Overnight Jam: Plini, “Every Piece Matters”

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raw impact : http://www.rawimpact.org/everypiecematters/

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In 2014, I released a song called “Ko Ki” in order to fundraise for a volunteering trip to Cambodia led by the wonderful non-profit organisation Raw Impact. At the beginning of 2015, I went to Cambodia, to help construct a community centre for the people of Ko Ki Village. This was an unforgettable experience – everything from the joy of playing games with some of the happiest kids I’ve ever seen, to the overwhelming realisation that I was able to use my love of music to benefit the lives of a community that barely even has access to clean water or electricity. Recently, I read that Raw Impact was embarking on its most ambitious project yet. After seeing the work that Raw Impact has done already, and being a part of one of their teams, there is no doubt in my mind that they can make this happen:

“This is the biggest thing we’ve ever done. 100 of the poorest families urgently need our help. The Cambodian Government have announced a bridge to join Phnom Penh with Gunty’s Island. This will force the relocation of 100 families currently living in slums. Every Piece Matters is about providing land for families so we can bring safe housing, primary education for their kids, rescue from debt slavery and provide a steady job for Mum and Dad. For every $5,000AUD pledged, one family can live on their own land.”

On that note, 100% of the proceeds generated by this song, from now until the end of June (when the fundraising campaign ends) will go directly to Raw Impact!

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written, recorded & mixed by Plini in a bedroom in Sydney.
drums recorded by Troy Wright / Wright Drum School Studios : https://www.facebook.com/troywrightdrums/
bass recorded & drums mixed by Simon Grove / Nerve Studios : https://www.facebook.com/nervestudios/
mastered by Ermin Hamidovic / Systematic Productions : https://www.facebook.com/Systematic-Productions-123065227758305
artwork by Alex Pryle / Dead Crown Design : https://www.facebook.com/DeadCrownDesign/

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 27, 2016 • 10:25:30pm

Wow. Great song. Great cause.

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2016 • 10:50:15pm
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:06:45pm

re: #2 Kragar

Excepting himself, naturally.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:09:48pm

I finished Daredevil S2. I feel somewhat bereft.

Also, I’ve decided if I ever become immortal, I’m wearing a flexible metal collar around my neck 24/7/365.24. Just to be on the safe side.

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:11:48pm

re: #4 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I finished Daredevil S2. I feel somewhat bereft.

Also, I’ve decided if I ever become immortal, I’m wearing a flexible metal collar around my neck 24/7/365.24. Just to be on the safe side.

Won’t be watching (can’t afford the data to stream it) but does the second season include Electra? DD just isn’t DD without the other half of his soul. Feel free to spoiler tag it if need be.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:16:07pm

re: #5 William Lewis

Won’t be watching (can’t afford the data to stream it) but does the second season include Electra? DD just isn’t DD without the other half of his soul. Feel free to spoiler tag it if need be.

Elektra shows up at the end of episode 4, and naturally complicates Matt’s and Daredevil’s life. Stick follows not long after, and pretty soon all hell breaks loose.

I won’t go into details, but there was apparently a huge ninja convention in NYC during filming.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:16:47pm

Not all returned home.

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:17:01pm

re: #6 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

Barenaked Ladies- The Ninjas

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Kragar  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:19:10pm

Now that we’ve got Punisher and Elektra, we can start thinking about what season 3 might bring us:

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:29:32pm

re: #9 Kragar

Now that we’ve got Punisher and Elektra, we can start thinking about what season 3 might bring us:

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At some point, there’s going to be a crossover with Jessica and Luke.

Click to Reveal

Foggy is joining the law offices of Jessica’s lawyer friend, who tells Foggy she has some “special” clients.

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Bill and Opus for 2016!  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:37:55pm

re: #4 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I finished Daredevil S2. I feel somewhat bereft.

Also, I’ve decided if I ever become immortal, I’m wearing a flexible metal collar around my neck 24/7/365.24. Just to be on the safe side.

All they need now is to have Sean Connery, Clancy Brown and Christopher Lambert as supporting cast.

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:38:41pm

re: #10 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

At some point, there’s going to be a crossover with Jessica and Luke.

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Click to Reveal

And guess who conducts the interview. Hogarth herself

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Blind Frog Belly White  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:39:43pm

re: #11 Bill and Opus for 2016!

All they need now is to have Sean Connery, Clancy Brown and Christopher Lambert as supporting cast.

Ramirez was an effete snob! I took his head, and then I took his woman!

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William Lewis  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:39:51pm

re: #4 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate

I finished Daredevil S2. I feel somewhat bereft.

Also, I’ve decided if I ever become immortal, I’m wearing a flexible metal collar around my neck 24/7/365.24. Just to be on the safe side.

Better make that collar out of mithril…

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Alyosha  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:51:17pm
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Alyosha  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:54:10pm

Seems he ought to be more up to scatch when discussing FP matters. Could be his biggest supporters don’t want reminding…

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Alyosha  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:55:52pm

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:56:52pm

re: #14 William Lewis

Better make that collar out of mithril…

It’s on order. I hear that Bernie will make the mithril industry cut their prices by half, if he’s elected.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 27, 2016 • 11:59:23pm

re: #11 Bill and Opus for 2016!

All they need now is to have Sean Connery, Clancy Brown and Christopher Lambert as supporting cast.

Now that would be a crossover! Nobu vs. Connor MacLeod.

Click to Reveal

Difficult, now that Nobu has lost his head.

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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 1:14:53am
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Alyosha  Mar 28, 2016 • 1:29:30am

re: #20 Kragar

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freetoken  Mar 28, 2016 • 1:38:57am

This one goes out to the Berniebros:

MP3 Audio

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Alyosha  Mar 28, 2016 • 2:07:21am

re: #22 freetoken

I like this one ;)

You And Who’s Army? - Radiohead

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Alyosha  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:39:50am

As above, so below…

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:52:58am

Bernie Bro writes shitpost explaining why Trump might not be so bad. Hint: because he’s a liar.

Clinton supporters want you to believe that if Donald Trump gets elected, it would be some kind of massive disaster, that he might start a nuclear war or enact policies that are immensely damaging to marginalized groups. This is all based on the idea that Trump is some kind of insane person. But while many right nationalist politicians are true believers who have consistently expressed abhorrent views, we have strong reasons to think that Donald Trump is exploiting the right nationalist playbook for personal gain.

…

Donald Trump is conning the Republican Party. He could very well be the most moderate republican candidate, and he may be to the left of Clinton on some issues, like regime change and trade deals. We can’t be sure what he would do, and any person who is confident that Donald Trump is definitely a crazy person or a fascist is making claims based only on the statements Trump has made after he decided to get involved in national politics-the very point at which he is most likely to have begun trying to deceive us about what he thinks. The things people say and do before they start running tell us much more about what they’re likely to do than what they say and do after.

Bias Toward the Near:

But while Donald Trump is not a right nationalist, he is marketing himself as if he is one and most people believe he is one. He’s choosing to do this for strategic reasons-he recognizes that the public increasingly holds the neoliberal consensus exemplified by the establishments of both parties in contempt.

It’s goes on like that, an enormous self-righteous pantload intended to justify a willingness to gamble with other people’s lives.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 3:59:10am

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

Bernie Bro writes shitpost explaining why Trump might not be so bad. Hint: because he’s a liar.

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It’s goes on like that, an enormous self-righteous pantload intended to justify a willingness to gamble with other people’s lives.

His total lack of experience as an elected official seems to play little role in a lot of people who support him, either our of ideology or cynicism.

But it speaks volumes that so many Americans have such a low opinion of politicians and politics as usual that they believe a complete outsider with no political record could be an improvement.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:01:28am
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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:05:20am

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

I don’t give a wet slap if tRunp is lying and his rhetoric is a “strategic move to get votes.” He’s playing with fire and we’re the ones who will get burned. It’s a craptastic method and pathological lairs are not the type of person that we want or need in the chief executive office. Add to that that he is a bully who is used to getting his way in the boardroom and is a crappy deal maker. Eff him.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:07:36am

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

International politics is not a game that a neophyte can enter and expect to leave with anything other than complete humiliation. He’ll be eaten alive and while I would enjoy the spectacle, even I am not that much of a nihilist.

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goddamnedfrank  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:14:37am

What’s insane is the idea that the kind of amoral psychopathic personality that might cynically pretend to be a racist would shy away from enacting actual racist policies just to stay in power once power is attained. Hypothetically Trump can not be a racist per se and still not give a fuck about minority health and safety, along with anyone else’s for that matter. Minorities might just be the most easily positioned pawns in whatever game he thinks he’s playing, and while his whipping up sentiment against them could be entirely cynical and disingenuous it would still be absolutely monstrous and inexcusable.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:18:36am

re: #29 Le Lapin Tueur

International politics is not a game that a neophyte can enter and expect to leave with anything other than complete humiliation. He’ll be eaten alive and while I would enjoy the spectacle, even I am not that much of a nihilist.

Sums up my attitude as well. Part of me would like to see America get what it deserves by electing Trump, but I cannot take any delight in other people’s suffering.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:26:00am

re: #5 William Lewis

Won’t be watching (can’t afford the data to stream it) but does the second season include Electra?

Yes. Unfortunately.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:28:10am

How would Bernie explain racism in a supposedly classless society like the Soviet one?
He would probably think up some excuse about it not being truly classless or something.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:29:38am

Punisher is boring but at least not annoying.
Elektra and Stick can go fuck themselves. ;)

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:40:18am

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

That piece begins with a claim that characterizes its author as either a liar or an idiot:

I started seeing it a few weeks ago, when Daily Kos told its contributors that after March 15th, they were no longer allowed to robustly criticize Hillary Clinton from the left.

The rest can be ignored.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:40:49am

re: #34 Nyet

Not sure I am quite getting your feelings about those last two.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:44:09am

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

Bernie Bro writes shitpost explaining why Trump might not be so bad. Hint: because he’s a liar.

[Embedded content]

It’s goes on like that, an enormous self-righteous pantload intended to justify a willingness to gamble with other people’s lives.

WE DON’T KNOW WHAT TRUMP IS BUT WE HAVE TO VOTE FOR HIM ANYWAY BECAUSE HILLARY HITLERY KILLARY IS TEH WORST OF THE WORST!!11!!!!!

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 4:46:38am

re: #36 Le Lapin Tueur

Not sure I am quite getting your feelings about those last two.

A taste matter, I guess. They come barging in, self-centered, fucking shit up, with no redeeming personal qualities that I can see to make up for it.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:00:41am

Less ninjas, more Fisk’s machinations.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:04:14am

‘Morning, all. Today is Pasquetta in Northern Italy, opening of the official picnic season. Pack your chilled Easter leftovers in your wicker case, and slip the Soave into the insulated sling.

At least eat your lunchburger at an ouside table.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:12:58am

re: #38 Nyet

A taste matter, I guess. They come barging in, self-centered, fucking shit up, with no redeeming personal qualities that I can see to make up for it.

Thought you were talking about Bernie’s death commandos until I tracked the thread back.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:18:57am

re: #25 goddamnedfrank

Bernie Bro writes shitpost explaining why Trump might not be so bad. Hint: because he’s a liar.

[Embedded content]

It’s goes on like that, an enormous self-righteous pantload intended to justify a willingness to gamble with other people’s lives.

How many of these Bernie “supporters” are actually right-wingers attempting to be agitators?

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Joe Bacon  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:32:08am

re: #20 Kragar

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We still have a bunch of folks who didn’t learn the lesson from 2000…

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:33:04am

re: #42 Dr. Matt

How many of these Bernie “supporters” are actually right-wingers attempting to be agitators?

A couple of minutes ago I got a Tweet saying EVERY TIME U POST ANOTHER MEME COMPARING TRUMP TO A NAZI U MAKE ME WANT TO VOTE FOR HIM EVEN MOAR!!!!11!! & I AM A DEMOCRAT!!!!11

I checked its Timeline and it was full of fascist white supremacist shit.

Lame ratfucker is blocked now.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:45:01am

re: #42 Dr. Matt

How many of these Bernie “supporters” are actually right-wingers attempting to be agitators?

Doesn’t even really matter. I suspect their numbers are minuscule even compared with the PUMAs from 2008. Noisy but totally negligible.

My real question is: How many of them are the very same people?

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:46:29am

re: #44 The Vicious Babushka

A couple of minutes ago I got a Tweet saying EVERY TIME U POST ANOTHER MEME COMPARING TRUMP TO A NAZI U MAKE ME WANT TO VOTE FOR HIM EVEN MOAR!!!!11!! & I AM A DEMOCRAT!!!!11

I checked its Timeline and it was full of fascist white supremacist shit.

