Video: Donald Trump Says Breitbart Reporter “Made Up” the Assault Story

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Following the debate tonight, Donald Trump gave a statement about the alleged assault committed by his campaign manager Corey Lewandowski against Breitbart “News” reporter Michelle Fields: “Absolutely nothing happened… everybody said nothing happened, perhaps she made the story up, I think that’s what happened. OK?”

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VegasGolfer  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:48:10pm

Just watching Omarosa defend drumpf on MSNBC. She is a vile c*nt.
Thats all……

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:49:27pm

Reposting from downstairs —
Against its better judgment, GotNwes has published a Michelle Fields story.

GotNewsDotCom fails yet again, denying #MichelleFields video exists when it does

Why is there no video of this incident?

Full disclosure: I’m a supporter of Ted Cruz, The One. If I had the chance, I would worship at his altar. I’ve even bet on him winning the election and the primary, in that order, which shows you how clever I am. But I am not going to allow a serial liar* control the discussion about what happened. Nyah nyah nyah.

* EDITOR’S NOTE: As it may be hard to follow Chuck’s disjointed train of invective here, we’ll point out that the serial liar being referenced is not Ted Cruz, who was not even present at the Trump rally in question. Well, as far as we know, anyway.

Sometimes you can tell a story is fake really quick, but that’s never stopped us from publishing them before. Sometimes you can tell a reporter is a fraud even faster, especially when they repeatedly insist they are not a blogger but an Award Winning JournalistTM.

Last month Breitbart’s Michelle Fields said I hacked her computer when all I did was call her number that she didn’t know I had, instead of using LinkedIn to respond to a LinkedIn request like normal people would do. For some weird reason, she got angry, and accused me — who would never ever obtain private information about anyone, much less publish it — of a federal crime. Then I got angry because she wouldn’t correct her tweet about it, so I called her bosses and forced her to do it. Because I am an alpha male. Hunh!

More at GotNwes.com

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jaunte  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:50:52pm
Last month Breitbart’s Michelle Fields said I hacked her computer when all I did was call her number that she didn’t know I had, instead of using LinkedIn to respond to a LinkedIn request like normal people would do.

Did this guy actually write a book?

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dog philosopher ஐஒஔ௸  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:51:40pm

kasich: i have the best resume
cruz: i’m the purest conservative
rubio: i’m the youngest and most inclusive
trump; I’M THE BIGGEST ASSHOLE

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jaunte  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:52:01pm
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[deleted]  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:52:06pm
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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:52:06pm

re: #1 VegasGolfer

Didn’t we know that already?

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Kragar  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:52:11pm

“Everybody said nothing happened.”

Except for the witnesses.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:55:18pm
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Stanley Sea  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:58:34pm

Read Propane Jane’s timeline for some in your face real.

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:59:07pm

Ah, the Bitch Is Lyin’/Fake Rape defense. Now we know why his campaign manager quotes Chucksie.

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bratwurst  Mar 10, 2016 • 8:59:42pm

re: #1 VegasGolfer

There must literally be millions of websites where there would be no problem with a comment like this. One of the reasons I pay to subscribe here is that this is not one of those places.

Note that I know nothing about her…and I am the furthest thing from a fan of his. My point is that I purposely avoid comment sections where people talk like you do.

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jaunte  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:02:10pm

re: #13 Stanley Sea

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makeitstop  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:02:23pm

re: #1 VegasGolfer

Even though I agree with you, your choice of words could have been better.

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Stanley Sea  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:04:18pm

Night all. re: #15 makeitstop

Even though I agree with you, your choice of words could have been better.

I’m not one iota offended. It’s the #trumpeffect

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:05:17pm

re: #8 Kragar

“Everybody said nothing happened.”

Except for the witnesses.

Everyone said there were no dancing Muslims while 911 was going on.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:05:38pm

Chicago hot dog joint rolls out 3-inch ‘Trump Footlong’

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Stanley Sea  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:05:46pm

Well, I fucked that one up well. Night all!!

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Pawn of the Oppressor  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:05:57pm

re: #14 jaunte

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…

I see what you did there!

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Kragar  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:11:57pm
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jaunte  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:14:51pm

“Trump’s vacuousness would be the story in any other year. This is not any other year.”
— Jon Ralston, Politico

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makeitstop  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:15:09pm

re: #10 Stanley Sea

Read Propane Jane’s timeline for some in your face real.

This Storify page is absolutely epic. Smart woman.

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VegasGolfer  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:16:37pm

I apologize to those who might of been offended for the word, but I don’t apologize for the way feel about her and the way said republican is running his campaign. If Mr. Johnson wants me to apologize for using the word , I will.

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TedStriker  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:20:59pm

re: #24 VegasGolfer

I apologize to those who might of been offended for the word, but I don’t apologize for the way feel about her and the way said republican is running his campaign. If Mr. Johnson wants me to apologize for using the word , I will.

Protip: If you think you said something that doesn’t come off right or just sounds fucked up, chances are you’re correct, because at least you gave a damn enough to re-evaluate the situation.

The rest, I leave to you.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:24:41pm

I think the big story of the debate is that the candidates all pledged to forfeit their role as Commander-in-Chief and let the generals tell them to go to war in Syria if that is what the generals want, ending over two centuries of civilian control of the US military. Pathetic.

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jaunte  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:26:26pm
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retired cynic  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:26:59pm

re: #27 jaunte

Oh, what did Lord Ignoramus say about Cuba?

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VegasGolfer  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:29:08pm

re: #25 TedStriker

Ironic using the f word, I respect people who have been here longer than me, especially those who pay. Thats why I responded. Others weren’t offended.

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jaunte  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:29:14pm

re: #28 retired cynic

“…Anchor Jake Tapper was pressing Trump on whether he would continue Obama’s outreach to Cuba. Trump’s answer was vague nonsense: he talked about Cuba suing America somehow, and then said “I would want to make a good deal, a strong, solid, good deal.”

Tapper forced the issue, asking Trump whether he would close the Cuban embassy or keep it open. Trump said that “I would probably have the embassy closed until a really good deal was made and struck by the United States.”
vox.com

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retired cynic  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:30:31pm

re: #30 jaunte

Thank you! I couldn’t stand to watch them again.

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jaunte  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:31:30pm

“Mongo make deal.”

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Kragar  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:36:37pm
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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:38:57pm

You thought Bushisms were bad…Trumpisms are ten times worse!

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Kragar  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:45:38pm
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KGxvi  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:49:24pm

re: #30 jaunte

What exactly is the better deal? Does Trump think embassies are like franchises? Like a country has to pay us for a US embassy in their country? Or is it like I said earlier that Trump just runs the same lines regardless of the issue? “Noun, verb, better deal”

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retired cynic  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:50:51pm

re: #36 KGxvi

What exactly is the better deal? Does Trump think embassies are like franchises? Like a country has to at us for a US embassy in their country? Or is it like I said earlier that Trump just runs the same lines regardless of the issue? “Noun, verb, better deal”

Yes.

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Kragar  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:52:16pm
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TedStriker  Mar 10, 2016 • 9:52:32pm

re: #29 VegasGolfer

Ironic using the f word, I respect people who have been here longer than me, especially those who pay. Thats why I responded. Others weren’t offended.

Hey, we’re all presumably adults here, so a bit of coarse language can be expected. I probably cuss more than I should, but, otherwise, I don’t apologize for it; context and frame-of-mind is everything.

However, if you expected most Lizards to be okie-dokie with the particular word that you called Omarosa in your #1, regardless of how opportunistic she is, all I have to say is go look at your karma score for that post and tell me “others weren’t offended”.

You knew you were wrong for saying it, which is why you croaked out that half-assed apology to begin with. I’m guessing that you’re not British, so you don’t even have that out.

Man/woman up…

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Kragar  Mar 10, 2016 • 10:02:50pm
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Kragar  Mar 10, 2016 • 10:24:45pm
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retired cynic  Mar 10, 2016 • 10:33:32pm

re: #41 Kragar

Well, after all, DT has SO much experience. She can tell, from her own vast half term as governor of such a populous state as Alaska.

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teleskiguy  Mar 10, 2016 • 10:34:43pm

One of the coolest t-shirts ever.

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retired cynic  Mar 10, 2016 • 10:36:52pm

re: #43 teleskiguy

One of the coolest t-shirts ever.

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Feeling mellow, were we?

I have a good drummer friend. Would love to find something like that t-shirt!

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Alyosha  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:04:35pm

Totally farkarkte.
Another day, and a new depth of crumbshittery has been plumbed.

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makeitstop  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:04:49pm

re: #43 teleskiguy

One of the coolest t-shirts ever.

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I’ve got one of Abe rocking a Flying V and Chuck Taylors, doing a Townsend leap.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:12:40pm

Lewandowski is just straight up taunting the woman he assaulted now.

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makeitstop  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:14:22pm

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

Lewandowski is just straight up taunting the woman in assaulted now.

The fucking hubris. All of Trump’s punkass minions think they’re untouchable.

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The Ghost of a Cunning Plan  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:17:19pm

re: #47 goddamnedfrank

Well, he’s definitely going above and beyond to accurately represent the positions and voting base of his candidate.

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makeitstop  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:18:47pm

Fucking Trump, making me sympathize with a goddamn Breitbrat.

It’s insane.

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Alyosha  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:20:04pm
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:20:42pm
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goddamnedfrank  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:26:24pm
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teleskiguy  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:26:24pm

Colorado State Patrol shot someone to death near Pueblo, CO today.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:42:51pm
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freetoken  Mar 10, 2016 • 11:57:47pm

Two new polls out of Florida with almost identical results - Trump up significantly over Rubio:

drive.google.com

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 12:02:50am

538 points out:

Donald Trump’s Sweeping Statements On Islam Are In Line With GOP Opinions

[…]

But those facts may not carry much weight with many Republicans. In a survey conducted in January, Pew found that 65 percent of Republicans or those who lean Republican want to hear blunt talk about Islam, even if it includes blanket statements about the faith, while 29 percent prefer that politicians be careful not to criticize the faith as a whole. Only 22 percent of Democrats and those who lean Democratic want politicians to use sweeping statements to criticize Islam, while 70 percent prefer more nuanced approaches.

Republicans may be more willing to use harsh language to describe Islam and Muslims because they believe that language is accurate. In Pew’s survey, Republicans were twice as likely as Democrats to say that some religions’ teachings promote violence (32 percent to 15 percent). Republicans were also twice as likely as Democrats to say that most or almost all Muslims in the United States are anti-American (16 percent to 7 percent).

So, when Trump blusters and provokes, some members of his party welcome the lack of nuance. They may continue to see him as speaking the truth that other politicians avoid.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 12:18:12am

re: #18 Shiplord Kirel

Chicago hot dog joint rolls out 3-inch ‘Trump Footlong’

How much you wanna bet those hot dogs are served (with a smile) by an undocumented immigrant?

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 12:42:32am

Atmospheric carbon dioxide levels are showing a startling increase

Atmospheric carbon dioxide concentrations have spiked more in the period from February 2015 to February 2016 than in any other comparable period dating back to 1959, according to a scientist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s Earth System Research Laboratory.

The change in average concentrations from February of last year to February of this year was 3.76 parts per million at the storied Mauna Loa Observatory in Hawaii, leaving the concentration at 404.02 parts per million for February, based on preliminary data.

Pieter Tans, lead scientist of NOAA’s Global Greenhouse Gas Reference Network, confirmed that the increase, reported previously by New Scientist, represented a record year-over-year growth for Mauna Loa. He also said that in addition to the stark rise in carbon dioxide levels over the past year, researchers have now observed four straight years of increases of more than 2 parts per million in the atmosphere.

“We’ve never seen that,” Mr. Tans said. “That’s unprecedented.”

Indeed, the average annual increase during 2015, of 3.05 parts per million of carbon dioxide at Mauna Loa, was also the highest in the record, according to NOAA — exceeding the previous record of 2.93 parts per million in 1998, which was also a strong El Nino year.

[…]

See also:

esrl.noaa.gov

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 12:42:51am

My favourite form of satire. Self-effacing lame humour. Now that’s technical shit.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 12:50:28am

And for anyone into Lonely Island; they’re doing a Bieber-style paradoy. I was a bit skeptical at first but there’s some solid cameos that are totally lame in the self-effacing kind of way. Probably better than any of Sandlers movies, on a second-viewing.

Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping - Official Restricted Trailer (HD)

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 12:54:20am

re: #61 Alyosha

And for anyone into Lonely Island; they’re doing a Bieber-style paradoy. I was a bit skeptical at first but there’s some solid cameos that are totally lame in the self-effacing kind of way. Probably better than any of Sandlers movies, on a second-viewing.

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What’s that?

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:05:11am

NASCAR - a “sport” I never liked:

Brian France says he’s surprised at reaction to his endorsement of Donald Trump

“I’m not supporting him for all of his views, or his immigration views,” France said of Trump. “I happen to be very enamored by the excitement he’s brought and the voter turnout that it is creating.”

Dude is either so clueless, or he can’t come up with a better excuse.

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Jayleia  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:06:02am

So, Hulk Hogan vs. Gawker.

I have no words for this lunacy…privated because NSFW

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Jim Cornette on Hulk Hogan’s Dick Size (Gawker Trial)

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:08:21am

re: #63 freetoken

“I happen to be very enamored by the excitement [Trump has] brought and the voter turnout that it is creating.”

He is gonna create a great voter turnout - for Hillary, something she would have trouble generating on her own against a less crazy candidate..

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:11:40am

Drudge poll has Trump… WINNING!, by a lot. A whole lot. Really big. Really beautiful lead. Great enthusiasm. Amazing.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:12:44am

re: #63 freetoken

NASCAR - a “sport” I never liked:

Brian France says he’s surprised at reaction to his endorsement of Donald Trump

Dude is either so clueless, or he can’t come up with a better excuse.

His reasoning is literally that he likes the circus atmosphere and the spectacle, sees a bandwagon and can’t resist jumping on it.

What’s funny is that this was the myth conservatives sold themselves about Obama supporters, and is now their express reasoning for voting for Trump.

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:14:25am

Drudge claims that Cruzbots tried to spam his poll:

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:15:00am

re: #67 goddamnedfrank

His reasoning is literally that he likes the circus atmosphere and the spectacle, sees a bandwagon and can’t resist jumping on it.

What’s funny is that this was the myth conservatives sold themselves about Obama supporters, and is now their express reasoning for voting for Trump.

