 Backwoods_Sleuth
Chris Matthews just said that white people in the South feel vulnerable because of the large black population.
good grief
Asshole.
I feel a little vulnerable because a decent portion of my police force is Klan-Kurious.
Well, things are tuning up west of town, including a tornado warning.
re: #117 thedopefishlives
Ironically, I’m the opposite. I could never live in the South. Living without snow and cold would probably kill me. As for Alaska, I blame the lack of sunlight. Buncha weirdos.
Hey!!! I’m one of them!!!
re: #252 b.d.
The vote in Mississippi confirms what I’ve said in the past about how we blacks don’t hold Cornel West and other high-profile blacks in high regard the way some others think we do. We’re more politically savvy than some others think. Personally, I wouldn’t ask Cornel West to walk my dog because he’s not someone I’d expose my beloved pet to. Seriously.
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