Lame ratfucker is blocked now.

Reminds of those dopes who call into progressive radio shows that start with, “Hi, I was just flipping through the stations and heard your program. I’m a Democrat but I have to say…..” and then the spout off a diatribe of right-wing talking points.,

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:50:13am

re: #46 Dr. Matt

Reminds of those dopes who call into progressive radio shows that start with, “Hi, I was just flipping through the stations and heard your program. I’m a Democrat but I have to say…..” and then the spout off a diatribe of right-wing talking points.,

I frequently see so-called “Bernie Supporters” Tweeting anti-Hillary cartoons by Branco and Ramirez and I ask them “Don’t you know Branco has also made some horrible anti-Bernie memes?” then they block me.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 5:52:16am

re: #41 Decatur Deb

Thought you were talking about Bernie’s death commandos until I tracked the thread back.

Sometimes it does seem that BernieBros have misunderstood that whole classless society thing.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:02:44am

re: #33 Nyet

How would Bernie explain racism in a supposedly classless society like the Soviet one?
He would probably think up some excuse about it not being truly classless or something.

Soviet society was a class society, but the upper classes realized that they had to keep it low key and not rub their wealth and privilege in the faces of the lower classes.

And their wealth was not just measured in bank accounts or stock portfolios, it was a matter of access: imported consumer goods, luxury vacations, better residences, the right to have their chauffeur drive them down the middle lane of the boulevards, etc.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:03:07am

re: #34 Nyet

Punisher is boring but at least not annoying.
Elektra and Stick can go fuck themselves. ;)

This version of Elektra had no redeeming qualities from the get-go, and I have to imagine Matt Murdock was a lovesick idiot to fall for her. His abiding faith in Elektra I suppose paid off, but at what cost?

And more Fisk and earth-based drama, less mystical shit from Asia would be welcome.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:03:08am
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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:04:25am

re: #51 Backwoods_Sleuth

The defense of which will cost North Carolinians their tax dollars.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:04:33am

re: #46 Dr. Matt

Reminds of those dopes who call into progressive radio shows that start with, “Hi, I was just flipping through the stations and heard your program. I’m a Democrat but I have to say…..” and then the spout off a diatribe of right-wing talking points.,

Long time caller, first time listener

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:06:41am

re: #53 Eventual Carrion

Long time caller, first time listener

*Faint noise of script pages turning*

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:17:28am

Hey everyone…guess what Morning Joke kicked his show off with today?

You got it…Hillary emails!

Aparantly there is a new LA Times article that had Joe, Mika and their panel breathless. So, here is the article…and guess what…we’ve heard all this before.

The big news…interviews staff and aides.

LA Times - Clinton email probe enters new phase as FBI interviews loom

deral prosecutors investigating the possible mishandling of classified materials on Hillary Clinton’s private email server have begun the process of setting up formal interviews with some of her longtime and closest aides, according to two people familiar with the probe, an indication that the inquiry is moving into its final phases.

Those interviews and the final review of the case, however, could still take many weeks, all but guaranteeing that the investigation will continue to dog Clinton’s presidential campaign through most, if not all, of the remaining presidential primaries.

No dates have been set for questioning the advisors, but a federal prosecutor in recent weeks has called their lawyers to alert them that he would soon be doing so, the sources said. Prosecutors also are expected to seek an interview with Clinton herself, though the timing remains unclear.

Many legal experts believe that Clinton faces little risk of being prosecuted for using the private email system to conduct official business when she served as secretary of State, though that decision has raised questions among some about her judgment. They noted that using a private email system was not banned at the time, and others in government had used personal email to transact official business.

The bigger question is whether she or her aides distributed classified material in email systems that fell outside of the department’s secure classified system. But even if prosecutors determine that she did, chances she will be found criminally liable are low. U.S. law makes it a crime for someone to knowingly or willfully retain classified information, handle it in a grossly negligent manner or to pass it to someone not entitled to see it.

Clinton has denied using the email account to send or receive materials marked classified. Though some emails have since been deemed to be too sensitive to release publicly, Clinton’s campaign has attributed that to overzealous intelligence officials and “over-classification run amok.”

Legally it doesn’t matter if the emails were marked as classified or not, since government officials are obligated to recognize sensitive material and guard against its release. But legal experts noted that such labels would be helpful to prosecutors seeking to prove she knew the information was classified, a key element of the law.

“The facts of the case do not fit the law,” said Stephen Vladeck, a law professor at American University. “Reasonable folks may think that federal law ought to prohibit what Hillary did, but it’s just not clear to me that it currently does.”

Even so, her use of the private server, which was based at her home in New York, has become fodder for Clinton’s political foes as she campaigns to secure the Democratic nomination for president.

More blah…blah…blah…

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:18:50am

re: #55 ObserverArt

Dead horse, meet stick. Stick, go to work.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:19:02am

re: #55 ObserverArt

Hey everyone…guess what Morning Joke kicked his show off with today?

You got it…Hillary emails!

Aparantly there is a new LA Times article that had Joe, Mika and their panel breathless. So, here is the article…and guess what…we’ve heard all this before.

The big news…interviews staff and aides.

LA Times - Clinton email probe enters new phase as FBI interviews loom

Not just interviews—LOOMING interviews.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:19:07am

re: #30 goddamnedfrank

What’s insane is the idea that the kind of amoral psychopathic personality that might cynically pretend to be a racist would shy away from enacting actual racist policies just to stay in power once power is attained. Hypothetically Trump can not be a racist per se and still not give a fuck about minority health and safety, along with anyone else’s for that matter. Minorities might just be the most easily positioned pawns in whatever game he thinks he’s playing, and while his whipping up sentiment against them could be entirely cynical and disingenuous it would still be absolutely monstrous and inexcusable.

That he continues to quote tweet racists and white supremacists is highly suggestive of who he really is. He isn’t shying away from these repeated actions. He is telegraphing what he’s really thinking and none of it is any good.

There’s no way anyone should take that chance, and for the GOPers left to vote in primaries - your choices are between sociopaths and extremists. Exactly what they’ve been craving for years. This year’s primary race has shown everyone that the years of irrational hate, anger, and fear that the party has indoctrinated in the base have come back with a virulent hate that can only be scratched with the likes of Trump.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:21:18am

re: #55 ObserverArt

Hey everyone…guess what Morning Joke kicked his show off with today?

You got it…Hillary emails!

Aparantly there is a new LA Times article that had Joe, Mika and their panel breathless. So, here is the article…and guess what…we’ve heard all this before.

The big news…interviews staff and aides.

LA Times - Clinton email probe enters new phase as FBI interviews loom

More red meat/faux outrage for low-information voters.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:22:05am

re: #57 Decatur Deb

Like this?

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:26:00am

“Weak Obama”?

Tyler Rogoway
Yesterday 12:15pmFiled to: OPERATION INHERENT RESOLVE

U.S. Allies ‘Borrowing’ Munitions To Drop On ISIS As U.S. Stockpiles Are Also In Question

There is a lot of political talk right now about the U.S. carrying the weight militarily for its allies, including NATO. One actual example of this is the recurring situation where, even in lower-intensity conflicts, our allies run out of guided air-to-ground munitions to drop on the enemy. Well, it has happening once again over Iraq and Syria, and the U.S. has stepped in like always as the big bomb and missile sugar daddy. But are even U.S. stockpiles up to the Pentagon’s strategic demands?

With the already huge demand for air-to-ground weapons by western nations only increasing, business is booming for suppliers. defensenews.com reports that Lockheed is upping production of AGM-114 Hellfire missiles from 500 to 650 missiles a month and quadrupling its capacity to build the Paveway series of laser guided bombs.

.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:30:18am

In Georgia:

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:32:21am

So, this weekend I made up a roast chicken, and happened to have on hand a mirepoix. So, for the first time I can remember, I was able to make chicken stock. OMG, what have I been missing all these years. I’ve used store bought stock all these years because who has time to scratch make stock (and whenever I have roasted chicken, I don’t have the mirepoix ingredients). Sure, I’ll add my own herbs/spices and fresh chicken to the soups, but it still isn’t the same.

Boy have I been missing out. Was able to make 2 quarts (it’s just the mrs and myself), and have frozen it away for good measure. The texture, taste, and aroma is simply divine. Nectar of the gods good.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:32:23am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

In Georgia:

Nice job, Kroger. This is from a Kroger in Athens, Ga.

Wonder if their bakery has any problem with gay wedding cakes…

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:33:05am

re: #61 Great White Snark

“Weak Obama”?

Some of the AGMs are almost hand-built, much more like a SAAB than a Chevy. A busy producer might have only 50 or so in production at a time.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:33:18am

Rage Furby is absolutely convinced that his boy Ted Cruz has never ever had an extramarital affair. Quote: “Frankly we don’t think Cruz has it in him.”

Case closed.

He claims that Rubio’s camp started the whole thing, and not Trump. Since the Daily Beast has apparently reported Rubio’s people are behind it, Rage Furby also claims he’s been vindicated.

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Snarknado!  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:33:49am

re: #42 Dr. Matt

How many of these Bernie “supporters” are actually right-wingers attempting to be agitators?

I have been thinking that they’re the people who would have voted for Ralph Nader. Or Ron Paul.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:33:51am

re: #62 Backwoods_Sleuth

In Georgia:

What does the picture show?

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:34:56am

re: #68 Belafon

What does the picture show?

A Kroger’s supermarket that has a unisex bathroom to make it easier for parents with young children, for the disabled or elderly and their helpers, and for all their friends in the LGBT community.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:36:48am

re: #68 Belafon

What does the picture show?

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:36:55am

I’m trying to shop Kroger more, even though it’s not entirely convenient and there’s an Aldi nearby. Even here in Texas, Kroker has union employees.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:37:00am

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

It was obviously done under pressure from the gay lobby and the parents with kids lobby.

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:37:57am

re: #65 Decatur Deb

Some of the AGMs are almost hand-built, much more like a SAAB than a Chevy. A busy producer might have only 50 or so in production at a time.

I wonder if we over depend on those precision weapons like we do stealth. A more balanced approach might be a better idea.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:40:21am

re: #70 Backwoods_Sleuth

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I think what belafon meant was, what does the logo cut off the top of the picture look like? I’d like to know that too.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:40:35am

re: #73 Great White Snark

I wonder if we over depend on those precision weapons like we do stealth. A more balanced approach might be a better idea.

Check into the two Iraq wars’ depletion rates for all sorts of systems—years to produce, days to expend.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:42:16am

re: #74 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Male, female, disabled person, I guess.

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SoundGuy 2016  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:43:47am

Man in a dress? Women in pants? This bathroom problem is so very hards.

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:44:01am

re: #75 Decatur Deb

re: #75 Decatur Deb

Proof a big budget does not solve day to day problems.

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Eventual Carrion  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:44:24am

re: #76 Nyet

Male, female, disabled person, I guess.

Probably, that is the ones I usually see. We have one here at work with those symbols on it.

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Thanos  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:46:51am

My half a decade old video card gave up the ghost over the weekend, and I had to replace it. So being the kind person that I am I put an Nvidia 980 in my wife’s PC because she’s still killing people online while I gave up on that a few years back .

I got her hand me down 760 and … it’s fantastic for my photos & lightroom.

I had no clue the amount of definition I was not seeing until I stuck the hand me down card in. IF you are a photographer and haven’t upgraded cards in a > 3 years, I recommend that you get a new card. You don’t have to go for the top of the line - you can round up pretty decent cards in the 120.00 -150.00 range if you shop around.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:58:23am

re: #80 Thanos

I put an Nvidia 980 in my wife’s PC because she’s still killing people online while I gave up on that a few years back .

That is a very very nice online people killing video card

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 6:59:47am

re: #65 Decatur Deb

Some of the AGMs are almost hand-built, much more like a SAAB than a Chevy. A busy producer might have only 50 or so in production at a time.

Deb…you do realize SAAB no longer builds cars.

I think a Chinese company tried to build some but failed but may be trying again. But the great ol’ car name is pretty much a goner.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:11:26am

More from Georgia:

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:13:40am

re: #21 Alyosha

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So I get here and I find this is already the Boobie Thread.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:14:50am

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

More from Georgia:

Damn RINO! Primary!!!!

/

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:15:45am

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

More from Georgia:

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Good even if it was only the business backlash and not real respect for LGBT rights.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:16:20am
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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:19:27am

Yes, it was that extreme, but the real fallout is that businesses threatened to leave or cease to do business, and that’s ultimately what got the Governor to move to repeal.