Trump is the master of the Tweet and the sound byte. If that is your main source of information, then a lot of what he says does not sound completely batshit crazy.

But Trump knows that most of his target audience is to politically ADD to step back and consider his message as a whole or see the contradictions in his policies and utter impossibilities that he is promising.

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:17:42am

re: #69 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Trump replies to an adoring fan:

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:20:34am

A note on character authenticity in presidential candidates.

Hillary is called a ‘career politician’ like it’s an epithet. Bernie is favoured for his ‘authenticity’. I disagree with the idea that because Clinton has certain mannerisms- seems to sway with the political opinion of the day, and therefore cannot really have any principle- that it renders her ‘inauthentic’.
She’s a very successful career-politician. Of course she’s going to have the whiff of establishment on her. If I can see that she’s sometimes not the true-believer idealist, I think I’m getting the ‘authentic’ Hillary. So what?
But every politician is a creature that exists in a political ecosystem where you have to stake out a some identity territory, right?
What does it make a man who has staked out a different sort of identity. I believe it, Bernie is authentic too. But do you really think someone who hasn’t maintained a Senate seat as an independent for forever, isn’t going to wearing a mask of some sort too?
So I disagree with the idea of what ‘authenticity’ is meant to mean when speaking of political characters.
With the Democrats, though, it’s a byzantine kabuki; at least they have that going for them.
Now consider the Republicans; what characters they’ve adopted in this ideological arms-race. What reprehensible and piteous things they are.
What does that say about your respective bases?
It is to be grateful of sanity, I reckon ;D

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:24:08am

Almost certainly Trump wants there to be a disturbance at this rally, so he can show how tough he is with the “PC” crowd:

College community wants Trump rally booted from campus

Thousands of students are planning to protest Donald Trump when he comes to the University of Illinois’ Chicago campus Friday. And many professors don’t want him there either. They worry the scene could turn violent.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:25:37am

re: #71 Alyosha

As a politician, you have to represent and address EVERYONE in your constituency. That is something that DT fails to understand: he has all but excluded Latinos, Muslims, feminists and “losers”, his language is inappropriate for young children and his actions are offensive to anyone with any sense of decency.

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:26:38am

You will be able to watch the event. Booyah!

LIVE Stream: Donald Trump Rally in Chicago, IL (3-11-16) LIVE Donald Trump Chicago Illinois Rally

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:39:21am

In an attempt in my increasingly isolated old age, to get a feel for contemporary American culture, I stumbled across this video, which gives us a hilarious take on the industry with which we believe best explains the phenomenon of Donald J. Trump:

(I supposed I should put this in spoiler tags because someone might be offended…)

Click to Reveal

10 Wrestlers Who Did Porn

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:41:46am

re: #73 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

As a politician, you have to represent and address EVERYONE in your constituency. That is something that DT fails to understand: he has all but excluded Latinos, Muslims, feminists and “losers”, his language is inappropriate for young children and his actions are offensive to anyone with any sense of decency.

True. And it’s terrifying that his success is a reflection of how a segment of society wants to live, and how the rest of the Republican Party is prepared to live.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:44:41am

re: #76 Alyosha

True. And it’s terrifying that his success is a reflection of how a segment of society wants to live, and how the rest of the Republican Party is prepared to live.

Because we have established a political climate that is all about proving one’s ideological purity and inflexibility instead of compromising and moving forward.

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:57:41am

Priebus won the RNC chair in 2011

Look at the size of the gavel that they use at the RNC

Priebus beat out RNC Chair Michael Steele and three other candidates to become the new chairman. The new chairman tutored the press in the proper pronunciation of his name: Reince (rhymes with pints - like pints of a drink) Priebus (PREE-bus).

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:00:11am

re: #78 Ming5000

That’s not a big gavel… those are just really tiny hands. Just ask Donald.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:01:00am

re: #77 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Because we have established a political climate that is all about proving one’s ideological purity and inflexibility instead of compromising and moving forward.

But doesn’t that damage Bernie’s brand? You’ve extolled his bona fides over Clinton.
Doesn’t his whimsical one-note panacaea seem pretty purity-driven?
It’s cool that that’s the niche he’s found, but it shows that, for ages, he’s been playing to the home-crowd. His most driven supporters, I am beginning to suspect, are what is keeping the Clinton camp from vetting him like he ought. I understand the reason. Humanity needs them to not be so pissed off that they’ll sit out the general.

Smart, cynical. It’s where strategy dovetails with decency. So Hillary.

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:01:59am

Schizophrenia?

Dr. Ben Carson: There Are Two Donald Trump’s

[…]

“There’s the Donald Trump that you see on television and who gets out in front of big audiences, and there’s the Donald Trump behind the scenes. They’re not the same person. One’s very much an entertainer, and one is actually a thinking individual.”

When John Gibson asked Dr. Carson to describe Trump’s secondary persona, Dr. Carson added, “Someone who you can reason with very easily, and who is actually very comfortable talking about issues, and recognizing that he doesn’t have all the answers.” He concluded his comparison saying the two Trumps are a “night and day difference”.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:08:02am

Favourite political guidebook?

Hillary: ‘The Prince’.

< BOOOOOOOO!!!!>

Bernie: Che Guevara’s ‘Bolivia Diary’.

< NAWWWW! >

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:15:44am

re: #80 Alyosha

But doesn’t that damage Bernie’s brand? You’ve extolled his bona fides over Clinton.
Doesn’t his whimsical one-note panacaea seem pretty purity-driven?
It’s cool that that’s the niche he’s found, but it shows that, for ages, he’s been playing to the home-crowd.

I don’t think that Bernie himself is a purist and exclusivist, but a lot his most vocal supporters certainly are.

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:17:02am

Charlie Pierce clued me into this Ben Smith thing at Buzzfeed Jan 2015.

There’s only so much Priebus can control. As he spoke, former Gov. Mitt Romney, whose campaign the chairman has widely trashed, was gearing up to run again over Priebus’ public skepticism. He also shows no sign of trying to run off marginal candidates, like Dr. Ben Carson, who he invited to speak at the Winter Meeting. “I think he’s got a good voice in our party. He’s got some good ideas,” Priebus said. “I also want to show that there’s a lot of different kinds of candidates running and it’s not just the people that the media seems obsessed with.”

But he is controlling what he can. There’s the debate stage, where he said he hopes to limit the participation of candidates to those who clear set polling hurdles, similar ones to those in place in 2012 — but on far fewer stages, “taking a 23-debate traveling circus and narrowing it down into a reasonable number of debates.” And there’s the primary calendar, which he hopes to compress from nearly six months to about 60 days.
“I can’t control everyone’s mouth, but I can control how long we have to kill each other,” he said.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:17:44am
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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:18:04am

re: #83 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I don’t think that Bernie himself is a purist and exclusivist, but a lot his most vocal supporters certainly are.

Terrible comparison, but some people assume Trump is a pragmatist and not just a demagogue too.

Why not just be authentic?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:19:29am

re: #86 Alyosha

Terrible comparison, but some people assume Trump is a pragmatist and not just a demagogue too.

Why not just be authentic?

Trump is neither a pragmatist nor a demagogue, he is just a blowhard who says whatever he thinks people need to hear in order to get them to do what he wants them to do.

That makes for a successful businessman, but is not necessarily a trait we want in a Chief Executive.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:23:17am

re: #85 goddamnedfrank

The selecting factor for this species of ideologue favours those who see procreation as a prerogative and not a fucking privilege and heavy, heavy responsibility.

Yaaay! The species abides!

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:24:40am

re: #87 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Trump is neither a pragmatist nor a demagogue, he is just a blowhard who says whatever he thinks people need to hear in order to get them to do what he wants them to do.

That makes for a successful businessman, but is not necessarily a trait we want in a Chief Executive.

Career politician character, but with a huge debt and a cocaine addiction.

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Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:24:57am

re: #63 freetoken

I’m not supporting him for all of his views, or his immigration views,” France said of Trump. “

Yes you are. You can’t elect half a candidate. If you endorse a candidate, you’re saying you want the entire person to hold office.

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:25:00am

re: #88 Alyosha

The selecting factor for this species of ideologue favours those who see procreation as a prerogative and not a fucking privilege and heavy, heavy responsibility.

Yaaay! The species abides!

Yes, they dwell in a simpler world. Narnia, The Shire, ‘Murica

92
Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:29:06am

re: #91 Ming5000

Yes, they dwell in a simpler world. Narnia, The Shire, ‘Murica

Except Hobbits had ploughshares and not swords.

93
Bill and Opus for 2016!  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:29:21am

re: #81 freetoken

Schizophrenia?

Dr. Ben Carson: There Are Two Donald Trump’s

When John Gibson asked Dr. Carson to describe Trump’s secondary persona, Dr. Carson added, “Someone who you can reason with very easily, and who is actually very comfortable talking about issues, and recognizing that he doesn’t have all the answers.” He concluded his comparison saying the two Trumps are a “night and day difference”.

Dr. Carson, you as a physician, should intimately know that there is a medical term for the condition you are diagnosing about Donald Trump.

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:29:50am

re: #90 Sophist, Vogon Poet Laureate

So many people are like France, who believe Trump is “a successful business man”, or “someone who speaks the truth.” They are basically clueless as to any substance of what he says. Or, in denial.
Eight years ago a buddy of mine was shocked that I was not a Palin fan. “But she is a breath of fresh air.”

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:31:09am

re: #92 Alyosha

Except Hobbits had ploughshares and not swords.

Ok, Camelot then?
1944 Oklahoma?

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:32:44am

re: #94 Ming5000

So many people are like France, who believe Trump is “a successful business man”, or “someone who speaks the truth.” They are basically clueless as to any substance of what he says. Or, in denial.
Eight years ago a buddy of mine was shocked that I was not a Palin fan. “But she is a breath of fresh air.”

Helium does not induce the oxygen-starvation reflex.
So, breathe it in.

97
Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:38:17am

Th state at RedState this morning:

Is there an “Anti Trump Gap” between the left and the right? Is the left falling behind?

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:40:32am

re: #97 Ming5000

Th state at RedState this morning:

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Is there an “Anti Trump Gap” between the left and the right? Is the left falling behind?

What do you mean by ‘falling behind’?

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:40:38am

re: #97 Ming5000

100
Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:42:24am

re: #98 Alyosha

What do you mean by ‘falling behind’?

It was a Dr Strangelove reference… :( too obtuse

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:46:03am

re: #100 Ming5000

It was a Dr Strangelove reference… :( too obtuse

Only seen it once. The finer memes are lost on me. I aim to rectify that.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:48:21am

re: #101 Alyosha

Only seen it once. The finer memes are lost on me. I aim to rectify that.

And make sure that you maintain the purity of your bodily fluids!

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:49:22am

re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And make sure that you maintain the purity of your bodily fluids!

See, that I understand.

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:51:17am

re: #102 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

And make sure that you maintain the purity of your bodily fluids!

hahaha.. Yes! Classic line. That character is very similar to many on the right today. I suppose Trumpians most apply.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:53:04am
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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 2:56:41am

Tony Winsor (an Independent who supported the minority, but totally kick-arse Gillard government) is contesting recently-appointed Nationals leader, Deputy Prime Minister, previous Agriculture Minister-who-wanted-Depp’s-dogs-Pistol-and-Boo-dead-DEAD!, and fuckwit-of-all-trades, Barnaby Joyce’s seat of New England.
It means fuck-all to you lot. But I’m going to pollute this stream with my country’s dirty undies for once.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:02:24am

re: #1 VegasGolfer

While I’m all wined-up, I’ll just mention that I’m from a ‘****-friendly’ nation and the only reason I use it uncensored here is to remind you how ugly it is in print and should never be used to describe anyone on a civilized forum.

Downding as required.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:04:11am

re: #107 Alyosha

Charles is on-it! :D

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:05:36am

re: #107 Alyosha

While I’m all wined-up, I’ll just mention that I’m from a ‘****-friendly’ nation and the only reason I use it uncensored here is to remind you how ugly it is in print and should never be used to describe anyone on a civilized forum.

Downding as required.

There is a fine distinction between “politically correct” language and socially appropriate or child-friendly language. DT has demonstrated that he is unaware of the distinction.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:08:06am

re: #109 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

There is a fine distinction between “politically correct” language and socially appropriate or child-friendly language. DT has demonstrated that he is unaware of the distinction.

And because of the dominance of social media, we now know that kids have noticed and are appalled.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:16:05am

re: #110 Alyosha

And because of the dominance of social media, we now know that kids have noticed and are appalled.

Mommy says I’m not supposed to talk that way. How come Trump gets to?

112
Decatur Deb  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:29:54am

Hope to hell no kids are LGF readers. (Except Grand-daughters 1&2—they’re cool.)

113
goddamnedfrank  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:57:24am

I wonder what “morally clean” means?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 3:59:47am

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

I wonder what “morally clean” means?

“A society that lives up to my arbitrary, subjective and often contradictory notions of what the term ‘moral’ means.”

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:05:58am

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

I wonder what “morally clean” means?

No sexy times before marriage.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:15:27am

re: #115 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

No sexy times before marriage.

And after marriage only missionary position in the dark for procreational purposes.

117
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:22:59am

The ever changing story continues —

118
Dave In Austin  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:27:05am

Facebook Post

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Kent Dorfman  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:36:20am

In keeping with commenter #1 theme: Barack Obama says David Cameron allowed Libya to become a ‘s*** show’

“We actually executed this plan as well as I could have expected: We got a UN mandate, we built a coalition, it cost us $1bn - which, when it comes to military operations, is very cheap. We averted large-scale civilian casualties, we prevented what almost surely would have been a prolonged and bloody civil conflict. And despite all that, Libya is a mess.”

Referring to that mess in private, Mr Obama reportedly uses the more colourful term, “shit show”.

President Obama is exactly right on this.

120
Kent Dorfman  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:37:55am

Please don’t leave your guns in a closet loaded, for Pete’s sake…
Never freaking loaded.

121
Barefoot Grin  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:41:01am

re: #104 Ming5000

hahaha.. Yes! Classic line. That character is very similar to many on the right today. I suppose Trumpians most apply.

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I showed it to my kids last year. They fell out of their chairs with “gentlemen, there’s no fighting in the War Room!”

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:48:58am

Tweetdeck is not loading the notifications column. I blame Trump!

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Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:49:17am

re: #85 goddamnedfrank

“Marco’s%100[sic] right!

Homeschooling fail.

124
Barefoot Grin  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:54:53am

I heard a clip of Trump on the radio this morning talking about violence against protesters: ‘let me tell you, these are bad guys; they’re big, they’re violent, they’re swinging; real bad guys.’

He forgot to say they are wilding.

125
Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:55:14am

Free Beacon loon is madz at Herr Trump and his SS

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Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 4:59:54am

Rage Furby is certainly spending a lot time on twitter for someone that is banned and is against twitter:

Stuart Stevens couldn’t beat Barack Obama and now he’s pretending I’m not credible? Please.

Posted by Charles C. Johnson on Friday, March 11, 2016

Fine, McKay Coppins. I guess I won’t be your source for various stories you misquote me in.

Posted by Charles C. Johnson on Friday, March 11, 2016

Oh, look, it’s a member of the “well fed right” Buckley warned us about.

Posted by Charles C. Johnson on Thursday, March 10, 2016
127
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:03:30am

re: #126 Dr. Matt

Rage Furby is certainly spending a lot time on twitter for someone that is banned and is against twitter:

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Ha. I think he’s taking some heat from that shit piece he wrote about Michelle Fields. And I am confident he has access to Twitter through that wesearchr account.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:04:18am

re: #126 Dr. Matt

Rage Furby is certainly spending a lot time on twitter for someone that is banned and is against twitter:

When can we officially declare the fellow totally irrelevant to events and just ignore him? I really do not want to hear anything else about the guy if possible.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:04:42am

re: #127 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Ha. I think he’s taking some heat from that shit piece he wrote about Michelle Fields. And I am confident he has access to Twitter through that wesearchr account.

No doubt. I’m surprised twitter hasn’t shut that account down yet.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:07:17am

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

When can we officially declare the fellow totally irrelevant to events and just ignore him? I really do not want to hear anything else about the guy if possible.

Unfortunately, the campaign manager of the leading GOP candidate cited Rage Furby in a tweet to smear Michelle Fields.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:07:51am

re: #128 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

When can we officially declare the fellow totally irrelevant to events and just ignore him? I really do not want to hear anything else about the guy if possible.

If and when Charles tells us to shut up about Rage Furby, I will. The trouble is, he’s not irrelevant entirely, because people like Lewandowski can use his shoddy hack journalism to justify their shoddy actions. Until he fades into obscurity, all we can do is mock and condemn him.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:08:58am

re: #131 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

If and when Charles tells us to shut up about Rage Furby, I will. The trouble is, he’s not irrelevant entirely, because people like Lewandowski can use his shoddy hack journalism to justify their shoddy actions. Until he fades into obscurity, all we can do is mock and condemn him.

Persistent little scumbag.

133
Dave In Austin  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:16:04am

Morning All… Who knows what new adventure the day will bring……

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:18:26am

re: #133 Dave In Austin

Morning All… Who knows what new adventure the day will bring……

of course it’s gonna sneeze if you dip in in cocaine…

135
Shiplord Kirel  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:26:17am

Kid manages to shoplift a gun

Lubbock teen accused of stealing semiautomatic weapon from Sharp Shooters (gun store).

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:27:11am

re: #132 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Persistent little scumbag.

He persists in shooting himself in the foot. In his misguided attempts to seem “independent and unafraid,” he’s managed to piss off all but the most extreme conservatives. His skin is about a micron thick, so he goes off on anyone who criticizes him with vindictive, poorly written diatribes. If he had a modicum of writing talent, Rage Furby might could pull off being an arrogant SOB, but he can’t write worth shit, doesn’t check his sources, doesn’t apply any logic to his arguments.

Yet, there are people who follow him and think he’s the shiznit. I just don’t get it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:27:46am

re: #135 Shiplord Kirel

Kid manages to shoplift a gun

Lubbock teen accused of stealing semiautomatic weapon from Sharp Shooters (gun store).

Texas, naturally.

138
Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:32:04am

The CCJ series is a community service.
Think about where he was during the Ebola ‘outbreak’. The Dim Jim sproiking. When the MSM was willing to swallow near fucking anything.
The commercial media doesn’t pay much attention to the very things that ought to trigger society’s immune system. Horse-race is the top-tier of political discourse but down here in the blogosphere it really is, to some extent, a fecking knifefight.
CNN fumbles the stories on the serious issues, at least here there’s a pretty decent self-governing community who can call that shit out before it metastasizes.
It’s why LGF is important, and… (sniff) relevant.

139
lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:38:18am

re: #70 freetoken

Replying to a woman who appears to be South African, and not a US Citizen by the look of her tweet stream.

twitter.com

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:38:31am

re: #138 Alyosha

Okay, I will begrudgingly put up with ongoing reports on the little twit as long as he is relevant to something. I just can’t wait for it to stop.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:43:57am

re: #140 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Okay, I will begrudgingly put up with ongoing reports on the little twit as long as he is relevant to something. I just can’t wait for it to stop.

Haha no one really enjoys this shit. It helps us focus and pass the time.

142
Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:46:43am
143
The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:49:20am

STUPIDEST TWEET IN MY MENTIONS TODAY==>

144
Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:50:43am

One of only a few reasons I still look at Twitter.

145
Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:53:26am

Shaun trying to make himself the story again.

Obviously they will hire an assassin, Shaun.

146
Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:54:00am

I fuckin’ love it.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:54:50am

re: #143 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET IN MY MENTIONS TODAY==>

That’s the same Dondero as mentioned in this Wikipedia entry:

In an interview with Reason, Timothy Virkkala, former managing editor of the libertarian magazine Liberty, alleged that Tucker played a role in the production of racially charged newsletters written on behalf of Ron Paul. By Virkkala’s account, Tucker was an “assistant, [and] probably a writer” who assisted “editor and chief writer” Lew Rockwell in creating the newsletters.[13] Eric Dondero, who served as (election) campaign coordinator and senior aide to Ron Paul in the mid to late 1990s, told the American Spectator that “Lew Rockwell and Jeff Tucker wrote the newsletters.”[14]

en.wikipedia.org

As I recall, Dondero is about as Hispanic as I am, despite his name ending in “o.”

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Franklin  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:55:44am

Yeah, with insight like this, Shaun must be stopped //

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:57:03am

re: #148 Franklin

Really. He is single-handedly making Hillary lose.

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b.d.  Mar 11, 2016 • 5:58:09am

re: #145 Nyet

Shaun trying to make himself the story again.

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Obviously they will hire an assassin, Shaun.

Shaun King will flip over to the Wingnut side on of these days, he’s burnt every bridge on the left that he’ll need a timely conversion to be employed.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:00:20am

re: #150 b.d.

Shaun King will flip over to the Wingnut side on of these days, he’s burnt every bridge on the left that he’ll need a timely conversion to be employed.

He can always flip back to praising Georgia’s and complaining about California’s gun laws. There’s market for this.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:01:39am

re: #148 Franklin

Yeah, with insight like this, Shaun must be stopped //

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Ugh. Bernie supporters sound like Hillary supporters from 2008 who were dead set on sinking Obama’s campaign.

153
Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:02:40am

A noted regressive leftist at DKos:

Clinton, on the other hand, “was at her all-out reactionary best, expressing contempt for the likes of Cuba

The horror.

154
b.d.  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:03:02am

re: #151 Nyet

He can always flip back to praising Georgia’s and complaining about California’s gun laws. There’s market for this.

And keeping money sent in by supporters for other charitable purposes is one of the founding bedrock principles of conservatism anyhow too…

155
Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:03:20am

re: #142 Dr. Matt

Rickkk Scott (R-Idiot) signed into law, “The Pastor Protection Act”, i.e., clergy don’t have marry Teh Gays.

Nothing but political grandstanding and wasting time and money on useless legislation. No pastor can be called upon to perform a religious ceremony to marry gays or anyone else.

But county clerks are not clergy. They are the ones to have to observe the law fairly and equally.

156
Dr. Matt  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:03:35am
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b.d.  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:04:21am

re: #153 Nyet

A noted regressive leftist at DKos:

The horror.

The folks at kos stopped for a minute about how much they hate the website they live in to talk about something else?

158
lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:06:02am

Bernie supporters having issues with basic math. Calling out Shaun for his sketchy understanding of primaries, one of his fans wanted to know how Hillary actually won on the day.

As if I invented how primaries work, and that Hillary won more delegates on the day (the only thing that matters).

159
The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:07:14am

I blocked that Dondero asshole

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:07:23am

re: #158 lawhawk

MI - Hillary 60; Bernie 67.
MS - Hillary 30; Bernie 4.
There’s your math - 90 to 71. Bernie lost on the day.

Like saying “I punched in the fist with my face!”

161
wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:08:52am

re: #159 The Vicious Babushka

I blocked that Dondero asshole

Very wise.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:09:36am

re: #158 lawhawk

Right now 538 has these numbers for MI:

63/63 67/67

Both Sanders and Hillary have met their 538 targets exactly.

163
Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:10:59am

re: #162 Nyet

And MS: 32/23 4/13

So together: 95 v. 71.

164
lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:11:56am

re: #162 Nyet

That’s true (as far as the targets are concerned), but the overall tally on the day added to Hillary’s lead. Far from Bernie closing things, he actually lost ground on the day. That’s some momentum.

165
Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:12:34am

re: #164 lawhawk

That’s true (as far as the targets are concerned), but

There’s no “but”, I was not contradicting you ;)

166
Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:15:12am

Given Bernie’s severe underperformance earlier, his exactly meeting a 538 target counts as a practical loss: he should be waaay above it.

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Timothy Watson  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:18:32am

re: #148 Franklin

Yeah, with insight like this, Shaun must be stopped //

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Virginia? Massachusetts?

Are we to believe that Sanders would win Kansas, Oklahoma, or Nebraska in a general election?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:20:13am

re: #147 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

In an interview with Reason, Timothy Virkkala, former managing editor of the libertarian magazine Liberty

LOL

Something about that just struck me as funny.

169
Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:22:06am

re: #168 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Libertarian libertines liberating liberty from liberals.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:23:51am

re: #169 Nyet

Libertarian libertines liberating liberty from liberals.

drinking libellious Liberian libations

171
Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:25:33am

re: #169 Nyet

So an updated version:

Libertarian libertine Liberians liberating liberty from libelous liberals.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:26:03am

re: #167 Timothy Watson

There’s little correlation between primary wins and the general election on a state by state basis.

A candidate could win a state in the primary but lose in the general because the opposing party outnumbers that candidate’s party by a 2:1 margin in registrations.

It wouldn’t matter who won the primary in that case, because there’s little chance either candidate would win.

But in the example Shaun provided, there’s a good chance that Hillary could still win in MA, VA, TN, and SC. This would also depend on who she faces, and who’s got the better ground game to GOTV. Bernie would likewise be able to count on MA, but VA, TN, and SC are a lesser likelihood because his GOTV is far less there.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:28:19am

re: #171 Nyet

So an updated version:

Libertarian libertine Liberians liberating liberty from libelous liberals.

named Libby

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:30:09am

re: #171 Nyet

So an updated version:

Libertarian libertine Liberians liberating liberty from libelous liberals.

no libations? (I know, different etymology)

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:31:06am

re: #174 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Too far away phonetically (just “lib”).

176
ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:31:58am

Morning…I think.

So, I see there seems to be hope for a CNN Clinton/Sanders Town Hall on Ohio State University’s Mershon Auditorium on Sunday night. It appears to be a bit hastily arranged (see bold). I guess this stuff is done on the fly.

cleveland.com - Hillary Clinton, Bernie Sanders to attend Ohio State forum on Sunday

COLUMBUS, Ohio—Democratic presidential candidates Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have each agreed to attend a CNN forum Sunday night at Ohio State University, the cable network announced Thursday.

The “town hall” meeting is scheduled to take place at Ohio State’s Mershon Auditorium between 8 p.m. and 10 p.m., according to Ohio State spokesman Chris Davey.

Neither Clinton’s nor Sanders’ campaign has yet confirmed their respective candidates will attend. Information on how the public can get tickets wasn’t immediately available.

The forum will be hosted by CNN’s Jake Tapper and TV One’s Roland Martin, according to CNN. Questions will come from the moderators and also from Ohio voters.

The two candidates had already agreed to speak at an Ohio Democratic Party fundraising dinner in Columbus on Sunday evening.

The pair are competing to win Ohio’s March 15 Democratic primary.

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b.d.  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:33:28am

Was Shaun looking in the mirror when he wrote this tweet?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:34:48am

re: #156 Dr. Matt

Ben Carson admits there are two Donald Trumps: “One’s very much an entertainer, and one is actually a thinking individual.” #Fraud
— Dr. Matt

Well I’m glad we’re seeing The Entertainer version. This gives a good idea of how we would react to various situations and conduct policy.

//

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:35:01am
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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:35:55am

re: #177 b.d.

Sad!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:36:09am

re: #145 Nyet

Shaun trying to make himself the story again.

Obviously they will hire an assassin, Shaun.

Shaun needs to unplug.

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makeitstop  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:36:20am

re: #171 Nyet

So an updated version:

Libertarian libertine Liberian librarians liberating liberty from libelous liberals.

Appended. Or revised and extended, or something.

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b.d.  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:36:25am

re: #179 The Vicious Babushka

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Of course all of those people bemoaning Carson for endorsing Trump will vote for Trump in November anyways.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:38:34am

re: #178 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Well I’m glad we’re seeing The Entertainer version. This gives a good idea of how we would react to various situations and conduct policy.

//

The Real Trump or his Evil Twin?

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makeitstop  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:39:10am

re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

The Real Trump or his Evil Twin?

Evil Twin Trump needs more goatee.

187
Great White Snark  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:40:13am

I had mentioned a jewelry biz friend shot and killed an armed robber Tuesday. On the news this morning-The robbers home as searched and they found stolen property that was from a double murder in Apple Valley.

That was stone killer vs ordinary guy. It could have gone bad so easily. But yeah we are safer with that guy gone.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:41:16am

Heh.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:43:11am

re: #11 Pawn of the Oppressor

Ah, the Bitch Is Lyin’/Fake Rape defense. Now we know why his campaign manager quotes Chucksie.

Upchuck produces his most nasty attacks on women in cases like this. It’s truly sick the way he always assumes the lady is lying or at fault.