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Thanos  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:19:40am

re: #81 Le Lapin Tueur

That is a very very nice online people killing video card

Most definitely - she loads zones so fast you are dead before you know it. Truth.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:20:05am

re: #65 Decatur Deb

Some of the AGMs are almost hand-built, much more like a SAAB than a Chevy. A busy producer might have only 50 or so in production at a time.

True, but Hellfire isn’t one of those missiles. Like Ford pickup trucks, they are designed for mass production. Remember that Hellfires were originally intended to be fired in large numbers against hoards of T-64s, T-72s, and T-80s swarming over West Germany during a long-dreaded Soviet invasion of Western Europe. That never came to pass, of course, but there is still a great deal of automation in the production of Hellfires.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:21:17am

re: #88 lawhawk

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Yes, it was that extreme, but the real fallout is that businesses threatened to leave or cease to do business, and that’s ultimately what got the Governor to move to repeal.

Right. I mean make no mistake I’m glad he is going to veto it but the homophobia that defines the Republican party is still there and not going away.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:21:25am

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

Can’t lose out on the sweet, sweet, TV/movie cash.

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withak  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:21:55am

Hey guys and gals, could I request that we hide spoilers for Daredevil S2? Even minor stuff. Thanks!

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:22:23am

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

More from Georgia:

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And this is why I like Illinois’ amendatory veto: If Gov. Deal had the sort of veto Gov. and Gov. Walker have, he could have stripped the objectionable portions out of the Georgia RFRA and left the good parts intact.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:22:24am

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

More from Georgia:

Now, if businesses can inflict some pain on Republicans in North Carolina.

Wait, Wait. WALL STREET!!!! The cognitive dissonance is BLO…..ok, never mind. I know the world isn’t so pure that you can make binary choices like this.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:22:45am

I forgot to mention that Joke Scarborough and Mika were also excited about Bernie’s big sweeping wins over the weekend. And then they proceeded to explain all the ifs coming for Hillary. Beware!!!

I’d love to hear a production meeting of some of the political shows. I wonder if they have a rating system that assigns a value to each story. Rated from one to ten on how much over hyping and breathless delivery each deserves and then a letter from a to c on how much they need to stretch the truth on each.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:23:25am

re: #93 withak

Hey guys and gals, could I request that we hide spoilers for Daredevil S2? Even minor stuff. Thanks!

What, you haven’t finished yet? Unpossible!

//

You’re right.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:23:41am

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

And this is why I like Illinois’ amendatory veto: If Gov. Deal had the sort of veto Gov. and Gov. Walker have, he could have stripped the objectionable portions out of the Georgia RFRA and left the good symbolic parts intact.

What would have had to be left over would have been stuff already protected by the first amendment.

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withak  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:25:11am

re: #97 Nyet

What, you haven’t finished yet? Unpossible!

//

You’re right.

I would have finished days ago, but the wife and I are trying to watch it together this time, which basically means weekends only.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:26:46am

re: #94 Dark_Falcon

And this is why I like Illinois’ amendatory veto: If Gov. Deal had the sort of veto Gov. and Gov. Walker have, he could have stripped the objectionable portions out of the Georgia RFRA and left the good parts intact.

What good parts?

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:26:54am

Next for Jong Un? He’ll be available for fittings at the Kingsmen. /

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:27:25am

re: #98 Belafon

What would have had to be left over would have been stuff already protected by the first amendment.

Not true: A defining characteristic of all RFRAs is that they instruct the courts to use ‘strict scrutiny’ when evaluating if a law or regulation violates a person or organization’s freedom of religion.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:27:44am

re: #101 lawhawk

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Next for Jong Un? He’ll be available for fittings at the Kingsmen. /

As a mannequin./

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:28:21am

Why do business owners want the government to coddle them in discrimination? Shit’s getting ridiculous. You want to attend a pathetic church that preaches all this wacky shit about gay people. I won’t stop you but the second you want to use your religion to discriminate against people as a business owner then that’s when your “religious liberty” stops.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:28:50am

re: #101 lawhawk

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Next for Jong Un? He’ll be available for fittings at the Kingsmen. /

I can totally see Donald Trump being followed around by an entourage of sycophants with little notebooks where they scribble down his every word. Although they might have gold-trimmed iPads.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:30:55am

re: #100 Nyet

What good parts?

That was my thought as well.

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Jenner7  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:31:03am

What a waste of resources. They have better things to do.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:31:57am

re: #107 Jenner7

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What a waste of resources. They have better things to do.

The email scandal if you can call that pales in comparision that the two strongest GOP remaining candidates are a theocrat and a fascist asshole.

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Franklin  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:32:16am

re: #105 The Vicious Babushka

I can totally see Donald Trump being followed around by an entourage of sycophants with little notebooks where they scribble down his every word. Although they might have gold-trimmed iPads Microsoft Surfaces.

BOYCOTT APPLE!!!

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:33:13am

re: #102 Dark_Falcon

Not true: A defining characteristic of all RFRAs is that they instruct the courts to use ‘strict scrutiny’ when evaluating if a law or regulation violates a person or organization’s freedom of religion.

A person’s religious freedoms are covered by the first amendment. An organization’s freedom of religion is only covered by the ability of a group of individuals to organize without government interference, also covered by the first amendment. Strict scrutiny is not needed, because strict scrutiny in this case obviously means “for Christians.”

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:35:58am

I wonder what will happen to parents who run out on the lawn before the designated start time & start knocking over toddlers and stealing all their eggs.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:36:07am

The “defining characteristic” of all RFRAs is the attempt to legalize discrimination.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:36:29am

re: #110 Belafon

A person’s religious freedoms are covered by the first amendment. An organization’s freedom of religion is only covered by the ability of a group of individuals to organize without government interference, also covered by the first amendment. Strict scrutiny is not needed, because strict scrutiny in this case obviously means “for Christians.”

What is apparent to me is that GOP officials think that Christians in this country should have more rights than non-Christians in this country.

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wheat-dogghazi-mailgate  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:36:32am

gotnwes.com’s 5,000 nerd researchers have found:

Sorry: Ted Cruz too nerdy to get laid, so nope, no mistresses #TedCruzSexScandal

The National Enquirer has reported that Sen. Ted Cruz (R-Alberta) has had several extramarital affairs. We find these stories absolutely lacking. They came from Rubio supporters and not Trump supporters.

gotnwes.com has sent people everywhere — after they donated money to us first, of course — to hunt this one down.

[OK, really it was us trawling the Internet from our home office, but it just sound so much more impressive when we say “send people,” like we have huge staff of 5,000 nerd researchers.]

Besides, we don’t think Cruz has in him. He’s too much of a nerd. We should know.

More

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:36:42am

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

The “defining characteristic” of all RFRAs is the attempt to legalize discrimination.

Yes, yes indeed.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:37:07am

re: #72 Nyet

It was obviously done under pressure from the gay lobby and the parents with kids lobby.

and the People with a Shred of Compassion and Human Decency Lobby

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:38:00am

Why strict scrutiny only for religion and not the whole 1st amdt.?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:38:41am

On another note. Does anyone think it would be possible to identify an Army unit based on a patch or button. Found an old photo of my grandfather from his military service. We don’t have a clue what unit he was in or anything like that. Just that he was Army and was artillery not infantry.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:39:02am

re: #110 Belafon

A person’s religious freedoms are covered by the first amendment. An organization’s freedom of religion is only covered by the ability of a group of individuals to organize without government interference, also covered by the first amendment. Strict scrutiny is not needed, because strict scrutiny in this case obviously means “for Christians.”

No, it doesn’t. The federal RFRA and the state RFRAs have always been held as protecting religion in general, not just Christianity. The RFRA in Illinois is being invoked in a lawsuit against the city of Des Plaines for denying a building permit for a mosque.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:39:24am

re: #113 HappyWarrior

What is apparent to me is that GOP officials think that Christians in this country should have more rights than non-Christians in this country.

They proceed from the premise that we are a “Christian Nation” and are annoyed that Christianity has lost his status as the de facto state religion.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:40:09am

re: #120 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

They proceed from the premise that we are a “Christian Nation” and are annoyed that Christianity has lost his status as the de facto state religion.

Right. They can’t accept change and they respond to that with tantrums, defining characteristic of their ideology IMO.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:41:16am

re: #118 HappyWarrior

On another note. Does anyone think it would be possible to identify an Army unit based on a patch or button. Found an old photo of my grandfather from his military service. We don’t have a clue what unit he was in or anything like that. Just that he was Army and was artillery not infantry.

What war? WW2?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:41:29am

re: #122 The Vicious Babushka

What war? WW2?

No, Korea.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:43:52am

I admittedly don’t know the details, but this is being pushed by the people who are against religious freedom and who think that religious freedom lies in oppressing other people, so unless someone demonstrates the utility of the alleged good parts to me, I’ll assume there are none.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:44:06am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

I wonder what will happen to parents who run out on the lawn before the designated start time & start knocking over toddlers and stealing all their eggs.

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The Secret Service has been authorized to tase such unruly parents. Any unruly fathers will get a going over with nightsticks, while any unruly mothers will be bitch-slapped into oblivion by Mrs. Obama.

//

Note: The ‘bitch’ is the unruly mother, not Michelle Obama.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:44:17am

re: #111 The Vicious Babushka

Snipers on the WH roof. Duh.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:44:58am
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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:46:16am

Huckabee’s daughter: Trump wants Asian countries to acquire nukes so they ‘have some skin in the game’

They are extending their asinine “an armed society is a polite society” meme to nuclear weapons now. More proof that Hillary or Bernie must be elected. The GOP are insanely dangerous.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:46:37am

Trump Tweets SMOTI
Dim Jim swoons

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:46:56am

re: #128 Dr. Matt

Huckabee’s daughter: Trump wants Asian countries to acquire nukes so they ‘have some skin in the game’

They are extending their asinine “an armed society is a polite society” meme to nuclear weapons now. More proof that Hillary or Bernie must be elected. The GOP are insanely dangerous.

Christ.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:47:27am

re: #127 The Vicious Babushka

Of course Trump’s grandchild is the coming Messiah.

////

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:47:43am

re: #129 The Vicious Babushka

Trump Tweets SMOTI
Dim Jim swoons

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You know if this is how they treat each other………….

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:48:09am

re: #131 Belafon

Of course Trump’s grandchild is the coming Messiah.

////

I believe that’s Trumpsiah and he will be huuuuuuuuuge or she will be beautiful and he’d do her.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:48:30am

re: #128 Dr. Matt

Huckabee’s daughter: Trump wants Asian countries to acquire nukes so they ‘have some skin in the game’

They are extending their asinine “an armed society is a polite society” meme to nuclear weapons now. More proof that Hillary or Bernie must be elected. The GOP are insanely dangerous.

“Skin in the Game” is a phrase invented by Warren Buffett to refer to CEO’s who don’t invest their own money into the corporations they lead.

It is basically meaningless in any other context.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:49:13am

re: #133 HappyWarrior

I believe that’s Trumpsiah and he will be huuuuuuuuuge or she will be beautiful and he’d do her.

eeww

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:49:33am

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

More from Georgia:

From @GovernorDeal’s office: “HB 757 doesn’t reflect the character of our state or the character of our people.” #RFRA #gapol #FADA
— Lori Geary (@LoriGearyWSB) March 28, 2016

Yeah, bullshit. Hollywood, the NFL, and local and national businesses put their foot down. If they stayed quiet, HB 757 would have reflected the character of their state and the character of their people.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:50:54am

re: #128 Dr. Matt

Huckabee’s daughter: Trump wants Asian countries to acquire nukes so they ‘have some skin in the game’

They are extending their asinine “an armed society is a polite society” meme to nuclear weapons now. More proof that Hillary or Bernie must be elected. The GOP are insanely dangerous.

Who’s ‘they’? That Donald Trump thinks that doesn’t mean Ted Cruz thinks it. Donald Trump doesn’t speak for the Republican Party as a whole. Republicans who actually understand foreign policy know that Trump’s being insane.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:51:39am
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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:52:16am

re: #118 HappyWarrior

On another note. Does anyone think it would be possible to identify an Army unit based on a patch or button. Found an old photo of my grandfather from his military service. We don’t have a clue what unit he was in or anything like that. Just that he was Army and was artillery not infantry.

Google image search maybe?

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:52:35am

re: #137 Dark_Falcon

Trump is soon going to be the spokesman and face for the republican party. Deal with it. He’s your shitshow. Take a big bite.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:53:05am

re: #136 Dr. Matt

Yeah, bullshit. Hollywood, the NFL, and local and national businesses put their foot down. If they stayed quiet, HB 757 would have reflected the character of their state and the character of their people.