As for Mr. Trump, I understand his defending his campaign manager, though I disagree with it intensely: Trump’s logic is that to concede Lewandowski’s guilt would be to force him to reprimand or fire his campaign manager at the behest of the press right before a crucial series of primaries. The result would be to expose the campaign to disorganization at the same time as the concession of Lewandowski’s thuggishness would invite a media “shark attack”.

For Donald Trump such a display of weakness is not the thing to do. He believes in strength over decency.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:43:32am

Unfortunate headline:

Carson buries ‘the hatchet,’ endorses Trump for president
PALM BEACH, Florida (AP) — Former Republican presidential candidate Ben Carson says he and Donald Trump
19 mins ago

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Belafon  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:44:58am

re: #190 lawhawk

Unfortunate headline:

Not sure what the apostrophes are for. It kind of changes the meaning of the sentence.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:45:22am

re: #189 Dark_Falcon

It’s truly sick the way he always assumes the lady is lying or at fault.

Then you missed the irony: Fields was Chuck’s alleged source against Allen West.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:45:34am

re: #191 Belafon

Not sure what the apostrophes are for. It kind of changes the meaning of the sentence.

“buries the hatchet” would have been a better placement

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:45:44am

re: #179 The Vicious Babushka

I disagree. All of those posts screamed at Ben Carson, but not one of them said anything about Carson’s race. That Tweeter is off-base.

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The Engineer Lobuno  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:46:14am

re: #191 Belafon

Not sure what the apostrophes are for. It kind of changes the meaning of the sentence.

The editor could have added “if you know what I mean”, and would be less conspicuos. :P

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:47:43am

re: #192 Nyet

Then you missed the irony: Fields was Chuck’s alleged source against Allen West.

The exception that proves the rule: Chuck is even more of a racist than a sexist and shouting allegations that Allen West had assaulted a white woman fit into a very old and very bad pattern in America.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:47:55am

Big Bill was at Hillary’s downtown Columbus office rallying the troops Wednesday.

The Dispatch online article has a bit more about his feelings on Ohio in these elections.

dispatch.com - Bill Clinton stops in Columbus, stumps for Hillary Clinton

“This state has been very, very good to our family,” he said. “I carried Ohio twice, and no Republican’s ever won the White House without winning Ohio. Both times when I won there was a Republican governor, and thanks to a lot of you we won anyway…and Hillary did well here.” In the 2008 primary, Hillary Clinton beat Barack Obama 53.49 to 44.84 percent.

This year, Bill Clinton said, the path to the Democratic nomination is more of an uphill battle.

“We can’t spend as much time here, because the calendar’s so compressed,” he said. “We started three weeks later than usual, and a lot of the primaries are three weeks earlier. I remember when I was here eight years ago, I made 28 stops and I loved it. So we have to depend on you.”

Video

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:52:11am

re: #197 ObserverArt

Big Bill was at Hillary’s downtown Columbus office rallying the troops Wednesday.

The Dispatch online article has a bit more about his feelings on Ohio in these elections.

dispatch.com - Bill Clinton stops in Columbus, stumps for Hillary Clinton

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She may win Ohio in the primary, but she’s gonna lose it in the general election.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:52:23am

re: #196 Dark_Falcon

The exception that proves the rule: Chuck is even more of a racist than a sexist and shouting allegations that Allen West had assaulted a white woman fit into a very old and very bad pattern in America.

With Chuck it’s probably true, but I wouldn’t be surprised for a moment if the war criminal West sexually assaulted women.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:54:03am

re: #106 Alyosha

Tony Winsor (an Independent who supported the minority, but totally kick-arse Gillard government) is contesting recently-appointed Nationals leader, Deputy Prime Minister, previous Agriculture Minister-who-wanted-Depp’s-dogs-Pistol-and-Boo-dead-DEAD!, and fuckwit-of-all-trades, Barnaby Joyce’s seat of New England.
It means fuck-all to you lot. But I’m going to pollute this stream with my country’s dirty undies for once.

Yea, that was totally incomprehensible; I can’t even tell what country you are talking about.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:55:29am

re: #200 Big Beautiful Door

Yea, that was totally incomprehensible; I can’t even tell what country you are talking about.

There’s a pond, so no need of a wall between us.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:55:34am

re: #198 Dark_Falcon

She may win Ohio in the primary, but she’s gonna lose it in the general election.

On what basis do you make that assertion? Obama carried it twice.

Not clear that OH goes to Trump, even if Trump picks Kasich as running mate.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:55:52am

re: #113 goddamnedfrank

I wonder what “morally clean” means?

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They maintain the purity of their precious bodily fluids./

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:57:00am

re: #202 lawhawk

On what basis do you make that assertion? Obama carried it twice.

Images of Karl Rove’s 2012 meltdown come to mind here…

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 11, 2016 • 6:58:49am

re: #199 Nyet

With Chuck it’s probably true, but I wouldn’t be surprised for a moment if the war criminal West sexually assaulted women.

Even if West was guilty, Chuck wasn’t interested in proving guilt based on the facts: To him, Allen West was guilty because he is a black man and therefore in Chuck’s racist mind West is a lust-crazed creature bent on assaulting white women to sate his lust and lash out at those who are racially superior to him.

Just writing out the hateful shit Chuckie believes got my stomach to heave. He really makes me sick.

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Franklin  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:01:55am

re: #202 lawhawk

On what basis do you make that assertion? Obama carried it twice.

Not clear that OH goes to Trump, even if Trump picks Kasich as running mate.

Right.

Most recent CNN/ORC has Clinton carrying Ohio over Trump by 7. And Quinnipiac has Trump +2, within MOE.

realclearpolitics.com

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:02:24am

re: #205 Dark_Falcon

Even if West was guilty, Chuck wasn’t interested in proving guilt based on the facts: To him, Allen West was guilty because he is a black man and therefore in Chuck’s racist mind West is a lust-crazed creature bent on assaulting white women to sate his lust and lash out at those who are racially superior to him.

Just writing out the hateful shit Chuckie believes got my stomach to heave. He really makes me sick.

Indeed, everything he believes in is stomach-turning, including Ted Cruz’s presidency.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:02:53am

It’s like GOP governors are having a competition on who can put the most insane restrictions on abortion providers, but HURR HURR NO MOAR REGULASHUNS!!!!!

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gocart mozart  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:03:56am
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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:04:43am

re: #207 Nyet

Indeed, everything he believes in is stomach-turning, including Ted Cruz’s presidency.

But Byrd!

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:05:42am

re: #210 Alyosha

But Byrd!

is the word

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:05:51am

re: #208 The Vicious Babushka

HURR HURR NO MOAR REGULASHUNS!!!!!

That’s just for corporations, who are real people.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:06:02am

re: #209 gocart mozart

The trump footlong! At te wiener’s circle starting tomorrow! Just look at those long, resplendent fingers!

How much to bet that these weenies are being prepared and served by a (grinning) undocumented immigrant?

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:07:00am

re: #211 Nyet

is the word

I’ve heard.

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Franklin  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:07:19am

re: #211 Nyet

is the word

It was my understanding that everyone has heard.

Bird is the Word! | FAMILY GUY | FOX BROADCASTING

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:08:27am

re: #207 Nyet

Indeed, everything he believes in is stomach-turning, including Ted Cruz’s presidency.

Cruz with his theocratic underpinnings is the single most dangerous politician in the world right now. That seems hyperbola but he would do, I believe, _anything_ to bring about their idea of a “christian” nation and would then work to happily kill off anyone who disagreed.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” was a cautionary tale not a prophecy, damn it.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:09:04am
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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:09:18am

re: #198 Dark_Falcon

She may win Ohio in the primary, but she’s gonna lose it in the general election.

You wish.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:09:51am

re: #216 William Lewis

Cruz with his theocratic underpinnings is the single most dangerous politician in the world right now. That seems hyperbola but he would do, I believe, _anything_ to bring about their idea of a “christian” nation and would then work to happily kill off anyone who disagreed.

“The Handmaid’s Tale” was a cautionary tale not a prophecy, damn it.

Cannot stress this point enough. Especially in light of attempts to brand him as a “moderate” in comparison to DT.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:10:35am

re: #198 Dark_Falcon

She may win Ohio in the primary, but she’s gonna lose it in the general election.

Just ask Karl Rove!!!

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:11:18am

re: #209 gocart mozart

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Chicago trolls New York. LOL

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:11:19am

re: #211 Nyet

is the word

Ow. After working all night it’s relaxation time for me - and that got the whiskey out the nose. I can still hear the Ramones version …

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:15:42am

re: #146 Alyosha

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I fuckin’ love it.

Gus…shakin’ it up.

I still miss him here. : (

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:16:00am

re: #221 Dark_Falcon

Everyone knows that pizza is thin crust. Deep dish is a savory tort.

Now, that’s a trolling statement.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:17:26am
Trump described the retired neurosurgeon as a “special, special person — special man,”

You know, special.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:18:48am

re: #224 lawhawk

Pfff. The best pizza has enough bread to hold up with turning into a pepperoni lasagna. And no yeast - a good baking soda rise will do much better for letting the Canadian bacon and pineapple flavors shine.

/////

Now that’s a pizza troll.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:19:26am

re: #223 ObserverArt

I’ll act as conduit once more before bed.

Yep.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:20:17am

re: #224 lawhawk

Everyone knows that pizza is thin crush. Deep dish is a savory tort.

Now, that’s a trolling statement.

I grew up around Chicago on deep dish, but ever since I visited Sicily, I am strictly thin-crust.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:21:20am

re: #198 Dark_Falcon

She may win Ohio in the primary, but she’s gonna lose it in the general election.

Not against Trump.

And what makes you say that anyway? Are you the new Karl Rove?

And I hope whoever the Dem is they win in Illinois just to drive you crazy…and to maybe help you realize how screwed up the GOP is.

There..take that! : )

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:21:24am

Bespectacled.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:21:50am

re: #227 Alyosha

God bless, Gus. Keep up the good work even if I’m _not_ looking forward to Bernie’s concession until I know he can convince the young idiots to vote for Hillary as a way to keep his ideas moving ahead. A half loaf is a better meal than nothing.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:22:35am

re: #209 gocart mozart

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Where’s the beef?!?!?!

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:22:57am

Heartbern.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:24:40am

Bees
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whitebeach  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:28:04am

The flooding nightmare continues, certainly in my part of NW La. My satellite dish, normally situated about nine feet above lake level, is now about 25 percent underwater. Amazed it still works, never expected it to have to undergo an immersion test. Water still rising but more slowly overnight. Light rain falling. A little less than two vertical feet before I’ll need to move mom and her cats to still higher ground, but it looks as if we might just make it. Mama’s own home of thirty-five years is a total loss.

This is the second lake flood I’ve endured, and by far the worst. I don’t recommend it even as an adventure. It is literally water torture.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:28:39am

re: #228 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

I grew up around Chicago on deep dish, but ever since I visited Sicily, I am strictly thin-crust.

I’ll take pizza any which way I can. I’m pizza-deprived here in China. Our only pizza chain is Pizza Hut, which is a much fancier place than in the States, but it’s still Pizza Hut.

The name in Chinese is 必胜客 (bi sheng ke which means roughly “certainly (a) victory (for a) visitor”.)

i have my doubts.

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Alyosha  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:31:37am

Mimicry is a bit tougher on teh webz.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:32:40am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:32:46am

re: #236 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ll take pizza any which way I can. I’m pizza-deprived here in China. Our only pizza chain is Pizza Hut, which is a much fancier place than in the States, but it’s still Pizza Hut.

The name in Chinese is 必胜客 (bi sheng ke which means roughly “certainly (a) victory (for a) visitor”.)

i have my doubts.

Germany is fortunate to have a lot of Italian immigrants who know how to make a decent pizza.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:33:42am

re: #236 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I’ll take pizza any which way I can. I’m pizza-deprived here in China. Our only pizza chain is Pizza Hut, which is a much fancier place than in the States, but it’s still Pizza Hut.

The name in Chinese is 必胜客 (bi sheng ke which means roughly “certainly (a) victory (for a) visitor”.)

i have my doubts.

Oy. You have my sympathy. My second job is as a delivery driver for the local Hut. Or is that Hutt? I do get tired of their pizza fast though. Thankfully they have an acceptable meat/marinara sauce for pasta.

Do you cook? I’ll give you my crust recipe then it’s a matter of finding ingredients - and I can’t imagine trying to find decent mozzarella there…

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Amory Blaine  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:34:28am

Man methodically targeted neighbors in triple homicide, complaint says

According to the complaint:

Manso-Perez and his son were walking by Popp’s apartment on their way to wash clothes. They declined the offer of a beer.

Popp then asked where they were from and the father and son replied Puerto Rico.

The son later told police that Popp replied: “Oh, that’s why you don’t speak English. You’re Puerto Rican.”

Manso-Perez and his son continued to the basement where they got the washing machine started. As they climbed the stairs back to their apartment, Popp stood over them on a landing. He was armed with a rifle.

The son told police Popp pointed the gun at his father — saying, “You guys got to go” — and pulled the trigger.

Manso-Perez was shot in the head.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:35:56am

re: #235 whitebeach

Stay safe!

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:37:40am

re: #239 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Germany is fortunate to have a lot of Italian immigrants who know how to make a decent pizza.

Coming from the Midwest, serving in the Army in Germany an eye opener about pizza. I had gotten to Germany and was in the replacement station in Frankfort my first night there in 1983 and we ordered pizza from the post pizzeria run by an Italian family. That paper bag was a major surprise! Tasted great but it was very different from any that I’d had in my life till then. I do still prefer a thicker crust than that (though not pan or thick), but it was a great lesson in the variety of pizza in the world.

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Franklin  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:39:37am

re: #241 Amory Blaine

Man methodically targeted neighbors in triple homicide, complaint says

Wow, just wow. What a horrible and chilling account.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:39:57am

re: #240 William Lewis

Oy. You have my sympathy. My second job is as a delivery driver for the local Hut. Or is that Hutt? I do get tired of their pizza fast though. Thankfully they have an acceptable meat/marinara sauce for pasta.

Do you cook? I’ll give you my crust recipe then it’s a matter of finding ingredients - and I can’t imagine trying to find decent mozzarella there…

I can cook, but my kitchen (like most Chinese kitchens) is not equipped with an oven. I have a two-burner gas cooker and a microwave which the university provides, plus the slow cooker, bread maker and rice cooker that I’ve acquired.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:41:05am

B

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Really tired of people on Twitter not understanding the Primary process

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:42:05am

re: #245 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I can cook, but my kitchen (like most Chinese kitchens) is not equipped with an oven. I have a two-burner gas cooker and a microwave which the university provides, plus the slow cooker, bread maker and rice cooker that I’ve acquired.

But you have access to pineapple, right?

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:42:43am

Papa John’s tried to make a go of it in China, but they pulled out a few years ago. No big loss there. Pizza Hut is the only pizza chain that survives, AFAIK. If there are others, they’re not where I live.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:43:12am

re: #246 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

B

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Really tired of people on Twitter not understanding the Primary process

N

It is not an easy thing to understand. Not a fully democratic or representative process.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:43:27am

re: #247 Barefoot Grin

But you have access to pineapple, right?

Oh, yeah! And bacon, so, you know, if I had an oven, I could make you know what.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:43:30am

HURR HURR DONALD TRUMPS TOTALLY CANTS BE TEH RACISST BECUS HE CAN HAS BEN CARSON!!!! CHECKMATE LIBTARDS DEMOCRATS IS TEH REAL RACISST HURR HURR BYRD BYRD

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:44:52am

re: #251 The Vicious Babushka

I really gotta wonder if Trump offered to buy a shitload of Ben’s books to get that endorsement.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:46:38am

Almost midnight hereabouts. I’m hitting the sack. Later, people!

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:46:54am

re: #250 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Oh, yeah! And bacon, so, you know, if I had an oven, I could make you know what.

Years ago I tried to make Tollhouse cookies for friends in Japan in their funky microwave with baking capacity. Whether the slight differences in ingredients or the “oven,” they always came out kind of doughy. My own apartments always came with a sink and one burner.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:46:56am

re: #252 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I really gotta wonder if Trump offered to buy a shitload of Ben’s books to get that endorsement.

Bribery is not Trump’s style, he’s more into bullying and threats.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:47:37am

re: #245 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I can cook, but my kitchen (like most Chinese kitchens) is not equipped with an oven. I have a two-burner gas cooker and a microwave which the university provides, plus the slow cooker, bread maker and rice cooker that I’ve acquired.

Yeah, that would make it difficult. Not likely to be many tabletop pizza ovens for sale locally either (we won’t mention where most are made).

I often wonder how the American fast food places translated to Asia. In 2002 there was negligible market penetration in Saigon and even less in Tokyo/Bangkok in 1985 so I never tried them. I always found the localisations in Germany (cheap beer!), France (cheap red wine!) & Spain (don’t remember, was too drunk that week) humorous when I was in the Army in the early 80s so I always wanted to try. I’ve seen pictures of KFC and the like but never made it to any of them.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:48:01am

re: #256 The Vicious Babushka

Bribery is not Trump’s style, he’s more into bullying and threats.

Like revealing what meds Carson was taking before the debates?

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:48:36am

re: #248 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Papa John’s tried to make a go of it in China, but they pulled out a few years ago. No big loss there. Pizza Hut is the only pizza chain that survives, AFAIK. If there are others, they’re not where I live.

Agreed on that not being a loss. Even (ugh) Dominoes is better.

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Smith25's Liberal Thighs  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:49:52am

re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It is not an easy thing to understand. Not a fully democratic or representative process.

It’s the teacher in me. Some of the comments I hear from all sides(Uh oh. I went MBF) are things that you should be able to pick up from just paying attention just a little bit.

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gwangung  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:49:55am

re: #252 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I really gotta wonder if Trump offered to buy a shitload of Ben’s books to get that endorsement.

Bought his mailing list, more like.

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:50:02am
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Amory Blaine  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:51:13am

re: #253 The Vicious Babushka

Nothing Breitbart says is trustworthy.

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makeitstop  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:51:33am

re: #238 FormerDirtDart

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So, what does everyone make of this? An anti-Trump move like Kansas (IIRC) did with their delegates a week or so ago?

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:52:03am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:52:46am

re: #257 William Lewis

Yeah, that would make it difficult. Not likely to be many tabletop pizza ovens for sale locally either (we won’t mention where most are made).

I often wonder how the American fast food places translated to Asia. In 2002 there was negligible market penetration in Saigon and even less in Tokyo/Bangkok in 1985 so I never tried them. I always found the localisations in Germany (cheap beer!), France (cheap red wine!) & Spain (don’t remember, was too drunk that week) humorous when I was in the Army in the early 80s so I always wanted to try. I’ve seen pictures of KFC and the like but never made it to any of them.

All right, not quite to bed yet ..

The chains that have done well in China are KFC, McDonalds, Pizza Hut — the top 3 AFAIK — followed by (in no specific order) Burger King, DQ, and Subway. Those are mostly in the big cities, but KFC has the greatest reach, since I’ve seen them in even small towns. Starbucks has penetrated the larger cities, where it competes with Costa Coffee and more local brands.

Daylight Donuts is making some slow progress. One just opened here in December.

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Amory Blaine  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:53:36am

re: #265 The Vicious Babushka

Now they can claim the MSM made it up and BB and Drumpf can make nicey nicey. Perfect.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:54:08am

re: #260 Smith25’s Liberal Thighs

It’s the teacher in me. Some of the comments I hear from all sides(Uh oh. I went MBF) are things that you should be able to pick up from just paying attention just a little bit.

I remember some of the reforms enacted after 1968 to make the nomination process more open and democratic. But there is still a lot of room for horsetrading

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:54:42am

re: #266 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Chicken in #1; somehow it doesn’t surprise me that it would translate well. Both countries like barnyard pimp a whole lot.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 11, 2016 • 7:55:04am

re: #198 Dark_Falcon

She may win Ohio in the primary, but she’s gonna lose it in the general election.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:00:36am

I just can’t even

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:00:44am
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makeitstop  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:00:53am

re: #265 The Vicious Babushka

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A big shitload of speculation in that story.

Welcome to Trump’s Grassy Knoll.
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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:02:09am

This is why we can’t have nice things==>

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Timothy Watson  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:02:57am

re: #272 goddamnedfrank

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Soylent Green is teh gheys?

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:03:22am

A third poll this morning from Florida, but unlike the other two this one shows Rubio within 6 points of Trump.

theledger.com

Reading the fine print: “No representative sample for black voters”.

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:04:36am

No wonder Trump is going to be the R candidate. All of these guys are yearning for a strongman.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:05:12am

re: #264 makeitstop

So, what does everyone make of this? An anti-Trump move like Kansas (IIRC) did with their delegates a week or so ago?

It was Colorado, and they did it last year, but someone re-released the story a week or so ago. The Colorado GOP eliminated the presidential straw poll from their caucuses because the RNC changed the rules that if a straw poll was conducted lt must bind delegates to the results.
This may be a result of the same policy change, but I couldn’t say for sure.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:06:27am

re: #277 jaunte

who is this drunken fucker?

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:06:43am

re: #277 jaunte

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No wonder Trump is going to be the R candidate. All of these guys are yearning for a strongman.

Which is why I expect the NeverTrump movement to be increasingly frustrated, as they see a great share of “conservatives” eventually accepting Trump, wanting a strongman more than wanting to shut down the gov’t over PP.

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:07:29am

re: #279 William Lewis

Max Boot?
en.wikipedia.org

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:10:07am

re: #281 jaunte

Max Boot?
en.wikipedia.org

I thought the old Bears QB so I’m like WTMF’ingF’ityF?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:10:07am

re: #280 freetoken

Which is why I expect the NeverTrump movement to be increasingly frustrated, as they see a great share of “conservatives” eventually accepting Trump, wanting a strongman more than wanting to shut down the gov’t over PP.

Except he will be more of a straw man than a strong man. A President’s powers are limited, and he would simply be beholden to those who can get things done for him, just like any other President.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:10:56am
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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:11:00am

re: #249 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

It’s actually really simple.

For Democrats, the first candidate to 2,383 wins. There are state primaries/caucuses, and the delegates are doled out proportionally. So, if you win 51/49, the delegates are doled out in a similar fashion. However, depending on the state, if you don’t reach a certain threshold of the vote, you wont get any delegates at all; Bernie was close to being shutout in MS on that rule.

With the races so far (13-9 for Hillary), she’s amassed about 200+ delegates on Bernie (748-542 - via RCP).

Superimposed on that is a superdelegate count. Those will generally break for whoever is leading, and right now Hillary has a massive lead on superdelegates (461 to 25). That reflects party support since the Supers are typically elected officials and leaders in the party. If Bernie somehow manages to win the big states coming up, they might shift to him, but there’s no evidence he’s going to do that - IOW, MI was a zebra/outlier.

With the superdelegate tally, Hillary has a greater than 2:1 lead - 1221 - 574 (via RCP). She’s more than halfway to the nomination. Bernie would need to win remaining states with a better margin than he has to date.

Here’s what annoys me is that Bernie fans think that Hillary winning states she has somehow means she can’t win the general (since those states might not go D in the general). That’s not how it works, but whatever.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:11:30am

re: #282 William Lewis

I thought the old Bears QB so I’m like WTMF’ingF’ityF?

Oh, I see, he’s just stupid enough to Re-Tweet the drunk.

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Franklin  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:13:57am

Q: What do you call a Bernie supporter that will vote for Trump if Hillary wins the nomination?

Click to Reveal

A: Republican

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Lidane  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:14:32am
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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:15:03am

re: #285 lawhawk

I really wish more of Bernies supporters were grounded in reality. We might actually be able to get some of his good ideas into law if they were… :(

ah well, I’ll stand by my avatar but god damn I wish I could spank a few of the idiot children who keep rat-fucking our chance at any progress.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:15:03am

re: #253 The Vicious Babushka

Wow Breitbart is walking back their assault complaint.

I am not surprised. I figured they would bend to Trump; I was surprised they challenged him in the first place.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:15:34am

The Party of Personal Responsibility==>

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:16:12am

re: #287 Franklin

Q: What do you call a Bernie supporter that will vote for Trump if Hillary wins the nomination?

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Yep. I’ve called a few of them that. They don’t like it much especially when I pull the “card carrying socialist” shtick on them :D

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:16:34am
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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:16:38am

re: #291 The Vicious Babushka

Violence at Trump rallies? Cruz says it’s “Emperor” Obama’s fault

It is certainly not the fault of the toothless white trash that throws sucker punches at people being led off by security…

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Belafon  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:16:48am

re: #277 jaunte

No wonder Trump is going to be the R candidate. All of these guys are yearning for a strongman.

And they fail to understand Democrats. Had Obama, or Gore, been in charge of the country when 9/11 occurred, the Afghan mountains would have been leveled. There’s a reason that Obama went into Pakistan to get bin Laden that Republican want to miss: whatever it takes means figuring out what is effective and useful and then doing it right.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:17:54am

re: #295 Belafon

And they fail to understand Democrats. Had Obama, or Gore, been in charge of the country when 9/11 occurred, the Afghan mountains would have been leveled.

Instead, we went in and trashed Iraq and created a breeding ground for ISIS…

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:18:24am

re: #265 The Vicious Babushka

Well, their analysis does seem convincing.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:18:51am
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Lidane  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:19:08am

Facebook Post

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:19:18am

re: #295 Belafon

And they fail to understand Democrats. Had Obama, or Gore, been in charge of the country when 9/11 occurred, the Afghan mountains would have been leveled. There’s a reason that Obama went into Pakistan that Republican want to miss: whatever it takes means figuring out what is effective and useful and then doing it right.

Had the Generals been allowed to do their job - aka if the Democrats had been in charge - Tora Bora would have ended with Bin Lauden’s corpse on display and no war in Iraq. That’s what they can’t admit.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:19:48am
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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:19:53am

re: #298 lawhawk

Although they look unrealistically slender.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:20:57am
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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:21:05am

re: #277 jaunte

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No wonder Trump is going to be the R candidate. All of these guys are yearning for a strongman.

Its funny to watch them change. One the one hand, Obama created Daesh because he didn’t keep our troops in Iraq for many additional years, and on the other hand they are promising that US ground troops can go into Syria just long enough to defeat Daesh then immediately leave. Total incoherence.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:22:16am

re: #302 jaunte

Although they look unrealistically slender.

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Belafon  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:23:35am

The Republican idea of a strongman is someone who yells a lot. I wonder if that’s what they’re dads were like. My dad, on the other hand, knew how to give a look that shut you down because you knew what was coming if you didn’t. Because, if you didn’t, the coming storm was most effective.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:24:12am

Let’s remember why NRO attacked Trump over his positions. How many of Cruz’s positions are really different from Trump?

Hint: They aren’t.

It’s all so much posturing and preening.

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:25:21am

re: #305 The Vicious Babushka

I mean, for a Trump rally.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:28:35am

Here is an interesting article on how a contested GOP convention might work. I was surprised to find out that delegates are not all unbound from their original candidates after the first round, though I guess the rules could be amended to change that.
slate.com

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:29:13am

re: #307 lawhawk

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Let’s remember why NRO attacked Trump over his positions. How many of Cruz’s positions are really different from Trump?

Hint: They aren’t.

It’s all so much posturing and preening.

But Trump is too much more open with the hate and bigotry. National Racists Online has continued to follow Buckley’s policy of hiding the knives in the velvet glove.

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:32:10am
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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:32:16am

re: #303 lawhawk

At this moment she can only rely on Terris, and his id of CL has now been called into question - that security official does look a lot like CL, so a misidentification is possible.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:32:34am

re: #308 jaunte

I mean, for a Trump rally.

The Bowery Boys were a nativist gang so yeah, they would totally support Trump.

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:33:19am

re: #313 The Vicious Babushka

Butcher Bill would volunteer as his security chief.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:36:29am

re: #235 whitebeach

The flooding nightmare continues, certainly in my part of NW La. My satellite dish, normally situated about nine feet above lake level, is now about 25 percent underwater. Amazed it still works, never expected it to have to undergo an immersion test. Water still rising but more slowly overnight. Light rain falling. A little less than two vertical feet before I’ll need to move mom and her cats to still higher ground, but it looks as if we might just make it. Mama’s own home of thirty-five years is a total loss.

This is the second lake flood I’ve endured, and by far the worst. I don’t recommend it even as an adventure. It is literally water torture.

Real sorry to hear that whitebeach. Damn. I sure hope she has some insurance coverage. Flooding can be difficult.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:38:14am

re: #307 lawhawk

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Let’s remember why NRO attacked Trump over his positions. How many of Cruz’s positions are really different from Trump?