Right. I very much doubt if LGBT advocacy groups were the only ones that raised hell that Deal would have vetoed this but you bet your ass he saw the writing on the wall when AMC threatened to take the Walking Dead out of their state, that the NFL was going to refuse their SB offer to Atlanta, etc. In the end, I am glad he’s vetoing it but the veto had nothing to do with it reflecting the “character of their people”, after all it did pass the legislature elected by Georgians and more to do with Deal not wanting to see his state as being a bad place for business. I’m not seeing any signs of a Eureka moment where a GOP governor realizes that being a homophobic asshole is as bad as being poor for business.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:53:15am

re: #133 HappyWarrior

I believe that’s Trumpsiah and he will be huuuuuuuuuge or she will be beautiful and he’d do her.

It’s the former. Ivanka’s new baby is named Theodore James Kushner.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:54:10am

re: #137 Dark_Falcon

Who’s ‘they’? That Donald Trump thinks that doesn’t mean Ted Cruz thinks it. Donald Trump doesn’t speak for the Republican Party as a whole. Republicans who actually understand foreign policy know that Trump’s being insane.

Trump is your party’s front runner and Cruz, don’t make me fucking laugh. He’s just as bad in different ways. He’s the one who wants to carpet bomb civilian population. Trump is a big part of your party.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:54:26am

re: #118 HappyWarrior

On another note. Does anyone think it would be possible to identify an Army unit based on a patch or button. Found an old photo of my grandfather from his military service. We don’t have a clue what unit he was in or anything like that. Just that he was Army and was artillery not infantry.

There are numerous very friendly (i.e., non-political) veterans groups on facebook. If you have an account, post a pic on one of them. You’ll likely get an answer in less than 5 seconds.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:54:30am

re: #142 Dark_Falcon

It’s the former. Ivanka’s new baby is named Theodore James Kushner.

Ah.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:54:55am

re: #144 Dr. Matt

There are numerous very friendly (i.e., non-political) veterans groups on facebook. If you have an account, post a pic on one of them. You’ll likely get an answer in less than 5 seconds.

That’s a great idea, thanks.

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:56:14am

re: #140 Dr. Matt

Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president. Any claims that he speaks for the party are premature at this time.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 7:58:37am

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president. Any claims that he speaks for the party are premature at this time.

I doubt you’d be saying this if someone you liked was in the same position he is. He’s not the nominee as of now but to say he doesn’t speak for the party is absurd.

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KerFuFFler  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:00:24am

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president. Any claims that he speaks for the party are premature at this time.

Yeah, he merely has a huge lead in the delegate count to date. The fact that he is way out in front and that he is the preferred pick of the party base in no way means that “he speaks for the party.” //

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:01:11am

re: #148 HappyWarrior

HW, someone I liked wouldn’t be saying crazy things about nuclear Goddamn weapons!

Sorry, but that bit of Trump insanity scared me.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:02:24am

re: #128 Dr. Matt

Huckabee’s daughter: Trump wants Asian countries to acquire nukes so they ‘have some skin in the game’

They are extending their asinine “an armed society is a polite society” meme to nuclear weapons now. More proof that Hillary or Bernie must be elected. The GOP are insanely dangerous.

We have the example of Ukraine, which gave up what was once the worlds fifth-largest nuclear arsenal (a legacy of the USSR) in exchange for guarantees from the West that we would defend their territorial integrity. Look what they got out of the deal…

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:02:43am

re: #149 KerFuFFler

Yeah, he merely has a huge lead in the delegate count to date. The fact that he is way out in front and that he is the preferred pick of the party base in no way means that “he speaks for the party.” //

Pay no attention to what Trump and the rest say because pandering to the party base is just politics…
///////

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:03:28am

re: #150 Dark_Falcon

HW, someone I liked wouldn’t be saying crazy things about nuclear Goddamn weapons!

Sorry, but that bit of Trump insanity scared me.

You misunderstood me and I apologize for that. What I mean there is that someone you liked being in Trump’s current position in the primaries. He definitely does speak for the GOP. I’m sorry but he does. He may not speak for you but he’s the Republican favorite at this point.

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Nyet  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:03:45am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

We have the example of Ukraine, which gave up what was once the worlds fifth-largest nuclear arsenal (a legacy of the USSR) in exchange for guarantees from the West that we would defend their territorial integrity. Look what they got out of the deal…

The US’s word cannot be trusted…

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:04:18am

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president. Any claims that he speaks for the party are premature at this time.

He only speaks for about 40% of its primary voters. Scary enough…

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:05:27am

re: #155 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

He only speaks for about 40% of its primary voters. Scary enough…

And right behind him is Ted “Carpet Bomb” Cruz. Even if GOP voters aren’t necessarily voting for Trump, they agree with a lot of his extreme stances. His position on Muslim refugees for example is something that many people voting for his opponents agree with as well.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:09:24am

re: #151 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

We have the example of Ukraine, which gave up what was once the worlds fifth-largest nuclear arsenal (a legacy of the USSR) in exchange for guarantees from the West that we would defend their territorial integrity. Look what they got out of the deal…

The agreement with Ukraine was that both sides would stay out of the country. I don’t think there was any condition for if one side reneged.

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Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:10:20am

re: #157 Belafon

The agreement with Ukraine was that both sides would stay out of the country. I don’t think there was any condition for if one side reneged.

Well, to be fair, shouldn’t they get their nukes back?

/

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:10:56am

re: #147 Dark_Falcon

Donald Trump is not yet the Republican nominee for president. Any claims that he speaks for the party are premature at this time.

He’s leading in delegate counts and the GOP polling. He’s also the first (and only candidate) to clear the Rule 40 hurdle. For all the bluster by other GOPers, he’s set to be the nominee. And they will fall in behind him.

Also, having about 40% consistently in all the polls, in a 3 way race no less, suggests he’s speaking for a substantial part of the GOP (and in some instances, he’s not even the most extreme on some of those issues - that’d be Cruz)…

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Dark_Falcon  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:12:26am

re: #153 HappyWarrior

I knew what you meant and we’re good.

BBT

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:12:56am

re: #160 Dark_Falcon

I knew what you meant and we’re good.

BBT

Okay cool enough. Take it easy.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:13:42am

re: #158 Wendell Zurkowitz (slave to the waffle light)

Well, to be fair, shouldn’t they get their nukes back?

/

Both the US and Russia have definitely taught the world that it’s better to have nukes than not. Which is a bad thing for humanity.

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sagehen  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:16:47am

re: #108 HappyWarrior

The email scandal if you can call that pales in comparision that the two strongest GOP remaining candidates are a theocrat and a fascist asshole.

Or as Bill Maher said this week, “17 candidates you started with, and now you’ve narrowed it down to McCarthy or Mussolini.”

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:21:44am

Good morning from crazytown. The video is flash so can only link.

L.A. Police Chase Ends With Carjacking Suspect Attempting To Steal Police Cruiser

Los Angeles never fails to disappoint. Here’s some San Fernando Valley action from this evening, in which a carjacking suspect gets cornered after a PIT maneuver and proceeds to go straight GTA, hopping into the police cruiser. She didn’t get far!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:22:35am

re: #163 sagehen

Or as Bill Maher said this week, “17 candidates you started with, and now you’ve narrowed it down to McCarthy or Mussolini.”

Right.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:23:35am

re: #90 Dark_Falcon

True, but Hellfire isn’t one of those missiles. Like Ford pickup trucks, they are designed for mass production. Remember that Hellfires were originally intended to be fired in large numbers against hoards of T-64s, T-72s, and T-80s swarming over West Germany during a long-dreaded Soviet invasion of Western Europe. That never came to pass, of course, but there is still a great deal of automation in the production of Hellfires.

Hellfire is a toy made to amuse 2LTs.

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:25:41am

re: #162 Belafon

Both the US and Russia have definitely taught the world that it’s better to have nukes than not. Which is a bad thing for humanity.

The US and North Korea have defined what can be gotten away with. As does Crimea in a different but alarming way.

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:27:35am

OTOH looking at the polls for the general- Trump is the guy to pick to assure a Dem win. Dangerous a play as that is, yikes.

Trump V Clinton
realclearpolitics.com

Trump V Sanders
realclearpolitics.com

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:29:53am

re: #164 Great White Snark

Good morning from crazytown. The video is flash so can only link.

L.A. Police Chase Ends With Carjacking Suspect Attempting To Steal Police Cruiser

I watched that last night! Unbelievable!

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Great White Snark  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:38:48am

Someone else like to bluster about nuclear war, right through an ICBM strike on Washington DC in full animation. From Huffpo today. Claiming to be an existential threat to the US. Mere bluster? For now. A single nuke can ruin your whole day.

“If the American imperialists provoke us a bit, we will not hesitate to slap them with a pre-emptive nuclear strike,” the Korean subtitles read, according to a translation in The New York Times. “The United States must choose! It’s up to you whether the nation called the United States exists on this planet or not.”

Video

What might Pres Trump do with that?

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:39:46am

Nope. No interest. Not going to help the GOP. What part of his denials and refusals to throw into the ring do people not get? He barely can manage to get support of his own caucus, all because he’s not sufficiently extreme enough (or push through ACA repeal bills at a steady enough clip knowing they’ll get vetoed by the president).

The GOP is off the rails, and the options are looking so bleak that GOP insiders are attempting to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:41:18am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:42:29am

re: #171 lawhawk

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Nope. No interest. Not going to help the GOP. What part of his denials and refusals to throw into the ring do people not get? He barely can manage to get support of his own caucus, all because he’s not sufficiently extreme enough (or push through ACA repeal bills at a steady enough clip knowing they’ll get vetoed by the president).

The GOP is off the rails, and the options are looking so bleak that GOP insiders are attempting to rearrange the deck chairs on the Titanic.

Well you can tell he’s going to run since he shaved off his beard. // I honestly always thought there was a reason why Ryan has never sought office beyond the House and that’s because I think deep down he knows his appeal is limited. He was reluctant to take the Speaker’s chair and only really did it because McCarthy was a loud mouthed idiot.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:42:43am

re: #172 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Awesome!

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:45:09am

What a misallocation of limited resources - all to chase after Hillary Clinton’s supposed email violations that didn’t violate any actual laws at the time she was Secretary of State, and which apparently had as good or better security than Verizon, Sony, or any number of other corporate businesses that have been subject to hacking and data breaches (or even the federal OPM breach).

Such a waste of resources on a nothing burger that the GOP and Bernie-bots think will be the thing that ends Hillary (again).

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Ziggy_TARDIS  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:49:41am

re: #175 lawhawk

Having read the book about the 9/11 commission, it seems the FBI has never been serious about dealing with Terrorism of most sorts.

At this point, maybe we should close the FBI, and break it into 3 pieces.

One that deals with Organized and Interstate Crime
One that would serve as an American version of MI5.
And one that deal with crime in the various Indian Nations. FBI is failing on this as well, as they should be picking up these, but are neglecting it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:51:46am

This interview this morning…WOW!

On Monday morning, influential radio host Charlie Sykes grilled Trump for nearly 10 minutes in an often uncomfortable interview, at one point scolding him for sounding more like a “12-year-old bully on the playground” than a candidate for president.

Soundcloud of the interview at the TP link.

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withak  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:53:02am

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

This interview this morning…WOW!

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Soundcloud of the interview at the TP link.

For some stupid reason, Soundcloud is blocked at work; wish I could listen!

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retired cynic  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:53:17am

re: #130 HappyWarrior

That’s all over the NY Times interview.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:54:13am

re: #179 retired cynic

That’s all over the NY Times interview.

Well it’s an interview with a Huckabee.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:55:39am

GOP voters disgusted by ‘sophomoric’ candidates’ antics: It’s ‘junior high school stuff’

“That’s junior high school stuff,” stated Chris Cary, 53, who backs Texas Sen. Ted Cruz. “We should be talking about ISIS. We should be talking about the loss of our freedoms.”

What freedoms have we lost?

But, the republicans get what they deserve. They have spent decades worshipping hatemongers like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. It was only a matter of time before they got politicians they sound like and act like am hate radio.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:56:49am
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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 8:57:54am

re: #181 Dr. Matt

GOP voters disgusted by ‘sophomoric’ candidates’ antics: It’s ‘junior high school stuff’

What freedoms have we lost?

But, the republicans get what they deserve. They have spent decades worshipping hatemongers like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. It was only a matter of time before they got politicians they sound like and act like am hate radio.