Hint: They aren’t.

It’s all so much posturing and preening.

They’re worse. Typical NRO fuckery.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:38:41am

re: #313 The Vicious Babushka

The Bowery Boys were a nativist gang so yeah, they would totally support Trump.

Dead Rabbits forever! Hey I’m Irish.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:39:16am

I’m seeing on 538 that Mike Lee endorsed Cruz too.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:40:00am

re: #318 HappyWarrior

I’m seeing on 538 that Mike Lee endorsed Cruz too.

He finally got the endorsement of his only friend in the Senate.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:41:28am

re: #319 Big Beautiful Door

He finally got the endorsement of his only friend in the Senate.

It only took him until the middle of March.

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Lidane  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:42:51am

My surprise, etc. -

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:46:10am

re: #321 Lidane

My surprise, etc. -

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I hope he gets the help he needs.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:46:18am

Mocking Whole Foods shoppers seems to be a regular growth industry:
21 Reasons To Never Ever Step Inside A Whole Foods Again

I don’t actually like the title, since this kind of free comedy might be an excellent reason to go in the place.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:46:46am

re: #312 Nyet

On the other hand if this is Terris talking to CL right after the incident, the probability of misidenfication is lower.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:47:04am

re: #321 Lidane

My surprise, etc. -

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Isn’t this like the last day prior to the salary cap kicking in? Ah, well, he’ll find a nice home in either Dallas or Oakland. Unlike Teabow, he has some occasional flashes of real talent so he might make an acceptable backup QB.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:48:08am

re: #243 William Lewis

Coming from the Midwest, serving in the Army in Germany an eye opener about pizza. I had gotten to Germany and was in the replacement station in Frankfort my first night there in 1983 and we ordered pizza from the post pizzeria run by an Italian family. That paper bag was a major surprise! Tasted great but it was very different from any that I’d had in my life till then. I do still prefer a thicker crust than that (though not pan or thick), but it was a great lesson in the variety of pizza in the world.

There is a place here in Columbus, Rubino’s, that makes the best thin crust pizza around. I don’t know what causes the crust to form little air pockets and bubble up a bit, but you can eat just the crust and be satisfied. That’s not all, the sauce has got a little bit of a bite to it, a little sweet, and the small pepperonis are killer. Not a lot of cheese, but is it full of flavor.

A lot of people don’t like it because they think it is too little for the price, so they go to the shop next door that makes a bigger pizza, but is bland in all aspects by comparison.

When the owner (a Jewish guy with the last name of Reuben who was a boxer in the 50/60s - thus “Rubino’s”) passed they were about to close but the locals, especially the high school kids who use it as a hang out, fought to keep it open and the city (Bexely - an original Jewish community landlocked by Columbus) found someone to run it and keep the same recipes and ingredients. That was probably 12-15 years ago and it is still humming with the larger joint still next door.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:48:49am

re: #324 Nyet

Witness identification is notoriously unreliable though, so waiting for the police investigation seems prudent.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:50:41am

re: #323 Shiplord Kirel

I don’t actually like the title, since this kind of free comedy might be an excellent reason to go in the place.

Well, I’ve never liked the place (anti-union scum) and have never bought anything from their stores. That said, the comedy of that could easily draw me in and get me hauled off to jail for the display I’d make laughing at them.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:51:39am

re: #256 The Vicious Babushka

Bribery is not Trump’s style, he’s more into bullying and threats.

TRUMP: I’m great at suing. I file the best suit. Great suits. Nobody sues better than TRUMP. This I can tell you.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:53:18am
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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:54:30am
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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:55:07am

re: #270 goddamnedfrank

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I’ve got a little .gif that has that motion down…but I won’t trouble anyone with it here.

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No Depression  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:56:25am

re: #325 William Lewis

Isn’t this like the last day prior to the salary cap kicking in? Ah, well, he’ll find a nice home in either Dallas or Oakland. Unlike Teabow, he has some occasional flashes of real talent so he might make an acceptable backup QB.

I can guarantee you that he will not be a Cowboy. Since Jason Garrett took over as head coach, the Cowboys have for the most part been a lot more responsible in free agency. And I don’t think Oakland will get him either, as David Carr should already be generating excitement with Raiders fans, as he’s a legit QB.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:56:53am

re: #323 Shiplord Kirel

Oh, the gluten free thing? We do actually have gluten free communion wafers in our Episcopal church because we have three or four folk who really are that sensitive to it. It’s not that hard. It’s a fairly minor yet real theological point of distinction between us and the local Roman Catholic parish.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:57:42am

re: #287 Franklin

Q: What do you call a Bernie supporter that will vote for Trump if Hillary wins the nomination?

A: Republican

Shoot. I was going to say an idiot.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:58:37am
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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:59:41am

re: #328 William Lewis

Well, I’ve never liked the place (anti-union scum) and have never bought anything from their stores. That said, the comedy of that could easily draw me in and get me hauled off to jail for the display I’d make laughing at them.

I go to Kroger, an old highly experienced company, no surprises, and a union shop even here in the wilds of darkest Texas.

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KGxvi  Mar 11, 2016 • 8:59:49am

re: #333 No Depression

I can guarantee you that he will not be a Cowboy. Since Jason Garrett took over as head coach, the Cowboys have for the most part been a lot more responsible in free agency And I don’t think Oakland will get him either, as David Carr should already be generating excitement with Raiders fans, as he’s a legit QB.

With the return to LA, this feels like the sort of thing the Rams would do.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:02:15am

re: #312 Nyet

At this moment she can only rely on Terris, and his id of CL has now been called into question - that security official does look a lot like CL, so a misidentification is possible.

But didn’t he already make a statement earlier that he thought she was someone else from the MSM?

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Belafon  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:02:24am

re: #337 Shiplord Kirel

I go to Kroger, an old highly experienced company, no surprises, and a union shop even here in the wilds of darkest Texas.

I was actually rather astonished to see that Kroger here in Texas has union workers.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:02:58am

re: #334 William Lewis

Oh, the gluten free thing? We do actually have gluten free communion wafers in our Episcopal church because we have three or four folk who really are that sensitive to it. It’s not that hard. It’s a fairly minor yet real theological point of distinction between us and the local Roman Catholic parish.

Glad to be of service!

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KGxvi  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:06:24am

re: #338 KGxvi

It is a somewhat weird year in that very few teams are looking for QBs. There’s maybe six - the Rams, the 49ers (since it looks like Kaepernick wants out despite Kelly), Denver (they lost Oswieller to Houston), Cleveland (because of course), and maybe the Jets and Bills. Usually, it seems like half the league is looking for a quarterback.

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BeachDem  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:06:29am

re: #326 ObserverArt

There is a place here in Columbus, Rubino’s, that makes the best thin crust pizza around. I don’t know what causes the crust to form little air pockets and bubble up a bit, but you can eat just the crust and be satisfied. That’s not all, the sauce has got a little bit of a bite to it, a little sweet, and the small pepperonis are killer. Not a lot of cheese, but is it full of flavor.

A lot of people don’t like it because they think it is too little for the price, so they go to the shop next door that makes a bigger pizza, but is bland in all aspects by comparison.

When the owner (a Jewish guy with the last name of Reuben who was a boxer in the 50/60s - thus “Rubino’s”) passed they were about to close but the locals, especially the high school kids who use it as a hang out, fought to keep it open and the city (Bexely - an original Jewish community landlocked by Columbus) found someone to run it and keep the same recipes and ingredients. That was probably 12-15 years ago and it is still humming with the larger joint still next door.

Oh yes, I remember Rubino’s pizza well. Kind of funny that the Jewish burb of Bexley produced the best pizza (although, the original south end Donato’s was pretty good) and the first major successful rib joint—Damon’s. Remember when the first one opened. Yum. At one time, a major chain—now, I think it’s down to 5 or 6 total stores.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:06:31am

re: #339 Eventual Carrion

But didn’t he already make a statement earlier that he thought she was someone else from the MSM?

It was a columnist at the Daily Beast saying that the Breitbart columnist Matthew Boyle told him about such a statement by Lewandowski. So like double hearsay at the moment, and Boyle hasn’t commented since then.

That’s the problem when most of the sources are either Breitbrats or Trumpers - none are reliable. Terris is the only one sane one, but there’s still a possibility of a mistake. I’ll wait.

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:07:16am

Yo guitar players, here’s a face palm for you…

Guy has a Ibanez Tubescreamer 808 pedal that he’s got provenence to Stevie Ray Vaughn.

$11,000

guitarplayer.com

SMH.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:07:42am

re: #301 lawhawk

There was a second shover!

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KGxvi  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:09:08am

re: #346 Eclectic Cyborg

There was a second shover!

back and to the left, back and to the left, back and to the left

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Dave In Austin  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:09:34am

I got a live one over here.

Has anyone heard wingnuts spouting about “paid Communist instigators” at Trump rallies. I think this guy is a SMOTI follower as he is obsessed with “Dems are teh Takers!!11!”. This should be good.

Austin Local

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:10:39am

re: #321 Lidane

My surprise, etc. -

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Bye bye Johnny. It wasn’t nice to know you.

Yeah, I’m a Browns fan, the team that is watching what talent they had go to free agency. Damn it!

What a sad franchise they are. And the newest owner, one Jimmie Haslam (brother of Tennessee governor Bill Haslam) doesn’t seem to have any idea how to turn it around.

Haslam also was under pressure from the Feds for his company, Pilot/Flying J, running a scheme to bilk truck fleets out of “fleet card points” discounts they were not getting full refunds for. He managed to wriggle out of that by driving his bus over some of his accountants saying he had no idea what was going on.

Wiki: In April 2013, the FBI executed a search warrant and affidavit detailing a five-year fraud scheme by the Pilot Flying J chain. The company paid restitution to customers and agreed to pay a $92 million penalty pursuant to a Criminal Enforcement Agreement.

He has no idea alright. And the Browns are further proof. Sigh.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:11:38am

re: #322 HappyWarrior

I hope he gets the help he needs.

That would entail Daddy, Texas A&M, and good portion of the state of Texas from enabling him.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:12:23am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

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When you’re batting under 100, that’s something you would say.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:14:29am

re: #348 Dave In Austin

Has anyone heard wingnuts spouting about “paid Communist instigators” at Trump rallies.

It would be irresponsible not to speculate.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:16:21am

That video of Terris talking to Lewandowski immediately after the incident does significantly raise the probability that he wasn’t mistaken. That said, we don’t know at this time where Terris was looking at the exact second when a man grabbed Fields, whether he was observing carefully, etc. Given that he seems to be the only eyewitness, such questions are not nitpicking. Let’s see what Terris says.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:16:25am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

Skewed!!!1

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wrenchwench  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:17:36am

Good morning.

I don’t know why I like that so much.

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bratwurst  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:18:52am

At least we know he will be “comfortable” as he embarks on his lobbying career.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:20:30am

re: #356 bratwurst

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At least we know he will be “comfortable” as he embarks on his lobbying career.

Lobbying implies showing up for work. There’s no evidence he can do that given his current job.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:21:49am

re: #356 bratwurst

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At least we know he will be “comfortable” as he embarks on his lobbying career.

Lobbying? Ha, more like:

“Hi, I’m Marco Rubio and my friends at AIG want me to talk to you about a Reverse Mortgage…”

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Barefoot Grin  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:22:42am

re: #279 William Lewis

who is this drunken fucker?

The kind of guy who would say this:

“It’s a good thing that Ronald Reagan didn’t have this mindset. Otherwise he would never have provided arms to the mujahideen. Instead, he would have taken the attitude that because Afghanistan is next to the Soviet Union, Moscow is destined to dominate there unless the United States was willing to go to war with the USSR. Of course, Reagan didn’t take that attitude and his active support for the Afghan resistance helped to bring down the Soviet empire.”

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:23:06am

re: #356 bratwurst

content.time.com

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:23:36am

re: #343 BeachDem

Oh yes, I remember Rubino’s pizza well. Kind of funny that the Jewish burb of Bexley produced the best pizza (although, the original south end Donato’s was pretty good) and the first major successful rib joint—Damon’s. Remember when the first one opened. Yum. At one time, a major chain—now, I think it’s down to 5 or 6 total stores.

Since I went to CCAD, I’ve lived in and around the Near East side of Columbus (my rehab/recondition project 100 year old house in the former pre-war Jewish neighborhood of Olde Town East).

We used to run to Donato’s all the damn time back in the 70’s (Thurman Ave, just off Lockborne Rd.) They had killer subs and pizza. Not so much anymore…too mass produced. And Damon’s was very good too, but they got too big for their britches and went big time (like Donato’s) and killed the business. I’m surprise they have any around at all.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:24:27am
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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:26:11am

re: #362 The Vicious Babushka

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Ah, thank you m’lord.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:27:06am

re: #362 The Vicious Babushka

“Fuck you, Adolf!”. ;)

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:29:07am

re: #362 The Vicious Babushka

It must be so strange to be the world’s oldest man. The OLDEST out of ~ 9 billion

Do they mean the world’s oldest person?

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:29:40am

While everyone debates how many shooters witnesses there were on in the grassy knoll auditorium hallway, this is America 2016:

New controversy for candidate who said Obama was a gay prostitute

Texas State Board of Education candidate Mary Lou Bruner, a creationist who believes President Obama once worked as a gay prostitute, has directed an apparent outburst at conservative media Breitbart over an interview.

Breitbart reporter Merrill Hope wrote that Bruner was upset over a “post-primary candidate roundup.”

In retaliation, the educator allegedly posted the “reporter’s private cell phone number on Facebook.” She also allegedly published the entire 1,671-word interview that Hope did with Bruner on her Facebook page (We cannot independently verify this since Bruner keeps most of her Facebook posts private; she also deleted many of her controversial posts after they received media attention).

[…]

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:29:58am

re: #365 Ming5000

There’s a woman who is older.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:30:34am

re: #365 Ming5000

It must be so strange to be the world’s oldest man. The OLDEST out of ~ 9 billion

Do they mean the world’s oldest person?

More like 7.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:30:41am

Just read that article about the guy who shot those people in Milwaukee. What a monster. I don’t think there is punishment enough for the guy.

I wonder how much the current politics of hatred feed into him?

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Lidane  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:30:43am

GOHMERT!

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:31:07am

re: #365 Ming5000

It must be so strange to be the world’s oldest man. The OLDEST out of ~ 9 billion

Do they mean the world’s oldest person?