The freedom to discriminate.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:01:26am

re: #183 Belafon

The freedom to discriminate.

Freedom of women to regulate their lady parts.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:02:00am

OFFS, did you guys hear about this yesterday?

Animal Rights Activists Disrupt St. Patrick’s Easter Mass To Protest Easter Ham

A group of seven animal rights activists disrupted a moment of silence during Easter Mass at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in Midtown on Sunday, shouting, “Easter is a time for love. No more shedding animal blood!” as they were pulled from the hall by security guards. One member of the group, 23-year-old Jacob Martin, walked down the central isle with a bullhorn shouting that “only the devil” could create “animals capable of love and joy just so humans can make them suffer and die.” Martin wore a GoPro strapped to his chest, which some worshipers suspected was a bomb.

“I think we’ll put a tape where the camera blinks next time to make sure people aren’t confused,” said Collectively Free spokeswoman Raffaella Ciavatta. “New York is such a police city that I can see how people would react that way.” […]

Yeah, sure, a guy with a little box without blinking lights strapped to his chest will totally not frighten people.

Seriously, what kind of idiot pulls a stunt like this? Not only does it, but does it in a major landmark in NYC on a religious holiday?

Good freaking grief. The stupid, it burns.

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sagehen  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:02:38am

re: #181 Dr. Matt

GOP voters disgusted by ‘sophomoric’ candidates’ antics: It’s ‘junior high school stuff’

What freedoms have we lost?

But, the republicans get what they deserve. They have spent decades worshipping hatemongers like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. It was only a matter of time before they got politicians they sound like and act like am hate radio.

“He started it!”

Many of you here are parents; at what age did you no longer allow your children to use that defense?

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retired cynic  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:03:52am

re: #180 HappyWarrior

Well it’s an interview with a Huckabee.

Maybe we’re misunderstanding each other. I was referring to Trump’s interview in the NYT. Trump made a big deal about South Korea and Japan having nukes so that we could stop having to defend them, and save money.

It was ‘ickily’ fascinating to hear him talk himself into it, after he first brought it up: the way his mind worked.

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withak  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:03:52am

re: #186 sagehen

“He started it!”

Many of you here are parents; at what age did you no longer allow your children to use that defense?

Hah. Never. (We are, however, blessed with two kids that get along famously and hardly ever fight.)

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LastYearsMan  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:04:00am

re: #30 goddamnedfrank

What’s insane is the idea that the kind of amoral psychopathic personality that might cynically pretend to be a racist would shy away from enacting actual racist policies just to stay in power once power is attained.

Well, the GOP was 30 years or so of pretending to be evangelical Christians to get votes but doing very little to actually enact Christian policies, so there is plenty of precedent for this theory. Still ugly and scary, though.

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LastYearsMan  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:06:44am

Regarding Daredevil and ninjas… That was a pretty fresh storyline 30 years ago when Frank Miller wrote it. But his ideas and those like it have been done to death since then, so they seem pretty cheesy now.

I really hope season 3 does Born Again. Love that series.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:09:15am

re: #185 CuriousLurker

OFFS, did you guys hear about this yesterday?

Yeah, sure, a guy with a little box without blinking lights strapped to his chest will totally not frighten people.

Seriously, what kind of idiot pulls a stunt like this? Not only does it, but does it in a major landmark in NYC on a religious holiday?

Good freaking grief. The stupid, it burns.

Fucking PETA stunts are so obnoxious it makes me wonder if they are really paid by the meat industry.

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BadgerB  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:09:49am

re: #112 Backwoods_Sleuth

The “defining characteristic” of all RFRAs is the attempt to legalize discrimination.

Disagree. They can be used both to enable and to prevent discrimination. One of the first cases involved the Amish. Pennsylvania wanted to force them to put big reflective triangles on their buggies for better visibility, the Amish wanted none of that. In the end, they sued using (I think) the Federal RFRA and used that leverage to reach a compromise, no orange triangles, just reflective tape that didn’t show much in the day but was bright at night. Both groups had reasonable positions, in the end it was the RFRA that allowed the Amish to stand up to the government and reach that compromise.

They can be used as a tool of oppression by the powerful or as a shield against discrimination for minorities. It just happens that the most politicians of the two parties see their ‘proper’ use differently.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:12:28am

re: #192 BadgerB

Disagree. They can be used both to enable and to prevent discrimination. One of the first cases involved the Amish. Pennsylvania wanted to force them to put big reflective triangles on their buggies for better visibility, the Amish wanted none of that. In the end, they sued using (I think) the Federal RFRA and used that leverage to reach a compromise, no orange triangles, just reflective tape that didn’t show much in the day but was bright at night. Both groups had reasonable positions, in the end it was the RFRA that allowed the Amish to stand up to the government and reach that compromise.

They can be used as a tool of oppression by the powerful or as a shield against discrimination for minorities. It just happens that the most politicians of the two parties see their ‘proper’ use differently.

I don’t see how that would require the RFRA, considering it’s a safety but not a religious issue. Sounds like a style issue.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:13:02am

re: #191 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking PETA stunts are so obnoxious it makes me wonder if they are really paid by the meat industry.

I just… I can’t…

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A Mom Anon  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:13:27am

re: #83 Backwoods_Sleuth

This has jack shit to do with “character” and EVERYTHING to do with MONEY. It’s not just the movie business and other companies either leaving or just dropping deals in the works, it’s also going to fuck up the building of two new stadium complexes in Atlanta and the metro area (for the Braves and Falcons). Sure, they’ll get built, but no one will travel here to do anything involved with those venues. It also means no Super Bowl consideration and a lot of lost revenue for some very rich people.

These laws are such crap. Their precious 1st Amendment rights are not in jeopardy, if they were, they’d have legal recourse. Also, no one’s talking about the law that now allows employers to drop insurance coverage for birth control if it “goes against their beliefs”. Georgia. Yay.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:15:41am

re: #192 BadgerB

I’m going to disagree with your disagreement. There was no need for a religious freedom restoration act in the first place, since the 1A remains the law of the land. But some people think that they should be entitled to legitimately discriminate based on their religious beliefs, and these laws allow those folks to try and get away with it. It is a setup for mischief.

The law doesn’t do anything that the 1A wouldn’t already do in the case of the Amish.

The government would have to have a very good reason to require visibility markers on vehicles using public roads - and it does, public safety. They could have required actual blinking lights or electrified signal markers as other vehicles are required to have.

The Amish could fight the markers and under the 1A would be able to reach an accommodation all the same. IMO, the RFRA doesn’t change that outcome.

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Dr. Matt  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:16:52am

re: #191 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking PETA stunts are so obnoxious it makes me wonder if they are really paid by the meat industry.

At least most leftward thinking people have no problem rebuking PETA and code pink. Most rightward thinking people embrace their crazies.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:20:08am

Does the GOP have enough power in Georgia to override the veto?

If so, this could be simply delaying the inevitable.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:20:44am

re: #163 sagehen

Or as Bill Maher said this week, “17 candidates you started with, and now you’ve narrowed it down to McCarthy or Mussolini.”

For the life of me, I couldn’t remember who the 17th candidate was. I had to go to Wikipedia to find Pataki.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:21:30am

re: #198 Eclectic Cyborg

Does the GOP have enough power in Georgia to override the veto?

If so, this could be simply delaying the inevitable.

The session is over; I read they would need a 3/5 majority to call a special session, so probably not.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:22:31am

re: #187 retired cynic

Maybe we’re misunderstanding each other. I was referring to Trump’s interview in the NYT. Trump made a big deal about South Korea and Japan having nukes so that we could stop having to defend them, and save money.

It was ‘ickily’ fascinating to hear him talk himself into it, after he first brought it up: the way his mind worked.

Oops yeah. Sorry.

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withak  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:22:55am

re: #199 Big Beautiful Door

For the life of me, I couldn’t remember who the 17th candidate was. I had to go to Wikipedia to find Pataki.

I’m impressed you got 16 without needing to look any up.

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The Ghost of the Spaghetti Weevil  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:23:09am

re: #196 lawhawk

I seem to recall the “original” RFRA relating to Native American practices…peyote-related…I think?

However the RFRA structure has been stretched way beyond that initial precedent. The definition of what is “religious practice” is getting vaguer and vaguer.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:23:30am

re: #181 Dr. Matt

GOP voters disgusted by ‘sophomoric’ candidates’ antics: It’s ‘junior high school stuff’

What freedoms have we lost?

But, the republicans get what they deserve. They have spent decades worshipping hatemongers like Rush Limbaugh and Ann Coulter. It was only a matter of time before they got politicians they sound like and act like am hate radio.

Seriously. What could you do explicitly do eight years ago when Bush was president that you cannot under Obama.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:23:42am

re: #185 CuriousLurker

OFFS, did you guys hear about this yesterday?

Yeah, sure, a guy with a little box without blinking lights strapped to his chest will totally not frighten people.

Seriously, what kind of idiot pulls a stunt like this? Not only does it, but does it in a major landmark in NYC on a religious holiday?

Good freaking grief. The stupid, it burns.

re: #191 The Vicious Babushka

Fucking PETA stunts are so obnoxious it makes me wonder if they are really paid by the meat industry.

One idiot’s obnoxious stunt is another freedom-lover’s pussy riot.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:24:25am

re: #203 The Ghost of a Cunning Plan

I seem to recall the “original” RFRA relating to Native American practices…peyote-related…I think?

However the RFRA structure has been stretched way beyond that initial precedent. The definition of what is “religious practice” is getting vaguer and vaguer.

Peyote I believe. It was a wee bit different from self styled “Christian” bakers saying their deeply held religious beliefs meant that they didn’t have to serve a good that they would provide to heterosexual couples.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:24:25am

Heh. The racist gasbag troll train continues to make stops across the GOP candidates. Whether it’s Pierson going from Cruz to Trump, or this guy going from Trump to Cruz, the hate/vitriol/anger fact challenged staffers seem to go hand in hand.

Nunberg, who was fired last summer over posts calling President Obama a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser” and using the N-word in reference to Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter, told Playbook Trump’s failure to denounce an endorsement from former KKK leader David Duke was one of his “last straws.”

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:24:54am

re: #202 withak

I’m impressed you got 16 without needing to look any up.

I am way to interested in the presidential campaign; its probably not healthy.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:25:58am

re: #207 lawhawk

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Heh. The racist gasbag troll train continues to make stops across the GOP candidates. Whether it’s Pierson going from Cruz to Trump, or this guy going from Trump to Cruz, the hate/vitriol/anger fact challenged staffers seem to go hand in hand.

They all deserve each other.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:28:05am

So there’s a new poll out in California. Primary numbers aren’t entirely surprising: Clinton leads Sanders 45-37. Trump leads Cruz and Kaisch 37-30-12 (meaning 20% of Republican voters are either going to make a protest vote or don’t know who they’re voting for). For those wondering, the California Democratic Party allows Independents to vote in the primary while the California GOP does not.

More interesting is that in the general election match ups Clinton beats Trump 59-28. Right at the crazification factor. Also fun: only 47% of California Republicans would enthusiastically vote for Trump in the general - 27% would vote for him reluctantly (talk about the crazification factor!) and 27% would not vote for him.

The California GOP has lost a lot of clout over the last 20 years or so (ever since Prop 187), so it’s become as wingnutty as the rest of the country, but it is still interesting that almost a third of them won’t vote for Trump in the general.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:28:11am

re: #204 HappyWarrior

Seriously. What could you do explicitly do eight years ago when Bush was president that you cannot under Obama.

Pass a state amendment banning SSM?

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:28:57am

re: #207 lawhawk

Nunberg, who was fired last summer over posts calling President Obama a “Socialist Marxist Islamo Fascist Nazi Appeaser” and using the N-word in reference to Rev. Al Sharpton’s daughter, told Playbook Trump’s failure to denounce an endorsement from former KKK leader David Duke was one of his “last straws.”

LOLwhut?

Duke sounds like Nunberg’s kind of guy.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:29:07am

She’s never going to leave. Not even working with Republicans to gut payday lender rules is enough.

Obama Endorses Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Bid For Re-Election

huffingtonpost.com

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:29:08am

re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg

Pass a state amendment banning SSM?

Ah yeah, something that limits other people’s rights. There’s that conservative idea of freedom in action though.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:29:17am

re: #210 KGxvi

So there’s a new poll out in California. Primary numbers aren’t entirely surprising: Clinton leads Sanders 45-37. Trump leads Cruz and Kaisch 37-30-12 (meaning 20% of Republican voters are either going to make a protest vote or don’t know who they’re voting for). For those wondering, the California Democratic Party allows Independents to vote in the primary while the California GOP does not.

More interesting is that in the general election match ups Clinton beats Trump 59-28. Right at the crazification factor. Also fun: only 47% of California Republicans would enthusiastically vote for Trump in the general - 27% would vote for him reluctantly (talk about the crazification factor!) and 27% would not vote for him.

The California GOP has lost a lot of clout over the last 20 years or so (ever since Prop 187), so it’s become as wingnutty as the rest of the country, but it is still interesting that almost a third of them won’t vote for Trump in the general.

There’s that magic number again. Crazy.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:29:38am

re: #212 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

LOLwhut?

Duke sounds like Nunberg’s kind of guy.

Nunberg probably thinks he’s different than Duke since he probably “supports Israel.” And by “supports Israel”, I mean has rapture fantasies.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:29:41am

re: #187 retired cynic

Maybe we’re misunderstanding each other. I was referring to Trump’s interview in the NYT. Trump made a big deal about South Korea and Japan having nukes so that we could stop having to defend them, and save money.

It was ‘ickily’ fascinating to hear him talk himself into it, after he first brought it up: the way his mind worked.

I know a lot of people around here aren’t very fond of Reagan, but even he was against nuclear proliferation. Amazing how far the GOP has gone.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:30:23am

re: #213 Skip Intro

She’s never going to leave.

Obama Endorses Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Bid For Re-Election

huffingtonpost.com

That’s not a surprise. I don’t mind that honestly but I do hope there’s a new DNC chair.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:31:09am

re: #217 KGxvi

I know a lot of people around here aren’t very fond of Reagan, but even he was against nuclear proliferation. Amazing how far the GOP has gone.

He also supported sensible gun policies. I’m critical of Reagan no doubt but I also know that compared to what his party is now, he’d have gotten the Huntsman treatment.

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The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:32:26am

Go home, Fidel, you’re drunk.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:32:43am

re: #215 Eclectic Cyborg

There’s that magic number again. Crazy.

The overall general election match has Trump at 28%, figuring for margin of error, that works too. But to me the 27% that would reluctantly vote for him just boggles my mind.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:34:15am

re: #221 KGxvi

The overall general election match has Trump at 28%, figuring for margin of error, that works too. But to me the 27% that would reluctantly vote for him just boggles my mind.

It’s the “I can’t stand Trump but Hillary is the DEVIL!!” voting bloc.

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KGxvi  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:35:03am

re: #220 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge

Go home, Fidel, you’e drunk.

Original Spanish Headline:

Un Viejo Gritando a las Nubes

If there’s one thing we Cubans are good at, it’s holding a grudge. It’s not just an old Cuban-American thing.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:37:50am

re: #200 Big Beautiful Door

The session is over; I read they would need a 3/5 majority to call a special session, so probably not.

I wonder if GA’s own Erick son of Erick is having a cow over this?

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:38:44am

re: #150 Dark_Falcon

HW, someone I liked wouldn’t be saying crazy things about nuclear Goddamn weapons!

Sorry, but that bit of Trump insanity scared me.

And Cruz carpet bombing the Middle East doesn’t?

By the way, how long will you be in denial stage about Trump?

It is very interesting that you claim Trump doesn’t speak for the GOP. They allowed him to run and they had him sign an agreement saying he would not run an anything but a Republican. Seems pretty GOP to me.

If they didn’t see him as a Republican they could have refused him. But they didn’t. Why? Because he spoke to the Republican base.

I sure do not admire the position you are in, especially you not coming to grips with it.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:39:23am

re: #211 Eclectic Cyborg

Pass a state amendment banning SSM?

Well you can pass it; it would just be unenforceable.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:39:35am

re: #213 Skip Intro

She’s never going to leave. Not even working with Republicans to gut payday lender rules is enough.

Obama Endorses Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Bid For Re-Election

huffingtonpost.com

I’ll endorse her too, if we take the White House, Senate, and House.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:40:40am

re: #225 ObserverArt

By the way, how long will you be in denial stage about Trump?

My guess is until he’s the nominee.

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Jay C  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:42:27am

re: #213 Skip Intro

She’s never going to leave. Not even working with Republicans to gut payday lender rules is enough.

Obama Endorses Debbie Wasserman Schultz’s Bid For Re-Election

huffingtonpost.com

This I really don’t understand. In my opinion, as a Democrat, I’ve found DWS to be at best, a mediocre Party leader: maybe slightly better than Reince Priebus, but given that that’s an extraordinarily low bar to hurdle, it’s not saying much. The pending GOP implosion this year is, AFAICT a once-in-a-generation opportunity for the Democratic Party to re-take a considerable amount of political power back from the Republicans on a Congressional level (though I’m not so sanguine about the rosy predictions of “statehouse sweeps” - gerrymander toxins sink in deep). To maximize political gains what’s needed is a strong, well-financed, well-coordinated national campaign to push the Democratic “brand”, and support down-ballot candidates all over the country.
Instead, we have Debbie Wasserman-Schultz: who, if she is indeed working towards those goals, has managed to keep it a pretty close secret so far…

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:42:55am

re: #227 Decatur Deb

I’ll endorse her too, if we take the White House, Senate, and House.

If we do that, the Senate must abolish the filibuster. Otherwise the GOP will block everything. The Democrats would have a two year window to get some must needed legislation passed if they abolish the filibuster.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:43:22am

re: #230 Big Beautiful Door

If we do that, the Senate must abolish the filibuster. Otherwise the GOP will block everything. The Democrats would have a two year window to get some must needed legislation passed if they abolish the filibuster.

That’s definitely something Schumer ought to consider.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:44:44am

re: #168 Great White Snark

OTOH looking at the polls for the general- Trump is the guy to pick to assure a Dem win. Dangerous a play as that is, yikes.

Trump V Clinton
realclearpolitics.com

Trump V Sanders
realclearpolitics.com

As many have been saying…expect Bernie’s numbers to drop once the GOP attacks him for being a commie, raising taxes on everyone, killing private (YOUR doctor) healthcare, no foreign experience other that being married in Russia and I’m sure much much more crap they will throw at Bernie.

Clinton is well known, yes including all her baggage. I think her numbers stay the same, maybe increase once the Clinton Machine goes after Trump.

Those polls will mean much more after July.

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GlutenFreeJesus  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:45:01am

Trump will bomb everyone just because he’s an asshole. Cruz will bomb everyone because he’s a religious fundy sociopath.

Sorry. But if I were still a Republican, I’d be running far away from the party as fast as I can. And I’d never look back. Thankfully I came to my senses after it became clear there were no WMD or terrorism connections in Iraq.

The way John Kerry was treated was just the icing on the cake.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:45:13am

Oh god, I don’t think I can handle the RWNJ screeching if Hillary gets elected and the GOP lose both Chambers.

They’ll probably just blame Trump for “not being conservative enough”.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:47:05am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh god, I don’t think I can handle the RWNJ screeching if Hillary gets elected and the GOP lose both Chambers.

They’ll probably just blame Trump for “not being conservative enough”.

They’re already doing that. A lot of Cruz’s attacks on Trump are for not being right wing enough and his past socially moderate stances. We’re definitely going to get that excuse if Trump loses. We’ll get it somehow if Cruz were nominated and lost too. After I saw it happen here with Cuccinneli, I’ve concluded there’s no denial like denial.

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:47:15am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh god, I don’t think I can handle the RWNJ screeching if Hillary gets elected and the GOP lose both Houses.

They’ll probably just blame Trump for “not being conservative enough”.

with how the GOP/Trump are working their base into a hot frothy mess of Santorum I am guessing they’ll try marching on the white house with guns.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:47:17am

re: #231 HappyWarrior

That’s definitely something Schumer ought to consider.

Did you get an answer on your G/F Army patch? Should be possible, at least down to the Division level.

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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:48:00am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh god, I don’t think I can handle the RWNJ screeching if Hillary gets elected and the GOP lose both Chambers.

They’ll probably just blame Trump for “not being conservative enough”.

I will. It’s the cheese to go with Wingnut Tears.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:48:10am

re: #237 Decatur Deb

Did you get an answer on your G/F Army patch? Should be possible, at least down to the Division level.

Nah, the person running the FB page hasn’t gotten back to me yet.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:48:28am

re: #236 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

with how the GOP/Trump are working their base into a hot frothy mess of Santorum I am guessing they’ll try marching on the white house with guns.

That would be a teaching moment.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:48:49am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:49:44am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh god, I don’t think I can handle the RWNJ screeching if Hillary gets elected and the GOP lose both Chambers.

They’ll probably just blame Trump for “not being conservative enough”.

Not only is Trump “not conservative enough” but he was a creation of the Liberal Elite media and Saul Alinsky-types so the GOP minority should filibuster every HRC SCOTUS nominee and the media will say that’s just swell, because both sides, etc…..

/

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Jenner7  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:49:46am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:50:44am
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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:51:53am

re: #244 HappyWarrior

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en.wikipedia.org

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:51:55am

re: #239 HappyWarrior

You might even get some luck posting it here, and letting our Google-fu do the work for you :)

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:51:59am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh god, I don’t think I can handle the RWNJ screeching if Hillary gets elected and the GOP lose both Chambers.

They’ll probably just blame Trump for “not being conservative enough”.

I will enjoy the sweet music of wingnuts wailing in despair. And they will absolutely blame Trump for not being conservative enough.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:52:34am

re: #246 lawhawk

You might even get some luck posting it here, and letting our Google-fu do the work for you :)

Have at it.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:53:15am

re: #245 Decatur Deb

en.wikipedia.org

Thanks. Weird. He always told me he was in artillery. Never otld me a thing about tanks.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:54:44am

re: #249 HappyWarrior

5th Armored was more than just tanks. They had a number of artillery batallions, whether the 47th, 71st, or 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He could have been attached to one of those units.

Those three units were organized 1944-1945. There were a couple others from earlier in the war. If you know the time period in which he served, you can probably narrow it down.

From there, you could probably even contact the unit historians and they might have other information for you.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:55:54am

re: #250 lawhawk

5th Armored was more than just tanks. They had a number of artillery batallions, whether the 47th, 71st, or 95th Armored Field Artillery Battalion. He could have been attached to one of those units.

Makes sense, thanks. He never really told us specifics about his wartime service. What I remember him saying is he had arrived not long after Seoul was retaken. That photo is dated May ‘51 and was taken at Fort Smith in Arkansas.

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makeitstop  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:56:01am

re: #177 Backwoods_Sleuth

This interview this morning…WOW!

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Soundcloud of the interview at the TP link.

That guy beat him silly, and he didn’t even realize it.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:56:16am

re: #249 HappyWarrior

Thanks. Weird. He always told me he was in artillery. Never otld me a thing about tanks.

Look at the unit lists under the Div wiki—several artillery organizations.

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Romantic Heretic  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:56:36am

re: #183 Belafon

The freedom power to discriminate.

FTFY.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:57:11am

re: #253 Decatur Deb

Look at the unit lists under the Div wiki—several artillery organizations.

Thanks, seeing that now. Thanks for identifying the division.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:59:39am

re: #254 Romantic Heretic

FTFY.

The Republican Bible apparently quotes Jesus as saying: “Love one another, except women, blacks, jews, latinos and Muslims, as I have loved you.”

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:59:39am

re: #252 makeitstop

That guy beat him silly, and he didn’t even realize it.

And Charlie Sykes is a conservative.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 9:59:46am

re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg

Oh god, I don’t think I can handle the RWNJ screeching if Hillary gets elected and the GOP lose both Chambers.

They’ll probably just blame Trump for “not being conservative enough”.

With their current Congressional approval ratings they will have a tough time getting anyone to pay attention to the screeching.

I think a lot of their tricks over the last three or four elections have grown tired. You hardly hear any mention of “Tea Party” anymore so even the GOP is basically ignoring the RWNJs.

All they have to blame is themselves. And it seems even a good portion of traditional Republicans know who to blame.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:00:59am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:01:20am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Oh that makes it much better.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:01:43am

re: #258 ObserverArt

I think a lot of their tricks over the last three or four elections have grown tired. You hardly hear any mention of “Tea Party” anymore so even the GOP is basically ignoring the RWNJs.

Correct. The GOP was counting on the Tea Party to help them defeat Obama in 2012. That backfired, badly, so now they are desperately looking for a way out but they fucked themselves so badly to pander to the RWNJs that now the RWNJs are practically all they have left.

Throw them overboard and what’s left of the GOP?

Strange times indeed.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:02:14am

re: #260 HappyWarrior

Oh that makes it much better.