There is also “World’s Oldest Woman”

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:31:09am

So, Trump’s in STL today, and there are already protests and arrests outside the venue.

Read through Lee’s feed, and he apparently found a lone African American Trump supporter in the crowd.

twitter.com

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BeachDem  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:31:26am

re: #361 ObserverArt

Since I went to CCAD, I’ve lived in and around the Near East side of Columbus (my rehab/recondition project 100 year old house in the former pre-war Jewish neighborhood of Olde Town East).

We used to run to Donato’s all the damn time back in the 70’s (Thurman Ave, just off Lockborne Rd.) They had killer subs and pizza. Not so much anymore…too mass produced. And Damon’s was very good too, but they got too big for their britches and went big time (like Donato’s) and killed the business. I’m surprise they have any around at all.

My accountant here in MB is involved with Damon’s—knew Irv Rothman (?) from the get-go. Just looked—there are three in Ohio (Middleburg Heights, Sandusky and Steubenville), one in PA (Hazelton) and the one here in MB.

I remember the first time I went into the one in Ann Arbor and there was all the Bo memorabilia, instead of Woody. Really weird.

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wrenchwench  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:32:01am

re: #362 The Vicious Babushka

[Yisrael Kristal, Holocaust survivor from Israel, is world’s oldest man]

Yisrael and his chocolate factory!

[…]

Kristal married and had two children, eventually moving to the city of Lodz where he established a successful sweets and chocolate factory.

Following the Nazi invasion of Poland and the occupation of Lodz, Kristal was moved into the Lodz ghetto with his family but was allowed to continue operating his factory.

[…]

After the war he returned to Lodz and once again re-established his sweets factory, marrying again in 1947.

In 1950, he made aliya to Israel with his wife and infant boy, Haim, born to the couple, settling in Haifa where he has remained ever since. The couple had a daughter, Shula, and Kristal, doing what he knew, established a new sweets factory in the city called Kristal’s Sweets.

[…]

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:32:13am

re: #371 The Vicious Babushka

You are all correct. Many older women

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:33:21am

re: #372 lawhawk

Does it really take that many cops to subdue one guy?

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Belafon  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:33:31am

re: #375 Ming5000

You are all correct. Many older women

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Interesting. So, when the top two die, there will be no one left from the 1800s. It’s incredible that we still do.

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:33:43am

Moar America 2016:

Putnam school board candidates discuss evolution, creation theories

Three candidates for Putnam County Board of Education took a stance on teaching the theories of creationism and evolution Thursday.

Bruce Knell, who has 40 years of teaching experience, believes creationism should be taught in Putnam County Schools just as Charles Darwin’s theory of evolution is taught.

“I think we can’t single one position,” Knell said. “If we’re going to teach one, we should teach all theories.”

Knell, along with incumbents Sam Sentelle and Jack Coyner met with Gazette-Mail editors Thursday. […]

Sentelle, who is currently president of the West Virginia School Board Association, said that both theories are just that — theories — and should be taught as such.

“I don’t think we should be teaching creationism or evolution as a fact,” Sentelle said.

[…]

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Timothy Watson  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:33:50am

re: #370 Lidane

GOHMERT!

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Now a non-Jew gets to decide who the real Jews are!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:33:59am

re: #370 Lidane

GOHMERT!

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So he’s calling most Jews, self-loathing? Gotta love that GOP Jewish outreach.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:34:27am

SMOTI is wearing his Trump armband, his Trump shorts, his Trump Sam Browne belt, shouting HAIL VICTORY!!!! at the top of his lungs.

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BeachDem  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:34:40am

re: #370 Lidane

GOHMERT!

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And if there’s anyone who would understand the Jewish mindset, it’s Louie Gohmert. Sigh.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:34:49am

This ‘oldest human’ stuff is not absolute. Quite possibly there are older humans whose age is simply not well-documented.

So it’s not so much an oldest man as a documented oldest man.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:35:13am

re: #380 HappyWarrior

So he’s calling most Jews, self-loathing? Gotta love that GOP Jewish outreach.

BEN SHAPIRO SAID SO & HE IS A JEWISH!!!11!!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:35:19am

re: #371 The Vicious Babushka

There is also “World’s Oldest Woman”

Soon we’ll have no one left born in the 19th century. Kind of sad to think about since none of us will be here when the last parson born in the 20th leaves. This woman is only a year younger than my youngest great grandparent but a generation younger than my oldest one.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:36:24am

re: #383 Nyet

This ‘oldest human’ stuff is not absolute. Quite possibly there are older humans whose age is simply not well-documented.

So it’s not so much an oldest man as a documented oldest man.

I think they usually do include that caveat or assume that most people understand that.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:36:58am

re: #385 HappyWarrior

Soon we’ll have no one left born in the 19th century. Kind of sad to think about since none of us will be here when the last parson born in the 20th leaves. This woman is only a year younger than my youngest great grandparent but a generation younger than my oldest one.

When I was born there were Civil War veterans who were still alive.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:37:28am

re: #373 BeachDem

My accountant here in MB is involved with Damon’s—knew Irv Rothman (?) from the get-go. Just looked—there are three in Ohio (Middleburg Heights, Sandusky and Steubenville), one in PA (Hazelton) and the one here in MB.

I remember the first time I went into the one in Ann Arbor and there was all the Bo memorabilia, instead of Woody. Really weird.

Interesting. Funny that there is not one here in the area where they got their start. But as you may remember, Columbus is a super competitive area for restaurants. At one time I remembering reading Columbus had more independent pizza shops per capita than any other city in America. I know many will contest that, but it is true. We still have a ton of them today…along with all the big chains…except Godfathers.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:37:46am

re: #387 The Vicious Babushka

When I was born there were Civil War veterans who were still alive.

Fun fact: The last Confederate Widow died in 2005.

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Dave In Austin  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:37:55am

re: #372 lawhawk

So, Trump’s in STL today, and there are already protests and arrests outside the venue.

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Read through Lee’s feed, and he apparently found a lone African American Trump supporter in the crowd.

twitter.com

Ben Carson??

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:38:05am

re: #387 The Vicious Babushka

When I was born there were Civil War veterans who were still alive.

My Dad too. It’s amazing to think about all the changes those men witnessed. There were a handful of Revolutionary vets that lived through the Civil War too.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:38:22am

re: #376 Eclectic Cyborg

Does it really take that many cops to subdue one guy?

I think they commonly call this “a show of force” or something.

I call it a gang.

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:38:35am
‘Murica Fuck Yeah!
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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:40:20am

re: #389 Eclectic Cyborg

Fun fact: The last Confederate Widow died in 2005.

I think it was even more recent than that. Funnily enough, I remember a book on my grandmother’s bookshelf called Oldest Confederate Widow Tells all. I never did read it but I always wondered about people like that. Interestingly enough, my grandmother had a life like that herself. Born in 1912 the fall after the Titanic sank and died in early 2005. Fascinating woman. She’s a big part of why I do genealogy.

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Lidane  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:41:13am

Admitting that their campaign is toast:

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:41:28am

Things should get very interesting for Trump on his later stop in Chicago, which is on a university campus.

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Ming5000  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:41:32am

re: #389 Eclectic Cyborg

Fun fact: The last Confederate Widow died in 2005.

Civil War widows were the hottest

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BeachDem  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:41:40am

re: #388 ObserverArt

Interesting. Funny that there is not one here in the area where they got their start. But as you may remember, Columbus is a super competitive area for restaurants. At one time I remembering reading Columbus had more independent pizza shops per capita than any other city in America. I know many will contest that, but it is true. We still have a ton of them today…along with all the big chains…except Godfathers.

It’s also always been a huge test-market for restaurants. That one site on Bethel Road, down near Sawmill, has been about a million different concepts.

The original Damon’s in Bexley was the best. And they stayed good through their early expansion—then they changed their rib product and it was all downhill from there. Same thing with Max & Erma’s. When they were local, they had the best burgers, but I think their food sucks now that they’ve expanded so much (again, last time I was in one was in Ann Arbor, and it was terrible.)

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:41:57am

re: #395 Lidane

Admitting that their campaign is toast:

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Yep they’s done.

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:43:04am

Starting soon:

LIVE Donald Trump St. Louis Missouri Rally at the Peabody Opera House (3-11-16)

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:43:07am

re: #389 Eclectic Cyborg

Fun fact: The last Confederate Widow died in 2005.

The reason for that, I believe surviving Confederate veterans became eligible for pensions in the 1920’s or around that time, and there was a rush of young girls hitchin’ up with elderly vets in order to claim that sweet pension money for life.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:43:35am

re: #396 freetoken

Things should get very interesting for Trump on his later stop in Chicago, which is on a university campus.

A university campus that has many African American students, most likely many others of ‘color’ and who do not want his BS show on their campus. Yeah there are going to be protests. Maybe more than he has seen so far.

His goon squad will be challenged.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:43:40am

Longstreet’s widow was active in Civil Rights causes I believe. Longstreet was seen as a traitor in Lost Cause circles since he did three things: Criticized Lee in his memoirs, became a Catholic, and became a Republican. Longstreet I think was long overlooked in the eyes of many but I understand this theories on defensive warfare were studied by generals in WWII even.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:44:03am

re: #401 The Vicious Babushka

The reason for that, I believe surviving Confederate veterans became eligible for pensions in the 1920’s or around that time, and there was a rush of young girls hitchin’ up with elderly vets in order to claim that sweet pension money for life.

Yep.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:44:05am

Breitbart distances themselves from claim that their own reporter was assaulted by Trump hack. Witness (another reporter) stands by their earlier statement that Trump hack assaulted said reporter. Right wing extremists still extreme. And agitated.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:44:41am

re: #394 HappyWarrior

I think it was even more recent than that.

You are correct. Maude Hopkins, died 2008.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:45:27am

re: #405 lawhawk

OK, now we’ve heard from Terris. Let’s see what the police says.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:47:02am

re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg

You are correct. Maude Hopkins, died 2008.

Amazing stuff.honestly. I’ve brought this up before but John Tyler, president born in 1790 has two living grandsons. Long story short, he had a son late in life who had sons late in life.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:47:08am

re: #406 Eclectic Cyborg

You are correct. Maude Hopkins, died 2008.

Looks like the Confederate widow pensions were such a scam that they had to change the laws regarding the payouts:

in 1937 the state passed a law stating that women who married Civil War veterans would not be eligible for a widow’s pension. The law was later changed in 1939 to state that widows born after 1870 were not eligible for pensions.

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BeachDem  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:47:14am

re: #394 HappyWarrior

I think it was even more recent than that. Funnily enough, I remember a book on my grandmother’s bookshelf called Oldest Confederate Widow Tells all. I never did read it but I always wondered about people like that. Interestingly enough, my grandmother had a life like that herself. Born in 1912 the fall after the Titanic sank and died in early 2005. Fascinating woman. She’s a big part of why I do genealogy.

I did read it—it was pretty interesting, but they must have paid the editor/proofreader in Monopoly money. I mostly remember that it had so many typos, it was almost unreadable.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:48:42am

re: #407 Nyet

This is important:

During the whole incident, says Terris, he had his “eyes trained on Corey Lewandowski,” because Terris was there to profile the campaign team with a focus on Lewandowski.

With this in mind Lewandowski is the most likely perpetrator. But I’ll still wait for the police.

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wrenchwench  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:49:41am

re: #394 HappyWarrior

I think it was even more recent than that. Funnily enough, I remember a book on my grandmother’s bookshelf called Oldest Confederate Widow Tells all. I never did read it but I always wondered about people like that. Interestingly enough, my grandmother had a life like that herself. Born in 1912 the fall after the Titanic sank and died in early 2005. Fascinating woman. She’s a big part of why I do genealogy.

We had a neighbor named Rose who used to own the area now covered by 100 homes within a mile of downtown (including ours). It was whittled down to her house and her daughter’s house over the years. Her daughter was our landlady. Rose passed away about 5 years ago.

Mr. w used to make up stories about her running away with Pancho Villa and returning years later. Fantasy can be as much fun as genealogy.

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No Depression  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:51:06am

re: #402 ObserverArt

A university campus that has many African American students, most likely many others of ‘color’ and who do not want his BS show on their campus. Yeah there are going to be protests. Maybe more than he has seen so far.

His goon squad will be challenged.

Rod Dreher: SJWs silencing free speech!!!!!1!!!1!!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:51:15am

re: #410 BeachDem

I did read it—it was pretty interesting, but they must have paid the editor/proofreader in Monopoly money. I mostly remember that it had so many typos, it was almost unreadable.

Damn heh. I remember she also had Angela’s Ashes. I think perhaps I got my love of reading from her possibly. She was reading well into her 80’s.

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:52:26am

The sun is finally peeking out from the clouds here in SE central Texas. I went out on the deck to clean up some debris blown out of the trees, and almost sat down on a copperhead sunning himself on one of the chairs. Luckily the dog was curious, and got me to pay attention to those very consistent leaves.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:52:33am

re: #412 wrenchwench

We had a neighbor named Rose who used to own the area now covered by 100 homes within a mile of downtown (including ours). It was whittled down to her house and her daughter’s house over the years. Her daughter was our landlady. Rose passed away about 5 years ago.

Mr. w used to make up stories about her running away with Pancho Villa and returning years later. Fantasy can be as much fun as genealogy.

I did a sort of dramatization with some changes in details and names about my family leaving Ireland. I feel pretty sure that some of them left in the famine. But you’re right. Fantasy is a lot of fun too.

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Ubiq  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:52:57am

re: #179 The Vicious Babushka

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When you’ve lost Emo Kylo Ren, you’ve lost the faith of the people.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:55:05am

re: #398 BeachDem

It’s also always been a huge test-market for restaurants. That one site on Bethel Road, down near Sawmill, has been about a million different concepts.

The original Damon’s in Bexley was the best. And they stayed good through their early expansion—then they changed their rib product and it was all downhill from there. Same thing with Max & Erma’s. When they were local, they had the best burgers, but I think their food sucks now that they’ve expanded so much (again, last time I was in one was in Ann Arbor, and it was terrible.)

That’s because it was in Ann Arbor! Muck Fichigan!

Had to toss that in. Since I am not an OSU grad and only follow the sports for the fun I don’t buy into all that Michigan hate.