I ALONE CAN SOLVE.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:02:29am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

Oh ok, so I can be a misogynistic asshole cretin as long as I don’t run for office? Got it.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:03:23am

Besides, he’s been a sexist asshole while he’s ran for office. The crack about Megny Kelly’s blood anyone?

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Jenner7  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:03:42am
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Belafon  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:03:44am

re: #260 HappyWarrior

Oh that makes it much better.

Admit it, you only care about your spouse because you might run for office one day (assuming you are married. if not, it’ll apply to someone here.)

//

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Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:04:08am

re: #261 Eclectic Cyborg

Correct. The GOP was counting on the Tea Party to help them defeat Obama in 2012. That backfired, badly, so now they are desperately looking for a way out but they fucked themselves so badly to pander to the RWNJs that now the RWNJs are practically all they have left.

Throw them overboard and what’s left of the GOP?

Strange times indeed.

Yup. The GOP stoked the tea party BS so much so they became the TGOP and now that monster is turning them into a new TGOP…Trump GOP.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:04:23am

re: #265 Jenner7

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Trump takes credit in 3..2..1..

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:04:26am

re: #258 ObserverArt

I think a lot of their tricks over the last three or four elections have grown tired. You hardly hear any mention of “Tea Party” anymore so even the GOP is basically ignoring the RWNJs.

What’s left of the Tea Party is now rallying behind the GOP’s SCOTUS blockade, because Constitutional principle, limited gov, or something.

And they’re threatening a primary against the Kansas Senator Jerry Moran for saying the prez nominee should get a hearing. Because Constitution. and freedom.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:04:41am

re: #265 Jenner7

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Hmmmm.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:05:43am

re: #269 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What’s left of the Tea Party is now rallying behind the GOP’s SCOTUS blockade, because Constitutional principle, limited gov, or something.

And they’re threatening a primary against the Kansas Senator Jerry Moran for saying the prez nominee should get a hearing. Because Constitution. and freedom.

Threatening to primary a politician because he followed the Constitution. It’s so funny yet so scary at the same time.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:05:50am

re: #269 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What’s left of the Tea Party is now rallying behind the GOP’s SCOTUS blockade, because Constitutional principle, limited gov, or something.

And they’re threatening a primary against the Kansas Senator Jerry Moran for saying the prez nominee should get a hearing. Because Constitution. and freedom.

And Moran’s even said that he’s going to vote against Garland already and that still isn’t enough for them because Moran has the audacity to say that Garland should at least get hearings.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:06:04am

re: #265 Jenner7

Not that JK has a shot at the nomination anyway now, but Wisconsin would be a bad state for him to pull out of if he was still trying to gain something.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:06:06am

re: #271 Eclectic Cyborg

Threatening to primary a politician because he followed the Constitution. It’s so funny yet so scary at the same time.

It’s the GOP way.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:06:31am

re: #273 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Not that JK has a shot at the nomination anyway now, but Wisconsin would be a bad state for him to pull out of if he was still trying to gain something.

I think Kasich thinks his best bet is at a brokered convention.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:07:37am

Heh. The Secret Service just put the kibosh on all the efforts to allow open carry at the GOP convention in Cleveland (where the real threat of violence will be in the convention center by and among the zealots and extremists for Trump and everyone else).

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:07:38am

re: #272 HappyWarrior

And Moran’s even said that he’s going to vote against Garland already and that still isn’t enough for them because Moran has the audacity to say that Garland should at least get hearings.

The Tea Party is awful. Has been awful for 8 years. Just a far-right conglomerate of misanthropes.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:07:45am

re: #275 HappyWarrior

I think Kasich thinks his best bet is at a brokered convention.

I doubt it, a brokered convention would most likely result in Cruz as the nominee so someone else who hasn’t been running yet. The GOP are not that smart, but I think they are smart enough to know they have no chance of winning behind Kasich.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:08:17am

re: #276 lawhawk

Heh. The Secret Service just put the kibosh on all the efforts to allow open carry at the GOP convention in Cleveland (where the real threat of violence will be in the convention center by and among the zealots and extremists for Trump and everyone else).

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GOVERNMENT TYRANNY!

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Dr Lizardo  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:08:42am

re: #276 lawhawk

Heh. The Secret Service just put the kibosh on all the efforts to allow open carry at the GOP convention in Cleveland (where the real threat of violence will be in the convention center by and among the zealots and extremists for Trump and everyone else).

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TYRANNY!!!

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:08:45am

re: #241 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Interesting. I guess Hillary wants to do a little dictating what Bernie can expect from Clinton like Bernie wants to dictate what he will need to support Clinton should she win the nomination.

We have now officially entered the ‘gloves off’ part of the Democratic campaign.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:08:54am

re: #276 lawhawk

Heh. The Secret Service just put the kibosh on all the efforts to allow open carry at the GOP convention in Cleveland (where the real threat of violence will be in the convention center by and among the zealots and extremists for Trump and everyone else).

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My concern is this just means now everyone will conceal carry.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:08:55am

re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg

I doubt it, a brokered convention would most likely result in Cruz as the nominee so someone else who hasn’t been running yet. The GOP are not that smart, but I think they are smart enough to know they have no chance of winning behind Kasich.

I don’t disagree. I’m just speculating that I think this is Kasich’s end game. I think Kasich is sorely mistaken if he thinks he win a brokered convention.

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Jay C  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:10:38am

re: #236 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

with how the GOP/Trump are working their base into a hot frothy mess of Santorum I am guessing they’ll try marching on the white house with guns.

Probably not. At least not right away.

What I can see happening, though, in the event of a Clinton victory/Senate flip (the House is hopeless, I think: the gerrymander’s toxins are deep-acting), is what may well amount to a modern-day secessionist movement in Republican-controlled states. We’ve already seen a start in places like Kansas: State government firmly under the GOP jackboot, opposition marginalized/demonized, and easily prone to view the Federal Government as a malevolent “dictatorship” wrongheadedly blocking the “people’s will”: which of course, seems to only be manifested by laws enshrining economic favoritism, social discrimination, and enforced religiosity.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:11:47am

re: #284 Jay C

You really think those Southern states would risk seceding again and cutting themselves off from all that government aid they love to gobble up?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:13:05am

What I’m curious about is who these guys are speculating on for their VP picks.

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Kilroy01  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:13:54am

re: #251 HappyWarrior

Makes sense, thanks. He never really told us specifics about his wartime service. What I remember him saying is he had arrived not long after Seoul was retaken. That photo is dated May ‘51 and was taken at Fort Smith in Arkansas.

The 5th Armored Division was station at Camp Chaffee in 1951 which is just outside Fort Smith, which makes sense.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:13:56am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

Talking Points Memo ✔ ‎@TPM

Trump on nasty remarks about women: “I never thought I’d run for office” bit.ly

12:53 PM - 28 Mar 2016

Well, that changes everything!

Every day that goes by shows this fool isn’t anywhere near as smart as he thinks he is. He better hope he sews up the nomination quick, he is going to have a tougher and tougher time as he goes.

And the Democrats haven’t even rolled out the first attack.

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:14:41am

re: #276 lawhawk

Heh. The Secret Service just put the kibosh on all the efforts to allow open carry at the GOP convention in Cleveland (where the real threat of violence will be in the convention center by and among the zealots and extremists for Trump and everyone else).

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“Title 18 United States Code Sections 3056 and 1752, provides the Secret Service authority to preclude firearms from entering sites visited by our protectees, including those located in open-carry states,” Dye said. Under this code, only authorized law enforcement personnel working in conjunction with the Secret Service for an event may carry a firearm inside of a protected site.

Read more at: nationalreview.com

UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:17:33am

re: #287 Kilroy01

The 5th Armored Division was station at Camp Chaffee in 1951 which is just outside Fort Smith, which makes sense.

Interestingly enough, I have a copy of one of his older brother’s records that indicates that the older brother stationed at Camp Chafee too. So yeah this does make sense. Appreciate all the help guys. I think I remember reading that there was a fire in the early 70’s that destroyed a lot of Korean War era records. All I had to go on was that photograph and my memories of what he told me which was fairly little. He never attended any reunions for his unit. It was an important part of his life but I think once he was out of the military, he was eager to go on with civilian life.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:17:44am

re: #289 Big Beautiful Door

UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!

Gah!!1 Gun Free Zones!!!111

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:18:39am

re: #282 Eclectic Cyborg

My concern is this just means now everyone will conceal carry.

Don’t worry; I’m sure everyone will have to pass through metal detectors to get in.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:20:02am

re: #269 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

What’s left of the Tea Party is now rallying behind the GOP’s SCOTUS blockade, because Constitutional principle, limited gov, or something.

And they’re threatening a primary against the Kansas Senator Jerry Moran for saying the prez nominee should get a hearing. Because Constitution. and freedom.

Yeah…I caught that bit about Sharon Angle, former TeaParty queen, going all constitutional conservative in her newer political endeavors.

She will still need to cover over the fact she is certified crazy.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:20:17am

re: #276 lawhawk

Heh. The Secret Service just put the kibosh on all the efforts to allow open carry at the GOP convention in Cleveland (where the real threat of violence will be in the convention center by and among the zealots and extremists for Trump and everyone else).

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With all the firepower their espontaneos can direct, the GOP really should feel obliged to forego taxpayer muscle.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:20:18am

It’s pretty much a given in politics that if you’re the front runner, you don’t want to give any more debates than necessary or previously agreed upon, while those trailing want every opportunity to debate since it opens the door to catch up, get free media, etc.

So, why is Hillary’s refusal to go along with additional debates ahead of the NY primary suddenly turning into some entirely new debate about how Hillary will do in the general or that she’s doing something different than every other front runner?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:21:02am

re: #295 lawhawk

It’s pretty much a given in politics that if you’re the front runner, you don’t want to give any more debates than necessary or previously agreed upon, while those trailing want every opportunity to debate since it opens the door to catch up, get free media, etc.

So, why is Hillary’s refusal to go along with additional debates ahead of the NY primary suddenly turning into some entirely new debate about how Hillary will do in the general or that she’s doing something different than every other front runner?

As with Obama in the past, it’s not about what she’s doing, it’s who’s doing it.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:21:02am

Butthurt Alert!

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Kilroy01  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:21:14am

re: #290 HappyWarrior

Interestingly enough, I have a copy of one of his older brother’s records that indicates that the older brother stationed at Camp Chafee too. So yeah this does make sense. Appreciate all the help guys. I think I remember reading that there was a fire in the early 70’s that destroyed a lot of Korean War era records. All I had to go on was that photograph and my memories of what he told me which was fairly little. He never attended any reunions for his unit. It was an important part of his life but I think once he was out of the military, he was eager to go on with civilian life.

If you are interested, there is always this:
ebay.ca

It may have more pictures. Most likely a formation picture but you never know.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:21:47am

re: #295 lawhawk

It’s pretty much a given in politics that if you’re the front runner, you don’t want to give any more debates than necessary or previously agreed upon, while those trailing want every opportunity to debate since it opens the door to catch up, get free media, etc.

So, why is Hillary’s refusal to go along with additional debates ahead of the NY primary suddenly turning into some entirely new debate about how Hillary will do in the general or that she’s doing something different than every other front runner?

I wonder what could possibly be different about her as a candidate compared to others we’ve seen before.

Gee.

The only other candidate who got such a microscope that comes to mind is Obama.

Huh.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:22:17am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:22:35am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

Butthurt Alert!

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Heritage and Jim Deminted go choke on rotten Easter eggs. It’s not “religious liberty” to discriminate against people you chodes.

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Decatur Deb  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:23:30am

re: #300 lawhawk

Georgia Governor Caves to Big Business, Vetoes Religious Freedom

Sounds like the Market has spoken.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:23:30am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

To the Left, even mild religious liberty protections are unacceptable. @RyanTAnd on @NathanDeal veto t.co
— Heritage Foundation

“To the Left, and Civil Rights Protesters, even mild private property protections are unacceptable.”

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Jay C  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:23:35am

re: #285 Eclectic Cyborg

You really think those Southern states would risk seceding again and cutting themselves off from all that government aid they love to gobble up?

Nope: that’s why I think, that unlike 1860, they are going to do it piecemeal this time - a “virtual” secession, iow: leveraging their representation in Congress to keep the Federal money spigots open, while gradually arrogating more and more power to themselves to do what they love best: enshrine discrimination into law to feed their own voting base’s (white RWNJs) prejudices, and do favors for their big-money donors. All in the name of “state’s rights” and “local government”, of course. It’s a lot easier in a one-party state: which isn’t going to change as long as the bulk of the GOP base remains absolutely convinced that the Democrats are the party of Satan with no political legitimacy at all.

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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:24:15am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:24:37am

re: #298 Kilroy01

If you are interested, there is always this:
ebay.ca

It may have more pictures. Most likely a formation picture but you never know.

There’s always a chance! Thanks for that find. It’s so cool to find photos of him as a young man. We have so few of him prior to my mom’s birth. I’m actually named after him and I like to think there is a resemblance.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:24:59am

re: #305 Kragar

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Ding ding.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:25:38am

re: #278 Eclectic Cyborg

I doubt it, a brokered convention would most likely result in Cruz as the nominee so someone else who hasn’t been running yet. The GOP are not that smart, but I think they are smart enough to know they have no chance of winning behind Kasich.

Are you forgetting no one in the party likes Cruz?

It may not be Kasich, but if it goes to a convention war it will be difficult for Cruz to get picked too.

I think the GOP knows that if they cater to the RWNJs with a Cruz they have zero chance to win an election.

They will take their chances with someone more middle-of-the-road party favorite. It might not work, but it will at least make them look less extreme and put them in a better position next time. It also could save them Congress.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:25:42am

Then why did Sanders outspend Clinton in Ohio, Florida, NC and Arizona?
How does the Sanders camp define “not competing”?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:26:08am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

Butthurt Alert!

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Yes because letting a bunch of “Big Business” walk out of the state will surely help a governor get re-elected!

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:26:24am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Then why did Sanders outspend Clinton in Ohio, Florida, NC and Arizona?
How does the Sanders camp define “not competing”?

He didn’t do well there, ergo he was not competitive. That’s totally like not competing, right?

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:27:08am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Then why did Sanders outspend Clinton in Ohio, Florida, NC and Arizona?
How does the Sanders camp define “not competing”?

Devine strikes me as a bit of an idiot. South Carolina too. He spent a ton there.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:27:17am

re: #297 Backwoods_Sleuth

Also of note: The Heritage Foundation considers this bill “mild”

Think about that.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:27:31am

re: #311 klys (maker of Silmarils)

He didn’t do well there, ergo he was not competitive. That’s totally like not competing, right?

If I got a F on my test, I just wasn’t trying teacher!

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:27:39am

re: #310 Eclectic Cyborg

Yes because letting a bunch of “Big Business” walk out of the state will surely help a governor get re-elected!

Can Deal still run for re-election? Seems like he’s been around a while. Regardless, he probably has an interest in making sure his state doesn’t lose rights to the Super Bowl and other such income sources.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:27:41am

re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg

Also of note: The Heritage Foundation considers this bill “mild”

Think about that.

Yep.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:28:08am

re: #244 HappyWarrior

emuYPxBzlaohDbOmKHU0wWh5ATm8ghGr4I0uaAfVLabl9jeZu6QwOCpmrfvJPQWpRiC35bAROcd5SGwPUDMVqL5So79SHPOOVzfTDd4hk2oXq4eZ1TAZzb06RqK5pdnS

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:28:17am

re: #315 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

Can Deal still run for re-election? Seems like he’s been around a while. Regardless, he probably has an interest in making sure his state doesn’t lose rights to the Super Bowl and other such income sources.

The Super Bowl was probably the big one for him. He could probably care less about the LGBT activists but losing the SB would be a huge blow.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:28:45am

re: #317 CuriousLurker

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I know. I realized and decided to make it public which allowed everyone to help out. Good looking guy though, no?

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Big Beautiful Door  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:29:14am

re: #308 ObserverArt

Are you forgetting no one in the party likes Cruz?

It may not be Kasich, but if it goes to a convention war it will be difficult for Cruz to get picked too.

I think the GOP knows that if they cater to the RWNJs with a Cruz they have zero chance to win an election.

They will take their chances with someone more middle-of-the-road party favorite. It might not work, but it will at least make them look less extreme and put them in a better position next time. It also could save them Congress.

I disagree, because the delegates aren’t going to be the Senators who despise Cruz, but state party Republicans, many of whom are staunch conservatives and admire Cruz. Also the Cruz organization is working on getting Cruz supporters selected as delegates, even the delegates who are pledged to vote for Trump on the first ballot. I expect the nominee will be either Trump or Cruz, and I wouldn’t be surprised if Cruz tries to make this into an open convention on the first ballot if Trump has a majority of the pledged delegates.

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:29:40am

Learn what?

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:29:41am

re: #308 ObserverArt

My thoughts were a brokered convention is already risky enough. If the GOP have any chance of selling the base on such a maneuver and NOT making it look like the party is pissing all over them, their best bet is to try to settle on Cruz with an establishment VP Pick. Cruz is the only other candiate with anything remotely close to widespread voter support. Throw out all the voter picks and essentially tell the base “fuck you, we’re doing this our way!” is the short route to a GOP civil war.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:30:14am

re: #283 HappyWarrior

I don’t disagree. I’m just speculating that I think this is Kasich’s end game. I think Kasich is sorely mistaken if he thinks he win a brokered convention.

Never count out Kasich. Never. He is GOP through and through.

Everyone has discounted him all along. Who is still in this race? The majority of LGF members had him dead a long long time ago.

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:30:16am

re: #312 HappyWarrior

Yep. He is.

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Eclectic Cyborg  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:30:48am

re: #324 lawhawk

Please proceed…

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Franklin  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:30:58am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

Learn what?

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so-called “leaders”

Redundant punctuation is redundant.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:31:04am

re: #319 HappyWarrior

I know. I realized and decided to make it public which allowed everyone to help out. Good looking guy though, no?

Ah, okay. Yep, very easy on the eyes. Whoever he is, he has a “good” face (open & honest looking, nothing creepy or hard in the eyes/gaze).

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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:31:07am
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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:31:17am

re: #313 Eclectic Cyborg

Also of note: The Heritage Foundation considers this bill “mild”

Think about that.

How about that? Wingnut groups complaining when a pet law of theirs gets an extremist label. Maybe all the hyperbolic attacks on Obamacare had some blowback.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:32:16am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

Learn what?

That Donald Trump Alone Can Solve.
/

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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:33:15am

re: #329 Fourth Football of the Apocalypse

How about that? Wingnut groups complaining when a pet law of theirs gets an extremist label. Maybe all the hyperbolic attacks on Obamacare had some blowback.

Mild, like a heart attack.

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klys (maker of Silmarils)  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:34:14am
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lawhawk  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:34:21am

*facepalm*

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:34:24am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

A detainee released from Gitmo has killed an American. When will our so-called “leaders” ever learn!
— Donald J. Trump

Was someone from Gitmo linked to the Belgium attacks, or is Donald talking out of his ars again?

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jaunte  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:34:32am
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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:34:40am

re: #327 CuriousLurker

Ah, okay. Yep, very easy on the eyes. Whoever he is, he has a “good” face (open & honest looking, nothing creepy or hard in the eyes/gaze).

That’s my grandfather on my mom’s side. I actually knew him quite well but I was having a difficult time trying to find out what unit he was in. My brother and I were talking about his service the other night and we realized how little we knew about his actual service. But yeah, I think he was quite a handsome guy. I love seeing photos of him so young. We have so few of them.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:35:24am

re: #324 lawhawk

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Yep. He is.

Yeah, I don’t know how you’re going to convince the SDs to switch when you’re trailing in the popular vote………..

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Kragar  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:35:32am
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jaunte  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:35:35am

I guess Sanders didn’t share his strategy with Tad Devine.

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Fourth Football of the Apocalypse  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:35:50am

re: #331 lawhawk

Mild, like a heart attack.

OBAMACARE WILL DESTROY AMERICA AND ARE FREEDOMS and oh here is our mild little pro-religious liberty bill that won’t hurt nobody.

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withak  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:36:37am

re: #333 lawhawk

*facepalm*

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Ann Coulter? In a cabinet?

And I have no idea what Elon Musk’s politics are, but the idea that he would agree to work in a Trump administration is… interesting.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:36:39am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

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Then why did Sanders outspend Clinton in Ohio, Florida, NC and Arizona?
How does the Sanders camp define “not competing”?

Tad is full of it. He’s making it up as it goes.

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CuriousLurker  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:37:41am

re: #333 lawhawk

*facepalm*

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The Vicious Babushka  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:38:22am

re: #341 withak

Ann Coulter? In a cabinet?

Just as long as it’s latched on the outside and can’t be opened from the inside. In fact just weld it shut.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:40:32am

re: #341 withak

Ann Coulter? In a cabinet?

And I have no idea what Elon Musk’s politics are, but the idea that he would agree to work in a Trump administration is… interesting.

I don’t think Elon agreed to it. This was just a speculative list. They have the Democratic governor of Oregon for Sec of Labor. And Kevin MacDonald is there too.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:40:54am

re: #344 The Vicious Babushka

Just as long as it’s latched on the outside and can’t be opened from the inside. In fact just weld it shut.

Are you thinking what I’m thinking? Indiana Jones warehouse style for Annie.

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Jay C  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:41:51am

re: #321 The Vicious Babushka

A detainee released from Gitmo has killed an American. When will our so-called “leaders” ever learn!

I dunno about this: a quick check of Google news turns up a bunch of articles that all go back to one article last week:

A senior Pentagon official said Wednesday that the release of detainees from the U.S. military’s prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, has led to American deaths, though he did not provide any specific examples.

Paul Lewis, the Defense Department’s special envoy for Guantanamo closure, told the House Foreign Affairs Committee under questioning that “unfortunately, there have been Americans that have died because of Gitmo detainees.” He did not provide any details on whether those deaths occurred in terrorist attacks or on a military battlefield, or how many Americans were killed.

It’s hard to make out what the significance (and/or credibility) is: it’s both specific and vague at the same time.

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ObserverArt  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:42:37am

re: #320 Big Beautiful Door

re: #322 Eclectic Cyborg

We certainly are going to find out. You guys may be right, but nothing ‘right’ is going on this year for the GOP. The Republicans stand to piss off one group or another no matter what they do.

Get the popcorn and beverages ready.

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Skip Intro  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:43:20am

re: #289 Big Beautiful Door

UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!

Damn right it is! There were no limitations put on the 2nd Amendment by the founders. This is TYRANNY!!! and the GOP should refuse to bow to it.

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withak  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:43:45am

re: #345 HappyWarrior

I don’t think Elon agreed to it. This was just a speculative list. They have the Democratic governor of Oregon for Sec of Labor. And Kevin MacDonald is there too.

Yeah, I know it was speculative.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:44:34am

re: #350 withak

Yeah, I know it was speculative.

Ah sorry about that. Interesting list all in all. The idea of Ann Coulter running any cabinet department is so fucking crazy. Same thing Kevin the white nationalist MacDonald.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:44:43am

re: #259 Backwoods_Sleuth

tRump is least self-aware politician that I have heard, ever. And, that’s quite impressive, considering that much of the political class is so not self-aware. Especially on the right.

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HappyWarrior  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:45:45am

re: #352 Le Lapin Tueur

tRump is least self-aware politician that I have heard, ever. And, that’s quite impressive, considering that much of the political class is so not self-aware. Especially on the right.

The thing that amuses me most about Trump is all the absolute declarations he makes.

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Le Lapin Tueur  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:46:21am

re: #267 Brother Holy Cruise Missile of Mild Acceptance

Yup. The GOP stoked the tea party BS so much so they became the TGOP and now that monster is turning them into a new TGOP…Trump GOP.

Who talk about the eGOP (e==establishment) as being not conservative enough.

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Backwoods_Sleuth  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:48:54am

re: #347 Jay C

I recall that it was supposedly an Afghan Gitmo detainee released by GWB, and that detainee allegedly went on to kill Americans in the ME.

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BeachDem  Mar 28, 2016 • 10:59:21am

re: #309 Backwoods_Sleuth

[Embedded content]

Then why did Sanders outspend Clinton in Ohio, Florida, NC and Arizona?
How does the Sanders camp define “not competing”?

Don’t forget south by dog carolina, where:

the Clinton campaign had only two campaign offices in South Carolina: one in Charleston and another in the capital, Columbia, with just 14 full-time staffers including state director Clay Middleton. The campaign also has nine “get out the vote” sites - smaller-scale sites devoted to turnout - across the state.
The Sanders campaign, meanwhile, had 240 staffers on the ground as of last week
msnbc.com

And where Hillary took every county. (But it doesn’t count because—south, dumb voters with no internet, nobody knew who Bernie was, infiltration of Hillary staff into Bernie operation, “those people” don’t understand what’s best for them, which, of course is BERNIE, etc.)


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