As a matter of fact, I used to love going to Michigan for all the Formula One races in Downtown Detroit in the 80s and the CART IndyCar races out on Belle Isle up through ‘98 or so when the sport was torn up by the Indy 500 power moves. I was a regular in Detroit in June…and a regular at a cool little bar right at the end of Belle Isle causeway just off Grande…Honest John’s who let us park free if we patronized his establishment. We’d run across the bridge on all the breaks and grab a beer or three and then back across when another session or race would start.

Use to always go to the Michigan 500 at Michigan International Speedway too. I’ve stayed in Lansing, Brooklyn and even Ann Arbor for that. Not a lot of motels outside of Detroit back then

I thought Ann Arbor was a cool college town. Very nice area as the terrain in the area has some nice little hills and the like. The roads are kind of twisting and lots of trees. So different from Ohio State which is a city in a city that is flat.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:57:48am

Dr. Leila Denmark (February 1, 1898 - April 1, 2012) was one of the very few super-centenarians (people 110 years or older) who was well-known for something other than being very old.
A pediatrician, she had a long and distinguished career as a researcher and practitioner, and was co-developer of the whooping cough vaccine in the 1930s. She practiced medicine until she was 103, and retired only because she was not sure she could hold the babies anymore.
Among other things, she would not eat anything with added sugar in it, not even her 103rd birthday cake. This seems a bit extreme but when a doctor who is 114 years old gives health advice, it might be a good idea to listen.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:57:50am

re: #407 Nyet

OK, now we’ve heard from Terris. Let’s see what the police says.

What is interesting in this whole deal is it all happened to a White Female Conservative. Maybe that is just one reason they seem to want to wash it away.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:58:27am

re: #359 Barefoot Grin

The kind of guy who would say this:

“It’s a good thing that Ronald Reagan didn’t have this mindset. Otherwise he would never have provided arms to the mujahideen. Instead, he would have taken the attitude that because Afghanistan is next to the Soviet Union, Moscow is destined to dominate there unless the United States was willing to go to war with the USSR. Of course, Reagan didn’t take that attitude and his active support for the Afghan resistance helped to bring down the Soviet empire.”

Yeah, because arming and helping them worked out so well.

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Ubiq  Mar 11, 2016 • 9:59:01am

re: #395 Lidane

Admitting that their campaign is toast:

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I would expect the Kasich thing to do something similar. Both of them are betting on a convention floor fight, and the math for that is extremely unlikely if Trump takes either FL or OH (and pretty much impossible if he takes both).

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:00:14am

re: #415 jaunte

The sun is finally peeking out from the clouds here in SE central Texas. I went out on the deck to clean up some debris blown out of the trees, and almost sat down on a copperhead sunning himself on one of the chairs. Luckily the dog was curious, and got me to pay attention to those very consistent leaves.

Yikes!

Did the rain bring him to your deck or do they wander up there from time to time?

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:01:40am

Trump gets the endorsement of the Woman Who Hates Other Women==>

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:01:42am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:02:04am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

Trump gets the endorsement of the Woman Who Hates Other Women==>

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Ooh boy.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:02:24am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

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KerFuFFler  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:03:47am

re: #418 ObserverArt

I thought Ann Arbor was a cool college town. Very nice area as the terrain in the area has some nice little hills and the like. The roads are kind of twisting and lots of trees. So different from Ohio State which is a city in a city that is flat.

I lived in Ann Arbor for many years and loved it though of course the winters were brutal. My youngest son went to U of M and it was great to have the excuse to visit there again for a few years.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:04:38am

re: #427 lawhawk

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As I pointed out when she screeded that, there have literally been foreign born baseball players from the start. Phyilllis is not only a bigoted old witch, she’s an ignorant old witch.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:05:15am

Baby Whiplash, who enthusiastically participated in #TheTriggering and #FeminismIsCancer hashtag & is BFF’s with Milo, just retweeted this==>

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:05:40am

re: #424 The Vicious Babushka

She’s probably the oldest woman who hates women in the world.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:06:35am

re: #430 The Vicious Babushka

Baby Whiplash, who enthusiastically participated in #TheTriggering and #FeminismIsCancer hashtag & is BFF’s with Milo, just retweeted this==>

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Aka 99% of the male commentators on Breitbart articles that involve violence against women.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:06:37am

re: #430 The Vicious Babushka

Wrong Benny.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:07:07am

re: #431 Nyet

She’s probably the oldest woman who hates women in the world.

Need to call Guinness.

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b.d.  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:07:36am

re: #427 lawhawk

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Because MLB team owners are cheap and hate Americans.

o_O

They would pay Phyllis $20 million a year herself if she could throw left handed

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:07:39am

re: #433 Nyet

Wrong Benny.

Baby Whiplash retweeted that.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:07:46am

re: #434 HappyWarrior

Need to call Guinness.

Nah, let’s just drink one.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:07:59am

So help me if Ann Coulter is still around in 40 years doing what Phyillis does ow.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:08:12am

re: #436 The Vicious Babushka

Ah, OK.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:08:40am

re: #435 b.d.

Because MLB team owners are cheap and hate Americans.

o_O

They would pay Phyllis $20 million a year herself if she could throw left handed

Hahhaa too true about lefties. Too true. Makes me think I still have a shot even though my fastball is even slower than Jamie Moyer’s.

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Shiplord Kirel  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:09:06am

My interest in the very aged probably goes back to our neighbor Mrs. Rice. She lived next door to us in Colorado Springs when I was a child in the 50s. She was born in Washington DC in 1859 and lived there throughout the Civil War. She was only 6 when the war ended, but she had very vivid memories of the endless lines of men in blue uniforms and the sound of distant, and sometimes not-so-distant, gunfire. She had seen President Lincoln in person many times and had spoken to him once. Her father worked at the Patent Office and Lincoln was a frequent visitor. She herself pointed out to me that I might end up being one of the last people on Earth who had known someone who had seen the great Lincoln with their own eyes. Lincoln has been dead now for 151 years but, as she said, the connection is still there. Mrs. Rice herself passed in 1960 at the age of 100.

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BeachDem  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:09:18am

re: #418 ObserverArt

That’s because it was in Ann Arbor! Muck Fichigan!

Had to toss that in. Since I am not an OSU grad and only follow the sports for the fun I don’t buy into all that Michigan hate.

As a matter of fact, I used to love going to Michigan for all the Formula One races in Downtown Detroit in the 80s and the CART IndyCar races out on Belle Isle up through ‘98 or so when the sport was torn up by the Indy 500 power moves. I was a regular in Detroit in June…and a regular at a cool little bar right at the end of Belle Isle causeway just off Grande…Honest John’s who let us park free if we patronized his establishment. We’d run across the bridge on all the breaks and grab a beer or three and then back across when another session or race would start.

Use to always go to the Michigan 500 at Michigan International Speedway too. I’ve stayed in Lansing, Brooklyn and even Ann Arbor for that. Not a lot of motels outside of Detroit back then

I thought Ann Arbor was a cool college town. Very nice area as the terrain in the area has some nice little hills and the like. The roads are kind of twisting and lots of trees. So different from Ohio State which is a city in a city that is flat.

I also always loved Detroit and Ann Arbor. The arts festival in AA has always been fantastic. I was just there (AA) in October for work.

Even though I did go to and teach at Ohio State, rah rah Buckeye fans nauseate me. Most of the truly obnoxious ones didn’t even go to OSU.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:12:12am

Well, there’s a shocker. Of course, it doesn’t matter that he doesn’t recognize the authority. They have the authority, and they will continue to detain him through trial, and once convicted of said crimes, will allow him to occupy federal land - preferably ATX Florence.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:12:15am

re: #336 Backwoods_Sleuth

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The results in Michigan (Bernie winning despite the polls) does give Rubio some reason to hope, so he might as well play it out to Tuesday and see what happens.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:12:23am

Now Benny Boy is an SJW.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:12:54am

More “Trumpeters”

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:13:05am

re: #435 b.d.

She can’t hit the curve ball. /

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William Lewis  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:13:07am

re: #441 Shiplord Kirel

My interest in the very aged probably goes back to our neighbor Mrs. Rice. She lived next door to us in Colorado Springs when I was a child in the 50s. She was born in Washington DC in 1859 and lived there throughout the Civil War. She was only 6 when the war ended, but she had very vivid memories of the endless lines of men in blue uniforms and the sound of distant, and sometimes not-so-distant, gunfire. She had seen President Lincoln in person many times and had spoken to him once. Her father worked at the Patent Office and Lincoln was a frequent visitor. She herself pointed out to me that I might end up being one of the last people on Earth who had known someone who had seen the great Lincoln with their own eyes. Lincoln has been dead now for 151 years but, as she said, the connection is still there. Mrs. Rice herself passed in 1960 at the age of 100.

Wow. Anyone who knows you is 1 step away from Lincoln. Him, her, you. In 2016. My word…

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:13:26am

re: #445 Nyet

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:13:31am

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:13:35am

re: #445 Nyet

Now Benny Boy is an SJW.

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Would I be wrong in taking some glee in seeing the tables turned on him like that? I obviously don’t want violence against Ben but I do want him to see how ugly the movement he’s part of really is and if that means eh receives mean tweets, sure.

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lawhawk  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:14:05am

re: #446 FormerDirtDart

That’s a whole lot of folks who aren’t working but showing up at a rally midday. In STL. Where there’s a very large minority population, but the crowd is virtually all white.

Hmmm….

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:14:16am

re: #450 The Vicious Babushka

STUPIDEST TWEET OF THE DAY==>

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Trump uber alles.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:14:18am

re: #451 HappyWarrior

I doubt there will be any soul-searching.

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freetoken  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:14:28am

Trump is late, but that is now normal.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:15:16am

re: #454 Nyet

I doubt there will be any soul-searching.

I don’t think so either. Besides if he ever turned left wing, he’d probably be as obnoxious as he is now.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:15:22am

re: #362 The Vicious Babushka

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Boy has he ever beaten the odds.

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Nyet  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:15:52am

re: #449 Nyet

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BeachDem  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:16:05am

re: #422 Ubiq

I would expect the Kasich thing to do something similar. Both of them are betting on a convention floor fight, and the math for that is extremely unlikely if Trump takes either FL or OH (and pretty much impossible if he takes both).

We had a speaker at our breakfast meeting today (Dems) who is really a great political analyst (PhD in political science—department head at a college.) She was talking about the whole brokered convention concept with the GOP and she said, from critiques she’d been reading, it probably wouldn’t create a horrible fight, as most GOPers (upwards of 60%) were satisfied with their second choice candidates (Dems even more so—in the 70s). That’s not saying that TRUMP fans wouldn’t go ballistic, but doubt many of the more rabid ones will actually be convention delegates. And, that’s assuming they’d stick to their rules, and second choice could only be someone who’d actually won primaries, not some outlier (cough, Romney, cough) they brought on.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:16:45am

re: #441 Shiplord Kirel

My interest in the very aged probably goes back to our neighbor Mrs. Rice. She lived next door to us in Colorado Springs when I was a child in the 50s. She was born in Washington DC in 1859 and lived there throughout the Civil War. She was only 6 when the war ended, but she had very vivid memories of the endless lines of men in blue uniforms and the sound of distant, and sometimes not-so-distant, gunfire. She had seen President Lincoln in person many times and had spoken to him once. Her father worked at the Patent Office and Lincoln was a frequent visitor. She herself pointed out to me that I might end up being one of the last people on Earth who had known someone who had seen the great Lincoln with their own eyes. Lincoln has been dead now for 151 years but, as she said, the connection is still there. Mrs. Rice herself passed in 1960 at the age of 100.

Oh wow, this is something to think about though for sure. Pretty cool that you’re one step removed from Lincoln like that.

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FormerDirtDart  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:16:54am

re: #452 lawhawk

That’s a whole lot of folks who aren’t working but showing up at a rally midday. In STL. Where there’s a very large minority population, but the crowd is virtually all white.

Hmmm….

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:17:18am

re: #446 FormerDirtDart

More “Trumpeters”

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Bubba Trumps.

Freedom lovers. Patriots. Free to beat on and hassle those they don’t agree with.

So, American.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:19:12am

re: #372 lawhawk

So, Trump’s in STL today, and there are already protests and arrests outside the venue.

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Read through Lee’s feed, and he apparently found a lone African American Trump supporter in the crowd.

twitter.com

With Ben Carson on his team, Trump is totally going to win the Blacks vote in November.///

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:20:00am

re: #449 Nyet

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Just another RWNJ break-up.

Maybe we should send Bennie some flowers, a box of Kleenex, a bottle of wine and some Ben & Jerry’s ice cream.

Or, is that a bottle of whine?

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:20:38am

re: #451 HappyWarrior

Would I be wrong in taking some glee in seeing the tables turned on him like that? I obviously don’t want violence against Ben but I do want him to see how ugly the movement he’s part of really is and if that means eh receives mean tweets, sure.

I’m digging it!

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jaunte  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:23:39am

re: #423 ObserverArt

Yikes!

Did the rain bring him to your deck or do they wander up there from time to time?

They live under the deck, they just come up for the sun.

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ObserverArt  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:23:49am

re: #455 freetoken

Trump is late, but that is now normal.

So, that will make him late for The University of Illinois gig at 3:00 PM. That will help get the students on campus heated up some more. Probably will be some trouble outside before they even get people into the arena. Not good.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:24:13am

re: #465 ObserverArt

I’m digging it!

I mean you can only ferment hatred for so long until it gets turned around on you. But knowing him, he’ll probably just claim these are leftists to make himself feel better.

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makeitstop  Mar 11, 2016 • 10:28:07am

re: #345 William Lewis

Yo guitar players, here’s a face palm for you…

Guy has a Ibanez Tubescreamer 808 pedal that he’s got provenence to Stevie Ray Vaughn.

$11,000

guitarplayer.com

SMH.

Yeah, nope. The thing’s maybe got $30 worth of cheap components in it.

Id rather pay the $6K for the candle-powered trem pedal, but I’m not doing that, either.

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CleverToad  Mar 11, 2016 • 11:17:11am

re: #340 Belafon

I was actually rather astonished to see that Kroger here in Texas has union workers.

Kroger not only has unions, in Colorado you can still get a union pension. Just barely covers the cost of the retiree healthcare plan for us, till we make it to 65, but it’s there. Hubby says he feels like a unicorn, something mythical from back in them good old days.

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taserian  Mar 11, 2016 • 1:36:01pm

re: #257 William Lewis

I was in Tokyo in 1984/85, and McDonald’s was everywhere back then.


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